Forgotten Players, Mailbag Fun + the Ultimate Sandwich Condiments
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss several 'forgotten' players -- including Angels starter Griffin Canning -- plus their 2022 expectations for Josh Donaldson and Dylan Cease, leadoff hitters in danger of taking a tumble down the batting order, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, January 24th, Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. |
| 0:23.5 | We will discuss some players that we believe are forgotten players, not necessarily |
| 0:27.8 | players who've been like completely gone from baseball, but just players that have not been |
| 0:32.2 | a part of our conversation throughout this draft season. |
| 0:34.9 | The kinds of players that when you are thinking about a depth chart, you're thinking about |
| 0:38.2 | playing time, you've probably forgotten about these guys. |
| 0:40.9 | They're because of injury, recent performances, or a variety of other reasons. |
| 0:44.9 | Sometimes we see guys that were prospects who play enough to lose prospect status |
| 0:49.2 | and then kind of fall in between AAA and the big leagues end up in these conversations as well. |
| 0:54.0 | So a bunch of guys that fit into one of those groups. |
| 0:57.0 | We've got some questions from you, our loyal listeners that we're going to get to over the course of the episode as well. |
| 1:03.5 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 1:05.6 | It's good. |
| 1:06.5 | It's good. |
| 1:07.3 | I didn't really do anything this weekend. |
| 1:08.9 | Just hung out and watched some movies with the kids. |
| 1:12.5 | Just, we went, I did a little hike on, uh, in Wunderlich Park around here. |
| 1:17.9 | Saw some deer and newts. |
| 1:20.7 | Newts? |
| 1:21.4 | Nutes and turkeys running around. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah, I'm used to seeing deer. I'm used to seeing turkeys. |
| 1:29.7 | I don't think I've seen newts in a while. |
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