Fixing Broken Rosters, Finding Value in Unique Roles & Assessing Launch Angle
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss ways to consider making adjustments for struggling teams now that the calendar has progressed to the second half of May. Plus, opportunities to find value with pitchers in unique roles, and reasons for optimism about Ke'Bryan Hayes' future power contributions.
Rundown
-- How to Fix a Struggling Squad
-- Accepting a 'Sell Low' Situation
-- Pitching Profiles to Target
-- Stuff v. Role & Non-Closer Pitchers
-- Felix Bautista's Future
-- Ke'Bryan Hayes, Launch Angle & Future Power
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:17.0 | It is Wednesday, May 18th. |
| 0:19.0 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. |
| 0:23.1 | We will try and perform a diagnostics test, we'll call it. |
| 0:28.2 | A resuscitation. |
| 0:29.4 | A resuscitation of sorts. |
| 0:30.7 | A deep dive on my NL Labor Squad, which could be the worst team I've ever built by where |
| 0:37.4 | it sits in the standings right now. |
| 0:38.9 | I don't think I've ever been in last place and labor in mid-May before. |
| 0:45.0 | So when you're sitting with 39.5 standings points, it's time to make some changes. |
| 0:50.0 | But if you're bottom half, bottom third of a league, what kinds of changes should you be making? |
| 0:55.5 | What types of players should you be thinking about trading for, picking up, whatever it might be? |
| 1:00.2 | It's not really about me. |
| 1:01.9 | It's like this problem exists. |
| 1:03.9 | What do you do in this situation, especially now that we're getting closer to the end of the second month of the season? I realize April was cut short, but you got to do something. So we'll work on that. I've got a few other questions from the mailbag. We're going to get to you on this episode as well. So plenty of fun topics here. Glad to be back after a week at home. Nice to see family. Yay, you're back. What's it like when I'm gone from your |
| 1:29.5 | perspective? I can listen to the shows when I'm not on them, of course, but what does it really |
| 1:33.3 | like when I'm not here? I struggle with transitions. I talk too long. I don't know how to |
| 1:40.0 | move things towards the transitions that I want. I forget what to do at the beginning and the end of the show. |
| 1:50.5 | It's like being on stage and not knowing what to do with your hands, you know? I just feel like |
| 1:56.8 | a fish out of water and, you know, I think that um you do an excellent job at what you do and |
| 2:05.8 | uh we we can't do it without you so well thank you i appreciate that you're back glad to be back |
| 2:11.9 | glad to be doing the usual things that i'm doing during the day i get to spend time i've got a |
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