Rebound Hitters & Astros Preview w/Chandler Rome
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few players with questionable statuses for Opening Day -- including Dodgers starter Blake Snell and Brewers starter Brandon Woodruff -- before previewing the Houston Astros with The Athletic's Chandler Rome. They also discuss a few rebound hitters with discounted draft-day prices this winter, before digging into DVR's unusual build in Monday night's Mixed LABR draft.
Check out the current win totals projected by PECOTA here: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/standings/
Rundown
2:41 Blake Snell’s Slow Spring
9:19 Brandon Woodruff’s Path to Opening Day
14:00 Chris Sale: Signs One-Year Extension
16:00 Houston Astros Preview
32:03 Will This Astros Team Contend with Better Health in 2026?
37:51 Rebound Hitters for 2026
50:34 Similarities Between Oneil Cruz & PCA?
1:04:53 DVR’s Mixed LABR Draft
Full 2026 Mixed LABR Draft Board: https://www.rtsports.com/labr-mixed-draft
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. |
| 0:13.8 | It's Tuesday, February 24th. |
| 0:15.9 | Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. |
| 0:18.0 | On this episode, we have some important news updates. |
| 0:21.3 | Several key players have opening day statuses that are now officially up in the air. |
| 0:26.3 | We'll talk about the implications of that from both a real and a fantasy perspective. |
| 0:30.6 | Later on in the show, we're going to talk about some 2026 rebound candidates, |
| 0:34.2 | looking at some of the biggest fallers in drafts so far this year |
| 0:37.6 | compared to last year's NFBC main event, hopefully finding good bounce back targets that |
| 0:43.2 | you can build your teams around. |
| 0:45.3 | And then, of course, we'll continue our team preview series. |
| 0:47.5 | Chandler Rome joins us here in just a few minutes to break down the 2026 Astros. |
| 0:53.8 | Ena, how's it going for you on this Tuesday? |
| 0:58.1 | Panic mode, yeah. |
| 0:59.6 | It's panic mode. |
| 1:00.6 | I mean, I'm leaving Friday for spring training. |
| 1:04.1 | We'll be going to the Sabre Analytics Conference this weekend. |
| 1:09.4 | And then going to camps all the next week and then, you know, a little bit of |
| 1:15.0 | respite at the end of next week. |
| 1:16.4 | But it's still in Arizona all the way through March 8th. |
| 1:20.3 | If you are in Arizona on this Saturday, we're going to go to the whiny pig this Saturday. We'll go there like six to |
| 1:31.7 | eight, six to nine, something like that. We got to go to bed early because we're doing something |
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