Surprising Park Factor Changes, Recent Barrel Rates & Two Ways to Lock In a Speeding Ticket

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR are back to discuss a few major shifts in park factors thanks to a myriad of changes for 2022, why trusting smaller volumes of park data can be risky, and how it might be effectively leveraged despite limitations going forward. Plus, questions about rolling barrel rates, Corey Seager's lagging slash line, Freddie Freeman's missing homers, Ranger Suárez, Logan Gilbert, and more.

Rundown

-- Park Factor Changes

-- St. Louis is Completely Different; Will It Last?

-- How Might We Take Advantage of Parks Playing Differently?

-- Rolling Barrel Rates; Recent Standouts

-- Corey Seager's Disappointing Slash Line

-- Freddie Freeman's Missing Homers

-- Want to Make Sure You Get a Speed Ticket? Do This!

-- Ranger Suárez & Logan Gilbert Mailbag Questions

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rates and Beryls. It is Friday, June 17th. I told everybody we would get the cover all.
0:22.0	We would record an episode of this podcast every day of the week at some point this season.
0:27.7	And I think we are one day on the bingo car.
0:31.4	If it wasn't covered already, Friday is covered.
0:35.0	Saturday, we're coming for you.
0:36.4	Not this week, but at some point, at some point, this season. It's going to happen. Live from the COVID cabana.
0:45.2	Yeah. How are you feeling? Can't take me down.
0:50.1	Tired. Mostly tired. That's been the number one symptom for me tired tired tired also can't
0:56.8	can't like can't separate it from the jet lag so but uh we waited uh we waited a week uh we had we had
1:06.3	actually a covid cabana we were out in the pool house uh trying to sequester from our family
1:10.7	uh to keep them from
1:12.2	getting it. Unfortunately, that was in vain. They all got it the day we left. So you're like,
1:18.5	see you guys. Sorry. You were those people. Yeah. Yeah. Terrible, terrible house guests.
1:27.3	It could have been worse. We got it on the last day, so I guess we got it while we were in Hawaii. We didn't bring it. And we got a regular vacation. And then we got a little bonus. I wouldn't quite call it a vacation. We were like, there are a worst place to be stuck. When you're sick,
1:44.4	you're kind of like, it's not like you're like, ooh, Hawaii, you know, like you're not in the pool, you're not like at the beach, you're kind of, and then you'd rather have all the sort of amenities and your comforts of your own house. So I had, I was much rather that I'd been home. but
1:41.4	all fairs and all is fair and love and war
1:44.2	and we are back.
2:05.7	I'm glad everyone's feeling better.
2:07.7	That's really good and glad you're back.
2:10.0	And we got a lot to get to on this episode.
2:11.9	We had some questions trickling in about park factors.
2:14.5	And those are always tricky when we're talking about even a full season.
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