2024 Catcher & UT-only Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue their 2024 Position Preview Series with catchers and UT-only players. From the top of the positions, to the players that might only make an impact in draft-and-hold and mono leagues (AL/NL-only), they examine the wide range of talented options all over the draft board.
For this series, players are grouped by recent Average Draft Position (ADP) data from the National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC).
Rundown
1:08 UT-Only ADP Tier 1 (Shohei Ohtani, 2024 Edition)
9:42 UT-Only ADP Tier 2 (Marcell Ozuna, J.D. Martinez, Eloy Jiménez & Byron Buxton)
15:51 UT-only ADP Tier 3 (Joey Meneses, Heston Kjerstad, Mark Vientos, Tyler Soderstrom & Jonathan Aranda)
33:48 Catcher ADP Tier 1 (Adley Rutschman, J.T. Realmuto, Will Smith, William Contreras & Yainer Diaz)
49:52 Catcher ADP Tier 2 (Salvador Perez, Cal Raleigh, Sean Murphy, Gabriel Moreno, Francisco Álvarez & Wilson Contreras)
1:00:05 Catcher ADP Tier 3 (Logan O'Hoppe, Bo Naylor, Jonah Heim, Keibert Ruiz, Mitch Garver & Luis Campusano)
1:10:59 Catcher ADP Tier 4 (Tyler Stephenson, Elias Díaz, Shea Langeliers, Ryan Jeffers, Danny Jansen & Alejandro Kirk)
1:16:44 Catcher ADP Tier 5 (Austin Wells to Freddy Fermin, and Beyond)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels Monday, January 22nd, Derek Van Riper, You know, Saris here with you as we continue our position |
| 0:21.3 | preview series. And in the interest of brevity, not in terms of episode duration, but in |
| 0:28.5 | terms of episode quantity today, features UT only players and catchers mashed into one |
| 0:35.2 | episode. I'm excited, you know. |
| 0:42.0 | It's a weird grouping. |
| 0:44.9 | Mashers that run slow. |
| 0:47.0 | That's why I put them together. |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.9 | And it seems like the last few years we've had a couple of guys who end up in this UT only bucket because they're catchers who came up late in the year, but didn't catch more than they dached and they lost their eligibility because of the way the rules work in a lot of leagues. |
| 1:01.3 | and yet again it happened and yet again it's in Oakland A |
| 0:51.7 | we'll save that player for a bit later in the show |
| 0:52.8 | it's also a way to feature |
| 0:54.9 | Shohei Otani kind of at the top of his own episode |
| 0:56.8 | he deserves it |
| 0:59.5 | I mean it's just |
| 1:00.6 | it's been a question |
| 1:01.7 | ever since Otani kind of at the top of his own episode. He deserves it. |
| 1:03.4 | I mean, it's just, it's been a question ever since Otani came over to Major League Baseball. |
| 1:11.6 | How do we use him? How valuable is he? And every year, it seems like he got a slightly |
| 1:16.9 | different wrinkle because he'll reach a new level skills-wise or in one season's past. He's |
| 1:19.8 | come off of Tommy John surgery. And here we are again this offseason. |
| 1:25.6 | He's coming off of an elbow procedure, |
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