Christian Encarnacion-Strand’s Playing Time and Alex Kirilloff’s Fantasy Value
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Al assess the fantasy value of several prospects who were promoted in the past week, including Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Endy Rodríguez and Cade Marlowe. They also look into the types of leagues where Alex Kirilloff and Oswald Peraza should be added, determine which pitchers are worth streaming in the coming week and highlight relievers who could become closers after the trade deadline.
Rundown
0:51 This week’s big fantasy news stories
20:50 Hitters of note
32:06 Starting pitchers to consider, including streamers and two-start pitchers
44:33 Closer corner
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:21.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and |
| 0:24.6 | bet builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boost, |
| 0:27.6 | season season, exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and Beryl's Friday, July 21st, Derek Van Riper, Al Malkior, here on this Friday, getting ready for the weekend, |
| 0:55.4 | discussing some of the biggest fantasy news stories of the week looking at possible |
| 0:59.2 | to start pitchers, streamers, and time permitting. |
| 1:02.5 | Today, we're going to take a look at a few bullpens as teams might be trading their closers |
| 1:07.1 | and moving saves to someone else in their bullpen. |
| 1:10.7 | This is the right time to start speculating in those bullpens if you're looking for |
| 1:15.2 | some saves for the final two months of the season because you're not holding a player |
| 1:19.0 | for an excessive period of time, hoping that the opportunity comes around. |
| 1:23.7 | Al, we begin today with the news of the week. |
| 1:26.7 | Of course, it was heavily discussed earlier in |
| 1:29.2 | the week on the show. Christian Incarnacion Strand is now a part of the Red's active roster and |
| 1:35.9 | seeing how they're using him really kind of working in tandem with Joey Votto between first |
| 1:40.5 | base and DH, letting everybody else shuffle around defensively. |
| 1:44.7 | It looks like there's a good share of playing time here for CES to begin his big league career, |
| 1:50.3 | but is it enough to trust him in shallow and medium-sized leagues? |
| 1:54.7 | There's to me pretty clearly a lot of power, possible impact bat that's also going to hit |
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