In-game video, renaming Cleveland's baseball team, Marcus Semien's foray into free agency, and holiday movie toss-ups
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR discuss the importance of supporting local food banks, in-game video and the potential impact on overall team offensive performances, new names for the Cleveland Baseball Team, free-agent landing spots for Marcus Semien, the potential benefits of a condensed MLB offseason, holiday movie toss-ups, and traditions they're looking forward to as 2020 comes to a close.
Rundown
0:44 Community Spotlight: Food Banks
11:50 In-Game Video & Team wRC+
22:53 Jersey Number Trivia!
27:05 Best Facial Hair in Baseball?
31:15 Renaming Cleveland’s MLB Franchise
39:49 Did the Mariners Add a Closer?
45:14 Marcus Semien’s Potential Landing Spots
48:28 Should MLB Utilize Moratorium or Transfer Windows?
55:28 Listener E-mails: You Can Order Cheesesteak in the Mail
56:52 Would You Rather? Holiday/Christmas Movie Edition
73:23 Holiday Traditions We’re Looking Forward To
Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris
Follow Britt on Twitter: @Britt_Ghiroli
Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper
E-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com
Buy a one-year subscription to The Athletic, get one free to give to a friend: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, December 18, 2020. |
| 0:19.9 | Derek Van Riper, Eno Seris, Bridger-Rolle, here with you on this |
| 0:22.7 | Friday for what is scheduled to be our last Rates and Barrels of 2020. Failing some sort of very |
| 0:30.4 | interesting trade or massive free agent signings, we are going to enjoy a little bit of rest before coming back at it in full force the first week of January. |
| 0:42.3 | So, beginning the show, how are you guys doing? |
| 0:45.7 | How is everybody feeling as this year finally winds to a close? |
| 0:49.6 | Britt, what have you been up to? |
| 0:51.0 | Well, I've been up to going to the food bank, the Maryland Food Bank. I went this |
| 0:56.8 | morning before we sat down here for this podcast. I've been learning Spanish. Those are like my two |
| 1:03.7 | kind of productive quarantine things that I've been doing. Other than that, I've been trying to |
| 1:08.6 | not annoying my husband because the two of us have never |
| 1:11.4 | spent this much time around each other. And if you're listening to this podcast, you're in the same |
| 1:16.1 | situation, send me tips because it's been a real, it's been a real interesting dynamic to, to |
| 1:24.1 | share a town home, share an office space and be constantly on top of each other. |
| 1:29.7 | It's definitely, I love him, but not that much. |
| 1:33.1 | From like zero to 60, screw that. |
| 1:35.2 | It's like zero to 100. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah, it's like I was a baseball beat writer, used to traveling, see you every 10 days. |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah, it's like breakfast lunch and dinner |
| 1:45.7 | he doesn't listen to this podcast thank God so he'll never know |
| 1:54.4 | your husband my family they don't listen to the shows |
| 1:58.8 | yeah my mom just listens to the beginning. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.