2023 Rookies to Target: Pitchers Edition
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Which rookies should you target in your 2023 drafts? Eno and Welsh breakdown all the pitchers, from the guys who have a locked down job to speculative adds.
Rundown
4:13 - Grayson Rodriguez
13:01 - Hunter Brown
18:45 - Kodai Senga
26:29 - Cade Cavalli
34:00 - Andrew Painter
40:42 - Hayden Wesneski and Ken Waldichuk
44:41 - Brandon Pfaady, Ryne Nelson and Drey Jameson
51:00 - Ricky Tiedemann and other speculations
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| 0:00.0 | This is Rates and Beryl. Hello, friends. I'm the Welsh. Chris Welsh. that is Enosar. This is a podcast about baseball. |
| 0:22.7 | And this Tuesday edition, we talk about prospects and we talk about dynasty. I think |
| 0:28.0 | DVR has called it Project Prospect, which I very much like. And today we are talking about |
| 0:33.2 | 2003 rookies to target. This is the pitcher edition. |
| 0:39.0 | And, you know, you and I could not even stop adding pitchers to this list. |
| 0:44.2 | I don't know how we're going to get to all of these players, which we're going to be |
| 0:47.0 | talking about a ton of these pitchers. |
| 0:49.2 | But this is like a little bit your wheelhouse, my friend. |
| 0:52.5 | I guess. |
| 0:53.7 | I have a real hard time, time actually without the Major League data. |
| 0:58.1 | And there is a trend, a little sort of mini trend in baseball where it usually takes |
| 1:04.7 | till about 24, 25 years old now in order for a starting pitcher to really get established in this league. |
| 1:12.8 | And so it's like, I think most teams have gotten this memo where they're kind of slow walking |
| 1:20.5 | their starting pitchers and they're doing these, either doing the raise and Orioles method |
| 1:25.3 | where they come in and they throw 80 pitches and, |
| 1:29.2 | you know, they're coming out in the fourth or, you know, there's some that still have the kind of |
| 1:35.8 | coming up in the bullpen will keep you in like two or three inning stints in the bullpen |
| 1:39.8 | and use you that way. So there's a lot of obstacles, I think, for the true rookie, for someone |
| 1:44.7 | who hasn't seen any time in the big leagues before, to come up and be a starter in the big |
| 1:49.7 | league. So I think you'll see that most these guys have had either a taste, or maybe my |
| 1:57.8 | recommendation is to fade them in redrafts, just because we don't have that movement data. |
| 2:04.8 | We aren't sure about the shapes of their pitches necessarily. |
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