Breakout Players & Fantasy Baseball Sleepers: AL West & NL West
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR recap their LABR auctions from the weekend and share their selections for breakouts (or sleepers, if those still exist) from each team in the AL West and NL West.
Rundown
4:16 Eno's AL LABR Plan
17:24 DVR's NL LABR Plan
33:05 Logan Gilbert's ETA; Ty France Love
36:22 Is Josh Jung Primed to Take Over at Third Base?
42:48 Digging Deep for Luis Rengifo
47:24 Concerns About Jared Walsh's Playing Time?
50:13 Don't Forget About Ka'ai (Blaze) Tom
56:46 Myles Straw vs. Chas McCormick
60:57 Mauricio Dubón Time in San Francisco?
65:02 Time To Buy In on Brendan Rodgers?
70:04 Will the Zack Greinke Deal Bear Fruit in Arizona?
74:17 Are There Any Overlooked Players in San Diego?
79:14 Will This Year's Kyle Tucker Come From Los Angeles?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.7 | It's Monday, March 8th. |
| 0:18.2 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:20.3 | On this episode, we review our |
| 0:22.2 | AL and NL-only labor squads. We'll talk about auction strategy, pass along some tips, some |
| 0:27.8 | strategy ideas, and talk about individual players, of course, and we'll put the results for |
| 0:33.4 | both of those auctions into our show description. So if you're either listening to us on Apple |
| 0:38.2 | podcasts or you're watching us on YouTube, you can just click on the links and actually see the |
| 0:42.8 | boards as we go through them. And then we're going to talk about breakouts and sleepers, |
| 0:47.8 | a lot of hitters since we've done this on the starting pitching episodes a few weeks back, |
| 0:52.0 | going team by team to the two Western division |
| 0:55.4 | groups and looking at players that we think are undervalued and possibly going to take that |
| 1:00.4 | big step forward here in 2021. |
| 1:04.8 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 1:06.8 | I'm exhausted, man. |
| 1:09.0 | That draft is like just six hours of, like my face gets red. |
| 1:15.7 | Like I think my brain is working so hard. |
| 1:17.7 | Like I get tired. |
| 1:19.2 | I just get, by the end of it, I'm wired tired. |
| 1:23.2 | It's just, and I was wondering how if it'd be more or less stressful, you know, online. |
| 1:31.0 | And I think it was more because there were just a couple snafos with the technology. |
| 1:39.4 | There weren't necessarily the fault of the technology, you know, but, uh, uh, there were, there were, uh, there was |
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