Kodai Senga to the Mets, Xander Bogaerts to the Padres & Another Flurry of Hot Stove Moves
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a very busy week of movement around the league including Kodai Senga's five-year deal with the Mets, other pitchers on the move including Andrew Heaney, Sean Manaea, Kenley Jansen and Carlos Estévez, plus Xander Bogaerts' move to the Padres, Willson Contreras as a St. Louis Cardinal, Mitch Haniger to the Giants, and Josh Bell in Cleveland.
Rundown
1:38 Kodai Senga Signs with the Mets
11:11 Other Free-Agent Deals for Starting Pitchers (Andrew Heaney, Sean Manaea)
25:37 Kenley Jansen to Boston
34:07 Xander Bogaerts: Rebound Coming in San Diego?
41:25 Masataka Yoshida: Expectations in Year 1 with Red Sox
47:30 Willson Contreras, Cardinal
52:35 Making Sense of the St. Louis Lineup in 2022
1:01:43 Mitch Haniger Lands in San Francisco
1:05:50 Josh Bell to the Guardians
1:11:14 A Few More Starts for Shohei Ohtani?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, December 12th. Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:20.9 | Eno Seris on this episode. |
| 0:23.3 | We will discuss the |
| 0:24.5 | flurry of activity that has |
| 0:26.6 | taken place since our episode |
| 0:28.5 | last week. Basically everything |
| 0:30.3 | that has happened since the |
| 0:31.9 | breaking news of Trey Turner going to |
| 0:34.2 | Philadelphia at the end of our |
| 0:36.2 | last episode. So we got lots of pictures on the move, a few other position players to get to one major |
| 0:42.8 | heel turn, a couple of news items to sprinkle in. |
| 0:45.3 | And if we have time, if we have time, a couple of mailbag questions queued up for at the end |
| 0:50.3 | of the show as well. |
| 0:52.6 | You know, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 0:55.0 | That's good. |
| 0:55.5 | Nice, a little, little, like, one day break after the winter meetings, which were rough on me. |
| 1:02.5 | I got sick while I was there. |
| 1:05.2 | I lost my voice on the first night and didn't get to spend as much time in the awesome, awesome bar scene. |
| 1:14.1 | That is the winter meetings. |
| 1:15.6 | But I'm happy to see who I saw, and if I missed you while I was there. |
| 1:20.7 | I was going to bed early and being responsible, drinking lots of water. |
| 1:26.0 | You'll get back to San Diego and there will be, |
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