Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, February 16th. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. If you were paying

close attention on episode one of pitcher week, we made it pretty clear there was probably going

to be an extra episode this week. Well, today is that extra episode. Bonus. Yeah, it's a bonus. We're

focusing on pitchers going in the 100 to 200 overall range based on the NFBC's

ADP, a ton of interesting arms in this group, really only two tiers worth the pitchers. They're just

two very large tiers full of guys that everybody, I think, wants to think and talk about. So,

lots of ways you can play it. You could try and start building a

rotation from this group, which I have done. And I am not here to recommend to everyone, but we'll

explain how and why I did it over the course of this episode. Don't do as I do. Do as I say.

So I say to my kids all the time. Don't, yeah, don't watch what I'm doing and copy that. Do the opposite

of what I do. Learn from me. Learn from my mistakes because I will continue to make them.

It's good, good blanket advice. So we're going to pick up where we left off on the last episode.

This is like tier five, I guess, technically, but more importantly, right outside the top 100 overall, where

Blake Snell is currently going in terms of ADP, really kind of a tale of two seasons.

In the second half, he shortened up the arsenal and got things back on track, sort of saved

himself from a disaster.

Walk rate for the year was still very high.

We know walks are generally going to be a part of the profile with Blake Snell. 12.5% was the walk rate though last season. Ruben Neabla's there as

the new pitching coach. There's some optimism about the Padres pitching in general as a result of

that. Plus, we're talking about a guy who's had a lot of success in the not so distant past. So

are you in on Blake Snell as someone who might be a tick undervalued?

Previously had some SP1 sort of results and gets treated more like a late two,

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