Playing the Long Game with Stars, The Aging Curve & Delayed Breakouts
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss aging stars whose long-term value might be on the cusp of falling, as well as a few players to target despite an overall body of work that leaves something to be desired.
Rundown
10:07 Freddie Freeman Is the Power & Speed Drop a Sign of Things to Come?
18:02 Marcus Semien & Nearly Impossible Durability
23:12 Jose Altuve & Extreme Pull Tendencies Over Time
28:59 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.: Should We Still Chase A 2021 Ceiling?
34:58 Adolis García: Fearing the Fast Peak From Late Bloomers with Aggressive Approaches
36:37 Oneil Cruz: Will He Improve Enough Against Lefties in the Long Run?
43:02 Zach Neto: Sacrificing Ceiling for a Safer Floor?
46:01 Jordan Walker: No Homers at Triple-A This Season?!
53:58 Alex Kirilloff: A Delayed Breakout Coming, or WYSIWYG?
1:02:14 Project Prospect: The Prospects to Target Via Trade As Top 100 Lists Have In-Season Updates
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| 0:47.2 | Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:52.0 | It is Wednesday, May 22nd, Derek Van Riper, you know, Sarah's here with you. Moving things up this week. |
| 0:54.0 | We have our live stream with Trevor May coming out on Thursday this week, 1 o'clock Eastern on our YouTube page. So trying to get some time in during the long weekend where we can all rest and relax. Hope all of you out there get a chance to do the same if you're able to do so. Be sure to smash the like button on this video if you're watching us on |
| 1:11.0 | YouTube. Subscribe to your YouTube channel if you haven't done so already and join the Discord. |
| 1:16.1 | The link is in the show description. On this episode, though, we are focusing on players in |
| 1:22.5 | their long-term value. So we're looking for possible older players that we might be willing to |
| 1:27.4 | trade away if we're |
| 1:28.3 | trying to rebuild and younger players that aren't necessarily playing at a high level right |
| 1:33.0 | now who might still have brighter days ahead. |
| 1:36.9 | So a lot of different ways that this conversation is likely to go. |
| 1:41.8 | We got some names from the Discord that we'll focus on as well as a few of our own |
| 1:45.4 | choices for players that we are concerned about and optimistic about at each end of the aging |
| 1:51.7 | curve. So with that, we begin. Who are some of the best players that you are worried about beyond this season. |
| 2:02.6 | We're talking about early rounders, guys who have multi-year track records of, if not elite, |
| 2:08.0 | very good production. |
| 2:09.6 | Players we have not had to worry about previously because we had a pretty good sense of what |
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