Surprising Starting Pitchers, The Challenge of Hitting in Seattle & How to Pitch to Elly De La Cruz
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Trevor and DVR discuss Christian Scott ahead of his debut against the Rays, and four surprising starting pitchers that have put up great numbers over the first month-plus of the season. They also examine the unique challenges of hitting in Seattle -- and try to determine why the park consistently boosts strikeouts -- before building a game plan to pitch to Elly De La Cruz.
Rundown
1:10 Christian Scott Debuting Saturday
3:45 Jack Flaherty: Career-Best K%, BB% & SwStr%!
14:07 Spencer Turnbull: Can He Maintain the Elevated K%?
21:48 Tanner Houck’s Breakout
29:38 Is Zack Littell’s Approach Meshing Well in Tampa?
35:42 What Makes Hitting in Seattle So Difficult?
55:15 Building a Game Plan: Elly De La Cruz
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates Barrels, it's Friday, May 3rd, Derek and Riper, you know Sarah. Trevor May here with the It's a Live One. Thanks for joining us on our YouTube page. |
| 0:24.5 | We're the live most Fridays at 1 o'clock Eastern. On this episode, we're going to talk about some surprising starting pitchers. |
| 0:30.8 | Got a quartet of guys that have exceeded expectations so far. We'll discuss whether you should expect anything similar to the results so far to continue. |
| 0:39.5 | We're going to dig into the Mariners slumping offense and try to figure out why it's so difficult to hit in Seattle. |
| 0:45.5 | It's been a long-term problem. |
| 0:47.0 | It goes as far back really as Adrian Beltrae's time there in that newer ballpark in Seattle. |
| 0:52.4 | So we'll talk about that. |
| 0:53.5 | We've got a latest in our game plan series. We're going to talk about how Eno and Trevor would pitch to Ellie De LaCruz. And of course, as we do each and every Friday, we'll take some questions at the end of the show as well. If you haven't joined it already, jump into the Discord. The link is going to be in the show description for this episode. We do have one |
| 1:11.6 | upcoming debut to talk about before we get to our first topics. Christian Scott will come up and |
| 1:16.3 | face the raise for his Major League debut on Saturday. We talked about him a little bit on the |
| 1:21.4 | Thursday show. Big numbers at AAA, 36Ks against just six walks and 25 in the third innings. |
| 1:27.4 | Has allowed seven homers, but |
| 1:28.9 | overall really good results and given the struggles of Adrian Houser in the back of the |
| 1:32.9 | rotation, this seemed like something that was on the horizon. |
| 1:36.1 | Now we know it's officially coming Saturday. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, a little bit more command over stuff, but he still had top 10 stuff plus in my minor |
| 1:43.5 | league numbers. |
| 1:45.0 | And honestly, I'd rather hear that a guy had command coming up. |
| 1:49.6 | So I think that he should hit the air on running. |
| 1:53.4 | One of the nice things about that is he's going to pitch in New York. |
| 1:57.9 | And we'll be talking about park factors. |
| 1:59.5 | But I was talking to Pete Alonzo |
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