An attempt to fix MLB's broken hot stove and a pitcher stats draft
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few ideas to fix MLB's broken hot stove as a flurry of NBA activity takes center stage, before holding their pitcher stats draft and discuss a few beer options for Thanksgiving.
Rundown
2:26 Can MLB Speed Up Offseason Player Movement?
12:06 Some Interesting Difference in Top Salaries Between MLB and the NBA
17:10 How Long Should It Take to Develop a Big League Player?
23:42 The First Pick of the Pitcher Stats Draft
30:15 A Newer Metric Moving Up the Board
36:33 Round 2 Begins
40:16 A Great Complementary Metric
53:07 Final Round Selections
63:43 Beer of the Week -- Thanksgiving Edition
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, November 23rd. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. We'll get you |
| 0:24.2 | caught up with all of the big news from the MLB hot stove. A lot of transactions on paper, |
| 0:32.1 | not a lot of actual movement yet, but we'll get you caught up on that. We're going to dig into a |
| 0:37.0 | question that |
| 0:37.9 | kind of openly asked, you know, why isn't Major League Baseball more like the NBA? The NBA has |
| 0:44.2 | taken control of the sports calendar in the last couple of weeks with all the trades and big |
| 0:50.9 | signings there. So we'll take a look at some interesting things as it pertains to why those things are so |
| 0:56.9 | different. |
| 0:57.3 | And then we're going to have our pitcher stats draft. |
| 1:01.0 | It's kind of the sister episode to the hitter stats draft that we did last week. |
| 1:06.7 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 1:08.7 | It is good. |
| 1:09.7 | It is good. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm ready to eat. I got, I got, I got, I prepped for eating, |
| 1:14.6 | uh, last night by doing, um, uh, family recipe, uh, lamp chops. It's actually pretty easy. |
| 1:24.3 | Equal parts, soy sauce, rosemary, fresh rosemary, and Dijon mustard. |
| 1:31.1 | And you just paint it on your lamb chops and broiling for 10 minutes. |
| 1:34.7 | Boom. |
| 1:35.0 | That sounds pretty easy. |
| 1:36.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.4 | Just get a whole sheet pan going. |
| 1:38.1 | The Eno family lamb chops made some of Kenji lopez's great crispy potatoes where you boil them in |
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