Bobby Miller's Reset, 10 Years of Statcast & Pitching to Gunnar Henderson
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR and Trevor discuss the demotion of Bobby Miller as his 2024 struggles have persisted, the Dodgers' pitching depth being tested more than expected, 10 years of Statcast, and 'new' tools that they think will be a big part of the conversation 10 years from now. Plus, they look at what happens in extended plate appearances, how they would pitch to Gunnar Henderson, and a red-hot start to the MLB career of Reds outfielder Rece Hinds.
Rundown
1:18 Trevor Needs to Tell DVR Where He's Buying Cool Hats
3:52 Bobby Miller Optioned by Dodgers; Headed to Triple-A Oklahoma City
14:00 Celebrating of 10 Years of Statcast
25:04 What 'New' Tool(s) Will Be Even Better Down the Road?
39:43 What Happens During and After Extended Plate Appearances?
57:30 The Game Plan: How to Pitch to Gunnar Henderson
1:06:54 Rece Hinds' Starts His MLB Career on a Heater
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Daryl's. It is Thursday, July 11th. It's live one. Derek Van Riper, Trevor |
| 0:18.0 | Mait, Eno Seris, all here with you on this episode. We'll discuss the demotion of Bobby Miller. |
| 0:23.5 | What is next for Miller? |
| 0:24.5 | What kinds of adjustments will we have to make to rejoin the Dodgers rotation at some point in the second half of the season? |
| 0:30.9 | We celebrate the 10th birthday of Statcast. |
| 0:34.0 | Happy birthday, Statcast. |
| 0:35.8 | Hope childhood is going well for you. We'll dig into the tools that |
| 0:39.5 | we use the most, how it's changed the way we analyze baseball, and look into the future. Talk about |
| 0:44.0 | some tools that are new or relatively new right now that we will still care about and be even |
| 0:49.0 | more excited about 10 years down the road. We'll take a look at what happens in extended plate appearances. |
| 0:55.0 | What is the cost of that on the pitching side? And then we've got our game plan segment. |
| 0:59.5 | We're going to take a look at Gunner Henderson. It should be easy to get Gunner Henderson out. |
| 1:03.0 | Come on. We could solve this in some fashion. |
| 1:06.5 | Let's also talk about this hat. Yeah, this is a great hat. |
| 1:14.3 | What is going on with this hat? Why it that color what is this hat isn't it cool i love this color uh it doesn't really compliment my skin tone |
| 1:19.9 | well but uh i thought i would i thought i would mix in the expose hat i've always i've always liked |
| 1:24.1 | the i know but what's the history of this was thick specific hat? Do you know anything about why this hat exists? |
| 1:28.6 | No, it's just one of the, it's from that same place where I've got all the kind of the funky hats, the ace hat and stuff. I just saw it and I was like that color, that's a 90s electric pastel color for me. I'm in. Let's do it. And I'll never turn down a Montreal house. called is that called? Like the sailor, like the, the little string. |
| 1:42.4 | Yeah. What is it? It's called, yeah, it's like a, I don't know what it. It's like a mariners. Like, yeah, like a, like a, yeah, you wear boat shoes and you wear hats with this with like a ink. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I actually don't know what the style is called. |
| 1:44.6 | If anyone knows, let's know. That is a hat, dude. wear hats with this with like a inker on the front. I actually don't know what the style is called. |
| 2:01.7 | If anyone knows, let us know. I think it used to have a functional purpose before they made |
| 2:09.2 | hats strong enough to just stay up, but the weight of the crown would start to collapse. |
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