Post Winter Meetings Moves & MLB's Plan to Regulate Minor League Data and Tech
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR, and Jed discuss Robert Suarez's move to Atlanta as the Braves rebuild their bullpen, Kenley Jansen's pursuit of 500 saves following a one-year deal with Detroit, the Royals' attempt to fix their outfield and reported interest in Jarren Duran, Jorge Polanco goes to the Mets, who might line up very well as a blockbuster partner for the Padres, Merrill Kelly stays put, and the Cardinals ink Dustin May to a one-year deal. Plus, Eno discusses his story about MLB's plans to regulate data and tech in the minor leagues.
Rundown
4:41 Robert Suarez Gets a Three-Year Deal with Atlanta (and Mike Yastrazemski Gets Two)
12:05 How Healthy Is the Braves' Organization?
16:00 Kenley Jansen Lands with the Tigers
20:53 The Royals Get Busy: Sign Lane Thomas, Trade for Isaac Collins and Nick Mears
27:43 Interest in Jarren Duran, Can He Return to 2024 Level?
37:57 Jorge Polanco Gets a Two-Year Deal with the Mets
44:46 The Mets Line Up Very Well with the Padres
49:01 Merrill Kelly Gets Two-Year Deal with D-backs
53:13 Eno's Story About MLB Regulating Data & Tech in Minor Leagues
Link ($): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6879487
1:04:48 Adolis Garcia Heads to Philly
1:07:00 Dustin May to the Cardinals
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Jed Lowrie
Producer: Brian Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels Monday, December 15th. |
| 0:14.3 | Derek and Riper, Inoceros, and Jed Lowry here back from the winter meetings. |
| 0:18.2 | Two of us were in Orlando, and one of us went somewhere even better. |
| 0:22.5 | Jed, what were you up to? Well, we were gone. I got to go to New York, and I took part in the |
| 0:28.5 | athlete immersion program that Fanatics and boardroom are doing. So that was a, that was kind of a two-day, |
| 0:35.6 | two-day event, and had a blast, met a lot of new people, a lot of great |
| 0:40.6 | athletes. |
| 0:41.5 | And yeah, I can say I enjoyed it more than winter meetings. |
| 0:45.4 | What is athletes immersion? |
| 0:47.0 | What is that? |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.6 | So, you know, Fanatics obviously has built their whole business off of, you know, sport and, you know, athletes play sports. |
| 0:55.5 | And so I think they are trying to pay it forward and help prepare athletes for life after sport. |
| 1:02.4 | Kind of the way that they talked about it is career 2.0. I've had a lot of this throughout my career. |
| 1:07.2 | I was on the older end, let's just say, of the people in that room. The age ranges from |
| 1:13.5 | an 18-year-old NWSL player to Jed Lowry mostly, like on the higher end. So it was a great |
| 1:21.6 | group of people, a lot of NWSL, WNBA players, and then some MLB guys as well. |
| 1:27.8 | Sounds like he came home with something you were looking for too. |
| 1:30.4 | I decided to try to collect the last card of me produced when I was playing. |
| 1:38.5 | 2022, the tops chrome. |
| 1:40.7 | And I chose the Ben Baller one. |
| 1:42.2 | It's just a little bit more rare and harder to find. |
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