2025 Outfield Preview, Part 3
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue their position preview series in the outfield with a focus on middle and late-round options (~Pick 200-300 overall). Can you find enough value in the later rounds to wait for these players at a discount? (Note: This is part three of a three-episode series focusing on the outfield, with another group of very late outfielders to consider coming in an episode with UT-only players.)
Rundown
3:05 ADP Tier 7 -- Jurickson Profar, Jung Hoo Lee, Jake McCarthy, Jorge Soler, Alec Burleson & Willi Castro*
18:25 ADP Tier 7 (Continued) -- George Springer, Brendan Donovan, Jesús Sánchez, Byron Buxton & TJ Friedl
35:44 ADP Tier 8 - Lars Nootbaar, Nolan Jones, Garrett Mitchell, JJ Bleday, Jo Adell, Evan Carter & Matt Wallner
58:05 ADP Tier 8 (Continued) Michael Conforto, Wilyer Abreu, Jordan Walker & Roman Anthony
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrel, it's Friday, January 24th, position preview season is in full swing. |
| 0:18.5 | Smash the like button if you're watching us on YouTube. |
| 0:40.3 | Drop us a nice rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other platform that allows you to rate and review the podcast. Good reviews are appreciated. Bad reviews. Maybe keep those to yourself if you have a bad review. That would be my advice. It'd make me happy. But yeah, part three of our Outfield preview. You know, we have been talking about outfielders each of the last two episodes. |
| 0:45.5 | We left off yesterday's show in Tier 7, which is pretty meaningless to most folks. |
| 0:51.2 | Basically, players at this point in the show are guys available after Pick 200 overall. |
| 0:55.7 | We use the NFBC's ADP from the last 14 days just to get a snapshot of where players go, and we pick up right where we left off yesterday. Now, Tier 7 includes a bunch of guys |
| 1:06.0 | that I mentioned, Jerks and Profar, Jung Ho Lee, Jake McCarthy, Jorge Saler, Alec Berluson, George Springer, Brendan Donovan, Hesu Sanchez, Byron Buxton, and T.J. Friel. It could be two or three tiers if you want to chop it up that way. That is absolutely fine. The first three guys in the group, Elliot Ramos, Cedric Mullins, Lotus Gurriel Jr., covered at the very end of the episode just before this one. |
| 1:28.1 | I think this worked out perfectly. |
| 1:30.3 | Our decision to crack open to your seven at the end of yesterday's episode means that we have breaking news that we can fold right in. |
| 1:39.5 | Jerks and Profar was a free agent until we finished the recording yesterday. |
| 1:45.1 | Now he's a member of the Atlanta Braves. |
| 1:47.0 | It's a three-year deal. |
| 1:49.0 | Jerks and ProFar, of the players I mentioned in this tier that we have not talked about |
| 1:55.0 | already, hit more home runs than anybody else in the group last season. |
| 1:59.8 | 24 homers. |
| 2:00.7 | That is not something I expected |
| 2:02.6 | to see when I put this group and the next tier all together on one leaderboard. Part of that was |
| 2:09.4 | extreme durability. Jerks and Pearl Far played 158 games for the Padres last year. It was |
| 2:14.2 | 668 plate appearances. He also chipped into 10 steals. The counting stats were |
| 2:19.5 | phenomenal. It was a season that I think even the most optimistic Jurkson pro-far folks out there |
| 2:25.6 | probably didn't see coming, right? It's a career high in homers in his age 31 campaign. |
| 2:32.4 | Congrats to him on getting a three-year deal, though. |
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