It's not fun to be a hitter right now, a no-hitter draft, and accounting for the unquantifiable

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Eno, Britt & DVR discuss the current league-wide edge to pitching and the likely related six(!) no-hitters that we've seen in the first two months of 2021 before drafting pitchers in an effort to predict who will throw the seventh no-hitter of the year. Plus, the return of Stephen Strasburg, another unwritten rules violation, projections and different run environments, and an inquiry about the unquantifiable. Rundown 1:14 Hitters Are Not Having Much Fun 11:50 The Sixth No-Hitter of 2021(!) 17:51 The Bottom End Offenses 23:01 The No-Hitter Draft! 34:25 Expectations for Stephen Strasburg 43:23 That Rule is Written Somewhere 53:14 The Weight of the Unquantifiable Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow Britt on Twitter: @Britt_Ghiroli Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.5	Derek Van Riper, Britt Roli, Enosaris here with you on this Friday. It turns out hitters are no longer having fun, so we will explore why that is the case.
0:51.9	Britt had a great piece with Ken Rosenthal breaking down some of the problems
0:55.9	with the current landscape
0:58.2	of baseball.
0:59.8	That includes another no-hitter.
1:01.6	Yes, Corey Klobber threw one this week.
1:03.7	So we're up to six for the season,
1:05.7	and that it would be seven if we counted Madison
1:07.9	Bumgarner seven-eating one against Atlanta.
1:10.2	But apparently that doesn't count.
1:11.6	So let's say we're at 6.78 no hitters for the season, to be more precise.
1:17.3	We will try and predict who throws the next no hitter in Major League Baseball.
1:21.3	And as we started to hone in on it on Wednesday, we've got a few suspects that we're going to pick on.
1:25.8	Plus, Stephen Strasberg comes back.
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