World Series Preview & Predictions: Yankees v. Dodgers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR preview the World Series matchup between the Yankees and Dodgers, examining the team's position player groups -- including defense and baserunning -- pitching, and the difficulty of game planning throughout the series. Plus, they share their predictions for series winner and series MVP.
Rundown
1:32 The Lineups: Depth Will Be Under the Microscope Behind Stars
14:38 How Do the Yankees & Dodgers Stack Up Defensively?
24:05 Do the Dodgers Have a Significant Edge on the Basepaths?
27:55 Game-by-Game Starting Pitcher Outlook
33:52 The Challenge of Limiting Looks at Your Relievers
37:07 Game Planning Considerations for the Series
51:54 Predictions: Series Winner & MVP
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates in Beryl. It's Thursday, October 24th. |
| 0:15.9 | Derek Van Riper, Inoceris here with you. |
| 0:18.1 | This is our 2024 World Series preview. We spent a lot of time this you. This is our 2024 world series preview. |
| 0:22.8 | We spent a lot of time this week. |
| 0:24.4 | This is it? |
| 0:25.3 | This is the one. |
| 0:26.6 | Not the other four. |
| 0:29.5 | It was all building up to this. |
| 0:31.8 | That was the long road, the detailed version of what we're going to do. |
| 0:36.5 | This is the more condensed, meaty version, all of which should be enjoyable by my calculations. |
| 0:44.0 | So, on this episode, we're going to take a detailed look at the position players on both the Yankees and Dodgers. |
| 0:50.0 | Try and see if there is an edge within those groups. |
| 0:53.9 | Spoiler alert, they're both great great and it's hard to find differences. |
| 0:57.6 | We'll do our best to do that. |
| 0:59.1 | We'll dig into the pitching matchups. |
| 1:01.2 | Now that we have a little bit more of the schedule for the series, |
| 1:04.5 | we're going to talk about the pitching plan. |
| 1:06.3 | How do you game plan to face the league's two best lineups |
| 1:09.9 | and some of the best hitters of all time. |
| 1:12.4 | We'll get our predictions in at the end of the show as well. |
| 1:15.6 | So a lot to discuss. |
| 1:17.2 | And frankly, I'm also ready for the games to begin on Friday because I want to see if all the things we've been talking about play out the way that we hope that they're going to play out. |
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