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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Rundown
7:28 The Difficulty of Predicting Anything
15:03 Maintaining Health in Restarting MLB
21:06 More than Escapism
28:05 The Impact of Changing Reliever Usage
41:41 A New Project Goat 2.0 Winner!
46:31 Long-Term Strikeout Rates (Update)
57:58 Beer of the Week

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e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com


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0:00.0

Welcome to Rades and Burrell's episode number 93. It is May 7th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode.

0:22.9

We'll take a quick look at some of the latest happenings in the KBO and we'll talk about something

0:28.1

that Major League Baseball has to be thinking a lot about as they try to come up with a plan for resuming

0:33.0

play in North America. What happens if a player tests positive?

0:37.7

I know he has had a chance to speak to Dan Strayley,

0:39.9

who's pitching in Korea right now about what happens in the KBO.

0:43.3

If something like that unfolds, we'll dive into that.

0:46.8

We're going to touch on a topic that came up a couple of weeks ago on a show,

0:50.3

long-term strikeout rates.

0:52.0

I haven't done complete research yet,

0:54.3

but I've taken a look at some numbers

0:56.2

and have seen some interesting trends already

0:59.2

as I've dug into that.

1:01.3

We'll also talk about reliever usage,

1:03.9

and we've got a revision to the Project Goat standings

1:07.6

to pass along as well.

1:08.7

We'll close things out with some beer of the week talk as well.

1:13.0

Happy Thursday, Enno, how's it going for you today?

1:16.0

I am a little bit chippy.

1:20.6

I have to say, I'm a little angry.

1:25.2

My biological father, who is in the classification of didn't bother, for most of his life, has

1:34.9

left me alone, and I've been happy with that.

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