Throwing smart darts, the new Ohtani Rules, Zac Gallen's injury, and high value replacements

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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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 Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels Please fill out our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/athleticaudiosurvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to Rates and barrels.
0:47.0	It is Monday, March 22nd.
0:50.0	Derek Van Riper here with Enos,
0:52.3	Ceres, at least a version of Eno. How's it going for you on this Monday,
0:56.2	you know? Oh my God, I have a cold. It's so weird. I haven't had a cold in a year. It feels very
1:02.5	strange. But I think that's all it is. The kids have been going in-person school. So we went camping, and so we were right on top of each other.
1:15.5	I was like, there's no chance I'm not getting this one.
1:18.2	I always thought it was interesting in Spanish class that there wasn't a word for camping.
1:23.8	If you're going to go camping, the verb is ear to go, ear day camping.
1:28.5	And I just thought,
1:33.9	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.
1:40.6	More important things on this episode include a lot of injuries. It's been a relatively healthy spring to this point.
1:45.9	We have a round of injury news to talk about because there's a lot of fallout there.
1:49.6	A pretty fun Shohei Otani experiment that played out on Sunday.
1:55.1	He was the leadoff hitter and the starting pitcher in a spring game.
1:58.5	It just sounds like the angels are going to mix things up a bit more with how Otani is deployed this season.
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