How The Guardians Have Surprised Us, Misevaluations of Francisco Lindor & The Yankees' Flaws
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt, and DVR discuss how the Guardians have exceeded our expectations and found success in a different way in 2024, the surprising snub of Francisco Lindor from the NL All-Star Team roster, the actual flaws of the Yankees amidst a 5-15 stretch over their last 20 games, and a few trade fits for Jazz Chisholm Jr.
Rundown
1:10 The Guardians Are Making Us Look Foolish, But How?
11:16 Great Defense is Often Underrated
18:02 Trading for Pitching...in Cleveland?
25:57 Why Don't People Evaluate Francisco Lindor Correctly?
33:39 Lindor Snubbed by His Peers!?
40:05 Assessing the Yankees' Actual Flaws
46:50 The Importance of Clarke Schmidt's Eventual Return
54:04 Finding the Right Fit for Jazz Chisholm Jr. Trade
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, July 9th. That's right. It's Tuesday, |
| 0:16.4 | so my neighbors can put their trash barrels away for one more day. I think everyone lost track of the days because of the 4th of July falling on a Thursday last week. It made me confused. Maybe I think my trash barrels had to go out. But Derek Riper, Eno Seris, Bridgeroli, all here with you today. On this episode, we are discussing the Cleveland Guardians. They are making us look foolish as we approach the |
| 0:37.9 | All-Star break. We're going to take a closer look at why that has happened. Our AL Central |
| 0:42.1 | predictions not looking great right now at the Guardians currently in control of that division. |
| 0:48.1 | We're talking about Francisco Lindor in All-Star Snub. And a player that people just don't seem to |
| 0:53.2 | evaluate correctly, we'll try to dig into that. |
| 0:55.6 | We'll talk about the Yankees actual flaws and maybe justify some of the Yankee panic that's out there. |
| 1:01.3 | And we'll look at some fits for Jazz Chisholm Jr. |
| 1:04.5 | firing up the Trade Maker 3,000 here on this Tuesday. |
| 1:08.8 | So we begin today with the Cleveland Guardians. This is an |
| 1:13.7 | amazing team and it's amazing for a lot of different reasons. Most notably, they're just |
| 1:20.5 | playing really well. They're 56 and 33. They played one last game in the Orioles and they have one |
| 1:27.0 | less win. |
| 1:28.1 | And people don't quite put the guardians on that level. |
| 1:31.1 | I know I haven't put them on that level so far this season. |
| 1:36.4 | We even tried to make an excuse for why their offense got a lot better, |
| 1:40.5 | or at least explain it with reasoning with changes around the park. |
| 1:44.4 | And I think even that has been tempered a bit recently. |
| 1:48.6 | Zach Meisel covers the Guardians for the Athletic. |
| 1:51.0 | Just wrote about it today because he had a mailbag question. |
| 1:54.6 | And the question was, is there a wind vortex powering the Guardians to new hitting heights? |
| 1:59.2 | And he broke it down by splits. |
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