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It's Tuesday, June 6th, Project Prospect Edition, Derek Van Riper, Enoseris, Chris Welsh, all here with you for what is the beginning of a new era of Reds baseball, which I hope, I hope was written in the Rotowire player note by my good friend Clay Link.

Ellie de la Cruz has been promoted by the Reds.

It has finally happened.

After all of our frustrations and whining and hoping and praying, it is finally happened.

And look, this is going to be a big part of the show today because we're excited about it.

We've seen the improvement in the strikeout rate this year down to a 26.9% K rate at

AAA. If you are not familiar with Ellie Della Cruz for some reason, that is a big deal.

This is a guy that's run 30% K rates at other stops, but he's very young for the level.

Walking 14% of the time, which is great even when you account for the automated balls and

strike system at

AAA. So it's not just the byproduct of that. And of course, the tools are off the charts.

It's the ball extremely hard. As hard as anyone you're going to find in the minor leagues,

run. We're talking about a possible five category player. So, Welsh, I know you have been amped up for this. You were actually on a live stream when the news broke earlier. So very fortunate timing with this happening before our pod today. But pie in the sky immediate expectations for L.A. LaCrues are probably going to push bids and redraft leagues where he's available. There's plenty of leagues where he's not are going to push him through the roof. This is going to be the most expensive hitter that you see added in leagues when we get to fad this weekend. Yeah, yeah. It's funny. I was actually on this like tirade of complaining about like what the hell are the Reds doing. Like it made no sense why it didn't happen., if it were to happen in a month, why would it just not happen now? There's no extra advantage. None of it made sense. And I was like complaining and like, what are we doing? I was going to do my little sign I had, the Brandon fought one of Ellie. And then literally as I shut up, I noticed two minutes prior the Reds had given him the call up. You know, the one thing I'll say about this whole thing, too, I actually think, and this is not to like harp on everybody, but if you're bidding a whole lot on Ellie, you did it wrong. Because I'm not crazy about like, oh, you got to go preemptively pick up all these guys left and right, but this is the guy that you like preemptively pick up.

Like, if you're having to bid for Andrew Abbott, I kind of understand that. Like, we weren't really sure where the Reds were going to go with that. But L.A. Dela Cruz was definitely somebody that you wanted to jump in on. It's been a phenomenal year. I actually made the change. I know we're going to talk about some of this probably next week.

I've got some my updated.

I do monthly dynasty and prospect. I actually made the change. I know we're going to talk about some of this probably next week.

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