New Steals Sources, Late Promotions & Endgame Help
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR consider the implications of new 2023 rules on stolen bases. Will players who currently run occasionally end up with bigger increases than top-end speedsters? Plus, they look at several potential late-season additions capable of making a positive impact in the final weeks of the season.
Rundown
1:21 How Stolen Base Opportunities Might Change
9:12 Unfortunately, You Can't Switch Defenders That Way
15:33 Ezequiel Tovar Gets a Late Promotion to Colorado
20:21 Jordan Diaz's Look from the A's
27:36 Eno Speaks Italian
32:23 Bubba Thompson: Is This Real?
38:08 Edward Olivares...Again?
44:16 DVR Finally Gives Up on Nick Senzel
47:08 Late Pitching Help!
55:17 Weird Season: Chris Taylor
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, September 22nd. |
| 0:19.9 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. I've got the brightest |
| 0:24.2 | forehead in the business thanks to, I think it's noon, midday sun and a newly painted building |
| 0:31.4 | across from mine. It's painted white and it's just reflecting everything on me. |
| 0:36.5 | All I heard is you painted your forehead white. Yeah, pretty much. If you're watching and you're like, what's wrong with this face? Like, well, it's... I can't see. I'm kind of like can't see my own notes, but... And yeah, I'm blinding Eno on the other end. So we're doing great. But on this episode, we're going to take a closer look at a few more implications of the upcoming rule changes. |
| 0:56.1 | We're going to talk about some late arriving, potentially useful endgame players into the pool |
| 1:00.8 | because there's been a few more call-ups that have probably gone a little under the radar in the last couple of weeks. |
| 1:07.1 | We've got a prospect of the week segment on the rundown. |
| 1:09.9 | We'll see if we actually get that far. We've got at least of the week segment on the rundown. We'll see if we actually get that |
| 1:11.3 | far. We've got at least one candidate in our weird seasons category by request, Chris Taylor. |
| 1:17.6 | So we'll get to him a little bit later on in the show. But I was thinking a lot about stolen bases |
| 1:23.3 | because you wrote about the rule changes. Some of the stuff we've been talking about in the podcast |
| 1:27.3 | recently. And the good luck Noah Cinderguard vibes. I, because you wrote about the rule changes, some of the stuff we've been talking about in the podcast recently, |
| 1:28.4 | and the good luck Noah Cindergarde vibes, I think is, |
| 1:32.6 | it's kind of an overlooked aspect of this. |
| 1:35.4 | It's like which pitchers who get run on a lot now |
| 1:37.7 | are going to be dealing with even more guys taking advantage of the circumstances. |
| 1:43.2 | And you and I were going back and forth before we started recording. |
| 1:46.5 | One simple thing that I had not thought about, we were talking about the time for |
| 1:50.8 | runners to get from first to second while stealing a base, right? |
| 1:53.5 | The bases are bigger. |
| 1:54.5 | They're a little closer together. |
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