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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Working backwards, looking for late-season help, and searching for this year's K-Rod

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss O-Swing% movers (in both directions) in search of late-season help and future shifts in value, the league's most effective bullpens with just over a month to go before the postseason, and candidates to become 'this year's K-Rod'. 


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com


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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and Beryls presented by Tops. Check out Topsops Project 70, celebrating 70 years. Tops baseball cards.

0:22.2

Derek Van Riper here with Eno Seris. It is Wednesday, August 25th. Could be the day that I

0:26.7

break into my own U-box to get my move completed today. As I was telling Eno before we started

0:32.3

recording, I have to figure out how to unjam a master lock. The kind that you had like on a locker in high school with the numbers on it.

0:40.3

The dial won't turn.

0:41.5

My movers get here in a few hours.

0:43.1

I'm sure it's all going to work out.

0:44.4

But some Beguiver type maneuvers will follow this podcast.

0:47.8

And if I had the wherewithal to record it, I'm sure it would be hilarious for viewing at it later date.

0:56.3

Two words. Liquid nitrogen. That's definitely on the list. It's like not quite the top five because of the

1:03.1

difficulty to obtain it, but I know it's one way to give to that box. It's got to be nearby

1:07.8

somewhere. Yeah, it's got to be something. I mean, yeah, there's all,

1:11.1

there's all sorts of brilliant minds nearby. I'm sure we can find a way to get into that box.

1:16.0

It's a matter of timing. You're really close to the Stanford linear accelerator. So all

1:20.4

you got to do is have them set it up so they can ram one of those ions as fast as possible

1:27.3

at your lock.

1:30.3

The Stanford Linear Accelerator is actually pretty interesting.

1:32.8

That's where they are trying to accelerate particles as fast as they can to smash them into each other.

1:39.4

And one of the possible outcomes is a black hole.

1:44.0

Beautiful. It's good to know that I'm close to the black hole, so there won't even be a fraction of a second where I know that there's something bad that's about to happen. It will just happen before I know it's happened. This is the blink of an eye. On this episode, we will discuss some big movers with the O-Swing percentage, looking at some

2:01.4

hitters that have gone the right direction and some that have gone the wrong direction,

2:05.2

trying to figure out what that means for the future.

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