Midseason Buy-High Considerations & Weekend Waiver Preview
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss midseason buy-highs while taking a trip through the FanGraphs 2024 Player Rater. Plus, they discuss a few pickups to consider ahead of the weekend, including Jhonkensy Noel in Cleveland, Heston Kjerstad in his second stint with the O's this season, and David Festa joining the rotation for the Twins.
Rundown
3:55 Gunnar Henderson Makes the Leap to First-Round Status
6:31 Ranger Suárez: No. 1 SP in Player Rater for 2024 (So Far)
11:15 Accounting for Wins in a Player Rater
15:15 Adjusting Ratio Baselines for Run Environment
18:08 Which Hitter(s) Are You Targeting?
25:14 Brice Turang's Step Forward and Projecting Ceiling Comps
34:11 Which Pitcher(s) Are You Targeting?
41:35 A Case for Joe Ryan
43:55 Weekend Waiver Preview: Jhonkensy Noel & Heston Kjerstad
54:32 Weekend Waiver Preview: David Festa & Hayden Birdsong\
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
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| 0:27.6 | season, season exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Raced Barrels. |
| 0:45.5 | It's Thursday, June 27th. |
| 0:47.2 | Derek Van Riper, Enoceris, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:50.0 | We'll dig into some mid-season by highs, as promised earlier in the week. |
| 0:54.1 | We're going to have some more fun with that new FanGraphs player raider. |
| 0:58.3 | The tool you can use right off their page is go to the Fantasy tab, hit that link, and you can have fun all afternoon with that. |
| 1:05.2 | We're going to dig into some players. |
| 1:06.4 | We're going to buy high. |
| 1:07.2 | We're going to talk about choosing a direction, how to not be the angels in your fantasy |
| 1:12.3 | league, because as we discussed on Tuesday, you don't really want to be the Anaheim Angels right |
| 1:17.8 | now. It's not a franchise that you want to model if you are playing fantasy baseball. We'll dig |
| 1:23.7 | into some weekend waiver preview players as well, some interesting names added to the pool, kind of mushing together Project Prospect and the waiver preview this week. |
| 1:33.1 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Thursday? |
| 1:35.1 | It's going great. |
| 1:36.3 | Weekend approaches. |
| 1:37.7 | Weekend approaches again, yeah. |
| 1:39.6 | We're deep in the throwing program with my eldest. |
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