Spring Job Battles of Interest, Part 2
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss several spring battles for rotation spots, including the potential for a 'secret' six-man rotation in Tampa Bay, Casey Mize's bid to stick in the rotation for the Tigers, Ben Brown's chances of breaking camp as a starter for the Cubs, Year 2 enthusiasm for Jordan Hicks as a potential sleeper in San Francisco, and much more.
Rundown
0:00 Intro Starts
1:48 A Secret Six-Man Rotation Coming in Tampa Bay?
12:03 Watching Kenta Maeda & Casey Mize Closely This Spring
20:30 Competition for the Final Spots in the Twins' Rotation
31:04 Will Ben Brown Break Into the Cubs' Fifth Starter Spot?
36:30 Let's Make the Dodgers Sign Another Pitcher!
44:37 A Sleeper (or Two) in San Francisco?
54:46 Odds & Ends: The White Sox, Angels, Braves & Padres
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
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| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Music Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:44.9 | It's Wednesday, March 5th. |
| 0:46.5 | Derek and Riper and Enoceris here with you on this episode. |
| 0:49.2 | We take a look at some job battles for pitchers jockeying for rotation spots this spring. |
| 0:55.9 | It is a related episode to the position players battles that we talked about on the Tuesday episode. |
| 1:01.0 | We got more position players to talk about later, either at the end of this show or later in the week. |
| 1:05.2 | We're going to get to them nonetheless. |
| 1:07.0 | A lot of ground to cover today, but a few housekeeping notes before we get started. |
| 1:10.3 | You could join our Discord using the link in the show description. |
| 1:13.7 | Also, be sure to smash the like button on this video if you're watching us on YouTube. |
| 1:18.6 | And if you are in the area or can make plans to be in the area, come to one or both of our live shows later this month at Bear Bottle Brewing Company. |
| 1:28.3 | It's the Bernal Heights location. |
| 1:30.8 | March 27th, March 28th, 430 start time both days. |
| 1:33.6 | March 27th, of course, is the stateside opening day. |
| 1:36.3 | The Giants are in Cincinnati that day. |
| 1:38.4 | So we'll be there watching the game and then potting afterwards. |
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