Freddie Freeman's Epic October Moment, Judge's Slump & Long-Term Questions About Ohtani's Shoulder
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss an eventful start to the World Series -- including Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam, and the Yankees' choice to use Nestor Cortes in that matchup -- long-term concerns about Shohei Ohtani's dislocated shoulder even if he's able to play in Game 3, and the postseason struggles of Aaron Judge. Plus, they look back at their second-half draft from July to discuss a few intriguing early-draft season targets including Luis Robert Jr., whose situation for 2025 would improve drastically if the White Sox opt to trade him.
Rundown
1:15 Freddie Freeman's Walk-Off Grand Slam
11:31 Yoshinobu Yamamoto's Game 2 Performance & Adjustments
21:01 Aaron Judge's October Woes
27:00 Long-Term Concerns About Shohei Ohtani's Shoulder?
36:54 Looking Back at Our Second-Half Rebound Draft
43:50 Luis Robert Jr. v. Brenton Doyle in 2025
51:45 Bo Bichette v. Luis García Jr.
57:58 David Fry, Sonny Gray & Ronny Mauricio Updates
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| 0:00.0 | Cortez delivers. |
| 0:06.2 | Freeman hits a ball to right field. |
| 0:08.8 | She is gone. |
| 0:14.6 | Debbie, meet Freddy, game one of the world series. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Monday, October 28th. Derek van Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this episode. We take a look at the World Series as we enter game three on Monday night. The Dodgers with a two nothing lead. A lot of exciting things happened over the weekend for them to take that leads. |
| 0:45.9 | We'll break all of that down and talk about some of the longer term implications of things we've seen in the series so far. |
| 0:51.9 | We've got a great mailbag question about relievers and the third time they're matching up against hitters within a series. |
| 0:55.2 | We've got some news items to get to outside of the postseason. |
| 1:02.9 | And time permitting, we are going to review our second half draft that Eno and I did back in July, |
| 1:09.5 | because there are some important takeaways as we get ready for the 2025 fantasy baseball season. |
| 1:12.9 | If you've not joined our Discord, you can do that with the link in the show description. |
| 1:18.5 | We will have a chat going for Game 3, so be sure to jump in there, enjoy the experience, |
| 1:23.3 | maybe turn the volume of your TV down, turn the podcast up for a little bit, and jump in the Discord. |
| 1:26.0 | That might be the best way to enjoy Game 3. |
| 1:31.5 | Eno, let's start with what happened in game one of the World Series. |
| 1:36.7 | Freddie Freeman gets a chapter in postseason history with one swing, |
| 1:40.0 | and a lot of things transpired to make that moment happen. |
| 1:50.6 | The parallels between Kurt Gibson's home run in the 1988 World Series and Freddie Freeman's go down to being hit at the exact same time of day. |
| 1:52.9 | Both home runs were hit at 837. |
| 1:54.5 | That's just weird. |
| 1:56.1 | So crazy. |
| 1:58.8 | Just nuts. I mean, the whole thing was him limping and the call by Joe Davis was, you know, |
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