Hello, everybody, happy Friday to you.

It is Friday, September 15th.

I am Al Malkyior. I'm here with

Minos Saris for our weekend preview show here on Rates and Barrels. And this is the second to last

one of these, because of course, this is going to be the second to last fab period in most leagues.

We will be here on the final Friday of the season, just in case you are thinking that far ahead.

But anyway, so things are, it's getting down, you know, it's getting down to the end here.

And so we've got some hitters and pitchers to consider for that stretch run, some big news, a few closer situations to discuss the usual thing that we do here on the

Friday show. So let's get started with it and start with, I think would qualify as the

biggest news item, the last day or two, Heston Kyrstad, up with the Orioles. He did not start

for that series opener against Tampa Bay on Thursday.

But, you know, what are your expectations in terms of playing time and in terms of performance?

Well, there's a very interesting discussion yesterday between Tom Trudeau and Eric Cross about,

Tom Trudeau has a service called Scout the Statline that is basically like an MLE, a major league equivalency machine.

It looks at stats in the miners, weighs the ones that translate to the major's best and tries to give you

an idea of what the best prospects are based on stats. It's called scouting the stat line. It's a pretty

cool idea. Every projection system has something like it. His purports to be the best. It does

come up with some interesting answers. And one of the interesting

answers was that, you know, before the season he had Edward Julian. I don't know the exact number,

but like top 10 or top 20, where most other prospect rating systems had them nowhere close.

Julian's doing well.

You know, I don't think that we can say right now,

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