2023 Outfield Preview, Part 1
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Eno and DVR examine the outfielders within the Top 100 overall in early 2023 fantasy baseball drafts.
Rundown
1:41 Early Round 1 Outfielders (Acuña, Julio Rodríguez & Aaron Judge)
8:52 Mid/Late Round 1 Outfielders (Kyle Tucker, Juan Soto, Yordan Alvarez & Mookie Betts)
19:44 A Quick Drop to Round 2-3 Outfielders? (Mike Trout, Michael Harris II, Randy Arozarena)
32:46 Cedric Mullins, Luis Robert, Kyle Schwarber, Adolis García & Corbin Carroll
39:24 Eloy Jiménez: Undervalued Early-Round Target?
41:54 Does a Small Sample Low Barrel Rate Shape Short-Term Expectations? (Corbin Carroll)
44:10 DVR is Still Skeptical of Adolis García & Teoscar Hernández
49:44 Starling Marte & George Springer at Relative Discounts?
Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris
Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper
e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com
Subscribe to The Athletic at $2/month for the first year: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels
Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:17.1 | It is our outfield preview, part one of our 2023 outfield preview. |
| 0:22.6 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:25.3 | The Draft Kit series is now underway. |
| 0:28.6 | It's the best time of the year, Eno. |
| 0:31.0 | I love getting ready for drafts. |
| 0:32.3 | I feel like I'm always getting ready for drafts, but this series of episodes is sort of like that big push into the |
| 0:39.8 | biggest drafts that we do just prior to opening day. So I don't think I could be more excited |
| 0:44.3 | about an episode than I am about this one. Yeah, time to start getting ready. I've got my |
| 0:50.8 | pitcher ranks already ready for a certain thing that will be out. |
| 0:59.0 | Maybe once this airs from fantasy. |
| 1:03.2 | And I am starting to work on the positions. |
| 1:07.0 | And so this is like basically you are going to watch me do my work. |
| 1:12.8 | This is me getting ready for draft season in real time. |
| 1:18.6 | And I always appreciate your help in preparing for the season. |
| 1:23.8 | Let's go through it. |
| 1:25.0 | Let's start with the outfielers. |
| 1:26.3 | We're going to do this kind of the same way we did last year for the outfield. Our first outfield preview, I think, got us through about pick 75, pick 100. Usually that's about as much time as you can go to fill an episode with outfielders because there's so many talented players in this group. We're going to look at the first rounders as we begin. So if you're looking at a early |
| 1:44.7 | January 80P report from the NFBC, you'll see Ronald Acuna Jr. at the very top of the outfield |
| 1:51.5 | list. He has been a first overall pick in some drafts. I took him first overall in the draft |
| 1:56.9 | Champions League that I did a couple of weeks ago. But you have Acuna, Julio Rodriguez, |
| 2:01.5 | and Aaron Judge, all within the top five overall. And then Tucker and Soto rounding out the top |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.