Spring injuries strike, our biggest misses, and Lance McCullers Jr.'s new deal
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 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?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, March 26th, Derek Van Riper, |
| 0:20.4 | Inoceris, and Britteroli back with us on this Friday. |
| 0:24.4 | Lots to get to. We had a terrible week for injuries. Someone turned the injuries back on for the upcoming |
| 0:29.6 | season. So we'll talk about Eloi Jimenez and Zach Gallin, Kirby Yates, and Nick Anderson. |
| 0:35.2 | We're going to talk about some of the most exciting teams to watch |
| 0:38.1 | in 2021. We're going to dig a little deeper than San Diego, I promise. We're all going to watch |
| 0:42.0 | San Diego, but who else are we going to be tuning into once these games begin to count? |
| 0:46.6 | I had a piece from Eno asking a question I've wondered about for a long time. Does a pitcher's |
| 0:50.8 | command improve with age? So we'll dig into that as well. Britt, welcome |
| 0:55.5 | back. How was Arizona? Oh, it was, it was great, guys. I got to say, I had heard so much |
| 1:01.8 | about how great it was and it lived up to the expectations. It's sunny. You don't worry about |
| 1:07.0 | rain delays. You can get to pretty much every complex within 40 minutes, which is |
| 1:11.7 | remarkable for those of us used to the, you know, three hours drive across Alligator Alley |
| 1:16.5 | in Florida. Obviously, not normal. You weren't able to talk to most players. He didn't have the |
| 1:22.2 | access with COVID. But I can see why people go to Arizona and get just a lot of stuff done. You could ideally go to a camp in the morning and go to another game in the afternoon without missing a beat. And I think that's so valuable. So it was really cool. You can do four camps in two days for sure. And I saw you hiked. It's good hiking. I did. I did. It's great. It's great. You know, I've always been more of a |
| 1:45.6 | mountains girl than a beach person myself. I don't know how you guys feel about this, but I get bored |
| 1:49.6 | of the beach after a little while. I'm not a huge fan of sand. It ends up everywhere. So I'm definitely |
| 1:58.7 | more of a mountain person. I look forward to going to Arizona again next year. |
| 2:02.8 | That's for sure. |
| 2:03.6 | Really, really a good time. |
| 2:04.8 | Hopefully, I could see Eno out there and we can have drinks and be able to be like a normal Arizona spring training, right? |
| 2:12.3 | Hopefully. |
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