Early fallers, the Dodgers' rotation depth, and starter vs. closer roster balance

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss early fallers among hitters and pitchers, the Dodgers' replacement options for Dustin May, the new look Ryan McMahon, and the viability of banking more saves in the first half of the season with a reliever-heavy lineup before making up ground in the second half with more starting pitchers. Rundown 2:25 Mookie Betts 8:44 Francisco Lindor 16:46 Marcell Ozuna 21:56 Kyle Tucker 25:03 Jose Abreu 28:55 DJ LeMahieu 31:53 Lucas Giolito 37:45 Luis Castillo 41:18 Kenta Maeda 43:38 Blake Snell 45:46 Kyle Hendricks 51:31 Frankie Montas 57:15 Dodgers Replacement Options for Dustin May 64:01 Is Ryan McMahon for Real? 67:20 Closer Balance Early v. Late 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/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Tops baseball cards.
0:52.2	Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode.
0:55.8	We're digging into April Follers, both on the hitter and the pitcher side.
1:01.1	Lots of players to get to over the course of the show.
1:04.1	We're going to take a look at the possible replacements for Dustin May in the Dodgers
1:07.6	rotation.
1:08.5	We had a mailbag question coming about Ryan McMahon's fast start,
1:11.6	whether or not he has made some adjustments for the long term better. And we've got a great question
1:16.9	about what to do with your balance of starters and relievers. If you're closer heavy early,
1:22.5	how long should you go closer heavy in that lineup before you have to flip and go more starter heavy to balance
1:28.6	out your stats in a rotisserie league.
1:30.9	You know, how's it going for you on this Monday?
1:33.1	It's going well.
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1:34.8	I went to an actual party this weekend.
1:40.1	And it was so much that I didn't do anything on Sunday.
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