Biggest Movers in Stuff+, Searching for Meaningful Early Adjustments & Taj Bradley's Debut
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Eno discuss some of the biggest movers in Stuff+ according to Eno's pitching model, early K-BB% laggards to target (and a few to worry about), and Taj Bradley's impressive arrival and potential for more starts due to another injury in the Rays' rotation.
Rundown
0:44 2023 Changes to the Run Environment
4:20 Stuff+ Improvers, No. 1 Graham Ashcraft
9:30 Looking for Differences Between Low-End Starters & Waiver Options
13:30 Ashcraft v. Bubic
17:17 Fastball Movement Impacted By Park Factors?
21:23 Good in the Model, Bad Results
32:12 Improved Command From Hunter Greene?
38:42 K-BB% Laggards; Potential Buy-Low Targets?
49:25 DVR Sticking with Chris Sale, Eno Sticking with Blake Snell
53:12 Taj Bradley's Debut; Chances to Stick Around w/Three Rotation Injuries
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:27.6 | tease and exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Thursday, April 13th, Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. On this episode, we're going to take a look at some movers on the stuff leaderboards in terms of fastball and stuff. |
| 1:00.6 | So we're going to focus on some big changes there, digging into some maybe early risers, |
| 1:05.4 | do a lot of would you rathers, kind of working through these early days and trying to make sense of them. |
| 1:12.2 | It's just what we do in April. |
| 1:13.8 | I think it's the toughest time of year |
| 1:15.5 | to analyze baseball. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, it's pretty weird. |
| 1:18.8 | I was looking at the team leaderboards today |
| 1:20.5 | for a radio hit in Hawaii. |
| 1:23.0 | And I was amazed |
| 1:26.2 | by how many teams are allowing five runs a game. And I was amazed by how many teams are allowing five runs a game. |
| 1:30.7 | And I was thinking back to that team analyst who told me that the shift thing is going to be a big |
| 1:36.1 | deal on the team and game level. |
| 1:38.7 | And it's going to add a lot in terms of offense because that's how it looks like it is looking right now. |
| 1:46.4 | And so if you're wondering, I think generally, you know, people are like, |
| 1:50.0 | what about all these pitcher blowups? |
| 1:51.7 | And I think that the answer is never one thing. |
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