Buy-High Pitchers, Baffling Berríos & Spencer Strider as a Starter
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss several potential 'Buy High' pitchers, on the heels of very strong performances through the first two-and-a-half months of the season. Which starters have taken big steps forward in 2022? Which relievers are sneaky-good trade targets as the deadline approaches? Plus, what is Spencer Strider's ceiling as a starter?
Rundown
-- Shane McClanahan: Elite of the Elite?
-- Tony Gonsolin: What Will the Second Half Bring?
-- Alek Manoah & The Value of a Good Four-Seamer + Two-Seamer
-- Finally Believing in Nestor Cortes Jr.!
-- Martin Pérez, Miles Mikolas
-- Buy-High Relievers?
-- New Bats in San Francisco
-- Spencer Strider's Ceiling as a Starter
-- What's Up with José Berríos?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.9 | It's Thursday, June 23rd. |
| 0:19.3 | Derek Van Riper here with Enos Seris. |
| 0:22.0 | Eno's laughing already. |
| 0:23.5 | We're four seconds into the podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | You got to check out YouTube. |
| 0:28.2 | We're trying to get more people to subscribe to the YouTube channel and hit the like |
| 0:31.7 | button on our videos. |
| 0:32.8 | You got Officer Dijibouti over here. |
| 0:36.5 | They'll have to buy some new boots, get some new boot goofing in later today. |
| 0:41.2 | That's what's on my to-do list. |
| 0:42.7 | But on this episode, our to-do list includes the kind of sister episode of the pot |
| 0:48.9 | earlier in the week. |
| 0:49.5 | We were talking about buy high hitters earlier in the week. |
| 0:51.8 | Today we're going to talk about some buy high pitchers, got some questions in the mailbag about a few struggling players. |
| 0:58.0 | We've got the Giants adding a couple of bats that are kind of these positionless guys |
| 1:03.1 | that could be pretty interesting with the right sorts of adjustments. |
| 1:06.4 | We'll talk about whether or not it actually happens. |
| 1:08.4 | We've got a Spencer Strider question, which as you might see YouTube, kind of fits the vibe that I'm projecting over here. And actually, if you're wondering, why is he wearing sunglasses? Dylan Zee, Spencer Strider and you. Yeah, why is he wearing sunglasses? Well, it's because with the sunglasses, I don't look like a Scooby-Doo villain. Without the sunglasses, I look like a |
| 1:28.9 | Scooby-Doo villain. That's not a compliment to myself. So I think it looks a little better with the |
| 1:33.1 | sunglasses going. But nevertheless, here we go. We are off and running. We were talking about |
| 1:38.5 | by high pitchers. We talked about Shane McClanahan a couple of weeks ago as someone who had really |
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