Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Eno and DVR take a quick break from their Position Preview series to catch up on baseball news from the past week including Framber Valdez’s deal with the Tigers, Tarik Skubal’s win in arbitration, the Brendan Donovan trade, Eugenio Suárez’s return to the Reds, and Luis Arraez’s fit with the Giants. Plus, OOPSY projection system creator Jordan Rosenblum joins the show, and Jeff Zimmerman drops by to discuss pitcher injury grades and fantasy baseball draft prep.

Rundown
2:05 Framber Valdez Signs with Tigers (3/$115M)
8:52 Tarik Skubal’s Arbitration Win
16:42 Brendan Donovan Traded to the Mariners
20:53 Eugenio Suárez Returns to the Reds
24:08 Luis Arraez Signs with the Giants
26:32 Jordan Rosenblum Joins the Show
36:50 The Stickiness of Defensive Metrics
50:10 Jeff Zimmerman Joins the Show
59:16 Managing Risk within Roster Builds
1:11:02 Miguel Andujar Signs with the Padres

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Eno and DVR continue their 2026 position preview series with the second installment of their Starting Pitcher preview. This episode focuses on pitchers often selected between Pick 175 and 250 overall of recent NFBC drafts.

Check out Eno's 2026 Starting Pitcher Rankings ($): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010771

Rundown
0:59 ADP Tier 4b -- Tanner Bibee, Trevor Rogers, Edward Cabrera & Shota Imanaga
19:43 ADP Tier 4b continued — Shane Baz, Shane Bieber & Aaron Nola
31:15 ADP Tier 5a -- Carlos Rodón, Zac Gallen & Cade Horton
42:04 ADP Tier 5a continued -- Andrew Abbott, Kris Bubic, Jack Flaherty & Merrill Kelly
1:00:34 ADP Tier 5b -- Matthew Boyd, Joe Musgrove, Shane McClanahan, Jack Leiter & Roki Sasaki
1:18:04 ADP Tier 5b continued -- Hurston Waldrep, Bryce Miller, Connelly Early & Shane Smith

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Eno and DVR continue their 2026 position preview series with the second installment of their Starting Pitcher preview. This episode focuses on pitchers often selected between Pick 100 and 200 overall of recent NFBC drafts.

Check out Eno's 2026 Starting Pitcher Rankings ($): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010771

Rundown
0:58 ADP Tier 3a -- Spencer Strider, Chase Burns, Tyler Glasnow, Brandon Woodruff
16:53 ADP Tier 3a continued -- Sonny Gray, Kevin Gausman & Emmet Sheehan
28:37 ADP Tier 3b -- Nick Lodolo, Zack Wheeler, Michael King, Pablo López & Ryan Pepiot
47:30 ADP Tier 3b continued -- Gavin Williams, Cam Schlittler, Drew Rasmussen, Jacob Misiorowski & Robbie Ray
1:05:57 ADP Tier 4a -- Nathan Eovaldi, Bubba Chandler, Trey Yesavage & Tatsuya Imai
1:20:08 ADP Tier 4a continued -- Sandy Alcantara, MacKenzie Gore, Luis Castillo & Ranger Suárez

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Eno and DVR continue their 2026 position preview series and begin 'Pitcher Week' with the first installment of their Starting Pitcher preview. This episode focuses on pitchers being selected in the Top 100 overall of recent NFBC drafts.

Check out Eno's 2026 Starting Pitcher Rankings ($): https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010771

Rundown
1:57 ADP Tier 1a -- Tarik Skubal, Garrett Crochet, Paul Skenes, Cristopher Sánchez & Yoshinobu Yamamoto
25:52 ADP Tier 1b -- Chris Sale, Logan Gilbert, Hunter Brown, Bryan Woo, Hunter Greene, Jacob deGrom & Cole Ragans
45:10 ADP Tier 2a -- Max Fried, Logan Webb, Freddy Peralta, Kyle Bradish, Joe Ryan, George Kirby, Jesús Luzardo & Dylan Cease
1:13:00 ADP Tier 2b -- Blake Snell, Spencer Schwellenbach, Eury Pérez, Framber Valdez, Nick Pivetta & Nolan McLean

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Eno and DVR continue their 2026 position preview series with UT & UT-only players — digging into early average draft position (ADP) to look for potentially overvalued and undervalued players at the position for the upcoming season. Lucky enough to land the first pick in your draft? Shohei Ohtani remains the logical choice from that spot in nearly all formats. This episode is the fourth part of a four-part series covering the position, and focuses mostly on outfielders being drafted after Pick 300 overall of recent NFBC drafts.

Rundown
2:38 ADP Tier 1 -- Shohei Ohtani, Kyle Schwarber & Yordan Alvarez
15:06 ADP Tier 2 -- Christian Yelich & Iván Herrera
24:11 ADP Tier 3 -- Beyond Pick 300: Marcell Ozuna to Masataka Yoshida
34:49 OF ADP Tier 7 -- Nick Castellanos, Cam Smith, Victor Scott II, Jesús Sánchez, Zach McKinstry, Dominic Canzone & Jordan Walker
56:14 Beyond Pick 350 Overall: Very Late Outfielders!

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