Project Prospect - Time to Adjust to Faster Tracks?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
DVR, Eno and Welsh discuss the rapid development of prospects and how they are moving levels. Do we need to re--think the process for prospects as a whole, or is it case by case? The guys also take look at Paul Skenes stuff+ numbers and the ever debating fastball shape.
Rundown
Nolan Schanuel - 1:07
Is there much of a gap between levels anymore? - 3:43
Do we buy into age to level anymore? - 8:22
Hitters adjusting to Stuff+ - 9:54
Paul Skenes usage - 19:07
Skenes Stuff+ in MiLB - 21:02
Strasburg vs Skenes - 27:57
Team KPI - 31:20
Eno's Paul Skenes worry? - 35:01
A-ball Stuff+ pitchers - 36:45
Dylan Crews - 37:41
Fantasy approach to rookies moving forward - 40:30
Prospect Top-5 for 2024 fantasy - 46:12
Pete Crow-Armstrong - 56:29
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:27.6 | teas and season season exclusions apply 18 plus gamblerware.org. Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, August 22nd Project Prospect, Derek Van Riper, Enoceros, Chris Welsh, and we are digging into a bigger |
| 0:57.4 | topic on this week's show because it seems like things are changing in baseball. We're seeing |
| 1:03.2 | promotions that are very aggressive across all of professional baseball. We're seeing decisions |
| 1:08.4 | that really sort of break the mold of traditional |
| 1:12.3 | logic and that's probably a good thing, but there's also going to be a lot of impact on us as |
| 1:18.4 | fantasy players, be that for redraft leagues or of course in Keeper and Dynasty leagues as well. |
| 1:23.5 | So we're going to dig into a whole bunch of these recent adjustments and try and figure out what |
| 1:28.2 | they might mean for us going forward. |
| 1:30.5 | So we begin today with the recent news that I think is pointing toward bigger changes in philosophy |
| 1:37.1 | around baseball. |
| 1:39.6 | Nolan Shaniel got the call up prior to the weekend. |
| 1:42.3 | Alan and I talked about him a bit. |
| 1:44.3 | It just got drafted this summer. |
| 1:45.8 | I mean, debuting a month after he was drafted, the Angels were very aggressive with |
| 1:50.1 | Zach Netto as well. |
| 1:51.6 | We've seen Ethan Salas already get bumped up to AA two months after his 17th birthday. |
| 1:58.6 | We've seen a few prospects that were just drafted this summer get bumped up to AA, |
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