Zac Gallen Stays in Arizona | Team Previews: D-backs, Braves & Royals
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss an early setback for Pablo López at Twins camp and the return of Christian Scott for the Mets before digging into three team previews -- breaking down their expectations for the D-backs, who re-signed Zac Gallen over the weekend, the Braves, who are in need of starting pitching depth as injuries pile up, and the Royals, who are projected by Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA to win the AL Central.
Check out the current win totals projected by PECOTA here: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings/
Rundown
2:06 Pablo López: Headed for MRI on Elbow
7:19 Christian Scott: Back in Live BP Sessions
13:04 Arizona Diamondbacks Team Preview
28:14 Underrated D-backs We’re Interested In
39:00 Atlanta Braves Team Preview
51:42 Underrated Braves We’re Interested In
57:43 Kansas City Royals Team Preview
1:05:05 Underrated Royals We’re Interested In
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates, barrels. It is Monday, February 16th, Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. |
| 0:18.0 | On this episode, we begin our 2026 team previews. |
| 0:22.6 | We have three team previews per episode for the next two weeks. |
| 0:26.5 | We'll get to some baseball news. |
| 0:27.8 | You should know in just a couple of minutes. |
| 0:30.4 | Eno, how was the weekend? |
| 0:31.7 | It was great. |
| 0:32.6 | I saw a show, Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country. |
| 0:35.8 | It was awesome. |
| 0:37.2 | He was great. I saw some art, saw Manet and Mori So at the Legion of Ani here, so saw some impressionism. Went to the beach. It was cold. It's always cold at the beach. Always cold at the beach in northern California. |
| 0:55.4 | Well, my kid still dug a hole in the ground. |
| 0:57.7 | I still played catch on the beach. |
| 1:00.1 | And then we went to Humble Sea and had some good craft brewing and some good food there. |
| 1:05.6 | So it was an action-pack weekend for the Sarah's crew. |
| 1:09.8 | Awesome. |
| 1:10.3 | Hey, well, beach time's still good. |
| 1:11.6 | Even if it's like 55 degrees, right? |
| 1:13.4 | Throw on a sweatshirt, still in the sand. |
| 1:15.4 | It's still great, relaxing place to go. |
| 1:18.0 | My son turned three, so we had a party at the house for him, so we had a great time celebrating that. |
| 1:22.7 | And then it got really warm here. |
| 1:24.1 | Got up into the 50s. |
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