Growing Pains, Opportunity, Triple-A Power Surges & Pitchers to Target
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the challenging balance of giving young left-handed hitters ample opportunities against same-handed pitching, a few interesting power surges from hitters at Triple-A, pitchers that have underperformed through the first two months relative to the Pitching Plus model, and more.
Rundown
-- Jazz Chisholm Jr. v. Lefties
-- Noise in the Very Limited Split Samples
-- Jesús Sánchez & Growing Pains
-- Nolan Gorman & Future Strikeout Rates
-- Luis García and Triple-A Power Surges
-- The Tigers' Lack of Hard Contact
-- Pitching Plus Targets (Current Underperformers)
-- Bat Fitting Like Golf Clubs?
-- How Are Taylor and Tyler Rogers *So* Different?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates barrels. It's Tuesday, June 7th. Derek Van Riper here with Island |
| 0:20.8 | Enosaris. You look well for a Tuesday, June 7th. Derek Van Riper here with Island Enosaris. You look |
| 0:22.6 | well for a Tuesday, especially |
| 0:24.6 | for an early Tuesday morning. |
| 0:26.7 | Yeah, I'm out here on the Lanai. |
| 0:29.5 | As you can see |
| 0:30.6 | behind me, that's Hawaii. |
| 0:33.6 | I've been having a good time. |
| 0:35.1 | I even managed to keep up my |
| 0:36.6 | running schedule, which is rough here. |
| 0:39.2 | Wow. |
| 0:39.9 | A lot of sweating. |
| 0:41.2 | So sweaty. |
| 0:42.9 | And lots of up and down here on the big island. |
| 0:45.4 | So I did like 600 feet of elevation in my run, which is about three times more than I usually get. |
| 0:58.0 | So I've been just doing slow pace, slow pace. |
| 1:00.2 | Just trying to keep my head above water. |
| 1:02.8 | I did sign up for the San Francisco half. |
| 1:05.5 | So I'm, I got it. |
| 1:10.1 | I can't, I can't fully take, take this vacation off, as you can tell. Right. Yeah. It's great that you're here, and it's going to be a slightly lighter week of shows. We've got Three O's show coming up. Recording Wednesday going up on Thursday. I should have a guest episode coming up later this week, pending on whether or not that happens for sure. But I'm trying to pull off a second episode this week. Pins fingers crossed. Yeah, pins and needles. At the very least, we'll get back to two episodes a week starting next week. But I'm hoping to have a second episode for this week. Cautiously optimistic is where I'm going to place it right now with a few inquiries out. But on this episode, we have a lot of ground to cover. |
| 1:47.3 | We had some great questions that inspired kind of broader questions. |
| 1:52.8 | The young players against left-handed pitching, so Jazz Chishol, was the inspiration for that question. |
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