Late-Season Fantasy Baseball Adjustments w/Vlad Sedler
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
DVR is joined by Vlad Sedler of FTN Fantasy to discuss Austin Riley's return to the IL, Jacob Misiorowski's quick trip to the IL, Max Muncy's upcoming return, and the bizarre season of Tommy Edman before sharing some of the adjustments they make for the final two months of the season. Plus, they look back at where the money was spent this weekend on the waiver wire, and uncooperative weather for the Speedway Classic at Bristol.
Rundown
1:16 Austin Riley's Return to the IL
6:12 Jacob Misiorowski to the IL w/Tibia Contusion
10:40 Tommy Edman, Max Muncy, Blake Snell & a Blake Treinen Wobble
19:12 Tactical Adjustments for the Fantasy Baseball Stretch Run
28:46 Where the Money Went: Warming Up to Jakob Marsee?
40:15 Will the O's Let Coby Mayo Play Every Day Here on Out?
52:05 The Speedway Classic Draws a 'Fyre Festival' Comp
58:09 Rehab Assignment Updates: Shane Bieber & Michael King
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Host: Derek VanRiper
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, August 4th. |
| 0:14.1 | Derek Van Riper here with Vlad Settler, Enoceris, out in meetings. |
| 0:18.0 | Vlad does a great job running the coverage over at FTN. Good friend of mine. |
| 0:21.9 | Fantastic fantasy baseball player. Vlad, thank you so much for joining me for the second time this |
| 0:27.0 | season. It's a new in-season record. Yeah, someone's got to break them. So thanks DVR for having me. |
| 0:32.1 | Always great to see you. Likewise. And what we usually do on Mondays is obviously we break down the news up top from the last couple of days. |
| 0:40.5 | We're going to have a big strategy talk about some of the adjustments you make for the final two months of the season |
| 0:45.6 | because there is still enough time left to do some things to change your course in leagues, |
| 0:51.0 | but you've got to act now to actually make that happens. |
| 0:53.4 | We'll talk about some things that we're actually doing. We'll take a look back at where the money was spent, where the money went in Fab on Sunday night, and we'll get to a few extra news items, time permitting a little bit later on in the show. If you haven't joined the Discord yet, you can do that with the link in the show description. If you're watching on YouTube, be sure to like this video and subscribe to our YouTube channel. |
| 1:12.9 | Vlad, I wanted to start today with Austin Riley. |
| 1:15.2 | He is back on the aisle with an abdominal strain, and the key there is back on the IL |
| 1:20.4 | because this very same problem shelved him just a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:24.0 | And I think it just explains why he has not been the player people who are |
| 1:28.5 | expecting as an early round foundational piece all season long. Last year was a different |
| 1:33.3 | combination of injuries for Riley. But even though he was able to play 110 games a year ago and |
| 1:38.5 | he's played 102 games so far this year, I still think there's early round talent if he can get healthy. |
| 1:45.3 | But now we're just waiting the follow up if he's going to need some kind of surgery, |
| 1:49.7 | whether it be like a core muscle repair or whatever specifically is causing this sort of |
| 1:54.3 | problem. |
| 1:55.2 | Where do you fall on Riley and what has happened to his production really going back even |
| 1:59.9 | to last season? |
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