Max Scherzer to the Blue Jays & Late January Moves
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR take a quick break from their 2025 Position Preview series to catch up on news from around the league. Max Scherzer has landed with the Blue Jays on a one-year deal, Ha-seong Kim has joined the Rays, and bullpen changes are happening for several clubs with Carlos Estévez (Royals), Ryan Pressly (Cubs), and Kirby Yates (Dodgers) on the move.
Rundown
2:37 Max Scherzer Signs with the Blue Jays
8:40 Grant Holmes' Current Opportunity in the Atlanta Rotation
13:11 Carlos Estévez Signs with the Royals
24:09 Ryan Pressly Traded to the Cubs
29:41 Kirby Yates Officially Joins the Dodgers
33:37 Ha-Seong Kim Signs with the Rays
41:22 Jorge Polanco Returns to the Mariners
49:30 Shinnosuke Ogasawara: Gets Two-Year Deal with Nats
50:31 Other News & Notes: Taylor Rogers & Austin Hays to the Reds, Jorge Mateo & Dylan Carlson to the O's, and Elias Díaz to the Padres
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, January 31st, Derek and Riper Ido Seris here with you, taking a little break from our position preview series to catch up on some late January news. |
| 0:23.6 | We have some signing, some small trades, a few shakeups in bullpen situations, which is great because we have not had our 2025 reliever preview yet. |
| 0:34.6 | We're waiting pretty much on Kenley Jansen at this point before recording that |
| 0:38.9 | episode. We can't wait much longer. It'll be early next week either way. But if I could wish for |
| 0:43.0 | one thing this weekend as far as baseball transactions go, I think it's Kenley Jansen signing |
| 0:48.8 | somewhere, just so we can have a little more clarity about the bullpins around the league. |
| 0:54.9 | Join our Discord. Within the Discord, you can find all sorts of good things, including our Hive Mind rankings. |
| 1:00.5 | You catch up on those this weekend. |
| 1:02.5 | Submit your position rankings for all the positions we've covered so far. |
| 1:05.9 | We're going to compile those and put together some listener rankings. |
| 1:08.7 | We'll share those here in a couple of weeks. |
| 1:11.3 | We've got a lot of responses so far. |
| 1:12.8 | Looking forward to getting a few more of those. |
| 1:14.9 | The other benefit of joining the Discord is great memes. |
| 1:18.7 | This is a beauty from Captain Jason Solo. |
| 1:23.2 | There is a, for those of you who are not watching on YouTube or in the Discord, |
| 1:27.9 | you know, getting heckled by listeners. |
| 1:31.4 | We've got curly guy, Lars Neubar's Health Grade, |
| 1:34.9 | and interrupting me as three almost demons sort of bullying Eno. |
| 1:39.8 | And then there's me in the next frame reaching out, DVR's Midwest, kindness. |
| 1:44.3 | And then the third frame is, it's on the rundown as I give Eno back to belly suplex and crush him. |
| 1:51.2 | So sorry, Eno. |
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