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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Searching for Buy-Low Bats, Banking on a Pablo López Bounce Back & Weekend Waiver Preview

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Fantasy Baseball, Baseball, Sports, Mlb

4.7874 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR search for buy-low bats and discussing the struggles of Austin Riley, Julio Rodríguez, and Dansby Swanson -- plus a group of hitters that may look like buy-low targets on the surface, but could underwhelm the rest of the way. Plus, they answer a few mailbag questions, and look ahead at potential pickups on the waiver wire this weekend.


Rundown

1:58 Austin Riley is Going to Be OK...Right?

6:18 Julio Rodríguez & Dansby Swanson

10:53 The 'Don't Buy' Lows

17:32 Corbin Carroll v. CJ Abrams in the Past Calendar Year

23:26 Is MJ Melendez the Opposite of Isaac Paredes?

30:09 What's Going on with Pablo López?

34:25 FanGraphs Custom Leaderboards as Watchlists

37:15 Should the Dodgers Target a Shortstop Instead of an Outfielder

44:51 Weekend Waiver Preview

55:14 First Impressions of Drew Thorpe


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0:00.0

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0:01.1

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0:04.8

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0:10.4

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0:16.9

Listen to the Athletic NBA show wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.7

Bucked rates and barrels. It's Thursday, June 13th.

0:54.2

Derek Van Riper, Enosar is here with you on this episode. We dig into a recent piece that Eno wrote for The Athletic looking at a few bi-low targets. Guys, you might want to be trading for on the hitting side in particular. We've also got a few fools gold bilos. They don't buy lows, as we're calling them. We'll give you some warnings about. We're going to take a look at a few mailbag questions, including one about Pablo Lopez and his underperformance up to this point in the season.

0:59.8

And as we do each and every Thursday, we'll take a look ahead to a few interesting names that you might be considering as pickups for the weekend waiver preview.

1:08.7

You know, how's it going for you on this Thursday?

1:10.5

It's good. I'm finally on the other side of that illness. Took the kids to the Dutch goose and played some pool, and they hit some nice shots. I had to beat them in the end, of course. Yeah, they're at the age now where I think you just have to play it out, right? You can't literally let kids at that age win.

1:28.9

No, no, especially not the nine-year-old because he's insufferable about losing.

1:34.1

So I have to teach him how to lose or else he's just going to keep doing this.

1:38.9

Yeah, he'll be flipping tables over and just doing stuff forever.

1:42.1

So yeah.

1:42.4

We played Cutthroat, where it's the three of you and he was

1:47.9

okay with it getting down to me versus him for the last ball. So just not being in last is that's a

1:53.7

step in the right direction. Learning how to accept. Beating his brother at least. Yes, there's one

1:59.9

win built in there. If you're looking for a small win for yourself, join our Discord. The link is in the show description. Lots of lively chatter going on in there. It's a good place to send mailbag questions because it's easy for us to track them in there. But, you know, let's start getting into your hitters to target via trade. And, you know, you had a bigger leaderboard at the top of the piece.

2:20.6

You kind of focused on five particular players that you really like.

2:24.2

I think the rubric you used for this made a lot of sense.

2:26.7

You were looking for players with below league average results so far,

2:30.0

but good swing decisions, looking at swing percentage outside the zone

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