Getting to Know Trevor May, Making Sense of Spring News & A Deep Dive Into Four-Seam Fastballs
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Trevor May makes his Rates & Barrels hosting debut, joining Eno and DVR to discuss missteps with the new MLB uniforms, wearing other people's pants, unusual self-designed training regiments, and the difficultly of processing news when the flood of information happens at the outset of spring training. Plus, Eno & Trevor do a deep dive into four-seam fastballs, before a round of listener Q&A.
Rundown
0:56 Getting to Know Trevor
10:45 Making Sense of Spring Training News Updates
19:48 Four-Seam Fastball Deep Dive
51:54 Listener Q&A
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, February 16th, and it is a live one, Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, and our newest addition to the Rates and Barrels crew. Trevor, May is here for the first time. Trevor, welcome to Rates and Barrels. Thanks for having me on, guys. I'm very excited having me on. I guess I'm going to be here quite a few times. So I'm really, really pumped for this. And thanks for inviting me. |
| 0:38.5 | Every Friday, if you're not watching us live today, 1 o'clock Easter, we can go live on our |
| 0:42.3 | YouTube channel. It's an amazing transition, right? 450 innings in the big leagues, |
| 0:47.4 | 520Ks, 21 saves that many of our listeners are very grateful for as a heavy fantasy baseball podcast. |
| 0:56.6 | And now you're here. And I started to think about this. You know, we've had this debacle unfolding over the last couple of days |
| 1:01.7 | since pitchers and catchers have reported to spring training. The uniforms have been an absolute |
| 1:07.3 | mess. And I know sometimes uniform hijinks happens at some point along the way. |
| 1:12.0 | If not in the big leagues, maybe on the way to the big leagues. |
| 1:15.3 | This is an all-timer, though. |
| 1:17.1 | Stephen Nesbit from The Athletic had a story about this. |
| 1:20.0 | And you had a quote from Carlos Estevez. |
| 1:22.8 | It said, when I wear my pants, I feel like I'm wearing someone else's pants, |
| 1:27.2 | which just seems like |
| 1:30.0 | a miserable way to have to try and pitch. |
| 1:33.3 | It seems like any sort of physical discomfort when you're out there trying to do that job |
| 1:37.1 | seems incredibly difficult. |
| 1:38.6 | So I have to ask you, have you ever had to wear someone else's pants during a game? |
| 1:44.3 | I have. |
| 1:45.6 | I actually did a few times with the Mets at 2022 when I wore the pants up. |
| 1:50.1 | I didn't have pants up. |
| 1:51.4 | So they had to go to the back and find me. |
| 1:53.2 | I was like, I want some shorties or some tweeners or the bucks is what I would call them. |
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