Pivoting In the Wake of Injuries, Beating BABIP & Timing Risk
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss how leagues can consider making structural changes to account for the 2021 rise in time lost to injuries, using BABIP as a launching point to dig deeper on a player's batted-ball profile (and the viability of xBA as a BABIP alternative), and taking an appropriate amount of injury risk in lieu of high-risk, high-reward prospects in redraft leagues.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, January 18th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseris. I was just kind of in the |
| 0:23.2 | intro music. If you're watching us on YouTube, I was kind of air-gatarring, and I was thinking |
| 0:28.2 | about the music, even though I've arranged the music, the loops to make the intro song. I'm not |
| 0:33.9 | actually sure which instrument I should be air playing during the intro. |
| 0:39.4 | I went with a guitar. |
| 0:41.1 | Yeah, I went with the guitar, but I mean, there's other options in there. |
| 0:45.1 | There's some little bits of funk in there if you listen real carefully. |
| 0:48.9 | So you've got your choices. |
| 0:50.5 | Like you can hammer away on some kind of electric keyboard if you want to airplay a |
| 0:54.7 | keyboard. Really, you know, let us know which instrument you like to airplay when you hear the |
| 0:59.5 | intro to our podcast. I also feel like it speeds up. Like it starts fast and then it catches |
| 1:06.0 | itself. That is a video only specialty. So if you watch us on YouTube you understand that phenomenon completely |
| 1:12.9 | yeah it like plays in double time for a split second or even a full second or two and then it |
| 1:17.6 | goes to its regular speed i don't know why it does that if you listen only as a podcast you're like |
| 1:22.8 | what the hell are these guys talking about why are they drinking on a Tuesday? You know, it's early. What's |
| 1:28.0 | going on? Well, apparently has something in common with my heart, because I fainted this |
| 1:35.4 | weekend. Ended up in the emergency room. Was not exciting. I've had some near feints in the past. |
| 1:42.1 | I've fainted maybe twice in my life, And I run a really low blood pressure regularly. |
| 1:46.9 | I'm kind of like a 90 or 60 guy. |
| 1:50.0 | And I guess I just crashed. |
| 1:53.3 | I got up and I passed out. |
| 1:55.6 | And then there was a doctor at the restaurant we were at. |
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