Is It Time to Lower Expectations for Underperforming Hitters?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a soon-to-debut prospect pitching at his *fourth* level of 2024 with the arrival of Zebby Matthews on Tuesday, the demotion of Camilo Doval to Triple-A, and a potential suspension for Jarren Duran after he directed a homophobic slur toward a fan over the weekend. Plus, they take a look at the biggest underperformers among hitters relative to their initial 2024 projections. Is it finally time to lower expectations for the likes of Corbin Carroll, Matt Olson, and Gleyber Torres? Finally, they look at where the money went in weekly waiver-wire leagues and discuss a few of their own roster decisions coming out of the weekend.
Rundown
5:53 Who is Zebby Matthews?
11:54 Camilo Doval Optioned to Triple-A
20:08 Jarren Duran Facing Discipline for Homophobic Slur
23:36 Biggest Underperforming Hitters of 2024 (So Far)
33:15 Finally Tempering Enthusiasm Around Gleyber Torres?
38:44 Where the Money Went: Joe Musgrove Nearing Return from IL
53:26 What Moves Did We Make This Weekend?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, August 12th. Derek Van Riper, |
| 0:18.8 | Eno Seris here with you on this episode. We have another pitching prospect on his way to the big leagues. We'll take a look at Zebby Matthews. We'll introduce you to the latest call-up that we'll be chasing onto rosters probably next weekend, because many people could not add Zebby Matthews to their roster this weekend. We have a closer demotion in San Francisco that took place as the weekend was getting underway. |
| 0:41.3 | Camilo Doval at AAA right now. |
| 0:43.1 | We'll dig into why. |
| 0:44.1 | Take a look at his long-term outlook. |
| 0:46.6 | Eno pulled up a report of some underperformers, hitters who have underperformed projections this year. |
| 0:52.5 | We'll look at why things are going wrong for those players. |
| 0:55.0 | Now that we're in nearly the midpoint of August, |
| 0:57.7 | it's going to happen just in a couple days, |
| 0:59.0 | I think we can maybe start to adjust our expectations for those players a little bit. |
| 1:03.6 | We've probably seen enough to lower expectations in that group. |
| 1:08.6 | We've also got where the money went and some adjustments we made to our own rosters this weekend. |
| 1:14.0 | If you're not already a member of our Discord, join the link in the show description. |
| 1:18.9 | Edo, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 1:22.3 | It's good. |
| 1:23.2 | I'm taking my son to Snell versus Sale, |
| 1:30.5 | and we're sitting behind home plate and the tickets weren't that expensive. |
| 1:32.1 | Hey, it's the best thing about going to the yard on a Monday, I think, right? |
| 1:35.9 | Is you get a little bit of a discount. |
| 1:37.1 | That must be what that is. |
| 1:38.1 | And also, for my son, it is T-minus two days until school starts. |
| 1:44.9 | That's right. |
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