Spring Things, Leveling Up with New Pitches & Platoon Considerations
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Trevor, and DVR discuss a few spring news items including ongoing shoulder woes for Rafael Devers, tennis elbow in both arms for Giancarlo Stanton, and a slimmed down Eloy Jiménez at Rays camp. Plus, they discuss factors that teams should consider when deciding to platoon a player and wonder if Kerry Carpenter might see an expanded role in 2025. They also bring the first installment of 'Level Up' giving a new pitch a handful of pitches that could use a boost in their arsenals, and the first 'Name! That! Dude!' of 2025.
Rundown
0:53 Are You In the Best Shape of Your Life?
2:33 Rafael Devers: Still Dealing With Shoulder Soreness?
11:59 Giancarlo Stanton: Tennis Elbow in Both Arms?!
18:40 Eloy Jiménez: Down 25-30 Pounds; Primed for Rebound with Rays?
27:23 Factors to Consider When Platooning a Player
35:46 Level Up! What New Pitch(es) Are You Handing Out This Spring?
59:46 Name! That! Dude!
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Trevor May
Producer: Brian Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, Rins and Beryl. It's Thursday, February 20th, Derek and Riper, Inoceros, Trevor May, all here with you on this episode. |
| 0:18.3 | We'll take a look at a few intriguing spring news items, |
| 0:21.3 | as pitchers and catchers and position players all have reported. We're actually on day one of |
| 0:26.3 | spring games, thanks to the early start of the season for the Dodgers and Cubs. They have a |
| 0:30.4 | spring game that will happen later on on Thursday. So nice to have baseball back on our screens. |
| 0:36.4 | Join our Discord with the link in the show description. Talk fantasy strategy. Talk about your favorite team. Talk about anything you want. We got the void too. So if you're upset about something, fired off into the void. Totally safe place to do that. Lots of ground to cover today, guys. We're going to get right to it. First question, are you in the best shape of your life as you sit here today on Thursday, |
| 0:55.2 | February 20th? What would you say? Trevor, self-assessed, best shape of your life? No. |
| 1:00.1 | I might, uh, I might venture almost to say the worst. It's the worst shape. |
| 1:07.0 | Weird timing for that, but yeah, not, not feeling too great about it right now but yeah it's a new year |
| 1:13.0 | we'll see what happens same got a two-year-old so yep probably getting a little worse each year |
| 1:19.5 | around the time spring training starts so maybe by next year you can get back to where you usually |
| 1:24.7 | are in late February you know how about you best shape your life well my are getting older, so I do have time to run. And running-wise, I'm maybe 80th percentile for myself, so I'm doing okay there. It's just that my metabolism, I'm getting older, so my metabolism is just going the wrong way. So, like, my body's just like, I'm doing all the right things training-wise. |
| 1:45.2 | I'm doing more activity than I usually have in my life, I think. |
| 1:49.3 | But my body's just like, yeah, that's cool, but you're old. |
| 1:54.6 | Nice to get those reminders on a day. |
| 1:56.3 | I ran nine miles yesterday, which is good, but I'm sore and I feel like crap. |
| 2:02.0 | You feel like you ran nine miles. |
| 2:03.8 | Exactly. |
| 2:05.2 | Well, let's take a look at some of the intriguing spring news. |
| 2:07.6 | We get these kinds of stories all the time. |
| 2:09.4 | We kind of get the best shape of their lives. |
| 2:11.5 | We get the injury suffered this offseason is still a problem. |
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