WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:07.559 Not five miles an hour riding too his head. You hop it down first 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:14.199 with the lumpbonius face, and on the very next pitch he up and stole 3 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:28.039 second face with greatest speed. He wasn't born, he had yes uniform. 4 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:34.679 Welcome to the Prospect Pretty Boy Podcast. I am Nate. There's another guy 5 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:40.159 here. Excuse me if I lack a little enthusiasm for talking pretty boys. 6 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:45.280 At the very least, maybe this episode can serve as a little fretey sleep 7 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:50.600 aid for you. Esting aside, Pretty boy Rookie is joining me. Matt, 8 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.200 how are you, my friend? Oh? I'm pretty. I got 9 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:57.119 all dolled up. I'm wearing my tucks. Yeah, I look good, 10 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.200 fresh cut, fresh fade. We're in here. We're talking about the pretty 11 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.959 boys. We got to look pretty, so I'm ready to go. Yeah. 12 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:10.200 This is not my comfort range. But don't think. But I have 13 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:12.680 compiled the list of I don't know. I guess you could say the top 14 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:19.159 twenty pitching prospects. At least in my opinion, you have constructed similar lists 15 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.400 for hitters, right, that is correct? Now, would you say, 16 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:27.920 when you put your list together here, how many of these hitters do you 17 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:34.200 feel like? Really good? At their chances of being an everyday guy, 18 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:38.200 all of them, some of them, handful of them. What do you 19 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:42.200 think? Yeah, I mean, we're going to talk about the top twenty 20 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:48.439 five hitters here, and I feel really pretty strongly that all of them are 21 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:52.200 going to be regulars. Are better Like most of these guys, I think 22 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:57.079 you're gonna end up being above average, so like twelve team mixed league, 23 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.920 Fantasy relevant such that, like these are a guy. These are guys that 24 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:05.560 in two years, three years, whatever, depending on their timeline for some 25 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:09.159 of them, these guys are going to be your top three four round guys. 26 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:12.520 And you know, not all of them are going to pan out. 27 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.000 I'm going to be wrong about some of these for sure, but as we're 28 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:21.039 sitting here right now, these are the kind of twenty five guys that I 29 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:25.960 feel most confident end up as above average regulars. I don't entirely know what 30 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.840 your process was for this, but how hard was it to whittle it down 31 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:35.879 to twenty five names? Do you think there's another twenty five that could easily 32 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:39.680 be in here for you or was it a bit easier than that. We 33 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:44.879 talked a little bit about this before we started recording, and I'd say the 34 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:52.159 top kind of fifteen to eighteen or so of the list fell together pretty quickly, 35 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:55.560 like the names were down pretty easily, and then it was about kind 36 00:02:55.560 --> 00:03:00.360 of sorting and grouping and figuring out how I prefer them within some of those 37 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:07.879 tiers. The last five names I struggled with a little bit about who to 38 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.479 prioritize there, and then I would say the next five names would be the 39 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:15.479 ones where it really starts to get tricky. For the most part, these 40 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:19.000 names aren't going to be surprising to people. You know. Some of them. 41 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:23.960 I'm sure I'm higher on than other public rankers, and I'm sure many 42 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:27.560 of our twelve listeners are going to disagree with me on a lot of these 43 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:31.680 picks. But for me, I think the top tier of hitters was relatively 44 00:03:31.719 --> 00:03:37.680 straightforward. Now would you say that that's the same thing for the pitchers, 45 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:42.960 especially going down to twenty. No, for me, I feel pretty good 46 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:49.439 about the top two guys and everybody else I could see not working. But 47 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:53.240 on the maybe flip side of that or thin side of the coin, I 48 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:58.520 thought there were a ton of names that you can make decent argument for being 49 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:01.919 in your top twenty pitch list. Like I think Initially, I mean, 50 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:04.479 I was like, at fifty guys, I was like, Okay, all 51 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.560 these guys I could put in the top twenty, I think, and then 52 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:12.080 maybe the last eight or nine names got a little tougher. But I don't 53 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:15.599 know the volatility. I don't know if that's the right word. Pitching, 54 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:17.639 the way that it can, like we've talked about before, can get much 55 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:21.240 better. The way that it can fail feels a little different to me than 56 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.839 hitters. I think, I, like I had mentioned you prior, if 57 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:27.639 I was doing a hitter list, I think I'd have to like kind of 58 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.879 go the other direction. I think I'd feel really good about like a dozen 59 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.279 bats or fifteen bats and have lots of reasons I'd feel good about crossing the 60 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:39.160 guy off in the sense that I feel decently well that this will be an 61 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.399 everyday contributor that will be good for our fantasy teams, and I'd have to 62 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:46.480 fill the rest of the list the other way. I don't know if that 63 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:49.480 answer makes sense, but yeah, it makes sense, And I think that 64 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:55.360 that's one of the things about pitching that is so hard, and to be 65 00:04:55.439 --> 00:05:00.000 fair, one of the reasons why I and others fade pitching actually top pitching, 66 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:08.160 because names that are just outside this list of your top twenty could easily 67 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:13.759 make a jump, and pretty quickly, within three months or a year, 68 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.240 you're like, that's a regular. That's going to be a guy who's a 69 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:21.720 staple of a rotation in the major leagues, and that can happen pretty fast. 70 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:28.360 And guys that were never on top twenty pitcher lists frequently end up in 71 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.879 the top forty arms in all of Major League Baseball at the end of the 72 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:35.959 season. And that just doesn't happen as often on the hitter side. And 73 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:40.839 so that's not to say that like there aren't such thing as pitching prospects, 74 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:44.639 you know, that old aphorism. It's more that it's easier to see a 75 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.040 guy go from like, oh, that's an org arm or maybe he is 76 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:50.800 a back end rotation guy. We see those guys up level for a season 77 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:55.879 or two at a time relatively often, I would say, and I mean, 78 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:59.319 I agree, like you've picked many of my favorite names from the minor 79 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.079 leagues in list, But at the same time, there's a whole handful of 80 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.519 other names that I could argue anywhere in the from ten on, you know, 81 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:10.720 what I mean, Right Like, if you got twenty five bats and 82 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:15.199 then there's the rest of the field of thousands of prospect hitters, right like, 83 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:19.120 I would bet your top twenty five lists versus the field. Now the 84 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:23.680 pitching list, I don't know, I'd probably just take the field over my 85 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:26.839 top twenty, you know what I mean. I just think that's kind of 86 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:30.720 the nature of I mean, pitching development. Like I'm going to share this 87 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.199 list. I think Clegg's going to put it out on the Dynasty dugout and 88 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.680 I wrote a little bit about this, the evolution the development of a picture. 89 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:41.279 I mean, I think the main meat of that takes place in the 90 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:45.439 majors and late twenties early thirties is kind of the peak for a lot of 91 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.279 pictures. Whereas I don't think hitters, I don't know if need is the 92 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.680 right word, but they have to get to a certain level I think a 93 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:56.800 lot quicker. So in that way, it's a very different animal I think 94 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:00.439 too. Yeah, And this time of year is a really interesting one. 95 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:03.680 We sit here recording on May twentieth, and a bunch of the guys that 96 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:09.560 have been a staple of hot prospect lists for the past year or so have 97 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:14.519 all just graduated because they were the ones that were promoted or made teams out 98 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.240 of camp. And so Jackson's Churio, Merrill, Colt, Keith, Colton, 99 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:23.120 Kowser, who holds me Evan Carter or why at Langford. These guys 100 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:28.040 all have graduated out and they're like have been on these lists since six months 101 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.800 ago or more. This is an interesting time of the year too, when 102 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:34.959 you start looking at the larger set of prospects out there, like guys are 103 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:39.519 just starting to get promoted out of a ball. On the pitching side, 104 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:42.600 we've seen some of those arms that we've identified as like, hey, these 105 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:46.160 are really interesting and now they're starting to get promoted and have success in High 106 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.279 A or Double A. While that hasn't quite started to happen with most hitting 107 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:54.319 prospects yet, I think it's going to start relatively soon, Like we're going 108 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:57.319 to start to see a bit more of the promotion some of the prospects we'll 109 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:01.279 talk about, and certainly the prospects that are right behind this list who as 110 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.639 you'll hear, I struggled with that next tier beyond the kind of top twenty 111 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.920 five because so many of those guys have potential to leap into this list with 112 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:16.040 graduations and with their performance. But it's a big mixing bucket, and we 113 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:18.759 still don't have enough information yet, you know, And I think that that 114 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:22.839 makes it this time. You're sort of an interesting update for prospect lists. 115 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:28.279 Generally agreed, and I think a lot of public list makers are getting ready 116 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.279 to put some of the some of their new updates out. And uh, 117 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.639 yeah, I don't know what we're your first five, last five, however 118 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.720 you want to say that names on your list here, Well, we're going 119 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:46.240 to start at twenty five Mariners young outfielder question mark, Lazaro Montes, twenty 120 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:52.240 four Cole Young Mariners infielder question mark. Oh, here we go. We're 121 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:54.240 just going to get twenty five Mariners here, Matt. I mean, I 122 00:08:54.320 --> 00:09:01.440 wish you know that there are some number twenty three for you. Nate Handy 123 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:07.960 Adiel Amador, Colorado, Rocky's middlandfielder, probably second baseman, twenty two, 124 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:16.840 Hesson kirstad for the Baltimore Orioles outfielder twenty one, Kyle men Zardo the Cleveland 125 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:24.799 Guardians newly promoted first basement Las Montees. He's the only a ball guy that 126 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.360 made my top twenty five, and there were a bunch of names that I 127 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:33.559 considered here. As as I told Nate, there's a bunch of like the 128 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.559 kind of major League ready guys that look like regulars, you know, Brian 129 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.519 Ramos, Graham Paully, kind of that tier of guys that are they're interesting 130 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:46.279 hitters, but they maybe lack the upside. And then there's a bunch of 131 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.559 the A ball hitters like Colt Emerson, Daral Perez, Aiden Miller, like 132 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.639 those kinds of guys that are performing. They're really young, but they're only 133 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:58.360 doing it in A ball so far, I have questions are they going to 134 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.279 be able to sustain? So I picked one A ball guy, and I 135 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.320 picked Las Montes, and it's because the calling card is power and the question 136 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:09.720 mark for him is his contact. And so far this year he has improved 137 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:15.399 his contact and his strikeout rate so significantly that to me, he starts to 138 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:20.559 look like that actualized version of himself. So for Las Montes, the calling 139 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:22.440 cards power, it's still just at A ball, but I think when he 140 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:26.279 gets promoted to Everett, he's going to crush it and then he might not 141 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:31.960 get tested again until double A. This is just a corner outfield mashing starter 142 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.919 kit. Cole Young and Adaiel Amador are two of the best contact hitters in 143 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:41.120 the minors. Bring different things to the plate. Though young they are, 144 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.919 they have some of the lowest swing strike rates. They've been very young for 145 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.080 the level, so they both remain very young, and they're both in double 146 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:54.279 A. Cole Young, his batterball spray, I think is a little bit 147 00:10:54.519 --> 00:11:01.320 more conducive to letting those contact skills flourish. But he's not as and Amador 148 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:05.519 this year despite running a really low BABAP and the surface numbers look bad, 149 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:09.320 but he's still getting on base. He's stealing a lot of bags more than 150 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.000 I thought he was going to. And I'm kind of thinking, my opinion 151 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.879 is that Amador is just getting a bit unlucky and some of this is just 152 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.679 going to work out in the wash. So this kind of soft contact ground 153 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:24.360 balls that he's hitting a few too many of, now, I don't think 154 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.000 that's who he is, and I think he's gonna end up adjusting with the 155 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.080 speed. I just put him a notch above Cole Young. Hetsin Cresad and 156 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.840 colemon Zardo are similar in lots of ways. They both have high home run 157 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:41.080 projection. Curestad has more raw power, Manzarto kind of similar to Cole Young, 158 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:46.200 hits the ball at better launch angles, like he's hitting a bunch of 159 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:48.960 fly balls, hitting high line drives, and has just done that since college. 160 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.320 That's kind of all he's done. So even though the overall ceiling pretty 161 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.519 similar, these guys are going to get to those home runs in slightly different 162 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:00.320 ways. Neither is really a threat on the bases, so I kind of 163 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:03.360 lump them together. Kerstad's a little older, he's had a taste of the 164 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:07.279 majors. Manzarto a little bit younger, but recent promotion as well, so 165 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:09.600 kind of both knocking on the door. And these are the oldest guys on 166 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.919 my list. I think, yeah, there might be one other hitter that's 167 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.159 close to Manzar's age, but Curestad's the oldest on the list. And some 168 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:20.039 of this is he's missed time because of injury, so he may make up 169 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.080 for that once he makes the major leagues. So that's my first five. 170 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.840 Man. I gotta say, I don't know if there's been a pretty boy 171 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:31.720 prospect more disappointing in my looks this year than amador. I just, okay, 172 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.159 your contact rate is high, you're not striking out a lot. What's 173 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:39.279 his strikeout rate? Did you mention that? I didn't. But over the 174 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.559 last two seasons, so his age twenty in age twenty one seasons between High 175 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.600 and Double A, it's been thirteen point three percent. Okay, he's at 176 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:56.799 seventeen point six this year and his ground ball rate is fifty eight. Matt. 177 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.799 I have seen just so many weeks ass swings from him, like okay, 178 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.159 cool, you put the bat on the ball, you have bounced it 179 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:11.200 back to the picture. I was already a bit reluctant on what his sort 180 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:15.559 of fantasy upside might be. Just not impressed. I don't understand that that 181 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.320 sort of hitting and what purpose that serves, Like, just swing the bat 182 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:22.279 and if you strike out over the long haul, you're gonna have more positive 183 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:28.159 outcomes than tapping it back to the picture or some soft ground ball to second 184 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:30.679 base. Like I don't know, I just don't. I don't really get 185 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:35.000 what he's doing. I'm with you, this has been sort of unquestionably outside 186 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:39.279 of one thing, a really really disappointing start to his Double A season. 187 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:46.159 But he's running a one seventy six babbit. Literally, nobody runs a babbit 188 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.159 that low, Like Joe Blow doesn't run a babbit that low. Right, 189 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:52.200 Well, you're not going to get a lot of hits when you hit the 190 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.360 ball so weakly, But that still is like it's an impossible babbitt to sustain. 191 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:03.360 I also think that we've seen him adjust before. He's a very talented 192 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:07.159 batta ball hitter, and I think that that adjustment is still in the offing, 193 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:13.120 and this is like bad surface results and potentially some bad process that we 194 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:16.559 hope he's learning from. And even with that, he's still swiped fifteen bags 195 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.600 this year, so he's barely on base. He's not hitting for any power. 196 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.679 I think his ISO is like he's got like one double or something this 197 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:26.480 year, and a lot of that is because he's making this soft content out 198 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:31.600 of the zone. His ISO right now is point zero zero nine. Yeah, 199 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.120 one double on the air for what is that really bad? And yet 200 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:39.440 he's just bunting, just practice bunting, just bumped every time, and he 201 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:45.200 still has I think he's taking walks, which I know you hate, but 202 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:50.440 it's still to me showing that there are some good swing decisions happening. And 203 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:54.799 some of the underlying skills remain interesting to me. Betting on, he's very 204 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:00.000 young for double A still and he's going to make an adjustment. We'll see 205 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.639 wrong on this, but we've seen a lot about his back to ball in 206 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:07.440 the past that makes me think a lot of this is an operation and those 207 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:09.480 ground balls are going to turn into line drives. He's going to get hits, 208 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:11.759 get doubles, put them out of the yard. Yeah, I don't 209 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:13.679 know. I mean, we're only a couple of months, not even a 210 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:18.080 couple months into the season, But I mean I'm pressing that pumpkin button down 211 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.360 halfway right now. I am. I don't know if I could be any 212 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:24.519 less impressed with a hitter than Amador. All right, enough for that, 213 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.919 Let's get over to the good side of things here. I'm like, I'm 214 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:33.159 sure I'm probably gonna have some names that other folks wouldn't have, maybe as 215 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:37.960 high. But like I said before, I think that there's a lot more 216 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:43.480 room for placing certain kinds of bets and going after and valuing different types of 217 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:46.639 arms. This is me, Like I said, I'll have some more explanations 218 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:52.279 and tidbits out there in my piece, But number twenty. We've talked plenty 219 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:56.559 about Joandra Swarez of the Mets. I put him there, Whoop Whoop. 220 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:02.440 Nineteen I went with young Ja We are Richie who we have a very small 221 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:08.200 professional sample size of, but I was smitten with his reputation and a little 222 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:11.440 bit that I did see of I don't know, wanting to value him enough 223 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:18.120 that he could be a young and up and coming executionist that I love to 224 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:22.679 go after. I'll put a decent price tag on him. Eighteen I went 225 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.519 with Pirates. Well, I guess he's the top pirate on my list, 226 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.840 which probably go against a lot of pirate lists here. But I was a 227 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:33.519 big fan of Mike Burrows and his ascension in twenty twenty two. I felt 228 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.919 like he and Gavin Stone had some similarities in their rise. At the time, 229 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.639 I wasn't sure which of the two I liked better, and of course, 230 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.440 as Burrows was kind of rounding into form a little bit, Tommy John 231 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.720 struck. But Matt. When I do pitching speculation, I like to just 232 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:55.200 treat Tommy John as just a pause button, and I don't necessarily get down 233 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:59.120 on guys or value them less. After Tommy John, I just am hoping 234 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:03.519 that the story zooms where it left off. But him and his changeup and 235 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:04.799 the way that he was looking, and I think, knocking on the big 236 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:11.000 league doors, I have remained Mike Burrows stand. At seventeen, I went 237 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:15.079 with Sean Sullivan or the Rockies, which I know is going to turn a 238 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.880 lot of people off. But that fastball from the left side, and that 239 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.839 deception, the shape of that thing, what it's doing to hitters, this 240 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:29.000 sort of tier pitchers where all of my I don't know, more confident bets 241 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:33.720 start to dwindle. I will take a ride on that Sullivan fastball and stay 242 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:38.079 a little committed to his development here. And then sixteen I went with the 243 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:44.839 very trendy hot name. But I think rightfully so Zebbie Matthews are the twins, 244 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.480 all right? All right? Some interesting names there, some that I 245 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.480 really dig I know some folks are going to want me to ask about Burrows, 246 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.359 but we've talked about this before. I'm kind of with you. I 247 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:00.920 really liked Burrows when he was coming up in twenty twenty two, So we're 248 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.119 gonna skip over talking about him. Maybe we can dive into him as he 249 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:08.759 starts his coming back from rehab, which I think should be. I haven't 250 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:12.960 really looked or heard much, but it's got to be coming fairly soon. 251 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:17.400 What I think, maybe beginning of last year, if I remember correctly, 252 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:21.079 his first or triple A start maybe you know, wasn't the greatest, but 253 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:22.680 then I thought he looked really good and at least one of them, and 254 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.559 then was gone, yep, yeah, I think it was a second one 255 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:30.519 that he got hurt in. Was it okay? Yeah? I am curious 256 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:34.279 to hear your argument for Sean Sullivan. Yeah, and that's fair, And 257 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:38.119 you know, I will not look down upon anyone who wants to cross a 258 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:44.440 RACKI off their list completely. But like we've talked about their system and their 259 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:47.880 their arm farm right now, and obviously I'm a bit biased. I'm a 260 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:52.680 Rockies fan, but I really am trying to not be. They have collected 261 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:56.039 talent at an unprecedented rate for them. I don't think there's ever been this 262 00:18:56.240 --> 00:19:00.319 much arm talent in their system before, so I'm really didn't to necessarily like 263 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:07.960 judge them like past Rockies arm farms. I think there is positive things going 264 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:11.440 on, and they're pitching, they are catching up to some degree. They've 265 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.480 got a pitching lab and from all the way from from what I can see 266 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.680 a ball to the majors, I think there are good things happening. I 267 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:22.519 like what some of their major league arms are doing right now. I think 268 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:30.359 they've all taken developmental steps, and with the attrition of arm health that perhaps 269 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:36.240 an unprecedented rate, there is a possibility that a Rockies arm or two can 270 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.759 help our fantasy squads. I don't know. I'm trying to navigate that the 271 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:44.119 best I can. But with Sullivan in particular, I think about Cody Bradford, 272 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:48.680 some Matt and how he's got a softer left handed fastball that is really 273 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.599 effective. And I'm not saying that the fastballs are one for ones here, 274 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:57.119 but after about I don't know, fifteen fourteen on my list, I think 275 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:03.839 the glab gets way bitter. There are less sort of whole packages, if 276 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:07.119 you will, flashing what I want to bet on. So I was just 277 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:11.640 kind of then attaching myself to maybe one particular skill that I really want to 278 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.680 commit to, and for me, it's Sullivan and that fastball, and I 279 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:18.039 think he's just in Hia right now. It's a tough place to pitch, 280 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.240 but I think we're seeing what that fastball can do, and if that's the 281 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.839 rudder to his development, I think I kind of want to take that run. 282 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:30.559 Yeah, And we talked a couple episodes ago about how many of the 283 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:37.400 Rockies pitching prospects were actually showing out really, really well, whether that be 284 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:41.880 in Spokane like Sullivan or in Hartford Palmquist, who we've talked about quite a 285 00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:45.680 bit. I think there's a few guys that you can make the case for 286 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:49.359 as the top Rockies pitching prospect and not get laughed out of a room. 287 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:52.680 Right, these are real arms and Sullivan, you know, he's a second 288 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:59.799 rounder out of wake Forest, which is a pitching factory, so there's certainly 289 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:06.000 some interest there. And he's had a great start to his professional career. 290 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:10.519 I mean love the low walk totals like that is really really exciting to see, 291 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:14.079 and he's getting lots of whiffs and not just on his fastball. I 292 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:18.160 think some of the off speed plays pretty well too. And the fastball is 293 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:21.599 very i mean, it's slaps very different. Just watching on video, it's 294 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:25.279 just it's a different look, different deception, a different release, and I 295 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:30.440 think a different movement profile. Like my hitters list, it's just it's hard 296 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:37.440 for me to really get behind a guy when the track record is still pretty 297 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:41.279 short. And sure, they've only made it to high A as we've seen, 298 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:45.480 and we've talked about double as really where prospects start to cut their teeth 299 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:49.440 and the drop off to double A can be big, right, it should 300 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:52.920 be a big drop. And I'm not saying that that's true of Sullivan, 301 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:56.279 just for me, it's a question mark for a guy that had such kind 302 00:21:56.279 --> 00:22:00.799 of a short professional track record up to this point, I will admit, 303 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.160 and I think if folks look at my list, I'm I'm pretty picky. 304 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.960 I will cross a guy off because I don't like his headwhack. You know, 305 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:11.640 I think for the most part, it's worked fairly well for me. 306 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:15.720 So this might be a little bit of a risky call. But if you're 307 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.279 going to ride a Rockies arm, it might be wise to ride one where 308 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:25.000 the juice is the fastball and not breaking stuff necessarily. So and you know, 309 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:27.400 I'm thinking long haul here, Matt, you know, like our eight 310 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:32.559 year draft and Hold pitching league that we did, Like I'm trying to think 311 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:36.759 about eight years from now. I'm trying to think about what this guy's career 312 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:40.039 will look like I'm trying to think about the skills that they may or may 313 00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:44.839 not have to survive the attrition and survive long enough in the bigs, make 314 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:49.160 enough good big league pitches to get to that their late twenties their early thirties. 315 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:53.079 Yeah, And that again is something that I think we forget about with 316 00:22:53.200 --> 00:23:00.880 prospects and in dynasty when you're looking at these guys like you aren't brostering prospects 317 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.480 because you want them to be good next year. Your rostering prospects if you're 318 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.160 in a rebuild, for example, so that they're going to be good in 319 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:11.039 three years or two years or longer. Tricky with pitchers like you're talk about, 320 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:14.279 you know, with Brandon fo or Gavin Stone or some of these other 321 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:18.160 guys that looked great in the minors and then had a significant adjustment to the 322 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:22.440 big leagues and sure look pretty good. Sure, And I get And I'm 323 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:25.400 not saying we need to think about, oh, which arm, which hitter 324 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:27.680 or whatever that I'm going to put on my roster for eight years, because 325 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:33.559 the reality of that happening is is slim. Five years into a new league 326 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:36.920 and I have one player left from that initial draft you know, and I 327 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:40.319 feel like I'm stubborn, but I do feel like when we put lists together 328 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:44.000 like that, that's, in my belief, that's how we should be looking 329 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:47.960 at these players, looking at their careers, not the short term. Yep. 330 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:53.200 All right, back over to the athlete side. Starting at number, 331 00:23:53.480 --> 00:24:00.400 We're going to go with Orioles outfielder Dylan Beaver's number nineteen. We're gonna go 332 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:07.000 with Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Andy Payes number eighteen. We're gonna go Pete Crow, 333 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:15.759 Armstrong Maybee's centerfielder, number seventeen, Mariners catching prospect Harry Ford, and 334 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:22.079 number sixteen Tampa Bay Ray's shortstop prospect Carson Williams. Now, this is an 335 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:26.559 interesting group. Some that I've been skeptical of before this season. We talked 336 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.480 about a couple of these guys in an off season episode, and some that 337 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:34.200 I've kind of stumped for for a while. Dylan Beavers is I think my 338 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:40.599 kind of prospect, and that he does everything well and doesn't have a standout 339 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:45.960 specific tool. He strikes out better than average amount, he walks more than 340 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:51.359 average, He swipes bags and has power and I think can get to it. 341 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:55.200 He's sort of like quietly under the radar good at all of these things, 342 00:24:55.359 --> 00:25:00.359 and I find that those players often litter my rosters, especially in ROTO, 343 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:03.359 because I like having a baseline of skills across the board rather than guys 344 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:07.680 who excel in one specific category. So Dylan Bieber's I think fits that to 345 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:11.440 a t, and he's done at high and double A at young for a 346 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:17.119 level twenty one and twenty two. Andy Pies. I was way on last 347 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:22.039 year when we did the Dynasty dugout initial draft. I think I drafted all 348 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:26.319 major leaguers, so I was like, I'm competing out of the fourteenth draft 349 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:29.720 slot, so the last pick in the draft, and I was like, 350 00:25:29.880 --> 00:25:33.079 I'm competing, and so I waited on all of my prospects, but I 351 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:36.839 felt like I picked some good ones. And my third prospect that I picked 352 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:42.240 that year was Andy Pies because I am a huge believer in guys that do 353 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:48.920 things well at the extremes and his trick his one weird trick and doctors will 354 00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:53.000 hate him that he hits everything in the air and he has the power to 355 00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:56.240 make that work. He's hit the ground running for the Dodgers already. But 356 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:02.160 I think that even though his exit the velocities are more good than great. 357 00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:06.400 He's going to be a great power asset for a really long time because he 358 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:10.759 has great plate discipline and he hits the ball in the air all the time. 359 00:26:10.839 --> 00:26:15.200 And I love that PCA similar player in a lot of ways. The 360 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:19.279 exit velocities aren't outstanding, but he's going to play all the time because he's 361 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.680 got plays really really great defense and he hits a lot of flyballs. So 362 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:27.160 even though some of the exit velocity stuff and the plate discipline stuff is not 363 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:30.319 as good for PCA as it is for any of these other guys in this 364 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:34.039 grouping strikes out a bit more, walks a bit less, but he's got 365 00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:37.880 that defensive floor, so he's going to get plate appearances and that is king. 366 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:42.279 And he's fast enough to steal bags. He's shown a propensity to steal, 367 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:45.599 which it matters, and that's something again that I think we'll come back 368 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:48.880 to for some other guys that maybe have better speed but aren't as good at 369 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:52.559 stealing bags. And I think he's going to get to his home runs because 370 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:56.880 he hits fly balls and he's going to play at Rikley harry Ford maybe my 371 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:02.160 highest riser when I was doing this prospect list for me coming into the season, 372 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:06.559 he was like in the sixty seventy range, and I had expressed some 373 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:11.880 skepticism about how his power was going to play at double A, especially in 374 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:17.720 Arkansas where the park is pretty unfavorable for power. That whole Texas League has 375 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:22.839 a bunch of parks that aren't particularly good for power. And it's been super 376 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:26.279 impressive. He has not missed a beat. Like his lines from last year 377 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.839 and this year look so similar. He's hitting home runs at about the same 378 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.000 rate. He is walking at about the same rate. He's striking out at 379 00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:38.079 about the same rate. He's doing this while he's a catcher and is twenty 380 00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:44.400 one years old. That is really impressive. That he has advanced to a 381 00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:48.839 harder, a worse ballpark, a much more difficult league, has it missed 382 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.680 a beat at all. I am super buying that this is just like the 383 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.640 plate skills that he's known for, you know, walking and not striking out 384 00:27:56.720 --> 00:28:00.160 very much are going to help boy his profile kind of no matter what the 385 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.480 other contexts. And for me, he's kind of cemented himself. I'm still 386 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:07.119 not sure he's going to be a catcher hit or miss in my looks, 387 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.640 and I've watched quite a bit of that Arkansas team, and so that's maybe 388 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.319 still a knit to pick for him, But everything else about it has looked 389 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:19.400 pretty good, down to him stealing bases, which, again at the catcher 390 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:22.279 position, that can be a big leg up. And the last guy in 391 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:26.759 this group is another one that I've been somewhat skeptical of, Carson Williams shortstop, 392 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:32.799 and my skepticism for him has been his contact ability. He's run strikeout 393 00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:37.640 rates north of thirty percent for most of his minor league career, but he's 394 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.519 done so while still having well above WRC plus despite being really young for the 395 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:45.160 level. I mean, he made triple A as a twenty year old last 396 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:48.480 year, and he's made the strikeout rate work because he has a lot of 397 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:53.119 power and he plays great defense. He's a plus defender at shortstop. The 398 00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:56.599 plus defender still seems to be true. My looks at him this year have 399 00:28:56.680 --> 00:29:00.480 looked he looks as slick and smooth as ever. The power is still there, 400 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:06.559 and most encouragingly, he's back at double A, but his strikeout rate 401 00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:11.160 is way down and he remains one of the youngest players in the league. 402 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:17.480 So that's my five number twenty Beavers, nineteen Pies, eighteen PCA, seventeen 403 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:21.119 Harry Ford, and sixteen Carson Williams. Who you want to touch on, 404 00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.559 Nate. Interesting group on a couple of fronts for me, Matt, Like 405 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:29.640 you mentioned two guys in here that we actually traded away in our I'm not 406 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:33.839 taking the hour on that yet, but it's having a great year. Yeah, 407 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:36.400 he's doing all right, Harry Ford. I think in a way, 408 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:38.480 Matt, if I remember correctly some of the things that we kind of threw 409 00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:42.440 some doubts on or question ear least I did. He's also kind of proving 410 00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:45.960 what we like to see in some hitters. Right. He might not hit 411 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:52.160 the ball the hardest, but he is maximizing his home run potential, right 412 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.440 yep, which is what we like. So sneaky little Harry Ford there at 413 00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:59.279 the front. I had asked you how many of these guys you do, 414 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:02.240 like, you know, going to be every dayers? And this is where 415 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:04.960 I think, historically for me, at least after about the top ten or 416 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:10.160 fifteen hitters, is where I start to get some questions about how good I 417 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:11.839 feel that these will be every days. But I got to ask you about 418 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.839 Dylan Beaver's, you really feel that confident that he's going to be an everyday 419 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:19.400 outfield there, Huh, I really do. I think you look at what 420 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:25.759 he's done so far in his minor league career and it's flown a little bit 421 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:30.039 under the radar, both because he's in a stacked system and there are lots 422 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:34.400 of exciting prospects kind of sandwiching him in Triple A now with Mayo and Holiday 423 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:38.119 and Crestad and all those guys that are kind of above him, and then 424 00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:45.880 below with the SAO and a bunch of the draftees in Booie. But I 425 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:49.519 don't know. I think Beaver's has a case to be made as just as 426 00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:53.680 impressive. And we when we had back on he was asking about kind of 427 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:59.119 what the ideal kind of ideal hitter profile looks like for me, and one 428 00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:02.400 of the things that we had talked about was how often does a hit or 429 00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:03.480 hit the ball in the ground, how much do they put it in the 430 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:08.480 air. Beavers kind of looks like one of the most ideal versions of it 431 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:12.319 for me. Twenty eight percent ground ball rates so far this year, twenty 432 00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:17.759 seven percent line drive, which is pretty high forty four point seven percent fly 433 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:21.519 ball. That's not super extreme. It's not quite Andy Pies level. That 434 00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:25.200 ground ball rate kind of is. I think that actually might be better than 435 00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:30.119 Pies's so far this year. That I love. And the rest of his 436 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.799 game is just pretty well rounded. He gets to his homers, He's running 437 00:31:34.039 --> 00:31:37.759 almost two hundred ISO as a twenty two year old in double A. He 438 00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:42.039 can steal a bag or two. You know, he's got nine steals versus 439 00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:47.200 one caught stealing this year. I just love that like well rounded production, 440 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:51.680 and nothing about what he's doing seems unsustainable to me. He's got a better 441 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:55.880 than the average strikeout rate. It's backed by a better than average swinging strike 442 00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:59.160 rate. I look at him and I wish he hit for a little more 443 00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:01.319 power. If he hit the ball a little bit harder, he might be 444 00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:06.359 pushing into my top ten. Right everything else about it, I feel really 445 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.599 really good at I can't say that I've seen a ton of him playing the 446 00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:15.119 outfield, like I'm not confident that he's a plus outfielder. When I have 447 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:19.359 seen him out there, he looks athletic and fast, and it feels like 448 00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.200 he's going to play at least average defense. So Beaver's for me, yeah, 449 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.640 I'm confident that he's a big lea regular. I think the knock for 450 00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:30.440 me on him is, I'm not sure there is a star level carrying tool 451 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:36.720 here. So a great outcome for him looks something like Brian Reynolds maybe and 452 00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.279 he's I'm not saying he's there yet, but that kind of shape of production 453 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:45.920 with like teen fifteen and so steals fifteen to twenty homers annually and just good 454 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:49.680 across the board production. But I'm not sure I see like the upside case 455 00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:52.759 where for like a Christian Yelich breakout season where he is hitting a bunch of 456 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:55.319 homers, you know what I mean? Like that thats to me like maybe 457 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:59.920 the upside isn't quite as exciting for Beavers. But I am very sure that 458 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.880 this guy is a big league regular who really checks a lot of boxes for 459 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.480 me fair enough also too, Matt, we never even broached this. I 460 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:10.440 think it's a lot tougher to do this for hitters and pictures in the sense 461 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:15.839 that there's lots of different formats and hitting stats that get weighed and valued different 462 00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:20.759 leagues when you were putting, Is this just kind of a generic list, 463 00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:24.359 or are you leading a certain format. No, that's a good question, 464 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:30.519 and probably should have mentioned that at the outset. This is for your five 465 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:36.519 by five, so scundard categories like roto classical league, and that comes into 466 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:38.720 play. I mean I mentioned that with Amador, like there's a lot that 467 00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:43.799 he doesn't do well, but his propensity to his steal and contact ability to 468 00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:46.920 me bumps him up, whereas in a really power focused points league he would 469 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:51.319 not be interesting to me really at all. In fact, I traded him 470 00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:52.799 way in one of those leagues. But yeah, this is we're looking for 471 00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:58.119 guys that have that across the board production, especially with as it relates to 472 00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:01.400 steals. An average did not envy that aspect of your challenge putting a hitter 473 00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:05.559 list together. Matt, all right, should we go back to the good 474 00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:07.679 side? Yeah, I go back to the boring pitchers again? Are interesting 475 00:34:07.760 --> 00:34:13.480 names in this next group, you think? So fifteen I went with very 476 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:17.079 young Marlins lefty Thomas White. Now, again, this is an a ball 477 00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.960 pitcher, and this is probably about as far up I will push this sort 478 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:28.599 of projectable hopeful, but I think I have seen now a couple of nice 479 00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:32.920 flashes similar to what we saw in the Spring Breakout game that I would put 480 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:37.000 a gamble down on Thomas White in about this range. Okay, okay, 481 00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:42.159 three big pitches, and I think there are signs that he's learning how to 482 00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:45.880 pitch some Fourteen man, I promise you this is the last Rocky. But 483 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:50.559 I went with Chase Dolander. I think he is just if you're gonna ride 484 00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:52.480 a RACKI or better Racky, he's probably the best arm to do it. 485 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:58.480 Thirteen I went with Caden Dana, twelve I went with Adam Maser, and 486 00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:02.480 eleven I went with Christian Scott. Hmmm, yep, this is an interesting 487 00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:07.239 quintech here. Yeah, it's a little group like Scott, Maser, Kadan 488 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:13.679 Dana. Those three guys that I have I don't know if on early or 489 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.880 have valued more highly than others, but kind of have been on for a 490 00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:22.079 minute and don't have much of a reason to lose my hope with them. 491 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:27.719 I think. Yeah, so just on that trio, I think that's a 492 00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.079 good segue into who I want to talk about. Like Scott, I would 493 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:32.840 push quite a bit higher than this, Like I think, you know, 494 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.559 he's one of my favorite arms in the minor leagues. Maser. I'm right 495 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:43.199 there with you this. He's pushing a top ten you know, teams pitching 496 00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.320 prospect. For me, I love guys who throw strikes, and that's what 497 00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:50.360 he does. He can get better at commanding those strikes, as we've talked 498 00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:52.719 about, but I really really like him. I got to ask you to 499 00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:57.199 sell me on Caden Dana. I know we've maybe touched on him a little 500 00:35:57.239 --> 00:36:00.000 bit, but he's the guy I want you to dive into because ye from 501 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:05.440 me, he's not sniffing my top thirty forty arms maybe, and I know 502 00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:07.960 lots of people really love him, and he's got at least one pitch to 503 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:12.719 me that looks really good, but I'm skeptical. I need to be sold 504 00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.000 here. What do you got? Yeah? Watch a good bit of him, 505 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:17.400 And then I went back and I watched his most recent start as well, 506 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:22.039 and I will admit that before watching his last start, I don't know 507 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:25.079 if he would have made my top twenty. But here's why. Came away 508 00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:30.920 last year very impressed with his north south game right, his ability to spot 509 00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:34.760 his fastball and play his curveball where I don't know if calls it a slider 510 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:37.480 off of that well and what we were talking about at that time. A 511 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:42.119 nineteen year old in Hi A right, and my man was logging innings and 512 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:45.760 he's a horse, big strong. This last start, I saw him throw 513 00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:52.039 way more sliders and two seemers sinkers. I don't know what he's calling it 514 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:55.400 than I had in the past. Now I think that there's still definitely some 515 00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:59.800 work to be done with those two offerings, but I love that I saw 516 00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:02.599 him working on an east west attack. How good it gets, I'm not 517 00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:08.079 totally sure, but I feel dang good about seeing that and riding what I 518 00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:12.320 think his horsepower is going to be. As long as the Angels don't push 519 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:16.199 him too hard and too fast and give him the requisite time to sharpen his 520 00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:21.639 whole arsenal, I think you'll see swing and miss improve. And I think 521 00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:25.199 he's just on a path where he's getting himself better for the major leagues and 522 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:30.679 not selling out for right now production. And this is a twenty year old 523 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:36.079 in double A and he's logging long outings, lots of quality and quantity of 524 00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:39.119 innings, and I don't know how much better we can get than that sort 525 00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:43.440 of bet. So is this the outing that he had last week? Versus 526 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:45.480 the Smokeyes, that's the when you were diving into Yes, but it's interesting 527 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:50.239 you say that. I mean, that's definitely his worst outing of the year 528 00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:53.079 so far. Right, Maybe it was statistically, but for me, that 529 00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:58.960 was the best development and developmental sense outing I've seen from him. I love 530 00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:01.440 and I want to see young guys like this doing things are not good at 531 00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:07.639 yet. Yeah, and there's there's certainly something to that, like trying to 532 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:13.079 improve your weaknesses to help build a more well rounded arsenal and learning how to 533 00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:15.719 pitch. I think that that's valuable. We've talked about kind of the difficulties 534 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:22.960 of how do you assess is this a regression of skills versus willful progression of 535 00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:30.960 trying to learn something and rose nuggets of development can be really challenging to tease 536 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.800 out for me. For me, like, I watched that start too, 537 00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:37.960 and it looked like and again maybe this is because I went into it thinking 538 00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:43.039 why isn't this guy missing bats? And where's the control? Like he's had 539 00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:46.079 some command issues in the past, and up to that point this year his 540 00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:50.920 control had been pretty good, Like he hadn't issued many walks, but then 541 00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:53.760 in three and two thirds he walks, three hits, two throws, two 542 00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:59.079 wild pitches. I came away like, oh yeah, there's the kind of 543 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.599 below average control that we saw last year and he's still not missing any bats. 544 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:07.760 That's he might be not an appropriate level right now. You know, 545 00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:10.519 he's up in double A as a young twenty year old, Like the Angels 546 00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:16.400 are being really aggressive with him. I'm less willing to blindly attribute performance like 547 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:22.119 that to he's working on something, and more to me, it's like he's 548 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:25.360 not very good like he you know, if you step back from his performance 549 00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:29.800 so far, like, yes, he's young, yes it can develop. 550 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:34.000 There's long time still between now and when he makes the major leagues and his 551 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:39.079 contributing but going from less than five innings per start so far in his career 552 00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:45.079 walking more than you would like to see for a guy like this. I 553 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:50.199 mean, he's run higher than ten percent walk rates at his two longest stops 554 00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:52.599 before this year, and now he's at sort of a league average eight percent 555 00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:57.719 after that last outing. He's not striking guys out very much, like a 556 00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.920 thirteen point five percent CA minus b be on its face to me, is 557 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:04.880 like this is not a guy yet, Maybe he can get there. And 558 00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:07.039 maybe this is part of his progression to get there. But yeah, Dana, 559 00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:10.159 for me is the guy on your list that I just like, probably 560 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:14.559 wouldn't even consider at this point. Well, one thing is I wouldn't say 561 00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:19.039 that this is blindly doing this. I watched all of his broadcast starts from 562 00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:21.280 last year. To me, it makes a lot of sense that you might 563 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:22.880 walk some more, guys might hit, a guy might have a wild pitch 564 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:27.599 when you're working with some tools that you're not comfortable with. My hope is 565 00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:30.960 that this story ends up very similar to a guy in my next year that 566 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:35.280 I'm sure we'll talk about, Cavee Cavali, not one for one, not 567 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.960 the same sort of pitchers, but I think potentially the same sort of developmental 568 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:43.440 story or similar. Yeah, could be we're making guesses in the dark here 569 00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:46.199 to some extent, and we're certainly not always going to agree. I thought 570 00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:51.440 that was in a pretty aggressive placement for Danna what we've seen so far. 571 00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:53.199 Well, if you want to for me, also part of this is if 572 00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:55.760 you look at it from the context of, like, who do you want 573 00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:59.840 to bet on is going to log some major league innings? Like I think 574 00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:04.639 you feel pretty good about Dana getting some Major league innings to Angels and them 575 00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:08.199 staying fairly committed to him and whatever that development in the majors may need to 576 00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:14.880 look like that might be true. I'll just note that they're fast tracking development 577 00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:21.039 of their pictures hasn't really seemed to pay dividends outside of maybe debt mark maybe 578 00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:23.280 maybe you know, I'm just saying, like the other guys that they've kind 579 00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:29.239 of really pushed through, They've traded some of them in Ky Bush and Sith 580 00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:34.960 has shown flashes in the major leagues, but they pinged Bachmann pretty quickly after 581 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.400 trying to push him fast. Yeah. I can't really think of anybody else 582 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:42.599 that that's that's worked for. And again maybe it's not to say won't work 583 00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:45.920 for Dana. Well, if horsepower, if there were horsepower grades, I 584 00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:50.800 think Dana could be like a seventy and uh maybe with a future eighty. 585 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:53.320 So maybe that's what you want to hang your head on here. Horsepower, 586 00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:59.159 of course, one, What what outcome are we hoping to get out of 587 00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:05.239 horsepower? Like sweat two hundred innings? Ok, that's interesting you say that. 588 00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:07.559 I mean, he doesn't go more than five innings to start, you 589 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:12.320 know, he was lugging six inning outings fairly regular last year as a nineteen 590 00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.559 year old, I mean, fifty three and a third in eleven starts. 591 00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:17.840 Like, that's less than five innings per outing, Like it's that he's not 592 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.800 some five to six for a nineteen year old. That's a lot. You're 593 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:28.800 you're saying horsepower and the guy through what sixty five sixty eight innings last year, 594 00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:31.079 Like, that's not it's not horsepower. Well, you ain't gonna get 595 00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:35.599 a lot of nineteen year olds throwing sixty some innings in high A in the 596 00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:39.079 minors. Maybe yeah, maybe it's a like an age or level adjusted horsepower 597 00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:45.880 ranking. Sure, sure whatever future horsepower, future horsepower into it, like 598 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:49.800 an into it, Like all right, back over to the hitters. At 599 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.480 fifteen, I'm gonna go with Chased the Louder Guardians outfielder, fourteen another Cubby 600 00:42:54.800 --> 00:43:01.199 Matt Shaw infielder for the Cubs, thirteen Romananthe outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, 601 00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:08.000 and twelve Owen Casey, Cubby's outfielder. And finally at number eleven, 602 00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:15.519 Jet Williams, shortstop for the New York Metropolitans. This is an interesting group. 603 00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:17.079 I don't know, there's not like sort of a clean theme here. 604 00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:22.599 The Louder would definitely have been higher for me because he kind of similar to 605 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:28.079 Beaver's, does a lot of stuff really really well, doesn't really have a 606 00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:32.079 statistical flaw in his profile, like strikes out thirteen percent of the time so 607 00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:35.760 far in his major in his minor league career, walks, you know, 608 00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:39.159 better than average league average amount, has power, hits fly balls, runs 609 00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:42.920 a bit, gets his homers, like, there's not a lot to nitpick 610 00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:46.239 here. Weird swing finish aside, he just is hurt all the time, 611 00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:51.559 and at this point it's like these injuries seem to be recurring. There might 612 00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:54.840 be something underlying this that is just going to keep happening. Maybe arguing him 613 00:43:54.880 --> 00:44:00.280 as high as like six if he wasn't hurt, but the injury in the 614 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:04.440 lack of kind of sustained performance because of that knocks him down to fifteen for 615 00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:08.400 me. Matt Shaw had a great debut after his draft year last year. 616 00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:14.880 He's this high despite being you know, a college draftee because he runs and 617 00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:17.840 I think he's pretty good at it, and everything else about him is solid 618 00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.840 to plus, I'm not sure he's going to have a ton of power at 619 00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:23.599 peak. Like this isn't a guy that you dream thirty homers on, but 620 00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:28.519 thirty forty steals I could see it. And he's got the kind of line 621 00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:34.920 drives and walks enough to get those opportunities. Roman Anthony hasn't been as stellar 622 00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:37.360 this year as he was last year, striking out a bit more than he'd 623 00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:42.239 like to see. But remember he is so young. This is his age 624 00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:45.880 twenty season and he's in Double A and he's holding his own. I think 625 00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:51.320 there's power here. I'm maybe a touch concerned about ground ball rate, like 626 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:54.000 he's one that I wish would hit a few more flyballs because he does have 627 00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:59.079 power to make that worth his while. But otherwise, if he can keep 628 00:44:59.119 --> 00:45:01.440 the strikeouts down and hit a few more fly balls, he could be a 629 00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:06.679 top five guy, no problem, Owen Casey. He's kind of similar to 630 00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:10.639 Carson Williams from the previous year, except the power is even better and the 631 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:15.320 strikeouts are even higher. He is not very good on the basis. I 632 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:17.440 wouldn't call that a strength of his at all. But this guy's going to 633 00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:21.840 hit have seasons where he hits thirty five or forty home runs. In the 634 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:25.199 big leagues, it might come in a depressed average because unlike Carson Williams, 635 00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:30.000 he hasn't really shown the ability to get that strikeout rate under control, and 636 00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:34.679 he doesn't have a great plate discipline like so he's not going to walk a 637 00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:37.639 lot to offset that. The other true outcome he's going to hit homers and 638 00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.480 I love that. And the last guy in this year, Jet Williams, 639 00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:46.880 whom I traded Carson Williams away for and I still prefer because of everybody on 640 00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:52.519 this list. I think he's the best base stealer and has maintained his pristine 641 00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:57.840 walk in strikeout ways and I think has enough juice that it's not going to 642 00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.320 be We're not talking single digit home run how we're here for Jet Williams. 643 00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:04.559 Key's a guy that when he puts it in the air, he tries to 644 00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:07.559 pull it, and he does so quite successfully because I think he's got really 645 00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:12.239 good barrel control. So Jet Williams, call it like low teens to twelve 646 00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:16.079 hommers annually, but I could see fifty stolen basis a year and pretty good 647 00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:20.760 average to go with it. So that's my next tier. Well, you 648 00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:25.599 know, I will always have to be sold on cubs. But ow in 649 00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:29.840 case, he's a guy that I just admittedly I haven't paid a ton of 650 00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:32.079 attention to. No, I don't know agree or disagree with your value here 651 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:36.840 so much here, But Matt Shaw. Yeah, everything's all good in the 652 00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:40.679 Matt Shaw world. Like, we're not concerned about his little jump and strikeouts, 653 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.639 his three twenty eight slug right now, his one two to ozero iso. 654 00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:52.000 What's his ground ball rate? Yeah, forty six percent ground his You 655 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:57.000 know, I'm always guys with steps and like leg kicks like him. I'm 656 00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:01.639 always wondering about timing issues and stuff like that. So you're you're not phased 657 00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:06.280 by any of this? Huh No? And and here's why. I mean 658 00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:10.719 it's somewhat a similar story to Amador in that I think some of this is 659 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:15.639 babbit driven. He's running a two fifty six babbit and given the shape of 660 00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:19.920 his production, you know, dec number of ground balls you would expect, 661 00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:22.559 you know, more than twenty percent line drives out of here. You like 662 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.719 his forty five percent APPO for a hitter like him. He doesn't have a 663 00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.239 ton of raw juice, but that kind of APO rate is going to lead 664 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:36.039 to higher babbit. So I think what I'm what I'm saying is just on 665 00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:38.840 the surface here. When I see forty five percent APPO, I see the 666 00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:44.639 bump in strikeouts, the decrease in slug from a guy who I know has 667 00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:47.400 got like that goofy step. The first thing I go to is timing. 668 00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:52.400 Is this guy this guy SYNCD up or not? Yeah, And maybe there's 669 00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:58.199 something to that that he's still adjusting. But the bump in strikeout rate is 670 00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:01.800 up to twenty two percent, but it's only an eight point five percent swing 671 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:06.320 strike rate, So to me, some of this is like he's trying to 672 00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:10.079 be more selective. And he's also seen a huge uptick in his walk rate 673 00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:15.480 up to fifteen point six percent. That's enormous at double A and even with 674 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:19.119 a two point fifty six babbit, which, again looking at the kind of 675 00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:22.039 hitter that he is, line drives ground balls, hitting to the opposite field, 676 00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:25.639 all of those things should lead to a higher than average babbeb. I 677 00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:30.599 expect him to run more like three twenty maybe three thirty kind of babbebs at 678 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:34.519 peak, which to me, with a guy who's not going to strike out 679 00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:37.440 a ton, that starts to look like a middle infielder or corner infielder who's 680 00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:40.760 going to get on base a lot and is going to steal. And again, 681 00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:45.079 he's swiped nine bags already this year, been caught twice. He's running 682 00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:50.760 a lot. And I think that that's like a high batting average, high 683 00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:55.400 on base, high runs and okay, power kind of bat like, you 684 00:48:55.440 --> 00:49:00.159 know, not quite the same thing, but something like a Bobashet, you 685 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:02.519 know, lots of line drives. You might not ever be overwhelmed by the 686 00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:07.119 power. But I think Shaw's going to steal more than bushat so that kind 687 00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:14.039 of higher babbit running infielder that's super valuable. And I think that he's the 688 00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:16.960 surface numbers, though they're a little bit less than you'd hope to see a 689 00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.000 lot of that is like babbit bad luck and everything else about it looks kind 690 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.760 of as I expected, you know, like a well rounded contributor. Fair 691 00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:31.320 enough. All right, enough of Cubs hitter, Let's talk about some pictures. 692 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:37.320 Ten I went with Ret Louder the Reds. I just think this is 693 00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:42.599 just a very solid I mean, it's pitching speculation, so relatively speaking, 694 00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:45.760 just a solid bet. And I just think he's a picture and he's got 695 00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:50.519 good enough stuff, nasty enough slider. You know, safe isn't bad here, 696 00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:53.559 safe doesn't mean boring. I think there is some strikeout potential, and 697 00:49:54.000 --> 00:50:00.039 I'll hitch ride and stay committed to some louder speculation. Nine the same story, 698 00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:04.159 but a bit of a younger guy, but Robbie Snelly know the Padres. 699 00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:07.440 It's like the young lefty. I think he's got, you know, 700 00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:10.119 fine enough stuff. There might be questions about with and all that at this 701 00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:14.920 juncture, but just kind of intangible wise, like a guy that I just 702 00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:19.159 feel good about betting on and think he's you know, I'll take this career. 703 00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:23.000 Number Eight I went with Ricky Titaman. I don't think that's a big 704 00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:28.960 shock to anyone. It's plenty big enough stuff. Of course, health is 705 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:32.920 the question there. Seven I went with one of my all time favorite developmental 706 00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:38.400 stories, Kate Cavali, Who's I think getting ready to start some rehab in 707 00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:43.000 the miners right now? And then six did he start already? Yeah? 708 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.360 I think he had one rehabouting already. No, sweet looks great, awesome, 709 00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:50.440 looking forward to the resumption of that story. And then six another cub. 710 00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:53.800 I went with Kate Horton, who I have been skeptical of and still 711 00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:59.840 have a little skepticism with, but can't unsee what I've seen from him and 712 00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:04.920 feel like I thought maybe he was just a bit of a college thrower raw 713 00:51:05.280 --> 00:51:08.199 getting by with some stuff, but I like the signs of him being a 714 00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:13.159 good pitcher. I agree with you. Coming out of that draft, I 715 00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:17.159 was not that impressed with his college performance and what he looked like. And 716 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:21.239 it was numbers and he did crazy stuff up, but just pitching wise, 717 00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:23.000 I was like, this is pretty loose. I don't know. No, 718 00:51:23.239 --> 00:51:27.320 he won me over as well, so I'm not going to force you to 719 00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:31.199 talk anymore about a cub here. But going back to your workhorse metric, 720 00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:36.880 how can you live with yourself putting Ricky Tiedeman on there is his horsepower metric 721 00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:43.639 like the donkey with a freaking tractor strapped to its back because the guy can't 722 00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:45.920 get more than two innings at a time. I know, I know all 723 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:50.000 fair, and I feel all of that. The first time I watched titum, 724 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:52.599 ind is the only time that I was like, this is one of 725 00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:54.519 the best pitching prospects. I got to value him like one of the best 726 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.639 pitching prospects in the land here, I don't think there's any doubt that the 727 00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:02.760 fastball slider come Nation is capable of putting up some really nice fantasy numbers for 728 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.159 us. And you know that I am adverse to just betting on stuff alone. 729 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.480 I don't think that is with Ricky here. And I know it's it's 730 00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:14.159 just all injury stuff is I don't know if it's shoulder, when he's a 731 00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:17.199 hamstring whatever, he's got to stay on the mound anywhere from three on this 732 00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:21.599 list to completely off of it. I feel like it is totally fair. 733 00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:24.119 So it's just you want to put some risk bucks down and and go after 734 00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:29.079 this, you know, potential fantasy ace or something, however you want to 735 00:52:29.079 --> 00:52:31.559 phrase it. I don't know. I just slidded Ricky eight. Felt like 736 00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:35.800 that's where I would take the risk. Yeah, I mean I was there 737 00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:42.440 pumping Daniel Espino as the yeah, next great pitching prospect, and if you 738 00:52:42.440 --> 00:52:45.519 would have stayed on the bump, man, dude was so unbelievably dominant. 739 00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:52.199 Man, I mean you can't deny that. But availability is the first what 740 00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:55.320 they say for a skill, and yeah, and this is this is one 741 00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:00.800 where I'm with you on the skills. Every time I've seen him over an 742 00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:06.480 extended outing, especially across his twenty twenty three small samples. He threw out 743 00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:12.519 some electric outings, had some more concerns at times, and definitely was dealing 744 00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:15.480 with some injuries, some that were reported, some I think that weren't. 745 00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:22.440 And Tiedeman is man, it's enticing. You get why people really like the 746 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:27.880 flat approach fastball, the slider that has good hitters diving out of the way. 747 00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:31.639 Yeah, I mean, it's it's pretty impressive stuff. Wise get Aspino 748 00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:37.159 flashes, you know, I it's I'm able to stay on the mound now 749 00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:39.440 for better yeah of three years. No, this is what I this is 750 00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:43.360 what I wrote in the piece here. You didn't need metrics to see the 751 00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:45.599 potential in the fastball slider combo from his left arm. Slaught to know, 752 00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:50.840 with two big offerings and a physically imposing bill, a lefty Daniel Espino as 753 00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:54.480 dream was born, unintended, unaware there was a potential whammy of the similarity 754 00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:58.000 between the two, a struggle to stay on the mounds. So, I 755 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:01.239 mean, the first time I watched him, it was like lefty Espiino esque 756 00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:05.199 dreams for me, Donald, Just where do you want to let's alide in 757 00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:07.039 that kind of gamble, you know, yeah, I for me, it's 758 00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:12.320 just not the kind of gamble I like to make. And I say this 759 00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:15.880 as somebody who I think maybe got burned by that kind of guy enough, 760 00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:20.119 and I still regret one of the major league versions of this trade that I 761 00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:25.800 did. I had drafted George Kirby in a Dynasty startup fairly early, but 762 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:30.440 I felt like, you know, good price where I got him, and 763 00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:35.480 then pretty early in this would have been twenty twenty three, so early in 764 00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:38.320 twenty twenty three, I traded Kirby for Jake de Gram, who's like, 765 00:54:39.159 --> 00:54:44.800 I have the same thing, right of like Kirby's great excellent Dynasty picture has 766 00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:50.119 thus far shown incredible availability and consistency. Jacob de Gram is the best picture 767 00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:52.920 that I've ever seen, and I was like, I want some of that. 768 00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:55.840 And then immediately I think I got like two starts out of him. 769 00:54:55.880 --> 00:54:59.039 And he was on the shelf for the whole year, and it's been on 770 00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:01.079 the shelf for most or we'll be on the shelf for most of this year. 771 00:55:01.119 --> 00:55:05.960 So I'm with you. It's enticing going after that kind of upside, 772 00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:08.559 But man, it sucks when it doesn't pan out. Catching injuries can't scare 773 00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:13.320 you too much. You've got to just deal with it. We'll see, 774 00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:15.239 We'll see with Ricky t all right, Matt, then you loser hitters. 775 00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:22.440 All right. We're not done talking about Cubbies yet. This might be the 776 00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:27.280 lone kind of surprise in the top twenty five here, but I'm going with 777 00:55:27.599 --> 00:55:35.199 Moises Biasteros at number ten, the Cubs beefy boy catcher number nine. We're 778 00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:39.679 gonna go Samuel Basseo for the Orioles, another big boy catcher, first base. 779 00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:45.320 Kobe Mayo Oriols, a sensible third baseman but probable first baseman, comes 780 00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:52.719 in at eight for me. Arizona's Jordan Lawler at number seven, good shortstop 781 00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:59.000 there. Number six is Cincinnati Red's third baseman, Noelvie Marte. Biasteros and 782 00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:05.239 Bisseo are together, not by accident. They're both guys with questions about their 783 00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:09.480 ability to stick at catcher, but have done nothing but absolutely mash in the 784 00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:16.000 minor leagues. Slightly prefer Bisseo, even though he's mostly been a level behind 785 00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:22.239 Biasteros, because I think he's going to get to more of the power, 786 00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:25.039 so I think he's going to hit a few more of those polled fly balls. 787 00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:30.480 Basaye has sort of got an interesting hitting approach where he'll hit all over 788 00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:32.679 the yard, but then when he's really trying to crank a homer, he'll 789 00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:37.199 pull it and he'll will mash it that way. So I just slightly prefer 790 00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:42.280 Bisseo, and the fact that he's done it younger is another mark in his 791 00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:46.320 favor. But Bias Steros is a great hitter, and don't let people tell 792 00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:51.039 you that he's never going to be a major leaguer because of his physique. 793 00:56:51.119 --> 00:56:53.280 Like he's huge, no doubt, but he looks pretty good behind the dish 794 00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:59.119 in my looks, and he's showing really rare ability with the bat, you 795 00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:01.599 know, walking to percent of the time, only striking out fifteen percent of 796 00:57:01.599 --> 00:57:06.519 the time as a twenty year old in Double A, and hitting for power 797 00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:08.840 to go with it. He's even swiped seven bases over the last couple of 798 00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:13.880 years. But he's deceptively athletic despite his huge size. I'm a big fan. 799 00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:19.880 Toby Mayo has looked great all throughout his minor league career, has really 800 00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:24.159 demolished at his last couple of stops. If there's one slight concern with this 801 00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:29.719 masher, it's that the strikeout rate has ticked up a little bit this year, 802 00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:34.800 and it's at that range where you might start to expect a greater uptick 803 00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:37.519 when he makes the majors as well. And is that going to impact what 804 00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:44.039 is kind of a mainly power only approach, like we'll see, but mao, 805 00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:46.440 he's going to be a power hitting masher and the corner and I think 806 00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:50.920 is going to be really good. Jordan Lawler and Noelvie Marte. I've had 807 00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:54.239 skepticism through the years for both of these guys, but in the last year, 808 00:57:54.559 --> 00:57:58.960 the last year in particular, this is waiting last year heavily obviously for 809 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:04.119 both these guys. They both made big gains in their strikeout rates and everything 810 00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:07.000 else kind of seemed sustainable, Like they got their swinging strike rates down to 811 00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.800 about league average despite being really young for their levels. They both made it 812 00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:15.760 up to Triple A and had a lot of success as twenty and twenty one 813 00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:20.880 year olds, and then both had concerns this year. Noelvie Marte pede suspension 814 00:58:20.920 --> 00:58:24.960 and hamstring injury and Lawler on the shelf, but I slightly preferred Marte. 815 00:58:25.119 --> 00:58:29.840 I think the power is going to be a little bit better for him, 816 00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:32.079 though I could flop these guys back and forth. Lawler, I think is 817 00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:36.039 going to steal more and hits more balls in the air, and so I 818 00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:37.480 think it's going to get to some of the some of the power a little 819 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:40.719 bit more, especially to the pull side. So of these five, I 820 00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:45.519 know you're dying to talk about more cubbies, So no, I just dive 821 00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:47.559 right into vice there. We're not going to do that. Look at you, 822 00:58:47.639 --> 00:58:53.440 rock question Mike gambles on a potentially oft injured pitcher over here, while 823 00:58:53.519 --> 00:58:59.000 your number six and seven batters in the land can't really stay on the field 824 00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:02.280 that often either. But Noelvie, Now this is part what's a lot of 825 00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:07.119 the KEL League in twenty twenty, right, And this is what Nouelvie was 826 00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:10.400 like by some aggressive dynasty folks, a top ten prospect. Then the way 827 00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:15.320 out of that, I think, and now we're back right. I'm probably 828 00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:21.199 justo biased from that season and seeing him as a teenager compared to other hitters 829 00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:23.960 in that league at the time, and just being really skeptical and not seeing 830 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:28.320 it and wondering why people love this guy so much. So, if you 831 00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:30.719 can, what's been the story over that? Why are we back now? 832 00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:35.039 Why did he drop? And why are we back at Noelvie being one of 833 00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:38.199 the best prospect hitters in the land. I was always really interested in Noelvie 834 00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:43.519 Marte because he was the Mariner's top prospect for a little bit there, and 835 00:59:43.559 --> 00:59:46.920 then obviously it was the headliner in the Luis Castillo trade over to the Reds. 836 00:59:47.079 --> 00:59:52.800 Which maybe there's something to that that the Marrior has traded away such a 837 00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:57.440 like a big time prospect that obviously got a cy young caliber pitcher in return. 838 00:59:57.719 --> 01:00:01.840 But it does tell you something when the returns for teams trading away really 839 01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:07.400 good prospects, those prospects pan out less than the ones that just graduate within 840 01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:12.000 an organization. I forget who did the research on this. I meant to 841 01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:14.719 look it up. I made this point the other day, and maybe there's 842 01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:17.639 some truth to that with Marte, And I know after the Mariners traded him 843 01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:22.000 away, I was like kind of skeptical about him, like, oh, 844 01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:25.119 maybe he's not going to succeed. Their strikeout rates started to tick up for 845 01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:29.519 the Mariners and in Everett, and so I was like, Okay, maybe 846 01:00:29.559 --> 01:00:30.960 this is the right guy to trade away. He was a little better for 847 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:35.719 the Reds in that twenty twenty two season when he struck out less, walk 848 01:00:35.840 --> 01:00:37.599 more, hit for more power, stole more bases, had a better clip. 849 01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:42.159 It was like just better all around. And then last year promoted to 850 01:00:42.199 --> 01:00:44.679 double A as a twenty one year old, and then up to Triple A 851 01:00:44.679 --> 01:00:46.559 as a twenty one year old, and then made the major leagues all as 852 01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:51.079 a twenty one year old, just continued to perform like some of these other 853 01:00:51.119 --> 01:00:54.039 guys. The shape of his production didn't change very much, And to me, 854 01:00:54.199 --> 01:00:59.679 that demonstrates a mastery of that of those skills. A lot of guys 855 01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:02.559 you'll see promoted and then a lot of their skills take a step back. 856 01:01:02.639 --> 01:01:07.159 They strike out way more, they walkway less, that something about the shape 857 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.280 of their production changes a lot. That really wasn't happening with Marte. And 858 01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:15.400 there wasn't really like knits that you could pick with what he was doing. 859 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:20.639 And the major league example, he almost passed prospect status last year and would 860 01:01:20.679 --> 01:01:24.239 have certainly had not been for the PD suspension and injury this year because he 861 01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:28.880 got one hundred and fourteen at bats last year, so some of this is 862 01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:31.280 cheating a little bit, but the public numbers that we got, his max 863 01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:37.960 eve was up to almost one sixteen one fifteen point six, his average was 864 01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:42.559 ninety one point three, and I think his ninetieth was in the like sixty 865 01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:45.639 sixty five range, like plus to double plus range. He hit the ball 866 01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:50.559 on the ground a bit too much in the majors, but that hadn't really 867 01:01:50.599 --> 01:01:53.360 been an issue for him in the past, So taken together, this looked 868 01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:59.320 like a guy who mashed the ball, didn't strike out very much even playing 869 01:01:59.559 --> 01:02:02.760 in the major leagues, had shown at least a league average ability to walk, 870 01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:06.920 and on the Reds had started to run more, which is something that 871 01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:08.599 I had been kind of skeptical of because you know, he's kind of a 872 01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:14.159 bigger guy. But he was running and being fairly successful on the bases, 873 01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:16.559 which is I think something that the Reds like to do anyway. So he 874 01:02:16.639 --> 01:02:22.719 looked to me like a really well rounded guy who's going to produce, except 875 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:24.920 that maybe it's going to take him a bit to really lean into the raw 876 01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:29.239 home run totals. But everything else about the production to me looked great. 877 01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:34.239 Was some of this because he was moroiding. I don't know, maybe, 878 01:02:34.360 --> 01:02:38.639 but until we see him back and hopefully clean and back in the field, 879 01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:43.159 we can't really know that for sure. And what I saw was a debut 880 01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:46.079 where he put up a one twenty WRC plus as a twenty one year old, 881 01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:52.760 and nothing about it looked really unsustainable to me. So that really convinced 882 01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:57.000 me that this is a guy with the capital G. And while Lawler might 883 01:02:57.079 --> 01:03:01.000 have some more upside with the stolen base totals, he also every promotion that 884 01:03:01.079 --> 01:03:06.280 he's had, he's really struggled, including in his small tiny cup of coffee 885 01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:08.480 at the Big Leagues last year. And so when kind of splitting hairs between 886 01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:12.239 these two, I went with the guy that I thought the production was more 887 01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:15.719 likely to come and more likely to be sustainable. All right, Matt, 888 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:20.400 my top five pitchers here. I feel pretty good about these five here is 889 01:03:20.440 --> 01:03:25.079 because read van scooters number one, not quite not quite, but number five 890 01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:29.960 I went, Now, this is the riskiest, riskiest of the five, 891 01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:32.519 for sure, I think, but one with white Sox, Noah Schultz, 892 01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:37.440 big young lefty. I know, we only got what like sixty ish pro 893 01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:40.559 innings to go off of right now. But I've seen enough of the fastball 894 01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:47.239 slider combination from that angle and enough good execution, and I've good enough strike 895 01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:51.800 throwing that I'm going to take this gamble. I'm going to value him highly. 896 01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:55.039 For Fantasy number four, I went with the Tigers Jackson job. I 897 01:03:55.079 --> 01:04:00.880 know we've talked a bit about him. Loved his done right ability to walk 898 01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:02.880 people last year, and I know the walks have jumped quite a bit this 899 01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:09.039 season. Don't know if there's a correlation between him uscles showing off some higher 900 01:04:09.159 --> 01:04:14.000 velocities, But when you just talk about ability to execute marrying I think what 901 01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:17.800 will end up being plenty of good enough weapons. Jackson's job is up there 902 01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:23.079 for me number three, And now, I know maybe technically he's not a 903 01:04:23.119 --> 01:04:27.559 prospect, but I think anywise he still is. Shane Boz another just you 904 01:04:27.599 --> 01:04:30.440 know Tommy John resumption story. To me, he was at one point my 905 01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:35.760 number one pitching prospect in the land because of the ability to execute highbrow stuff 906 01:04:35.800 --> 01:04:41.119 we saw some of the majors. There's nothing performance wise to make me not 907 01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:45.159 still think that about Bozz And I did watch but his last rehab outing, 908 01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:48.280 and I don't think there's any signs that he won't have his stuff back, 909 01:04:48.360 --> 01:04:53.119 So stick with Boz there and number one and number two were tough, Matt, 910 01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:55.800 but I am I think this is about as good as it gets for 911 01:04:55.880 --> 01:04:59.360 pitching prospects for us. And interchange these two if you want. But I 912 01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:03.280 went pole Skiens number two and I went with Andrew Paynter number one, which 913 01:05:03.320 --> 01:05:08.000 I don't think would surprise anyone who has listening to me to talk about Andrew 914 01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:11.599 Paynter before. But I just think what we saw from him and his double 915 01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:15.000 a run as a nineteen year old is just exceptional. Do you want to 916 01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:19.599 use the word phenom that I'm putting that word on what that was to me? 917 01:05:20.039 --> 01:05:26.599 Just unbelievably good stuff being used however he wanted to. And I'm gonna 918 01:05:26.599 --> 01:05:30.760 bet on that all day whenever I see it, whenever, however many years 919 01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:34.119 it takes to see that again, I will always bet on that strong Top 920 01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:38.880 five for sure. Lots of names that I really like. Andrew Painter was 921 01:05:38.920 --> 01:05:43.599 about the most exciting pitching prospect that we've seen, that kind of ascension stuff, 922 01:05:43.719 --> 01:05:47.000 whole arsenal, so impressive schemes too. I mean what he did in 923 01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:53.159 college, his junior year was incredible and has really just hit the ground running. 924 01:05:53.360 --> 01:05:56.239 Sitting there watching that started against the Cubs, and I'm like, I'm 925 01:05:56.280 --> 01:05:59.840 going to put him too on a list after this? How can I? 926 01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:02.880 How can I do that? And I, you know whatever, waffled on 927 01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:09.199 that, but just going to give what I thought might have been maybe like 928 01:06:09.400 --> 01:06:15.039 once in a lifetime glimpses of the combination that Painter has with the execution of 929 01:06:15.199 --> 01:06:18.360 smaller braver bet over schemes. But I think they're both are going to have 930 01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:23.719 very good careers health with standing. Yeah, you know, I think Joe 931 01:06:23.800 --> 01:06:26.519 might be on the shelf with something. I'm not sure what it is. 932 01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:30.039 I don't think it's yeah, curious. But let's talk about Shane Boss. 933 01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:33.199 It's been a minute since we've seen him in the bigs. He lost pitch 934 01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:36.800 in the big leagues in twenty twenty two, another guy who had a pretty 935 01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:44.039 impressive rise in that began in the Pittsburgh organization and ended in the Tampa Bay 936 01:06:44.119 --> 01:06:47.000 Ray organization. Talk to us about what you're still betting on here. And 937 01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:51.320 by the way, I say this partly selfishly, I saw the line on 938 01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:56.119 his last rehab start and it made me a little bit nervous that we aren't 939 01:06:56.159 --> 01:06:59.440 getting the Shane bos of old back. But talk to me about what it 940 01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:04.239 is you like about Boz still coming back from injury and what you think this 941 01:07:04.280 --> 01:07:09.239 can look like at peak. Yeah, Well, before Painter came along last 942 01:07:09.679 --> 01:07:14.000 three four years, Boz was the guy I thought really good stuff, using 943 01:07:14.039 --> 01:07:15.840 it the best I've seen in the minors. So that's hard for me to 944 01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:20.639 unsee in that value. Now Boz is interesting because he kind of goes against 945 01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:27.239 what I like to bet on in that his execution abilities got way better over 946 01:07:27.320 --> 01:07:30.719 his minor league development than where he once was. And I know the Rays, 947 01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:33.840 at least from what I have gathered and heard, like preach just throw 948 01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:36.840 strikes. But I don't think Boz is just a strike thrower, and I 949 01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:41.760 think we saw that in major leagues too. Like he spots the fastball I 950 01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:45.320 think very well, has great command of that pitch, executes that very well, 951 01:07:45.320 --> 01:07:47.480 and he's able to play his other offerings off of that. And I 952 01:07:47.480 --> 01:07:53.119 don't know, I just I don't think, you know, execution plus stuff 953 01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:56.119 marriage can get much better than what we've seen from Boz. And I know, 954 01:07:56.320 --> 01:07:58.760 doubting the other day, like I'm not expecting a guy who hasn't pitched 955 01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:01.000 in like two years to just have all the rust knocked off. But I 956 01:08:01.039 --> 01:08:04.239 think the fastball had the same sort of teeth that it once did, so 957 01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:06.440 I'm not too concerned the stuff isn't going to come back. You know. 958 01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:10.199 It's funny. Guys get hurt, guys get Tommy John and then they're just 959 01:08:10.239 --> 01:08:14.199 like off of list. I see all of a sudden their pitch grades decrease, 960 01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:16.840 Like Painter was getting seventies and now his fastball is like a sixty on 961 01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:19.640 this Like what, like, how how can you change your assessment of the 962 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:24.279 skills. I don't I don't get that. But in as confident as bozz 963 01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:27.640 as a pitching prospect as anyone, and I don't see any reason to change 964 01:08:27.640 --> 01:08:29.600 that. All right, well, I hope you're right. I've got him 965 01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:32.479 in a thirty teamer that my team is in a really weird spot, and 966 01:08:32.600 --> 01:08:36.359 I'm definitely hoping that he comes back and is good. I mean, we 967 01:08:36.399 --> 01:08:40.520 saw him what twenty one, twenty two. He's in the uppers. He's 968 01:08:40.520 --> 01:08:44.239 striking out thirty six to forty percent of hitters, not walking more than six 969 01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:46.319 percent. I mean that was. Uh, folks, remember how freaking good 970 01:08:46.319 --> 01:08:48.960 he was, and I liked him coming up. I liked him more than 971 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:53.159 Shane McClanahan. I mean, I know it might be splitting hairs there, 972 01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:56.079 but McClanahan came up and was one of the best fantasy pitchers in the land 973 01:08:56.119 --> 01:08:59.680 before he went down. And I don't see a reason why Bozz can't potentially 974 01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:01.520 get to that point either. Yeah, and you hope that you know that 975 01:09:01.600 --> 01:09:06.000 he's fresh off DJ. Yeah, he's got a few years of performance. 976 01:09:06.039 --> 01:09:11.479 Whereas you know, and I put ticking time bottom that elbow is going to 977 01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:14.119 go. It's something that's mentioned in the piece as well. But the way 978 01:09:14.119 --> 01:09:16.119 that I kind of was going about is from what I've got, you got 979 01:09:16.119 --> 01:09:19.560 about a one six shot of a guy not getting this stuff back, not 980 01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:23.920 coming back to the same level before Timmy John. So to me, that's 981 01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:27.319 good enough. Odds fuck it, I'm just gonna keep valuing the same We're 982 01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:30.720 not going to bat a thousand if I'm wrong and one out of six of 983 01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:33.039 those guys coming back, so be it. I'll survive that, all right. 984 01:09:33.199 --> 01:09:39.239 You heard it here. It's Keen sucks Andrew Painter for rules. No, 985 01:09:39.439 --> 01:09:43.800 that is not that the case, Nate Handy, everybody, Okay, 986 01:09:43.960 --> 01:09:47.880 let's round out my yeah, your top five here, rough top five. 987 01:09:48.279 --> 01:09:51.560 I don't think people are gonna be surprised by the names. If you're counting 988 01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:56.279 down at home, you probably know who the top five are. But I 989 01:09:56.319 --> 01:10:01.439 hope the order at least sparks some interesting conversation. Number five Jackson Holiday of 990 01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:08.640 the Baltimore Orioles. Number four Emmanuel Rodriguez, outfielder for the Minnesota Twins. 991 01:10:08.880 --> 01:10:15.880 Number three James Wood, outfielder for the Washington Nationals. Number two Jayson Dominguez 992 01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:18.920 for the New York Yankees. And number one Junior camon Aro, third baseman 993 01:10:19.119 --> 01:10:25.319 slash maybe second basement for the Tampa Bay Rays. Now, this crew are 994 01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:29.760 just the best of the best. I think looking at these guys, it's 995 01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:33.720 like Tommy Lee Jones recruiting the best of the best of the best for men 996 01:10:33.800 --> 01:10:36.359 in black. Like, these guys are all going to make the major leagues. 997 01:10:36.399 --> 01:10:40.359 They're all going to be productive major leaguers. They're all going to be 998 01:10:40.720 --> 01:10:45.880 I think, above average major leaguers. What they've done at such young ages, 999 01:10:45.119 --> 01:10:50.399 Like the oldest of this crew is twenty one. Now basically impossible for 1000 01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:56.239 these guys not to come up and be useful major league contributors. The reason 1001 01:10:56.319 --> 01:11:00.640 Jackson Holiday is number five here despite being the youngest and for many people, 1002 01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:03.119 the number one overall prospect, is that, as I've said before, I 1003 01:11:03.159 --> 01:11:10.960 think his fantasy relevant skills are not as conducive to the rodeo game. Like 1004 01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:14.199 I don't think he's a particularly good based Steeler. Even though he's got decent 1005 01:11:14.319 --> 01:11:16.199 speed, I don't think he's going to hit a lot of home runs, 1006 01:11:16.199 --> 01:11:19.399 Like he doesn't have high end exit velos. While he hits a lot of 1007 01:11:19.439 --> 01:11:23.399 line drives, I don't think he's going to hit a lot of flyballs, 1008 01:11:23.439 --> 01:11:27.439 and so his raw home run totals I think might be in the ten range 1009 01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:30.239 in some of his first years. But he's got a really good feel for 1010 01:11:30.279 --> 01:11:33.000 the strike zone. He's going to walk, he's going to limit his strikeouts. 1011 01:11:33.039 --> 01:11:38.439 I think his small thirty or forty at that sample in the major leagues 1012 01:11:38.520 --> 01:11:41.199 this year. Notwithstanding, he's going to be a good hitter. It's going 1013 01:11:41.239 --> 01:11:45.720 to play up the middle. Emanuel Rodriguez and James Wood I kind of paired 1014 01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:48.680 together, and honestly I could flip them either way. They both have had 1015 01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:54.840 strikeout concerns. They both have prodigious raw power, They're both fast and have 1016 01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:59.520 shown a willingness to steal. I gave the edge here to James Wood despite 1017 01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:05.319 my abide love for Emmanuel Rodriguez, because James Wood is showing the strikeout gains 1018 01:12:05.680 --> 01:12:10.000 and he's doing it at a level higher while being about the same age as 1019 01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:14.560 Emmanuel Rodriguez. So the big concern with James Wood was is he's going to 1020 01:12:14.760 --> 01:12:16.920 get those levers under control and strike out less than thirty percent of the time. 1021 01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:19.920 He's down to nineteen percent of the time in triple A this year. 1022 01:12:20.039 --> 01:12:25.439 That is super impressive, and everything else about his performance continues to look super 1023 01:12:25.439 --> 01:12:29.800 exciting. Emmanuel Rodriguez, he's currently striking out. I think at last I 1024 01:12:29.800 --> 01:12:32.960 looked it was under thirty percent, but he's hovered at thirty percent or above 1025 01:12:33.199 --> 01:12:38.960 strikeouts at every level pretty much that he's been. He's also walking almost that 1026 01:12:39.159 --> 01:12:43.279 much and does hit the ball in the air the most of these guys so 1027 01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:46.640 and has great eggsy vealos as well. So I mean, I'm very convinced 1028 01:12:46.680 --> 01:12:50.479 that Emanuel Rodriguez is going to hit for a lot of power, and he's 1029 01:12:50.520 --> 01:12:55.439 deceptively quick and is going to swipe some bags too, So Nate knows. 1030 01:12:55.439 --> 01:12:59.479 I'm a huge fan of em Rod Jasin Demingez. I think might be a 1031 01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:02.960 bit of a prize here. But again, people forget how young he is. 1032 01:13:03.319 --> 01:13:08.600 He's, you know, like just barely twenty one now, has already 1033 01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:14.640 shown success in the major leagues. Maybe the skills and tools off the page 1034 01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:17.960 like don't jump that much. People forget that he steals bases a lot and 1035 01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:21.479 did in the minor leagues too, And so for me of that, like 1036 01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:26.079 grouping of four guys, you can order them a bunch of different ways, 1037 01:13:26.079 --> 01:13:29.079 and you might change it depending on the kind of format that you play. 1038 01:13:29.199 --> 01:13:32.119 I'm a big Jason Dimingis fan. I think that a lot about his production 1039 01:13:32.279 --> 01:13:36.319 in the major leagues was backed up by his underlying skills, and then his 1040 01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:41.960 propensity to steals just gives me a little more confidence in him being a fantasy 1041 01:13:42.159 --> 01:13:45.159 kind of categories contributor going forward. And then my number one junior, Cameronaro, 1042 01:13:45.319 --> 01:13:50.039 this guy's a freak. He's barely twenty years old and has legit like 1043 01:13:50.199 --> 01:13:55.399 top five level power in the major leagues. Doesn't get to all of it 1044 01:13:55.760 --> 01:13:59.359 yet, like, I would still like to see him hit more fly balls 1045 01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:04.880 because he does good things happen, but he's got a perfectly acceptable strikeout rate 1046 01:14:04.920 --> 01:14:08.720 over the last couple of years in the upper miners. He doesn't walk that 1047 01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:11.239 much, and so maybe Nate likes him a bit more because of that. 1048 01:14:11.439 --> 01:14:15.039 But I also think that that's going to help his balls in play tick up 1049 01:14:15.159 --> 01:14:16.720 because he doesn't strike out a ton and doesn't walk that much, so he's 1050 01:14:16.760 --> 01:14:19.640 swinging a lot, and I think that might lead to the highest home run 1051 01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:23.520 totals of this crew. You know, this is a guy I'm not going 1052 01:14:23.560 --> 01:14:26.960 to be surprised if he turns in forty or a fifty home run season. 1053 01:14:27.079 --> 01:14:30.079 If he starts to put the ball in the air just a little bit more, 1054 01:14:30.199 --> 01:14:33.439 you could see that happening. So the massive power upside, along with 1055 01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:39.920 pretty well rounded rest of his batted ball profile has Canon Arrow in a tier 1056 01:14:39.960 --> 01:14:43.279 of zone for me, just at this age, this level of power, 1057 01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:46.119 this level of hitting success is so rare. I think he's going to be 1058 01:14:46.199 --> 01:14:50.800 like Raffie Devers, Austin Riley like have seasons that put him in the MVP 1059 01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:55.479 level conversations. So Junior Canon Arrow is my number one. We would, 1060 01:14:55.520 --> 01:15:00.960 Howiday have been five on this list regardless of how his first little stint would 1061 01:15:00.960 --> 01:15:02.479 have went for you. Yeah, okay, I figured it as much. 1062 01:15:02.520 --> 01:15:04.960 I love that you put Jadam too. To be honest, I don't know. 1063 01:15:05.119 --> 01:15:08.840 I might have a hard time not putting Jadam one. Yeah, I 1064 01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:12.920 wouldn't argue with you too much, especially because the steels like is so far 1065 01:15:13.239 --> 01:15:15.720 his favor versus if we're talking like rodo for me for me though, like 1066 01:15:16.079 --> 01:15:21.039 having a masher who like maybe the Rays are considering it. Second side played 1067 01:15:21.079 --> 01:15:24.880 some games there at Triple A. I don't know if he really could do, 1068 01:15:25.000 --> 01:15:28.199 but if he's playing second base, like talking about a forty plus homer 1069 01:15:28.239 --> 01:15:30.720 bat at second base in your Bay League, like yeah, yeah, it's 1070 01:15:30.760 --> 01:15:38.159 fun. The story of Jadam's dynasty value if you like sum it up into 1071 01:15:38.279 --> 01:15:41.640 like a tic tac video. To me, it'd be like a like a 1072 01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:45.039 wife getting ready for people coming over, like frantically cleaning up in the house, 1073 01:15:45.079 --> 01:15:49.079 like just kind of losing her mind. Like you talk about a teenage 1074 01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:54.600 bat that you know folks were identifying as a phenom or what have you, 1075 01:15:54.680 --> 01:15:58.159 And it's like his numbers at a ball weren't that great. It's number like 1076 01:15:58.359 --> 01:16:01.760 just funny to me, the fickleness that dynasty value can have on players like 1077 01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:04.399 this, Well, well, first of all, could it have gone any 1078 01:16:04.439 --> 01:16:09.520 better? Could have been clean around the house when when you're having people over 1079 01:16:09.600 --> 01:16:15.199 to Nate, they're not gendering the housework around here? Nice, you're right. 1080 01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:20.119 Second of all, A hundred percent agree like the wild bouncing around the 1081 01:16:20.279 --> 01:16:25.840 perceived value of performance of Domingez, Like, it's weird to me that he's 1082 01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:29.720 so far down some less like I think even Eric Longenhangen, who I love, 1083 01:16:29.760 --> 01:16:31.479 I think he does great work. I think Longenhangen had him like in 1084 01:16:31.520 --> 01:16:34.960 the thirties in his top one hundred, and I was like, what fuck, 1085 01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:42.199 he's so good. And I mean, maybe he's closer to right too, 1086 01:16:42.279 --> 01:16:45.800 because I heard that the Yankees are not going to promote him right up 1087 01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:47.640 to the to the big leagues once he's back healthy. Yeah, I heard 1088 01:16:47.640 --> 01:16:51.000 they're going to let him work in Scranton for a bit. But yeah, 1089 01:16:51.119 --> 01:16:56.439 I'm first things that I asked about in the Dynasty dugout like late twenty twenty 1090 01:16:56.439 --> 01:16:59.720 two, I was like, are we undervaluing Domingez? Because this was after 1091 01:16:59.840 --> 01:17:03.159 his I think his a ball or Douba run rather where he was just mashing 1092 01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:08.600 but was maybe having a little bit of babbit misfortune, and everyone was like, 1093 01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:10.479 ah, that's okay, you know, yeah, he's doing okay. 1094 01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:13.119 But I was like, under the hood, this looks really really good. 1095 01:17:13.279 --> 01:17:16.479 And then he kind of exploded in twenty three again like people had expected him 1096 01:17:16.520 --> 01:17:19.960 to right out of the gate. Yeah, he's he's incredible. And I 1097 01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:25.279 think it's interesting looking at that top group. So my top five hitters, 1098 01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:29.359 the fifth guy was a number one overall pick out of high school. The 1099 01:17:29.439 --> 01:17:33.760 other four were all international guys, right, and oh that's right, not 1100 01:17:33.800 --> 01:17:39.680 would not would. But I was coming back to that just thinking about that 1101 01:17:39.800 --> 01:17:44.439 next grouping of players that I didn't rank in the top twenty five. But 1102 01:17:44.680 --> 01:17:48.439 who has the skills to be that like top tier? And you know, 1103 01:17:48.520 --> 01:17:55.560 I tried to talk myself into like Claws or cell est In or even Sallas, 1104 01:17:55.560 --> 01:17:58.960 who you know, some people obviously have way higher already. But I 1105 01:17:59.119 --> 01:18:01.600 just think the thing to end up mattering for your performance as a hitter is 1106 01:18:01.680 --> 01:18:08.039 success at a young age versus much older competition. The guys that get there 1107 01:18:08.279 --> 01:18:14.560 are like kind of younger super talented high school or international level prospects that then 1108 01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:16.600 get pushed. So you want to look for like the guys who are most 1109 01:18:16.640 --> 01:18:20.319 likely to be top five at the end of this year or this time next 1110 01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:26.960 year that are maybe not there yet, Like maybe it is the Lorenzo's or 1111 01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:31.760 the Emerson's Aiden Miller, like these high school guys that come up and start 1112 01:18:31.800 --> 01:18:35.840 performing at the next couple of levels. It was the thing that I was 1113 01:18:35.880 --> 01:18:39.920 I was reflecting back on, like, yeah, you want to shoot for 1114 01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:44.399 the moon. Those high upside Robert Klea's kind of prospects are the ones to 1115 01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:47.800 go for young international bats or preps that are getting pushed. Yeah, yeah, 1116 01:18:47.880 --> 01:18:50.800 well you know what, I want to really look for Matt a shower 1117 01:18:51.079 --> 01:18:55.840 and watch all of this pretty boys shit off of me because I am done 1118 01:18:55.840 --> 01:18:59.239 with this. I don't want to do this again. To take a break, 1119 01:18:59.399 --> 01:19:02.479 this was pretty boy, I am let's back to the other guys. 1120 01:19:02.880 --> 01:19:05.840 Respect of the guys that do this all the time and talk about only mixed 1121 01:19:05.880 --> 01:19:10.279 league only prospects. But it's just like, oh my god, yahn, 1122 01:19:10.359 --> 01:19:13.279 I don't own any of these guys really, and most of my latest because 1123 01:19:13.279 --> 01:19:16.760 it's good I trained him away. These are these are not my not my 1124 01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:24.760 prospects for the most well, I'm gonna go take a shower. Prospects trending 1125 01:19:24.840 --> 01:19:29.000 up on fan tracks ownership. Top of the list this week was Zebbie Matthews 1126 01:19:29.159 --> 01:19:31.840 plus five percent. Up to fourteen percent makes a lot of sense. I 1127 01:19:31.880 --> 01:19:36.279 think Adam Mazer probably his promotion to Triple A fueled this. But he's up 1128 01:19:36.359 --> 01:19:41.119 two and a half percent to nineteen percent. Guy that you talked about this 1129 01:19:41.239 --> 01:19:45.680 off season, some Chandler Champlain, getting some getting some shouts and attention. 1130 01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:48.479 He's up two and a half percent. They had a good outing last week 1131 01:19:48.560 --> 01:19:53.119 and he's doing that in Double A, right, Yeah, Felman Celestine is 1132 01:19:53.239 --> 01:19:57.399 up two percent. Oh, last week we talked about we had Attle renaissance 1133 01:19:57.479 --> 01:20:00.159 episode. You think there might be a Brennan Davis renaissance. He's up a 1134 01:20:00.159 --> 01:20:03.359 couple of percent, and but he hit like five home runs this week and 1135 01:20:03.399 --> 01:20:06.399 didn't win Player of the Week for the International League, which was interesting. 1136 01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:09.680 Yeah, I don't know a lot of people really liked him. I was 1137 01:20:10.359 --> 01:20:14.079 kind of skeptical personally, but yeah, I was never. I was never 1138 01:20:14.159 --> 01:20:16.079 like he's a top five prospect, But who knows. People say that he 1139 01:20:16.159 --> 01:20:19.800 wasn't healthy. I just know that he always had a problem hitting one side 1140 01:20:19.840 --> 01:20:23.680 of the hitters. I don't remember which. I think lefties or something who 1141 01:20:23.720 --> 01:20:27.000 was a righty who couldn't hit lefties well, which was weird up two percent, 1142 01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:31.359 Brandon Sprote, Augustin Ramirez up another two percent, Owen Murphy up two 1143 01:20:31.439 --> 01:20:35.960 percent, who was one of probably my last cut for the top twenty list 1144 01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:42.199 here, and then matt Ronaldo. Yean, I see people getting all excited 1145 01:20:42.199 --> 01:20:45.960 about and taking up He's up one and a half percent the one hundred and 1146 01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:51.840 mileths four. Yeah. And he must also see people suggesting that he has 1147 01:20:51.920 --> 01:20:56.920 above average command and I don't know. Out on Twitter, I cut up 1148 01:20:57.000 --> 01:20:59.840 thirty one of his pitches from one of his outings, and I would not 1149 01:21:00.159 --> 01:21:06.520 call that above average command. I think the big Gary Gil Hill's up up 1150 01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:11.640 a percent, which is good. That brings his roster percentage up to one. 1151 01:21:11.920 --> 01:21:15.920 That's good for that. Besides call there, hang on, did Matthews 1152 01:21:16.039 --> 01:21:20.840 Quinn Matthews make that list too? Yeah, he's on you. Yeah, 1153 01:21:20.880 --> 01:21:25.640 he's been like on this list. I think most of the time, you 1154 01:21:25.680 --> 01:21:29.520 know, half a percent every week or so. Climbing a little bit. 1155 01:21:29.520 --> 01:21:32.439 It wasn't huge, but maybe that'll change next week. Looking ahead this week, 1156 01:21:32.479 --> 01:21:35.640 I should mention we're not going to have an episode next week. The 1157 01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:40.079 holiday and our schedules just started sninking up, so we'll be back in two 1158 01:21:40.119 --> 01:21:43.439 weeks. But I think that'll be nice. I think we're kind of at 1159 01:21:43.479 --> 01:21:46.039 a point where kind of all the big names at the beginning of the year 1160 01:21:46.159 --> 01:21:50.319 sitting on some rosters, and people might be a little less inclined to pick 1161 01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:54.520 up some new pop ups, if you will. But I've got a little 1162 01:21:54.520 --> 01:21:58.600 cachet of hitters and pitchers I've been keeping an eye on that maybe didn't get 1163 01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:00.399 off to the greatest start, but might be worth a worth of luck. 1164 01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:05.800 But looking ahead to this week's minor league Action International League, I don't know. 1165 01:22:06.119 --> 01:22:13.399 Maybe Indianapolis at Iowa. See if Brendan Davis keeps it up and PJ. 1166 01:22:13.560 --> 01:22:17.079 Murray's he does nothing the many he has like a huge week every three 1167 01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:21.840 weeks in the PCL at El Paso see now in case he's Schmidt and Company. 1168 01:22:21.880 --> 01:22:27.000 Sacramento has got a pretty good lineup against Maser Eastern League. Maybe Richmond 1169 01:22:27.159 --> 01:22:30.000 at Booie. I don't know. I've been watching some Victor Barracotto and I 1170 01:22:30.039 --> 01:22:34.079 know his numbers are not there, but don't like really see anything bad happening 1171 01:22:34.079 --> 01:22:38.279 on his bats except for just not getting hits. I've been keeping an eye 1172 01:22:38.319 --> 01:22:41.760 on Cam Weston. He's striking out a bunch of guys. Still see if 1173 01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:45.800 anyone from Aberdeen gets called up this week. Southern League. I gotta go 1174 01:22:45.800 --> 01:22:48.680 with Birmingham at Biloxi. I want to see Schultz double a debut. How 1175 01:22:48.720 --> 01:22:55.359 that goes. Texas League San Antonio has got Wichita maybe uh yeah. I 1176 01:22:55.439 --> 01:22:59.760 watched some snowing and others. That would be Zebbi's third double a start in 1177 01:22:59.800 --> 01:23:03.239 this sal League. Jersey Shore at Aberdeen. Pineda had another good week. 1178 01:23:03.960 --> 01:23:10.000 Watch some more, maybe some Aldegari versus those Aberdeen bats which we've seen before, 1179 01:23:10.039 --> 01:23:12.800 We've seen him dominate them before. Let's see if he backside up. 1180 01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:17.119 Midwest League West Michigan's at Lake County Matt that should be a good one to 1181 01:23:17.199 --> 01:23:20.800 see ham if he's not promoted. Versus our boys, Mooney and Capus. 1182 01:23:23.079 --> 01:23:27.920 You see what Nate Furman has been hot, their leadoff hitter a really good 1183 01:23:27.960 --> 01:23:30.880 week. Yeah yeah, and you know who also had a really Good League 1184 01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:34.199 week is my Tigers B side bat. Luke Gold has been doing some things. 1185 01:23:34.279 --> 01:23:39.279 He's up to like nine home runs. Yeah. Northwest League, which 1186 01:23:39.319 --> 01:23:44.199 is always slim Pickens. Maybe Spokane at Eugene. It's the two top teams 1187 01:23:44.199 --> 01:23:47.600 in the league, Sullivan and Dolander versus the best offense in the league. 1188 01:23:47.720 --> 01:23:51.880 Call league Modesto at Rancho. I mean pretty much whenever those two teams play 1189 01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:56.279 each other, that's probably the most interesting watch to me. Florida State League 1190 01:23:56.359 --> 01:24:00.039 Dunedin at Bradenton. I keep not getting to watching some of these young Blue 1191 01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:02.960 Jay arms that I want to, and this has got to be the week 1192 01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:08.159 to do it. With that awesome Angle at bradon Ton and then Carolina Lee 1193 01:24:08.239 --> 01:24:15.800 Lynchburg is at Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg broadcast shares velocity. So maybe that tugboat outing 1194 01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:18.680 will be an interesting one to watch with a gun that could be really interesting. 1195 01:24:18.720 --> 01:24:20.479 So yeah, I don't know, Matt. I think that'll do it 1196 01:24:20.520 --> 01:24:28.039 for episode thirty four of the Well the Pretty Boy Podcast, Pretty Boy Podcast, 1197 01:24:28.199 --> 01:24:30.840 we need to change the podcast name for a week. Yeah, maybe 1198 01:24:31.119 --> 01:24:33.560 maybe I don't like it. I don't want to do this again, Matt 1199 01:24:33.560 --> 01:24:39.359 at least maybe not for another year. Sounds good. All right, well, 1200 01:24:39.399 --> 01:24:42.520 we'll let Chicago farmer take us out, be well, and we will 1201 01:24:42.560 --> 01:24:46.760 talk to you again in two weeks later, half miles an hour, riding 1202 01:24:46.960 --> 01:24:54.720 too his head. You hop it down first with the lump bonus face, 1203 01:24:55.279 --> 01:25:03.479 and on the very next pitch he up and stole second thing with greatst speed. 1204 01:25:04.640 --> 01:25:13.199 He wasn't born, He had dead yes, uniform