2022 Catcher & UT-Only Player Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR finish their 2022 Position Preview series with a breakdown of catchers, and a few UT-only players including Shohei Ohtani, Franmil Reyes & Nelson Cruz.
Groups by NFBC ADP Tiers
Tier 1 – Top 50(ish) Overall Catchers
Salvador Perez, J.T. Realmuto & Will Smith
Tier 2 – Top 50-110 Overall Catchers
Daulton Varsho, Yasmani Grandal & Willson Contreras
Tier 3 – Top 110-200 Overall Catchers
Tyler Stephenson, Keibert Ruiz, Mitch Garver & Adley Rutschman
Tier 4 – Top 200-300 Overall Catchers
Christian Vázquez, Travis d’Arnaud, Elias Díaz, Alejandro Kirk, Mike Zunino, Omar Narváez, Gary Sánchez, Sean Murphy, Carson Kelly, Joey Bart & Max Stassi
Late Darts
UT-Only Bats
Shohei Ohtani, Franmil Reyes & Nelson Cruz
Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris
Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, March 16th. Derek Van Riper here with Enos Seris. I wanted to make sure we finished our position preview before Eno is turned into some kind of vapor from all the news that is broken. He's being pulled in so many directions that I just wanted to make sure we completed the series before the world sort of pulled him apart. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, I'm on in St. Louis, Toronto, and Hawaii after this. |
| 0:42.3 | And I just filed 5,000 words. |
| 0:45.3 | None of those three will call while we're recording. |
| 0:47.3 | There's no chance that with all those places being in different time zones, |
| 0:50.4 | that one of them won't have called. |
| 0:52.0 | Guaranteed. |
| 0:53.3 | So if the phone rings during the show. |
| 0:54.1 | Or they screwed up the time zones, yeah. I know. zones that one of them won't have called. Guaranteed. So if the phone rings during the show. |
| 0:54.1 | Or they screwed up the time zones, yeah. |
| 0:57.9 | I know you well enough. |
| 0:58.9 | No. |
| 1:00.6 | That's a lot of juggling. |
| 1:02.5 | Three very different time zones and none of them are the one that you're in. |
| 1:05.4 | That's even worse. |
| 1:06.7 | And I do not use a calendar. |
| 1:11.6 | You may want to consider using a calendar. |
| 1:13.8 | Just the friendly suggestion. |
| 1:16.5 | It is our catcher preview. |
| 1:17.8 | I have a friendly suggestion for everyone listening. |
| 1:20.3 | If you are the commissioner of the league or if you have influence of the league, you should speak to everyone, email, send a message, text, whatever it is, |
| 1:29.0 | and suggest the possibility that if you've been using two catchers in your league for the |
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