Baseball is Back! More Tough Pitcher Rankings (Live at Other Half Brewing -- Domino Park)
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR are live in Brooklyn and joined by several friends as the 2024 MLB season is underway! Guests include Nick Pollack of Pitcher List, Niv Shah of Ottoneu, Chris Towers of CBS Fantasy and Ellen Adair from the Take Me In to the Ballgame podcast, and several great listener questions!
Rundown
0:45 What Are We Trying to Learn From One-Game Samples & Early-Season Baseball?
10:30 Nick Pollack of Pitcher List Joins the Show! (Cole Ragans Love)
20:52 Tough Rankings: Converted Relievers
30:56 Tough Rankings: Model Surgers w/Bad Spring Results
38:30 Would You Rather? Toss-Ups
52:10 Niv Shah of ottoneu Joins the Show!
59:24 Chris Towers of CBS Fantasy Joins the Show!
1:11:13 Ellen Adair from the 'Take Me In to the Ballgame' podcast Joins the Show!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.0 | It is Wednesday, March 20th, Derek Benriper, Eno Seris. |
| 0:19.8 | On this episode, baseball season has started, and it is wonderful. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm happy. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm so happy right now because... |
| 0:28.0 | It's not 6 a.m. |
| 0:29.3 | It's not 6 a.m. |
| 0:31.1 | The games count. |
| 0:33.0 | We get to start grinding fab. |
| 0:35.0 | All the things we've been preparing for for the last six months. |
| 0:39.1 | Now we get to find out if we're right. |
| 0:40.3 | 162 coming. Oh yeah, 26 weeks. Here it comes. It starts with a simple question, right? We have this |
| 0:47.7 | game that's thousands of miles away in an unusual place for many of the players who played, |
| 0:52.6 | and you say, what can we learn from a one-game |
| 0:55.1 | sample that's so far away from a normal major league environment I mean these guys had to speed |
| 1:00.8 | through spring training pitchers weren't necessarily fully stretched out we saw that with |
| 1:05.6 | both Darvish and Glass now today kind of stopping in the 70 range. So what do we take away from any one game? |
| 1:14.0 | Because for the next couple of weeks, the samples are tiny, and we want everything to mean something, |
| 1:19.9 | but a lot of things mean nothing. So how do we rectify that? I don't know, man. I mean, |
| 1:25.8 | one of the things that happened at Padres camp when I was talking to Mike Schilt was he said, because of this schedule, we get the opportunity to do a lot of interesting things. |
| 1:36.0 | And I think that my definition of interesting and Mike Schult's definition of interesting are different things. |
| 1:42.2 | Because it was pretty obvious that he was going to do this parade of relievers that he did today. |
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