April's Starting Pitcher Risers & Fallers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss some of the biggest risers -- and a few fallers -- among starting pitchers from the first month of the season.
Rundown
0:45 Jacob deGrom Returns to the IL
6:23 Nathan Eovaldi's First Month in Texas
13:51 Dustin May's Rise Up Eno's Rankings
18:50 Freddy Peralta's Velo Returns; Pitch Mix is Strong
23:08 Jesús Luzardo's Step Forward in Miami
26:26 Joe Ryan New Arsenal
28:54 Zac Gallen's Continued Dominance
31:20 Other Big Movers
44:10 JP Sears: Sneaky Fallback Add From April?
50:30 Hunter Brown's First 50 MLB Innings
57:04 Big Fallers in the Rankings
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels is Monday, May 1st. |
| 0:19.1 | Eno Seris here with Derek Van Riper. We have got a great show lined up. We've got one month in the books. We've got a new set of pitching rankings that went up on the athletic from Eno back on Friday. So we're going to dig into the biggest movers on the pitching side, some of the biggest risers and fallers to this point in the season. We'll dig into why those players have moved as much as they have. |
| 0:39.4 | Focusing, of course, on healthy pitchers, injured pitchers, not necessarily a fun part of the conversation. |
| 0:45.0 | Although we do have one injured pitcher that we have to talk about, and that, of course, is Jacob de Grom. |
| 0:51.9 | DeGrom left his start on Friday with right forearm tightness, and he's been |
| 0:57.0 | diagnosed with right elbow inflammation, so he's on the 15-day IL, and that was just |
| 1:02.3 | hours after he was number one on your rankings. |
| 1:05.6 | He did just enough, long enough, to move back to his rightful position and then just tore our hearts |
| 1:14.3 | into pieces again. |
| 1:15.9 | It's a kick in the groin. |
| 1:17.8 | It's not like he's enjoying the last time either. |
| 1:19.8 | He's not fun. |
| 1:22.2 | I feel like every time we talk about Jacob de Grum and his lack of health, the question I always keep coming back to |
| 1:29.1 | is we look at his Velo and we see him throwing harder almost every year of his career. |
| 1:34.4 | And you can't help but wonder if that is a contributing factor in this. It may have absolutely |
| 1:40.2 | nothing to do with it, right? It could just be the human elbow can only take so much regardless. |
| 1:44.8 | And if he was throwing 96 or 97 instead of 98, 99, the same sort of thing could have |
| 1:51.2 | happened. There's no real way to know, but it's the one thing in his year over year stats that |
| 1:58.4 | really just kind of blows your mind. And it's's not it's just not working for him physically. |
| 2:04.1 | So I don't know if we have any more than elbow inflammation as an explanation for the problem. |
| 2:09.3 | Of course, they're going to be careful with him at this point. |
| 2:12.1 | It's the beginning of a five year stretch with the Rangers. |
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