Quality Speed Sources, Rule Changes On Tap & Pitch Clock Considerations
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the pleasant surprise of having many sources of stolen-bases that are good all-around offensive players, plus Cody Bellinger's future, the risky speed profiles to avoid, underrating Jon Berti, and the potential impact of rule changes looming for the 2023 season.
Rundown
7:30 Stolen-Base Leaderboard Packed with Good Players?
12:30 Cody Bellinger's Future; Brighter Leaving LA?
20:08 Low OPS, Good Speed, High Risk
24:02 Underrating Jon Berti
27:16 Potential Impact of Rule Changes on Stolen Bases
31:09 Cedric Mullins' Breakout Follow-Up
35:56 Pitch Clock Coming in 2023? Pitchers Primed to Gain/Lose
45:45 The Pie Slice Rule, Shifting
49:55 Joey Bart's Second-Half Turnaround
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Thursday, September 8th, Derek Van Riper, here with Enos Seris. You know it's going to be a good day when you're watching on YouTube and the music is lying by when the music is in double time. It's going to be a great day. I'm capped up. Or you drank a lot of coffee. I feel great. Got one show already recorded today. This is show number two. |
| 0:38.6 | All warmed up. |
| 0:40.4 | Yep. |
| 0:40.7 | I've seen what the pitchers got. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm taking the kids to their first concert that they chose tonight. |
| 0:46.1 | Imagine Dragons was their choice. |
| 0:49.2 | And in fact, the cousins from Hawaii have flown in to see Imagine Dragons with them. |
| 0:53.9 | So this is turning into an |
| 0:55.1 | epic level event that they'll remember their whole lives probably. And now that they're |
| 0:59.1 | petitioning us to leave them alone in their seats, because we had to, the cousins sort of came on |
| 1:04.9 | the second half, so they bought seats a little bit further away from us. So now they're all saying, |
| 1:09.7 | let the kids be alone, |
| 1:11.8 | and the adults, |
| 1:13.5 | you know, |
| 1:13.7 | leave them alone for like a set or something. |
| 1:16.3 | And so it makes me nervous |
| 1:18.1 | because my little one is seven. |
| 1:20.5 | But he'll have his older cousins there, |
| 1:23.0 | and they have phones, |
| 1:24.9 | and, |
| 1:25.8 | you know, |
| 1:26.1 | there'll be strict rules and, |
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