Opening Day Takeaways: What matters on a granular level?

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss a busy Opening Day and dig through the box scores while attempting to sift through the noise to find meaningful indicators as the 2021 season gets underway. How concerned should we be with batting orders, early velocity readings, and reliever usage from the jump? Rundown 6:15 Gregory Soto’s Bumpy Save 10:29 Does Lineup Position Matter? 17:22 Making Sense of the Twins’ Bullpen 25:13 Keeping an Eye on David Bednar for Future Saves 31:07 Stashing Jose Alvarado over Archie Bradley 40:52 Regrets on Avoiding Jake Cronenworth? 43:14 Tyler Glasnow’s Slider Usage is Up! 48:13 Luis Castillo’s Velocity Drop Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.3	It is Friday, April 2nd, one day of the 2021 season in the books, and it was an eventful one.
1:29.1	Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this Friday reacting to everything we saw and telling you to calm down. Yeah, like, we're going to try
1:35.5	and calm you down in many cases. Maybe we'll fire you up in a few cases, but we're here to help
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