Rounding Out Rosters & Depth Chart Diving
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the Yankees' rotation depth with Frankie Montas expected to miss time at the start of the season, Trey Mancini's impact on the Cubs' depth chart, Brandon Belt's ripple effect in Toronto, and the addition of Miguel Rojas to an unsettled playing-time mix in Los Angeles. Plus, the A's addition of Shintaro Fujinami, Andrew McCutchen's reunion with the Pirates, and Jorge Alfaro's move to Boston.
Rundown
2:00 Frankie Montas' Shoulder Injury
10:27 Trey Mancini to the Cubs
18:11 Brandon Belt's Role in Toronto; Impact on Kirk & Jansen
27:02 Miguel Rojas & The Unsettled Dodgers Depth Chart
35:28 Jacob Amaya's Path in Miami
39:00 Shintaro Fujinami to the A's
46:50 Andrew McCutchen Returns to Pittsburgh
52:30 Jorge Alfaro to the Red Sox
58:44 Luke Weaver to the Reds; Future Reliever?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.2 | It's Tuesday, January 17th. |
| 0:18.1 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We dig into some late winter. I want to say spring. Late winter. It's still winter. I look out my window and it doesn't look like winter. The winters I'm used to. The winters I've had most of my life look very different. It's not all white out there. It's not white. There's plenty of rain, unfortunately, like too much. |
| 0:40.6 | But the sunshine, you know, it's nice. |
| 0:43.3 | The thing that killed me when I lived in New York was that they, that March was like, I |
| 0:48.6 | considered March a spring month and spring, and spring training had started. |
| 0:53.5 | And I'd always be like, I'd always be like I'd always be like |
| 0:55.7 | writing about baseball or thinking about baseball looking at drafting you know my leagues and stuff |
| 1:00.4 | and be outside in New York being like this ain't spring there are so many times I can remember |
| 1:08.1 | getting a dog kind of changed this when we got haz, I remember walking around my neighborhood in late February, |
| 1:14.1 | kind of beginning part of March when spring training games begin, |
| 1:17.2 | listening to Brewer's games while taking her for a walk. |
| 1:19.6 | And I'm walking around and there's like snow banks next to the sidewalk, |
| 1:23.3 | maybe even ice on the sidewalk, depending on the year. |
| 1:26.2 | And you're listening to Bob Yucer. |
| 1:28.7 | And you know it's warm and sunny and great in Arizona. And it's infuriating. And you're trying to fall on the sidewalk from the ice and snow. It's like, this is weird. Like it's giving me hope that this is about to end, that this is going to go away. But it also makes it worse than the moment somehow. Yeah, it's like, but I'm not at the ballpark right now. |
| 1:27.0 | So this is a little bit. that this one is going to go away. Worse than the moment somehow. Yeah, it's like, but I'm not at the ballpark right now. |
| 1:46.2 | So this is a little bit john. |
| 1:48.4 | Cursing all the people who like went to spring training. |
| 1:51.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.0 | So it's the later stage move. |
| 1:54.1 | Some of these we've discussed on other shows, the three-o show most specifically, but a lot of different things that could actually have significant fantasy |
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