Making Sense of Atlanta's Step Back at the Plate, Career-Shaping Opportunities & One-Hit Wonders
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR, and Trevor analyze the surprising step back for the Atlanta lineup through the first two months of 2024, and discuss players at pivotal points in their careers with a limited window to secure their future role. Plus, they'll take live questions from viewers throughout the show!
Rundown
1:33 More Changes From the Mets; Christian Scott & Brett Baty Optioned to Triple-A
12:55 What's Happening in Atlanta's Lineup?
20:27 Teams Are Pitching the Braves Differently
25:17 Can Hitters Adjust Quickly to a Change Like This?
28:25 A Closer Look at Matt Olson
34:15 Practice Swings Revealing A Hitter's Plan?
37:40 Confidence Levels in Albies, Riley, Harris, Kelenic Getting to Power Again?
42:49 When Careers Reach Pivot Points
57:20 Who Is Your Favorite MLB One-Hit Wonder?
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:27.6 | season season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, May 31st, Derek Van Riper, Bino-res, Trevor May, all here with you. Thanks for joining us if you're watching us live on YouTube. Shout out to the Live Hive. Get some questions in there. We'll have a lot of time for questions at the end of the show today. Be sure to smash the like button on this video, whether you're watching us live or not. A lot of ground to cover today. We're going to spend some time digging into what's going on with the Atlanta lineup. |
| 0:55.6 | They lost Ronald O Cunia Jr. over the long weekend. They've been in that position before. We talked about that earlier in the week, but this hasn't been the same Braves lineup top to bottom that we saw in 23 when they had kind of an all-time great season, a 125 WRC plus, a 20.6% K-R-R-R-S. |
| 1:13.5 | We'll try to. bottom that we saw in 2023 when they had kind of an all-time great season, a 125 WRC plus, a 20.6% |
| 1:30.9 | K-R-R-A, so we'll try to dig into Y and come up with some answers as to what's been different |
| 1:34.9 | with a lot of those key bats in the Atlanta lineup. |
| 1:38.4 | We're also going to talk about the narrow opportunities some players have when they're |
| 1:43.4 | basically fighting for their career, fighting for an |
| 1:45.6 | opportunity to be an everyday player, maybe fighting for a chance to be a starter instead |
| 1:49.3 | of a reliever, dig into some of the guys that are in that situation right now and they added |
| 1:53.4 | stress of that situation, which it's amazing that your whole career can be defined by something |
| 1:58.8 | that happens in four weeks or six weeks because that was the only chance you got depending on a various set of circumstances. |
| 2:06.7 | We're going to begin today, though, with some changes from the Mets. |
| 2:09.9 | They've been in the news a lot this week. |
| 2:12.2 | Christian Scott gets option to AAA along with Brett Beatty. |
| 2:15.6 | I think one of those options is a bit different than the other. |
| 2:19.4 | One, I think, is a schedule-related situation with Christian Scott, where with some off |
| 2:24.2 | days and a trip to London and a guy that they're trying to monitor workload-wise, |
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