Position Player Walk Years, Disagreements Between Projections & Jackson Merrill Gets a Plane Ticket
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss Eno's recent story examining the tendencies of position players in their walk year, disagreements across projection systems and how to work through those differences (and when to target players with projection systems agreement). Plus, they discuss Junior Caminero getting sent to Triple-A to begin the season, Jackson Merrill's upcoming flight to Korea, an injury for Taj Bradley, and the growing concerns about Gerrit Cole as the wait for an update on his status lengthens.
Rundown
5:52 What Happens in Position Players' Walk Years? ($ Eno's story: https://theathletic.com/5321626/)
11:13 Gleyber Torres' Path to More Power
16:24 Eno's Most Rostered Player From Story?
23:43 Disagreement Between Projection Systems
31:26 Rookies of Interest v. How the Fantasy Market Treats Rookies
38:17 Jackson Merrill Gets a Seat on the Plane
46:53 Taj Bradley's Pectoral Strain
53:20 Ongoing Uncertainty with Gerrit Cole & Current Rankings Adjustment
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, March 13th. |
| 0:19.2 | Derek Minreper here with Enos. |
| 0:21.7 | Thank you again to Mike Giannella from baseball prospectus for filling in on Tuesday. |
| 0:26.4 | Well, Eno's house just created a mountain of tech problems all at once upon returning from spring training. |
| 0:36.2 | Never have I ever wanted to do that Abe Simpson meme where he comes in, |
| 0:41.9 | sees Bart is, you know, at his local bar is like the dormant at his local bar and like turns |
| 0:47.5 | around, puts his hat back on and goes back out. |
| 0:50.0 | Like I was like, can we just go back to spring training? |
| 0:54.2 | I spent the weekend with the kids at the games, having fun, perfect weather. |
| 0:59.6 | After it was all rainy and cold, you saw me on the pod freezing. |
| 1:04.1 | The weekend was beautiful. |
| 1:06.1 | And we had a great time. |
| 1:07.1 | We come back. |
| 1:08.1 | The fire alarm. |
| 1:09.3 | We have an external hardwired fire alarm that's attached to |
| 1:13.0 | the sprinkler system. We have a sprinkler system in our house. And the external fire alarm, |
| 1:18.7 | which is like a bell like you see in like, you know, old school schools and firehouses and stuff. |
| 1:24.3 | Like a bell, you know, like a ring has been going off for 36 hours. |
| 1:30.3 | All of my neighbors hate my guts. |
| 1:33.1 | The firemen have just come and left. |
| 1:36.0 | And there's also a water leak that was kind of related to it, that they had to shut the water off. |
| 1:44.0 | So we come home, first night in |
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