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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Finding future aces, Max Scherzer's continued dominance, and just how good is J.D. Davis?

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss what they're looking for in pitchers while trying to find future value, Max Scherzer's shifting Stuff+ and continued elite status in his age-36 season, and expectations for Chris Sale coming back from Tommy John surgery. Plus, a simple question: "How good is J.D. Davis?"


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

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0:00.0

He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then...

0:09.0

His game might be over, but yours isn't.

0:14.0

With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on.

0:18.0

Playing a different league with BetFair.

0:21.6

Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and

0:24.6

bet builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boost,

0:27.6

season, season, exclusions apply of Tops baseball cards. Derek Van Riper

0:55.0

here with Enoseres. It is Monday, July 19th. I saw a picture that you were at the beach,

1:01.2

but it was cold because you warned me about this as a soon-to-be Bay Area resident. The weather

1:06.4

at the beach in certain parts of the peninsula. It's not the 85-degree scorching day that many of us are accustomed to when we go to the beach in certain parts of the peninsula. It's not the 85 degree scorching day that many of us

1:13.2

are accustomed to when we go to the beach. Yeah, I think it was pushing 59 when I took that

1:19.8

picture. In July. That's so bizarre. I mean, the key is, and the problem is that around two, if the fog is going to burn off, it does.

1:32.9

And so then it gets to about 65, on nice days, it gets to 70, 75 sometimes even out there.

1:40.0

But the problem is that everybody sort of knows that.

1:43.3

So it gets really crowded at two.

1:46.1

And with kids, sometimes we're just like, hey, let's just go early and be cold.

1:52.8

You can't swim, but you can at least go to the beach and play in the sand.

1:56.6

The kids were digging around in the sand.

1:58.1

Yeah.

1:58.6

And the dogs really enjoy it, even though we can't let them off leash because they're not the sand. Yeah. And the dogs really enjoy it.

2:04.2

Even though we can't let them off leash because they're not that great.

2:07.8

So we have to kind of run along with them.

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