Dylan Crews Gets the Call & Saber Conference Highlights
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the promotion Dylan Crews and one major change in his profile with the move from Double-A to Triple-A earlier this season. After a weekend at the 'Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball' conference in Chicago, Eno shares a highlights from a few of the many interesting presentations. Plus, they look at the surge of Jhonkensy Noel as an important power source in the Guardians' lineup, and Bowden Francis' move toward Top-50 Starting Pitcher status.
Rundown
1:02 Dylan Crews Promoted by Nationals
8:36 Xavier Edwards' Partial Season Breakout
13:14 Nolan Gorman's Demotion to Triple-A; What Went Wrong in 2024?
18:22 Eno in Chicago: Saber Conference Takeaways
43:39 Ongoing Studies About the Value of Adding Pitches
56:04 Where the Money Went This Weekend
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.0 | It's Monday, August 26. |
| 0:17.5 | Derek and Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:20.6 | You got some baseball news you should know, including another prospect promotion, Dylan |
| 0:25.5 | Cruz headed to D.C. He'll debut on Monday against the Yankees. So we'll talk about some |
| 0:32.3 | adjustments Dylan Cruz made during his brief time at AAA. We've got some other news. |
| 0:38.0 | We'll get to Eno was on the road in Chicago for a Sab at AAA. We've got some other news we'll get to. |
| 0:41.1 | Eno was on the road in Chicago for a Sabre conference. |
| 0:45.5 | We'll talk about a lot of the interesting presentations that you get to see over the course of the weekend. |
| 0:46.4 | And as we do every Monday, we'll look at where the money went with our fantasy baseball |
| 0:49.9 | weekly pickups that happened on Sunday night, as well as a few interesting moves of our own. |
| 0:56.6 | I think we'll just go. |
| 0:58.1 | I know you had a great weekend. |
| 1:00.0 | We're going to talk about the weekend later. |
| 1:02.4 | Let's start with Dylan Cruz, Eno. |
| 1:04.7 | He's up. |
| 1:05.3 | Another prospect up for the Nationals. |
| 1:07.6 | You had a few reservations a little earlier in the year when we talked about Cruz. |
| 1:10.7 | I think in the sense that he wasn't really pulling the ballals. You had a few reservations a little earlier in the year when we talked about Cruz. I think in the sense that he wasn't really pulling the ball enough. |
| 1:15.1 | And that led us some questions about how much game power he was going to get to. |
| 1:19.2 | We saw five homers in 51 games at AA earlier this year. |
| 1:23.0 | It was a 123 WRC plus, right? |
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