Draft Weekend Cram Session
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR get ready for a busy weekend of drafts with a quick spin through spring news and notes, before discussing ideal roster builds, when to target an ace, how to approach closers, which positions thin out quickly, a few prospects worth considering as late-round stashes in redraft leagues as they await an opportunity at the big-league level.
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Rundown
2:46 Spring News Updates
13:51 Any Grapefruit or Cactus League Performances You're Worried About?
23:53 Early-Rounders You Are Side-Stepping at ADP
33:04 When to Draft an Ace
40:14 Closer Approach in First 150 Picks
49:19 Position Depth: Where Can You Wait, Where Are You Spending Early?
1:04:06 Depth Starters of Interest
1:08:20 Injured Players or Prospects Worth Stashing in Redraft?
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
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| 0:00.0 | Walk the Rates and barrels. It's Friday, March 21st. |
| 0:18.3 | Derek and Riper, Enoceris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:21.3 | It is a cram session for people who have not drafted their fantasy baseball teams yet. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you have not been listening throughout the winter, if you're just picking up the show relatively recently, |
| 0:31.5 | or if you just feel like you're not quite ready heading into a draft this weekend or early next week, |
| 0:35.8 | we're going to do our best to get you up to speed in one episode. |
| 0:39.8 | It is a challenge we are willing to take on, and we've got a ton of ground to cover, so there will not be a lot of housekeeping, |
| 0:47.3 | but there is some necessary housekeeping, including a reminder. |
| 0:50.7 | Our two live episodes are now one week away, bare bottle brewing company, the Bernal Heights location in San Francisco. |
| 0:58.8 | March 27th, March 28th, 430 start time. |
| 1:03.2 | Looking forward to seeing as many of you out there as we possibly can. |
| 1:07.2 | No tickets required. |
| 1:08.2 | Free admission. |
| 1:09.1 | We'll be hanging out watching games throughout the day so we're excited to |
| 1:12.9 | have those live shows to get out there and to have |
| 1:16.0 | some kayakers cove too |
| 1:17.6 | yeah kayakers cove which uh which i helped |
| 1:20.8 | uh we helped collaborate with lester coga who's the |
| 1:23.8 | the the co-founder and head brewer there at bearbottle. We actually did the, I was there for the |
| 1:30.3 | brewing. And it's a fun idea. It's a session IPA. It's basically you take a rice logger and then you |
| 1:37.9 | put some Citra and Nelson and peacherine in. And the idea is to have some of the aromatics and some of the kind of the taste |
| 1:49.5 | that you associate with IPAs, but with a super crushable, you know, one of the working titles for |
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