Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, August 15th.

Happy Tuesday. It is Project Prospect on this episode. We dig into recent promotions and motions. And then we're going to take a deep dive into the rookie class of pitchers. We had a great question from Monday's show about a few rookie pitchers and their expected workloads this season. There's still a lot of other pitchers we should talk about in that same light.

So we'll set some expectations for the rest of that group and maybe even dig into a possible

future closer or two looking at this group of rookie relievers.

Again, time permitting.

So gang's all here.

Derek Van Riper, Enoceros, Chris Welsh.

Let's get started with a promotion.

The Giants have decided to swap Luis Matos off the roster and put Wade Meckler on the roster.

Welsh, should we care about Wade Meckler in the short term from a fantasy perspective?

Oh, this is very Casey Schmidt.

Should we care if we have, you know, depth needs for big leagues?

Sure, I will say the thing that was positive is I believe in the debut.

They were hitting him two, which is nice.

You'd love to see these guys hitting higher in the lineup.

That opens up opportunities.

But I think he's in a similar mold.

And the Giants, they've got kind of a theme of players that they have in their system.

Obviously, Marco Luciano is a little bit different.

But I was going to say at the top is like,

Wade Meckler is kind of like Luis Matos from just an overall offensive standpoint.

There's more power in Matos' game.

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