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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Hank Aaron's legacy, the next steps in Toronto, and Hall of Fame voting fatigue

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9746 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Eno, Britt, DVR discuss the legacy of Hank Aaron before considering the next steps for the Blue Jays, J.T. Realmuto as a possible fit in Atlanta, Eno's recent article about seam-shifted wake, and fatigue with the Hall of Fame voting process. Rundown 1:18 Hank Aaron's Legacy 10:17 What's Next for the Blue Jays? 18:33 Trevor Bauer and Starting Every Fourth Day 29:34 Assessing Atlanta's Interest in J.T. Realmuto 33:46 Is the Universal DH Situation Holding Up a Marcell Ozuna Deal? 36:19 Eno's Latest Article: Seam-Shifted Wake 43:58 The History of the Baseball 50:31 Hall of Fame Voting Fatigue Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow Britt on Twitter: @Britt_Ghiroli Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Music Welcome to Rates and barrels, it is Friday, January 22nd, 2021. Derek Van Riper,

0:51.5

Rich Roli, Enosaris, here with you on this Friday.

0:55.5

A lot to talk about with the Blue Jays getting in to free agency earlier this week.

1:01.0

Nice to see them actually get a couple of players after they fell short a couple of times.

1:04.8

So we'll talk about what might be next for them.

1:07.6

We had a question come in about Trevor Bauer and the possibility of him starting every

1:11.4

fourth day, the impact that would have on a rotation and for his fantasy value, so we'll get to

1:16.3

that as well. We're going to talk about J.T. Real Mudo for a little bit, because maybe we can

1:21.8

narrow down, kind of play a old game of guess who, and figure out where he fits at this point,

1:26.7

with Houston adding Jason Castro to

1:28.9

their catcher mix earlier this week. And then Eno's got a piece about seam shifted wake,

1:34.1

which if we talked about it on the podcast before and you didn't quite understand it, it will

1:38.3

help to have visuals. It will help to have written words. But we'll go through that piece

1:42.7

again and talk about some really cool stuff that was included there as well. So a lot to get to today, but Friday morning, we

1:50.7

received terrible news in the baseball world. Hank Aaron, baseball's home run king, passed away

1:56.7

at age 86. And as I was watching the tributes roll in, guys, it's...

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