Spring Job Battles of Interest, Part 1

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR take a look at several spring job battles of interest, focusing on position players including the opportunity for Brooks Lee to become a fixture in the lineup for the Twins, Colson Montgomery's path to take over at shortstop for the White Sox, Nolan Gorman's chances of being an everyday guy for the Cardinals in 2025, and how Jordan Lawlar might fit into the equation with Arizona with an indirect battle for playing time against Pavin Smith. Rundown 6:30 How Do the Pieces Fit at First & Second Base in Minnesota 14:21 Colson Montgomery & Chase Meidroth Push for Roles with White Sox 23:41 Trey Sweeney's Chances for an Everyday Role 29:20 Nolan Gorman's Power Over Everything Profile 38:20 Breaking News: Chase DeLauter Injury Update 46:58 How Does Jordan Lawlar Fit on the 2025 D-backs? 56:32 Orelvis Martinez and Battles for Playing Time in Toronto Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social e-mail: [email protected] Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris Producer: Brian Smith Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Welcome to right to Barrels's Tuesday, March 4th.
1:14.6	Derek Van Riper, Eno Seris, here with you on this episode. We take a look at job battles
1:19.1	around the league. Some of the places where projections might be a little bit off, where there
1:24.1	could be some opportunities to unearth sleepers. There we say, I mean,
1:27.8	sleepers in the traditional sense really don't exist anymore because everyone is digging into
1:32.8	everything all the time. It's not 1999, but at the same time, we can try to find some players
1:39.2	that people are overlooking. That's our goal today. We're finding overlooked players
1:43.7	battling for playing time this
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