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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

A few things we learned in 2020

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss some of their takeaways from the 60-game 2020 season -- including the need for making quicker decisions and their plans to increase the value placed on multi-position players in the future -- before answering a series of mailbag questions.

Rundown
4:57 Roster Churn & Quick Decisions
9:56 Tony Gonsolin’s 2021 Outlook
13:17 Increasing Weight on Multi-Position Players
17:22 Projecting Jake Cronenworth in 2021
21:16 Revisiting 'Punting' Saves
30:59 Adjusting to Universal DH
36:03 Kyle Lewis as a Fringe Top-25 Hitter?
46:40 Keston Hiura & Second-Base Depth Concerns
54:08 Is Edwin Rios a 2021 Sleeper?
59:20 Future Interest in Justin Dunn

Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris
Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 142. It's Thursday, September 24th. We are moving through the final days of this

0:24.0

2020 MLB regular season on this episode. We'll discuss things that we've learned this year and how

0:30.2

applicable those things might be to future seasons as we try to build better rosters and win

0:36.7

more fantasy championships down the road.

0:39.1

It's interesting to think about that when we're still pursuing some championships over the

0:42.5

weekend.

0:43.3

We'll talk about a few interesting topics that came in via email, including an idea for a

0:48.3

possible sign and trade type scenario.

0:51.0

So that's a pretty fun thing to get to.

0:52.8

You know, before we get get started how's it going for

0:54.5

you on this thursday going well we're heading down the stretch and it's been a bad season for me

1:03.8

fantasy wise i'm uh i have to pull off something to, to win any leagues this year. And usually I win,

1:13.5

you know, something like a third of my leagues. And I, I, I am going to place top half in maybe

1:19.8

half of them. And usually I place top half in like three quarters. So it's not terrible. And,

1:25.7

you know, I've, I've, I've found ways I've learned.

1:29.5

You know, we're going to talk about that.

1:30.5

I've learned a little bit this year.

1:33.6

But I am just sort of hoping for a bit of a miracle in a couple of leagues just so that I come away with some hardware.

1:42.3

Yeah.

1:42.9

I need a little help in NL labor.

1:45.6

I think there are seven teams within eight points of first place, and I'm among them,

1:49.7

but I'm kind of at the back of that group, so it could be a mid-pack finish,

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