Introducing Chris Welsh and the Rates & Barrels Prospect Project!
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR welcome Chris Welsh to the Rates & Barrels crew as they introduce a new prospect-centric weekly episode focusing on keeper and dynasty leagues, prospects, scouting, and player development.
Rundown
2:08 Preferred Keeper/Dynasty League Formats
11:40 International Free Agent Bonus Money v. Draft Slot Money
15:42 Dynasty Rankings Are Incredibly Hard to Do Well; Welsh's Process
31:11 Exit Velocity & The Challenge of Finding Robust Prospect Batted Ball Data
44:27 Who Do You Like More Than Their Current Stat Lines?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates in Beryl. It's Tuesday, February 7th. |
| 0:17.7 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaurus and the newest addition to the Rates in Beryl's family. |
| 0:22.9 | Chris Welsh. |
| 0:23.9 | Welsh, how you doing? Welcome. Hey, hi. Claps. Yay, yay, yay, yay. It's always very jarring. Always very jarring any other voice being around. But I'm very happy to be around both of you. two people that I have spent I haven't spent a lot of time with the rates and barrels family |
| 0:20.3 | but you two I have for many many years when you've come out here for the first pitch Arizona and everything like that. So I'm very happy and excited to be here. And of course, people are probably familiar with your podcast in this league shows, baseball and football, prospect one, your prospect show, which is the main reason we wanted to bring you on as |
| 0:56.0 | part of the family was to talk prospects with you, to talk keeper leagues, dynasty leagues. |
| 1:00.3 | You're going to be taking on a new role with the athletic on the writing side, taking over the |
| 1:04.5 | dynasty rankings that Ian Khan has managed, I believe, for the last two seasons. My sense of time |
| 1:09.4 | is absolutely destroyed from everything that happened in 2020 and then |
| 1:14.6 | being in California for two years that feels like 10 years in a good way. |
| 1:18.9 | So I have actually no idea what year it is. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm not sleeping well, but we're working for working through it. |
| 1:24.5 | And we're preparing for the baby by not sleeping well. |
| 1:27.3 | Did that really, really well last night had a wheezing dog for a little while. She's fine. |
| 1:34.1 | Reverse sneezing is a thing that my dog occasionally does. It's very scary the first time it happens. |
| 1:39.1 | The second time it happens, it still startles you, but you kind of calmly waited out and go back to sleep. |
| 1:44.8 | That's what last night was. |
| 1:46.8 | Dogs make the weirdest sound sometimes. |
| 1:49.0 | But they fill our hearts with so much joy. |
| 1:51.8 | At least no reverse sneezing from the baby. |
| 1:53.6 | That's the one thing you can look forward to, at least as far as I know. |
| 1:56.9 | That would be even more terrifying somehow. |
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