Late January Deals & Signings, Managing Young Starting Pitchers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss several noteworthy news items including a few recent trades, signings, and proclamations about opportunities for a pair of interesting 2023 rookies.
Rundown
2:53 Adalberto Mondesi: Buying Into Opportunity in Boston?
10:40 Adam Duvall's Chances of a 2021 Repeat
13:57 Grayson Rodriguez Expected to Opening in O's Rotation
26:54 Miguel Vargas: On Track for Second-Base Job?
35:15 Breaking Down the Twins-Marlins Swap
43:11 Luis Arraez: What You See, Is What You Get?
53:28 More Stability for Alex Kirilloff & Trevor Larnach
59:56 Lightning Round Signings! (Josh Harrison, Jesús Aguilar, Ian Kennedy, Nelson Cruz, Aroldis Chapman, Ian Kennedy & Zack Greinke)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.2 | It is Monday, January 30th. |
| 0:18.0 | Derek Van Riper, Yenosares, here with you on this episode. Coming off |
| 0:22.7 | of the momentum of |
| 0:24.9 | pitcher week, we are going to |
| 0:26.7 | take a brief break from our position |
| 0:28.5 | preview series and focus on some |
| 0:30.5 | end of the month news and notes. |
| 0:32.6 | There have been a handful of trades that have taken |
| 0:34.4 | place since we last broke down |
| 0:36.2 | transactions. There are some other updates on player health and role expectations. |
| 0:40.7 | We want to make sure we get all of those in before going back to position previews throughout |
| 0:44.9 | the rest of this week. |
| 0:47.4 | Eno, how was your weekend? |
| 0:50.2 | Do you already forget? |
| 0:51.3 | It's only 942 on Monday. |
| 0:56.8 | Well, the football game was upsetting well yeah yeah for you yeah for you for me i didn't i didn't care |
| 1:01.3 | but it was just sad it actually was sad you don't want to see a season |
| 1:06.4 | ever end like that for anybody four string quarterback gets hurt |
| 1:10.3 | the third string quarterback gets hurt. |
| 1:14.1 | The third string quarterback has to come back in and can't throw. |
| 1:19.7 | It was just like watching it happen in real time was just like, oh, this time. It was very disappointing because with health, that would have been a fun game to watch. |
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