Tigers Pitching, Max Scherzer's Injury & Putting a Bow on 2023
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Eno's annual piece looking at the best pitches of 2023 before cleaning out their rundown refrigerator for the end of the year. With new additions to the Tigers' rotation and a clean bill of healthy for Casey Mize, which starters in Detroit are they targeting this draft season? Plus, can the Rangers weather a lengthy absence from Max Scherzer with their current group of pitchers? Will Brett Baty step up and take a the bulk of the playing time at third base following Ronny Mauricio's ACL injury, and what should we expect from Henry Davis at the plate in 2024?
Rundown
1:00 Best Pitches of 2023 ($) https://theathletic.com/5146544
3:32 Casey Mize's Clean Bill of Health
7:36 Tarik Skubal's Impressive Projection and Early ADP
11:32 Kenta Maeda & Jack Flaherty Join Reese Olson, Sawyer Gipson-Long, and Matt Manning in the Rotation Picture Behind Skubal
22:29 Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Re-Ups with D-backs
28:17 Max Scherzer Undergoes Back Surgery
39:17 Ronny Mauricio Suffers a Torn ACL; Brett Baty time?
42:51 Endy Rodríguez Out for 2024; Henry Davis Back to Catcher?
49:15 The Pirates Make Several Additions
57:49 FOMO on Oneil Cruz in 2024?
1:02:54 Nick Senzel Gets a New Start in Washington
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, December 20th, the 20th, the 20th, |
| 0:20.5 | the 20th, finale of Rates and Barrels. |
| 0:23.1 | On this episode, we've got a bunch of loose ends to tie up before the New Year's. |
| 0:27.4 | You know what? |
| 0:28.2 | People know this by now if they listen to the show. |
| 0:30.8 | I like to clean everything out and start fresh every single year, right? |
| 0:34.5 | Inbox zero, people know that about me. |
| 0:37.4 | Cleanse. The cleanse, the purge. It. People know that about me. Cleanse. |
| 0:37.9 | The cleanse, the purge. |
| 0:39.3 | It has to happen before the end of the year. |
| 0:41.2 | So all of the little bits of information we've had kind of rolling over on the rundown |
| 0:47.2 | for the last couple of weeks. |
| 0:48.8 | It's all just mushed together to make one show to just cap it all off so we can all say, hey, |
| 0:54.8 | 20203 was great and now we're moving on to 2024. |
| 0:59.1 | But it is the time of year where you drop your best pitches of the year. |
| 1:02.9 | So best pitches of 2023 up on the athletic, the good, the sweepy, and the nasty. |
| 1:08.2 | And I'm not kidding. |
| 1:09.1 | I spent about 10 minutes of show prep time |
| 1:11.0 | watching the Bobby Miller four seamer and then a few more minutes watching the |
| 1:15.6 | Jordan Hicks two seamer that was just ridiculous he basically turns Luis |
| 1:20.3 | Urius into a top at the plate in that clip that you chose for the piece yeah it ended |
| 1:26.9 | up being kind of subjective because I wanted to use Stuff Plus, but I didn't |
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