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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Mark Eichhorn Gambit

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Rundown
3:02 Project GOAT, Round 1 Results!
9:08 The Mark Eichhorn Gambit
16:33 Appreciating Todd Helton's Peak
22:38 Drafting Past Seasons for a Simulation?
29:59 Nick Castellanos & Happiness
40:05 Who Was Blocking Francisco Lindor in 2014?
47:38 Can Players' Emotions Be Effectively Measured?

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0:00.0

Today's episode of Rates and Burials is brought to you by Remarkably Remote, a new daily microcast from the experts at GoToMeeting all about making work from home work for you.

0:09.0

With indispensable intel and how to stay sane, motivated, and productive at home, we're here to help you in this brave new remote working world.

0:15.5

Find us on smart speakers or subscribe on your favorite podcasting app.

0:19.0

You can also listen at go tomeeting.com slash tips.

0:22.3

That's go tomeeting.com slash tips.

0:43.2

Welcome to Rates and Burials episode number 85.

0:44.9

It is April 9th.

0:47.4

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres.

0:50.0

Lots of good stuff on this episode.

1:04.8

We're going to have finalized Project Goat Standings, several mailbag questions, a wide range of topics, some about a possible simulation season where you can draft players for multiple years.

1:06.6

But that was really interesting concept.

1:13.1

Nick Castiano is the subject to one of those questions, and anything you can imagine is in the mailbag this week.

1:15.5

So thank you for a lot of great questions.

1:22.0

You know, how are you holding up after running the Project Goat standings into the wee hours of the night?

1:24.8

I have to say, man, I was pretty happy.

1:28.4

There's a couple pieces like the support beer and this one.

1:30.0

I've had to do some data, data entry,

1:31.7

just kind of,

1:33.0

you know,

1:33.6

go through and do this,

1:35.1

you know,

1:35.4

and don't think.

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