The Dodgers Are One Win Away & More Second-Half Takeaways
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the Dodgers' commanding lead over the Yankees after a 4-2 win in Game 3. Plus, they wonder if the TV strike-zone box is ready for an overhaul, and discuss why Brusdar Graterol doesn't strike more hitters out. Away from the World Series, they discuss several notable second-half performances including Blake Snell, Yusei Kikuchi and Hunter Brown with an eye toward early 2025 drafts.
Rundown
3:55 Another Strong Start From Walker Buehler
10:29 A Closer Look at Strike Three Against Gleyber Torres in the Seventh Inning
18:02 The Multi-Year Success of Dodger Bullpen Games
26:25 Why Doesn't Brusdar Graterol Get More Strikeouts?
30:48 Giving Blake Snell & Gerrit Cole the SP1 Treatment in 2025?
43:41 Eno's Lingering Concerns About Kevin Gausman
47:55 Is Hunter Brown an SP2 Now? (Top 30 Pitcher)
53:36 Buying 2023-2024 Improvements From Yusei Kikuchi?
56:42 Second-Half Hitter Questions: Josh Lowe's K%, Lars Nootbaar's Health & Sean Murphy's Productivity
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, October 29th. |
| 0:15.3 | Derek Van Riper Ido Seris here with you on this episode. We wonder, will the Dodgers sweep the Yankees on Tuesday night and take the Dream World series and turn it into a nightmare for fans in the Bronx? |
| 0:29.0 | The Dodgers is going to try to use a bullpen game to close it out. |
| 0:31.4 | We'll talk about the historical success they have had. |
| 0:34.4 | Eno did a deep dive for the athletic that went up on Tuesday, so we'll talk |
| 0:38.1 | a bit about that. Walker Bueller pitched well again in game three. We'll figure out if the stuff |
| 0:43.5 | kind of lines up with what we've seen overall in the last couple of weeks, or if it was just an |
| 0:48.0 | outlier where he still pitched well. There was a really interesting call that went against |
| 0:52.4 | Gleibro Torres that has all, has pushed me all the way to the side of being opposed to the TV strike zone box. |
| 1:00.0 | I think it does a lot more harm than good. |
| 1:03.7 | So we'll talk about that. |
| 1:05.2 | We're also going to look at Brousdardogradar. |
| 1:07.3 | Why doesn't this guy strike more guys out? |
| 1:09.2 | I think that's a fair question to ask when |
| 1:10.9 | you have electric stuff. And we've got a few players from our second half draft that we didn't |
| 1:15.9 | break down on yesterday's show. So we'll make sure we get to those before the end of today's show. |
| 1:21.3 | You know, this is not the party hangout we were hoping for so far in this world series. The Dodgers have a commanding 3-0 series lead over the Yankees. |
| 1:31.4 | I was surprised on the broadcast last night. |
| 1:33.8 | They popped up teams that had opened up a 2-0 lead in the World Series. |
| 1:38.8 | 21 times in World Series history, those series have gone on to be sweeps. |
| 1:43.7 | The other three times, they ended in five. |
| 1:46.9 | So that's really kind of a brutal outlook. |
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