Eno's Case for Elly De La Cruz, Pitcher Injury Risk Considerations, and Spring News & Notes
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few takeaways from Eno's squad in the Bay Area Rotisserie Fantasy League before digging into the latest round of news as spring training is in full swing. With a lot of positive injury news around recently hampered players, how should you adjust your plans as ADP begins to reflect improved spring health?
Rundown
0:50 Eno's Case for Elly De La Cruz
8:10 Recapping Eno's BARF League Build (From Sober Values to YOLO)
13:10 Josh Jung's Calf Strain
15:53 Xander Bogaerts Moves to Second Base
20:49 Whit Merrifield to the Phillies
24:14 Carlos Rodón's Velocity is Back This Spring
36:00 Byron Buxton's Knee is Gone!
41:17 A Quick Nick Lodolo Update
49:23 Are the Rays Backloading Shane Baz's 2024 Innings?
55:41 Starling Marte & Riley Greene Follow-Ups
56:55 A.J. Puk as a Starter & Occasional Six-Man Rotations in Miami?
1:08:15 Applying Roto Advice to H2H Points Leagues
1:13:06 What Might a Team See in Luke Weaver?
1:19:57 Live Episodes in New York at Other Half Brewing!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:15.7 | It's Monday, February 19th. |
| 0:17.7 | Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:20.5 | We dig into a ton of spring news and nose. |
| 0:23.6 | We've got some great mailbag questions that have come in from our Discord, which is now open. |
| 0:28.9 | And as Eno said last week, it's popping. It is growing and growing fast. So come join us. The link to join is in the show notes for this episode. |
| 0:37.4 | If you're watching us on YouTube, be sure to hit the like button, show notes for this episode. If you're watching us on |
| 0:38.2 | YouTube, be sure to hit the like button, subscribe to the YouTube channel if you haven't done so |
| 0:41.9 | already and drop us a nice rating and review if you're listening on a platform like Apple |
| 0:46.0 | Podcasts or Spotify. You know, how was your weekend? Good, good. I had the big barf draft. |
| 0:54.2 | The winner wins the barf bucket. |
| 0:57.4 | Oh, it's a bucket, and I figured, you know, |
| 0:59.3 | probably something along those lines. |
| 1:01.8 | It's the Bay Area Rotisserie Fantasy. |
| 1:07.2 | What does Barf stand for? |
| 1:08.5 | I think that's what it stands for. |
| 1:10.6 | Lord Michaels came up with this one. |
| 1:12.3 | It seems like there might be extra descriptions just to get the acronym to be Barf. |
| 1:18.8 | So what's fun about that league is it's kind of NFC style, so it's 15 teams at the same |
| 1:25.3 | settings. |
| 1:26.2 | But the cool part about it is that there are different ones around the |
| 1:31.6 | U.S. |
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