Draft musings, deadline winners, MiLB changes, and prospects to watch
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Baseball America's Matt Eddy joins Eno for this episode of Rates & Barrels. The duo, unsurprisingly, digs deep into the minors, discussing this year's amateur draft, the minor leaguers who were on the move at the trade deadline, and the sellers that did a good job of restocking or reinforcing their farm systems.
After that, they discuss the changes at the minor league level this season and prospects to watch at the MLB level for the rest of the season.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Paralles. |
| 0:19.0 | Check out Tops Project 70, |
| 0:21.5 | celebrating 70 years of Tops baseball cards. |
| 0:24.2 | I am your reluctant host, Enosaris. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm not good at these hosting things, |
| 0:31.1 | and I'm glad that Derek Van Riper will be done with his cross-country move soon. |
| 0:35.9 | But I am doing my best. |
| 0:37.9 | And to help me out here today is Matt Eddie from Baseball America. |
| 0:42.9 | Thanks for coming on, Matt. |
| 0:45.2 | Oh, hello, Eno. |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah, it's great to be here. |
| 0:47.4 | You guys, you and Derek have such great chemistry. |
| 0:50.1 | Great podcast. |
| 0:51.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:52.2 | Thanks for those kind of words. |
| 0:54.0 | Matt is in a league of mind, Devil's Rejects. Thanks. Thanks for those kind of words. Matt is in a league of mind, devil's rejects. |
| 0:58.3 | And so we may not discuss any of our players. |
| 1:02.6 | Just kidding. |
| 1:04.0 | But we did have a discussion here on rates and barrels. |
| 1:10.6 | I don't like to think of myself as a take machine, |
| 1:13.2 | but I guess I had a take, which was that this sort of over-under-slot game that teams are |
| 1:21.7 | playing may have gone too far or may not be getting them what they what they're hoping because |
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