Project Prospect - Big Promotions and Dynasty Risers
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
DVR, Eno and Welsh get breaking news as the show starts that Gavin Williams is being called up to start on Wednesday. We also take a look at Emmet Sheehan's debut, Henry Davis vs Bo Naylor and Welsh's updated Dynasty ranks.
Rundown
Gavin Williams called up - 0:50
Bo Naylor is back - 6:41
Henry Davis vs Bo Naylor - 11:34
Emmet Sheehan - 20:55
Dynasty Rank changes - 32:01
Pitchers lower in dynasty - 40:56
Jarred Kelenic in dynasty - 45:08
Minor league stat and development problems - 51:27
Grayson Rodriguez - 59:02
Jose Miranda - 1:00:00
Vaughn Grissom - 1:02:11
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, June 20th. |
| 0:18.1 | Derek Van Riper, Yenosares, Chris Welsh, all here. It's Project Prospect on this |
| 0:22.3 | episode. We have breaking news of another prospect coming up this week. We have promotions |
| 0:26.7 | that have happened since we last spoke. We have a new set of dynasty rankings up on the |
| 0:32.0 | athletic from Mr. Chris Welsh. So we'll talk about a few big movers on that list. We had some mailbag |
| 0:37.2 | questions about players that have been demoted to AAA this year |
| 0:40.5 | and what they've been doing while they're down there and what the future might look like for them. |
| 0:44.6 | So a lot of ground to cover. |
| 0:47.3 | And gentlemen, as we got started today, we learned that Gavin Williams is the latest prospect |
| 0:52.8 | who's going to come up and make a big league debut. |
| 0:55.9 | Wednesday appears to be the day for the Guardians as they continue to push chips in for this season. |
| 1:02.1 | And this is exciting because they've already brought up Tanner Bivey. |
| 1:05.0 | They've already brought up Logan Allen. |
| 1:06.8 | Both Bivey and Allen are very good young pitchers. |
| 1:09.7 | And there's a very good chance that Gavin Williams could be the best of that entire trio. |
| 1:13.6 | So we have one more excellent young pitcher on the way in Cleveland. |
| 1:19.3 | Welsh, I'll start with you, expectations for Williams relative to this amazing rookie class of pitchers that just keeps growing by the week. |
| 1:28.4 | Pretty high. |
| 1:29.5 | That's the little unfortunate thing is like how do we not have really, |
| 1:34.0 | really high expectations for any of these guys at this point? |
| 1:37.3 | I mean, even, you know, Brian Wu is coming up and getting big strikeout numbers |
| 1:41.4 | and performing well, not to undertake his value or anything |
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