Is the Nationals' Rebuild Ahead of Schedule?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR and Britt discuss Mike Trout's knee injury, José Abreu's demotion to West Palm Beach, the Twins' unusual home-run celebration, and the newest additions to the City Connect uniform lineup, before taking a look at the Nationals' current rebuilding efforts.
Rundown
1:12 Mike Trout Has a Torn Meniscus; Looked Like He Was 'Back'. Before Injury
9:46 José Abreu Optioned to rookie-level West Palm Beach
18:09 Bring Food to Home-Run Celebrations?
22:22 Thoughts on Mets, Rays City Connects
29:49 How Far Along Is the Nats' Rebuild?
45:21 Early-Season Series of Note: O's-Yankees, Rays-Brewers & Dodgers-D-backs
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| 0:49.8 | Derek and Riperino-Saris, Britteroli, here with you one day later than usual. |
| 0:54.3 | Life happens, as they like to say. |
| 0:56.3 | On this episode, we've got some news and notes from around the league, |
| 1:00.0 | including a disappointing turn of events for Mike Trout, |
| 1:02.8 | who was off to a good start, at least from a power perspective this season. |
| 1:06.2 | We're going to dig into a home run celebration that would probably draw a health grade F from most, most municipalities. |
| 1:15.2 | And we've got a question about the Nats rebuild that we're going to dig into. |
| 1:18.8 | How far along is the Nationals rebuild? |
| 1:21.3 | Kind of a big picture question for us today. |
| 1:23.6 | We're also going to talk about a few early series that we've been excited about that are in progress. And I think each of them got more exciting for different reasons since the time |
| 1:32.3 | that we put them on the rundown on Monday morning for the show. So lots to dig into today. If you |
| 1:38.2 | haven't joined the Discord yet, you can do that using the link in the show description. Let's talk |
| 1:43.5 | about Mike Trout first. |
| 1:44.9 | This was the fresh news of the day on Tuesday night. |
| 1:47.6 | Mike Trout has a torn meniscus. |
| 1:49.7 | Ten homers through 29 games this season. |
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