The Closer Episode
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Rundown
2:54 What Matters to Teams When Choosing a Closer?
6:34 Which Early Closers Do You Trust?
13:05 The Value of Josh Hader, With Fewer Saves
17:45 Considering Rogers, Hand & Jansen
25:45 Messy Closer Situations: Seattle, San Francisco & Pittsburgh
37:04 Preferred 'Discounted' Closer
39:18 Buying Hand or Giles?
49:57 Getting Caught on the Wrong Side of a Run
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| 1:11.5 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels, episode number 68. It is February 11th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. Pitcher Week became eight days of pitching, which is probably a more unique rates and barrels sort of thing anyway. So that comes to a close with our breakdown of relievers on this episode. So we'll talk about closers a lot. We'll talk about whether save should even be a standalone rotissary category anymore. Some housekeeping before |
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| 1:50.9 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Tuesday? |
| 1:52.5 | Everything's good. |
| 1:53.4 | Everything's good. |
| 2:00.3 | I'm a little sick, but I think it's just like a little little one i can knock out of the park real quick i think |
| 2:00.8 | you know the the temperatures are changing a little bit out here and there's always going to be |
| 2:04.8 | you know something waiting for you especially when you got kids man they just they are just |
| 2:09.2 | festering gobs of nastiness and they just they just pass it to each other it's almost like |
| 2:15.7 | they're french kissing or something. I don't know. |
| 2:21.8 | I'm not a parent at this time. |
| 2:25.3 | I see it secondhand, though. |
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