Opening Day is Here! Will Smith Signs a 10-Year Extension, Bold Predictions & Eno's Main Event Squad
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Happy Opening Day! Eno and DVR discuss Will Smith's 10-year extension with the Dodgers, good news for Jordan Romano, a tough break for Jordan Lawlar, and other news and notes as the 2024 MLB season gets underway in full. Plus, they break down a few Eno's bold predictions for the upcoming campaign, and discuss a few wrinkles from this year's Main Event of the NFBC.
Rundown
3:42 Will Smith Signs 10-Year Extension w/Dodgers
8:26 Jordan Romano May Return Quickly From IL
9:26 Jordan Lawlar Out 8-10 Weeks Following Thumb Surgery
12:38 Other News & Notes (Jon Berti, Ronel Blanco, Marco Luciano)
29:08 Eno's 2024 Bold Predictions ($): https://theathletic.com/5351937
47:12 Unique Wrinkles of the NFBC's Main Event
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Thursday, March 28th. Happy opening day. |
| 0:21.8 | It is the real opening day. |
| 0:23.6 | Yes, thumbs up. |
| 0:24.7 | Got the thumbs up right away. |
| 0:26.1 | We're off to a fantastic start. |
| 0:28.4 | All 30 teams were supposed to be in action today. |
| 0:31.2 | We learned on Wednesday that a couple of games were going to be postponed Friday because of weather. |
| 0:35.7 | So no Brewers' Mets, no Phillies Braves, at least for today. |
| 0:39.2 | So hopefully we'll see more teams in action on Friday as a result. |
| 0:43.7 | But anyway, we made it barely after dozens of drafts combined between the two of us |
| 0:49.2 | and live shows and team previews and position previews. Like, it's here. |
| 0:55.3 | It finally begins. |
| 0:57.0 | I know new data. |
| 0:59.3 | New numbers. |
| 0:59.9 | Talking about the same numbers for like months. |
| 1:06.6 | It's a... |
| 1:07.1 | No, no, I like baseball. |
| 1:08.6 | It's just not about numbers. |
| 1:10.6 | No, it's just, yes, we've baseball. It's just not about numbers. |
| 1:15.6 | No, it's just, yes, we've been pouring over the same figures for six months. |
| 1:32.1 | You know, in fact, right now, I'm pretty sure my UCL hurts from two things, throwing batting practice a lot, and two, holding my phone to look at baseball type stuff and Twitter type stuff while at baseball games. |
| 1:34.1 | So. |
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