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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Lars Nootbaar Interview

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7 • 874 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Eno interviews Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar, and they talk about the work that Nootbaar has done at Driveline and how it helped him at the plate. Eno and Al also look at other hitters who share Nootbaar’s proclivity for pulling flyballs and discuss the degree to which they weigh news of changes in players’ offseason training regimens.


Rundown

1:17 - Eno talks about Lars Nootbaar’s 2022 breakout

5:00 - Eno takes a lesson in how to identify sleepers from Nootbaar’s progression

7:31 - Eno provides a primer on some training techniques 

13:22 - Eno’s interview with Lars Nootbaar

34:12 - Eno and Al discuss the 2023 outlook for some hitters who frequently pull flyballs (Nootbaar, Nolan Arenado, Juan Yepez, Jonah Heim, José Ramírez, Isaac Paredes, Wilmer Flores) 

52:44 How skeptical should we be of offseason reports of players adopting new techniques?


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody.

0:16.0

Happy Friday to you.

0:17.0

I'm Al Melpior and I'm here with Enos Seris for another edition here of Rates

0:22.0

and Barrels. Thank you so much for tuning in and this is a fun one, Enno. I know you're excited.

0:27.6

I've been excited about this. Eno, talk to Cardinals Outfielder Lars Neupar. Really, really cool,

0:33.0

interesting interview that we will get to a little bit later on in the program. We'll talk a little bit

0:39.1

about, well, some of his training that he's been doing and kind of generalized from some of

0:45.3

new bars trends to maybe some other players. So a lot of good stuff to get to here. Just want to

0:50.7

remind everybody that the 2023 fantasy baseball draft kit is out on The Athletic.

0:56.7

Go to Theathletic.com slash rates in barrels to access that and everything on the site for just $2 a month for the first year.

1:05.1

So a great deal.

1:06.2

Make sure you take advantage of that.

1:09.6

So, you know, I know you've been jumping on the bit to talk about this interview here.

1:16.4

So let's start off just by just kind of refreshing our memory and everybody's memory on

1:22.4

exactly what the journey has been for Lars Neupar.

1:25.9

So a big breakout last year,

1:27.9

but something that I think has been, you know,

1:30.3

in the making for a little while.

1:31.4

And again,

1:31.7

he talks about this in his interview with you.

1:34.2

But what are the key things as we look ahead to 2023

1:37.3

that we should,

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