Preferred 2021 draft positions, keeper league strategies, Tatis v. Soto, and ditching saves completely
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss their preferred draft positions (KDS) based on the unique shape of the 2021 player pool, before discussing keeper and dynasty league strategies, Fernando Tatis Jr. vs. Juan Soto, possibility eliminating the saves category, and more!
Rundown
4:09 Preferred Draft Slots (KDS)
21:18 Keeper League Startup Strategy
33:06 Open Player Universe Considerations
39:59 How to Approach Keeper Leagues w/Diluted Player Pools
44:43 Tatis vs. Soto as a Keeper Dilemma
51:00 Is This the Peak in Tatis’ Keeper/Dynasty Value?
56:36 Positional Priorities in Draft Tools
60:43 When Are We Going to Ditch Saves?
63:54 Ranking For Job Security Over Skills w/Closers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, February 24th. |
| 0:19.7 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We look at some draft strategy topics. We're going to talk about KDS. Where do you want to be in the draft order? You get to choose your own draft slot in 2021. How do you make that decision and where do you want to be? We have a lot of Keeper and Dynasty questions and a few follow-ups coming off of our |
| 0:40.5 | relief picture preview episode that went down on Monday. |
| 0:45.2 | So a lot to get to today. |
| 0:48.2 | Eno, how's it going for you on this Wednesday? |
| 0:50.8 | It's good. |
| 0:51.4 | I had two really weird thoughts while walking the dogs today. |
| 0:54.9 | One, is a dog walk forced calisthenics? |
| 1:00.2 | I've never stopped to think about that. |
| 1:02.8 | I think they like it. |
| 1:04.1 | I think it's okay. |
| 1:05.3 | But sometimes on the colder side, you kind of wonder. |
| 1:08.9 | And you tug them a couple times too much. |
| 1:11.7 | You're like, are they enjoying this? |
| 1:14.4 | Second, and this is a little bit even weirder. |
| 1:17.7 | If we are in the apocalypse, you should probably eat the dogs early because then you can eat their dog food. |
| 1:27.8 | It's awful, dude. |
| 1:29.8 | Just awful. |
| 1:31.2 | Yes, this is where my mind was this morning. |
| 1:35.5 | At least one thought was sympathetic towards a dog. |
| 1:38.5 | The second was probably when I got annoyed at them barking at somebody. |
| 1:43.7 | You have a very different relationship with your dogs than I do with mine. |
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