Throwing smart darts, the new Ohtani Rules, Zac Gallen's injury, and high value replacements
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the importance of bench construction in the late stages of drafts, messy closer situation as a result of injuries, potential changes to the Ohtani Rules, Zac Gallen's forearm injury, and some of the next players up as injuries thin out lineups between now and Opening Day.
Rundown
2:09 The Importance of Bench Construction
9:59 Messy Closer Situations: Toronto, Texas & Pittsburgh
21:04 Josh Jung’s Foot Injury
26:48 Changes to the Ohtani Rules; Yordan Alvarez’s Return
35:26 Zac Gallen’s Forearm Injury; Sixth Starters To Watch
43:58 Any Interest in Joe Ross?
53:20 Let’s Build a Bench (A Real MLB One)!
67:46 Buying in on Mike Brosseau as an Injury Replacement?
69:31 Optioned Prospects & Estimating Callups
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome rates and barrels. |
| 0:17.1 | It is Monday, March 22nd. |
| 0:20.0 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres, at least a version of Eno. |
| 0:24.9 | How's it going for you on this Monday, Enno? |
| 0:26.4 | Oh my God, I have a cold. |
| 0:28.3 | It's so weird. |
| 0:29.7 | I haven't had a cold in a year. |
| 0:31.7 | It feels very strange. |
| 0:34.7 | But I think that's all it is. |
| 0:37.7 | The kids have been going in-person school, so we went camping, and so we were right on top of each other. |
| 0:45.5 | I was like, there's no chance I'm not getting this one. |
| 0:48.1 | I always thought it was interesting in Spanish class that there wasn't a word for camping. |
| 0:53.7 | If you're going to go camping, the verb is ear to go, ear day camping. And I just thought, how could there not be a word for camping in Spanish? It's very, very weird. It's like Los Genes. Not a word for jeans. That's right. That's all I have. That's my fun tidbit for today. More important things in this episode include a lot of injuries. |
| 1:13.4 | It's been a relatively healthy spring to this point. |
| 1:15.8 | We have a round of injury news to talk about because there's a lot of fallout there. |
| 1:19.6 | A pretty fun Shohei Otani experiment that played out on Sunday. |
| 1:25.1 | He was the leadoff hitter and the starting pitcher in a spring game. It just |
| 1:28.6 | sounds like the Angels are going to mix things up a bit more with how Otani is deployed this |
| 1:33.0 | season. So we'll talk about that. Some draft strategy nuggets that have surfaced as we've gone |
| 1:37.3 | through another weekend of drafts, including the Tout Wars auctions that took place over the weekend. |
| 1:43.3 | We got an update on Bobby Witt, Jr. |
| 1:45.1 | He is not going to begin the season on the opening day roster. |
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