Italian Beef, Chasing Future Value & Avoiding Prospect Traps w/Clay Link
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
DVR is joined by Clay Link, Senior MLB Editor of RotoWire.com to discuss Vinnie Pasquantino, the pursuit of future value, avoiding prospect traps while taking appropriate risk with young players, and much more.
Rundown
-- Italian Breakfast or Italian Beef?
-- What Matters to Clay When Seeking Future Value?
-- Christopher Morel's Arrival
-- Shifting K% Marks at Double-A for Elite Hitting Prospects?
-- The New Cody Bellinger Baseline?
-- Balancing Prospect Risk Appropriately
-- Ezequiel Duran's Opportunity in Texas
-- A 2022 Mulligan?
-- Finding Joy in This Season's Cincinnati Reds
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | With Betfair's safe sob, your bet simply rolls onto the player coming on. |
| 0:18.0 | Playing a different league with BetFair. |
| 0:21.6 | Balladon selected leagues and markets only applies to singles, multiples and |
| 0:24.6 | bet builder bets on qualified player outcome selections does not apply to odds, boost, |
| 0:27.6 | season season, exclusions apply 18 on the beach today. So I brought in one of my is Thursday, June 9th. Derek Van Riper here with a guest, Island Eno, getting some actual time |
| 0:56.1 | on the beach today. So I brought in one of my best friends in this industry, a former teammate of |
| 1:00.7 | mine, a voice that's probably very familiar to you if you listen to the Rotowire podcast or the |
| 1:05.3 | many serious XM shows that, of course, is their senior MLB editor, Clay Link. |
| 1:11.3 | Clay, how's it going for you today? |
| 1:13.3 | Good, Derek. |
| 1:14.1 | I really appreciate you inviting me on the show. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm a big fan of this program, what you and Eno do. |
| 1:18.8 | So very cool to get an opportunity to step in. |
| 1:22.5 | And we miss you here at Road of Wire. |
| 1:25.3 | But it's great to see you thriving and out west now. How are things out west? |
| 1:32.4 | Pretty good. I've got to be honest. I've mentioned it a couple times in various places. You lose track of |
| 1:38.4 | the seasons in Northern California because they look really similar. Winter was maybe three weeks long, a little bit of rain. |
| 1:46.3 | It's a little scary how infrequently it rains out here. So I'm becoming a person who's very worried about weather. |
| 1:53.0 | But at the same time, I know what I'm going to get most days. And time flies out here, by the way. So great to catch up with you. |
| 2:00.4 | And how's your season going so far? I mean, we're kind of in the one third point in the season, bottom of the third inning for our league. So it's like if you're doing well, you feel like you got a 1-0 lead or if you're kind of mid-pack, maybe you feel like you're in a tie game and need some things to turn in the next couple of weeks to really make a run. |
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