The best shape of our lives, another entry into baseball's weird injury club, and Seattle's bright future

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Eno, Britt & DVR discuss the value of players being in the 'best shape of their life', Spencer Torkelson's arrival in the Weird Injury Club, and say goodbye to Kevin Mather and hello to a great group of young players on the brink of contributing in Seattle. Rundown 3:19 Who Isn't In the Best Shape of His or Her Life Right Now? 10:29 What Do the Numbers Say? 19:51 Spencer Torkelson Joins the Weird Injury Club (We're All Members) 31:02 Goodbye, Kevin Mather. Hello, Great Players En Route to Seattle 42:55 Remember Four-Man Rotations? 53:07 Lowering IP Floors 56:23 The Original Ben Zobrist 61:34 February Beer of the Month Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow Britt on Twitter: @Britt_Ghiroli Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper Please fill out our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/athleticaudiosurvey 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 at Beryl, it's Friday, February 26th, Derek Van Riper, British Rolla, Enosaris, here with you on this Friday, on this episode.
0:54.4	We discuss whether or not it matters to be in the best shape of your life at the beginning of spring training.
1:01.2	Of course, we're seeing all of the best shape of his life stories rolling in this week.
1:07.9	We have Spencer Torkelson joining the Weird injury club. We'll talk about how he
1:12.7	injured himself. We'll say goodbye to Kevin Mather. We will also take a look at a question about
1:18.4	four-man rotations from Oren, kind of going back in time a little bit there. Also, I had a few
1:22.9	follow-ups, one suggesting that we have an original Ben Zobris to talk about.
1:27.9	So we'll get to that later on in this episode as well.
1:31.3	Britt, how's it going for you on this Friday?
1:33.2	Oh, it's going well.
1:34.4	It's going well.
1:34.9	It's nice to see you guys.
1:36.3	It's nice to be Friday.
1:38.8	This time next week, guys, I will be in Florida.
1:42.3	It's exciting.
1:43.8	I'm jealous. Florida. Hmm. It's exciting. I'm jealous.
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