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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Rundown
4:44 Owners & Players Head to the Table
13:36 Impact of the Five-Round First-Year Player Draft
26:01 Fantasy Impact of Expanded Rosters
29:54 Looking Back at Great Half-Seasons
46:16 Jeff Zimmerman's Piece on Hard-Hit Angles
54:08 Concerns with Low Exit Velocity at Young Ages
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| 0:42.1 | Welcome to Rates and Burials. |
| 0:43.1 | Episode number 94. |
| 0:44.4 | It is May 12th. |
| 0:47.0 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We're going to talk about the beginning of a new round of negotiations between the owners |
| 0:51.9 | and the players with the hopes of getting a 2020 season in place in the very near future. We'll talk about the changes that have already been made to the 2020 MLB draft, which is just a month away, a little less than a month at this point, but some major, major changes. We'll talk about the impact of that. Jeff Zimmerman, our good friend over at Fangraphs, wrote a great piece about hard hit |
| 1:12.1 | angle. We'll take a look at that. And we'll take a look at some of the things that can happen |
| 1:15.9 | over a shortened season with variance, looking back at some historical leaderboards and |
| 1:20.6 | getting a better sense of what some of these individual half seasons could look like if we're |
| 1:26.4 | able to get something close to an 81 |
| 1:28.7 | game season here in 2020. |
| 1:31.3 | How's it going for you today? |
| 1:32.3 | You know? |
| 1:34.0 | It's going all right. |
| 1:35.2 | It's going. |
| 1:36.6 | Okay. |
| 1:37.4 | I'm just managing to subsist. |
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