Fernando Tatis Jr.'s new deal, the next young stars primed for an extension, and the next Ben Zobrist
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt and DVR discuss the Padres' 14-year extension with Fernando Tatis Jr., the next young star capable of getting a similar deal, teams with good (and bad) depth, and history's lack of appreciation for Ben Zobrist's 2009 season.
Rundown
4:51 Fernando Tatis Jr. Early Career Comps
9:13 A Potentially Team-Friendly Deal for the Padres
14:49 Why Tatis Staying in San Diego Isn't Bad for Baseball
18:46 Looking for the Next Long-Term Deal for a Young Star
33:17 Over/Under 3.5 Starting Pitchers with 200+ IP in 2021?
41:58 Teams In Good at Bad Poor Positions with Depth
56:39 Revisiting Ben Zobrist's Incredible 2009 Season
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, February 19th. |
| 0:19.3 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosarous and Britt Jiroli. On this episode, we'll discuss the mega extension signed by Fernando Tatis Jr. We'll talk about some other players who might be primed for deals like that in the not so distant future. Got a lot of great mailbag questions that have been coming in, one focusing |
| 0:38.7 | on all-time great utility players, which is really interesting, is the Ben Zobber's question that I |
| 0:44.5 | ducked on last Friday's episode. So we're going to get to that, among other topics today. How's it |
| 0:50.0 | going for you on this Friday, Britt? It's going well, guys. Those of you watching on YouTube, |
| 0:54.3 | I got Starbucks talking to my two friends, Derek and Eno, almost the weekend. There's ice |
| 1:00.1 | everywhere and it's freezing here, but hey, I've got power, I've got water. It's better than |
| 1:04.7 | most of the state of Texas, so I can't complain. Yeah, that's kind of how I feel right at this point. I have no grounds for complaining about |
| 1:13.3 | the cold at this point, given the alternatives elsewhere. What's good with you today, you know? |
| 1:18.3 | Not much. It's going to be like 60-something here today, and I'm going to run outside. I mean, |
| 1:25.7 | it is affecting my decision-making process on going to spring training. |
| 1:29.3 | You know, I've been talking to Britta a little bit about this. And like, I'm really struggling with the decision because, yeah, seeing baseball games, great. You know, going to Arizona, usually one of the highlights of the year for me, actually, because I'm lucky because I'm not like |
| 1:45.0 | a beat rider has to be there for six weeks, you know? I get to go in for a week or so and |
| 1:50.3 | just knock out a bunch of interviews and see some people. And it's usually great. It's usually |
| 1:55.8 | attached to like going to my AL labor draft, you know? And it's usually definitely one of my favorite weeks of the year. |
| 2:02.9 | You know, I usually do sort of 10, 14 days. |
| 2:05.9 | I don't know if I want to go because, you know, going to see a game is so complicated |
| 2:10.9 | now. |
| 2:11.9 | It's like the mask up and the distancing and, you know, it's, there's no fans and I usually |
| 2:16.1 | will walk the concourse and talk to people |
| 2:18.2 | and see fans. Then, and the interviews are supposed to be like sort of six feet apart, if you get |
| 2:24.9 | them. There's no, there's no clubhouse access and some, some teams will give you this like sort of |
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