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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Opening Day Reactions and Waiver Options

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

DVR and Al look at some actionable news items from opening day, including IL stints for Justin Verlander, Max Fried and Ryan Pepiot, and they consider players worth pursuing on the waiver wire, such as Elehuris Montero, Clarke Schmidt and Hunter Gaddis.


Rundown

0:34 A new approach to the waivers show

1:40 Opening day lineup Implications

31:37 Injury news impacting waiver options

35:42 Other pitching options on waivers

42:33 Which teams should we stream pitchers against?

47:12 Two-start pitchers to stream

55:53 Opening day bullpen observations


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Bruggerates and barrels, it's Friday, March 31st, Derek and Ryberg here with Al Belkjure.

0:20.3

Our first waiver show of the season, two of us.

0:23.5

I know you and Eno talked about waiver players last week.

0:26.0

There were injuries last week that it was the case again this week

0:28.8

because of all the transactions that happened leading into opening day.

0:32.7

And I wanted to say that this year's waiver show,

0:35.7

we did one in the Athletic Fantasy Baseball Show feed for the last few seasons,

0:39.7

and we're bringing a lot of those concepts, a lot of that structure over.

0:43.2

But this is more of a conversation just about the players people are interested in heading into the weekend.

0:47.3

So it's not necessarily just a waiver show.

0:50.0

I don't think we're going to get into the nitty-gritty with how much fab you should bid on every player throughout the entire show.

0:55.1

I think situations are so different that providing that sort of broad analysis that tries to thread the needle for everyone actually doesn't help that much.

1:02.9

So it's really more of just trying to figure out what players new roles might mean, what injury information might actually mean as far as holding versus cutting a player

1:11.4

and trying to get people a better sense of how they want to manage their roster.

1:14.8

Giving true advice that can help a larger number of people.

1:18.5

That is our goal here.

1:19.5

So we're going to aspire to that.

1:21.1

If you have feedback ideas for this new format, new air quotes format, rates and barrels at gmail.com.

1:27.6

And I'm sure we'll have Eno with us on some Fridays.

1:29.6

He's in Brooklyn.

1:30.6

I had the opening night party at OtherHab brewery.

1:34.6

So that was awesome to see the pictures of that on Twitter.

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