Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Wednesday, January 14th, Derek Van Riper, Enoceris here with you on this episode.

We preview the third base position, the second of our position previews.

We just started those up here on Tuesday.

These are longer episodes.

If you're new, it works like this.

We use average draft position to go through each and every position

and talk about as many players as we can,

trying to predict what is likely to happen in the upcoming season,

and give you a sense of whether they are appropriately valued, overvalued, or undervalued

in various fantasy baseball formats.

They're some of the most fun episodes of the year.

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If you want to continue the conversation after the show,

if you're watching us on YouTube, be sure to like this video and subscribe to the channel. Eno, how's it going for you on this Wednesday? That's good. We're deep in it. Deep, deep in it. All it takes is one to be deep in it when it comes to position previews. Well, I try to get my pitching ranks out for the first week of February, and so I'm doing

pitching every time I can, but there's always, hey, we're doing another position tomorrow,

so then it's just like, let me dive in.

But deep in it, I mean, we're here each and every weekday, right?

Monday through Friday, pretty much now until the end of the World Series, a handful of

days off for the occasional holiday and travel

and some things, but it's the season for us. It starts very early, and we're very glad that

we can do that. So we break everything up by average draft position tier. These are where

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