The Andrew Benintendi deal, PECOTA win projections, and Juan Soto's ridiculous ceiling

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Eno, Britt & DVR discuss the surprising three-team deal that sent Andrew Benintendi to Kansas City, a frugal winter in Boston, the release of the PECOTA projections, home run derby leagues, and Juan Soto’s ridiculous ceiling. Rundown 3:06 Andrew Benintendi in Kansas City 10:20 A Frugal Winter in Boston 17:19 Cubs Over White Sox in 2021? 28:31 Other Interesting PECOTA Projections 37:10 Home Run Derby League 42:55 Pitchers Most Likely to Benefit w/New 2021 Baseball 48:14 Juan Soto’s Ridiculous Ceiling 59:47 Thank You — For the Hardware! Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow Britt on Twitter: @Britt_Ghiroli Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper E-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Friday, February 12th. Yes, that means Valentine's Day is Sunday. If you're like me, you didn't know that until you walked into a grocery store yesterday. You still have time to save yourself. So, you know, do that accordingly.
0:59.4	Derek Van Riper here with Britt Jiroli and Ido Saris on this Friday. Lots of fun stuff to talk about
1:04.4	today. We have some curious questions around the Red Sox following their trade this week.
1:09.1	Andrew Benintendi, gone. He is now a royal.
1:11.4	We'll talk about their offseason as a whole.
1:14.0	I'm going to take a look at the Pocoda projected standings because Enos Astros came up with a very
1:19.9	favorable win total there.
1:21.4	So we'll dig into that as well as some other teams.
1:25.7	Yeah, you're definitely on board.
1:27.8	Really cool format, home run derby, fantasy leagues.
1:30.5	We're going to talk about that for a little bit and some follow-up questions about some
1:34.0	changes to the baseball, plus the other fun tangents that we usually go on.
1:38.9	How's it going for you guys on this Friday?
1:40.4	What's going on, Britt?
1:41.8	Nothing.
1:42.4	So have you not been to the grocery store since Halloween? Because the Valentine's Day
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