Breakout Players & Fantasy Baseball Sleepers: AL West & NL West

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

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Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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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? Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Please fill out our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/athleticaudiosurvey AL LABR Results: https://www.rtsports.com/labr-al-auction NL LABR Results: https://www.rtsports.com/labr-nl-auction Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, March 8th. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaurus. On this episode, we review our AL and NL-only labor squads.
0:55.1	We'll talk about auction strategy, pass along some tips, some strategy ideas, and talk
0:59.8	about individual players, of course, and we'll put the results for both of those auctions
1:04.6	into our show description.
1:06.2	So if you're either listening to us on Apple Podcasts or you're watching us on YouTube.
1:11.1	You can just click on the links and actually see the boards as we go through them.
1:15.3	And then we're going to talk about breakouts and sleepers, a lot of hitters,
1:18.7	since we've done this on the starting pitching episodes a few weeks back,
1:22.4	going team by team through the two Western Division groups
1:26.1	and looking at players that we think are undervalued
1:28.9	and possibly going to take that big step forward here in 2021.
1:34.8	Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday?
1:36.8	I'm exhausted, man.
1:39.1	That draft is like just six hours of, like my face gets red.
1:45.8	Like I think my brain is working so hard.
1:47.7	Like I get tired.
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