Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, February 3rd. It is the start of Pitcher Week. We are moving on through our position preview series and beginning with the first

installment focusing on starting pitchers because Eno's starting pitcher rankings have dropped

on the athletic for subscribers. Those are available as you listen to this show and watch this show.

Eno, how's it going for you on this Tuesday? Pitcher week is good week.

What's so great about it is once I do this first one, and I weather the first storm of where's this guy and where's this guy, which this year I'm doing really well at, I think I've dialed in my like, make sure you have all the players in there.

I mean, everyone's mad that Shane Smith is not in the top 150, but I just don't like Shane Smith. There you go. It's not that I missed him. You know, once you have this one in place, I have a working document that I can work off all year. And now, if somebody gets signed or somebody gets hurt, I just, I can do that in real time. I can drop it. And so

that the next time I'm going to the table, a lot of the work is already done. Hey, you know what? You got your reasons for not liking Shane Smith. And we'll learn about them later on this week, since he didn't make the top 150. He'll probably be in the deep cuts sometime next week or the week after actually if he missed the 150.

But the way these episodes work, if you're new,

we can't. probably be in the deep cuts sometime next week or the week after actually if he missed

the 150.

But the way these episodes work, if you're new, we take a look at recent average

draft position from the NFBC.

We group the players based on how people are drafting them in those contests right now.

And then we talk about whether we think they're overpriced, underpriced, appropriately

priced based on Eno's projections, rankings, and expectations. So we kind of decide how to build our rosters with an episode like this one. Today's episode is going to focus mostly on the top 25 to 30 starting pitchers off the board, foundational pitchers. Some of them will not be available to you in a snake draft depending on which draft position you land in.

And that's where we're going to begin.

We're going to start with the aces up top.

The pitchers that go within the first two rounds, we have three consistently going inside the first round overall,

Terek Scouble, Garrett Crochet, and Paul Skeens.

And coming back through in the second round of most traps, we have Christopher

Sanchez and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

Let's start at the very top, though.

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