Early Drops, Unlucky Hitters, A Gorman Breakout & Weekend Pickups
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Eno discuss a few sluggish early bats that have been on the radar to be dropped before examining some unlucky hitters. Plus, they break down the great start to 2023 for Nolan Gorman, the ongoing struggles of José Berrios, and the step forward for Louie Varland and several other Twins starters.
Rundown
3:14 Terrestrial v. Aerial Movers
6:57 Early-Season Drop Decisions
8:49 Jean Segura Falling Toward Waiver Wire
12:37 Chris Taylor's Ongoing Contact Woes
16:29 Trey Mancini's Slow Start in Chicago
21:24 Nick Gordon: King of the Unlucky Hitters?
26:21 Byron Buxton: Regular DH Now
31:02 Is This a Nolan Gorman Breakout?
35:47 Tyler O'Neill's Slipping Playing Time
43:52 José Berrios: Is This It?
48:33 Stuff+ on FanGraphs
54:07 Big Bids From the Weekend
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.8 | It is Monday, April 17th, Derek Van Riper, here with Enoseres, on this episode. |
| 0:22.7 | We'll discuss some players we have given up on over the course of this young season. |
| 0:27.4 | What causes us to actually drop players or to move away from our evaluations after just a few weeks? |
| 0:33.7 | We'll dig into some possible slow starts to target on the hitting side, or at least |
| 0:37.8 | we'll look at a few laggard boards and see if there's anything good that we can find from |
| 0:42.1 | that. A lot of mailbag questions to get to. We got a question about Nolan Gorman, got a question |
| 0:47.2 | about walks league wide being up, and if that's a trend to be mindful of, and I got a few |
| 0:51.9 | pitcher questions to get to later on in the episode as |
| 0:55.1 | well. |
| 0:55.6 | Eno, how was your weekend? |
| 0:58.0 | It was good. |
| 0:59.3 | The older one turned 11 and so we had a Magic the Gathering tournament at our house |
| 1:05.5 | for his birthday. |
| 1:07.5 | 16 screaming young 10, 11 year olds. |
| 1:12.6 | How long does a tournament take for Magic the Gathering, |
| 1:14.9 | a tournament that size? |
| 1:16.5 | Three to four hours. |
| 1:19.1 | Oh, I would have guessed even longer. |
| 1:21.0 | It might have felt longer. |
| 1:23.4 | There was one moment that just sticks out for me. |
| 1:28.8 | This one child was losing in his semifinal match, and he didn't want to lose. |
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