2026 Starting Pitcher Preview, Part 2
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR continue their 2026 position preview series with the second installment of their Starting Pitcher preview. This episode focuses on pitchers often selected between Pick 100 and 200 overall of recent NFBC drafts.
Check out Eno's 2026 Starting Pitcher Rankings ($): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010771
Rundown
0:58 ADP Tier 3a -- Spencer Strider, Chase Burns, Tyler Glasnow, Brandon Woodruff
16:53 ADP Tier 3a continued -- Sonny Gray, Kevin Gausman & Emmet Sheehan
28:37 ADP Tier 3b -- Nick Lodolo, Zack Wheeler, Michael King, Pablo López & Ryan Pepiot
47:30 ADP Tier 3b continued -- Gavin Williams, Cam Schlittler, Drew Rasmussen, Jacob Misiorowski & Robbie Ray
1:05:57 ADP Tier 4a -- Nathan Eovaldi, Bubba Chandler, Trey Yesavage & Tatsuya Imai
1:20:08 ADP Tier 4a continued -- Sandy Alcantara, MacKenzie Gore, Luis Castillo & Ranger Suárez
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rades and Beryl. It's Wednesday, February 4th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseris. |
| 0:17.5 | It's our starting picture preview part two, because we are in the middle of |
| 0:22.9 | pitcher week. This episode is going to focus on pitchers that go between pick 100 and 200 in |
| 0:29.3 | early NFBC drafts. We got through the first 26 pitchers coming off the board in part one of |
| 0:36.0 | this series. We think there are supposed to be three episodes like this, and quite honestly, |
| 0:40.4 | there may be a fourth coming out next week based on the course we're on right now. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm also starting to come down with a minor cold, so if I lose my voice, |
| 0:49.6 | I will just hold up a card with a pitcher name on it, and Eno will wax poetic and analyze that picture accordingly. |
| 0:56.3 | So we're going to go for as long as my voice works. |
| 0:59.3 | Tis the season. Yeah, tis the season, right? Dead of Winter. It was coming all along. |
| 1:02.7 | So we're going to pick things up right where we left off at that pick 100 marker. |
| 1:07.4 | We're calling it 80PT or 3A. These guys go within 25 picks of each other. This group |
| 1:12.0 | includes Spencer Strider, Chase Burns, Tyler Glassnell, Brandon Woodruff, Sunny Gray, Kevin |
| 1:17.9 | Gossman, and Emmett Sheehan starting at the very top. I think we may still have some |
| 1:23.2 | disagreement about Spencer Strider that started bubbling up during our live show at first |
| 1:27.7 | pitch Arizona back in November. |
| 1:30.1 | I think projections for Strider are basically useless, not because I don't like projections, |
| 1:35.3 | but I think when someone pitches and is coming back from a pretty significant injury, which |
| 1:40.4 | Strider was coming off of internal brace surgery last season. It just doesn't get a good |
| 1:46.5 | snapshot of what that player is going to do going forward with better health potentially. At least |
| 1:53.3 | it can't really account for that. I can only tell you what happened based on diminished stuff |
| 1:57.1 | and velocity, which was the case for Strider. But I think when you look back at the overall body of work and consider that he was going |
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