Passing Through the AL East
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Rundown
0:38 Obligatory 2020 Season Update
5:00 Front Offices Are Still Highly Motivated in Shortened Season
13:20 What is Teoscar Hernandez's Ceiling?
16:21 The Case for Derek Fisher
20:51 Nate Pearson & Taxi Squads
32:09 Yandy Díaz is Undervalued
35:40 Brendan McKay's Projections vs. Short-Term Role
43:16 Alex Cobb's Changeup is Back, But...
48:24 Hunter Harvey to Close?
53:02 Austin Hays: Leadoff Hitter?
56:25 Boston's Lack of a Complete Rotation
60:05 Darwinzon Hernandez or Josh Taylor?
64:51 Outlook For A Healthier Alex Verdugo
68:59 Giancarlo Stanton & Pushing Reset
74:44 Jordan Montgomery vs. Jonathan Loasiga
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:27.6 | season, season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 105. It's Thursday, June 18th. |
| 0:53.4 | Derek Van Riper here with Eno Seris. On this episode, |
| 0:56.4 | we are closing out our divisional rewind series with the AL East as we continue to revisit |
| 1:01.9 | players on each team that we might have previously overlooked or we simply have just found |
| 1:05.6 | something new and interesting in our extended prep time for this 2020 season. Before we start going team by team on this episode, |
| 1:13.5 | a quick update on where things stand. |
| 1:16.1 | I think it's fair to say that we are much closer to having some sort of agreement |
| 1:19.9 | for the 2020 season than where we were when this week began. |
| 1:23.9 | How much closer it is, whatever, you can debate that. |
| 1:27.1 | But it would almost surprise me if we didn't have something agreed upon for a 2020 |
| 1:34.2 | season by this time next week. |
| 1:37.2 | And I think it could even happen a little sooner. |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, yeah, it's been a yo-yo over a week, man. |
| 1:43.4 | I don't know if people could hear it in our voices on Tuesday, but that was a fairly low point. |
| 1:52.7 | You were trying to, I felt like you were trying to cheer me up by saying it's not as bad as it seemed last night, but yeah, Monday felt pretty low. |
| 2:02.7 | And then last night was like oh |
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