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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

2022 Relief Pitcher Review

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR begin their 2022 Positional Reviews series with relievers. As the top closer shuffle places, does it make sense to target top-end sources of saves? Will the implementation of the Pitch Clock prove particularly costly for older relievers? Which young risers will catch the most helium on the heels of productive 2022 seasons? 


Rundown

1:24 Final Roster Adjustments

7:26 Lessons Learned from Josh Hader & Liam Hendriks

10:32 Re-Ordering the Top-End Options?

16:04 Treading Carefully Around the Back of the Top 100

23:40 Aiming for 70 Saves in 2023?

27:22 Role Uncertainty From the Third Tier

32:48 Draft-and-Hold v. Leagues w/Moves

39:13 Aging Curves on Relievers

45:23 Embracing (Or Not Fearing) Committees


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's Monday, October 3rd. The season should be over today in our minds, but it is not.

0:23.5

There are still three days worth of games.

0:26.1

There are still one playoff spot.

0:28.4

I think that is actually up for grabs, and I feel like it is slipping away from my grasp every minute, you know, every single minute of every day.

0:37.3

I feel worse and worse about

0:39.2

the Brewers' chances of playing in the postseason. I have two, maybe, I have three leagues

0:46.4

that are going to come down to like the last day. So that's my equivalent equivalent of your

0:51.7

brewer's feeling, which I'm like, my main, which has the most money writing on it, goes from second to fourth every day, like in the back.

1:01.8

And I'm just like, no.

1:05.7

I'll take third at this point.

1:08.0

I finally got clipped out of the money, I think, in my big auction.

1:12.0

I think I'm just far enough back now where I'm not going to catch the teams in cash,

1:15.5

but I have other leagues where I'm being chased.

1:17.4

So I'm just trying to hold on for a few more days and make it a pretty good season.

1:22.5

So we'll see.

1:24.2

I may have this regret.

1:26.2

I chose to put...

1:28.3

So I needed...

1:29.3

I really need K's, and it's like really close in K's and wins.

1:33.3

And so I had $2 left, so I made two...

1:36.0

I made a copy of two transactions, right?

1:39.1

Where it was like all the starters that would start.

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