The Athletic's 2024 MLB Player Poll w/Katie Woo
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Katie Woo joins Eno and DVR to discuss several takeaways from The Athletic's 2024 MLB Player Poll including a few 'others receiving votes' for Baseball Player in Baseball behind Shohei Ohtani, the players' selections for 'most overrated' player, the organizations that have bad reputations among the players.
Check out the full poll here ($): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5529966/2024/06/10/mlb-player-poll-overrated-underrated-worst-organization/
Rundown
2:27 The Others Receiving Votes for 'Best Player in Baseball'
9:45 Who Do the Players Think Is the Most Overrated Player in Baseball?
14:53 Who Called Yordan Alvarez and Juan Soto Overrated?
19:58 'Anthony Rendon Was Right -- The Season Is Too Long'
25:53 Where Do Players Want to Play, Removing a Few Variables
31:45 Organizations with Bad Reputations Among Players
39:40 Taking a Pause for the 2028 Summer Olympics?
46:34 The Impact of Analytics on Your Career
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:27.6 | teas and season season exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:48.4 | It is Tuesday, June 11th. |
| 0:50.3 | Derek and Riper, Eno Seris, and Katie Wu here with you on this episode. |
| 0:54.3 | We dig into the Athletics 2024 MLB player survey. |
| 1:00.5 | I know what a lot of writers think. |
| 1:02.3 | I know what a lot of analysts think. |
| 1:04.1 | I love to know what the players think because they see it kind of differently than we do sometimes. |
| 1:09.0 | We're going to dig into some of the more interesting responses to the questions from that survey. Before we dig in, Katie, how's it |
| 1:16.4 | going for you on this Tuesday? Thanks for joining us. I would like to thank you guys, one, |
| 1:20.6 | for letting me pop in here, but two, for reminding me what day of the week it is. I have no |
| 1:25.1 | idea anymore. We have reached the part of the season. I always say this from June 1st to the trade deadline. Every single day is the same. And we're starting a series today, which makes me feel like it's a Monday, but it's really a Tuesday, allegedly. So thank you for that. I have a little bit more semblance of where I am today. |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah, I think I'm doing the same thing for Eno, too. I think Eno needs me to just tell him what day it is because it's been a bit of a slog for him over the weekend and getting into the new |
| 1:53.4 | week coming off of the illness and then being solo in the mornings, too. That's a rough stretch. |
| 1:59.2 | I heard Jesse Agler on Padres radio. He said he guessed |
| 2:03.8 | what day it was and he said it was because it was a day game. It had to be, you know, one of two |
| 2:09.2 | things. It's either a Sunday or a Wednesday. That's amazing. Yeah, some teams really are |
| 2:15.5 | pretty consistent schedule-wise in that regard. |
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