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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Is Hitting Catching Up to Pitching?

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Eno, Trevor, and DVR discuss the return of Spencer Strider before digging into Eno's recent story with Britt Ghiroli and Jen McCaffrey examining the progress of hitting tech and development and the efforts to close the gap on pitching. Plus, they discuss the challenge of game-planning for Jacob Wilson, and the early struggles of Gavin Williams.


Eno's story with Britt & Jen ($): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6270614


Rundown

1:00 Spencer Strider's Return From Internal Brace Surgery

8:56 Fatigue Likely a Factor on Wednesday

15:35 Is Hitting Development Catching Up to Pitching?

29:25 How I'd Pitch This Guy: Jacob Wilson

43:54 What's Behind Gavin Williams' Early Struggles?

51:38 Ambushed! Eno-Proof Trivia?!


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Follow Trevor on Bluesky: @iamtrevormay.bsky.social

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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris


With: Trevor May


Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper


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Transcript

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0:00.0

He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then...

0:09.0

His game might be over, but yours isn't.

0:14.0

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0:18.0

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0:24.6

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0:27.6

tease and exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates at Beryl's Thursday, April 17th, Derek Van Riper, Enosarous, Trevor May here with you on this episode.

0:53.5

We have the return of Spencer

0:55.4

Strider. We'll dig into what looked different for him the first time back out on the big

1:00.3

league mound on Wednesday against the Blue Jays. Eno is part of a co-written piece at the athletic

1:05.6

looking at the gap between hitting development and pitching development, possibly closing,

1:12.6

thanks to some new tools and different things.

1:13.9

We'll dig into that story.

1:22.7

We're going to talk about Jacob Wilson and have our how I'd pitch this guy segment focusing on trying to get out one of the guys that strikes out less than anybody in the league.

1:25.2

It's a bit of a unique challenge, so we'll dig into that.

1:29.6

And time, permit him, got a mailbag question about Gavin Williams, who had a rough outing against the Orioles on Wednesday.

1:32.0

So we begin with the return of Spencer Strider.

1:37.0

He's back from internal brace surgery, and, you know, the velo is down a little bit, which

1:42.7

I think comes with the typical caveat.

1:44.4

Well, it's the first start back off of an injury, so maybe we're not going to get all the way there right away.

1:50.7

But what else looked different to you guys?

1:53.1

As you watched Strider yesterday, Trevor, was there anything that caught your eye, something that he had changed considerably since we last saw him in a competitive situation.

2:02.3

Other than just like maybe the stuff lagging a little bit, because the big caveat,

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