How Can Keeper Leagues Make You a Better Redraft Player?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the pros (and a few potential cons) of playing in keeper leagues and how long-term formats can make you a better redraft league player. Plus, they consider the ceiling and 2025 redraft ADP of Jackson Chourio, the recent struggles of David Bednar, a big move up for the White Sox's system in Baseball America's midseason rankings update, and a few weekend waiver-wire targets.
Rundown
1:34 Biases That Can Develop From Keeper/Dynasty Leagues
7:00 How Keeper Leagues Make You a Better Redraft Player
16:29 Jackson Chourio's Ceiling & 2025 Redraft ADP Outlook
29:36 Concern About Lars Nootbaar's Playing Time?
35:58 What Has Happened to David Bednar?
39:30 Maybe the White Sox's Future Isn't Awful?
45:02 The Angels' Long-Term Outlook
50:13 Weekend Waiver Preview (Hitters)
1:01:15: Tyler Mahle, Spencer Arrighetti & DJ Herz
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:45.2 | It's Friday, August 9th. |
| 0:47.0 | Derek Riper, Enosaris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:49.9 | We dig into a question I've been kicking around for a little bit. |
| 0:53.0 | Does playing in Keeper |
| 0:54.1 | leagues make you a better redrap player? Keeper leagues relatively speaking, still not that |
| 0:59.1 | popular. A lot of people that listen to the show might play them, but they're not that |
| 1:02.4 | mainstream because they tend to be a lot of work. We'll talk about the possible benefits of being |
| 1:07.5 | in those leagues, or at least one of them. And drawbacks. There's some drawbacks, too. But I think more pros than cons would be my initial assessment. We'll see if you can push me into a more neutral spot. We've got some mailbag questions, including one about Lars Neutbar, Jackson Churio. I didn't make up the mailbag question about Jackson Churio. I know what you're all thinking. That was a real question that came in from a user in our Discord named Ari. Sure. Not my burner. Piper. Yeah. I don't have a burner on our own Discord. I don't operate that way. If you want to join the Discord, you can do that. The link is in the show description. We have a little project prospect conversation about baseball America updating their farm rankings mid-season. |
| 1:48.2 | So maybe a little bit of an apology is owed to the White Sox and probably some Anaheim Angels slander coming in that segment too. |
| 1:56.8 | We'll have a weekend waiver preview later on in the episode as well. |
| 2:02.3 | So let's start up top. I'm curious to know now what are your drawbacks of playing in keeper and dynasty leagues because |
| 2:08.1 | i came into this thinking it's only positives i guess one drawback i will submit up top is they are |
| 2:13.5 | time consuming so it's time you're spending on other leagues if you add that alongside the redraft leagues. |
| 2:19.4 | And they're year round. |
| 2:20.0 | And they're year round. |
| 2:20.7 | Yeah. |
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