Draft Market Movement From NFBC Main Event Weekend, Cody Bellinger's Spring Slump
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few takeaways from another weekend of drafts including the first wave of NFBC Main Event drafts. Closers continue to rise, Jacob deGrom shoots back into the first round, and early oatmeal players take a tumble down the board. Plus, is it time to target Cody Bellinger amidst a strikeout-heavy spring? And, how will the use of humidors in all 30 MLB parks change offensive output?
Rundown
Eno Main Event; Being 'Ready' On Draft Day
Another Bump in Closer Prices
Discounts on Injured Players
Seiya Suzuki & Logan Gilbert Move Up
Cody Bellinger's Spring Struggles
All 30 MLB Parks to Use Humidor
Fantasy Baseball Category Ideas
Dakota Hudson and the Pitching+ Model
Cleveland's Pitching Development
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Monday, March 28th. Happy allergy season to those of you observing. |
| 0:22.0 | I am with you. |
| 0:24.0 | Eno is with you. |
| 0:24.8 | We are hoping that the allergy symptoms are under control, that your eyes aren't so itchy and watery that you can't see your screen and do your drafts and do your research and things of that nature. |
| 0:36.1 | On this episode, we will discuss a few happenings from NFBC main event weekend, |
| 0:42.0 | including Eno's actual foray into the main event. |
| 0:45.4 | That took place on Thursday. |
| 0:47.5 | We'll talk about some notable shifts in the draft market from those drafts, some spring performances, |
| 0:52.6 | continuing of the rising price of closers. |
| 0:56.8 | That is a major problem for a lot of us right now. |
| 1:00.9 | And a few mailbag questions to get to today as well. |
| 1:04.5 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Monday? |
| 1:07.5 | Itchy. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah, you look uncomfortable. |
| 1:10.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:12.0 | Yesterday was a dry and windy day, and we have an oak tree in the back that just has this fine yellow pollen that just gets kicked up around. |
| 1:22.6 | It's rained this morning, and I'm just hoping that that's going to put a damper on things but I don't |
| 1:28.3 | nobody cares about this sort of stuff. Although my mom did say well she thought that we didn't |
| 1:33.5 | do enough banter in the morning so she couldn't. Really? She couldn't, yes. She used to watch to |
| 1:40.0 | see how we're doing. She has, she hasn't done enough banter that you weren't asking how I was doing. |
| 1:45.9 | Yes, she was mad. |
| 1:46.9 | And now it seems that we've really, we've been really slacking on our banter. |
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