Opening Series Observations & Dealing with Small Samples
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR take a look back at the Opening Series for each team and discuss their takeaways, along with some of the surprisingly good and bad starting pitcher performances that have unfolded so far. Plus, they highlight a few other important things to monitor in the early days of the season.
Rundown
2:40 Where the Money Went: Jason Foley, Kevin Ginkel, Griffin Jax, Brock Stewart, Jordan Hicks & Garrett Crochet
15:52 Making Sense of Starting Pitcher Debuts (Good & Bad)
20:45 Keeping a Close Eye on Zac Gallen's Upcoming Starts
26:51 Bailey Ober's Brutal Start Against the Royals
34:17 Impressive Outings from the Red Sox's Starters
38:32 What Else Matters In Small Samples?
51:56 Trey Lipscomb's Opportunity to Start at Third Base in Washington
55:11 Injury Updates: Eloy Jiménez, Royce Lewis, Edward Cabrera & Sean Murphy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrows. It is Monday, April 1st. Happy April Fool's Day, if you celebrate that. |
| 0:23.5 | I am not a big fan because I'm a gullible human, but Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. |
| 0:30.3 | You could destroy me on April Fool's Day if you want to. |
| 0:33.8 | You really could. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm just, I'm an easy target for it. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, yeah. Although, you know, |
| 0:44.3 | some of the stuff that I did in my last April Fool's column came true, I had a thing about some guy making Nutella and chicken, raw chicken smoothies. No, no, no, no, no. Not raw chicken, but I was reading this interview with Reggie Crawford, this Giants prospect, |
| 0:59.0 | that he was so tired of eating chicken that he just started blending it up and putting it in shakes. |
| 1:05.0 | So he's cooking it at least, but I mean, oh, that's still no good. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, on that note, if that didn't gross you out, stick around, hit the like button on this video, subscribe. but I mean, oh, that's still no good. |
| 1:16.1 | Well, on that note, if that didn't gross you out, stick around, hit the like button on this video, subscribe to the channel on YouTube. |
| 1:17.2 | You've even done so already. |
| 1:21.6 | Really appreciate anybody that drops us a nice rating and review wherever you're listening to this show. |
| 1:23.4 | And be sure to drop in on the Discord. |
| 1:26.3 | You can get the link to join that in the show description. |
| 1:32.8 | So because this is the first full week of baseball action, we actually had another fab run. |
| 1:37.5 | And it's the toughest fab run of all because you get a partial week. |
| 1:40.6 | Not everybody even pitches in a rotation. |
| 1:44.5 | So you may have a late round pitcher that you're thinking about who hasn't pitched yet. |
| 1:48.9 | And then someone else pops up onto the scene that you have to decide, is this guy that made one start actually better than the player on my roster? |
| 1:52.3 | Do I completely abandon what I thought a week, a month ago on draft day to try and, you know, |
| 1:58.4 | chase something? |
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