Second-chance leagues, Alek Manoah's debut, and El Mago's latest trick
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss second chance leagues, long-term struggling players they are interested in adding, a few others they're ready to move on from, Alek Manoah's impressive debut, El Mago's incredible baserunning in Pittsburgh, and elite advertising placement.
Rundown
2:03 Second-Chance Leagues
11:55 Big Movers: 'New Aces'
25:01 Tough Adjustments: Starting Pitchers
28:22 Biggest Non-Injury Busts So Far
49:34 Alek Manoah's Impressive Debut
58:55 El Mago's Greatest Trick Ever?
63:07 Ad Optimization
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:14.0 | Bucking Rates and Beryls presented by Tops. Be sure to check out Tops Project |
| 0:20.8 | 70. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this |
| 0:25.4 | episode. We will discuss the second chance leagues that are taking place over the weekend. |
| 0:30.1 | The NFBC has several contests available, an opportunity to make things right if you're not |
| 0:36.2 | happy with how your 2021 season is going, |
| 0:38.7 | or to make more things go right if you're thrilled with how things are going right now. |
| 0:42.3 | You can look at it that way too. |
| 0:43.9 | We're going to talk about some players that have been disappointment so far, |
| 0:46.6 | when to possibly admit defeat on some of those players, |
| 0:49.8 | and when to actually seek them out as possible rebound candidates. |
| 0:53.6 | So hopefully those two things go hand in hand. |
| 0:56.0 | Probably get a few other questions in there as well. |
| 0:58.2 | Some pretty awesome stuff happening over the course of the week. |
| 1:01.3 | Alec Manoa debuted. |
| 1:03.4 | And Javi Baez had a play against the pirates that might be the most fun play I've ever seen in a baseball game at any level. |
| 1:11.7 | So we'll get to that in just a little while. |
| 1:14.7 | How's it going for you on this Friday, you know? |
| 1:17.7 | I have the ass. |
| 1:19.6 | Sweet. |
| 1:20.6 | It's good to have that on a Friday. |
| 1:23.3 | I made a weird-ass decision to do a juice cleanse. |
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