Welcome to Ray, it's in Beryl. It's Tuesday, May 2nd. It's a project prospect edition. I love arbitrary cutoffs on the calendar. We have a new

month. I'm excited about it because then we can just take a snapshot of the season and talk about

that like it means even more than it actually does. I love to blow things out of proportion with

arbitrary units of time, even though the calendar is pretty well agreed upon as the way we measure time now.

Chris Welsh, Eno Seris, Derek Van Riper, all here with you on this Tuesday for our April rookie review.

We're going to talk about some players at the big league level, how they have performed so far,

and probably dig into some players from a dynasty perspective as well and talk about how their value has shifted over the course of the season so far. Now, we're going to start on the position player

side today. And we're going to start with James Outman, who from many angles looks like someone

that's going to be relevant for the Dodgers for a good while, despite the fact that he has struck out 34.2%

of the time this season, because he does a lot of things well. He makes very hard contact.

He's got a strong arm. He runs well. He actually takes walks. So he's got this thing, and I talked

about it with Welsh a little bit before the show, you know, where it's this sort of, it's the sort of tension that you have between strikeout rate and doing damage.

And Outman does enough damage for us to excuse the elevated strikeout rate, but it always leads us to the long-term viability question.

What kind of role do we see for Outman and do we see a path forward where you can improve?

Because this is his first prolonged exposure to big league pitching.

And there are a lot of interesting skills in what he brings to the table.

I mean, when you see a 34% strikeout rate, which I think is probably close to his true talent.

I know we've only seen 130 play to play in this for James Outman, but he strings and misses

a lot, and he was near 30 percent in the minor league.

So I think 35 is about what you expect.

Now you take that and say, as a lefty against the lefty, what do you expect?

38 percent? 40 percent? And if it's 40%,

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