Summer Scoring Surge, Trade Tips & Long-Term Considerations
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the barrage of runs from Tuesday night and wonder if an extremely hot summer will continue to propel offense around the league. Plus, they discuss a few tips for making trades, long-term concerns about Corbin Carroll's shoulder, aging catchers, and a pitch that might be the most unusual offering in baseball.
Rundown
1:52 DVR Loses Delivery Crown
3:14 Climate Change and Baseball
9:50 Future Adjustments to Stadium Dimensions & Amenities?
14:45 A San Francisco Stumper
19:13 Trade Tips: What Actually Gets Deals Done?
27:43 Cody Bellinger's Long-Term Outlook
34:11 Corbin Carroll's Shoulder
40:38 Dynasty Value of Veteran Catchers (J.T. Realmuto & Salvador Pérez)
50:23 Trust Location+ More In-Season?
52:04 The Most Unusual Pitch in Baseball?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, July 19th. |
| 0:17.8 | Derek Manriper, Enoceris here with you on this Wednesday. |
| 0:22.5 | On today's episode, |
| 0:28.9 | we will dig into a very big night of run production on Tuesday and discuss whether or not there might be a sign of things to come, as a heat wave has pretty much covered most of the |
| 0:34.6 | country. And as we know, warm weather makes the ball fly. The trade tips that we did not discuss on the Tuesday episode will be a big part of this episode. How do you get deals done? What actually moves things along and makes you a better trader? And we got lots of mailbag questions. A good question about Corbyn Carroll's shoulder and his long-term health. A Dynasty catcher question because of changes at that position with all the young talent coming in. |
| 0:58.9 | We've got a really fun pitch question about a Pirates reliever. |
| 1:02.3 | So tons of ground to cover today. |
| 1:05.3 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Wednesday? |
| 1:07.8 | It's a crazy day. |
| 1:09.9 | My broken phone needs to be fixed today. It's long crazy day. My broken |
| 1:10.8 | phone needs to be fixed today. |
| 1:13.1 | It's long run day and it's already |
| 1:15.4 | super hot. |
| 1:16.8 | I need to run as soon as this podcast |
| 1:18.5 | is over. |
| 1:21.0 | It's one of those days. |
| 1:22.5 | But it's hump day. |
| 1:24.1 | So just get all that stuff done |
| 1:25.9 | and it's free sailing from there. |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah, the heat is a problem everywhere, but it's a good if you like run production. |
| 1:35.0 | As we saw on Tuesday, this was a stat I saw on MLB Central this morning. |
| 1:40.7 | I actually get MLB network in my house now. |
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