Ranking the Top Rotations in Baseball
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Trevor, and DVR discuss spring news including an opportunity for Brett Baty at second base (!?) before sharing their top-10 rotations for the upcoming season and the unique challenges of grading pitching groups this way. Plus, Eno shares a few new training tools he's seen and heard about while in Arizona this spring.
Rundown
1:35 Spring News & Notes: Max Scherzer, Lucas Giolito & Jeff McNeil
10:24 Our Picks for the Top 10 Rotations in Baseball
14:00 Eno's Three Category Approach (The Dodgers Third?!)
21:01 Disagreement About the Rangers
27:08 Do You Buy Trevor's Concerns About the Braves' Rotation Depth?
36:30 A Would You Rather Toss-Up Steeped in Regression
45:04 New Things and Unique Processes Being Implemented This Spring
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Trevor May
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels Thursday, March 13th, Derek Finreper, Enosarish, Trevor May, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:21.8 | We have taken on the task of ranking the best rotations in baseball. |
| 0:26.6 | It is a more challenging exercise than I expected to be going in, but we're going to have a few debates, talk about our process, getting the weeds on that a little bit. |
| 0:36.2 | We've got some spring news we're going to get to. |
| 0:38.0 | And we're going to talk about a few things that teams might be doing and players might be doing training-wise at spring training this year. |
| 0:44.3 | That's just different, unique, relatively new. |
| 0:46.9 | So we'll dig into some of those things that are happening as well. |
| 0:49.8 | A quick heads up. |
| 0:50.7 | And a reminder, we have our two live episodes at Bear Bottle Brewing Company. |
| 0:55.2 | Just two weeks away, March 27th and March 28th. March 27th, of course, is opening day. |
| 1:00.7 | 430 local starts at the Bear Bottle, Bernal Heights location in San Francisco. |
| 1:06.5 | Looking forward to trying the beer, the Eno-brewed, Kayackers Cove. Great looking label on that. I got to get the wide label on the screen. It's in Discord if you |
| 1:14.4 | want to check that out. Of course, you can join the Discord with the link in the show description. |
| 1:19.5 | So, tons of ground to cover. We got hard outs. We got the threat of John Fogarty looming yet again |
| 1:25.5 | because Eno is still at spring training this time in |
| 1:28.6 | Maryvale. No game today though, so much less likely to get a center field blaring through |
| 1:33.1 | randomly in the middle of the show. We're going to take a quick spin around the league at a few |
| 1:37.3 | look at a few news items. I saw Max Scherzer had an MRI on his thumb that apparently checked out |
| 1:42.2 | okay. He's had a very good spring so far, 14Ks, |
| 1:45.0 | no walks in nine innings. It led me to a quick question for Trevor. How many MRIs happen |
| 1:50.8 | in spring training that we don't even know about because of relatively small things that pop up? |
| 1:56.8 | That seems like there might be MRIs we never hear anything about. |
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