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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

2021 Starting Pitcher Preview, Part 1

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9746 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR kick off their Starting Pitcher preview series by examining the arms in the Top-30 range of Eno's pitcher rankings, before discussing the return of in-game video for 2021, and decreased chances of the Universal DH this season.  Rundown 1:21 A DH Update and the Impact on Pitchers 5:13 Shane Bieber’s Ascent to the Elite Tier 11:18 Luis Castillo Cracks Eno’s Top 5 20:26 One More Great Year From Max Scherzer? 26:25 The Case for Framber Valdez 32:13 They Really Are Eno’s Astros Now 39:34 The Zach Plesac “Problem” 45:15 Two Young Marlins that Eno is High On 48:33 Jonathan Villar to the Mets 51:48 Follow-Up: Is There Another Level Coming from Alex Verdugo? 55:39 In-Game Video is Back! Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, February 10th.

0:49.1

Derek Van Riper here with Enos-Seres on this episode. It is starting pitcher rankings part one. We're expecting a two

0:57.1

episode series focusing on starting pitching. We talk about starting pitching all the time, but we

1:01.4

figured... Pitchers, baby. Let's dig into those rankings. Eno had a set of rankings go up at the

1:07.0

end of the week last week. I had some rankings go up about a week before that. Things are

1:11.8

always moving, of course. We'll talk about some players we differ on, some players we agree on,

1:16.5

some players we think the market is just flat out wrong about. So we're going to cover a ton of

1:21.2

ground on this episode. We're going to do a few mailbag questions as well. In-game video is back

1:26.8

for 2021. Woo-hoo. Good news for

1:29.7

some hitters, maybe some bad news for pitchers kind of wrapped up in there as well. And we

1:34.5

had one question come in coming out of our outfield preview that we're going to follow up on as

1:39.8

well. So, you know, I'm excited to talk about pitching. I think it's our favorite thing to discuss on this show.

1:47.1

And I was digging into the ranks again before we started recording.

1:52.2

And one thing that I thought was worth talking about right off the top is, you know,

1:56.6

if we have this news that at least for now, UniversalH is not coming back based on the latest round of adjustments for the 2021 season.

2:06.8

I don't think it's totally dead, but it's definitely looking more and more like we won't have it in the National League,

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