Promotions, Extensions, and New Opportunities
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the promotion of Mason Miller to Oakland, Brayan Rocchio and a potentially brief look in Cleveland, an extension for Hunter Greene, another impressive outing from Taj Bradley, Mike Soroka's comeback bid, A.J. Puk's early results in Miami, and a few mailbag questions.
Rundown
1:17 Mason Miller Promoted!
9:20 Brayan Rocchio Gets the Call to Cleveland
11:30 Hunter Greene Extension
13:53 Taj Bradley Continues to Impress
19:01 Adjusting for Alek Manoah's Disappointing Start to 2023
25:45 Josiah Gray's New Pitch Mix
33:49 Trusting A.J. Puk
37:10 Jake Burger's Impressive Power Profile
42:22 Statcast v. FanGraphs' Hard-Hit Rates
49:12 Other Factors to Consider w/Pitching Model
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| 0:00.0 | Buck the Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, April 19th. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. |
| 0:20.6 | Programming note, I guess, is that we are flipping days of this episode and the 3-0 show, |
| 0:25.3 | even though they're in different feeds. |
| 0:26.4 | So the episode we've been doing with Britt midweek is now going on Thursdays on the athletic baseball show. |
| 0:32.2 | So our Thursday rates and barrels is now coming out later in the day on Wednesday. |
| 0:36.4 | So I don't think it changes much for anybody. |
| 0:39.5 | We were going to record shows together both days anyway. |
| 0:41.9 | It just kind of changes the timing of things if you listen to both. |
| 0:44.7 | Changes the freshness of our content on the 3-0 show. |
| 0:47.9 | Makes the 3-0 much less likely to have stale information. |
| 0:52.6 | Although we're on quite a run with Rates and Vowels recording during news moments. |
| 0:56.8 | Oh, the prospect show, Project Prospect is on a two-week heater already with talking about players that, you know, in the case of Mason Miller, I think it was clear he's coming up soon, but we didn't have the news that he was coming up today at the time we were recording. |
| 1:14.2 | It came out like 20 minutes, which we stopped. |
| 1:16.2 | So we'll start there. |
| 1:17.5 | Mason Miller is debuting Wednesday for the A's. |
| 1:19.7 | We talked a lot about him on yesterday's show. |
| 1:22.4 | And it's a big stuff play. |
| 1:24.7 | It's just a high risk, high reward from a volume perspective and maybe a command perspective as well. You mentioned yesterday that the arsenal might not be that deep. That could be problematic for him as well as he tries to turn the lineup over a third time. That could be a shortcoming. But the Velo was huge in that last start at AAA. I don't know if I brought that up. Several pitches over 100 miles an hour. |
| 1:45.3 | This is a big time four seamer. |
| 1:47.1 | You mentioned the cutter yesterday. |
| 1:49.0 | There's a slider and a change up. |
| 1:50.6 | If you can get one of those other pitches working more often |
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