Tanner Bibee, Logan Allen and Other Top Waiver Targets
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
DVR and Al consider how aggressively they want to pursue Guardians pitching prospects Tanner Bibee and Logan Allen, now that they have made their major league debuts. They also discuss the shallow-league appeal of Jack Suwinski and Jason Heyward and identify the streamable pitchers with the best upcoming matchups.
Rundown
0:54 Prospect promotions and demotions
22:13 Injury fallout
28:35 Hitter developments
40:14 Notable pitchers
51:09 Streamers and two-start pitchers
1:02:13 Bullpen update
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Friday, April 228th, Derek Van Riper |
| 0:19.2 | here with Al Malkyur, as we do each and every Friday. |
| 0:22.7 | We take a look ahead at the potential waiver-wire pickups this weekend. |
| 0:26.9 | And as I say, on a regular basis on these Friday shows, a lot can change between now and Sunday when Fabb actually runs in many of these leagues. |
| 0:35.0 | But this is just kind of the beginning of that conversation. |
| 0:37.2 | This should help you at least have some fundamental ideas about what you're likely to be looking at this weekend, the types of players you're thinking about, and maybe some of the strategies you might want to use as far as bids. Of course, we may talk about a few players to drop because we had some demotions this week, so a lot of ground to cover. But we begin with more pitching, Al. |
| 0:55.7 | More young pitching joins the pool. |
| 0:57.6 | We saw Logan Allen debut for the Guardians last week Sunday, which means in NFBC formats, he was not eligible to be picked up yet unless he was drafted in leagues. |
| 1:06.1 | I don't think he was drafted in many, if any, of those leagues. |
| 1:08.9 | So this will be the first crack at him. |
| 1:11.4 | And then Tanner Bybee got the call this week as well. So we have two very talented pitchers joining the |
| 1:17.9 | Cleveland rotation, at least for a little while, perhaps longer. We have a Taj Bradley demotion |
| 1:23.2 | fresh on our minds right now. We've talked about that throughout the week, |
| 1:29.5 | maybe being a very short-term sort of thing. |
| 1:36.6 | Are you thinking about throwing big bids at one or both of Bibi and Allen this weekend, |
| 1:42.6 | given the need for quality pitching on pretty much every roster in fantasy baseball right now? |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah, I think it's probably not realistic to really pursue both of them. |
| 1:52.1 | And I had a hard time for the waiver column deciding which to prioritize. |
| 1:57.5 | I feel like they're very equal in terms of the value that I would expect from them this season. I gave a little bit of an edge to Bybee. |
| 2:00.7 | But, yeah, I think you definitely |
| 2:03.0 | need to go all in on one. And then, of course, whoever you don't prioritize, you make them |
| 2:08.2 | the contingent bid because that's not really a consolation prize to get your second choice |
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