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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Anthony Volpe's Big Swing & Hitters That Missed Their Projections in 2024

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss Anthony Volpe's huge Game 4 -- including a grand slam -- that may help the Yankees turn the World Series around as they continue to stave off elimination. Plus, they dig into several hitters that missed their 2024 season projections in both direction, looking for overperformers who had real breakouts, and underperformers with rebound potential in 2025. 


Rundown

1:27 The Anthony Volpe Game & Volpe's Long-Term Ceiling

12:40 Austin Wells' Insurance Homer & Eighth-Inning Runs Saved Luke Weaver's Workload?

16:22 White Sox Hiring Will Venable as Manager; Offseason Targets?

26:58 Hitters that Missed Projections: Underperformers -- Long-Term Fallers, or Rebound Targets?

42:58 Hitters that Missed Projections: Overperformers -- Breakouts, or Players Bound for a Downturn in 2025?


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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.

0:14.0

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0:18.0

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0:24.6

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0:27.6

teas and season season exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, October 30th. Derek Riper, Inoceris, here with you on this episode. We get you caught up on a few things that happened in game four of the World Series. The Yankees got on the board. The offense woke up. We'll dig into a few possible longer-term implications connecting to game four. Of course, many of you will hear this episode as that game is beginning or after it has started. We have a lot of other things we're going to talk about, including Will Venable going to the White Sox to be their new manager.

1:15.2

We'll talk about the other offseason moves that might be on tap for a club that is deep into a

1:20.9

rebuild. We're also going to take a look at some over and under performers looking back at the

1:25.9

full season projections for hitters, players that went

1:28.9

way under that disappointed us, players who went way over that surprised us, try to figure out

1:33.7

what is next for several of those players. If you look to join our Discord, you can do that with

1:39.0

the link in the show description. Be sure to do that. We'll have a chat going again during

1:43.1

Game 5 on Wednesday night. You know, let's begin with a few takeaways. The Yankees show description. Be sure to do that. We'll have a chat going again during game five on

1:44.4

Wednesday night. You know, let's begin with a few takeaways. The Yankees win game four,

1:49.8

Freddie Freeman homered again. So it's now six consecutive games in the World Series that he has

1:54.3

homered all four games of this series to from the previous World Series he played in. That is a

1:58.5

major league record. But the story was the Anthony Volpe, right?

2:01.8

This was the Anthony Volpe game, the type of game you dream about growing up as a kid,

2:07.5

especially as a kid that was a Yankees fan, doing it in front of the home fans,

2:10.8

getting your team back on the board, maybe creating a turning point for the entire series

2:15.9

in the process.

2:19.7

Yeah, I mean, just an incredible grand slam for Anthony Volpe.

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