Do We Need 100-Win Teams?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As things currently stand, no team will finish the regular season with 100+ wins for the first time since 2014. Does the unusual shape of the standings and the lack of exceptional regular season clubs matter? Eno, DVR and Britt discuss the causes for the lack of dominance, and wonder if common approaches to roster construction are a contributing factor to this year's parity.
Rundown
2:47 Does It Matter If There Are No 100-Win Teams?
8:11 Measuring Team Quality Beyond Win Totals
12:48 Will Long-Term Injury Trends Make This Type of Season the Norm?
15:28 Regular Season Dominance That Didn't Lead to a World Series Win
21:05 How Mad Would You Be Without Playoffs?
24:23 Unique Approaches From Guardians & Red Sox
32:46 Organizational Brain Drain
39:53 Will the Red Sox Make the Playoffs?
47:04 How Does 2025 Look for Boston, Tampa Bay and Toronto?
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper, Eno Sarris & Britt Ghiroli
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, August 20th, Derek Van Riper, Inoceris here with you on this episode. |
| 0:22.2 | We answer a question about this 2024 season that people have been kicking around on baseball, |
| 0:28.7 | Twitter. |
| 0:29.6 | Why are there no 100-win teams? |
| 0:31.4 | And our question that's related to that is, does it even matter? |
| 0:34.1 | Maybe it doesn't matter. |
| 0:35.2 | Maybe it's just the thing that we'd like to see that doesn't actually impact the quality of the game whatsoever. So we're going to tackle that. Take a look |
| 0:42.4 | back at some teams that were really good in the regular season and why they didn't necessarily |
| 0:46.7 | have success in the postseason, in the vein of a Brewer's Guardian series that happened over |
| 0:51.5 | the weekend. And we'll take a look at a story that Eno recently co-wrote with Jen McCaffrey about the |
| 0:57.7 | waning effectiveness of the Red Sox reduced fastball usage as a pitching staff. |
| 1:04.1 | That seems to be dwindling over the course of the years far as how well it's working for |
| 1:09.3 | the Red Sox. |
| 1:09.8 | We'll dig into why that might be the case. Before we get rolling, a reminder, join our Discord. You could do that with the link in the show description. If you're watching us in YouTube, smash that like button for us. We'd really appreciate that. That's going for you on this Tuesday, you know? Good, good. Oh, and I want to do this at the top of the show this time. |
| 1:29.5 | Chicago, I'll be in you on this weekend for Friday. |
| 1:35.3 | All the prepositions is wrong in that statement. |
| 1:37.7 | Phrasing, yeah, bad phrasing. |
| 1:38.9 | It was really good. |
| 1:39.5 | Just amazingly, all the prepositions, just all out order. |
| 1:42.8 | If you just recycle and put the prepositions in all out order. If you just recycle and put the |
| 1:44.4 | prepositions in different places, it works. But on this Friday, I will be at the Beer Temple |
| 1:50.9 | at 6 o'clock p.m. and we'll be hanging out. I also, if that, if you can't make that, there is |
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