Tough Decisions, Staying Ahead of Second-Half Fades & Starting Pitchers We're Worried About
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss tough in-season decisions for the Tigers (Spencer Torkelson's demotion) and Twins (Edouard Julien's demotion), and the promotion of Connor Norby, before considering the factors to account for when trying to move on from pitchers that have performed very well during the first two months of the season.
Rundown
1:48 Spencer Torkelson: Optioned to Triple-A
8:31 Justyn-Henry Malloy Gets the Call
12:38 Royce Lewis' Return Bumps Edouard Julien to Triple-A
23:19 Connor Norby: Promoted by Orioles
29:08 Adam Mazur: Gets the Call to San Diego
31:42 Question of Our Times: Timing Value Drops for First-Half Stars
42:31 Which Pitchers Are You Most Worried About?
53:38 Where the Money Went: Yimi Garcia, Matt Vierling, Mark Vientos & David Hamilton
1:02:00 Reid Detmers' Long-Term Outlook
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, June 3rd. Derek and Riper, I know Saris here with you on this episode. |
| 0:20.7 | We've got some fantasy baseball news you should know. |
| 0:23.8 | It has some real-life implications, too. |
| 0:26.0 | We've got a segment called The Question of Our Times, really just the mailbag question |
| 0:29.5 | of the day, but it sounds so much more epic if it's the question of our times, which focuses |
| 0:34.4 | on first half performers that you might want to try trading away or maybe just using less in the second half despite their success up to this point. |
| 0:44.3 | We've got a reverse mailbag question that I use in our Discord to ask people who are in the Discord questions that I want answers to. |
| 0:51.6 | And that's a related question, which currently affected pitchers |
| 0:54.7 | are most likely to suffer a skills drop |
| 0:57.3 | in the second half of the season. |
| 0:59.1 | So a connection there |
| 1:00.1 | between the question of our times |
| 1:02.0 | and the reverse mailbag. |
| 1:03.7 | We also have where the money went |
| 1:05.1 | and some drops from the weekend. |
| 1:08.2 | Eno, how are you doing on this Monday? |
| 1:10.6 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:12.4 | It was a fun Firestone Walker Beer Festival. |
| 1:16.8 | I saw the Furiosa movie. |
| 1:19.9 | It was okay. |
| 1:22.5 | It wasn't the best. |
| 1:23.6 | But it's still Mad Max. |
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