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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Taking L’s: Players we were wrong about in 2021

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports, Mlb, Fantasy Baseball

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Eno and DVR discuss the players they were wrong about in 2021 -- and several others than the fantasy community in general misjudged including Gleyber Torres, Yoán Moncada, Blake Snell, and several others. 


This is the episode where DVR officially takes the 'L' for his Victor Robles calls. 


Follow Eno on Twitter: @enosarris

Follow DVR on Twitter: @DerekVanRiper

e-mail: ratesandbarrels@theathletic.com


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and Burials presented by Tops. Check out Tops Project.

0:20.3

70, celebrating 70 years of Topps baseball cards.

0:23.2

Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris with you on this Wednesday. Hey, it's September. We have

0:27.0

flipped the page on the calendar. The last month-ish of the season, season does run into the first

0:32.8

couple days of October. I think you were telling me yesterday that World Series can run into

0:36.9

the last couple,

0:38.7

first couple days of November. So that'd be pretty exciting if everything played out that long.

0:43.1

But on this episode, it is time to take an L for me, Victor Robles option to AAA, which has inspired

0:50.5

an entire show about players that either we as a show were wrong about, as individuals,

0:56.6

or possibly just the fantasy community at large based on where players were going back in the

1:01.9

spring and what they've done to this point in the season.

1:04.8

Obviously a month can help turn things around, but at this point, I think all of these guys

1:09.3

we're going to talk about are still going to be clear underperformers for 2021 relative to expectations.

1:16.1

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

1:19.3

It's good. I'm not taking the Robles, El.

1:24.0

I'm also not red in the face.

1:27.1

If you're watching on YouTube, Derek has taken on the hue of his shirt.

1:33.7

Yeah, I think it's the lighting in here that needs some work.

1:36.5

So my apologies to our viewers on YouTube, but it kind of looks like I ate the Willy Wonka gum. And instead of turning into a blueberry, I'm turning into a

1:46.1

tomato.

1:47.4

Yeah.

1:48.5

Or had some ghost pepper hot sauce or something.

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