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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

2026 Outfield Preview, Part 2

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR continue their 2026 position preview series in the outfield — digging into early average draft position (ADP) to look for potentially overvalued and undervalued players at the position for the upcoming season. This episode is the second part of a four-part series covering the position, and focuses mostly on outfielders being drafted between Picks 100-200 overall of recent NFBC drafts. 


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Rundown

1:48 ADP Tier 3a -- Kyle Stowers, Teoscar Hernández, Andy Pages, Luis Robert Jr. & Jo Adell

23:23 ADP Tier 3b -- Ceddanne Rafaela, Brandon Nimmo, Lawrence Butler & Jakob Marsee

34:45 ADP Tier 4a -- Chandler Simpson, Taylor Ward, Brenton Doyle, Steven Kwan, Dylan Crews, Ian Happ & Jurickson Profar

59:18 ADP Tier 4b -- Mike Trout, Sal Frelick, Bryan Reynolds, Jasson Domínguez, Daulton Varsho & Daylen Lile


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels.

0:15.0

It's Tuesday, January 27th.

0:17.2

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres, continuing our position preview series.

0:21.6

We kick things off for the week with the first installment of our Outfield preview,

0:25.9

four episodes in total, the fourth of which will include UT only players,

0:30.1

guys that don't qualify anywhere but for that UT spot.

0:33.5

So a lot of ground to cover, the first one covered outfielders being drafted inside the top 100 overall.

0:39.5

This episode is going to focus mostly on the next 100 picks and the outfielders that go there.

0:44.5

About 25 guys will probably break down over the course of this episode.

0:49.4

We got the infielders already in the books.

0:51.5

Pitcher week coming up next week already, Eno.

0:55.5

Yes. Yes.

0:56.6

Yes.

0:58.2

Yes.

0:59.3

I am 30 blurbs in.

1:01.5

I set a goal of 75.

1:04.1

Don't tell anybody if I only release 50.

1:08.7

But it'll go to 150 in terms of ranks and uh i'm deep in it deep in it just like

1:16.2

i just go like to pitch or page and then i go to the team page and get the context and yeah it's a

1:23.6

whole it's just and then you sort and you throw the guys up high you throw guys lower then you'd sort little tiers and yeah it's a whole, it's just, and then you sort and you throw guys up high, you throw guys lower, then you'd sort little tears. And yeah, it's a whole, it's a whole thing. Well, if you want to be part of the conversation as this series continues, and as we have other episodes throughout the week as well, you can join our Discord. If you're watching on YouTube, like this video. And if you're listening to the podcast version of this show, Apple Podcast, Spotify, anywhere you listen, drop us a nice rating and review. Let's get back to it. Let's pick up where we left off at the end of our last episode, just outside the top 100 overall. We're calling this ADP Tier 3. I split it into two groups for the purposes of what you see in front of you. The top half of this group includes Jose Altuve, although we covered him on our second base

2:05.1

episodes.

2:05.6

We're not going to cover him much today.

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