Oneil Cruz Injury, Early Starting Pitcher Pickups, and the Value of Two-Start Weeks
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Eno discuss the lengthy absence on tap for Oneil Cruz, another frantic weekend of free-agent pickups in fantasy baseball, the value of two-start weeks in weekly leagues, and several players of interest as the second week of action winds down.
Rundown
1:47 Oneil Cruz's Injury & Lengthy Absence
6:40 A Woefully Thin Waiver Wire Position
13:26 Pitchers of Interesting From Weekend Pickups
22:41 A Wide Range of Outcomes for Kris Bubic?
25:51 Why Two-Start Weeks Are So Valuable
34:02 JP Sears: A Second Viable Starter in Oakland?
44:28 Digging for Deep League Bats
52:29 Francisco Álvarez's Opportunity to Stick
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:15.7 | It's Monday, April 10th. |
| 0:17.3 | Derek Van Riper here with Enos, |
| 0:18.7 | Eno, back from vacation. |
| 0:20.7 | Eno, how was your trip? |
| 0:22.6 | It was great. |
| 0:23.6 | The weather in New York was weird. |
| 0:26.5 | There were days that we had that were 70 and sunny, and also days where the high was like |
| 0:32.2 | 45. |
| 0:34.1 | So that took some navigating. |
| 0:36.0 | But we checked out the New York Metropolitan Museum. |
| 0:39.3 | We checked out of art. |
| 0:40.8 | We checked out the Natural History Museum. |
| 0:43.9 | We went to the color factory. |
| 0:46.7 | We went to the top of the Empire State building. |
| 0:52.7 | We went to two Magic the Gathering comic bookstores. |
| 0:59.3 | We went to the park like three times. |
| 1:03.2 | And we had generally a good time. |
| 1:06.2 | I ate something like seven sandwiches and tried out something like 15 beer bars. |
| 1:14.9 | It's really good for a week, 10 days. |
| 1:18.7 | Well, like 10 days. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
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