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WAF 212 - Barrel Rate Standouts & Surprises

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Baseball, Sports, Fantasy Sports, Pitcher List, Fantasy Baseball

4.7841 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Wins Above Fantasy – Van Burnett (@Van_Verified) and Steve Gesuele (@stav8818) break down early-season barrel rate trends now that batted ball data has begun to stabilize. They revisit last year’s approach—starting with barrel rate and layering in supporting metrics like pull air%, hard-hit rates, and plate skills—to identify 2026 standouts, underperformers, and year-to-year improvers. The episode focuses on hitters making meaningful skill changes (stance, swing decisions, contact quality), and what those changes might mean for fantasy value going forward.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Wins Above Fantasy, part of the Pitcherless podcast network with Van Burnett and Steve Giswelly.

0:13.2

Welcome back, everybody. It is Wins Above Fantasy episode 212. Van Burnett back in action alongside Steve

0:20.2

Joswelly. As always, Thursday, April 30th. But we are... Van Burnett back in action alongside Steve Gisweli, as always.

0:22.7

Thursday, April 30th, but we are recording on Tuesday, and we got a great show ahead tonight.

0:28.6

It's the barrel rate special where we are looking at some of the exciting, interesting,

0:34.5

maybe unexpected names in some cases on the leaderboard of barrels.

0:40.0

Now that the batted ball events are at a kind of statistically relevant spot, it's always a

0:47.6

fantastic time of the year to look at what's really the bread and butter of stat cast data and seems like at this point it's kind of an

0:57.4

oldie but a goody and I can't wait to get into it but Steve I know you and Dan covered last

1:03.9

week did a fantastic job I think you guys actually had a pitching call that is coming to fruition as we record tonight.

1:14.4

The name is slipping me, so I'm going to have to go look at that.

1:17.5

But you guys did a great job.

1:19.3

Dan, thank you for filling in.

1:21.6

And Steve, Hope All as well.

1:22.9

I know we were talking off air, but I was on a fantasy baseball trip down in Tampa with the Home League

1:29.5

celebrating 25 years.

1:31.0

It was fantasy baseball heaven, just beach, saw an awesome game at the drop, checked off

1:37.8

another stadium.

1:38.9

So now I am at 16, I believe.

1:42.2

So I'm past a halfway mark, so very exciting. But good to be back talking baseball with you, man. How's it going? That's good, man. Yeah, everything I heard about the trip was awesome. That's truly why we do this, right? Stuff like that. It goes just beyond this game. Like, we talk about a lot on the show. So that's awesome hazos lazardo was the name by the way

2:03.0

had a great outing nice little bounce back call yeah yeah um yeah that's awesome that's really cool

2:09.8

that you guys get to do that that's special you know i know we talk about draft day and everyone

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