In-Season Player Valuations, the Trade Itch, Tommy Edman's Surprising Season & A Summer Homer Surge?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the ongoing challenge of finding common ground with in-season player valuations, the arrival of the annual 'Trade Itch', Tommy Edman's surprising start to 2022, the possibility of a summer home-run surge, and more.
Rundown
-- Finding Common Ground with In-Season Player Values
-- Managing Ratios When Doing Well
-- Dealing with Roster Surplus
-- Tommy Edman's Great Start; Similarities to Ozzie Albies
-- Joey Votto: Bat Change + Return to Health = Summer Turnaround?
-- Gary Sánchez: Any New Adjustments?
-- Expecting A Summer Home-Run Surge
-- Ballpark Shadows; Advantages for Pitchers?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:17.4 | It is Monday, May 23rd. |
| 0:19.9 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. We'll talk about in-season management, specifically valuing players if you're trying to make trades or trying to make some decisions about ads and drops even. I think the same principles would hold up here, but it's trade season. Everyone has the itch. I've been a few leagues where a handful of trades happened in 48 hours over the weekend |
| 0:41.4 | because the teams going for it and Keeper leagues especially are trying to get as much value |
| 0:46.1 | as they can as soon as they possibly can. |
| 0:48.3 | The teams that have been in the bottom of the standings have accepted their fate for this |
| 0:52.4 | season, but we're seeing it in redraft leagues too, where people are pulling back, looking at the strengths and flaws of their |
| 0:57.6 | roster and trying to achieve a little more balance because we've played about 40 games now, |
| 1:02.3 | I think, for every single team. So about a quarter of the season is in the books. Therefore, |
| 1:06.5 | people feel more confident in their current trajectory. |
| 1:11.7 | So we'll talk about that. |
| 1:17.2 | We're going to talk about Tommy Edmund, maybe being a little more like Ozzy Albies than we once thought. |
| 1:18.6 | Interesting email that came in. |
| 1:24.1 | A follow-up email about Joey Votto that brought something to the light that I had not even realized before. |
| 1:26.5 | So I'm looking forward to talking about that in a little while. |
| 1:32.2 | We had a question about summer home run rates, too, which I think is right in your wheelhouse as our resident ball expert. So looking forward to digging into that, among other things. How was your weekend, |
| 1:38.2 | you know? We had a nice, close COVID exposure in the house so we were actually at a pool party |
| 1:49.5 | when we found out that um somebody who'd been in our house the night before it just has positive |
| 1:55.1 | so we were like hey bye bye bye everybody by everybody like grabbing all your stuff as quickly as possible uh sorry hope we didn't |
| 2:03.2 | get too close to you don't hate us uh so far we've been testing negative but also that person |
| 2:11.3 | dropped off uh a dog that i think needs a CPAP machine uh i don't think I've heard a dog make noises like this at night. |
| 2:19.8 | So I'm just, I'm exhausted. |
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