The March Toward Opening Day
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Eno and DVR share a few show-related updates -- two live episodes on Mar. 27-28 at Barebottle Brewing Co. in San Francisco! -- and ask for feedback on a format option for the 2025 listener league before digging into a round of spring news and notes. Plus, they look at DVR's builds from last week's Tout Wars ('Solds and IP instead of Wins) and Mixed LABR draft where a conscious decision to lean into IL spots was made. The show wraps with a round of Monday Mailbag questions, including a question about zone contact rates and the belief in a Matt Wallner breakout.
Rundown
0:24 Eno Brews Beer for Our Live Shows in San Francisco!
7:08 Sean Murphy's Injury & Opportunity for Drake Baldwin
10:21 Minor Injuries for Corbin Carroll & Gunnar Henderson?
15:42 Luis Gil: Awaiting MRI Results (Update: High-Grade Lat Strain)
18:27 Parker Meadows: Slowed by Nerve Issue in Right Arm
24:10 Jose Altuve's Move to Left Field
30:57 DVR's Injury-Risk Heavy Approach in Tout Wars
39:34 Another Pitching Risky Build in Mixed LABR
51:47 Value of Spring Training MaxEV?
54:34 Shohei Ohtani's Dollar Value in Daily Moves League
59:44 Matt Wallner's Sleeper Status & Low Z-Contact% Profiles
Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social
Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social
e-mail: ratesandbarrels@gmail.com
Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe
Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels
Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer: Brian Smith
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:24.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and bet-builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boost, |
| 0:27.6 | tease and season, exclusionsosaris, back from assignment. |
| 0:50.5 | Where were you on Friday, Eno? |
| 0:53.3 | I was at Bear Bottle in Bernal Heights in San Francisco |
| 0:58.1 | brewing a beer that you can have if you come to our event |
| 1:04.8 | at Bear Bottle Brewing Company March 27th and March 28th |
| 1:09.6 | a two live rates and barrels for San Francisco |
| 1:14.4 | and the Bay Area with a beer called Kayakers Cove, which is a hopped up rice lager. I was looking |
| 1:23.3 | for a kind of Sessiony IPA feel. It's going to be Citra and Nelson and 5%. |
| 1:31.1 | One of the working titles was Day Game. |
| 1:34.4 | A day game crusher is the idea. |
| 1:37.6 | So I went and was brewing with Lester Coga, |
| 1:40.9 | who's the co-founder of Bear Bottle. |
| 1:48.5 | I had a great time. I was a kid in a candy store. You can actually hear the giggles on this video. We've got evidence. |
| 1:56.8 | Oh my God. There's. And I did not. |
| 2:03.7 | It's okay. |
| 2:04.3 | Don't worry about it. We're going to close it. |
| 2:04.9 | It's going to go in. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.