2025 Outfield Preview, Part 1

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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4.7 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR continue their position preview series in the outfield! With a slew of players carrying first and second-round Average Draft Positions -- and and significant influx of youth at the position, there are plenty of strategic approaches to consider. (Note: This is part one of a three-episode series focusing on the outfield)

Rundown

6:42 ADP Tier 1a (The First Rounders) -- Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Corbin Carroll, Fernando Tatis Jr. *Mookie Betts, Julio Rodríguez

28:33 ADP Tier 1b (The Second Rounders) -- Jackson Chourio, Yordan Alvarez, Jarren Duran, Jazz Chisholm Jr.*, Jackson Merrill & Ronald Acuña Jr.

41:50 ADP Tier 2 -- Michael Harris II, Oneil Cruz, Wyatt Langford & James Wood

56:38 ADP Tier 3 -- Teoscar Hernández, Lawrence Butler, Brenton Doyle, Seiya Suzuki, Luis Robert Jr. & Bryan Reynolds

1:14:46 ADP Tier 4 -- Anthony Santander, Riley Greene, Cody Bellinger*, Christian Yelich & Spencer Steer*

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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rates and Burles. It's Wednesday, January 22nd. Derek Van Riper, Enosairis, here with you back to our 2025 position preview series. Today, We begin with part one of three as we focus on
0:24.7	the outfield. And that means pitcher week is next week coming up very quickly. A lot of ground
0:31.3	to cover today. We're going to probably get through the first 25 or 30 outfielers. Most of the
0:36.3	guys drafted inside the top 100 overall based on NFBC ADP.
0:40.4	So that's about where the cutoff will be for this episode.
0:43.8	We'll get to the next group on Thursday.
0:45.7	We'll get to the final group on Friday.
0:47.7	So a lot of outfield talk coming up here in the next few days.
0:51.1	And then our Discord where you can also be part of the Hive Mine rankings. The link to join those is in the show description, as is the link to join the Discord. We got a separate channel for that. It's going to be 50 outfielders for the Hive rankings, so you can wait for a couple episodes to come out and then do it, or you can just go at it right away. Your call. The decision is entirely yours. Eno, how's it going for you on this Wednesday?
1:12.5	Good. We kicked over a bit of a hornet's nest with the Dodgers conversation, and I just wanted to
1:19.2	clarify a couple things because I've been talking to people nonstop since our episode dropped.
1:25.2	And one, we didn't have to, you know, sort of construct it as a conversation about the Dodgers.
1:30.5	You know, you can think that the system is broken because the pirates aren't spending, for example, more than the Dodgers are spending.
1:37.4	But you could still think that the system is broken.
1:40.3	So I wanted to put that out there.
1:42.2	I also wanted to say that parody may not be as have such
1:45.9	a final sort of yes or no answer to it. I think I suggested as much when I said that there's such
1:53.1	a thing as too much parody for me. If I didn't know who was good at all, I would have a hard time
1:57.5	following a sports league, especially as a sort of fairweather fan. And so when we look at the parody and say, we think that there's parity, I can see how other
2:05.3	people might suggest that, you know, smaller market teams have smaller windows, you know,
2:10.1	regular season wins still have some correlation with payroll, if not the tightest.
2:15.2	And that could be a basis of an argument. But I would still,
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