Shohei Ohtani Meets with the Media, Spring Job Battle Winners, Injury News & 'Our Guys' for 2024
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the latest in the story involving Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, before catching up on a lot of other news around baseball including job battles that have been decided, late spring injuries wreaking havoc on depth charts, and the subsequent opportunities that have opened up. They wrap up the episode with a quick look at some of their most heavily-rostered players as the rest of the league approaches Opening Day on Thursday.
Rundown
1:37 Shohei Ohtani Speaks About Ippei Mizuhara's Gambling Debts
15:20 Ezequiel Tovar Signs Extension with Rockies
24:20 Injury Follow-Ups: Corey Seager, Josh Jung, Kevin Gausman & Eury Pérez
30:20 Luis Gil, Jared Jones and Max Meyer Get Early-Season Opportunities
38:46 Paul Sewald Heads to IL w/Oblique Strain
47:03 Jackson Holliday Misses Opening Day Roster
52:48 Dylan Carlson's Shoulder Injury Creating Path for Victor Scott II?
56:17 J.D. Martinez's Fit with the Mets
59:38 Our Most Heavily-Rostered Players for 2024
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| 0:48.3 | It is Tuesday, March 26th, Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, we are back in our respective home recording locations. |
| 0:57.2 | Feels good to have gotten out and get those two live shows in. |
| 1:00.1 | Thanks again to our friends and other half brewing for being fantastic hosts. |
| 1:04.1 | And thanks to everybody who made it out live. |
| 1:05.5 | It was great to put some faces to Twitter handles and more specifically Discord handles, right? |
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| 1:20.8 | Some of our most ardent listeners and people we interact with the most on Twitter and |
| 1:26.8 | and Discord were there. So it was really great to see everybody. It was really fun. |
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