Prospect Report: Add Grayson Rodriguez & Christian Encarnacion-Strand Update (Fantasy Baseball Today in 5 Podcast)
Fantasy Baseball Today
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🗓️ 8 July 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Grayson Rodriguez is cruising it down in the minors! Is he the top prospect to stash right now? When might we see Christian Encarnacion-Strand with the Cincinnati Reds?
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| 0:00.0 | Bracer Rodriguez is dominating down in AAA. |
| 0:06.7 | Let's discuss on Fantasy Baseball to day in five. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome into FBTN5 on Saturday, July 8th. |
| 0:13.6 | I am Frank Sample joined by Chris, the Welsh. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's talk about Gracer Rodriguez who had his best start of the year. |
| 0:22.8 | Down in AAA the other day on July 4th, he threw six shutout innings with 12 strikeouts |
| 0:28.2 | to zero walks and over his last six starts since getting sent down a 183 ERA, a 0.96 |
| 0:34.4 | whip, 13.4 K per nine. |
| 0:37.7 | This is the picture that we thought we were getting coming into the season. |
| 0:40.9 | One of the top pitching prospects in all of baseball. |
| 0:43.8 | Well, your latest thoughts on Gracer Rodriguez? |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, four of the last five, he has struck out eight or more at least. |
| 0:52.6 | And this is really encouraging. |
| 0:54.7 | Three of the last five, he's walked one or less. |
| 0:57.6 | This is what you want to add a grace and let's start one more on there. |
| 1:00.7 | Four of the last five, he's gone six in the minor leagues. |
| 1:03.9 | These are things that we want to see in his last start. |
| 1:06.2 | It's actually interesting because baseball is a lot of movement. |
| 1:10.4 | It's all screwy with what they call it an unknown pitch. |
| 1:13.7 | So I can't give you exact numbers here because what they do is they register as fastball |
| 1:17.2 | at only 14% usage, but 51% on this unknown pitch register this. |
| 1:22.9 | So I'm not going to focus on the pitches, but to tell you, he had 27. |
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