Dynasty Hitter Stock Watch
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Chris Welsh joins and Eno and DVR to discuss several long-term risers and fallers as the first month of the season winds down. Is an uptick in production just around the corner for Jordan Walker as he continues to show elite bat speed? Is this the last chance to make a deal for Dylan Crews and Jordan Lawlar before everything clicks? Should you lower the ceiling expectations for Anthony Volpe? And, has Victor Scott shown enough to have an extended window as the Cardinals' primary center fielder?
Rundown
1:40 Can Jordan Walker Turn Elite Bat Speed Into More Production?
10:26 Is Dylan Crews Ready to Click?
16:59 Will Luis García Jr. Rebound Toward His 2024 Levels?
22:59 Making Sense of Kyren Paris' Uneven Start
32:39 Why Isn't Colt Keith Hitting (Yet)?
40:42 Will Jordan Lawlar Break Through in Arizona This Season?
48:17 Dialing Back on Anthony Volpe's Ceiling?
53:16 Victor Scott's Step Forward
57:27 Better Long-Term Outlook: Scott v. Chandler Simpson
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
With: Chris Welsh
Producer: Brian Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, April 29th, Derek and Ryder Inazairus, |
| 0:15.6 | and our old friend is back. Chris Welsh. Is it the Welsh? Yes, it is the Welsh. Welsh is here. Welsh, how you doing, man? I'm doing great. I'm so happy to be here. I miss these faces so much. I miss that open. I miss talking baseball with you guys. But I can, I can hear you at any time I want on the podcast feed, but I'm glad to be here with both of you. We can hear you as well. You're on the Fantasy Pros PODs pod. |
| 0:38.2 | Just got Prospect One in this league. You're all over the place, man. Like, it's still great. Still too much of me. That's the big key here. Still too much. And you do a lot. You were to tell them about your weekend. You had the little league weekend that Eno usually has in the dance world. |
| 0:36.5 | So I can empathize, man. |
| 0:38.8 | It's a lot to keep it all. the Little League weekend that Eno usually has in the dance world. |
| 0:56.5 | So I can empathize, man. |
| 0:59.0 | It's a lot to keep it all in the air. |
| 1:02.7 | But today, the focus of our episode is a Dynasty Stockwatch. |
| 1:04.4 | We want to check in a month into the season, |
| 1:06.1 | talk about some players that are moving up, |
| 1:07.5 | players that are falling in rankings, |
| 1:09.8 | try to find some buy low opportunities. |
| 1:11.2 | And even if you're not playing keeper in Dynasty right now, these are probably engaging conversations to listen to anyway, |
| 1:16.0 | because we're talking about players that are overperforming and underperforming, and that is |
| 1:19.5 | always a good time. Be sure to join the Discord using the link in the show description. |
| 1:24.6 | If you haven't done that already, you can drop us some mailbag questions for a future episode. |
| 1:29.2 | I think we should start today with some buy low hitters, or at least some potential buy low hitters. |
| 1:36.6 | Jordan Walker was the subject of a post in our Discord a day or so ago, and this came from Nova. |
| 1:43.4 | Jordan Walker totally got to come around eventually, even if it's not this year, right? |
| 1:47.3 | We're so post-hype on him, but he's still only 22, and he has 99 percentile bat speed. |
| 1:53.0 | So that's always been there with Jordan Walker, right? |
| 1:56.2 | The raw power potential kind of at the top end of what we're looking for. |
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