Closer Committees, Reliever Strategy, Pitcher Workload Considerations & Forgotten Players
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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Eno and DVR sort through the growing number of closer committees around the league and discuss their approach to build teams with enough saves potential. Plus, they discuss a question about the predictability of starting pitcher's workloads, opportunities for a few forgotten players, and a chance to help friends of Rates & Barrels (links above).
Rundown
Bullpen News, Bullpen Blues?
Cubs, Padres, Rockies, Reds
It Gets Worse!
Rangers & Pirates
Clarity in Tampa Bay?
Predicting Starter Workloads
Greg Allen & Forgotten Players Battling for Time This Spring
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:21.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and |
| 0:24.6 | bet builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boost, |
| 0:27.6 | season, season, exclusions applyiper here with Eno Seris. |
| 0:53.9 | On this episode, we will try to make sense of the latest batch of bullpen news. |
| 1:01.0 | It is coming from every corner of the league, it seems like, and it makes you wonder if you still have drafts left over the next week or so or one week away from opening day. |
| 1:10.1 | Should you change your strategy for relievers based on all the news that's trickling and all |
| 1:15.3 | these potential sources of saves, but maybe fewer saves than you'd like it to be because |
| 1:19.7 | we're talking about players who are sharing opportunities. |
| 1:23.1 | We also have a lot of great mailbag questions looking at innings pitched jumps for pitchers the impact |
| 1:29.0 | of that the predictability of that some player questions sprinkled in as well and a humidor |
| 1:34.3 | follow-up everyone's into humidor's right now it's the new sticky stuff you know yeah yay |
| 1:39.8 | i get to report on another random, totally annoying thing to discuss that no one can quite understand. |
| 1:54.1 | That's the best. |
| 1:55.2 | That's actually your beat. |
| 1:56.4 | Your beat should be all the things that are strange and that people don't understand. |
| 2:01.7 | Yes, there is already an argument about relative humidity versus absolute humidity versus due point in the comments of my article. |
| 2:11.7 | It's lovely. |
| 2:13.0 | I like it. |
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