An Impressive Debut & Fun with xStats
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the strong debut from D-backs pitcher Ryne Nelson before examining a few surprises on the xStats leaderboards including JosĂ© RamĂrez, Alex Bregman, Bo Bichette, Paul Goldschmidt, JosĂ© Abreu, and much more.
Rundown
4:06 Ryne Nelson’s Debut
8:10 xStats Recalibrated for 2022
12:16 Making Sense of JosĂ© RamĂrez's xStats
15:59 Alex Bregman’s Second-Half Rebound
21:27 Bo Bichette's Huge Monday; Slight Step Back in 2022
24:25 O-Swing% v. Great Hit Tools
30:59 What's Next For Paul Goldschmidt?
34:43 José Abreu's Lost Homers
42:21 Luis Patiño’s Two-Strike Approach
52:41 Too Many Lefty Bats in Shallow Leagues?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, September 6th. |
| 0:19.5 | Hopefully everybody in the States had a safe and happy |
| 0:21.6 | Labor Day weekend. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We were going to discuss |
| 0:27.6 | a few small happenings from the weekend. We've got a ton of great mailbag questions, one that |
| 0:33.4 | really opened up a main topic for us today because earlier this year we talked about |
| 0:37.8 | X-Stats not being calibrated correctly and being basically useless and that's not the case |
| 0:43.7 | anymore. So we're actually going to take a look at some things going on with X-Stats that might |
| 0:47.9 | have some future implications for us. We're going to answer a bunch of questions in the mailbag, |
| 0:52.7 | which is kind of amazing because the email world that I have, as people know on this show, it's chaotic most of the time. Most |
| 1:01.3 | of the emails are junk. They're not emails from our listeners. And it's amazing I can find anything |
| 1:07.3 | in there that's useful for the show when I get stuff like story on breakdancing |
| 1:11.8 | debuting as Olympic sport in 2024. |
| 1:14.2 | So there's some breaking news for you. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.0 | Yes, I'm on way too many lists to be able to sort through my athletic email. |
| 1:24.6 | It's a mess in there. |
| 1:26.5 | In case I said I would say I would do something in that email. It's, it's a mess in there. In case I said I would say some, I would do |
| 1:29.4 | something in that email. And I haven't yet. It's just because the email is so far from |
| 1:36.0 | net zero that I have given up. And you should probably just ping me again. I am rapidly |
| 1:43.8 | approaching delete all emails again. |
| 1:47.2 | It's way too soon to be doing that again because I just did it. |
| 1:50.7 | What was that beginning of the season maybe? |
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