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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Closer Potpourri with Greg Jewett

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jewett joins Al to discuss his general approach to drafting relievers this season and to discuss likely opening day closers who could lose their jobs and relievers who could emerge from committees to become primary closers.


Rundown

1:45 How is Greg approaching getting saves in his drafts this year?

7:25 ADP conundrums: Félix Bautista, Clay Holmes, Jason Adam

18:00 Closers who are potentially at risk of losing their job during the season: Daniel Bard, José Leclerc, Alex Lange, Carlos Estévez

25:40 What should we look for from relievers in spring training?

27:59 Can anyone emerge as a primary closer from these committees: Dodgers, Angels, Phillies, Twins, Cubs, Marlins, Diamondbacks?


Follow Greg on Twitter: @gjewett9

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody, happy Friday to you.

0:16.7

This is Rates and Burles.

0:18.8

I'm Alan Malkyore, and I am not here with Eno Ceres today. He

0:22.5

is off the show just for today. So with me is Greg Jewett, writes about bullpins for the athletic,

0:31.0

for the athletic fantasy. And Greg, you and I, we've been talking, we've been talking bullpens

0:36.1

for many years now, going back to, well, gosh, we've been talking, we've been talking bullpens for, for many years now,

0:37.9

going back to, well, gosh, now I'm blanking on the name of the, the, the website.

0:44.8

Which one, Fanrag or Fanrag? Thank you.

0:47.9

Off to a roaring start here. Couldn't even remember the site that we both wrote for.

0:51.4

But so, yeah, Greg is an authority on the topic. Really,

0:56.3

really excited to dig into these early spring training bullpen statuses with you here.

1:03.6

So before we get into all that, just a reminder to everybody that, yes, in fact, the draft kit kit the fancy baseball draft kit is up has

1:13.7

been up for a while on the athletic and if you want to access that with a great deal just go to

1:21.1

theathletic.com slash rates and barrels and it's $2 a month for the first year and that gets you

1:27.4

not only just the draft kit

1:28.7

but of course everything that comes with the athletics so get prepared for those drafts

1:34.1

and get a good deal while you're at it so all right Greg I've got a few closer related topics

1:41.6

for us to dig into here so let's start general and talk about how you're approaching saves this year.

1:49.9

Is this something that generally changes from year to year for you?

1:54.0

I mean, you know, the player pool does change from year to year.

1:58.7

Do you find that your approach has shifted this year at all?

2:03.0

Not too much. I don't think I am going to like overpay. However, as our notes will get to,

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