Joc Pederson to the Cubs, dynasty league auction values and strategy, and the elusive Inbox Zero

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 79 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 Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Friday, January 29th, Derek Van Riper, here with
0:50.3	Enosaris, a two-person booth today, Britt Jiroli, getting a much-deserved day off.
0:55.2	We have a mailbag that has been overflowing for the better part of a month and in my never-ending
1:01.0	quest to reach in Box Zero.
1:03.4	We're going to answer as many of those questions as we possibly can.
1:07.6	You don't understand, Eno, when I have dreams, they're stupid dreams.
1:11.1	Usually, I'm in a stadium answering emails and tens of thousands of fans are just chanting,
1:17.3	Inbox zero. That's my dream. That's the dream I want to have, actually. It's not a dream I have
1:24.3	had yet. I don't know why. I'm type A. I'm trying to figure it out.
1:28.4	I'm trying to let go, but the email box is out of control.
1:32.3	So we're going to try and help a lot of people out and have a lot of fun with it.
1:35.6	And hopefully 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.
1:43.3	I've got a personal inbox that's doing okay, but the athletic one I just gave up on because
1:49.6	I was getting like 50 Zoom invites a day during the season because the players were all,
1:56.7	and I'm just like, but I uh, but, uh, I'm excited today.
2:03.5	I'm kind of, uh, on the knife's edge because the cat woke me up three times.
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