2023 First Base Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR examine the first base position for 2023 fantasy baseball drafts.
Rundown
1:07 ADP Tier 1-1.5: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Freddie Freeman, Paul Goldschmidt & Pete Alonso
15:24 Does Matt Olson Belong In This Group?
17:02 Tier 2: José Abreu, Rhys Hoskins, C.J. Cron, Christian Walker, Vinnie Pasquantino & Nathaniel Lowe
27:40 Is Andrew Vaughn Overpriced?
36:30 Tier 3: Ryan Mountcastle, Anthony Rizzo, Josh Bell, Josh Naylor, Ty France, Rowdy Tellez & Miguel Vargas
49:10 Tier 4: Young Players & Late Darts (Triston Casas, Spencer Torkelson, Jared Walsh, Brandon Belt and Matt Mervis)
1:02:37 Kyle Manzardo: Capable of a Late 2023 Arrival & Impact?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.6 | It is our 2020-3 first base preview episode. |
| 0:22.1 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:25.0 | We're going to go through. |
| 0:26.3 | Taking a look at early ADP, looking at this position, |
| 0:28.9 | breaking it down from almost every angle with the hope of making you better prepared |
| 0:33.5 | for your fantasy baseball drafts. |
| 0:36.3 | And, you know, this is a funny position because I think compared to some of the other |
| 0:42.2 | infield spots, it's got enough depth where you can play it a lot of ways. |
| 0:46.7 | It's not as top heavy as the other corner, which will be our next position preview. |
| 0:52.1 | And it certainly doesn't tail off anything like second base does. |
| 0:55.4 | I think when we get to the second base preview, people are going to be just stunned at how |
| 0:59.1 | that depth seems to evaporate as quickly as ever. |
| 1:02.2 | But there's some bigger changes around the game that might have something to do with that. |
| 1:06.5 | But we begin in the first round. |
| 1:09.0 | We have a couple of first rounders by ABP in Vlad Jr. |
| 1:12.8 | And Freddie Freeman, if we're talking about a 15-team league, |
| 1:15.6 | Freddie sometimes slips into the early part of round two. |
| 1:19.5 | And I decided to expand this tier. |
| 1:21.2 | Instead of just saying the first rounders are the only ones in Tier 1, |
| 1:24.2 | I included the consistent second rounders here as well. |
| 1:27.1 | So we are looking at Paul |
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