WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:07.519 Ninety five miles an hour, riding too his head. He hopping down first 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:14.240 with the lumpbonius face, and on the very next pitch he up and stole 3 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:28.719 second phase with gretest be he wasn't born, he had yes uniform. Well 4 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:32.960 well, well, welcome to episode twelve of Prospect B Sides. I am 5 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:39.240 Nate Handy and the rookie Matt is joining me once again. Back again. 6 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:45.600 Tonight is Thursday, the last night of the AFL regular season, and I 7 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:50.520 see your guy, Cale Durban hit his third home run of the AFL and 8 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:56.039 your picture there, goolfoil is. He went three and two thirds, struck 9 00:00:56.039 --> 00:01:00.039 out six, walked to and gave up one run. Pretty solid. And 10 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.480 if I'm not mistaken, Cable Durbin is just a couple steals off of the 11 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.159 all time AFL record. I was not aware of that. Yeah, he's 12 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.359 three shy, so he probably won't get it. But yeah, pretty good 13 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.120 little showing for mister Durban. Yeah, look at you, Look at your 14 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:19.560 guys showing up. Do you want to maybe just give a little summary if 15 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:25.239 there's someone new listening of what it is we're doing. Sure? This, 16 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.480 as Nate coined it, what a couple of years ago when you started this 17 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:38.560 is the B Sides. We're looking for those prospects that might go underappreciated by 18 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.920 the wider public lists that you see your top hundreds, your top two hundreds, 19 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:48.439 your top five hundreds. These guys might not appear on those lists. 20 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:55.599 But Nate and now the rookie me, we've dug into them and think that 21 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:57.879 maybe they belong a little bit higher on some of these lists. And for 22 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:02.840 those of you playing in d for dynasty leagues or really digging in the mud, 23 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:07.519 as Nate likes to say, these might be your kind of guys that 24 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.800 fill out the back end of your roster and then turn into something useful down 25 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.319 the line, whether that's a big leaguer or a throw in in a trade 26 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:16.919 to get that guy that you really need to put you over the top. 27 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.479 We're trying to help you out, one muddy B Sider at a time. 28 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.719 Just one little bit of housekeeping. Last week we did the Al West and 29 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:30.599 I had failed to mention a few of the pitchers that I had selected last 30 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:36.319 season. But I forgot to mention Ryan Pasteau, a pitcher in the Angel 31 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:40.960 system from LSU. I believe drafted what was that. I think maybe the 32 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:45.800 twenty twenty two draft, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh round something like 33 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.960 that. But he had kind of caught my eye another one of these sort 34 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.159 of some of all parts, more polished, I think, decent to good 35 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.719 stuff. He was injured last year. He had Tommy John surgery, but 36 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:01.759 another arm that is not going to be highly owned that I don't know. 37 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:06.800 I'm anxious to kind of see come back this season and see what he's looking 38 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:10.879 like after the surgery. Happens a lot with those injured guys where maybe they 39 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:15.159 were a fourth or fifth rounder and so someone you wanted to follow, but 40 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:17.599 then injury and then it takes another year to build up any innings, so 41 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:21.919 nobody's interested. I feel like a lot of those guys have been ones that 42 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.159 have been interesting to me. Doing this exercise this year is like, hey, 43 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:28.800 maybe they missed part of the last year and a half and now they're 44 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.000 coming back and showing something. So I do like to flag those guys for 45 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:37.000 sure. Yeah, And I think sort of throughout the little B side history, 46 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:42.080 injury is a part of a lot of it. Guys that missed time, 47 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:46.080 didn't play. They can slip through the cracks, so the Dodgers B 48 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:53.280 side history. I don't think we've really had much success. Matt. I 49 00:03:53.319 --> 00:04:00.000 wanted to mention my pitchers selection last season was Luis Valdez, a young left 50 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:05.840 d that I watched a total of two innings of last season and was actually 51 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:13.120 kind of dumb enough to go on a Baseball America fantasy Well. I don't 52 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:17.399 know what they called it extravaganza and talked about him, but he's a young 53 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:23.040 pitcher. He was traded to the Rangers. I forget what the whole trade 54 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.759 was, but he is an arm that I want to pay attention to this 55 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.680 year as well. He did not start off nearly as well as I had 56 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.839 hoped. I kind of saw young lefty who threw fairly hard and had really 57 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:39.839 good command of secondaries. Again, this was two innings, but pairing that 58 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:44.480 with some of his rookie numbers from that season, I think he had walked 59 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.360 three batters in like forty three innings or something like that. Young teenage left 60 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.959 in the Dodgers system. This could get interest in good command stuff, and 61 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:56.879 like I said, didn't start off the greatest, but was traded to the 62 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.279 Rangers, who I happened to know liked him as a low cost, high 63 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:04.560 reward type of arm. So maybe I wasn't too off of my rocker. 64 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:09.279 There was some people who do this for a living who had some interest in 65 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:14.720 him as well. And then what I had selected Ermine Rosario in our picture 66 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:18.639 draft a few episodes ago, so I won't get into any more arms here. 67 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:23.480 So Matt, you got a Dodger's arm that you want to kind of 68 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.879 put a stamp on this year. Wow, we're really starting out hot. 69 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.639 You know, your Dodger's arm is no longer in the system and has scuffled 70 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:35.560 a little bit since you picked him. And as we were saying before starting 71 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:42.199 the pod that Dodgers' arms in particular were pretty tough. It seems like when 72 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.199 their arms performed, they really perform well, and they get that fantasy industry 73 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:50.199 excitement behind them, and the ownership rate shoot way up. I don't know 74 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:55.720 whether it's something in common with the meritors hype machine, but the Dodgers, 75 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.399 especially with arms, once they start performing, it seems like everybody jumps on 76 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.439 board. The guys that I thought might make my lists coming when we first 77 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.879 started talking about this that were a little bit underappreciated, guys like Kyle Hurt. 78 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.759 I really liked what he did this year, and he was definitely at 79 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:15.240 the very back of a bunch of prospect lists even at mid season this year, 80 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:16.800 but I had liked what I had seen. He finished the year so 81 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:20.600 strong that I think he's gonna be a top one hundred guy in places, 82 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:26.360 and he's now pretty firmly in above our ownership thresholds. I think when I 83 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.279 pulled it, it was like at six percent already, which is way too 84 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:32.360 high for US B siders. Emmitt Shean, Maddox Bruns like these are guys 85 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:35.879 that they, you know, maybe didn't have as much hype this time last 86 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:41.600 year, but really did figure things out and obviously their ownership shot up. 87 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:46.120 Even a guy like Justin Robleski, who is again someone that fits the mold 88 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.600 of the kind of pitchers that I like. You know, he's lefty, 89 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:53.399 he gets ground balls, doesn't walk. A lot of guys like kind of 90 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:58.920 that command projection kind of picture. He was way too owned for this exercise 91 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.759 as well, and I think, and I think a couple of places have 92 00:07:01.839 --> 00:07:05.399 him ranked in top three hundreds or so, so you know, those kinds 93 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:09.560 of guys, once they start doing well, the Dodgers system, people start 94 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:13.079 to take notice, and indeed I agree with that because I think a lot 95 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.920 of those guys are going to get a shot next year with how thin the 96 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:20.240 Dodger's rotation has become. So definitely good hunting grounds for those impact arms. 97 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:25.959 But trying to go a layer deeper, it was either guys with really short 98 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.759 track records or guys that after watching a little bit, it's like, oh, 99 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:32.600 yeah, it's really earned that bad walk rate, or yeah, it 100 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.360 doesn't seem like this is going to play at the next level. So I 101 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:40.800 struggled a little bit for this. Guys that I tried to look at. 102 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:45.920 You know, Joel Ibarra is one who I had seen a couple of years 103 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.639 ago. I think Eric long and hanging at Fangrafts had written about how this 104 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.519 is a converted shirt stop and really power arm and maybe if there's something there. 105 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:57.399 Well, he still is incredibly raw, even two years into the pitching 106 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:01.759 experiment and it's reliever only, and he walked eighteen percent of batters, Like 107 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:03.639 I'm just out. I don't really care how good the stuff is. If 108 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.399 you're that high, it's like, it's not my kind of guy. So 109 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.240 I did go with the guy who shares some similarities with that in that he's 110 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.120 a reliever only and has some command issues. But I went with Brydon Fisher. 111 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.759 He's a twenty two year old, was drafted all the way back in 112 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.879 twenty eighteen out of high school. Almost immediately dealt with injuries, you know, 113 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.240 short stint in his draft year, and then he had Tommy John in 114 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:33.159 twenty nineteen, lost all of twenty twenty to the pandemic, and then since 115 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.240 he's been back, they mostly have just had him in the bullpen. They 116 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:41.519 give him a couple of starts here and there, but he seems to be 117 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:45.799 a bullpen only arm. He's up to Double A this year and finishing up 118 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.639 in Double A. He started at high this year. Ran Fisher ran a 119 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:54.360 two seven to seven ERA across sixty five innings. He did get one start, 120 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.399 but it was an open rather than like any sort of length. He 121 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:00.840 did throw a couple innings here and there. But Molessly, who was used 122 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:03.039 in short stints, he struck out a lot of batters like that was the 123 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:07.879 thing that across all the levels that he's pitched so far, he has stuff. 124 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:13.279 It's a good fastball, gets some whiffs on but an absolute hammer of 125 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.879 a curveball, really kind of a fun curveball. It's firm and it has 126 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.519 that really sharp bite. Got a lot of swings and misses and a lot 127 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:26.840 of ground balls with that pitch, and also throws a cutter slider kind of 128 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:31.279 thing. I didn't think that one was as good as the curveball. But 129 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.440 the stuff plays like. He doesn't get hit very hard and gets his whiffs 130 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:39.320 thirty three percent strike out rate this year, but he walked thirteen and a 131 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:43.200 half percent, and at times it looks pretty wild. He'll let that fastball 132 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:48.080 go up and away and really loose commanded that the curveball, it has a 133 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.519 ton of movement, and if he's not locating that hitters really just if they 134 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.039 can spit on that pitch, they sit on the fastball because I don't think 135 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:00.480 the slider is as much of a weapon, And when that happens, he 136 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:05.879 gets hit a little bit harder and also walks more guys. So it's not 137 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.799 a super exciting arm, but I've seen enough of him this year that this 138 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:16.159 could be a medium leverage arm for the Dodgers pretty soon. The stuff looks 139 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.320 like it'll play, especially if he tightens up the walk rate just a bit. 140 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:22.679 This might be he has a chance to be at the back end in 141 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:26.200 the higher leverage innings, but as of right now, i'd say, you 142 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.080 know, fifty to fifty for him to make the bigs. And if he 143 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.200 does, at least initially, I'm guessing it's going to be in a lower 144 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:35.519 leverage kind of a couple innings here, a couple innings there, mop up 145 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.200 kind of role. But yeah, Brandon Fisher, there's something interesting here, 146 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.600 but it's not the most exciting guy that I've seen. Right on, not 147 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.279 an arm that I think I'm familiar with, So right on, thank you, 148 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:54.240 that's you selected number one. Number one one briefly mentioned Austin gott here. 149 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.840 Again he's he's my Dodgers pick. There's a couple of other Dodgers that 150 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:03.759 were interesting. I wanted to talk myself into Ryan Ward at triple A kind 151 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:09.399 of utility guy left field, right field for space corner guy. Not super 152 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:13.039 excited about him, but there's some power speed blend there and the kra wasn't 153 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:18.320 terrible, but you know, ultimately he didn't rise to that to the lofty 154 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.720 levels of Gotier. Again, it's one of these just like really well rounded 155 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:28.039 hitters that the Dodgers seemed to have a few of in the Jorbet Vivas Miguel 156 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.120 Vargas kind of mode where a lot of line drives a lot of doubles, 157 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:33.200 doesn't strike out very much, has a good eye. You know, he 158 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.559 walked basically as much as he struck out last year and made it up to 159 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:41.159 double a. Actually walked more than then he struck out. You know, 160 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:43.879 He's got a really really strong plate approach and is pretty quick, and I 161 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:46.679 think can play the infield like he's going to play somewhere in the infield, 162 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:50.080 maybe even left field if they wanted to try him out there. But yeah, 163 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:54.879 Austin Gotier I think is really good. And Gothier got a present ninety 164 00:11:54.919 --> 00:12:03.399 seven WRC plus projection from Steamer, which is pretty impressive for somebody who's unheralded 165 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.720 and I think validated my B side number one selection. Like it's basically saying 166 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.440 he's a league average hitter right now. That's pretty good for someone that was 167 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.399 one or two percent owned YEA at the end of the year. So Austin 168 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.759 Goffier, I've remain pretty excited about him. I think he is actually a 169 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:24.960 big league regular in the making, and that is gold for us mutters. 170 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.919 There were two pretty young bats that I'm just more curious about. I don't 171 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:35.360 know if you saw any of these guys, but they have a young infielder, 172 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.600 Juel Perez, who started the season in a ball wouldn't say he was 173 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.600 particularly great. He's a young eighteen year old, and then they sent him 174 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.120 back down to the complex. He really turned it on the last couple months 175 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:52.519 there or whatever, slug like over six hundred over like his last thirty five 176 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:58.080 games, so I'm interested in just watching him again. Then they got a 177 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:03.960 young catcher, Jesu's Ali's, who I think had a decent little season at 178 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:07.080 a ball nineteen year old. Got to keep my eye on him, but 179 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:11.240 they weren't really I didn't really feel great about making them B side selections. 180 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.600 Maybe this is kind of being cheap or cheating a little bit mad. I 181 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.360 didn't really want to do this, but I'm just going to double up on 182 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:22.960 my Dodger bat selection from last season and go with Junior Garcia last year what 183 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.720 he was twenty years old. I believe this is a very powerful bat who 184 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:31.600 I think kind of had the reputation of chasing too much, not a good 185 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:35.720 approach and all that kind of stuff, But that wasn't really what I was 186 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:41.200 seeing on the video. And then he had he just absolutely dominated the end 187 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:46.320 of his a ball run last season, his last two hundred and sixty one 188 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:50.159 played appearances there, he went like three point fifty three, four to twenty 189 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:54.799 three, slug six twelve, hit twelve home runs, and playing for Rancho, 190 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:56.759 you don't you know, you don't get their broadcasts, but some of 191 00:13:56.759 --> 00:14:01.480 the some of the home runs that you did see were just urminator as sort 192 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:05.840 of distance and ridiculousness. And then he got moved up to Hi A at 193 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:09.759 the end of twenty twenty two. I think he struggled a little bit, 194 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.440 and then this season he was back at High A, but he didn't play 195 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:18.240 for very very long. He only got in what one hundred and seventy five 196 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:22.519 played appearances, I think maybe even less. I don't know if some of 197 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.240 that was some rehab. Didn't really do anything spectacular. He had two to 198 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.799 eighty, slugged three thirty now excuse me on base three thirty, slugged four 199 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.159 sixteen, hit five home runs, So nothing super spectacular, but I'm just 200 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:39.519 gonna kind of maybe take twenty twenty three is just kind of a throw it 201 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:45.639 away year and see what Garcia looks like this year. I know Clegg had 202 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:50.840 gotten into some of his you know, data, and there was lots of 203 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.919 hard hit and lots of evs and things of that nature, and I think 204 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:58.519 he had gotten a little interested in him coming into this year. But you 205 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:03.200 know, of course lots of ifs. Garcia just feels like a guy who 206 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:09.480 could potentially have like a thirty home run minor league season if it all goes 207 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:13.200 well, and that would surely boost his zero percent roster percentage right now. 208 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:18.759 So I don't know who's the dadgers, and I just couldn't really find anybody 209 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:22.279 that was a little bit more enticing them Garcia, So I'm just going to 210 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:24.840 stick with him. Have you watched him at all, Matt, I have 211 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.200 watched a fair amount of him. I was on him coming into this year 212 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.559 and had him in a couple of leagues, partly, I think on your 213 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:37.279 recommendation as well as Clegg saying some of the underlying data was pretty good. 214 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:41.279 The kid hits the ball really hard, which I like, seemed to have 215 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:43.000 a pretty good plate approach, which I think took a little bit of a 216 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:46.519 step back this year. It seemed in both categories. I did end up 217 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.720 thinking both leagues that I had him, I dropped him because the power just 218 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:56.159 wasn't showing up. I hope that it was all related to whatever injuries he 219 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:58.679 had this year. And what were the injuries? Do you have any idea? 220 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.960 I don't know. I thought one of them was a back or something. 221 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.720 I had asked a couple of people who might be in the know, 222 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.799 and nobody seemed to know what the issue was. So I just know he 223 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.720 missed a bunch of time and it wasn't very good when he came back to 224 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.519 which I was kind of bummed about. Didn't hit a homer after he came 225 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:22.960 back from his injury. And I don't know. I again was pretty excited 226 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.519 about him coming into this year. So I think seeing writing this off as 227 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.840 a lost injury year might prove prescient and he could really turn it on. 228 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:36.159 But yeah, tough year for junior. Yeah, still quite young, he 229 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:40.240 did have like he still managed the one O three w RC plus in a 230 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:45.840 short time. The Midwest League is not necessarily the most homer friendly of leagues, 231 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.440 especially early in the year, but I don't know. Yeah, I 232 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:52.720 think he was around early in the season, so yes, we'll see the 233 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.799 year. Yeah, through early May he was in the Northwest League and yeah, 234 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.360 yeah, not an easy place to hit early in the season or pitch. 235 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:06.039 So yeah, the pretty boy dadgers not muddy enough for us. Matt. 236 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.720 Look, I think that Junior Garcia might be a more interesting hitter than 237 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:18.160 Yesuaya Paula. And that is a hot take because JDP is in some top 238 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:25.440 fifties and people love to talk about his sweet swing and advanced approach. And 239 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:29.079 I will admit he does have an advance approach. He knows the strike zone 240 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:32.839 pretty well, and he doesn't whiff a lot. It's it's a pretty like 241 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:36.000 he makes a lot of contact. But I don't know if I'm not a 242 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:40.720 really big Twitter x guy. But apparently there's a big storm over the GM 243 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:45.480 meetings because Brian Cashman is talking about they're going to play more small ball and 244 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:49.119 bunting, and somebody else was talking about contact is king and oh, I 245 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:53.279 think Jerry Depoto actually he mentioned this that they want guys that make more contact 246 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:57.799 and don't strike out as much. And some of the smart people on Twitter, 247 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:03.200 like Mike Petrie, Hello he, I guess tweeted out about like how 248 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:07.640 Yeah, the teams that draft and prioritize contact over everything else, they also 249 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.200 hit the fewest homers and they aren't very good offenses. That's the Nationals and 250 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.640 the Guardians, Like they're the two highest contact organizations, and they were twenty 251 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:19.400 nine and thirty in home runs hit this year. I think just way to 252 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:23.319 Paula is that kind of hitter his For all his you know, six' 253 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:30.440 three athletic looking, big strung kid, I think he swings very soft for 254 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:33.039 someone that should be impacting the ball. And part of it I talked about 255 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:37.480 the way his swing works. I think he is prioritizing that contact way too 256 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:41.039 much and he should be whipping more and hitting the ball a lot harder. 257 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.880 And part of that is that I don't think his hands work through the ball 258 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:49.720 very well. He's very good at hitting at the ball, and so he 259 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:53.079 makes a lot of contact. But I think when he does make contact, 260 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:57.680 there's a lot of side spin. It's very much singles here. He might 261 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:02.480 find a gap and hit a double, but he hit like one home run 262 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:07.039 in the Cow League. And Rancho is a really great place to hit, 263 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:11.000 especially for lefties. Like, I'm just not sold that this is an impact 264 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:15.119 bat. And you know, BA shared that he had pretty good exit velo 265 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.839 data and you expect it to grow maybe a little bit over the next year 266 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.440 or two. But I'm just not seeing a good hitter. I'm just not 267 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:30.400 seeing like someone who is comped to Jordan Alvarez or whatever some of the crazy 268 00:19:30.440 --> 00:19:33.160 comps were coming into this year, and so I think the hype on him 269 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:37.839 is like wildly out of proportion to what his actual skills are going to be. 270 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:41.839 I feel like I'm just on an island about this, and it just 271 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.599 gets me going every time because I like, people are so excited about him. 272 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:49.839 I have him in the league, and I am cannot wait to trade 273 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:55.480 him this offseason or next year because I just don't see it. I don't 274 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:59.519 see like I don't think he's going to make the big leags. Like that's 275 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:03.200 my take right now. So that's a hot take for me. And you 276 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:07.599 did bait me into talking about him, even though I promised myself coming in 277 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:10.000 that I was just going to talk about the guys that I actually was excited 278 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:14.559 about. But the Dodger shark it felt right, we're gonna get into some 279 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.480 like pretty boy bashing, right, and then yeah, I think I think 280 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:22.880 that's going to be part of our show. So it's a good warm up. 281 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:30.200 JDP. Matt is not a fan and no, but I think by 282 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:36.279 association neither am I. So let's do the Diamondbacks, Matt, let's get 283 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:41.519 into it. I'm curious. Jorge Barossa was my selection for a few years 284 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:45.680 now or for a few years in the past. Few seasons in the past, 285 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:48.240 he's been on the forty man for a minute, he's up to like 286 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:51.920 seven percent. And I don't know if you've watched much of him, but 287 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:56.599 man, what a little mighty mouse of a guy. Love him. This 288 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:00.279 is one of my favorite b sides of yours ever. And I oh, 289 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.680 I think in like every league that I could. I'm a big fan of 290 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:07.279 the skills. Yeah, this is my kind of guy. Nice is what 291 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:12.359 list five to five and he's probably that oh yeah, switch hitter, he's 292 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:15.960 uh, he's better. He's better as a lefty, I think, but 293 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:21.119 that, but not much worse as a righty. Do home runs. This 294 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:26.079 last season, right handed dude eighty walks to eighty two strikeouts on the season. 295 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:27.319 This is all in Triple A, right, I think he played his 296 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:30.200 whole season in Triple A. Yeah. Yeah, this was kind of fun 297 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.680 play and you get some of that stack cast stuff. Uh. He had 298 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.799 a max VLO of one oh nine and an average of eighty seven. I 299 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.799 was not really expecting that, Matt. But that's the little juicier than I 300 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:45.799 thought you'd get a little bit. It is still pretty significantly below average, 301 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:51.960 but definitely more juice than you might expect from someone who is that small. 302 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:55.160 He's still quite young, what twenty two, twenty three years old? Yeah, 303 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:59.480 a nice season. Two seventy four, three ninety four, four fifty 304 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:04.000 six. Now outfield and Arizona is probably a little crowded. I think Brosa 305 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:07.400 is gonna get He's gonna get a chance this soon here. Don't you think 306 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:12.799 I worry about the opportunity, like you say, with Carol locked in, 307 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:18.720 right, they're gonna play Carol every day. Alec Thomas is one of the 308 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:23.039 best defensive players in all of baseball and one of the best center fielders in 309 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:30.880 all of baseball, and they have had quite a few options in left field. 310 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.279 There are options that they were playing in left field. I think are 311 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:37.519 leaving via free agency this year, so you're not gonna see Guriel out there. 312 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:41.000 You're not gonna see fam out there. Maybe Barrossa does get some run. 313 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:45.759 Jake McCarthy is there, Don Fletcher is there. Both guys are likely 314 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:49.000 to see some time as well. But I think we're going to get to 315 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:53.480 see an opportunity to see if this profile works for Barissa at the big league 316 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:57.359 level next year, and I'm pumped for it. He's no slouge defensively himself. 317 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:02.359 We're only like a week away from forty Man's having to be decided, 318 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:04.640 right. Do you think there's any chance that they knock him off the forty 319 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:10.240 and put them out there for great I don't think so. I think they're 320 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:12.480 going to keep him on the forty man. Yeah, because they've got a 321 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:17.279 little bit of room since they're they're having a couple of guys leaving free agency 322 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:19.319 and so, and I also don't think he's at the top of that list, 323 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:22.920 is my guess. I think it's a lot more likely they put something 324 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:27.759 like Blade Alexander bump him off the forty man, maybe even Diego Casillo before 325 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:32.799 they cut Barroso. So I do think Boris is going to get a look 326 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:38.440 before decent. Besides success story there arms, Matt, I didn't have a 327 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:44.440 large list of arms that really interests me. This raster percentage in this organization. 328 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.960 Was that the same for you? I agree, there were a few 329 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:53.640 that were interesting. I mean, so I was basically down to Ricardo Yan, 330 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:59.119 who I really don't love all that much. I mean, he's got 331 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.079 he's got breaking ball, right, I don't really have a lot of faith 332 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:07.319 in the fastball. So I was just gonna double up on my selection from 333 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.359 last year again and be a little cheap. But I think, if I'm 334 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:15.559 not mistaken, that's also the guy that you want to go with, right 335 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:18.240 it is. And when I selected him, I didn't know that that was 336 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:22.480 your god right, But yeah, that's no, No, that's that's fine. 337 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.119 I think we should I think we should just double stamp him for another 338 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:30.759 go here and let's talk about him. We'll lead us off. He's a 339 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:37.039 what twenty three year old Venezuelan now, And you know it's interesting sometimes these 340 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:42.200 not created yet in fantreks guys can turn into a little bit of something and 341 00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:47.680 or get some attention, like I think shortly after I had spoke about him 342 00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:52.599 last offseason. I think he did show up on the back of some top 343 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.440 thirty lists with Diaz. It's the fastball, right, I think I saw 344 00:24:57.279 --> 00:25:00.759 I want to say, like sixty five. I was put on the fastball 345 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:07.119 regularly hits the high nineties. It's pretty good, it's pretty nasty. And 346 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:11.559 then he pairs that with two low eighties breakers. So I don't think he 347 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.720 really has like a medium speed. And let's see what this year. He 348 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:21.000 was in High A and then got bumped up to double A for two or 349 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:23.519 three regular season starts, and then they actually had him start twice in the 350 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:27.559 playoffs. One game he fared pretty well. I think he gave up like 351 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:33.279 two runs, went like five or something like that. Then the second playoff 352 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:37.559 game he started off really well, pretty much just blew through the lineup the 353 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:42.400 first time through, and then got into some trouble gave up some home runs, 354 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:48.279 which I think he is susceptible to doing. Diaz's biggest issue is command. 355 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.559 Right, what was his walk rate on the season. It wasn't pretty. 356 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:55.759 I think it was over five. I think it was over five per 357 00:25:55.880 --> 00:26:02.440 nine. Now, his strikeout rate was I think fantastic. What over thirteen 358 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:06.279 per nine, right, I think he has thrown a change up, but 359 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:08.279 I don't think I saw any in my looks this year, Matt. Maybe 360 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:15.079 maybe you caught some. I did catch a couple of his change ups, 361 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.400 and you know, you're saying, how does he do in that middle velocity 362 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:26.000 range? His sweeper and his change are pretty similar velocity bands, And then 363 00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:30.000 he's got the curveball, which I think has a lot more downward plane movement. 364 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.240 Yeah, but I caught that mostly in the high seventies. So you 365 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:36.640 know, maybe the sweeper, maybe the change or that middle range for him, 366 00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:38.000 but yeah, yeah, I think I think the sweeper too, at 367 00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:41.160 least when I saw it and there was some vilo, I don't think it 368 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.000 was getting more than like eighty two on it. Yeah, I saw eighty 369 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.440 to eighty three. Yeah, okay, But you know, he is a 370 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:52.759 he is an arm that the quality of the fastball and the breakers, I 371 00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:55.359 mean, he might be able to get away with it, but not with 372 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:59.079 his sort of execution. I don't think the slider command I think can get 373 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:03.680 quite unprefer fessional at times. And the fastball, I'd say he probably like 374 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:07.319 controls it well enough, but I don't think he really spots it all that 375 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:08.720 well. You know, the fastball, he tries to play it up in 376 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:12.160 the zone, leaves it down a little too far, and that can get 377 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:15.960 hit hard at times. You kind of pair that with his size, delivery, 378 00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:22.759 lack of efficiency, Like he was rarely over sixty percent strikes as a 379 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:26.559 starter in his outings. This year, he loses effectiveness the second time through. 380 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:30.160 It's easy to see how he may be better suited for the bullpen, 381 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:34.440 but the Dbacks have stayed committed to some of these arms. You know in 382 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:40.000 recent history that that sure seemed like a future bullpen type, but you know, 383 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:45.960 with debatable results. I think Jamison and Nelson there were points where I 384 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:49.480 felt like they were very much seemed suited for bullpen and starting wasn't really going 385 00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:52.640 to work out. You know, Jamison's probably now in the bullpen, but 386 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.640 Nelson's still starting. He threw just over I mean, he threw one hundred 387 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:00.400 and twelve innings this year if you include the playoffs. I'm sorry, his 388 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:06.000 caper nine was at just over twelve, not thirteen. That was it dropped 389 00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:10.000 a little bit at double it, but it was still over thirty percent strike 390 00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:12.079 strike up percentage on the air, which is really good. So see Mann, 391 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:15.440 I can be a bit of a stuff guy too. I'm not all 392 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.880 command give them my options here. I wanted to just kind of double down 393 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:25.119 on Diz because I think even if this does just end up as a bullpen 394 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:27.799 arm, I think he could be quite good at it. But I think 395 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:30.759 the Diamondbacks are going to stick with it and see if the if you can 396 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.400 tighten things up. I don't really think there was much improvement in that throughout 397 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:37.319 the course of this year, but I don't know, maybe maybe you've got 398 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.240 got some other observations. Well, I'll double tap on everything you said. 399 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:45.160 I think that this is a stuff over command arm, which is a bit 400 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:51.480 unusual for us. Some of that was the rest of the options for either 401 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:55.240 kind of command only guys. And I think Yon and to a lesser excent 402 00:28:55.519 --> 00:29:00.599 or to even a greater extent, Lynn both are command guys that have solid 403 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:03.359 command, but I don't think their stuff is going to keep up with We're 404 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.160 kind of dominated up to this point, and they're both getting pretty popular. 405 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.599 Diaz has great stuff. I'm a fan of the slider. I think it 406 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:17.000 pairs pretty well with the fastball and the few changes that I saw it seemed 407 00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:18.599 like he just has no idea really where it's going, so he doesn't really 408 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:22.680 trust it that much and ends up not throwing it a lot. But the 409 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.480 stuff will play. I mean, this is an arm that would not look 410 00:29:26.559 --> 00:29:30.200 out of place on a big league bullpen delivery. He falls off to the 411 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:36.079 left pretty hard. He does sit a bit out of control in the delivery. 412 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:38.799 At one of the starts that I wanted to highlight, he actually outdueled 413 00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:44.839 Jack Lighter after Lighter came back and looked pretty good during that stretch in double 414 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:48.920 A. The only damage in that outing was an opposite field home run from 415 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:53.160 Wyatt Langford, so he kind of dominated a pretty good lineup for I think 416 00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:57.240 it was like five and two thirds, and the only knock against him was 417 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:03.640 why at Langford is ridiculously good baseball player, Like, yeah, that's that 418 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.680 seems like a decent arm, but yeah, the command is just what it's 419 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:10.799 going to hold him back, like if he can take even a small step 420 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:15.839 forward. Thirteen percent walk rate is bad. It's been bad for a pretty 421 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:19.440 long time. And even when he's going pretty well, like you see one 422 00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:22.920 or two walks in a start, and those are the good ones, It's 423 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.319 like, that's tough, but the stuff is very good, and I'm definitely 424 00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:30.480 interested in following him. I wonder if he gets a little time with the 425 00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:34.000 major league coaches next spring training whether that might help. I mean, they 426 00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:40.039 say Brent Strom is pretty good at getting guys tightening up their command. Although 427 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:45.039 I mentioned the other week that I was reading Winning Fixes Everything about the Astros 428 00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:48.200 and obviously stroms with the Astros for a while there, and they have a 429 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:52.440 bit towards the end of the book about how one of the things that they 430 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:56.640 think Brent Strom was really good at was having his pictures apply sticky stuff to 431 00:30:56.680 --> 00:31:00.640 their hands, and that that was like a big part of what the sort 432 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.119 of instant Brent Stram effect was. And I thought that was an interesting anecdote, 433 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.319 and I wonder, I wonder if there's still some truth to that they 434 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:10.799 called it. Was it Strom sticky bucket would just bring it to their first 435 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.319 bullpen and all of a sudden their stuff goes up, like talk some bats, 436 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:19.839 those stinky, those stinky bats. I'm going to athletes. I think 437 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:22.720 I'm gonna let you go first, Matt, because I think you're going to 438 00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.039 select a guy that I was going to talk about a little bit, but 439 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:29.039 why don't you just go for it? All right? Well, my guy 440 00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:33.920 that I'm going to go for is Christian Sirdup Curda is a twenty year old 441 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:36.920 catcher made it up to High A this year. I got to see him 442 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:41.160 live a couple of times out in Hillsboro. Has kind of had a kind 443 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.359 of interesting line this year. Full full season, four hundred and seventy played 444 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:48.799 appearances. He had eleven homers two forty seven average, four h two on 445 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.400 base three ninety seven slut. Pretty unusual line. He only struck out twenty 446 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:57.559 percent of the time, again at an advanced level for his age. All 447 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:00.839 good for a one twenty six w RC plus, but if you're doing your 448 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:05.559 math really quickly there he hit two forty seven but had a four to ho 449 00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:12.000 two on base percentage. That is a huge walk grate twenty percent walk grate 450 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.799 nineteen point eight actually, But he basically walked as much as he struck out, 451 00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:20.640 and he walked a boatload. And this plays out with watching him. 452 00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:22.480 He has kind of a funky stance. He's a big dude. There's no 453 00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:27.680 speed here whatsoever, but boyd does he know the strike zone, and boyd 454 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.279 is he geared to take advantage. I think one of the games that I 455 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:35.599 saw him live, Winja from the Giants, was thrown against him, and 456 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:37.799 I think he walked him three times. His certa doesn't give in, so 457 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:42.240 if it's in the zone, he's fouling it off or trying to spoil those 458 00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:45.400 pitches. And if it's out of the zone, the man doesn't swing really, 459 00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:49.720 lets those wild pitchers give him the free base. These kinds of skills 460 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.759 tough to do, tough to fake, I guess. So it really seems 461 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:57.200 to me like, even given that the command for pictures is a lot worse 462 00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.279 in the lower miners, he's at the level now where like, this is 463 00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:05.759 a real skill that he's showing and it's one of the most valuable ones. 464 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:08.319 I wish he hit the ball a little bit harder. I think there's room 465 00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:13.920 to unlock that with his swing. Again, his setup is a little bit 466 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.960 awkward. He kind of has like a big crouch and then like his left 467 00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:21.960 leg is almost straight out in front of him and his hands are kind of 468 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.880 high, none of which I would teach if I was trying to get him 469 00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:28.880 to unlock a little bit more power. But he seems like a strong guy 470 00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:32.200 and with the underlying plate skills. I was excited about him, and I'm 471 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:37.039 excited to see where he goes next year. Did you get a chance to 472 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:40.920 watch Surta much? Yeah, I've watched a little bit. I wasn't binge 473 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:47.759 watching him. He's one of like three Ish techer prospects in their system that 474 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:52.319 has kind of gotten my interest, called my attention a little bit. One 475 00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:54.960 thing about Surta. I saw him, well, he only had one stolen 476 00:33:55.039 --> 00:34:00.799 base on the season, but I've seen him stretch a couple of singles into 477 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:02.480 doubles and I was like, hey, you can kind of run a little 478 00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:07.759 bit. I think he did steal five last year, so it's not like 479 00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:10.199 a total zero. But he's a big dude, and I don't think speed 480 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.400 is ever going to be a part of his game. Oh no, no, 481 00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:15.440 not at all, but a little bit more athletic. You might think 482 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:21.159 he was an undrafted an undrafted free agent of the Rays. Look at the 483 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:25.599 Rays trading undrafted free agents part of the Parolta trade. I think, oh, 484 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:29.639 yeah, you know, just catching at bats and stuff, Matt, 485 00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:31.719 You know that I don't like guys who are up there to take walks man 486 00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:35.480 especially. I know, I know, this isn't your kind of guy, 487 00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:38.079 but that's why I had to highlight him a bit, because he's got those 488 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:43.760 sort of like old professional hitter skills and if someone can unlock a little bit 489 00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:46.719 more power out of him, this is a pretty interesting guy. Now, 490 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:51.719 he's strictly a catcher, right, I don't think he plays anywhere else. 491 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:55.119 Did you catch any JJ Dirazio? Yes, I did watch a little of 492 00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:59.480 him. He's a catcher that seems to be just kind of like one step 493 00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:01.760 in front of in their system. Mm hmm. Yeah, it was probably 494 00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:06.840 gonna have to get past him. But Manu di Erazzio, So when I 495 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:09.599 did you know? I Binge watched down near all like Dylan Rays starts and 496 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:14.440 wrote a little bit about him. Dirazzio is catching him pretty much every one 497 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:19.199 of those starts, and man, he impressed me behind the dish defensively calling 498 00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.760 them the game. I'm pretty sure he was like calling his own games offensively. 499 00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.199 What he hit like two seventy six, three thirty one, only slugg 500 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:29.480 three thirty three. I don't think he's like a total slouch at the plate, 501 00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:31.639 so, you know, more of a real life prospect, if you 502 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:35.719 will. But he's kind of interesting to me. I think he's hitting some 503 00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:37.480 top thirties too, so sorta is gonna have to get get in front of 504 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:40.559 him. I think I think he's going to that's my take. I think 505 00:35:42.679 --> 00:35:45.679 I also thought Serta was a pretty good receiver. I didn't see a ton 506 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:49.280 of him throwing guys out, so I'm not sure how he did there, 507 00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:52.320 but I thought he was a pretty good receiver in my live looks, and 508 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.599 I am a big believer in that approach. The other guy that I wanted 509 00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:59.239 to highlight real quick before I tossed it over to you is Caleb Roberts. 510 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.480 He's a twenty three year old that made it to Double A this year. 511 00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:06.519 Roberts had a really good year two seventy eight, three eighty two, five 512 00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:09.280 twenty three, seventeen homers, eleven steals, good for a one thirty five 513 00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:14.039 WRC plus. When I watched him, I thought, left handed hitter, 514 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:19.360 really good hands, a little bit too much with to him average speed that 515 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.840 he uses, and he's also in that sort of utility mold that he plays 516 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:25.679 a little bit everywhere. Like I think he caught a couple of games this 517 00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:30.719 year and plays left first base like they move him around a bit, and 518 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.880 I wonder Diamondbacks bt that with our show, Like I think that they liked 519 00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:37.800 that kind of guy that can move around a bit, and so he was 520 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:40.639 one that I thought was interesting. The strikeouts for me were just a little 521 00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:45.400 high given the other skills, so I ended up with my guy Serta instead, 522 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:47.760 But I did like Roberts, and I think he's someone that I'm going 523 00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:52.519 to keep an eye on next year. That second that I was actually gonna 524 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:54.639 go with Roberts until I did a little bit more homework this week and change 525 00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:58.239 my mind. I'm not one hundred percent on this, but I think he 526 00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:01.760 was drafted as a catcher, but I don't know if he's really that great 527 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:06.800 at it. So for me, it's a very bat heavy profile. I 528 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:10.119 think part of him playing around was they're not really sure where play him maybe, 529 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:15.159 but you know, defenses were We're just getting glimpses of stuff really, 530 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:19.199 So I mean, I will say he caught thirty games this year, like 531 00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:23.480 that's nothing. Yeah, you know, he moved around ate at first forty 532 00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:30.519 two and left punch and center last year like around but and I know he 533 00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:34.679 I think he's had a pretty decent AFL too, if I'm not mistaken. 534 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:37.159 Yeah, I think he's a decent athlete too. Like that's you know, 535 00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:40.760 part of the reason they're moving him around, I think is that he doesn't 536 00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:45.119 look bad at least in my looks at those other spots. He's run a 537 00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:49.679 little bit higher babeps and I think that drove a little bit of his line 538 00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:52.639 this year. But an interesting guy to follow. I kind of got into 539 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:55.679 a few other bats in their system. There's this not created yet in fan 540 00:37:55.800 --> 00:38:01.920 tracks. Guy Gen Walters, two year old Cuban who actually made like a 541 00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:06.239 little cameo and spent most of the season in high end. I made a 542 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:08.639 little cameo in Triple A at the end. He was just like kind of 543 00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:14.000 a little too much of like a slappy hitter for me. Nephew Castillo, 544 00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:16.440 I've kind of been a little bit interested in the last couple of years, 545 00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:21.719 kind of a power speed hopeful. Maybe he did hit seventeen home runs stole 546 00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:25.679 nineteen bags this season in Double A, but he does strike out far too 547 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:30.960 much to have too much hope. I think what thirty two point seven percent 548 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:32.960 on the season. Tim Tawa I don't know if you watched him at all. 549 00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.199 He was a two thousand, Yeah, eleventh round pick out of Stanford. 550 00:38:37.639 --> 00:38:40.719 I don't know, maybe a shot as a sort of utility type. 551 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:44.920 I didn't really light the world on fire too. I mean, he slid 552 00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:49.000 four sixty one hits line drives like twenty five percent of the time. But 553 00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:52.000 I don't know. I thought there was a little something to him too, 554 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:55.840 not quite enough to really be my be my guys here, So who's your 555 00:38:55.880 --> 00:39:01.119 guy? Who's your guy? For the Yeah twenty one, they drafted Gavin 556 00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:06.239 Conticello in the eighth round. Stoneman Douglas High School, right, a friend 557 00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:09.159 of mine who follows preps quite a bit, who has very much impressed me 558 00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:13.719 with in our leagues, with the young bats that he likes to go with, 559 00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:15.480 just kind of had mentioned him to me at that time, So I 560 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:19.159 just kind of been paying attention to him a little bit here and there. 561 00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:22.320 I turned him on the second half of this last season, and I couldn't 562 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:27.079 help but think every time he hit a ballpool side in the air it was 563 00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:30.639 a home run. I got into a wormhole. Matt and I went through 564 00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:35.639 thirty some game feeds to pool or try to get an idea and get some 565 00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:38.360 data that I don't know where else to find. I was kind of right. 566 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:43.000 I mean, I discovered that he fifty seven percent of the pool balls 567 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:46.000 he got into the air during this his last like thirty five game stretch that 568 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:52.119 I'm referring to left the yard. Not that that is like some super high 569 00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:55.440 percentage. You'll find guys in the majors who who do that plus some. 570 00:39:55.920 --> 00:40:00.480 But I do think that he had a developmental breakout in terms of tapping into 571 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:06.280 his natural power stroke in mechanics. Kind Soul wasn't a nothing, perfect game 572 00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:08.199 sort of guy. He was just kind of watered for his power potential as 573 00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:13.159 an amateur. But over this stretch he hit two eighty three eighty nine on 574 00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:16.840 base and slugged five point fifty three with nine home runs nine stolen bases. 575 00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:21.519 This is only one hundred and fifty seven played appearances, so small sample, 576 00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:23.559 but it also included a two week promotion to High A at the end of 577 00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:28.639 the season, and prior to this his three hundred and nine played appearances before 578 00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:31.199 he was slashing one ninety two, two seventy two, three point fifty one 579 00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:35.480 with eight home runs, so he hit seventeen home runs on the season in 580 00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:38.360 four hundred and sixty six played appearances. Per Fangrafts, he had a twelve 581 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:43.079 point nine home run to fly ball right on the season. But over that 582 00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:46.400 mentioned stretch, and this is where did my crazy man work. It jumped 583 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:50.880 to thirty four point six percent home run to fly ball. Right now, 584 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:54.159 just to put that into a little bit of context, six major leaguers did 585 00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:57.840 that or better this season. Do you want to take a stab on who 586 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:00.880 any of those might be? Matt and it's just on all fly balls are 587 00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:07.480 just pulled. All I'm gonna say someone like Yandy Diaz, Matt Olsen was 588 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:12.800 thirty four point six, DJ Stewart thirty five point seven, Logan o'happi thirty 589 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.599 five point nine, Aaron Judged thirty six point seven, Nelson Velaskaz thirty seven, 590 00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:22.840 and Otani with thirty eight. During this time, the walk rate the 591 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:27.199 walk grate run from eight percent to thirteen percent, while his K rate stayed 592 00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:31.119 roughly the same U K what twenty one percent on the season. Now, 593 00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:35.320 I didn't figure out what his home run the fly ball rate was prior to 594 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:38.519 this stretch, but given it was thirteen percent on the season, I imagine 595 00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:45.119 it wasn't very good and that something of note had changed. Now he does 596 00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:49.800 tend to i think, pop up the ball a little bit and fuel pop 597 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.519 ups, but that's typically when he's trying to let the ball travel and go 598 00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:57.920 deep. Like there were twelve in my dig and they were all they're like 599 00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:01.280 the third baseman. But in part, this Appo stuff is a little bit 600 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:07.039 of a wrinkle in Constell's profile. I think there seems to be an effort 601 00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:12.119 some coaching perhaps to hit Appo gap. Of course he's on the opposite side, 602 00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:16.119 but there's a he's a lefty. There's similarities to another guy that I've 603 00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:21.360 watched quite a bit, and aj Vukovic when he was at these levels, 604 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:25.039 and Vukovich was also kind of a prep sort of lotted for his power that 605 00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:29.880 I think they tried to help turn into more of a you know, line 606 00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:34.280 drive Apo getting that into his game. That so does have some success going 607 00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:37.519 the other way. I've seen him lay some doubles and all that stuff, 608 00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:39.800 but there's just a lot of mis hits when he lets the ball travel on 609 00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:44.719 him. Only one of his seventeen home runs on the season went opposite field, 610 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:46.960 and it wasn't the truest struck ball. I don't think there was a 611 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:50.760 lot of intent going that way, and you know it wasn't. It was 612 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:52.760 probably like a bit of a side spinner, like we talk about. So 613 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:59.159 this sort of flipped this sort of one eighty in production also coincided with me 614 00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:02.239 just thinking that, so it looked a little different at the plate later in 615 00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:07.159 the season. People talk about like swing changes and all that sort of stuff, 616 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:12.440 and I don't know, at least when I have seen hitters actually make 617 00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:15.119 like a change, it's it's not like, oh, all of a sudden 618 00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:20.679 Saturday, he started standing this way and swinging this way or whatever. It's 619 00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:25.440 more of a gradual progression. So I turned on some of Conticilo from April 620 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:30.079 and I shared that. I shared that video with you, the little side 621 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:34.119 by side, and I think you can confirm there's there's definitely some differences there, 622 00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:37.519 right. Absolutely, he was a lot more crouch early in the season, 623 00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:44.760 and his bat behind his head was a lot more parallel to the ground, 624 00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:49.280 a little more level. At least in the gift that you shared, 625 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:53.880 it looked like that was a little more of the like line drive. I'm 626 00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:58.039 trying to go up the middle, big part of the field, sort of 627 00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:04.960 classic hitter coaching. Whereas towards the end of the year, he himself is 628 00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:09.039 more upright, his bat is more upright, pointing more towards the sky, 629 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:15.559 and his hands really get extended out in front of him a lot more, 630 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.480 and he catches the ball way out in front of the plate and hit a 631 00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:22.360 homer on that pitch. I think is what you shared. So again, 632 00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:25.320 it looks very different. I mean, I'm a hack at this. So 633 00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:30.280 I phoned some friends too, and I won't paraphrase everything that they said, 634 00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:37.639 but what I've gathered is that he is now transferring energy much more efficiently. 635 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:42.119 I think his hands are in a better position, and he's just quicker and 636 00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.000 more efficient. You can see in the video there's I mean, his body 637 00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:49.599 is stiller, right, and I think it's just a better transfer of energy. 638 00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:52.840 So we've got this kid who's supposed to have a lot of this natural 639 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:57.400 power. It wasn't really shown up as a pro. All of a sudden, 640 00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:01.079 he is starting to hit home runs higher rate, and he looks very 641 00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.840 different at the plate, right. I don't think that the one eighty in 642 00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:10.719 production was just a hot streak. I think there's something developmentally that has changed 643 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:15.199 here with him. If a guy can get out in front, pull the 644 00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:17.519 ball and hit home runs at high rates, it doesn't necessarily mean that he's 645 00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:22.079 a great hitter or a great prospect or anything like that. A little bit 646 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:25.840 of context here, per Fangrass, the only players with a higher home run 647 00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:30.119 the fly ball rate on the season than thirty four point six percent in full 648 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:36.400 season ball where you and your Severino, Chandler, Redman and gerar and Canarcion 649 00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:39.760 and all of those guys had much higher k rates right when we're talking like 650 00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:45.840 thirty to thirty eight percent. Severarino hit thirty five home runs, Redmond hit 651 00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:50.280 thirty one, in Canarsion hit twenty six. These guys are two to what 652 00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:53.000 three four years older as well. I don't know what he wants to do. 653 00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:57.159 I don't know what the Diamondbacks want to do. But the look at 654 00:45:57.159 --> 00:46:00.159 me here, Matt, I'm going I'm talking about guys hitting the ball all 655 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:02.519 out in front and pulling it and hitting home runs. Love it. You're 656 00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:07.360 learning this is great. What if he starts doing this more? What if 657 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:12.599 this sticks? I mean, is it crazy to say that Goss hits thirty 658 00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.079 home runs, I don't think it is he's got. I think he's much 659 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:20.920 more just generically speaking, a better hitter than some of those other guys who 660 00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:23.519 have hit thirty home runs, I mean, and that would surely get some 661 00:46:23.559 --> 00:46:28.880 more attention, especially if the walk rate and k rates hover around where he 662 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:32.559 is. I think donasty owners would get quite interested. He's currently at zero 663 00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:37.079 percent fan tracks ownership now, And of course, like I said, this 664 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:42.440 is some number wanghing and pulled from a pretty small sample. But there's a 665 00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:45.840 nice looking power stroke here, and I think some bat skills and I think 666 00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:51.639 his juice may have finally arrived now. He does struggle some versus lefties. 667 00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:54.800 You only hit three home runs versus so splits may be a thing. But 668 00:46:54.840 --> 00:47:00.760 nonetheless, the twenty twenty one year old Contcello, it just got me more 669 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:06.360 excited than Caleb Roberts. So. I watched a decent amount of Contocello this 670 00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:10.800 year, and I liked Conticello. I don't know that's how I would say 671 00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:14.960 it. I don't know. I didn't listen to their broadcast, but I 672 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.719 think I would have said, Conticello, but I think you are onto something 673 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:24.199 there's a real meaningful swing change here, which is good because his production was 674 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:30.039 pretty middling before this, you know, repeated complex, repeated a ball and 675 00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:35.199 was okay, sube hundred WRC plus at both stops in twenty twenty two, 676 00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:38.239 and then for most of this year at a ball it was just a ninety 677 00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:43.039 five WRC plus, so a little bit below average. But Conticello popped on 678 00:47:43.159 --> 00:47:45.920 a leaderboard that I like to track to try and weed out some of the 679 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:50.960 effects of babbit because, as Nate knows, and I think many of you 680 00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:53.519 know, babbeb takes a long time to stabilize, even for folks that have 681 00:47:53.559 --> 00:48:00.280 pretty extreme profiles. So if someone has a particularly low BABBIT but are still 682 00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:04.320 performing near league average, like, that's something you might want to pay attention 683 00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:07.440 to. And that was Conticello. For most of the year he had an 684 00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:10.559 a ball, which was the bulk of his production one hundred games at a 685 00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:15.159 ball, three hundred and seventy plate appearances. His BABEB was two forty seven, 686 00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:17.280 very low, you know, for context, like the lowest in the 687 00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:22.079 big leagues this year I think was Pete Alonzo at like two five or something, 688 00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:25.639 but too forty something is very very low, and he still put up 689 00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.519 a ninety five WRC plus, so I was pretty interested in that, especially 690 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:31.840 as Nate said, it seemed like the plate skills were pretty good. He 691 00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:36.840 was only striking out twenty two percent of the time, still had some juice, 692 00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:40.000 you know, almost two hundred points of ISO, so I was pretty 693 00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:47.079 interested. Now, the plate skills degraded pretty substantially upon promotion to High A 694 00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:51.480 in the Northwest League, and it might be because he just had to face 695 00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:54.239 Reevan Scoder all the time, and Scoter is just so good. I think 696 00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:59.559 it might be that this approach change he's still getting used to because he was 697 00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:06.599 pulling the ball an absolute crap ton in Hillsborough sixty eight percent of the time 698 00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:09.199 polled, which is you know, nobody does that, not even my boy. 699 00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:14.199 He's sacked Paratus so and he popped it up a lot forty four percent 700 00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:16.079 pop ups. Again, pretty small sample at the end of the year, 701 00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:22.039 but I had two series, right, yeah, just ten games. I 702 00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:24.400 am pretty interested in him. He was my third guy on the list when 703 00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:29.079 I was looking through him. I do think that there is some interest here, 704 00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:32.400 especially because I don't know if you mentioned he is really skinny So this 705 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:37.440 is a guy that you want to talk about power protection. He's twenty turning 706 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:42.599 twenty one. He's going to put on some muscle. Coupled with the swing 707 00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:45.440 change and his penchant for pulling the ball and pulling it in the air. 708 00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:50.480 I could see this guy turning into a thirty homer bat. So I like 709 00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:53.079 this pick a lot. He seems like one deful I bet he'll start next 710 00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:58.519 year back in Hillsborough, but they might aggressively promote him up to double a 711 00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:01.199 pretty soon after that, which is also a nice place to hit home runs. 712 00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:06.480 The surface numbers just don't seem to tell a great story to me right 713 00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:09.079 now. Like he hits what forty one percent on the ground, I think 714 00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:13.519 it was for the season. But when he pulls it and hits it on 715 00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:16.599 the ground, it's often very hard turns into singles and doubles. But when 716 00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:21.920 he hits it the absute way on the ground, it's soft like mishits and 717 00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:24.440 things of that nature. So I think some of that might be a little 718 00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:28.559 bit misleading, especially, like we said, if he starts pulling the ball 719 00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:31.679 more could get quite interesting. Well, look very different. His battit ball 720 00:50:31.719 --> 00:50:38.480 profile at a ball is pretty close to ideal. Like that looks a lot 721 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:44.519 like the battterball profile of a big time slugger, and not a ton of 722 00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.039 line drives, but not many ground balls sub forty percent ground ball rate, 723 00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:52.360 more flyballs than ground balls forty five percent fly balls, a few too many 724 00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:58.039 pop ups at almost just over nineteen percent, a ton of pulled balls, 725 00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:00.000 Like that's what you want to see from your cluck, Like that is the 726 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:04.199 kind of distribution that you want to see. It get a little hairy in 727 00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:08.000 the ten game sample in Hia, but that if he can replicate that kind 728 00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:13.000 of production, that kind of batter ball distribution, he's going to get to 729 00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:15.679 all of his power, whatever it ends up being. And that's interesting. 730 00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:23.519 Let's start with some more Rockies pictures, Matt, there's a lot of fun 731 00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:30.199 ones. Yeah, we had both chosen a Rockies pitcher in our pitcher draft. 732 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:32.639 I went with Jared Candy and you went with Michael Prosecci. Yes, 733 00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:37.760 Prosecci is my official selection. I feel pretty confident in him. I'm actually 734 00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:43.000 very excited about him as an arm both just kind of the conversion from a 735 00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:46.239 reliever in college and what he showed last year was super impressive. He's got 736 00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:51.400 a tough challenge pitching and Spokane next year as to a couple of these other 737 00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:55.039 guys, but I'm pretty excited about him. I think Proseki has a real 738 00:51:55.079 --> 00:52:00.280 shot. The only other guy I wanted to highlight I mentioned him last week 739 00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:02.719 or a couple weeks ago, I think was Joe Rock. He's this giant 740 00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:09.360 lefty who kind of pitches like Chris Sale, just kind of crossbody side armed 741 00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:14.760 to three quarter slinging it. But the stuff is pretty big. Both the 742 00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:19.960 commands leaves something to be desired. The production from that from what seems like 743 00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:22.599 really big stuff hasn't quite lived up to it yet, you know, only 744 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:29.119 twenty seven and a half strikeout percentage this past year. I like him as 745 00:52:29.159 --> 00:52:31.239 somebody that he might end up being a reliever and the stuff might play up 746 00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:35.840 even further. So Joe Rox another one just to keep your eye on. 747 00:52:36.519 --> 00:52:38.679 Despite him being a Rockies guy, like I think the stuff might be big 748 00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:43.920 enough that it will play even at elevation, So Joe Rock, keep an 749 00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:47.960 eye on him. Case Williams was my selection last year after he I think 750 00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:52.360 he had one or two double A starts at the end of twenty twenty two 751 00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:57.000 and was very good, but he was not super good this year in Hartford. 752 00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:01.360 What he had a eer over seven kateer nines were six point nine to 753 00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:05.960 nine. Don't love to see that. But one thing I will say about 754 00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:10.400 case Williams is I think he's going to be starting for the Rockies at some 755 00:53:10.559 --> 00:53:15.880 juncture. I think, no matter how it sort of goes, they've already 756 00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:19.760 determined that he will at least get a shot to start, So I don't 757 00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:22.760 know, maybe that makes him interesting to some degree. I think he's got 758 00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:24.800 a decent fastball. I mean, he's got decent sliders and all the stuff. 759 00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:30.719 He just doesn't execute well. That's I think the biggest issue with him. 760 00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:37.159 Although he did have a pretty nice AFL five or six starts. I 761 00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:39.119 think he was like not getting hit up, although I think he got hit 762 00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:43.119 up today a little bit, but I take that for what it's worth. 763 00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:46.480 But just from the standpoint that I think he's only twenty one, twenty two 764 00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:50.880 years old, but I think he is going I think you will see him 765 00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:54.039 starting for the Rockies at some point. Carson Palmquist, I think if he 766 00:53:54.119 --> 00:53:59.320 was in any other organization would be rostered more than one percent, right, 767 00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:02.039 he was a third round draft pick in twenty twenty two. And then, 768 00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:06.800 man, I gotta say pump Quist is one of the Jeff Ponts. There's 769 00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:12.360 three arms that always make me think of Jeft Ponce, pump Quest she Han, 770 00:54:13.079 --> 00:54:15.760 Oh why am I zerpe? All three of those guys. I'd ask 771 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:20.559 Jeff like, I think a year before their draft, Hey, who are 772 00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:22.599 some you know, who are some colleg darms that you might like? And 773 00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:27.760 all three of those guys if someone was an arm that he had mentioned well 774 00:54:27.800 --> 00:54:31.159 before the draft, and all of them Jeff a smart guy, Yeah, 775 00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:37.400 yeah, and like we had talked about last week, or pump Quist, 776 00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:40.280 Gpe, what are Both those guys are kind of just different looking, right, 777 00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:44.960 give hitters a different look. Jeff just kind of sided at the time. 778 00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:47.639 But pump Quiest kind of this left east side armor. Doesn't really throw 779 00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:52.039 super hard, right. I think his fastball is like low nineties, but 780 00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:55.440 he's got a he's got a good breaking ball, high seventies breaker. I 781 00:54:55.480 --> 00:55:00.360 think he had four f QoS this year. You in double A. He 782 00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:05.719 only had what four starts in double A. So I think he's an interesting 783 00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:08.599 arm in their system. Yet, I don't know if I really see him 784 00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:15.119 long term as a starting pitcher, in part because the Rockies starting pitching isn't 785 00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:23.800 that great and guys like Suitor are very useful to the Rockies. I could 786 00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:28.519 see him sort of settling in that kind of role. Right someone gets lit 787 00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:30.920 up for an inding or two, pump Quist comes in. That's a lot 788 00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:35.840 of speculation. I really like Victor Warrez. I don't know if you've watched 789 00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:39.480 him at all, young Mexican pitcher who super impressed me as an eighteen year 790 00:55:39.519 --> 00:55:45.920 old in a ball, just from a just sort of poise and sort of 791 00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:50.199 moxie and know how in confidence on the mound. You see watch the AFL, 792 00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:53.000 watch guys right out of college in a ball. They don't even have 793 00:55:53.280 --> 00:55:59.079 the wherewithal the head to control the running game. Right, Ras walked in 794 00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:01.639 as an eighteen year old and was picking guys off and just his head was 795 00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:06.280 above the game, so to speak. But then pairing that with what I 796 00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:12.159 thought at the time was just super impressive execution of a lot of pitches. 797 00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:15.920 Doesn't throw real hard. I know his fastball has gotten like forty grades, 798 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:20.360 and I think that's selling it a little bit short. Excuse me, he 799 00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:23.719 was up at Hia this year didn't have statistically, did not have a great 800 00:56:23.800 --> 00:56:28.320 season. But one thing that I do like about it is that the k's 801 00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:32.480 actually picked up maybe just a smidge or stayed about the same, which was 802 00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:37.360 something that was a concern of mine. It did not look as crisp as 803 00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:40.280 his early days in Fresno. But I also wonder if some of the tools 804 00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:44.920 have been sharpened a little bit. Maybe that plays into itself. Long story 805 00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:47.000 short, he leaves way too many pitches over the middle of the plate right 806 00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:51.280 now, and they're not good enough pitches that he can get away with. 807 00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:54.519 That seemed like he got hit a bit more like a lot of hits given 808 00:56:54.639 --> 00:57:00.360 the inning he threw. Yeah, definitely, Well was his babbit against was 809 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:02.880 what three eighty two? That sounds very good. Still very young, I 810 00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:07.800 think a guy who could be like we like the sum of all parts sort 811 00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:09.599 of thing. But going to keep an eye on him moving up a little 812 00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:13.920 bit of b side hit or history here with the Rockies, I mean, 813 00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:17.920 we've had Pilvar Drew Romo. By the way, I don't know if folks 814 00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:23.880 necessarily realize how Romo finished his season from June eighth to September twenty third, 815 00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:30.840 he slashed three hundred three sixty three five forty one with ten home runs. 816 00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:34.599 That's over fifty eight games. That's not too shabby. I want to talk 817 00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:37.159 real, real, briefly about Vladimir ar Restitutio. If you don't mind, 818 00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:42.079 Matt, go for it. So he was my my Rockies bat for the 819 00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:45.400 last season. I don't know, hit double a start off as a twenty 820 00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:50.840 one year old. This year, hit twoin fifty eight on base percentage of 821 00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:58.400 two seventy seven and slugged four fourteen with fifteen home runs and seventeen stolen mases. 822 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:00.280 What do you think is walk right? Maybe you're looking at it. 823 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:05.119 I'm looking at it. One point. God, I love it. I 824 00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:12.679 love it. My man is not to walk now. He doesn't strike out 825 00:58:13.039 --> 00:58:17.480 ton eighteen point nine percent, but yeah, because he's swinging and everything right, 826 00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:21.039 if you don't get to two strikes, you're not going to strike out 827 00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:23.320 very much. He's just a super interesting watch to me. I think he's 828 00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:30.159 a fascinating a fascinating hitter just because of his ultra aggressiveness. But I think 829 00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:34.639 the Rockies in particular, and I think we're gonna talk about Ryan Ritter right 830 00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:42.239 Recito, Ridder, Tovar. I think Julio Kurere is to some extent now 831 00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:46.639 Montero too. Specifically, the guys that I mentioned very good defensively. Right 832 00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:51.800 Reso is a pretty good center fielder. The other guys are pretty good infielders. 833 00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:54.840 I think they're gonna put a high priority on defense, which I think 834 00:58:54.880 --> 00:58:59.760 makes a lot of sense, which also makes it interesting for some of their 835 00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:04.320 bad that might be getting to the uppers or knocking on the big big league 836 00:59:04.360 --> 00:59:07.199 door. I don't know if you're gonna get every day run with the Rockies 837 00:59:07.199 --> 00:59:10.960 if you don't play very good defense. But I digress a little. So 838 00:59:12.079 --> 00:59:15.719 you see these young hitters that they have that are athletic good defenders. Tovar 839 00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:21.480 wasn't a lotted for his bat, Restituto wasn't. Qureras wasn't. So in 840 00:59:21.519 --> 00:59:24.400 a sense, I think the Rockets are just like swing the bat, use 841 00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:29.119 your athleticism, let's go and we'll figure it out. Well, that's where 842 00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:31.519 I thought you were going with that list of guys, because they all also 843 00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:35.840 were pretty aggressive. They don't like taking walks. They don't strike out a 844 00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:38.559 lot, at least of that group, you know, So adding Montero to 845 00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:45.480 that someone like Restituo totally, although he walks a decent amount this year. 846 00:59:45.800 --> 00:59:50.519 But Romo Tovar even I'm a door like, they don't walk a lot, 847 00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:52.320 they don't strike out a lot. They just are up there to hit. 848 00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:57.960 And I think that that's interesting as as an approach, you know, I 849 00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:00.920 don't know, Like I saw Tovar when he and rookie ball and I was 850 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:04.199 like, yeah, maybe if he becomes like a little slap hitter, you 851 01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:07.480 could be a big leaguer. Right, well, I mean he's not just 852 01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:09.559 a little slap hitter. Now, I think they're kind of showing that it 853 01:00:09.639 --> 01:00:16.440 is a way to maybe get something out of a bat that maybe isn't so 854 01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:20.199 you're maybe not supposed to get a lot out of it. I don't know 855 01:00:20.239 --> 01:00:23.119 if that's a great way to say it aren't expecting much out of or it's 856 01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:29.159 a way to grow a hitter into doing some damage. Now you see what. 857 01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:31.559 I don't know if did the Rockies lead the majors in strikehouse this year? 858 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:36.679 They may have. You see Tovar, you see Doyle, you see 859 01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:42.920 even Nolan Jones start to get a little bit more selective this season. So 860 01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:45.559 I don't know. It's just an interesting thing that I noticed in this system 861 01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:52.440 that I don't think is necessarily a horrible way to approach hitting when you're young. 862 01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:55.880 Now is rest of too you're gonna make it with this sort of approach 863 01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:00.320 into the major leagues. I highly doubt that he had well fifteen home runs 864 01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:04.559 this year, eight home runs starting in June of last year, and I 865 01:01:04.599 --> 01:01:07.039 think prior to that maybe he had like, what three or four in his 866 01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:12.519 whole whole pro career. This is a wiry little guy, don't Just an 867 01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:15.840 interesting approach to hitting going on with some of these guys, which I think 868 01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:21.639 Ryan Ritter, who is my selection for this short stop twenty twenty two fourth 869 01:01:21.719 --> 01:01:24.039 round draft pick out of Kentucky. He's twenty two years old, played at 870 01:01:24.079 --> 01:01:28.480 three levels this year, A High A, and Double A. He has 871 01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:31.800 rostered at two percent. Now, did you know that he won the KL 872 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:36.760 League Player of the Year over? Know that? Over any of your nuts? 873 01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:38.119 Yeah? Well, they were all up late in the season, so 874 01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:44.599 that makes sense. Rather only played sixty five games in the league. That 875 01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:46.559 was kind of crazy. He had twenty four home runs on the season, 876 01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:51.719 but mind you, seventeen of those were in the Cal League his first three 877 01:01:51.760 --> 01:01:57.039 months. But this is a plus defensive guy with another aggressive approach that I 878 01:01:57.079 --> 01:02:01.360 think the Rockies do. Like strikeouts twenty nine percent. Don't love that. 879 01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:06.920 I didn't like super love. Going with Ryan Ritter seemed like my best option 880 01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:10.639 walk twelve percent. Well he ended up he slugged five nineteen. Now, 881 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:15.440 this is not Ritter is not a big guy. He's not the type that 882 01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:19.000 you think would be hitting this many home runs. And mind you too, 883 01:02:19.039 --> 01:02:22.119 he's well, he's from like the Chicago Land area. He played junior college 884 01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:28.079 ball. What one year at Kentucky have a northern guy like I think there 885 01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:31.360 is still a little bit of him growing into being the hitter. But I 886 01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:36.719 think they've got him on this plan. Saw him, saw him rip a 887 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:39.519 nice RBI double off your guy Wilcolm in Nzalaz at the end of the year. 888 01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:44.159 Oh, nice off of a tough pitch too. I don't know, 889 01:02:44.280 --> 01:02:45.480 like I said, I don't, I don't. I'm not in love with 890 01:02:45.599 --> 01:02:50.960 Ryan ridd I don't want to totally hitch my wagon here, but I felt 891 01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:53.880 that two percent. The opportunity that I think might be in front of him 892 01:02:53.920 --> 01:03:00.000 to do some things in the uppers next season and a kind of a surprising 893 01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:02.239 that with some pot Yeah, I liked a lot of what I saw from 894 01:03:02.280 --> 01:03:07.199 ritter I agree with you one hundred percent. He is a very good defender, 895 01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:10.199 and it does seem like that is an organizational philosophy for them. There 896 01:03:10.199 --> 01:03:15.719 are a lot of good defenders are those it's a major league level and in 897 01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:19.880 the lower levels. They have five Gold Glove caliber guys starting for them at 898 01:03:19.920 --> 01:03:22.559 the end of the year in the majors. Yeah, Now, they did 899 01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:24.840 give a lot of run to Montero, and Montero's a pretty bad defender. 900 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:30.239 I think he's a good hitter Elahiris Montero, but I think he's an awful 901 01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:35.360 defender. Awful defender even at first base. I don't think he's very good. 902 01:03:35.719 --> 01:03:38.800 Yeah. Yeah, I'll also say like Sterlin Thompson, I think is 903 01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:43.960 a good hitter, but I don't think he's a very good fielder either, 904 01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:47.079 So he might buck that trend a little bit for I think, Yeah, 905 01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:51.639 I've got to think that they're going to trade some of those guys, but 906 01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:55.360 I don't know what. I don't really do that though, it didn't really 907 01:03:55.440 --> 01:04:00.480 do that. Though it's Colorado. They're weird you can't. You can't judge 908 01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:03.880 Schmidt by what Bradi did. I mean, that's true, He's made some 909 01:04:03.920 --> 01:04:09.119 trades. He traded for Nolan Jones, He's traded for some arms. I 910 01:04:09.119 --> 01:04:12.920 think I think they're gonna have the one deadline deal this year, like four 911 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:15.800 days before the deadline, which they hadn't done in like five years before that. 912 01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:19.559 So I think they're I think they're gonna have the right ideas. Now 913 01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:25.239 we'll see how the execution of it goes. But my problem with Rider though, 914 01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:29.880 is even though I think he's athletic and fast, and I think his 915 01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:35.239 speed that helps his defense play up, will continue to help his base running, 916 01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:38.920 both in steels and taking the extra base. I thought he was a 917 01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:42.639 pretty good base runner in my looks, I think the k's are untenable. 918 01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:45.960 Like that's why he's he bumps down for me that I don't know. If 919 01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:53.199 you read that article on Baseball America, the stat cast or rankings that Jeff 920 01:04:53.280 --> 01:05:00.639 and Dylan did, I did. That article put Colorado as an organization last 921 01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:03.039 in chase rate. So like that gets to your point, if that these 922 01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:05.840 guys are just up there swinging and if the ball is not in the zone, 923 01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:09.800 they're still swinging at it. I think Ritter does this. I watched 924 01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:14.480 a good bit of him, and he was whiffing at pretty non competitive pitches 925 01:05:14.519 --> 01:05:17.360 at times, especially in his you know, eight games at double A. 926 01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:19.960 I watched a couple of those and I was like, well, he is 927 01:05:20.079 --> 01:05:24.320 kind of getting overmatched by these. The strake aut rate went up to thirty 928 01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:28.840 eight percent and slugged two hundred there, Like it was that was what that 929 01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:32.519 kind of approach can happen when you're maybe a little bit out of your depth 930 01:05:32.679 --> 01:05:36.400 from a competitive standpoint. So I, you know, he's not that bad, 931 01:05:36.519 --> 01:05:40.800 Like it was just just a small sample, and his first tasted Double 932 01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:45.519 A remarkably similar to his line at High A as well, where the strikeouts 933 01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:47.800 were thirty four percent, And that was a pretty decent sample of one hundred 934 01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:51.679 and seventy or almost two hundred and one played appearances. So I think the 935 01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:55.199 whiffs are going to doom him, even though he is a good defender, 936 01:05:55.239 --> 01:05:58.639 he is athletic and has a little bit of pop in there. I think 937 01:05:58.679 --> 01:06:01.519 that the whiffs are going to cause him to I don't. I don't think 938 01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:04.960 he's going to make the major leagues like this unless there's a real change. 939 01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:10.159 Only other Rockies bats that I wanted to bring up real quick, because Braxton 940 01:06:10.239 --> 01:06:13.320 Fulford is a catcher that I think is very much going to be a major 941 01:06:13.400 --> 01:06:15.880 league option for them relatively soon. Here. He didn't make it up to 942 01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.519 Triple A. He was a six round pick out of Texas Tech. He 943 01:06:18.679 --> 01:06:24.440 can swing it a little bit, and I think he's he's decent behind the 944 01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:26.519 plate, a bit of an older bat. But did I don't know if 945 01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:29.719 you watched any Zach Kakowski he was a two thousand, Yeah, I did 946 01:06:29.719 --> 01:06:31.679 watch a little. Yeah. I think he just turned twenty five years old 947 01:06:31.719 --> 01:06:34.639 and he was in High A old. But he got hurt in like July 948 01:06:34.760 --> 01:06:39.039 and the end of his season, and that may have stopped him from being 949 01:06:39.079 --> 01:06:42.639 my my like sort of official selection here because I think he was going to 950 01:06:42.679 --> 01:06:45.519 be in Double A by the end of the year. But I mean, 951 01:06:45.519 --> 01:06:48.760 this guy slugged five sixty two oh ps a nine to sixty one line drive 952 01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:55.320 rate at twenty seven percent. Yeah. Sole eighteen bags, hit sixteen home 953 01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:58.760 runs. His first base left field type. If it ever happens, he 954 01:06:58.760 --> 01:07:01.800 could be an interesting bat in Coors Field. I think he shares some similarities 955 01:07:01.840 --> 01:07:06.199 with the guy that is my actual Colorado selection in that he's kind of an 956 01:07:06.239 --> 01:07:11.440 older bat, has a pretty well rounded profile, and I actually liked what 957 01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:15.320 I saw from Kokoska. I thought he was an interesting guy and it was 958 01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:17.400 a bummer to cut his season short. It'd be I think it'll be interesting 959 01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:20.320 to see what he does at Double A next year. My guy was Jimmy 960 01:07:20.360 --> 01:07:26.159 Herrond. You didn't mention Jimmy. He's again a little bit older, twenty 961 01:07:26.199 --> 01:07:30.360 six, made it up to Triple A this year, and his full season 962 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:33.320 line was pretty interesting. Two ninety six, three ninety five, four ninety 963 01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:36.960 eight, so just barely off that three hundred, four hundred, five hundred. 964 01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:41.840 That is really nice to see. Good for the whole year, one 965 01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:45.519 seventeen WRC plus, which speaks a little bit to the offensive environments that he 966 01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:48.320 played in, like those are easier places to hit, but he put up 967 01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:54.239 nineteen homers and stole thirty three bags, and his vibe kind of reminds me 968 01:07:54.280 --> 01:07:58.920 of another late blooming Major leaguer that I actually played with, Mark Canna, 969 01:07:59.079 --> 01:08:02.280 you know, kind of similar in their approaches, like how they approached the 970 01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:06.119 plate, both kind of right handed hitters, that have a little bit of 971 01:08:06.119 --> 01:08:11.559 an upright stance, but really smooth hands through the zone, and I feel 972 01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:14.880 like they're decent plate coverage and you know, not striking out. I think 973 01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:17.760 should think he reduced his strikeout rate as he went up and increased his walk 974 01:08:17.800 --> 01:08:21.560 rate as he raised as he went up in levels, which is really hard 975 01:08:21.560 --> 01:08:26.560 to do and might speak a little bit to Nate that hypothesis you were talking 976 01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:29.960 about that you want him to swing more freely lower down, and then as 977 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:33.399 you go up in levels, you want to kind of tighten your zone and 978 01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:39.079 do damage on the pitches that you can and spit and leave the pitches that 979 01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:41.600 are not as good. So I thought Jimmy Heron did a lot of that. 980 01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:44.640 He's not a center fielder for me, so he's a corner guy. 981 01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:46.039 The couple of looks I had him in the outfield was like, guy, 982 01:08:46.039 --> 01:08:49.359 it's okay, he's got some speed, but he's not Nolan Jones or Brenton 983 01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:54.720 Doyle out there, who are plus plus outfielders. But I really liked what 984 01:08:54.760 --> 01:08:58.159 I saw from him, and he's my official B side selection here. Nobody's 985 01:08:58.399 --> 01:09:02.039 talking about this guy at all. He has been under the radar for his 986 01:09:02.319 --> 01:09:06.479 whole career. I think he transferred into Duke and then was like, Okay, 987 01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:10.399 I guess maybe he was at Duke, but he was like an older 988 01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:14.560 guy at Duke really anything other than a little bit of a speedster there, 989 01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:18.079 but kind of an unimpressive college career and has just bumped around the miners for 990 01:09:18.279 --> 01:09:21.560 you know, since his draft year in twenty eighteen. But I liked what 991 01:09:21.600 --> 01:09:25.920 I saw, and this is the most power that he's ever had, So 992 01:09:25.960 --> 01:09:29.640 I wonder if he's unlocked a little bit of something too, kind of like 993 01:09:29.720 --> 01:09:31.960 Conticello did. So I like him, you know, left field, center 994 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:35.159 field, maybe a little bit of right field. But he's yeah, he's 995 01:09:35.239 --> 01:09:39.479 he's pretty good. He's knocking on the doorstep too. So if there are 996 01:09:39.479 --> 01:09:44.600 injuries or if something opens up for him, maybe he gets some run in 997 01:09:44.640 --> 01:09:46.680 Colorado next year. So Jimmy Herron, I like him. I dig it. 998 01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:50.439 That wraps up the Rockies, right, nothing of that. Let those 999 01:09:50.479 --> 01:09:57.159 lose that. San Diego Padres, Matt, I don't know what your thoughts 1000 01:09:57.199 --> 01:10:00.560 are here, but I kind of watched a decent amount. I don't have 1001 01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:04.760 a lot of hitters here. I don't know if anyone super wowed me what 1002 01:10:04.880 --> 01:10:09.760 I ended up taking. I ended up taking that hail Mary Roseman Verdugo. 1003 01:10:10.039 --> 01:10:15.000 You went with Turso Nalis and I watched some Griffin Dorshen, he's a Wisconsin 1004 01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:19.039 guy. Jared Dale, Ky Murphy, Curvin Chardo watched a little bit of 1005 01:10:19.079 --> 01:10:24.439 him. I watched some Nick Voight. There's this young first basement Romeo, 1006 01:10:24.600 --> 01:10:28.399 Santa Bria. He only had like a sixteen game a ball run. I 1007 01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:30.880 thought he had a couple of nice series, saw some nice gap to gap 1008 01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:34.359 hitting. It kind of tore up the complex. He was a little interested, 1009 01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:36.119 just kind of a guy I want to watch next year. Some and 1010 01:10:36.119 --> 01:10:40.960 then I didn't know much about Tyler Robertson. I think he's had a little 1011 01:10:40.960 --> 01:10:44.520 decent AFL too. Did you watch any of those guys who get into any 1012 01:10:44.560 --> 01:10:47.479 of them? I watched a few of them, but all kind of had 1013 01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:53.119 something or the other that kind of turned me off them, So it was 1014 01:10:53.199 --> 01:10:56.880 like short looks for most of them. Marcos Castinon, well, he's a 1015 01:10:56.920 --> 01:11:00.920 twenty four year old. He was a twelfth round draft pick twenty one out 1016 01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:04.039 of UC Santa Barbara. Hy a double A this year third base, second 1017 01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:10.079 base, where he slugged four sixty eight at A eight thirteen ops, struck 1018 01:11:10.119 --> 01:11:14.359 out twenty one percent of the time, walk twenty four percent of the time. 1019 01:11:14.439 --> 01:11:17.359 Yeah. Yeah, you know his line is is good, and he's 1020 01:11:17.399 --> 01:11:21.119 a little bit older. You know, he's probably like seeing him challenged at 1021 01:11:21.239 --> 01:11:25.279 double A, it was was good this year. I was glad that he 1022 01:11:25.319 --> 01:11:28.199 got up there held his own for the most part. I mean, I 1023 01:11:28.199 --> 01:11:31.560 don't think it all fell apart at double A like it does for some folks. 1024 01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:35.880 And in fact, the fact that it was largely really similar to his 1025 01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:40.920 run at Hi A this year in Fort Wayne. I was impressed, Like 1026 01:11:40.960 --> 01:11:44.800 I was like, that's that's good. That whole line, at least at 1027 01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:49.600 double A was league average, so it's okay. I liked his right handed 1028 01:11:49.680 --> 01:11:55.199 kind of whippy swing. I think there's it shows some athleticism. It seems 1029 01:11:55.239 --> 01:11:58.960 like he can move the barrel around the zone and handle pitches up in the 1030 01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:03.079 zone as well as down. I thought some hit reasonably well on fastballs and 1031 01:12:03.319 --> 01:12:09.680 on off speed, so it's solid all around. To me that he seems 1032 01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:15.760 like a guy that is a backup or a second division regular, so like 1033 01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:18.920 maybe he gets some run on a bad team or he's a backup on a 1034 01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:21.600 decent team. But I liked enough of what I saw that I wanted to 1035 01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:26.760 talk through it. You know, the plate skills are okay. You know, 1036 01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:29.960 he's not up there swinging at everything like he's in the Rocky system or 1037 01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:34.199 something. But he's still has solid contact skills. You know, twenty one 1038 01:12:34.199 --> 01:12:38.960 percent of the time strikeout rate. His strikeout rate actually has gone down at 1039 01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:42.680 every level that he's done so far, which is impressive. You know, 1040 01:12:42.840 --> 01:12:45.600 some of that is small sample and it's likely not to continue as he rises 1041 01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:48.760 up the ranks. But I think he's a decent little hitter. And it 1042 01:12:48.760 --> 01:12:53.880 seemed like he can play second base well enough. So if he ends up 1043 01:12:53.920 --> 01:12:59.880 as a second baseman and can hit something approximating this like, it's decent. 1044 01:13:00.680 --> 01:13:02.760 Again, I'm not super excited about him. I liked Ornellis as a hitter 1045 01:13:02.880 --> 01:13:06.399 quite a bit more. And if you'll call Ornellis had some serious flaws to 1046 01:13:06.760 --> 01:13:11.800 hitting profile, as you know, but noon Is he's he's good. He's 1047 01:13:11.840 --> 01:13:15.039 he's a good hitter. He's one that's going to make it up to Triple 1048 01:13:15.079 --> 01:13:16.960 A. And I think he's going to make the major leagues. Whether he 1049 01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:20.399 has any impact there. I'm a little bit skeptical, but he strikes me 1050 01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:24.159 as you know, some of these and I think it kind of checks out 1051 01:13:24.199 --> 01:13:27.840 with some of his bad ball profile and stuff stuff like that too. But 1052 01:13:28.119 --> 01:13:31.359 I feel like he kind of like maximizes himself, like he gets he gets 1053 01:13:31.399 --> 01:13:35.560 like everything out of himself, Like Javier Sonoya is kind of like that to 1054 01:13:35.600 --> 01:13:40.920 me with the Marlins. Like no, I like that and I respect that, 1055 01:13:41.119 --> 01:13:44.119 you know, I think like a lot more pop than Sonoya. But 1056 01:13:44.319 --> 01:13:47.880 yeah, yeah, I agree with you. He has he doesn't on him 1057 01:13:48.359 --> 01:13:51.640 like Bregman's like that too, right, Yeah, that guy just gets every 1058 01:13:51.720 --> 01:13:56.880 ounce of his ability I think out of himself. Last year I went with 1059 01:13:57.199 --> 01:14:00.520 Norwilliam Sedanio. I don't know if you any of him. There wasn't a 1060 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:04.520 ton this year again, only sixty two played appearances and I don't know. 1061 01:14:04.600 --> 01:14:09.600 There's an interesting switch hitter. I think that is talented. But this guy 1062 01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:13.880 just cannot stay on the field. Man. It's really kind of unfortunate. 1063 01:14:13.920 --> 01:14:15.479 But he's still quite young. I'll still keep my eye on him. He's 1064 01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:18.039 only like what twenty one, twenty two years old? But yeah, so 1065 01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:23.760 Padre's arms last year, last year, I went with Garrett Hawkins, who 1066 01:14:24.279 --> 01:14:29.159 I'm anxiously awaiting his return from. I think Tommy John. He got four 1067 01:14:29.279 --> 01:14:31.920 games starts in at High A this year. He's kind of a bigger guy 1068 01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:36.720 who I think has a major league starter arsenal and ability. Matt. We're 1069 01:14:36.720 --> 01:14:43.640 going not yet created in fan tracks yet territory, but I still see this 1070 01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:48.520 name creeping onto the back of some top thirties and that's Isaiah Low. Another 1071 01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:54.760 low loud, but I'm pretty sure it's Low. But he was a twenty 1072 01:14:54.880 --> 01:14:59.600 twenty two to eleventh round out of North Carolina High School Prep. I believe 1073 01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:03.319 he is twenty years old now. He got three starts in before some injury 1074 01:15:03.399 --> 01:15:06.439 crept in, and I don't know what the injury was. I had feared 1075 01:15:06.479 --> 01:15:12.439 that maybe it was quite serious, but he did make a rehab appearance in 1076 01:15:13.279 --> 01:15:16.960 rookie ball in August, so I don't think it was like Tommy John or 1077 01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:21.159 something like that, but I was. I was quite impressed in I don't 1078 01:15:21.239 --> 01:15:26.119 even know if all three of the starts, so we're talking eight innings here 1079 01:15:26.239 --> 01:15:29.520 that I got that I got to watch from he was nineteen years old at 1080 01:15:29.560 --> 01:15:32.560 the time. In May, one of which one of which those starts he 1081 01:15:32.720 --> 01:15:38.319 dominated your nuts, Matt. He went when four, walked, two, 1082 01:15:38.439 --> 01:15:43.000 struck out six. Only Hitty allowed was a solo home run to Freddy or 1083 01:15:43.199 --> 01:15:48.039 Freday Bautista off a breaking ball he left hanging over the middle. Cole, 1084 01:15:48.159 --> 01:15:53.319 Young, Gabby, Gonzalez hood all went over against him. He's listed at 1085 01:15:53.479 --> 01:15:57.119 six one two twenty, which seems about right. He's got a really strong 1086 01:15:57.279 --> 01:16:01.680 lower half. I believe he throws two as balls and they touch high nineties, 1087 01:16:02.239 --> 01:16:05.720 and then he's got a slider and a change up. Fairly low effort 1088 01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:12.600 delivery. I've seen sixties slapped on the fastball, fifty fives on the slider 1089 01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:16.000 too. He controls the fastball very well. See him get down three to 1090 01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:19.760 zero, three to one, and then he just pumps that fastball for generic 1091 01:16:19.840 --> 01:16:23.359 strikes and it's good enough to get him back. I don't know if he'll 1092 01:16:23.359 --> 01:16:26.239 be able to get away with that as he moves up. The slider isn't 1093 01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:31.520 nearly as well controlled, but man, it really does flash some nasty He 1094 01:16:31.560 --> 01:16:36.479 can execute it fairly well glove side, I think, and when he does 1095 01:16:36.520 --> 01:16:42.039 it's pretty impossible looking. Struck out seventeen of the forty nine batters he faced 1096 01:16:42.039 --> 01:16:45.600 this year, that's thirty five percent. There was a combination here of plus 1097 01:16:45.720 --> 01:16:49.960 arsenal. There wasn't anything really alarming that I thought, man, this guy 1098 01:16:50.239 --> 01:16:55.800 might not be able to control these plus weapons. That combination was good enough 1099 01:16:55.800 --> 01:16:59.600 for me to go with Isaiah lo Nice. He's one I told you I 1100 01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:03.319 didn't catch at all, but it seems like he's got some real skills there. 1101 01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:05.920 So I hope he's healthy and we get to see a lot more of 1102 01:17:05.960 --> 01:17:10.920 him next year. Yeah. He uh, he's got he's got some nasty 1103 01:17:12.119 --> 01:17:14.640 you know, you see a teenager down in a ball with a couple of 1104 01:17:14.720 --> 01:17:17.359 nasty pitches like this, they don't they don't pitch as well as he did 1105 01:17:17.399 --> 01:17:20.479 in these two outings that I watched, So, you know, talk about 1106 01:17:20.800 --> 01:17:24.439 turning on a guy and getting on the edge of your seat a little bit 1107 01:17:24.520 --> 01:17:28.199 like that was definitely the case with with with Low For me. Interesting, 1108 01:17:28.319 --> 01:17:30.039 well, I made a note of of him in a couple of leagues, 1109 01:17:30.079 --> 01:17:33.640 and I'm gonna hope he comes out the gate hot next year. Especially the 1110 01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:38.880 territory of prospect that we're kind of talking about here, it's it's an injury 1111 01:17:38.920 --> 01:17:42.119 stuff comes up it's it's hard to know. You know, there's not a 1112 01:17:42.119 --> 01:17:45.479 lot out there. I don't know what it was. I thought that again, 1113 01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:49.359 this was an organization where kind of the top arms that are well known 1114 01:17:49.600 --> 01:17:55.119 they performed pretty well, and in guys like Snelling and Erie Rta I think, 1115 01:17:55.239 --> 01:17:59.600 I think are pretty well known and performed pretty decently this year, and 1116 01:18:00.079 --> 01:18:02.439 kind of looking down the list of other guys that I looked at that weren't 1117 01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:06.760 really inspiring. I watched a bit of a frame Contrarast and didn't love it, 1118 01:18:06.840 --> 01:18:11.239 and saw some Henry bias as well, and you know, there might 1119 01:18:11.279 --> 01:18:15.840 be some stuff there, but I ultimately was turned off by both walked a 1120 01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:20.039 little bit too many and didn't quite strike out enough and ended up not being 1121 01:18:20.079 --> 01:18:25.279 my kind of guys. So I went back to the lefty well, and 1122 01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:30.520 I'm taking Austin Crab. Austin Crabb is a college arm. He started out 1123 01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:34.840 at community college. At community college, I hadn't heard of Kirkwood or something. 1124 01:18:34.840 --> 01:18:40.840 I think, ended up at TCU for four years. Pandemic extensions and 1125 01:18:40.880 --> 01:18:44.159 all of that good stuff. He wasn't great, He was a reliever, 1126 01:18:44.439 --> 01:18:46.800 got a couple of starts. None of his numbers were that good, but 1127 01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:51.119 because he's left handed and he you know, he clearly worked at it and 1128 01:18:51.399 --> 01:18:57.239 ended up starting sixteen games his final year of college, his like red shirt 1129 01:18:57.319 --> 01:19:00.439 junior year, whatever that would be. And it wasn't a fantastic line. 1130 01:19:00.439 --> 01:19:04.359 But I think he got scattered enough in the Big twelve that he got taken 1131 01:19:04.600 --> 01:19:09.079 twelfth round, so didn't get a ton of money, like pretty deep in 1132 01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:13.960 the draft, so even the Padres didn't have a ton of faith to take 1133 01:19:14.000 --> 01:19:17.720 him that late in twenty twenty two. But since he's been a pro, 1134 01:19:18.079 --> 01:19:23.600 he's been decent. His twenty twenty two was very short, like almost throw 1135 01:19:23.600 --> 01:19:27.640 it out, but he was really good this year across stops at low A 1136 01:19:27.960 --> 01:19:31.800 and high A fifty nine and the third innings in Fort Wayne in Hi A 1137 01:19:31.960 --> 01:19:38.359 for had a pretty solid overall line one hundred and some innings overall, but 1138 01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:42.840 ran a twenty six point four percent strikeout rate nine point one percent walk rate. 1139 01:19:42.880 --> 01:19:45.479 That's a pretty good K minus BB approach just seems sharper than I would 1140 01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:49.079 have expected from this kind of a guy. It's a low slot, really 1141 01:19:49.079 --> 01:19:54.800 short armstroke that he repeats really well. He lives around the zone with low 1142 01:19:54.920 --> 01:19:58.840 nineties fastball. I think it's mostly a two seamer. I didn't see a 1143 01:19:58.920 --> 01:20:02.319 four seam percent from that armslot, a big sweeping slider in the low eighties 1144 01:20:02.359 --> 01:20:05.039 which I thought was pretty good, and he had a good change up in 1145 01:20:05.439 --> 01:20:09.800 the low eighties as well that had good sink. All in all, like 1146 01:20:09.840 --> 01:20:14.399 the combination. This seems like a classic pitchability lefty, and I wonder with 1147 01:20:14.479 --> 01:20:17.279 kind of a short armstroke and the way that his pitches look that even he 1148 01:20:17.319 --> 01:20:23.000 looks a bit different from other lefties helping his stuff play up. I'd imagine 1149 01:20:23.039 --> 01:20:27.520 he starts next year again at high A would expect him to get some double 1150 01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:30.600 a run next year too. So Austin Krabb, I, you know, 1151 01:20:30.039 --> 01:20:33.319 he wasn't the most outstanding lefty that I saw this year. You know, 1152 01:20:33.439 --> 01:20:38.560 not everyone can be Readvan Scooter, but he had some similarities with him, 1153 01:20:38.720 --> 01:20:42.319 and I did like what I saw. So he's one to keep a follow 1154 01:20:42.359 --> 01:20:45.600 on and actually am pretty interested in him. I think he's one that he's 1155 01:20:45.640 --> 01:20:48.079 got that good base of innings, which I really like. It wouldn't be 1156 01:20:48.439 --> 01:20:56.039 totally crazy to see him make the major leagues next year. Padres are trimming 1157 01:20:56.199 --> 01:21:00.039 budget. They lost more than half of their innings that their team through this 1158 01:21:00.119 --> 01:21:03.760 year to free agency, and it doesn't seem like they're going to fill all 1159 01:21:03.800 --> 01:21:08.439 of those externally. While I'm a big Robbie Snelling fan, I think the 1160 01:21:08.520 --> 01:21:13.119 stuff is incredibly good. I would be really surprised if they pushed him, 1161 01:21:13.159 --> 01:21:16.199 just given that he's so young there, so maybe maybe they would. And 1162 01:21:16.560 --> 01:21:19.640 I do think he's a much better prospect than Crob. But I do think 1163 01:21:19.720 --> 01:21:24.000 Crob is another one that they might give a long look to to eat some 1164 01:21:24.079 --> 01:21:27.680 innings later near. I don't I don't know if I've if I've watched any 1165 01:21:28.000 --> 01:21:31.520 Crob. I don't think that I have. I had come across Low pretty 1166 01:21:31.520 --> 01:21:36.159 early in my process here, and I was like, yep, this is 1167 01:21:36.199 --> 01:21:40.880 what I'm doing. Yeah right, I'm the only other arm that I thought 1168 01:21:40.920 --> 01:21:43.600 was a little bit. I just kind of like tabbed, like, hey 1169 01:21:43.720 --> 01:21:47.000 check this guy out. Early next year was Henry Martinez, who was another 1170 01:21:47.079 --> 01:21:50.000 teenager an a ball. I don't know if you watched him at all three 1171 01:21:50.119 --> 01:21:55.520 starts in a ball it was only five innings of archives gave up a home 1172 01:21:55.600 --> 01:21:59.520 run, hit a guy. The sinking action on the fastball, you could 1173 01:21:59.640 --> 01:22:02.760 you could there's some life there get off the bus. Type of guys like 1174 01:22:02.840 --> 01:22:06.800 six' four one, ninety strong. I don't know if he throws particularly 1175 01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:10.359 hard. He had a good looking breaking ball. I thought, you know, 1176 01:22:10.479 --> 01:22:14.399 pretty raw guy. But again, just just a young teenager, teenage 1177 01:22:14.479 --> 01:22:15.840 arm that I just want to tab for next year. Yeah, I don't 1178 01:22:15.840 --> 01:22:18.680 know. I don't know him at all. So that's another trishing one to 1179 01:22:18.680 --> 01:22:20.880 follow. All right, Well, let's uh, let's move on to the 1180 01:22:20.920 --> 01:22:25.920 Giants. Huh. All right, it's bringing home pretty successful in the past 1181 01:22:25.960 --> 01:22:30.039 here, Casey Schmidt, I mean Bress White, Brett Wisely was with the 1182 01:22:30.119 --> 01:22:32.199 Rays, but I mean both those guys were, they were they were starting 1183 01:22:32.199 --> 01:22:35.760 together in the middle of the infield for the Giants this year at one point. 1184 01:22:36.319 --> 01:22:41.600 But then last year Victor Barracoto I think was a pretty good B side 1185 01:22:41.640 --> 01:22:45.159 call and he's still what when I pulled it in September, he was still 1186 01:22:45.159 --> 01:22:48.520 only at two percent, so I mean he's still he's still very much a 1187 01:22:48.600 --> 01:22:51.000 B side, right, but he hit well, how many home runs did 1188 01:22:51.000 --> 01:22:56.039 he hit this year? Twenty seven across hi A and double A. Indeed 1189 01:22:56.720 --> 01:23:00.560 did a good year. Yeah, at twenty one years old, forty oh 1190 01:23:00.640 --> 01:23:03.239 ps slugged five to eleven, struck out twenty two percent of the time. 1191 01:23:03.399 --> 01:23:08.000 He's an interesting left handed, left handed stroke. I think I know that 1192 01:23:08.079 --> 01:23:11.159 he had gotten gotten picked up in a few of my leagues, like early 1193 01:23:11.279 --> 01:23:14.119 known when he hit double A he kind of struggled a little bit, but 1194 01:23:14.159 --> 01:23:17.079 then he took off again. And you know, Richmond is not is historically. 1195 01:23:17.239 --> 01:23:21.000 I know this from Jeff is historically like horrible place to hit home runs. 1196 01:23:21.279 --> 01:23:26.319 He's a fun one to follow, and I like the skills underlying it's 1197 01:23:26.439 --> 01:23:30.119 He's an interesting one. Yeah, I think he's got a chance. They've 1198 01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:35.039 got a couple of what twenty twenty two undrafted free agents from some small schools 1199 01:23:35.079 --> 01:23:40.640 that got my attention from Carter Howell, who I know is in the AFL, 1200 01:23:41.039 --> 01:23:44.960 I think having a decent month there. He had two ninety four, 1201 01:23:45.399 --> 01:23:48.479 three sixty nine, slugged four forty two, struck out nineteen percent of the 1202 01:23:48.520 --> 01:23:53.079 time. What he hit, hit ten home runs, stole fourteen bags. 1203 01:23:53.399 --> 01:23:58.039 I liked this. Matt Higgins sort of like left field first base guy from 1204 01:23:58.560 --> 01:24:02.560 Bellermine hit twelve home runs, ten stolen bases, hit two seventy six with 1205 01:24:02.640 --> 01:24:08.880 a three sixty seven on base and like almost four forty two slug almost identical 1206 01:24:09.600 --> 01:24:13.680 slash line as Howl there. But I watched a little bit a little bit 1207 01:24:13.720 --> 01:24:16.479 of those guys, but I still stuck with Diego of Alaskaz, who I 1208 01:24:16.520 --> 01:24:19.560 took in the draft. But Howl and Higgins were a couple of guys that 1209 01:24:19.680 --> 01:24:23.239 kind of want to keep an eye on when they hit the uppers, which 1210 01:24:23.439 --> 01:24:26.920 I think will probably be next year at some point twenty four and twenty three 1211 01:24:26.960 --> 01:24:29.520 years old. Yeah, I think I mentioned this when you took him in 1212 01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:31.600 the draft. But I like Diego of alaskas a lot. I think he's 1213 01:24:31.600 --> 01:24:36.560 a has a chance to put it all together and be be pretty good again, 1214 01:24:36.720 --> 01:24:40.960 you know. Like one it was surprised he didn't make it up to 1215 01:24:41.039 --> 01:24:44.079 Hi A, and I want to see him do it at the higher levels. 1216 01:24:44.079 --> 01:24:46.600 But I liked what I saw from Velaskaz too. For the guy that 1217 01:24:46.760 --> 01:24:54.640 I'm going with here for our giants, I'm going with Trenton Brooks. Brooks 1218 01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:59.439 is an older guy. He's up in triple A, so you know, 1219 01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:02.680 he's not in his thirties, but he's he's which might as well be dead 1220 01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:06.920 obviously if you're in your thirties he might as well be dead though. He's 1221 01:25:08.039 --> 01:25:11.960 twenty seven, so older than most of the guys that we talk about. 1222 01:25:11.960 --> 01:25:15.840 But I think that plays into the fact that he wasn't really a big time 1223 01:25:15.119 --> 01:25:20.920 prospect ever, you know, seventeenth round pick by the Cleveland Club. He 1224 01:25:21.079 --> 01:25:25.880 was with Oakland for part of last year, and again I think that might 1225 01:25:25.920 --> 01:25:29.199 have been he might have been a Rule five guy that Oakland picked up in 1226 01:25:29.279 --> 01:25:32.800 their second round there I can't recall that. And then he got traded maybe 1227 01:25:32.840 --> 01:25:35.560 to San Francisco. He ended the year in San Francisco, is all I 1228 01:25:35.600 --> 01:25:39.880 know. So that's why he's on the San Francisco list. But I really 1229 01:25:40.039 --> 01:25:44.720 liked what he did. I mean, he spent most of the year or 1230 01:25:44.760 --> 01:25:47.880 the whole year in tripa a split between Oakland and San Francisco. In the 1231 01:25:47.920 --> 01:25:54.039 PCL. This line is just like really wonderful. He walked fifteen percent of 1232 01:25:54.079 --> 01:25:57.239 the time, he struck out fourteen percent fourteen point seven percent of the time, 1233 01:25:57.279 --> 01:26:00.359 so he walked more than he struck out. Twenty two homers swiped seven 1234 01:26:00.399 --> 01:26:02.680 bags. Power metrics So obviously, because we have some statcast data on him, 1235 01:26:02.760 --> 01:26:06.760 aren't great, like they're below average, But when you look at his 1236 01:26:08.439 --> 01:26:11.680 hitter profile. He's the kind of guy that gets to all of it. 1237 01:26:11.720 --> 01:26:15.199 And we've talked a little bit about this with some of the other guys today. 1238 01:26:15.520 --> 01:26:19.199 His ground ball rate was below forty percent, his flyball rate above forty 1239 01:26:19.239 --> 01:26:23.439 percent. He didn't pop it up a ton, a little bit more with 1240 01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:28.359 Oakland than he did with San Francisco, but still above twenty percent. Line 1241 01:26:28.439 --> 01:26:31.039 drives pulls the ball a decent amount. I mean, in the last little 1242 01:26:31.039 --> 01:26:34.119 stretch of the year he was using a bit more all fields, but early 1243 01:26:34.119 --> 01:26:39.279 in the year with Oakland forty three percent pull, twenty five percent straight away, 1244 01:26:39.359 --> 01:26:44.039 thirty three percent, thirty two percent OPO. So just a really well 1245 01:26:44.119 --> 01:26:48.560 rounded hitter. He's like five ten, I think, and is not physically 1246 01:26:48.640 --> 01:26:53.520 imposing, but I just the stroke is so simple, and I think he 1247 01:26:53.520 --> 01:26:57.920 gets to his pull power really well. He reminds me a little bit of 1248 01:26:57.960 --> 01:27:01.680 a guy like Carry Carpenter. Decent plate skills, but isn't going to jump 1249 01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:08.039 off the page on stat cast. But the approach and the damage that he 1250 01:27:08.079 --> 01:27:13.159 can do to the pull side in the air is enough that there's there's some 1251 01:27:13.199 --> 01:27:17.680 real production and a guy in the Giant system that has some similarity to this 1252 01:27:17.720 --> 01:27:21.399 as a guy like Mike Yustremsky where he was a little bit of a late 1253 01:27:21.439 --> 01:27:27.039 bloomer and then made it up to the bigs and had a great rookie season 1254 01:27:27.079 --> 01:27:30.279 as like a twenty eight year old, And I kind of think that Trenton 1255 01:27:30.319 --> 01:27:33.199 Brooks could do something like that. I'm not saying he's as good, and 1256 01:27:33.520 --> 01:27:36.880 again, my looks on his defense were pretty limited. I don't know how 1257 01:27:36.920 --> 01:27:40.920 he plays on defense, but I liked a lot of what I saw as 1258 01:27:40.920 --> 01:27:44.000 a hitter, and he's a guy that actually was on my short list for 1259 01:27:44.279 --> 01:27:47.319 our draft likes he's one of the just missed guys. So I feel pretty 1260 01:27:47.359 --> 01:27:50.479 good about him, and Steamer, for what it's worth, does agree with 1261 01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:54.520 me a bit. I mean, ninety one WRC plus like it's not earth 1262 01:27:54.600 --> 01:28:00.359 shattering, but for a team that might not be the full competitive miss spectrum, 1263 01:28:00.840 --> 01:28:03.239 someone should give him a shot to see if he can turn the plus 1264 01:28:03.279 --> 01:28:10.159 approach and average power into a useful regular. So Trenton Brooks, I think 1265 01:28:10.239 --> 01:28:12.720 is my pick, and I felt pretty good about him. Nice. I 1266 01:28:12.760 --> 01:28:15.479 get a little nervous when when you pick out these little bit older guys that 1267 01:28:15.760 --> 01:28:20.000 I wasn't paying much attention to because then when I start to I'm like, 1268 01:28:20.119 --> 01:28:27.119 oh, yep, he's kind of good. I'm sure, it's just a 1269 01:28:27.479 --> 01:28:30.479 really long time Brooks. No. I mean like he just hasn't been very 1270 01:28:30.520 --> 01:28:33.840 good for a really long time. And honestly, it's like a Cleveland hitter 1271 01:28:33.920 --> 01:28:38.600 right like doesn't s trek out a ton doesn't have a ton of impact in 1272 01:28:38.640 --> 01:28:43.800 the bat. Basically for the past five six years he was drafted in twenty 1273 01:28:43.800 --> 01:28:46.920 sixteen, he's just not been very good. But now as he's made it 1274 01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:50.720 into the upper levels of the minor, he's definitely impacting the ball more. 1275 01:28:50.920 --> 01:28:56.439 And really the last like two three years he's he's been good right on. 1276 01:28:56.720 --> 01:28:59.880 All right, let's move on to the arms. Huh. So last year 1277 01:29:00.039 --> 01:29:02.359 one was with Nick Zwhack and I think I think we've chatted a little bit 1278 01:29:02.399 --> 01:29:05.600 about him Matt, maybe not on the pod, but man, I was 1279 01:29:05.840 --> 01:29:10.920 I was excited for Zwak this year. It really was one of my favorite 1280 01:29:10.960 --> 01:29:15.079 pitchers to watch in twenty twenty two, just talking about an execution machine. 1281 01:29:15.600 --> 01:29:18.880 I think there was an outing when he was still in the Mets system where 1282 01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:23.560 he threw like twenty seven of his first twenty eight pitches or something like that 1283 01:29:23.600 --> 01:29:28.119 for strikes. I had talked to Jeff about him on this pod and digging 1284 01:29:28.119 --> 01:29:30.880 around, asking about the stuff, and he's like, yeah, I think 1285 01:29:30.920 --> 01:29:33.239 the slutter is good and the fastball, you know, it is good enough, 1286 01:29:33.640 --> 01:29:39.840 but just did not have a very good season, and in a place 1287 01:29:39.880 --> 01:29:43.880 where I think you're supposed to have the advantage as a pit As a pitcher, 1288 01:29:44.079 --> 01:29:47.199 what eighty one innings an ERA of six and a half, he still 1289 01:29:47.239 --> 01:29:50.840 struck out, struck out over ten per nine, And yeah, I'm surprised 1290 01:29:50.840 --> 01:29:56.279 that his walk rate was three point five six per nine. He's twenty five. 1291 01:29:56.359 --> 01:29:59.279 I don't know. I don't know about my guy Nick zhack here anymore. 1292 01:29:59.399 --> 01:30:01.399 But have you watched him at all? Yeah, we've talked about him 1293 01:30:01.399 --> 01:30:05.600 a little bit, and I think that starts that I've caught of his He 1294 01:30:06.119 --> 01:30:11.479 was just all over the place, like it just didn't seem like he was 1295 01:30:12.000 --> 01:30:16.119 in control of his body. I caught him up against on the other side, 1296 01:30:16.319 --> 01:30:19.079 against some arms that I was interested earlier in the year, and I 1297 01:30:19.199 --> 01:30:23.680 just like, it didn't look like even when he was finding the zone, 1298 01:30:23.800 --> 01:30:26.720 it just seemed like it was middle middle. And then if he was missing 1299 01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:28.800 the zone. He was missing it by a lot. You know. The 1300 01:30:28.840 --> 01:30:32.279 locker rate wasn't terrible, like all together, it didn't. It's not an 1301 01:30:32.359 --> 01:30:36.880 awful line, but the couple of starts that I caught of him, it 1302 01:30:36.960 --> 01:30:41.840 just seemed like something was out of whack. So I would actually view that 1303 01:30:41.920 --> 01:30:45.720 maybe as a bit of a positive sign for him, that maybe he was 1304 01:30:45.720 --> 01:30:50.680 trying to work on something mechanically and it just hadn't clicked yet and it wasn't. 1305 01:30:50.760 --> 01:30:56.640 It's not like he was consistently just missing. It was more like, 1306 01:30:56.680 --> 01:30:59.520 if he was missing, something was way off, you know what I mean. 1307 01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:02.119 So if you can iron that out, maybe better times are coming. 1308 01:31:02.279 --> 01:31:06.079 Zack had done some things that I thought was pretty interesting last year, so 1309 01:31:06.159 --> 01:31:10.680 I liked your pick of Swack. But yeah, he had a tough year 1310 01:31:10.680 --> 01:31:13.680 this year. I really thought he was like one of the some of the 1311 01:31:13.720 --> 01:31:16.319 best execution I had watched in all the miners in twenty twenty two, and 1312 01:31:16.359 --> 01:31:20.399 I watched a lot of pitchers. But yeah, AnyWho, let's move on 1313 01:31:20.520 --> 01:31:24.760 from Zwak. Here a couple of a couple of arms that are in the 1314 01:31:24.800 --> 01:31:30.000 AFL. Maybe we're my finalist in Hayden Winja and Nick Sonicola. I don't 1315 01:31:30.000 --> 01:31:32.840 know. I know you had said that you that you saw Winja live and 1316 01:31:33.079 --> 01:31:39.359 wasn't very impressed. He's kind of just like what lanky, big lefty, 1317 01:31:39.520 --> 01:31:43.600 different different sort of angle, potential, different look. But it's just the 1318 01:31:43.640 --> 01:31:46.680 command, right, I mean, the command just isn't isn't major league quality, 1319 01:31:46.720 --> 01:31:50.479 I don't think. And then his whole season line was okay, But 1320 01:31:51.039 --> 01:31:54.720 like I said, when I saw him at hi A this year, he 1321 01:31:55.079 --> 01:31:58.800 I think had three wild pitches in that game. They might have one or 1322 01:31:58.840 --> 01:32:00.800 two of pass ball, but it was like he was really really wild. 1323 01:32:01.199 --> 01:32:03.880 I think I said he walked Serta a couple of times in that game. 1324 01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:09.039 It didn't look it looked like he was getting squared up a bit too in 1325 01:32:09.119 --> 01:32:13.680 that game, quite a bit of loud contact. So that's there's a good 1326 01:32:13.720 --> 01:32:16.359 lineup though that he faced. And he did have a pretty good year overall. 1327 01:32:17.000 --> 01:32:21.159 Not someone I'm riding off entirely, but just didn't super wow me with 1328 01:32:21.199 --> 01:32:26.800 that look. I decided to go with Trevor McDonald, who was a twenty 1329 01:32:26.960 --> 01:32:31.479 nineteen eleventh round a Mississippi prep pick who is now like twenty two years old. 1330 01:32:31.520 --> 01:32:34.520 I think now he had one start in April this year and then went 1331 01:32:34.560 --> 01:32:38.720 on the shelf until August. He came back in August and he ended up 1332 01:32:38.720 --> 01:32:44.800 winning the Northwest League Picture of the Month over your boy vand Scoots there I 1333 01:32:44.800 --> 01:32:46.680 think now Van Scooter won it the other month. So so it's okay, 1334 01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:56.039 Well that's because McDonald wasn't around man with that league. There's still only three 1335 01:32:56.479 --> 01:33:00.880 broadcasts of him, and with a center field angle, so we're still talking 1336 01:33:00.399 --> 01:33:04.600 very limited amount of like looks for us are decent ones. But he's got 1337 01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:10.039 a fastball. It's like ninety six curveball slider. I don't know about a 1338 01:33:10.119 --> 01:33:14.479 change up, but the offerings look look pretty nasty. Now. What I 1339 01:33:14.520 --> 01:33:18.279 don't like about him, though, is his arm action, and not that 1340 01:33:18.439 --> 01:33:24.520 he not that he doesn't at least control command his pitch as well, Man 1341 01:33:24.560 --> 01:33:28.119 Matt. His arm action just makes my arm hurt. Watching him, it's 1342 01:33:28.159 --> 01:33:30.960 like interesting, you know, and you know, like this stretch for pictures 1343 01:33:31.000 --> 01:33:33.760 and I know no one can see what I'm doing, but like just keeping 1344 01:33:33.800 --> 01:33:39.760 your forearm and buy upper arm at a right angle and stretching, you know, 1345 01:33:39.880 --> 01:33:44.239 doing this thing. It's like doing an internal shoulder rotation is what Nate 1346 01:33:44.359 --> 01:33:46.520 is doing. Thank you, thank you for that. It's like that's his 1347 01:33:46.640 --> 01:33:50.880 motion. It's like this and then like this, like it's hmm, it 1348 01:33:51.039 --> 01:33:56.800 just it's just like I said, it makes me hurt. So it's kind 1349 01:33:56.800 --> 01:34:00.760 of like this short only never extends back, just keeps his aren't just kind 1350 01:34:00.800 --> 01:34:03.960 of at this right angle like all the time until he extends and releases. 1351 01:34:04.319 --> 01:34:09.520 Now do you think that that's something for you that raises a red flag for 1352 01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:15.760 future injury or do you think it's just the way that he throws and maybe 1353 01:34:15.760 --> 01:34:18.319 adds to deception. What do you think about it? I don't know beyond 1354 01:34:18.359 --> 01:34:23.399 my paygrad and so to speak. But I also know that I have kind 1355 01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:27.039 of just to some extent, I know, I don't like like some sort 1356 01:34:27.079 --> 01:34:30.640 of looking mechanics like mostly like headways. But for the most part, I'm 1357 01:34:30.680 --> 01:34:33.479 just like I don't want to worry about injuries. Picture injuries. They happen 1358 01:34:33.560 --> 01:34:38.079 to everybody. I want to try, especially like b siding, Like I 1359 01:34:38.119 --> 01:34:42.039 just want to find a guy who's skilled might be good enough to make it. 1360 01:34:42.119 --> 01:34:45.319 You know. Layman opinion would be like, yeah, you that's got 1361 01:34:45.319 --> 01:34:47.840 to be. It's kind of not be good to throw like that, but 1362 01:34:48.039 --> 01:34:51.880 I don't know he's still doing it. Probably probably isn't a good thing. 1363 01:34:51.960 --> 01:34:55.960 But do I care about it as far as picking him for a B side, 1364 01:34:56.079 --> 01:35:00.239 Eh not really. No, Well, interesting name, He's not something 1365 01:35:00.359 --> 01:35:04.600 I watched at all. And looking at that line, I'm I'm yeah intrigued 1366 01:35:04.680 --> 01:35:09.000 and now, especially by the motion, I can't wait to see see if 1367 01:35:09.000 --> 01:35:12.399 I see anything. Yeah, like what so what he had? He pitched 1368 01:35:12.439 --> 01:35:15.680 thirty seven? What thirty seven? Thirty eight innings? Is that right? 1369 01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:18.960 His er? I think it was forty seven on the year. Okay, 1370 01:35:19.039 --> 01:35:21.159 Oh, I might have pulled this, Yeah, I might have pulled this, 1371 01:35:21.319 --> 01:35:25.640 like before his season was totally over, but at this point it was 1372 01:35:26.199 --> 01:35:30.359 thirty seven and two thirds innings. His era was point nine six. He 1373 01:35:30.439 --> 01:35:33.800 had a point eighty five whip, thirty nine strikeouts. It was his walk 1374 01:35:34.079 --> 01:35:38.159 He walked one point nine to one per nine. Like it was like you 1375 01:35:38.199 --> 01:35:42.239 said, it was a pretty He was pretty dominant in his short, little 1376 01:35:42.319 --> 01:35:45.000 high stint. Yeah, and it checks out again, like I think it's 1377 01:35:45.039 --> 01:35:48.520 I think it's plus stuff and command at least, I mean, you don't 1378 01:35:48.560 --> 01:35:53.319 get the greatest angles there, but he was tough to square up and he 1379 01:35:53.439 --> 01:35:56.199 was throwing a lot of strikes. Nice. Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna 1380 01:35:56.239 --> 01:36:00.880 watch some of some of him. You know, My guy remains my number 1381 01:36:00.880 --> 01:36:05.279 one pick for our pitcher draft, Kaiwai Tang, who going back to the 1382 01:36:05.279 --> 01:36:11.479 Steamer projections that dropped earlier this week, he had quite the rosy projection, 1383 01:36:11.720 --> 01:36:15.960 which I felt somewhat validated by with my first round pick. Tang is a 1384 01:36:15.960 --> 01:36:19.199 guy that's one percent owned as the end of the year, but projects as 1385 01:36:19.199 --> 01:36:24.720 a four to two er guy four two year, a four two fifth per 1386 01:36:24.760 --> 01:36:29.880 Steamer this year, which is way better than I even I thought. They're 1387 01:36:29.920 --> 01:36:32.880 giving him a lot of benefit of the doubt. On the walk rate, 1388 01:36:32.960 --> 01:36:39.520 you know, his walk rate has always been really high, like way higher 1389 01:36:39.560 --> 01:36:42.079 than I like. But he's always struck a lot of guys out. He's 1390 01:36:42.119 --> 01:36:45.720 actually the minor league strikeout leader over the last three seasons, Like he just 1391 01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:49.039 punches batters out because his slider and cutter are so good. They project his 1392 01:36:49.119 --> 01:36:54.680 walk rate like like three something, wasn't it like three point five or something 1393 01:36:54.720 --> 01:36:58.319 like that, which both Nate and I laughed at, like, I don't 1394 01:36:58.319 --> 01:37:01.319 know if we've watched the same picture. Their steamer because I'd be surprised if 1395 01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:04.359 he has a walk right that good. But if he does, I think 1396 01:37:04.399 --> 01:37:08.800 that's the kind of area that he can put up because he misses bats, 1397 01:37:08.840 --> 01:37:12.319 gets ground balls, a lot of weak contact. That's kind of how I 1398 01:37:12.359 --> 01:37:15.520 sold him with my number one overall pick in our pitcher draft. So I 1399 01:37:15.560 --> 01:37:19.239 was really encouraged by that. San Francisco, like San Diego, I think 1400 01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:24.640 they're going to have some openings in their starting rotation. They've had some injuries 1401 01:37:24.640 --> 01:37:29.560 issues, Manaiah's leaving for free agency testing the waters there, I thought. 1402 01:37:29.600 --> 01:37:31.920 I think they brought back Cob I think they might have an option there and 1403 01:37:31.960 --> 01:37:34.880 they picked it up. They still have a bunch of innings that they got 1404 01:37:34.920 --> 01:37:40.439 to fill behind Logan Webb and Kyle Harrison, and I think Tang might be 1405 01:37:40.479 --> 01:37:44.760 one of those guys. So Tang I think is interesting and remains my pick 1406 01:37:44.800 --> 01:37:47.800 there. But the other guy that I wanted to highlight on the pitching side 1407 01:37:47.920 --> 01:37:51.920 is Eric Miller. He's someone I watched a little bit of in college when 1408 01:37:51.960 --> 01:37:55.960 he was at Stanford. Caught him live a couple of times when he was 1409 01:37:56.000 --> 01:37:59.439 coming up through the pack. He's a reliever. Now they've put him to 1410 01:37:59.479 --> 01:38:04.159 the bullpen primarily, and the stuff I think has played up a fair amount. 1411 01:38:04.439 --> 01:38:08.640 I thought him as more of a pitchability righty coming out of college. 1412 01:38:09.039 --> 01:38:12.000 You know, he was good in college, but I wasn't sure he was 1413 01:38:12.039 --> 01:38:15.920 going to make it as a starter with what he had. But his stuff 1414 01:38:15.920 --> 01:38:19.119 has definitely ticked up as he's been in the pen. Ran a thirty four 1415 01:38:19.159 --> 01:38:25.039 percent strikeout rate over sixty plus innings this year. The walk rate is crazy 1416 01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:30.560 high seventeen percent this year, but it hasn't always been that way. So 1417 01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:34.279 he's one that I think there's better times coming. Like at Triple A this 1418 01:38:34.359 --> 01:38:39.159 year, he threw fifty some innings and his walk rate was seven point one 1419 01:38:39.439 --> 01:38:43.359 per nine, Like, that's wildly high. He still had a really good 1420 01:38:43.720 --> 01:38:47.159 er because he stranded a lot of runners and had a low Babbitt because his 1421 01:38:47.199 --> 01:38:50.359 stuff is very good, and he struck out twelve point six per nine. 1422 01:38:50.399 --> 01:38:54.920 So like, the stuff will play. And we were having this conversation in 1423 01:38:54.960 --> 01:39:00.319 the Dynasty dug at Discord this week Nate about the automatic ball strikes him in 1424 01:39:00.319 --> 01:39:03.880 Triple A and that a lot of pitchers pointing to that as something that caused 1425 01:39:03.920 --> 01:39:09.399 their walk rates to tick up, and I wonder if that had something to 1426 01:39:09.439 --> 01:39:11.920 do with it, because a couple of these guys that we've talked about that 1427 01:39:11.960 --> 01:39:16.000 have made triple A on the pitching side that they've had sort of uncharacteristically high 1428 01:39:16.000 --> 01:39:19.359 walk rates, and Miller's that kind of guy. For me. He's had 1429 01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:24.920 high walk rates in the past, but mostly in really short stints. Anytime 1430 01:39:25.000 --> 01:39:28.439 he's had a longer stint, it seems like he's kept his walk rate in 1431 01:39:29.000 --> 01:39:32.159 check, especially given that he misses a lot of bats, so you can 1432 01:39:32.279 --> 01:39:36.479 live with a slightly higher walk rate. I think Miller's a pretty high probability 1433 01:39:36.520 --> 01:39:42.800 big league reliever whether he's He's not going to supplant Camillo Dovall anytime soon, 1434 01:39:42.920 --> 01:39:45.760 but he's good and I think it's going to be miss bats at the major 1435 01:39:45.840 --> 01:39:48.960 league level as well, especially if he can tighten up his command a bit. 1436 01:39:49.039 --> 01:39:53.479 So Eric Miller just wanted to plug him as another guy that I think 1437 01:39:53.640 --> 01:39:56.760 is going to be in the middle innings for a big league team soon. 1438 01:39:56.800 --> 01:40:00.560 I think that wraps up our NLS, doesn't it. Next does next week 1439 01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:05.279 or next time we'll get into uh what let's just do the Ale Central get 1440 01:40:05.279 --> 01:40:11.039 that out of the war. Thanks for hanging out with us and getting moddy, 1441 01:40:11.199 --> 01:40:14.960 getting dirty. I'm going to uh, I've got to do the final 1442 01:40:15.079 --> 01:40:20.159 tally on the AFL ROTO League. I believe, I believe, I believe 1443 01:40:20.159 --> 01:40:25.640 I may have won that. Yes, nice, nice, So Dylan White, 1444 01:40:25.640 --> 01:40:27.600 eat your heart out. You ain't got one of these. You might, 1445 01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:32.600 NBC schmim FBC. You have no AFL Roto titles on your shelf. 1446 01:40:32.640 --> 01:40:35.439 I don't think. Yeah this is the big one. This is the one 1447 01:40:35.479 --> 01:40:40.279 you bet on the shelf. Yeah, at least I won some league this 1448 01:40:40.399 --> 01:40:45.880 year. But right on, all right, so thank you and we'll let 1449 01:40:45.920 --> 01:40:49.920 Chicago Farmer take us out. Be well later. Rotten too is head. 1450 01:40:51.680 --> 01:40:59.680 You hop it down first with the lumpbonius face, and the very next pitch 1451 01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:11.119 he up and stole second base with greatst speed. He wasn't born, he 1452 01:41:11.359 --> 01:41:15.560 had dead Yes, uniform