2023 Outfield Preview, Part 3
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR examine the outfielders going outside the Top 200 overall in early fantasy baseball drafts.
Rundown
0:45 Riley Greene: Can We Learn Anything From Jarred Kelenic & Dylan Carlson?
7:14 Alex Verdugo: Steady Value as OF4 or OF5
8:42 Joey Meneses: More Intriguing Than Previously Acknowledged?
13:34 Digging Through Oakland's Outfield (Ramón Laureano, Seth Brown & Esteury Ruiz)
23:24 Lourdes Gurriel Jr. & Andrew Benintendi: Where Did the Power Go?
26:08 Bryan De La Cruz & Christopher Morel: Intriguing Skills, Can They Hold PT?
34:24 Joc Pederson: Thriving in Platoon Role, Does It Work in Weekly Leagues?
38:30 Good Oatmeal, Bad Oatmeal? (Randal Grichuk, Wil Myers, Austin Hays, Jesse Winker)
49:55 Brandon Marsh: Is There One More Level?
55:07 Jose Siri: Trust the Glove to Drive Playing Time?
56:55 Late, Late Darts: Outside the Top 300 (Jarred Kelenic, Dylan Carlson, Trent Grisham, Jake Fraley, Oscar Colas, Alex Kirilloff, Alek Thomas, Jesus Sánchez)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryl. |
| 0:16.5 | It is part three of our 20203 Outfield preview. |
| 0:20.2 | We will try and get through the end of this position on this episode. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm almost certain we will leave someone out because there are far more outfielders to cover |
| 0:29.7 | than we have time to cover once you get past like pick 300. |
| 0:33.5 | So if you got questions for a future episode, email is the best way. |
| 0:37.4 | Rates and Barrels at at the athletic.com. |
| 0:39.8 | You can always tweet at us. We could try and answer questions in that forum as well. |
| 0:44.4 | You know, yesterday we left off right at the back of the top 200 overall. |
| 0:50.4 | Riley Green is the first player right now among outfielders who currently misses the cut. |
| 0:55.7 | And I started thinking about Riley Green in the context of other recent rookies, |
| 1:01.0 | most specifically Jared Kelnick and Dylan Carlson, I think because there's a little bit of a gap between Riley Green and some of the expectations people had for Julio Rodriguez and other positions, Bobby Witt Jr., even though Rodriguez was pretty affordable last year. |
| 1:20.9 | Green's in a spot where it's not going to hurt you to draft him if you're wrong, but should Jared Kelnick and Dylan Carlson be instructive in this case as guys that |
| 1:31.0 | we thought were really polished that are taking more time than expected to become consistently |
| 1:36.9 | viable fantasy contributors? Yeah, there's actually kind of an interesting continuum between the three |
| 1:43.2 | because you've got Jared Kalknick who has wicked contact problems and specific holes in the zone breaking |
| 1:51.1 | balls low or an issue for him and then you've got Riley Green who's the third one |
| 1:57.1 | again was Dylan Carlson Dylan Carson Dylan Carson has a great plate approach. |
| 2:02.4 | You know, |
| 2:02.7 | contact rate is great. |
| 2:04.0 | No bad ball oomph at all. |
| 2:06.3 | Kelnik has pretty good badded ball inf and I think Riley's in between. |
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