The Padres Stay Busy, Willson Contreras Heads to Boston & The Rays Make Two Interesting Trades
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR catch up on a busy half-week of moves including Michael King's return to the Padres, a trade that sent Willson Contreras to the Red Sox, a three-team swap involving the Pirates, Rays, and Astros, Shane Baz to the O's in a five-player trade, and Munetaka Murakami's somewhat surprising two-year deal with the White Sox.
Rundown
3:48 Michael King: Re-Ups With Padres; Complicated Deal w/Two Opt-Outs
6:55 Sung-mun Song: Gets Three-Year Deal with Padres
13:14 Fantasy Implications of Song's Arrival in San Diego and King's Return
16:22 Willson Contreras to the Red Sox
27:31 Increasing Clarity in Cards' Position Player Group?
32:09 A Pirates-Astros-Rays Three-Team Deal
52:15 Shane Baz to the Orioles
1:02:45 Munetaka Murakami: Heads to the White Sox (Two-Year, $34M)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels, it's Monday, December 22nd, Derekman Riper, Eno Seris here with you. |
| 0:20.1 | On this episode, we dig into a barrage of baseball news. |
| 0:23.9 | Eno's trip to New York for our friend Nick Pollock's wedding brought us a ton of transactions. |
| 0:29.2 | The Padres reunited with Michael King, Wilson Contreras, got traded to the Red Sox, the Pirates, Astros, and Rays hooked up on a three-team deal. And then the Rays made a trade in division sending Shane Baws to Baltimore. And that's not even all of it. But the question everybody is here for, hey, how was the wedding? How was our buddy Nick doing? Oh, it was great. It was great to see so many old friends. And we had a little baseball. We had two baseball tables at the wedding. |
| 0:56.5 | We did a Shane Boz minipod on the dance floor, which I'm sure his wife, Amanda, was very happy about. |
| 1:06.3 | We enjoyed some, there was a magician that came to each of us during the cocktail hours and some cool |
| 1:13.6 | selfies with views of the city out there in Brooklyn. |
| 1:17.7 | It's great to get to know... |
| 1:19.6 | I got to know Nick's father really well. |
| 1:22.6 | You know, so me and him are buds now. |
| 1:26.6 | And just... It was a really, really good time. |
| 1:30.3 | The part that wasn't as good was that because it was Christmas and the sort of flight was |
| 1:38.3 | expensive and, you know, the hotels and all this, everything was a little bit more expensive |
| 1:41.7 | because they just sort of figure if you're in New York until the 20th, you're there for Christmas. |
| 1:46.1 | So they kind of turn all the dials up, right? |
| 1:49.2 | So I was like, oh, you know, it's just me. |
| 1:51.9 | My wife's not coming. |
| 1:53.1 | I'm going to stay in a place called the Pod Hotel in Williamsburg. |
| 1:58.2 | And it was literally, I would say the whole room was about like 90 square |
| 2:04.5 | feet. And basically you had to just be on the bed. There was only place to be, was to be on the bed. |
| 2:11.8 | And then you would swing your feet around and you'd be in the bathroom. And the biggest thing that |
| 2:16.8 | that the discorders already know was, |
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