The Search for Innings, A New Early-Season Hitting Metric & Situational Velocity as a Sweet Spot?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss their ongoing search for quality innings, how to adjust if you're already looking to make up ground in pitching categories, a new early-season hitting metric to consider, reaching maximum velocities on a situational basis, and more.
Rundown
- Finding Starting Pitchers Early in the Season
- Beyond the Streamers
- Regrets About an Early Tyler Wells Drop?
- Prospect of the Week is Back!
- A New Early Sample Hitting Metric (From Dorsey)
- Situational Max Velocity?
- An Exercise in Pickup Decisions
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Thursday, April 21st, Derek Van Riper, here Enosaris on this episode. We will discuss the problem of finding starting pitching in season already an issue for me in more than a couple of leagues. And it looks like the waiver wire is already pretty thin. So digging a little deeper, looking for some help on that front. |
| 0:38.2 | Got an email sent to Eno about a new early sample hitting metrics, so we'll dig into that |
| 0:43.6 | and talk about what that might mean and how that might steer us to a few players to either |
| 0:47.5 | trade for or possibly even pick up in a few cases. |
| 0:50.7 | There's a handful of names on there that might actually be available in some more shallow formats. Had a good follow-up email to Max Velocity that we talked about on the last episode with Jacob DeGroms. We'll try to get to that today as well. And if there's time, we'll go through a pickup process example, because there was a request for us to kind of walk through step by step how we would look at a |
| 1:11.0 | situation if we were thinking about picking up two different hitters. |
| 1:14.0 | How would we go about doing that? |
| 1:15.3 | So let's begin, Eno, with finding pitching in season, a common problem, not just a Derek |
| 1:20.8 | problem. |
| 1:21.3 | This is not just me having therapy on the podcast. |
| 1:25.5 | There is a league where I am doing great with my bats. I am among the |
| 1:31.3 | league leaders in hitting points and I am currently dead last in pitching points. And my concern |
| 1:38.7 | about that is that I'm dead last in strikeouts, not that I'm dead last in ERA and second to last in whip, because I |
| 1:46.6 | think the pitchers I have are not as bad ratio-wise as they've been to their first two turns |
| 1:54.5 | in the rotation. |
| 1:55.3 | That's an easy thing to talk myself out of, but I do think if you're sitting in the position I am where you are underperforming in |
| 2:03.5 | strikeouts through two weeks, you need to make adjustments now. |
| 2:07.5 | And that led me to the waiver wire. |
| 2:10.0 | I look at the wires, it's a 15 team league in this case. |
| 2:13.0 | I said, this is not good. |
| 2:14.0 | There's not a lot of pitching help out here. |
| 2:17.0 | So I need to start formulating a plan to get more volume and to help close down that gap |
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