How Quickly Will Chandler Simpson's Game-Changing Speed Make an Impact?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the promotion of Chandler Simpson by the Rays and attempt to determine how his short-term outlook for playing time and long-term ceiling will come together. Plus, they dig into mailbag questions about the early struggles of Devin Williams and Emmanuel Clase, making the choice between slow-starting bats and surging waiver-wire options in shallow leagues, and where the money went (beyond Chandler Simpson) with fantasy aseball pickups from the weekend.
Rundown
4:11 Chandler Simpson Gets the Call
11:24 Finding Roto Comps for a Unique Set of Skills
15:41: Other Injury News & Notes From the Weekend
24:56 A Wild Friday Afternoon at Wrigley
30:44 Struggling First Basemen v. Potential Waiver-Wire Upgrades
41:55 The Slow Starts of Devin Williams & Emmanuel Clase
51:29 Where the Money Went: Making Sense of Weekend Waiver Pickups
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Hosts: Derek VanRiper & Eno Sarris
Producer: Brian Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels to Monday, April 21st. |
| 0:14.8 | Derek Minerriper, Eno Seris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:17.9 | We have a new fastest player in the big leagues. |
| 0:21.8 | Chandler Simpson got the call over the weekend. |
| 0:23.9 | We'll talk about expectations for him as part of the always complicated raise roster. |
| 0:29.9 | Get some injury updates from the weekend. |
| 0:31.6 | Several mailbag questions as well. |
| 0:33.7 | We'll dig into where the money went from a fantasy perspective |
| 0:36.2 | and try to decide that there's any goodness in some of the players that were dropped over the weekend, too. |
| 0:40.8 | Always a good exercise. |
| 0:41.9 | The further into the season we go, the more interesting some of those healthy players that are dropped become. |
| 0:47.2 | You know, I got to ask, before we dig into this rundown, did you return to the Fight Club this past weekend? |
| 0:54.4 | In a way. |
| 0:56.1 | So our Easter celebration that we do in our household, |
| 1:01.4 | especially with the kids getting a little bit older, |
| 1:03.6 | there's no more Easter egg hunts. |
| 1:06.8 | There's no painting of the eggs. |
| 1:10.2 | Instead, we have something along the lines of egg amageddon. |
| 1:15.0 | And what we do is we buy these sort of paper eggs that are filled with confetti. |
| 1:22.8 | Have you ever seen these? |
| 1:24.0 | No. Go on. I'm intrigued. |
| 1:26.3 | And we smash them on each other. We just absolutely go to |
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