2022 Second Base Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR finish the middle infield with their breakdown of the second base position. With plenty of viable options inside the Top 100 in ADP, is it wise to hold off on early rounders like Ozzie Albies and Whit Merrifield? And, how steep is the drop-off if you wait until the 100-200 range to address the keystone?
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Groups by NFBC ADP Tiers
Tier 1
Trea Turner & Ozzie Albies
Tier 2
Whit Merrifield & Marcus Semien
Tier 3
Javier Baez, Jose Altuve, Jazz Chisholm, Brandon Lowe, Ketel Marte, Jorge Polanco, Tommy Edman & Jonathan India
Tier 4
DJ LeMahieu Jake Cronenworth, Ty France, Chris Taylor, Max Muncy Brendan Rodgers, Luis Urías, Ryan McMahon, Eduardo Escobar & Kolten Wong
Tier 5
Jonathan Schoop, Jean Segura, Enrique Hernández, Gavin Lux, Josh Rojas, Abraham Toro, Andres Gimenez, Garrett Hampson & Nick Madrigal
Best of the Rest
Jeff McNeil, Ramon Urías, Andy Ibañez, Rodolfo Castro, Tucupita Marcano & Robinson Cano
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, February 2nd. |
| 0:19.7 | I think this episode's going to be out by the end of the day, Wednesday. |
| 0:22.9 | It was supposed to come up Thursday. Eno's traveling, so we're doing this a day early. It's our second base preview, and it's exciting because second base, not as bad as it used to be. |
| 0:32.7 | Not quite as deep as it appears, though. We'll explain why over the course of this episode. |
| 0:38.6 | We're going to do the same sort of format that we do with our shortstop preview earlier |
| 0:41.8 | in the week, taking a look at overvalued, undervalued players, potential sleepers, |
| 0:47.1 | just players that you should be thinking about at various points in your draft or in a salary |
| 0:52.0 | cap draft situation as well. |
| 0:54.5 | So we talked about Trey Turner at the top of the board on the shortstop preview. |
| 0:58.9 | You know, no need to get real deep into any sort of detail with him here. |
| 1:02.4 | Of course, he has that multi-position eligibility right now because, you know, |
| 1:06.7 | embarrassments of riches in Los Angeles. |
| 1:09.2 | But Ozzy Albies, I think, is really interesting because by ADP, he is the second |
| 1:13.8 | second base eligible player coming off the board right now. |
| 1:17.6 | If you want to draw him into the first tier, I'm not going to fight back on that. |
| 1:21.0 | And the reason why is because when you run the auction calculator, he's right there with |
| 1:26.3 | Bo Bichette. |
| 1:27.3 | And Bo Bichette, as we talked about |
| 1:28.7 | just a couple days ago, lives inside the first six, usually, of most drafts right now happening |
| 1:34.4 | at the NFBC. So my question for you, is Ozzy Albies actually a first rounder in disguise? |
| 1:41.7 | No, actually, I think he goes exactly where he's supposed to go in terms of if you |
| 1:45.8 | sort by ADP and then you look at the auction calculator results, he fits right in. He's a $26 |
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