Midseason Problems, Young Pitchers to Target & Trying Making Sense of Byron Buxton
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few different midseason problems and try to determine which is the easiest to solve in the second half, plus they examine several young pitchers that might be worth acquiring via trade or pickup for the long-term future before attempting to make sense of Byron Buxton's unusual 2022 season (so far).
Rundown
-- Midseason Roster Flaws
-- Where Have Steals Come From This Season?
-- Pricey Closer Panning Out (So Far)
-- Fighting Tanked Ratios with Trades, Young Pitchers
-- MacKenzie Gore's First Half
-- Other Pitchers to Target
-- Paying Up for George Kirby in Long-Term Leagues?
-- Has Reid Detmers Changed with the Return of His Slider?
-- Who Is Byron Buxton?
-- Did Brendan Rodgers Figure It Out?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, July 11th. Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:19.8 | Enosaris. I want a slurpy. I guess it's probably because of the date. I'm just looking at the 7-11 written out and got to stop and get a slurpee today after I get the oil changed. So that's on my to do list. But on this episode, we have a mid-season check-in. We'll talk about various problems that you may or may not have right now. What's the best problem to have if you're looking at the second half of the season? |
| 0:40.6 | Because most likely everything's not going perfectly. |
| 0:44.6 | Everything might be going pretty well, but you may have some ongoing flaw you're trying to fix. |
| 0:48.9 | We'll talk about which flaw is the easiest to deal with, which one might be the most difficult |
| 0:52.5 | to deal with as you try and navigate the second half of the season. |
| 0:56.5 | We've got some long-term pitching targets. |
| 0:58.7 | We're going to take a bit of a deep dive on Byron Buxton, who's having a great season, but |
| 1:02.1 | still a confusing one as we try to figure out what his long-term value really is. |
| 1:07.3 | And we've probably got a Brendan Rogers question later on the show as well. |
| 1:11.6 | But we begin with the mid-season check-in. |
| 1:14.8 | And simple question for you, Eno, of the teams you have, which one has the greatest flaw |
| 1:22.2 | that is giving you fits as we move into the middle part of July? |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, you know, I'm chasing, you know, |
| 1:29.7 | strikeouts everywhere, and I think I would do that no matter what the state of my team was. I'm |
| 1:35.3 | always looking at the two, this two, uh, two start weeks and, um, you know, trying to catch |
| 1:41.3 | pitchers in the, in the right part of their season when it comes to |
| 1:45.4 | their opponents. And so that, that, I think, is always going to be there. So I can't point to |
| 1:51.1 | that. That's like my number one thing that I do on, on the weekend. It's just sort of sort |
| 1:57.0 | through pitching schedules and decide how I'm going to attack that part of the pool. |
| 2:03.1 | So I think no matter what most of my teams are in good spots, I think no matter what I'd be doing that. |
| 2:08.1 | But I think the reliever thing is the toughest for me because I am generally doing well in saves. |
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