Making sense of non-tender decisions, avoiding arbitration, and Len Kasper's surprising move to the White Sox
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt and DVR break down the moves made at this week's non-tender trade deadline including the Rockies' puzzling decision to let David Dahl go, the impact of uncertain 2021 budgets on free agency, Len Kasper's move from the Cubs to the White Sox, and more.
Rundown
1:23 Making Sense of Non-Tender Decisions
9:52 The NL DH & Future Leverage
12:07 Teams Don’t Have Budgets Yet?
16:54 Agents & Teams Trying Harder to Avoid Arbitration
23:23 Time to Recalibrate WAR for Relievers?
27:36 Len Kasper’s Move to the South Side of Chicago
33:31 What Is the Ideal Play-by-Play Opportunity: Location & Medium
37:02 Wander Franco Injury Follow-Up
40:26 Winds of Change in the Pie Rankings
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It's Friday, December 4th, 2020. Derek Van Riper, |
| 0:20.0 | Enosaris, Britt Jiroli here with you on this Friday, of 4th, 2020. Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, Britt Joroli, here with you on this Friday. |
| 0:24.0 | Of course, we're talking about the group of players that became free agents this week following the non-tender trade deadline. |
| 0:30.4 | We speculated on a few names on our Wednesday show, and it wasn't the complete bloodbath that it could have been, |
| 0:38.0 | but it wasn't a great day for the players will dig into why that is the case over the course of this show. |
| 0:45.5 | At some point, we may get to a pretty devastating flip-flop in my pie rankings, but obviously baseball first. |
| 0:53.2 | I'll say this at the top. |
| 0:54.2 | I feel like we used our A material before we hit the record button today. |
| 0:58.3 | We were just kind of getting ready for the show, and hopefully the B material is at least |
| 1:02.9 | listenable. |
| 1:04.6 | I was a going for you guys on this Friday. |
| 1:07.1 | Well, as you said, I'm a way to tease it. |
| 1:09.4 | I know. |
| 1:10.4 | Well, according to you, I peaked 10 minutes ago, so I don't even know. |
| 1:14.8 | Yep. |
| 1:17.4 | Here are our leftovers. |
| 1:18.9 | Here are the leftovers. |
| 1:20.1 | They've been in the fridge for more than a week. |
| 1:21.8 | No, come on, this will be fine. |
| 1:23.8 | All right. |
| 1:24.3 | I want to start with the non-tender stuff because for the most part, it was the types of players that we've seen non-tendered before. |
| 1:31.9 | I think what made this year's group of players a little bit different is that there were more former first rounders and guys who were highly regarded prospects who were non-tendered at this deadline than usual. |
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