The need for institutional change, Colorado's lack of direction, and teams most likely to surprise and disappoint in 2021
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt and DVR discuss the troubling accusations of lewd behavior by former Mets manager and current Angels pitching coach Mickey Callaway before exploring the Rockies' lack of direction under Jeff Bridich, and sharing their picks for surprising teams (good and bad) in the upcoming season.
Rundown
1:05 The Mickey Callaway Story & Another Ugly Side of Baseball Culture
8:06 A Clear Need for Institutional Changes
17:23 Colorado's Lack of Direction In the Jeff Bridich Era
22:56 Nolan Arenado's Potentially Long Stay in St. Louis
26:32 Our Final Trevor Bauer Free Agency Check
35:01 Examining the Flaws of the 2021 Mets
39:54 Teams Most Likely to Surprise & Disappoint
52:30 An Early Look at World Series Odds
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, February 5th, Derek Van Riper, |
| 0:20.2 | Richard Roli, Enosaris, here with you on this Friday. It has Friday, February 5th. Derek Van Riper, Britt Jiroli, Enoseres, here with you on this |
| 0:22.9 | Friday. It has been a busy week in baseball. It's been a very busy week for Brit in particular. |
| 0:29.4 | Britt and Katie Strang broke a huge story at the beginning of the week about current |
| 0:34.0 | Angels pitching coach Mickey Callaway over a span of five years, multiple cities, |
| 0:39.1 | including his time as a manager for the Mets. Five women who work in sports media were |
| 0:44.1 | pursued by Callaway with inappropriate photos, emails, texts, social media messages. So that story |
| 0:50.8 | was brought to light. And other stuff happened too. |
| 0:55.0 | The Nolan Aeronado debacle trade was finalized. |
| 0:58.1 | We've got some other more fun, lighthearted topics to get to eventually as well. |
| 1:02.5 | Britt, welcome back. |
| 1:04.1 | We thought you were getting some much deserved rest last weekend, |
| 1:08.3 | but very clearly that was not the case. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, it's very clearly not the case. |
| 1:13.9 | This was kind of going on in the background, guys, and then it became very clear, like |
| 1:19.4 | around last weekend that we were going to have enough to go with. |
| 1:23.2 | Because what I think people don't realize is only the absolute best stuff makes it into a story like this. |
| 1:28.8 | Only the stuff where you have evidence, you have people corroborating the stories at the time. |
| 1:33.6 | You have legal, in our case, many legal people vetting it to make sure that it's okay. |
| 1:38.9 | So people read that and they said, oh my God, like this is so much. |
| 1:42.8 | I had no idea what was going on. |
| 1:44.1 | Let me assure you that there, like this is so much. I had no idea what was going on. |
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