MacKenzie Gore & Freddy Peralta Trades & the Yankees Run it Back with Cody Bellinger
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss this week's trades -- a six-player swap that sent MacKenzie Gore to the Rangers and a four-player deal between the Brewers and Mets that sent Freddy Peralta to New York -- and the Yankees' decision to sign Cody Bellinger to a five-year, $162.5M deal this week.
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Rundown
2:07 MacKenzie Gore Traded to the Rangers in Six-Player Deal
10:40 An Adjustment to Avoid Second-Half Fastball Velocity Fades?
17:11 A Top-10 Rotation in Texas?
24:25 Freddy Peralta Traded to Mets in Four-Player Swap
33:04 Brandon Sproat vs. Jonah Tong
38:07 Rank the Brewers' Starters on Innings This Year
47:03 Another Undersized Position Player to Milwaukee
52:25 Cody Bellinger's Return to the Yankees
1:02:37 Mailbag: Is $/WAR Still Relevant?, Michael Busch Playing Against Lefties & 14 Pounds of Muscle for Kyle Manzardo
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Friday, January 23rd, Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. On this episode, we take a detour back into |
| 0:22.4 | some breaking news from the last few days. We had a big trade go down on Thursday. Mackenzie |
| 0:28.0 | Gore has been traded to the Texas Rangers. We'll talk about the implications of that deal, |
| 0:33.5 | the return the nationals got. We'll dig into the Freddie Peralta trade, which happened this week, since we last spoke on news-related matters, big deal between the Brewers and Mets. |
| 0:42.7 | We also had Cody Bellinger's reunion with the Yankees. |
| 0:45.6 | Covered that in a short on our YouTube page, but did not discuss it in full on an episode. |
| 0:50.3 | We got some mailbag questions and comments from recent episodes as well. |
| 0:54.4 | So the outfield previews will get underway to begin next week. |
| 0:59.0 | So this is kind of your traditional rates and barrels, five episodes a week here on out. |
| 1:03.6 | You know, hard to believe we're already there in this late part of January. |
| 1:07.0 | But it was minus 17 Fahrenheit when I woke up this morning. |
| 1:12.3 | So really nothing to do outside for me anyway. You know, what we started doing in our household was in |
| 1:19.1 | anticipation of the next MCU movie, Doomsday, which will include the X-Men for the first time. |
| 1:30.2 | The X-Men are joining the modern MCU. |
| 1:34.0 | We're watching all the X-Men movies. |
| 1:36.4 | There are a lot of them, and we finished the first trilogy over the last week or so. |
| 1:44.0 | And now we're into the Wolverine ones, which are the best ones. |
| 1:48.1 | All right. |
| 1:48.9 | There you go. |
| 1:49.4 | There's your pop culture and weather update. |
| 1:52.5 | That's something you do when it's minus 17 or or like 55. |
| 1:57.6 | Yeah, 55. |
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