Finale Strategy, Triston McKenzie's Big Step Forward & the Impact of Rule Changes on Catchers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few more difficult aspects of endgame strategy with just 10 days left to play in the 2022 fantasy baseball season. Plus, they examine the long-term outlook for Triston McKenzie on the heels of his breakout, optimism about Brandon Marsh's first full campaign in Philadelphia, and the impact of rule changes on how catchers might be valued in the long run.
Rundown
5:12 Endgame Strategy: Protecting Ratios v. Chasing Wins and/or Strikeouts
11:56 Putting on Your Opponents' Shoes
17:25 Fighting Back Against Instincts, Late FOMO
23:22 Triston McKenzie's Long-Term Outlook
29:25 Does a Pitcher's Frame/Body Type Matter?
36:06 Are Top-End Speedsters More Desirable in H2H Leagues?
41:29 Brandon Marsh & Mickey Moniak in New Organizations
48:08 Rule Changes & Impact on Catchers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:17.2 | It's Monday, September 26. |
| 0:19.8 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoceris on this episode. We'll talk about some endgame strategy as we're now into the final 10 days of this fantasy baseball season. It's hard to believe, but we've made it. And navigating these last few days actually leads to some pretty quirky decisions that can be pretty challenging if you're relatively new, even if you've played for a long time, you end up making these decisions that are almost sort of counterintuitive. So we'll talk about a few of those unique challenges. I've got a bunch of great mailbag questions to get to, some with some longer term implications. But we're at that point in the season where if you play in a keeper or Dynasty League, you're starting to think about the future. |
| 0:55.7 | I think we might even squeeze in some beer of the week talk at some point on this episode |
| 0:59.9 | as well. |
| 1:00.9 | So, you know, we begin with our usual simple Monday question. |
| 1:04.8 | How was your weekend? |
| 1:06.7 | It was great. |
| 1:07.8 | It was great. |
| 1:08.7 | Managed to go to Tornado, the best beer bar ever. |
| 1:13.6 | And also went up for a wedding in Santa Rosa. |
| 1:19.1 | So that was fun. |
| 1:20.3 | You know, dancing to cheesy songs. |
| 1:21.6 | This one, which not all weddings do, had karaoke in it. |
| 1:26.0 | Oh, that's a risky maneuver. I i mean you have to know the people you're |
| 1:30.3 | inviting you have to know there are more good performers than bad performers in that group |
| 1:35.9 | well i don't know which one i was but i definitely performed what did you perform i tried to do |
| 1:44.1 | the one that didn't go so, |
| 1:45.9 | was Prince's Let's Go Crazy. |
| 1:50.1 | That's a tough one, man. |
| 1:51.3 | Prince is tough. |
| 1:52.1 | I just say, I don't know if there's an easy Prince song |
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