No pitcher has improved their K-BB more in the last thirty days than Jordan Hicks.

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social and I discussed Ohtani's troublesome knee, a 13-game winning streak for the Red Sox, Kyle Bradish's extension, and a few bullpen puzzles. Thanks again to @samulskinyc.bsky.social for stepping in Friday! 🎧 pod.fo/e/44ff9a 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social, @iamtrevormay.bsky.social and I discussed AI usage on the dugout iPads, All-Star Game tweaks, second-half storylines, and Chase Burns' extension with the Reds.... Eno's story: theathletic.lnk.to/MLBAI 🎧 pod.fo/e/44cc05 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

All right guys, I would love your assistance. I've posted a 10-minute video recapping the extent to which Jeff Pearlman's Ruben Rivera video plagiarizes the visuals from my own video on him from 2021. There are 23 instances in which his editor lifted from me, and you can see them all in this.

Breaking MLB news from @enosarris.bsky.social: The custom applications teams were allowed to add to dugout iPads were causing alarm, as there were fears of AI modeling being used for in-game decision-making. Now those custom apps have been banned by the league: www.nytimes.com/athletic/744...

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @keithlaw.bsky.social joined @enosarris.bsky.social and I to discuss several takeaways from the Draft, and a few thoughts on the Futures Game.... Plus, a great chilaquiles recommendation if you stick around until the end. 🎧 pod.fo/e/44b7da 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

If you have or can obtain a 2026 MLB baseball, you should send it to me now!!

Which Home Run Derby slugger is best suited to take advantage of the new rules? www.nytimes.com/athletic/743...

I found these two aging curves to be validating, but I also think they inspire more questions when it comes to Cam Schlittler's approach and how it will age.

I just can't quit him

couldn’t include everything but the emails show how much MLB (Sword specifically) cares about how the public perceives its baseball. Picking apart @enosarris.bsky.social blogs lol

The baseball started to fly in June and drag dropped back toward 2019 levels...do we know why the ball has been so erratic this season? Rates & Barrels special episode: youtu.be/KLykjsUB8yQ Story from @enosarris.bsky.social & @evandrellich.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/741...

There's a manufacturing issue with the baseball. Drag is down. Link unclear. Full story to come shortly, but here's the statement I got from MLB when I asked about it.

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social and I discussed a weekend full of changes and wonder, which of the three big-market managerial openings is actually the best (Phillies, Mets, Red Sox)? Plus, were we wrong about Luis García Jr.? 🧇 🎧 pod.fo/e/43cd39 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

River Ryan's slider currently has the highest Stuff+ against opposite handed hitters of any pitch thrown more than 30 times in Triple-A this year. (I put major and minor league platoon splits in the google doc)

unserious proposal

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social and I discussed bat speed risers (and the typical ways bat speed increases), Stuff+ fallers, and Buster Posey's blunder from Tuesday's pre-game media availability in San Francisco.... 🎧 pod.fo/e/438dd7 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

Holy crap gonna be a lot of homers this summer, drag lower than any year but 2019 aka The Year of the Home Run.

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ These rankings stink! @enosarris.bsky.social and I discuss his updated Starting Pitcher rankings, and take an early look at this weekend's waiver-wire targets. Ranks: ($) www.nytimes.com/athletic/737... 🎧 pod.fo/e/4353ed 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

Fixed the sink *just* in time for the game i feel like a superhero

Revisiting tough ranks from earlier in the season, these are the the ten pitchers with the biggest difference between their actual ERA in May and their rest-of-season projected ERA (by OOPSY), and how they did in the last 30.

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ Three more from @enosarris.bsky.social and I. Tue: SP Tough Ranks & Chris Gill, MLB The Show: pod.fo/e/43268c Wed: Zone% & Fear: pod.fo/e/433647 Thur: Pitcher Miss Distances & Driveline Boogeyman w/@iamtrevormay.bsky.social: pod.fo/e/434437 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social returned from his spelunking adventure to discuss a wild weekend of baseball and several IL trades w/the return of Tarik Skubal soured by the hamate injuries to José Ramírez and Vinnie Pasquantino.... 🎧 pod.fo/e/431798 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

Dogs in a pile paid tribute to the knicks for winning but also played “freakie deakies in fenway” to balance things out

Eldridge got…Oracled?

Biggest SP Stuff+ surgers (Last 30 vs April) below. Looked more closely at stuff-surgers Aaron Nola, Emmet Sheehan, Noah Cameron, Jack Flaherty, Sean Burke, and Justin Wrobleski www.nytimes.com/athletic/734...

On the link between bat speed and injury, spurred by Aaron Judge’s trip to the IL www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Minor league injuries dwarf major league ones, of course, because of the sheer number of minor leaguers. But why do the Yankees, Mets, and Orioles rise to the top no matter how you slide the data? @brittghiroli.bsky.social and I investigated: www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @keithlaw.bsky.social joined @enosarris.bsky.social and I to discuss a few big movers on his in-season prospect list update (www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...) and some players to watch as the College World Series rolls along.... 🎧 pod.fo/e/425cad 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social and I took a look at some of the biggest risers and fallers at the plate between March/April and May. The annual reminder that the shape of a season can be *weird*! 🎧 pod.fo/e/424c5d 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social and I discussed the first round of proposals between the MLBPA and owners before our Fantasy Friday topics (Dustin May? 📈) and @nivshah.com's decision to side step the Hot Dog Fries at Nats Park.... 🎧 pod.fo/e/422819 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

Giants announced they have reassigned third base coach Hector Borg and Ron Wotus will replace him on an interim basis. Had to happen.

I filmed another one of these little grips/mechanics videos with Paul Sewald, about how he's a normal-slot guy but bends over weird... or at least I thought I filmed it. Looks like I got his toes and then stopped filming. Sweet.

Grant Taylor, high slot righty, learned a new pitch from his low-slot lefty brother:

Sell-high starting pitchers, which teams to stream against, and how much of a fantasy longshot are low-strikeout rate starters? t.co/DSGS64bJoJ

Particularly for Manny Machado, the stuff a batter has faced so far this season makes a difference. On the hitters that have seen the best pitchers so far this year, and what it means for their futures: www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social, Jed and I discussed the return of Dylan Crews, a reset for Royce Lewis, the diminishing value of barrels (as @benclemens.bsky.social highlighted in January!) and wondered, are we fetishizing some stats? 🎧 pod.fo/e/41acf7 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

we talked about why it wouldn't be Wenninger or Tong today, and the "location" parts of their respective charts really tell the story, as Britton points out.

Fresh episode of Rates & Barrels with @enosarris.bsky.social for the weekend. Eno's SP Rankings Update + a few names we're eyeing up on the waiver wire.... 🎧 pod.fo/e/416e09 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

new ranks! www.nytimes.com/athletic/727...

A barrel in 2025 is not the same as a barrel in 2016. I recalibrated barrels such that each season holds the outcome quality fixed (.813 AVG / 2.813 SLG). HR/aBrl SD drops from 5.71 to 0.90. @tangotiger.com wrote in 2018: "if someone wants to tweak [this] by all means." Finally took you up on it.

One of my favorite episodes this year. Microtones and player-driven research on the effect of sequencing on command.

Gavin Sheets was already top tenth percentile in Clutch before that homer, feels like he's going to end up in the top ten with all the Holy Sheets going down

It's my understanding that "a message has been relayed" and here's the thrust of it: this particular outfield win celebration will be a one-and-done. (I don't think Jung Hoo will be sad about that.)

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social, @brittghiroli.bsky.social and I caught up on a few teams we haven't discussed much on the show this season by checking in on the Jays, Pirates, Cardinals and White Sox.... 🎧 pod.fo/e/414019 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social and I discussed a trio of injured starters that made their 2026 debuts over the weekend, and why Eno has some instant FOMO about Ryan Waldschmidt after the Sunday night waiver-wire run.... 🎧 pod.fo/e/41310f 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels

The Maxes Muncy: ⚾️Both named Max Muncy ⚾️Both 3B drafted by A's ⚾️Both born on Aug. 25 ... ⚾️Right next to one another on the hard-hit rate leaderboard baseballsavant.mlb.com/leaderboard/...

The splitter is in vogue throughout baseball. So why don’t lefties throw it nearly as often as righties? Broke it down with @enosarris.bsky.social (free and unlocked): www.nytimes.com/athletic/726...

Congratulations to my mom for finishing the Sedona 125! Oldest participant to finish all 125 miles on foot today. Keep on rocking!

🎙️ Rates & Barrels ⚾ @enosarris.bsky.social and I were joined by Adam Ottavino to discuss the wide distribution of saves to begin 2026 and a few ways to more accurately value relievers. Plus, falling hitter projections from OOPSY (ROS).... 🎧 pod.fo/e/40ae61 📺 www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels