Rookies of interest, digging deeper for surprises and making sense of platoon splits
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the challenges of projecting MLB arrivals in the wake of a lost minor league season in 2020 before digging deep for some potential surprises additions to the 2021 player pool.
Rundown
2:55 Impact Rookies: Retroactively Fitting 2020 Minor League Seasons
10:12 What If CJ Abrams Had a Clearer Path?
15:49 Prospects of the Month
22:41 Digging Deep for Surprise Players
32:05 When Can You Believe Platoon Splits?
41:34 Can We Learn Anything From Previous Shortened Seasons?
53:41 A Surprising Eno Rivalry
56:47 Beer of the Week!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, March 19th. |
| 0:19.2 | Derek Fanriper here with Inoceris. |
| 0:21.3 | Britt Joroli, enjoying some work in Arizona. Enjoying some work is rounding up. Enjoying downtime around work, |
| 0:29.2 | I'm sure, but even that in a limited capacity. So, Britt will be back with us next week and hopefully |
| 0:34.6 | with a few great stories. so hopefully she's enjoying her time |
| 0:38.4 | in the desert how's it going for you on this friday you know it's uh it's a too yeah all right |
| 0:46.0 | it's going it's going march is a crazy nutty month it's a crazy nutty month at the end of march |
| 0:52.9 | i'm looking forward to um a trip, our first big trip since COVID, I guess. |
| 0:59.7 | We're all going to hop into the car and go to the Grand Canyon. |
| 1:03.2 | Nice. |
| 1:04.0 | See my vaccinated mother and go to a couple sightseeing things around there in Arizona and then drive back. |
| 1:14.8 | It would be a weird time to take time off the first week of the year. |
| 1:18.8 | But, in fact, how many decisions did you make about your fantasy team in the first week? |
| 1:25.4 | Not that many. |
| 1:27.6 | And yeah, and how much and how little do I want to write, you know, short sample stories |
| 1:32.5 | on the first week? |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.8 | I mean, you have to pay attention. |
| 1:36.9 | Like, you do have to make moves the first week because there could be some pop-up |
| 1:40.4 | players, especially in a year like this. |
| 1:42.5 | But as far as reacting and writing about it, there's not a lot to write. So it seems like kind of a really good time, especially if you can catch games at night and do some sightseeing during the day. And the Grand Canyon, it's very grand. It's amazing. It's actually every bit as cool as people make it out to be, maybe better. like TV, it looks amazing. I don't even know if that really does it just as though. It's one of those things that's really hard to take a picture of. Like the bigger something is, the less the picture really captures it, unless you like really blow it up and have like a huge canvas and like a really great camera. If you just like look at a picture of the Grand Canyon, sometimes you're like, yeah, |
| 2:18.7 | okay. |
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