Rookies of interest, digging deeper for surprises and making sense of platoon splits

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 63 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! Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels Please fill out our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/athleticaudiosurvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to Rates and barrels.
0:47.2	It is Friday, March 19th.
0:49.2	Derek Van Riper here with Inoceris.
0:51.4	Britt Joroli, enjoying some work in Arizona.
0:55.1	Enjoying some work is rounding up.
0:57.3	Enjoying downtime around work, I'm sure, but even that in a limited capacity.
1:02.1	So, Britt will be back with us next week and hopefully with a few great stories.
1:06.4	So hopefully she's enjoying her time in the desert.
1:10.2	How's it going for you on this Friday, you know?
1:12.7	It's a, it's a, yeah, all right.
1:16.1	It's going.
1:16.8	It's going.
1:17.5	March is a crazy nutty month.
1:20.3	It's a crazy nutty month.
1:21.9	At the end of March, I'm looking forward to a trip, our first big trip since COVID, I guess.
1:29.7	We're all going to hop into the car and go to the Grand Canyon.
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