Kyle Schwarber heads to D.C., Sung-bum Na & Tomoyuki Sugano stay put, and fantasy fallout from the Lindor blockbuster
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Kyle Schwarber's move to the Nationals, MLB teams being unable to work out agreements with Sung-bum Na and Tomoyuki Sugano, the fantasy fallout of the blockbuster trade that sent Francisco Lindor and Carlos Carrasco to the Mets last week, and a new leaderboard at Baseball Savant.
Rundown
3:01 Kyle Schwarber in D.C.
12:23 Treading Carefully with Lower Batting Average Early-Rounders
17:29 Sung-bum Na & Tomoyuki Sugano Stay in KBO & NPB
20:23 Robbie Grossman, the Detroit Outfield and Victor vs. Victor (vs. Oscar)
35:05 Fantasy Fallout of the Francisco Lindor Blockbuster
51:54 The Back of the Cleveland Rotation
60:50 Baseball Savant's Spin Direction Leaderboard
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, January 11th, 2021. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We'll talk about Kyle Schwabber. He found a new home since we last spoke. He has headed to the nationals. Two international free agents opted to stay put or at least failed to find suitable deals with MLB teams. Robbie Grossman went to Detroit. |
| 0:38.2 | We didn't really talk about that when it happened. |
| 0:39.8 | We'll also get to the fantasy fallout of the Francisco Lindor trade and a fun new |
| 0:44.9 | edition over at Baseball Savant. |
| 0:47.4 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 0:49.6 | It's good. |
| 0:50.3 | It's good. |
| 0:50.6 | I had a normal weekend, which is to say about the same as any other. |
| 0:56.4 | But we got some stuff done downstairs here at my office, which, oh, man, overbreak. I did some filing. |
| 1:04.3 | And I'm so bad at filing. I'm also trying to like clean up my grips and file those a little better. |
| 1:10.8 | My grips picks. But I'm so bad at filing |
| 1:13.3 | that I had a pile that had stuff in it to file that was 10 years old and that means that I've |
| 1:23.0 | moved that pile without filing it three times. |
| 1:30.4 | Like actual location moves. |
| 1:31.0 | How many different? |
| 1:34.4 | I've moved houses three times the last 10 years. So that pile just stayed a pile. |
| 1:38.7 | I moved it. |
| 1:42.0 | Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. |
| 1:45.4 | Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. |
| 1:48.8 | That's the sound of some workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. |
| 1:53.9 | At people's pension, we don't have shareholders to pamper. |
| 1:57.2 | That's why over the last five years, we've given a hundred million pounds back to our members instead. |
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