Spring injuries strike, our biggest misses, and Lance McCullers Jr.'s new deal

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Eno, Britt & DVR discuss a difficult week of spring training injuries, including Eloy Jiménez, Zac Gallen, Kirby Yates, and Nick Anderson, the new deal for Lance McCullers Jr. in Houston, some of the biggest misses, and more. Rundown 4:17 The White Sox Lose Eloy Jiménez For 5-6 Months 13:13 Zac Gallen’s Unusual Stress Fracture; Our Plea for Universal DH 18:27 The Jays Lose Kirby Yates 23:23 Nick Anderson’s Injury 30:02 Lance McCullers Jr.'s New Deal 35:25 (Some of) Our Biggest Misses 47:17 Time to Shorten Spring Training? 54:15 Tarik Skubal & Casey Mize Make the Tigers' Rotation 60:51 Does Command Improve with Age? Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow Britt on Twitter: @Britt_Ghiroli 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.
0:47.9	March 26th, Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, and Britteroli back with us on this Friday.
0:56.8	Lots to get to. We had a terrible week for injuries. Someone turned the injuries back on for the upcoming season. So we'll talk about
1:00.9	Eloy Jimenez and Zach Gallin, Kirby Yates, and Nick Anderson. We're going to talk about
1:05.8	some of the most exciting teams to watch in 2021. We're going to dig a little deeper than San Diego.
1:11.3	I promise. We're all going to watch San Diego, but who else We're going to dig a little deeper than San Diego, I promise.
1:16.2	We're all going to watch San Diego, but who else are we going to be tuning into once these games begin to count?
1:20.3	I had a piece from Eno asking a question I've wondered about for a long time.
1:22.5	Does a pitcher's command improve with age?
1:24.6	So we'll dig into that as well.
1:26.0	Britt, welcome back.
1:26.7	How was Arizona?
1:29.5	Oh, it was great, guys.
1:34.8	I got to say, I had heard so much about how great it was and it lived up to the expectations.
1:36.1	It's sunny.
1:37.6	You don't worry about rain delays.
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