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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Slow-Starting Hitters, Roster Shrinkage Fallout & Joe Ryan Defies the Model

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Mlb, Baseball, Sports

4.7873 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss several slow-starting bats and try to determine where there are opportunities to make viable trades, and where the early downturn in performance might be a warning sign of a disappointing 2022 season. Plus, they discuss some of the fallout from rosters shrinking, and Joe Ryan's success despite underwhelming pitching model numbers. 


Rundown

- Making Sense of Marcus Semien's April

- Is Anything Actually Wrong with Whit Merrifield?

- Randy Arozarena's GB% & O-Swing% Spike

- Is Ketel Marte Broken?

- Trent Grisham's Post 2020 Stumble

- Jesse Winker's Quiet Start in Seattle

- Franmil Reyes & Max Muncy

- Justin Turner v. Time

- Willie Calhoun Wants a Trade; Would You Trade For Him?

- Josh Lowe Heads Back to Durham

- Joe Ryan v. the Pitching+ Model


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, May 2nd, Derek Van Riper here with Enos

0:19.6

Seris. You know, looking more rested than usual for a Monday.

0:23.4

And are you caffeinated?

0:24.8

You don't drink coffee.

0:25.8

What did you do?

0:26.4

Did you drink some of that mudwater stuff that's been going around?

0:30.6

No, it's just a good weekend.

0:32.0

You know, took the kids to the San Jose Giants.

0:35.6

And they did the bouncy houses and the throwing of the balls and the

0:39.4

they were actually you know I I wasn't sure like one of the things I told them was it might be a

0:45.4

little bit more fun than the Stanford games we go to because they do more things like in between

0:50.0

in between innings they have more like sort of game type things.

0:58.0

And then I was worried that they weren't going to do fun ones that day because they do different ones all the time.

0:59.9

And they did hilarious ones because I think they're mostly hilarious.

1:04.0

And the kids loved it.

1:05.1

Like one of them was a non-alcoholic run and beer chug.

1:09.4

And it was amazing because there was two dudes and a lady, and the lady got to the table

1:17.1

last.

1:18.0

And there was a guy who got there first.

1:20.0

She opened it and chugged it and beat them both and then flipped the table and like,

1:25.9

it was like, wah! And like, it was like,

1:29.3

and the whole crowd was like,

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