The Mets' blame game, 2021 team disappointments, and finding future speed
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the blame game in the Big Apple -- including the hope of potential rebounds at the plate from a few key Mets bats -- before attempting to find paths to the future sources of stolen bases in 2022 and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. Checkout Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Tops baseball cards. |
| 0:22.5 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. It is Wednesday, August 18th. And we have a lot to talk about |
| 0:27.8 | because finger pointing is happening, and it's happening around the Mets. So we're going to talk |
| 0:33.4 | about the Mets, and they're a recent slide and figure out who's really to blame or what is |
| 0:37.5 | really to blame for their disappointing season. But we're also going to pull back and take a |
| 0:41.3 | look and see if there are other teams that are actually bigger disappointments than the Mets. |
| 0:46.0 | I know they had lofty expectations, but we're going to try to quantify this and |
| 0:49.2 | dig into that a bit. I'm also going to take a look at a really good question we got from |
| 0:53.5 | a listener about elite speed and the development of hitters trying to figure out where we can find |
| 0:59.3 | viable speed sources in the future. And we had a follow-up question. We're talking about top players |
| 1:05.5 | for 2022 from a fantasy perspective on our last show. There was a good follow-up question on Twitter |
| 1:09.6 | about Shohay Otani. So we'll kind of set some expectations where we think he might go looking ahead to drafts for next year. So all those topics and probably a few more along the way. You know, I don't think I've been this happy about a furniture delivery in my entire life. I have a couch now in my new place. It only took about two weeks from the time we got here to get it, which is actually pretty fast given the state of the world. So I'm very grateful that it got here as quickly as it did. You got a couch. You have a TV stand. You put that together. TV stand is built. The TV is on it and functioning. It is hooked up. Obviously, I've got the internet. Do you have a bed frame yet? |
| 1:45.3 | Are you sleeping on the ground still? |
| 1:46.3 | No bed frame, which Hazel loves. |
| 1:48.4 | We still have the guest mattress on the floor right now. |
| 1:51.9 | So a smaller bed on the floor. |
| 1:53.7 | Dog loves it. |
| 1:54.5 | Steph and I, less happy about it. |
| 1:58.0 | And then the camping stuff. |
| 1:59.4 | All right. |
| 1:59.9 | And the camping stuff. |
| 2:00.8 | And you can see behind me. |
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