The Difference A Week Makes

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7 • 875 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Eno, DVR & Britt discuss the change that has taken place in the span of a week, socially distanced celebrations, the difficulty of breaking life-long habits on the field, the Braves' rotation following Mike Soroka's season-ending injury, and more.

Rundown
1:39 How Much Have Things Changed In A Week?
6:37 Nick Markakis Walk-Off & Socially Distanced Celebration
11:25 Ryan Christenson’s Apparent Straight-Arm Nazi Salute
16:50 Players Trying to Break Habits
22:05 Energy & Clubhouse Chemistry
31:21 Mike Soroka’s Season-Ending Injury
38:26 It’s Never Too Early in a 60-game Season to Talk About the Trade Deadline
41:28 More Prospects On the Way?
46:02 Eno’s Problems Get Worse

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0:00.0	Today's episode of Rates and Barrels is brought to you by The Athletic.
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0:08.7	Get all of our MLB coverage, our fantasy baseball coverage, get Brits Nationals coverage,
0:13.3	Eno's articles about pitching, everything we do, including coverage of other sports from the NBA bubble in Orlando,
0:19.4	the dual bubble system for the
0:21.2	NHL.
0:21.9	We've got an EPL transfer window open right now, and we have an NFL season that's about
0:26.6	four weeks away from trying to get off the ground as well.
0:29.0	So get 40% off at theathletic.com slash rates and barrels.
0:32.8	Music Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode number 122. It is Friday, August 7th.
0:53.2	Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, Bridgeroli, here with you on this
0:56.9	Friday. On this episode, we're going to talk about some things that seem to be quite a bit better
1:01.4	than they were just one week ago. I mean, I feel like when we spoke last Friday, I thought
1:05.9	baseball season was on the brink of ending. I wasn't sure if we'd get to Monday and still have games
1:11.3	being played Monday night. And I'm a little bit relieved that we at least got there. And it
1:17.0	kind of seems like in terms of managing the pandemic and getting teams back on the field,
1:23.0	MLB at least put it back together for the time being. And the level of ease has kind of been back to
1:31.3	normal. I kind of feel like we're tracking towards getting through a 60 game season. And I probably
1:35.8	would have bet against it literally seven days ago. So, Bridd, I want to start with you. Like,
1:41.8	how different do things feel now than they did a week ago?
1:47.1	Yeah.
1:47.6	I mean, it feels like almost like that was a year ago at this point in time, guys.
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