Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, February 28th, last day of February. We made it.

If you're in the cold parts of this world. It is slowly but surely getting warmer.

Derek Finreiper here with Vlad Sedler.

We have our good buddy, Enos, Saris, on assignment today.

I can't speak to exactly what he's doing, although Eno might be communicating things about

that on social media that I'm not even seeing right now.

It's an exciting assignment that people will know more about a little bit later on. But I'm excited to have Vlad here. Vlad, of course, works over at Ftn, runs the fantasy baseball content over there. You probably know him from socials as Roto Gut, long time NFBC player, great friend of mine, very sharp player as well. So, Vlad, thank you for joining me today. Thank you so much, GDR. It's a pleasure to join you and to see you, an old friend who

I've known and have been at industry events with and drafted with and against for probably

over a decade, maybe even 12 years now.

It's probably even more. Yeah. I saw something the other day. I was like, this is 15 years old. And I looked at it. I was like, I definitely remember everything about that. So a sign that we are definitely getting older. One thing that's kind of nice about getting older is that we have more things to do.

We have the Discord.

You can join the Rates and Burials Discord. Jump in there. Have some conversations about draft strategy. Got questions about this episode. You can send them in there. You get questions for a future episode. You can throw those in the Mailbag channel. But the main focus today is going to be some February risers and fallers. We're going to look a lot at NFBC ADPs, talk

about some of the players that are moving up, some that have slipped, try to figure out where we can

find values, and ask the age-old draft season question of how much is too much when it comes to

a rising price on a player that the market really seems to like. So that's going to be the main

theme of today's show. We'll have some other strategy topics blended into the show as well. And as we do on most shows, we've got some news to pass along real quick before we get started. I saw Andrew Benintendi out four to six weeks with a non-displaced fracture in his hand. He's going to try to make opening day, but that's going to be really close on the short end of that timetable. I think I just look at Benintendi as a really oatmealy player, Vlad, just a high volume guy that actually had a pretty good second half for the White Sox last year, but the quality of that lineup is so bad that even everyday playing time is going to probably keep Benintendi in the range of most like 15 team leagues,

even a 12 team league. He looks more like a streamer to me than somebody you don't rely on as your

last outfielder. Yeah, he was already a borderline dicey guy in 15 teamers. I think one of those,

if you've taken a lot of risks throughout your draft, then you do just want some vanilla,

just an outfielder that when they have some good matchups you could use.

But obviously, this changes that for me personally falls out of my top 500.

And you're right.

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