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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Looking Back at the NL West

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Rundown
4:06 Appreciating Max Muncy
7:59 Corey Seager and the Kris Bryant Problem
13:00 Built for Expanded Rosters
21:43 Eric Hosmer Actually Hits the Ball Hard
27:46 Some Love for Josh Naylor
32:02 Cal Quantrill, Glue Guy?
37:12 Eduardo Escobar & Non-Barrel Homers
42:22 Zola Finding: Luke Weaver on 2019 Championship Rosters
48:33 Josh Rojas & Tim Locastro: Interesting Bench Players
55:43 Are the Rockies the Biggest Winners w/Universal DH?
60:27 Garrett Hampson's Playing Time Outlook
66:10 Right Long-Term Direction, But...
68:33 Mauricio Dubon's Path(s) to Regular Time
75:47 Beer of the Week: Toughest Beers to Track Down

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0:00.0

In a world of uncertainty, one thing is for sure. Cancer doesn't stop during a global crisis.

0:06.2

On Saturday, June 13th, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society will host a trailblazing event, Big Virtual Climb, sponsored by Abbey to support and support.

0:12.1

To support their investment in groundbreaking research to advance blood cancer cures and its first-in-class patient education and services, including financial support and clinical trial navigation.

0:23.9

Step up to take cancer down by climbing 61 floors or 17162 steps. Inside or outside on stairs, on the road or your treadmill, climb your way.

0:33.6

Join us for an opening ceremony and then take on your climb with our heart pumping playlist.

0:37.7

Join us on June 13th from coast to coast as we come together to climb, conquer, cure.

0:42.3

Register at lLS.org slash big climb. Welcome to Rates and barrels.

1:04.0

It's episode number 99.

1:06.0

May 28th is the day.

1:07.9

99.

1:08.7

The Wayne Gretzky episode.

1:11.3

Unfortunately, we are not talking to Wayne Gretzky on this episode.

1:15.0

That'd be pretty cool, even though it's a baseball show.

1:17.3

Maybe he drinks craft beer.

1:18.6

You know, like, I've never really had a chance to look into that with the great one.

1:23.6

I saw some numbers.

1:25.0

He is ridiculously dominant in his sport.

1:28.0

Like, I hadn't seen this, but, like, you know, he, like, in terms of points,

1:35.2

he's like 400 or 500 points ahead of, um, Yarmier Yager.

1:42.5

Yeah, it's pretty absurd. It's, I guess it's a little bit like Nolan Ryan. Isn't

1:47.0

like Nolan Ryan like a thousand strikeouts better than anybody else or like 500 or something?

1:53.0

Helps to play for 30 years, but yeah, I mean, so Gretzky broke fantasy hockey back in the day. They used to split up his goals and assists into separate players.

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