Late starting pitchers to target and actual starting pitcher sleepers!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR move on to Part 3 of their Starting Pitcher Preview and focus on their favorite late-round pitching sleepers, before discussing several of your late-round targets and pitchers of interest.
Rundown
2:59 What’s Next for Tarik Skubal?
11:26 Banking on a Rebound From Josh Lindblom
15:44 Which Luke Weaver Will Show Up in 2021?
18:49 Should We Have Interest In J.T. Brubaker?
24:26 Current Interest in Cal Quantrill
30:10 Late Late Options
36:59 Tejay Antone's Improvement in the Cincinnati System
39:56 Is There Another Level For Justus Sheffield?
43:52 Looking for the Next Kevin Gausman in San Francisco
52:02 Any Interest Elieser Hernández?
56:25 Pocket Aces — Yay or Nay?
64:12 Quality of Stuff vs. Command Late
69:36 Brailyn Marquez's Path to the Cubs' Rotation
71:16 Best-Case Scenario for Severino, Syndergaard & Sale
83:30 Spring News Updates
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, February 17th. Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:19.9 | Enosaris on this episode. It's part three of 17th. Derek Benriper here with Inoseres on this episode. |
| 0:21.9 | It's part three of our starting pitcher preview. |
| 0:24.9 | So this is the late pitchers we like episode with a lot of great questions that came in on Twitter. |
| 0:31.4 | So we're going to get through as many of those questions, |
| 0:34.1 | talk about as many pictures that you want to hear about as we possibly can. |
| 0:38.0 | If you are watching this show on YouTube, hello, a little visual confirmation for you there, |
| 0:43.7 | hit the like button on this video, be sure to subscribe and, of course, tell a friend if you think |
| 0:47.8 | they would like this show as well. |
| 0:50.2 | You know, how's it going for you on this Wednesday? |
| 0:52.3 | It's good. |
| 0:53.2 | It's good. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm excited for warmer weather sometime in the future. |
| 0:59.9 | And I have it so easy, dude. |
| 1:02.5 | It's so easy. |
| 1:04.1 | Like, my wife and our, like, shivering. |
| 1:06.3 | We had an anniversary dinner, and we ate outside at a restaurant. |
| 1:10.6 | And it was for palo alto |
| 1:13.7 | was pretty cold it was like you know like 48 or something and we just huddled over over a little |
| 1:20.0 | fake fire and and had some Cuban food it was it was it was good it was good to get out of the house |
| 1:25.2 | it was good to pretend like things were normal even though once once we got out there, we're like, this is really not normal. Well, I'm glad you had a meal outside. Yeah, right. I'm sorry. I'm really, really happy for you. And I'm glad you had a nice meal for your anniversary. But that's about where it ends for it. I'm sorry, dude. |
| 1:45.0 | No sympathy. |
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