WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:07.719 Ninety five miles an hour riding to his head. He hopped down first with 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:14.240 the plump bonius face, and on the very next pitch he up and stole 3 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:28.879 second phase with gretested he wasn't born, he had Yes, uniforn. Welcome 4 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:34.079 to episode twenty eight of the Prospect B Sides podcast, And man, this 5 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:39.600 is already the best episode yet because we are finally in season. When I 6 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:44.439 thought about doing a podcast, the whole idea was to watch what was going 7 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:49.759 on in the minor leagues and share some observations and report. And twenty seven 8 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:54.600 episodes have taken place out of season and finally we get into it. But 9 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:59.880 I enjoined as always by B side. Rookie of the Year, Rookie Matt 10 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.560 is what he's going by today, Rookie map ball? How are you, 11 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.519 my friend? Our real minor league baseball is back. Let's go. Yes. 12 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:12.439 As you know, this was a bit of a holiday in my household, 13 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:19.239 and you saw my setup where I was legitimately watching eight different baseball games 14 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:23.400 at once on Friday. I did, and I was very jealous. Yeah, 15 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.959 I mean I couldn't get enough. I was just trying to soak up 16 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:30.760 all of the different games, see the guys that I was really curious to 17 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:34.200 watch, try and see if there's anybody knew that caught my attention while still 18 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:37.400 paying attention to the major leagues. And I'll tell you what, you can't 19 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:41.200 really watch eight baseball games at a time as much as you want to. 20 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:45.439 It's pretty hard. Yes, I had to show my wife your setup, 21 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:47.879 and I was like, look at this. The cool kids aren't going to 22 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:52.079 talk to me anymore if I don't get an upgrade from my stupid little laptop. 23 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:56.439 But I do everything on so thanks for that. I did even up 24 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.920 the setup, the home setup recently with swivel my arm, so now I 25 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:07.959 can I can swivel some monitor over and watch from my little office couch that 26 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.879 I have here too. So I really want to lay back and get comfortable. 27 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.360 I can't. So yeah, I highly recommend that last episode we did 28 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:22.240 like a minor league preview, right and as we were talking about and clear 29 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.240 about, there were some assignments and things that we were just guessing on, 30 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:30.120 and there was definitely some assignments that did not take place like we had thought. 31 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:32.879 But Matt, we got a huge treat, did we not. The 32 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:38.039 Florida State League like we were complaining about not being able to watch very much 33 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:42.719 of it, and in very classic Major League style, they did not market 34 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:46.840 this until last minute or let people know this, But Dunedin, Clearwater, 35 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:52.840 Fort Myers, and Lakeland are all now broadcasting in the Florida State League, 36 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:58.199 bringing that up to six stadiums, which is awesome. And then also stocked 37 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.879 in out in the Cal League is broadcasting. So that was a nice treat, 38 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:07.240 was it, Matt? Absolutely, getting that many more broadcasts is huge, 39 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.240 and especially that many more in the Florida State League. As we talked 40 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:15.719 about the ability to combine the stat cast data that we get all the way 41 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:19.759 up to the major leagues, along with the visual looks at players, is 42 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:24.080 that's the best. That is the gold standard between Mi Nerdy Scout the stat 43 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:30.080 line point of view and Nates let me see what this dude's girlfriend looks like 44 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:34.479 point of view, you know, like that's somewhere between the two. We 45 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:37.400 make it work. But now in the Florida State League we get both. 46 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:39.479 Yes, sir, that was a lot of fun, and the Florida State 47 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:43.759 League, I think, at least for me, has shaped up to be 48 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.599 the most interesting league. Early in the season, and I think the first 49 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:52.199 weekend bear that out for me. Matt. There were two pitchers that I 50 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:57.400 watched Saturday and then Sunday that was probably, I don't know, this early 51 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:03.439 weekend b siding mutting the most exciting new new players to me. I watched 52 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:09.159 George Classen on Saturday when he was a sixth round pick out of the University 53 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:14.360 of Minnesota of the Phillies. Again, I'm just super intrigued by the Phillies 54 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:18.399 draft this last year. And then I watched Jonah Thong, a Mets prospect 55 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:24.439 on Sunday, who was what a prep arm that they fucked I don't know, 56 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.720 fifth round or something like that. I think two drafts ago, a 57 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:32.279 Canadian kid who went down to Georgia and may have sold his soul for the 58 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:35.959 ability to spin the baseball. Yeah, who needs to fiddle in this day 59 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:39.639 and age. But if you can, if you can spin the baseball, 60 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:45.199 sign me up right. I'm far from the only other person, only other 61 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.399 Dynasty player out there who was interested in these two arms. I think Classen 62 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:54.839 may have stole the show. He was picked up in all of my leagues 63 00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:00.600 that he was eligible to be picked up on plenty of Twitter chatter about him 64 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:03.199 and the like I threw some bids down, but I didn't come close. 65 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:09.439 Man. There was some very aggressive dynasty owners getting on Classen, and I 66 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:13.319 don't blame them. Let's get to a start. So the story with Classon 67 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:17.160 is going to be velocity. Right. This dude hit ninety nine point eight 68 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:24.720 ft forcing fastball averaged ninety seven point six miles per hour. And you know 69 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:29.800 that Matt and I are not like, we're not huge velocity drulers, right, 70 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:32.959 But I do have to say that on top of the velocity, I 71 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:39.360 thought there was some interesting movement on the fastball. Now we got a good 72 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:45.519 angle in Bradenton. But of course eyeballs can't analyze a pitch like maybe a 73 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.480 stuff plus model can and other metrics. But on top of that, I 74 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:54.399 also thought that his execution of the fastball. I didn't hate it. It 75 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:58.720 wasn't kirbyesque or something like that, but I did not hate his ability to 76 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:03.199 locate it fairly consistently. He threw also what statcast is calling a cutter, 77 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:09.000 probably more like slutterish to me. Let's see, he threw the four seam 78 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:12.519 sixty four percent of the time through this cutter thirty one percent of the time 79 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.000 and then tossed in a couple of curve balls. But I would be willing 80 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:21.399 to guess and imagine that the slutter in a vacuum is probably not I don't 81 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:26.839 know, probably wouldn't grade out the best in pitch plus type models in the 82 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.000 like right, But off of that fastball and off of that velocity, it 83 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:34.800 might very well work well. He got a fifty six percent with rate on 84 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:39.759 that, a forty four percent with rate on the four seamer, CSW of 85 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:44.360 forty nine percent on the four seam and forty eight percent on the cutter. 86 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:48.160 He's a bit of He's not like the he's out little but like kind of 87 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:53.439 a little bit more on the slender frame, not a huge frame. This 88 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.600 was the first time I've ever seen him, and I have to say that 89 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:58.360 it was you know, we talk about like get on the edge of your 90 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.319 seat sort of moments when you see somebody for the first time like that. 91 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:05.199 That's definitely what happened here. It sounds like that's what happened to our buddy 92 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:10.319 upper back too. I mean, he had some glowing things to say about 93 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:14.800 mister Classen and his stuff. So what what was it? I mean it 94 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.920 was it just the velo at the level or was it the shape of the 95 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:21.839 pitches? What really stuck out for you? Just you got a guy throwing 96 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:26.920 this hard and like I said, with some interesting looking movement on the fastball, 97 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.680 with his ability to I think, you know, execute it fairly well 98 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:32.720 for a guy down in a ball. That's the biggest draw to me. 99 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:38.680 He didn't log a lot of innings at Minnesota. He's got like a total 100 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:43.519 of sixty college innings and most of that was his last year. I don't 101 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:46.079 know about injury history, you know, I think I had mentioned him like 102 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.399 wow, that was like the most impressive first look at a guy I've seen 103 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:54.720 since I saw him in the you know, on the same screen. Now, 104 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:58.639 I'm not nearly as interested in class And as I was Titan at the 105 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:01.759 time because on top of his lefty fastball, he could really spin it. 106 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.959 I don't think Classen's game is going to be like spin. But nonetheless, 107 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:13.079 given the velocity, the strikeout potential at this level, pitchability wise, not 108 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.639 the worst I've ever seen. I like, that wasn't a big downer to 109 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.759 me. I think he was pretty much a no brainer. Spec you pick 110 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.639 this guy up. I think you're gonna have a interesting trade piece down the 111 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.680 road here relatively short. So in a nutshell, I think I think that's 112 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:33.279 what Whether he proves to be or a really good picture or not, I 113 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.720 think it's kind of irrelevant. I think you just play the game within the 114 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.840 game, and you grab him if you can. Yeah, that makes a 115 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.080 lot of sense. And you know what, I looked him up after everyone 116 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.840 was so hyped about this start. I haven't had the chance to watch it 117 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:50.480 yet, but looking at his numbers from college, it's pretty clear why we 118 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:54.799 weren't interested really coming out at the draft and why he got no mention from 119 00:08:54.840 --> 00:09:01.120 us. He walked forty five and struck out forty five for fifty and two 120 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.240 thirds innings at Minnesota, and so, like the Big Tens decent at baseball, 121 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.440 and there are some fairly good schools in the Big Ten these days, 122 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:16.440 but Minnesota's not a powerhouse for sure. That kind of line across the Big 123 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.720 Ten and the schedule that Minnesota plays that's like bad. I mean, that's 124 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:26.600 just frankly barely even should register when you're looking at that kind of a stat 125 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.120 line. Terrible walk rate, not even striking that many guys out. So 126 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.759 it's not like he's a good power pitcher but just doesn't know where it's going. 127 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.480 I'll let some of the Iowa boys this is like, I don't know 128 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:41.480 where it's going. And I also don't really strike anybody out. So his 129 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:48.600 six point two Era one seven six whip in college seems like it was earned. 130 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:54.159 Now that said, getting popped by the Phillies in the sixth round is 131 00:09:54.320 --> 00:10:01.039 impressive given that, So I think they they're interested in the arm talent exactly. 132 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.960 I think, you know, again not having seen him, and maybe 133 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.399 this is just a refrain that I'm going to keep saying, is that I 134 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:13.080 want to see more, Like, yes, pop on this kind of guy, 135 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:16.519 and as you said, play the game within the game always, but 136 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:22.879 as far as like long term viability, that's still a lot of innings showing 137 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.559 that you don't really know how to pitch, and I want to I want 138 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.080 to see more. So I'm excited to throw some tape on and and see 139 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:33.159 his next start. This is the kind of guy that I'm like, that's 140 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:39.399 a huge jump in skills, command or both. Like that's very surprising, 141 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.399 right, Hue, up right, you know dann Well the guy who's touching 142 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:48.279 one hundred is striking out this many, that's gonna get dynasty folks excited, 143 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:54.600 definitely. He went five innings, he gave up one hit, no walks, 144 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:58.000 and struck out nine. As far as like his I don't know what 145 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.720 do you want to call it, commands, strike, throwing, execution, 146 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.000 what have you? I kind of noticed, like I don't know if violence 147 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:07.440 is the right word, but it's not like the easiest looking velocity, if 148 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:09.879 you will, you know, if I had Tom House here, I would 149 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:13.360 ask him some questions about some of his mechanics, some things that my eyes 150 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.320 were drawn to, my amateur eyes were drawn to. But like I wouldn't 151 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.559 say he was like pinpoint, you know, but when he was trying to 152 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:26.639 hit a spot in the zone, he was like in the neighborhood, and 153 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.799 consistently like in the neighborhood. So and there may be were a few that 154 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.399 kind of got away from him or whatever, but for the most part, 155 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.000 like you know, a lot of times you see a guy throwing this hard 156 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.879 in the lowers and it's it's really nilly right, it's pretty loose, But 157 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.679 I wouldn't call classing that at least this out so I was pretty I was 158 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.399 pretty dang impressed. And I will say as a you know, just kind 159 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:52.000 of a pitching nerd like this one got me excited. On Saturday, I 160 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.360 was getting jazzed up. And maybe some of that's just the beginning of the 161 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:58.759 season and the first guy and a ball that got me excited, I don't 162 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.679 know, but he's stepped. Definitely a hot ticket right now. He was 163 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.799 picked up. Let's see, he went from like zero percent to three percent 164 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.519 over last night. So definitely some folks interested. But then Matt awesome. 165 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:18.200 Then I think I was even more impressed on Sunday with the guy that I 166 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.000 caught. I had done his search after all the games were over. So 167 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.639 the strikeout you get to go again. You get to go again. I 168 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:26.600 don't get to go, get you get to go. I just want to 169 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:31.559 do these two together because okay, it's an interesting comparison, and then I'll 170 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.320 shoot it over to you. So, just filtering about the day's strikeout numbers, 171 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:39.720 I noticed Jonah Thong struck out eleven. Song was a guy during our 172 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.559 b side process mat that I had tagged as just hey, try to get 173 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.200 eyes on him. I think there were three full season innings broadcast last year 174 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:52.759 for him, so I turned this one on. He didn't start the game, 175 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.799 but he came in before the first was even over. Somebody was doing 176 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:01.759 making like a rehab started getting some rehab innings or pitches in next cranic or 177 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.759 something like that. But he ended up going four and a third. He 178 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.159 gave up two hits, he walked to and struck out eleven. I believe 179 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:13.480 he struck out nine of the last ten hitters he faced, or eight of 180 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.240 the last nine, something like that. I actually made some plays and picked 181 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:20.480 up tongue in a few spots because I think I was a little bit more 182 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:24.840 interested in him than than class. And even he is a Canadian kid. 183 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.000 This was probably his first full pro season pitching, you know, full season. 184 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:33.240 Man, his his bill, he's got interested talk about some tree trunks. 185 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.480 Man. He has got a super strong, solid bass, and you 186 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.360 know, I kind of like that when a pitcher has that, or any 187 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.159 baseball player has that, and some strength in the lower half, good balance. 188 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:48.000 Talking about butts again, I know, right, and he's got a 189 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:54.919 very over the top delivery, but stays, you know, stays calm through 190 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.759 it. Now, early on I would say, you know, he was 191 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.320 working through something, trying to find the field, trying to find release point 192 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:05.360 a little bit. But man, once he did, he really took off. 193 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.960 And you could tell before you even looked at any of the stat casts 194 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.720 or any of that stuff, that he was spinning his four seamer that Cass 195 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:16.159 has his four steamer averaging ninety two point two. But watching the game, 196 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:22.519 there were some cutters that were getting labeled which were slower. His cutter was 197 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:26.960 coming in at eighty six miles per hour, and there were some cutters that 198 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:31.159 were getting labeled four seamer, So that average velo is a little bit lower 199 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:33.879 than I think it really was on the fur seamer. But you could see 200 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.519 that thing Man just taking off up in the zone. This was a Saint 201 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.159 Lucy broadcast, so it's not straight on. You get a little it's off 202 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:43.600 to the side a little, so you don't get to see you know, 203 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:48.639 in some ways it's nice to see you see a different profile on a fastball, 204 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:50.679 but in other ways, you know, location and stuff is that ideal. 205 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:54.879 And he could also very much spin what was it, a seventy five 206 00:14:54.960 --> 00:15:00.720 mile per hour twelve six curveball. He threw that nineteen teen percent of the 207 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:03.279 time the cutter, like I mentioned, which is probably I don't know what 208 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:05.960 I want to see that pitch some more. I don't know. I don't 209 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.200 know how much you know, if it's a slutter more of a true cutter, 210 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.000 what have you. And then he did toss in a couple of change 211 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.200 ups. Now the changeup is interesting that because my man's throwing like a true 212 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.279 like vulcan change up. That thing is is sat deep in. I saw 213 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:24.840 that, Yeah, yeah, in between his ring and middle finger, and 214 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.200 he definitely just threw a couple of those just right into the dirt. But 215 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.720 that pitch, that grip is very interesting to me, always has been, 216 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:35.840 especially somebody over the top like that. The last guy who with a couple 217 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:41.960 of guys who use that as their changeup and yeah, a fairly effective grip 218 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:45.200 for them. Yeah. The last guy that that I remember watching a lot 219 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:48.200 of that used that and when he was going really good was Cody Morris. 220 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:50.360 Didn't get a couple of whiffs on those and did land a couple of the 221 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:54.279 eight that or the sixth that he threw and when he did that was disgusting. 222 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.720 Tom definitely got my attention. I'm excited to watch him some more and 223 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:04.240 see how this all looks. But a very interesting repertoire when we like talk 224 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:08.080 about different looks, maybe a little bit of a different arsenal here. I 225 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:14.200 can see him continuing to put up some numbers and get in withs at fifty 226 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:18.399 percent rates and stuff and outings and crazy CSW numbers with this Arsenal and the 227 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:23.200 Lowers. So those two guys really got my juices going and got me excited 228 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:27.360 this first weekend. Nice. Well, some names to follow and see what 229 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:33.120 we can see from some of them. Well, that's sort of a philosophical 230 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:37.080 question, is what are you looking for this early in the season. And 231 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:45.200 I know for me, maybe there's some component of confirmation bias for me that 232 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:49.000 I'm looking to see, like how was my evaluation over the offseason, and 233 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:52.639 a lot of things that go into that. But I think it ends up 234 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:56.000 being that I watch a lot of the guys that I've been thinking about or 235 00:16:56.039 --> 00:17:00.360 watching their twenty twenty three film early in this year, and so I I 236 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:04.480 have almost no notes from guys that I hadn't already gotten eyes on last year. 237 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.640 You know, I wanted to start my the B side guys that I'm 238 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:15.519 most excited to see, and so I watched Joander Suarez on Friday night and 239 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.319 Suarez I text you after this, I was like, he's as good as 240 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.759 I remember. You know, we don't have stack cast for Bighamton. I 241 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:25.519 don't know if he's going to be there that long. I get the sense 242 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:29.839 that the Mets are going to graduate quite a few of their arms in Triple 243 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.240 A. Christian Scott and Mike Basil. I think both are going to be 244 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.240 in the bigs before too too long. I wonder if Suarez is one of 245 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.160 the ones that gets up to triple A, and I'd love that to see 246 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:44.720 some of the stat cast data underlying his his performance, which was again really 247 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:49.200 good. He went five innings and after having I think it was a walk 248 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:53.440 and a hit in the first inning, he settled down and went clean. 249 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:57.880 After that, ended up throwing five, struck out six. They had one 250 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:02.559 other additional walk, but he looked really good. The fastball was the same 251 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:04.759 as I remembered it, peppering the top part of the zone with a flat 252 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:11.039 approach angle. His slider was working really well. I also thought he employed 253 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:15.799 his change up well. He doesn't. He's not a big round ball pitcher. 254 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.880 I would say, but when he did have traffic, it looked like 255 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.799 he was trying to go to the change up at the bottom of the zone 256 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:25.519 to induce grounders then, and there wasn't a whole lot of traffic. Matt 257 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.359 he well, he started off, he walked, the guy walked, the 258 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.559 leadoff guy, gave up a soft single, and then he retired what like 259 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.839 thirteen in a row or something like that. Yeah, yep, yep. 260 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:38.720 And it looked it looked earned too, like it wasn't he was getting lucky 261 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:44.880 on the calls, you know, he did. There were two two that 262 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:48.200 I noted, both on kind of hung sliders. One of them might have 263 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:52.559 been his curveball. I get the feeling either his slider is a little inconsistent 264 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:56.279 in its shape or it he does manipulate it. I'm not sure which. 265 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.839 But one of them looked like a hung curve in sort of the middle of 266 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:03.640 the plate and flew out to the warning track on a pretty good swing to 267 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:07.160 a riety. And then another one was very similar later on the game, 268 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:12.039 I think in the fourth inning where he misplaced a slider it spun a little 269 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:15.680 bit, and that one got hit hard for an out, both of which 270 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.400 were sort of bad execution pitches, but he mostly executed really well. When 271 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.799 he was keeping his slider down and away, these guys were not touching it. 272 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:27.480 He got a bunch of swings and misses, and overall the outing was 273 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:32.799 like, Yeah, this is the guy that I remember another shutout for him, 274 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:37.240 Like he's I think he gave up maybe one run at double A in 275 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.559 his stretch to end the year there last year, so he's still just given 276 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:45.880 up like one, maybe two runs at double A and it's starting to build 277 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.759 into a not insignificant sample. So I was pumped to see this. I'm 278 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:55.079 still such a huge fan of his, excited to see what else we get 279 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:59.119 as he progresses along, because where he's going to face some good lineups there 280 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.480 in the Eastern League, a lot of potential in this arm. I'm I'm 281 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:04.240 still a big believer. It's going to be an exciting one to follow. 282 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:08.160 My biggest question with him, Matt and I think we discussed this some when 283 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:12.039 we first were doing the B sides, and I don't think how we remember, 284 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:17.680 but we've never really gotten a really good straight on angle of him. 285 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:22.319 Correct. No, most of the angles are pretty tilted off to the side, 286 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:26.079 and I think the Eastern League still has not great cameras. Like I 287 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:30.200 know Binghamton's is when he gets to Hartford. When he gets to Hartford, 288 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:36.160 that'll be the Yeah, yeah, it will be good. Ere he is 289 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:37.720 pretty straight as well, so it's pretty good. I mean, I think 290 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.440 that'll be good too, especially for evaluating the breaking ball, like is it 291 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:45.240 a slider, is it is it a gyrow that's more down or does he 292 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:49.279 sweep it as well? Right, because my biggest question with him is, 293 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:53.200 you know, and even just you can gather things from that a great angle 294 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:59.359 as well, but the particularly the spin, the breaking ball. Is he 295 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:03.960 execute doing that on a level that I feel good about as he moves up, 296 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:07.759 as he's a potential major leader, he has some walk history, and 297 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.000 he hasn't. He hasn't last year historically, hasn't been the guy that he's 298 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:15.799 been the last What doesen starts or whatever it's been for him. Is this 299 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:21.640 a guy who's just like succeeding in double A with that great execution of breaking 300 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:25.039 balls or not? I don't know, but that's what I'm most interesting. 301 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:27.799 That's the question. And I would say, you know, this first test, 302 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:32.359 it doesn't mean a lot it's just another little data point for us. 303 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:36.200 But it looked this sight, it looked like he was continuing from where he 304 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:40.160 left off at the end of last year, which is encouraging for a guy 305 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:44.160 that was someone of a pop up arm. So that that to me, 306 00:21:44.359 --> 00:21:45.720 Like, as I messaged you, I was like, he's the same guy 307 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.720 as the end of the last year, and I think that's what we're looking 308 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:53.640 for. If he sustains that kind of performance, then this is a legit 309 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:59.000 like workhorse, you know, three pitch major league quality arm. And if 310 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:00.519 he can keep showing it, man and he's he's gonna rock it up these 311 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:03.960 lists, like we've talked about many times, Matt, to me, like 312 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:08.559 especially pitching, it's more of a mode thing to me than a mean thing. 313 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:11.559 Like how many times are you going to stack these kinds of good looking 314 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:17.319 outings? Right? I like game logs more than I do metrics. Mm 315 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:19.240 hmm. To put another way, and like you're saying, just this is 316 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:22.640 just another good outing, just reinforcing what we think he might be able to 317 00:22:22.680 --> 00:22:26.279 do. So once you stack enough piles, enough pile of that, then 318 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:30.119 you know you make your choice, you in or you out. And getting 319 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.160 more in on you wander the more I watch them, So that's that's good, 320 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:37.720 that's what you want. Yeah, absolutely, you know a couple of 321 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:42.279 the other arms, just to mention on the B side. Obviously, the 322 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:47.000 arm on Saturday that I was most excited to watch was Fred Van Scooter. 323 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:53.839 He was the Saturday guy for Arkansas Marines's Double A affiliate, and he had 324 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:59.359 an okay outing, I would say, got bit a little bit by some 325 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:06.000 questionable defense behind him, as well as a couple of ground balls that found 326 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.039 holes line drives that dropped in. So he ended up giving up a few 327 00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:12.440 hits in the outing and they turned into runs. I think only one of 328 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:18.000 which was really a well hit ball, I'd say. I think he gave 329 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:22.160 up a loud double left on left pulled down the right field line that brought 330 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:26.200 in either one or two runs. That kind of marred his outing, and 331 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:30.640 he did walk a guy, which is unusual for him. Again, this 332 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:33.200 is someone that I've seen a lot of, so not much is going to 333 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:37.920 change for me based on one outing. But he did get hit a little 334 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:42.400 more. He was still getting whiffs even though his fastball again reportedly was the 335 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:48.720 low nineties topping out and that's I think for our purposes, Okay, what 336 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:53.839 I want to see is cand his quote unquote stuff play at this level. 337 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:59.319 So Double A is a significant jump from the competition at High A. And 338 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:03.559 while he's moved to a better league as far as pitching goes like it's a 339 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:10.640 pit more pitching friendly league than the Northwest League is, it's still a fairly 340 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:15.839 substantial jump in quality of competition. So seeing how he navigates the lineups in 341 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:19.000 the or sorry, in the Texas League, is going to be pretty interesting. 342 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:23.160 Like there's some really good teams, some pretty stacked Double A lineups in 343 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:26.559 the Texas League. RBS has his work cut out for him, but it's 344 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:30.000 it's those kinds of tests that I think are going to be interesting. And 345 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:33.319 we didn't learn a ton from this particular outing, I don't think, especially 346 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:37.440 when they start letting him get stretched out to go then whatever it was like 347 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.039 sixty some pitches, that'll be even more italient because as we've noted before, 348 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:47.279 he's someone that often gets stronger as his outings progress, as he's learned the 349 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:51.599 tendencies of the opposing lineup, and that kind of thing I think is increasingly 350 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:56.039 going to be in demand for major League clubs too. Yeah, I did 351 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:00.039 not watch any of RBS because I knew you would, so thanks for sharing. 352 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:04.720 But there were some fantastic quality outings this weekend. Salt Lake had a 353 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:10.440 couple Kenny Rosenberg Andrew Wantz. I can't say I know much about those older 354 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:15.440 Triple A arms. Broman had a couple Own Murphy and Drew Hackenberg. Both 355 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:19.480 had really good first outings. I watched quite a bit of the Murphy start, 356 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:25.559 and it was really impressive. His fastball looked like they couldn't handle it, 357 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:29.559 like it wasn't close, Like he was getting six inch wiffs on the 358 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:33.519 fastball, which doesn't often happen, and it really looked like he was pounding 359 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.400 the top of the zone. It was impressive execution, and that's the thing 360 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:40.799 that I was most excited to see from Murphy because the couple of looks that 361 00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:42.920 I had gotten in spring training, I could see some of the stuff there, 362 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:45.839 but the execution was a little bit lacking. And this was night and 363 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:51.359 day different, Like he was pumping it right where he wanted to and letting 364 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:53.359 the stuff play. Yeah, I was kind of surprised that they let him 365 00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:56.599 go eighty five pitches the first out in the year. He went six and 366 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:03.200 two thirds seventy two percent strikes. Bird went six and seventy pitches seventy three 367 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:07.799 percent strikes. That I think is by design. I don't know if you've 368 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:12.720 heard, but the Braves have had some challenges with their starting rotation. Boy 369 00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:18.880 Spencer, Streider might be might be unfortunately done for the year. And I 370 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:22.319 have the sense that with Murphy, with Hackenberg, and it would have been 371 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:26.240 with Richie had he not gotten hurt too. But these are guys that they 372 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.680 want to challenge, like they challenged ajass and and even Strider the year before. 373 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:34.680 That they want to see if they can handle a full workload and if 374 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:38.839 they can contribute potentially to the major league rotation. So Murphy's a guy I've 375 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:42.839 looked at, even in like a little shallower leagues, to see if I 376 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:48.720 can acquire or trade for him, just because that seems to be a potential 377 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:53.839 need and the skills really do seem there. So that one was more encouraging, 378 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:57.559 I think after seeing him struggle a little bit in the like he struggled 379 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:02.880 in the Spring Breakouts game, and I watched a couple of his other outings 380 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:04.559 in spring. They were just Okay, So, yeah, Murphy looks great. 381 00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:08.279 I did not want Hackenberg though. Did you check out his No? 382 00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:11.440 But we have a long season. I'll definitely be checking out. I mean 383 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:15.680 I watched a little bit of him from last season. But yeah, Tyler 384 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:19.519 Wolsner with BILOXI had nephew. I can't say I know much about him, 385 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.759 but he keeps up, keeps putting lines up like this. I will know 386 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.880 about him. I'll watch him. But he went six, gave up two 387 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:30.519 hits, struck out eight no walks, seventy three percent strikes. Cam Schlider 388 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:37.039 with the Yankees, Hia Hudson Valley had an fo put up a really nice 389 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:41.119 line and then our hey, look at this. Matt, a Rockies pitching 390 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:47.359 prospect. Has the early season high water mark for strikeouts in an outing Sean 391 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:52.720 Sullivan thirteen k's and six innings for Cocaine and I think that was That was 392 00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:56.160 Saturday. Now that wasn't broadcast, so I couldn't watch that. But Sullivan 393 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:02.119 in that funky left hand another not a flame thrower, but he's got a 394 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:06.039 good fastball that it's going to be really interesting to watch and see how he 395 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:10.200 progresses. That's a fascinating one. I mean, the Rockies do have some 396 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:14.359 really interesting arms, as we've noted before, and if they can turn Sullivan 397 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:18.920 into something as well, Like that's just a long list of pretty interesting arms 398 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.400 for the Rockies now unfortunate home ballpark when they make it to the major leagues. 399 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:27.279 But still, then I was Jonathan Diaz, who has spent some time 400 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:32.079 in the bigs with the Angels, who's now what the Mariners scooped him up 401 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:36.039 and have him in Tacoma. I was intrigued because his first two outings of 402 00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:40.079 the year, Matt He's thrown eleven innings, hasn't given up a run, 403 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:47.160 a whip of point eighty two, struck out fifteen, hasn't walked anyone like. 404 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:48.960 So I was like, what is going on here? I got to 405 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:53.039 take a look. He's a softer toss and lefty guy, throws more sliders 406 00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:56.920 than anything else. Someone in the discord was like, man, he's just 407 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.480 like a quadruple layer, you know, spot start if you need and I'm 408 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.400 like, yeah, that's that's that's true, probably true, But I want 409 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:06.960 to I want to see. So I dug around, I watched, and 410 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:10.359 man, I don't I don't think there's really anything different here going on. 411 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:15.279 I think it's I think it's just a good run. I was pulling up 412 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.000 that cast from last year, these two outings, it all looks very similar. 413 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.920 I don't think this is a case where the Mariners grab somebody and you 414 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:26.240 know, taught them something wicked or anything like that. I think it's just 415 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:29.279 a good run to start. Yeah, And I think that's that's a good 416 00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:33.759 thing to highlight, right both that you got to investigate these things what is 417 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.960 different and one of the answers might be nothing is different. This is a 418 00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:42.720 hot run, even even someone for whom their arsenal might be a little bit 419 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:48.880 different. Again, it might be different and better for some period of time. 420 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:52.960 But I'm still expecting quite a bit of regression from Jonathan Diaz. I'm 421 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:59.279 still expecting regression from Ronald Blanco, who again turned in another really solid start 422 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.839 following up is no hitter from last week, but it's still you got to 423 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:07.920 show me more than two starts to be to really move that needle, you 424 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:11.279 know what I mean. And I think it's important to highlight that even when 425 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:14.279 there is a little bit of a change, like be skeptical of that change 426 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:17.119 for a bit. Yeah, there's a couple of guys a couple starts that 427 00:30:17.160 --> 00:30:21.160 I was definitely you know, we're on my priority watch list that I got 428 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:25.480 into. I mentioned last episode I wanted to watch yarri Ol Rodriguez, the 429 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:30.960 Blue Jays Cuban Signy who's like twenty six year old, was pitching professionally in 430 00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:33.160 Cuba for a minute. But I'd never really watched so I checked him out. 431 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:36.039 And I don't know, Matt, have you watched him at all? 432 00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:38.680 I haven't watched any of his games. I've seen a couple of the highlight 433 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:41.200 reels, but I have not watched him live. Yeah, I know. 434 00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.119 So he's like a four scene splitter with a slider, tosses in a curveball. 435 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.759 The steel strikes from time to time. Fastballs seem to have a little 436 00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:52.359 natural cut to it. I thought from my eyeballs, but the stat cast 437 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.720 data wasn't really agreeing with my with my eyeballs there, I don't think the 438 00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:00.640 execution this outing was like, yeah, it was, it was good, 439 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.160 but like he mixes his pitches really well. You can tell that he's been 440 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.599 pitching professionally for a minute. If he knows what hitters are trying to do 441 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.559 against him. I'm curious to see how it goes. He's interesting. I 442 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:14.799 don't know if he's going to be a starter or a reliever. But like, 443 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:18.000 yeah, I don't know. I checked him out and okay, all 444 00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:22.559 right, I don't know. I don't have any strong feelings either way about 445 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:25.000 him. I don't think I think we talked a little. Did we talk 446 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:27.799 about Joe Rack a little bit? I watched his album too, Yeah, 447 00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:30.839 we talked about him. He was a guy that I really liked when I 448 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.960 was taking into the Rocky system, and I could remember if we talked about 449 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.839 this particular starter. Not last week. I don't think we did. Did 450 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.359 we No, I don't think we did. That slider is was gnarly, 451 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.839 you know, per usual folks can't square that pitch up. The fastball isn't 452 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:49.519 gonna wow. I don't think the damage that was done is always, in 453 00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:53.200 my looks, seems to always be done off of the fastball. So I 454 00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:56.279 don't know. I mean, I still don't know looks. Last year I 455 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:00.359 thought the fastball looked like it could play both because just you know, he's 456 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:06.160 a super tall guy, gangly, and looked like the slot was maybe a 457 00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:09.359 little bit lower than you might expect from someone so tall. So I thought 458 00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:15.480 that maybe the fastball had some other characteristics that made it potentially interesting, just 459 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:17.680 beyond the velocity, which was okay. No, I think it's about average 460 00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:22.200 for a lefty. Yeah, he's pretty much a forcing slider fifty to fifty 461 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.160 to. He throws in a change up, I think from time to time, 462 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.839 but to right he's been you know, it was an interesting trade. 463 00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:31.200 I still don't really get why. I mean, it wasn't interesting but in 464 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.000 a good way to me. But I don't get why they traded, you 465 00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:37.519 know, an interesting arm for a guy who strikes out forty percent of the 466 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:43.319 time, Like they need more of those. But I imagine the rays we'll 467 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:47.839 find some sort of use for Joe rack here. I finally got around two. 468 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.480 Well, I think this was Christian Scott's first start, so I got 469 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.799 into this one. Scott is a guy who I this isn't like Victory Lapping. 470 00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:00.319 But I was in on very early, picked him up like every where. 471 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.680 Obviously he's become a popular pitching prospect, is you know, knocking on 472 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:06.599 the big league door. But I'm kind of at the point now. I 473 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:07.799 was like, all right, do I want to sign up for the long 474 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:12.039 haul or not. Some of this was planted in my head, some of 475 00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:15.119 it was my own questioning watching Scott last year. But a quality of his 476 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:20.119 breaking balls, how well he can spin it or not, is a big 477 00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.680 question to me, So I was watching this start with that in mind. 478 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:27.279 I don't know if the rail Riders, I feel like they were had a 479 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.519 scouting report and had a plan against Scott at least early in the game, 480 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:36.359 because they really seemed to be spitting on all the fastballs the first inning and 481 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:40.000 only swinging and hunting breaking balls, which I thought was was interesting. You 482 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:43.400 don't see that all the time like early and I started. I think he 483 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:45.640 tried to change up like once he missed badly with it, and it was 484 00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:50.720 mostly just like kind of fastball slider sweeper game. It seemed on points, 485 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.200 you know, as usual. The thing that drew me to Scott initially is 486 00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:58.880 I was just trying to find efficient pitchers, efficient pitchers that were getting strikeouts. 487 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:01.400 I don't think there's much of a question that his his forcing fastball is 488 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:05.920 of high quality and he uses it well, so I think his spin. 489 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.159 I think his breaking ball is in a vacuum probably won't grade out all that 490 00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:12.119 well, I don't think, but I wonder if the way that he kind 491 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:15.400 of adds in some tracks makes it all play up because he throws a I 492 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:19.360 think what they label a cutter and a sweeper, but he definitely manipulates, 493 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:23.159 which I think helps them big time. He got really aggressive with the fastball 494 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:28.480 with like the first two ridies. He struggled a bit to kind of like 495 00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:31.159 kill some hitters early on with two strikes trying to use the breaking ball. 496 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:35.719 He did get chased on like one breaking ball that I saw early in the 497 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:37.840 starts. I felt like in the third inning kind of like his execution got 498 00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:43.199 a little loose. He left a sweeper up and then Groshans ripped a double 499 00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.679 on a middle middle fastball. I think there is a quality that's hard to 500 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:50.800 quantify. You know, when you get base runners on, you know, 501 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:52.679 how do you respond to that? And the Scott's always struck me as a 502 00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:57.360 guy who kind of rises to that challenge a little bit and got out of 503 00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:00.800 some stuff with some nice sequencing, good execute. Had a really nice three 504 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:06.199 pitch k slider, slider, sweeper versus Greg Allen, a lefty all three 505 00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:09.599 of those pitches were just yeah, dying spotted really well. Your boy Caleb 506 00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:14.639 Durban got him on like a fifth pitch line drive up the middle on a 507 00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:19.840 well placed slider. Durbin's off to a hot start. Yeah, yeah, 508 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:22.880 I want to talk about Durbin when we talk about some hitters. But Durbin 509 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:27.840 I also think walked in his first play appearance against him. Yeah, yeah, 510 00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:30.440 I think that's right. And the fourth inning he hung a slider. 511 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:35.239 Everson Pereira took him deep, had a real battle with Louise Torrens nine pitches 512 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.559 and finally got him the wiff on a hanging slider. Wasn't a good pitch. 513 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:40.960 Then Jeter Downs took him yard on a two to zero center cut slider, 514 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:45.079 then ended his day with like a ten pitch battle, finally getting the 515 00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:47.599 k on a fastball. So again, the slider said, when we get 516 00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:51.239 to the major leagues, it's gonna be I mean, I know this is 517 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:52.239 for his first start of the year. And don't get me wrong, like 518 00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:57.159 I love Scott, this has been a big rate of return, Like this 519 00:35:57.239 --> 00:36:00.440 has been excellent. But yeah, I don't know, man, there are 520 00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:05.480 times when when I think you have to responsibly ask how good is his breaking 521 00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:07.239 ball game gonna work in the big league? So I don't know. I 522 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:12.239 mean, these are all small samples, so it's tough to say, right, 523 00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.360 sure, you're right, this is a small sample. This is one 524 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:21.000 outing, but it's reiterating last year questions. Yeah, I'm not sure. 525 00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:25.159 I have those same questions. My memory of I didn't watch this start other 526 00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:30.599 than a couple at bats here and there, But my memory of Scott was 527 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:37.239 that his sweeper actually was quite good like that. That was in my mind, 528 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:42.599 one of the things that sort of unlocked his year last year, and 529 00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:45.320 that he got quite a few strikeouts on a sweeper. And even in this 530 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:50.880 game, he got five swings on that sweeper, three of a miss. 531 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:53.840 That's a sixty percent with rate picked up a called strike as well. And 532 00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:59.719 you know his CSW across all his offerings thirty five percent for the fastball, 533 00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:02.519 which is elite, and then above twenty five percent for the slider and the 534 00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.840 change up, and then above thirty five percent thirty six percent for the sweeper. 535 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:13.159 So I mean, I think that what might happen is they mix in 536 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:17.280 more sweepers because he threw twice as many sliders the slider cutter, you know, 537 00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:22.360 the slightly firmer pitch than he threw sweepers. But the sweeper might be 538 00:37:22.440 --> 00:37:27.880 the more effective one that plays off of his fastball. So I wonder if 539 00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:31.239 that mix might change a bit as things go. Yeah, he's gonna be 540 00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:35.320 interesting for me, you know, like the game within the game sort of 541 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:39.000 thing. Whenever his debut comes or is getting close, Like I'm gonna, 542 00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:43.840 I'm gonna have to make a decision. I think if I want to sign 543 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.159 up for the ride or cash in. I don't know what I'm gonna do 544 00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:51.639 yet. Well i'll tell you I kinda I think made my bed. I'm 545 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:55.400 gonna I'm gonna stick it for the Ride. I had a pretty compelling offer 546 00:37:55.880 --> 00:38:00.639 for Seth Lugo, who's you know, having a great start of the year 547 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:04.000 was great, and the rotation last year, and I kind of buy that 548 00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:07.960 he's going to be a quality, kind of mid tier starter. And this 549 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:12.159 is in a thirty teamer daily head to head league, and I lost both 550 00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:16.039 of the outings at which that Lugo would have pitched for my team if I'd 551 00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:20.199 accepted this trade. That's still sitting in my inbox. To the conversation, 552 00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:22.679 we had with your buddy Matt before. Like, this guy sent me a 553 00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:28.039 trade offer. He still really wants Christian Scott and wants to send me logo 554 00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:30.920 for him, and I've passed up to this point because like, while I 555 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:36.280 like Lugo, I would have won two additional matchups if I'd had Lugo on 556 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:42.719 my team, and I keep saying no because I really like Scott. I 557 00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:46.320 think that Scott is going to be a very very good Dynasty arm for a 558 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:51.239 long time. So thus far I've held off, and I think that's telling 559 00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:53.119 me. What my gut is saying is that I think that this guy is 560 00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:55.400 for real. I mean, I'm going to sell him for cheap, I'll 561 00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:59.840 tell you that. Yeah, so maybe that's just too cheap and I should 562 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:01.719 ask for I keep trying to get him to take one of my other long 563 00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:06.440 list of pretty good prospects, but he really wants Christian Scott. Matt. 564 00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:10.440 Did you see that Jackson job walked three guys in like three innings or something 565 00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:14.920 like that. I didn't. I didn't watch the outing, but I saw 566 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.039 the line. I didn't watch it. Yeah, yeah, but I mean 567 00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:22.519 that's that's insane. A talk about guy who didn't walk anybody, like literally 568 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:28.760 nobody later and starts, so maybe knocking off a little early season Russ there 569 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:31.039 for job, and then we talked a little bit about lighter. Now. 570 00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:35.400 I didn't go back and watch the whole start like I wanted to, but 571 00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:37.559 I did watch some bits and pieces, and he did make another I think 572 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:42.559 he's made his second outing already, right. I do think there's improvements in 573 00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:45.679 the little looks that I saw from that start. As far as his execution, 574 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:50.000 I mean, I think he was just straight up bad when I've seen 575 00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:54.599 him. But I'm still very much questioning like his strike throwing ability, his 576 00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:59.880 ability to be crisp enough to start in the major leagues. I'm not gonna 577 00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:04.239 like. I'm just looking at his strike percentages so far this year. They're 578 00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:07.880 still not great. So I don't know that interesting. I don't know if 579 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:10.400 I'm all like, yeah, okay, he's figured it all out here, 580 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:14.320 like some folks might be hoping. I don't know, I need to watch 581 00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:15.920 some more. Yeah. No, he's someone I want to get eyes on 582 00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:20.840 too, just because it has been a tumultuous ride for him so far. 583 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:23.000 You know, Yeah, all right, Matt, your Mariners logan Evans. 584 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:29.000 Any thoughts from his debut this year. Yeah, he's going to be a 585 00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:31.599 puzzle for me. I really want to like him, both because you like 586 00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:37.400 him and because he's a Mariner's pitching prospect, and I think we need all 587 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.559 the help we can get since the owners are too cheap to pay for major 588 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:45.239 league starters. I get some of the hype around him, but I think 589 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:51.239 this outing was somewhat similar to what we saw in spring training too, tantalizing 590 00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:57.480 quality mixed in with like shaky command and walks, and he's just he's going 591 00:40:57.559 --> 00:41:00.280 to be I think a bit of an enigma for me. Like it's seems 592 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:05.480 as though the slider command really can go, Like he just will throw one 593 00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:08.639 and it buries it and it's like not even close. But he's exciting. 594 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:13.920 I'm still I guess I'm still not sold. It's funny how this stuff can 595 00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:16.119 work. Matt right, Like, watch like a dozen innings of them or 596 00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:20.480 whatever it was, and you know, we picked him as a B sider. 597 00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:22.760 It was like, hey, here's a guy, keep an eye on 598 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:25.000 him, whatever, maybe a guy who gets more popular. And then like 599 00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:29.800 he has just really blown up. Right, someone you know mentioned to me 600 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:32.440 like well, Nate, you didn't see this coming. Like his stuff improved 601 00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:36.599 quite a bit over the off season, and it's like, well, what 602 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:38.920 is that really? I don't really know what that means. I was just 603 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:42.480 saying, hey, keep an eye out. This guy might be good. 604 00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:45.679 I don't know he impressed me, his stuff did impress me? Did his 605 00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:49.280 stuff get better? Like? Yeah, reportedly? And I think eyeballs are 606 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:52.119 you know backing that up too? But like I'm not like Logan Evans, 607 00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:57.320 you know, hype trained conductor here, Like I have a top questions and 608 00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:00.559 I don't know how much I like him yet. And in parts like we 609 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:05.559 have talked about a lot in that like there are foundational skills right there are. 610 00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:09.280 There's like a core of a guy's abilities that we might be more attracted 611 00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:13.840 to than you know, other prospectors. Part of that for me is like, 612 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:19.320 cause everyone's stuff is liable to get better in my opinion, darn hear. 613 00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:22.360 Everybody's stuff going to add some more bite on a slider, can add 614 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:24.679 a few ticks or whatever it is. And like all of those b side 615 00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:29.679 guys arms that we have talked about, or at least what I talked about, 616 00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:32.800 mine was have that sort of like parenthetical involved. Now, did I 617 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:37.679 see Logan Evans becoming a top one hundred prospect for some folks at the beginning 618 00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:42.239 of April? Like no, of course, now why I had no reason 619 00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.480 to think that, right, But that's why I like these guys to show 620 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:49.840 that they can execute stuff, because I think it's more likely that a tick 621 00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:53.000 is added or breaking ball is rounded more into form, et cetera. And 622 00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:58.760 I think that's what has happened here with Evans, and for probably smart good 623 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:00.719 reasons, A lot of people are all about it. I'm just like, 624 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:04.079 I want to see more. I didn't. I didn't draft him in our 625 00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:07.880 draft, right like that, So what was it? Like a great call 626 00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:12.199 mate, like a great call would have been drafting him in our B side 627 00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:14.760 draft. So I don't know. I don't know about mister Evans. Here 628 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.840 we shall see. It was nice to see some B siders getting on the 629 00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:22.199 bump. Matt. I have been waiting at then some Batista's return from injury. 630 00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:27.039 He threw a nice four innings. I still really interested to see how 631 00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:30.960 his breaking ball develops as he moves up. He's still only twenty one years 632 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.559 old. Ryan Jennings seems to have a nice outing. I did not watch 633 00:43:34.679 --> 00:43:37.760 it. I know Chenway Lane Lynn had got some attention because I think he 634 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:43.880 like hit one hundred, and then I was really pumped to watch some Adam 635 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.920 Mayer. Finally he was a first year player, draft pick of mind, 636 00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:51.159 just been waiting for his debut. And I don't know if did you watch 637 00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:54.360 any of that. I watched some of the Twitter highlights. Somebody posted a 638 00:43:54.480 --> 00:44:00.400 mashroom yeah, or maybe you did. Somebody, let's put some I watched 639 00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:02.599 that. He went four, gave up five hits, two earned runs, 640 00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:08.800 walked one, struck out five on sixty pitches, a strike percentage of sixty 641 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:13.800 eight percent, which is nice. I felt in the beginning he got hit 642 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:15.599 around a little bit, but I thought he kind of settled in nicely that 643 00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:22.079 he can spin it the east west. The slider is the stuff is still 644 00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:25.440 super interesting to me, but more so than the stuff in and of itself 645 00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:29.400 being interested in me, it's his ability to use it is what got my 646 00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:32.079 attention. In a little bit that I saw of him in college. There 647 00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:36.320 wasn't a lot of him in college. The reports that like you know, 648 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:40.039 Jeff Ponts and others from Cape really intrigued me, and I'm just kind of 649 00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:45.199 excited to see his season go and see how good he can get that slider 650 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:50.199 working. Matt, This is fun, rhet. Lauder made his pro debut, 651 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:52.719 right he did, and he looked really solid, you know, for 652 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:58.880 the a lot of folks talking about how his you know, shut down last 653 00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:01.880 year because the injury. He wasn't as good in college as people had really 654 00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:06.079 you know, talked about him as a one to one candidate at times going 655 00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:08.480 into the draft year last year. But he looked really good. I thought 656 00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:14.920 the two scene played, he threw strikes, got some nice swing and miss 657 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.800 on his slider two. It looked like a really nice east west, bottom 658 00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:22.360 of the zone attack, and I was impressed, Like I liked the outing, 659 00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:27.920 but I like the guy that he was opposite even better. My big 660 00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:35.599 killa from Oakland, James Gonzalez, outdueled him handily. James Gonzalez, I 661 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:37.920 think ladder went four, gave up like three hits, two walks, and 662 00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:43.039 five k's I think was his line, and James Gonzalez was like, what's 663 00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:45.239 what's that? Like, I don't know what giving up walks is. He 664 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:51.440 only gave one hit and struck out six and James Gonzalez. You know, 665 00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:55.519 he's big fella on the mound, lefty. He was throwing his fastball flat 666 00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:00.239 at the top of the zone, getting cold strikes with a slower breaking ball, 667 00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:02.840 looked like a curveball, but also could spin a little tighter breaking ball 668 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:06.800 too, and he was making it all work. Got a bunch of soft 669 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:10.119 ground balls. Nobody was hitting anything hard off of Gonzales, and I really 670 00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:16.159 liked it. You know, he did that, he could have kept going. 671 00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:22.719 Yeah, he looked great, and he's repeating high a. He's older 672 00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:25.480 again. Both of these things I think are reasons why others might be out 673 00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:30.000 on him. And you know, Oakland's not the greatest development organization these days. 674 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:35.920 But Gonzales three right, twenty three, Yeah, and I think he's 675 00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:40.440 going to move pretty quickly up the ladder. I mentioned this when somebody was 676 00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:45.800 asking for a deeper shout in a dynasty league, and he had a really 677 00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:49.280 solid year last year. I just don't think there's a lot of pitching in 678 00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:53.880 between Gonzales and the Oakland or sorry, the Athletics wherever the hell they play, 679 00:46:54.440 --> 00:47:00.000 rotation of guys in the minor leagues ahead of him. You got Robert 680 00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:07.519 Salinis. I'm not sure who else in the minor leagues I feel sure is 681 00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:10.559 ahead of him on the depth chart. Am I missing somebody? Abaso? 682 00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:16.199 Yeah, Louis Morales, I guess probably ahead of him too, but is 683 00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:21.639 also with him in hi A. So I don't know, Like there's just 684 00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:25.199 not There aren't that many guys that I would say definitely are ahead of him 685 00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:29.559 outside of the guys that have gotten major league starts already, you know, 686 00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:31.440 in ESTs and Boil and all of them. I mean to be fair, 687 00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:37.079 you weren't like over the moon about mister Gonzalez here when when you picked him. 688 00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:39.559 But a guy, a guy to watch, and you're damn sure whenever 689 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:44.880 a B side arm Outduel's a pretty boy arm like Red Louder, we're gonna 690 00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.320 talk about it. Yeah, definitely, definitely, And you're right like this 691 00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:52.119 is this is not some like you gotta you gotta roster this guy. But 692 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:58.639 it was a really solid start and indicative of some of the better performances that 693 00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:01.400 I saw last year too. So he's got all attention up there pretty quickly. 694 00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:06.880 Yeah, yep, for sure. So many more things that I saw 695 00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:09.679 on the arm side, so many that I didn't see that I wanted to, 696 00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:14.360 but we have a long season. Definitely going to be talking some more 697 00:48:14.480 --> 00:48:17.800 pitching. Do you want to mention any other arms or should we move on 698 00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:21.320 to some hitters? Now, let's get to the let's get to the good 699 00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:22.920 stuff. Let's get to the hitters. Oh yeah, yeah, all right, 700 00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:29.559 go for it, mister hitter. Well, I would be remiss if 701 00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:34.719 I didn't shout out my boy Caleb Durban to start. There might be no 702 00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:39.440 hitter outside of the Norfolk top half of their lineup who has been hotter to 703 00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:44.960 start a season than Caleb Durban eight games in in Triple A, which is 704 00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:47.440 his first time at Triple A. You know, he's a college guy, 705 00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:52.039 so he's a little older now twenty four, but still young for the level 706 00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:57.800 generally, and he's just I think this is through yesterday hitting four sixty eight, 707 00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:04.599 five seventy nine, seven eight six slug good for a cool thirteen sixty 708 00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:07.960 five ops and for a little guy with no power, not a top thousand 709 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:15.159 prospect and is on nobody's radar. That's a nice announcement of Triple A debut. 710 00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:21.519 Seven watched seven on Stolen Bags, seven for seven on Bags and he's 711 00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:24.559 going a lot like that's yeah, he's actually I was watching one of his 712 00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:29.159 games. This is on Friday. Maybe he had another bag stolen, but 713 00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:32.039 the guy struck out to end the inning behind him, so he didn't get 714 00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:35.679 that, but it was like he swiped that one for sure. So the 715 00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:38.679 speed it's continuing to play, he's doing what I said he does like he 716 00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:42.920 just pulls the ball. And we talked about that swing he had in spring 717 00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:46.519 training where he just they were talking nice things about him and then he just 718 00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:51.440 slowed the hands down, which feels weird to say, but he did it 719 00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:53.719 so that he could barrel the ball and pull it right down the line. 720 00:49:54.119 --> 00:49:58.119 He's done that a couple of times. He hit a homer over the weekend 721 00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:01.239 too, which was a high exit velocity homer. I think it was like 722 00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:06.159 exactly one hundred miles an hour. But he hit a liner over the leftfield 723 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:07.920 fence and counts the same as if you hit it four hundred and fifty feet. 724 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:12.559 So got a triple on the year, four doubles already to go along 725 00:50:12.639 --> 00:50:15.599 with his seven singles. Again, all of this is just to highlight like 726 00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:20.840 he's having a hot start. This is not exactly who he is, he 727 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.440 does remain very difficult to strike out. I think he's got a five percent 728 00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:31.079 strikeout rate and over twenty percent walk rate, again showcasing his preternatural feel for 729 00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:36.000 the zone. And I think that those things matter in real life, maybe 730 00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:39.239 more than in most fantasy contexts. But yeah, our buddy Caleb Durban, 731 00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:43.119 little short man, he's off to a great start at a Triple A. 732 00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:45.719 He is a big leader, I think, so you know who. I've 733 00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:51.440 got these two side by side, just because I was pairing their early season 734 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:55.199 stats. But I have been a Brett Wisely cheese ball for a few years 735 00:50:55.280 --> 00:51:00.920 now. I think he's got a chance. And of course, his first 736 00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:05.880 major league taste last year, he's still prospect technically, so what he got 737 00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:08.440 less than one hundred and thirty AB's, but it did not go real well. 738 00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:12.880 He struck out thirty one percent of the time, didn't really do much 739 00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:16.519 at the plate right But he is off to maybe an interesting start in TRIPLEA. 740 00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:22.079 That strikeout rate, which in the minors and the uppers was like twenty 741 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:25.679 to twenty five percent spike to thirty one or whatever I said, is down 742 00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:31.599 to five point nine percent right now, and that's Kale Durbin territory, and 743 00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:37.960 his swinging strike strike rate, according to Fangrass, is even less than Caleb 744 00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:40.039 Durbin. Now, this is a guy who he can run, he can 745 00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:44.480 throw, he can play a lot of different positions. And I know it's 746 00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:47.800 it's PCL, and it's a few games, it's eight games, but slash 747 00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:52.400 in three eighty five, five point fifteen, seven thirty one. He's hit 748 00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:58.199 a home run three three on basis on stolen bases. Maybe maybe a signal 749 00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:02.760 that Wisely has cleaned up some things at the plate, or learned some lessons 750 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.119 or whatnot. But it has been an interesting watch for me early this year. 751 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:14.360 Another guy for me that nice to see him off to a pretty good 752 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:17.320 start Jimmy Herron. You know, we talked about him in Colorado, and 753 00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:22.800 I think a few of those guys in Colorado are off to good starts. 754 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:25.880 But he's hitting three thirty three, four forty four, seven thirty three to 755 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:30.360 open the year. Again, small samples, but come out of the gates 756 00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:35.760 pretty hot. Matt Krouhon also in Triple A. He's not playing every day, 757 00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:38.199 which I find to be a bit of a bummer, But when he's 758 00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:42.480 playing, he's smoking the ball. He was top of the stat cast Exit 759 00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:45.880 Villa leader board the other day. Has been pretty solid in his limited playing 760 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:50.280 time so far, you know, walking fourteen percent of the time, striking 761 00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:53.320 out fourteen percent of the time. I'm really rooting for him. And again 762 00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:58.800 we might have mentioned this, but there's I think going to be an opening 763 00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:02.719 in the Philadelphia outfield, and Krune might be a guy who gets a look 764 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:07.559 at it. Now. They'll probably give Pachet or somebody another look to start 765 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:12.079 as they're already on the forty and I don't think Krune is I don't think 766 00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:15.960 Pache can hit any more than Rojas can hit. So maybe Matt krun gets 767 00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:19.679 a look there. So in your deeper leagues where every appat matters, I 768 00:53:19.719 --> 00:53:22.559 think Kroun might be a guy who earned some and could perform pretty well. 769 00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:29.000 Matt, did you see the little video I shared of Ajav's two home run 770 00:53:29.119 --> 00:53:31.559 night? Yeah? I did. Yeah, that's a nice little, nice 771 00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:36.159 swing you put on the Snelling breaking ball and pulled that and hit that weg 772 00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:38.880 with what was that a one to two count? I think or two was 773 00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:43.840 two strikes? Yeah, two strike yep, I'm sure Snelling wanted to probably 774 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:46.199 get that breaking ball a little deeper, but it wasn't. The poorly located 775 00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:50.840 pitch. AJV was dropping the head on that like a like a lefty does 776 00:53:51.039 --> 00:53:53.239 variety down and end, and then he had a well I think it wasn't 777 00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:57.960 two count again, two strikes, I'm up and the way fastball. That 778 00:53:58.239 --> 00:54:01.400 was kind of a little excuse me, home run to opposite opposite field, 779 00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:05.679 Folks, he's in Amarillo, right, And folks will talk about, like, 780 00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:07.719 you know, park factors, right, And we talked a lot about 781 00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:13.400 park factors now that we're like watching some games and stuff like, yes, 782 00:54:13.559 --> 00:54:17.199 that that opposite field home run is probably not a home run in a lot 783 00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:22.400 of stadiums, right, But I think what gets missed sometimes or what I 784 00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:25.599 have a hard time like equating and working out and lining up, is like 785 00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:30.079 just sometimes I feel like the park factor stuff, that's an analysis of stats 786 00:54:30.360 --> 00:54:36.599 and not an analysis of the player's performance, right, Like you, well, 787 00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:40.920 that swing by AJAV good swing or a bad swinging right good swing on 788 00:54:42.119 --> 00:54:46.199 the level of like quality of a swing, quality of a pitch. Stadiums 789 00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:51.199 parks don't swing a bat, they don't make a pitch. The outcome is 790 00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:53.840 on some kind of irrelevant, is it not, like you put a good 791 00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:59.840 swing on the ball and you line out or that turns into a double because 792 00:55:00.159 --> 00:55:02.480 just the guy was positioned differently, or the air was a little lighter, 793 00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:07.719 or the winner or whatever, like in the vacuum of your swing quality, 794 00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:12.559 it's the same, right, you can't control what all the other environment environmental 795 00:55:12.599 --> 00:55:15.880 stuff is. You make a good pitch. You can make a good pitch 796 00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:17.079 and it turns into a home run. You can make a good pitch and 797 00:55:17.159 --> 00:55:20.519 it turns into a strikeout, right, Like, It's like, I don't 798 00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:25.960 care if Ajv's that swing was a double or single or an out or home 799 00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:30.239 run. It was a good sort of defensive O two swing. That was 800 00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:34.320 like kind of an excuse me home run. And I love when you see 801 00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.920 you guys surprise themselves by hitting a home run, which I think he totally 802 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:40.559 did. I love that stuff. But you know, in that is sometimes 803 00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:45.719 you get you know, unlikely outcomes because of other work and things that you've 804 00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:50.280 put in. Like AJV has very much worked on hitting opposite field through his 805 00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:52.840 pro career. I've watched a lot of them. I don't know, So 806 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:57.719 sometimes I just have a hard time when I when I see certain things dismissed, 807 00:55:57.960 --> 00:56:01.480 perhaps because someone plays in a small park, or you can make a 808 00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:06.280 bad pitch in a bad pitching park, right, you can be a good 809 00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:09.719 hitter in a good hitting park. Like it doesn't Yeah, I don't. 810 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:14.400 I don't think that as I get what you're saying. I don't think it 811 00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:19.840 is a dismissal so much as its additional context. So like, yeah, 812 00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:23.159 that was a hair's park and he hit a home run, additional context way 813 00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:29.920 to a player's statistical performance, Right, I don't. I don't think it's 814 00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:34.440 always a great tool to analyze a guy's skill. Yeah, But I think 815 00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:38.159 that that's the thing is that a lot of the time we don't have the 816 00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:45.800 perfect information to analyze a player's skill. One look at a swing or breaking 817 00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:51.440 down a video that can help. It can help provide some analysis about a 818 00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:57.239 player's skill or areas for improvement, but the ultimate thing that matters is performance, 819 00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:00.599 and absent some of the underlying metrics that we get from the stat cast 820 00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:07.880 systems, it's my opinion, really hard to make those kinds of judgments to 821 00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:12.519 say a guy is good because he did a thing, and that sort of 822 00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:16.440 performance base is all we really have for a lot of these guys. And 823 00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:22.199 so someone hitting great at Ashville like, okay, yeah, they probably should 824 00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:27.159 right like that. It's just it's a thing to note and to say, 825 00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:30.719 like, yes, that particular swing was great, that particular outcome was great. 826 00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:36.159 He's done a lot of that lately. But you might want to exercise 827 00:57:36.199 --> 00:57:40.800 skepticism that it's going to keep happening if you're just seeing these kinds of performances 828 00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:45.920 at particular ballparks, Like that's how I view that kind of information, not 829 00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:51.760 like anything against their skill per se, It's just what's it going to tell 830 00:57:51.800 --> 00:57:54.480 you about how it's going to translate to the next level When you watch a 831 00:57:54.559 --> 00:57:59.880 lot there's just sometimes the more popular narrative of stuff, doesn't you know, 832 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:02.880 I agree with with your eyeballs and not saying I'm right or they're wrong or 833 00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:06.519 anything like that, but you know, sometimes you watch a guy in a 834 00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:10.199 hitter's park put four really good swings on a ball and get to doubles in 835 00:58:10.280 --> 00:58:14.320 a triple and what have you, and then you know someone made the remark, 836 00:58:14.360 --> 00:58:15.639 well, he's in a hitter's park because I do that was that was 837 00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:21.679 deserved? Like yeah, there's nothing undeserved by that. You know, there's 838 00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:23.920 all sorts of examples that you can you can make with that. But I 839 00:58:24.039 --> 00:58:29.000 was just thinking about that when I was watching that AJV opposite field home run. 840 00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:30.119 And I don't care that it was a home run or not, like 841 00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:35.559 that was just a that was just good hitting. Anyone else jump out for 842 00:58:35.639 --> 00:58:38.079 you this this weekend, especially for some of the younger guys that we haven't 843 00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:42.079 gotten eyes on yet. It's a lot tougher with hitters. You see three 844 00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:45.079 games or one weekend of hitting. You know, you only get to see 845 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:49.480 one swing like right RIGHTJ. You watch a picture, you get, you 846 00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:52.519 know, potentially eighty times of him doing his thing right. So I don't 847 00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:57.880 know if anything like super jumped out at me, but there was. It 848 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:00.519 was nice to see some guy, you know, get good eyes on. 849 00:59:01.159 --> 00:59:06.280 The first guy that I really wanted to see was of course TJ. TJ. 850 00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:08.519 Walton. He only got in on Saturday's game. He let off d 851 00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:13.639 h In. He was ohero for four with four strikeouts. But Matt, 852 00:59:13.880 --> 00:59:16.000 I will say, if you're gonna go oh for four with four strikeouts, 853 00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:19.760 you might as well throw two walks in there to help your day out a 854 00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:22.519 little bit, which you did. But man, my only takeaway from him 855 00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:28.320 was this dude was not gonna sell himself short if he made contacts. I 856 00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:35.480 mean, he was swinging the bat and missing by a large amount sometimes too, 857 00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:37.760 So we'll see how that goes. I don't think that sort of approach 858 00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:40.719 at the plate is really going to do it for you. But but uh, 859 00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:45.559 you know, we shall see the juxtaposition of watching some Randia Rose Arena 860 00:59:45.639 --> 00:59:50.719 that weekend. Like, he doesn't sell himself short either, so we'll see 861 00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:55.800 definitely not as impressed of as witt A Wolt was. My lord, my 862 00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:00.760 lord, I know you want to swing this weekend. Yeah, I don't 863 01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:04.280 know what's the right phrase, man amongst boys, or he's just he's above 864 01:00:04.440 --> 01:00:07.679 that level of competition, I think is safe to say. Well all of 865 01:00:07.719 --> 01:00:10.480 that, I mean, that's why I thought he would start a high a 866 01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:15.320 and I was going to get to see him down here in Hillsboro. But 867 01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:20.639 the unfortunate thing is that they wanted to keep that Modesta crew together, and 868 01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:25.000 that Modessa crew just keeps raking like what they average, like ten runs this 869 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:30.000 weekend. I was very much looking forward to getting eyes on Neo mar Ochoa. 870 01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:31.320 I don't know if you watched any Favville, but he had a real 871 01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:35.719 nice game. He had a real nice game Saturday night. I don't know. 872 01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:37.960 I think he had a couple of knocks of stolen base, very intriguing 873 01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:43.199 potential power speed. Need to see more, but you know, there might 874 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:46.039 be some some real juicy skills there. We'll see how that all plays out. 875 01:00:46.079 --> 01:00:50.920 Of of course, I was watching some Aiden Miller when I was tuning 876 01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:53.800 in. He still looks good to me. I'm excited about him. He 877 01:00:53.880 --> 01:01:00.440 had a couple of hits on the series, nothing too loud, Sultavan'm excited 878 01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:02.840 about he. He's looked a little bit, a little bit uncomfortable. I 879 01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:07.840 think up there right now, we're gonna be watching a lot of clear water 880 01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:10.159 this year. And then, did you see Matt my guy that you you 881 01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:16.079 you kind of pooed on during our hitters draft, mister roseman verdugo uh went 882 01:01:16.199 --> 01:01:21.719 yard. He looks Yeah, he looks a lot strong, stronger rounder, 883 01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:27.480 not not rounder in a bad way, but much more fire hydrant esque than 884 01:01:27.639 --> 01:01:30.800 last year. So we'll see how that goes there. Trevor Warner, not 885 01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:35.159 off to the greatest start, had a little bit of a rough weekend series 886 01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:37.519 I saw too, Matt. I don't know why this is, but and 887 01:01:37.880 --> 01:01:43.000 maybe I've got the wrong Pedro Ramirez, but I see some chatter and some 888 01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:46.599 pickups of Pedro Ramirez of the Cubs might be said that for them going on. 889 01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:50.679 I don't know what the what the hype is there, what the news 890 01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:53.199 is? Got some eyes on Charles McAdoo. Did you watch any f M 891 01:01:53.480 --> 01:01:58.039 I did. I think I mentioned same old goofy swing that he has. 892 01:01:58.199 --> 01:02:01.320 He's, yeah, you know, walking and and limiting K's on on the 893 01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:07.000 weekend series and slapped a few singles around, so goofy swing, and I 894 01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:08.880 was kind of hoping they might try and tweak it a bit, just because, 895 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:13.480 like you don't see many guys that swing like that have a lot of 896 01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:17.559 success. So I still think he's a talent himself, and we'll see if 897 01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:22.239 it gets exposed as he gets because he won't be in in the Florest State 898 01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:25.400 League for too long, I don't think. So he's in Greensboro. He's 899 01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:30.360 in Greensboro, that's right, he isn't that they did push high. I 900 01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:34.199 forgot that yet he was getting on base and not an easy out. This 901 01:02:34.320 --> 01:02:38.440 weekend. I saw my guy Alex I had Assernia had three doubles yesterday. 902 01:02:38.719 --> 01:02:43.639 That was nice to see Maxwell Romero Junior hit a home run. I thought, 903 01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:46.880 now this is I'm very sure it is just some noise. But Jeremy 904 01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:52.519 Reave, a shortstop prospect the Cardinals, who's a real slick defender. Weak 905 01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:54.599 that, but they keep throwing them up there. You know, they were 906 01:02:54.639 --> 01:02:58.599 throwing them out there and spring training what have you. He was getting some 907 01:02:58.719 --> 01:03:01.639 knacks this weekend. His first double A taste. I think it was his 908 01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:06.559 first double A taste. See Brooks Baldwin hit a home run he actually got. 909 01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:10.039 Yeah, he's he's actually been quite good to start the year, and 910 01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:15.840 he had a really solid spring training too. He was actually any better performers 911 01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:19.639 for the White Sox. And originally, like last week, we had mentioned 912 01:03:19.679 --> 01:03:21.760 that he would look like he was going to be in High A. But 913 01:03:21.960 --> 01:03:25.760 he's in Double A in Birmingham. Double up there. He's a he's an 914 01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:30.960 interesting utility guy, and shoot, freaking White Sox are going to need every 915 01:03:31.519 --> 01:03:37.599 live body they can get with Robert and Eloy both on the shelf for what 916 01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:39.800 seems like going to be extended period of time. You know, Nata seemed 917 01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:44.639 like Natcho in his first double a weekend. I don't know if you watched 918 01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:47.280 any Mississippi. I did watch a little bit. I caught a couple of 919 01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:52.639 his abs, but I didn't think I saw him do anything spectacular. So 920 01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:57.400 if you if you're batting four seventeen and fourteen played appearances, how many hits 921 01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:00.679 is that? What was it? His average is four to seventeen. Well, 922 01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:03.079 I guess I don't have that bats I got played appearances, but fourteen 923 01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:10.679 played appearances, he's hitting four seventeen probably five hits. Yeah, Augustine Ramirez, 924 01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:13.559 he's got He had three home runs over the weekend. And you know, 925 01:04:13.719 --> 01:04:16.519 during the spring breakout, I kind of mentioned I wasn't quite sure if 926 01:04:16.559 --> 01:04:19.400 I loved the swing very much, that there was something weird there. But 927 01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:21.639 yeah, man, if you're going to hit home runs like this, and 928 01:04:21.719 --> 01:04:26.920 we know that his batted ball shape is very conducive to hitting home runs like 929 01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:30.000 off to a pretty good double a start. Yeah, and that's something that 930 01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:34.800 he's been working on. As Ramirez He's in an interview after one of the 931 01:04:35.079 --> 01:04:40.480 games this weekend. He said that his focus for the last year has been 932 01:04:40.559 --> 01:04:45.440 onlifting the ball more and it seems like that has paid off both. You 933 01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:47.079 know, the batter ball at the end of last year was really good. 934 01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:50.840 I mentioned one of the reasons I really liked him was that he hit fly 935 01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:56.519 balls and had good exit blows, and that seems to be carrying over this 936 01:04:56.639 --> 01:04:59.760 year. He's off to a great start. A lot of catching prospects for 937 01:04:59.840 --> 01:05:02.239 the Yankees. It's gonna be interesting to see how that shakes out. Yeah, 938 01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:04.559 so, yeah, those were some guys that kind of caught my eye, 939 01:05:04.559 --> 01:05:08.360 and I looked in on a couple of the other ones that are off 940 01:05:08.440 --> 01:05:15.719 to fairly hot starts but are a little red flaggy about, Like Alex Ramirez 941 01:05:15.800 --> 01:05:17.960 is off to a really good start, but he's still striking out over thirty 942 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:21.280 percent of the time at double A. You know, still young for the 943 01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:25.119 level, and it might have just been he had a hot weekend, but 944 01:05:25.440 --> 01:05:29.639 still the strikeouts are concerning to me. People were excited about Kim Collier. 945 01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:32.800 He left the yard and is still very young. He's at high A for 946 01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:38.000 Cincinnati, but he didn't take a walk over thirteen plate appearances this weekend and 947 01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:42.559 struck out thirty zero point eight percent of the time. That's again like, 948 01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:45.480 yeah, hot start, but there's gonna be a lot of pressure on his 949 01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:48.519 bat I think as not a plus defender and not a lot of speed there. 950 01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:51.519 So he's one that I'm a little bit I've been skeptical about for a 951 01:05:51.559 --> 01:05:56.519 bit. Roderick Aris, Like he hit a big home run this weekend, 952 01:05:56.599 --> 01:05:59.599 but he's also struck out in more than half of his plate appearances. And 953 01:05:59.800 --> 01:06:02.400 that's what I'm watching closely, because he's at a fairly like he'd had shown 954 01:06:02.480 --> 01:06:06.599 some strikeouts in the past and then put together a pretty good run, like 955 01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:11.039 like in the DSL he was pretty bad for such a big signing and then 956 01:06:11.079 --> 01:06:14.079 had a really good run on the complex, And so I'm gonna be watching 957 01:06:14.159 --> 01:06:18.000 him closely in a ball But yeah, the strikeouts already looking like it might 958 01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:21.159 be a concern, so just wanted to keep an eye on. I mean, 959 01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:25.239 it's those sorts of things for me that like, yes, it's exciting 960 01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:28.639 to see guys hit home runs like zee here Hope that was super cool. 961 01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:32.280 Hit a bunch of homers and they looked like actually impressive power, good swing, 962 01:06:32.519 --> 01:06:36.119 But if it comes with a bunch of strikeouts, like I'm a little 963 01:06:36.159 --> 01:06:42.000 more concerned. So I'm less likely to get hyped about home runner two this 964 01:06:42.199 --> 01:06:46.920 early and more likely to be watching the walk and strikeout numbers while we wait 965 01:06:47.039 --> 01:06:51.519 for the you know, the batted ball data to chill out and fluctuate less 966 01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:57.199 man. I got a list of some prospects that the roster percentage seems to 967 01:06:57.239 --> 01:07:00.760 be trending up. Well, do Telltead. At the top of the list 968 01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:05.480 the fan tracks list here. He obviously is hitting what he's hit twenty seven 969 01:07:05.519 --> 01:07:09.199 home runs already this year or whatever? Think? Oh, I think so 970 01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:15.400 yeah, Logan Evans next to We've talked about Brett Wick Krowsky, the Brewers 971 01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:19.960 pitching prospect who we talked about, touched on during the breakout game, George 972 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:25.360 Klassen who we talked about, Kyle Stowers. I don't know he still is 973 01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:29.119 he still a prospect technically, I don't know, but he's He's not be 974 01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:31.840 based on like days on the roster because they carried him for a while last 975 01:07:31.920 --> 01:07:34.760 year. I thought, funny how this works. Matt Zayer, Hope is 976 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:38.760 getting more popular, getting picked up. Part of the what was Hope and 977 01:07:38.920 --> 01:07:42.400 Ferris went to the Dodgers for who again? Bush? Oh yeah, Bush 978 01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:45.000 that to me not surprising that, Like, I don't know, Hope's good 979 01:07:45.079 --> 01:07:48.800 too, Like maybe that is really what they were after over Farris. Yeah, 980 01:07:49.480 --> 01:07:54.559 yep. Christian Scott's up two percent, Nelson Rodo's up two percent. 981 01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:58.719 A young guy in double a run with the Angels right, probably getting some 982 01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:01.719 attention. My Tiger's sat arm jaden Ham is up two percent. You'll Free 983 01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:05.960 Rodriguez up a percent, and that's probably something to do with like the youngest 984 01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:12.400 DSL to full season guy out there, La Braffedo doing something triple A. 985 01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:15.199 He's up a percent. Adam Maser's up a percent. I don't know. 986 01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:17.720 I didn't watch much of Maser's start, but man, it seems like he's 987 01:08:17.840 --> 01:08:20.880 just grooving strikes down the middle again. Well, I mean, he gave 988 01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:24.920 up that home run when we were talking about it, but the rest of 989 01:08:24.960 --> 01:08:27.640 the start he looked solid, like he's a good picture. I think, 990 01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:30.960 like, yeah, I just think he could be better. I know, 991 01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:33.399 I agree with that, like that he's he lives too much in the middle 992 01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:39.319 of his own but he's so consistent there and his stuff is good that I 993 01:08:39.359 --> 01:08:41.800 don't know, it seems like they don't want to tweak him too much, 994 01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:45.039 but I always come away from his starts like being like, oh man, 995 01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:48.439 if he just tweaked one little thing and would like shadow zone a few more 996 01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:51.800 balls rather than go for like seventy five percent strikes, he might be better. 997 01:08:53.199 --> 01:08:57.319 We shall see there. Jordan Beck, he's got three home runs still 998 01:08:57.680 --> 01:09:00.079 I think striking out and swinging and missing more more than you want to see. 999 01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:03.439 But you know I'm still doing damage. Carson Wizzen, Hunt Up, 1000 01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:10.439 Jess Way Bersanio, Justin Rubleski, and Barrett Kent. So that to some 1001 01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:14.279 guys that are getting getting picked up in some leagues, anything you're looking forward 1002 01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:15.920 to watching this week? Man. To be honest, I haven't looked at 1003 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:20.239 the upcoming schedule very much. I think there's probably a few more arms that 1004 01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:26.520 are yet to debut, so there should be some interesting ones coming up in 1005 01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:29.640 the first half of this week, and then a lot of the guys that 1006 01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:31.640 have already debuted, but I want to see more of. Quinn Matthews is 1007 01:09:31.720 --> 01:09:35.000 one we haven't touched on yet, but he was one of my few arms 1008 01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:39.640 that I was looking at in this last FYPD, and it sounds like he's 1009 01:09:39.680 --> 01:09:44.680 got a velocity uptick, which paired with what was already a pretty deep arsenal, 1010 01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:47.880 could be pretty interesting. If you'll recall, he's the lefty from Stanford 1011 01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:53.359 that threw like one hundred and eighty pitches in their Super Regional game against Texas 1012 01:09:53.439 --> 01:09:56.840 to win and looked great doing it. Punched out like fourteen or something in 1013 01:09:56.920 --> 01:09:59.439 that outing. He's struck out a bunch in this outing. Today he walked 1014 01:09:59.439 --> 01:10:00.920 a lot, which wasn't really part of his game, So I wonder if 1015 01:10:01.079 --> 01:10:04.399 he's reaching back for more, whether he's losing a little bit of his control. 1016 01:10:04.760 --> 01:10:08.920 So I'm excited to watch him some more. He's one that stuck out 1017 01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:12.039 to me, and then I haven't. I didn't watch Jose Flurri's Double A 1018 01:10:12.159 --> 01:10:15.359 debut, the Astros right hander, who's my B side. He's someone that 1019 01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:18.359 I'm looking for. It was an okay start, it wasn't great, but 1020 01:10:18.520 --> 01:10:23.119 I'm excited to see him in the future at Double A and see how he 1021 01:10:23.199 --> 01:10:26.840 does. But I went through and I pegged just a couple pegs some series 1022 01:10:26.880 --> 01:10:30.560 from every league that might put my eyes on Florida State League. We got 1023 01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:33.680 Fort Myers at Clearwater. I want to check out the Clearwater broadcast, see 1024 01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:38.159 what that looks like, yeah, Jenkins versus down As being sort of the 1025 01:10:38.199 --> 01:10:41.960 headliner there. It looks like Jenkins is on the shelf. In the Carolina 1026 01:10:42.039 --> 01:10:45.680 League, Charleston at Fayetteville, I still want to watch some of those woodpeckers 1027 01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:48.800 more at Shoa. And then you know, Charleston's got some names that I'm 1028 01:10:48.880 --> 01:10:54.399 not necessarily like. I don't think I'm fond of, but let's let's see 1029 01:10:54.479 --> 01:10:59.159 in like Adrian Santana, Trey Morgan, you know, Carlos Colemanirez is there 1030 01:11:00.119 --> 01:11:03.840 Elson or at Modesto in the cal League. Check out some more Vidugo and 1031 01:11:03.960 --> 01:11:09.840 some head versus your nuts and that's the best angle in the in the league. 1032 01:11:09.840 --> 01:11:14.239 Probably I want to I want to watch Isaiah Low in the Sale League 1033 01:11:14.319 --> 01:11:17.680 Ashville at Brooklyn, probably get a Brandon Sprout to debut. Actually, I 1034 01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:20.760 think he is scheduled to go tomorrow or today. Yeah, I think that's 1035 01:11:20.800 --> 01:11:26.680 right. Listening to this good interesting Ashville lineup, Dnson Bautista, your guy 1036 01:11:26.800 --> 01:11:30.199 Dombrowski will be going at some point this week. In the Midwest League, 1037 01:11:30.199 --> 01:11:32.800 I want a two fun teams, two fun lineups going at it. Dayton 1038 01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:36.880 and Cedar Rapids Man Dayton. Dayton's lineup is fun. Probably get a C. 1039 01:11:38.039 --> 01:11:43.880 J. Culpepper debut, Gaby Gonzalez Keishall. Northwest League Hillsboro at Vancouver. 1040 01:11:44.359 --> 01:11:48.960 It's the only real broadcast of the week, so not a lot of 1041 01:11:49.000 --> 01:11:54.880 options there, but Hillsboro Hillsborough's lineup is fun. Get another Ryan Jennings. 1042 01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:59.279 Look, Vancouver has some other interesting arms. There's kind of just curious arms 1043 01:11:59.359 --> 01:12:01.680 up and down the Blue Jays system. I think in the Eastern League. 1044 01:12:01.880 --> 01:12:06.359 Booie at Hartford, so we know Hartford's got a good angle to watch pitching. 1045 01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:11.520 Get some eyes on your guy Bright fam some fun bats at Hartford. 1046 01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:17.960 Southern League Biloxi at Mississippi. Get some Natcho versus Missowski action. That could 1047 01:12:17.960 --> 01:12:24.520 be fun. Let's see what this Wolfsner cat does after his FQO. Maybe 1048 01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:29.279 I'll look in there. Texas League Arkansas at Tulsa, matt we got RVs 1049 01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:33.439 versus Doafiera. Dude, you'll be fun. Yeah. You know, Gothier's 1050 01:12:33.479 --> 01:12:38.640 not off to the greatest start in his first weekend, but we had mentioned 1051 01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:42.319 a little bit of surprise that he was back in double A given he had 1052 01:12:42.359 --> 01:12:45.239 such a good year last year. So I wonder if he's going to be 1053 01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:48.840 in Double A long for the Dodgers. But Gofier versus RBS two of my 1054 01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:54.319 faves, yep, and there'll be a good challenge some bats there for RBS 1055 01:12:54.439 --> 01:13:00.000 and Evans to go up against rushing Cartaya Ramos. International League's just probably gonna 1056 01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:04.479 to be Caleb Durban right now. But Scranton's at Norfolk, so that'll be 1057 01:13:04.680 --> 01:13:09.800 a fun series. You get plenty of offense from Norfolk and see what Durbin 1058 01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:14.680 does against those guys. And then I don't know, pcl admittedly not super 1059 01:13:14.840 --> 01:13:18.600 interesting to me right now, but Il Passo at Sacramento, continue to keep 1060 01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:25.239 an eye on Wisely Matos is there, Luciano Ishmael Magua, your boy Brooks 1061 01:13:25.439 --> 01:13:29.439 Schmidt. It's a fun lineup for Sacramento. They got some pictures in black 1062 01:13:29.520 --> 01:13:31.800 and Wizz and the Hunt and then you know we got Terso on the other 1063 01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:35.920 side. But I mean, Ol Passo team isn't like super excited. Randy 1064 01:13:36.000 --> 01:13:41.199 Vasquez is there, but know those were just kind of kind of the matchups 1065 01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:45.279 that I highlighted for this upcoming week. Nice you you putting those matchups to 1066 01:13:45.399 --> 01:13:49.079 highlight out on the Twister yes, should I put these ones out too? 1067 01:13:49.319 --> 01:13:53.960 Not? Probably? I mean, yeah, pretty good it saying who are 1068 01:13:54.039 --> 01:13:58.720 these interesting cats to watch? So hella, sometimes I need to like who's 1069 01:13:58.800 --> 01:14:04.119 playing which these teams is actually interesting? So we'll throw that up on Twitter. 1070 01:14:04.239 --> 01:14:09.119 I'll throw it out there at at pitching specs on Twitter if you if 1071 01:14:09.159 --> 01:14:11.479 you want to check it out. But yeah, I don't know, man, 1072 01:14:11.600 --> 01:14:15.560 got anything else. I'm just this is just excited. I'm excited too, 1073 01:14:15.680 --> 01:14:18.760 and and so is everybody else. And I think that's leading to like 1074 01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:24.279 a lot of hot takes. And and this guy's great, this guy's not. 1075 01:14:24.560 --> 01:14:27.479 I mean even in dynasty leagues. It's just wild to me, the 1076 01:14:27.920 --> 01:14:31.079 value fluctuations, like setting aside the injury epidemics, especially amongst pictures, but 1077 01:14:31.319 --> 01:14:35.920 people are like Lindor's awful because he's you know, one for forty to start 1078 01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:40.239 the year or whatever it is, Like, he's not awful, He's gonna 1079 01:14:40.239 --> 01:14:44.119 be fine, you know, these guys just like he should I trade my 1080 01:14:44.319 --> 01:14:48.840 superstar for this package of potentially interesting prospects, Like no, unless you're doing 1081 01:14:48.880 --> 01:14:53.479 it to me, in which case, great, please do so. All 1082 01:14:53.720 --> 01:14:56.640 all the folks in the show and WGM, let's go you can. You 1083 01:14:56.680 --> 01:15:01.720 can trade me your slumping superstars for my interesting prospects, rook on the big 1084 01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:05.640 boys side. On the major league side, how about Bradford doing his thing 1085 01:15:05.760 --> 01:15:12.880 again going into the eighth inning? Dude, what about I'm seeing him getting 1086 01:15:12.920 --> 01:15:15.920 picked up in like shallow twelve team mix leagues, like yeah, love it, 1087 01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:24.000 you keep it going, Feldner going six k in course, and in 1088 01:15:24.359 --> 01:15:29.000 Rocky's fashion, they don't get him to w Yeah. Yeah, I had 1089 01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:31.359 a couple of major league beside arms that are doing all right. Man, 1090 01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:35.079 I can't complain about that. And we'll see, we'll see. You think 1091 01:15:35.359 --> 01:15:40.000 you think Bradford? I mean, if he keeps pitching this well, it's 1092 01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:43.199 gonna be hard to boot him out of that rotation, don't you think. 1093 01:15:43.359 --> 01:15:46.000 But I mean that's a big if. I think. Also it I mean 1094 01:15:46.039 --> 01:15:49.159 it's an if he's not he's not quite this good, I don't think it's 1095 01:15:49.399 --> 01:15:55.279 gonna regress a bit. But also, they're gonna need a crapload of innings, 1096 01:15:55.439 --> 01:15:58.600 Like I just don't see when it when who's the next guy back? 1097 01:15:58.760 --> 01:16:02.840 Molly? And like that may maybe I just I think they're gonna need the 1098 01:16:03.439 --> 01:16:10.720 innings. And it's funny Rosster resource List Cody Bradford SP two for the your 1099 01:16:10.760 --> 01:16:13.479 Texas range. I think that's just where it's turning the rotation is. But 1100 01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:15.399 yeah, yeah, it's kind of fun to see right on. Well, 1101 01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:19.359 that'll do it, I think. For episode twenty eight of the Prospect B 1102 01:16:19.520 --> 01:16:25.520 Sides podcast, a couple of guys watching some minor league baseball, sharing some 1103 01:16:25.640 --> 01:16:30.159 thoughts, trying to shed some light on some guys that you might be worth 1104 01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:33.800 paying attention to in your shallow or deep deep oor shallow dynasty leagues. And 1105 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:36.600 we're gonna have a lot of fun this year, Matt, thanks for joining 1106 01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:40.640 me in the mud. Yeah, we're kinda finally getting to the good stuff. 1107 01:16:40.680 --> 01:16:45.119 I feel like, absolutely, man, we'll let Chicago farmer take us 1108 01:16:45.159 --> 01:16:49.520 out be well, and we'll touch you next week. By riding to his 1109 01:16:49.640 --> 01:16:57.640 head, you have them down first with the lom bonus face, and on 1110 01:16:57.880 --> 01:17:06.880 the very next pitch he up and stole second phase with greatst bean. He 1111 01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:14.880 wasn't born. He had the dirty Yes uniform.