Winter Meetings Day 1 Recap
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR are live from the Winter Meetings in Orlando! As Day 1 comes to close, they discuss Jeff Kent's election to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and whether time will help the cases of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. Plus, they discuss the Rockies' decision to hire Josh Byrnes as their new GM, Nationals President of Baseball Operations Paul Toboni putting his stamp on the team's rebuild, and other rumblings and rumors.
Rundown
1:08 Jeff Kent is Headed to Cooperstown
15:19 Josh Byrnes is Named Rockies' New GM
20:29 Paul Toboni is Putting His Stamp on the Nationals
25:03 Are CJ Abrams and MacKenzie Gore Really Available?
33:18 Mike Soroka Signs with the D-Backs
40:15 Pete Alonso Meets with the Red Sox & Orioles
44:41 Could Bryce Eldridge Be Available in San Francisco?
49:54 The Royals Look for Multiple Outfielders
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels live at the winter meetings in Orlando, day one, Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, Orange Sherbert, Broccoli, Eno. |
| 0:20.6 | How was your trip here? |
| 0:22.5 | Full of mistakes and missteps. |
| 0:26.3 | And as you can see, the microphones didn't come with us. |
| 0:31.8 | The headsets didn't come with us. |
| 0:33.3 | I went to the wrong, I went to the wrong hotel last night |
| 0:39.2 | in the rain, sopping wet. |
| 0:42.5 | I was locked out of my computer, but we are here |
| 0:45.2 | and nothing is happening. |
| 0:48.4 | The universe was kind to us because if this has happened last year |
| 0:51.4 | when Juan Soto signed that mega deal |
| 0:53.3 | on Sunday night, |
| 0:54.3 | we would have been scrambling. |
| 0:55.5 | We would have been recording stuff on our iPhones and it would have looked and sounded ridiculous, |
| 1:00.0 | but we got it all set up. |
| 1:01.0 | Thanks to our producer Brian Smith for building our set here at the winter meetings. |
| 1:05.2 | Come say hi if you happen to be in Orlando. |
| 1:08.1 | The biggest news so far, Eno, the contemporary baseball era committee met on Sunday night |
| 1:13.8 | and elected Jeff Kent to the Hall of Fame, 14 out of 16 votes. |
| 1:18.7 | And it's interesting because Kent never received as much as 50% of the vote when he was |
| 1:23.4 | on the BBWA ballot. |
| 1:25.4 | But, but you voted for Jeff Kent. |
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