Rotation rankings, Votto & Mullins adjustments, and reliever-starter interactions
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt and DVR discuss Britt's recent rankings of all 30 teams' rotations, Joey Votto's surprising late-career adjustment, Cedric Mullins' decision to give up switch-hitting, and the interactions between starters and relievers.
Rundown
1:05 Britt’s Rotation Rankings
8:34 Jon Gray: 2021 Trade Target for Contenders?
16:52 Biggest Potential Movers
18:38 Making Sense of Oakland
26:48 Joey Votto’s Unusual Late Career Adjustments
37:21 Cedric Mullins III Gives Up Switch Hitting
44:23 Leody Taveras’ Struggles
49:58 Reliever/Starter Interactions
61:25 Replay on Stolen Bases is Brutal
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, April 23rd. Derek Van Riper, Inoc, Sarah's, Britt Jiroli, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:23.3 | We will discuss Brits' rotation rankings. |
| 0:26.7 | Britt has fallen far into the abyss of ranking things now. |
| 0:31.3 | She knows our pain, the difficulties that come along with it, |
| 0:35.3 | and of course the ever-loving comments of rankings |
| 0:38.9 | that nitpick every little thing you do. |
| 0:40.8 | So we're going to talk about her rankings. |
| 0:42.3 | The toughest rotations to rank right now, |
| 0:44.4 | teams most likely to rise, teams most likely to fall. |
| 0:47.7 | We have another installment of Is This Real, |
| 0:50.6 | inspired by several questions that came in over the past few days. |
| 0:55.7 | And we'll talk about the need for replay on stolen bases to be fixed, because I have a bone to pick with what is |
| 1:02.5 | happening on stolen bases right now. But we begin with Brits rotation rankings. And a good morning |
| 1:08.7 | to Thor who's joining the show. If you're watching on YouTube, you can see Thor join Britt today. |
| 1:14.0 | You know what? |
| 1:14.6 | They said we couldn't get a high quality guest on Fridays, you guys, and I'm here. |
| 1:23.7 | Star. |
| 1:25.3 | I thought he's bored with us. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, he will not bark, which is good, but he will definitely yawn. So if he yawns, move it along to the next topic. All right, he's just here to keep us in check. One animal segue. Yes, they said you needed a younger demographic, and so I brought Thor in here. He's going to make us cool, make us hip. Guys, I am retiring after my list. |
| 1:47.0 | I don't know how the two of you do it. |
| 1:48.8 | I would like to step off the stage unnotably, dishonorably. |
| 1:53.6 | That was a very difficult, ridiculously difficult. |
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