2025 Starting Pitcher Preview, Part 2
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue Pitcher Week with the second installment of the 2025 Starting Pitcher Preview! This episode focuses on the starting pitchers often drafted between Pick 100 and 200 overall in early fantasy baseball drafts. Which fallers from previous seasons offer the most rebound potential? Where should you take on injury risk in this group? And, is there any good oatmeal available for your pitching staff within these tiers?
Rundown
2:47 ADP Tier 4a -- Freddy Peralta, Logan Webb & Max Fried
18:42 ADP Tier 4a (continued -- Joe Ryan, Tyler Glasnow, Grayson Rodriguez & Hunter Brown
37:47 ADP Tier 4a (continued) -- Sonny Gray, Shane McClanahan & Zac Gallen
49:18 ADP Tier 4b -- Carlos Rodón, Justin Steele, Spencer Strider, Bryan Woo, Jack Flaherty, Kodai Senga
1:11:40 ADP Tier 5a-- Jared Jones, Robbie Ray, Sandy Alcantara, Reynaldo López, Yusei Kikiuchi & Kevin Gausman
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Wednesday, January 29th. Pitcher Week continues. Episode two in our three-part starting pitcher preview series. Smash the like button on this video if you're watching us on YouTube or leave us a nice rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. |
| 0:28.7 | Derek from Riper, Inoceris, here with you today, as always, digging through. |
| 0:33.3 | Pitchers going in the pick 100 to 200 range. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm optimistic. |
| 0:37.8 | I think we can cover a spread of 100 picks, but these are important pitchers, guys that could make big leaps, |
| 0:43.8 | guys that could leave you very cold if they continue their decline in some cases. |
| 0:49.1 | So it's an important group to be completely dialed into as draft season rolls on. |
| 0:55.6 | Be sure to join our Discord in the Discord. |
| 0:58.1 | You can find a link to the Hive Mine rankings. |
| 1:00.0 | Submit your rankings for all the positions we've covered so far. |
| 1:02.5 | The link for starting pitchers is also open. |
| 1:05.1 | We're going to compile all of our listener feedback on those and send some rankings out to you. |
| 1:09.1 | The listener supported rankings from the Rates and Barrels crew. |
| 1:13.0 | So a lot of a ground to cover with those if you haven't started them. |
| 1:17.0 | And then, of course, we dig into Tier 4A, as I'm calling it, as we get started today. |
| 1:23.3 | These tiers are so arbitrary. |
| 1:25.1 | One little piece of news on yesterday, it came out after yesterday's. |
| 1:28.6 | Oh. |
| 1:29.0 | Right. |
| 1:29.4 | Real quick. |
| 1:30.0 | You shared it with me. |
| 1:31.0 | Oh, the Roki thing? |
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