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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Jacob deGrom's Shoulder Injury, Torkelson & Brash Make Opening Day Rosters & Weekend Updates

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Baseball, Sports, Mlb

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the Jacob deGrom shoulder injury, Spencer Torkelson and Matt Brash making the Opening Day rosters, Craig Kimbrel's bumpy spring debut with the Dodgers, the Angels' decision to DFA Justin Upton, and more.


Rundown

Jacob deGrom's Shoulder Injury

Opportunity for Tylor Megill

Spencer Torkelson Makes Opening Day Roster

Craig Kimbrel-AJ Pollock Trade

Gavin Lux is DVR's New Victor Robles

Justin Upton DFA's by Angels

Matt Brash & Reid Detmers Earn Rotation Spots


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Saturday, April 2nd, Derek Van Riper, here with Enoseres, our first podcast on a Saturday.

0:23.8

We have, we've done about 300 episodes of Rates and Burials at last count.

0:28.6

Maybe this is number 300, if it is, confetti.

0:32.2

And this is the only time we've ever recorded on a Saturday, and it might be a one-time occurrence.

0:36.3

We may never record on a Saturday again.

0:38.3

We could do this podcast for a hundred more years, and a Saturday may not ever happen again.

0:42.6

It feels weird.

0:43.5

It feels like a bizarre world situation.

0:45.8

We have Disneyland to thank.

0:48.2

I'll be in Disneyland Monday and Tuesday, and so we wanted to get a podcast out to you

0:52.9

before that whole thing went

0:54.3

down. I think the lockout is the real cause because you booked a trip based on the season

1:00.3

starting a couple of days ago, not a couple of days from now, and here we are. Well, I mean,

1:07.2

eyes wide open. I was like either the season gets shoved and we're fine,

1:12.9

or the season starts on time and we're fine.

1:16.1

And then the season decided to get shoved, but very little.

1:20.2

Just a little.

1:20.6

So that I'm hurrying down from Disneyland to San Diego to do some live blogging for opening day.

1:29.7

And I think everything will be fine.

1:31.9

But it's riding a nice edge.

1:36.0

Yeah, we've got a live episode of the 3-0 show on Wednesday, the day before opening

1:40.9

day.

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