Is Baseball Fooling Us Again This April?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt, and DVR break down a wild night in MLB — 37 home runs across the league. They dig into what's driving the power surge, including how much the weather is playing a role. Then it's Mason Miller's dominance, the Nats' revamped offense, and why Marlins pitchers are missing more bats than they did a year ago.
Rundown:
0:27 A Big Day For Homers!
4:27 Are Hitters Catching Up to Pitchers?
9:03 A Tough Night for Garrett Crochet
16:45 Mason Miller’s Absurd K%
25:35 Eric Gagne’s 2003
30:53 Boston’s Early Power Outage
35:53 The Nats’ New Offense
43:49 More Power in KC
48:34 Are We Buying the Marlins’ Ascent in Whiffs?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Barrels, we discuss a big night of homers with warmer spring weather, |
| 0:05.0 | a rough outing for Garrett Crochet, and some early season numbers that have our attention. |
| 0:09.9 | Let's go. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels. |
| 0:21.5 | It's Tuesday, April 14th. |
| 0:23.3 | Derek Van Riperino-Seres, Bridgeroli, here with you. |
| 0:27.2 | If it seemed like there were a lot of home runs being hit on Monday, |
| 0:31.6 | it's because there were, you guys. |
| 0:34.4 | From Joe Sheen's newsletter this morning, |
| 0:36.3 | 144 runs scored across 10 games. |
| 0:39.9 | None of those games went to extra innings. |
| 0:42.5 | 37 home runs were hit across the league, which is a ton for a 10 game slate. |
| 0:49.4 | I saw a post over on the baseball subreddit from intersecting lines. Yesterday's home run rate was historic. |
| 0:58.1 | 3.7 homers per game has literally never happened before May in the last decade. And if you |
| 1:04.5 | throw out 2019, there have only been three times it's even reached that level before July 1st. So, Britt, the question |
| 1:13.4 | I have for you is do we have to reassign Eno to the ball beat? We might or put Eno on the global |
| 1:20.9 | warming beat because as you guys know, pre-show, I talk about I'm going to Orioles, Diamondbacks |
| 1:26.4 | before this. It's going to be 85 degrees |
| 1:29.4 | it's mid- april so i think the warmer than average temps could play a little bit of a factor here you know |
| 1:37.7 | um it was in the 70s here yesterday um it's still warmer than average um You're looking at mostly April baseball for a good |
| 1:46.2 | chunk of baseball cities. We're talking about 50 degree weather, right? Maybe early 60s by the end of |
| 1:52.0 | the month. So I wonder how much that factors it. The humidity is starting to kick in here. And we know |
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