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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

On Playing Time & Upside

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Rundown
2:35 Playing Time & Challenges with Projecting It
18:42 Finding Overvalued and Undervalued Players Based on PT Projections
29:39 How One Type of Sausage is Made (Spoiler Alert: It's Tough)
42:27 Aligning Opportunity & Skills Growth
53:46 Beer of the Month

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and Barrels episode number 65 is January 30th, 20, 20, 20.

0:21.0

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres.

0:23.4

On this episode, we're going to discuss playing time and how it shapes projections and

0:28.7

player prices during draft season.

0:31.3

And of course, its importance over the course of the season, I will make an attempt to ban

0:36.5

the word upside from my vocabulary

0:38.9

and we'll wrap things up with our beer of the month selections. Some housekeeping to get

0:44.5

to before we get started. We are available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, pretty much anywhere

0:49.2

you want to listen to podcasts. So if you're enjoying this show on a platform that allows you

0:53.3

to leave us a rating and review,

0:55.4

we'd greatly appreciate a nice rating and review.

0:58.1

And tell your friends if you like the show.

1:00.0

Some of you are listening to this show for the first time,

1:02.3

and some of you are not already subscribers to the Athletic.

1:04.6

If you're not a subscriber, you can get 40% off at theathletic.com slash rates and barrels.

1:10.5

Eno, what's going on today?

1:13.2

We are in the, what is a Rubicon?

1:17.2

I was going to say we were in a Rubicon.

1:19.1

We were in the Rubicon.

1:20.5

I don't know what a Rubicon is, but I'm in it.

1:22.6

I've got the rankings that are coming out.

1:25.5

I got a piece on Shio Tani's value by different settings and platform.

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