Another Test for the Rays' Pitching Depth and Battling ROS Projections
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the injury to Drew Rasmussen and another test for the Rays' pitching depth, the return of James Paxton , the growth of Mitch Keller, and the tension between rest-of-season projections and growing samples of over- and underperforming players.
Rundown
6:41 Drew Rasmussen's Injury
11:01 Taj Bradley & The Rays' Pitching Depth
20:31 James Paxton is Back! Is James Paxton Back?
25:32 Mitch Keller's Past Calendar Year
34:22 DVR Joins Eno's Skeptical View of Alek Manoah
40:40 Rest of Season Projections: Navigating Risky Rebounds & Coping with the Buzzkill
53:41 Buying High Despite ROS Projections?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.1 | It is Monday, May 15th, Derek Riper here with Enosaris. |
| 0:19.3 | On this episode, we discussed the injury to Drew Rasmussen and the overall strategy of taking on the risk of injured pitchers and how you have to really trust your depth to be able to do something like that. We had the return of James Paxton since we last spoke. So we'll talk about whether or not he looks like he's actually all the way back from a variety of different injuries that have cost him time in recent years. |
| 0:40.2 | And we're going to talk about rest of season projections and how they're actually a buzzkill and how to actually navigate using them in a way that doesn't make you sad. |
| 0:47.6 | With that, we got a few mailbag questions to get to at the end of the episode as well. |
| 0:51.9 | Eno, how was your weekend? |
| 0:53.8 | It was filled with |
| 0:55.6 | Little League Baseball and I took the kids |
| 0:58.3 | on Mother's Day to get them out of their |
| 1:00.0 | out of their mom's hair |
| 1:01.8 | to the other |
| 1:03.9 | Little League Baseball, Oakland, |
| 1:05.2 | ouch, sorry. |
| 1:07.5 | But, so |
| 1:08.7 | I asked my kid, you know, did they play, did they play differently? |
| 1:15.1 | You know, like what did you notice is a big difference between like your little league games and the game we went to on Sunday? |
| 1:19.9 | And he goes, well, you know, they throw harder and run faster and hit the ball harder. |
| 1:26.8 | And then he said, and they dropped fewer balls. |
| 1:28.6 | And he goes, well, the Rangers dropped fewer balls. |
| 1:33.5 | Jeez. |
| 1:35.1 | So, but it was a wild weekend because I saw something I'd never seen before. |
| 1:39.5 | And to really set this up earlier in the game, so my kid, an older kid is in the playoffs. |
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