Welcome to Rates and Burrell's episode number 62. It is January 21st, 2020. Derek Van Riper here with

Enosaris. Starting this week, we are now back to our two episode per week's schedule. On this

episode, we will discuss the impact of Josh Donaldson's move to the twins, the mechanics of a

possible Nolan Aronado trade, a surprising swap between the Rays and Cardinals,

Utopian fantasy baseball, and more. So lots to be excited about. And every Tuesday and Thursday,

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subscription. But let's get started with Josh Donaldson. He signs with the twins. They were among the

teams linked to him kind of from the beginning of his foray into free agency. And it's a big get for the twins because the net change is that C.J. Crone is gone. Miguel Sonoma moves over to first base now. Donaldson comes in at third base. Donaldson's a better player than Crone. so the net gain could be maybe three or four wins potentially

if Donaldson continues to play at a high level.

And this comes from someone who has realized that he might like Josh Donaldson more than the market.

The ADP and the NFBC was in the pick 100 range.

Now that we know where he's going to play this season, I would expect it to jump 20, 25, maybe even 30 picks into that 70 to 80 range in the next few weeks. And to sort of take the temperature of everybody out there, I put a poll up earlier today. A lot of the third base when we talked about, I think on last week's episode, Chris Bryant, Euhaneo Suarez, Manny Machado,

they're all clustered together around pick 55 or 60. So I put a poll out there. Who do you

prefer between those three guys and Donaldson, assuming that Donaldson's price gets a lot

closer? Donaldson came in as the low man, 16% of the responses this morning. 22% picked

Bryant,

31% each for Suarez and Machado.

So that's kind of where that 75 to 80 range,

future ADP estimate comes from.

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