Taj Bradley Debut and Shortstop Replacements
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Al assess the short- and long-term fantasy value of Taj Bradley and Edouard Julien, both of whom debuted this week, and they look at at the pool of free agent shortstops who could replace Corey Seager or other injured shortstops. They also look at other free agent hitters and pitchers to target in FAB.
Rundown
1:22 Shortstop injury replacements
9:05 Edouard Julien and Taj Bradley debut
17:17 Rotations in flux: Diamondbacks, Guardians, Brewers
23:39 DVR makes a case for Brad Keller
29:54 Streamable pitchers to pursue
37:30 Hitters to target
44:06 Have these fantasy zombies come alive?
52:54 Who are we targeting for saves?
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| 0:00.0 | Buck the Rates and barrels. It is Friday, April 14th. |
| 0:18.5 | Derek Fenriper here in Alalkiore on this episode. |
| 0:21.8 | We dig into a rash of injuries around the league and the fallout that will lead us to be on the Waverwire in a very active way this weekend. |
| 0:30.7 | We're always looking for value, always looking for upgrades, but this seems more like just finding replacements in many cases. |
| 0:36.6 | If you avoided the injury bug this week, maybe play the lottery this weekend because it seems |
| 0:41.1 | like everybody is dealing with it in some form. |
| 0:45.4 | And there's actually some pretty interesting players to consider picking up as a result of |
| 0:49.7 | all of this fallout. |
| 0:51.6 | So Al, I don't know. |
| 0:53.2 | How did you weather the storm overall? |
| 0:54.8 | Your team's still kind of in one piece for the most part? |
| 0:57.5 | I think I've gotten pretty lucky. |
| 0:58.9 | So maybe I do need to go and buy some scratchers or something this evening. |
| 1:04.0 | So the one thing I did was I was a little worried about Carlos Correa. |
| 1:08.8 | Of course, he was back with the twins on Thursday night, but I went out in the league |
| 1:12.5 | where I have Correa and got Orlando Arcia his insurance. |
| 1:16.4 | So I got hit a little bit there. |
| 1:21.0 | But yeah, I think if you've got a shortstop, that's healthy. |
| 1:23.8 | You might be in the minority. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, maybe we'll start there because it's, we talked about this a little bit earlier in the week. It is a thin position on the waiver wire, and it got even thinner because Orlando RCA was the kind of player that people would have been looking at this weekend, potentially, in some 12 team leagues just to fill in, just to keep things afloat. Corey Seeger got hurt this week, so there's a major injury there. |
| 1:45.2 | So tons of people out there looking for some help, at least in the middle infield. Because you may have a middle infield that can play shortstop in Seeger's place. If Seeger's on your team, but then going to that middle infield pool and trying to find some value, it's not looking great. Now, for Atlanta, there may be a built-in replacement. At least |
| 2:03.1 | if you don't need someone who shortstop eligible right away, Vaughn Grissom is back up. So he was an |
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