2023 Relief Pitcher Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR close out Pitcher Week with their 2023 Relief Pitcher Preview.
Rundown
0:53 ADP Tier 1: Edwin Díaz, Emmanuel Clase, Josh Hader
12:48 ADP Tier 2: Jordan Romano, Devin Williams, Ryan Pressly, Raisel Iglesias, Félix Bautista, Ryan Helsley & Kenley Jansen
23:46 ADP Tier 3: Camilo Doval, Scott Barlow, David Bednar, Daniel Bard, Alexis Díaz, Jhoan Durán
29:47 ADP Tier 4: Andrés Muñoz, Liam Hendriks, Paul Sewald & Pete Fairbanks
36:41 Unsettled Situations Without Top 200 ADP Relievers
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:24.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and bet-builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boost, |
| 0:27.6 | teas and season season exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:48.7 | It is Friday, January 27th. |
| 0:50.9 | It is the final day of Pitch pitcher week, which means it is our |
| 0:54.3 | 2023 relief pitcher preview. We're going to focus very heavily on this episode, |
| 1:00.4 | on saves in particular. I know there are formats out there that combine saves and |
| 1:05.3 | holds or count holds as their own category. Those will be discussed in greater detail |
| 1:09.5 | in the future. We may have a few |
| 1:10.9 | flyby recommendations for players who fit well in that format, but we are very saves focused |
| 1:16.8 | today. And as we've done throughout the series, we're going to break things down by ADP |
| 1:22.3 | tiers. We do have a few early, early closers, and Eno, you have actually selected one, or at least |
| 1:28.9 | the computer drafting at the time that the clock ran out selected one for you. |
| 1:33.6 | So a little more has happened in that particular league since we last spoke. |
| 1:38.1 | Edwin Diaz, of course, is that mystery player with an ADP inside the top 30. |
| 1:42.1 | Pretty consistently, someone going inside the first two rounds of a 15-team league draft. |
| 1:48.2 | Emmanuel Class A, Josh Hater, also part of this group if we stretch down to the top 50 overall. |
| 1:55.5 | Apparently the inner circle of trust, right? |
| 1:57.7 | I disagree. |
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