How Do We Keep Up With Baseball Every Day?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR look back at a great Opening Day packed with impressive rookie performances, and several aces showing up in the first start of the year. Plus, they walk through their process of keeping up with a season that regularly features 15 games per day, while trying to manage a combined 30 fantasy baseball teams.
Rundown
2:45 Tips & Tricks: How Do You Manage So Much In-Season Information?
5:41 Box Score Junkies: Digging in Every Corner for Details
12:57 Where Does Eno Go for His Box Scores?
18:07 Will the Pirates Remain Patient with Oneil Cruz’s Defense?
22:32 Big Days for Carson Benge & Brandon Lowe
26:15 Joe Ryan & Trevor Rogers Shine
29:59 Andrew Abbott, LODEM King
31:55 Kevin McGonigle’s Four-Hit Debut; Skubal Rolls
33:16 Cristopher Sánchez’s Gem
35:09 A Wild Sixth Inning in St. Louis
42:46 A Geraldo Perdomo Homer From the Ump Cam!
49:39 Chase DeLauter & Dominic Canzone Have Two-HR Games
55:27 Cam Schlittler’s Evolution: Adding Fastballs, Throwing More Breakers to Improve Stuff
1:00:08 Our Guys 2026: The Players We Drafted the Most
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, we take a look back at opening day and explain how we keep up with |
| 0:04.4 | baseball on a typical regular season day while managing 30 fantasy teams between us. |
| 0:10.6 | Let's go. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to Rates and Burles. |
| 0:23.8 | It is Friday, March 27th. |
| 0:25.6 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. |
| 0:30.9 | If you are listening on Apple Podcasts, you can now watch video of this show there, too. |
| 0:35.7 | Just update to the latest iOS and head to our show page to start watching. |
| 0:38.4 | Eno, how was your opening day? |
| 0:39.5 | Oh, it was great. |
| 0:42.5 | Watched a ton of baseball, saw Griffin Jacks, |
| 0:44.2 | five hole, his catcher, |
| 0:49.5 | saw the big inning in St. Louis against Tampa, |
| 0:52.5 | just watched so much baseball during the day, |
| 0:55.2 | and then went to a Jeff Tweedy show at night. |
| 1:01.6 | That was that was fun and I was insanely jealous of Jeff Tweedy because he was playing with his two sons. |
| 1:07.4 | He had his two sons on on stage with him, one playing piano and one playing the drums. |
| 1:13.6 | And I got obsessed during the show with the idea that they should play this dead song. |
| 1:15.6 | There's this one dead song, brown-eyed women. |
| 1:21.2 | And I was like, you know, his voice would be perfect for that song and it's kind of driving chorus. |
| 1:24.0 | And I think it would be like a great upbeat song for him. |
| 1:29.4 | And then they did a dead song in the chorus, in the encore. And I was really surprised, |
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