Welcome to Rades and barrels. It is Wednesday, July 26th, Derek Van Riper here at Ido Seris on this episode.

We have another top prospect getting the call to the big leagues Marco Luciano headed to San Francisco.

We're going to talk about more players to watch in the upper levels of the minor leagues and the players who are not necessarily prospects that stand to benefit with the trade deadline just around the corner. There are tons

of depth charts for us to dig into. So we're going to try and get through as many of those as we

can on this episode. Other stuff planned in case we get through it faster than expected. But I think

this is one of those days, you know, where the rundown is about three times longer than it

needs to be.

I mean, this is, other than the waiver Friday episode, this is one of the last times that we can talk to you all about stuff before the deadline, you know, in terms of what you could do to

anticipate the deadline. I think, you know, that's something that you can almost go team by team. So, you know, in terms of what you could do to anticipate the deadline. I think, you know,

that's something that you can almost go team by team. So, you know, those third and fourth and fifth

items on the rundown. I'm not sure we're getting to them. No, those will probably roll over into

next week. But we begin today with Marco Luciano, interesting prospect, a guy that I was really

excited about when the giant signed him as an international free agent several years back.

And when you look at this Giants team, they could be pretty active at the deadline.

There's a lot of moving parts on this roster.

But they've been doing a pretty good job in their minor league system this season, having guys take some steps forward with Luciano.

A lot of it's just been health because you had a back

injury last year, he had a minor leg injury that cost him some time as well. The age to level

context of his minor league performance helps his case quite a bit. There is a lot of swing and

miss in his profile right now. But how much of a playing time shared? Do you expect the

Giants to give Luciano right out of

the box with this quick promotion out of AAA Sacramento? Well, I don't know. I mean, the big thing was

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