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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

2021 Disappointments, 2022 Bouncebacks: Hitter Edition

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss several hitters who underperformed expectations in 2021, but are primed for a big rebound in 2022. 


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com


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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, December 20th, Derek Van Riper here with Enosarous. And on this episode, we are

0:24.7

going to focus on the hitters who are most interested in seeing the calendar flip to 22 or just

0:32.3

a couple of weeks away from the new year. We figured this was a really good time to look for the

0:36.5

best possible

0:37.5

bounceback candidates because if you were doing early drafts, there are opportunities to get

0:42.9

these players at considerable discounts. Some of these players might actually be pitfall players

0:48.5

that cause problems. So we're going to look at some star level guys, some young players. We're going to

0:52.8

take a look at some older guys that might be nearing the end of their career,

0:55.9

but also could provide some really nice super late options depending on the circumstances.

1:02.9

You know, how's it going for you on this Monday?

1:05.5

Good.

1:06.1

Ready for the holidays?

1:08.0

I hope everyone else is as well.

1:10.7

I'm going to be down in San Diego after

1:15.0

Christmas and before New Year's. So if you hear this in time, hit me up on Twitter.

1:25.4

We'll go drinking somewhere. I'll do another North Park meetup.

1:29.6

It seems like that's the norm in San Diego.

1:32.5

You get at least one meetup in down there.

1:34.5

And hopefully we can have a few in the Bay Area come after the new year as we kind of figure out what works location-wise.

1:41.9

We've been scouting locations now for a few weeks.

1:44.1

We continue to scout locations every opportunity we get.

1:47.6

I have to scout more locations with Derek.

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