2025 Starting Pitcher Preview, Part 1

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 87 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 Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social e-mail: [email protected] Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe Share your Positional Rankings in the HiveMind Ranks for Starting Pitchers: https://forms.gle/QhdU1UimnejRG1bP6 Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris Producer Brian Smith Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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