Multi-Position Eligibility, Dollar Values & Precision, and Seeking Challenges in 2022
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss players with multi-position eligibility, and the necessity of finding at least a few players with that flexibility to fit on draft-and-hold rosters. Plus, they examine Brandon Lowe's 2021, and answer questions about dollar values, limitations of WAR in a small sample, and the types of leagues to consider for those seeking a greater fantasy baseball challenge in 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, January 10th, Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. On this episode, we will |
| 0:23.1 | discuss a wide variety of questions. A lot of good questions came in to the mailbag, questions |
| 0:29.1 | about multi-positioned players and whether they might be underrated. I think Eno has the opposite |
| 0:35.4 | feeling, so we'll discuss why he feels that way and figure out if there's some truth, maybe on both sides of the argument, depending on where in the player pool exactly you're looking. |
| 0:45.5 | Brandon Lau, very popular in the mailbag this weekend, so we'll talk about him on this episode. |
| 0:51.1 | We'll talk about what to do when you see a partial season of war. Is it something that you should, if you have a third of a season, multiply by three and say, hey, that's about what that player would have done, or is it more complicated than that? Some questions about dollar values, if we get that far, where to play in leagues, how to increase activity in dynasty leagues. So yeah, lots of ground to cover. |
| 1:11.0 | We'll cover some, maybe all of it, but at least some of it on this episode. |
| 1:15.8 | You know, how was your weekend? |
| 1:17.2 | It was good until you absolutely murdered me in pickleball. |
| 1:21.7 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:23.2 | Well, it was your first time playing. |
| 1:27.0 | Took me like three games to score a point. |
| 1:31.4 | It's okay. |
| 1:32.6 | I think that's normal. |
| 1:34.7 | I had about a two-year head start. |
| 1:37.4 | It was fun. |
| 1:39.3 | And we had a little toast to celebrate the sale. |
| 1:43.2 | And yeah yeah it was |
| 1:45.9 | it was a decent weekend yeah I saw sing |
| 1:47.9 | too |
| 1:48.2 | which you know for me is weird because I really |
| 1:51.9 | do not I'm like I'm not |
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