Spring Job Battles of Interest, Part 1
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 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
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome right to Barrels. It's Tuesday, March 4th. Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:16.7 | We take a look at jaw battles around the league. Some of the places where projections might be a little bit off, |
| 0:23.3 | where there could be some opportunities to unearth sleepers. |
| 0:26.3 | There we say, I mean, sleepers in the traditional sense, |
| 0:28.5 | really don't exist anymore because everyone is digging into everything all the time. |
| 0:34.0 | It's not 1999, but at the same time, we can try to find some players that people |
| 0:38.9 | are overlooking. That's our goal today. We're finding overlooked players battling for playing |
| 0:44.3 | time this spring. Opportunity. Players, places where there's opportunity. Yeah, opportunity. |
| 0:49.9 | I think that's a great way to put it. A little bit of housekeeping here as we get started. A reminder, we've got two live episodes coming up at the end of this month at the Bear Bottle Brewing Company. The Burnell Heights location, I like to call it Barrel Heights, but I have learned that when someone who's not from a particular neighborhood renames the neighborhood that does not typically go over well. |
| 1:11.6 | So do not give a nickname |
| 1:12.6 | to a neighborhood that you do not live in. |
| 1:14.4 | Bad, bad idea. |
| 1:15.7 | Free a show, 430 start both days. |
| 1:18.0 | Really looking forward to that. |
| 1:19.1 | Eno already started making the beer |
| 1:21.1 | for those shows. |
| 1:23.4 | Oh yeah, I'm very excited about that. |
| 1:25.0 | And just to reiterate, |
| 1:26.4 | free, no tickets, no reservations, |
| 1:28.5 | no nothing needed. Where we were thinking about setting up, you may want to come a little early |
| 1:34.2 | if you want to get close, but there's a tension between seeing us and seeing the TVs. |
| 1:39.5 | So I think it'll be one of those places where you'll be able to move around a little bit. |
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