Early Worry, Fast-Rising Pitchers & Jacob deGrom's Velocity Conundrum
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss early worry, weekend drops, fast-rising starting pitchers, Jacob deGrom's long-term approach with velocity, Alex Verdugo's impressive start to the season, and Jarren Duran's eventual path back to a prominent role in Boston.
Rundown
When to Worry: Early Slump v. Problematic Underlying Numbers
Healthy Drops From Week 12
Is Owen Miller a Significant Upgrade?
Fast-Rising Starting Pitchers
Am I Mad at Jacob deGrom, or Am I Just Wrong?
Kyle Wright's Adjustments
Pitching_Bot's 2022 Team Pitching Summaries
Alex Verdugo's Early Statcast Numbers & Jarren Duran's Path
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, April 18th, Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:21.3 | On this episode, we continue our early season question of when to worry about slow starters. |
| 0:28.2 | A few more names have surfaced from me as I have gone through the process of making some more moves. |
| 0:33.4 | We're going to talk about dart throws off to excellent starts and how to adjust their values. |
| 0:38.8 | Several mailbag questions. |
| 0:40.2 | We'll get one about Jacob de Grom. |
| 0:41.7 | We got one about Alex Verdugo's fast start. |
| 0:44.4 | So tons of ground to cover today. |
| 0:46.6 | And frankly, you know, if I had to pitch in the early game in Boston today, I would have got shelled just like Lucas Gialito did a year ago because I'm pretty |
| 0:55.0 | groggy for a Monday. Usually I come into the week and I feel really good. I am not rested |
| 0:59.5 | coming off of this weekend, which is a rare thing for me. And I think this is probably what |
| 1:03.9 | people with young children feel like all the time if I had to approximate it. And it's kind of |
| 1:08.7 | terrible. Yeah, we turned the dial to 11 this weekend by having over two babies and two toddlers and one, |
| 1:23.4 | two, three, four, five, six family members staying over for a first |
| 1:29.7 | birthday party, |
| 1:31.2 | a 10th |
| 1:32.3 | birthday party, |
| 1:33.6 | and an |
| 1:34.5 | Easter egg hunt. |
| 1:36.9 | So I am toast. |
| 1:38.8 | I am just like |
| 1:40.0 | happy that there's |
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