Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Tuesday, April 11th Project Prospect Edition.

Derek Van Riper, Inoceros, Chris Welsh, here with you, easy for me to say.

On this episode, we are going to take a look at a few news and notes from around the minor leagues.

We've got a couple of prospects getting opportunities.

We have some graduations from prospect lists early in the season.

So we'll talk about some players maybe that have moved up. We've got a Stuff Plus report for the pitchers at AAA. So we'll talk about

some of the surprises, mostly the pleasant surprises, perhaps a few unpleasant surprises there.

And we'll see where the wind carries us. There's a few other things on the show sheet.

I don't know how far we're going to get. We're still getting used to the three of us who all kind of talk a lot working together. So we plan what looks like a three

hour show in the end based on the amount of stuff we actually get off of the rundown. So

we begin today with some news. We saw Aaron Savale go on the IL at the big league level

with an oblique strain. But it's going to be Peyton Batonfield, at least on the IL at the big league level with an oblique strain.

But it's going to be Peyton Batonfield, at least on the roster for now, potentially taking over that spot in the rotation.

So not Tanner Beebe, not, you know, Gavin Williams or one of the other prospects.

So, Welsh, I'm going to kick this to you first because you've gotten a look at Battenfield before. Should we be excited about him as a possible short-term replacement for Aaron Savali, maybe even a mid-range replacement for Savali, given how long oblique injuries can take? Yeah, I'm not sure I'd be ecstatic about him. It was funny enough, like, you know, the amount of guys actually were able to catch on the backfield in games. I happened to catch Peyton Battenfield over on the Dodgers side going up against what was a pretty good Dodgers team, Diego Cartaya. There's a tweet out there if you guys want to check it out. One time Diego did get a hold of him, but Peyton Batonfield struck him out a couple times. He got really nasty breaking

pitch, like a slider he can throw off the corner. Good command pitcher, not a whiff pitcher.

He doesn't blow anything by anybody. And there's also a little bit of talk I saw that he might

actually be one of these guys that could come in in relief, which would then open up this opportunity, then need to bring up another guy.

And there's an account I follow Guardian's perspective.

They have all the info on the Guardians that is suggesting that another pitching prospect with this team could be coming up.

And that would be Logan Allen, one of the many Logan Allen's that exist in the world of prospects, and they're all pitchers, apparently. But Logan Allen would be another one of those guys. Two of them are even lefties. Yeah, they're both left. And they both pitch for the Guardians at one time. The other Logan Allen is now with the Rockies, by the way. But funny enough, Logan Allen actually also showed up on this Stuff Plus report because he is up in AAA.

He ended up striking out five, went four and two thirds in his first start.

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