The Prospect Parade Continues with Jordan Lawlar
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Eno and Al talk about what to expect from the latest prospect callups, Jordan Lawlar and Evan Carter, and consider the fallout from injuries to Sandy Alcantara and Jorge Soler. They also sort through a lengthy list of projected two-start pitchers and discuss some recent bullpen changes for the Marlins, Rays and Rockies.
Rundown
1:17 Prospect-palooza continues with Jordan Lawlar, Evan Carter and Davis Daniel
10:54 The rest of the big news items
25:12 A few more hitters to consider
34:31 Two-start pitchers and streamers
49:26 Closer corner
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rates and barrels. It is Friday, September 8th. I'm Al Melchyre. I am here with Enos Saris. And this is our |
| 0:24.2 | weekly weekend preview show, just a few of these left. And, you know, right off the bat here, |
| 0:28.7 | I'm just going to confess that I lied. I lied about the date. For you, if you're listening to |
| 0:34.7 | this right when it comes out, it is, in fact, Friday, September 8th. We are recording this a little bit early on Thursday the 7th. |
| 0:40.9 | So there are a handful of Thursday night games that may. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm certainly, I'm sure they'll produce some news. |
| 0:48.5 | It'll be a little too late for us. |
| 0:50.4 | But we got plenty, plenty to talk about without those games in hand. So we are going to |
| 0:57.8 | take a look at the week's big news. We've got one big prospect for sure coming up, maybe one |
| 1:03.0 | or two others that are on the way and the usual preview of hitters and pitchers to target and a |
| 1:08.7 | big, big list of two start streamer candidates |
| 1:11.6 | and a little bit of bullpen news. So lots to get to here, Eno. So let's get right away to the big |
| 1:18.8 | call-up, Jordan Lawler. He is coming up with the Diamondbacks, spent most of the year with |
| 1:24.7 | AA Amarillo, 263 average, 15 homers, 33 steals, and great numbers in AAA at Reno for the brief time. He was there. So my question to you, Eno, obviously, this is a big deal. It's big news. How much do we maybe discount the AAA numbers given the environment there. Does it even matter? |
| 1:44.8 | Do we just go and pursue Lawler everywhere, regardless of what those numbers are? |
| 1:48.9 | Or are you a little concerned that he's more or less leapfrogging AAA? |
| 1:54.5 | One thing that I like is that ever since he had his injury, he's cut his strikeouts year over year as he's advanced through the minors. |
| 2:03.9 | So I do believe that he can probably be an asset when it comes to batting average. |
| 2:10.2 | It looks like he has a little bit of a lower launch angle, so he's not going to be a guy that |
| 2:14.9 | kills you in Babbip and he's fast. So I think this is a guy |
| 2:19.2 | who despite the projections could probably hit 260, 275, 280. He kind of has a skill set for that. |
| 2:25.9 | I also think he'll get on base at a decent clip. He's had double-digit walk rates all the way |
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