Pitching Archetypes & Top Bullpen Rankings
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Trevor, and DVR discuss an interesting lawsuit around analytics a potentially lost competitive advantage, the benefits of building a 'brain' -- internal communications system -- of your own, organizational pitching archetypes, and a few different ways to grade the best bullpens in baseball as Opening Day approaches.
Rundown
3:54 An Interesting Lawsuit & A 'Lost Competitive Advantage'
Further reading from a Matt Gelb story at The Athletic($): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6216672/2025/03/20/phillies-zelus-analytics-teamworks-lawsuit/
9:15 Benefits of Building 'The Brain' Internally
26:37 Pros & Cons of Organizational Pitching Archetypes
45:53 How Are You Grading & Ranking Bullpens Entering 2025?
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Trevor May
Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper
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| 0:52.2 | It's Octor. Welcome to Rates and barrels, it's Thursday, March 20th, Derek and Ryper, you know, Sarah, is Trevor May all here with you on this episode. We're going to talk about |
| 0:54.6 | pitching archetypes, the patron saints in each organization. Is that a good thing? Is that a bad |
| 1:00.1 | thing? Can it lead organizations astray or is it a blueprint to success? We'll dig into that. |
| 1:05.1 | We're going to grade bullpens, try to rank top tens, much like we did with the rotations last |
| 1:09.5 | weeks. We got that coming up here as well. |
| 1:12.3 | Show announcement, of course, two live episodes going down one week from today is the first one. |
| 1:16.9 | March 27th and March 28th, 430 start times at Bear Bottle Brewing Company, the Bernal Heights location in San Francisco. |
| 1:25.3 | Get some kayakers cove, the beer that Eno helped brew. |
| 1:29.4 | Come ask questions. |
| 1:30.3 | Come hang out with us. |
| 1:31.3 | Watch the opening day games. |
| 1:32.6 | Watch some NCAA tournament games. |
| 1:34.6 | We'll have a great time together. |
| 1:36.7 | Really looking forward to those live shows. |
| 1:38.2 | Can't believe it's only a week away. |
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