2022 Third Base Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR break down the third base position, which offers a handful of intriguing mid-round values, but might require some early attention given the drop-off at the position outside the Top 200 overall. Is Austin Riley catching too much helium coming off of an excellent 2021? Should you pay the Adalberto Mondesi Tax? Is there still early-round potential in the likes of Nolan Arenado, Alex Bregman, Kris Bryant and Anthony Rendon? Plus, if you wait at the position, where you can find undervalued players outside the Top 100?
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Groups by NFBC ADP Tiers
Tier 1
José Ramírez, Rafael Devers & Manny Machado
Tier 2
Austin Riley & Adalberto Mondesi
Tier 3
Nolan Arenado, Alex Bregman, Kris Bryant & Anthony Rendon
Tier 4
DJ LeMahieu, Ke'Bryan Hayes, Yoán Moncada, Luis Urías, Justin Turner, Ryan McMahon, Matt Chapman, Eduardo Escobar & Eugenio Suárez
Tier 5
Josh Donaldson, Jeimer Candelario, Abraham Toro, Cavan Biggio, Gio Urshela, Josh Jung, Jonathan Villar, Alec Bohm
Best of the Rest
Jose Miranda, Kevin Smith, Mike Moustakas, Evan Longoria & Brian Anderson
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:17.0 | It is Monday, February 7th, Derek Manriper here with Enoseres rolling through our position preview series. |
| 0:25.3 | And today we continue our move around the infield by starting at third base. |
| 0:30.5 | Yes, we've gone from shortstop to second base back over to the other side of the infield at third. |
| 0:35.8 | Of course, that means first base coming up later this week. |
| 0:39.5 | But on this episode, tons of players to talk about. |
| 0:42.6 | It's a position that is not as deep as it probably should be, |
| 0:47.4 | but there are some opportunities, I think, in the middle rounds and the late rounds. |
| 0:51.4 | We're going to try and figure out where you want to take those chances and who you want to avoid earlier in your drafts or in your auctions as well, because |
| 0:59.1 | I think there are a few pitfall players that tend to go very early at this position. |
| 1:04.6 | Eno, how was your weekend? |
| 1:06.1 | It was good. |
| 1:07.0 | I was up in Seattle at Drive Line, and I still have sticky crap all over my body because I got naked for science. |
| 1:16.4 | What? |
| 1:17.0 | I did the motion capture, so they put the little sticky balls on me. |
| 1:22.1 | And they still have those marks and still have the sticky stuff on me. |
| 1:26.5 | And I threw an amazing 59 miles an hour. |
| 1:32.1 | What was the spin rate? |
| 1:34.5 | 1,500. |
| 1:35.5 | 1,500. |
| 1:37.0 | Well, it's like, that's kind of like, that's basement for pros. |
| 1:41.9 | Sounds like it was a good trip. |
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