Early assessments, lost command, trusting Robbie Ray, and ROS over/unders!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR answer an excellent group of mailbag questions including the difference between 'reach rate' and 'chase rate', the details of Alex Verdugo's step forward, Dominic Smith and Gleyber Torres' quiet starts, the "new" Robbie Ray, Triston McKenzie's missing command, and a few over/unders for the rest of the season.
Rundown
0:58 Reach Rate vs. Chase Rate
6:17 Examining Alex Verdugo's Step Forward
18:20 Dominic Smith: Have Pitchers Figured Him Out?
23:19 What's Up with Gleyber Torres?
27:33 Can We Trust the New Robbie Ray?
32:31 Anything Good in Dylan Cease's Start to 2021?
35:34 Where Did Triston McKenzie's Command Go?
41:27 What's Next for Aaron Civale?
46:01 Can Jonathan Loaisiga Work Effectively in a Larger Role?
52:21 Over/Unders!
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| 0:56.4 | here with Enosaris on this Monday. We put out the call for jargon related questions, and we |
| 1:03.7 | have a really good one to open with on today's show. So we're going to dig into that as well as |
| 1:07.9 | several individual player questions. Those are stacking up because |
| 1:11.3 | now that we're more than a month in, there's definitely a more consistent, is this real sort |
| 1:17.4 | of vibe going on with a lot of players, fast starters, slow starters, and everybody in between. |
| 1:22.3 | So we're going to try and answer as many of those questions as we can. We've got a few |
| 1:26.2 | over-unders a little bit later on in the show as well. |
| 1:31.0 | I know, |
| 1:31.2 | so I want to start with this question because we talk about reach rate and chase rate all the time, |
| 1:35.6 | and it really seems like we use those terms interchangeably. |
| 1:38.9 | So we had a question from Ben when you say reach rate and chase rate, |
| 1:42.5 | do they refer to the same thing? |
| 1:44.1 | And is it the same thing and is it the |
| 1:44.7 | same thing as O swing percentage? |
| 1:47.5 | Yes, it is. |
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