Timing the Rebuild, Evaluating the Fringe Fantasy Contributors & James Wood's Promotion
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss how to navigate the timing of playing for the future in long-term leagues, the difficulty in making decision in shallow leagues at the bottom of the roster, the promotion of James Wood by the Nationals, Triston McKenzie's demotion to Columbus, and where the money went over the weekend in weekly FAAB leagues.
Rundown
0:56 Timing a Rebuild (How to Avoid Being Like the Angels)
10:37 Assessing the Fringe Player in Shallow Leagues
21:52 James Wood Promoted by Nats, Debuting Monday
27:54 Triston McKenzie Optioned to Triple-A
32:23 Injury Updates: Jordan Romano, Josh Jung & Mike Trout
39:57 Where the Money Went
51:25 Heston Kjerstad Comps Based on Hard-Hit Rate & Max Exit Velocity
59:53 Weekend Drops: Davis Schneider & Dylan Moore
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Barrels Monday, July 1st, Derek Van Riper, Enoseres, here with you. |
| 0:19.2 | Welcome to the second half of the 2024 baseball season. |
| 0:22.2 | The whole league now, I believe, is past the 81 game threshold. So we are officially into the second |
| 0:28.2 | half, no matter which team you follow or root for, or whether you play fantasy baseball, we're there. |
| 0:33.9 | And there's still a long way to go. Like Like you look at the standings, real or fantasy, |
| 0:38.3 | and you think, oh, okay, these teams are kind of out of it. These teams are the ones that are likely to win. Yeah, that might be somewhat true, but no, a lot can still change in the next 80 or so games. You know, how's it going for you on this Monday? All right, I had a, uh, uh, I had a moment last, late last week where I've been, |
| 0:57.1 | you know, I had this auto new team that I was been trying to make it work. I even bought |
| 1:01.7 | early in the season, um, you know, took on a rental Vlad, Vlad, Val Guerrero Jr. and like, |
| 1:07.9 | you know, tried to improve the team. And, um And the weirdest thing was that I was like, you know, |
| 1:13.9 | some of these guys are playing a little bit better. |
| 1:16.2 | And I'm still ninth. |
| 1:19.0 | Like a, like I peaking at eighth. |
| 1:21.5 | I'm like, it's just like, maybe this team's no good, you know? |
| 1:24.4 | And then I tried to look at it from new eyes. |
| 1:26.2 | Just be like, okay, pretend you haven't seen this team every day, you know, for I tried to look at it from new eyes just be like okay pretend you |
| 1:28.6 | haven't seen this team every day you know for the last three months like is this team good |
| 1:33.3 | and I was like nope and so I did this crazy fire sale where on one day I made trades with |
| 1:43.5 | second third and fourth place and just |
| 1:46.4 | traded away all my rentals. Ended up trading away as keepers also, Cattel Marte and |
| 1:54.0 | Louisa Rias, which I just thought it was about the right time. But now I have a whole bunch |
| 2:00.6 | of new players to look at. |
| 2:03.0 | It's funny, the first day that I had my new players, |
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