The Last Weekend, Atlanta's surprising NL East win, and expecting an amazing White Sox-Astros series
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Eno, Britt and DVR discuss the state of the final playoff spots entering the last weekend of the regular season, Seattle’s bid to bump an AL East team out of the Postseason, an Atlanta team that might be slightly underrated heading to the playoffs, and an outstanding first-round matchup in the ALDS with the White Sox and Astros.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates at Beryls presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project. 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards. |
| 0:23.0 | It is Friday, October 1st, Derek Van Riper. Ida Serra is Bridgeroli all here with you on this Friday, |
| 0:29.5 | the last Friday of the regular season. And to be honest, it felt a little, a cold snap in the air |
| 0:34.5 | when I went outside to take Hazel out this morning. It actually felt like fall for the very first time for me in California. It felt like the seasons actually were changing |
| 0:43.3 | just a little bit. But I'm not going to talk about the weather ever again because it'll just |
| 0:47.1 | piss everybody off. On this episode, we're going to talk about the still undecided AL Wildcard |
| 0:52.6 | race. Most of the playoff field is set. Most of the matchups are set, but we still have some things to look at with the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Blue Jays this weekend. And of course, the NL West might come down to the final days, depending on how things play out with the Giants and Dodgers matchups this weekend. Giants hosting the Padres, Dodgers hosting the Brewers. We'll get into the teams that are in, some strengths and weaknesses, and a few other topics along the way. Yes, we will talk about Devin Williams punching a wall because that is actually a have to, I guess. A story that we have to talk about. But we begin with the Yankees. They have the magic number down to one to get the first wild card in the AL. |
| 1:30.2 | So it would take a collapse of epic proportions for the Yankees to fail to clinch that wildcard. |
| 1:36.1 | Three at home against Tampa Bay to close it out. |
| 1:39.2 | And the rays are locked in to their position as the best record in the American League. |
| 1:45.1 | So they will have home field throughout the AL portion of the playoffs. |
| 1:49.1 | Can we see a collapse? |
| 1:50.5 | We talked about team entropy last week. |
| 1:52.6 | Is this Yankees team going to disappoint us and actually just do their job? |
| 1:57.5 | Or do you think they'll actually leave the door open to possibly whiff on |
| 2:01.5 | what are extremely high playoff odds entering the weekend. Now, who do they got next? |
| 2:06.7 | They go to Tampa Bay, right? They play the race. I, you know, I think they make it in because |
| 2:12.4 | I would be a little more swayed guys, but after watching Boston lose two of three to the Orioles, |
| 2:18.4 | and then Toronto, only being able to win one of those games at home, I think this is the Yankees. |
| 2:24.9 | I don't think we see an epic collapse. |
| 2:26.6 | What are the Ray's really playing for in these last couple days? |
| 2:29.3 | Anything? |
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