How We Would Improve the End of Fantasy Baseball Season
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few potential tweaks to the endgame of fantasy baseball season, which always brings a plethora of odd and challenging decisions. Plus, they look at the injury-hampered season of Rafael Devers, the second-half recovery from Eugenio Suárez, and the limited options available for the final week in draft-and-hold formats.
Rundown
3:53 Eno's H2H Lament
6:55 What Is the Ideal Endgame in Fantasy Baseball?
22:00 Rafael Devers' 2024 Season is Over
29:02 Eugenio Suárez's Massive Second Half
33:05 Staying Upright Until the End in Draft-and-Hold Leagues
42:05 Jonathan Aranda is Pulling Us Back in with a Nice September
51:59 Where the Money Went: Final Week Edition
54:32 Luke Weaver's Adjustments & 2025 Closer Outlook
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:16.0 | It is Monday, September 23rd, Derekman-Riper Enoceris here with you, |
| 0:20.7 | entering the final week of the 2024 season. |
| 0:24.1 | We have some fantasy baseball championships that have already been decided. |
| 0:27.8 | Others running the full race all the way to the very last day of the season on Sunday. |
| 0:33.5 | So we're here to talk about what happened over the weekend, some big news items. |
| 0:37.9 | We'll talk about the head-to-head format in particular, which has been very cruel to one Enoceris this year. |
| 0:43.9 | Other than your head-to-head situation, you know, how was your weekend? |
| 0:48.7 | Oh, it's good. |
| 0:49.6 | We got a little kitty. |
| 0:51.5 | We rescued a kitten. |
| 0:53.8 | So now we're in full, uh, full on zoo situation |
| 0:57.6 | here at the house. Uh, you're already 90% zoo before. Yeah, we got dogs and cats and |
| 1:05.0 | coy and thankfully we don't have any of those frogs anymore. That was a little over the top. |
| 1:11.6 | But the kiddies very cute because it's like six weeks old, so it's like this big. |
| 1:18.6 | And, you know, there's already fights between the kids about who gets to hold it and so on and so forth. |
| 1:25.6 | And the actually underrated funniest part about this is that my wife wants to name it Catnus |
| 1:33.2 | after the Hunger Games character. |
| 1:36.5 | And my younger son wants to name him Kiseki, which means miracle in Japanese. |
| 1:42.8 | And so the two of them are doing this sort of passive-aggressive thing where they keep saying |
| 1:48.2 | that cat's name is different. |
| 1:52.3 | And I don't know. |
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