The New Crew, Offseason Health Updates & Risky Early-Round Decisions
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss the potential impact of Brian Anderson and Jesse Winker during in the Brewers' lineup, a new fan on the way in February, Alex Kirilloff's health winter, Tommy Pham and Adam Duvall in new outfields, and Julian Merryweather's fresh start in Chicago before discussing early-round strategy including high-risk, high-reward players in the top-20, and working backward through the draft board while making decisions on draft day.
Rundown
2:05 Jesse Winker's Healthy Winter
7:38 (Another) Brian Anderson in Milwaukee
14:27 A Show & Life Update!
23:20 Alex Kirilloff Progressing From Wrist Injury; Twins Depth Chart
28:57 Tommy Pham Joins the Mets
32:56 Adam Duvall to the Red Sox
37:05 Jullian Merryweather Enters the Cubs' Closer Picture?
44:50 Early Risk Considerations
48:22 Problem Solving Roster Foundations
1:04:20 Waiting on Speed, Without Relying on Esteury Ruiz
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Thursday, January 19th, Derek Van Riper here with |
| 0:20.2 | Enosaris. On this episode, we are digging into a few recent news and notes, not a Thursday, January 19th. Derek Van Riper here with Inoceris. |
| 0:24.6 | On this episode, we are digging into a few recent news and notes. |
| 0:28.4 | Not a ton happening this week, but a few important items to pass along. |
| 0:35.2 | Before we dive into draft strategy, flow charts, decision trees, working backwards to solve the problem, lots of ways to describe it. |
| 0:37.4 | We're going to dig into some of how we go through building teams and what we think about |
| 0:41.8 | this time of year from a broader perspective, especially because we're doing a couple of |
| 0:45.9 | draft and hold leagues right now and testing a few things out and probably learning a few |
| 0:50.2 | things along the way. |
| 0:52.3 | I had a hypothetical I threw out there on Twitter earlier this week. |
| 0:55.0 | Then I'm going to turn into a podcast segment so we can get excited about that. |
| 0:58.9 | We get a couple mailbag questions that we'll probably squeeze in at the end. |
| 1:01.8 | Was that the one about podcasts, about podcasts? |
| 1:04.3 | The vending machine full of vending machines. |
| 1:07.0 | Can you imagine if that thing got jammed? |
| 1:10.0 | Oh, |
| 1:13.1 | watch your hands, buddy. |
| 1:17.6 | Don't tip that one on top of yourself. |
| 1:26.1 | We, we, in high school, at boarding school, we, we tipped the vending machine and it landed on our friend. |
| 1:27.5 | Sorry, Jason. Sorry, Jason. |
| 1:30.1 | Sorry, Jason, is he alive? |
| 1:31.1 | Did he make it? |
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