Setting the Table for 2021 Pitcher Rankings
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss how they're going to build 2021 pitcher rankings coming out of the shortened 2020 season, in an effort to balance risk with injuries, skills, stuff and command.
Rundown
5:25 Early 2021 Starting Pitcher Rankings Thoughts
10:50 Age, Injuries & Decline
18:10 The ‘Flawed’ Pop-Up Pitchers of 2020
23:46 Which Pitchers Don’t Have Any Flaws
30:45 The Surprising Season From Dakota Hudson
35:50 Avoiding Red Flags Early
40:47 Are You More Comfortable Betting on Stuff or Command Improvement?
49:25 How to Handle Prospect Pitchers with Poor Command
53:14 Good Control without Good Command?
58:33 Various Considerations in Defining Athleticism
64:26 Matt Chapman’s Season-Ending Injury
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| 1:00.2 | Welcome to Rates and Beryls, episode number 138. |
| 1:02.9 | It is Tuesday, September 15th. |
| 1:09.5 | On this episode, we are going to discuss early 2021 starting pitcher ranking. |
| 1:13.6 | Some of the thoughts that are going to be bouncing around in our heads as we get ready for the earliest of early 2021 drafts. |
| 1:16.5 | Yes, I'm in a draft that starts a week from Monday, so a week from yesterday for the |
| 1:22.8 | 2021 season. |
| 1:23.9 | It's the premature league. |
| 1:25.2 | I share a team with Todd Zola in that league every season. |
| 1:28.9 | And it's fun because there's no ADP, there are no projections, there are no consensus |
| 1:34.0 | opinions. It's really just taking what we've seen in the season, trying to quickly come up |
| 1:39.9 | with our own ranks and projections, and trying to make the best possible decisions based on that, |
| 1:44.8 | while not getting completely overrun by recency bias, because the things you just saw |
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