Miranda Optioned, Another Round of Pitching Injuries & Waiting for a Corbin Burnes Rebound
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the Twins' decision to send Jose Miranda to Triple-A, Casey Schmitt's place in the Giants' infield mix, the rapidly rising number of injured pitchers, a Phillies bullpen bracing for the absence of Jose Alvarado, budgeting in-season FAB resources, the struggles of Corbin Burnes and the likelihood of a rebound back toward previous levels, and much more.
Rundown
0:55 Jose Miranda: Optioned to Triple-A
8:34 Casey Schmitt: Homers in Debut, DVR's Corrected Comp
13:08 Brett Wisely v. David Villar
18:48 Jacob deGrom: Could Return in 2-3 Weeks; Then What Happens?
21:52 Significant Injuries Mounting Among Starting Pitchers
25:07 Changing Pitching Strategy in the Future?
34:44 Jose Alvarado Placed on IL with Elbow Injury
38:28 Becoming More Disciplined with In-Season Resources
44:16 Examining Corbin Burnes' Strange Start to 2023
51:26 Will Pitch Clock Push Older Starters Out of the Game Sooner than Expected?
57:23 IP Leaders Since 2017
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| 0:27.6 | tease and exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, May 10th, Derek Ruper, here with Inoceris on this episode. |
| 0:52.5 | We've got a bunch of news items to cover. We have a surprising demotion from the twins. We had an impressive debut from one Casey Schmidt, who I very poorly comped David Fletcher on yesterday's show, so I will write that wrong before the end of this hour. We have an update on Jacob de Grom. We have a Jose Alvarado injury, which is very unfortunate because he's in the midst of what |
| 1:12.5 | appears to be sort of a late breakout season. |
| 1:15.4 | He's always said great stuff, but this is the best version of Alvarado that we've ever seen. |
| 1:19.9 | And we get some pitching stuff on the rundown as well, vaguely labeled as pitching stuff |
| 1:23.9 | as I prepare to get to it. |
| 1:26.5 | But let's start with Jose Miranda getting option down to AAA by the twins because this is |
| 1:31.3 | starting to remind me of what the race do with these guys who are big league ready players |
| 1:36.7 | that we think are going to be pretty steady and safe and they end up sending them down. |
| 1:41.6 | It hasn't just been Jose Miranda. |
| 1:43.1 | We've seen them do this with Alex Kirloff around his various injuries. |
| 1:46.1 | We've seen it with Trevor Larnock. |
| 1:47.4 | And I like all three of those players, at least I like certain things about all three of those players. |
| 1:52.5 | And I'm wondering with Miranda, aside from a pretty sluggish start through 35 games to play at a 67 WRC plus is rough. |
| 2:02.3 | He's not a good defender. |
| 2:07.2 | And that maybe is something that I should have taken more into consideration in his profile, |
| 2:13.3 | as far as it being something that could cause him to lose his job completely and get more time at AAA this season. Because previously, I didn't really have this in a bucket of high probability outcomes, |
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