2022 Catcher & UT-only Review
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the 2022 catcher and utility-only hitter pool. If two-catcher leagues remain a standard, should you push for top-end talent at the position in the early rounds? Can Yasmani Grandal stay healthy with less time behind the plate? Was there enough value in the middle and later rounds for second catchers? On the UT-only side, is there anything left for Shohei Ohtani to unlock? And, can J.D. Martinez adjust his approach and get to more consistent pull-side power?
Rundown
6:11 A Plea for One-Catcher Leagues
11:49 2022 Bust: Yasmani Grandal
14:09 Strong Returns Overall From Early Catchers
19:10 Prioritizing Top-End Options?
27:41 Finding Value Later
35:06 Other Catchers of Interest?
39:42 Shohei Ohtani's Brilliant 2022 Campaign
49:42 Bryce Harper Joins UT-only Club; Surgery On Tap
52:08 Can J.D. Martinez Get to 25+ Homers Again?
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
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| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:48.5 | It's Tuesday, November 22nd. |
| 0:51.0 | Derek Van Riper here with Eno Seris on this episode. |
| 0:54.4 | We wrap up our 22 positional review series. |
| 0:59.0 | We are looking at catchers and UT only players. |
| 1:03.0 | It's nice to have the end of the series here, Eno, because as we've kind of joked for a few weeks, |
| 1:07.6 | it means we're closing in on starting the preview series, probably in |
| 1:11.6 | January, not really something we're doing like immediately after reviews. |
| 1:15.6 | We're actually taking a break next week, one week off. Yeah, and then I think we'll hopefully |
| 1:20.2 | have a whole bunch of news. You know, one thing that happened this year with the lockout is |
| 1:23.7 | everything got squeezed. So, you know, we were like playing baseball into like the awards |
| 1:27.8 | week almost. You know, it got a little hairy there. And I think that's why there's been a |
| 1:33.6 | relative lack of news right now is because somebody has to take a time off sometime. So everyone's |
| 1:41.1 | sort of taking some time off and I expect that the winter meetings will be pretty interesting. |
| 1:48.8 | There have been a bunch of non-tenders that are decent players like Cody Bellinger and Luke Voight. |
| 1:55.3 | There are a bunch of teams, but there's four big short stops. |
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