2023 Starting Pitcher Preview, Part 3
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue Pitcher Week with a look at the starting pitchers typically available outside the Top 200 overall in early drafts.
Rundown
1:46 Pick 200-250 Overall Starting Pitchers (Lance McCullers Jr. Patrick Sandoval, Jack Flaherty, Sonny Gray, Edward Cabrera, Reid Detmers, Jameson Taillon, Aaron Ashby, José Berríos, Trevor Rogers, Jose Urquidy)
26:03 Pick 250-300 (Eric Lauer, Marcus Stroman, Michael Kopech, Miles Mikolas, Merrill Kelly, Justin Steele, Zach Eflin, Noah Syndergaard, Roansy Contreras)
43:44 Beyond Pick 300 (Martín Pérez, Carlos Carrasco, Cal Quantrill, Taijuan Walker, Aaron Civale, Eduardo Rodriguez, Steven Matz, Adam Wainwright)
52:18 Rookies of Interest Available in Late Rounds (Brandon Pfaadt, Ryne Nelson, Drey Jameson, Ken Waldichuk, Eury Perez, Ricky Tiedemann, Daniel Espino, Gavin Williams, Tanner Bibee, Andrew Painter, Kyle Harrison, Bobby Miller, Gavin Stone, Taj Bradley)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Thursday, January 26th, Derek Manriper, |
| 0:18.7 | you know Saris here, continuing Pitcher Week, our third starting |
| 0:22.2 | pitcher-focused episode of the week. We're picking up right around that pick 200 mark overall. So now |
| 0:28.4 | we're rounding out kind of the bottom half of the starting rotation. Then, of course, looking at some |
| 0:33.2 | bench options as well, a ton of ground to cover today. So no time to waste with pleasantries. |
| 0:40.1 | I hope your day is off to a fantastic start. We begin right around that Lance McCullors range. |
| 0:46.0 | We're talking about a group of guys that includes McCullors, Reed Detmer's, Patrick Sandoval, |
| 0:50.9 | runs all the way down to Trevor Rogers and Aaron Ashby. It has a lot of guys in it |
| 0:56.2 | that miss time with injuries. This is one of the common themes of this group. You see Sunny |
| 1:00.4 | Gray in this cluster. He's often injured, but finds a way to get to a decent number of innings. Jack |
| 1:06.2 | Flaherty goes in this range. Andrew Heaney. Some of the guys that kind of stand out in this group are the couple guys that returned a lot of value last year because they didn't get hurt. So you got a couple options like that. The workhorses, Miles Michaelis was one of those guys, Merrill Kelly was one of those guys. You could have a bounceback candidate in Jose Barrios, Nathan Evaldi, Alex Cobb. You get a guy like Jameson going to a new park. |
| 1:29.5 | This is a great window to look at depending on what you need. |
| 1:34.1 | If you haven't taken on some injury risk already, there's absolutely no problem taking |
| 1:40.1 | on some injury risk at this price point. |
| 1:43.3 | Yeah, I'm fascinated by this tier because I want to say no thanks. |
| 1:50.3 | This is where I begin to, there's that Drake meme where he's like, no, no thanks, all filled |
| 1:59.4 | up. |
| 2:00.1 | But if you don't get someone in this tier then you're doing a pretty |
| 2:03.8 | stars and scrubby kind of approach because it's a large tier be one of the last tiers where you |
| 2:10.6 | have the confluence of like good performance and a like a? Like, all these guys have a role. |
| 2:18.2 | There's nobody in this group, except for maybe the very last one, Aaron Ashby, who we'll talk about. |
| 2:23.2 | But from Trevor Rogers to Lance McCullors, you've got a chunk of players that have a role, should get innings, |
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