Remembering Rickey Henderson & More December Movement
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the legacy of Rickey Henderson after he passed away at the age of 65 last week. Plus, they examine the latest round of trades and signings including Jesús Luzardo's move to the Phillies for a pair of prospects, Paul Goldschmidt's shift to the Yankees, Gleyber Torres to the Tigers, Walker Buehler to the Red Sox, Sean Manaea's return to the Mets, and first basemen on the move in a pair of deals.
Rundown
3:39 Remembering Rickey Henderson
8:19 Jesús Luzardo Traded to the Phillies
20:03 Paul Goldschmidt to the Yankees & Future HOF Case
27:54 Gleyber Torres to the Tigers
37:45 Walker Buehler Lands in Boston
43:57 Sean Manaea Returns to the Mets
49:20 Nathaniel Lowe Traded to Nats; Joc Pederson Signs with Rangers
57:59 Josh Naylor Traded to D-backs; Carlos Santana Returns to Cleveland
1:02:49 Can the Rays Get Eloy Jiménez Back on Track?
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| 0:00.0 | Bookerates and Barrels, it's Friday, December 27th, Derek and Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:21.5 | We have yet another round of transactions. |
| 0:24.7 | We have trades. |
| 0:25.8 | We have signings. |
| 0:27.2 | We have trades that created space for signings. |
| 0:29.9 | A little bit of everything as this offseason continues to be a very, very busy one from a transactional purposes point of view. |
| 0:39.2 | Eno, how have the holidays been treating you so far? |
| 0:41.7 | Good. We had a frenzy of pack opening, bought them a box of collector boosters in magic, |
| 0:51.6 | which is those are kind of expensive, um, packs, but also |
| 0:55.5 | some stadium club and some tops chrome and we just blew through them and, and, like, magic |
| 1:03.6 | cards actually produced some good stuff. |
| 1:05.6 | The baseball cards, the best thing we got was like a Davis Schneider autographed card. |
| 1:10.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | Yay. |
| 1:13.8 | It's pretty good. |
| 1:14.9 | Not quite what you were hoping for in those baseball boxes, but as long as you had fun |
| 1:19.0 | opening them together, I guess that's the point of the exercise, right? |
| 1:22.3 | You really have to enjoy the process of opening the cards. |
| 1:25.3 | It's fun, but it also is a little bit of an allegory to the whole process, which is |
| 1:30.3 | you buy the thing, you have it in front of you, and then the opening takes half an hour, |
| 1:39.0 | 15 minutes. |
| 1:40.1 | Yeah. |
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