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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

New Catcher Options and Changes in the Diamondbacks' and Cardinals' Bullpens

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball, Baseball

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

DVR and Al assess the potential fantasy impact of several recently-promoted prospects, including catchers Henry Davis and Bo Naylor. They also discuss where Joey Votto, Alek Thomas and Jesse Winker should be added, now that each is back on their active major league roster. DVR and Al size up the pitching options on waivers, including Graham Ashcraft, Jameson Taillon, Paul Blackburn and Bryan Woo, and look into the closer situations in Arizona and St. Louis.


Rundown

0:53 Top news items of the week

21:40 Hitters of note

38:04 Pitchers, including streamers and two-start pitchers

56:15 Closer corner


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Friday, June 23rd. Derek and Riper, Al Malk, you are here getting ready for the weekend, discussing some the new stories of the week, looking for some potential streamers, taking a quick look at some bullpen situations that might be in flux, trying to help you get prepared for another weekend of pickups and maybe trades in some cases, too. I think the trade wins are a blowing. I think everyone's at that point now. We're approaching midseason. If you thought you had a need a month ago, you proved to yourself over the last four weeks that need probably still exists in many cases. And you should do something about it. So this is a great weekend to start making some moves if you haven't done that already. And now we begin, as we do each and every week with the news of the week.

0:56.0

A couple of young catchers joining the catcher pool, Henry Davis getting promoted for the

1:00.1

first time and actually playing in the outfield for the pirates and Bo Naler getting

1:04.2

brought back up by Cleveland.

1:06.1

He debuted at the end of last season and kind of surprisingly didn't get called up until

1:10.7

the middle of this month.

1:12.5

I thought he'd be up in May just based on some of the offensive needs for this Guardians team.

1:18.1

As you look at Davis and Naylor and you think about all the different types of leagues we play in,

1:22.8

two catcher leagues, single catcher leagues, what type of impact are you expecting from both of these players?

1:28.6

From a long-term perspective, I see two guys that are easily single-league relevant,

1:33.3

but I think you can probably argue a case for each of them,

1:36.0

depending on what your categorical needs are and who you currently have occupying those spots

1:41.7

on your rosters.

1:42.9

Yeah, well, I think they both can make an impact in one catcher leagues, but it's,

1:47.1

it's sort of borderline, I think.

1:49.5

I don't wouldn't, I wouldn't expect either Davis or Naler to necessarily, and this is

1:54.2

true with most, most catchers not help you much with batting average.

1:57.4

I don't know that either is going to have, you know, tremendous power.

2:01.2

But Henry Davis has his first home run on Thursday night against Marlins.

2:06.7

There's some power there.

2:08.8

And there is with nail or two.

2:10.2

I actually think I had sort of a hard time in the column this week prioritizing them,

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