Pete Alonso Back to the Mets & Other News
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Eno is joined by Sleeper & the Bust co-hosts Justin Mason and Jason Collette to talk about how they got into baseball, their upcoming drafts, some MLB news from the week and they take a few mailbag questions
Rundown
0:57- Intros & how they got into baseball
11:55- Upcoming drafts & any surprises
18:08- Pete Alonso is back with the Mets
28:20- How will new parks effect Rays & A's players this season
38:08- Is Junior Caminero ready to take a big step?
42:44- Ben Gamel goes back to the Astros
45:23- Yoán Moncada 1 year deal with the Angels
47:26- Harrison Bader signs with the Twins
50:42- Tommy Pham joins the Pirates
52:11- Any concerns about Skenes recent workload?
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer: Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. This is not the voice you are used to hearing at the beginning. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm so sorry for that. And I'm so sorry for the poor hosting job that I will do |
| 0:22.5 | henceforth because I just not good at this. It's usually DVR who throws it to me. That makes |
| 0:29.3 | sense. But DVR's got some family situation going on right now and so thankful for our guest |
| 0:35.6 | today. We've got Justin Mason and Jason Colette in town to help us through this process. |
| 0:43.6 | Please, please help me. |
| 0:45.1 | Please help me say something, Justin. |
| 0:47.0 | Tell us a little bit about your background, both in baseball and without, you know, what |
| 0:53.7 | you do, how you got there and what you do outside of baseball. |
| 0:58.4 | So I am Justin Mason. |
| 1:01.4 | You can reach me on social media as Justin Mason FWFB. |
| 1:05.1 | I am a writer at Fangraphs and a writer at Fantasy Pros and Friends Fantasy Benefits. |
| 1:12.0 | And then I also do podcasts, obviously, over on FanGraphs with Paul Spor and Jason |
| 1:17.8 | Colette, The Sleeper in the Bust, and over with Dave McDonald, Friends of Fantasy Benefits. |
| 1:22.9 | Yeah, I've been in the industry for nine years now. |
| 1:26.2 | I also run TGFBI, which is starting to get going here soon. |
| 1:31.6 | So yeah, I do a lot in the industry. Outside of the industry, I'm a full-time addiction counselor. |
| 1:38.4 | I kind of run the addiction side of the welfare to work program in my county. So that keeps me busy during the day. |
| 1:47.1 | So yeah, I love what I do. And I'm really, really excited to be talking to you. We don't get to |
| 1:52.8 | talk on pods anymore now that you're over here. But I got my start on the sleep on the bus |
| 1:58.4 | producing for you. That's right. |
| 2:01.3 | That's right. |
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