Elly's Pursuit of 100 Steals, Bat Tracking in Scouting Reports & Choose Your Fighter, SP Edition
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Trevor and DVR discuss Elly De La Cruz's bid for 100-steal season, how bat tracking info could be used to supplement scouting reports and game plans against hitters, and their choices from a group of a dozen starting pitchers in an effort to project the next few seasons.
Rundown
1:06 Keeping a Good Receipt (Don't Worry, We Keep The Bad Ones Too)
2:10 Elly De La Cruz's Bid for a 100-Steal Season
8:25 How Many Stolen Bases Would Rickey Henderson Rack Up with Today's Rules
10:49 Building Scouting Reports From Bat Tracking Info
17:31 How Interested Would Players Be In Utilizing This Angle?
30:45 Choose Your Fighters: Two Starting Pitchers From This Dozen, Next Three-Plus Seasons
50:28 Does Trevor Buy Eno's Plan to Make Ben Brown a Closer in 2024?
55:10 How Much Information Does a Typical Player Consume?
1:01:07 Trevor's Wiffle Ball Update
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, May 17th. It's a live one, Derek Van Rite, Burrino, Saris, Trevor May, all here with you on this episode. We will discuss Ellie Day LaCruz. He is making a run at a 100 stolen base season. Helps when you can get four in a game like he did on Thursday nights. We'll talk a little bit about Ellie's pursuit of a number that I don't know we ever thought we'd see again as a stolen base total. |
| 0:43.2 | We're going to dig into the bat tracking leaderboards and talk about how we could use those from a game planning perspective, from the pitching perspective. |
| 0:50.0 | So we'll dig into those some more. |
| 0:51.8 | And we've got a new segment today where we choose our fighters from a large group of players. |
| 0:58.0 | So looking forward to unleashing that because we have to try and live up to the bar you set last week. |
| 1:05.5 | The two of you called a Cody Bellinger Homer off of Jared Jones. |
| 1:10.6 | I mean, the situation, the pitch, |
| 1:14.0 | unbelievable. How are we going to top that? Like, Trevor, how many home runs have you predicted |
| 1:19.1 | like that? I can't really think of any. Maybe I've done it a couple times. Oh, no, I predicted |
| 1:24.4 | Brent Rooker's 30th Homer last year, which was awesome because it was like his last A-B of the year. |
| 1:29.9 | Like that way? |
| 1:30.8 | Like with the Scouting Report, I don't think I can remember of time. |
| 1:35.6 | So it was the first time. |
| 1:36.7 | You know, you? |
| 1:37.6 | I predicted a non-no-hitter fan. |
| 1:42.2 | I think it's the universe bouncing out for that Yamamoto call. |
| 1:48.4 | Yeah, I'm surprised. |
| 1:49.5 | I'm surprised the universe wasn't still mad about what you did. |
| 1:52.3 | Yoshinobi Yamamoto last week. |
| 1:54.9 | But let's start with Ellie Day La Cruz. |
| 1:56.8 | Four steel game against the Dodgers on Thursday. |
| 1:58.8 | Went for five and actually got caught by Austin Barnes the last time, which I think I would have been just going nuts as I was falling asleep if I'd actually seen that happen too. But a lot has to happen for him to stay on the pace he's on right now. He's on pace for 110 steals this season. He's got to continue to get on base as much as he is. And he's got to stay healthy, of course. So pacing it out from the middle of May is always a challenge, but the great |
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