The Top Five MLB Teams for the Next Five Seasons & Ronel Blanco Makes History!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Britt Ghiroli returns to Rates & Barrels (regularly on Tuesdays, all season!) with Eno and DVR to discuss Ronel Blanco's no-hitter, and the start of a new chapter in Baltimore with an ownership change accompanying the organization's rise toward multi-year success. The trio then discusses the five MLB teams best position for the next five seasons. Is the Astros' window coming to a close, or will Dana Brown's front office begin to thrive in the first-year player draft? Plus, if there are a consensus three teams that belong in the group of five, which two teams are the most deserving of the remaining spots.
Rundown
1:40 Ronel Blanco Throws a No-Hitter
8:36 Yainer Diaz's Big Night At and Behind the Plate
11:44 The Next Chapter of Orioles Baseball
22:21 Which Organizations Are Best Positioned for the Next Five Years?
30:42 Agreement About the Dodgers, Braves & Orioles?
36:52 Buying Britt's Case for the Rangers?
45:01 Eno's Ideas for the Fifth Spot
56:54 Getting Buy-In with New Voices
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryls. It's Tuesday, April 2nd. |
| 0:18.5 | Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, Britt Choroli, the gang is back together. Britt, welcome back to Rates and Barrels. Are you guys regretting this decision immediately because it took a half an hour for me to set up like a computer? Yeah, we took the long road to getting the show started today. It happens. It's tech. It's just life. I thought it'd be my fault. I'm here in San Diego. I'm, uh, I've got this on a dresser. I've got like a light bulb that's blinding me in my eye instead of a red instead of a ring light. But, uh, we made it happen. We're here. We did. Don't stare at the light. You know, it will make you go crazy if you try that. On this |
| 0:57.4 | episode, a lot of ground to cover, Brit has been writing a lot of great stories since we last spoke. |
| 1:01.5 | I think our last episode was a 3-0 show episode back in the winter, after the winter meetings, |
| 1:06.6 | maybe like January or something. A few things have happened in baseball since then. We've got some big picture stuff we're going to get to Renal Blanco through a no hitter on |
| 1:15.8 | Monday. So we're going to start there in just a few minutes. We're going to dig into the next |
| 1:19.7 | chapter of Orioles baseball and then take a look league-wide and discuss which organizations |
| 1:24.3 | are in the best position for success over the next five years. |
| 1:29.3 | So a lot of ground to cover today. |
| 1:31.2 | And a reminder, if you have not joined our Discord yet, you can do that. |
| 1:34.4 | Get the link in the show description. |
| 1:37.3 | Let's get started with the no-hitter. |
| 1:40.3 | One of the more improbable no-hitters that we will ever see. |
| 1:46.0 | Ronell Blanco gets the 17th no-hitter in Houston Astros history that includes the postseason. |
| 1:53.9 | The 17th. |
| 1:54.8 | The Padres have one. |
| 1:56.5 | Yeah, they got one. |
| 1:57.7 | It was recent, right? |
| 1:58.9 | It was Musgrove. |
| 2:00.0 | Musgrove, yeah. |
| 2:17.9 | Ouch. Where'd this come from? You know, I know we thought Renel Blanco was kind of interesting as a fill-in starter, but a no-hitter in his eighth big league start is just ridiculous. And this isn't a young guy. This guy's been in the org for a long time who's just finally getting this opportunity. Yeah, he's 30. You know, so it is interesting that stuff plus |
| 2:25.3 | always said his change-up was his best pitch. And what we saw yesterday was the sort of coming-of-age |
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