2025 Starting Pitcher Preview, Part 1
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR begin Pitcher Week with the first installment of the 2025 Starting Pitcher Preview! This episode focuses on the starting pitchers often drafted among the Top 100 Overall in early fantasy baseball drafts. Should you build your roster around Paul Skenes or Tarik Skubal and take a pitcher in Round 1, or wait a couple of rounds and find a potentially undervalued ace? How much will the Dodgers' use of a six-man rotation impact the value of their top-end starters? And which risers still have another level they could reach in the upcoming season?
Rundown
2:19 ADP Tier 1a -- Paul Skenes v. Tarik Skubal in Round 1!
12:37 ADP Tier 1a -- Zack Wheeler, Logan Gilbert & Garrett Crochet
25:21 ADP Tier 1b -- Corbin Burnes, Chris Sale & Jacob deGrom,
40:22 ADP Tier 1b -- George Kirby, Cole Ragans, Dylan Cease & Blake Snell
55:55 ADP Tier 2 -- Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Gerrit Cole, Michael King, Pablo López & Framber Valdez
1:05:32 ADP Tier 3 -- Shota Imanaga, Bryce Miller, Bailey Ober, Aaron Nola, Luis Castillo, Hunter Greene, Roki Sasaki, Spencer Schwellenbach & Tanner Bibee
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:24.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and bet-builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boosts, |
| 0:27.6 | season season exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:45.3 | It is Pitcher Week 2025. |
| 0:47.3 | Derek and Riper, Eno Seris, here with you. |
| 0:50.3 | Tuesday, January 28th is the date of this recording. |
| 0:53.3 | Smash that like button if you're watching |
| 0:55.3 | us on YouTube. Leave us a nice rating review if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other |
| 1:00.0 | place that allows you to leave a nice review of the show. On this episode, we start digging into |
| 1:06.3 | starting pitchers, probably going to focus on the top 25 or 30 or so because we never know exactly |
| 1:13.0 | how long we're going to talk that's the magic of rates and barrels we put some stuff on the |
| 1:17.1 | rundown we have an estimate and we try to stay within that estimate and oftentimes we go way over |
| 1:23.4 | so we get more episodes out of our rundowns, which is actually a mark of efficiency. |
| 1:28.8 | To be completely honest, I think that's a thing we should be praised for, you know. |
| 1:33.1 | We are not efficient. |
| 1:35.2 | What do you mean? |
| 1:36.1 | I'm like the Rambler. |
| 1:37.1 | I'm the Professor Curly-headed Rambler guy. |
| 1:41.5 | We do have a new nickname submission that came in from YouTube. |
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