Returning stars, chaos atop the board in 2022, and a bright future in KC?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the return of Chris Sale, Fernando Tatis Jr.'s move to the outfield, a messy top of the board for 2022 fantasy baseball drafts, a Field of Dreams Game that overdelivered on expectations, Baseball America's updated top-five MLB farm system rankings, the possible value of Stuff+ 'max', and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Checkout Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Tops baseball cards. |
| 0:23.0 | It is Monday, August 16th. |
| 0:25.1 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:26.7 | Thank you to those of you watching us on YouTube. |
| 0:29.3 | Hit the like button on this video. |
| 0:30.8 | Be sure to subscribe to this channel to get notifications when we drop new episodes. |
| 0:35.1 | And if the previously mentioned field trips ever begin to happen, |
| 0:39.1 | that's where they're going to go. |
| 0:40.1 | Field trips are good visual learning experiences. |
| 0:42.7 | We would share as much of those as we possibly could on our YouTube channel. |
| 0:47.4 | On this episode, we have a ton of ground to cover a great weekend around baseball. |
| 0:52.5 | Chris Sale is back, so we'll talk about some of the |
| 0:54.5 | underlying numbers are saying with his first start back following Tommy John surgery. Fernando |
| 1:00.1 | Tatis Jr. is back. He's playing in the outfields. We'll talk about that adjustment. We had a |
| 1:04.7 | surprising no-hitter in Arizona. So we'll talk about that. And I'm going to count this as part of the weekend because we recorded on Thursday before |
| 1:12.9 | the Field of Dreams game happened. |
| 1:14.5 | We had a pretty amazing field of dreams game that went down way back on Thursday. |
| 1:19.7 | So a lot of feedback on that. |
| 1:22.0 | Also, really cool thing that I just saw this morning, Baseball America updated its MLB organizational talent rankings. |
| 1:29.5 | So just taking a look mostly at the overall value of the young players in a system. |
| 1:34.5 | We'll talk about a few of the top teams on that list, some bright futures for some teams that |
| 1:38.7 | might not have very bright presence. And one team in particular that really kind of stands out |
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