2025 Starting Pitcher Preview, Part 4
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Jack Flaherty's reunion with the Tigers before closing the book on starting pitchers (for now) -- with the fourth installment of their 2025 Starting Pitcher preview. Eno explains the "Yolo Yo-Yo", as the need for ceiling and growth should be balanced with steady veterans as you round out your pitching staff.
Rundown
0:59 Jack Flaherty Returns to the Tigers
7:45 ADP Tier 7a -- Nick Lodolo, Jeffrey Springs, Walker Buehler, Ranger & Suárez
22:42 ADP Tier 7a (continued) -- Reese Olson, Michael Wacha, Nestor Cortes, Jackson Jobe, Kutter Crawford & Kumar Rocker
47:50 Looking for Undervalued Depth & Sleepers
1:01:10 The Pirates Might Do It Again with Bubba Chandler
1:13:41 Late SP Whack-a-Mole
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, February 3rd, Derek Van Riper, Enosairis here with |
| 0:16.9 | U-Position preview season rolls on. It is our extended starting pitcher preview part four in the series. |
| 0:24.6 | We're going to focus today on pitchers going outside the top 250 overall, the late pitchers. |
| 0:31.3 | And even with this, we're still not going to get them all. |
| 0:35.8 | So if we have pictures that we did not cover and you'd like |
| 0:39.3 | us to answer questions about them, you can send the questions through our Discord channel. |
| 0:43.7 | There's a mailbag specific channel on our Discord. The link to join the server is in the show |
| 0:49.4 | description. One bit of breaking news before we resume where we left off on part three, Jack Flaherty. |
| 0:56.9 | Back to the Tigers. |
| 0:57.9 | I think this is one of the few scenarios that we outlined when we talked about Flaherty, |
| 1:02.3 | where I felt kind of good about where he's going. |
| 1:04.7 | Now, my guess is because Flaherty pitched so well for the Tigers last year, |
| 1:09.8 | and because Comerica is such a pitcher-friendly |
| 1:12.7 | environment, the previous prices on Jack Flaherty are probably going to tick up just slightly |
| 1:18.6 | now that we know where he's pitching in 2025 and 2026 because it is a two-year $35 million |
| 1:25.2 | deal, which also tells us a lot about how the league as a whole valued Jack Flaherty |
| 1:31.6 | or how much they were maybe concerned about the overall body of work in the face of a phenomenal |
| 1:36.7 | 2024 season. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, you know, it's not only the nice new park for him, but, you know, we still, in baseball today, still play our division |
| 1:47.2 | the most, you know, so those offenses in that division are not great for the most part. And, |
| 1:54.0 | you know, so you're thinking, you know, between pitching at home and pitching, you know, |
| 1:59.4 | in Chicago against the White Sox or in Kansas |
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