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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Trevor, and DVR discuss another day of spring training news including a potential season-ending injury for Rangers top prospect Sebastian Walcott, Chris Bassitt to the Orioles, and (another) extension for Max Muncy with the Dodgers before discussing new pitches (Garrett Crochet's changeup!) and the challenge of pursuing ideal shapes while maintaining a group of pitches that complement each other to effectively get opposing hitters out.
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Rundown
3:21 Sebastian Walcott Injury, Chris Bassitt to Baltimore
8:26 Max Muncy Adds Another Year with the Dodgers
12:44 MLB Owners Vote to Enforce Box Rules for Base Coaches
17:37 New Pitch Watch: Garrett Crochet’s New Changeup
27:35 Building Pitches That Work, Beyond Chasing Shapes
40:58 Johan Oviedo & Cut-Ride Fastballs
53:28 Who Are You Watching Closely This Spring?
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Trevor May
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:13.9 | It's Thursday, February 12th, Derek Van Riper, You know Saris, Trevor May here with you. |
| 0:17.9 | We made it against all odds. |
| 0:19.9 | Spring training has begun. |
| 0:22.2 | Some guys don't have the right bags, though, Trevor. |
| 0:25.1 | What kind of crime is that to carry it an old team logo bag |
| 0:28.7 | to your new team's first day of spring training? |
| 0:31.4 | It's a fireable offense. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm surprised he's still on the team. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.6 | It is the most normal thing ever. |
| 0:38.6 | Anyone who's coming and joining a new team is wearing or probably has their crap in their |
| 0:43.2 | old bag. |
| 0:43.8 | These bags are uniquely sized for baseball. |
| 0:48.1 | Like there is no, like there are no other type of bags that are big enough to have |
| 0:53.4 | all your stuff, especially for showing up for spring training when you're moving your entire life across the country most of the time. |
| 0:59.4 | And it's funny, this is a Mets guy going on in the Mets who has like eight different players. |
| 1:05.4 | The other seven guys probably all had their old bags too. |
| 1:08.6 | But yet suddenly we're only talking about one of them because I think it has something to do with the bag that he had and what team he used to be on. It's silly. It's silly, stupid. And spring training's here. We don't have to like make up things to talk about it anymore. We can actually just kind of about baseball. I'm glad the Brent Rooker's out here showing everybody, you know, the right way because he |
| 1:30.2 | pointed out this is not a big deal. |
| 1:32.2 | And he also pointed out that nobody can gain 20 pounds of muscle in the offseason, which was |
| 1:38.5 | fact-checked by Lance Brzeowski, who checked with his top trainer and said that you're capped at about two two and a half pounds of |
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