Final Opening Day roster cuts, balancing immediate need vs. long-term value, & reconsidering co-closers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Eno & DVR discuss the fallout from the final round of roster cuts -- including Jazz Chisholm, Taylor Trammell, Alejandro Kirk and Logan Allen earning roster spots -- plus the balancing immediate needs against long-term value, drawing a draft-day road map, co-closers, and more.
Rundown
5:26 Jazz Chisholm Wins a Job!
12:43 Taylor Trammell’s Opportunity in Seattle
15:38 Alejandro Kirk in one-catcher league
19:43 Logan Allen Wins Fifth Starter Role
27:53 Balancing Immediate Need vs. Long-Term Expectations
40:23 Can Co-Closers Work for Fantasy Players?
49:35 Drawing a Draft Day Road Map
55:07 How Do You Identify Streaming Targets This Early?
62:52 Shelby Miller and Comeback Candidates
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates at Beryls. |
| 0:16.6 | It is Monday, March 29th, opening day, just a few days away. |
| 0:23.2 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. |
| 0:26.2 | We dig through some pretty interesting roster decisions around the league. |
| 0:30.9 | Some very fun young players have won roster spots. |
| 0:33.9 | We have some other interesting things to get to, including a co-closer situation in Cincinnati. Some helpful late draft season advice, if you have not drafted yet. If you've got a draft coming up here in these next couple of days, we've got something that might help you out. Closer runs are getting worse, looking back at some of the weekend drafts. We'll talk about how to handle that. And we'll take a look at some first week observations with four days coming up this week. It's a little bit of a different sort of week |
| 0:58.5 | to get us started. So before we get there, how's it going for you on this Monday, you know? |
| 1:03.4 | Good. Good. I've got two drafts today, just trying to finish it out. One is one one last one on NFPC a roto wire and it's not |
| 1:16.7 | full yet so I think I got to pimp it to make sure that it gets full the last one I was signed up |
| 1:21.8 | for on Friday just didn't even fill so I want that one to fill and then I've got my pitchfork league |
| 1:28.1 | What Up pitchfork or former pitchforkers |
| 1:30.4 | Almost all of them have left pitchfork at this point |
| 1:32.4 | But I've got to come up with my Brian Eno |
| 1:36.5 | Based team name at some point |
| 1:39.5 | Gotta be got to be something there with Otani |
| 1:41.8 | I've got Otani as a keeper |
| 1:43.2 | There's got to be an Otani Brian Eno name I've got Otani as a keeper. |
| 1:42.2 | There's got to be an Otani Brian Eno name. I just got to figure it out. We did get a response to the who is today is Brian Eno. So I'll just throw that out there. A couple good words. Right now. Yeah, one suggestion was Ryan Tedder. His solo work is pretty good through one republic. His production work is littered with chart toppers. in support of your inbox zero mission and recognizing this email is behind the pod discussion by a week. I'll give you just the wiki link if you're just in more information. Here's the short list. Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Adele, Jalo, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and yes, even the Lilley Island. Yes, that's an impressive resume. That's a pretty good one. I don't know. |
| 2:19.3 | Does he perform as well? There was that component for Brian, you know, that he was often on stage, |
| 2:25.5 | too. So I don't know if that fits. One that does fit that I like, and I guess I'm just pimping |
| 2:32.8 | it because I like the music, but Danger Mouse. |
| 2:37.5 | You know, I don't think that I knew, let me look this up here, I don't think that I knew |
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