Surprising Bats, Bohm Promotion & Broken Profiles
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR take a look at several surprising performers near the top of hitter leaderboards, Trevor Story’s attempt to move into the elite of the elite, the promotion of Alec Bohm, and players with concerning batted-ball profile and approach changes to begin the season.
Rundown
3:31 Austin Slater Making Most of Opportunity in San Fran
6:45 Interest in Dylan Moore?
12:47 What’s Up with Robbie Grossman?
16:25 Andres Gimenez Offering Immediate Speed
20:15 Still Skeptical of Isiah Kiner-Falefa
23:06 Erik Gonzalez Quietly Making Better Contact
31:02 Alec Bohm Gets the Call
40:37 Trevor Story’s Improved Plate Skills
44:27 Batted Ball Profile Concerns
55:14 Statcast and Command
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode number 124. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. It is Thursday, August 13th. On this episode, |
| 0:22.8 | we'll take a look at some early surprises on a few hitter leaderboards. We'll discuss the |
| 0:27.0 | possibility that Trevor Story is becoming one of the elite of the elite hitters in baseball, |
| 0:31.9 | with some things he's been doing to begin this 2020 season. We'll also talk about some |
| 0:35.7 | hitters who are struggling with some early shifts in their batted ball profile that could be a sign of even worse days ahead. Eno, how's it going for you on this Thursday? It's good. It's going to be a hectic day. Going to be on the stat cast of cast. The, uh, the, uh, the, the, the, the the the |
| 0:55.3 | Brian Kenny |
| 0:56.4 | Sarah Langs |
| 0:57.7 | and I believe |
| 1:00.1 | Harold Reynolds |
| 1:00.7 | are doing |
| 1:02.0 | the Mets game |
| 1:03.8 | today |
| 1:04.4 | against the nationals |
| 1:07.4 | and I'm going to come on |
| 1:08.4 | for a little bit |
| 1:09.0 | I'll talk things like |
| 1:10.2 | extension and the stuff |
| 1:13.9 | that we talk about here, like why Austin both, why Austin both's new split finger is better than |
| 1:22.4 | his old changeup and stuff like that. So tune in if you got a chance. After that, I'm going to throw all the stuff behind me in a backpack, |
| 1:30.6 | put it on my back, and go totally off grid until Sunday. |
| 1:34.0 | And I'm hoping early enough Sunday that I can check the box course |
| 1:38.3 | and do my fab, maybe in the car on the way back. |
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