Staying awake for Seattle, Luis Castillo's struggles, and avoiding a duel
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR discuss the debuts of Jarred Kelenic and Logan Gilbert, the ongoing struggles of Luis Castillo, Jack Flaherty's continued to push toward 'ace' status, the Yankees' COVID situation, the Astros' decision to do something good, and the show's first brush with getting challenged to a duel.
Rundown
0:27 New Names?
2:08 Day 1 in Seattle for Jarred Kelenic & Logan Gilbert
9:45 A Change in West-Coast Watchability Rankings
16:28 Luis Castillo Continues to Struggle
18:42 How Does Jack Flaherty Outperform His Underlying & Advanced Metrics?
23:40 What's Going On with the Yankees & COVID?
31:09 The Astros Do Something Good
39:00 An Attempt to Avoid a Duel
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Tops baseball cards. |
| 0:22.4 | Derek Van Riper here with Britt Jiroli and Eno Seris on this episode. |
| 0:26.6 | Please, it's Eno Baller from now on. |
| 0:30.4 | What? |
| 0:31.4 | What? |
| 0:33.5 | I'm jealous of all those guys' names, man. |
| 0:36.2 | Oh, the hardest name. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm not the Topps project. Dude, some serious names on that list. Dude, Eno Baller. I love that. Do you think it's on his birth certificate? Do you think it says Ben Baller on his gift certificate? Yeah. That would be pretty sweet if it did. It would be. We were looking for a nickname for Brit a while back. I think we landed on Blaze Jeroli. Is that what we kind of decided on? We never formally pushed that in. But that was the clubhouse leader, I think, at the time. Yeah, I think so. I think even just like Blaze G just sounds pretty like legit, right? Derole is just so long and complicated complicated and, you know, Blaze G, simple. |
| 1:13.3 | People pronounce it wrong. |
| 1:15.5 | Just G? |
| 1:17.5 | Just going down to one letter? |
| 1:20.3 | People do that to be all the time. |
| 1:22.1 | I was E for a long time. |
| 1:23.5 | That's true. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm B a lot, so yeah. |
| 1:27.3 | It'll call me D. I get extra two letters at least. |
| 1:30.3 | You're three letters. Yeah. |
| 1:32.7 | You'd have to go, well, you'd think you wouldn't have to go over three letters to one, but then there's the people calling me E. |
| 1:38.6 | Actually, you know what? There is someone who calls me D now that I think about it. Old family friend. I'm not sure why. It's really strange. He thinks you're a . Probably. Most likely. That's the only explanation, right? It's like one of my dad's friends. He's known me as a little kid, so he knows. We've already gone off the rails and we haven't even gotten to the first item. Sorry, back to the rundown. Sorry. Yeah, you know what? I'm not going to tell everybody what we're going to talk about. It's going to be a surprise as we go. Blind blind. Yeah, fly and blind. Blame me. Well, we have two new prospects up for the Mariners. We saw the debuts of both Jared Kalnick and Logan Gilbert on Thursday night. and we talked about Kelnik and projections back on the Wednesday show. |
| 2:20.2 | You know, they let him off, which is pretty cool. |
| 2:22.6 | And it kind of makes me excited about them just doing the simple right thing of maximizing his playing time, |
| 2:27.7 | as opposed to burying him in the bottom part of the order and making him earn a spot that's higher up. |
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