Saberconference Takeaways, Late-Season Pitching Strategy & Sweepermania
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the disturbing allegations against Wander Franco that have prompted the Rays to place him on the restricted list. Plus, Eno shares a few takeaways from this weekend's Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball Conference in Chicago, before digging into several mailbag questions about late-season pitching strategy and the effectiveness of sweepers as the league-wide usage of the pitch increases.
Rundown
1:10 Wander Franco Placed on the Restricted List
3:57 Eno's Trip to the Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball Conference
19:24 Training Stuff+ On Previous Years & Players Making Adjustments
31:33 Checking in on the 2023 Sweeper Craze
40:04 Late-Season Starting Pitching Strategy
51:54 The Stone Age of Arm Health?
59:26 Using Defense in Fantasy?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, August 14th. |
| 0:18.4 | Derek Van Riper here with Enos-Seres. |
| 0:20.2 | Eno fresh off a trip to Chicago, hence the late afternoon Monday record time. |
| 0:26.0 | You'll be hearing this episode a little bit later than usual. |
| 0:29.2 | Fresh is not the word I'd use. |
| 0:31.7 | You know what? I was trying to round up and help you. |
| 0:35.0 | I think our listeners, our loyal listeners especially, know that travel is harsh on you. |
| 0:42.7 | Especially with the, I'm an eight and a half hour night guy, you know, between the beers |
| 0:48.5 | and the 8 a.m. conference starts, yeah. |
| 0:52.1 | That's just how it goes. |
| 0:53.2 | So we'll talk about a few takeaways from that conference. |
| 0:56.7 | We'll talk about some mailbag questions, including a good one about late season starting |
| 1:00.4 | pitching strategy. |
| 1:01.5 | We had a question about sweepers, one asking if we're still in the stone age of arm health, |
| 1:07.1 | so a lot of pitching related things to get to. |
| 1:09.4 | But the big news shocking the baseball |
| 1:12.3 | world over the weekend, Wander Franco has now been placed on the restricted list. Major League |
| 1:18.2 | Baseball is looking into social media posts that surfaced over the weekend. The posts |
| 1:23.1 | alleged that Franco had an inappropriate relationship with a minor. So disgusting allegations at this point, |
| 1:29.5 | and there's not a ton that we know. The latest that I saw as of Monday afternoon is that he'll be |
| 1:34.9 | on the restricted list until at least August 22nd. And we know from similar instances, |
| 1:41.8 | a lot of times the league's investigation takes several weeks to be |
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