The 2010s: The Fantasy Baseball All-Decade Team
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Rundown
2:51 Catchers
4:29 First Basemen
7:47 Second Basemen
12:31 Shortstops
14:24 Third Basemen
17:13 Corner Infielders
18:47 Middle Infielders
20:32 Outfielders
36:02 Trivia!
38:10 Starters
44:34 Relievers
53:37 One-Hit Wonders
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| 0:56.1 | and score last minute deals on tickets up to 60% off. Welcome to Rates and Beryls, episode number 55. |
| 1:21.2 | This is a special installment of the show this week because it's part of the |
| 1:25.2 | Athletics All Decade Team series. I look back at |
| 1:28.2 | the last 10 years, 2010 to 2019. Hard to believe a whole decade is coming to a close here at the end of the year. |
| 1:35.5 | So we're going to talk about our selections for the fantasy baseball all decade team. Some show related |
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| 2:06.5 | barrels. So we're going to put together a team of 14 hitters and 9 pitchers. Eno has done |
| 2:12.2 | some heavy lifting already, getting some of the multi-year player earn values going back through most of this decade, |
| 2:19.4 | and that serves as a really good baseline for these selections. One little twist on the traditional |
| 2:24.5 | positions, we're not putting two catchers in this lineup. We're putting one catcher in this lineup, |
| 2:29.1 | but having two utilities. Yeah, there's no reason to have two. We are making that change right now. |
| 2:36.7 | It's our team, so we can do whatever we want with it. |
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