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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Josh Naylor Stays in Seattle and More Hardware for Ohtani, Judge, Skubal & Skenes

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Baseball, Sports, Mlb

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss Josh Naylor's return to Seattle on a five-year deal (financials unconfirmed prior to recording) and the other moves that might be on tap in Seattle this winter. Plus, a check-in on Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, before a look at this year's BBWAA Award Winners, a few reports and rumors around starting pitchers, and some excitement for the expected return of Cody Ponce after an impressive stint in the KBO. 


Rundown

2:21 Josh Naylor: Stays in Seattle with Five-Year Deal

13:07 A Quick Adjustment to T-Mobile & A Good Fit

19:53 Emmanuel Clase & Luis Ortiz Plead Not Guilt to Illegal Betting Charges

33:30 More Hardware for Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge, Paul Skenes and Tarik Skubal

43:56 Drake Baldwin & Nick Kurtz Win Rookie of the Year Honors

1:00:18 Rumors & Reports: Kodai Senga, Freddy Peralta & Kris Bubic; Brad Keller as a Starting Pitcher Again?


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0:00.0

Welcome to rates and barrels to Monday, November 17th, Darifan Rhyr and Rhyfer, Inocis, here with you on this episode. We have some big

0:22.2

free agent news. Josh Naylor is staying in Seattle. We'll dig into his agreement with the

0:28.1

Mariners here in just a few minutes. Updates on Emmanuel Classe and Luis Ortiz. It's been a minute

0:34.6

since we've talked about them. There's been some progress on the

0:37.8

legal front in their cases. We have award season upon us. All of those major BBWAA awards have

0:45.2

been handed out. We'll talk about who brought home the hardware and whether or not the old

0:49.4

BBWA got it right this year. And we'll take a look at a few other deep, deep, free agent pickups that are available this winter,

0:58.8

discuss whether or not there could be some hidden value that we didn't get to on our free agent rankings part two.

1:04.7

Eno, how was your weekend?

1:07.0

It was good.

1:07.7

It was good.

1:08.2

I saw some jam band, Jerry Garcia band on Friday night. That was good. It was good. Saw some jam band, Jerry Garcia band on Friday night.

1:14.7

That was fun.

1:15.9

And watched my youngest, Calvin, is getting really into magic.

1:25.2

So he's been coming around.

1:27.0

He's like, see the orby? And he's like, do, do, do it's gone. And he's like, sometimes he just like throws it behind himself. Like, it's over there on the ground. Allusions. I didn't know if you meant magic the gathering or if you meant actual. I mean, both. But yeah, he's a little bit more into illusions now. He's been watching some YouTube series about this illusionist.

1:46.8

And so we saw the first, now you see me.

1:49.8

I guess the third one is out in theater.

1:51.9

So I guess he's going to make me watch two and three.

1:54.7

But it wasn't that great, but my wife got up in the middle of it and started doing stuff. It was like, not into it.

2:02.7

But I was like, it's okay. It's still an action movie. It's kind of fun. Well, if he goes too far with

2:08.5

the illusions, you could show him some episodes of Arrested Development with Job.

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