Digging Deep for Endgame Hitters
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss several endgame hitters of interest for those playing in deeper leagues in 2023.
Rundown
0:38 Aaron Ashby Shoulder Fatigue, Behind Brewers' Other Pitchers
4:36 DL Hall Entering Spring as a Starter
9:16 A.J. Puk Stretching Out This Spring
14:42 Will Benson Traded to Cincinnati
22:32 Adam Frazier, Good Deep League Oatmeal?
27:04 Opportunity in LA: Trayce Thompson v. James Outman
29:13 Nolan Jones' Role in Colorado
32:02 The Late, Late Rays (Jonathan Aranda, Kyle Manzardo, Curtis Mead, Josh Lowe & Vidal Bruján)
45:17 Brice Turang and Surprising 2022 Power
49:30 David Villar v. J.D. Davis
58:30 Scouring the Nats' Depth Chart for Bargains
1:01:26 Aaron Hicks & David Peralta
1:11:50 Conner Capel's Opportunity in Oakland
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.3 | It is Friday, February 10th. |
| 0:18.5 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaurus on this episode. |
| 0:21.3 | We're going to dig into some deep sleepers on the hitting side. |
| 0:24.9 | We've got a few news items to get to, and one of those actually transitions perfectly into the topic. |
| 0:29.8 | So sometimes life serves you up a perfect rundown, and sometimes life just pokes you in the eyes and tells you that you're stupid. |
| 0:37.6 | That happened to me yesterday. |
| 0:39.1 | Aaron Ashby, shoulder fatigue, you know, a player that I have on a lot of my teams, |
| 0:44.3 | keeper league teams, redraft teams that I've done so far. |
| 0:47.5 | I had a very aggressive approach with Ashby because I felt if he were healthy, |
| 0:52.8 | he would take over a spot in the back of the |
| 0:56.1 | brewer's rotation very early in the season. I didn't think it was going to take a month |
| 0:59.5 | or two. I didn't think they're going to slow play him. Now I think they have to slow play him |
| 1:03.1 | because even if this is a reasonably minor shoulder issue, which he dealt with shoulder |
| 1:07.8 | inflammation last year, they're not going to just bring him off this and have him throw five or six innings at a time. It's going to be a progressive buildup. We're going to see a lot of Wade Miley. And now it makes Ashby a very difficult player to roster in redraft leagues with no IL spots. So now I'm holding a bunch of Ashby shares. I'm nervous about it. |
| 1:31.2 | And I don't think I can even go get more because of the way he might be broken in this season. |
| 1:43.8 | Yeah, you know, one of the things that's really kind of annoying about pitching injury is, first of all, there was like that guy, the pain guy who would like did actual like I told you so's. |
| 2:02.3 | Like literal I told you so's. Can't be you so's can't be real still can't be real no no no no still can't be real also kind of the like more virtual fantasy I told you so's where it's like you know that's why I think about pitching risk when I'm just I just... I've still not satisfied that we're all that great at understanding |
| 2:05.8 | pitching risk, injury risk, and pitchers. |
| 2:08.9 | If we were so good at knowing pitcher injury risk, |
| 2:13.8 | wouldn't we have fewer goddamn pitcher injuries by now? |
| 2:18.5 | Yeah, you'd think. |
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