New Stolen Base Rules and Stephen Vogt Interview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Eno and Al look at the potential impact of some of the new MLB rules on stolen base production. Eno also discusses the new rules and catcher preparation routines with former major league catcher and Mariners bullpen coach and quality control coach Stephen Vogt.
Rundown
0:21 Some big Rates & Barrels news
3:20 Summary of the new rules that could impact stolen bases
6:53 How much will the rules really help with steals?
9:23 What are the stolen base ceilings for Oneil Cruz and Trea Turner?
13:12 Will Eno approach drafting steals differently this season?
Eno’s interview with Stephen Vogt:
16:11 Stephen discusses his new position with the Mariners
17:30 Stephen talks about his daily preparation routines as a catcher
23:42 Stephen recounts his preparations for containing the running game
28:25 Eno and Stephen theorize about how teams will adapt to the rule changes
32:20 Stephen talks about his efforts to improve his ability to contain baserunners
37:09 Stephen anticipates more stolen base attempts in 2023
38:29 How much stealing should we expect during spring training?
41:07 Does Stephen like the pitch clock?
Stolen base expectations for:
42:49 Andrés Giménez
47:55 Xander Bogaerts
50:18 Wander Franco
52:32 Javier Báez
54:52 Jon Berti/Jorge Mateo
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Al Malkyure. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm here with Ion Seris. And before we get started, |
| 0:22.7 | here some very, very big news. Of course, I'm sitting here in the seat normally occupied by Derek |
| 0:28.9 | Van Riper. And he is a brand new father, baby boy. So best wishes to the Van Riper's. And |
| 0:35.9 | looking forward to seeing him here again soon, but of course, |
| 0:39.3 | you know, lots to take care of right now. |
| 0:42.6 | Get used to Al though. |
| 0:43.5 | You're still going to be around even when it derr comes back to help us out on Fridays. |
| 0:47.6 | We were going to have, I think it's going to be, what's the theme, a little bit more kind |
| 0:51.8 | of nuts and bolts like waiver rivalry. |
| 0:53.7 | It's going to be a little bit |
| 0:54.6 | a little bit like your waiver wire show in the past uh brought to the rates and barrels feed so that |
| 0:59.4 | uh anybody who's sort of thinking about pickups and drops uh for sunday fab or uh that sort of deal |
| 1:05.8 | but uh we're also maybe going to intersperse uh some interviews um and uh so we'll get a little taste of that today. |
| 1:12.6 | Absolutely. So yeah, good sneak preview of some things to come. |
| 1:17.6 | And we're going to talk about stolen bases, the new environment for stolen bases, the new rules, |
| 1:22.6 | and how that might affect not only how many bases are being stolen, but how we go about drafting for stolen |
| 1:29.2 | bases. And related to that, Eno, did an excellent interview with Stephen Votes. So we'll be getting |
| 1:35.2 | to that in short order here. And before we dig into this topic, just a quick reminder to everybody |
| 1:40.6 | that the 2023 fantasy baseball draft kit will be launching soon on the athletic |
| 1:45.1 | make sure you head on over to the athletic.com slash rates and barrels and once you do that you'll be |
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