Making Early Adjustments & How to Pitch to Mookie Betts
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Trevor and DVR discuss a few surprising takeaways from the criminal complaint against Shohei Ohtani's former translator Ippei Mizuhara, the difficulty of making early-season adjustments, and Henry Davis' current struggle against elevated fastballs. Plus, they introduce a new segment 'How I Would Pitch to This Guy' where Eno and Trevor share a detailed gameplan for pitching to Mookie Betts, before taking a few live questions.
Rundown
1:28 Surprises From Criminal Complaint Against Ippei Mizuhara
8:07 The Difficulty of Making Early Adjustment & Henry Davis' Struggles w/High Fastballs
20:23 An At-Bat Trevor Will Never Forget
24:38 How I Would Pitch to This Guy: Mookie Betts
36:59 Looking Beyond Swinging Strikes
40:45 Guessing v. Anticipating
49:51 Are Certain Hitters More Prone to Pop-Ups?
56:24 Making Sense of Hunter Brown's Rough Day Against the Royals
1:02:35 Most Underrated Second Baseman?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Friday, April 12th. |
| 0:20.1 | Derek and Ryperino, Sarah, Trevor May, all here with you. |
| 0:22.8 | It's been a fun week in baseball. |
| 0:25.3 | Tons of things happening, including more details. |
| 0:29.6 | More fun details. |
| 0:32.9 | Including a criminal complaint against Ipe Mizuhara, former translator for Shohei Otani. |
| 0:38.7 | We're going to talk about some early adjustments that players have to make during the season. |
| 0:42.8 | And we're going to dig into a ridiculous home run that Trevor gave up that actually connects to a few other ideas we had when putting the show together. |
| 0:51.2 | Talk about some early adjustments, when to worry, when to believe. |
| 0:54.2 | And then we're going to dig into a new segment, how to pitch to this guy. We're going to focus on mooky bets. It should be easy, right? Finding a game plan that works against mooky bets, I mean, no one's really ever done it successfully before. So why can't we figure it out? Trevor has. I have figured it out. I was going to hold on to that until I later in the show. But technically, not a huge sample size, but... |
| 0:56.2 | Egg. Trevor has. I have figured that I was going to hold on to that until I lay in the show, but technically, not a huge sample size, but... Hey, winning the battle counts, right? Yeah, yeah. You've got to keep score somehow. If you're not in the Discord, you can join that. I've got a link in the show description. Be sure to jump on in there. I wanted to ask you guys, and now that there's more information, a lot more information about the story than we had, |
| 1:27.9 | even on the Thursday episode, were there any things that just jumped off the page looking at that |
| 1:33.0 | 37-page criminal complaint against Ipe Muzahara, things that just sort of blew your mind and |
| 1:38.1 | either simplicity of how he did what he did or any other details that were just like, wait, that's how that went down? |
| 1:46.6 | I feel like people failed him. |
| 1:49.1 | You know, people in Otani's inner circle failed him. |
| 1:51.4 | And, you know, Craig Calcutero said that, you know, obliviousness is not a crime. |
| 1:55.2 | So, you know, maybe just Otani was oblivious to this. |
| 1:59.7 | But, you know, he trusted people in his inner circle. |
| 2:01.8 | He trusted the angels. And the angels said, oh, Ipe called you and said he was the interpreter for |
| 2:08.9 | Okajima and he wants to be your interpreter. Sure. You know, they didn't do a background check. |
| 2:14.1 | They didn't even call the Red Sox and be like, hey, was this guy actually, because the Red Sox recently came out and were like, nope, it was never, never worked |
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