Ideal Hitter Profiles & Using Statcast to Find Undervalued Players
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss what they're looking for in hitter profiles, Statcast-driven Buy Low targets, differences in changeups, and more!
Rundown
6:13 What Are We Looking For in Hitter Profiles?
10:55 Examining Z-Contact% Leaders
17:50 Z-Contact% Laggards
23:50 Why O-Swing% is More Useful than O-Contact%
31:37 Hitters Who Avoid Chasing (Low O-Swing%)
34:50 Brendan Rodgers as a Buy Low Candidate
43:51 Using Max Exit Velo to Find Undervalued Players
56:30 Why Didn't Teams Move Top Prospects at the Deadline?
66:02 Differences in Changeups
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| 0:23.9 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode number 133. |
| 0:43.7 | It is Thursday, September 3rd. |
| 0:46.0 | We are in the final month of the 2020 regular season. |
| 0:50.1 | On this episode, we are going to answer a lot of great mailbag questions or discuss some topics |
| 0:54.8 | that were at least inspired by great mailbag questions. What are we looking for in hitters, |
| 1:00.1 | especially in this shortened season? We'll go in detail on that. We'll try to use statcast for some |
| 1:05.1 | by lows. I had a great question to come in about changeups and different types of changeups and what |
| 1:09.7 | makes them effective. So we'll dig into that. And a follow-up question following the trade deadline about |
| 1:14.5 | the prospects that were not traded by major league teams and questions about why that might |
| 1:19.6 | have been the case. You know, how's it going for you on this Thursday? It's weird. It's really |
| 1:26.1 | weird. We have these puppies and a puppy ate some chocolate last night. |
| 1:33.4 | And so we were on high alert. And then the fires here have gotten to the point where I woke up with a nasty headache because we'd left the windows open because it wasn't that bad and then over |
| 1:44.9 | the night it got worse and had to close all the windows in the middle of the night last night |
| 1:50.6 | because of the chocolate i had to the puppies would be better sleeping through the night but like |
| 1:54.5 | last night because of the chocolate i think they had to take a little you know midnight poo and |
| 2:00.5 | um it was so funny. |
| 2:03.6 | So I take them out and it's 1.30 in the morning. |
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