Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, January 25th, Derek Van Riper, here with Enosaris on this episode. We have part two of our

outfield preview. If you missed part one, that is the episode right before this one in the feed.

We started our position preview series a little over a week ago and moved around the infield

almost through the position players now. And some things have actually happened,

both in the fantasy industry and in baseball in terms of some key signings and player movements.

We're going to catch up on those things first before we get back into our outfield preview

today. Let's start on the fun side. Let's start with some players on the move. It finally happened. You know,

Reese Hoskins is a brewer. It's a two-year deal with an opt-out after the first year.

A much-needed power bat addition for the brewer is, a guy that tends to be 20 to 30% better

than league average in a typical season by WRC Plus, going from a hitter-friendly

environment in Philadelphia to at least a park that boost homers, even if it's less hitter-friendly

all around with the move to American Family Field. But we talked about him on the first

base preview. I thought he was one of the better values at the position. Now that he has a home,

I think the reasonable assumption is that it's going to take a little

more to get Reese Hoskins in your draft.

He's probably going to creep up the board and end up somewhere in that pick 140, 150 range,

just based on the track record that he has put together as a great power hitting first baseman.

It's a fair point that you bring up, though.

I hadn't seen talked about much is the sort of hit suppression.

He does strike out more than league average.

And sometimes for his career, 48% fly ball, 50% fly ball guy that has managed to avoid the

220s, there is a chance that this move makes him

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