Project Prospect - Opportunity in LA
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
DVR, Eno and Welsh look into the big opportunity in LA for prospect pitchers. Is Patrick Bailey someone to watch? Is George Valera underrated? Is this the time to buy Jordan Lawlar? Plus plenty more!
Rundown
1:10 - Gavin Stone's odd outing
9:05 - Rookie pitching game. Welsh vs Eno
15:51 - Bobby Miller debut
22:08 - Emmett Sheehan
25:08 - Is Hayden Wesneski a hold?
30:59 - Is Luis Ortiz good?
35:44 - Forrest Whitley
44:30 - Patrick Bailey
49:42 - George Valera
55:35 - Is now the time to buy Jordan Lawlar
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is a project prospect episode. Tuesday, May 23rd is the date. |
| 0:21.3 | Derek Van Riper, Chris Welsh, Enocheros, here with you on this episode. |
| 0:25.4 | We continue celebrating Dodgers Pitching Prospect Week. |
| 0:28.4 | We'll look at the Monday night outing from Gavin Stone and get Welsh's thoughts on Bobby Miller, |
| 0:33.9 | since Eno and I talked about him a bit on Monday. |
| 0:36.8 | Big debut coming up on Tuesday night. |
| 0:39.4 | We've got Patrick Bailey, as teased on yesterday's show, quietly sneaking into the catcher |
| 0:44.2 | pool, another injury for George Valera. |
| 0:47.1 | Jordan Lawler struggling at AA. |
| 0:48.7 | We'll see if there's anything to be concerned about there. |
| 0:51.1 | Forest Whitley, healthy again for now. |
| 0:53.2 | We'll talk about his chances, possibly |
| 0:54.6 | breaking through and joining the Astros rotation at some point this season, and we'll go |
| 0:59.5 | wherever the wind takes us. We have a very laid-back vibe on our Tuesday episodes, because |
| 1:05.2 | look, anything's on the table. Anything prospect, keeper, dynasty-related, is fair game. |
| 1:10.2 | We begin with the odd |
| 1:11.6 | outing from Gavin Stone. And it's odd because last night against Atlanta, Gavin Stone, |
| 1:18.7 | had 14 swinging strikes and only had one strikeout. Give it five earned runs, really |
| 1:25.4 | struggled early in that outing over four innings. |
| 1:28.3 | 79 pitches in total. What do we make of this? I mean, Welsh, we were looking at some of the maps of where he was located in the fastball just a few minutes ago. And it was, it was ugly. It was, it was throwing paint all over the canvas. Yeah, that's what I was saying. It looked like just some like a little two-year-old |
| 1:44.3 | just throwing paint on there because the whole thing was all over the place. And, you know, |
| 1:49.6 | I mean, we'll probably break this down here in just a second. But, you know, like he wants to be a big |
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