2024 Predictions Check-In, The Rangers & Reds Reach a Fork in the Road, and Pitching to Steven Kwan
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR and Trevor discuss Eno's story examining the long-term pitch velocity ceiling, how a few of their 2024 predictions are looking as the first half of the season comes to close, the Trade Deadline outlook for the Rangers and Reds, plus a game plan for pitching to Steven Kwan.
Rundown
1:04 Where Was Trevor on the Night of August 5th, 2019?
4:45 The Human Limit for Pitching Velocity
($) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5571107
13:00 Bold Predictions: Midseason Check-In
24:58 How Well Is Information Being Communicated to Players?
34:37 The Rangers at the Fork -- What Will Texas Do at the Trade Deadline?
44:11 The Reds at the Fork -- Is a 2024 Playoff Berth Still In the Works?
54:47 The Game Plan: How To Pitch to Steven Kwan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, June 28th, Derek Van Rite, Brerino, Sarah, Trevor May, all with you. Special shout-up to the Live High of joining us on our YouTube page on this episode. |
| 0:24.4 | We dig into a story that Eno wrote. |
| 0:26.5 | How fast could a human being throw a baseball? |
| 0:30.6 | 106? 110? 125? |
| 0:33.9 | There's no limit. |
| 0:34.7 | 125? |
| 0:35.9 | 125 is insane. We'll dig into that. We're going to take a look back at some of our bold predictions from, you know, three months ago and see how those have aged some better than others. We've got a couple teams at the fork. We'll look at the Rangers and Reds, talk about what they are likely to do as the trade deadline approach is about one month from now. |
| 0:54.6 | And we got a game plan segment. |
| 0:56.1 | We're going to break down Stephen Kwan. |
| 0:57.6 | How would you try to pitch to Stephen Kwan? |
| 1:00.1 | It seems like it's getting more difficult with the new power that he is showing. |
| 1:04.1 | Gentlemen, I want to start today. |
| 1:05.4 | I got a question for Trevor, a very specific question. |
| 1:07.9 | Trevor, where were you on the night of August 5th, 2019? |
| 1:14.0 | Presumably playing baseball. |
| 1:17.2 | Good safe guess. |
| 1:18.4 | Yep. |
| 1:19.1 | Yes. |
| 1:19.5 | Who were we playing on August? |
| 1:21.0 | I have no idea. |
| 1:21.9 | There's no way. |
| 1:23.1 | If you off the cuff knew who you were playing that day, that would have been absolutely ridiculous. |
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