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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Birds Are Back in Town

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Rundown
1:10 Eno Needs Rice
4:34 Birds 1, DVR 0
7:35 Another Temporary Realignment Proposal
13:11 Will Some Teams Need Alternative Home Parks?
21:45 Raising Expectations for Pitching Prospects?
31:08 (Still) Unsettled Closer Situations
42:03 Beer Bracket Update

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and Burrell's episode number 91.

0:19.9

It is Thursday, April 30th.

0:21.7

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. On this episode, we have reached the final four of

0:27.1

Eno's beer bracket. We'll get to that as part of our Beer of the Week segment at the end of the show.

0:32.1

There was another proposal about realignment that included 10 team divisions, a mega west,

0:39.0

a mega east, and a mega central.

0:40.4

So we'll talk a bit about that.

0:46.9

And I stumbled into a thought, a few thoughts, I guess, last night during the NL Triple Crown auction.

0:53.4

I started to wonder if perhaps we're not giving rebuilding teams with interesting pitching prospects enough credit.

0:56.0

Mostly not thinking about the possibility they're going to want those guys to actually throw a lot of meaningful innings

0:59.7

in order to not hurt themselves in future seasons in terms of having restrictions later.

1:06.3

So we'll get to all those topics and perhaps a few others along the way.

1:10.7

Eno, happy Thursday.

1:11.7

How's it going for you today?

1:13.5

It's going well.

1:15.5

The weather's good.

1:17.3

I've been having trouble sleeping, and I wonder if it has, I mean, there's obviously all sorts of reasons, potential reasons for that.

1:24.5

But I've had some Achilles tendonitis, so I've been, after nearly running nine miles

1:30.6

last week, I've sort of stepped back from that.

1:32.3

I've been doing the bike instead.

1:34.4

And I just don't know if it's tiring me out enough.

1:40.4

And so my wife is like, oh, you've got to get on the Peloton app and you've got to, like,

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