Playing Through the Mess
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the chaos that has become weekly pickups every Sunday amidst the constantly dwindling pitching pool before getting excited about the arrival of Jo Adell and Luis Patiño to the big leagues, pitchers working with significantly reduced velocity this season, and more!
Rundown
1:47 It's All a Mess
9:03 Listener Jim Expresses How We All Feel
13:12 Concerns About Kirby Yates?
18:20 Pitchers Dealing with Significantly Reduced Velocity
26:40 Expectations for Pablo López
30:49 Jo Adell Gets the Call
39:47 More Closer Concerns
45:28 How Will Atlanta Replace Mike Soroka?
53:02 What Is Fastball Ride?
57:26 Where Have the Wins Been for Multi-Inning Relievers?
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Rates and Barrels is brought to you by The Athletic. |
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| 0:52.0 | Thank you.com slash Rates and Burials. Welcome to Rates and Barrels. It's Tuesday, August 4th. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. Several things to talk about as teams are crumbling every single day. Mostly because of physical injuries, though. I think the Cardinals outbreak that we talked about on Friday, you know, the full extent |
| 1:13.8 | of that, of course, is now known that that was not at the end of the week when we had our |
| 1:17.7 | last episode with Britt Jiroli. |
| 1:20.0 | But the Braves pitching staff is now reeling following the season-ending injury suffered by |
| 1:24.7 | Mike Soroka on Monday night. |
| 1:26.8 | The concern level about the health of Shohei Otani's arm has reached new heights, |
| 1:31.6 | and it's time to make some difficult drops. |
| 1:34.0 | So to do that, we're going to take a look at some pitchers who've lost a lot of velocity. |
| 1:38.5 | And we're talking three, four, five ticks in velocity, |
| 1:42.2 | which you don't normally see in terms of big declines. |
| 1:46.0 | So a lot to get to you on this episode. |
| 1:49.1 | Edo, how's it going for you on this Tuesday? |
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