Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Wednesday, January 15th, position preview season continues.

We make the move over to the left side to discuss

third baseman today. Nice position. Plenty of talent at the top. Lots of quality players

throughout the entire pool. So a bunch of different ways you can attack this position. A lot going on

in the Discord. Just want to throw it out there. The hive rankings we've been talking about throughout this series are running.

We'll have the link so you can submit your positional rankings for third base.

After this episode goes live, you can get that in the Discord.

There's a channel dedicated to the hives too.

I put some goodies in there too.

I put Bat speed risers and top 25 starting pitchers stuff new with the new stuff plus.

So there's some stuff in there maybe.

Not actual eggs and not actual candy, but Easter eggs.

Like video game Easter eggs, I guess you'd call them.

We'll have that stuff rolling out all the time.

The usual preamble, short and sweet, we're using average draft position data from the National Fantasy Baseball Championship, looking at the last 14 days just to put the players in some groups, giving us an idea of where these players are likely to go, no matter when you draft.

These are mostly draft and hold leagues or leagues that don't have in-season

pickups, but it sets up the conversation as far as how you want to approach different

groups of players and make a strategy that will work for you on draft day.

So preamble complete, let's begin with the elite third basement.

I find it funny that every one of these shows has to be manipulated just slightly to make

everything fit the right way.

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