2024 Starting Pitcher Preview, Part 1
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR start off Pitcher Week with the first installment of their 2024 Starting Pitcher Preview!
This episode focuses on the starting pitchers frequently being drafted within the first 100 picks of winter drafts.
For this series, players are grouped by recent Average Draft Position (ADP) data from the National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC).
Rundown
2:44 ADP Tier 1 (Spencer Strider, Gerrit Cole, Corbin Burnes, Zack Wheeler, Kevin Gausman & Luis Castillo)
22:05 ADP Tier 2 (Pablo López, Zac Gallen, George Kirby, Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Aaron Nola, Tarik Skubal)
39:39 ADP Tier 3 (Freddy Peralta, Framber Valdez, Max Fried, Logan Webb, Blake Snell, Kodai Senga, Grayson Rodriguez, Logan Gilbert)
1:04:31 ADP Tier 4 (Eury Pérez, Bobby Miller, Jesús Luzardo, Kyle Bradish, Zach Eflin, Joe Ryan, Cole Ragans, Justin Steele)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels to Monday, January 29th, Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:19.5 | Enosarous. |
| 0:20.1 | It is Pictureitcher Week. |
| 0:22.2 | Episode one of four focusing on pitching the first three episodes this week, all focused on starting pitchers. |
| 0:29.4 | The fourth episode will focus on relievers. |
| 0:32.6 | And I'm guessing there will be some kind of fifth episode outside of this week that kind of digs through all the |
| 0:38.5 | pictures we still didn't have room for even though we're going to talk about them throughout the |
| 0:42.3 | entire week. We should probably have like a deep hitters and deep pitchers episodes. |
| 0:48.9 | Yep. Although we did get some feedback that, you know, some of this stuff is too deep for our listeners. |
| 0:55.5 | Yeah, it's still fun. I mean, you got to walk the dog, got to deal with the winter somehow. |
| 0:59.9 | You're also like a fan of a regular team probably. So at some point, us talking about, you know, |
| 1:05.1 | some deep sleeper on your regular team is interesting. So it's got something to do with Joey Lop or Fido, but lots of ground to cover here today. |
| 1:14.1 | We've continued to use the NFBC ADPs to set up where players have been going in draft, |
| 1:18.7 | so everything is tiered based off of that. |
| 1:21.0 | We're going to go through probably about 30 or so starting pitchers today, time permitting. |
| 1:25.1 | I think we can get it done. |
| 1:26.6 | Eno's got starting pitcher rankings up on the site with a much upgraded visual display for those. So be sure to check those out. If you're a subscriber to the Athletic, if you don't have a subscription, $2 a month, gets you in the door at the athletic.com slash rates and barrels. The rankings look fantastic in the new format so i'm excited i think |
| 1:45.8 | thanks to the engineering squad mark mizoni um and uh amy a caminol like they did a really good job |
| 1:53.5 | with it and um i thought that the addition of 75 player caps would be kind of a fun thing this year |
| 1:59.7 | just to like uh point to the be kind of a fun thing this year just to like point to the certain |
| 2:03.2 | aspects of a pitcher's profile that I find most salient so that you know we had some you know |
| 2:11.4 | color coding so you can be like oh white is bad and green is good you know if you're looking |
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