Underperforming Pitchers & The Problem with Not Swinging
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the value of not swinging the bat, and why that might be a big problem for baseball to solve. Plus, they examine several slow-starting pitchers in search of underlying problems that could persist, and potential trade targets.
Rundown
- Swinging Is Bad, Mmmm K?
- Is Something Wrong With Freddy Peralta?
- José Berríos' Slow Start
- Fading Interest in Targeting Charlie Morton?
- What's Up with Trevor Rogers?
- Tyler Mahle: Not an SP1 (Shocker)
- "You Can't Go Rapid Fire On José Urquidy!"
- Taking the 'L' with Kyle Hendricks
- Germán Márquez's Awful Start
- Scouting & Projections
- xStats v. ROS Projections
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops. |
| 0:19.2 | Derek Van Riper here with Enno Saris on this episode. |
| 0:23.3 | We would discuss the story that Eno had published at the Athletic on Thursday, |
| 0:27.7 | where it is revealed that swinging is bad. |
| 0:30.6 | It is just bad for the hitters to swing at pitches. |
| 0:33.2 | We'll talk about why that might be a problem. |
| 0:34.7 | I know we tease this a little bit on the Monday show, |
| 0:36.9 | but now that the story is out, we can talk a little bit more about that. |
| 0:39.6 | We continue our Is Something Wrong with Blank series moving on to pictures on this episode. |
| 0:46.4 | And I changed the question. |
| 0:48.6 | Instead of what's wrong with, which implies that something is wrong, it's now is something wrong with, which seems like a much more fair way to ask these |
| 0:55.7 | sorts of questions about people in general, but especially, you know, pitchers. |
| 1:01.0 | Sometimes this industry is so hard. |
| 1:03.8 | We're just mean sometimes. |
| 1:05.1 | Like, not even intentionally. |
| 1:06.8 | We're just absolutely mean. |
| 1:08.5 | He's terrible. |
| 1:09.8 | He spent 15 years in the big leagues. Went to the All-Star game 10 times, won four batting |
| 1:14.2 | titles. |
| 1:14.7 | Oh, he's awful at age 39. |
| 1:16.1 | But his target, not high enough, so it's not sustainable, so he sucks. |
| 1:19.0 | He's like 85% of a Hall of Famer, but 15% total clown. |
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