Why Each Team in Contention Will Get Bounced (& Why They'll Win it All)
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt and DVR discuss the flaws for each of the 15 remaining teams in contention for the playoffs and explain why that could lead to their elimination (and share a few reasons why they could win the World Series). Does recent form even matter? If so, for how long? Does the Orioles' underwhelming second half mean more than the Royals' seven-game losing streak, or can teams turn everything around with a clean slate in October?
Rundown
1:15 The Dodgers' Current Starting Pitching Options
5:06 Are The Phillies Ready to Finish the Job in 2024?
8:51 Is Starting Pitching Depth the Brewers' Biggest Weakness?
13:58 Could the Padres' Defense Lead to Their Playoff Demise?
17:47 Can the D-backs Continue to Outhit Their Pitching?
21:24 What Are Mets' Biggest Concerns Beyond Francisco Lindor's Health?
27:05 Is the Braves' Nightmare Simply Missing the Postseason?
29:48 Has the Gap Between the Yankees and Astros Closed Since the 2022 ALCS?
34:54 We Owe an Apology to the Guardians
39:49 What Are the Astros' Concerns Beyond the Yordan Alvarez Injury?
44:22 Macro View Problems for the Orioles
50:46 Are the Tigers Actually Good?
56:08 Beyond the Seven-Game Losing Streak, What Are You Worried About with the Royals?
1:01:34 Can The Twins Clear the Cobwebs?
1:07:07 It Would Be a Shame for the Mariners to Waste This Pitching
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryl's Tuesday, September 24th. |
| 0:18.3 | Derek and Riper, Enosaris, Bridgeroli here with you on this episode. |
| 0:21.9 | We take a look at the 15 teams that are still in playoff contention. |
| 0:27.1 | Some of them have clinched their spots already. |
| 0:29.5 | We don't know the seating, of course, because we still have plenty of regular season left to hash that out. |
| 0:35.2 | We're going to dig into each of those teams and tell you why they're going to get |
| 0:39.2 | bounced from the postseason if they make it and why they'll actually win the |
| 0:43.1 | World Series if they make it, right? |
| 0:45.0 | Very much a both direction sort of thing, but basically what is the nightmare fuel for |
| 0:50.8 | every fan base out there in contention for a playoff spot. |
| 0:55.0 | What could go wrong before what could go right? |
| 0:57.8 | So that's where we're going today. |
| 1:00.0 | 15 teams to cover. |
| 1:01.4 | Lots of ground. |
| 1:02.2 | We're going to get right to it. |
| 1:03.6 | If you haven't joined our Discord yet, you can do that with the link in the show |
| 1:06.6 | description. |
| 1:07.1 | Let us know on each team channel if we have appropriately diagnosed the biggest |
| 1:11.8 | concern about your team. Starting in the NL with the Dodgers, I think this one is a shared |
| 1:19.7 | fear for a lot of teams out there. But my reason the Dodgers this year, Eno, has been that |
| 1:25.3 | they are not quite the same Dodgers. |
| 1:27.7 | In a lot of ways, they are great. In one way in particular, they have one lingering question |
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