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

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 66 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? Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Please fill out our listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/athleticaudiosurvey Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, March 3rd. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We have some spring injury information to pass along.
0:55.6	We have a good question about auction calculator prices and how to use those in snake drafts.
1:01.0	So we'll talk about that because it's a really good tool that you can use for all of your
1:05.3	upcoming drafts.
1:06.5	A great question about barrel rates versus hard hit rates and exit velocities and how there are some guys who are good in one or two of those categories, but not necessarily good in all three.
1:16.3	We'll try to figure out what that would mean for those players going forward.
1:20.3	Edo, how's it going for you on this Wednesday?
1:22.9	Good. I have another dog thought for you.
1:25.5	Oh.
1:25.8	My two dogs who,
1:28.0	yes,
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