Tough Late-Season Decisions, Finding First Base Help & Throwing Too Many Strikes
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few challenging late-season decisions, how to potentially avoid the issues in the future, a disappointing 2022 from Jared Walsh, the search for help at first base, their latest installment of Prospect of the Week, pitching in the zone 'too much' and more.
Rundown
-- Tough Late-Season Decisions
-- How to Avoid Chasing Pitching in the Future
-- Making the Difficult Drop
-- Jared Walsh's 2022: What Went Wrong?
-- Finding First Base Help
-- Prospect of the Week
-- More Info on Cade Cavalli
-- Removing Bias Against Old Pitchers
-- Pitching In the Zone Too Much?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, August 26. We're recording this on Thursday. We're just spacing out the |
| 0:22.2 | episode a little bit because of the unusual schedule this week. Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:26.8 | Enosaris on this episode, a grab bag of topics. I hinted at the possibility of this on |
| 0:31.6 | our last episode. We're going to talk about some tough late season decisions that we have to make |
| 0:36.0 | with our roster. In-season management this time of year is a little bit different, but it's also tricky for a multitude of reasons. |
| 0:42.8 | We'll dig into some of those problems that we're currently experiencing and fighting against in our various leagues. |
| 0:50.0 | We are going to have an installment of Prospect of the Week, which I know people are always excited |
| 0:54.7 | about. |
| 0:55.4 | We're going to take a look at some possible help at the first base position where we've had a few |
| 0:59.6 | injuries recently and a few longer-term underperformers that you might finally be ready to |
| 1:04.2 | move on from. |
| 1:05.3 | I've got some mailbag questions to get to, and I think Eno found some interesting stuff |
| 1:09.1 | about Cade Cavali upon a little extra digging |
| 1:12.2 | around since our last episode. So we begin with the tough late season decisions. What is giving |
| 1:19.1 | you grief as you try and set your lineups each week on Mondays and Fridays, you know, what are |
| 1:25.6 | the most difficult things that you have to decide on |
| 1:28.8 | as you round out a lineup? The worst is when you have needs in diametrically opposed categories. |
| 1:37.1 | You know, so in one of my leagues, I could probably get three standing points if I went after K's and I could get three standing |
| 1:45.7 | points if I went after saves. And that's the, that's probably the worst two categories to have |
| 1:50.7 | needs in because they are opposed to one another. You have a, like, especially in something like |
| 1:56.4 | NFBC, you have a, you have a roster slot that either go to a closer that's going to get |
| 2:00.2 | you fewer Ks, or you can go to a closer that's going to get you fewer Ks, |
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