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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Making Sense of Disappointing Hitters From 2023

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss several disappointing hitters from the 2023 season with an eye toward their rebound potential and long-term outlook. 


Rundown

4:17 Carlos Correa: Did Injuries Sap Overall Performance?

13:58 Daulton Varsho: Going Too Far with Pull-Heavy, Flyball Approach?

28:02 MJ Melendez: Is More Power on the Way?

32:47 Eloy Jiménez: Will He Hit Enough Without OF-Eligibility in Some Leagues?

39:04 Trevor Story: Optimism in Underlying Numbers Post-Injury?

47:32 Paul Goldschmidt: It's All Relative

54:01 Cedric Mullins: Is 2021 or 2022 Still in Reach?


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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, October 31st. Happy Halloween, if you are observing it.

0:20.2

I did not have time to put my costume on for the show because I think it needs to be washed. So pictures probably on Instagram later. You know, it looks like you also have chosen to show up today as yourself.

0:33.7

Well, baseball dad, I've got to do a throwing session, an arm strength session later today and maybe some bat speed work.

0:41.9

I don't know that I will get dressed up tonight because I got a World Series game to watch.

0:46.4

So I don't know.

0:48.4

I don't know.

0:49.0

I've held down the fort.

0:50.5

We have a pretty good neighborhood.

0:53.2

And so we have like five or six kids coming

0:56.5

over to our house to trick or treat with our kids, in which case we'll have plenty of chaperones,

1:04.1

I think, to go out with the kids. My kids are getting a little bit older at third grade and sixth grade,

1:10.6

where it's really just

1:12.1

about maximizing you know candy input and not really about anything else so uh it's i like i like it

1:22.0

uh i've always uh you know i've had some great outfits over the years. Bob Ross, I was a really good Bob Ross.

1:29.6

I was a really good Kenny G with the long hair.

1:32.9

I've had some good outfits over the years and I've been a willing participant, but I kind of almost like the adult version better, like the, you know, like actual sort of adults with, you know, weird, like

1:46.9

pun, always like a pun costume or something, you know.

1:51.2

So I kind of like, you know, I went to a Fisher Spooner show with, where everyone was dressed

1:56.7

up.

1:57.1

That was real fun.

1:58.0

So the kid stuff early on, it super cute and then at some point it's

2:03.4

just like a rabid candy fest. I think you are right in the sweet spot for that. I'm curious to see

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