Breakout Players & Fantasy Baseball Sleepers: AL East & NL East
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt and DVR look for breakouts and sleepers from each team in the AL & NL East, before discussing several tweaks that MLB is experimenting with at various minor-league levels in 2021.
Rundown
6:10 Still Buying Austin Riley?
11:12 Excited About Trevor Rogers & Edward Cabrera
15:12 Is there a Great Marlins’ Hitter On the Way?
19:48 Do the Mets Have Any Undervalued Players?
25:22 Can the Phillies Get it Right with Spencer Howard?
30:16 A Pod Divided: Victor Robles
36:48 An Opportunity for Yusniel Diaz in Baltimore?
44:58 When Will Jarren Duran Arrive? Buying Dalbec?
50:33 Banking on a Deivi García Breakout?
53:37 Can the Rays Fix Francisco Mejía?
59:51 Get Rowdy
63:12 Minor League Rules Experiments
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, March 12th, Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, |
| 0:20.2 | Bridgeroli here with you. It is part three of our three-part series. Looking for breakouts around the league. Today is the AL East and the NL East. Got a few other things we're going to talk about in this episode, including some experiments that are going to take place in the minor leagues. Jason Stark had a piece outlining some of the details, and it's wild. Different stuff at different |
| 0:38.0 | levels, but good to sort of do these things in isolation, I guess, and figure out what works |
| 0:42.7 | and how it impacts the game and maybe other things that happen as a result of making these changes. |
| 0:48.7 | The athletic cutline fantasy baseball contest went live. That starts up on Monday. So if you'd like to |
| 0:53.7 | play in that, |
| 0:54.7 | it's free for athletic subscribers. There are some prizes. We'll put the link in the show notes. |
| 0:59.3 | We'll talk about what makes that a bit different at the end of the show. First, I just want to say |
| 1:04.7 | thank you to everybody who voted for us in the baseball pods bracket on Twitter. We were deemed |
| 1:10.4 | co-champions with our friends over at the pitcher list, which is awesome. |
| 1:14.1 | And we had some really tough matchups along the way against some friends over at the Sleeper and the bust, among others. |
| 1:20.6 | The CBS podcast, that was a tight battle earlier this week. |
| 1:25.1 | And it sounds like bots maybe influence the final. So we have a co-championship |
| 1:30.0 | here in 2021. But we're really happy that we have that. And of course, we appreciate Chris from |
| 1:34.5 | baseball pods for putting that together. So be sure to check that out. And check out some of the |
| 1:38.0 | shows that are in the bracket too. It's really cool that we live in a time where there are |
| 1:42.3 | enough fantasy baseball podcasts to put them into a bracket like this and to play it out March Madness style. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, we were all talking to each other and it looked like we were doing all right against the pitcher list, which I was surprised because that's a great show and, you know, those are great people. |
| 1:58.1 | And we're going to have a pretty exciting thing where |
| 2:01.6 | because we're co-champions, we're going to do a co-superpod on Monday, I think, where it'll |
| 2:08.7 | be the four of us. |
| 2:11.0 | And I think the general idea is to debate some of the pitchers we disagree on, which I think |
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