2024 Outfield Preview, Part 1
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue their 2024 Position Preview Series with the first installment of their outfield preview. 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
1:19 ADP Tier 1 (Ronald Acuña Jr., Julio Rodríguez, Corbin Carroll, Kyle Tucker, Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto, Aaron Judge, Yordan Alvarez)
24:14 ADP Tier 2 (Luis Robert Jr., Michael Harris II, Adolis García, Randy Arozarena, Nolan Jones, Cody Bellinger)
39:30 ADP Tier 3 (Mike Trout, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Christian Yelich, Josh Lowe, Kyle Schwarber, Bryan Reynolds)
56:03 ADP Tier 4 (Nick Castellanos, Spencer Steer, Lane Thomas, Seiya Suzuki, Jordan Walker, Esteury Ruiz, George Springer, Evan Carter, Jackson Chourio)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, January 24th, Derek Van Riper, here with Inoceris, continuing the position preview series and getting things going in the outfield, which typically takes us three full episodes to get through. |
| 0:28.9 | So we have our episode today. |
| 0:30.0 | We got one Thursday. |
| 0:31.2 | And we've got one Friday as we try and close the book on hitters in anticipation of pitcher week, which is already coming up after the weekend. |
| 0:39.4 | 75 capsules written. |
| 0:42.3 | I feel good about my rankings to about 100, and we're going to publish 150. |
| 0:47.2 | It's going to be nice. |
| 0:48.3 | It's going to have some bells and whistles this year. |
| 0:50.4 | I hope people enjoy. |
| 0:52.9 | Be excited about it. Theadletic.com slash rates and barrels gets you a subscription if you don't have one already. If you're watching us on YouTube, hit the like button. If you're not watching us on YouTube, come subscribe to the channel. Leave us a nice rating and review if you're enjoying us as a podcast. Let's get to it. We've got a lot of players in tier one here. Again, this is all by ADP from the NFBC. |
| 1:13.3 | If you're just joining us for the first time, we've got all the infield previews are done. |
| 1:17.5 | You can go back in the feed and listen to those, but there is a ton of talent up top. |
| 1:23.4 | Many of them are first rounders in. |
| 1:25.3 | That includes the consensus number one overall pick. |
| 1:27.6 | Ronald Acuna Jr. |
| 1:28.6 | He got Julio Rodriguez, Corbin Carroll, Kyle Tucker. |
| 1:31.9 | We talked about Mookie Betts on our second base episode. |
| 1:34.3 | He is part of that cluster as well. |
| 1:36.7 | And you've also got Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto, Aaron Judge, and Yordan Elvarez. |
| 1:42.2 | Judge and Elvarez most likely to kind of slide to the very early part of round two of this group, but really anything is possible with these eight players. |
| 1:51.1 | We don't have to spend a lot of time on Acuna because he just had an amazing season. |
| 1:55.3 | 41 homers, 73 steals, a 337 average. |
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