WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:07.719 Not five miles an hour riding too is him. He hopped down first with 2 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:14.199 the lump bonus face, and on the very next pitch he up and stole 3 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:29.280 second face with gretested he wasn't born he had yes. Welcome to episode eleven 4 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:33.840 of Prospect. Besides, I am Nate Handy, joined with joined by the 5 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.240 rookie Matt Again, we're actually by what's up? Hey, I don't know, 6 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.640 joined by Matt, joined with joining me is Matt. We are actually 7 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.600 a podcast now, like for real. It's not just a video conference. 8 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:50.119 There's actually some episodes that have gotten out and we've had some people listen, 9 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.240 I think Matt. So that's that's super exciting. We're moving up in the 10 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:57.000 world. Yeah, apparently we've got like all of two fans already. I 11 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:00.159 mean, that's more fans than I had last week. So that's a huge 12 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.519 win. I know that you don't really partake in the Twitter verse, but 13 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:08.319 you might be surprised here, my friend. You know, I very much 14 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:14.319 thank you and have enjoyed podcasting much much more since you have joined me and 15 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:18.200 I have somebody to talk to. But it's not all rainbows and puppies, 16 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.200 my friend. I have to be. I have to be honest with you. 17 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.760 You're kind of starting to get under my skin a little bit here. 18 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:30.560 Oh good, you know, Matt, Matt's not a rookie. He sounds 19 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:37.000 so silky, smooth and nice on the microphone. His players are so fantastic. 20 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:41.120 You're picking all these losers, Nade. You sound like John c Riley 21 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:46.159 got bunched in the nose. I mean, it's just, it's just it's 22 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:49.719 getting a little, a little out of control. The handy dandies are turning 23 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.359 into Maddie patties. Matt, I got, I got this one girl on 24 00:01:53.400 --> 00:02:00.599 Twitter hitting up my dms at w s U Cougar's cougar at me. If 25 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:04.840 you do any ASMR stuff, it's out of control. You when you applied 26 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:08.120 for this job, did you not read the job description? Yeah? I 27 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:13.439 said, right there. Make Nate look good. I keep skipping over that 28 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:16.319 one. I'm sorry, man, you have you have a thirty day review 29 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:20.039 coming up, my friend. I mean, you do, you, bro, 30 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:23.159 But I don't know what you're gonna say for yourself. All I can 31 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:28.879 do is continue to get worse. It's all downhill from here. And you 32 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:34.400 know, now we're getting into the real handy territory where we're getting muddy, 33 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:38.039 all thirty teams, pitchers and hitters, the deep cut B side. So 34 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:43.759 now now now it's it's all you. I'm just the supporting, supporting cast 35 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:47.159 here. We've splunked into the deepotion a little bit and found a little landing 36 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:53.280 spot. Last couple episodes talking about some of our more favorite finds. That's 37 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:55.159 just a kind of a setting off point, Like you said, we're going 38 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:59.479 to get I mean, look at us. The Game three of a Fantastic 39 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.080 World is on, and you and I are I mean, what are we 40 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:06.560 going to talk about some twenty four year old and a ball who throws eighty 41 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:08.039 six miles per hour that we think might have a chance. I mean, 42 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:13.319 we are scumbags, mat we are dirty, and we're just getting started. 43 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.400 Really, get off my spreadsheets. How do you know? That's like everybody 44 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:19.560 I'm talking about today, they all throw eighty six. They're all thirty years 45 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:24.599 old in a ball. Or maybe maybe we'll find an eighteen year old who's 46 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:28.039 not sure if he was a right handed hitter or a left handed hitter or 47 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:30.560 yet or something. I don't know. Last couple episodes we got into hitters 48 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:37.439 and pitchers, and today we start our division breakdowns or however you want to 49 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:42.840 say it, but we'll go division by division and start getting into what we've 50 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:46.280 seen in some players and make our I guess, our official twenty twenty four 51 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:53.360 B side selections for every organization. Is that does sound good? Who I'm 52 00:03:53.879 --> 00:04:00.759 daunted, intimidated, cowed by the task. But I'm here and I've got 53 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:04.439 some picks and hopefully they don't all suck. So you know, that's the 54 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:09.159 only promise I can make to you, Nate and your listeners is they are 55 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:13.080 the best of the money that we could find, and hopefully we get some 56 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.199 new names in your ear for you to look at your off season drafts in 57 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:20.800 your early season WAYVERI our pickups. Yeah, that's and they're your listeners now, 58 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:26.480 Matt, they're not my listeners. We did share notes this time. 59 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:30.160 The last couple we did not, but we didn't get into We didn't get 60 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:34.000 into anybody. Really. It was more or less just quite literally sharing a 61 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:39.079 list of names. I shared my list with you the other night, and 62 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:42.040 it's like, Nate, this is way too many names. I think, 63 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.879 like seventy five players or something. But I don't plan on you know, 64 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:50.480 really getting into all those guys. But yeah, listeners, this is this 65 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:56.040 is how sick Nate is. I asked, like, hey, I want 66 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.319 to share lists just so that we've got a little bit more back and forth 67 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:02.759 about guys. Make sure that I have at least heard of whatever crazy b 68 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:08.319 sider Nate's gonna pick. And he sends me a picture of his spreadsheet and 69 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:12.439 he's not lying. I think there are seventy five names on this list, 70 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.720 and I'm like, Nate, we can't talk about all these guys. Also, 71 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:19.920 half of them I've never heard of. A few are way too popular, 72 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:24.279 but of course they're the guys that Nate has been on for years already. 73 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:28.399 And I send him my Measley ten names and he's like, oh, 74 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:30.959 yeah, I know that guy and that guy and that guy. So you 75 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:35.120 know, he's the godfather here. He knows everybody from way back. No, 76 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:40.000 you have definitely turned me on to do some players for sure, And 77 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:42.920 yeah, like you said, some of that is just well, we'll just 78 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.879 get into it. But I wanted to say though, I watched a few 79 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:49.680 of your draft selections from the last couple episodes, and one that I just 80 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:53.560 kind of wanted to talk about real quick and maybe we'll just segue into the 81 00:05:53.560 --> 00:06:02.240 Astros. Your boy Tyler Goolfoil Googlefoil Gooli Gilfoyle. I think we were watching 82 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:08.639 his afl outing and chatting together. I think that was probably a better angle 83 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.839 than than we had gotten in full season ball at all this last year. 84 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.720 I could be mistaken, but I but I have to say Matt I was. 85 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.959 I mean, of course you pair it with with the wonderful points you 86 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:25.079 brought up about him, but he really impressed me. That outing he got, 87 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:28.319 He got more exciting to me, without a doubt, especially when we're 88 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.720 I don't know. I think we had wondered if we saw him throw a 89 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:35.800 cutter, saw him throw the slider, a slower breaking ball, a change 90 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:41.519 up, and that that fastball man that that didn't really does like to take 91 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:45.800 off high in Armside. Yeah, you would have asked me about about that 92 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:50.959 Armside run and one of the starts that I had watched and prep for talking 93 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:56.560 about him. He did kind of get in trouble losing that fastball up in 94 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:00.439 a way, and he showed a little bit of that in his all start. 95 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.040 But we were both saying he had a bass's juice that had been already 96 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:06.720 given up one run, could have gotten really ugly there, and he pitched 97 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:10.759 his way out of that inning. And I thought that was pretty impressive against 98 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.759 some pretty good hitters. Yeah. Yeah, it was the inning that I 99 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:15.879 think he did. He give up like one run in three innings or something 100 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.560 like that, and that inning that he gave up a run was Yeah, 101 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:23.040 for a picture, It's just just kind of a stupid inning. There's a 102 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:25.800 couple of hit batsmen. He had a change up that took off on him 103 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.399 and I think got Sabato I remember correctly, but uh, you know, 104 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.759 there was like an infield hit, maybe a bad throw or something, but 105 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:39.680 or a poor fielder's choice. He was fairly dominant. I thought, kudos 106 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.480 to you, Matt. Another another wonderful call. I think I'm excited to 107 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.160 well. And and the other AFL one that is getting some helium is our 108 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.759 boy, Caleb Durban. I mean he's he hit a homer, which he 109 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:58.040 doesn't do very often. He continues to not strike out and steel bases. 110 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.639 I mean, he's he's an interesting little guy. Yep, yep, I 111 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:05.160 have been. I'm a little invested there in my little AFL league. So 112 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.120 yeah, I've got I think I was telling you one of my points. 113 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:16.120 Leagues that I'm in really really penalizes strikeouts, so you know, guys that 114 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.319 are really good, and lots of other leagues like even Aaron Judge someone like 115 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:24.639 that, who is great across all formats, like he's like the fortieth best 116 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.480 hitter last year in this league because it just penalizes strikeouts so much. And 117 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:33.000 so a guy like Durban is gold in that league if he makes it and 118 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:39.120 he hits like we think he's going to just because the strikeouts are non existent. 119 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.360 When I ran, I think it was, like, however many plate 120 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:43.639 appearances he had at double A, like around one hundred something like that over 121 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:50.960 the last five years he had the lowest strikeout rate with that minimum plate appearances 122 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:54.919 for I think it was the last five years by like a full three percentage 123 00:08:54.919 --> 00:09:00.120 points. Like that's crazy, that's so much of a lead, and you 124 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.120 know it's probably he's probably not a true talent three and a half percent k 125 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:07.440 guy, but that is still a very very impressive DOUBLEA debut for him, 126 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.519 for sure. Astros Pictures, let's start there. Let's we had mentioned how 127 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:18.080 how many potential B side candidates there were in their system because I ditched out 128 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:24.440 on the season and kind of left folks hanging last year. Touch on some 129 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.559 of my selections and how they may have fared this year. My picture for 130 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:31.919 the Astros was a Dinson Batista, who he got injured early in the year. 131 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:37.240 He's a fastball, slider guy, very much still on my B side 132 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.600 map, twenty one year old from Cuba, looking forward to him getting back 133 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:45.240 on the mound. And then this year. I don't know if these guys 134 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.399 were kind of on your list or short list map, but Ryan Gusto, 135 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:52.399 I don't know if you watched him at all. He almost feels a little 136 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.559 bit like a guilfoil light in some aspects. I like him. He was 137 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:03.399 eleventh round Juco pick in twenty nineteen. They got this big bodied lefty Luis 138 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.639 on Hell Rodriguez. The fastball might lack a little little juice, but he 139 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.440 can spend two breakers and throw a change up. These are arms that kind 140 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:15.720 of just sucked me in during the video review right for good, bad or 141 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:20.600 ugly guys that I watched the most of Julio Robania, I think that's how 142 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.799 you say it. The stout strong five to eleven. It was his second 143 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.279 go at double A, but he was much more productive. Kind of a 144 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:33.879 lack of K's low nineties fastball, but his slider, Man, he's got 145 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.679 a really good slider that just devastates left He is more so a guy that 146 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:41.399 just felt like a little bit of a throwback, Like I feel like he 147 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:46.600 could have been like a fantastic lefty specialist when those guys were like getting jobs. 148 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:52.120 Emile car Torinos, a young Venezuelan pitcher, lots of polish needed, 149 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:54.919 but a big body with a bit of a different arsenal. He didn't have 150 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.519 like a lot of strikeouts this year and stuff, but he strikes me as 151 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:03.080 a guy who hold when it all gets polished up. But he was an 152 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.960 interesting guy to me. Nolan DeVos Devoce Nolan DeVos, I just kind of 153 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:15.120 questioned his command to be, you know, MLB starter caliber. And then 154 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:20.279 a guy that was a first year player last year. I believe Andrew Taylor. 155 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:26.000 He's got that fastball that these guys, it sure seems like, are 156 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:30.840 kind of after and maybe to the nth degree. And my hope was that 157 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.039 he would get with the astros who have been fantastic at helping guys spin a 158 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.360 long some of that would become part of his game, but I don't think 159 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:46.120 that has really happened. Those guys weren't weren't my official selections, but like 160 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:48.080 I said, some guys that got into do you have any takes or any 161 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.399 thoughts on any of those guys? Matt Well? Just to build off of 162 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:58.279 this, I also dove into a bunch of Houston pitchers for B siders because 163 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:03.720 there are just so many of them, I mean, maybe the best pitching 164 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:09.279 system in the minor leagues. Like I watched two thirds of the guys that 165 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:15.159 Nate mentioned, you know, Devas, Robina, Taylor, all of which 166 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.960 I thought had something. You know, they were enough words that I was 167 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:20.200 like, ah, they're probably aren't my selection, but they were all like, 168 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:24.440 Oh, these guys are doing something that's interesting. But even guys that 169 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.120 Nate didn't mention, a guy probably two owned now. But Spencer arri Getty 170 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:33.080 like he was he was beside eligible last year. I think he nobody was 171 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:35.639 on him and then he had a really great year and when I checked, 172 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:41.519 I think he was up around ten or eleven percent ownership. He had an 173 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:45.879 awesome year, made it up to Triple A and you know, twenty five 174 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:50.879 percent, K's six percent, almost seven percent walks across his line for the 175 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.519 whole year, Like that's awesome, and especially at high levels like that all 176 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:56.840 the way up to the PCL, Like that was a hell of a line. 177 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:01.679 And again when I checked in September, he was one percent owned. 178 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.960 Like Houston is just flush with them. And we still aren't talking about our 179 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.080 B side selections either, you know, and I drafted two guys in my 180 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:16.159 in my draft already but in trade Dombrowski and taller Gilfoyle. But there's at 181 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:20.399 least two more names that we're going to talk about that are like that's ten 182 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:26.519 eleven, like legit pitching prospects that in some systems, like any one of 183 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:31.879 those ten would be their single best arm. And they've got ten or eleven 184 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.440 of them. So, man, Houston's doing something. As my official B 185 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:39.519 side selection, We're gonna go with Jose Fleury. Fleury is a guy that 186 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:45.320 I was on because he and Gilfoyle did a lot of tandem starting early on 187 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:50.080 in the year, So Gilfoyle would start and Fleury would come in and relief 188 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.399 in like the fourth or fifth inning or vice versa. Sometimes Fleury would start 189 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:58.559 and then Gilfoyle would come on. And they're very different pitchers. Got some 190 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:03.679 commonalities in that they both strike out a bunch of batters, some walk concerns, 191 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:07.120 but their arsenals are really different. Flurry is what is he like? 192 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.159 Six to one two hundred pounds. They listed him at one eighty five, 193 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:15.120 but he looked a little thicker than that now, so maybe maybe one ninety 194 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:20.080 five. He you know, a good, good looking athlete. Absolutely eviscerated 195 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.320 the DSL last year as a twenty year old. Again, a little old 196 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.600 to be in the DSL, but he ran a fourteen point two k per 197 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:35.120 nine and walked less than one per nine in the DSL, so just absolutely 198 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.720 dominated the competition to the tune of a one to three to nine fit. 199 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:41.960 This year, Astros skipped him over the complex and sent him to a ball 200 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:46.480 where he threw ninety two and a third and two thirds innings. Again, 201 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:48.399 like I said, some of this was tandem starts. A lot of it 202 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.799 was like all the starts were you know, three to five innings, and 203 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:56.759 that was generally what his relief appearances were as well. But he really didn't 204 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:03.639 miss a beat with that, you know, twelve point six strikeouts per nine, 205 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:07.080 walked a few more at four point three. It's more than I'd like 206 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.240 to see. But he was stingy with the hits, got a decent amount 207 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:13.480 of ground balls. His arsenal is really fun, really short armstroke. It's 208 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:16.279 not a big loopy one, kind of like gil Foyle is a little bit 209 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:20.159 longer. It's short. It is straight over the top. I mean, 210 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:24.679 you see this thing. His fastball is just a straight backspin. I mean, 211 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.320 this might be a perfect twelve o'clock spin efficiency fastball, but it's not 212 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.559 very hard. The couple of times I saw him on a gun, it 213 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.000 was like ninety one tops. That's the knock on him, right, is 214 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:39.399 like, yeah, he's spinning this fastball. Yeah he's getting whiffs on it, 215 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.639 and he's throwing at the top of the zone whiffs and pop ups. 216 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.159 Can he still get those? If it's ninety one he's at double A or 217 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.840 triple A. That's the knock on him. That, plus the command can 218 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.720 be a little bit hairy at times. I mean, he wasn't terrible. 219 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:58.320 He didn't hit batters. It was just he would lose feel of the zone 220 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:03.519 a little bit and kind of nibble around the edges. The other really fun 221 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:08.000 thing about his repertoire is his changeup is a legit bugs bunny looking change up. 222 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:12.440 It's by far his best secondary pitch. You see him come exact same 223 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:18.000 short straight over the top arm slot, and then this change up just dies 224 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:22.080 and he'll throw it to righties, he'll throw it to lefties, and these 225 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:26.000 guys are kind of waiting for that, looking for that you know, huntable 226 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:30.639 four seam fastball. Then this change up comes and it just dives, Like 227 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:33.919 I wish I had the pitching ninja skills to give this and overlay it, 228 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:38.360 because it is a wild difference where those pitches end up. But his other 229 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:42.799 two offspeed pitches, he's got a slider and a curveball. I think he 230 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:48.879 changes armslot for both of them. Neither of them is commanded really at all. 231 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.279 Like when he was losing guys, it was because he left a curveball 232 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:55.799 way up in the zone and then yanked a slider away out of the zone. 233 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:56.759 All of a sudden, he's two to oh. He tries to ride 234 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.720 a fastball at the top of the zone, but it runs a little bit 235 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:03.879 high. All of a sudden it's three to zero and he's walked the batter, 236 00:17:03.119 --> 00:17:07.000 his command not great. Two of his four pitches I would say, 237 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:11.680 are worse than average, Like the slider gets some whiffs, but it's just 238 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:15.920 never around the zone enough. And I do think he changes his arm in 239 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.359 action. I think for those guys that really comes straight over the top like 240 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:23.440 that, it can be hard to manipulate the slider well. So I wonder 241 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:29.880 if if really leaning into just a curveball more would do him well. But 242 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.960 he's an interesting enough arm. If you set the minimum for the minor leagues 243 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:40.119 at ninety innings pitch, he was tenth in K minus BB rate percentage, 244 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:44.839 So that is hard to do. That's the kind of thing that tends to 245 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:49.440 be sticky year over year. And even if he's just a mile or two 246 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.599 an hour more on the fastball, this kind of looks like a Christian Javier 247 00:17:53.960 --> 00:18:00.240 kind of a crazy spin fastball, one good off speed pitch and an off 248 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:04.119 of a third pitch to fool batters a couple times through the order. Again, 249 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:10.359 it's not like I don't see him being a superstar, but if those 250 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:14.519 couple of small tweaks away from seeing this kind of dominan city'side at the low 251 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.440 levels translate up to the upper levels too. So Jose Flury, I think 252 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:22.559 he's another in a long line of Astro's interesting arms and worth your time to 253 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.960 dive into. I like that. See there you go. Matt Fleury is 254 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.799 the guy who definitely slipped through my cracks. So I knew him by name 255 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.680 and some numbers, but but I didn't watch so nice sweet. Did you 256 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.640 watch Who You Got? Nate? Did you watch AJ Bloombaugh at all? 257 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:42.839 Blumbaugh sounds familiar, but I don't have notes on them, I don't think 258 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:47.960 so he is in the AFL right now. I wanted to just touch on 259 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:49.480 him a little bit. He was This was tough. This was a tough 260 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:52.920 choice because I kind of wanted to go with him. But he's this big 261 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.519 body guy from UW Milwaukee that I think they took him like the seventh round 262 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.160 or something like that. I mean, it's say, a big body, 263 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:03.720 but nice size. I think maybe like the gram esque sort of frame, 264 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.039 you know, maybe not a real hard fastball ninety two to ninety three, 265 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:11.799 but it has some life and there is a lot of sort of vanilla in 266 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:15.960 the whole arsenal, but pitches well and throughout the season. There was just 267 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:21.839 a nice progression of him executing just tougher stuff. So I think he's a 268 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:25.519 guy arrow up arm in their system. And like I said, they sent 269 00:19:25.559 --> 00:19:30.440 him to the AFL For whatever reason, I couldn't stop watching Carlos Espinosa, 270 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:33.160 a twenty two year old Cuban that they signed I think just last year in 271 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:38.039 twenty twenty two. Forty three, forty four innings in at a ball this 272 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:41.960 year, but you know, fairly new to the system, you know, 273 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.240 kind of a physical specimen, athletic strong, just comes off the bus, 274 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:49.599 looks looks good right, looks like a good strung starting pitcher. It's fastball 275 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:55.240 that gets up ninety seven to ninety six on the regular. He's got the 276 00:19:55.319 --> 00:20:00.400 slider, he's got a curveball. Obviously, I never watched Carlos Espinosa until 277 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:04.599 this year, but I do feel like the slider, particularly was was just 278 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:08.720 getting a bit more movement, getting sharper towards the end of the season, 279 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:12.599 and I think that is part and plays into some of his you know, 280 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:18.519 high walks and things of that nature. But he also throws a really interesting 281 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:23.400 splitter. He has no idea where it's going. But I caught some really 282 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:29.119 good still frames of that splitter, and man, that thing is like it's 283 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:32.799 it's a La Jose Contreras from back in the day type of splitter, Like 284 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:37.119 that guy's threatening him breaking it, breaking his fingers, sticking that thing in 285 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:41.839 there. But there's kind of just too much of a highbrow sort of repertoire 286 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:47.039 potential for me. Harnessing it all will definitely be be a deal for him. 287 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:49.640 What's interesting to me is I really like his his motion, and it 288 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:55.359 seems all like very repetitive and controlled, but the outcomes of it aren't. 289 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:59.880 But if you watch the archives archives, he has had a few outings where 290 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:03.400 he was flirting with immaculate innings, flirting with immaculate innings back to back. 291 00:21:03.960 --> 00:21:07.960 You know, maybe a little bit of wishful thinking here, but far from 292 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:14.200 the most feral looking of guys with with high brow arsenals that I've watched in 293 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:18.519 a ball So I'm interested in him in this system. You know, maybe 294 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.000 maybe a bit of a big swing, but if it goes well, I 295 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:26.640 think it's going to go really well with Carlos. Where do you think they're 296 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:30.759 gonna put him next year? Hard to tell, but I don't think, 297 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:33.079 you know, talk about reliever risk again, like, definitely if this guy, 298 00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:36.799 you know, if he doesn't harness this, he's going to be a 299 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:38.599 reliever. But I think it could be a really good reliever. Just throwing 300 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:41.960 a fastball in the slider, right, he still needs a ball, you 301 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.160 know, by the way that things finished at the end of the year, 302 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:48.519 I don't think. I don't think that's a guy that you are lower lower 303 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:49.920 minus. I don't think this is a guy that you throw into double A 304 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:53.319 just quite yet. And I don't really know his history. I don't know 305 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:57.119 if they signed him from the professional Cuban lead or what the deal is. 306 00:21:57.160 --> 00:22:03.640 But he's zero percent Rossard. I've watched Maddox runs after he was drafted. 307 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:10.759 I've watched Jacob Miserowski after he was drafted. Just to be blunt, those 308 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:17.160 guys were awful. Their command was horrible. So he's not even remotely close 309 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.240 to that. And I know he's a bit older than those guys. Well 310 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:25.319 maybe I don't know how old Misserowski was, but still very young. I 311 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:29.279 just I like this what this could turn into. Yeah, that's an interesting 312 00:22:29.319 --> 00:22:30.519 one. I didn't I didn't catch any of him, and I did watch 313 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:33.400 a fair amount of that Houston A ball team, So if you want to 314 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:37.759 watch him, check out. He has an outing where he had ten strikeouts 315 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:40.960 on eight twenty six. I think that was a really good one, and 316 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.680 then he had one I'm going to share some video again and I'll share some 317 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:48.759 of him. Whatever that outing was is when he had Darneer in emaculate inning, 318 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.960 maybe even two in that one game. Wow, Yeah, could get 319 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:57.200 real dynasty appeal and a relatively short amount of time here. He was actually 320 00:22:57.240 --> 00:23:02.200 going to be my first pick in theft, but I wanted to do a 321 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:07.119 little bit more homework on him because I hadn't really watched the like the bad 322 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.359 right, the bad lines, And then when I started getting into those, 323 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:14.119 I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna 324 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:18.160 have to tap the brakes just a little bit here. He can't he can't 325 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.880 be my first call, all right. But yeah, so Astros hitters we 326 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:26.880 have had, we've had some success. I think Matt with with the Astros 327 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:33.880 hitters maybe moderate success, But twenty twenty one was Kennedy Corona took a little 328 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:36.839 bit, but I think that has Yeah, I mean, you know, 329 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:41.319 relatively speaking, I think he went from very B side to the very mid 330 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:45.680 grade. Right, we had Emmanuel Valdez, who you know obviously was traded 331 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:48.799 to the Red Sox, but he's played in the Majors and last year, 332 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:51.920 last year, I really wanted to go with a lot Brafito, but he 333 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:55.240 was just a little bit too owned. You know, he had a fantastic 334 00:23:55.359 --> 00:24:00.000 year. And then Quincy Hamilton, who I think is still very much beside. 335 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:04.799 I'd ask not highly rastered, but I think is in play for a 336 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:08.799 major league shot fairly soon. Here did play in Triple A. I don't 337 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:14.359 know if there's not like super outstanding numbers but not not horrible stuff, but 338 00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:18.160 I could see him getting some run relatively soon and maybe before some of those 339 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:22.200 other younger outfielders. Do you have any thoughts on Quincy Hamilton or not so 340 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.400 much, not as much on Quincy Hmpton. Were you also on Colin Barber? 341 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.480 I feel like you might have mentioned him, yeah, a mile back 342 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:33.480 in a little bit, Yeah, because he was one that I had, 343 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:37.440 I had picked up in a deeper league and he was okay this year. 344 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.640 I had hoped for maybe a touch more at Double A than he did. 345 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.440 I also think he might have had some injuries that set him back for a 346 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:48.039 part of the year, But to the higher up guys in the system, 347 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:52.119 I mean Corona l Berfedo Dezenzo two was another one that popped this year. 348 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:56.640 Like the Astros did do a pretty good job on the hitting side too, 349 00:24:56.200 --> 00:25:00.880 and less on the B side. Kind of thing like when they're hitters start 350 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:04.880 motoring up the system, or when they hit really well in Asheville, people 351 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.920 tend to take notice. So it was I did find choosing a B side 352 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:14.279 a little bit trickier here for the Houston hitters than I did for the pitchers, 353 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:17.920 where there was just so many to choose from their classic m sort of 354 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:21.920 seems to be finding they have a knack for finding outfielders, right, And 355 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:26.039 if you look recent history, there's been a lot of mccormicks and Myers and 356 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:30.599 outfielders like that that have been serviceable to them, and then they've traded a 357 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:34.079 lot of them. And looking at this sort of B side territory now was 358 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:40.119 to me it was kind of chuckful with outfielders and a couple of catchers. 359 00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:45.200 But who'd you go with? Who's who's your bat? I really flip flopped 360 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:49.039 on this one. A bit. There's this guy at infielder for them, 361 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:52.400 played all around the infield at at Triple A, made after Triple A's yr 362 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:57.640 Shay Whitcombe. He was my runner up and has a pretty interesting power speed 363 00:25:57.799 --> 00:26:03.480 blend. Thirty five homers this year twenty bags, not a terrible slash, 364 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:07.759 you know, to forty three hundred four to seventy this year. A lot 365 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:11.799 to like about that, but a lot of that was in the PCL and 366 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:15.720 so like, that's actually not that good of a line for the PCL B. 367 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:22.480 He strikes out a lot thirty percent on the year across the levels, 368 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:25.680 and so I was like, I just don't see it. He's not going 369 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:29.119 to put it together if that's his k rate, even with the power speed 370 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:33.279 blend, I don't think he quite The power isn't quite going to play over 371 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.440 that kind of a k rate at this point. So he either needs to 372 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:40.839 cut his k rate or really turn on the power. And I, after 373 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:42.960 watching him, I thought, probably not it, but still sort of an 374 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.240 interesting name to file away. The guy that ended up picking also has some 375 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:53.640 wartz and had a pretty weird line this year. He is Jackson Lofton. 376 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:59.839 He's an infielder and I think his moon moonlighted a little bit in the out 377 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:03.240 field too, played some center field, shortstop, third base, center field. 378 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:07.839 Because he's very fast. He swiped sixty bags this year. Again, 379 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:11.359 if you're looking at a deeper rot league or or a categories league where steals 380 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:15.960 play up, this is a name to keep an eye on. The rest 381 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.359 of his line was okay, eleven percent walks, not earth chattering, but 382 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:25.880 pretty good. And then twenty one percent strikeout rate at a ball primarily this 383 00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:29.200 year, maybe a touch high, especially considering he's not giving you a ton 384 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:32.960 in the power department, only nine homers over his four hundred and sixty seven 385 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:36.880 plate appearances this year. Part of watching him, you see, I saw 386 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:40.279 more there than I thought I was going to, I guess because he's got 387 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:45.599 the speed, the defense, of versatility, and his batting line was just 388 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:48.839 all over the place. He batted two thirteen for the year, but with 389 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.000 a three thirty on base percentage, so still getting on base a ton enough 390 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:56.599 to make the seals interesting. Had very very little power, still over one 391 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:02.200 hundred ISO points, so it's it's like it's not nothing. And you watch 392 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:06.960 him hit and while he's like six to two, kind of skinny, but 393 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.759 looks nothing like in al Tuve. I got some of those vibes when the 394 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:14.359 ball was on the inner part of the plate. He really did try and 395 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:18.519 rotate and get into the ball, but he would still spoil pitches away. 396 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.400 I think there that his line was sort of an underperformance this year. His 397 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:26.039 babbit was lower than you'd expect. Maybe next year we might see like a 398 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:30.240 three thirty three forty babbit with him playing in Ashville. I think the line's 399 00:28:30.279 --> 00:28:33.359 gonna look a lot better, and I think he's gonna keep stealing bases, 400 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:36.359 so he's he's mine. I think he's gonna get a little more helium next 401 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:38.359 year, and got maybe a bit unlucky this year, But I don't know. 402 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:41.759 He's a good little player. Right on. Nice, There you go 403 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:45.559 again, Matt learn of me some things about a player that I wasn't super 404 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.799 paying attention to. So there's a like I mentioned some outfielders I don't know 405 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:52.640 how much you watch or got into, like Zach Cole and Zach Daniels, 406 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:56.480 two guys are kind of interesting for me to strikeouts were just a bit much. 407 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.960 But like the Astros bats to me sort of see like their system or 408 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:06.319 guys that they sort of invest in, not super highly, but you know, 409 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:11.640 decent amounts strike me as being very technically sound or like these like sort 410 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:17.359 of like highbrow athletics, but athletic guys. But are they like really baseball 411 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:21.599 players. I have to go with with Miguel Palma, a catcher in their 412 00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:23.119 system, also played a little bit of first base. I think they're just 413 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:26.799 trying to get him some more at bats. One of the rare guys, 414 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:30.960 one of the rare selections of mine that are in the AFL this season. 415 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:37.240 He's not doing particularly well in the AFL hitting wise. I've been watching Palma 416 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:40.440 for a little bit now. There are a lot of I don't know, 417 00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:45.480 Nate handy ingredients here, not the whole puzzle, but definitely some pieces. 418 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:51.279 An aggressive hitter who doesn't chase very often. He has I think, very 419 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:55.880 fast hands, which serves him well both at the plate and defensively. He 420 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:57.920 did not hit a ton of home runs this year, and was at a 421 00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:03.200 park Asheville where there could definitely be more home runs. You only had seven 422 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.799 home runs this year. All that being said, I think there is still 423 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:11.279 power in this bat. Now I want to ask you some questions technical questions 424 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:14.480 about hitting Matt And I don't know if I can articulate this really well. 425 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:17.119 When I watch a hitter, like from like a side view, right, 426 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:21.240 one of the first things that I look at is the player's head. Is 427 00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:25.079 the head stained still? And I don't know necessarily where this all got into 428 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:27.039 my brain and my head, but I like guys look who look still. 429 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:30.680 The head doesn't move a lot. I think I played a little bit of 430 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:33.880 outfield. I think about chasing down fly balls, right, you keep your 431 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:37.759 head still, you keep your eyes still, it's easier to see the ball 432 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.000 track the ball. So I think that is part of it. But how 433 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.880 do you feel about guys who about hitters who are kind of moving forward forward 434 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:51.480 a lot in the box? Is that optimal not optimal? What do you 435 00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:56.359 think? I think you're right on that you want about as still ahead as 436 00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:02.559 you can get. Now, when you strive naturally, your head is going 437 00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:07.039 to move forward a little bit. I think the rough calculation is that your 438 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.839 head is going to move forward about half as as far as your stride goes. 439 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.559 So if you see guys with like a really big kick and they're moving 440 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.039 forward, their head is going to move forward some but for those guys, 441 00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:22.400 a lot of what I look for is the head dropping a lot, so 442 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:29.279 like is the bill of their helmet dropping from some fixed point above them or 443 00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:34.599 behind them, because going forward, your eyes can compensate with that reasonably well, 444 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:40.000 as long as it's sort of smooth and isn't too much. But it's 445 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:45.240 for me seeing a guy's head like drop as they're striding that is a sign 446 00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:49.160 maybe they aren't picking up the ball as well. And I don't know how 447 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:52.759 much public research there's been done on that, but it's certainly something that coach 448 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:57.559 has always told me about keeping your head relatively still, and it's sort of 449 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:02.359 the head whack that you talk about with pictures like that's sort of a head 450 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:06.759 back for hitters. Thank you, thank you for that. That's that's helpful 451 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:09.920 to Palma. So when you watch him from center field, the first thing 452 00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:13.079 that's let me back up a little bit, The first thing that kind of 453 00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:19.000 got my attention was his opposite field hitting on video. I think, like 454 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:23.079 you would say, putting the good kind of spin going opposite field also too. 455 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:27.720 In part of that, I think maybe even more so last year, 456 00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:30.160 But part of that too was just not catching up the fastballs right, hitting 457 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:34.559 them, hitting them a little late later than he really wanted to. But 458 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.759 he's the other He does damage going the other way, which is a trait 459 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:43.559 that I like. But from the center field view, I just mechanically he 460 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:46.400 very much struck me initially, but then when you watch him from the side, 461 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:51.400 he does sort of stride forward a lot, and I think in part 462 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:55.319 of what might be his lack of production right now as a hitter is I 463 00:32:55.319 --> 00:33:00.279 think he's been playing around with some like timing mechanisms a little bit, kind 464 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:04.079 of has this thing where he starts his foot to the outside, we'll step 465 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.119 back in and like toe tap a little bit, and I've seen that like 466 00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:10.799 alter some So I don't know. This is me just speculating from a couch, 467 00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:15.240 but there's a lot of skills here that I like, and I kind 468 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:22.119 of thought this season he was heating up before and figuring some things out before 469 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:23.960 the beginning of the year. Till June, before an injury struck, he 470 00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:29.119 was hitting three h nine, three sixty three on base with a for eighty 471 00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:32.079 nine slug five home runs. That was five of his what what do we 472 00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:36.480 say, seven home runs on the season, And I'll share a little bit 473 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:40.200 of video of him where you will see that there is there's definitely some pull 474 00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:45.720 side power in his in that compact frame and swing. He's a small cutcher, 475 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.039 he's only like five eight, and I believe that. But I think 476 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:53.200 defensively, and man, I think he's good. But dude, what prognostication 477 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:59.559 of how good a cutcher is defensively is? There's been some wild some wild 478 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:02.720 outcome and stories lately, don't you think, Matt? I mean, oh 479 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:07.559 yeah, it's tough. I mean we're living in a world right now where 480 00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:14.280 we're moreno is like a plus defensive catcher right and like Henry Davis is playing 481 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:17.119 in the outfield because you can't catch. I mean, you rewind a year 482 00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.239 ago. I don't think that was the tail or two years ago or whatever 483 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:25.079 it was. And I'm not knocking like any writers or anything like that. 484 00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:29.800 They're often just reporting on reports that they get. But figuring out if a 485 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:34.760 catcher's good defensively or not it seems quite tricky. But I do think I 486 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:37.559 do think Paul was pretty good. So long story short, I have been 487 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:45.039 and remained very interested in McGill Palmo's potential defensively and offensively as a catcher, 488 00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:47.239 and he's still very young, he's only twenty one years old. Yeah, 489 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:51.360 you'd mentioned that he can catch it a little bit, and I did catch 490 00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:54.599 some of him in the AFL and it looked solid to me. But like 491 00:34:54.639 --> 00:35:00.280 you said, it's pretty tough to tell that in the short kind of that 492 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.039 we get, and you really need to see progression over a whole season. 493 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:07.840 Yeah. No, it's an interesting, interesting pick. And folks will talk 494 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:12.280 about like you know, stolen bases against man in the minor leagues. I 495 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:16.119 don't think you can judge catchers by stolen bases against them. That is that 496 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:22.679 is pitcher is That is the I think the rubrick we used it was like 497 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.840 ninety percent on the pitcher. Yeah, we genuine like when we played we 498 00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:30.360 never cared who the catcher was. It just didn't matter. And we played 499 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.239 against some pretty darn good defensive catchers. It was all about who's the pitcher? 500 00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:37.360 How slow to the player are they? Yeah? Yes, does this 501 00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:39.960 team due to control the game? And yeah, it didn't really matter who 502 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:43.800 the catcher was. It was all about the pitcher. Yeah, that's why, 503 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.800 like like pop time stuff is like I get it, Like you know, 504 00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:49.519 you got a quick release, You're gonna get it there quicker and all 505 00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:52.960 that stuff. But there's so many other things that are more important than that, 506 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.719 And like what was what was Benito Santiago's pop time back in the day 507 00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:04.840 zero? Because it didn't pop, grew from the ground. But an AnyWho, 508 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.519 Yeah, Miguel Palmer is my choice, and I think that the reps 509 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:12.800 up the Astros right all right, Since you were just talking about a diminutive 510 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:17.119 catcher that has you a little excited, let me tell you about one of 511 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:23.400 my favorite players that I saw this year. This is Angels catcher Gustavo Campeo. 512 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:30.159 I love this little guy. He's a fire hydrant shaped catcher, you 513 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:35.159 know, not tall, but he looks like a little little athletic fire hydrant, 514 00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:37.960 and he is athletic. I thought he could catch pretty well, and 515 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.440 I watched a little bit of him behind the dish. It seems like he 516 00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:45.599 was a fine receiver and thrower. But he's a good athlete too. They've 517 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:49.320 played him in the outfield of Fairmount left field, right field, and it's 518 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:53.079 because he's a dynamo man. He is just a trip. I saw him 519 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:59.320 steel home in a game. I saw him delay steel second base, the 520 00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:01.320 ball gets away and he makes it to third. He I saw him take 521 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:05.159 the extra base again, Like, this is a catcher, and it was 522 00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.360 ground ball up the middle, straight to centerfielder and he is motoring as soon 523 00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:12.480 as that ball is hit and you see him he just just doesn't stop. 524 00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.920 I mean, that kind of stuff is just fun to watch, and especially 525 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:19.039 when you see it from this little catcher that you're like that you aren't really 526 00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.480 that athletic, but he has a ton of flare. Like the guy is 527 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:24.880 an absolute joy to watch. I watched one at bat. I think he 528 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:31.400 was in Eugene at this point in Campero goes basses loaded. It was maybe 529 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:35.639 the sixth inning something like that. He's just got a good eye. So 530 00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:37.800 the first couple of pitches were just off the plate, both balls, and 531 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:40.599 he took him, but he wasn't trying to be over aggressive about it. 532 00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:45.159 Then the third pitch was not close. Three to zero. Well. He 533 00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:50.079 then swings out of his ass six times in a row, foul ball, 534 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:52.960 foul ball, foul ball, foul ball, foul ball, six in a 535 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:58.480 row, and on the seventh strike he hits a grand slam. It was 536 00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:01.119 such a cool ad Bat and he loved it. Like the whole team went 537 00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:06.039 nuts. They were away obviously in Eugene, but the whole dugout was pumped 538 00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:09.920 for him, and he's he's just like an absolute bundle of joy. And 539 00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:14.519 I think he had a pretty good line too. Again, in the Angel 540 00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:17.960 system, I don't think there's a lot to like here. I have watched 541 00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:22.480 them pretty closely because they're one of my teams that I own in one of 542 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:24.480 these deep dynasty leagues, and so you get sort of preferential treatment over their 543 00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:29.440 minor leaguers in the in this league, and so I've paid pretty close attention 544 00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:31.840 to their minor leagues and it's mostly pretty bad. You know, Trade Cabbage, 545 00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:36.159 Michael Stephanick, Jordan Adams, Kiren Paris. Like all these guys have 546 00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:39.159 big problems of one kind or another. Joe and Dell, David Fletcher. 547 00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:43.199 It's like all these guys that either they can make a ton of contact and 548 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:46.280 have no power or speed at all, or they have a ton of power 549 00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:51.360 and speed and literally can't touch the ball. That's like the kinds of guys 550 00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:53.920 that the B side type guys. Anyway, in the Angel System, I 551 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:58.679 feel like a lot of their guys on that level are kind of like look 552 00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:05.119 good off the bush definitely estentically, and Campero is not like that at all. 553 00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:07.559 I mean, he's he's five to eight. Maybe I think they list 554 00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:12.519 him at like one seventy five or something, but he's he's a strong guy. 555 00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:15.079 I think he might have had some injury issues this year because he only 556 00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:19.119 got two hundred and forty five play appearances, and again he was playing some 557 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:23.360 outfield and infield two. But the line was good. Eighteen percent strikeout rate, 558 00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:28.800 not bad in the high A and he got a little taste of double 559 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:30.519 A at the end of the year. Nine point four percent walk rate, 560 00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:35.480 twelve homers, twenty steals. Like again, he's not a burner, but 561 00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:39.840 he is an aggressive base dealer. Four triples, nineteen doubles, slash of 562 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:45.360 three thirty four oh eight six thirty two. It's a pretty good line. 563 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:50.880 I wonder if some of this has been kind of him flying under the radar 564 00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:54.039 with injuries and being a catcher and the way he looks like you just don't 565 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:57.679 expect a lot out of him. But one of my favorite guys that I 566 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:00.760 watched in the miners this year, Nice put up a pretty impressive line like 567 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:05.960 that. Overall line altogether one seventy two WRT plus this year. Nice, 568 00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:08.199 I don't know. I think he might start the year at double A next 569 00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:13.400 year, and with how aggressive the Angels are, I wouldn't be surprised if 570 00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:15.599 he's up playing with Ohapi next year. You know, like Nice, they 571 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:20.280 would do something like that. Cool. I got somebody to watch Nice And 572 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:22.480 I don't know. We didn't discuss how we want to do this, Matt, 573 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:27.800 but my my official Angels bat selection this year is the first year players, 574 00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:30.480 so I think I'm gonna just save that for that episode. Is that? 575 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:34.079 Is that? Okay? Sure? Okay? And then we talked about 576 00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:38.800 my picture selection. Hamilton Mendez right talked about him last episode. Our history, 577 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:45.199 the Angels B side history has not been well. We got edgar Quero 578 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:50.239 that was that was a good one, but he got traded away. But 579 00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:54.239 did you watch any Yadiel Sanchez by chance that they got from the Phillies. 580 00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:59.480 He was a Phillies selection of mine a few years back. I just want 581 00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:01.760 to get him out of able. Let's see, he's been at a ball. 582 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:07.039 I know there's been injuries and the trade and he's a switch hitter, 583 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.039 and I think there's been some development for both of his swings. It makes 584 00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:14.840 good contact, he's super athletic. I think there's a little bit more pop 585 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:16.800 there than it's given credit for, but I think he's still just at like 586 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:22.159 zero percent. He probably would have very much just been if I was just 587 00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:27.960 letting incumbent incumbents stick around, I probably would have picked Sanchez again for them, 588 00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:31.239 a little old twenty two in a ball. It's like a touch old 589 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:35.440 for that level. And he had a good line, you know, a 590 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:37.079 little bit of power, a little bit of speed, didn't strike out much, 591 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:42.039 walked a bit like the kind of line that I generally am drawn to. 592 00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:45.119 But this was a situation where the age to level did turn me off 593 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:49.440 a little bit. And then watching him, like my notes on him were 594 00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:52.239 like, this is a this is who he is, Like, there isn't 595 00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:54.840 a ton of projection here at best, this is going to be an end 596 00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:59.800 of the bench utility guy. And it didn't look like he really was plusy 597 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:01.679 F and civilly and generally that's what you see out of that type of guy. 598 00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:05.719 So I was like, I kind of he had a solid year, 599 00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:07.239 but I talked myself out of it because I was just like, I don't 600 00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:12.400 see this progressing and can Perrow was so fun. So like I was saying, 601 00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.800 like he's another guy who's like man off the bus, like he kind 602 00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:20.000 of this looks the part here, but he's twenty two and he's standing next 603 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:23.880 to eighteen and nineteen year olds on that Inland Empire. Is that yeah, 604 00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:30.079 yeah, colleague team? Yeah, so you know, like he's like a 605 00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:35.320 college senior standing next to college freshmen, some of whom just came to This 606 00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:37.960 is their first full season ball in the States, So I don't know. 607 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.159 That was the other thing is like, Okay, you hit eleven homers and 608 00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:44.719 four forty plate appearances in the cow League, like it's a twenty two year 609 00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:46.599 old, Like yeah, I think that's what I was saying, Like he 610 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:51.000 seems kind of maxed out. So I said. The only thing I was 611 00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:53.639 saying was the only thing with Sanchez that I kind of want to give him 612 00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:57.679 a little bit of benefit of the doubter is there's just been a lot of 613 00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:00.360 injuries and some stuff. Wasn't like to keep him out for long, but 614 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.840 in a trade, I don't know, I just kind of want to say 615 00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:07.320 I'm giving him like one more year, so to speak, and then that's 616 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.440 fair and who knows, you know, like I'll probably see him live next 617 00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:16.320 year coming through the Northwest League. So I watched them, like Ben Ben 618 00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:20.400 Gobble. I liked some of his looks, just didn't feel like there was 619 00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:24.360 enough juice in the bat. Jorge Ruiz is a guy who was a young 620 00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:29.199 hitter who was getting talked about a little bit in the dugout. Eighteen nineteen 621 00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:32.440 year old who hit three h four whose season ended pretty early in July. 622 00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:37.199 He's not a real big guy. He hit three home runs all in July, 623 00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:42.000 and only one was was broadcast. Two were against your nuts there, 624 00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:45.599 Matt. I don't know if you knew that. But the one that was 625 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:50.880 broadcasted, I mean it was like a lefty golf one low and inside and 626 00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:53.559 it snuck over. So I don't know how much power there is in this 627 00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:57.840 young man's bat at this point, but you know he's a guy. He's 628 00:43:57.960 --> 00:44:01.559 two percent rostered. Luis Torres was a guy that I watched a little bit 629 00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:05.760 of a He got promoted to a ball in June, then sent back down 630 00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.079 a month after struggles, But I mean he was crushing it in the complex. 631 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:12.880 I didn't think that he looked like necessarily super overmatch or anything of that. 632 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:15.360 I just felt like you couldn't really buy a hit. But a big, 633 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:21.480 strong righty another first base sort of prospect a decent amount. Matt Kotney, 634 00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:25.400 a lefty has has has good power like to all fields, I think, 635 00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:30.320 just not really like spicy enough for me to attach myself to a to 636 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:36.000 a corner infielder at this point with him, I watched some Tucker Flint another 637 00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:38.880 corner outfield sort of first base type. Wasn't double a. I think he 638 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:43.360 flash flashed some stuff, but the k's were I don't know a little too 639 00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:46.360 much. Didn't want to attach myself to another like sort of first base type 640 00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:50.920 like that. But I don't know were there any other bats that you watched 641 00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:53.599 or thoughts on any of those. Yeah, to be honest, like I 642 00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:59.440 watched a bit of Ruiz and there might be something there. He is still 643 00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:05.159 just nineteen. I'm skeptical though. Decent contact skills, but I'm just skeptical 644 00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:08.360 of the swing, and I'm not a big fan of him. Okay, 645 00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:13.519 and then moving to the Angel's arms, like I said, I had Mendez, 646 00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:16.840 he's my official whatever choice, but I did have two other guys that 647 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:20.679 I wanted to touch on. I'll let you go first because I think I 648 00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:22.639 think you're gonna I think you're gonna select one of them. Okay, well 649 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:27.960 this one again, we talked about how deep the Astro's arms were. I 650 00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:30.760 did not think the same of the Angels, And in the past I've been 651 00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:35.320 interested in some of their arms, Like they've been pretty heavy in the their 652 00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:37.719 draft, going for college arms that could move pretty quickly, and I think 653 00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:40.599 they've had some success with that. We'll see how that pans out in the 654 00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:45.679 next couple of years. But I was not pumped on many of these arms. 655 00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:46.599 I think you're going to talk about one of the guys that I thought 656 00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:50.760 was sort of interesting. But the guy that I'm picking is Michael Darryl Hicks. 657 00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:53.679 The twenty five year old made up to double A this year. Solid 658 00:45:53.760 --> 00:46:00.159 line over all eighteen starts, three eight er one hundred and twenty four k 659 00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:04.320 is good for a twenty six point seven K rate, and the walks were 660 00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:08.239 fine at seven point five percent. Not bad, but watching him, especially 661 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:13.719 as he went up in his three starts at double A, he started giving 662 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:16.239 up more home runs and again it's a bit of a small sample, but 663 00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:19.920 I think he's gonna be a bit more of a flyball pitcher, and he 664 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.960 doesn't quite have the stuff to carry that. I don't think have a feeling 665 00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:29.000 he's gonna struggle over the next couple of years because he's got almost that flat 666 00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:32.119 approach angle, but it's more upper three quarters rather than that true kind of 667 00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:37.679 like side arms slinging four seam fastball. The two seam. It's like a 668 00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:39.280 two seam four seams. I think it might be a four seam, but 669 00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:44.039 just has a little bit more run. But it's not great. Again, 670 00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:47.800 he's a mid major guy college pitcher out of Jacksonville University. It's runs it 671 00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:52.039 up to ninety three, sits around ninety a lot the sliders, all right, 672 00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:55.679 he located that pretty well and it looked like it was low to mid 673 00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:59.800 eighties, you know, a little bit faster. Really only saw his change 674 00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:04.599 up versus lefties. So with a little bit of a roundown on the command. 675 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:07.840 I think the shape just based on the swings that he was getting. 676 00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:10.559 I think the shapes on his pitches are a little bit suboptimal, even though 677 00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:14.920 there was quite a bit to like of how he pitched it high A A 678 00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:17.840 few looks I got at double A and just the way his pitches came together, 679 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:22.119 I gotta say I'm less interested in him than literally every Astros arm that 680 00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:27.880 we talked about. But that's just sort of damning the Angels organization for their 681 00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:31.079 pitchers more than anything. He had a pretty good start against the Cubs Double 682 00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:35.480 A team that had it was stacked like it, you know, Matt shaw 683 00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:40.039 Ow and Casey Murray, junior, Kevin Alcantras. Yea. Was that his 684 00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:45.400 debut his Double A debut because he was he might have been. He was 685 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:49.039 good for like he would so it might not have been that one because he 686 00:47:49.079 --> 00:47:52.719 went like three and was good and then got roughed up in the fourth and 687 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:59.559 fifth. I think double yeah, sorry sorry, His Double A debut was 688 00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:04.199 versus your Mississippi Braves there, but he went five. Yeah, so this 689 00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:07.239 was this was a couple of starts after that. I think toruk out nine, 690 00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:10.920 yeah, gave him one. Yeah. Yeah. Darryl Hicks, I 691 00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:15.679 mean, pretty successful season. I mean he went from a ball to double 692 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:19.800 A. Not too shabby for an undrafted guy. Yeah, and he's zero 693 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:23.000 percent and I nobody is talking about him I don't think he was on the 694 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:25.920 any of the BA or granks. And again, this is not a good 695 00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:30.039 organization, but you could do worse than kind of putting a pin to follow 696 00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:34.360 him or put him on a watch list. See if the command tightens up 697 00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:37.440 a little bit, as he'll probably start again next year in double A, 698 00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:39.239 and and see if the case stick, you know, could be something there. 699 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:44.119 I really kind of wanted to get myself into a dwell Hurtado too, 700 00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:47.800 But alrighty, who's I don't know, maybe a little bit older, but 701 00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:51.400 I don't know, he still was only like twenty two years old. But 702 00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:55.840 alrighty from the Dominican who had had a couple of loud outings, like on 703 00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:01.800 August thirty at eleven K's one walk hit one guy versus your modesto Nuts, 704 00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:07.639 which was a very good lineup, but he ended up he lost that game 705 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:12.239 because Darren Bone was even better. That's a kick man, give up zero 706 00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:16.280 and runs and you lose. But a good size athletic fastball that gets up 707 00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:22.079 to like ninety six curveball and I think a slider. But to me it 708 00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:24.440 was just too much like, okay, this this plays well in a ball, 709 00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:28.280 but I don't have a lot of trust that you're going to execute that 710 00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:31.079 you're going to execute, And I maybe maybe this is wrong with me. 711 00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:35.320 If he was a little bit younger doing this at that level, maybe I'd 712 00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:37.840 have a little bit more faith. But I mean, yeah, you know, 713 00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.159 he just had those outings where he just couldn't get out of his own 714 00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:44.960 way, and that was that was more so the case than than these dominant 715 00:49:45.079 --> 00:49:49.400 performances. But you know, a little bit of an interesting younger guy too. 716 00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:52.760 Yeah, personally for pitchers, I care quite a bit less about age. 717 00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:55.559 You know, they pop at any time. I agree. I agree, 718 00:49:55.559 --> 00:49:59.480 they could be twenty five, and if they're doing something interesting in a 719 00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:02.400 ball it's still worth a follow. But I know what you mean, especially 720 00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:05.920 on the command side of things, like if it's taking you that long to 721 00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:07.800 figure it out, like it's probably not gonna come around. Yeah, like 722 00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:12.119 I mentioned last week, you know, I'd kind of like to put a 723 00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.159 cap on how much better it can get for you guys, and I'll just 724 00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:19.440 I'll have more hope for the younger you are that you because because I've seen 725 00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:23.199 it, I've seen the Dodgers help Maddox bron Snap be the worst picture I 726 00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:27.320 think I might have ever seen for a few innings and what have you. 727 00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:30.039 You know, the only guy for me in this in this system that I 728 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:36.320 looked at was Jorge Marcheko. I yeah, yeah, I think he's interesting. 729 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.440 He's again, he's twenty. He was on the A ball team two 730 00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.239 Inland Empire. He had a good line, struck out a decent number of 731 00:50:43.239 --> 00:50:45.239 batters one hundred and twenty four, twenty five point six percent k rate, 732 00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:49.480 five point four percent walk right, which is plus. That's good command. 733 00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:53.079 But you watch him and it's eighty eight to ninety one as a righty, 734 00:50:53.239 --> 00:50:58.719 like it didn't look like this was a plus spinning fastball. His change up 735 00:50:58.760 --> 00:51:00.760 was was pretty good. I thought I was just better of his secondaries, 736 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:04.400 but he lived around the zone. It kind of has a fun one that 737 00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:07.119 like the craft of pitching we talked a little bit about last week. He 738 00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:08.800 kind of has a little bit of Johnny Quato and him. He'll pause his 739 00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:13.880 delivery to try and throw off the hitter's timing or a quick pitch through his 740 00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:16.239 wind up, and that kind of stuff is fun to see. He's one 741 00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:22.199 that I'm going to put on some like a deeper league watch list because he's 742 00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:25.719 at two percent ownership now. Because he I think had a pretty good line, 743 00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:30.199 but I'm a little bit skeptical it's going to hold up. So he's 744 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:34.000 another one just keep an eye on. But I think the stuff for him 745 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:37.800 probably isn't isn't quite there. Yeah, that's a that's a good call. 746 00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:40.000 I had kind of forgotten about him. I'm glad you brought him up. 747 00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:45.599 There are sometimes there are even righties that are a little bit softer tossing. 748 00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:49.880 But you know, like you said, a good picture. I kind of 749 00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:52.239 right off be like, all right, I like this guy and I want 750 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:54.320 to watch him, but I don't think I'm really going to throw him out 751 00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:57.480 there as like a B side. But and then all of a sudden, 752 00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:01.039 you see a year or two later, and there's still like producing a double 753 00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:07.440 A at like a pretty high clip, like the Orioles guy A Pinto. 754 00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:08.760 He reminds me of that. I kind of was just like, oh, 755 00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:12.000 I really like this guy, but this is just gonna be a fan thing. 756 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.320 I don't think he's really gonna and I don't know. He kind of 757 00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:22.480 bruise your wrong a little bit. So all right, The A's man Matt 758 00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:25.039 Last year, and I don't want to say that it was like a disappointment. 759 00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:29.480 If we would have had a hitters draft, probably would have taken Brett 760 00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:32.320 Harris with my first pick. Last year, I really kind of thought the 761 00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:37.280 bat was getting juicier, more power. I had cited, I think last 762 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:42.480 year an interview that I heard with his manager and him talking about because he 763 00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:45.719 because he had went on this stretch where he hit he had a good amount 764 00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:47.800 of home runs, like I think it was like six weeks worth towards the 765 00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:51.880 second half of the season where he hit like just as many home runs as 766 00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:54.719 he did the rest of his pro career. The manager was talking about how 767 00:52:54.840 --> 00:53:00.280 he made no change to anything that he was doing at the plate. No, 768 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:02.119 you know, you talk about how it's really hard to make a change. 769 00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:05.519 So I'm like, all right, maybe this guy doesn't have to make 770 00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:07.639 a change, and he's just going to start hitting for some power and a 771 00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:13.199 pair of that with his you know, plus defense and a good hit tool 772 00:53:13.239 --> 00:53:16.079 and all that stuff. I thought Bred Harris might really kind of take off. 773 00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:20.920 But it turns out that the power might have just been the power production 774 00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:22.360 might have been a little bit of a tease. I won't say that he 775 00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:27.360 had a bad season, but it was just not as exciting as I had 776 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.800 thought. But he was my selection last year. There, Jordan Diaz has 777 00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:35.320 been a success here, I think, even though I'm still hoping on more 778 00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:38.519 there in the bigs. I don't know how you feel about Jordan Diaz, 779 00:53:38.880 --> 00:53:42.519 but kind of fits the bill of a lot of type of hitters that I 780 00:53:42.639 --> 00:53:45.480 like. Darryl Hernees. I know he came from the Orioles, but he's 781 00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:50.280 still in their system. I think he had a pretty good year, pretty 782 00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:53.800 f I think he's gotten a lot more popular. My picture selection last year 783 00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:58.679 was Jorge Wan. Excuse me, my picture selection was jorgey Wan. I 784 00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:01.199 had de ccited that he's probably a relief pitcher, and that he is, 785 00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:06.360 but he did not have a very good, very good season. Let's do 786 00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:08.719 let's do hitters first, and you know, I'll double tap. I think 787 00:54:08.760 --> 00:54:13.840 Brett Harris is still a guy that has interests, you know, like he 788 00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:17.360 wasn't great when he was at times this year, but that overall line, 789 00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:22.199 like he doesn't strike out, you know, fifteen percent, pretty good walks, 790 00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:25.760 a decent clip, has some speed. I think the power was maybe 791 00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:29.360 where you thought there might be a little bit more this year, you know, 792 00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:32.840 nine homers across four hundred and sixty one played appearances. Like, probably 793 00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:36.360 want a little more out of a guy that's going to play third base, 794 00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:38.000 But I don't know. I'm still kind of interested. I think that was 795 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:43.800 an underrated line, and especially in points leagues, Like I've got him on 796 00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:46.280 one of those deeper points league's teams, and I still think that there might 797 00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:51.239 be a regular there. So I'm not I'm not writing him off yet, 798 00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:54.360 really like he's had a big league chance coming. But just like I said, 799 00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:59.800 I really kind of thought the offensive profile was taking this an exciting step. 800 00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:01.719 Yeah, and maybe it's just this is a step back here for him 801 00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:06.360 and it comes to fruition, especially when the A's are playing in Vegas, 802 00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:10.719 you know. But I also really liked Diaz. I think he's another one 803 00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:15.519 that he didn't light the world on fire in the BIGS, But I still 804 00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:20.320 think is a pretty interesting hitter and has a fairmount in common with her Knyes. 805 00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:24.159 I think he's got there's there's some overlap in the skill set. They 806 00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:27.679 don't strike out very much, they hit a bunch of line drives. I 807 00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:30.400 think they're gonna hit for a high average and run into some doubles in a 808 00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.920 couple of homers. So I like both those guys, especially for leagues where 809 00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:37.400 any kind of K penalty, those are those are really interesting ones. And 810 00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:40.960 Diaz is still still very young. I think he's only twenty two, twenty 811 00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:44.440 three. I mean, do it, hitter who you got? Sure? 812 00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:50.480 This was a pretty easy B side selection for me because a lot of other 813 00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:52.519 options. I just to me, it was like found something. I was 814 00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:55.880 like, I don't this is not my guy, Like it's a corner profile 815 00:55:57.079 --> 00:56:00.639 and does something wrong or whatever, you know. So I actually was reasonably 816 00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:05.840 excited about this one, even though my first note on him was basically wins 817 00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:09.320 by default. But that's more because the rest of the B side guy's sort 818 00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:13.360 of B side eligible guys. I just like, there's not something here, 819 00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:17.199 but I'm going with Brennan Malone. Brennan Malone is a second baseman, made 820 00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:21.559 it up to high A this year, did play around the infield, played 821 00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:23.320 a little third, played a little first, has some decent pop. You 822 00:56:23.320 --> 00:56:27.480 know, it's not earth shattering, but seventeen homers on the year, fourteen 823 00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:30.880 point eight percent walks. I really like that I think that shows a plus 824 00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:37.079 approach and eighteen point nine percent strikeout rate, which is really good. You 825 00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:40.320 know, twenty two years old, he's at high A. Like maybe he 826 00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:44.119 could have been challenged a little bit more up to double A this year with 827 00:56:44.199 --> 00:56:47.800 how he how he did, but I think that the overall line was pretty 828 00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:52.800 good, and I think he's going to fit in a corner somewhere. He 829 00:56:52.840 --> 00:56:58.400 played shortstop in college, so he's got in field skills. Maybe the power 830 00:56:58.599 --> 00:57:02.239 doesn't quite have enough to make him play, but the rest of the all 831 00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:07.480 around skill set seems like it's there and it's real like having a decent enough 832 00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:10.400 contact approach. He hits a decent amount of line drives and a two eighty 833 00:57:10.440 --> 00:57:15.679 five three ninety eight four eighty eight triple slash is quite good. So Malone 834 00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:20.119 wins for me. Again, it's not the most exciting guy we're going to 835 00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:22.920 talk about, I think, but that profile was far and away my favorite 836 00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:27.400 of the B side eligible guys, and I like it he was. I 837 00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:31.039 could say he was firmly my runner up bat selection. A guy who gotten 838 00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:37.840 some DSL noise earlier in his career, Brian Blvis. I just I couldn't 839 00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:40.519 get into him, but I did watch a little bit. Colby Thomas, 840 00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:44.719 I think is a little bit interesting and you know, has some of some 841 00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:46.559 stands, but the swing of miss stuff was just too much for me. 842 00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:51.679 Johnny Butler is a guy that I watched a decent amount of. I like, 843 00:57:52.000 --> 00:57:55.599 not sure how much of a chance he really has. Junior Perez is 844 00:57:55.679 --> 00:58:00.760 kind of a speedy guy who's a little interesting, but was about it for 845 00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:05.519 me and I went with I decided to go with a Cooper Bowman who they 846 00:58:05.800 --> 00:58:08.960 who they got into Monta Frankie Montas trade from from the Yankees. What a 847 00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:13.440 twenty twenty one fourth round pick out of Louisville. Like I said, this 848 00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:17.320 is not my most exciting selection. But he's stole almost forty bags, right, 849 00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:22.079 I think. I think the combination of him being what contact skills, 850 00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:28.639 I think a higher level contact skill with the stolen bases could make him interesting 851 00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:32.440 in you know, particular formats. When I first started watching him this season, 852 00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:36.199 which which was shortened, right, he didn't get he missed a lot 853 00:58:36.199 --> 00:58:37.880 of time too, I think. But uh, the first thing I noticed 854 00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:43.400 was like, man, this guy is voweling a lot of pitches off and 855 00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:45.920 I don't think his strike rate strikeout rate was too horrible, like twenty one 856 00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:51.360 percent. But he does chase a lot, I think, and he chases 857 00:58:51.400 --> 00:58:52.400 a lot out of his own, but he gets the bat on it all 858 00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:55.039 the time. So I was like, man Doug a little bit. He 859 00:58:55.119 --> 00:59:00.039 saw a four point two two pitches per play it appearance in the Big Moved 860 00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:05.679 Dow MLB. There's there's only like nine guys who saw more pitches per played 861 00:59:05.679 --> 00:59:08.440 appearance than four point two two. Do you have any idea who who might 862 00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:13.320 be on that list? Oh? I love this game, let's see. 863 00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:15.960 So, yeah, he was. I came up with I came up with 864 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:21.320 a couple of guys who I think have low So I'm thinking like Soto, 865 00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:28.039 Matt Soto, Crawford, JP Crawford, Matt Crawford, Bregman, Matt Bregman. 866 00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:30.760 Okay, all right, those are the I was thinking like high OBP 867 00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:35.000 guys who maybe, like we were, you know, spitting on a lot 868 00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:37.880 of pitches. But so, and it's like four point two two to put 869 00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:43.239 it in perspective minor leaguers. And I did the math on everybody, but 870 00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:45.519 uh, I mean, he's still like sixty fifth in the minors. So 871 00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:50.519 it's not like some super super crazy number. But minor leaguers or excuse me, 872 00:59:50.599 --> 00:59:53.840 major leaguers who saw more pictures pitches than that per played appearance were Ryan 873 00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:58.559 McMahon, I sung, Kim McMahon led the majors. I think I had 874 00:59:58.599 --> 01:00:02.440 like four point nine or something like that. House on Kim, Max Munsey, 875 01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:09.000 Matt Olsen, Justin Turner, Jake Sawinsky, kl Schwarber, and Adley 876 01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:13.880 Rushman. Don't know that was this fun little thing I got curious about. 877 01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:16.760 But back to Bowman, three hundred and thirty four played appearances this year. 878 01:00:17.719 --> 01:00:21.679 All I think those were all in double A. He had a little rehab 879 01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:27.159 stint and complex whatever. He doesn't hit ground balls at an alarming rate. 880 01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:30.840 He's got some pool power. He hits what eight home runs, Like I 881 01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:35.519 said, he stole thirty eight bases. They had him playing second base, 882 01:00:35.559 --> 01:00:39.000 third base, shortstop in some center field. I think he is fast. 883 01:00:39.440 --> 01:00:45.280 I don't think he's like Berner Burner type guy. Drakeouts weren't too horrible. 884 01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:47.719 He walks a little bit. He does have a fast swing, and he's 885 01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:51.559 got a quick he's got quick hands. There's some stuff to like, and 886 01:00:51.599 --> 01:00:54.480 the more that I watched Bowman the more I kind of am getting more drawn 887 01:00:54.559 --> 01:00:58.679 in. I think he can put the bat on the ball. Talk about 888 01:00:58.679 --> 01:01:01.000 like having like a large hit radius if you will, or whatever. I 889 01:01:01.079 --> 01:01:06.320 think he has that sort of swing and he will swing it stuff out of 890 01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:08.719 his own and put it in play sometimes, but a lot of those just 891 01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:12.840 result in foul balls. So yeah, I don't know. This felt good 892 01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:16.280 enough, felt like my best option. So Cooper Bowman. Yeah, he's 893 01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:20.199 not a bad pick at all, especially looking at a rodal league. I 894 01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:23.599 mean, thirty eight bags in three hundred and some plate appearances is a pretty 895 01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:27.760 solid rate, and it's not like he's a zero on the power side of 896 01:01:27.800 --> 01:01:30.519 things. Now. He's a solid pick. And he came back from July 897 01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:36.440 seventh to September sixteenth, one hundred and eighty played appearances. He slashed two 898 01:01:36.519 --> 01:01:40.559 ninety nine to three seventy three selected four to eighty one strikeouts, were thirty 899 01:01:40.599 --> 01:01:45.800 six strikeouts in thirty eight games, So probably still pretty much on par with 900 01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:47.400 his strikeout rate. But yeah, I don't know. In that system. 901 01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:52.360 I feel good about him getting a major league chance, too, especially since 902 01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:55.719 they traded for him, and I give those guys and I imagine the GMS 903 01:01:55.840 --> 01:02:00.639 kind of give those guys a little bit more benefit of doubt and a little 904 01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:04.440 bit more leeway. But I don't know, maybe that's that's a poor assumption. 905 01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:07.559 I think it can go either way. I think sometimes they come in 906 01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:10.800 the new organization realizes like, oh shit, we traded for a bit of 907 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:15.199 a lemon. That's why that were willing to include this guy in the trade. 908 01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:17.840 But sometimes they are like, let's see, let's see how they they 909 01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:23.000 run and yeah, okay, so a's pictures ont of b side names in 910 01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:28.360 here. Yeah, they kind of Surprisingly, there were more interesting guys than 911 01:02:28.559 --> 01:02:31.320 than I was expecting. I'll let you go first, who'd you come up 912 01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:37.800 with? I was just I was just given some hat tips to previous besiders, 913 01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:40.719 like Joey Sis your guy. I think I've told you before that I 914 01:02:40.719 --> 01:02:45.400 think it was for pictureless. Maybe you wrote that really long, detailed top 915 01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:50.599 one hundred pictures and you stuffed es like nobody nobody was talking about him, 916 01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:52.920 and I think you put him like twenty first or something on that list and 917 01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:57.599 sold me on him, like I took him in one of my late pick 918 01:02:57.679 --> 01:03:00.880 in one of my deeper leagues, and I was a little bummed about how 919 01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:04.559 this this year turned out. He's still young. I feel like he's still 920 01:03:04.599 --> 01:03:07.159 got time to figure stuff out. But he's a he's a B side. 921 01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:14.920 I think achievement. Were you bummed by his major league a start or yeah, 922 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:16.559 or just as a whole, no, because I think he still was 923 01:03:16.599 --> 01:03:21.519 decent in the in the minors, but I think he they really have sort 924 01:03:21.519 --> 01:03:24.119 of thrust him into the majors and maybe he's not quite ready for it. 925 01:03:24.159 --> 01:03:27.880 I don't know. The problem is, I'm I'm just like a fan of 926 01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:30.800 the guy too, so I have to be a little careful with this stuff. 927 01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:34.519 But he's He's the kind of guy with the cherries that I think is 928 01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:37.199 just he's going to figure this out. He's going to figure out how that 929 01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:40.639 fastball plays and how he can play his off speed out. I don't know. 930 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:45.159 I have faith. I have faith that Joey ess is going to be 931 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:49.360 a good a good fantasy pitcher at some point here. I think it might 932 01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:52.599 take a little bit of time, but he checks so many of the boxes 933 01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:55.960 that I love, being aggressive, pitching in the zone, honing in on 934 01:03:57.000 --> 01:04:00.800 your craft, playing with different pictures, being a different guy from outing to 935 01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:05.400 outing, and this is a guy who wasn't like some highbrow pitching prospect as 936 01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:09.639 an amateur, he was he was mostly like a catcher in high school and 937 01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:14.360 they and the Braves started him out, and I just I love his mentality 938 01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:18.559 and I think he has good enough weapons that it's all gonna bake well. 939 01:04:18.679 --> 01:04:24.000 But yeah, maybe I think he's one that the looking looking at the line. 940 01:04:24.079 --> 01:04:28.400 This year, the home runs just got they went from not great to 941 01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:32.440 incredibly bad to in in the majors. Like whatever, you can throw it 942 01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:35.960 out the window, but three point six homers per nine is a lot of 943 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:42.000 horse. Yeah, for sure. That sort of profile, I think you 944 01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:45.679 run into that. And if he's going to be aggressive in the zone he's 945 01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:50.760 got and yeah, he's got to be precise. And someone was being in 946 01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:56.679 the PCL and I gave up what four home runs his first debut or whatever. 947 01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.360 But yeah, guy who like maybe you don't especially like smaller leagues and 948 01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:02.960 stuff like maybe maybe you don't have to be on him, but just like 949 01:05:03.079 --> 01:05:05.800 keep him on your watch list, like give him a year, maybe maybe 950 01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:11.199 two. Being I'm married, I'm married to Joe, Yes, Joeys, 951 01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:14.960 is there a man. Another of the pictures that came over and that in 952 01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:18.840 that same trade. I was really interested in Robert Selenas too when he was 953 01:05:18.840 --> 01:05:23.159 with the Braves. I mean, he was just punching everybody out and clearly 954 01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:27.519 the command wasn't there and and has sort of remained not there, and the 955 01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:31.480 strikeouts have come down to like more very good as opposed to insanely elite rates. 956 01:05:31.519 --> 01:05:35.559 So he's another one that I looked at and I've kept tabs on. 957 01:05:35.719 --> 01:05:40.039 But like you've heard, we talked about how I love pitchers. Throwing a 958 01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:44.440 lot of innings like that tells me that they are efficient, that the ORG 959 01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:46.880 believes in them as a starter, that they can get through the lineup multiple 960 01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:50.519 times. That has never been Selena since I don't think ever going to be 961 01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:54.440 Selenas. I just this year cemented for me, he's going to be a 962 01:05:54.519 --> 01:05:57.159 reliever. You know, still punched out thirty percent of batters, made it 963 01:05:57.239 --> 01:06:00.320 up to double A's twenty two. His slider remained really good, but I 964 01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:04.400 just don't see it working for him as anything but a reliever. He's a 965 01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:09.119 type that scared me and that I try to stay away from, in the 966 01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:13.480 sense that someone with like a really loud secondary it could be a breaking ball, 967 01:06:13.519 --> 01:06:16.800 it could be a change up in the lowers can really dominate just throwing 968 01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:20.920 that ball, throwing that offering loosely. It's still like a rare case that 969 01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:26.400 somebody like him is that good, that productive doing that. Don't get me 970 01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:30.280 wrong, dynasty k appeal is a git, but those are the guys that 971 01:06:31.480 --> 01:06:35.280 I'm scared of. I try to shy away. Not that it can't work. 972 01:06:35.440 --> 01:06:41.760 There's been plenty of success stories of those types. It is rare, 973 01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:45.039 though. I mean I ran a small study on this earlier in the season 974 01:06:45.079 --> 01:06:50.000 when people were getting hyped about another now A's arm, Joe Boyle where when 975 01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:55.599 he's in the red system, like he was running twelve thirteen percent walk rates 976 01:06:55.599 --> 01:06:58.440 at every stop, and yeah, he's punching a ton of batters out too. 977 01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:02.119 But I looked back at who are the pitchers that have had success with 978 01:07:02.199 --> 01:07:06.400 running multiple walk rates above I think I did twelve percent, and it was 979 01:07:06.519 --> 01:07:13.280 like one or two names that were even fantasy relevant arms, and it was 980 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:16.519 only after they'd gotten their walks under control. And Selenas is above that and 981 01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:20.599 has been at basically every stop he's ever had, So he's one that I 982 01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:25.159 don't think he's got it. You know, he showed some stuff at Double 983 01:07:25.159 --> 01:07:29.360 A, and maybe he'll keep bringing the walks down. But it's not It 984 01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:32.840 doesn't happen that often. Did you pick somebody? I don't remember. I 985 01:07:32.880 --> 01:07:35.079 didn't. I didn't. I was talking about some of the guys that i'd 986 01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:40.239 considered and given. Some had tipsto old B siders. I'm going with James 987 01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:45.679 Gonzales here. He's a Panamanian undrafted free agent. I don't think he was 988 01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:50.119 even in their international class. He was just an international free agent in twenty 989 01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:54.400 eighteen, I want to say so. He's been in the Oakland system for 990 01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:58.000 a while, kind of flown under the radar, a couple of seasons of 991 01:07:58.039 --> 01:08:02.199 mediocrity. Obviously lost twenty two. Then has been a little bit more interesting 992 01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:09.159 in the last two years, where his strikeouts have ticked up. He continues 993 01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:14.440 to get some decent ground ball numbers, and he's maintained for the most part, 994 01:08:14.760 --> 01:08:19.560 the walks. He's a hefty boy. He's listed at six two two 995 01:08:19.720 --> 01:08:25.479 fifty seven over going to take the over on that. He is a big, 996 01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:30.800 big guy. As I said, Lefty Gonzalez attacks with the upper eighty. 997 01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:32.359 It's a low nineties. It looks like a sinker, you know. 998 01:08:32.399 --> 01:08:35.920 He's kind of got a little bit higher arm slot, but I think he's 999 01:08:35.920 --> 01:08:40.359 trying to sink his fastball most of the time. But he's got a good 1000 01:08:40.479 --> 01:08:45.640 slider, a curveball, and a changeup that he mixes in. The slider 1001 01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:48.279 in particular, I thought was pretty effective, kind of eighty to eighty three 1002 01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:53.560 kind of sweeper, classic sort of sweeper across the zone, and then the 1003 01:08:54.239 --> 01:08:59.199 changeup worked pretty well, mostly against Rity's but he did. I notched a 1004 01:08:59.239 --> 01:09:04.199 couple in that were in the low eighties to lefties as well. He's around 1005 01:09:04.239 --> 01:09:10.560 the zone reasonably well. He walked more than I thought when he got up 1006 01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:13.359 to High A this year, because I've seen a couple of the starts down 1007 01:09:13.439 --> 01:09:15.359 at a ball and I thought, oh, this is a pretty interesting arm. 1008 01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:19.840 But the walks ticked up to about thirteen percent at High A, which 1009 01:09:19.880 --> 01:09:24.439 is higher than I like, for sure. But he kept striking guys out 1010 01:09:24.520 --> 01:09:27.760 and his strackout rate actually went up as well. And it really was just 1011 01:09:27.760 --> 01:09:30.640 four games at High A, so we're just scratching the surface. And his 1012 01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:34.680 fip was still great because with everything is going down, like you know, 1013 01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:40.560 the little bit higher armslot a sinker from there, the slider, the curveball, 1014 01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:44.760 the change up, like all of everything is going down. So he 1015 01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:47.199 didn't give up very many home runs this year. A little bit higher babbitb 1016 01:09:47.239 --> 01:09:49.920 what you would expect from a number of round balls. I think he's going 1017 01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:55.039 to keep them all on the ground. I think even as a big guy, 1018 01:09:55.359 --> 01:10:00.159 he still has a decent body control. So I'm going to round up 1019 01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:02.399 up on his command a little bit. It hasn't shown out great so far, 1020 01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:06.359 but I liked him, you know, I think he's He's interesting enough 1021 01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:12.000 to follow. He's not someone I'm gonna go out and pounce on in any 1022 01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:15.920 off season draft, but I'm curious to see how he does. He'll probably 1023 01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:18.760 go back to HI and I wouldn't be surprised to see him up in Double 1024 01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:21.800 A next year, and it'll be a test to see if that command stays 1025 01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:26.119 where it's been. But pretty pretty good little line so far. I like 1026 01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:29.439 it. He was. He was definitely one of my four finalists in the 1027 01:10:29.439 --> 01:10:32.159 A system. And I think Matt this this might be the first not yet 1028 01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:36.319 creative guy in fantracks that that you kind of officially put out. I think 1029 01:10:36.359 --> 01:10:39.960 that's right. Yeah, he's not in fan tracks. Yeah he's in n 1030 01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:45.159 A welcome. That's always kind of fun. That one I kind of wrote 1031 01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:48.039 down that, you know, yeah, he's over top left D Definitely, 1032 01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:51.199 I'm definitely taking the over on the weight. I think overall, I was 1033 01:10:51.239 --> 01:10:55.960 just wondering about the arsenal kind of holding up and having enough enough teeth. 1034 01:10:56.079 --> 01:10:59.800 I think he's fairly soft tossing right, but I think there there are some 1035 01:11:00.119 --> 01:11:02.960 ingredients to like there. With Gonzalez, there was two other guys that I 1036 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:05.479 wanted to kind of bring up. I don't know if you watched them at 1037 01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:09.680 all, but Brady Basso, did you watch any of him? I didn't, 1038 01:11:09.880 --> 01:11:14.520 but yeah, no, I saw decent line. I think I ended 1039 01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:18.960 up rounding down on him because A the Is were the very last system that 1040 01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:23.880 I did, so I was like trying to just choose between a couple and 1041 01:11:23.920 --> 01:11:28.319 be the sixty three innings. I was like a bunch of short outings. 1042 01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:31.199 Seventeen start, sixty three innings. It's like that's a start, you know. 1043 01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:34.079 So, I don't remember what other picture it was that I was watching. 1044 01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:36.720 Maybe, oh, I think it was a Mazer start. Basa was 1045 01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:40.159 on the other side, and you know, kind of out pitched him. 1046 01:11:40.319 --> 01:11:43.640 And Maddy ba backpack had asked me, what did he look like? I'm 1047 01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:45.079 like, I gotta pay more attention. I don't know. But he was 1048 01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:49.239 a twenty nineteen sixteenth round pick out of Oklahoma State. I think this year 1049 01:11:49.279 --> 01:11:53.479 is just finally healthy. There was Tommy John in there and all that stuff, 1050 01:11:53.600 --> 01:11:56.880 and I can't really argue against his production. It was pretty great in 1051 01:11:57.000 --> 01:12:00.159 double A. I mean his er was one point eight nine point eight nine 1052 01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:04.560 whip and I think it was five starts in double A he struck out nine 1053 01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:09.520 k P nine at one point eight nine walk for nine. Yeah, and 1054 01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:13.319 then so he's older, he's like twenty six now. But I think this 1055 01:12:13.359 --> 01:12:16.640 is this is very much a solid B side sort of arm to watch for 1056 01:12:16.680 --> 01:12:21.239 it, but I didn't quite pick him. Jacob Waters Waters is another interesting 1057 01:12:21.279 --> 01:12:25.920 guy, good sized, righty at six four, with stuff, lots of 1058 01:12:25.960 --> 01:12:29.520 stuff, but the command really really relaxed and kind of sunk him for me, 1059 01:12:29.600 --> 01:12:32.479 with a big fastball that gets into the high nineties, big time curveball. 1060 01:12:32.920 --> 01:12:35.199 If you kind of wanted the game our game here, I think he 1061 01:12:35.239 --> 01:12:39.239 would have been a really great choice because if he starts racking up a bunch 1062 01:12:39.279 --> 01:12:42.399 of k's, which is I think he's super capable of, especially if he's 1063 01:12:42.439 --> 01:12:45.000 in double A. You can see the popularity getting there. It's more like 1064 01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:49.079 a one night stand kind of a kind of a relationship to me than really 1065 01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:53.199 kind of wanting to But but keep an eye, keep an eye on that 1066 01:12:53.279 --> 01:12:58.479 dude. He's he's super interesting. My official little stamp here, I'm gonna 1067 01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:03.000 go with a big, young lefty by the name of Eduardo rivera big lefty. 1068 01:13:03.079 --> 01:13:08.479 He's listed at six seven, two thirty seven. We're talking about finding 1069 01:13:08.479 --> 01:13:12.279 guys that check all your boxes. He does not check all of my boxes. 1070 01:13:12.319 --> 01:13:16.760 He is not a pitcher. Okay, he is not executing things at 1071 01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:19.880 a very high level at all. But I also don't think he's like this 1072 01:13:20.119 --> 01:13:25.960 wild guy right getting his offerings around the plates is kind of good for him 1073 01:13:26.039 --> 01:13:30.319 right now. But the fastball gets up to ninety six ninety seven, I 1074 01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:34.720 think there's some nice natural cut from a lefty angle that I think is a 1075 01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:40.840 bit different. I don't particularly like his whole motion and get up. It 1076 01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:45.319 does not instill in me a confidence that command will get really great. But 1077 01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:49.520 you know, still young and guys that like that have proven me wrong before 1078 01:13:49.520 --> 01:13:53.720 in the past. There's a slider, there's a change up in there now. 1079 01:13:53.800 --> 01:13:57.680 He is a little headwhacky, which I absolutely do not love. I 1080 01:13:57.720 --> 01:14:00.800 don't like headwhackers. Definitely needs a wrangle things in. This is a bit 1081 01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:04.800 of a project. I think there is a little bit of a foundation still. 1082 01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:08.720 I think I think he's more athletic than he might appear. I've seen 1083 01:14:08.800 --> 01:14:11.760 him have to go run and back up bases and stuff like that, and 1084 01:14:12.079 --> 01:14:15.600 he moves pretty well for a guy this size. Like I said, definitely 1085 01:14:15.640 --> 01:14:17.840 not the rawss guy I've ever seen. But he's a big body with some 1086 01:14:17.960 --> 01:14:23.399 hard stuff, a repertoire that I think can get really nasty, and he 1087 01:14:23.640 --> 01:14:26.760 just might be putting some things together. Let's see. On the season, 1088 01:14:26.840 --> 01:14:30.680 it was all all single a stuff. He had sixteen games, twelve stars, 1089 01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:35.439 sixty nine innings nice nice about four point four and a third inning on 1090 01:14:35.560 --> 01:14:41.640 average. The era is not grade five point three five. The whip is 1091 01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:45.279 high, but he did strike out nine point seven eight per nine. The 1092 01:14:45.319 --> 01:14:49.680 walks were up there to almost six, which is not good. Strike percentage 1093 01:14:50.359 --> 01:14:55.239 fifty nine percent not good. But like I said, if there is a 1094 01:14:55.319 --> 01:15:00.640 little bit more polish. I think the stuff is loud enough to the kind 1095 01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:04.359 of rack up some case be young in hi A, maybe even double A, 1096 01:15:05.239 --> 01:15:09.880 and there's there's definitely a body that that could lead to some horsepower. 1097 01:15:10.000 --> 01:15:14.199 So this eleventh round pick out of Puerto Rico in twenty twenty one, I 1098 01:15:14.199 --> 01:15:16.560 think was very much a project pick. There's been some progress, I think, 1099 01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:18.720 but it is. And that's what you know, people talk about like 1100 01:15:18.760 --> 01:15:23.800 pitching development. A lot of times that conversation is focused on, Hey, 1101 01:15:23.800 --> 01:15:26.079 you know they took this guy in the first round, this guy in the 1102 01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:28.960 second round, and you know, turn them into this whatever to me, 1103 01:15:29.399 --> 01:15:33.000 and maybe I'm just off my rocker, but it's these types of arms that 1104 01:15:33.079 --> 01:15:39.640 I want to judge pitching development on. Right your Mitzlerowski's you're Maddox Bruns, 1105 01:15:39.720 --> 01:15:43.199 you're you know these guys that are just extremely raw. Well, how good 1106 01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:45.680 do they get these guys, because that's how I want to judge how well 1107 01:15:45.720 --> 01:15:49.479 they can develop a picture or not. But anywhoy, Eduardo Rivera, I 1108 01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:54.079 don't know that's my pick. What do you think, Matt? The walks 1109 01:15:54.119 --> 01:15:57.640 scare me. That's That's what I'm saying. But I do think you know, 1110 01:15:57.680 --> 01:16:01.479 a big body guy like that's really like wild wild right there are there 1111 01:16:01.479 --> 01:16:06.800 an't like super bad, you know, uncompetitive non professional offerings. It's just 1112 01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:11.680 yeah, he's he can't throw strikes at a high rate at this juncture. 1113 01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:15.319 Yeah, and you know he's a big guy. He's still relatively young, 1114 01:16:15.399 --> 01:16:17.720 you know, twenty and twenty years old, and a ball is totally normal, 1115 01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:21.760 like progression. He was still a teenager. Points a lot of this 1116 01:16:21.800 --> 01:16:25.960 here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I think that's it's an 1117 01:16:25.960 --> 01:16:30.039 interesting pick. And I think your point about the development is a good one. 1118 01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:34.439 And it is watching guys like this to see maybe is there a coach 1119 01:16:34.439 --> 01:16:39.640 there that's doing something different. Is there an approach that they're having some success 1120 01:16:40.039 --> 01:16:45.119 turning stuff into pitching, which I think you and I both find very interesting. 1121 01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:47.960 Shy away from just stuff for stuff's sake, but it starts to turn 1122 01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:50.039 into a picture. It's kind of like what I was saying about Joe Rock 1123 01:16:50.159 --> 01:16:54.319 last week, Like he's a guy that reminds me of that kind of profile 1124 01:16:54.359 --> 01:16:58.399 where he walks too many. He's six seven, all limbs. The stuff 1125 01:16:58.520 --> 01:17:02.640 is pretty darn interesting, but right he walks everybody if he gets out under 1126 01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:06.520 control, you got a guy. Yeah, because if you look at his 1127 01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:11.920 game logs, there are there are some outings where that are very interested in 1128 01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:15.159 me, but I have not been able to watch them because they weren't broadcasts. 1129 01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.039 Right, Like Rancho, he goes seven innings, he gives up three 1130 01:17:18.119 --> 01:17:24.680 heads, he walks three strikes out five strike percentages at like sixty percent, 1131 01:17:24.760 --> 01:17:27.399 Like I want to see what that looks like. I felt like he did 1132 01:17:27.439 --> 01:17:30.680 have some outings towards the end of the season, like in August that were 1133 01:17:30.720 --> 01:17:35.239 definitely I thought improved from earlier outings as far as just like strike throwing. 1134 01:17:35.359 --> 01:17:39.399 I'm not going to pick like a raw guy like this unless I see some 1135 01:17:39.520 --> 01:17:42.920 improvement as the season goes on. So I thought there was a little bit 1136 01:17:43.000 --> 01:17:46.399 You're not trying to row dog it yet, you know, all right, 1137 01:17:46.439 --> 01:17:53.319 Matt, let's go to like really a horrible b side hunting ground your Mariners. 1138 01:17:53.640 --> 01:17:58.479 You know, it's just so hard because every Mariners prospect with a lick 1139 01:17:58.920 --> 01:18:01.319 of talent just seems to gather some fans, don't you think. I Mean 1140 01:18:01.439 --> 01:18:06.119 it's like, look at this guy down in the DSL. He's got five 1141 01:18:06.199 --> 01:18:12.119 plate appearances and his name's Julio his name's Julio Man and uh, I think 1142 01:18:12.159 --> 01:18:14.800 he's shown some stuff. You hit the ball really hard, like, oh, 1143 01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:17.359 he's owned at like at least one percent. Right, Yeah, I 1144 01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:23.359 know you're trolling a little bit with this, but the Mariners' minor league hype 1145 01:18:23.399 --> 01:18:28.000 system is real. They're so good at hyping up their young guys and that 1146 01:18:28.199 --> 01:18:31.439 it is a difficult hunting ground. And I actually did consider going on the 1147 01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:34.399 first year players side just to talk about they had a pretty good draft this 1148 01:18:34.479 --> 01:18:38.720 last year, I think, and talking of some of the maybe the lesser 1149 01:18:38.800 --> 01:18:42.800 known part of that pretty impressive draft class they got. Yeah, you're right, 1150 01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:47.039 like they are well talked about in fantasy circles and especially in the Dynasty 1151 01:18:47.119 --> 01:18:50.319 dugout. You know we got we got a few Mariners stands in there making 1152 01:18:50.359 --> 01:18:55.680 sure everybody knows about every bottom that Lazara Monte's hits um jesting here, but 1153 01:18:56.000 --> 01:19:00.520 deservedly so. They do have a lot of talented players. But beside history 1154 01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:03.479 here, how do you feel about these two bats here? Any thoughts on 1155 01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:10.039 Robert Prez Junior or Spencer Packard. I think they've both been fairly decent B 1156 01:19:10.199 --> 01:19:15.920 side selections in the past year, but maybe not quite. Yeah, I 1157 01:19:15.079 --> 01:19:20.319 liked Perez a bit more than Packard coming into the year. I think I 1158 01:19:20.399 --> 01:19:26.199 had one league where I had Perez for a good bit, like maybe the 1159 01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:29.680 first half, first three quarters of the year, and he showed some stuff. 1160 01:19:29.720 --> 01:19:32.319 He hit for some power, but the strikeouts kept ticking up and up 1161 01:19:32.359 --> 01:19:36.760 and up, and yeah, eventually I didn't really think that was gonna come 1162 01:19:36.880 --> 01:19:43.439 like that. I really didn't, and the power didn't quite show. I 1163 01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:45.720 thought he was gonna have a little bit more. I mean, you see 1164 01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:48.119 him, he's a super strong guy. I actually like his swing a decent 1165 01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:50.720 amount, right, I thought he was going to get to more of that 1166 01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:54.800 power. So he was a bit disappointing to me. But Packard, I 1167 01:19:54.840 --> 01:19:57.560 do think, had a pretty good year again, kind of flies under the 1168 01:19:57.560 --> 01:20:00.359 red arby, doesn't steal bases really, but his plate approach is like an 1169 01:20:00.840 --> 01:20:04.239 here's an old college guy. So yeah, I mean he's twenty five at 1170 01:20:04.239 --> 01:20:09.680 double A, like that's not crazy, but he's I think he's like in 1171 01:20:09.680 --> 01:20:14.079 that Mariners vein that they've really been preaching for their hitters and then their pictures 1172 01:20:14.119 --> 01:20:16.039 too. But the sort of I forget what they say. It's like dominate 1173 01:20:16.079 --> 01:20:19.119 the zone or something, and he's one of those guys like he walks, 1174 01:20:19.279 --> 01:20:23.560 he doesn't strike out very much. He's very much focused on the plate approach 1175 01:20:23.560 --> 01:20:27.840 side of things, and that's a quieter skill set that sometimes goes under the 1176 01:20:27.880 --> 01:20:30.560 right ar and fantasy. So Packard I think ended up being a better pick 1177 01:20:30.600 --> 01:20:32.880 up the two. Though I liked pres more coming into the year, so 1178 01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:36.680 Packard was a good one. Yeah, I think Packard's got a pretty decent 1179 01:20:36.680 --> 01:20:42.159 shot here, at least a try as like a platoon bat. Jerry Depoto 1180 01:20:42.239 --> 01:20:45.079 loves his platoon bats, you know, like half that lineup, even after 1181 01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:48.800 the core that is in there, he's going to have half the platoon bat. 1182 01:20:48.920 --> 01:20:55.520 I am not totally done with Robert Prez Junior though there's too much good 1183 01:20:55.600 --> 01:21:00.760 hitting, good approach match with potential big power for me to quite quit on 1184 01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:03.520 at twenty three years old. You know, sometimes those guys, those big 1185 01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:09.239 power bats, they can take a little while to grow. For the Mariners 1186 01:21:09.439 --> 01:21:14.000 hitters, I wanted to go Albert jo Rodriguez because he was the guy that 1187 01:21:14.039 --> 01:21:15.560 I liked a couple of years ago. I think it was after his twenty 1188 01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:19.720 one season that I was like, oh, this is an interesting power approach 1189 01:21:19.800 --> 01:21:24.520 blend, maybe a little bit of speed, but just kind of an interesting 1190 01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:29.039 all around bat. And then he was pretty bad last year and rumblings from 1191 01:21:29.039 --> 01:21:30.960 within the org that they were really down on him. They were like, 1192 01:21:31.199 --> 01:21:35.119 he doesn't care. He's not working at all at this so sometimes you take 1193 01:21:35.159 --> 01:21:39.399 those reports with a little bit of grain of salt. It was not a 1194 01:21:39.439 --> 01:21:43.720 good showing, but he bounced back up with this year. He's like Julio's 1195 01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:46.279 wing man, right, have they been best Yeah? Like little kids or 1196 01:21:46.319 --> 01:21:51.159 whatever. Yeah, And then he bounced back a decent amount this year and 1197 01:21:51.159 --> 01:21:54.239 still wasn't getting talked about a lot. So it's like, oh, maybe 1198 01:21:54.239 --> 01:21:57.680 I'll reach a bit because I think he's up at like four percent ownership or 1199 01:21:57.720 --> 01:22:00.039 something, so a little higher than I wanted to go for the real B 1200 01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:04.800 side selections, but I just wanted to give him some props for turning his 1201 01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:09.760 career around, honestly, like he was I heard like I'm out ready to 1202 01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:13.239 just cut bait, like they were gonna just leave him in hy A and 1203 01:22:13.279 --> 01:22:15.319 they weren't going to promote him, and they were like, you gotta figure 1204 01:22:15.359 --> 01:22:16.680 this out, and he did it a bit this year, So props to 1205 01:22:16.760 --> 01:22:19.960 him. He ended up having a pretty solid season. Did he did? 1206 01:22:19.960 --> 01:22:24.479 I was kind of surprised when I was looking at his numbers. My Mariner's 1207 01:22:24.520 --> 01:22:28.359 bat for this season, I'm going to go with their twenty twenty two sixth 1208 01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:30.960 round pick out of North Carolina State, drash Hood, who I know. 1209 01:22:31.039 --> 01:22:34.159 I mentioned to you a little bit. I don't think you're the biggest fan. 1210 01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:36.119 Man. I don't want to put too many words in your mouth. 1211 01:22:36.319 --> 01:22:39.960 Just for one, I'm happy to find a Mariner that I like that you 1212 01:22:40.039 --> 01:22:44.239 don't, so that ever works out, I can rub that in your face. 1213 01:22:44.359 --> 01:22:47.039 He was at one percent. It's almost like the what the scene in 1214 01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:50.760 Moneyball where it's like if he's a good hit or why doesn't he hit good? 1215 01:22:51.079 --> 01:22:55.720 Right? And that he I don't think he didn't hit bad, but 1216 01:22:55.880 --> 01:23:00.880 uh no, No, he's an athletic guy with fast hands and there's power. 1217 01:23:01.319 --> 01:23:04.560 I think the numbers can be better than what they are, and part 1218 01:23:04.600 --> 01:23:10.199 of that might play into what He started off at Penn right, and he 1219 01:23:10.279 --> 01:23:14.119 missed like two seasons of college before he transferred. So he's twenty two to 1220 01:23:14.159 --> 01:23:18.399 twenty three at a ball he can run. He sold eighteen in five hundred 1221 01:23:18.399 --> 01:23:21.960 and twelve games and that's an able. But I don't know. Maybe I'm 1222 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:27.079 wrong here, but Hood seems faster than that to me, just from a 1223 01:23:27.199 --> 01:23:29.760 raw sprint speed. Like I said, he need hit for power. I 1224 01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:32.199 think there's more contact in there to be had, or at least maybe I'm 1225 01:23:32.239 --> 01:23:35.800 just hoping. He really came on at the end of his low A stint 1226 01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:41.399 and then was promoted. I know you had cited like strikeout speed, something 1227 01:23:41.399 --> 01:23:44.039 that you didn't love about him. He was at twenty one percent on the 1228 01:23:44.079 --> 01:23:47.720 season, get being an older guy, but during like that the last month 1229 01:23:47.800 --> 01:23:50.680 or so, I think he had cut it down to like seventeen and still 1230 01:23:50.680 --> 01:23:54.840 that's at a ball and then they jumped up again when he was in High 1231 01:23:54.840 --> 01:24:00.520 A. I think that there is more talent and ability here than the numbers 1232 01:24:00.920 --> 01:24:04.119 are showing. I know when they had what they had like a select instructional 1233 01:24:04.199 --> 01:24:06.920 camp or whatever. You know, there's there's a lot of big names in 1234 01:24:08.000 --> 01:24:11.800 there in that system, and the Hood is part of that was invited to 1235 01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:14.279 that you can play in the dirt. They had them at second base, 1236 01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:16.479 third base, shortstop. Maybe not a whole lot of sluck. I think 1237 01:24:16.520 --> 01:24:19.600 there's some more in here. With Hood. Yeah, I don't know. 1238 01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:23.279 You don't like it. Like I said, this is a hard place to 1239 01:24:23.640 --> 01:24:27.079 find somebody, but I like, I think Hood has a chance to make 1240 01:24:27.199 --> 01:24:30.800 be a big leaguer. Yeah, I think the two things that for me, 1241 01:24:30.880 --> 01:24:33.800 because I've seen him a bit. The two things for me were his 1242 01:24:34.159 --> 01:24:40.479 performance at High A was a pretty big red flag for me. It wasn't 1243 01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:44.279 a huge sample. Sixteen games, sixty plate appearances, sixty eight plate appearances, 1244 01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:46.439 it's not a ton of sample, but the strikeouts ticked up quite a 1245 01:24:46.439 --> 01:24:50.760 bit, and the walks were fine. But the overall line like he wasn't 1246 01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:56.039 hitting for much power, and that is an absolute bandbox of a park. 1247 01:24:56.159 --> 01:24:59.520 And his overall line, you know, eighty seven WRC plus is a twenty 1248 01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:03.039 three year old in high A sort of an advanced college bat that seemed to 1249 01:25:03.039 --> 01:25:06.640 be writing some momentum. I would have liked to see a bit more. 1250 01:25:06.840 --> 01:25:14.079 And then the other thing is in this organization there are legitimately like ten second 1251 01:25:14.159 --> 01:25:16.600 basemen ahead of him, and I don't think he's gonna have the pop to 1252 01:25:16.600 --> 01:25:20.720 play third, so it's second base or nothing. And of course Trader Jerry 1253 01:25:20.800 --> 01:25:24.960 might ship him off in some deal and he might get some run somewhere as 1254 01:25:24.960 --> 01:25:28.039 soon as next season. Who knows for me. Those were the two things 1255 01:25:28.039 --> 01:25:30.039 when I was looking at the B side options, I was like, yeah, 1256 01:25:30.119 --> 01:25:32.479 I see a little bit here. I agree with a lot of what 1257 01:25:32.479 --> 01:25:35.840 you said. I think the swing is all right, he's got some speed. 1258 01:25:35.920 --> 01:25:40.520 There were enough knocks here that I wasn't excited about this pick. Yeah, 1259 01:25:40.640 --> 01:25:45.039 maybe in a year from now, Joe Doyle and I will we'll tweet 1260 01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:47.279 at you at your non existent Twitter account and say, hey, look at 1261 01:25:47.319 --> 01:25:51.880 how good Josh Hood is doing. I like it, and it's kind of 1262 01:25:51.920 --> 01:25:56.680 a bit of a fan I saw, oh is he okay? Interesting? 1263 01:25:57.319 --> 01:26:01.079 And it'll be an interesting comparison because I'm taking a guy that is basically the 1264 01:26:01.119 --> 01:26:05.199 same as Hood. He's just a little bit older and one level about. 1265 01:26:05.279 --> 01:26:10.760 I'm taking Leo Revas. I am not excited about this, Like as a 1266 01:26:10.800 --> 01:26:15.319 Mariners fan. When I'm talking to my Mariners fans who aren't quite as much 1267 01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:18.359 of a sicko as I am, and they don't know the top thirty prospects 1268 01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:21.800 in the Mariners system, Leo Riovos is not a guy I'm mentioning to them. 1269 01:26:21.880 --> 01:26:26.039 You know, I don't he might make the major leagues, but he's 1270 01:26:26.079 --> 01:26:30.079 not some super hidden talent. But he reminds me a lot of Jose Cabiira, 1271 01:26:30.479 --> 01:26:34.279 another guy who nobody was talking about, but had really good plate skills, 1272 01:26:34.760 --> 01:26:41.159 a lot of quality defensive play, and just gets on bass. You 1273 01:26:41.199 --> 01:26:43.680 know, again, going back to that Moneyball scene, Why do you like 1274 01:26:43.760 --> 01:26:46.159 him? He gets on bass. So he walked at a nineteen point seven 1275 01:26:46.319 --> 01:26:50.399 percent clip. That's not a typo. Nineteen point seven one of the highest 1276 01:26:50.399 --> 01:26:55.079 in the minor leagues this year with a minimum of four hundred play appearances. 1277 01:26:55.119 --> 01:26:59.239 He also swiped fifty bags. I don't think he's super fast, but he's 1278 01:26:59.279 --> 01:27:02.079 an aggressive brunner and he didn't get caught that often. Yeah, he got 1279 01:27:02.119 --> 01:27:06.840 caught ten times, so that's like totally acceptable for fifty steals. He kept 1280 01:27:06.920 --> 01:27:11.079 his strikeouts in check. They had kind of ticked up a little bit in 1281 01:27:12.239 --> 01:27:15.640 his previous couple of seasons. Twenty eight percent up at tripa A for Cincinnati 1282 01:27:15.720 --> 01:27:19.560 last year, twenty six percent in High A just a couple of years ago. 1283 01:27:19.880 --> 01:27:23.920 I think he's one of those like journeymen. He's going to make the 1284 01:27:23.960 --> 01:27:28.720 majors as like a backup, second basement, third basement shortstop kind of thing, 1285 01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:33.680 has good plate skills. Again, there's nine second basemen that are probably 1286 01:27:33.720 --> 01:27:36.399 ahead of him in the system right now. So do I think it's going 1287 01:27:36.479 --> 01:27:40.880 to happen for the Mariners. Probably not, But I do think the Mariners 1288 01:27:41.000 --> 01:27:45.079 unlocked something with him. He's not a big guy, he's not super strong, 1289 01:27:45.159 --> 01:27:47.279 but they really turned him loose and I think he can stick on the 1290 01:27:47.279 --> 01:27:53.720 dirt somewhere. So maybe as a late career as he comes up and he's 1291 01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:59.239 a cheap backup infielder on a contending squad and the plate approach I think is 1292 01:27:59.279 --> 01:28:00.680 going to carry him. It looks like he's got a really good eye. 1293 01:28:00.760 --> 01:28:04.279 He doesn't chase very much, and he hits a decent number of line drives. 1294 01:28:04.279 --> 01:28:09.439 So I'm not thrilled about it. But Leo rivas to me what Joshua 1295 01:28:09.560 --> 01:28:12.239 wants to be, and it's just like a little bit worse at some of 1296 01:28:12.279 --> 01:28:16.479 the key kings. So you know, it's it's interesting though you talk about 1297 01:28:16.560 --> 01:28:19.439 it is hard to find a bad here. You just mentioned a guy who 1298 01:28:19.760 --> 01:28:24.359 was very much for B side that got some rum this year. I had 1299 01:28:24.439 --> 01:28:30.399 him in some of my small leagues. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, he's 1300 01:28:30.479 --> 01:28:34.079 not out. He's snuck through. So you just never really know. A 1301 01:28:34.119 --> 01:28:39.640 couple other bats that I watched a little bit, Bill Knight, Colin Davis, 1302 01:28:39.720 --> 01:28:45.039 Gay Mancatta, Hogan Windish, Walking Cabrera, I mean Cabrera and Windish 1303 01:28:45.039 --> 01:28:47.600 didn't really any of those other guys that Bill Knight, Colin Davis from Mankata 1304 01:28:47.840 --> 01:28:55.680 get any of your interest. I wanted to like Mancatta last year and caught 1305 01:28:55.680 --> 01:28:58.479 a little bit of him because he was on that a ball team that I 1306 01:28:58.520 --> 01:29:02.640 watched a bunch of in medeth Stow. He was like as good as some 1307 01:29:02.720 --> 01:29:05.800 of the guys on that team, but the guys that he was like kind 1308 01:29:05.800 --> 01:29:11.479 of as good as were all seventeen or eighteen, So it was like yeah, 1309 01:29:11.560 --> 01:29:14.520 And also the way he was getting to it like he's probably striking out 1310 01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:16.840 too much, didn't quite have the power. So I wanted to like him 1311 01:29:16.840 --> 01:29:20.239 because he was really good on the complex or really good in the DSL that's 1312 01:29:20.279 --> 01:29:23.760 what it was in twenty twenty one, and then really good on the Complex 1313 01:29:23.880 --> 01:29:25.720 in twenty twenty two, and so I was like, oh, I'm really 1314 01:29:25.720 --> 01:29:28.359 interested. And I kind of was like that small, you know, twenty 1315 01:29:28.399 --> 01:29:30.560 one game sample at a ball last year. I was like, I'm kind 1316 01:29:30.560 --> 01:29:32.560 of gonna throw that out. I think he's going to be pretty good this 1317 01:29:32.640 --> 01:29:36.319 year. And he repeats a ball and he's okay, you know, so 1318 01:29:36.520 --> 01:29:41.119 Macatta I soured on a little bit. Wind just did some stuff that I 1319 01:29:41.119 --> 01:29:43.720 thought was pretty good. I you know, he's got some pop. But 1320 01:29:44.239 --> 01:29:47.560 the case, you know me, if not having really good pop, I'm 1321 01:29:47.600 --> 01:29:53.439 just not in it. Sweet Spell. I've kind of been following and I'm 1322 01:29:53.439 --> 01:29:58.279 like, maybe there's something there. Night was all right in Everett again. 1323 01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:01.239 A little concerned about out the power to k Ratio there, but I think 1324 01:30:01.279 --> 01:30:04.680 it's a decent athlete. I don't know if it hits the ball like really 1325 01:30:04.760 --> 01:30:08.960 hard or anything. Yeah. Yeah. And then and then there's like this 1326 01:30:09.279 --> 01:30:13.520 just huge chunk of guys that I'm really excited about. And those are the 1327 01:30:13.520 --> 01:30:15.319 guys that are just going to explode it Everett next year. I think, 1328 01:30:15.359 --> 01:30:25.840 you know, Royo and Emerson and Pete and and I know I know, 1329 01:30:25.960 --> 01:30:30.439 and I'm we're we're b siding here, So I'll stop there. But this 1330 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:32.840 is why I think it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough for a 1331 01:30:32.880 --> 01:30:38.119 lot of these guys that we're talking about to really get much run because they 1332 01:30:38.159 --> 01:30:42.479 do really do have a strong crop and and I don't think even the public, 1333 01:30:42.720 --> 01:30:45.840 like I was looking at the fangrass list again and prepping for the al 1334 01:30:45.920 --> 01:30:47.960 West, and they were rounding down on a bunch of these guys, and 1335 01:30:48.000 --> 01:30:53.319 I just think every single one of them exceeded the fangrafts right up of them. 1336 01:30:53.720 --> 01:30:57.560 It's like a pretty impressive system, really, so it'll be fun to 1337 01:30:57.560 --> 01:31:00.720 watch. Let's move on to arms. I might I have a lot to 1338 01:31:00.760 --> 01:31:04.840 say here. I'm assuming Van Scooter is. Yeah, I'm so much either. 1339 01:31:05.039 --> 01:31:08.520 You can listen to our draft and hear me guess you about that one. 1340 01:31:08.720 --> 01:31:12.479 I'll touch on like two other guys that I at least worth knowing. 1341 01:31:13.199 --> 01:31:16.359 Neither of them is interesting in like the grand scheme of things. But Tyler 1342 01:31:16.479 --> 01:31:19.800 Cleveland, you know, he's alrighty. He doesn't throw hard at all, 1343 01:31:19.880 --> 01:31:24.600 but it's like side arm, it's funky, that kind of profile. You 1344 01:31:24.680 --> 01:31:27.720 end up looking like a reliever. So you don't have to care about that 1345 01:31:27.760 --> 01:31:30.039 for a while because he's a twenty three year old and a ball. But 1346 01:31:30.039 --> 01:31:31.600 I wouldn't be surprised if he makes it up to double a next year, 1347 01:31:31.640 --> 01:31:34.680 like maybe it'll start it high and then make it up to double A and 1348 01:31:35.039 --> 01:31:41.279 be adapt believer in the next couple of years. Again like some trouble for 1349 01:31:41.359 --> 01:31:43.960 sure. Yeah, yeah, Like he doesn't strike people out, but he 1350 01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:46.119 gets a ton of ground balls. He doesn't want anybody. He's good like 1351 01:31:46.159 --> 01:31:50.119 he's just a good kind of funky reliever type I think is what he's going 1352 01:31:50.199 --> 01:31:54.840 to be. Another another reliever, like most people should know him if they're 1353 01:31:54.880 --> 01:31:58.079 if you're talking about b siders, but per Lander Barroa, like that guy 1354 01:31:58.159 --> 01:32:00.760 is going to be a high leverage really very soon his next year. I'm 1355 01:32:00.800 --> 01:32:03.880 kind of surprised they didn't give a more run this year actually, because his 1356 01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:09.479 stuff is just wild, so insanely good. And then Riley O'Brien is another 1357 01:32:09.479 --> 01:32:11.600 one. He's old, he's been up and down. I don't think he's 1358 01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:14.399 on the forty man anymore now, but he has been in the past. 1359 01:32:14.520 --> 01:32:16.279 But he's another one that I think is just going to be a holds leagues 1360 01:32:16.319 --> 01:32:19.319 Like maybe he gets some middle innings for the Mariners as soon as next year. 1361 01:32:19.359 --> 01:32:25.640 So those relievers all I'll have some interest. But Van Scooters then Scooters 1362 01:32:25.680 --> 01:32:29.319 the prize here. I'm going to go with the first year player pitcher in 1363 01:32:29.399 --> 01:32:31.560 their system, so I'll save that. But there were there were two other 1364 01:32:31.680 --> 01:32:35.479 arms more or less just kind of wanted to ask you your opinion of But 1365 01:32:36.159 --> 01:32:42.119 Jimmy Joyce and Michael Morales. Like them both, Yeah, definitely like them 1366 01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:46.359 both. And both these guys were I think just above my threshold. Think 1367 01:32:46.399 --> 01:32:50.239 Morales might have been two percent. And Jimmy Joyce, Jimmy Joyce, I'm 1368 01:32:50.239 --> 01:32:53.640 sure was owned. I think he was owned in my league. That's why 1369 01:32:53.680 --> 01:32:56.439 I cross him up. But m I was surprised. I thought both of 1370 01:32:56.439 --> 01:33:00.520 these guys when I pulled the raster rates would be higher, but they were 1371 01:33:00.520 --> 01:33:03.319 both at one percent when I pulled them allywhere yeah, okay, yeah, 1372 01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:08.119 that sounds about right. I've added and dropped Morales a couple times in the 1373 01:33:08.159 --> 01:33:11.119 past couple of years because he'll have stretches where he looks really good, but 1374 01:33:11.479 --> 01:33:14.960 I think the ks just aren't going to be there as he goes up levels, 1375 01:33:15.000 --> 01:33:16.199 like That's what it seems like. Every level he's gone up, the 1376 01:33:16.279 --> 01:33:19.880 k's drop, and I'm worried about that continuing and him not being able to 1377 01:33:19.920 --> 01:33:24.680 get out that way. Joyce a little more interesting to me also because he 1378 01:33:24.680 --> 01:33:28.319 gets good number of ground balls his arsenal I think plays for that pretty well. 1379 01:33:28.840 --> 01:33:30.920 And then another guy like to be in early on. I think again 1380 01:33:30.960 --> 01:33:34.760 he might already have enough helium that he's probably at three or four percent maybe. 1381 01:33:34.760 --> 01:33:39.920 But Jeter Martinez, he's another one that he's super young, flashing ninety 1382 01:33:39.960 --> 01:33:43.399 seven ninety eight in the Dominican apparently. I think he's another one that's going 1383 01:33:43.479 --> 01:33:45.960 to come up next year and light the world on fire at State side. 1384 01:33:45.960 --> 01:33:48.720 So I'm interested to see that. But those again, I didn't get a 1385 01:33:48.760 --> 01:33:53.039 lot of video of him and each of these other guys. There's enough that 1386 01:33:53.239 --> 01:33:56.239 was like, eh, let's hold our horses, like Jimmy Joyce for me, 1387 01:33:56.399 --> 01:33:59.840 seventy innings, like throw one hundred next year and then we'll talk. 1388 01:34:00.199 --> 01:34:02.880 Yeah, but he's probably the next one for me after Van Scooter. It's 1389 01:34:02.920 --> 01:34:06.840 like those two, they look like they've got real skills. Right on, 1390 01:34:08.279 --> 01:34:10.960 let go, let's move on to the ranger. This has not been the 1391 01:34:11.000 --> 01:34:15.319 most successful b siding hunting grounds for me. Iam Mohler Catcher last year has 1392 01:34:15.359 --> 01:34:19.800 a lot of power. I'm not interested anymore. I chose a couple of 1393 01:34:19.800 --> 01:34:23.600 guys, so I don't even think are in baseball anymore. In the past, 1394 01:34:24.439 --> 01:34:28.279 it hasn't been good the arm. I think I went with Ryan Garcia, 1395 01:34:28.439 --> 01:34:31.399 who was a second round pick of THEIRS several years back and had a 1396 01:34:31.439 --> 01:34:35.239 lot of injury stuff, and I think he kind of had a nice season 1397 01:34:35.279 --> 01:34:40.399 this year, but I'm just not super super into it. I was kind 1398 01:34:40.399 --> 01:34:44.640 of thinking some velocity would come back with him. I don't think it really 1399 01:34:44.680 --> 01:34:47.079 did. I need to hit here, Matt, and I took McCarty, 1400 01:34:47.760 --> 01:34:50.840 you know, with the that was my first pick in the pitcher draft that 1401 01:34:50.880 --> 01:34:56.119 we did right. Maybe not quantity wise, but close to. I kind 1402 01:34:56.119 --> 01:35:00.600 of feel like the Rangers just as many interesting B side arms as the Astros. 1403 01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:04.199 Oh, interesting what you're thinking about. I will, I will, 1404 01:35:04.279 --> 01:35:09.199 And I know I heard a draft on his podcast, The Jeff Ponce on 1405 01:35:09.399 --> 01:35:15.279 his podcast The Ninetieth Percentile. They were speaking about the depth of the Rangers 1406 01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:17.119 arms, and you know, it's kind of funny. You look at what 1407 01:35:17.239 --> 01:35:23.640 they took rocker and lighter like early in the first rounds, and I'm sure 1408 01:35:23.680 --> 01:35:27.840 some folks are thinking that's not very great picks, but I feel like they 1409 01:35:27.880 --> 01:35:30.560 do really well later on. But zach Kent. Did you watch zak Kent 1410 01:35:30.600 --> 01:35:33.600 at all? He's on the four, he's on the forty man right now. 1411 01:35:33.720 --> 01:35:38.239 He's in the AFL. He's only at one percent. He had one 1412 01:35:38.319 --> 01:35:42.680 April start this year and then was on the shelf until August thirty four Triple 1413 01:35:42.760 --> 01:35:47.039 A innings in this year. Ten starts nice size, not a hard thrower 1414 01:35:47.079 --> 01:35:50.880 at ninety one, but he's got a five to six pitch mix that he 1415 01:35:51.000 --> 01:35:58.000 uses well, good breaking stuff, thirty nine percent CSW on the slider, 1416 01:35:58.119 --> 01:36:00.600 and he's like he's on some top thirty lists, I think, but very 1417 01:36:00.720 --> 01:36:06.960 much a chance at being an MLB starter that there's not much on. He 1418 01:36:08.039 --> 01:36:12.720 was hurt, he didn't come back until like August. I think, okay, 1419 01:36:13.039 --> 01:36:17.439 they have this Cuban international free agent they signed in twenty twenty two is 1420 01:36:17.520 --> 01:36:23.000 interesting. Brian chie not a real tall guy. He's only like six foot. 1421 01:36:23.119 --> 01:36:27.520 There's only a handful of broadcasts of him in a ball but a fastball 1422 01:36:27.520 --> 01:36:30.000 that he tries to play up in the zone, curveball. So he's got 1423 01:36:30.000 --> 01:36:33.680 that North South game going. There's a change up in there that I think 1424 01:36:33.720 --> 01:36:38.680 gets some whiffs. I think he controls them all fairly well. There's some 1425 01:36:38.720 --> 01:36:42.439 polish here though that I think needs to come, but I could see him 1426 01:36:42.439 --> 01:36:45.359 getting some attention. His sort of like plan of attack sings a little vanilla 1427 01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:49.359 generic strikes down the middle of the lane. Twenty four years old too, 1428 01:36:49.560 --> 01:36:53.239 but like I said, he came over from I'm pretty sure he was in 1429 01:36:53.279 --> 01:36:57.399 the professional league in Cuba. But kind of a name to look out for. 1430 01:36:57.520 --> 01:37:01.079 Dane Acker twenty twenty fourth round pick, out Oklahoma. He's on some 1431 01:37:01.119 --> 01:37:06.319 thirty top thirty lists as well. He's only rostered a one percent. He 1432 01:37:06.479 --> 01:37:11.079 was in High A in Double A this year, produced pretty well, had 1433 01:37:11.079 --> 01:37:14.439 like a two seven four era at one point two eight whip. Got a 1434 01:37:14.439 --> 01:37:17.039 good blend of stuff and execution that I think could could work at the major 1435 01:37:17.119 --> 01:37:21.560 league level. Not the hardest thrower ninety two ninety three, but he's got 1436 01:37:21.600 --> 01:37:26.279 a little juice in the arsenal. Wonder if the reports I've seen on him 1437 01:37:26.359 --> 01:37:30.479 or maybe under selling him just a little bit. Cole Drake is a left 1438 01:37:30.479 --> 01:37:33.239 handed pitcher that was down in a ball. He's a twenty twenty two to 1439 01:37:33.239 --> 01:37:38.279 eleventh round pick at a junior college. He's a big lefty at six five. 1440 01:37:38.640 --> 01:37:41.640 There's not a lot in the archives to watch. I don't think he 1441 01:37:41.720 --> 01:37:45.600 came up into full season ball until like July, and of course Down East 1442 01:37:45.600 --> 01:37:49.479 doesn't broadcast. He's got a fastball, curveball change. He's kind of interesting. 1443 01:37:49.520 --> 01:37:53.279 He sets up he's a left and he sets up on the rubber like 1444 01:37:53.479 --> 01:37:58.680 as far as to the right as you possibly can legally go, kind of 1445 01:37:58.840 --> 01:38:01.000 which is kind of interesting to me. And he's kind of like more over 1446 01:38:01.079 --> 01:38:03.560 the top. So no, no, I don't really know what that's all 1447 01:38:03.600 --> 01:38:08.039 about, but he looks the part of a potential starter to me more or 1448 01:38:08.119 --> 01:38:10.800 less. Just didn't really have the sample size or the you know, the 1449 01:38:10.880 --> 01:38:14.880 kind of oh wow moments that kind of drew me in to make him my 1450 01:38:14.920 --> 01:38:18.000 official choice, but definitely like a name on my list to watch. He 1451 01:38:18.039 --> 01:38:21.800 gave up some hard contact from a little bit that I saw, but I 1452 01:38:21.800 --> 01:38:25.560 don't know. I think if you could get a little bit more calibrated, 1453 01:38:25.600 --> 01:38:29.560 he's interesting. They have a righty that they took in the seventh round out 1454 01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:32.720 of Long Beach State in twenty twenty two. Luis Ramirez. He missed like 1455 01:38:32.760 --> 01:38:36.079 a month of the season, but I thought there are some things to like 1456 01:38:36.359 --> 01:38:40.520 outings weren't real long, but he's got a sinker that plays it like that. 1457 01:38:40.640 --> 01:38:44.640 He's like sinker slider guy. Both both of those pitchers have some nice 1458 01:38:44.680 --> 01:38:48.319 movement on them. Question of length and if they're really going to develop develop 1459 01:38:48.399 --> 01:38:51.239 him as a starter, but I think there's a chance there. And then 1460 01:38:51.399 --> 01:38:56.720 I don't know. Did you watch any Joseph Montalvo. Yeah, I liked 1461 01:38:56.800 --> 01:38:59.960 him. Yeah, dude, he's he's super it. He would have been 1462 01:39:00.119 --> 01:39:02.760 my choice if I if I didn't go gag on McCarty. But I think 1463 01:39:02.800 --> 01:39:08.560 he's a very exciting B side type potential plus fastball with a nasty change up 1464 01:39:09.000 --> 01:39:13.399 at least versus these guys, and a slider. Overall execution I thought was 1465 01:39:13.399 --> 01:39:15.920 was dang impressive considering he's only pitched for a few years. He was like 1466 01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:19.640 a shortstop or something, I think. But I'm very much keeping my eye 1467 01:39:19.640 --> 01:39:26.319 on him. Ninety five innings in this year. Yeah, Yeah, he's 1468 01:39:26.640 --> 01:39:30.039 definitely very very B side worthy. I mean I kind of feel like he 1469 01:39:30.079 --> 01:39:33.720 would have been draft worthy last week. Yeah, and he was on my 1470 01:39:33.800 --> 01:39:41.600 short list too. The trio of Montello, McCarty and Corneelle were my three, 1471 01:39:41.680 --> 01:39:45.800 but Corneell is a part of this group that they're all like fo to 1472 01:39:45.880 --> 01:39:48.720 six percent owned, and I think that was a little bit too much. 1473 01:39:48.760 --> 01:39:53.760 I'm still not hearing a lot about them. So Cornell's twenty year old admitted 1474 01:39:53.800 --> 01:39:57.359 to high a almost thirty percent k rate, seven point eight percent walk rate. 1475 01:39:57.439 --> 01:40:00.680 Like, I love that, especially for the A and the level, 1476 01:40:00.800 --> 01:40:04.079 like one of the better lines if you set the minimum innings at one hundred. 1477 01:40:04.319 --> 01:40:08.880 He was tenth in minor league baseball this year in K minus BB rate. 1478 01:40:09.000 --> 01:40:13.800 So really interesting arm. Yeah, another good like B side sort of 1479 01:40:14.039 --> 01:40:16.600 call for them. They took him in the twentieth round out of Puerto Rico. 1480 01:40:17.079 --> 01:40:19.800 Yeah, and that seems like a real hit. And then you know, 1481 01:40:19.840 --> 01:40:24.640 I think you've talked about Aiden Curry before and Antoine Kelly, both I 1482 01:40:24.680 --> 01:40:28.760 think are underrated arms. Again, they strike a lot of batters up in 1483 01:40:28.840 --> 01:40:31.840 a walk, a bunch interesting profiles. Kelly's a reliever. He's one that 1484 01:40:31.840 --> 01:40:35.560 I think is going to make the majors next year. Yeah, potentially and 1485 01:40:35.600 --> 01:40:39.800 probably be a pretty good reliever for them. They talked about Montalvo and McCarty 1486 01:40:39.880 --> 01:40:43.039 last week. I think both have a real shot to start. We'll see 1487 01:40:43.239 --> 01:40:47.000 as things go up the ladder if they can keep holding their ratios at the 1488 01:40:47.399 --> 01:40:51.720 higher levels. I have a little bit of concern about McCarty maybe not quite 1489 01:40:51.760 --> 01:40:57.840 being able to keep the k's going, So he'll be one to watch. 1490 01:40:58.199 --> 01:41:02.600 One of Chris Klegg's guys that he's been beating the drum about, Emiliano Tyodo. 1491 01:41:02.840 --> 01:41:05.840 He's got electric stuff. I think he's in the AFL too, is 1492 01:41:05.880 --> 01:41:10.920 that right? Yeah? Yeah, And I think he's one that the run 1493 01:41:10.960 --> 01:41:13.720 hasn't been there. Like a lot of these guys you've mentioned Nate, they've 1494 01:41:13.720 --> 01:41:16.920 been sort of shorter outings or coming in relief, kind of kind of mixing 1495 01:41:16.960 --> 01:41:21.319 them in or easing them into it. But his stuff is undeniably great. 1496 01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:26.800 Another guy that I was really interested in last year, Mark Church. His 1497 01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:29.920 walks ticked up a bunch this year, more than I thought they would. 1498 01:41:30.239 --> 01:41:33.920 He's a reliever only guy, but this stuff was absolutely dominating last year. 1499 01:41:33.960 --> 01:41:38.720 It took back a little bit at triple A this year, but still a 1500 01:41:38.760 --> 01:41:42.560 pretty good line. You know, thirty percent strikeout great and you know fourteen 1501 01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:45.640 percent walks, so a little bit higher, but you you might live with 1502 01:41:45.680 --> 01:41:48.439 that A little bit reminds you a little like jose Leclerk kind of you know, 1503 01:41:48.520 --> 01:41:55.319 like brings it in there foreseeing looks great slider, but some command issues. 1504 01:41:55.399 --> 01:41:58.680 When he's on, he looks unhittable when he's not. It's a bit 1505 01:41:58.680 --> 01:42:00.479 of an adventure. But the guy that I wanted to highlight that, you 1506 01:42:00.479 --> 01:42:05.000 know, I would have gone McCarty for my B side here, but I'm 1507 01:42:05.000 --> 01:42:11.119 gonna highlight a reliever that I don't think anybody is talking about again. Relievers 1508 01:42:11.239 --> 01:42:14.119 like they're pretty fungible. But this is one who's already at Triple A. 1509 01:42:14.720 --> 01:42:18.800 I think he could absolutely pitch in the major leagues now watching some of the 1510 01:42:18.920 --> 01:42:21.800 video of him. This is Chase Lee, by the way, Chaslee. 1511 01:42:21.800 --> 01:42:27.119 I should probably say that at the outset Chase Lee, righty at Triple A 1512 01:42:27.159 --> 01:42:30.479 three nine eight ERA this year, you know, okay, but it's the 1513 01:42:30.520 --> 01:42:34.000 pcl mostly thirty one percent k rate, ten percent walk rate. He's a 1514 01:42:34.079 --> 01:42:39.920 side armor. He reminds me a ton of Thompson, Riley Thompson right for 1515 01:42:40.159 --> 01:42:44.600 Arizona's a high leverage reliever in the major leagues. In the World Series right 1516 01:42:44.600 --> 01:42:46.760 now, Lee I think has better stuff. It tops out at like ninety 1517 01:42:46.800 --> 01:42:51.199 one, but I think the spin is higher than Thompson. His slider has 1518 01:42:51.239 --> 01:42:58.359 like two hundred RPMs more spin than Thompson's does. Thompson I think gets a 1519 01:42:58.399 --> 01:43:01.239 little bit of extra seamshift to wake break on his but it's still a really 1520 01:43:01.279 --> 01:43:05.159 good pitch and he gets groundballs and strikeouts with it. So Chase Ley's my 1521 01:43:05.239 --> 01:43:08.960 pick. I mean, again, it's a reliever. How excited can you 1522 01:43:09.000 --> 01:43:13.920 get by about that? But it seems a very high probability middle reliever who 1523 01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:15.560 might get you some holds And I think these ratios are going to be good. 1524 01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:20.079 So but I like it. I love some relief pitcher love. Yeah, 1525 01:43:20.119 --> 01:43:25.399 and you're right, like the Texas pitching system is pretty deep, Like 1526 01:43:25.439 --> 01:43:29.439 there's arms that are really well regarded that maybe the hype is a little bit 1527 01:43:29.840 --> 01:43:32.560 over what you'd expect, but even lighter who I've been a little bit of 1528 01:43:32.560 --> 01:43:35.479 a hater on since going back to college, like because I think he walks 1529 01:43:35.479 --> 01:43:39.920 too many. He's walked fewer this year and its started to turn it around 1530 01:43:39.960 --> 01:43:42.920 a little bit, so he might be something close to the guy that they 1531 01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:45.760 envisioned. Rock Porter, I think is pretty darn good. And then so 1532 01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:48.800 a bunch of the other guys that you mentioned are all all I think are 1533 01:43:48.840 --> 01:43:51.960 interesting for one reason or another. So it's a pretty deep system. I 1534 01:43:53.560 --> 01:43:59.199 give the execution edge maybe to Houston, but stuff wise, there's a lot 1535 01:43:59.239 --> 01:44:02.560 to like here in Texas. There's another reliever that I that I like quite 1536 01:44:02.600 --> 01:44:09.079 a bit, Anthony Hoopy. I can't even pronounce his whole real last name, 1537 01:44:09.319 --> 01:44:12.640 but he was a guy that kind of came on my radar. Pitched 1538 01:44:12.680 --> 01:44:15.520 like an immaculate inning a couple of years ago, but a real lively fastball 1539 01:44:15.560 --> 01:44:18.079 that plays really well up in the zone. And I want to I thought 1540 01:44:18.119 --> 01:44:20.239 he was going to be in the AFL. I don't know if he was 1541 01:44:20.439 --> 01:44:24.439 or I don't know. And I got a name for you here, Matt, 1542 01:44:24.479 --> 01:44:27.680 to just keep a little bit of an eye on. Not created yet 1543 01:44:27.720 --> 01:44:33.239 in fan tracks, but David Dava YEO LEO da v A l I L 1544 01:44:33.439 --> 01:44:38.520 l O. He did make his full season debut, but there's only one 1545 01:44:38.560 --> 01:44:42.800 game and it wasn't broadcast. But he's a twenty one year old from Venezuela 1546 01:44:43.239 --> 01:44:46.800 that I have been told to look out for. Interesting. Okay, but 1547 01:44:46.920 --> 01:44:50.359 yeah, so a lot of arms there so Rangers' bats. My guy blamed 1548 01:44:50.399 --> 01:44:55.199 Krim who's my last pick of our hitter draft, just double tapping on that. 1549 01:44:55.279 --> 01:44:59.439 I think ty France with maybe even a little more power, Like I 1550 01:44:59.560 --> 01:45:02.439 like him lot as a hitter B side hitter that I'm gonna go with because 1551 01:45:02.479 --> 01:45:06.800 you know, I talked about Krim already, but I liked Sandro Fabian a 1552 01:45:06.840 --> 01:45:12.079 lot as well, and he's gonna be my official B side selection. Another 1553 01:45:12.119 --> 01:45:15.600 guy that Zimborski said people are under rating, and apparently he's got a pretty 1554 01:45:15.600 --> 01:45:20.359 good twenty twenty four zips translation, he popped twenty three homers, you know, 1555 01:45:20.439 --> 01:45:25.119 swiped six bags, only a fifteen percent k rate, but it's because 1556 01:45:25.159 --> 01:45:28.279 he swings at everything. So he's one of those guys that I think his 1557 01:45:28.439 --> 01:45:31.960 like chase rate is like thirty six percent or something like. It's really really 1558 01:45:32.039 --> 01:45:34.640 high. But he doesn't strike out that much. He just doesn't walk. 1559 01:45:34.680 --> 01:45:40.359 He's just super aggressive. The swing isn't perfect. I think it's a little 1560 01:45:40.399 --> 01:45:44.000 bit flatter than I would like for a guy that is as strong as he 1561 01:45:44.119 --> 01:45:46.079 is, and he is definitely strong. You know, he's a corner guy 1562 01:45:46.159 --> 01:45:53.119 right field, left field, primarily interesting enough to me that he's totally under 1563 01:45:53.159 --> 01:45:55.399 the radar, Like I don't think he's on any list. I don't think 1564 01:45:55.399 --> 01:45:59.920 he's on Ba's list anymore. He was last on Fangrass list in twenty nineteen. 1565 01:46:00.399 --> 01:46:04.760 Uh for the Giants, so an organization ago and almost five years ago. 1566 01:46:04.880 --> 01:46:09.479 Now it seems like he actualized a bit more of his power this year. 1567 01:46:09.760 --> 01:46:14.079 The evs look good, if not great, but I think they have 1568 01:46:14.239 --> 01:46:17.680 changed his swing just enough that he's his strong guy and I think he's going 1569 01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:20.319 to get to more of it now. So I just wanted to highlight Fabian 1570 01:46:20.439 --> 01:46:25.039 again. It's it's not the best profile. This is probably like the best 1571 01:46:25.079 --> 01:46:27.319 you're going to see from him. It's a lot of pull. I don't 1572 01:46:27.319 --> 01:46:29.399 know if he's going to hit many more fly balls, but he's got the 1573 01:46:29.399 --> 01:46:32.319 strength to do damage and he is so aggressive. It's fun to watch him. 1574 01:46:32.319 --> 01:46:38.520 He's just always swinging. Whether that turns into like actual fantasy production, 1575 01:46:38.560 --> 01:46:42.600 I'm a little bit more skeptical of that to the Nate is, but he's 1576 01:46:42.720 --> 01:46:45.840 he's a he's a fun one and uh, you know, I like Cram 1577 01:46:45.880 --> 01:46:48.199 a little bit better, but Sandra, Fabian's right there, like he's at 1578 01:46:48.239 --> 01:46:53.039 the upper levels. He's got something I like that. I won't lie Man. 1579 01:46:53.119 --> 01:46:57.840 I had a hard time with Rangers' bats here, someone finding someone in 1580 01:46:57.840 --> 01:47:00.640 this range that I was maybe maybe there's not totally totally fair to say, 1581 01:47:00.680 --> 01:47:05.960 like Cam Collie with what he's one percent rostered, I think he could have 1582 01:47:06.039 --> 01:47:11.520 easily been my pick here. Clegg likes him and doing some things in the 1583 01:47:11.520 --> 01:47:15.279 AFL right now. He's a twenty year old third round prep pick out of 1584 01:47:15.319 --> 01:47:17.560 Texas. But even though he's not roster that much, it didn't feel like 1585 01:47:17.600 --> 01:47:21.119 a B side to me, Like, I don't know, but I still 1586 01:47:21.159 --> 01:47:25.359 I'm like, yeah, he's not like a real big guy. The case 1587 01:47:25.399 --> 01:47:29.439 were a lot. I watched some Cody Freeman, from Josh Hatcher, from 1588 01:47:29.479 --> 01:47:32.880 Tucker Mitchell, some Josi Gallon, and I just I couldn't really get on 1589 01:47:32.960 --> 01:47:36.520 board with with all of that Freeman, Hatcher, and Mitchell, Like I 1590 01:47:36.520 --> 01:47:40.199 think, there, you know, there's some stuff to like as far as 1591 01:47:40.319 --> 01:47:44.119 hitters, but I don't really see it all playing with their defense to the 1592 01:47:44.119 --> 01:47:47.479 big league level. The hitter that I'm gonna sort of stamp here and choose, 1593 01:47:47.680 --> 01:47:51.560 I gotta be honest, he's a little bit more popular, he's two 1594 01:47:51.600 --> 01:47:57.039 percent rostered. This doesn't really feel like a video pick, and it doesn't 1595 01:47:57.079 --> 01:48:01.520 really totally feel like my pick, but I'm gonna go with Marcos Torres, 1596 01:48:02.079 --> 01:48:08.000 who is on the back end of some top thirties, turned nineteen after this 1597 01:48:08.119 --> 01:48:12.000 season. Hear me out here, Matt, what he's listed at sixty three 1598 01:48:12.159 --> 01:48:15.439 like one hundred and sixty five pounds. He's a lefty. It doesn't seem 1599 01:48:15.479 --> 01:48:19.960 that tall to me. He didn't necessarily like tear up the DCL or the 1600 01:48:20.039 --> 01:48:24.800 Complex League, but got a little run, a little ten game run at 1601 01:48:24.800 --> 01:48:28.239 a ball at the end of the season, there's only five games of archives. 1602 01:48:28.279 --> 01:48:32.079 I watched everything defensively and offensively. There second to last series of the 1603 01:48:32.159 --> 01:48:36.680 season versus Carolina, and he was two for nineteen. Matt, he hit 1604 01:48:39.239 --> 01:48:43.399 no, he hit like leadoff. I think a few of those games down 1605 01:48:43.399 --> 01:48:45.960 the order he played first. He played a couple of games outfield, couple 1606 01:48:46.000 --> 01:48:51.279 in first base. Talk to my friend about Torres, and he was being 1607 01:48:51.319 --> 01:48:56.760 cryptic and wouldn't give me the straight answer here. But there is something that 1608 01:48:56.840 --> 01:49:00.840 Taurus does is outlier, is very unus usual, especially for his age, 1609 01:49:01.399 --> 01:49:05.000 and he wouldn't tell me what it was. But my guess is that Torres 1610 01:49:05.079 --> 01:49:10.319 doesn't swing outside of the zone. Now, granted it's only five games or 1611 01:49:10.359 --> 01:49:13.079 whatever it was, Yeah, five games. I don't think I saw him 1612 01:49:13.119 --> 01:49:15.479 swing out at a pitch outside of the zone once, and if I did, 1613 01:49:15.560 --> 01:49:19.800 it was very borderline fastballs up in the zone. How did he strike 1614 01:49:19.840 --> 01:49:25.439 out eighteen times and forty one played appearances in a ball? Then he did, 1615 01:49:25.720 --> 01:49:28.640 and he would swing a miss and by a good distance. He would 1616 01:49:28.640 --> 01:49:32.159 swing at a fastball on the zone and miss miss badly. He did seem 1617 01:49:32.199 --> 01:49:39.039 to have I don't know, maybe he's alluding to some very special pitch recognition 1618 01:49:39.119 --> 01:49:42.880 type of stuff. I didn't necessarily like the swing. He sort of has 1619 01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:46.239 that left handed like a lot of the Asian players have. Where he is 1620 01:49:46.880 --> 01:49:51.359 he's swinging and leaning and starting to move towards first base, you know, 1621 01:49:51.680 --> 01:49:56.560 mid swing, And that's not necessarily something that I particularly like or look for. 1622 01:49:56.640 --> 01:49:59.000 But I mean, hey, that worked pretty well for each row, 1623 01:49:59.159 --> 01:50:00.760 right, But what i'd he did like? One thing that I did like. 1624 01:50:01.640 --> 01:50:05.159 His outs were a lot louder than his couple of hits. I think 1625 01:50:05.199 --> 01:50:10.800 he had a blue single and a ground ball single in that series. But 1626 01:50:10.840 --> 01:50:15.279 he did hit some hard line drives and everything seemed to be going. You 1627 01:50:15.279 --> 01:50:17.159 know, he's a lefty trying to go over the shortstop's head, trying to 1628 01:50:17.159 --> 01:50:19.880 wear out that gap. And you know that. I like that he did 1629 01:50:20.000 --> 01:50:26.079 hit. I don't know how true I mean with that sort of swing. 1630 01:50:26.159 --> 01:50:28.880 I don't know how we talk about the good swings going the other way. 1631 01:50:28.880 --> 01:50:31.439 I don't know if he's really doing that. I watched him in the outfield. 1632 01:50:31.920 --> 01:50:34.640 I don't know, it's weird. I don't he's I think he's fast 1633 01:50:34.960 --> 01:50:39.000 and then that like Berner Burner, but I think he's fast. I don't 1634 01:50:39.039 --> 01:50:43.439 think he has a particularly great arm. There were some opportunities to see that, 1635 01:50:44.079 --> 01:50:46.600 but then he didn't make this one throw a guy tagging up from second 1636 01:50:46.640 --> 01:50:50.359 while he was in right field to third base. That that did kind of 1637 01:50:50.560 --> 01:50:55.640 get your attention. But yeah, I'm gonna go with Torres, mostly because 1638 01:50:55.680 --> 01:51:00.279 I didn't like anybody else, partly because my guy has been talking about him, 1639 01:51:00.560 --> 01:51:05.039 and he's still extremely young, and if there are some special traits there, 1640 01:51:05.520 --> 01:51:10.199 he could be you know, he could be a guy who tears up 1641 01:51:10.239 --> 01:51:13.439 a ball next season. I don't know. Matt, don't yell at me, 1642 01:51:13.840 --> 01:51:17.680 but that's what I'm doing. I am very skeptical about this one. 1643 01:51:17.800 --> 01:51:24.439 But maybe you got some secret insider cryptic information and he'll blow off next year. 1644 01:51:24.720 --> 01:51:27.760 I was told that when I watch him, it would become obvious to 1645 01:51:27.800 --> 01:51:33.920 me. So it didn't become obvious to me, but I thought it wasn't 1646 01:51:34.439 --> 01:51:38.079 like legit, you could watch those five games. I don't think he chased 1647 01:51:38.079 --> 01:51:41.039 the ball out of his own really, all right, So that was the 1648 01:51:41.119 --> 01:51:47.960 AL West getting in there, getting dirty. Who you're feeling all right? 1649 01:51:48.560 --> 01:51:54.199 Oh yeah, nice? So next week we'll do what we'll do the NL 1650 01:51:54.239 --> 01:51:58.600 West. It's all right. I think there might be a couple more guys, 1651 01:51:58.680 --> 01:52:00.840 a couple of guys that I'm a little bit more. We're excited about 1652 01:52:00.880 --> 01:52:03.720 them, some of the hitters here that we did this last week. But 1653 01:52:04.119 --> 01:52:10.119 thank you for following along, and thanks to thanks to Chicago Farmer for letting 1654 01:52:10.159 --> 01:52:15.600 us use his music. I don't know, do you like the intro song? 1655 01:52:15.800 --> 01:52:17.960 I just gonna ask you about it actually, and I you know, 1656 01:52:18.199 --> 01:52:21.560 listen for a while, but it's a good song. Yeah. I have 1657 01:52:21.640 --> 01:52:26.560 a good buddy who's like a successful musician, producer, what have you, 1658 01:52:26.600 --> 01:52:30.680 And he hooked me up and got me got Chicago Farmer to allow us to 1659 01:52:30.800 --> 01:52:32.840 use that so yeah, I love it. It's good. Thanks. We'll 1660 01:52:32.920 --> 01:52:36.479 let him take us out and uh do well, we'll talk to you next 1661 01:52:36.520 --> 01:52:43.199 time, till next time. An hour riding to his head, you have 1662 01:52:43.399 --> 01:52:48.960 him down first with the lump bonus face, and on the very next pitch 1663 01:52:49.319 --> 01:53:00.880 he up and stole second face with gretest be he wasn't born. He had 1664 01:53:01.239 --> 01:53:04.079 di yes uniform