Would you Wander, quantifying injury risk, and preparing for a fresh set of pitching ranks
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss a few Wander Franco fantasy trade scenarios, as well as several difficult dynasty toss-ups before exploring the possibility of a more quantifiable way to measure and account for injury risk when setting expectations for players. Plus, Eno previews his upcoming Starting Pitcher rankings update, before examining the recent performances of Corbin Burnes, including his weekend trip to Coors Field.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels presented by Tops Checkout Tops Project 70, celebrating 70 years of Tops baseball cards. |
| 0:24.1 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris. It is Wednesday, June 23rd. We have seen the Wanderfranco debut, |
| 0:32.6 | and there have been a lot of amazing trades going down in some of your leagues out there. |
| 0:37.7 | So we're going to kind of dig into an extreme version of would you rather just one day |
| 0:43.6 | into the major league career of Wander Franco. |
| 0:46.6 | But sometimes it's the absolute best time to move a player in short-term leagues and long-term |
| 0:52.2 | leagues, lots of different angles there. |
| 0:54.0 | We're also going to talk about whether we quantify injury risk appropriate. in short-term leagues and long-term leagues, lots of different angles there. |
| 0:58.9 | We're also going to talk about whether we quantify injury risk appropriately on the heels of some more injuries, of course, from the last couple of days. |
| 1:02.3 | And we've got a spin-related question that we're going to get to on today's show as well. |
| 1:08.7 | You know, happy Wednesday. |
| 1:09.5 | How's it going for you today? |
| 1:11.0 | Good, good. |
| 1:12.2 | Tomorrow is my birthday. |
| 1:14.4 | Uh, |
| 1:14.6 | and so tomorrow I will be going out to a nice sushi dinner. |
| 1:20.4 | Um, |
| 1:21.0 | and this weekend, |
| 1:22.8 | I'm going to have a party for adults. |
| 1:25.7 | And that sounds weird because it sounds like some sort of sexy time thing. |
| 1:30.3 | It's not. |
| 1:31.4 | It's not anything like that. |
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