Adding Royce Lewis and Jordan Walker and Pitching Start/Sit Dilemmas
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Al weigh their interest in adding Royce Lewis and Jordan Walker in shallower leagues and discuss their approaches to FAB bidding for AJ Smith-Shawver. They also gauge their interest in adding the Tigers’ Akil Baddoo and Zach McKinstry, as well as Reds righty Ben Lively and Braves southpaw Jared Shuster. DVR and Al conclude with some difficult two-start dilemmas and a few closer candidates to consider.
Rundown
0:59 Top developments heading into the weekend
16:54 Hitters to consider
31:48 A few starting pitchers of interest
38:47 Start/sit dilemmas for two-start Hunter Greene and Nestor Cortes
45:40 Two-start pitchers
55:26 Closer corner
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryl. It's Friday, June 2nd. |
| 0:18.2 | Derek Ben-Riper here with Al Malkyore. |
| 0:20.2 | It's our weekend waiver preview show digging into all the big stories from the week, promotions, players coming back from injuries, players, players getting hurt, opening the door for other players, all the things we usually talk about at the end of the week in hopes of getting you better prepared for the upcoming weekend in FAB activity. |
| 0:39.0 | And if your league doesn't use FAB, hopefully the show is still fun to listen to because we |
| 0:42.2 | don't actually talk that much about specific bids. |
| 0:45.2 | Just give you some general guidelines here and there and hope the whole process is really |
| 0:49.8 | to learn more about making the right pickups on your own, what to bid and how to handle things. |
| 0:54.2 | So that's our goal anyway. |
| 0:55.6 | It's been our goal all season. |
| 0:57.0 | We hope it's serving everyone well. |
| 0:59.5 | Now, let's start today with Royce Lewis. |
| 1:01.8 | And if you play in a shadow league, there's a chance that Royce Lewis is still available. |
| 1:06.4 | He's rostered in just under 70% of leagues on CBS, just coming back from his second ACL tear to begin |
| 1:15.5 | this week. He's popped a couple of home runs already. Did get one day off out of the first |
| 1:20.2 | four games he could play. Not a surprise given the twins depth, given the magnitude of the injuries |
| 1:26.4 | that he's come back from. I think the question |
| 1:28.9 | with Royce Lewis is, if you're playing in a shallow league where he's still out there, an eight |
| 1:33.1 | team league or a 10 team league, does Royce Lewis have the skills and the role right now to be |
| 1:39.0 | universally rostered? I think universally and maybe DVR, I'm being a little bit a picky here, but I think that's a bit of a stretch. |
| 1:48.1 | I know for maybe a lot of folks, if we were to say he should be rostered in all 12-team leagues, that's pretty close to universal. |
| 1:55.7 | But yeah, I think that's kind of where I'm at with Lewis. |
| 2:00.6 | And I wouldn't necessarily recommend it in a 12-team league where you didn't have any bench space. |
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