Tony Clark to Resign | Team Previews: Orioles, Brewers & Rockies
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the stunning report that Tony Clark is expected to resign as the executive director of the MLBPA, an update on Pablo López and Nick Castellanos’ fit with the Padres, before digging into three team previews -- breaking down their expectations for the Orioles, Brewers, and Rockies.
Read The Athletic’s coverage of Tony Clark’s expected resignation ($):
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Rundown
0:19 Tony Clark Expected to Resign as Executive Director of MLBPA
6:27 Pablo López: Has Tear in UCL; Getting Second Opinion
8:50 Nick Castellanos Joins Padres
13:49 Baltimore Orioles Team Preview
31:33 Underrated Orioles We’re Interested In
39:40 Milwaukee Brewers Team Preview
51:32 Underrated Brewers We’re Interested In
1:07:45 Colorado Rockies Team Preview
1:14:23 Underrated Rockies We’re Interested In
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:14.4 | It is Tuesday, February 17th, a wildly popular Derek Van Riper here with an always popular, Enos, Ceres. |
| 0:21.5 | On this episode, we got three more team previews coming up. |
| 0:25.1 | We're going to dig into our 2026 outlooks for the Orioles, Brewers, and Rockies. |
| 0:30.8 | But we got some big baseball news you should know as we get started on this Tuesday, |
| 0:36.4 | Eno, a bombshell dropping Tuesday morning. |
| 0:39.3 | Ken Rosenthal, Andy McCullough, and Evendrelick reporting that Tony Clark is expected to resign from his position as the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Union. |
| 0:50.4 | He's led that group since 2013. |
| 0:53.8 | And this all kind of started with an abrupt |
| 0:55.4 | cancellation of Clark's scheduled visit to |
| 0:58.1 | Guardians Camp on Tuesday morning. There's the first stop on |
| 1:01.5 | MLBPA's scheduled spring tour. A lot of |
| 1:05.3 | reporting happening in the few hours since the story |
| 1:08.2 | first broke. And we've had a few players from the executive |
| 1:11.9 | subcommittee talked to reporters at the athletic. One of them, Mets infielder Marcus Simeon, told |
| 1:17.6 | reporters that Clark's decisions stem from the federal probe from the Eastern District of |
| 1:21.7 | New York, which was reviewing whether MLBPA officials use licensing money or equity to |
| 1:26.6 | improperly enrich themselves. |
| 1:28.3 | That story first broke back in the fall. |
| 1:30.5 | So in some ways, this has been simmering on the back burner as something that could go down. |
| 1:36.5 | But with the CBA expiring at the end of this season, the timing is really important to think about. |
| 1:45.8 | Yeah, I think they had to do this now, you know, if it was going to happen. |
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