Live From First Pitch Arizona 2024!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR are live at First Pitch Arizona. Max Bay, parent of Stuff+ joins the show to discuss a few changes with the latest update to the model. Danny Kirwin and Cooper Adams from the Red Sox organization stop by to discuss their path as undrafted college players into Boston's system and into the Arizona Fall League.
Plus, Eno and DVR discuss a few of the biggest surprises relative to the Stuff+ model in 2024, and their preferred roster construction strategies as the 2025 fantasy baseball draft season gets underway.
Rundown
1:02 Is DIPS Theory Dead?
9:46 Looking Beyond the Projections & Models for an Edge
11:56 Predicting the Next Iteration of Changes to Stuff+
18:59 Danny Kirwin & Cooper Adams Join the Show
23:31 How Did Tread Help Danny & Cooper Make the Leap From College to Signing with Boston?
29:26 Unique Challenges in the Arizona Fall League
34:06 The Biggest Movers in the Updated Stuff+ Model
43:03 What Is Your Ideal Roster Construction Approach as Draft Season Begins?
60:29 Considerations for Players Returning From Second Tommy John Surgery
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:24.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and bet-builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boosts, |
| 0:27.6 | season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and barrels live from first pitch Arizona. |
| 0:50.3 | Woohoo! |
| 0:52.3 | Derek Van Riper, Eno Serris, and Amanda. Arizona. Woo-hoo. |
| 0:57.8 | Derek Van Riper, Eno Seris, |
| 0:59.2 | and a man who was introduced as the smartest person in the room |
| 1:01.6 | before he walked in. |
| 1:03.1 | This is Max Bay down here to our left. |
| 1:06.5 | Parent of Stuff Plus. |
| 1:08.7 | I didn't think Max was a real person |
| 1:10.7 | until yesterday. At least I wasn't convinced until I actually met him. I thought he was a person Eno made up. So I'm relieved that Max is actually a real person and not an imaginary friend. Max, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. I am AI generated. You have more normal hands than every AI image I've ever seen of a person. |
| 1:27.7 | I'm hiding this unnormal hand over here. |
| 1:29.8 | The claw. |
| 1:31.4 | A lot of ground to cover today. |
| 1:32.8 | We're going to have some players joining us in just a little while. |
| 1:35.2 | But one of the topics we wanted to get to today is the death of dips theory. |
| 1:40.8 | Eno, is dips theory dead? |
| 1:43.4 | Well, one of the fascinating things from our model change, the stuff revamp that we were |
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