Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is episode 141, Tuesday, September 26, 2020. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode.

We're going to talk about some hitters who did not make the cut last week as locks for early, early round status.

We talked about top 25 hitters overall. Several hitters fell short. We got a few emails about that.

We have a nice prediction

tweet that came out from our friend Vlad Sedler at Rodol Gut, taking a stab at early starting

pitcher ADP. So we'll talk about a few surprises in Vlad's group there and a bunch of other great

mailbag questions, one about a strategy that was employed in a head-to-head

league that I think is pretty interesting as well. So let's get to it right away here,

Eno. We looked at a lot of hitters on our last episode and there were plenty of notable omissions,

right? We had our next five guys that had cases to be top 25 hitters. We talked a lot about those guys.

But there are a bunch of players who've had great seasons,

guys like Jose Abraeu and Mani Machado and Luke Voigt,

who have put up great numbers,

and they were not part of that conversation at all.

And as I went through and kind of looked at a lot of those players,

most of the ones who fell out of the next guys in conversation don't steal bases.

There's a few very tricky players sprinkled in. I would say Will Myers is probably the most surprising player who's had a great season this year that very few people expected.

Like if I go back to the winter and spring, I don't recall anybody touting Will Myers

as somebody that you really wanted to have at the price because some sort of massive

bounceback was coming.

So as you start to look at the players who fell short, is there anybody that you feel

has a really good case to be considered an easy

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