A No-No for Blake Snell, Intriguing Free Agent Pitchers & A Mailbag Monday
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Blake Snell's no-hitter, the path for Snell to opt out of his current deal with the Giants and get a longer contract this winter, and their approach with Max Scherzer in keeper/dynasty leagues, the recent struggles of Tanner Houck, and a busy weekend for pickups with Jackson Holliday and Coby Mayo leading the way in bidding where available.
Rundown
0:50 Blake Snell Throws a No-Hitter Against the Reds
7:33 An Intriguing Class of Free-Agent Pitchers On Tap
11:59 Is Max Scherzer a Drop in Shallow Dynasty & Keeper Leagues?
18:57 Making Sense of Tanner Houck's Recent Struggles
27:02 Why Isn't Randy Vásquez Getting Better Results?
36:35 Will Jeffrey Springs' Velocity Return Before the End of 2024?
44:51 Calvin Faucher & Victor Vodnik Getting Save Chances?
48:02 Jackson Holliday & Coby Mayo Join the O's Regular Lineup
52:31 Does Jordan Westburg Have Another Level?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, August 5th. |
| 0:18.0 | Derek Van Riper, Enocer's here with you on this episode. |
| 0:37.8 | We dig into some things that happened over the weekend where the money went. Big weekend for Fab. We had some top prospects promoted for the first time. We had one brought back, happened to be on the same team. We'll talk about some of the big bids that happened there. There was a little bit of pitching available in certain instances. If you were in the league where a pitcher had to pitch this season to be in the pool, you were in luck. If you're in a |
| 0:42.0 | league where injured players could be picked up, you probably were not in luck over the weekend. So we'll |
| 0:46.6 | dig into some of those happening. We've got some mailbag questions here. And we had a no hitter. |
| 0:53.2 | Blake Snell threw a no hitter against the Reds, Eno. |
| 0:57.8 | 21-swinging strikes, 11 strikeouts. |
| 1:01.2 | He's been great ever since he came off the I-L in July. |
| 1:04.5 | A 41-10 strikeout to walk ratio now. |
| 1:07.8 | A 0.55 ERA. |
| 1:09.4 | A 0.55 whip. The only two pitchers have been better by the |
| 1:13.7 | player raider. Over the last 30 days, Gillen Cease, who's also thrown no hitter, and Hunter |
| 1:18.7 | Green, who has not thrown no hitter. But they've put up great ratios. Both of those guys have |
| 1:22.7 | more wins than Snell during that span. But this quote says it all. Blake Snell after the game, |
| 1:28.2 | they can't say it anymore. |
| 1:30.2 | Complete game, shut out, no hitter, |
| 1:33.3 | leave me alone. |
| 1:37.7 | Yeah, I guess we've been saying that some of his innings, |
| 1:41.1 | that's been the long thing that you've pointed out |
| 1:43.4 | is that some of the concerns about his innings and going deep been the long thing that you've pointed out is that some of the concerns |
| 1:44.8 | about his innings and going deep into games has been overblown. Big win for Stuff Plus for |
| 1:51.1 | these three guys too, you mentioned. Those are all big stuff guys. I did struggle a little bit |
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