Early assessments, lost command, trusting Robbie Ray, and ROS over/unders!

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 67 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! Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/mo: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:31.1	Derek Van Riper here with Enosarous on this Monday. We put out the call for jargon related questions and we have a really good one to open with on today's show. So we're
1:36.3	going to dig into that as well as several individual player questions. Those are stacking up because
1:41.1	now that we're more than a month in, there's definitely a more
1:44.7	consistent, is this real sort of vibe going on with a lot of players, fast starters, slow starters,
1:50.5	and everybody in between. So we're going to try and answer as many of those questions as we can.
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