Fishing for Pitching: Overlooked Veterans, Relievers w/Starter Potential & Young Risers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss several late-season pitchers to monitor in hopes of finding undervalued arms for stretch run, and potential big movers in 2023 -- including young starters, relievers w/the chance to move into larger roles, and the next group of elite closers.
Rundown
-- Starters with Stuff+ Improvements From Last Season
-- Jake Junis' Emergence in San Francisco
-- Potential Movers from Current Bullpen Role to Future Starting Opportunities
-- Making Sense of DL Hall's Debut
-- Nick Lodolo in the Face of Sinkers Disappearing
-- Edward Cabrera's Recent Success
-- The Next Group of Elite Relievers
-- Yusei Kikuchi as a Bullpen Arm?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, August 18th. |
| 0:18.5 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. |
| 0:21.2 | We are fishing for pitching. |
| 0:22.9 | We're going to look at some currently overlooked starters with some long-term potential. |
| 0:27.4 | We're going to try and find some of the members of the next crop of elite relievers. |
| 0:32.3 | And we'll take a look at some current relievers who could be future starters. |
| 0:35.1 | So tons of pitching stuff mashed into one episode ahead |
| 0:39.8 | of the weekend. How's it going for you on this Thursday, you know? Good. I'm propping my eyes open. |
| 0:46.3 | It was another crazy night at Casa Reus Seris. Dogs and children and pandemonium. |
| 0:57.8 | What's the next pet that you are going to get as a family? |
| 1:00.4 | Have you decided yet? |
| 1:02.0 | It won't be a chinchilla. |
| 1:04.0 | They're messy and require a lot of attention, and so it will not be one. |
| 1:09.9 | I have been sort of, I have a follow, |
| 1:13.9 | the weed detective on, on Twitter that has a large turtle. And the turtle seems to actually |
| 1:21.9 | interact well with this cat. We have cats. There's a picture he had recently. You have a cat on top of |
| 1:27.1 | the turtle, large turtle. And I know from the neighborhood There's a picture he had recently. You have a cat on top of the turtle, large turtle. |
| 1:28.8 | And I know from the neighborhood there's a turtle that my dogs are not threatened by it and have no capacity. |
| 1:38.4 | Like, just don't understand it. |
| 1:40.6 | So we could have a turtle and they wouldn't be barking at the turtle all the time. |
| 1:44.5 | Probably because they move so slow. |
| 1:46.2 | So the dogs are like, that's just a rock. |
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