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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Second Base Breakdown

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Rundown
2:15 Gleyber Torres & Volatility
7:26 One More Level from Ozzie Albies?
10:26 Does Jose Altuve Still Belong in the Top 40?
13:43 Can Ketel Marte Repeat His 2019 Breakout?
18:39 Will Whit Merrifield's Steals Come Back?
22:21 Paying Up for Jonathan Villar?
28:00 Projecting K% Improvement for Keston Hiura
31:41 Thinking Twice About Jeff McNeil?
35:31 How Much Playing Time Will the Dodgers Give Gavin Lux?
43:11 More Power to Come From Luis Arraez?
47:20 Cavan Biggio vs. Tommy Edman
58:27 Depth Options at Second Base

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 71. It's February 20th.

0:19.6

Derek Manriper here with Enos Seris. We continue our

0:22.8

positional breakdown series. Now we move into the middle infield. This episode will focus on

0:28.0

second baseman. That means short stops are probably coming up to kick things off next week.

0:33.2

If you're listening to this show on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, anywhere you can leave a rating of

0:37.4

review. We'd greatly appreciate it. If you took the time to do that, tell your friends if you like the show. And if you're listening to this show on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, anywhere you can leave a rating of review. We'd greatly appreciate it if you took the time to do that. Tell your friends if you like the show. And if you're not already subscriber to The Athletic, you can get 40% off a subscription at theathletic.com slash rates and barrels. Everything we do, the draft kit, Jake Sealy's projections, Eno's articles, team coverage. It's all included with a subscription to the site.

0:56.8

What's going on today, Eno?

0:58.7

I don't know, man.

0:59.6

I like these short weeks from, oh, hey, it's almost the weekend already.

1:04.8

Although it's one of these weird short weeks where it's like, my kids have been home,

1:09.2

so it's felt like a short week, but I've been it's like one of these faux holidays presidents day so it's kind of been in between but

1:20.0

I took the kids ice skating last night and and I was pretty good at pickup ball. So, you know, everything's coming up Millhouse.

1:31.4

It's a good way.

1:32.9

It's a good way to put it.

1:34.0

I love that it happens.

1:36.1

I think when things are flooding and Millhouse is wearing flood pants.

1:41.0

Everything's coming up in Millhouse is always a reference to that.

1:46.0

One of the classic...

1:46.6

And labor is next weekend.

1:50.0

It is.

1:50.8

And I'm sure we'll do something special while we're there.

1:53.6

What exactly that is?

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