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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Minor league games return, trading for floor, drafting for ceiling, and xStats outliers

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9746 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the start of the minor-league season, what they're looking for in prospects early in the year, the continued patience necessary with Wander Franco in redraft leagues, xStats outliers, and more.  Rundown 1:03 The Value in Starting Assignments 14:58 Is Raw Power an Overvalued Tool? 19:30 If You Think He's a Star.... 24:00 Trade for Floor, Draft Ceiling? 33:07 Prospect of the Week!!! 41:29 Eno Steals From DVR 50:03 A Masterclass in Managing 54:31 Matt Carpenter, Tommy Pham and xStats 62:43 Is Alex Wood Back? 66:21 A Surprising Change in Splits by Pitch Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper e-mail: [email protected] Subscribe to the Rates & Barrels YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RatesBarrels Subscribe to The Athletic for just $3.99/month to start: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.7

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. The minor

0:56.5

league season has begun. So we'll talk about a few observations from opening day there.

1:02.5

We're going to bring back Prospect of the Week already. It took one day of minor league games

1:07.0

for Prospect of the Week to come back to life. We'll talk about some things that we think might be actionable with prospects coming out of

1:13.5

2020.

1:14.2

Of course, all the missing information from last year is going to lead teams and prospect

1:18.8

analysts and keeper in Dynasty League players to have to make quicker decisions about players

1:23.7

and their evaluations of those players.

1:26.1

I've got some really good stuff here about X stats too, some questions that have been rolling in,

1:29.7

so we'll get to those later on in the show.

1:32.9

But, you know, let's just start with some minor league chatter.

1:37.1

And I'm excited to have the games back because I love minor league stats.

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