Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, January 26th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. We continue our position preview series. We begin with the first of multiple installments focusing on the outfield. The way things are scheduled to work is we will have four episodes covering outfielders. That last one, though, will be UT only players up front and very late outfielders in the back. So if you're wondering where are those guys who don't qualify anywhere are going to go, they are going to be a part of that episode. And I'm going to guess Shohei Otani's going to be on the thumbnail for that one,

because that seems to be good business in general based on what I know about YouTube.

Yeah.

I look forward to this because I need a distraction right now.

But also, Outfield is just an interesting thing because it's a little bit like pitcher where you can play in leagues where it's like center field, left field, right field.

That makes things a little bit harder.

But generally, just the fact that these are disambiguated, like it's just outfield and you don't have to, you know,

you have five slots to fill, but you don't have to get specific kinds means there's an

opportunity to wait because you don't need to fill certain kinds. And then on top of it,

outfitters are so disparate in what they bring to the table that you don't fall into that like,

oh, I need 30 steals from my

MI or something. You know, you can get all kinds of outfielders. You can get power guys. You can

get batting average guys. You can do whatever you need. So I think it's one of those things where

I'm tempted to always let it slide, but the best players are in the outfield. You know,

there's so many good hitters in the outfield that you still have to invest in it.

You can't just go into the season with a bottom third outfield, I think, because you'll

just have left too much talent on the table.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's a great way of looking at it.

The ability to get anything you need from this position kind of gives you the opportunity to adjust to what you did with other parts of your foundation, right? You don't have a lot of first baseman that steal bases, for example. So there's all sorts of things like that along the way. Even third baseman. You get a couple guys that run. A lot of guys don't. So you can adjust accordingly with your outfield balance since just about every combination of categories can be found out there.

I think you produce you that's an interesting point though.

Because it is harder to make up speed at like first or quarter infield or whatever it is,

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