Salary Cap Draft Strategy + LABR Weekend Review
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR take a quick break from the Position Previews series to discuss Salary Cap Draft strategy in the wake of their AL- and NL-only LABR experience over the weekend.
Rundown
- Choosing a Path: Stars & Scrubs v. Balanced Builds
- Limited Pre-Determined Targets
- When to Consider Overpaying For a Player Early
- Eno's AL Pitching Build
- Position Depth Is Key!
- The Downside of a Cheap Infield
- Our LABR Mid-Draft Missteps
- Staying Organized Amidst Chaos
- Stephen Strasburg: Forgotten Ace or Former Ace?
- Mulligan Considerations
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Monday, March 7th. |
| 0:19.5 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. We take a quick |
| 0:23.0 | break from our position preview series and talk about salary cap drafts or auctions as they |
| 0:29.1 | were formerly known. We just had AL and NL labor over the weekend that we were participating in. |
| 0:35.0 | There was a mixed event as well that was on Saturday. So we figured it would be a good time to take a look back at different ways you could execute strategies in this format. And even if you don't play in a salary cap draft or an auction, I think this will still be insightful because we'll analyze some players along the way. We'll talk about roster construction in a way that hopefully is helpful in a variety of different formats. |
| 0:58.6 | You know, before we get rolling, how are things going for you on this Monday? |
| 1:02.0 | That's good. |
| 1:02.7 | I saw the Batman this weekend. |
| 1:04.9 | The Batman. |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah, it's very beautiful, very beautiful, very long, very long. |
| 1:12.4 | I was just thinking that, you know, if we get the worst of the outcomes with a longer lockout, |
| 1:19.5 | we're going to have to come up with something else to talk about. |
| 1:22.8 | I can't just keep it afloat with multiple episodes per week talking about a season that will begin later indefinitely, right? |
| 1:30.9 | At some point, we have to get into movie reviews or pickleball tips or food or all the above. |
| 1:38.0 | Obviously, beer could be a crush for us. |
| 1:39.7 | A sandwich episode, a beer episode, a pickleball episode. |
| 1:42.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.9 | So if there is anything in particular that's not baseball |
| 1:46.8 | that you think we should talk about or you'd at least enjoy hearing us talk about, maybe send us |
| 1:54.0 | a tweet or an email and say, this would actually be a fun episode, non-baseball related, |
| 1:58.5 | because honestly, I would like to have a few ideas stockpiled, |
| 2:02.8 | given the current state of things. But fortunately, we still have some position previews to get |
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