A Delayed Breakout, Taj Bradley's Demotion & In-Game Command Monitoring
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the excellent start to 2023 for Jarred Kelenic, other young players who may be on the brink of breaking through after initial struggles at the big league-level, Jake McCarthy's demotion, the Rays' approach with Taj Bradley, monitoring command in-game, Pete Alonso's power binge, and the 2023 version of Charlie Morton.
Rundown
0:56 Jarred Kelenic's Year 3 Step Forward
6:27 Looking for Other Young Players Nearing Breakout
14:47 Jake McCarthy's Demotion = Alek Thomas' Extended Opportunity
18:26 An Attempt to Understand the Rays' Approach with Taj Bradley
31:32 What Are Teams Using to Monitor Command During Games?
40:44 Pete Alonso's Early Power Binge
50:32 The 2023 Version of Charlie Morton
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.2 | It is Wednesday, April 26th. |
| 0:18.6 | Derek Ben Ryper here with Enosaris on this episode. We discussed |
| 0:22.0 | Jared Kelnick, putting it all together. Took a little longer than some people hoped, but we'll |
| 0:26.9 | dig into what has helped. Kelnick sort of find his stride here in 2023. We'll talk about the |
| 0:33.2 | still puzzling devotion of Tosge Bradley and investigate whether there might be some bigger issues |
| 0:38.7 | in play that go beyond Tosh Bradley that maybe need to be ironed out. And we're going to take a look |
| 0:43.1 | at some Velo improvers. Plus, we've got the debut of Tanner Bybee that's about to happen. |
| 0:48.8 | The Guardians promoted one of their other pitching prospects from AA, AAA, got a couple mailbag |
| 0:52.6 | questions. So tons of ground to cover. |
| 0:55.3 | Eno that we begin today with Jared Kelnick, who is on exactly zero of my teams. |
| 1:01.6 | And it's not because I didn't believe in Jared Kelnik, but it's because I just didn't think |
| 1:06.1 | that the payoff was going to be a significant one this year. |
| 1:09.0 | I thought a high strikeout, some power, some |
| 1:11.5 | speed, in and out of the lineup because of the lefty factor, all those things. Okay, I'll just wait |
| 1:18.2 | and see. I'll wait until he does put it together and then decide what I'm going to do with him |
| 1:21.8 | at a higher price in 2024. So far through 21 games, that looks like a mistake. 342, 395, 726. |
| 1:29.1 | How about seven homers and three steals? |
| 1:31.5 | 3 for 3 now as a base dealer this season? |
| 1:33.7 | It really looks like everything is falling into place, |
| 1:36.2 | and he's doing it with an improved K rate. |
| 1:38.9 | 24.7%. |
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