The A’s Growing Core & A Few Favorite Baseball Things From 2025
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR and Britt discuss a few late December moves including another extension for an A's position player with Tyler Soderstrom agreeing to a long-term deal, Ryan O'Hearn's new pact with the Pirates, Pete Fairbanks' move to Miami, and a few of their (and your) favorite moments and stories from the 2025 season.
Rundown
2:55 Tyler Soderstrom Signs Seven-Year, $86M Extension with A's
6:57 How Good is the A's Position Player Core?
17:40 Ryan O’Hearn to the Pirates
23:32 Has Pittsburgh Done Enough to Enter Wild Card Picture?
29:24 Pete Fairbanks Joins the Marlins
34:58 Is a Busy January on Tap for the Marlins' Front Office?
42:47 A Few Highlights From 2025
56:04 Zach Eflin, Hunter Harvey, Reds Outfield Additions, Sean Newcomb & Ricky Tiedemann Health Update
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Britt Ghiroli
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
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| 0:00.0 | Walk to Raids and Barrels Monday, December 29th, Derek Ben Ryper, Innoseris, and |
| 0:19.1 | Britt Joroli here with you on this episode. |
| 0:21.3 | We discussed some big happenings around baseball. |
| 0:24.1 | We have an extension from the A's as they continue to put together an impressive core. |
| 0:29.2 | We'll dig into the direction they appear to be heading. |
| 0:31.6 | The Pirates get on the board with a multi-year free agent addition. |
| 0:35.8 | The Marlins have a new closer. |
| 0:37.9 | We're going to talk about some of our favorite baseball things from this 2025 season as well. |
| 0:43.8 | Britt, how the holidays treating you? |
| 0:46.2 | Pretty good. |
| 0:47.0 | I have a one-and-three-year-old, so parents with little kids listening knows that, like, it's fun. |
| 0:52.5 | It's also exhausting. |
| 0:53.7 | I feel like my voice is kind of gone which |
| 0:55.7 | might be just from like yelling at my kids or like yelling in general um but it's fun these are the |
| 1:01.2 | years you'll miss you know when you're 80 years old right just when you're in them you just are |
| 1:05.3 | like dying for a nap or oh i don't know winter break to end because they're off all of this week |
| 1:10.2 | as well. |
| 1:14.6 | So we are recording during nap time. |
| 1:16.1 | Of course we are. |
| 1:21.4 | And for the 10 and 13 year old crowd, like, you know, they're already starting to be like, |
| 1:22.6 | oh, I don't want to cuddle. |
| 1:25.3 | I don't want to, I don't want to hug you. |
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