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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Framber Valdez's injury, 2021 rookies, and how to use auction values in snake drafts

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss Framber Valdez's finger injury, the potential impact of the delayed start of the Triple-A season, tiers for rookie pitchers, how the Padres may handle MacKenzie Gore in 2021, how to utilize auction values in a snake draft, and the role that luck may play in barrel rates. 


Rundown

2:24 Framber Valdez's Spring Finger Injury

7:33 A Delayed Start to the Triple-A Season

13:52 Building Tiers for Rookie Pitchers

20:25 Prospect of the Week is Back! 

26:02 How Will the Padres Handle MacKenzie Gore?

40:13 Using the Auction Values for Snake Drafts

53:34 Are Barrels Somewhat Luck Based?


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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels.

0:17.0

It is Wednesday, March 3rd.

0:19.2

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres on this episode. We have some spring

0:22.8

injury information to pass along. We have a good question about auction calculator prices and how to use

0:29.0

those in snake drafts. So we'll talk about that because it's a really good tool that you can use

0:33.4

for all of your upcoming drafts. A great question about barrel rates versus hard hit rates and exit velocities

0:41.0

and how there are some guys who are good in one or two of those categories,

0:44.8

but not necessarily good in all three.

0:46.2

We'll try to figure out what that would mean for those players going forward.

0:50.3

Edo, how's it going for you on this Wednesday?

0:52.8

Good. I have another dog thought for you.

0:55.4

My two dogs who, yes, yes, and this one is also weird.

1:01.6

My two dogs are combined weight of maybe 20 pounds.

1:05.9

They are chihuenees. They are tiny.

1:08.6

And the way back from school every day, the process is that one of them picks up like an

1:16.0

enormously large branch that's like the size of both of them, right?

1:20.6

And it's just got leaves everywhere and this is this big branch.

1:24.0

And they walk out in front with the branch and they're like, I've got a branch.

1:27.2

And then the other one's like, I want the branch. You know, so the other one runs up and they walk out in front with the branch and they're like, I've got out of branch and then the other one's like, I want the branch.

1:29.2

You know, and so the other one runs up and they fight and they fight and they fight and they

1:33.0

drop and they got to pick it up and they break it and they fight and they break it.

1:36.7

And they just destroy the thing.

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