May Pitching Risers & Fallers, and Pitchers Waiting in the Wings
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss some of the biggest risers and fallers among starting pitchers from April to May, over and underperformers compared to initial 2024 projections, pitching prospects closing in on opportunities to help their big-league clubs, and a few weekend waiver-wire targets to consider.
Rundown
1:25 Stuff+ Risers From April to May
6:34 From Below Average to OK, From OK to Good, and From Good to Great
11:42 Cooper Criswell Remains Interesting, Brandon Pfaadt Changes The Mix
15:16 Gavin Stone's Quietly Strong Season for the Dodgers
17:54 Stuff+ Fallers From April to May
22:44 A Willingness to Trade Shōta Imanaga?
26:05 YTD Performance vs. Initial Projections (from The BAT)
34:44 Project Prospect: A.J. Blubaugh's Future Path to the Astros' Rotation
39:18 Cade Povich's Similarities to Robert Gasser
44:25 Will Joey Cantillo Earn a Second-Half Rotation Spot in Cleveland
47:23 The Early Days of Justyn-Henry Malloy & Connor Norby in the Big Leagues
52:37 José Miranda, Blaze Alexander & Enmanuel Valdez
1:00:47 Tylor Megill Underrostered in Shallow Leagues
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Murphy's Law edition of Rates and Barrels. |
| 0:19.0 | It is Thursday, June 6th. |
| 0:20.6 | Derek Van Riper, Eno Saris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:24.4 | We dig into some pitcher performances that have shifted from the first month of the season to the second month of the season. |
| 0:31.9 | Sort of the companion episode to what we did on Tuesday. |
| 0:34.7 | We did the same exercise for hitters. |
| 0:36.8 | We'll talk about some |
| 0:37.6 | stuff risers, stuff fallers, like overall performance, and compare some of the original |
| 0:43.4 | projections for this season to result so far, try to figure out why some players are so far |
| 0:48.2 | above or below expectations. We're also going to have a round of project prospect later on in the show and our |
| 0:55.1 | weekend waiver preview. So we're going right into the content because frankly, the details |
| 1:02.0 | of my life are not worth recounting on the podcast this morning. I don't want to live it twice. |
| 1:07.0 | Not amazing right now. He had a little heat stroke yesterday. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, just bad lead |
| 1:13.4 | up to the show as far as life things. Everything's good. That's all I'll say about it, but it was a |
| 1:18.4 | rough morning. Let's begin with the pitcher performances. And we're looking specifically at |
| 1:23.7 | Stuff Rizers as we begin. And this connects to this loose idea that I floated on the show this week, you know, |
| 1:30.8 | where I feel like to trade for pitching, you almost have to anticipate who the stuff |
| 1:36.3 | risers are going to be. |
| 1:37.6 | And you have to know what can a pitcher do to get better in the model. |
| 1:42.6 | What can they do to make their stuff more effective? |
| 1:45.8 | Lower S stuff, right? |
| 1:47.3 | Just how can they get better? |
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