Reach Rates, Getting Hitters to Chase & Streakiness
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR take a look at reach rate leaders and laggards, as well as chase rates leaders and laggards, and try to determine what thriving (or struggling) in these metrics might mean for future performance.
Rundown
1:41 Water Is Good
6:09 Reach Rate Leaders
9:52 Reach Rate Laggards
15:47 Re-Thinking Cavan Biggio
20:20 Trent Grisham in Keeper/Dynasty, Projected 2021 ADP
25:49 Concerns About Rafael Devers’ Sluggish Start?
30:27 Why Teams Don’t Buy In on Corey Dickerson
37:05 Chase Rate Leaders
47:20 Chase Rate Laggards
52:07 Josh James’ Quick Move Back to the Bullpen
55:49 Streaky vs. Consistent Players in Short Season
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| 0:21.1 | possibly want, all for the best deal in sports media. 40% off at theathletic.com slash rates and barrels. Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode number 121. It's Thursday, August 6th. Derek Van Riper |
| 0:49.4 | here with Enosaris. And on this episode, we're going to talk about reach rates a lot because |
| 0:53.9 | Eno said something that kind of blew my mind on the last episode. I didn't freak out on the air about it. I sort of just let it go by and decided we should explore it on another episode. But we want to know who's thriving and who's flailing right now in terms of not swinging at pitches outside the zone or swinging too much at those |
| 1:11.6 | pitches. We're also going to look at the pitcher side of that metric. We'll see who's getting |
| 1:14.6 | hitters to chase, who's not getting hitters to chase. And we're going to discuss the concept |
| 1:19.2 | of streakiness versus consistency and how that may or may not be helpful in a shortened season. |
| 1:24.8 | This is inspired somewhat by the early season struggles of Justin Upton, as well as a mailbag |
| 1:31.1 | question that came in a few weeks back. |
| 1:33.7 | So we'll try to make some sense of limited samples for guys that have pretty volatile track |
| 1:39.9 | records of production. |
| 1:41.8 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Thursday? |
| 1:44.0 | It is good. |
| 1:45.6 | I'm going to the beer store today. |
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