Project Prospect - One Step Away
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR and Welsh look at how close Luis Matos and Emmet Sheehan are to the bigs. Plus Coco Montes as a deep league option, Eury Pérez timeline becomes clearer & more.
Rundown
Who is Coco Montes? - 1:15
Owen White Call-up - 9:08
Could Jack Leiter be next? - 14:41
Eury Perez's timeline - 17:46
Mike Vasil - 24:40
Emmet Sheehan - 28:36
Luis Matos - 33:09
Marco Luciano Buy-low? - 40:57
Tyler Soderstrom - 42:42
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, June 13th. That means it is Project Prospect Day here on the show. Derek and Riper, Enosaris, Chris Welsh, all here with you, Full House today. As we dig into a few topics, we had a recent debut in Colorado that I thought we should discuss on the show because it was a non-prospect getting the call over the weekend, but one that could actually help us in some fantasy leagues. |
| 0:38.8 | We have some clarity forthcoming on Yuri Perez. |
| 0:42.6 | We'll talk about what the Marlins appear to be doing with him. |
| 0:45.1 | Several players at AAA, either recently promoted or playing well at that level, |
| 0:49.9 | who could be knocking on the door for some big league promotions and they get into some dynasty movers. |
| 0:55.1 | Welsh has an updated dynasty rankings list coming out later this week. |
| 0:59.1 | So we'll probably talk about that a little bit this week and a little bit next week, |
| 1:02.1 | depending, of course, on where the wind takes us. |
| 1:05.0 | Because as we know, this show goes any number of directions once it begins. |
| 1:09.4 | But we'll start our branch today. |
| 1:12.2 | Our first branch is a recent debut. |
| 1:15.3 | Welsh, who is Coco Montes? |
| 1:17.0 | He was called up over the weekend by the Rockies. |
| 1:18.8 | And I think the general consensus in the fantasy community is if a Rockies player gets called up, |
| 1:24.0 | especially with the Rockies hitter, |
| 1:25.0 | we're interested in learning more about this player to determine if they can take advantage of the hitter-friendly environment that is Coors Field and deliver some fantasy goodness. |
| 1:34.4 | So I did some number scouting. |
| 1:36.9 | I had to wonder how much of what Coco Montes has done in the minor leagues is simply the byproduct of playing half his games at high altitude Albuquerque. 100% good questions. And these are ones that I don't think any of us are going to have the answer to until we get like a good period of time and some context on him. But he has been a guy that's been on my radar because he's, I try as hard as I can in my development of like who I pay attention to with prospects. |
| 2:04.4 | He's a total not me guy because he's 26 years old. |
| 2:05.9 | He's way overaged. |
| 2:10.0 | He did two stints in AAA, two stints in double A. |
| 2:11.0 | I mean, he just kept going. |
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