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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Moving tips, contact quality and predictive value, and lineups to stream against

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss moving tips, contact quality -- including the value of high exit velocity batted balls, different sources for hard-hit rates, team performances against particular pitches, lineups to target for streaming pitchers down the stretch, and whether it's worth moving on from Adalberto Mondesi and Byron Buxton in long-term leagues as a result of another injury-riddled campaign.


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome rates and barrels presented by Topps. Check out Topps Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards.

0:23.1

Derek Fenreper back from the long drive down I-80. Yes, I'm in my new place. It is not

0:29.6

furnished or decorated, so I'm using a door to add texture to my shot. If you're watching

0:34.1

us on YouTube, be sure to hit the like button, subscribe to the channel, get notified every time we have an episode go live. Eno and I have had a chance to hang out already,

0:41.8

which is awesome. So I've got one set of beers in with Eno already in the three and a half days

0:47.8

that I've been here. So I feel like I'm living my best West Coast life so far.

0:53.2

That's right. That's right. I panicked last minute and almost brought

0:56.9

a box of seized chocolates that we had eaten a couple out of and tried to like put the tape back on

1:03.4

and be like, you know, here's a housewarming gift. I didn't know. I don't know why it looks like it's

1:09.5

been gone into.

1:15.4

And my wife, thank God, was like, no, dude, you're bringing beers.

1:15.9

It's okay.

1:22.7

Well, you did leave a bottle opener here, so I'll consider that a housewarming gift,

1:26.2

at least until I return, even if it's only on loan at this point.

1:44.1

But for anybody out there who's... Red solo cups. Yeah, I've got like four or five solo cups out of the deal, too. For anybody out there who's ever moved even a little far away from where they used to live, you don't have to go cross country. When you move far enough away where you don't bring all of your things with you, or if your things are maybe delayed in getting to you,

1:49.1

you put them in a pod or a box or whatever, you go through this phase, and I'm right in the beginning of it right now. It's about two to three weeks where every time you go to do something,

1:53.6

you can't complete the task without being really creative. Yeah, you just can't. And the smartest

2:00.4

things that I've purchased so far, two camping

2:02.7

chairs and a four-foot folding table from Costco, which is a workstation. It is a dining

2:08.9

room table. It is a drinking beer table. It is patio chairs. I mean, it's extremely versatile for like

2:14.6

a hundred bucks, like three pieces that get you a very long way until

2:18.2

you get all those other little pieces back in place and what i really like about it too is that

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