Willy Adames to the Brewers, in-season adjustments, and expectations for Spencer Howard

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Eno and DVR discuss the four-player swap between the Rays and Brewers that sent Willy Adames to Milwaukee, Taylor Walls' promotion, organizational brain drain, making in-season decisions nearly two months in, expectations for Spencer Howard, and a surprising development with changeups. Rundown 1:02 A Meaningful May Trade! 8:02 Taylor Walls Gets the Call 14:02 Joey Wendle is On Fire 16:01 Organizational Brain Drain 26:45 Making Better In-Season Decisions 33:01 Rallying in Roto Leagues 38:18 Spencer Howard is Back! 47:34 Concerns About Changeups w/Current Baseball? 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 Subscribe To The Athletic for just $1/month: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.5	Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres.
0:54.7	Happy Monday.
0:55.5	We had a trade go down pretty soon after we stopped recording on Friday afternoon.
1:00.5	So we narrowly missed being on there for breaking news, which I know makes everybody really
1:04.8	happy.
1:06.1	Yes.
1:06.9	I'm going to keep an eye on Twitter just to be safe.
1:09.5	So we'll talk about that deal.
1:10.9	We're going to talk about the concept of organizational brain drain because it definitely relates to one of the teams involved in that trade.
1:18.3	We'll talk about making better in season decisions.
1:21.0	Lots of great questions came in.
1:22.3	So we're trying to answer as many of those as we can.
1:25.4	Plus, we get Spencer Howard back up in Philadelphia, so we'll talk about
1:28.5	what we might expect from him in the weeks and months ahead. You know, let's start with this trade.
1:34.3	It's pretty rare to get a starting caliber player moved early in the season, but it happened.
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