Kyle Tucker to the Cubs, Devin Williams to the Yankees & Moves Aplenty
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR are back from the Winter Meetings and the big moves around baseball just keep flowing. They discuss Kyle Tucker to the Cubs in a huge trade with the Astros, Devin Williams' move to the Yankees, a swap between the A's and Rays that sent Jeffrey Springs to Sacramento, and a few other odds and ends from around the league.
Rundown
2:53 Kyle Tucker to the Cubs in a Massive Deal with the Astros
9:56 A Closer Look at FA Needs For Contenders (fWAR by Position)
21:28 A Critically Important Trade for Houston GM Dana Brown?
24:24 Devin Williams Traded to the Yankees
32:54 The Brewers' Shortstop Plan in 2025
39:38 Jeffrey Springs Traded to the A's
49:22 Other News & Notes: McClanahan's Workload, Thairo Estrada to Colorado
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. Monday, December 16th. Derek and Riper, Inoceris, here with you back from the winter meetings, back in the comforts of our home recording studios, which frankly are nice, but at the same time, it is great to be out and do live shows amidst chaos. |
| 0:30.3 | And that's what it was in Dallas. |
| 0:31.5 | We had a nice spot set up just inside the atrium. |
| 0:34.3 | You can see it. |
| 0:34.8 | If you watched on YouTube, there are people just flowing behind us all day along. A really good trip, a lot of great episodes. Hopefully, |
| 0:42.0 | you've had a chance to listen to those over the last few days, and it seems like, you know, |
| 0:45.9 | things are really busy this December. One of the busier Decembers I can remember, because |
| 0:50.7 | we're getting massive free agent deals, and we're getting a lot of trades. |
| 0:55.3 | So we got a ton of ground to cover today since a lot has happened just in the time since we left Dallas last week. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, I think, you know, to some extent there has to be some calming down in the halls of the front offices where, you know, maybe around the CBA, there's always nervousness, what's going to happen, you know, how are we going to treat this? What are the loopholes? What are we going to, you know, how can we exploit these loopholes? What are we looking at? You know, is there going to be a lockout, that sort of stuff? And right in the middle of a CBA. So I think there's calmness of that. |
| 1:28.4 | On the TV front, you know, we've talked about this a little bit. |
| 1:30.8 | Maybe there's some, you know, some feeling that this will all get figured out and everything |
| 1:35.4 | will be fine. |
| 1:36.6 | I think having Juan Soto just decide early just made everything easier. |
| 1:40.4 | You know, anybody that holds on long and holds up a bunch of budget ends up, I think, slowing everything down. |
| 1:49.6 | And, you know, I wonder if there's been some change with Scott Boris. |
| 1:54.2 | I mean, if you're thinking about it, Jordan Montgomery and Blake Snell can't be too happy about how their last free agencies went, you know. |
| 2:02.1 | And so maybe to some extent Boris is deciding, hey, this is a pretty good deal. |
| 2:07.2 | Let's just take it. |
| 2:08.3 | You know, let's not wait until the last second to draw out the last million. |
| 2:11.8 | If that means that you're not ready for the season, and that hurts you that way. |
| 2:15.9 | Yeah, I think it all worked out fine for Blake Snell. |
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