Popularity vs. production, finding fits for Trevor Bauer, Masahiro Tanaka and Tomoyuki Sugano, and weighing options for the Blue Jays
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss player popularity against production in hopes of finding undervalued players, and look at potential fits for Trevor Bauer, Masahiro Tanaka and Tomoyuki Sugano, before considering the Blue Jays' offseason options -- including a potential trade for Nolan Arenado -- as they aim for a deep October run.
Rundown
1:28 Fresh Concerns About 2021 Season Length
8:08 An Examination of Popularity vs. Production
15:51 Seeking Young Overlooked Players
20:04 ‘Boring’ = Value?
26:55 Where is Trevor Bauer Going & For How Long?
36:14 Finding a Fit for Masahiro Tanaka
44:29 Could the Angels Pursue Two FA Starters?
46:36 What Will the Jays Do in Free Agency?
52:33 Sending Nolan Arenado to Toronto?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:17.7 | It is Wednesday, December 16th, at least it probably is by the time you're listening to this podcast. We are recording a little bit earlier than that, recording midday on Tuesday the 15th. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris, as we expected by recording shows on consecutive days. The always slow MLB offseason offered us nothing new in terms of interesting topics that are based on signings and trades and activity. |
| 0:46.8 | But fortunately, we're adept at entertaining ourselves. |
| 0:51.3 | Eno's got a great piece coming up later this week. |
| 0:53.9 | We'll talk about some of the |
| 0:54.8 | process behind that. He's looking at page views on fan graphs against production, trying to find |
| 1:00.5 | some insights into the minds of the common fantasy owner. It's one way I'm looking at this anyway. |
| 1:06.7 | I think it's a pretty fascinating piece, really cool idea, and some awesome visualizations in that piece as well. Going to get to a few more free agents, try to predict where they're going to go. We started that up on our last episode. So if you listen to this one and say, why didn't you talk about George Springer? Well, we talked about them on the last one, so you can go back and listen to that. Edo, how's it going for you on this Tuesday? |
| 1:29.3 | It's going good. |
| 1:33.2 | The reason we're doing this early is the worst of all possible reasons. |
| 1:35.5 | It's called House Mageddon. |
| 1:39.0 | And what it is is the dogs are getting snipped. |
| 1:41.1 | Oh, that's happening too. |
| 1:46.6 | You described your problem yesterday as two children in the house also on zoom uh with you and your wife and that's chaos in and of itself but the animals are getting fixed |
| 1:52.7 | that's how you get to full house mcgedin and i don't think uh we have not yet done a good job of |
| 1:58.5 | explaining to the children that the dogs will have cones |
| 2:01.6 | and will not really want to hang out. |
| 2:04.7 | And the kids are very hands on with these pups. |
| 2:10.3 | So they're not going to be super excited about that. |
| 2:13.4 | And I've got them because my wife is going to take the dogs to do the deed. |
| 2:20.0 | So your prayers in this time of need. |
| 2:27.0 | Otherwise, you know, there's also bad news. |
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