How the Reds' Pitching is Clicking w/C. Trent Rosecrans
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
C. Trent Rosecrans joins Eno and DVR to discuss the Reds -- including Andrew Abbott's fast start and track record of posting ERAs below his projections -- the ascent of Hunter Greene, Nick Lodolo's missing strikeouts amidst good results, and questions around the quality and depth of the Cincinnati bullpen. Plus, they examine the profile of Nick Kurtz, who has been promoted to the big leagues by the A's less than a year after he was drafted fourth overall out of Wake Forest.
Rundown
2:06 Please Help Us Understand Andrew Abbott
9:00 Jose Trevino's Impact on the Staff & Clubhouse
12:08 The Little Adjustment Paying Off for Hunter Greene
18:11 Nick Lodolo's Missing Strikeouts
22:05 Nick Martinez as a Great Fit
27:07 What's Going On with the Reds' Bullpen?
34:15 Nick Kurtz Gets the Call from the A's
45:53 Craig Yoho Joins the Brewers' Relief Corps & Logan Henderson's Outlook
54:00 Brandon Young is Back in the Mix for the Orioles
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: C. Trent Rosecrans
Producer: Brian Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It's Tuesday, April 22nd, Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, and Trent Rosecrans here. We're going to talk Reds. We're going to try and solve the mystery of |
| 0:21.5 | Andrew Abbott. So we had to bring in the person we know who has seen as much Andrew Abbott as |
| 0:28.0 | anybody on the planet. Trent, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm guessing his parents |
| 0:33.9 | have seen him more. I didn't have a chance to reach out to them. |
| 0:39.3 | So the people whose numbers are saved in your phone that you knew would be busy and not doing anything. |
| 0:48.3 | What other qualifiers are we? |
| 0:51.3 | This is like, this is like, oh yeah, he's great against left-handers in day games in August of odd number of years. So yeah, I'm honored. Thanks a lot. Really, really honored to be here. We love you, I'm glad. You ran out of other people and you found me. Great. Oh, no, no, no, no. Man, you guys fancy. Like, that little intro and everything, super fancy. |
| 1:15.9 | They don't have this stuff on the round table. We're just, |
| 1:20.6 | Carrig doesn't want that to be any good. So, like, he just wants people to be like, |
| 1:24.7 | oh, it was so much better when Carrig was there. And so I think that's kind of what's going on. I've heard that too. I try to dig into that a little bit. Like it's weird because I knew him forever. And now that he's like the boss, we get those little notes like, don't look Corrig in the eye. It's weird. You have to like talk to his assistant now that he's management. |
| 1:46.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:47.6 | Everything goes through Kareg's assistance. |
| 1:50.8 | Are you sure it's not an AI bot, though? |
| 1:52.8 | I'm not sure. |
| 1:56.2 | All right. |
| 1:56.9 | Let's dig into some Reds. |
| 1:58.1 | Please help us understand Andrew Abbott. |
| 2:00.8 | And the main confusing part is that he continues to beat ERA indicators, right? |
| 2:07.9 | So if you look at the time that Andrew Abbott has been in the big leagues, he debuted in 20203, |
| 2:12.8 | if you look at pitchers with 200 or more innings during that span, he's like middle of the pack in war, 67th out of 121. |
| 2:20.2 | Close to middle of the pack in K-minus BB, but he's tied for 40th in ERA with Zach Gallen, |
| 2:26.1 | which blows my mind because when I'm thinking about pitchers and ranking them, |
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