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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Liam Hendriks to the White Sox, a filthy closer pool, making sense of select 2020 pitching surprises, and six-man rotations

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9746 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss Liam Hendriks' move to the White Sox, their current top-five closers in a filthy 2021 closer pool, what to expect from a few of 2020's surprising pitchers, the viability of six-man rotations as teams look to limit workloads, and more. Rundown 6:00 Liam Hendriks Joins the White Sox 14:50 Current Top-Five Closers 18:00 The Closer Mess 25:27 Blake Treinen Returns to the Dodgers; Kenley Jansen Trust Level? 31:29 2020 Breakouts: Setting Expectations for Spencer Turnbull, Elieser Hernández, Justus Sheffield 45:02 Brad Keller & Seam-Shifted Wake 48:35 Six-Man Rotations & Workload Management Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, January 13th, 2021. Derek Van Riper, Enoseres here with you on this episode. We talk about Liam Hendricks making a move to the

0:55.8

White Sox bullpen. We'll talk about some 2020 late round breakouts that, of course, coming out of a

1:02.1

shortened season are even more difficult to sort out as we look ahead to this 2021 fantasy season.

1:08.0

We're also going to discuss the possibility of more teams employing six-man

1:12.1

rotations in 2021. We'll also talk about strategy differences between different league sizes,

1:17.9

and hopefully we'll have time to get to some help for those who are new to the Dynasty

1:23.4

League formats as well. Edo, how's it going for you on this Wednesday?

1:29.2

Going pretty well.

1:37.0

I have two crazy-ass dogs that just like today on the walk, they like just mauled another dog.

1:37.5

Like, I mean, they're tiny.

1:38.9

So it's mauled as a relative term.

1:40.8

This isn't like some pit bull stuff.

1:42.5

But like they just, they were like running around circles around this other little dog and the other owner was upset.

1:48.7

And I had these treats.

1:49.9

My idea is to like, you know, pay attention to me instead of the other dog.

1:53.0

I've got treats.

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