2026 Ohtani, UT-Only & Outfield Preview, Part 4
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue their 2026 position preview series with UT & UT-only players — digging into early average draft position (ADP) to look for potentially overvalued and undervalued players at the position for the upcoming season. Lucky enough to land the first pick in your draft? Shohei Ohtani remains the logical choice from that spot in nearly all formats. This episode is the fourth part of a four-part series covering the position, and focuses mostly on outfielders being drafted after Pick 300 overall of recent NFBC drafts.
Rundown
2:38 ADP Tier 1 -- Shohei Ohtani, Kyle Schwarber & Yordan Alvarez
15:06 ADP Tier 2 -- Christian Yelich & Iván Herrera
24:11 ADP Tier 3 -- Beyond Pick 300: Marcell Ozuna to Masataka Yoshida
34:49 OF ADP Tier 7 -- Nick Castellanos, Cam Smith, Victor Scott II, Jesús Sánchez, Zach McKinstry, Dominic Canzone & Jordan Walker
56:14 Beyond Pick 350 Overall: Very Late Outfielders!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates Barrels. It is Monday, February 2nd. Derek Ben-Riper here with Inoceris. |
| 0:18.3 | Continuing on through our position preview series, today we focus on Chohei Otani and the UT only players, and we get to some very, very late outfielders. |
| 0:30.1 | So a lot of players to discuss, and I think we've hit this point, you know, it's February 2nd now. |
| 0:36.2 | Everyone's excited about Groundhog's Day. |
| 0:38.1 | I live in a town now with maybe the second most famous groundhog in the world. |
| 0:44.0 | There's the second one because I know Pugs of Tani Phil. |
| 0:46.8 | I don't know any others. |
| 0:48.6 | Jimmy the Groundhog is the Groundhog in my town. |
| 0:51.7 | And in 2015, Jimmy the Groundhog became famous because he bit the mayor's ear while the mayor was relaying Jimmy's message about whether or not we'd have six more weeks of winter. |
| 1:03.2 | What does that mean? |
| 1:05.1 | That's not good for anybody. |
| 1:07.4 | Because the mayor's going to get a rabies shot and, you know. |
| 1:10.4 | It sounds like 12 weeks of winter left. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah, if you're the mayor, you're like, my time is probably over. |
| 1:17.2 | So yeah, I don't know, Jimmy the Groundhog, making himself famous the old-fashioned way, |
| 1:21.6 | just getting things done for himself. |
| 1:23.6 | But apparently, spring's coming early, even though it's been a long, long winter. |
| 1:29.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:30.3 | We hit a road bump in our |
| 1:32.6 | Avengers watchathon. |
| 1:36.5 | We were, we started Deadpool |
| 1:38.6 | and my wife |
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