Final Draft 2023 Season Takeaways
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
DVR returns to join Eno and discuss their takeaways from the 2023 draft season including teams' varying processes for promotion prospects on Opening Day, a few of their most heavily-rostered players, and a few things they need to go right to have a successful season.
Rundown
3:45 Taking a Moment to Look Back at Draft Season
8:34 Was DVR's Heavy Targeting of Fringe Top-100 SPs Too Risky?
15:28 Leaning Into Mid-Tier First Basemen
20:55 Did Spring Performances in WBC Have Elevated Impact on Drafts?
23:02 Rookie Helium: Anthony Volpe & Jordan Walker
30:42 What Puts Prospects Over the Top for a Roster Spot During Spring Training?
37:39 Team Factors Are Critically Important and Tough to Read
43:32 What Needs to Go Right For You in 2023?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Thursday, March 30th, Darifan Riper, back fromnity leave leg one, along with Inno Saras. |
| 0:21.7 | Eno on the road celebrating opening day in Brooklyn this year. What brings you to Brooklyn, Eno? |
| 0:27.4 | We have a super event tonight at Other Half. We're going to be debuting my beer, staring into the shift. |
| 0:36.5 | A hazy pail with other half brewing. |
| 0:38.6 | And then my sandwich that I did together with the head chef from Philly other half, |
| 0:44.2 | Ryan McLaughlin. |
| 0:45.5 | We've been working on a sandwich for like a year now. |
| 0:49.8 | And the result is a breaded and fried pork cutlet, but it's more complicated than that. |
| 1:01.2 | It's kind of like, well, you're from Wisconsin. |
| 1:04.6 | It's a breaded and fried head cheese. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:08.4 | And so then we put a matbacha, |
| 1:13.1 | matbucha sauce around it, which is a Israeli tomato sauce, |
| 1:17.7 | and some greens that have been tossed in a mustard vinegrette. |
| 1:27.1 | Sounds like a great sandwich |
| 1:28.0 | lots of flavors |
| 1:29.0 | lots of textures |
| 1:29.9 | it's gonna be good |
| 1:30.9 | then we'd have a panel tonight |
| 1:33.0 | the RSVPs are full |
| 1:35.0 | and if you are listening |
| 1:36.2 | to this before the panel |
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