Joc Pederson to the Cubs, dynasty league auction values and strategy, and the elusive Inbox Zero
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Joc Pederson as a Kyle Schwarber replacement, and several mailbag questions including dynasty league strategies, prospect rankings vs. fantasy prospect rankings, and more.
Rundown
3:39 Joc Pederson in Chicago
10:22 Dynasty League Auction Values & Approach
18:46 New to Dynasty Leagues: Tools & Sources to Utilize
23:55 Julio Rodriguez, Cristian Pache & Prospect Rankings v. Fantasy Prospect Rankings
27:50 12-Team Strategy vs. 15-Team Strategy
32:41 Dismissing Yelich’s Poor 2020, Accepting Bauer’s Great 2020?
39:17 Making Sense of the Angels’ Starting Rotation
44:40 Andres Giménez in Keeper Leagues
46:56 Jake Cronenworth’s 2021 Outlook
51:01 The Orlando Arcia Slander Will Not Stand
55:55 Eno’s Scouting Report on Rays Pitcher Joe Ryan
66:16 Kohei Arihara & Normal 2020 Workloads
70:51 Jo Adell vs. Byron Buxton in Keeper Situations
74:16 Root Beers of Interest
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, January 29th, Derek Van Riper, here with Enoseres, a two-person booth today. |
| 0:22.7 | Britt Joroli getting a much-deserved day off. |
| 0:25.2 | We have a mailbag that has been overflowing for the better part of a month. |
| 0:29.7 | And in my never-ending quest to reach inbox zero, we're going to answer as many of those questions as we possibly can. |
| 0:37.5 | You don't understand, Eno, when I have dreams, they're stupid dreams. |
| 0:41.1 | Usually, I'm in a stadium answering emails, and tens of thousands of fans are just chanting, |
| 0:47.2 | Inbox zero. |
| 0:50.0 | That's my dream. |
| 0:51.7 | That's the dream I want to have, actually. |
| 0:53.4 | It's not a dream I have had yet. |
| 0:55.2 | I don't know why. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm type A. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm trying to figure it out. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm trying to let go, |
| 0:59.4 | but the email box is out of control. So we're going to try and help a lot of people out and have a lot of fun with it. and hopefully it'll be very engaging and fun for everybody else |
| 0:54.1 | because there are some really great questions |
| 0:55.4 | we've been receiving here over these last few weeks. |
| 0:58.2 | I've got a personal input. it'll be very engaging and fun for everybody else because there are some really great questions we've been receiving here over these last few weeks. |
| 1:13.5 | I've got a personal inbox that's doing okay, but the athletic one I just gave up on because |
| 1:19.5 | I was getting like 50 Zoom invites a day, you know, during the season because the players |
| 1:26.2 | were all and I was just like, |
| 1:27.8 | but I'm excited today. I'm kind of on the knife's edge because the cat woke me up three times. |
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