Jordan Montgomery to Arizona, Spring Stats We Care About & The 2024 All-Oatmeal Team
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Jordan Montgomery's move to Arizona on a one-year, $25 million deal, shoulder surgery for Matt McLain, and an opportunity for Victor Scott II following a late-spring injury to Dylan Carlson. Plus, they examine a few spring stats worth caring about, and reveal their selections for The 2024 All-Oatmeal Team. (Reminder: We *Like* Oatmeal!)
Rundown
1:53 Jordan Montgomery to the Diamondbacks
6:32 Matt McLain Undergoes Shoulder Surgery
9:39 Will Victor Scott II Offer More Pop Than Similarly Speedy Outfielders?
16:00 Spring Training Stats We Care About: Stolen Bases
32:40 Spring Training Stats We Care About: K-BB%
40:18 The 2024 All-Oatmeal Team
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, March 27th. Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, here with you in the middle of the week because we weren't |
| 0:21.9 | here with you on Monday. |
| 0:23.6 | If you're watching us on YouTube, be sure to smash that like button, subscribe to our channel, |
| 0:27.6 | leave us a nice rating and review wherever you listen to this podcast, and send Enos some |
| 0:31.7 | allergy medicine because he looks a little roughed up today. |
| 0:37.0 | Oak trees, dude. |
| 0:38.4 | Oak trees are the worst. |
| 0:40.5 | You know, you know, like, you know what their, their leaves are like? |
| 0:44.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.5 | Pain. |
| 0:48.2 | Pain. |
| 0:49.5 | And then they have that pollen. |
| 0:51.0 | Oh, oak trees are the worst. |
| 0:52.9 | If we have an oak tree ranking at the bottom of the list. |
| 0:56.7 | I mean, a tree ranking, I'm putting oak trees at the bottom. |
| 0:59.4 | Wow. |
| 1:00.1 | All right. |
| 1:00.6 | Tree rankings for early April when we're waiting for more sample for baseball. |
| 1:05.2 | Right. |
| 1:06.5 | That's our week one, week one filler piece. |
| 1:09.3 | Week one last 10 minutes of an episode, tree rankings. |
| 1:13.1 | Start weighing in on Discord immediately with any insight you have about trees because |
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