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Not five miles an hour riding too
his head, he hopping down first with

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the limp bonius face, and on
the very next pitch he up and stole

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second face with gradest. He wasn't
born. He had to do yes,

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Beautiforn. All right, Hey,
hey, hey, Episode thirty seven of

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the Prospect B Sides Podcast. We
are back. It has been far too

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long, but the long lost rookies
here, I am here, and we've

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got what a month's worth of baseball
and happenings in mud try to rehash.

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I'm a bit overwhelmed here, Matt. I'm not totally sure what all I

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want to talk about. I feel
like there's so many things we could but

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it is nice to see you,
my friend. Well, I'm just overwhelmed

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by how long it's been since I've
seen this beautiful nug Nate, I miss

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buddy. This has been way too
long since we since we mudded and talked

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about the goodness that is happening all
over the minor leagues. And it's trade

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deadline season for a bunch of dynasty
leagues too. I don't know if you

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want to touch on some of that, like how's your how are your teams

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doing what's what moves is the big
Nate handymaking one of my thirty teen points.

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I'm I'm all in, I'm going
for it. And then got the

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best record in the league. I
don't know if I got the best team

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in the league, but it made
some moves, tried to put the finishing

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touches on a hopeful champion, got
some relievers, and I was just all

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about trading all those b sides and
free chips and whatever I could for help

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me now pieces. And then the
one that the show, the one that

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we're in together deadlines tonight. UH
just forever have been kind of like borderline

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playoff team or just making the playoff
team, not one of the best teams

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in the league, and just never
really able to make the big blockbusters at

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the deadlines. So just a couple
of little tiny moves there that might help

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me a little bit, and I
probably will have to get very lucky to

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uh to get a championship there.
But that's always a fun one. That's

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always a competitive league. My division
is like a three way race right now.

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So yeah, I don't know pretty
much other teams are trashed. Well,

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the show that that league that we're
in is a tricky one. I

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feel like my team, like coming
into the season, felt pretty solid.

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And then I had a bunch of
the guys that I was really banking on

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being cornerstones. Your Austin Riley's,
your Cody Bellingers really were terrible for long

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stretches. And I hunted on prospects, like in the dispersal draft when I

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joined the league, and even as
we were doing the off season free agent

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auction, I wasn't really looking for
prospects, but I landed a couple.

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Bit are in hot supply. What
do you think about Debbie Matthews? Ever?

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He's asking about him, and I'm
really just looking for some relief,

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and I can't stomach giving him.
Zebbie Matthews, who's already up in Triple

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A, still crushing. I hear
he's elite. I can't send him for

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a stupid reliever, can I?
I mean, I think when it comes

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to, you know, trying to
put together a championship run in a playoff

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like that, I think anything goes. Anything that isn't going to help you,

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I think is on the table.
But yeah, I mean, Zebby's

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pretty, He's sort of he checks
a lot of the boxes. I think

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for both of us and what we
like to see with pictures. I mean,

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you want to talk about a guy
using his tools very well. I

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mean, I don't know if there's
a picture, a minor league picture out

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there that does that quite as well
as Zebby right now. So he'd be

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a tough one to trade off.
But I mean everyone's got their price,

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right yeah, And I might consider
it for one of the elite relief arms,

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but thus far it's more like good
holds types relievers, and so I'm

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I'm leaning towards holding him, but
I might have one or two more deals

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to go before we close this deadline
out there. And then the WGM,

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the other thirty teamer we're in together. That team just got destroyed by injuries

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early and I don't think was super
well put together. When I took it

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over, it was like very top
heavy with like eight great players and then

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forty terrible are like very middling players. I tried to do a bit of

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a retool and that one that team
I think is in better position now than

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it was, but it's still is
that I'm out of the playoff race by

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a long shot. So hopefully to
play spoiler for some of those other teams

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down the stretch. I'm for that. Yeah, you know, so,

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I don't know. This last probably
month or so, I've got a good

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slew of lightly rostered hitters and pitchers
that I've been pretty impressed with this last

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month, have watched a good amount
of and one of them complex pick Up

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that we talked about, I think
the last couple of times, very briefly,

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I was kind of in the same
I used him as a trade chip

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and a couple of these recent deals
here, but I was curious, what

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are your thoughts of Demetrio Cryssants might
be. I know that we were both

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intrigued by his you know, stat
line and rookie ball. Now he's up

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in Visalia. I think he's got
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I've tuned in, watched a good
chunk and it was tough to kind of

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send him off. I was trying
to send off some different pieces. But

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Croissantis here man pretty impressive first month
single a yeah, he went three ninety

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eight forty one, five point fifty
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the same rate. I've really liked
the eyeball test him Mechanically, he kind

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of will slow it down and happily
lays a single, but he can still

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like put a charge in one pull
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I've seen him hit a couple of
those real hard. But yeah, I

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don't know. Have you have you
tuned into him at all? Have you

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seen him? I have watched him
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He's somebody. After we had identified
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complex that I started poking around,
picked him up for free in a couple

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of leagues, watch listed him in
a couple others, and I think I

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traded for him in two leagues in
smaller deals before he got promoted to low

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A, and he's been awesome.
He reminds me in some ways of what

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I liked about Hansel Luis last year. Just a little bit of a smaller

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guy, like slighter, young Latin
player, really clean actions, especially his

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right handed swing, I think is
just I like the contact that he gets

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to. I like that he's showing
some power at nineteen in the Cow League.

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Also for those leagues where you're playing
in a Roto dynasty, he's really

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showing a propensity to steal and he's
pretty good at it. In my couple

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of looks. I don't know how
you felt about some of his jumps,

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but it seems like he's swiping bags
like pretty easily. You know, he's

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not going a ton, but what
when he does. At least what I

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saw or a couple of the games, it was like he stole it without

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a throw, and I think he's
got some skill there. So he's off

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to an awesome start and a ball
and I'm not sure it's all going to

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hold up. Like he's running a
pretty high line drive rate that will probably

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come down a bit, and it'll
be interesting to see whether that goes more

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to the flyball side or the ground
ball side, because he kind of showed

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a bit of flyball tendency on the
complex according to his battball profile, and

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I think that'd be great. I
think he's got enough power to make that

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work I wanted to do. I
noticed, at least his first couple of

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weeks, the pitchers were seem to
really be testing him with velocity up in

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the zone, you know, which
I think makes a lot of sense,

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but that could to potentially lead to
more, you know, balls in the

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air. Just been pretty impressed there, and of course it's what he was

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a seventh round prep pick a couple
of drafts ago. You're not familiar.

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He was kind of on my radar
just a little bit and perfect game stuff,

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and I didn't even pay any attention
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But he definitely has shown up.
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up to like five percent now maybe, so I mean people are taking notice

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for sure. Yeah, yeah,
definitely. I don't know. That's a

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sign. That's a co sign for
me. I have really liked what I've

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seen out of him and hope he
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This is a mix of a lot
of things that I really like.

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Yeah, another bat Matt that we
have talked about before because he was both

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of our Red Sox B side selection
Alan Castro. Now, it was it

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was very slow, you know,
potentially rough first couple of months of the

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season in Greenville. I did not
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I don't really know what was going
on. But my lord, did he

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have the last month. He has
just been smoking hot, dude. Nine

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home runs in the last twenty games. Wow, two ninety seven, three

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sixty six A seven thirty slug and
he's got five doubles in the last twenty

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games as well. This time of
year, Matt, you know, we've

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got half a season of ball in
right, A lot of names popped up

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gotten more popular. I don't know
if you remember when we were choosing our

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B side selections. A lot of
them, you know, season lines maybe

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weren't super eye popping, but it
was a lot of guys that had great

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second halves. Point being, I
think we're getting into like the really good

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Mutting season here. We're gonna have
the draft just took place. There's gonna

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be first year of players getting some
run. There's gonna be guys like Castro

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that maybe nobody paid attention to,
but we like the skill set from last

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year. Love to see him maybe
get challenged at another level. But a

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great month from Castro, who didn't
really make our selection look all that great

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the first couple months of the season, but he has just been smoking hot.

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Yeah, it's it's awesome. And
the things that we liked about him

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were kind of some of those under
the radar things that we thought he was

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a pretty athletic. In my looks
at him, it looked like he had

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been making adjustments over the court of
the season last year. It was one

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of the reasons why I was sort
of encouraged even though the overall line was

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sort of underwhelming. It wasn't a
ton of stuff that wasn't anything eye popping.

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What he has done at high A, especially over the past month is

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just been one of the best hitters
in the minor leagues, which is awesome.

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You love it when a B side
guy gets to that kind of level.

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Mind you, you know, he's
still just twenty one years old and

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hi a so still I think that's
still young for a hitter. Yeah,

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and still only one percent rostered.
And you know, just like we like

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what we were attracted to do.
I think he's just kind of all around

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just seems like a pretty good hitter
and player. So I don't know,

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my interest has rekindled here, Yeah, and with I have castro in a

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couple of places, but there's I
think as one of my Dynasty leagues,

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I'm one of the top two or
three teams, and I'm shoving chips in

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pretty aggressively to pick up a couple
more win now pieces, and in doing

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so, I'm talking about giving up
some of my very favorite minor league prospects,

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and so I'm looking for guys to
backfill and Castro was available in that

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in one of those leagues, one
of those thirty teamers that I'm in,

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and so I'm trying to push one
of those deals through and Castro is on

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my short list to backfill it.
As I was going through some B side

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guys and some other crowdsourced a little
bit of who else might might make that

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cut, Castro was one that I
was like, ooh, he's available,

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and he's been really churning things on. And I also wouldn't be surprised if

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after the break he gets promoted to
Double A. So it was I think

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around August early August last year that
he got promoted to High A, and

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he had like a kind of a
month month and a half of High A

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at the end of last year,
and so I could see him getting a

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promotion post All Star break over to
Double A with the Socks. That's when

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you start to see this performance really
translating to major league project arm translations as

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well as that's when other Dynasty owners
I think, start to take interest.

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So this might be a good buying
opportunity for mister Alan Castro, Yeah,

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definitely. You know a lot of
this list, and what I've been watching

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is exactly what you said, like
starting to backfill all the prospects I sent

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in trades, Like all right,
what's out there that maybe he's getting unloved,

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But uh yeah, Castro definitely kind
of in that ilk for me right

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now, as soon as some spots
for you up here. Might have to

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take a look another guy like this. Now, he was a later round,

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first year player draft pick for me
in several leagues since dropped him just

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because they were more interesting, better
things I thought I could do. But

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Philly's third round pick from last year, Devin Saltaban, has kind of been

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on one last twenty games. He's
got five home runs, stole four bases,

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He's slashed in two seventy nine,
four forty nine, five point fifty

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nine. Now, mind you,
this is a you know, it's a

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young prep guy, and the first
couple of months of of pro ball for

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him. I mean, I think
it was a bit of a struggle.

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I think he was hitting under the
Mendoza line or close to it. But

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I think he's figured some things out, and you know, five home runs

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in twenty games in the fsl is
is pretty impressive. Been tuning in on

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him. I don't know if folks
out there haven't seen him or whatever.

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You can think maybe and this might
be a little bit lazy because he's Hawaiian

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too, but like you know,
maybe Shane Victorino ask a little bit more

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physical, a little bigger perhaps,
but maybe that's sort of like you know,

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long term dream if you will.
He's got more interesting to me again.

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Another guy that I might go back
to and roster Nate. I haven't

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watched too much of that Clearwater team
of late. Is Walton getting any plays?

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Has he been hitting? And how
how's the rest of that team doing?

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I know they had some struggles early
on. Well, so TJ.

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He had that injury, but I
don't know, a couple of months ago

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whatever it was, he came back, got into one game, I think

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he swung the bat twice and then
was out again and out for a decent

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amount of time. But he has
just returned. He just got a game

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in, maybe two games in right
before the break in Clearwater. So not

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really much to report on my guy
TJ. But a guy was and how

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saltim On's k rate? I know
it was a little high early. Has

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he brought that down during his hot
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be half a serious half a week
old, but he was on the season.

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He was at twenty seven percent over
the last twenty games, sixty eight

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at bats. He's struck out twenty
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But the Clearwater team, another guy
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And this is why Matt I don't
Kemp. I think we might have touched

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on him a little bit in the
chat room the other day, but I

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think kind of a good example of
maybe why you don't want to just right

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off an older guy in a ball
because he's moved up three levels already,

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and man, he just torched in
double A so far. I mean,

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maybe maybe Torch is a little strong. But five home runs in twenty one

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games at reading two fifty seven three
sixty four five hundred slug. He has

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struck out twenty three times, he's
watched eight times. What initially attracted me

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to camp Well, I mean,
besides eyeballs, he's got a pretty interesting

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batter ball profile, one that you
know might have good home run shape,

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home run potential. He popped what
he's got six home runs is that right?

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In Double A? Four in High
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down in Clearwater this year, So
kind of infield guy who you know might

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have some power. Now he's older
at twenty four, but you know what,

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is this his second pro season and
he's doing well in Double A.

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I think that's that's acceptable. Yeah. I love watching for those fast moving

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guys that maybe did start as a
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they hop a couple levels and you're
like, oh, that's sort of now

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a pretty interesting performance. There's some
real signal to that, that kind of

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noise, and for some guys that's
like that's just the way, like whether

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they were slowed after the draft by
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somebody else who was higher up the
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getting at bats. Like, there's
lots of reasons why a guy might start

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somewhere lower down in an organization,
and then paying attention to when they move

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and keep the performance up I think
is pretty important. You know one guy

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that has I think along that kind
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about a lot this year is Cjkapas
you know like he wasn't an advanced level

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last year, but then he just
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Macadou too, like he was an
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the season last year and then now
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And so I think kind of searching
for those guys is pretty proper Bowl.

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Yeah, and Kemp zero percent roster, you know, deep league. I've

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picked him up to backfill and you
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I don't really have very many bats
in my system at all, just to

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see what happens the rest of the
season. Here another guy who is maybe

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a little bit similar in that what
kind of attracted to me. Him to

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me was just kind of as bad
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And we've touched on Jared Dickey before, but man, he's this last month

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or so has been pretty dang hot
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games, he's three forty two four
sixteen five nineteen. He's hit just two

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home runs but struck out sixteen times
seven walks. Now, he's a bit

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how do you say, he's a
little bit goofy. Had to play a

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little goofy looking a little untraditional looking, but you know, like I said,

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if there's a guy who you know, he might be the type that's

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really going to maximize his bad at
ball profile and bat at shape to you

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know, pop some home runs and
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he he's still in high A at
quad Cities, but wanted to note him.

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He's a guy who's just kind of
been on the fringe of some of

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my rasters. I just kept an
eye on. But he's a free try.

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He's zero percent. That's an interesting
shout. I like that one one

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I wanted to highlight because A his
name has just stuck in my head and

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and B he's on a bit of
a hot streak now. And I remember

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this guy because in I think it
was my off season like Open Universe Player

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Draft in one of my thirty teamers
two off seasons ago. Yeah, I

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think it was two off seasons ago. I in the like second or third

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round. This is like deep where
we're one hundred and some picks into this

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FYPD, and I was between two
catchers that had performed in the DSL and

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one had performed on the complex,
and I went with Axial plause of the

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Pirates and I was like pretty excited. You know, had run a two

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hundred and nine WRC plus in the
DSL that year, and I was like,

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oh, this is a bat that's
going to move really quickly. I

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think Longenhangen at Fanografts had dropped a
nice blur upon Plause, and so I

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was pretty pumped about it. But
the guy that was my second choice here

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and ended up going I think like
a pick or two later, was Samuel

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Bisseo. So I really regretted that
pick for the last like year and a

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half, but I wanted to highlight
Plause because he was pretty bad all last

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year. He spent most of the
year as a seventeen year old on the

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Complex, was striking out way too
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It was just like a really lost
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Complex this year and in you know, just like a short sample, he

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was bad again. And so even
though he had SAT, I had dropped

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him in a roster crunch and he
wasn't on that roster anymore, but I'd

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kept him on a watch list.
Then he got promoted to a ball like

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a month ago, a little more
than a month ago, and has been

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had been pretty good to start,
but has really turned it on of late.

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He's mashing homers. He's got twelve
homers in the Florida State League in

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forty one games. That is mashing
there. Overall line good for a one

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thirty three WRC plus in the Florida
State League, and Plause just keeps banging.

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There's more swing and miss than you
would like. Still, it's a

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twenty five percent k rate and sort
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the plate approach doesn't seem great,
but I think he can kind of sting

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the ball a bit. Pretty interested
in the bad at ball distribution. He

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seems like a guy who's going to
hit a lot of fly balls, and

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I think that's a good thing for
him. It's a good thing for his

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profile. So Actuel Applause, you
know, I was so mad at him

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for like a good year and a
half, but he's coming back around,

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and I picked him up in a
deep league as a catcher who might hit

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for some significant power, even though
there's some swinging miss right on Matt.

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Both of our Andre's B side selections
have had some pretty good months. I

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mean they're on opposite ends of the
full season ball. But you know,

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we we've talked about Urso arnellis but
what this last month three ninety five,

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four thirty eight, six point fifty
one, he's pop seven home runs and

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you I mean he's still what,
he's still only twenty four years old.

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Yep, we know that he can
hit the ball really hard. I don't

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know what the Padres situation is.
I mean, I think they're doing pretty

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well and they got some good outfielders. But not to be forgotten, Urso

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man, he's uh, he's been
on one and he's still sitting at two

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percent. And then my young you
know, my kind of hail Mary selection

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at the end of our draft,
and you know, it's been up and

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down season. He's still very young. He still strikes out a lot.

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But man, Russman Verdugo has had
a pretty good month too. I've been

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in watching. Yes, yeah,
he's about three home runs three point fifty

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one, four sixty two, five
eighty one. He doesn't steal bases,

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but uh, I don't know.
I still like just the look, the

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eyeball look of this this young Mexican
swing, Like I think he has it

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in him to hit the ball pretty
hard, especially for his size. So

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I don't know. I'm still still
finding myself a little intrigued there. Yeah,

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Verdugo's ks still give me a little
bit of pause. But if that

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continue, if the power continues to
show up, it might not matter quite

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so much. And that's been encouraging
over the last month. I think he

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has been hitting the ball a lot
harder and getting rewarded for it. Yeah.

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Another guy that we have talked about
a little bit and it's starting to

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get a little more popular. He's
at four percent. But our batwaggle guy,

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Arian Amo man he in Mammo four
oh eight, four seventy one,

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six point fifty eight this last month, four home runs, four stolen bases,

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but he has been caught three times
hitting for a little bit more Popu.

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I thought maybe was in him watching
him last year, Matt, you

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think that might be true? Agreed? Still only at like what one or

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two, I've seen him getting picked
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I had him down at one percent, but you might be creeping up

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a little bit now. I think
one of the things that's causing him to

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get picked up too is that he's
stealing more bases. I know he's been

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not quite as successful as that the
last couple of weeks. But he's got

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twenty seven on the year already and
showing some fairly significant pop at High A.

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That's not bad, right, Like
that's for my twenty year old at

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high A. That's still young for
the level. I really love the back

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to ball. He is so consistent
at this. Check this out across the

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DSL the complex Low A, High
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rates of twelve point six percent,
twelve point eight percent, twelve point seven

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percent, twelve point four percent,
and currently has a strike at rate of

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twelve point three percent. And there's
some fluctuation here in his swinging strike raate

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and he's been a little more aggressive
or less aggressive, and it showed up

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in his walk rates. But the
guy has a good back to ball,

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funky swing notwithstanding, and seeing him
show a little more power, like that's

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pretty interesting to me. When you
have that kind of strikeout rate floor.

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He kind of reminds me of a
little more athletic like Jose Miranda type,

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you know what I mean, Like, yeah, good back to ball.

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There's gonna be some babbit fluctuations,
there's gonna be some hot streaks and cold

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streaks, but the good contact skills
helped give the their a floor. And

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it's not elite power here, and
I think the speed is maybe a little

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oversold by his twenty seven bags,
but he is athletic and that kind of

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spraying line drive y hitter that is
pretty competent at the plate. I think

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there's there's a real hitter here.
So and again he toned down the batwaggle,

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but there's still some of it there. And I love a funky swing.

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Helio Ramos, the giant, you
know, very highly thought of,

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then not so much, and then
just gets his MLB chants and he's killing

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it right. So I'm thinking about
him a little bit when I'm watching like

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Gyro Palmars and a guy Victor Barracoto. This last month or so, Barracoto,

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especially the first month and a half
two months of the season wasn't so

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great. I think he started getting
it together or whatever. He's three forty

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nine, three seventy five, four
forty six. This last month he was

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popping some home runs. Kind of
the maybe month before or half a month

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before, but both these guys is
kind of Richmond's a tough place to hit.

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Man so I don't know some of
these giant giant bats, if we're

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just like scouting the stat line or
what have you, maybe there's a little

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bit of the park factor stuff going
on. And Palmars is a guy that

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just, you know, for the
last what three four years, anytime I

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watch him, he just he looks
good to me, and he passes the

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eyeball testing me. I think he's
got you know, he's one of these

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guys who just kind of surprises him
so with not like hitting squaring up the

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ball the greatest and like still popping
some home runs. Like I think there's

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some like really still some interesting juice
in his bat. But he's had a

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decent month with four home runs.
I mean, I don't know how much

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I'm into Pomerius here Rostering, but
again just a backfield guy. He's at

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four percent, Barracodo's at two.
I still like Barracoto, but been tuned

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in some Richmond and both those guys
still kind of keeping me very interested.

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Nice. Nice. Have you watched
much of Greensboro with I was watching a

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good amount when Macadoo was there.
Yeah. Now I was also very like

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you know, focused and picky and
archiving and going back to just like mcadoo's

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at bats, but i'd see some
other stuff. Yeah, because a couple

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of guys I did some of the
same early this year as I was following

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McAdoo and he was lighting it up
there. But there's a couple other guys

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that are performing there, and I
wondered if if either had caught your eye.

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Nick Sameo, Samilo Sameo, I
can't remember they say that. Actually,

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I can't say I've seen much,
but I've seen a few at bats.

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And then Jack Branigan, who I
remember from the Florida Stately last year,

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is like an older guy. But
both I think are are hitting for

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significant amounts of power. They're both
a little old like they're again guys that

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I didn't check, but I don't
think anybody owns either of them. What's

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those guys' pool percentage? Do you
know? Do you have that in front

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of you? So I know both
of those guys, and I don't want

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to I don't want to make this
like a blank blanket statement. I've seen

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both those guys pop a few home
runs this year and they were both pulled

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down that extremely short line in Greensboro. Yeah, and both are Definitely,

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both sides are very very short,
and especially for Writy's I think, and

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these guys are both older, righty
bats, yeah, and both of them

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are above fifty percent on their pulled
yeah percentages. I'd be a little bit

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careful looking at like home run numbers
with guys in Greensboro if their pool percentages

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are high. Mcado is hitting the
ball. You know a lot of his

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home runs were center field, so
it wasn't so much of that. But

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but just something to think about if
you're just looking at numbers. Definitely a

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valid criticism of both these guys.
Both of their homer to flyball rates are

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pretty high, yeah, and I
think some of that is the park.

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But they're both watchless guys for me, as ones that I think nobody's going

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to own and they're just going to
like quietly keep moving up the ladder until

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00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:32.720
they turn into Jacksonwinsky or something like
that, you know what I mean.

407
00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:36.240
Like nobody was on Kowinsky and then
he hit thirty homers in the bigs,

408
00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:40.440
you know, So these are these
are just watchless guys for me right now.

409
00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:42.920
But if you need something to balance
out of trade, or you need

410
00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:47.000
somebody to backfill in a power focused
league. I think both are kind of

411
00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:49.799
interesting in Jack Bran again and Nick
Simeo to the lip. You know,

412
00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:55.319
I didn't like the Blue Jays when
we were making our B side selections.

413
00:28:55.599 --> 00:29:00.319
But Peyton Williams, this big,
big boy from Iowa, was was kind

414
00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:03.000
of on my short list. I
just couldn't quite bring myself to do it.

415
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:07.640
But he's had a pretty pretty good
month in High A. It's ball

416
00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:11.480
on the ground a lot, but
you know, he's big, he's powerful,

417
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.079
but he's gone three twenty one,
four twenty four, four ninety four,

418
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.400
it's about three home runs, five
doubles, walking almost as much as

419
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:22.039
he's striking out. But he's he's
still just you know, on the fringe

420
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:27.960
of being interesting to me. And
then then Cardo Olivur with Cedar Rapids,

421
00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:32.920
who's had a great season and I
know he's a catcher, but he's still

422
00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:36.240
he's only twenty two years old and
he's still only at one percent roster.

423
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:40.200
He had another killer month, he
went three twenty nine, four seventy three,

424
00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:45.160
five fifty seven month. Yeah,
so he continues to to kind of

425
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:49.720
rake and be a pretty interesting High
A hitter, I think. So I

426
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:55.400
know you said, you don't watch
much Triple A. I've been watching a

427
00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:59.920
little bit more though, because there's
some guys up there that I've been watching.

428
00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:04.480
The Sonoya, watching Natro before he
got hurt, I was watching some

429
00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:08.799
Jose Tania, you know, before
he got you know, called up to

430
00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:12.920
not play and then sent back down
former B side selection Jose Tania. By

431
00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:18.000
the way, one guy that stuck
out to me is I was perusing some

432
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.240
leaderboards and I went back and watched
a few games of is Brewer Hickland.

433
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:26.000
He seems like a B side guys. He just got called up, not

434
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.759
technically called up. I don't think
they put him on the forty. But

435
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:34.079
they didn't call up oh really yeah, okay, And I'm not sure whether

436
00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:37.119
that's like in advance of a post
All Star break call up or what.

437
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:42.720
But he's twenty eight. I believe
this would be his debut. But he's

438
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:48.799
having a great season. Power speed, blend, nineteen homers, twenty six

439
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.200
bags, thirteen doubles, four triples
too, strikes out a bit, but

440
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:57.720
still is you know, walks better
than average from in the International League.

441
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:03.039
I think he's kind of an interesting
bat. There's power there, you know,

442
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:11.119
decent Max. He's bounced around a
couple of organizations, but he's looked

443
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.759
pretty good. Might be a quad
A type guy, Like there's a chance

444
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:19.319
he comes up and is like a
thirty five percent is strikeout rate kind of

445
00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:22.599
guy. But I saw enough of
it that I was like, man,

446
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:27.480
I could see him getting some run
honestly, and as an injury back up

447
00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:33.880
in Milwaukee or hanging on somewhere else
like that. He's shown enough that it

448
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.279
looked to me like this was a
real hitter with some viability. I got

449
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:41.119
like that for free in a lot
of dynasty leagues. That might be helpful

450
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:45.880
depth for your stretch rum if he
gets a little bit of luck on the

451
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:48.480
playing time front. So yeah,
I just wanted to give brew Hicklin a

452
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.359
shout, like I think he got
tiny cup of coffee with Kansas City two

453
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.000
years ago. Yeah, he's an
interesting one. I had drafted Neil mar

454
00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:01.240
Achoa in a few leagues first year
player around pick and I traded them away

455
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:05.839
and then I started watching him some
and you know, maybe I'm wondering if

456
00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:08.279
I shouldn't have done that, But
I was really surprised to see that he's

457
00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:12.480
only rastering in three percent of leagues. I know that there's a lot of

458
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:15.880
strikeouts, but I'm in one league
that's like it's a smaller league. I

459
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:20.079
think it's fifteen teams, sixteen teams
where we have like huge minor league benches.

460
00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.279
I think there's like big, a
big dream here, big upside if

461
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.880
you will, And this guy's like
a physical, huge dude, and you

462
00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:29.880
can run and you can hit for
power. He's had pretty good months.

463
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:32.839
He popped five home runs, two
sixty five, three eighty four fifty eight

464
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:37.640
twenty four strikeouts, but he has
did walk fourteen times and stole six bags.

465
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:40.440
So I don't know. I was
just kind of surprised that he is

466
00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:45.160
as lightly rostered as he is.
I think it, you know, maybe

467
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.839
it's a little simplified, but he
does very much feel like, you know,

468
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:52.880
it's like a big boom or bus, like a gonna be a superstar

469
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.359
or nothing or a star or nothing
type of guy. And I think there's

470
00:32:55.440 --> 00:33:00.000
leagues where I'd be more inclined to
fish and grab few of those types.

471
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:02.720
Have you watched him at all?
I mean he's like a get off the

472
00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:07.240
bus dude. Man's big watched much
of him. I think I watched a

473
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:09.960
couple of bats. I don't know, maybe a month or so ago,

474
00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:13.960
but I have not watched much about
You should check him out if you get

475
00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:15.799
a chance. He's interested. I
was in the Rass thirty draft and I

476
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:19.319
was talking to I don't know if
Matt Thompson and I were trying to make

477
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:22.200
a deal or something, but you
know this off he said all He's like,

478
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:24.319
he's the guy that I'm not leaving
with because it's you know, like

479
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:28.720
I said, all or nothing.
One last bat that I haven't watched.

480
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:30.359
I just kind of started watching a
little bit Matt, and I wanted to

481
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:35.440
ask you if you've seen any but
the Orioles have this young nineteen year old

482
00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:39.160
and a ball Aaron Estrada quite the
last twenty two games three twenty five,

483
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:43.240
three ninety four, five point fifty
four. He hit three home runs,

484
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:46.680
stole nine bases, caught twice,
struck out fifteen times, walked nine times.

485
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:49.839
I think there is a little bit
of buzz on him. I think

486
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:52.440
he's moved up to two percent roster
now. But this was someone new to

487
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.680
me that kind of want to watch, and I haven't much, but I

488
00:33:55.759 --> 00:34:00.480
was just curious if you had anything
on him. I haven't watched him.

489
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:02.480
I think he popped up on a
leaderboard I was looking at a while back

490
00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:08.199
because he had been stealing bases a
decent amount and everything else looked pretty interesting.

491
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:10.960
But I have not watched any of
him live. Yeah, I'm gonna

492
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:14.599
have to get in to see what's
going on there a little bit more he

493
00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:17.000
might be. I know he's available
in a few of my leagues that I

494
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:22.199
might need to show the miners here. Well, we can't leave quick rundown

495
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:27.800
of some of the guys who've been
interested in without doing victory lapping, because

496
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:32.320
if there's anything that the fantasy community
is about, in the Dynasty community in

497
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:36.559
particular, it's victory lapping, right, Like, that's why we do this,

498
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.639
That's why we talk about this.
I think that's why we're in the

499
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:45.480
Dynasty discord. Is just a victory
lap. I think that's the only reason.

500
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:46.639
Right, you're with you on that, right, Like, that's that's

501
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:51.159
the whole that's the whole point.
Well, I think there has been no

502
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.760
better hitter in the minor leagues over
the last call it three weeks, four

503
00:34:54.800 --> 00:35:02.519
weeks. Then my Los Angeles Angels
b side the Young Fire hydrant capture,

504
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:09.480
outfield extraordinary. Gustavo Campeto. Man, this man has been on one.

505
00:35:09.679 --> 00:35:14.320
Have you seen what he's done over
the last like three weeks. It's it's

506
00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:16.880
been pretty insane, Like I don't
know what are they doing. They're just

507
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:21.320
all right, he's going to be
our Double A all Double A, all

508
00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:23.800
star guy. Where sit there and
do it, I guess, And hey,

509
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:28.679
maybe they'll promote Himenough to Triple A
and he can light the PCL on

510
00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:31.920
fire for a bit. But I
also wonder if like they're going to trade

511
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:36.840
you know, Ward away and then
they've got some more openings in the outfield.

512
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:38.280
Maybe they trade adela way too.
I don't know who knows what the

513
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:43.559
Angels are doing, but Gasavo Campero. Over the last three three ish weeks,

514
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:45.960
he's got a two hundred and fifty
six WRC plus in Double A.

515
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:50.440
And yeah, he's quote unquote old
for the level. He's like twenty six

516
00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:53.559
or something. And he's been through
waivers like multiple times, I think,

517
00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:58.679
or through the Rule five draft multiple
times, and nobody wants him. Watched

518
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.480
fourteen point seven percent of struck out
fourteen point seven percent of the time.

519
00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:07.440
Triple slash of three seventy two five
oh five, seven fifty six slug.

520
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:14.119
That's his slug. Like major league
average OPS is like seven thirty this year

521
00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:17.840
or something. He's got a twelve
sixty OPS over that period. He's swiped

522
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:22.039
eight bags in three weeks. Like
this little fire hydrant is so fun,

523
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:27.159
still Nate. Before we started recording, I haven't been keeping up with as

524
00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:30.760
many of the minor league games that
as as I usually do, But I

525
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.119
saw this heater that he's on,
and I watched a few of these bats,

526
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.360
and he is as fun as ever, Like just huge hacks, just

527
00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:42.840
lacing balls all over the yard,
swiping bags and his helmet flies off,

528
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:45.320
Like this dude is so much fun, and I'm just so pumped he's he's

529
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:50.159
having such a great middle of the
season. No, you were spot on

530
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:52.400
with that preseason. He is.
He is one of the most fun guys

531
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:57.480
to watch in the minors, I
think, and just then destroying the Southern

532
00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:00.639
destroying it. It's wild. And
again, like I think I said this

533
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:04.480
when we when we talked about like
I don't think this is really a guy,

534
00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:07.400
like I don't think he's he might
make the major leagues. Is like

535
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:13.280
a utility guy or whatnot. But
he's so fun and whenever he has any

536
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:16.239
success, I'm just like so pumped
about it, just because he genuinely was

537
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:22.559
my favorite player last year to just
like stumble upon and watch him play.

538
00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:28.079
So he's still doing it. He's
a perfect trash panda and hopefully, hopefully

539
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:30.480
he gets promoted up to Salt Lake
and we see him in the PCL soon.

540
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:35.440
Yep. I think that's that's been
the highlight of the Bats. I've

541
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:37.840
kind of been getting into this last
month. Matt, You've got anybody else

542
00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:42.079
or should we get to the good
part of things. I mean, there's

543
00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:47.320
a couple other like complex guys that
I'm pretty interested in seeing them, and

544
00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:52.119
obviously like we can't watch him yet, but I think Clig had highlighted a

545
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.440
couple of these guys a while back, and I was in again one of

546
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:59.039
those spots where you needed to add
a few guys, and so I popped

547
00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:05.719
Franklin Are from the Red Sox and
English Urana from the Yanks. Both they

548
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:09.199
look awesome, like stat sheet looks
awesome, and I think both have had

549
00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:13.679
really good reports. So those are
ones that like, again I haven't seen

550
00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:16.920
live have been like I've popped him
in a couple of leagues and I've been

551
00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:21.559
pleasantly surprised about what it done so
far. And then we talked about this

552
00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:27.239
guy on the discord a little while
back when Spokane was playing Everett. Kyle

553
00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:31.840
Carros had a great series and has
just kept that going. His knock for

554
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:37.679
him, like he's sort of been
lauded as a plus defender and nobody was

555
00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:40.639
sure if he would ever hit for
enough power or just like hit enough in

556
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:45.760
general. You know, he's twenty
one in hi A, Spokane is a

557
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:49.559
good place to hit, and there's
a couple other decent parks in the Northwest

558
00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:53.119
League to hit. But he looks
really good and it's almost been like since

559
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:58.199
that Everett road trip for them,
he's just kept kept it up and it's

560
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:00.960
really smoking the ball. So I
just wanted to highlight him as like plays

561
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:05.960
for the Rockies. So if he
keeps going and makes the bigs like,

562
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:07.320
it's going to be a good place
to hit. And he plays really good

563
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:13.199
defense, which say what you will
about the Rockies overall, but they've had

564
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.320
a pretty significant commitment to guys that
can actually play defense really well, and

565
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:20.760
he seems to be in that mold
to me. And so if the hitting

566
00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:24.239
keeps up and he can play good
d and he's playing in coors a lot

567
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:29.000
of time, he's someone that I
think isn't getting enough love. But I

568
00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:31.800
quite liked my looks at him.
And I could keep talking about hitters because

569
00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:37.039
they're the best. But I see
Nate fidgeting, he's drinking his beer.

570
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:40.039
He's like, God, get us
off the athletes and talk about the nerds.

571
00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:45.159
So let's go talk about the nerds, the smart ballplayers, ones that

572
00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:50.559
matter the most. Pitchers this last
month or so, I'm just talking zero

573
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:53.480
one percent here. So again,
some guys, if you've traded off some

574
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:58.039
prospects, maybe some arms, to
think about filling up your rosters with and

575
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.400
seeing how the rest of the season
goes. But we've talked kind of in

576
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:04.239
depth about several of these guys,
Matt, because they were our B side

577
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.000
selections. But your guy, James
Gonzalez has gotten up the double A.

578
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:13.760
He remains pretty dang interesting. I
think it's what he's gotten, what eleven

579
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:16.639
games in now in double A,
striking out twenty one percent, walking eight

580
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:20.519
and a half percent, you know, one point three to two whip.

581
00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.480
But he's had some like, you
know, he's had some big outings.

582
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:25.960
I think he's had a couple where
he's gotten maybe beat up a little bit.

583
00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:30.280
But you know a guy in the
uppers who continues to have some success,

584
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:34.280
I'm intrigued. And he's a big
boy. I love a big boy.

585
00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:38.239
And Gonzalez has just been pretty consistent
throughout the year. I really like

586
00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:42.119
him. Yeah, And of course, like this isn't you know, you

587
00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:44.880
know, roster James Gonzalez be like, all right, this is going to

588
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:46.760
be, you know, front of
my rotation someday. But you know,

589
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:51.039
just Matt more and more, pitching
more and more. I watch. It's

590
00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:53.400
just like guys can make some big
jumps, like we've talked about. And

591
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:58.320
as long as you're just like winning
the war of attrition and moving up having

592
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.440
success, you get yourself in bigs. You pitch well a few times,

593
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:07.880
like if you can stick around and
really get a chance to be a part

594
00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:10.320
of the important, most important part
of development, you know, going up

595
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.079
against big league hitters and you got
a chance, and you look around.

596
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:17.960
Look at the All Star Game the
other day, like there's several pitchers having

597
00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:24.039
great, fantastic starting seasons that you
know, weren't pegged as future number ones

598
00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:30.840
or front of the rotation guys,
Like that's just a super I don't I

599
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.440
don't like to. I don't like
to frame it and get myself thinking about

600
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.280
arms that way. I don't know. Of course, the schemes is pretty

601
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:40.079
obvious to you that like, hey, he could be really good, you

602
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:44.239
know, he could be really good. He could be an ace, like

603
00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:46.800
yeah, but there's there's more subtle
aces out there that come to be after

604
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:51.159
many years of learning how to pitch
in the bigs, and you don't always

605
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:52.599
need an ace. I mean,
those guys are great to get, but

606
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:57.000
you know, the types of leagues
that we play in, arms that are

607
00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:02.920
consistent, like mid tier time sixty
to one hundred and twenty starters like those

608
00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:08.639
are useful and win championships if you've
got you got those guys, especially if

609
00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:13.400
you've used your opportunity cost well on
the athletes, on the hitters, you

610
00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:16.440
know, then you've already rostered the
good players and you just got to backfill

611
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:22.440
with the dumb nerds that everybody else
overlooks. Yeah, my Mets, beside

612
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:27.800
arm Kate Morris has been pitching much
better of late. I still like him,

613
00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.119
you know, again, just kind
of a sum of all parts.

614
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:34.320
I think there's plenty of big league
pitchers in there. I think his execution's

615
00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:37.440
getting a little better. I like
his athleticism still in high A. But

616
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:42.920
I'm wondering if, with all the
new college guys that might be coming in

617
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:45.079
what have you, if he is
going to get a double A chance before

618
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.320
the season ends. He's had some
really nice outings of late. I think

619
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:53.159
he just had an FQO if I
remember correctly, my guy Tyler Schweitzer.

620
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:58.400
Now, I remember when we were
talking about Schweitzer Matt preseason. You asked

621
00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:00.800
me if I was worried about his
chances in Chicago, and I was like,

622
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:05.199
I'm not worried that talents will get
in the way of his chance,

623
00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:08.519
but you know, the White Socks
have added quite a few arms since then.

624
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:13.599
True, Well, he's recently he's
got five starts in now I think

625
00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:15.519
at double A, and he's been
pretty good. He can just be kind

626
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:20.159
of frustrating because you can see how
good he can be at times, and

627
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.280
it's just you know, a lot
of minor league pitchers are like this,

628
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:28.559
but a whole starter's kit he can
really execute his whole arsenal well and really

629
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:30.960
pitch well, and the other times
it's just kind of getting hit up too

630
00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:35.800
much. But like I said,
he's in Birmingham now and showing out a

631
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:39.679
bit. I'm still very much into
Schweitzer and he's sitting at what he's at

632
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:45.159
one percent Still TJ McCarty has had
some nice outings of late, going deeper

633
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.800
in games, striking at the walks
have come down for him. Still like

634
00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:53.719
his funkiness and his robotic demeanor on
the mound. I'm curious again with some

635
00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:58.079
new college guys coming around, if
he's going to get a double A shot

636
00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:01.480
sitting at I think about sixty innings
fifty six innings or something like that on

637
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:07.280
the season so far, and I
think there's been some pretty obvious improvements in

638
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:12.119
his execution as I've watched him this
season. And I wanted to ask you,

639
00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:15.039
Matt Now. I know, I
think he got blown up the other

640
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:20.519
day. But a guy in the
Mariners system that you weren't super high on,

641
00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:24.679
Michael Morales, have you paid any
attention to him recently? I mean,

642
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:28.280
I think he had a pretty well
He's got two starts in double A

643
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:30.360
now. I think the first one
was pretty good. In the second one,

644
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.199
I think he got blown up a
little bit. I haven't watched much,

645
00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:37.679
but I think he's having his best
pro season so far. I haven't

646
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:40.480
watched him much this year. As
you note, he was a guy that

647
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:47.159
I was mildly interested in maybe two
years ago and was kind of a watchless

648
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:53.440
guy for me that hasn't really ever
coalesced. So I I haven't seen either

649
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:57.440
of his double A starts, and
I haven't followed him that closely because I

650
00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:00.119
kind of I kind of wrote him
off a bit, And that is it's

651
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:02.119
just one thing to note, like
sometimes you do that, you just write

652
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:06.760
off a guy that like he's a
jag for me, just a guy and

653
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:09.079
you can only focus on things so
much, and it takes quite a bit

654
00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:13.199
to pull you back in a guy
like that. For me a while back

655
00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:15.280
was Ben Joyce, where I was
just like, look, he throws hard.

656
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:20.239
He made a bunch of headlines when
he was at Tennessee because he hit

657
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:22.719
one hundred and five, and I
watched him pitch and I was like,

658
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:28.239
he actually sucks. He doesn't strike
anybody out, he has bad control,

659
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:31.159
he has one pitch I wrote him
off like I had a chance to keep

660
00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:37.400
him for free in a league that
has like namesake prospecting kind of thing,

661
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:38.800
and I passed on it because I
was like, I think this is a

662
00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:43.679
reliever at best and a bad one. And now he seems to be a

663
00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:45.559
pretty good reliever. But it's just
an example of like a guy that I

664
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:50.039
wrote off and lost out on you
in the long run, and then Matt,

665
00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:52.440
I didn't look. I haven't looked
at ba's top one hundred. I

666
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:55.840
don't think all season. But is
it true that I hear right? Is

667
00:45:55.960 --> 00:46:00.760
Gary gil Hill their top one hundred? Now? I haven't. I haven't

668
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:05.360
seen. I know they've written him
up pretty glowingly a couple of times.

669
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:07.840
I think he's getting some real helium. I think that was a great call

670
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:10.000
about you. I think you got
it well. I think he got his

671
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:14.519
tit slit his last outing. But
I didn't bring I brought him up because

672
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:20.159
I wanted to talk about Isaiah Low, who was my what padres beside arm.

673
00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:23.880
But Low has been really freaking good
and racking up fqos down in a

674
00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:29.480
ball. He's at thirty one point
three percent strikeout, nine point six percent

675
00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:34.119
walks, I kind of think just
from an arsenal standpoint, just my view.

676
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.679
I don't have you know, metrics
and numbers like I find his arsenal

677
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:44.119
as intriguing and nasty looking as Gary
gil Hills, and nobody's on Low Man

678
00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:46.920
he's one percent rostered. Still,
I think he's actually one guy that I

679
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:52.760
have well because you know, the
value on the trade table wasn't meeting how

680
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.000
I value him at all. It
was easy to trade Gary gil Hill,

681
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:59.400
but I've managed to hang on to
to Low and he might be my most

682
00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:02.920
exciting Paune prospect after trade seasons over
in some of my leagues. But he's

683
00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:07.079
been really good and I think really
slept on and again that I think some

684
00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:10.920
of that is the West Coast thing. Yeah, he's been good in San

685
00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:15.119
Diego. I don't know what you
think about this, but I feel like

686
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:20.400
they've done a pretty good job with
some pitching development overall. I think maybe

687
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:24.559
they're hitting development isn't isn't quite as
good, but they've definitely developed some pictures

688
00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:30.599
that and have shepherded them through the
system. Maybe maybe this is dated a

689
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:35.679
little bit now. I don't know
what I've gathered about the Padres pitching development

690
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:38.440
over the last few years that they're
very hands off. Watching Maser a lot.

691
00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:42.719
I think some of that kind of
shows, I think they kind of

692
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:45.840
just and they tend to push.
I think I think they push a little

693
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:47.320
bit, and I think they let
guys just kind of figure it out.

694
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.559
And I don't think their at least
this is what I was told. They're

695
00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:58.119
not like Super. I don't know
lab Ish and into all that as much

696
00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:01.679
as some other organizations, but I
do agree they do tend to pop some

697
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:06.639
pitchers in the draft. They did
it again just the other day, some

698
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:10.880
amateurs I've kind of had my eye
on, and they tend to take some

699
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:14.239
of those guys. So I don't
know. I don't know how I totally

700
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:17.239
feel about all that. I wish
that Maser maybe had a little bit more

701
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:22.360
guidance learning how to pitch. But
they seem to always have some interesting arms,

702
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:24.280
I think, or at least over
the last four years or so,

703
00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:29.920
well, my b side arm from
them. Austin Krabb, the lefty with

704
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:34.000
pretty good control. He's had a
pretty bad year so far, like certainly

705
00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:37.280
the first few. He's turned it
on a little bit of late He's had

706
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:40.320
some good outings lately he has.
He's one that I think started the year

707
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:44.800
with like extremely bad luck. I
think his BABIT was high. I think

708
00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:47.199
his left on basis really low,
and it was a lot, and he

709
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.679
wasn't doing quite as well on the
bas runner prevention side of things, walking

710
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:54.480
a bit more than he had in
previous years. But I think he has

711
00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:59.119
righted the ship. At double A. It has looked more like he did

712
00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:01.800
of late training into one of his
starts a couple of weeks ago, and

713
00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:05.960
it looked more like I remembered from
last year. I was sort of surprised

714
00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:08.079
that he'd been having so much struggle. He seemed like a back end starter,

715
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:13.760
good control, good command kind of
guy, and he hadn't been showing

716
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:15.320
that so far. But I think
he's sort of righted the ship and is

717
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:20.599
another one to look at as like
a high probability back end starter rotation.

718
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:22.679
Yes, yeah, you know,
at the beginning of the year, I

719
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:25.679
was kind of wondering if Crab might
be ahead a Mazer for a major league

720
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:30.039
start, But he was so bad
to start the year, wasn't It wasn't

721
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:35.920
to be. I don't know if
you've watched any Nick Cinecola or the Giants.

722
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:39.000
He's been up in double A for
about six or seven starts, and

723
00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:44.360
he's striking out thirty percent up there
and walking six percent. I think historically

724
00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:49.760
I've never really been a big fan
of his executionist command and that sort of

725
00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:52.920
thing in the brief watches. I
think I watched him, you know,

726
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:55.679
several times when he was with Eugene. Maybe he was still a ball last

727
00:49:55.719 --> 00:50:00.400
year. I don't know whatever it
was, but he's kind of I got

728
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:04.880
my attention a little bit just the
strikeout, you know, ability twenty four

729
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:07.679
year old double A. We'll see
how that goes. But Giants are kind

730
00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:10.320
of a fun b siding franchise because
they I feel like they just give a

731
00:50:10.360 --> 00:50:15.960
lot of guys a shot and they
they'll rotate through and that can be a

732
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:17.800
little bit frustrating, you know,
it could take a little bit longer for

733
00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:22.159
a guy to get more settled in
the biggs. But Sinicole, I've definitely

734
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:27.119
picked him up to back Bill in
a few spots. Another Oriole that I

735
00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:30.320
want to watch some more of.
But Blake Money down an a ball has

736
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:32.719
put up some interesting numbers. I
want to watch him some more. A

737
00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:37.599
couple more I know Rockies, but
Mahoney and Adams have been pretty good,

738
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:44.639
but Matt. The guy that has
been most interesting to me of late is

739
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:50.599
Ryan Gusta of the Astros. Now
you look at his season line, he's

740
00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:54.239
twenty five in Triple A. He's
got a I think five thirty two era.

741
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:58.599
Forgive me if these are dated by
like an outing. Fourteen starts,

742
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:02.239
sixty nine innings, twenty one point
six K percentage of ten point two,

743
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:07.679
walk percentage two eighty six average one
sixty two whip a five thirty two er

744
00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:13.039
right, not like sexy looking stuff
right now. Of course, he's in

745
00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:16.079
the PCL, so there's that.
But I watch I've watched, I think

746
00:51:16.119 --> 00:51:20.000
when we were doing our B side
research, I was watching a little bit

747
00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:22.239
of him from last year. But
man, he has been on a tear

748
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:27.840
in the PCL. His last six
starts thirty five point one innings, one

749
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:30.559
point two eight eer, a point
nine to one whip twenty four point six

750
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:36.039
percent, k a five percent walk
rate, strike percentage of sixty eight percent,

751
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:39.639
zero home runs, only five earned
runs. So I have been turning

752
00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:43.280
him on. You know. Of
course, it's Triple A, so it's

753
00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:45.679
fun. You get the savant stuff
with it, and man, this guy

754
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:50.599
is just looking now. Of course
it's small sample, but he is looking

755
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:53.639
like our kind of dude, man, like fucking good stuff. You're talking

756
00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:59.079
lots of stuff. You're talking lots
of ways of attacking hitters, executing it

757
00:51:59.119 --> 00:52:01.960
well. His fast ball seems to
have gotten more lively. He throws a

758
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:06.320
couple of different ones. Now,
the breaking stuff looks good, the change

759
00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:09.400
up looks good. He's getting like
high percentage of whiffs on all of the

760
00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:15.639
pitches at different outings. What his
I think this was his last outing,

761
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:17.679
or at least it was the last
outing of his that I watched. But

762
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:21.960
he threw he threw a four steamer, a change up, a curveball,

763
00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:28.159
a cutter, and a slider right, and he got csw fifty three fifteen

764
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:32.800
forty five percent, ten whiffs on
twenty swings with his four steamer, four

765
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.519
whiffs on ten swings with his change
up. And you know, so watching

766
00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:40.159
the video, like, all right, how sharp is this guy looking?

767
00:52:40.239 --> 00:52:44.719
And this is this is interesting.
I don't think I've ever watched the guy

768
00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:46.480
and thought about this before, or
at least as much, Matt, But

769
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:52.320
you see him he has misses,
right, he misses his location, and

770
00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:55.519
he'll miss it by i'd say a
good amount, right, But man,

771
00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:00.800
he's got such a high percentage of
these misses just still be like great pitches

772
00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:06.880
on the edges. Like Ketcher will
call for a fastball down in the way

773
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:10.079
and he'll just paint one high and
in right, And it's like to me,

774
00:53:10.159 --> 00:53:15.320
I'm like, man, is this
coincidence that so many of his misses

775
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:20.480
end up like located extremely extremely well? And I'm starting to think watching like

776
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:23.000
his last three starts, like is
this guy just not listening to what his

777
00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:28.960
ketcher wants? I don't know,
like honestly, like binge, watch his

778
00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:31.559
last three four or five starts and
if you don't think about that a little

779
00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:34.800
bit, because I am like,
if I if I had a chance to

780
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:37.360
interview him, that'd be like the
first question I'd ask him, are you

781
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:40.599
just doing what you want? But
yeah, dude, and so you're talking

782
00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:45.119
you know that, like WGM,
I'm competing having starting pitching depth is always

783
00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:49.920
nice. He's zero percent rostered.
He could be close, So I'm like,

784
00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:52.159
yeah, I'm gonna pick him up
in case I just need an arm

785
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:57.760
or whatever. But some legit interests
over here on Ryan Goosta. I think

786
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:00.519
maybe, however you want to call
it bit a late bloomer or what have

787
00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:05.360
you. But and it's only six
starts, but very very excited to see

788
00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:07.840
how the rest of his season goes. Yeah, Gus is an interesting one.

789
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:12.559
I haven't watched or don't recall watching
him. I've watched a decent amount

790
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.599
of the PCL this year, but
I don't recall him standing out. And

791
00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:20.079
you look at his line and it's
it's again like nothing pops in it,

792
00:54:20.199 --> 00:54:22.760
you know, like you go back
five years worth of minor league data and

793
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:27.480
nothing is like stand out. Oh
my god, this is incredible. But

794
00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:32.440
it's been pretty consistent and pretty He's
held his between three five and four five

795
00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:37.800
fit for most of that time.
Yeah, and doing it Doing that in

796
00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:42.960
the PCL is no joke. Yeah
this year. So yeah, he's carved

797
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:46.760
up some pretty good lineups of late. And you know I have taken notice.

798
00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:52.440
Nice, Sorry, have you watched
any of Sorry it's a Dodgers pitching

799
00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:54.519
prospect. So maybe I know the
answer to this. But if you watch

800
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:58.599
any of Chris Campos this year,
no, I don't think I have.

801
00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:04.480
Campos was like a seventh rounder.
I think a couple of years ago out

802
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:07.760
of the West Coast Conference, and
so I'd seen him. He pitched for

803
00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:12.440
Saint Mary's and I'd seen him and
thought he was kind of interesting coming out

804
00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:15.840
of college. Pretty low slot guy, like he's not big, you know,

805
00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:22.119
he's maybe six foot if I recall
correctly, but pretty low slot delivery.

806
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:25.639
And I always thought his fastball played
better than like the VELO looked on

807
00:55:25.679 --> 00:55:29.760
it. And I also thought that
he had pretty good control, And it

808
00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:35.719
seems to me over the last this
year, he's like last year he kind

809
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:38.840
of struggled and was totally forgettable,
and so I think I dropped him off

810
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:45.639
a couple of watch lists. But
this year he's really stopped walking anybody.

811
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:50.440
I mean, he's down below five
percent on the year walk rate and is

812
00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:53.239
striking guys out at like twenty seven
percent or so, and he's up in

813
00:55:53.360 --> 00:55:59.960
Double A now and pretty much chopping
that league. He's a guy that like

814
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:02.360
went from, oh, this is
sort of interesting. And I don't know

815
00:56:02.360 --> 00:56:07.480
if he's popping on other lists or
anything, but he was one that popped

816
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:08.880
for me and I was like,
oh, this is pretty interesting, and

817
00:56:08.920 --> 00:56:15.039
I remember liking him. He's won
Chris Campos for the Dodgers. That encourage

818
00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:17.559
you to see if you like it. I actually be really curious if you

819
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:22.880
like the arsenal. I find that
I have enjoyed how it's played in Tulsa.

820
00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:27.880
I think I saw him, I
mean against Amarillo, he had a

821
00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:30.800
really solid start. But yeah,
anyway, you should watch him tap a

822
00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:35.559
Campos and see if anything pops for
you. But he's an interesting one for

823
00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:38.360
me. I'll take a look.
See what's up there that think you dadger?

824
00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:43.280
All right, Matt, So enough
of that mudding. Let's talk a

825
00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:45.239
little bit. Well, let's just
do a different kind of muddon. Let's

826
00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:49.480
talk about the draft real quick here. You know, for us we're not

827
00:56:49.679 --> 00:56:52.880
like huge followers of amateurs, right, but I mean we're not super naive.

828
00:56:53.079 --> 00:56:57.320
I think the draft now is when
I start to really do my homework

829
00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:00.559
and dive and get into some stuff. But I know you have. You've

830
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:05.800
been out to some University of Portland
games, right, They had three pictures

831
00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:10.079
draft yep, Sam start is that
how you say it? Right? Brown

832
00:57:10.159 --> 00:57:17.159
for the A's yep, Nick Brink
seventh round to the Marlins, and then

833
00:57:17.639 --> 00:57:24.320
Joey Gartrell YEP fifteenth round to the
Boston Red Sax and Gartreil would have gone

834
00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:30.280
higher if not for TJ. This
year, he okay through I think it's

835
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:35.079
like four games is their Friday Night
starter. Ninety five ninety six fastball,

836
00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:37.800
but a ton of sink and run
and a good slider and solid command.

837
00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:42.679
Gartreil is kind of a horse like
that's that's a sort of sleeper one to

838
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:45.079
put in, Like nobody's gonna draft
him in an FYPD and he's not going

839
00:57:45.159 --> 00:57:47.760
to be like a big K guy
I don't think in the pros. But

840
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:52.239
I think his sinker is going to
play and he'll be He'll be an interesting

841
00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:54.360
one to follow, Like I wouldn't
be surprised if, like two years from

842
00:57:54.360 --> 00:57:59.559
now, we're seeing him chop up
double a with like a eight k per

843
00:57:59.639 --> 00:58:02.320
nine, like a sixty five percent
ground ball rate or something. Okay,

844
00:58:02.519 --> 00:58:07.239
they had three pretty good arms this
year then THO they actually had more than

845
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:09.960
that, but those are the three
that went. And for the West Coast

846
00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:15.239
Conference to get three pitchers drafted,
I think Gonzaga did it two years ago

847
00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:20.880
with the Hughes draft. I forget
the other two guys there, but they

848
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:23.760
had three pitchers drafted, but it
is very rare. I'll brag on my

849
00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:28.880
buddy who was their pitching coach,
like he did an awesome job with that

850
00:58:29.039 --> 00:58:35.159
pitching staff, like turning those guys
into really really strong arms. I'll give

851
00:58:35.159 --> 00:58:38.320
you the quick overview on each of
them. Stir Went the highest. Not

852
00:58:38.519 --> 00:58:42.920
that surprising because he's like up to
ninety seven. I think he gets up

853
00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:45.800
to ninety nine and bullpens and stuff, but in games it's more like ninety

854
00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:51.639
four to six I think, and
has a really nice slider, but the

855
00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:55.679
command is okay rather than excellent.
I think he got by on just having

856
00:58:55.840 --> 00:59:00.840
better stuff than the West Coast Conference
for the most part, less consistent than

857
00:59:01.119 --> 00:59:06.840
Gartrel when he was healthy, and
certainly than Brink and Nick Brink. I'm

858
00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:08.679
pretty sure I didn't double check this, so I'm pretty sure he was WCC

859
00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:13.639
Pitcher of the Year this year.
Super well earned. Like this guy was

860
00:59:13.639 --> 00:59:17.280
incredible, very very smart. Like
I would talk to the scouts in the

861
00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:22.360
stands and they would all be like, this guy's like wildly smart, almost

862
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:25.639
like I don't know if you know
scouts like this. Sometimes they're intimidated by

863
00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:30.119
that. I feel like this guy's
way smarter than me, and they would

864
00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:35.679
almost take that as a negative sometimes, and but Brink turns that into really

865
00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:40.639
really knowing how to pitch. And
he's got like four pitches that he's pretty

866
00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:45.880
confident using. And I actually loved
his changeup and his confidence in using it

867
00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:50.400
in interesting spots, which is like
one of my favorite things to watch as

868
00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:53.719
a pitcher. His fastball's mid nineties. His slider is a bullet slider that

869
00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:58.840
really works, but I always thought
his changeup was his best secondary and he

870
00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:02.360
had really good command of all three
pitches. He toyed with a sweeper too,

871
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:07.039
but I think he mostly was a
bullet slider guy or gyro slider guy.

872
01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:12.360
And the one thing about Brink other
than like the weird thing that some

873
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:16.679
of the scouts had with his like
being really really smart, is he has

874
01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:22.559
an odd delivery in one pretty specific
way. And I actually sat there for

875
01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:25.960
one of his games this year talking
with like three of the other scouts there

876
01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:32.199
asking them what they made of this. And Brinks strides pretty open lands with

877
01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:37.079
his front foot like pretty far to
the left side. He's already pretty far

878
01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:40.159
to the left side of the mound, and he still like gets down the

879
01:00:40.199 --> 01:00:45.000
mound pretty well. Obviously has good
velo, has good control, but it's

880
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:50.239
one of those things that I couldn't
really come up with a starter that had

881
01:00:50.280 --> 01:00:54.320
a similar stride alignment, if you
know what I mean. And I don't

882
01:00:54.320 --> 01:00:57.239
know if you have any off the
top of your head, mate, but

883
01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:00.400
we couldn't really come up with any
with this group of scouts that I was

884
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:05.840
sitting with. I wondered if that
impacted his velocity just it seems like he

885
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:10.079
was like off center enough that maybe
it was eking a little less velocity out

886
01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:15.840
than he actually has in there.
And I wondered whether the slightly atypical delivery

887
01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:20.239
knocked him down a bit in the
draft, because you look on performance and

888
01:01:20.280 --> 01:01:23.880
he was better than like some of
the Gonzaga arms that have been popped in

889
01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:29.079
the second round or something. I'm
sort of surprised that he fell to the

890
01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:31.719
seventh I know that Miami guys liked
him, so I'm not super surprised that

891
01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:36.119
Miami is the one that took him. But Bring for me, is the

892
01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:40.039
best of those arms. And I
do wonder if a team like Miami,

893
01:01:40.079 --> 01:01:44.679
who I think have especially on the
pitching side, have done more of the

894
01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:49.000
lab type stuff, whether they can
coax even more velocity out of him,

895
01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:51.960
and again whether he needs that or
not, whether that might lead to injury

896
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.599
down the line. Like who's to
say, But I think it's an interesting

897
01:01:53.679 --> 01:01:59.800
landing spot for Brink, and he's
one that I would say is from what

898
01:01:59.880 --> 01:02:02.639
I had seen in the last maybe
two years, like he's one of the

899
01:02:02.639 --> 01:02:07.480
best pitching prospects that I have seen
in person in college. I'm sure he's

900
01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:12.320
not going to land high on any
FYPD list, and we'll probably circle back

901
01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:15.440
to him this offseason as we get
ready for FYPD season. But for me,

902
01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:19.679
Brink is like a flag plant type
guy. I just think that guy's

903
01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:22.199
going to have success and he's going
to be a good, a GID pro

904
01:02:22.239 --> 01:02:25.920
pitcher too. Fun. I had
to ask you about those guys because I

905
01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.719
figured you had some experience with them, some intel quite a bit, quite

906
01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:32.599
a bit. Yeah, I don't
have nearly as much, but I was

907
01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:40.119
kind of not surprised and maybe kind
of excited to see the Angels took Trey

908
01:02:40.199 --> 01:02:46.079
Gregory Alford, Colorado prep pitcher.
Big kid throws really hard, pretty electric

909
01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:50.719
stuff. But I had a few
high school coaches out here the same ones

910
01:02:50.719 --> 01:02:53.079
that kind of tip me off on
Martin when he was like a sophomore in

911
01:02:53.119 --> 01:02:57.400
high school. I think that he
is like the most electric arm that they've

912
01:02:57.440 --> 01:03:00.840
seen out here. And you know, the Angel kind of gave him the

913
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:05.000
Cat and Dana treatment again. You
know, he's not a nothing prep guy.

914
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:07.639
You maybe came on the scene a
little bit later. But like Perfect

915
01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:10.679
Game has him ranked, had him
ranked thirty fourth, but they popped him

916
01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:15.119
in the eleventh. I'm sure they'll
sign him for a million dollars or whatever,

917
01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:17.039
similar to what they did with Dana. And you know, the Angels

918
01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:21.920
like to move fast. So I'm
kind of excited to see him in pro

919
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.880
ball and probably pretty soon here.
Yeah, that could be interesting, you

920
01:03:24.920 --> 01:03:29.519
know, first year player drafts and
stuff, but work and stuff. Those

921
01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:34.480
sometimes those day three guys who get
paid like Day one or Day two guys

922
01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:37.480
don't get the attention they deserve.
So yep, maybe maybe a sneaky guy

923
01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:40.280
there to keep an eye on.
We'll have a lot more to talk about

924
01:03:40.280 --> 01:03:45.119
with the draft and whatnot. But
I don't know any any pretty boy thoughts

925
01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:47.400
off the off the top of your
head, any reactions from you with the

926
01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:52.599
pretty Boys first round or whatever.
Well, I mean, I think the

927
01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:55.480
best guy went first, which I
know there was a lot of speculation about

928
01:03:55.639 --> 01:04:00.119
the Guardians sueing something kind of creative
with that. Do you think that because

929
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:03.519
you saw him this year you weren't
I know you weren't impressed with the defense

930
01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:06.519
very much. I wasn't impressed to
the defense. You're right about that.

931
01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:13.440
I saw him twice when they came
up to University of Portland and Bazanna.

932
01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:17.360
In one of the games, had
three balls that I would say a good

933
01:04:17.480 --> 01:04:21.159
second basement makes, and he didn't
make any of those plays. He made

934
01:04:21.159 --> 01:04:25.760
all like the normal plays. Maybe
it was just like a one small sample

935
01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:29.079
because in the second game that I
saw him, he made all the plays

936
01:04:29.079 --> 01:04:30.679
and it was fine, like there
was nothing of note. But I did

937
01:04:30.679 --> 01:04:34.559
think it was interesting in that one
game he had two tough balls up the

938
01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:39.840
middle that he didn't get to,
and then one tough ball in the hole

939
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:42.639
that he got to and didn't make
the throw, so it was sort of

940
01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:45.800
like a long infield single. I
thought that was sort of like, again,

941
01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:47.719
at the very very top of the
draft, you kind of pick knits,

942
01:04:47.760 --> 01:04:51.320
and I just from that, I
was like hard for me to say

943
01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:57.119
that that's a no doubt plus second
basement. I think he's more of an

944
01:04:57.159 --> 01:05:01.679
average to blow second basement maybe,
but boy, can that guy hit and

945
01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:08.800
and I do. It's also interesting
like he's five nine maybe. I know

946
01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:12.320
he got listed at six foot I
think in one of the things, but

947
01:05:12.440 --> 01:05:16.000
he's short, He's like really really
short, but he's absolutely jacked. I

948
01:05:16.039 --> 01:05:20.639
think the swing decisions were pristine watching
him hit one of the games, I

949
01:05:20.679 --> 01:05:26.960
think he hit two home runs,
a basis loaded, just smashed single up

950
01:05:26.960 --> 01:05:30.519
the middle, a hit by pitch
in a walk, didn't get out and

951
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:34.280
was just crushing pitches. And the
other game he had a homer. Like

952
01:05:34.280 --> 01:05:38.239
I think he's homered every single time
I've seen him, as I saw him

953
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:41.639
two years ago too. Yeah,
he's the real deal at the plate,

954
01:05:41.679 --> 01:05:45.639
I think, and maybe just good
enough to play second base, first second

955
01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:50.719
baseman ever taken number one, and
like if the defense isn't like gold gloveish,

956
01:05:51.079 --> 01:05:56.239
I think that says a lot about
the bat. Yeah, and I

957
01:05:56.280 --> 01:06:02.119
do think that that's earned and unlike
some of the SEC guys who there's somewhat

958
01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:08.199
rampant speculation about are they juice in
their bats? And are like are they

959
01:06:08.480 --> 01:06:13.480
goosing the scouting reports or do they
have live cameras going like I will tell

960
01:06:13.519 --> 01:06:18.119
you some of the inside chatter that
I had heard from the gossiping scouts at

961
01:06:18.159 --> 01:06:21.800
these games. And bear in mind
these guys don't usually scout many of the

962
01:06:21.840 --> 01:06:27.440
SEC guys because they're more Northwest based
scouts, that they had heard that this

963
01:06:27.599 --> 01:06:31.400
was actually a concern for some of
these top of the like first half of

964
01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:36.320
the first round bats at the big
SEC programs, that they were worried that

965
01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:41.559
some of this stuff, some of
this incredible performance from some of those top

966
01:06:41.559 --> 01:06:44.840
guys might have been a little bit
of a mirage and that it was giving

967
01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:49.440
some of these guys like half grade
minuses to their internal evaluations. I thought

968
01:06:49.440 --> 01:06:53.519
that was interesting, Like it also
could have been like you know, scouts

969
01:06:53.559 --> 01:06:57.960
loved the bullshit and blow up a
rumor, But I thought that was interesting.

970
01:06:58.000 --> 01:07:02.719
And nobody that I have heard has
said anything to that effect about Oregon

971
01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:06.920
State or Bizano. So so yeah, maybe that was another just like small

972
01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:11.519
separators from those top kind of five
or so guys at the top of the

973
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:15.119
draft. Ye, I don't know, I won't I just I mean hack

974
01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:18.800
me. I'm super curious to see
how some of the power plays out for

975
01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:23.760
some of these bets when they get
in the pro ball here because it's interesting.

976
01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:28.400
I'm a little bit wondering slash skeptical
of some of this, and I

977
01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:30.480
mean, just again initial I got
I want to watch a lot of these

978
01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:35.079
guys and get more familiar. But
I thought Weatherholt to Saint Louis was pretty

979
01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:40.519
interesting. You know, that's probably
a type that I'd feel pretty good about

980
01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:45.280
drafting in a especially a larger league. And for the record, for me,

981
01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:49.639
like I know, I've seen some
some like mildly negative reports about Jock,

982
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:54.079
but I think Jock for me was
the guy that I want to bet

983
01:07:54.119 --> 01:08:01.679
on in the like FYPD sense,
he showed interesting improvement in the things that

984
01:08:01.719 --> 01:08:04.559
he was bad at right, Like
he was like chasing too much and it

985
01:08:04.599 --> 01:08:10.400
was leading to a slightly elevated strikeout
rate. Even if you like knock four

986
01:08:10.440 --> 01:08:15.000
miles an hour off his reported top
end exit Bilos, it's still elite power

987
01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:20.560
there. And maybe somebody that isn't
Florida can teach him how to actually pitch,

988
01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:25.399
which we have seen before, right, Like we've seen college pitchers come

989
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:29.800
out of Florida with talent and no
idea where the ball's going terrible pitch shapes,

990
01:08:30.119 --> 01:08:34.039
bad sequencing, and it gets better. If Kansas City wants to try

991
01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:39.000
him two ways, maybe he can
do it. I'm not saying he's Otani

992
01:08:39.159 --> 01:08:43.279
on either side of the ball,
but if I'm gonna bet in a dynasty

993
01:08:43.399 --> 01:08:47.439
league and I have it in an
early FYPD pick, He's probably my number

994
01:08:47.479 --> 01:08:51.640
one, like just on the upside
chance. Bazana would be two for me,

995
01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:56.159
just like a little bit safer.
But Jock, I just think that

996
01:08:56.159 --> 01:09:00.279
that guy, there's a world in
which the contact and chase games that he

997
01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:04.159
made this year at the plate play
the power is real, Like he's not

998
01:09:04.680 --> 01:09:11.560
juicing the bat and not cheating the
pitches, and he's a closer, like

999
01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:15.039
a legit ninety nine mile an hour
lefty closer coming out of the pen.

1000
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:21.119
And I think that's a really fun
and be pretty valuable in a dynasty context.

1001
01:09:21.119 --> 01:09:25.640
So anyway, that's that's of the
pretty boys. I think that's like

1002
01:09:25.680 --> 01:09:29.520
the guy that I was most impressed
with what his improvements looked like. Yeah,

1003
01:09:29.560 --> 01:09:32.159
Bizana for floor and Jock for sealing. For me, I liked seeing

1004
01:09:32.640 --> 01:09:38.439
Orlando get picked well, I mean
by Miami whatever, but uh, sixteen

1005
01:09:38.560 --> 01:09:42.680
after I don't know, for whatever
reason it was being said, he like

1006
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:45.439
kind of fell off this summer to
some extent or whatever. But you know

1007
01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:49.520
me, I love the no stride
stuff, and yeah, yeah, that

1008
01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:54.000
kid, I know it's a little
funky, a little different, but that

1009
01:09:54.079 --> 01:09:58.119
kid can hit the ball really hard
with no stride and that that intrigues me

1010
01:09:58.640 --> 01:10:00.760
quite a bit. And then I
it was kind of interesting that the Orioles

1011
01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:05.840
went back to North Carolina and got
Honeycut after they took after they took Horrorvath

1012
01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:10.439
in the second round last year.
Right, but I pay a little bit

1013
01:10:10.479 --> 01:10:14.439
attention to North Carolina, watched some
Honeycut and went to went to an order

1014
01:10:14.479 --> 01:10:17.000
that kind of seems to know what
they're doing with hitters. I think that's

1015
01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:20.680
an interesting one for them. I
mean, he's tooled out the wazoo and

1016
01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:26.159
I think is a really good defender
too, which real teams care about like

1017
01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:29.880
watching him, like he doesn't get
cheated in his hacks, but it also

1018
01:10:29.880 --> 01:10:32.000
means he misses the ball a lot. I mean Horrorvath was kind of like

1019
01:10:32.079 --> 01:10:34.680
that too, right, yeah,
bit a bit, Yeah, Yeah,

1020
01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:39.479
he definitely had some some contact concerns, but his like played approach to me

1021
01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:42.640
was always a little bit better,
Like even in college, like he was

1022
01:10:42.640 --> 01:10:45.159
like two guys are like they're they're
putting their ace wing out there a lot.

1023
01:10:45.239 --> 01:10:49.119
Yeah yeah, yeah. But with
Horrorvath, it was like he would

1024
01:10:49.199 --> 01:10:54.560
let fringe pitches go and walk a
lot. Because of that and Honeycutt,

1025
01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:58.039
I think is a little less selective. What did you think about the Mariners

1026
01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:01.960
pick the ambidextrious guy. Yeah,
yeah, I don't. I mean,

1027
01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:04.520
I don't know. I haven't I
haven't really watched some pits, so I

1028
01:11:04.520 --> 01:11:10.159
don't know, but you know,
I played against Patti, like is a

1029
01:11:10.199 --> 01:11:13.880
gimmicky I don't know. Yeah,
well, you know I played against Pat

1030
01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:17.319
Vendetti, who was the oh really
switch pitcher. Yeah, he's like the

1031
01:11:17.319 --> 01:11:20.760
original, wasn't he. Yep.
It was a trip playing against it.

1032
01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:23.920
It was weird, like I got
to hit it against him a couple of

1033
01:11:23.920 --> 01:11:27.800
times obviously as alrighty and like you'
angelo sint g. Is that how you

1034
01:11:27.840 --> 01:11:30.239
say his last name? I think
so, I think I think it's like

1035
01:11:30.239 --> 01:11:34.680
that. I think it's something like
a sint g as a lefty. Vendetti

1036
01:11:34.760 --> 01:11:39.199
threw a lot slower. He was
much more like a funky like side arm

1037
01:11:39.279 --> 01:11:43.479
lefty with the big sweepy slider as
a lefty, and that as a righty,

1038
01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:45.680
he was more like a Johnny right
hander like eighty eight to ninety two,

1039
01:11:46.039 --> 01:11:50.840
with a like more north south slider. And so mostly when when we

1040
01:11:50.840 --> 01:11:56.319
were doing our platoon against him,
I got to face Vendetti because like he

1041
01:11:56.399 --> 01:11:59.880
was sort of murder on lefties like
that and was just kind of an okay

1042
01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:03.680
college pitchers a righty. But Cincy, I think it's like ceiling well above

1043
01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:08.560
n Ditty and Betti made the bigs, so there's something interesting there, and

1044
01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:12.399
the Murners have done a decent job
developing pitching. So I thought it was

1045
01:12:12.399 --> 01:12:15.439
a fun pick. I'm interested.
I can't wait to start seeing some of

1046
01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:18.800
these guys in full season ball.
It'll be fun see where's where's this year's

1047
01:12:19.000 --> 01:12:24.560
mcadoo's and baldwins and stuff like that. I love Day three. Day three

1048
01:12:24.600 --> 01:12:28.479
is my favorite. I'll spend more
time probably digging on Day three guys.

1049
01:12:28.479 --> 01:12:31.880
And yes, we'll do a lot
more digging on this and find some some

1050
01:12:31.920 --> 01:12:35.199
more sleepers that we like for sure. Yeah, man, it's good to

1051
01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:39.640
see you again, my friend,
you too. Apologies. I know,

1052
01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:42.920
trying to make this an every week
thing, but you know, life happens,

1053
01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:47.920
and things happen, and vacations happen, and tennis happens happens. We're

1054
01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:53.239
in the we're in the playoffs now, Nate. Yeah, it's playoff time

1055
01:12:53.319 --> 01:12:56.800
and well not quite yet in tennis. I mean, oh, tennis,

1056
01:12:56.880 --> 01:13:00.760
and tennis playoffs start next week.
We hide for first, but we lost

1057
01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:04.279
on the tiebreaker, so we're the
second seed. Well, best of luck,

1058
01:13:04.479 --> 01:13:06.960
my friend. I think how much
you got anything else you want to

1059
01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:11.960
say? I think we'll wrap up
episode thirty seven of the Prospect B Side

1060
01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:15.079
podcast. Here, wrap it up, my friend. All right, well,

1061
01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:17.279
we'll let your cago farmer take us
out. Be well, we'll talk

1062
01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:21.640
to you next time. I wait
five miles an hour. Riding to his

1063
01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:29.840
head, he hop him down first
with the lumpbone ass face, and on

1064
01:13:29.960 --> 01:13:40.359
the very next pitch he up and
stole second face with gretest speed. He

1065
01:13:40.680 --> 01:13:46.000
wasn't born, he had the bad
Yes, UNI born