Welcome to Rates and barrels.

It's Tuesday, June 27th.

That means it is Project Prospect Day here on the show. Derek and Riper, Enoseres, Chris Welsh, all here in the house this week. Lots to cover. I tried to make the rundown smaller to give us a chance of getting through it. We have a lot of promotions as we look for players who might debut in the big leagues in the second half of the season. It feels like that big wave

of first half call-ups is finally coming to an end, but that means there's more players we could see

possibly in July or August or September of this year. Some of those players are going to play

in the futures game on the Saturday of All-Star Weekends. We'll talk about those rosters because

those were recently released.

Welsh has been at the complexes in Arizona.

So we got some observations from him.

Got a few mailbag questions, time permitting as well as there are a lot of questions about Dylan Cruz and Paul Skeens rolling in fresh off of LSU's College World Series win on a Monday night. So we begin today with some promotions,

gentlemen. We've got several players getting bumps up that could make an impact in the big leagues.

And I actually wanted to start with Colt Keith today. Colt Keith, because I think the Tigers

is one of those teams that haven't really brought a lot of guys up. We've seen Reese Olson debut on the pitching side. You've got Colt Keith, because I think the Tigers are one of those teams that haven't really brought a lot of guys up.

We've seen Reese Olson debut on the pitching side. You've got Colt Keith and Justin Henry Maloy,

who's also going to be in the futures game as two position players that should have a chance to

make some kind of impact later on this year. And I think the good news is if you spend a lot of fab already and you're thinking about

future spending, you may be able to add both of those guys at relatively low cost based

on when they come up.

But the bigger question is, are they good, Welsh?

Are we to be excited about Colt Keith and Justin Henry Malloy as players that might come

up later on this season and actually take on some prominent spots in that rebuilding Tigers lineup. Both players good, got to see both of them last year in Arizona Fall League. I mentioned it. Arizona Fall League got to see both these players, no shocker, a lot of these guys that come up. Colt Keith was one that actually stood out last year as well. He was one of those I had pinpointed as a player that I thought in the NFL could really dominate. And he did, especially on the back end. And he's carried over into this year. He spent most of his time at AA, done a really good job hitting over 300, almost a 400 OBP. The power has surged. That was the big thing I was waiting for. It's actually it it's like a last at bat in the fall league last year. I've got on video if anyone wants to check it out. Beautiful Homer. It crushed over left field. Plays at least last year when I saw him in person, a kind of suspect third base. He can play any of the corner infield spots. Makes lot of contact someone asked me about him the other day

and i likened him to maybe it might be one for one but i was thinking maybe a better power potential

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