NL DH Options & Hope Tingles
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Rundown
1:45 A Good Idea to Use DH in NL This Season?
12:11 Austin Riley on the Rise?
15:53 The Wide Range of Outcomes for Ryan Braun
20:31 What Will the Cubs Do?
25:18 Opportunity for Jake Lamb & Kevin Cron in Arizona?
30:15 Why Not Give Jaylin Davis the Extra PAs?
37:24 Obligatory Marlins Talk
42:47 The Return of Cespedes!
46:05 Is This Franchy's Chance?
52:56 Aquino & Hilliard Time?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Burials episode number 86. It is Tuesday, April 14th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:23.3 | On this episode, we'll discuss one of the latest rules modifications as part of the ongoing |
| 0:29.3 | proposals for Major League Baseball to play some sort of a season. That would be the inclusion |
| 0:34.9 | of the DH in both leagues. We'll talk about who would benefit most on each NL team if that scenario were to play out. |
| 0:43.3 | Before we begin, Eno, I think it would be appropriate to congratulate our friends over at the sleeper and the bus. |
| 0:49.4 | They did knock us out of the baseball pod's tournament bracket in the Sweet 16 round on Monday evening. |
| 0:56.7 | So a hearty congrats to our friends, Paul Spor, Jason Collette, and Justin Mason for their |
| 1:01.5 | victory. And good luck to them as they continue moving through the tournament. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah. No, a nice wave to our friends over there at Sleeping the Bus and a hearty shake of the fist to the organizers |
| 1:13.6 | for putting us in the same bracket so we're then giving it such a low seed. |
| 1:19.1 | I should have been number one seed. |
| 1:21.4 | But anyway, it was a fun exercise for us so far and it would be fun to see who comes out on top of that. |
| 1:29.0 | Definitely rooting for Paul Spore and Justin Mason and Jason Collette as they go forward. |
| 1:35.9 | Absolutely. |
| 1:36.6 | Lots of great shows still battling it out in the final eight, so be sure to check out at Baseball Paws on Twitter if you'd like to have your say in how that thing plays |
| 1:45.0 | out. Let's start with our first topic though, the DH in both leagues. This is something that |
| 1:49.8 | was kicked around last winter as a possible late offseason adjustment. It never really seemed |
| 1:57.1 | realistic to me then because it just seems that the kind of thing that would have to really be agreed to in a CBA, even if the commissioner could push it through, it just seems |
| 2:05.2 | like it'd be a really bad step towards the next negotiation if something like that were to |
| 2:10.4 | happen. But given these circumstances, given that if the league is basically realign based on |
| 2:16.3 | geography, if teams are playing at their spring training homes, where you have the NL, |
| 2:21.3 | basically becoming the Arizona League and the AL, let's call it, becoming the Florida |
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