The World Baseball Classic is Delivering!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the excellent games throughout pool play of the World Baseball Classic -- including a pair of walk-off homers over the weekend before digging into a few spring headlines with the first round of 'News or Noise' of 2026. Eno also drops a fresh Stuff+ leaderboard from spring games, featuring two largely overlooked pitchers in the NL Central.
Rundown
2:56 WBC Pool Play Has Delivered!
23:13 Spring News & Notes: Jackson Chourio, Rafael Devers & Lawrence Butler
28:25 News or Noise? Position Players Still in Competitions
36:05 Kodai Senga’s Velocity Jump
37:37 Bailey Ober’s Velocity Drop
40:28 Kyle Harrison’s Eight-K Performance Sunday
44:05 New Pitches for Hunter Barco
47:09 Didier Fuentes Returns to Spring Action
50:24 Spring Training Stuff+ Leaderboard
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates, |
| 0:13.8 | Berrell's Monday, March 9th, Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. |
| 0:18.3 | We get you caught up on all things baseball, including a world baseball classic that has delivered throughout pool play so far. |
| 0:25.9 | You know, some big games on tap on Monday night, including a showdown between the U.S. and Mexico. |
| 0:32.0 | We'll dig into some of the pleasant surprises of the tournament. |
| 0:34.0 | Take a look around the league at some spring training news. |
| 0:36.4 | And we'll get caught up on some things you were doing in Arizona. It's been a while since we plotted. We had some major tech issues at the end of last week. Family bug kept me out of the equation at the end of the week as well. I've dodged it somehow. So I was just running around taking care of everybody else. So, you know, stay safe out there. Wash your hands, as we'd like to say. |
| 0:56.1 | How's everything going in your world, though? Oh, it's nuts. I've, you know, I've returned from spring and, uh, you can't say the T word. I am not, I'm not tired. No, no, no, no, I couldn't. You were not allowed to be tired. That was made very clear to me with the transition to family life a couple of years ago. |
| 1:14.9 | You were not allowed to come home from a work trip and say you're tired. |
| 1:18.1 | You could be tired. |
| 1:19.4 | Feel your feelings. |
| 1:20.6 | Do not out loud say you're tired. |
| 1:22.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.4 | So trying to jump right back into family life and try to take an extra chunk out of it because my wife has held down the fort for 10 days. |
| 1:33.9 | But at the same time, spring is the craziest time of year for us work-wise. |
| 1:38.8 | So it's just one of those things. |
| 1:40.2 | But it was fun to be out there in Arizona, got to Reds, Brewers. |
| 1:46.3 | I did a Team USA stint. |
| 1:49.6 | Talk to Griffin Jacks, a Team USA. |
| 1:52.0 | And just a whirlwind of clubhouses and games. |
| 1:59.8 | And then finished it off attending three games at the end of the week |
| 2:03.4 | more as a fan with some friends. So just a really a fun time. All good things. We'll talk about your |
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