New pitches, Stephen Strasburg's adjustments, and early velocity changes

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss pitchers working with new offerings this season -- including Lance McCullers and Eduardo Rodriguez -- concerns about Stephen Strasburg, league-wide shifts in velocity, the struggles of Ryan Yarbrough, and the pitch-recognition skills of Jake Cronenworth. Rundown 1:59 Lance McCullers’ New Toy 8:11 Eduardo Rodriguez’s Altered Pitch Mix 9:41 Jeff Hoffman in Cincinnati 13:37 Is There Any Reason to Believe in Huascar Ynoa? 17:57 Reduced Velo, and Pitch Mix Changes for Stephen Strasburg 23:45 League-Wide Velocity Shifts 31:40 Danny Duffy is...Rosterable? 34:07 What’s Up With Ryan Yarbrough? 39:00 Joey Lucchesi as a Met 47:14 Jake Cronenworth’s Plate Discipline 52:37 Called Strikes and Whiffs…for Hitters? Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to Rates and barrels.
0:46.8	It is Thursday, April 15th.
0:49.5	Derek Van Riper here with Enos Seris.
0:52.1	Shout out to the good people at Comcast for taking down Enos internet for all of Wednesday afternoon and evening.
0:59.7	But hey, they got it back up and we're here.
1:02.4	So bonus episode on Thursday, just a make-up for Wednesday.
1:05.7	And then, of course, we have our episode with Britt coming up on Friday.
1:08.6	So lots of rates and barrels going into the weekend.
1:12.7	On this episode, we will discuss some pitchers who have shown new offerings early on this season
1:18.3	and what we make of their new arsenals. We'll talk about some velocity drops and how concerned we
1:24.2	should be depending on the magnitude of those drops.
1:31.3	Had a bunch of specific questions about pitchers that came in through Twitter,
1:35.7	so we'll answer questions about Ryan Yarbrough and Danny Duffy and Joey Lucasey.
1:41.4	And we'll take a look at plate discipline stabilization as it pertains to Jake Croninworth as a result of a question that came in as well.
1:43.5	So lots of questions to answer, lots of topics to get to.
1:46.6	Eno, let's start with the new pitches.
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