Statcast Bat Tracking, Struggling Starting Pitchers, and Pitching Model/Results Disagreements
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the early applications of Statcast Bat Tracking data, as well as what they hope to learn as the dataset grows in the future before examining several struggling starting pitchers, and a few Pitching Model v. Results disagreements.
Rundown
-- Statcast Bat Tracking
-- Max Swing Speed & Max EV for Power, Barrel Precision for Hit Tool?
-- A Closer Look at Astros & Dodgers
-- Ian Anderson, We Were Warned, But Can He Be Fixed?
-- Yusei Kikuchi: Any Reasons for Rebound Optimism?
-- Aaron Ashby: Extended by Brewers, Big Breakout Looming?
-- Daniel Lynch: Still Frustrating, Still Offers Potential
-- Pitching Model v. Results
-- Nathan Eovaldi's Brutal Weekend Start
-- Prospect of the Week!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.8 | It's Monday, July 25th. |
| 0:18.8 | Derek Van Riper here with half marathon finisher, Enosaris. |
| 0:22.4 | Eno, how are you feeling today? |
| 0:24.4 | Oh, I got hardware. |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah, baby. |
| 0:28.1 | Yeah, baby. |
| 0:29.6 | I told my kids this was because I got first place. |
| 0:33.4 | Do you think they're, did they believe that even now? |
| 0:36.3 | Or will they soon find out that's not the case? |
| 0:39.6 | No, then I told them, I was just kidding. |
| 0:42.1 | I did finish above the 50th percentile for men. |
| 0:49.4 | So there's that. |
| 0:50.5 | So slightly red dot on your stat cast half marathon time page my got that dog in |
| 0:59.2 | him slider has passed 50% uh i'm sore in places i really didn't expect to be sore um i i also |
| 1:09.6 | apologize to anybody in the last sort of mile and a half of the race, I was not |
| 1:15.0 | yelling at you. I was yelling at me. I was yelling words of encouragement at myself, things like, |
| 1:23.3 | only am I left. Come on. Let's go. Let's F and go. |
| 1:28.1 | And I hope that anybody that was sort of finishing with a walk or going slower than me at that point was not like, this a-hole. |
| 1:37.4 | That was me just trying to fire myself up for the last stretch, which I miss red. |
| 1:42.6 | So I had a one last stretch where I sprinted |
| 1:46.1 | past the ballpark and sprint is in relative terms here. And then, uh, and then I realized, oh, |
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