Exercising Caution with High Velocity Starters, Tough Early Holds & Drops
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the idea exercising more caution with high velocity starting pitchers in the future, weekend news and notes, several recent drops and difficult holds amidst early struggles, and where the money went in weekly free-agent pickups from the weekend.
Rundown
2:28 Jackie Robinson Day, 2024
8:20 Another High Velocity Starter (Bobby Miller) Heads to the IL
15:40 Will Trends Make Starters with Slightly Less Velocity (93-94 mph fastballs) More Popular?
20:28 Justin Verlander Nearing Return
31:25 Surprising Drops & Difficult Holds
43:23 A Pod Divided: Brandon Pfaadt in Shallow Leagues
56:07 Where the Money Went: Colton Cowser, Kirby Yates, Jeff Hoffman and Jose Buttó
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| 0:36.8 | Thank you. Financial Contacts Authority, Financial Services Register No, 496160. Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Monday, April 15th, Jackie Robinson Day, tax day, Earth Day? A lot of days, actually. But Jackie Robinson Day, the one we are excited about from a baseball perspective, of course, on this episode. We're going to dig into some news and notes from the weekend. We're going to look at what's been happening to some of the starting pitchers with top end |
| 0:58.2 | velocity on the injury front because the conversation around fantasy baseball right now is |
| 1:03.3 | maybe we should be more careful with these guys, given what's happening on the health front. |
| 1:08.5 | We'll dig into whether or not that's actually a good idea. |
| 1:14.8 | We're also going to take a look at where the money went over the course of the weekend. |
| 1:17.4 | Weekly leagues ran Fab again on Sunday night. |
| 1:22.2 | And then we're going to talk a lot about some of the curious drops and some of the most difficult holds right now. Because as people have probably noticed, there's not exactly an abundance of pitching available right now. |
| 1:29.0 | So you consider that there's not a lot to go get. |
| 1:33.5 | And you got a few guys that you really liked who've had a difficult start to the season. |
| 1:36.9 | You have to balance whether or not you actually want to cut those players and roll the dice on someone you're not sure about. |
| 1:41.7 | Right. |
| 1:41.9 | So we'll dig into some of those interesting names as well. Discord up and running. It's been that way for about two months now. Get the link in the show description. You can jump in, answer questions like the reverse mailbag question that I posted before today's show, right? We wanted to know who's actually of interest that has been cut in a lot of leagues. So always trying to make the show as interactive as possible with that. |
| 2:03.0 | Eno, how was your weekend? |
| 2:04.8 | It was good. |
| 2:05.6 | It was good. |
| 2:06.4 | We've had some nice weather. |
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