Welcome to rates and barrels.

It's Wednesday, January 28th.

Derek Van Riper and Ido Seris here, joined today by senior baseball writer Keith Law, fresh off the publication of his latest top 100 prospects list.

If you're a subscriber to the athletic, you can check that out. And in the midst of turning out top 20s for every single team in the big leagues, those will be rolling out next week, first week of February.

So we got that to look forward to as well.

Keith, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Always good to chop it up with you.

We've got a fresh list here to start breaking down. And right at the top, we got Conrad Griffin, really interesting player with the pirates who, I think the pirates maybe are changing their

mindset a little bit in part because of Paul Skeens and maybe the realization that they need to try and make the playoffs while Paul Skeens is still a pirate.

And one of the things they may do is promote Connor Griffin very quickly, right?

I mean, maybe opening day. There's been a report that's a possibility.

I know you've got a lofty long-term ceiling on Griffin,

but what do you think the short-term outlook would be if they go that route

and actually give him a lot of big league playing time in 2026?

So, you know, my general answer is we have seen even elite position player prospects struggle

with the jump to the big leagues, even guys who looked like they were completely ready,

guys who performed all the way up through AAA, get to the big leagues, and struggle on their

first exposure.

A lot of really good, really highly rated prospects, not just my highly rated, everybody.

Universe all says these guys are really good.

Most of them struggle right out of the shoot.

Is Connor Griffin that much of an outlier?

He is probably the best number one prospect we have had maybe since Mike Trout, certainly

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