A Return to 'On the Clock' Status: Breakouts v. Rebounds, Joe Musgrove as an SP1 & Luis Robert Love
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR begin the 'On the Clock' phase of the year as another batch of slow drafts gets underway. They discuss how Draft & Hold formats modify their roster builds -- including a willingness to pay premiums for closers -- along with their thoughts about several early-rounders. Plus, they weigh the possibility of a step forward from Jazz Chisholm against the possibility of a rebound from Cody Bellinger or Christian Yelich, Joe Musgrove's bid for SP1 status, Aaron Ashby's Stuff+ shortcomings, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates in Beryl. It is Wednesday, January 5th, first episode of the pod for 2022. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We will answer a wide variety of mailbag questions that have come in in the last couple of weeks. |
| 0:37.9 | So lots of topics to get to. |
| 0:39.5 | We have some valuation questions. |
| 0:41.0 | We have a question about some guys that don't pop in this stuff plus model and why that might be the case. |
| 0:46.8 | We're going to talk a little bit about some early draft strategy stuff, mostly looking at a few players in the early rounds that are either jumping up a little |
| 0:54.4 | bit unexpectedly or a couple that are starting to fall a bit, just some observations from an |
| 0:59.4 | NFBC 50 that I'm in right now, looking at the overall ADP trends. |
| 1:03.9 | You know, happy new year to you. |
| 1:05.4 | How did the last couple of weeks treat you while we were off? |
| 1:08.8 | It's weird. |
| 1:09.5 | It's like I got to relearn everything. You know, |
| 1:12.1 | you have all these, you know, you have all these routines that you do. And then for two weeks, |
| 1:18.7 | I just did nothing, really. I mean, I ran a little, uh, went to the, went to San Diego, um, |
| 1:24.7 | and, uh, went to the zoo in a safari park down there and nothing too out of the ordinary shout |
| 1:32.3 | out to everybody who showed up to the meetup. |
| 1:34.5 | It was fairly raucous by the end. |
| 1:38.3 | We had a good time discussing all things, Padres and fantasy baseball. |
| 1:44.0 | And we had a good little crew there at Pure Project. |
| 1:46.3 | In fact, shout out to Pure Project. |
| 1:50.2 | Hey, yeah, it's a nice treat for those of those of you watching on YouTube. |
| 1:54.5 | Yeah, we got a nice, we got a nice couple of tables outside. |
| 2:00.3 | And shout out to my father-in-law |
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