2025 UT Preview & Late Outfielders
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue their position preview series with UT/Utility players -- where a potential choice with the first overall pick awaits thanks to Shohei Ohtani. In addition to a trio of early-round sluggers to consider, there are late-round considerations that could emerge to qualify at new positions in-season. Plus, we take a look at a few very late outfielders (beyond Pick 300) to consider.
Rundown
2:08 Are You Taking Shohei Ohtani First Overall Despite Shoulder Surgery?
11:19 Choosing Marcell Ozuna v. Brent Rooker v. Kyle Schwarber
21:33 Giancarlo Stanton & Joc Pederson
26:32 Late UT-only Players, Paths to Add In-Season Eligibility
34:12 Eloy Jiménez's Opportunity in Tampa Bay
45:46 Outfielders We Like Beyond Pick 300 Overall
56:54 Some Surprisingly Great Comps for Late Outfielder
1:10:09 Optimism About Jordan Beck?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels Monday, January 27th. |
| 0:14.8 | Derek Riper, Inoceris, here with you in our position preview series, shifting the focus today to UT only players because well there's |
| 0:24.6 | the you know shojo tani thing the guy that goes one-one in a lot of drafts he doesn't fit into the |
| 0:31.1 | other position previews so we have to have a UT only but there's other interesting bats in this |
| 0:35.5 | group and as a bit of a bonus and because we took too long with some of the other outfielders, we have late, late outfielders tucked in to this episode as well. |
| 0:45.9 | So tons of ground to cover, like always. |
| 0:48.4 | We'll start getting back to some news here in about a week or so because tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28th is the start of pitcher week. |
| 0:57.6 | Pitcher week. |
| 1:00.2 | Always fun. |
| 1:01.3 | Sorry, I won't have my rankings out this week. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm doing a big stuff plus story for next week and then the rankings will come out the week after that. |
| 1:10.1 | But you will get a pretty good look rankings will come after the week after that but you will get a |
| 1:12.8 | pretty good look at my rankings from the way I talk about them I don't really hold back so you |
| 1:19.2 | could probably piece it all together if you really took notes I will also try to hack eno in between |
| 1:25.3 | now and start a picture where you can see what I can do. Do enough would you rather so you can pretty much figure it out. Yeah, just take a piece of paper and just start scribbling things down as you go and you'll come up with a pretty good look at the rankings and what they're going to look like once they are available. The hive mind rankings are still rolling. Be sure to join our Discord. There is a UT only section. Only 10 players had to be ranked for that group, which should be much more manageable. So if you're still taking some time on the outfield, which runs 50 deep, and you're even thinking about the late outfielders from today as part of that, that is absolutely fine, but the UT will be open as well, so you can dig into that. |
| 2:01.8 | All right, Eno, let's start with Shohei Otani. |
| 2:04.3 | All right, you got the first pick. |
| 2:05.8 | You won. |
| 2:06.7 | You got first pick either by KDS because you wanted it or even if it was your third or fourth |
| 2:11.3 | choice. |
| 2:11.8 | That's what you drew. |
| 2:13.0 | Is Shohei Otani the player you take at the top of the board this year? |
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