{"podcast":{"title":"Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball","slug":"rates-barrels-a-show-about-baseball-692652","podcast_index_feed_id":692652,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6818a1a4eb737caf8ca41879","website_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/podcasts/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6818a1a4eb737caf8ca41879/1774225915041-25aacc15-e115-4d2e-b3fa-72decc9773cb.jpeg","author":"The Athletic","episode_count":1068,"summary":"In baseball, numbers are everywhere. But they’re not just numbers. For Derek VanRiper and Eno Sarris, they’re the keys to solving the most fun problem in sports. Every weekday, join DVR and Eno as they unpack baseball in ways you’ve never heard before, endeavoring to figure out all they can about a sport that’s constantly changing. Alongside contributors Britt Ghiroli, Trevor May and Jed Lowrie, the Rates & Barrels crew breaks down all the latest MLB news through an analytical lens, feeding your unhealthy addiction to numbers, while helping you master your fantasy baseball GM skills. But wait, there's more: come back for Saturday mornings in Starkville, where Jayson Stark and Doug Glanville talk to some of the most important players, coaches, and thought leaders in the league. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T10:19:52.816182+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rates-barrels-a-show-about-baseball-692652"},"episode":{"title":"Starkville | Joey Votto Traveled the World and Arrived Back in Baseball","slug":"starkville-joey-votto-traveled-the-world-and-arrived-back-in-baseball","published_at":"2026-05-23T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rates-barrels-a-show-about-baseball-692652/starkville-joey-votto-traveled-the-world-and-arrived-back-in-baseball","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rates-barrels-a-show-about-baseball-692652","url":"https://shows.acast.com/rates-barrels-a-show-about-baseball/episodes/starkville-joey-votto-traveled-the-world-and-arrived-back-in","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6818a1a4eb737caf8ca41879/e/6a1091a8f49628d84f66aecd/media.mp3","summary":"Joey Votto spent the years since his 2024 retirement surfing in Sri Lanka, watching cricket in Dubai, and learning to make sushi in Japan. Now he's back in North America and stopping by Starkville for a wide-ranging conversation with Jayson and Doug — what he took away from his travels, and how he sees baseball differently from the outside. Plus, the Pittsburgh Zoo and Boston's Franklin Park Zoo just completed a gorilla-for-gorilla swap — Frankie for Little Joe, straight up — and Jayson and Doug break it down before building their own MLB all-zoo team. Rundown: 3:00 A Most Unusual Trade Involving Gorillas 6:45 Starkville’s All-Zoo Team 17:18 Joey Votto Joins the Show 20:00 Living the Retired Life 28:17 Greatness of Shohei Ohtani 38:48 Analyzing the Game 41:13 Reaction to ABS 48:07 If You Were Commissioner… 53:23 Living the Retired Life 1:00:06 Coming Back to the Game 1:04:45 Strange But True: Byron Buxton and the Minnesota Twins Follow Jayson on Bluesky: @jaysonst.bsky.social Follow Doug on Bluesky: @dougglanville.bsky.social E-mail: starkville@theathletic.com Starkville Hotline: (347) 313-8371 Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Hosts: Jayson Stark & Doug Glanville With: Joey Votto Producer: Jason Potere Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Joey Votto spent the years since his 2024 retirement surfing in Sri Lanka, watching cricket in Dubai, and learning to make sushi in Japan. Now he's back i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4562,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rates-barrels-a-show-about-baseball-692652/episodes/starkville-joey-votto-traveled-the-world-and-arrived-back-in-baseball/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rates-barrels-a-show-about-baseball-692652/starkville-joey-votto-traveled-the-world-and-arrived-back-in-baseball.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}