Preparing for a different, imperfect postseason with Ken Rosenthal

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7 • 875 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ken Rosenthal joins Eno, Britt & DVR to discuss the different and imperfect 2020 postseason and consider the teams best suited for the unique twists of this October.

Interview w/Ken Rosenthal

4:05 Are the Rays Optimally Suited for This Postseason?

5:02 Atlanta's Tough Wild Card Round Draw

6:22 Does Home Field Advantage Even Matter?

7:39 Is Previous Playoff Experience Less Important?

9:09 Tactical Adjustments to a Packed Schedule

11:04 Are the Cubs Getting Overlooked?

12:23 The Impact of Neutral Parks After Round 1

14:17 Ken's American League Predictions

17:08 The Brewers & Having a Puncher's Chance Against the Dodgers

Series Breakdowns

20:38 Rays vs. Jays

24:08 A's vs. White Sox

27:27 Twins vs. Astros

30:09 Indians vs. Yankees

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rates and Barrels, episode number 143, really episode number one, though, of this 2020 postseason.
0:21.6	It is Monday, September 28th.
0:24.4	On this episode, we are going to be joined by the Athletic Senior Baseball writer and MLB insider Ken Rosenthal to discuss the very unusual postseason before us and the unique challenges it will create for these 16 teams that made it.
0:38.4	We're also going to make our AL predictions with the AL Wildcard series getting underway on
0:44.9	Tuesday.
0:46.2	Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday?
0:48.1	It's good.
0:48.7	I went to the beach.
0:49.6	I went to the pool.
0:50.6	I am ready.
0:51.7	I'm ready for this.
0:53.6	It's going to be crazy. I mean, it's like the quad
0:56.2	box situation, right? Like, I'm happy now that I've got five screens going because I will have a
1:01.1	game on four of them. Yeah, I think you set up perfectly for this unique postseason. Brick, can you
1:07.0	top Eno's trip to the beach this weekend? I can't.
1:13.2	I went to a five-year-old birthday party with Paw Patrol.
1:17.4	That's my normal life.
1:22.2	So I learned a lot about what these characters are named, but other than that, no.
2:00.9	And guys, I have to say, they just announced that MLB TV, like you won't be able to watch the postseason now. And so I will spend the rest of the day scrambling trying to figure out how to add TBS, MLB Network, and Fox to my lineup. Now, I'm insane and obviously I do this for a living. But what are the casual baseball fans? Like, what are we doing here? If you bought MLB TV, you should be able to watch the games, no? The package you're going to need is Sling, because it's cheap. You can do it for a month. You can ditch it, and you can add the MLB channel for like $10. You also get Red Zone. So that's your way around if you're scrambling to get it. And you can do the ESPN option instead of the NBC and regional sports network option. I have to tell you in the in the sort of realm of
2:07.0	cord cutting and like what the future of broadcasting is like the only reason I keep cable
2:12.6	around is for moments like this. Yeah. TBS FSBS, FS1, Fox, like,
2:19.4	if you're trying to like Hulu or whatever,
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