Moving the mound, April awards, and walk-up music selections
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR discuss the potential drawbacks of moving pitching mounds further away from the plate, why 'Pace of Play' is no longer a concern for MLB, several April awards, and walk-up music selections.
Rundown
1:30 Potential Drawbacks From Moving the Mound Back
8:39 The Pace of Play Concerns Are Going to Vanish
13:42 Early Parity = More Fun!
29:00 April Hardware
53:28 Mike Trout is Still Better Than Everybody Else
62:45 Walk-Up Music
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| 0:30.5 | Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, April 30th, Derek Van Riper and Barrels. |
| 0:54.6 | It is Friday, April 30th. |
| 0:57.1 | Derek Van Riper, Edo Seris, Brit Jiroli here with you on this Friday. |
| 1:01.1 | And my wife. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.5 | Does she want to join our Acapella group? |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.1 | What was the winner of the name of our Acapella Group? |
| 1:10.3 | Alex had the best name of all on Twitter, and it was just a bit off key, I think, is what he came |
| 1:17.2 | up with, which is perfect for a baseball Acapella group name. So that is the winner of our |
| 1:23.4 | unofficial contest. If there's ever a prize available, Alex wins it for this particular contest. |
| 1:28.9 | But on this episode, we'll see if Eno's wife brings a few more bars for us. |
| 1:33.8 | We will talk about moving the mound, the story that Eno published earlier this week for |
| 1:38.2 | the athletic. |
| 1:39.2 | April awards. |
| 1:40.0 | We'll talk about our first month selections for rookie of the month, pitcher of the month, and hitter of the month in both leagues. We'll discuss some of the surprising teams as we flip the calendar to May of the surprising teams, who is most likely to be in the conversation as a playoff team later on this season. A few questions came in about the ball, so we'll tackle those, and we'll talk about some walk-up music as well, |
| 2:01.0 | since we're thinking so much about music on this show lately. Let's get into moving the mound. |
| 2:06.6 | Eno, I was reading the story, and I was actually surprised that you had hitters that you spoke to |
| 2:12.2 | who weren't just all for this. Like, I would have thought hitters blindly assumed that |
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