World Series Reliever Rankings & Critical Matchups
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR, Trevor discuss the passing of Fernando Valenzuela, whose dominant 1981 season led to Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Award honors in the same campaign and spurred 'Fernandomania' in Los Angeles. Plus, they dig into reliever rankings for the World Series and critical matchups that each team will be focused on during the Fall Classic.
Rundown
0:59 Fernando Valenzuela Passes Away at Age 63
5:21 Reliever Rankings for the World Series: Who Is No. 1?
15:59 Evan Phillips' Difficult Matchup with the Yankees' Bats
20:12 Tommy Kahnle's Extremely Heavy Changeup Usage
28:08 The Yankees' Lack of Power Lefties in the Bullpen
37:27 Uncertainty Around Nestor Cortes Jr.'s Availability & Role
44:22 Critical Matchups That Could Swing the Series
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Trevor May
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to it's Beryl Wednesday, October 23rd, Derek and Riper, Unoceris, Trevor May here with you. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome back, Trevor. How are you doing? I am good. Rested and readyiper, Inoceros. Trevor, May here with you. Welcome back, Trevor. |
| 0:21.2 | How are you doing? I am good. |
| 0:22.9 | Rested. Ready to go. |
| 0:25.8 | Relatively rested. Well, congratulations on the new addition to your family. |
| 0:29.6 | We're glad to have you back on this episode. |
| 0:32.7 | We're going to rank the relievers on the World Series rosters. |
| 0:36.3 | Yesterday, we went through the process of ranking the pitchers we expect to see as starters. |
| 0:40.8 | We're going to dig into a few critical matchups that could swing the series as well, |
| 0:45.2 | which kind of ties into how we would rank these relievers. |
| 0:47.8 | There might be a couple of vulnerabilities that each of these lineups can exploit |
| 0:51.3 | if the right situations arise. |
| 0:54.0 | So a lot of tactical talk, let a reliever talk on this pod. Each of these lineups can exploit if the right situations arise. |
| 0:58.2 | So a lot of tactical talk, a lot of reliever talk on this pod. |
| 1:03.6 | Some sad news, though, as we get started today, we learned on Tuesday of the passing of Fernando Valenzuela. He passed away at the age of 63, a Dodgers legend, who brought Fernando Mania in 1981, won the rookie of the year and Sy Young Award that same season, six-time All-Star, and a guy that was a huge influence on the Latino community in L.A., brought a ton of fans to the ballpark. I think that was a huge part of it. Also put his home country really on the map as a place where big league players were going to come from going forward too. |
| 1:29.7 | So massive impact, big loss in not only just the Dodgers community, but in the baseball community as well. |
| 1:35.8 | A lot of folks don't know Fernando Villensuela also was part of that broadcast crew since 2003 with legendary announcer Jaime Harin too. |
| 1:43.5 | So a huge part of the Dodgers organization. |
| 1:46.8 | I feel like jealous that I missed out on Fernandomania because it sounds like something that |
| 1:53.5 | would happen today and get kind of like overused in social media and SEO optimization, |
| 2:00.7 | but was actually just a larger than life sort of |
| 2:03.7 | phenomenon when it happened back in the 80s. I agree. I love that stuff. I mean, that's what would |
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