Digging Deep for In-Season Upgrades, Shane McClanahan to Ace Status & Breakouts in Progress
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the promotion of Matthew Liberatore and Nolan Gorman, Shane McClanahan's rise to 'ace' status, a few potential breakouts in progress, the value of xStats as a comparative tool, and more.
Rundown
-- Steps Forward From Josh Naylor & Manuel Margot?
-- Hard-Hit Rate Laggards
-- Nolan Gorman & Matthew Liberatore: Short-Term Expectations
-- Pavin Smith & Willi Castro as Deep League Darts
-- Shane McClanahan & Tarik Skubal Move Way Up
-- Prospect of the Week!
-- Using xStats as a Comparative Tool?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:17.6 | It is Friday, May 20th. |
| 0:19.2 | Derek Van Riper here at the Enaris. Episode two of the week, |
| 0:21.9 | only Friday episode so far of the year. I think we're going to get a cover-all this year. I think we're |
| 0:26.8 | going to get every day between now and the end of the year. Because we did a Sunday one back in April |
| 0:32.6 | before you went on vacation. I'm sure due to breaking news or winter meeting stuff, playoffs, there's going to be a |
| 0:41.6 | Saturday episode of rates and barrels that gets mixed in at some point. And we'll get to all |
| 0:46.0 | seven days, which will be a new thing for us. And also, you're on the wrong side. What are you |
| 0:51.7 | doing over there? It is weird to be on the right side. Should I switch it? |
| 0:56.5 | Oh, that's much better. I feel much better. |
| 0:59.7 | I feel more normal because looking to the right side of my screen is where you normally are. |
| 1:06.5 | It's like, wait, where are you go? We're creatures of habit, that is for sure. |
| 1:14.4 | On this episode, we're going to discuss a few potential breakouts. |
| 1:21.7 | If you listen to the 3-0 show earlier in the day on Friday, we found a few interesting names that were really more fantasy names for the most part. |
| 1:26.8 | The core of that conversation was about Jess Chisholm Jr. and some of the changes he's made this season. |
| 1:31.8 | But a few names that are bouncing around out there in deeper leagues, easy players to get via trade, |
| 1:35.8 | where they're already roster. We'll talk about them and whether or not there's actually something there. |
| 1:41.2 | Hitters and pitchers, plus the cards have decided to bring up Nolan Gorman and Matthew Liebertor. |
| 1:43.6 | We're going to bring back prospect of the week. |
| 2:03.7 | Not necessarily to spotlight those two guys, but to talk about some other prospects. And we'll talk about a few mailbag questions that came in, including a follow-up about X stats, which we talked a lot about on the show, being limited in their value right now because they've not been calibrated for this season, but there may still be a way to make them somewhat useful, even if they're not as useful as they would ordinarily be. |
| 2:07.3 | So we begin with the breakouts up at the top. |
| 2:11.1 | Some guys that have taken big steps forward so far. |
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