Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 70. It is February 18th. Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. On this episode, we are

continuing our positional breakdown series with a move across the diamond over to third base.

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this year, very top heavy as well. So plenty of quality options early, plenty of good options

in the mid tier, even a few interesting sleepers that we can get to a little bit later on. But my

first question for you is you start to look at the board this year. If you look at the NFBC ADPs since February 1st, there's a cluster of five in the first two rounds.

It includes Alex Bregman, Nolan Aranado, Jose Ramirez, Anthony Rendon, and Raphael Devers,

a group of players that I think at various points we've discussed throughout the offseason.

But is there anyone in that group who really stands out to you as a possible bust candidate

or someone that might fail to live up to that high price tag?

It's interesting to me that Divers has pushed so far up in these rankings.

And I wonder how much depends on. I know he's not projected to have a lot of

steals but I do you know he is projected to steal and so therefore he has a positive points value

in this in the stolen base section whereas you know all the guys other than Jose Ramirez around

him have negatives there and I just wonder you know I all the guys other than Jose Ramirez around him have negatives there.

And I just wonder, you know, I kind of feel like a guy who steals eight bases against

16 attempts is not really a good bet to steal seven to nine as a projection to say.

I think he could steal three to five um making him much

more of a zero in that category but uh high batting average uh lots of home runs so you know

i think he can hit 30 again um i doubt he'll have the other world a runs an rbi

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