Playing Along with the Pitching Model, Pricey Prospects in Redraft Leagues + Draft & Hold Basics
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few questions surrounding the Stuff+, Location+ and Pitching+ model, ways to 'play along', fear of the unknown with 2022 Clayton Kershaw, how to utilize draft capital effectively with prospects in redraft leagues, and a few basic strategy guidelines for draft-and-hold leagues.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels, it is Thursday, January 27. Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:20.7 | Enos-Saurus on this episode. |
| 0:22.9 | We have a lot of great questions that have been flowing through the mailbag. |
| 0:26.5 | We got questions about stuff plus and location plus and pitching plus that we're going to try and answer, |
| 0:31.7 | which will hopefully shed some light on that model and how we talk about it. |
| 0:38.2 | I just saw your cry on for us today on YouTube. |
| 0:43.7 | Yeah, I mean, it's a limited amount of real estate, |
| 0:47.3 | but I try to make it as valuable as possible. |
| 0:50.5 | So I'm proud of myself for once, which is okay. |
| 0:55.2 | What is the DVR Plus going to be on this episode? |
| 0:58.2 | That's the question. |
| 1:00.0 | So other questions include questions about how to use draft capital on prospects in redraft leagues. |
| 1:06.3 | That is a great path to go down. |
| 1:08.7 | Some draft and hold questions in there. |
| 1:10.8 | Honestly, the questions are so large in scope. |
| 1:13.3 | There's a chance that we don't get to all of them, |
| 1:15.0 | so we're not going to spend too much time dilly dallying here at the beginning. |
| 1:19.0 | Not sure where that expression came from or why I just used it. |
| 1:22.0 | We do have some show business to attend to. |
| 1:24.2 | We have an announcement of sorts. |
| 1:26.4 | It is a promotion, I would say, for the |
| 1:29.4 | Friday installment of Rates and Burials, as you know at the show that Eno and Britt and I have |
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