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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

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 69 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


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Follow Britt on Twitter: @Britt_Ghiroli

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

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0:49.2

It is Friday, January 22nd, 2021.

0:52.9

Derek Van Riper, Rich Roli, Enosaris here with you on this Friday. A lot to talk about with

0:59.4

the Blue Jay is getting in to free agency earlier this week. Nice to see them actually get a couple of players

1:05.4

after they fell short a couple of times. So we'll talk about what might be next for them. We had a

1:10.3

question come in about Trevor

1:11.5

Bauer and the possibility of him starting every fourth day, the impact that would have on a

1:15.7

rotation and for his fantasy value. So we'll get to that as well. We're going to talk about J.T. Real

1:21.0

Mudo for a little bit because maybe we can narrow down, kind of play a old game of guess who

1:26.4

and figure out where he fits at this point with Houston adding Jason Castro to their catcher mix earlier this week.

1:33.9

And then Eno's got a piece about seam shifted wake, which if we talked about it on the podcast before and you didn't quite understand it, it will help to have visuals.

1:42.0

It will help to have written words.

1:43.6

But we'll go through that

1:44.7

piece again and talk about some really cool stuff that was included there as well. So,

1:49.8

a lot to get to today, but Friday morning, we received terrible news in the baseball world. Hank

1:55.9

Aaron, baseball's home run king, passed away at age 86.

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