A Few Surprising First-Half Pitchers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In an episode cut in half by technical difficulties, Eno and DVR discuss a few of the most surprising starting pitchers from the first half of the season including Nathan Eovaldi, Marcus Stroman and Mitch Keller. Plus, they consider a few pitchers who might benefit from adding a cutter to their arsenal.
Rundown
1:52 Nathan Eovaldi: Current Roto Value Leader Among Pitchers
7:57 Marcus Stroman's Excellent First Half
13:55 Mitch Keller: Buying a First-Half Repeat?
20:39 Giving Other Pitchers a New Cutter
25:22 Is This a Potential Fix for Alek Manoah?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, July 3rd, Derek Van Riper, |
| 0:20.0 | Eno Seris here with you on this episode. |
| 0:22.7 | We dig into some first half pitching surprises. |
| 0:25.6 | It is the sibling episode to the hitter surprises episode that we did last week. |
| 0:31.2 | We'll talk about some pleasant surprises from this year's group of pitchers. |
| 0:34.6 | Dig into why that has happened. |
| 0:36.1 | Maybe try to figure out who the next group of pitchers will be. |
| 0:39.3 | That's the hard part. |
| 0:40.8 | And we'll take a few mailbag questions in this show as well. |
| 0:44.9 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 0:47.8 | Good. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm coming to you from fabulous San Diego where the weather is great. |
| 0:53.2 | The team is maybe not. |
| 0:56.7 | It's not the way we drew it up. |
| 0:58.0 | It's not the way we hoped it was going to go in the NL West. |
| 1:01.7 | No, it's tough. |
| 1:03.1 | And it's one of those things we're like, you know, the different parts all look great on paper, |
| 1:07.7 | but they're just not going at the same time. |
| 1:10.2 | I would say, you know, I shared this thing on Twitter where they're just not going at the same time i would say you know i |
| 1:11.3 | shared this thing on twitter where they're five and 15 in one run games and a lot of people took it |
| 1:17.3 | and were like yeah they suck there's this they're this is melvin this is a problem and i'm like |
| 1:21.8 | that's like a luck stat. |
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