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Episode thumbnail for the March 9th episode of Rates & Barrels featuring Puerto Rico & Darrell Hernaiz celebrating their walk-off win over Panamá during pool play of the World Baseball Classic on Saturday. photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images

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@enosarris.bsky.social and I are back -- and the World Baseball Classic has absolutely delivered with great games throughout pool play. Plus, we have our first installment of 'News or Noise?' of 2026....

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wild that we are the best teams left in the playoffs by team win%! we thought the Kyrie announcement was going to sink us.

huh our feed shows a bunch of four seamers (with great Stuff+) so info is incomplete right now. model always liked him though.

Andre Scrub, Grant Balfour, Homer Bailey, Eric Plunk, Aaron Bummer. Bob Walk.

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Red Sox roster projection 2.0: Exploring battles for the fifth starter, bench and bullpen Manager Alex Cora says the roster is close to set for Opening Day, yet there are a few decisions left to make.

ICYMI: Here's a Red Sox season preview on Rates & Barrels with @enosarris.bsky.social and @dvr.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfOJ...

Plus, our latest Red Sox roster projection:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

3rd closer whatever mine is beeter

So good it inspired them to sign an 85 year old

Ranking the top 2026 MLB starting fantasy pitchers with Stuff+ powered projections In time for your league drafts, here are Eno Sarris' first starting pitcher ranks for the 2026 fantasy baseball season.

Some notable Stuff+ sightings this spring

Nick Lodolo 139
Richard Fitts 130
Ryan Weathers 121
MacKenzie Gore 116
Matthew Liberatore 114
Jose Soriano 109
Max Meyer 108
Jose Berrios 85
JP Sears 88
Kirby Yates 91
Drew Rasmussen 92

updated the google doc linked here www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...

wanted to space out the adps, picked Eury out of Burns, Yeasavage, Miz basically.

Joey Cantillo, Emmet Sheehan and other potential MLB breakout pitchers for 2026 These pitchers meet the criteria to be potential breakout starters this season, though some breakouts seem more likely than others.

Nine young pitchers that could break out this year www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

It might be hubris but, uh, I think I'm built for this challenge

Episode thumbnail for the Feb. 26th Rates & Barrels featuring Mick Abel. Mick Abel photo: Emilee Chinn/Getty Images

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@enosarris.bsky.social, @iamtrevormay.bsky.social and I discussed Max Scherzer's return to the Jays, the innings projections for Shohei Ohtani, and trends we're monitoring this spring....

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I'll be in Phoenix, Arizona for the SABR Analytics conference (AL-LABR draft Saturday, panel Saturday) and so we will meet up, if you like, to have suds and talk, at The Whining Pig (downtown one), Saturday night, 6pm-8pm.

we in same boat, brother. I'm flying down early to San Diego to see them in Solana Beach before my family comes down for spring break and somehow she didn't bat an eye.

have not looked at it wrt spring training, but we did find about a -5 Stuff+ adjustment going from relieving to starting, so you could throw that in here. Generally, I care more about these numbers once they're throwing three innings at least.

No surprise that, given how nasty he looked, Ryan Weathers joined the top ten starting pitchers in spring training Stuff+. Might be surprised by the other Yankee next to him though.

this is so god damn funny

we found that our model became more predictive if we put something in about fastball mix, that basically having more fastballs made a pitcher better. So it's not so much about being converted as adding another fastballs. Average amount of pitch types per SP is going up.

Giddyap!

Awesome!

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I'll be in Phoenix, Arizona for the SABR Analytics conference (AL-LABR draft Saturday, panel Saturday) and so we will meet up, if you like, to have suds and talk, at The Whining Pig (downtown one), Saturday night, 6pm-8pm.

Episode thumbnail for the Feb. 24th episode of Rates & Barrels featuring Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez. Alvarez photo: aAlex Slitz/Getty Images

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@enosarris.bsky.social discussed a few rebound hitters, my mixed LABR squad, and most importantly, we previewed the Astros with @chandlerrome.bsky.social....

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Which MLB pitchers are going to benefit most from the Automated Ball-Strike system? It isn't clear exactly who will benefit the most from ABS challenges, but pitchers who can paint at the top of the zone might get a boost.

It looks like the ABS action will be at the top of the zone, with fastballs. On who might benefit from the challenge system this year, with @ctrent and @DanHayesMLB www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

Episode thumbnail for the Feb. 23rd Rates & Barrels featuring the Yankees, A's and Angels team previews Thumbnail Credit: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images (Trout), Al Bello/Getty Images (Judge), Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images (Kurtz)

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@enosarris.bsky.social and I continued our team preview series with help from @brendankuty.bsky.social on the Yankees, @melissalockard.bsky.social on the A's, and Arte Moreno quotes on the Angels....

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yep getting an export today

dang you were there when I made my pilgrimage that's such a great memory

have not seen a study but assume that he's a hitter every week because he's the number one hitter by every projection system. Only time I'd use him as a pitcher is maybe half weeks around opening day / all star game, plus big needs-base use late in season.