A Lifetime Ban, May Hitting Risers & Fallers, and The Shape of a Season
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a round of suspensions from MLB for gambling -- including a lifetime ban for Tucupita Marcano, before looking at some of the biggest risers and fallers among hitters from April to May.
Rundown
1:00 Tucupita Marcano: Lifetime Ban for Betting on Baseball
16:47 Biggest Shifts in Hitter Performance: April v. May
22:01 Risers From April to May
30:54 Rookie Bats in Month 2
38:39 Colton Cowser to Fallers From April to May
43:04 May Barrel Rate Risers
49:04 May Hard-Hit Rate Risers
52:04 Full-Season Projections v. Performance to Date
1:07:45 Is a Randy Arozarena Rebound On Tap?
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:27.6 | teas and season season exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:48.3 | It's Tuesday, June 4th. |
| 0:50.1 | Derek and Riper, Inoceris, here with you, |
| 0:51.9 | Bridger Roli, on a much-deserved vacation. Weird stretch of schedule, right? Three weeks without Brit, but it was because we had two shorter weeks based on the schedule being all messed up. So Brit comes back next Tuesday. We're looking forward to that. If you're watching us on YouTube, smash the like button. If you're not watching us on YouTube, subscribe to the YouTube channel. Good things happening there all the time. And of course, join our Discord. The link to do that is |
| 1:14.6 | in the show description. Eno, how's it going for you on this Tuesday? All right, but it was |
| 1:20.6 | sobering news this morning. It's just sad. Are you referring to the baseball news? |
| 1:28.5 | Yes, the baseball news. |
| 1:29.9 | It was sad. |
| 1:31.5 | I knew yesterday, on Monday afternoon, I saw on Twitter, I was just getting the episode |
| 1:37.9 | up for yesterday. |
| 1:39.8 | Tukapita Marcona was trending on Twitter. |
| 1:42.5 | And my brain went through the possible scenarios and none of them were good. |
| 1:47.0 | There's just no, there's no good scenario. |
| 1:50.8 | Yeah, even if he's being called up, he's not trending on Twitter for being called up. |
| 1:54.3 | No. |
| 1:55.0 | I mean, like, the only positive scenario I could come up with was like hits for the cycle |
| 2:00.9 | four homer game or something like just something |
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