Live from First Pitch Arizona & Catching Up with Kyle Manzardo
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR & The Welsh are LIVE from First Pitch Arizona discussing a few interesting ideas that bubbled up during the conference, how they are trying to build roster foundations in 2024, and potentially undervalued pitchers for the first leg of draft season.
Plus, Kyle Manzardo of the Cleveland Guardians joins the show to discuss his approach, changes following his midseason trade to Cleveland, and his combination of contact and power as he's moved through the minors.
Finally, Eno, DVR & Welsh discuss the AFL Stuff+ Report and prospects that have stood out to Welsh in live looks this spring.
Rundown
5:28 Who Is the Best Pitcher in the World, Right Now?
9:32 Changes to Prioritizing Aces in 2024?
13:52 Looking at Total Pitches v. Innings Pitched
18:35 An Eno Board: Above Average Stuff, Below Average ERA in 2023
31:57 Kyle Manzardo Joins the Show!
56:37 Changing a Teams' Plans During the Spring
60:15 Arizona Fall League Stuff+ Report
66:57 Other Standout Prospects This Fall
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Saturday, November 4th. We are live at First Pitch, Arizona. |
| 0:23.7 | Derek Van Riper, Enosaris, Chris Welsh, here with you. |
| 0:26.3 | Thank all of you who are live in the room for being here. |
| 0:27.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.0 | This is my favorite trip of the year. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm a very lucky person. |
| 0:36.9 | We all get to really travel for drafts and things we enjoy, |
| 0:54.2 | but this is the best for a few reasons. So I love presentations. I love panels. I love sitting on other people's podcast because it's really the best chance I have to listen to a ton of people that I don't get to hear as much during the season because we're all so busy. Some highlights though so far, right? I was thinking about some of the things I've liked the most because these are things that we'll probably dig more into on the pod over the course of the winter |
| 0:59.0 | or things we'll even discuss a little bit today just because they're so fascinating you know |
| 1:04.0 | derrick cardi talking about shaded shifts and the way teams had to adjust the new rules that was |
| 1:08.7 | really interesting jason collette who's here predicting the magnitude of the stolen base rate increase |
| 1:14.0 | based on spring training stolen base rates with precision. |
| 1:17.6 | That was impressive. |
| 1:18.5 | That was awesome. |
| 1:19.1 | I thought that was great. |
| 1:20.4 | Andy Andre is also here studying the pitch clock impact on hitters, |
| 1:24.2 | which I didn't spend any time thinking about. |
| 1:26.8 | I thought only about pitchers with |
| 1:28.4 | that. So I thought that was fascinating. And then something that came up today on a panel that |
| 1:32.7 | Eno was a part of was deception fading over time. It's a very, very small part of a pitching panel. |
| 1:38.7 | But to me, like this is something that applies to relievers in a playoff series like Paul Seawall, even a guy |
| 1:45.1 | like Joe Ryan over full seasons, stuff holding up third time through the order because of familiarity |
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