Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It is Wednesday, August 16th.

Derek and Riper here, it's Eno Saris.

On this episode, I go down the rabbit hole.

I started thinking more about O-Swing percentage and how I feel about hitters who swing

it pitches outside the zone.

And I started to think that maybe I grade those players too harshly.

The guys that chase, maybe I have too much of a dismissive attitude toward them being able

to have prolonged success.

And as a result, I don't have as many teams with Luis Robert or Randy a Rosarena on them.

Historically, you look at some of those players who pop up near the top of that board.

And those are guys that I steer away from. So we'll dig into why I may be a little too harsh on this group of players. Got a couple of questions that came in, and one about Elohimenez, one about Vlad Jr. So we'll try to get to those on this episode as well. But let's begin with the O swing percentage. We talk about this all the time. Sometimes we call it chase rate. Sometimes you call it reach rate, all the same thing, just the percentage of

pitches that hitters swing at. I've stopped calling a reach rate by the way, because that's confusing. It'll come back. I think it was like booge, Sambi was like, dude, what is reach rate? and I was like,

why is there confusion?

He's like,

is that like how often they get on bass?

And I was like,

oh,

that's not,

that's not. and I was like, why is there confusion? And he's like, is that like how often they get on base?

And I was like, oh, that's not what I'm talking about.

Thank you for that.

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