2024 Hitter Takeaways
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few of their big-picture takeaways from the hitter pool in 2024 including a heavy dose of injuries in the early rounds, Atlanta's intense high-volume approach with playing time atop their roster, oatmeal that came through, and the benefits of waiting to fill in your outfield last season.
Rundown
1:51 An Unusual Year For Round 1 Bats?
7:58 Should the Braves Consider Load Management for Their Stars?
13:58 The Quality & Depth at Third Base is Running Away From First Base
18:27 Learning From Elly De La Cruz and Gunnar Henderson's 2024 Projections?
27:25 Zigging When Everyone Else Zagged Early: A Tough Early-Round Pocket w/Injuries
33:41 Did 'Oatmeal' Largely Pay Off For Us?
40:18 Juan Soto Underperformed His xSLG!?
43:30 Is DVR Tailing the Rays with Christopher Morel in 2025?
48:00 Waiting In the Outfield Worked
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels, it's Wednesday, December 4th, Derek and rapper |
| 0:18.9 | Enoceros, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:21.0 | We will attempt to condense what I think were seven or eight episodes last offseason into one. |
| 0:29.3 | It will either be our greatest or worst attempt at a magic trick of all time. |
| 0:34.5 | We are reviewing hitters as a group from 24. Yeah, nice, nice light topic, |
| 0:39.4 | nice small topic to try to fit into about |
| 0:41.4 | an hour or so. But |
| 0:43.3 | we did all the playoff shows, didn't have time for |
| 0:45.3 | the position reviews because |
| 0:47.0 | position previews are much closer |
| 0:49.5 | than you think since we're already |
| 0:51.2 | into the first week of |
| 0:53.2 | December. So we're going to look back at a few bigger trends from the hitter pool. |
| 0:57.7 | We're obviously not going to get to every single corner of the hitter pool, which leaves |
| 1:01.0 | our mailbag wide open. |
| 1:03.1 | You can send questions through our Discord using the link in the show description. |
| 1:07.3 | You can also drop those to us via email, Rates and Barrels at gmail.com. We'll have some mailbag episodes before the end of the year as well. |
| 1:15.9 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Wednesday? |
| 1:18.1 | It is going well. I am overwhelmed by the task in front of us. |
| 1:23.8 | It's going to be fun. We're going to crush it. At least I think we are. I'm confident in what we're going to do. So we're looking back to hitters who disappointed us. It's going to be fun. We're going to crush it. At least I think we are. I'm confident in what |
| 1:28.8 | we're going to do. So we're looking back at hitters who disappointed us, who surprised us in all |
| 1:33.2 | directions, kind of focusing on each part of the player pool because there were some odd things |
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