2023 Shortstop Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR examine the shortstop position for 2023 fantasy baseball drafts.
Rundown
1:25 ADP Tier 1 (Trea Turner, Bobby Witt Jr., Bo Bichette, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Francisco Lindor)
14:15 The Fernando Tatis Jr. Problem(s)
27:56 ADP Tier 2 (Corey Seager, Oneil Cruz, Tommy Edman, Dansby Swanson, Wander Franco, Xander Bogaerts, Tim Anderson, Willy Adames)
46:43 ADP Tier 3 (Jeremy Peña, Carlos Correa, Amed Rosario, Nico Hoerner)
55:24 ADP Tier 4 (Thairo Estrada, Javier Báez, Adalberto Mondesi, Bryson Stott, Jorge Mateo)
1:01:17 ADP Tier 5 (Ezequiel Tovar, CJ Abrams, Luis Urías, Anthony Volpe, J.P Crawford)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, February 3rd. Derek Benriper here with |
| 0:18.6 | Enosaris. It is our 2023 shortstop preview as we both |
| 0:23.9 | anticipate things happening. In Eniose case, it's a routine sort of cable upgrade. |
| 0:31.5 | Fiber, fiber, fiber. Yeah, and I think I'm in the point of a baby watch now where it's like, I could get that text from the other room while recording and it'll be a hang of go. |
| 0:45.1 | I don't know what happens to the pod. If the stream yard just runs forever and you'll get a shot of my laundry basket for like 12 days before my computer dies. But if that's what happens, that's where I weigh. |
| 0:56.6 | Right. |
| 0:57.3 | I probably won't hit the stop button and publish the episode, just as a heads up. |
| 1:01.8 | So we're going to try to get this in. |
| 1:03.6 | It's one of our favorite positions. |
| 1:04.9 | Always a lot of fun players to discuss. |
| 1:07.1 | And as we've done throughout the series, we're breaking everything up by 80 p. |
| 1:10.6 | You're looking at NFBC drafts from this range is probably the, discuss and as we've done throughout the series, we're breaking everything up by 80p tier, looking |
| 1:11.1 | at NFBC drafts from this range is probably the late part of January, January 21st, up through |
| 1:18.0 | February 2nd. So a decent snapshot about 24 drafts gives us a good approximation of where |
| 1:23.2 | these players have been going. Now, top of the board, as you'd expect, is full of short stops. |
| 1:29.6 | Trey Turner, sometimes a first overall pick, has an ADP sitting around pick three, |
| 1:34.3 | Bobby Witt Jr., Bo Bichette, have both been first rounders. |
| 1:38.6 | Fernando Tate's Jr., maybe the most polarizing player in the entire pool right now, |
| 1:43.9 | right around that one- two turn in a 15 team |
| 1:46.2 | league, and we're going to lump in Francis Gouldendor as part of this group, even though he goes |
| 1:50.2 | closer to pick 30. |
| 1:51.3 | So you're talking about a guy that you're getting at the end of round two, beginning of round |
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