Cole & Judge Injuries, Mixed LABR Draft Strategies and Projections Pushback w/Mike Gianella
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
DVR is joined by Mike Gianella of Baseball Prospectus to discuss a busy weekend of news and notes including MRIs for Gerrit Cole and Aaron Judge (among others), an 80-game PED suspension for Noelvi Marte, and more. Plus, they discuss their strategies from the 15-team Mixed LABR draft in which Mike built a roster around a power-heavy base and DVR opted for a 'Pocket Aces' build.
Rundown
2:06 Gerrit Cole: Has MRI on Elbow; Likely to Miss Opening Day
3:40 Aaron Judge: MRI on Abdomen; Timetable Unclear
5:02 Noelvi Marte: Suspended 80 Games for Positive PED Test
8:48 Edward Cabrera: MRI Reveals Shoulder Impingement; Targeting Late-Round Marlins Starting Pitchers?
13:14 Sonny Gray: Progressing From Hamstring Injury
15:10 Devin Williams: Visiting with Spine Specialist
21:16 Jordan Lawlar: Optioned to Reno; Stashing Prospects in Redraft Leagues
29:04 Mixed LABR Draft Apporaches (Full Draft Board: https://rtsports.com/labr-mixed-draft) | Building From a Late-Round Position
42:46 When Do You Disagree with Projections?
55:42 Experiences with Pocket Aces
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels is Tuesday, March 12. Derek Van Riper here with Mike Gianella, a baseball prospectus. |
| 0:22.3 | Eno, of course, has an interesting story to tell once he comes back, likely on Wednesday, |
| 0:27.3 | explaining why he's not here today. But I'm excited because Mike is going to be fantastic. |
| 0:33.6 | Mike, someone I played against in the industry leagues, labor, TGPI, TOWs for probably, I don't know, a decade or so now. |
| 0:41.2 | We go back kind of a long way now. |
| 0:43.7 | Yeah, it's been about a decade, maybe like eight years, but yeah, it's been a long time. |
| 0:47.9 | And you and I are in labor this year together, so we're back competing against each other, unfortunately, because you're a very good player. |
| 0:57.5 | Apparently, I'm not fun to play against. |
| 0:59.3 | Maybe I'm fun to draft with for like, you know, entertainment purposes or camaraderie, the chatter. |
| 1:05.1 | But yeah, a lot of good stuff here that we're going to break down. |
| 1:08.6 | We're going to talk about some news. |
| 1:09.4 | A lot of news happened since we last had the show on Friday. And of course, the Friday live stream being less news focused. Even more stuff has happened. We have the Discord. A quick reminder. You can sign up for our Discord. I'll put the link for that in the show description. In the Discord, you will find a link to the listener league, which is open to more than 200 people. |
| 1:29.1 | It says 200 people. There's a limit in each fan tracks contest of 200. If it fills, |
| 1:34.0 | we'll add another one. We'll do as many as we can to keep filling them. It's an open |
| 1:37.5 | salary cap contest, no entry fee. And the fun prize that we decided on is the top 10 finishers in the overall contest |
| 1:46.0 | will be invited to a listener league that Eno and I will be a part of for 2025. |
| 1:51.5 | So very cool, random prize that we decided to put together just to make this fun. |
| 1:56.9 | Something we can all do together. |
| 1:58.1 | I like formats that are open where you can have possibly |
| 2:00.8 | hundreds or even thousands of people all kind of competing to go up against each other. |
| 2:05.9 | But we begin today with some news from Yankees camp. Garrett Cole was sent for an MRI and I just |
| 2:11.9 | saw before we started recording Mike. They're not expecting him to be back for opening day. The |
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