Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It is Tuesday, January 30th, Derek Van Riber, you know, Saris here with you.

It is Pitcher Week day two as we continue looking at starting pitchers. If you're watching us on YouTube, be sure to smash the like button on this video. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already. If you're listening to us as a podcast, drop us a nice rating and review. We would really appreciate that. We've got Eno's pitching rankings up for

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you a subscription for $2 a month for the first year if you don't have that already. We are talking

about these players the way they're being drafted in NFBC leagues, so they're tiered by average

draft position.

These are not the rankings.

Order-wise, we'll kind of highlight some opportunities to target players and a few

players you should probably avoid over the course of this episode.

Part one is already available in this feed.

It's the episode right before this one.

So if you want pitchers going in the top 100 overall, we covered them already.

So we pick up the conversation today, you know, in ADP tier number five.

This is a group that includes Dylan Sees, Joe Musgrove, Walker Bueller, Tanner Bivey, Sunny Gray, and Justin Verlander.

Some really big names here.

And this is a window where you could still be looking maybe for your second starting pitcher if you've been waiting a long time in a 15 team league.

More likely these are SP3s in a lot of situations, especially in a 12 team league.

But there might be some potential SP1s in this group just based on past levels of success that a lot of these guys have had.

Let's start with Dylan Cease.

He's listed as the White Sox opening day starter.

I think we all have a lot of questions as to whether it's actually going to happen.

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