Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, January 24th, episode 2, day 2 of

Pitcher Week. We continue with starting pitchers, picking up where we left off. It is Tuesday, January 24th, episode 2, day 2 of pitcher week.

We continue with starting pitchers, picking up where we left off on our Monday episodes.

If you're looking for pitchers going inside the top 100 overall, it's the episode right before this one.

Today, we have about 35 pitchers on the rundown, so we are going to try and get things moving as quickly as we can and just as we did yesterday we're going to break players into clusters basically half tiers because the difference between the pitcher at pick 100 and even pick 150 or 160 is actually pretty small but we're talking about guys who often are grouped together within the same couple of rounds.

That's an easier way for us to look at it.

Easier way to problem solve what you are going to do on draft day.

Before we dive in, a quick disclaimer.

Shohei Otani will be discussed in full in the utility episode.

We didn't talk about him on day one of pitchers.

He obviously is a day one caliber pitcher in leagues where he's a pitcher only.

But the Otani discussion is forthcoming because there are so many different ways that leagues allow you to utilize his stats.

So he's kind of in his own conversation.

Wait, should we do the news real quick?

Well, it's just, it's just little news. I mean, there's little news in real baseball. It could be big news in fantasy baseball. Uh, uh, breaking news. We've got Adelbato Monassie, joining the Red Sox from Boston. Going the other way is lefty reliever, Josh Taylor, who spent all the last year on the IL.

So that's a clue that it's not a real big baseball decision.

But the Red Sox, I don't know that Christian Arroyo or Emeka Hernandez is a good defensive shortstop at this point.

And really what they needed was a defensive shortstop.

And I think this team goes better if Enrique is the starter at second.

Adaberto is the starter at short and Christian Norio is a backup.

I just think that's a better situation for this team.

And so good trade for the Red Sox.

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