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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

2026 Outfield Preview, Part 3

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 30 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 third part of a four-part series covering the position, and focuses mostly on outfielders being drafted after Pick 200 overall of recent NFBC drafts.


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Rundown

1:51 ADP Tier 5a -- Kerry Carpenter, Heliot Ramos, Jac Caglianone, Jordan Beck, Anthony Santander & Ramón Laureano

21:30 ADP Tier 5b -- Wilyer Abreu, Mickey Moniak, Trent Grisham, Adolis García, Colton Cowser & Giancarlo Stanton

44:23 ADP Tier 6a -- TJ Friedl, Josh Lowe, Jung Hoo Lee, Dylan Beavers & Cedric Mullins

1:02:39 ADP Tier 6b -- Evan Carter, Chase DeLauter, Matt Wallner, Victor Robles, Justin Crawford & Harrison Bader


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0:00.0

Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Friday, January 30th, Derek Van Riper here with

0:18.3

Enosaurus. Continuing our position preview series, this is part three of our

0:23.3

26 outfield preview.

0:25.4

The previous two installments were released earlier this week.

0:28.1

We covered all of the infield positions on previous episodes.

0:31.8

So if you're just joining us for the first time, you can go back and get caught up over the course of the weekend.

0:37.2

Hit your week on tap next week.

0:39.0

That gets underway on Tuesday and lines up with the release of Eno's updated starting

0:44.4

pitcher rankings on the athletic.

0:47.0

Tuesday, baby.

0:48.6

Got those 75 blurbs in yesterday.

0:52.1

And now I'm just doing the painstaking. Oh, this guy up too. This guy down two. This guy, no, no, no. This guy up five. Just got down five. I can do that. Given the Friday that you're saying that, you're in a pretty good spot. If you're on final tweaks and all the blurbs are done, you've done exceptionally well staying on schedule. I feel good to 75, though, and really this is to 150.

1:14.0

So then again, you know, like we said with Keith Law, you know, on the episode this week, that, you know, I kind of feel like the difference between like 120 and 145. I just don't, I don't spend as much time about that.

1:32.0

I'm going to group them.

1:33.7

There's some guys in the 120s I like, you know.

1:37.6

False precision, I think, is what he called at a certain point.

1:40.3

I think that's a good way to describe it.

1:42.2

I'll have some overall hitter rankings coming up one week after. The pitcher rankings drop, so I've got some time to work on that. There's

1:48.6

no blurbs associated with those. That helps the process a little bit in terms of me getting

1:53.1

them turned around. Maybe in a future year, though, we'll get some blurbs out there. We shall see.

1:58.1

Let's pick up things where we left off just outside the top 200 overall, kind of in

2:03.1

that pick 225 range by ADP. These episodes are organized by where players are drafted in terms of

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