Jac Caglianone Debuts & Park Factors v. Park Effects
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.9 • 746 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Jed and DVR discuss the highly-anticipated debut of Jac Caglianone on Tuesday night, and take a quick stroll down memory lane to remember Jed's debut back on April 15, 2008. Plus, they discuss the diminished stuff from Spencer Strider, Corbin Burnes' second opinion, and Eury Pérez's upcoming return to the Marlins' rotation, before looking at the way in which park factors might not be capturing unique park effects.
Rundown
1:23 Jac Caglianone's Debut with the Royals
6:14 Jed's Major League Debut
13:55 Elite Bat Speed Already on Display
20:10 Corbin Burnes Seeks Second Opinion & Expecting Changes From Spencer Strider
29:12 The Giants Shuffle Up a Few Roster Spots
37:37 How Well Do Park Factors Capture Park Effects?
56:24 A Seemingly Unavoidable Collision Leads to an Ejection
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Jed Lowrie
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, the Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, June 4th. Derek Van Riper, Inoceris, and Jed Lowry here with you on this episode. |
| 0:19.1 | We discussed the major league debut of Jack Caglione. |
| 0:22.6 | He arrived with the Royals on Tuesday night. |
| 0:25.3 | We'll dig into some takeaways from game one of what should be a long and productive big league career. |
| 0:30.9 | We've got some baseball news you should know from around the league to get to. |
| 0:34.7 | We're going to dig into park factors a little bit later on in the show. |
| 0:37.7 | Do park factors properly and completely capture park effects? A big question we've been wrestling |
| 0:43.5 | with a long time on this show. We've got a lot of thoughts on that. And time permitting, |
| 0:47.6 | we saw a pretty unusual play in a college game this weekend that we're going to break down. |
| 0:52.8 | So we'll talk about collisions and trying to make some rules that might make things a little |
| 0:57.1 | better. |
| 0:57.6 | So we'll save that for a little bit later on in the show. |
| 1:00.1 | If you're watching us on YouTube, be sure to smash the like button, especially if you |
| 1:03.4 | like the shine on my forehead. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm extra clean after my time off. |
| 1:06.5 | Thanks to Eno, everybody that pitched in extra while I was gone. |
| 1:09.8 | You guys sounded great last week. It helped |
| 1:11.5 | me pass the time as I was packing and unpacking boxes. So I am grateful for all of your help. |
| 1:17.6 | I did get to see a little bit of Jack Caglione last night. And it's an interesting thing to |
| 1:23.1 | look at a debut now compared to the way we looked at debuts even, I don't know, 15, 20 years ago |
| 1:28.5 | because we have a lot more granular information. It was 0 for 5, but with four fire emojis. |
| 1:36.6 | That's pretty good, right? Four fire emojis, four hard hit balls. And I feel like that's a good, |
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