Project Prospect - Prospects on the Fast Track
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
DVR, Eno and Welsh are taking a look at Prospects on the fast track. Is Brett Baty here to stay? Zach Neto or Edouard Julien? Plus a now hilarious conversation about Mason Miller vs Brandon Pfaadt minutes before Mason Miller is called up.
Rundown
0:46 - Brett Baty
6:20 - Minor league hard hit hard leaderboard
11:46 - Yeison Morrobel hard hit numbers
14:39 - Lenyn Sosa a thing?
17:39 - Zach Neto
20:24 - Volpe vs Tovar vs Neto
32:29 - Edouard Julien
33:50 - Of course Welsh brings up Corbin Carroll
36:21 - Could Vaughn Grissom go to the outfield?
42:38 - Old crusty vs lottery tickets
45:24 - Matt Mervis vs Nolan Jones
51:28 - Mason Miller vs Brandon Pfaadt
56:38 - Ricky Tiedemann vs Kyle Harrison
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Beryl. It's Tuesday, April 18th. It is Project Prospect. Derek Van Riper here with Chris Welsh, Eno Seris, digging into some recent promotions and debuts and looking at a few players who are cruising in the minor leagues right now in hopes of finding future value, be that for redraft leagues this season or even for Keeper and Dynasty leagues. |
| 0:38.1 | So it has been a very busy week on the prospect front. |
| 0:42.1 | We are going to get started right away because we may not cover everything on the show sheet. |
| 0:45.4 | We're going to start today with Brett Beatty, who last season you might remember. |
| 0:50.6 | Brett Beatty had the highest WRC plus of any hitter among qualified hitters at AA. Did that as a 22-year-old. He was number one. Logan O'Hoppy, for what it's worth, was number two. It was a 160 WRC plus. Had nothing left to prove at that level. Got a brief taste of AAA to begin this season, and now he is up for the Mets. And I'll start this with you, Eno, Brett Beatty, up for good based on the Mets needs and based on what you've seen from him as a prospect? I think so. I always ask when I'm in the clubhouse or when I see something like this, what's the corresponding move? I think what's the corresponding move is often tells us a lot about what's happening. |
| 1:28.3 | The corresponding move is I put somebody on the IL, then you're tied to that. |
| 1:32.3 | You know, you're tied to, oh, when that guy comes off the IL, then, you know, like first example, maybe, I think, is Oswald Paraza up? |
| 1:40.3 | Oswald Paraza, the corresponding move is John Carlos Stanton goes on the IL. So if Oswald Paraza, when Stantonza up, Oswald Parraza, the corresponding move is John Carlos Stanton goes on the IL. |
| 1:45.2 | So if Oswald Parraza, when Stanton comes back, there's a very high likelihood Oswald |
| 1:50.4 | Parazza goes back down. |
| 1:52.1 | And so in this case, I don't even know what the corresponding move was. |
| 1:59.5 | It's not an IL. |
| 2:01.2 | I think Tim LaCastro went on the IL. |
| 2:03.3 | I don't know if it was actually the move. |
| 2:04.8 | The Phantom. |
| 2:05.5 | No, that was actually, that was the move, but that wasn't like. |
| 2:10.3 | The move. |
| 2:11.2 | Right, right. |
| 2:12.1 | You know, baby doesn't go back down when Tim LaCastro is healthy, if he's even hurt. |
| 2:17.6 | Not to cast dispersions. |
| 2:19.2 | I'm just saying this stuff happens in baseball. |
| 2:21.6 | They've rather keep him around. |
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