Mason Miller Week and Streamable Pitchers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Al discuss how much to bid on Mason Miller and when to start anticipating the major league debuts of Brandon Pfaadt and Tanner Bibee. They also look at several hitters benefitting from expanded roles and assess the pool of streamable pitchers for the coming week.
Rundown
0:31 It’s Mason Miller Week
6:05 Other pitching prospects to consider
14:20 News items: Bryce Harper/Max Scherzer/Mookie Betts
19:44 Lineup matters
30:20 Notable pitchers to target
39:48 Streamers/Two-start pitchers
53;50 Bullpen update
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryl. It is Friday, April 21st. Derek and Riper here with Al Malkyure. |
| 0:20.2 | Taking a look at all the big news, call us, promotions, injuries, |
| 0:23.7 | all the things that we want to know going into the weekend |
| 0:26.9 | as we prepare to make pickups in weekly leagues on Sunday evening. |
| 0:31.4 | This, of course, has been Mason Miller Week. |
| 0:34.7 | And I saw Rob DiPietro had a tweet that went out on Thursday pointing out that |
| 0:39.6 | nobody, absolutely nobody in the NFBC Draft Champions Contest, which is a 50-round drafts, |
| 0:46.1 | nobody has Mason Miller on any rosters, which gives you an idea of how far off the radar |
| 0:51.3 | he truly was. And here we are in the back half of April talking about him as |
| 0:57.2 | one of the more exciting pitchers to get called up. And we were looking at tons of prospect |
| 1:01.7 | pitchers. Tosch Bradley was on some of those rosters. Andrew Painter was on a bunch of those |
| 1:05.8 | rosters. I mean, Andrew Painter was being drafted in non-draft Champions leagues. Kyle Harrison was |
| 1:10.3 | being drafted in those leagues. Ricky Teatman was being drafted in non-draft champions leagues. Kyle Harrison was being drafted in those leagues. |
| 1:11.3 | Ricky Teateman was being drafted in those leagues. |
| 1:13.7 | Part of the reason Mason Miller wasn't part of that conversation is because he's pitched so |
| 1:17.4 | little due to injuries during his time in the A's system. |
| 1:20.9 | Now, the question we have going into a weekend like this is through all the hype, having |
| 1:25.4 | seen the debut, seeing the stuff match what it was in |
| 1:28.3 | the minor leagues with big velocity on the fastball, pretty good cutter and slider combo. |
| 1:34.3 | How much do you want to bid in Fab leagues on Mason Miller? |
| 1:39.5 | Is the results of the bidding on Taj Bradley in leagues where he was available last weekend, |
| 1:46.0 | is that kind of instructive as to where the ceiling might be, |
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