Early Bats for 2021 & Endgame Arms for 2020
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the changes expected among the top-20 hitters for 2021 — including potential risers into that group — and widely-available pitchers that might help in the final 10 days of the season.
Rundown
2:41 What Drops a Hitter Coming Out of 2020?
8:56 Cody Bellinger & Christian Yelich Similarities
11:00 Top-Five for 2021 (and Next Five)
17:58 Will Early Pitching Fall?
23:48 A Graceful Decline for Starling Marte?
26:04 Potential Newcomers in the First Two Rounds
33:13 Luis Robert & Elevated Swing Rates
38:50 Should Bo Bichette Go Even Higher than Luis Robert?
43:37 Xander Bogaerts' Case for a Move Up
57:03 Endgame Pitching Help to Consider
Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris
Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper
e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com
Purchase a subscription to The Athletic for just $1/month at theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:24.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and bet-builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boost, |
| 0:27.6 | teas and season season exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, September 17th. |
| 0:52.4 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:55.1 | On this episode, we will begin the process of putting together the top of the hitter |
| 0:59.9 | rankings for 2021. |
| 1:01.6 | It's an exercise in building out the first couple of rounds of 2021 drafts. |
| 1:05.9 | We're also going to dig for some final weekend and final week pickups, predominantly on the pitching side that could |
| 1:11.9 | help maximize standings points for you down the stretch. One quick programming note before we |
| 1:17.5 | get started, our usual Friday episode with Britt Jiroli is moving to Monday. So look forward to that |
| 1:23.3 | after the weekend instead of before it. Eno, how's it going for you on this Thursday? |
| 1:28.7 | Good. I finally had a good night's sleep. |
| 1:31.2 | After a run outside, it rained here. |
| 1:34.0 | The skies are clear again. |
| 1:36.0 | The boys woke up in great energy. |
| 1:38.2 | The dogs slept through the night. |
| 1:40.2 | They pooped outside on the walk. |
| 1:42.0 | I mean, you know, it is one of those things. I kind of was complaining on Tuesday and i mean you know it is one of those things i kind of was complaining on |
| 1:45.6 | tuesday and then you know you have a good night and you're like ah this is great my kids are |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.