Surprising rebounds, year-over-year barrel rate risers, and overcoming less than elite stuff

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Eno and DVR discuss several surprising 2021 rebounds, the limitations of using launch angle as a standalone stat, year-over-year risers in barrel rate and wOBA, and more. Rundown 3:00 Surprising 2021 Bouncebacks 10:43 Buying the 'new' Madison Bumgarner? 19:54 Launch Angle Changes: Kris Bryant, Mike Trout, and Ronald Acuña 27:24 Year-over-Year Barrel Rate Risers 35:47 DVR Sticking with JVM + Other Undervalued Bats 43:11 Great Deliveries & Spin Direction, Less than Elite Stuff Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/mo to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:40.3	Derek Van Riper here with Enel Baller. We'll try that name on for size here. Got it on the screen if you're watching us on YouTube. We're going to talk about some bouncebacks on today's show, some early surprises in that regard. And we'll try to figure out just how real those bounce backs are. We're going to talk about some launch angle movers and some other stat cast shifts that have occurred early on this season. we've got a lot of great mailbag questions coming in every day.
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