Project Prospect - Frelick Has Arrived and Double-A Surprises
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
DVR, Eno and Welsh look at Sal Frelick player comps. Is Alika Williams someone to buy? Tyler Black, Everson Pereira, Austin Wells and more.
Rundown
Alika Williams - 1:03
Nick Gonzales - 8:41
Sal Frelick - 13:20
Jackson Wolf - 21:49
Austin Wells - 25:03
Brandon Barriera - 29:20
Rockies Pitcher TJ's - 31:25
Eno's Kid Guest Stars - 36:03
Organization development - 36:52
Tyler Black - 42:53
Everson Periera - 45:53
Jorbit Vivas - 50:42
Johan Rojas - 53:41
Listener Questions - 54:29
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, July 25th, Derek Minreiber, Chris Wells, Gene Oceras, all here with you on this episode. |
| 0:23.7 | We discuss some recent prospect news and notes. Of course, it's project prospect, being that it's Tuesday. |
| 0:29.3 | Interestingly enough, we talked about a player on the Monday show who got promoted. So we did that a day earlier than usual. |
| 0:34.8 | Normally, that's a Tuesday tradition. Sorry if we stepped on your toes Tuesday, but sometimes things happen. We're doing some leaderboard surfing at double A, |
| 0:42.7 | looking at some hitters that have performed very well, some guys that could be moved at the deadline, |
| 0:46.6 | or maybe guys that could see some time before the end of this season, given how well they played |
| 0:51.5 | at that level. We've got a few mailbag questions to get to as well. |
| 0:55.4 | But we begin with the freshest news, Alika Williams, who we discussed yesterday, kind of in passing. |
| 1:01.2 | We're talking about the Robert Stevenson trade that the raise made. |
| 1:04.0 | Alika Williams was the other side of that trade. |
| 1:06.2 | He has been promoted by the pirates. |
| 1:08.0 | And as I mentioned yesterday, Williams went 37th overall in the 2020 |
| 1:11.3 | draft. He's put together his best results in the miners so far after the trade working at |
| 1:17.9 | AAA Indianapolis, a 35.8% hard hit rate. That's based on the Fangraph's number, a 126 WRC plus. |
| 1:25.7 | He's controlled the strike zone really well. And he's pulling the ball more than usual, trying to get to some power, it appears. |
| 1:31.1 | So that seems to be the adjustment so far. |
| 1:34.7 | Welsh, I'll throw it to you first, Alika Williams with the Pirates, joining a depth chart that is unsettled at a couple of spots, and he's one of probably three or four different guys where |
| 1:44.3 | you look and you say maybe maybe he's a regular maybe he's a bench guy and it's going to be an |
| 1:49.7 | ongoing battle really for the rest of this season and probably into 2024 to determine who |
| 1:55.2 | actually sticks as the bigger parts of this core maybe Maybe. Maybe with Aleka Williams. |
| 2:02.1 | You know, funny enough, he was at ASU. |
| 2:04.6 | I saw him in college because he played with Torkelson. |
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