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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Outfield Breakdown, Part 1

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Rundown
2:17 Choosing From the Big Three
7:25 Cody Bellinger & Mookie Betts
11:49 Buying Juan Soto as a First-Round Pick?
16:45 Old & Boring: Charlie Blackmon & George Springer
19:23 Concerns About Jorge Soler
22:11 Luis Robert vs. Victor Robles vs. Tommy Pham vs. Ramon Laureano
30:07 Is Aaron Judge Discounted Enough?
32:18 2019 Surprises: Austin Meadows & Ketel Marte
38:28 Buying Benintendi?
48:58 Outside the Top 30 in the Outfield
54:46 Eno Finds Something to Not Like About Max Kepler
61:17 Byron Buxton Returning From Surgery
69:16 Bryan Reynolds vs. Lorenzo Cain

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 76. It's March 10th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. The positional

0:22.5

Breakdown series is coming to a close on this episode. We'll talk about outfielders. If we need to

0:27.4

extend it to Thursday's episode, we'll do that. But we're going to try and cover everything we want

0:31.4

to cover on today's show. If you're enjoying this podcast on a platform that allows you to rate

0:37.2

and review it, please take the time to do that. We'd greatly appreciate it. It's one of the few ways you can really support our work. The other way you can do that. If you're not already a subscriber to the Athletic, you can get 40% off a subscription at the athletic.com slash rates and barrels. Thanks to the many of you who have signed up for the athletic either in the last few weeks

0:54.3

or even prior to the existence of this podcast.

0:57.9

Eno, how's it going for you on this Tuesday?

1:00.7

Terrible.

1:01.5

Terrible.

1:01.9

I feel like butt.

1:04.9

Feeling like butt is not a good feeling.

1:07.8

This is an especially terrible time to feel like butt though because the looks you get

1:12.9

the I was like literally talking to another parent at school today and when I mentioned I was sick

1:19.1

they like took four steps away from me. Yeah, yeah everyone's on high alert and for good reason. I mean

1:25.5

it's it's nice to see people paying attention, right?

1:28.2

It's good that people are aware of what's going on around them. But, yeah, if you have a common

1:33.5

cold right now, you might be judged as though you have something worse. That's just sort of the

1:37.8

nature of what we're dealing with right now. So, yeah, at the time of this recording, I mean,

1:43.3

it's Tuesday morning on the West Coast.

1:46.3

Tout Wars on for this weekend at this point.

1:48.5

We'll see how things progress here in the next couple of days.

1:51.4

But certainly a difficult time.

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