Early Draft Season Observations as Spring Training Begins
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR share a takeaways from the early part of draft season as spring training camps get underway, including the benefits of waiting to build a pitching staff (so far), and how looking back at some of last year's biggest rebounds can serve as a helpful reminder of the different sources of late-round value. Plus, they answer mailbag questions about past Tommy John surgeries, possible Astros regret with the Christian Walker deal after Pete Alonso's two-year deal with the Mets, and the dynasty league mindset of trading down a top-tier player to play for the future.
Rundown
5:20 What Have You Learned From Winter Drafts?
9:17 Waiting on Starting Pitching Feels Great
16:02 Looking Back at Pitching Rebounds From 2023 to 2024
19:05 Looking Back at Hitting Rebounds From 2023 to 2024
26:45 Watching on Second Catchers is Gross
35:04 Accounting for Tommy John Surgeries Further in the Past
44:03 Do the Astros Regret Their Christian Walker Deal After Pete Alonso's Two-Year Pact?
50:06 Dynasty Trading Mindset: Flipping a Current Top-Tier Player
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| 0:00.0 | Rugly Rates and Beryl Rates and Barrles to Monday, February 10th, spring training is here. |
| 0:16.9 | Dodgers and Cubs have reported we're 10 days away from a Cactus League game because they are beginning the season early in Japan. |
| 0:24.5 | So everything's a couple days ahead in those camps. |
| 0:29.1 | Thanks again to our friends, Justin Mason and Jason Collette for stepping in on the Friday show. |
| 0:33.4 | Eno, thank you to you for doing a great job. |
| 0:35.5 | Lead host. |
| 0:36.0 | I did not do a great job. |
| 0:38.4 | I enjoyed it. |
| 0:39.5 | I think a lot of people enjoyed it. |
| 0:41.4 | I told people to smash the like button for the wrong show. |
| 0:46.9 | We love sleeper in the bus. |
| 0:48.4 | You could smash the like button for that. |
| 0:49.8 | We have a nice rating review. |
| 0:50.8 | They do a great job. |
| 0:55.1 | But we got some other housekeeping to get to real quick. |
| 0:57.5 | Hive Mine rankings are all available in our Discord. |
| 1:00.9 | Join the Discord with the link in the show description. |
| 1:02.7 | If we get some more participation on relievers, starting pitchers, and outfielders. |
| 1:07.9 | We can actually turn out some group rankings early next week. |
| 1:09.7 | So jump in, do those this week. We'll get those rankings turned around for you next week. Small signings happening around the league. I don't know. Are we going to talk about Jason Hayward and Connor Joe to the Padre? It's like, sure, yeah, you added a couple guys to your roster. Nice, nice job, Padres. I'm still waiting for the big trade. That's what I think the answer really is in San Diego. |
| 1:28.1 | So that's the transactional stuff that you guys didn't get to you |
| 1:33.2 | on Friday. It's happened the days since. It was a pretty quiet weekend in baseball. Yeah, |
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