2024 Shortstop Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR begin their 2024 Position Preview Series at shortstop. From the top of the position, 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
2:48 ADP Tier 1 (Bobby Witt Jr., Trea Turner, Corey Seager, Elly De La Cruz, Francisco Lindor)
24:40 ADP Tier 2 (Bo Bichette, CJ Abrams, Nico Hoerner, Matt McLain, Oneil Cruz)
46:11 ADP Tier 3 (Xander Bogaerts, Dansby Swanson, Anthony Volpe)
54:22 ADP Tier 4 (Tommy Edman, Trevor Story, Willy Adames, Ezequiel Tovar)
59:46 ADP Tier 5 (Jackson Holliday, Jeremy Peña, Vaughn Grissom, Carlos Correa, J.P. Crawford, Zach Neto)
1:14:37 ADP Tier 6 (Amed Rosario, Jordan Lawlar, Orlando Arcia, José Caballero, Javier Báez, Geraldo Perdomo, Masyn Winn, Tim Anderson, Colson Montgomery, Jackson Merrill & Brayan Rocchio)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, January 16th. |
| 0:18.2 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosareres. It is the beginning of our position preview |
| 0:23.2 | series. The 2024 position preview series is upon us. So a lot of episodes coming out here in the |
| 0:29.8 | next few weeks. The schedule for this week will include episodes previewing second base, |
| 0:34.5 | third base, and first base all before the end of the week. |
| 0:42.7 | We'll get to the catchers and UT only players next week and all the outfielders. The following week, beginning January 29th, is pitcher week because there are some new bells |
| 0:47.8 | and whistles that we have for pitchers. |
| 0:49.7 | We want to make sure we have all of those at our disposal before we get to pitcher week. |
| 0:54.4 | If you got questions, you can send those our way, Rates and Barrels at gmail.com. |
| 0:58.1 | You can leave us a comment on YouTube. We'd really appreciate anybody who does that. |
| 1:02.0 | Subscribe with YouTube channel. If you haven't done so already, smash the like button, |
| 1:05.7 | rate and review the podcast, do all those things that help keep things warm during this very, |
| 1:10.7 | very cold part of the season. But I love draft season. You know, I love... do all those things that help keep things warm during this very, |
| 1:12.7 | very cold part of the season. |
| 1:14.6 | But I love draft season. |
| 1:16.0 | You know, I love the previews. |
| 1:18.2 | They're my favorite episodes of the entire year. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, it's so much fun. |
| 1:21.0 | I mean, there's hope. |
| 1:22.8 | There's hope. Yes. |
| 1:23.6 | And every team you're drafting, you look at it through the eyes of the rose-colored glasses, |
| 1:30.1 | and you're going to win every league, and everything's great. |
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