Liam Hendriks to the White Sox, a filthy closer pool, making sense of select 2020 pitching surprises, and six-man rotations
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Liam Hendriks' move to the White Sox, their current top-five closers in a filthy 2021 closer pool, what to expect from a few of 2020's surprising pitchers, the viability of six-man rotations as teams look to limit workloads, and more.
Rundown
6:00 Liam Hendriks Joins the White Sox
14:50 Current Top-Five Closers
18:00 The Closer Mess
25:27 Blake Treinen Returns to the Dodgers; Kenley Jansen Trust Level?
31:29 2020 Breakouts: Setting Expectations for Spencer Turnbull, Elieser Hernández, Justus Sheffield
45:02 Brad Keller & Seam-Shifted Wake
48:35 Six-Man Rotations & Workload Management
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, January 13, 2021.. Derek Van Riper, Enoseres here with you. |
| 0:21.6 | on this episode, we talk about Liam Hendricks making a move to the White Sox bullpen. |
| 0:27.1 | We'll talk about some 2020 late round breakouts that, of course, coming out of a shortened season are even more difficult to sort out as we look ahead to this 2021 fantasy season. |
| 0:37.9 | We're also going to discuss the possibility of more teams employing six-man |
| 0:42.0 | rotations in 2021. |
| 0:44.6 | We'll also talk about strategy differences between different league sizes and hopefully |
| 0:48.8 | we'll have time to get to some help for those who are new to the Dynasty League formats as well. |
| 0:55.8 | Edo, |
| 0:56.0 | how's it going for you on this Wednesday? |
| 0:58.0 | Going pretty well. |
| 0:59.5 | I have two crazy-ass dogs that just like today on the walk, |
| 1:04.9 | they like just mauled another dog. |
| 1:07.4 | Like, I mean, they're tiny. |
| 1:08.8 | So it's mauled as a relative term. |
| 1:10.7 | This isn't like some pit bull stuff |
| 1:12.4 | but like they just they were like running around circles around this other little dog and the other |
| 1:17.1 | owner was upset and i i had these treats my idea is to like you know pay attention to me instead of the |
| 1:22.4 | other dog i've got treats and so i'm i'm like trying to chase them around going i got treats i got treats |
| 1:26.9 | and they're like they're like small yeah, y'am, yep, yep, yep. |
| 1:29.0 | They're like, well, also, like, if I yank them on the thing a little bit, sometimes they'll be, like, fly through the air. |
| 1:36.5 | So it was just a melee of dog and my children were, like, trying to help, but also just not being very helpful because they're kids. |
| 1:47.1 | It was disaster. |
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