WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:07.480 Not five miles an hour. Riding to his head. He hopped down first 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:14.199 with the lumpbonius face, and on the very next pitch he up and stole 3 00:00:14.599 --> 00:00:27.920 second face with gradest speed. He wasn't born. He had the yes uniform. 4 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:32.479 All right, Welcome to episode thirty three of the Prospect B Sides Podcast. 5 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:37.880 I am Nate Handy, he is rook me back. We're back to 6 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:41.840 muddy B siding. Let's go. Yes. I think that will fit somewhat 7 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:45.960 of our theme this evening, Matt. But how you doing man? Plan 8 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:48.479 that a little bit. I'm good, man, I'm good. You know. 9 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:54.439 I just off of a wonderful Mother's Day weekend and got to the weather 10 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:59.920 has turned really nice here. We got up into the upper eighties this weekend. 11 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.600 It was beautiful and I don't know if you got to see this down 12 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:07.560 in the mountains, but we get to see the northern lights Aurora borealis last 13 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.599 weekend. Yeah, it was super cool. Yeah nice, nice, Yeah, 14 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:14.680 we were. It was a little too overcast for us. I believe, 15 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:17.719 like I was telling you earlier before we came on, I woke up 16 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:19.519 to like three inches of snow on the ground this morning. That's a lot 17 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.359 of fun. But yeah, different, Yeah, I think good to see 18 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.799 them though. Were they how were they? Were they? Was it like 19 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.879 full sky part sky? It was full sky, I mean it was it 20 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.519 was pretty This was Friday night kind of came and went. Then when I 21 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.599 first checked, it was really faint, and you know, we live in 22 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:41.480 the city, so there's quite a bit of light pollution anyway, so it 23 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:45.159 was a little bit fainter. But a little bit later on the storm really 24 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:49.560 kicked up the solar storm and easily visible. You could see some shimmering, 25 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.079 definitely see the gradiation in the colors. And then you look at it on 26 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:56.079 your phone and it popped, you know, you could see it a lot 27 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:57.959 more easily. So it was cool. It was really cool, just a 28 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.519 fun little thing that I had never seen it this far south. I'd only 29 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:05.239 seen it in Alaska actually, and yeah, yeah, it was really cool. 30 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:07.479 I remember the first time I saw them. I was in college and 31 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:12.159 I was like working overnight shifts, but this was like a night off and 32 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.360 I was just up right. So I decided to just go grocery shopping at 33 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.439 like two in the morning, and I remember getting back to my place, 34 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:21.159 getting the groceries out, of the car. It was wintertime, so there's 35 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:23.960 a snow bank like right there where I'm putting the groceries down on the ground 36 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.560 getting them out of my car, and I just remember looking at the snow 37 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.199 bank and it was changing colors, and I was just like, oh cool, 38 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.039 yeah, and I'm like what is that about? And I looked up 39 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.280 in the sky and that this was like full on whole sky, just at 40 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:44.560 every inch of the sky changing colors except for one like really dark spot, 41 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:46.759 round circle in like the middle of the sky. For whatever reason, I 42 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:51.960 didn't know what was going on. I like seriously started like panic. I 43 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.759 thought it was like aliens coming, Like I ran inside, told my roommate, 44 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:59.000 I like woke up like I do. I don't know what the hell's 45 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.360 going on, but out here, like it was to be corny, like 46 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:07.120 a spiritual weird like you understood how small you are in the universe by looking 47 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.639 at that, Like it was just yeah, it was a wild phenomenon. 48 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.120 I mean you just don't see anything like it. And I mean that's why 49 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:17.599 it was so cool seeing it down here just in my backyard. I mean 50 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:22.639 that is I had seen it in a similar had sort of a similar experience 51 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.680 when we were up in Alaska fishing one year and seeing it at night on 52 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:30.919 the beach where we were camping out, and on top of just having an 53 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:36.120 incredible day fishing, it was a spiritual experience. I mean seeing all of 54 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.879 that in the middle of nowhere off the Key nine Peninsula, like it was 55 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:43.879 incredible to see that and no light pollution and like you said, you know, 56 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.759 dancing changing colors, Like it was absolutely amazing. And it definitely wasn't 57 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:53.240 that cool last last weekend, but it was still very cool just to see 58 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:57.639 it. Yeah, I've never seen like that full sky doing that thing before. 59 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.800 I've seen like some streaks and stuff like that, but I couldn't even 60 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:02.759 like go back out and like watch it. Man, it was that like 61 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:08.879 that terrifying to me. It was insane. AnyWho, this is the baseball 62 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:12.960 podcast, not a I don't know whatever we were talking about, but now 63 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.120 I figured, you know, we haven't been talking a lot of major leads 64 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:18.600 the last month or so. I don't think or at all happen. I 65 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:23.519 mean that's because we're prospect. It's in the name of the podcast, Nate 66 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:26.519 like a prospect. That's true, that's true. But I thought maybe we 67 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:30.160 should start like a little mini segment of like hottest team in baseball? I 68 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:33.920 see where is going. That's a little tough to quantify, right, but 69 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:39.959 uh huh, maybe having the longest winning streak in baseball just sweeping the defending 70 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:43.920 chap champs probably qualifies you, right, does it? So that would be 71 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:46.600 the Colorado Rockies, my friend, that would be the Colorado road who there's 72 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.399 a lot of game left, but are up five to one against the Padres 73 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:51.800 right now. It might make it five in a row. But I think 74 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:56.879 we should spend a little time talking about the rockiest and a motivation. It's 75 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.000 like we talk about like development, right. I think we try to talk 76 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:02.879 about development a lot on this show, at least little bits and pieces that 77 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:08.120 we might be, you know, either numbers pointing us in a direction or 78 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.439 eyeballs. You know. The Rockies catch a lot of strays, I think, 79 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:14.959 and I get that they're not very good at the moment. This is 80 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.199 the twelve and twenty eight Colorado Rockies. That those guys, and it was 81 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:24.759 much worse five days ago. My friend Brenton Doyle, Brenton Doyle, dude 82 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:29.319 so much of a better offensive player than I ever would have imagined, even 83 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:32.040 if this is just a little whip on the radar, never thought he would 84 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.720 be this good at the plate. Watch a lot of him in Double A 85 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:38.959 and Hartford. Never I didn't even think he could make the big leagues. 86 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:41.879 And another thing that's interesting about that to me, Matt, it's like he's, 87 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.279 you know, arguably the best defensive center fielder in baseball. Right. 88 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:47.240 I watched a lot of a ton of Hartford, Religiously, I didn't even 89 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:51.279 realize that he was that good of a center fielder. I definitely didn't know 90 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:55.920 that he would have had the hardest throw from the outfield last year in the 91 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:59.199 majors like he did. So m h. I guess my point being there, 92 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:03.800 like defense stuff, even if you watch every day or semi every day 93 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:09.439 amount, like I was like, you could still not know. Or maybe 94 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.279 that's just me being being dumb, or maybe me just not really focusing on 95 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.399 that aspect of what I'm watching, But I don't know no way, man, 96 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:23.920 It's it is really hard to actually have a good eye test for defense. 97 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.839 The way that the metrics work now, it takes a long time to 98 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.800 stabilize, and one bad play or a couple of really good plays can swing 99 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:36.000 your defensive metrics kind of wildly, and they're still really noisy even at this 100 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:40.959 point in the season. Like to your point, Brenton Doyle was incredible defensively 101 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:46.040 last year, rightfully so, incredible arm and covers a ton of ground in 102 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.920 that incredibly large outfield that Colorado has. But Doyle thus far this year is 103 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:57.360 negative in his defensive metrics per Fangrafts up to this point. Only slightly so, 104 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:01.639 but still for someone with both the reputation and the skills that he showed 105 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:06.560 last year, you'd probably look at that defensive rating and say it's probably just 106 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.439 hasn't caught up to his true talent yet. And even with that, he's 107 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:16.240 still been basically the Rockies best player up to this point, so that's arguably, 108 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:19.160 but yeah, maybe there's to better things coming. I do think that 109 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:24.879 he has been moving quite as well, maybe the first month of the season, 110 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.639 but he's swiping bags now, eyeballs. Would not say that he's a 111 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:31.680 negative whatever you said right now, Like, he is not a negative defensive 112 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:33.720 player. No, Like I was saying, they catch a lot of strays 113 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:36.279 on not being able to develop and all that stuff, Like, Man, 114 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:42.360 I don't think there's an organization that doesn't have good developmental stories, that isn't 115 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:46.800 doing good things with some players or coaching them well, or players that are 116 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:49.959 making improvements and coaching themselves if they have to, and what have you. 117 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:54.879 I wanted to bring up Montero. Well, let me back up. I 118 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.319 wanted to bring up kind of their whole infield right now. I don't know 119 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:01.399 if you saw yesterday, Matt, but Tovar and rad had back to back 120 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.040 just fantastic web gems. They've been playing great defense. I saw it to 121 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.680 Tobar the highest and you know it is what it is. Fielding percentage isn't 122 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.759 like the greatest defensive metric in the world in my opinion, I don't know 123 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:18.160 what is. But for a short stop two hundred games, first two hundred 124 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.639 games, he's got the highest fielding percentage ever, which is kind of interesting 125 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.240 because I feel like he's gotten over the last couple of years a couple of 126 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:26.360 airs charged to him that I don't think we're that deserving. Man, It's 127 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:31.279 been great per usual. Montero, who we talked about in the preseason, 128 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.279 he is like a good first baseman now man, he picks it. He's 129 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.879 caught some screamers like he bailed out Tobar a few times, all of those 130 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:41.960 guys a few times. But uh, in his bat I know the numbers 131 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:46.679 are not there. I know if you look at his stack cast page, 132 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:50.919 nothing is red. I don't think the red's the good color on stack cast, 133 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.559 right, red is the good color? Yeah, which makes no sense 134 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:56.919 to me. It should be blue or green, right, it shouldn't be 135 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.240 like red. Red is like stop, no, not good? Right? 136 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.639 Right? It's hot, I don't know, Okay, blues hotter than red? 137 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:09.240 Right? Yeah, he is unequivocally a better hitter than he was a 138 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.720 year ago. His approach is so much better. I don't know what his 139 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:16.240 hard hit is, what have you. He's had some loud outs, hard 140 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.000 contact that hasn't paid off. But if you're desperate like I am in some 141 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:24.559 leads for a corner infielder, maybe take a look in Montero because his strikeout 142 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:28.399 percentage I think is way down. And I see tonight he's what three for 143 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:33.080 three with four RBIs three RBIs He's a guy that I kind of got my 144 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.200 eye on that his numbers might not be telling the story of his development right 145 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.720 now. I don't think. Yeah, and one one though on Montero that 146 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.799 we had touched on earlier this season is that he had been hitting the ball 147 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:52.759 harder in VLO or His max exit Villo got up to one fourteen over over 148 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:56.679 one fourteen, which is up there. Combine that with the strikeout rate improvements 149 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:01.440 that he showed over a fairly significant sample last year in Triple A. I 150 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.879 think that's something that we had talked about in the discord a bit last year. 151 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:11.600 Seeing Montero improve his strikeout rate and still slugging the ball really well, 152 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:16.240 that tends to say something good about his future performance. And he's got the 153 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:20.120 strikeout rate down to twenty percent, which is really good for someone with the 154 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:22.600 power potential that he has. Yeah, but all of his numbers, his 155 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.799 production is down right, And that's kind of a bit of a theme that 156 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.440 I've noticed with some Rockies early in this season before he went on the shelf. 157 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.360 Jones, Dude, he hit like close to like five hundred or something 158 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.399 on first pitches last year, right, and then this first month of the 159 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:45.639 season he wasn't swinging at first pitches, trying the more your approach patient, 160 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.720 perhaps take some more walks right, tone down the aggressiveness and he was not 161 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:52.759 producing. Right, Montero, I think there's some of the same stuff. 162 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:56.360 He's been trying to be more selective. Surface numbers aren't there yet. Tovar, 163 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:58.759 I think too, even though he's still probably like the most aggressive, 164 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.919 you're one of in the major majors, I see him try to be more 165 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.600 selective and struggle while doing it, at least, you know, struggling to 166 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.759 produce. I think that is part of a process, and part of what 167 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:13.559 I think I've tried to talk to you about in the past too, is 168 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.559 like, no, if you Tim Anderson wasn't so aggressive, he wouldn't be 169 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.519 good or when he was good, right. I think there's good things happening 170 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.799 with some of these hitters, as my point, but you're just not seeing 171 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:28.480 it yet in the short term, perhaps well, at least for Montero and 172 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.480 Jones, I think both of them are victims of just a bit of bad 173 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:39.600 luck both on the back up front, and that both of their expected weighted 174 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.559 on bases are higher than they're actual weighted on basis, which means that even 175 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:48.600 the contact that they've had up to this point is under represented by their overall 176 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:50.200 stat line. Right, Like they've even what they've done up to this point, 177 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.639 they've still gotten a bit unlucky. People love to use the stat cast 178 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:58.120 to say this is going to tell you something about the hitter going forward, 179 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:01.919 and I think that especially the expects did stats, that's not what they're built 180 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:05.559 for, and they aren't really very good at that, especially over small samples 181 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.080 of like even a month, it doesn't really tell you that much about what 182 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.200 you expect from them going forward. And so for a guy like Jones, 183 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.360 that's somebody that I expect him to look kind of like he did last year, 184 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.039 which means he's going to strike out a bit less than he has in 185 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:22.879 the early going. Once he's back from the IL, I think he's going 186 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.279 to walk a bit more. I think the babbep's going to rise because he 187 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:30.519 hits the ball really hard at good angles, gonna run and hit home runs 188 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:33.080 and all that said, like a really good player flawed, you know, 189 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:37.120 he strikes out too much. Outside of that flaw, like he looks pretty 190 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:43.080 good, like a positive contributor, you know, one fifteen one to one 191 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.240 twenty WRC plus over the next few years with some steals thrown in, Like 192 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:50.879 that's a really really good baseball player. Just to me, looked like a 193 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:56.320 victim of Maybe it's some approach changes, maybe it's trying to change who he 194 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:58.320 is a little bit. And you know, it's hard to know that without 195 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:03.320 seeing some reporting on it, or the guy's talking about it themselves. I 196 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:07.240 just think that a lot of this is statistical noise in Tarot, Jones, 197 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.720 Tovar. There's better things coming. So I'm with you on that. You 198 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:16.279 know, I'm not ready to describe some sort of master plan behind behind all 199 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:20.480 of this to the Rockies as a collective unit yet, but there are certainly 200 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:24.559 some Rockies that I'm on board with. I think that they're very good players. 201 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.759 Obviously, I'm a Rockies fan, and I'm that point here isn't to 202 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.679 like the Rockies are good now and they're all going to be Hall of Famer. 203 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:33.320 My point is like, like, look at back right now, just 204 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:37.159 coming up. He's made a lot of improvements, I think since last year 205 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:39.200 on the strikeout, on the chase, on the swing and miss side at 206 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.799 they at least in Triple A. Now you see him up in the majors, 207 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.679 not lighting the world on fire at all, but like they talk about 208 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.840 a lot on the broadcast, Spilboorg is really good at this, and we'll 209 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:50.639 break it down and show you a siding like. His timing is awful. 210 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.000 He's laid on fastballs all the time because he's got like that step right. 211 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.480 But one thing that I've seen the Rockies introduced done near alder hitters through all 212 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.679 the levels is when they get like that and their timing is off, they 213 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.519 set up real wide, they take away the step and they start to get 214 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.200 their timing back. And Beck is doing that from time to time right now 215 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.960 in the Majors, the last couple of days, the last series you see 216 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.759 ving, I feel like v I've been watching some ven long story short. 217 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.639 I think that we've talked about this a little bit. I think he was 218 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:22.399 taking a lot of their coaching in the lowers. When he hit double A, 219 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:26.480 he started reverting back to some of his old ways, and that's that's 220 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:30.360 his words. And there were some struggles and there was some injury too, 221 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:33.480 And now I feel like he's kind of found a happy medium with all that 222 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.840 pulling the ball well, hitting some home runs, he's hitting opposite field. 223 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:41.720 He's still I still think he's probably swinging and missing and striking out a little 224 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:46.919 bit there's development all over the place, even in the worst even in the 225 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:52.720 worst developmental organization in base I guess is my ultimate points. Yeah, and 226 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:56.440 definitely agree with that. And these guys are trying to get better. I 227 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:01.360 mean, that's that's what they are paid to do. That's there. Competitive 228 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:05.480 by nature, and a lot of them, even the most stubborn of them, 229 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.080 are still trying to improve constantly, and especially with these young guys. 230 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:15.120 I think that's something that in the Dynasty world, players can overrate they view 231 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.759 top prospects or you know, Zach Vine's a great example of this, who 232 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:24.399 showcase loud tools and then they expect them to just keep linearly getting better they 233 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.960 as they go up the levels, and that doesn't happen very often, and 234 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.039 even when it does, al a Jackson Holliday or a White Langford, you 235 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:35.679 still should expect a long period of adjustment once they make it to the show. 236 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:41.639 I mean, I've heard some announcers recently talk about the fact that they 237 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:45.840 think the jump to the major leagues is actually the hardest that it's ever been, 238 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:50.320 and now I'm not sure that that's true, but it remains a big 239 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:56.240 jump between the upper miners and what you face in the major leagues on both 240 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.919 sides of the ball. And so this time last year, everybody was saying, 241 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.799 Brandon fat is the worst picture that they've ever seen, and he's giving 242 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.720 up home runs all the time. He's terrible. I can't believe we bought 243 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.480 in to what he did in twenty twenty two. And I was like, 244 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.240 look, this happens. Same thing with Gavin Stone getting lit up. Gavin 245 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.360 Stone has turned in, like his last five starts in the major leagues have 246 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:22.600 been awesome. He's like, after Yamamoto maybe been the Dodgers' best pitcher in 247 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.600 the last month. That's kind of the guy that he showed in twenty twenty 248 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.120 two. And he had a rough one year adjustment to the major leagues and 249 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.080 there will be more adjustments to come. All of that to say that these 250 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:40.320 guys are constantly adjusting. In good organizations quote unquote, or organizations that seem 251 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:44.960 a little behind the times, you still see that development and those adjustments happen 252 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:48.440 constantly, and it's one of the reasons why we watched this and especially as 253 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:55.480 dynasty players like you can constantly look for the little changes that might portend something 254 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.840 interesting. It's why I read fangraphs, Right, These guys are really good 255 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:03.559 at spotting changes and contextualizing them in a way that helps pull out those nuggets 256 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:08.759 of utility. And sometimes it's nothing right. Sometimes these changes are statistical noise 257 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:11.920 or like you said, you find you watch a few games and you're like, 258 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.400 oh, he's swinging more first pitches, and you know, maybe that's 259 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.160 a thing that is going to help, but it also might just be a 260 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:22.279 good week or a bad week. Right, Like to go back to our 261 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.000 conversation last week about guys that were showing some significant improvements, Well, Jaysavina 262 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.519 last week sat with like a low twenties strikeout rate, and then he struck 263 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.039 out like eighteen times this week. I think that's an exaggeration, but it 264 00:17:34.079 --> 00:17:37.799 was bad. It was like three or four a game for a while there. 265 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.839 And his strikeout rate is back around thirty percent, and I'm like, 266 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:45.960 he might be reverting to the kind of guy that he is. So all 267 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.119 that to say, that's one of the coolest things to see is watching guys 268 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.960 make the adjustments. And it's also one of the hardest things to pull out. 269 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:56.119 Is that change a real change. Is that a change that's sustainable or 270 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:00.839 is this possibly just noise, and I hope we do that well when we 271 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:03.519 talk about the way guys are evolving. Yeah, And I think for me, 272 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:08.440 you know, the last four years by far the closest I've watched minor 273 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:15.519 league baseball, watch certain players progress through now all four levels of full season, 274 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:21.400 and with you and other things that I read learned from, I am 275 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:23.640 starting to put together some more things with hitting it. And I think, 276 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:27.160 like when we talk about pitching, we talk about pitching to development and pitching 277 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.559 to results, Like, I don't think it's the same, but I think 278 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.960 I think I've noticed some things with some hitters that it was like, hey, 279 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:37.359 it was like worth maybe not producing all that well for this half a 280 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.640 season or whatever it might be, and now a year later, you're able 281 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:48.119 to handle pitches in that location or being later on a ball and doing some 282 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.400 damage with it or whatever it might be, right, or not swinging and 283 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:53.720 missing it certain types of pitches or what have you. Right, So I 284 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:57.400 think that kind of falls in line with my week as a whole watching this 285 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:02.279 week, Matt, like, have you ever been like a renaissance fair kind 286 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:07.880 of guy? Like, have you ever partook in I have not the closest 287 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:12.119 thing is they had this wacky festival that was outside of the place where I 288 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:15.839 went to school. Had a lot of people that would dress up in costumes, 289 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:19.000 but also a lot of people that would just be naked, and it 290 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:22.559 was like a wild place. They call it the Country Fair, but I 291 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.599 was like, not really. When I first heard, I was like, 292 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:26.640 oh, it's like a you know, state fair. I've been to a 293 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:29.640 bunch of those, Like yeah, it makes sense. Nope, not really 294 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:33.559 like that, like kind of hippie commune vibes plus rent fair vibes. I 295 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:37.319 mean it's super fun, like great music and food and all sorts of great 296 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:41.720 people watching, but it was not quite that. Yeah, Okay, you 297 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.279 ever go to like a Medieval Times No. I think the closest I went 298 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.759 to was like going to the Excalibur in Vegas one time when I was a 299 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.359 kid, you know, because like I was there for a baseball tournament or 300 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:53.400 something, and my dad was like, well, we can't do a lot 301 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:56.720 of the fun stuff in Vegas, so let's go to Excalibur. Like okay, 302 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:02.119 So that's about the closest I've I think. Well, I've been having 303 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:06.839 a bit of a renaissance here Matt not only with the Rockies and their half 304 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:14.240 week of good baseball that breeding me some new life, some four B side 305 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:17.839 selections that I don't know. I don't want to say I wrote off, 306 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:22.279 but definitely didn't like roster anymore. Definitely wasn't watching as much anymore. But 307 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.160 I know we had mentioned him last week, but Matt and I said, 308 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:30.400 if he has one more good week, then reluctantly talk about him. But 309 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:34.160 Jo Hendrick Bernango man kind of on one and that it has been all year. 310 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:38.960 I know we chatted about him someone in the discord. I think the 311 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:44.480 summation of that discussion between you and I was I'm kind of wondering. It's 312 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:47.680 hard for me to not wonder that there was injury that played into a year 313 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:51.160 and a half of him basically just sucked on. But he is still only 314 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:55.400 twenty two years old. I imagine he is getting called up to double A 315 00:20:55.799 --> 00:21:00.319 pronto, very soon. I would think after this is what his This will 316 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.759 be the fourth season that he has logged sometime in High A striking out only 317 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:07.759 twelve percent of the time. He strikeouts have never been a big problem for 318 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.519 him. That's what drew me to him to start with just a high contact 319 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:15.839 for a guy. But he's hit five home runs, he's stealing some bases, 320 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:19.640 although he's also getting caught. I'll slug in six' ten. He 321 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.839 does hit ground balls at what forty six percent of the time right now, 322 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:27.000 we've seen that higher with him kind of spraying the ball around as he kind 323 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.559 of always has. Yeah, I don't know, man, Hendrick Panango has 324 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:36.880 revitalized my interest I think even more than him being at the same level for 325 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:41.960 so long as he might have a nice bat and interesting that, but defensively 326 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:47.319 kind of curbs my overall dynasty enthusiasm. His bat is going to have to 327 00:21:47.359 --> 00:21:49.680 be really really good because I think he's not a good left fielder, but 328 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:56.400 he kind of had that headlines my little renaissance fair here. Yeah, so 329 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.599 you're returning to your your roots with Panango. I mean we talked about this 330 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:04.039 a while ago. He's one of these guys that when I first started reading 331 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:07.200 some of your stuff, you had highlighted him. This probably would have been 332 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:11.759 back in twenty twenty one, like you might have posted about him on a 333 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.359 picture list or something. He popped on one of your things, and I 334 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:17.759 was like, you know, in a really deep dynasty league, and I 335 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:21.119 went to add him, and I think one of my main rivals in that 336 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:26.039 league had read the same article or independently came to the conclusion that Panago might 337 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:30.680 be a really exciting young guy. He was at the time nineteen, performing 338 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.119 in High A for the Cubbies and like you said, not striking out, 339 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:38.039 showing a little bit of power, showing some speed, pretty exciting little player. 340 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:42.960 And I got beaten to the punch and my main rival division rival and 341 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:47.759 one of the other like top tier teams in this thirty teamer that I'm in, 342 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:49.480 I sniped him the same day. I went to add him late in 343 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:53.920 the season, and usually that late you can just add people for no fab 344 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:57.279 just because a lot of the teams had checked out or rosters are full, 345 00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:00.400 and so you see a guy, you're like, yeah, at him for 346 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.400 zero dollars and you get him. So I was so bummed I missed out 347 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:07.880 on him. And then he started out twenty two pretty well, but then 348 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:12.039 got hurt and ended up having kind of a subpar line. Well, repeated 349 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:17.680 the same level again all at hig A for the Cubs, and Panango was 350 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:21.519 even worse last year, you know, close, like kind of similar overall 351 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:23.960 lines. He was awful last year. He was awful. Yeah, and 352 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:27.880 then he's back at hi A again this year. So this marks his fourth 353 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:32.160 season in a row in HIA. And so when Nate, you and I 354 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:34.359 talked about this, I was like, look, Panango has spent four years 355 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:40.000 at this level. He should be crushing it. And that tempers my enthusiasm 356 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:41.680 a bit. Sure, sure, sure, I mean the first year was 357 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:45.960 like, what a little cup of coffee at the end of twenty twenty one 358 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:48.599 I've ever played appearance. It's not nothing, No, okay, I can't 359 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.599 help him. I know there was an off season surgery head it heading into 360 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:55.599 last year and he was just, like I said, horrible but uh but 361 00:23:55.640 --> 00:24:00.759 nonetheless has peaked my interests some again. I had some spots and tacked up 362 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.960 a few more shares to something I didn't think i'd be doing in May. 363 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:10.200 But here we are. Oh yeah, and I hear that like the guys 364 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:14.119 that you come back to and that you were really on or way higher than 365 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:17.680 consensus, or you are on really early, and you always have sort of 366 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:21.519 a soft spot for those guys. And my first one on this list was 367 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:26.319 George Valera. Maybe a little bit more of a pretty boy than Penango was, 368 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.480 because he got some hype after a couple of really good seasons back in 369 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:36.039 twenty nineteen, twenty twenty one, post pandemic, he was legit. He 370 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:40.440 was young for the Guardians' minor league system. He kind of tore through it 371 00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:42.079 for a couple of years, and I was way in. I was like, 372 00:24:42.279 --> 00:24:45.960 this is a guy that, yeah, he strikes out a bit, 373 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:48.640 but the power seems real he walks, and I think this is going to 374 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:55.119 be a corner outfield masher. Well, he was pretty bad in twenty twenty 375 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:57.720 two. You know, he was at Double A, held his own promoted 376 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:02.839 twenty one years old and trip and was league average, which for a twenty 377 00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:06.079 one year old in Triple A in the International League, that's that's pretty good. 378 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:11.359 And then last year dude was atrocious below average for everything, like eighty 379 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:15.559 four WRC plus, struck out more than he ever had walked a decent amount, 380 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:19.200 but just like all the shine wore off. I tried to acquire him 381 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:23.240 a bunch, thinking I was like buying low and just couldn't get him anywhere 382 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:26.920 nobody was selling. And I still like kind of harbored this, like ah, 383 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.400 it's just a bad season. He's gonna rebound. It's gonna revert back 384 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:34.200 to the kind of corner outfield slugger that I've seen, and we've seen a 385 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.039 little bit of signs of that this year. So he's kind of drawing me 386 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.039 back in. And as I make some trades this upcoming week, I'm going 387 00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:45.359 to have a couple of roster crunches in some of my leagues, and I 388 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:51.440 think I'm going to try and target him again because while the exit Velo numbers 389 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:55.359 aren't exciting so far from what we've seen either in the last two years, 390 00:25:55.400 --> 00:26:00.200 he is has a swinging strike rate under ten percent. He's hitting the ball 391 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:03.599 in the air and on the line quite a lot. WRC plus is back 392 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:07.680 above one twenty so it's one twenty seven right now. So he kind of 393 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:11.000 is drawing me back in. And I threw on a Cleveland Triple A game 394 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:15.920 and saw Valera hitting four hole and he smoked a double, and I was 395 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:19.319 like, oh, now there's that swing that I liked. So I'm hopeful 396 00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:25.559 that it portends better things. You know, my enthusiasm has definitely cooled a 397 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:27.960 bit there. I think is still enough of an interesting hitter here that I'm 398 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.279 going to see if I can get some get some more George Valera in my 399 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:36.119 life on the on the QT interesting, I have not been paying attention. 400 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:41.119 He was very highly thought of in the prospecting world for a minute there. 401 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:44.079 Yeah, I mean, you're that young and you make it to triple A 402 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:48.640 and you're showing some power. It's interesting. But yeah, his twenty twenty 403 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:51.839 three was miserable. So this this was like, you know, one of 404 00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:55.680 those b side calls when you see very little of somebody and you just don't 405 00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:59.759 really have any other great ideas, right, But last year I went with 406 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:03.680 Leandro Nata of the Phillies right from or maybe it was a couple of maybe 407 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:06.839 it was a couple of years ago, whatever it was, it was a 408 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:10.880 short look. There was like a teenager that they had pushed up the hi 409 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:12.160 A at the end of the year, and I'm like, what's this guy 410 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:15.880 all about? Turned him on a little bit, kind of like to look 411 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.359 at him at the plate. Philly's scout had told me that internally there's some 412 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:23.440 people that really like him. Well, I mean that's the case with everybody 413 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.240 of the West. They're not there. But it was like, okay, 414 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:32.240 I love that. I love that as a as a classic scout quote that 415 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:37.200 the analysts and fantasy prospectors drop is like their people internally are really high on 416 00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.440 Hi's Like really, you think like they drafted him and they're trying to pump 417 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:45.599 him up for either trade value or performance reasons. Like, no shit, 418 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.480 they're going to tell you that. So I love that one. I love 419 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.880 that. Like I had a scout tell me at a game a couple of 420 00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:53.240 weeks ago. He was like, oh, yeah, we're really high on 421 00:27:55.000 --> 00:28:00.359 insert top five prospect overall here, Like, oh you guys like Jackson Holliday. 422 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:06.400 Wow, I never would have guess Orioles scout like that's crazy. Another 423 00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:08.680 guy, the Giants guy, actually just a quick side tangent. He was 424 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:12.839 telling me how high they were internally still on Helio Ramos and I was like, 425 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:17.400 oh yeah, really like you guys still really, Oh yeah, we 426 00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:21.720 think he's gonna star Still. I was like, I saw, I say, 427 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.640 he's done a few things his first week in the bigs or whatever. 428 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:27.160 I saw him make a really nice catch yesterday too, going back to his 429 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:32.200 arm side like deep and left field. Well maybe maybe they're right, but 430 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:33.440 I just thought it was a funny one because I was like, man, 431 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.640 he's been like kind of just okay for a pretty long time now. But 432 00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:41.480 yeah, yeah, right, dude, Pineda paid no attention to him at 433 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.680 all, happened to turn him on. Some wrote a single and man this 434 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:51.640 last week mat six games, he was eleven for twenty two doubles, home 435 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:56.039 run seven RBIs, walked four times, struck out once. That's a five 436 00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:00.920 fifty average eight hundred slug on the week. For some reason, it's Monday, 437 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.000 they haven't announced like their players of the week. I'm curious to see 438 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.759 if he wins it in the sale or not. Well. On the season, 439 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:11.440 he's striking out twenty one percent of the time, walking nine percent of 440 00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:14.599 the time, slashing three ten, three, eighty, five, four eighty 441 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.519 it's a three seventy three babbit hitting line, drives twenty two percent of the 442 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.000 time, hitting ground balls a little too much fifty three percent of the time. 443 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:26.440 But pulling the ball. Uh. Clay put out that new little app 444 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.400 thing on Discord. It was pretty cool. You can pulled like everybody's spray 445 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.359 charts. I was looking at his this was looking kind of interesting, so 446 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:37.839 I know it's a Leandro pineda not out of my mind anymore. He's back 447 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:40.400 and I'm going to try to tune him on a little bit. He struck 448 00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:42.799 me as an athletic guy. I thought maybe uh, I thought maybe he'd 449 00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:45.519 run a little bit and was a little bit faster. Maybe he was a 450 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.440 few years ago. I think he's more of a corner outfield type. I 451 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.519 don't think he's really been stealing any bags. He's been caught twice as stolen 452 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:56.559 done. Kind of back on my radar a little bit, as as a 453 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.839 guy to watch another guy on his third tour at HYA. Hopefully he gets 454 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.319 challenged a bit. True is off when I start it's true? Yep. 455 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:08.880 Well let's go back to the Rockies and talk about them a bit. I 456 00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:15.559 had snagged Drew Romo pretty late in deep FYPD. That would that have been 457 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:21.240 like twenty twenty one? Was that his FYPD year? Well, twenty twenty 458 00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:25.799 was his draft year Draft year, Okay, so maybe it was twenty twenty 459 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:30.039 one or twenty twenty. But I'd gotten him fairly early on the back of, 460 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.480 you know, great defensive reputation. This guy's going to hit, and 461 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.440 I hadn't really shied away from catchers, yet I was still like, oh, 462 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:38.480 yeah, you need a good catcher, and so I think I had 463 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:42.640 quite a few. But anyway, I drafted Romo and early on it went 464 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:47.079 pretty well. Like he good back to ball skills, you know, kind 465 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:51.799 of an aggressive hitter in the handy mold. His handy percentages are pretty good 466 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:56.200 throughout the miners, and had a really sterling defensive reputation. But the hitting 467 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.000 kind of took a step back in twenty two and I ended up trading him 468 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.720 in a package, maybe as part of a package to get like Justin Berlander, 469 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:07.960 as I was trying to push for playoffs, and he turned things around 470 00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.720 in twenty twenty three a bit, like he got promoted to Double A. 471 00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.400 Hartford's not as good a place to hit as Spokane, and he hit better, 472 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:19.960 still showing the low strikeout, low walk typology. He's kind of still 473 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:23.359 flew kind of under the radar though, Like I feel like the prospect Shine 474 00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:26.279 wore off, even though he made a couple of top one hundreds that year. 475 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.880 I think maybe to start the year he was off someome. At mid 476 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:34.279 season, his prospect Shine had definitely dried up. I was kind of out, 477 00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:37.119 like I was like ah, Yeah, he's going to be just a 478 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:40.839 guy. Maybe he'll catch, maybe he'll figure it out and be a touch 479 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:44.720 more. But I'm no longer like this is a Dynasty staple kind of catcher. 480 00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:48.559 But as a twenty two year old in Triple A, he's showing out 481 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.160 and some of it is Babeb driven, and he still is a bit aggressive 482 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.519 for my taste. Like he I think has like one walk on the year 483 00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:59.319 and is striking out twenty two percent of the time, which is acceptable, 484 00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:02.000 but would definitely like to see more walks out of him. But the rest 485 00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:07.519 of the batter ball profile looks pretty solid. He's definitely showing a little bit 486 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:12.119 of power, which you love to see. And he's a guy that in 487 00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:15.119 the past has showed a really nice batted ball distribution, like ground ball rate 488 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:20.559 around forty percent, flyball rate in the thirty to forty percent range, and 489 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:23.680 hits decent number of line drives. So I love that shape of the production, 490 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:28.039 and I do think I watched a bit of him. It's been two 491 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:32.079 weeks ago, and he remains to my eyes at least a pretty good defensive 492 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:37.680 catcher. So Drew Romo's one that I think isn't quite getting enough love, 493 00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:39.680 Like I don't think he's on a bunch of the public top one hundreds, 494 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:44.720 especially for a fantasy and I think I like him, but he looks really 495 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:47.480 good. And again I think some of this is like he's not quite a 496 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:51.680 one to twenty four WRC plus hitter, but it looks like he might be 497 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.640 ninety five to one hundred WRC plus kind of bat at peak in the bigs 498 00:32:55.640 --> 00:33:00.000 and for a catcher at cors who's going to play a lot like sign me. 499 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.319 Yeah, that's an exciting player to me, just offensively. I think 500 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.000 the biggest question was like, are you going to continue to switch hit or 501 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:12.240 not? Because you're awful from the right side. It can't possibly be worse, 502 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:15.400 you know, just staying on the web side. I'll say most of 503 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.640 my looks have been at him as a lefty right like that's what he does 504 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:23.440 the most this year early on, and I know that they have talked about 505 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:27.480 that, that that has been brought up to him about him just hitting lefty. 506 00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:30.759 But it's very early. He hasn't had a lot of plate appearances, 507 00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:35.119 but he's hitting three eighteen as a lariety right now. Interesting. Yeah, 508 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:39.200 yeah, so maybe some improvements there, Matt so getting off of some guys 509 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:45.400 that are in you know, Hi A for half a decade you went to 510 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:50.000 the Triple A. But a couple of Triple A that's former B side calls 511 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:53.279 that are are doing it in Triple A right now. Andre's Traparo and Andre 512 00:33:53.440 --> 00:34:00.240 Lipschiz both have a really nice seasons of Toparo's got nine home runs, just 513 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:02.440 says ten, which is kind of surprising. I mean, I never really 514 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:06.319 thought of him as a guy who would be hitting a lot of home runs 515 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:07.840 at least a few years ago. But I don't know, what do you 516 00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:12.440 think about these two guys? You think they're they're gonna get any run this 517 00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:20.480 year? I think both kind of fall in that Luken Baker kind of range 518 00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:28.719 where they're they're good hitters because defense too. Can he he can play a 519 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:31.880 corner pretty well. Yeah, yeah, I think there's a good third basement. 520 00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:37.599 Yeah maybe. I mean I think for this is less for for Ellipsies, 521 00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.239 because I do think that, you know, if there is some defense 522 00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:44.840 underlying that. But like Chaparro for me, is in that same kind of 523 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:50.400 quad a corner back kind of category where yeah, I think he would be 524 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:54.400 a slightly above average MLB bat, But if it's at first base, what 525 00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:59.760 what does that production really look like? I mean a lot of the guys 526 00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:02.280 that I have highlighted in Triple A in the past are kind of like this, 527 00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:08.159 like Croy Johnston, Blaine krim Sandro fabian Tersou Ornella's like all are kind 528 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:13.079 of like this kind of guy, this shape of production where maybe there's some 529 00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:17.519 power, maybe some swinging miss although Japaro again I think is maybe a touch 530 00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:21.679 better, more on the Blaine Krim side where he's not going to strike out 531 00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:23.679 quite as much, hit the ball pretty hard, hit the ball in the 532 00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:28.480 air, and get some home runs, and I like that profile a lot. 533 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:32.199 The challenge is getting the opportunity and when you don't have a glove, 534 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:37.119 like you can't play a corner outfield position, or you're stuck to first base 535 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.079 or DH those kinds of guys, I think it's tough to bank on their 536 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:45.000 production. Some will hit, you know, like a Joey manessas who finds 537 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:49.559 that role, hits the ground running in the majors and can hold on to 538 00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:52.639 that role or even carry. Carpenter is sort of an example of this where 539 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:58.400 nobody was really on carry Carpenter in the minors, partly because he's not a 540 00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:01.800 very good defender, but he played just well enough in left and right that 541 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:07.760 he got looks out there and now plays regularly for the Tigers. Both of 542 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.719 these guys smack of that to me, like good hitters with skills that I 543 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:15.639 really like, but it's going to be challenging for them to get opportunities. 544 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:19.519 And that whole list of guys that I said, you know, Johnson Crammed, 545 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:23.480 Fabian Ornellis, Lipsius, Chaparro, Baker, one of them is going 546 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:28.840 to be a good longtime DH in the major leagues, but I don't know 547 00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:31.199 which one. Spencer Horwitz is probably another one in this list. Like they're 548 00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:35.000 all twenty five plus, they've all made it to Triple A, they've all 549 00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:38.239 had some success, and they all have defensive question marks. Somebody from that 550 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:44.599 group is going to be a fairly long time useful contributor in the big leagues. 551 00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:45.960 I don't know who, you know, Like, it's hard to say 552 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:49.920 who's going to get that opportunity and who's going to run with it. So 553 00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:52.320 guys that I like to bet on, like I usually have a couple of 554 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.840 guys that look like this on my rosters. You know, they're great villains 555 00:36:55.840 --> 00:37:00.360 for injuries. They're great throw ins in trades when you're like somebody says, 556 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:02.039 I really need a near to the major's power back, and you're like, 557 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:06.440 I got one of those, and yeah, that actually just recently happened for 558 00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:09.400 me in a in some trade negotiations. So I like rostering this kind of 559 00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:15.000 guy. And I do believe that seeing this type of guy get some run 560 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:19.639 and then throw up a one thirty WRC plus Luke Voight type season, that 561 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.480 happens, and and so I can see it happening with either of these guys. 562 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:24.880 I forgot to mention two up top. I wanted to, Uh, 563 00:37:25.239 --> 00:37:29.360 I wanted to give you a little high five. You got another b sider 564 00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:32.559 in the bigs her Bees. That's right, it's got the call. Yeah, 565 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:36.880 number number twenty on the board. Nice work, rook, But those 566 00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:38.519 are mine, like I've had quite a few this year. Yeah, yeah, 567 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:43.119 you're doing well. Do you see Maldonado Blue saved yesterday? No I 568 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:45.400 didn't, I didn't. Yeah, yeah, you got, you kind of 569 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:49.760 got. This is kind of a one to eighty from those last two guys. 570 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.719 Matt. A couple of shortstop gloves that I think are ticketed for the 571 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:58.519 majors or at least high probability just on the defense alone. A couple of 572 00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:02.280 guys that I have thrown out in the past offense the light bat was always, 573 00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:06.000 you know, kind of a big question. So fantasy wise, I 574 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:09.920 don't know how much we want to get interested about these two guys except for 575 00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:14.559 maybe like a thirty teamer or something like that. Maybe I'm under selling it 576 00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:16.800 a little bit, Matt, but Jeremy Revis of the Cardinals, who's in 577 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.719 Double A right now, they've really kind of I feel like they've kind of 578 00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:23.079 like pushed and they've given him a lot of time in spring training and stuff 579 00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:25.960 like that, like at least on the surface, like putting up some numbers 580 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:29.559 this year. There's not a lot of pop. He hasn't hit a home 581 00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:34.159 run. He's got like a fifty six ISO, but he's he's hitting three 582 00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:38.079 ZHO three on base percentage of four h two, sitting line drives thirty one 583 00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:43.360 percent. He's always hitting line line drives at a higher percentage, striking out 584 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.320 sixteen percent of the time, walking thirteen percent of the time. Like, 585 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:47.920 I gotta be honest, if you were told me that this year Revs was 586 00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:52.239 in Double A at twenty one just doing that. I would not bet on 587 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:55.320 that at all. Been watching him a little bit. And then Noah Miller, 588 00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:59.119 which I think we brought up a little bit last year. He's in 589 00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:02.480 Dodgers Great Lakes right now. But man, he continued to hit this year. 590 00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:05.960 He didn't hit any home runs this week. He still have or maybe 591 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:07.599 he did hit one. Think he's at four at the end of last week. 592 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:10.239 He's got five home runs on the season. He's not striking out a 593 00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:15.280 lot, he's walking, He's getting on base three sixty two clip. His 594 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:19.679 ISO's one sixty eight. Well, he's hitting line drives twenty one point seven 595 00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:22.559 percent of the time in the air forty percent of the time. I don't 596 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:24.840 know. You mentioned you've been watching a little bit of Miller. Two gloves, 597 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:30.440 whose offense I think has taken a jump and have gotten a little bit 598 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:34.000 more interesting. Yeah, And of the two, I think Miller is a 599 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.119 little more interesting. Even though Reevas is at double A and doing and doing 600 00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:43.199 quite well, I'm skeptical of his profile. You know, I've said this 601 00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:46.840 before, but if somebody has an ISO of under a to Oh, that's 602 00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:51.840 a really really bad sign for their future production. Like, for the most 603 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:55.440 part, those guys don't even make the major leagues because even fast guys, 604 00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:59.400 if they're hitting line drives, they can turn those into doubles that are high 605 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:02.480 enough clip or triples, and that helps the ISO get close to one hundred, 606 00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:06.960 which is like not a good ISO, but is acceptable if you do 607 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:10.119 other things well, like a lot of the speechters who run kind of sub 608 00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:15.719 one hundred ISOs. But if you're doing that in the lower minor leagues or 609 00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:20.360 lower to mid minor leagues, says pretty bad things about something about your production. 610 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:22.960 Right, Either you're slow and you don't hit homers, or your bat 611 00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:27.519 at ball profile is such that like your extra base hits are few and far 612 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:31.079 between. That's kind of true for Reevus, But with Miller, who we've 613 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:35.280 kind of his whole reputation is that he's a plus glove. I think that's 614 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:38.599 why the Dodgers went after him. He's sort of always been a light back 615 00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:43.440 kind of hitter, but he's continuing to do the light bat things well, 616 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:47.000 not striking out, walking, hitting line drives, but he's paired it with 617 00:40:47.159 --> 00:40:51.119 a few homers this year. And he didn't hit a homer last week, 618 00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:53.519 but he had that four homer barrage a couple weeks ago that we talked about 619 00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:57.760 two in a game, which I don't think he's ever done before, certainly 620 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:00.000 not in the pros. To me, says like, maybe there's some burgeoning 621 00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:04.360 power here. He's still twenty one, he's in Great Lakes. I wonder 622 00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:07.440 if he's gonna get bumped up, because you know, the guy that was 623 00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:12.239 playing shortstop in Double A Austin Gothier is now bouncing around to a bunch of 624 00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:15.639 different positions up in Oklahoma City. So I could see him get the call 625 00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:21.039 up fairly soon, and maybe he does turn into something a little more interesting. 626 00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:23.719 So while I agree generally like these are both deeply deep cut kind of 627 00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:28.920 targets a little more interested in Miller, I agree, although I kind of 628 00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:32.239 wonder if Revis is better at shortstop than Miller. But again, defense it's 629 00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:36.880 so hard. I've seen Revis make last year plays, I think, but 630 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:40.559 love a little flash. Yeah, and then uh man. So Wednesday we 631 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:45.679 were chadding and it was a it was a big, full, fun day 632 00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:49.320 of minor league baseball. A lot of fun Midwest league stuff. Going on 633 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.360 during the day, a lot of good pitching matchups. On of good pitching 634 00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:55.199 matchups, we were listing them off to each other, and a lot of 635 00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:59.559 them kind of I don't know, we're na a lot of a lot of 636 00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:02.840 guy hot arms that wasn't their best outing of the week and all that stuff. 637 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:07.880 And we actually, of course ended up with just one FQO that day, 638 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:10.480 Matt, and that was I got a kind of deep cut first year 639 00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.000 player draft guy that I was into, Aaron Davenport with the Guardians, who's 640 00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:20.000 now in Double A. He went six, four hits, one in run, 641 00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:23.440 one walk, struck out six. I've been wanting to mention him a 642 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:29.159 few times now. Has he been as good as I had hoped when he 643 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:31.760 was my you know, kind of first year player draft, deep cut get 644 00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:36.119 at the end of my drafts. No, he's repeated high A. But 645 00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:38.960 this year when he's twenty, when he's twenty three and he's in Double A 646 00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:43.360 and this is his first Double A test, there's plenty of numbers that, 647 00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:47.000 you know, aren't that exciting, but this is just a different looking Aaron 648 00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:50.440 Davenport to me, Matt, in the past, you kind of like, 649 00:42:50.599 --> 00:42:52.320 I don't know, it look kind of looked like a reliever right, like 650 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:57.920 sort of NAC's effort, a lot of like energy, but he just seems 651 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.960 like way more slowed down now. Is kind of like that now too, 652 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:06.119 He's you see him spotting east and west like a lot better. He was 653 00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:09.239 the guy. Part of the intrigue was I don't think his fastball was real 654 00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:12.960 great, but he had really good secondaries. He's got a really good curve 655 00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:15.119 ball. And I was like, oh, look at this guy going to 656 00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:17.360 the Guardians. They've helped a lot of guys with not a great fastball, 657 00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:21.960 but good secondaries get better. And I don't know, I had kind of 658 00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.280 written it off like Okay, maybe here in Davenport will have a chance as 659 00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:29.119 a reliever someday. But I'm kind of like, have a little Aaron Davenport 660 00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:32.360 renaissance going on and interested the West the rest of the season and see if 661 00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:36.760 he can continue to progress as a starter. Like he just seems like more 662 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.840 of a picture now to me, and more of a starting pitcher at least 663 00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:43.840 trying to be. I can't say I've watched much of Davenport. First thing 664 00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:47.519 looking at his stats that popped up for me is that it doesn't strike very 665 00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:52.239 many guys out and didn't really last year and hasn't really this year, and 666 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:57.559 that, you know, is a thing that gives me question about his fireability 667 00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:00.440 longer term. But sure, yeah, he turned it in a great outing 668 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:04.880 this week. See from him is what this year all but one of his 669 00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:07.000 outings, and it was close. He was at fifty eight percent, but 670 00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:10.679 it was plus sixty percent strikes. You go look at some of his game 671 00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:14.800 logs the past couple of seasons and yeah, he'd be good for a few 672 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:19.599 and then just awful for several. The Guardians are still giving him run as 673 00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:22.239 a starter, And uh, yeah, I don't know enough about the boring 674 00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:27.920 pitchers, and let's go back to talking about the real athletes. Our boy 675 00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:34.000 Don HD in Dynasty Dugout Discord, who we play with in the League two. 676 00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:37.639 He has been the biggest. They have a son, Dela Santos fan 677 00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:44.280 DDLS fan that is out there and Dela Santos those of you remember he was 678 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:46.760 selected in the Rule five draft by the Guardians, which was sort of a 679 00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:52.599 head scratching pickup because they already had a guy who was really similar to DDLS 680 00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:57.719 in their system in Jhen Kenzie Noel, low walk, high power, high 681 00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:01.760 strikeout, young sluggers that have been pushed up the minor league ladder which sort 682 00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:07.920 of had defensive question mark but really intriguing top end power. Well, ddls 683 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:10.519 didn't stick on the major league roster. It wasn't a huge surprise, and 684 00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:16.239 so he was returned back to the Diamondbacks and they stuck him back at Amarillo 685 00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:22.480 again. This is now his third year, ended twenty twenty two in Double 686 00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:25.039 A and then was there all last year and was just okay in both those 687 00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:29.480 stops, Like, strikeout rate was kind of high, really low walk rate, 688 00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:32.360 and he wasn't getting to all of the power that he has shown. 689 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:37.719 But he is mashing, I think is the technical term. Thus far in 690 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:43.079 Double A. I don't really see what he's doing there, Like he needs 691 00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:45.440 to be at Triple A to see if he can handle better pitching. Consistently, 692 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:50.920 He's still the same shape of production, not walking very much. He's 693 00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.599 limited his strikeouts a little bit though. The swing strike rate is still pretty 694 00:45:53.639 --> 00:45:58.039 high, so I expect his strikeout rate to tick up a bit more from 695 00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:00.239 the twenty one point seven percent that it is right now. The power remains 696 00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:05.400 real He's got eleven homers and that's pretty good. That's pretty good at double 697 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:08.000 A for a twenty one year old rock going to one eighty eight WRC plus 698 00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:12.679 Babbitt's really high at over four h two. But I just don't think there's 699 00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.519 much for him to show at double A. And I'd rather see him try 700 00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:20.079 and play defense in the PCL. See if he can stick at third base, 701 00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:23.400 like it seems unlikely that he's going to, but if he can play 702 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:28.519 first base and mash like this, like this is an interesting bat. Don 703 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:32.719 and I have bonded over this, like definitely interested in ddls in dynasty leagues, 704 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:37.880 especially those that reward hour. And I think one of the most interesting 705 00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:44.320 improvements that he's done so far is the batted ball production looks a lot better. 706 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:47.440 He's dropped his ground ball right below fifty percent consistently for the first time. 707 00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:51.960 He'd run a sixty percent babbit at a couple of stops, but now 708 00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:54.480 it's down to forty five point nine percent. Again, it's still early. 709 00:46:54.639 --> 00:47:00.000 These could change, but I wonder if this is related to a swing chain 710 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:04.320 that he went through towards the end of last season and that continued through a 711 00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:07.280 really good spring training with the Guardians and then a really great start to the 712 00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:12.559 year with the dived back. So I kind of am buying this a little 713 00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.880 bit. And the path to walk for this kind of player, as we 714 00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:19.760 mentioned, is tough. But showing this much power and showing this kind of 715 00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.760 success at Double A as a twenty one year old, and I could see 716 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:24.880 him doing this at Triple A too if he can do that, This looks 717 00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:29.760 like a major league corner bat to me. And you know, Christian Walker 718 00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:35.360 isn't going to be around forever in Arizona. There's DH spots open Arizona two, 719 00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:37.719 so he could be a useful bat in a couple of years if he 720 00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:42.239 keeps us up. So D Dls' I'm kind of buying. He's a guy 721 00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:45.679 I've been interested in before but cooled on a bit as he's gone up and 722 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:49.639 Don might be onto something here. He might be DDLS might be back. 723 00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:53.039 So who do you think gets a shot first, Chaparro or DDLS Chaparro. 724 00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:57.920 I mean, he's got more trustworthy production, I'd say, right like, 725 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.960 he doesn't strike out very much, especially right now, you know he's in 726 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:06.840 Triple A showing a twenty percent strikeout rate and walking like Chaparo does have a 727 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:09.320 good plate approach, and I wouldn't really say that about DDLS, Like at 728 00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:15.000 no stop of any length has he shown good plate discipline. And that's a 729 00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:19.360 thing that tends to get exposed at at higher levels, especially in the major 730 00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:22.800 leagues. Like that's you know, to some extent some of the Rockies problems 731 00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:27.760 where if the babbitt falls and they're being really aggressive and chasing a lot like 732 00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:31.280 then it leads to weaker contact and sort of a cascading effect. And DLS 733 00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:35.239 he doesn't really get cheated when he swings, and he swings a lot, 734 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:37.719 and so that helps keep the strikeout rate at sort of tenable levels, but 735 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:42.400 it also means he's not walking and he's not providing value that way. So 736 00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:46.400 that's you know, if if we do see some plate improvements, sort of 737 00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:51.719 if he chases less and starts making a bit more contact in the zone, 738 00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:57.559 this looks like a Masher type that and I'd be really really interested in him 739 00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:00.639 as is. I'm still interested, but the plate discipline, I want to 740 00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:05.119 see that if that sticks at higher levels or for longer too. I mean, 741 00:49:05.159 --> 00:49:07.840 it's still just been one hundred and thirty eight plate appearances this year. 742 00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:14.360 Hitter I wanted to shout is another in this same sort of vein. I 743 00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:16.159 didn't realize that this was kind of my theme as I was going through some 744 00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:21.679 of these guys. But a first base only prospect was twenty five at Triple 745 00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:24.840 A, hitting for some power, striking out a bit too much. Nico 746 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:31.159 Cavdas Calatas Cavadis, Yeah, is having a great start to the Year's cut 747 00:49:31.159 --> 00:49:34.800 his strikeout rate. He's long been a guy who strikes out a lot but 748 00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:37.679 walks a lot. And you know, I'm a three true outcome officionado. 749 00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.719 But he's striking out, you know, twenty eight percent of the time on 750 00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:45.679 the back of a nine point three percent strikeout rate. Compare that to DDLS, 751 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:51.400 who was twenties low twenties strikeout rate in Double A with a twenty percent 752 00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:54.280 swinging strike rate. It's sort of flipped, but it's because Cavatis walks a 753 00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:59.039 lot. He's got an eighteen percent walk rate in Triple A. Is hitting 754 00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:01.840 the ball reasonably hard? You know, his top end exibilos aren't anything to 755 00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:06.079 write home about, but he hits the ball pretty consistently hard, and so 756 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:08.440 his averages, and I think his ninetieth percentiles are a little bit better. 757 00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:13.239 So again, he's another guy that I've been interested for various reasons and then 758 00:50:13.239 --> 00:50:15.920 cooled on a bit as he was a little more mediocre when he got promoted 759 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:20.199 to Triple A last year as a twenty four year old. But Cavadas is 760 00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:23.840 running a one ninety five WRC plus and it mostly looks legit again, higher 761 00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:29.000 babbit, but the walks look great. He's getting to power, hitting forty 762 00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:31.039 six percent fly balls like that's what you want your sluggers to do, and 763 00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:35.440 it seems decent to me. I know Chris Klegg's pretty down on Cavadas, 764 00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:38.000 doesn't think. He thinks he's more of a platoon kind of bat, and 765 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:42.840 that's a hard thing to carry, leftenant hitter for a strong side of a 766 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:45.599 platoon, like they don't most teams don't really do that. They want their 767 00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:50.679 corner guys to be masters against both, and I'm not convinced that he couldn't 768 00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:53.199 play, you know, regularly against both. Yeah, he's just somebody, 769 00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:55.599 he's off to a great start. Wanted to give him a shout because he's 770 00:50:55.599 --> 00:51:00.239 somebody that I've rostered in places before as like one of the staff line type 771 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:06.559 plate discipline plus approach with good power types that, and again he just fits 772 00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:08.000 this mold of I don't know if he can play defense well enough. I 773 00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:12.440 don't know if he's really a platoon bat or not. It's interesting enough to 774 00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:15.000 me that I take a shot on him in deeper leagues going into last year, 775 00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:20.400 I chose Juan Daniel and Canasion as my red Sox B side arm. 776 00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:22.599 He was a young guy and a ball looked like he had a lively arm 777 00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:27.559 more or less with like good frame. My generic take right, I think 778 00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:30.360 I was watching DJ McCarty maybe, and and Canarsion was on the other side, 779 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.320 and I started watching a little bit and looks like he went a little 780 00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.599 bit from thrower to pitcher, so to speak. And I started looking at 781 00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:43.480 his season's numbers, and they're not too shabby. That outing he went five, 782 00:51:43.760 --> 00:51:46.559 gave up no hits, walked one guy, struck out six through strikes 783 00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:51.760 over seventy percent three of his outings. He's thrown strikes over seventy percent of 784 00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:54.360 the time. That is not JD and Canarcion in the past. I don't 785 00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:59.599 think On the air twenty two innings, thirty one strikeouts, walk percentage of 786 00:51:59.639 --> 00:52:02.960 eight point six x fit three point three eight to one point one four whip 787 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:06.599 Yeah, I don't know. He's only twenty three years old. A lot 788 00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:09.599 of Red Sox arms that get some attention in the lowers, but uh JD 789 00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:14.880 and Canarsion. I'm I'm gonna do some homework on him his next starter or 790 00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:16.599 two here, and you kind of dig some more and see what's up with 791 00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:21.960 him. I've watched him a little bit, and I remember thinking that he 792 00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:28.119 seems sort of like an extreme flyball pitcher. Has that been your experience watching 793 00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:30.760 him too? I can't say that I've watched him a whole time. Early 794 00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:36.039 last year I was watching him some. He's at forty seven point one percent 795 00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:39.679 right now flyball pretty that's pretty high. Yeah. I think that he's another 796 00:52:39.719 --> 00:52:44.599 one that would be nice to see him do it in Portland, you know, 797 00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:47.800 get get him a promotion up to double A. Just kind of mastered 798 00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:52.079 this level and been there for a good amount of time now. So if 799 00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:55.719 he's mastered it, it's just been over these last five starts because I don't 800 00:52:55.719 --> 00:52:59.679 think he was very good last year. Decent, you know, he wasn't 801 00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:01.880 walking too many. Who's striking out a decent number. He just got pretty 802 00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:07.239 unlucky on the home run and left on base front, Like everybody who got 803 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.519 on scored. He's a flyball guy, and I think some of those more 804 00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:14.519 of those flyballs were leaving the yard. Like he had almost a two homers 805 00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:17.559 per nine rate, and that's really really really high. Like a high rate 806 00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:22.519 is you know, one point two or something, and he was almost double 807 00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:24.280 that. Like that's pretty out of the norm. And you know, hey, 808 00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:28.840 we've talked about this before as it relates to Brandon Fott. That's just 809 00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:31.599 not a thing that tends to be sticky year over year. Pitchers don't have 810 00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:36.440 a lot of control over it. They have control over how many flyballs they 811 00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:39.440 give up, both like the shape of their arsenal and how they attack hitters 812 00:53:39.519 --> 00:53:45.519 can lead to more ground balls or more flyballs, obviously, but which of 813 00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:49.840 those turn into homers isn't a huge skill, Like it's not something that you 814 00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:53.440 should attribute especially in small samples. Two pictures. So that's one, Like, 815 00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:55.920 okay, it was one nine to nine, But like, is that 816 00:53:57.079 --> 00:53:59.960 really what he's going to do all the time, or is it going to 817 00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:02.679 be closer to one, and if it's closer to one and he strands guys 818 00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:07.159 at a reasonable rate like that, he looks good picture. So anyway, 819 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:09.239 just those are the kind of trio of leck metrics that I look at for 820 00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:14.480 four pictures along with Babe. But sure, have you watched any of this 821 00:54:14.599 --> 00:54:19.400 Will Johnston guy? The A's No, I don't think so. I watched 822 00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:22.480 some of him. He's kind of interesting, I think, yeah. I 823 00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:24.840 mean, he's crushing. He's one that's on my two watch list, But 824 00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:29.079 I just haven't watched any Yeah, I watched a little bit. I think 825 00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:34.519 he's a little misleading. Maybe is you think so what he's been doing, 826 00:54:34.719 --> 00:54:37.559 I don't know. It's it's hard man like. I wish we could see 827 00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:42.599 some lefties, like better angles for lefties, especially in the lowers. He's 828 00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:45.960 a softer toss and lefty with a funky delivery. I think he's deceptive. 829 00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:51.880 I think he's got a fastball or a cutter or something that you know it 830 00:54:51.960 --> 00:54:57.280 misses bats somehow, whether it's you know, rising or whatever sort of movement 831 00:54:57.400 --> 00:55:01.119 right, but very much execution wise. Looks like a reliever to me, 832 00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:07.000 which he was in college. He's twenty three years old. Probably the maybe 833 00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:12.480 the hottest name, trendiest name, the maybe the biggest splash of the week 834 00:55:12.719 --> 00:55:16.679 was Zebbie Matthews in his Double A debut. Wasn't my first look at Zebbie 835 00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:21.159 Matthews, but had to say I was pretty darn impressed. And I know 836 00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:23.559 that you had beaten me to the punch at least in one of our leagues. 837 00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:28.559 To him, what do you think about ZEBI here? I like Zebby 838 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:34.280 quite a bit. It's hard to deny his start to the year. You 839 00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:38.320 know, he's in the top five and KSBB four so far this year, 840 00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:43.800 top five in fifth doing it split between high and Double A so far. 841 00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:49.679 And the thing that is maybe most exciting is he's not walking anybody. He 842 00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:52.920 literally has zero walks on the air. What I find to be super impressive 843 00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:58.440 with that is you understand, these these umpires and the miners are in training 844 00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:02.039 behind the plate and they are very inconsistent from game to game, right, 845 00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:07.480 and just the ability and not to walk anybody in the minor leagues for this 846 00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:09.679 long of a stretch is just super impressive to me. And you have to 847 00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:13.920 adjust your strike zone to the umpire and for him to be able to do 848 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:16.840 that and I've seen him do it just speaks on his ability to execute pitches 849 00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:21.400 at a really high level. Yeah, and some of it is is definitely 850 00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:24.880 earned. He's a bulldog like. He really does fill up the zone and 851 00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:30.079 I think has a lot of confidence, especially in his force team to play 852 00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:34.920 in the zone despite not having overwhelming velocity. He's not out there running it 853 00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:37.880 up in the upper nineties. It's I'm pretty sure like a ninety one to 854 00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:42.559 ninety six kind of a mile an hour fastball. Yhich as a righty. 855 00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:46.400 That's like kind of meh. And I'd also be interested in some of his 856 00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:51.719 advanced metrics because he looks like sort of a short strider to me, Like, 857 00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:55.320 he doesn't look like a spencer strider who gets way down the mound and 858 00:56:55.519 --> 00:57:00.760 is coming at you with a really flat, like well extended fastball. So 859 00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:04.880 which is interesting and I think that it might speak he spins it like. 860 00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:08.079 I think that to me looks like that even though he doesn't get great extension 861 00:57:08.159 --> 00:57:12.920 and it doesn't look like it's from a super flat arm angle. I think 862 00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:16.599 he gets all of his backspin is effective backspin, and I think he spins 863 00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:21.599 it pretty well because he just gets whifts in the middle of the zone on 864 00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:24.280 a ninety four mile in our fastball routinely, and so he just lives there. 865 00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:28.719 He'll hump that fastball right in the middle of his zone, and he 866 00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:30.400 does execute pretty well at the top when he gets two strikes, and he 867 00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:35.639 gets bad swings on you know, ninety two or ninety three that he elevated 868 00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:39.280 at or slightly above the zone. But I think his best pitch is his 869 00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:45.320 gyro slider. He has great feel for landing it, and I think it 870 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:49.800 plays well off of that riding four seamer Here's that he's at this level, 871 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:53.159 just haven't really been able to adjust. It's been pretty impressive to watch him 872 00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:57.920 go back to back pitches. Ninety four at the top gets the swing and 873 00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:01.639 the miss, and the next pitch is this gyro slider that's like eighty five, 874 00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:06.719 so pretty firm, but it just drops straight down right into the middle 875 00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:09.519 of the zone and guys just take it for strike three because it looked like 876 00:58:09.559 --> 00:58:14.280 it was going to be that same fastball above the zone and they just watch 877 00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:17.320 it go by. So he's got a lot of confidence in those two pitches 878 00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:22.039 for sure, and I think those are far and away his most used pitches, 879 00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.920 especially for strikeouts, and I do think he's kind of figured out this 880 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:30.760 is his game plan, his like Plan A, and he's doing a great 881 00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:34.960 job executing it right now. So I'm excited about him as a guy that 882 00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:37.159 is really off to a great start and I think has kind of earned it. 883 00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:40.440 I don't always think that is true of pictures up to this point, 884 00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:45.880 but I kind of think he has, and especially his last couple outings have 885 00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:49.920 been phenomenal. Snagged him. I think it was after his last start in 886 00:58:50.280 --> 00:58:53.239 High A, and so it was nice to see him perform at Double A 887 00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:58.960 as well against the Travelers there. Punched out nine in that game. He 888 00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:02.360 looked great too. Like you've noted more North South, the North South is 889 00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:07.000 better than the East West execution wise as well, I think. I know 890 00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:12.320 I've heard some folks like hoping On and this season's Christian Scott maybe putting words 891 00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:15.440 in their mouths, but you know, execution meets pretty good stuff. I 892 00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:20.599 know Kleig has talked about his stuff ticking up since last year and really kind 893 00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:22.920 of ascending and taking off. And I got to say, someone who watched 894 00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:27.559 good amount of Scott last year early two a year ago in May, like 895 00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:30.920 the execution is not I don't think on the on the same sort of level, 896 00:59:31.079 --> 00:59:35.480 at least from all access of the strike zone, if you will. 897 00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.119 But you know, it's still just May and what he's got five or six 898 00:59:38.159 --> 00:59:42.199 starts under his belt so far this year. But I'm with you, man, 899 00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:45.000 I'm always on the prow trying to find guys with good stuff and the 900 00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:50.440 ability to use it extremely well. And I think Zebbie Matthews is is definitely 901 00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:53.039 up there on my list of sort of the newer guys showing out like that. 902 00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:57.360 Yeah, and the fact that he's doing it at double A now, 903 00:59:57.480 --> 01:00:00.639 like it'll be interesting, you know, the Texas this league has some pretty 904 01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:04.320 good teams in it, and we'll see if he can keep it up. 905 01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:07.400 But yeah, I'm kind of convinced that this is a real arm he's taken 906 01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:10.239 either a step forward or the tweaks that he's made are earning him this. 907 01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:15.639 Like it doesn't seem like Flukes to me. Now, He's definitely not this 908 01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:19.719 good, but it's encouraging when you have a run of starts like this. 909 01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:22.840 Like we talked about this, I think with respect to Juander Suarez at the 910 01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:25.079 end of last year. When you have a run like that at the middle 911 01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:30.920 minors, it definitely gives me more confidence in saying that this looks like a 912 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:35.920 real change attributable to the performance, not just a lucky run. So yeah, 913 01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:37.480 he's doing it in a pretty compelling way. Well, should we take 914 01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:40.360 a look at the other folks trending up this week? Matt, let's do 915 01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:44.960 it. Who else is on the upswing? Johnny de Luca is still technically 916 01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:46.840 a prospect, right, I don't know is he's doing stuff with Tampa Bay 917 01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:52.039 because he's up like eighteen point three percent this week. Came off the injured 918 01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:55.960 list and had himself a really good look. He hit some homers hit I 919 01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:00.159 think he had like a bunch of RBIs last week. Sort of timely hitting 920 01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:04.960 too. I have him in one of my deeper leagues and he's been really, 921 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:07.679 really good. Robert Gasser, who what he made his debut? Right? 922 01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:12.159 He's up twelve percent? Quality start? Did he? This? Notund 923 01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:15.239 super shocking to me? Agreed? I like him? Now. This must 924 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:19.559 be some some rookie ball stats going up for Brailer Guerrero with the race, 925 01:01:19.679 --> 01:01:22.639 he's up seven percent. He's just a seventeen year old. Nick Gonzalez is 926 01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:27.760 up five percent. Zebbie Matthews is up well six percent. Zbbie Matthews up 927 01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:31.400 six percent, Alex Freelan's up three percent. Joey Estes is up three percent. 928 01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:36.559 Then did you watch any Joey Estes against your Mariners? There? Watch 929 01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:37.760 only a bit of it. I think that was That was one of the 930 01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:42.239 weekends starts right yeah, Saturday. Yeah, yeah, I was like in 931 01:01:42.239 --> 01:01:44.360 the middle of cooking when that one was on, so I had it on, 932 01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:46.400 but I only I was only like half watching. I don't think he's 933 01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:50.840 executing pitching as well as I've ever seen him right now at the moment, 934 01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:53.599 like he gave out some gave up some really loud outs. There was some 935 01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:57.440 nice luck, but dude, he took one hundred and ten mile per hour 936 01:01:57.559 --> 01:02:01.519 line drive from Julio in the first inn off his throwing shoulder, and dude 937 01:02:01.599 --> 01:02:06.519 just made the play and just waved off the trainer, didn't skip a beat 938 01:02:06.559 --> 01:02:09.559 and went five, struck out five, gave up one run on a slider 939 01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:15.159 that he left just a cookie middle middle to the cal rally. Joey ESEs 940 01:02:15.239 --> 01:02:20.079 being Joey ESEs man. That guy has just got balls, dude, I'm 941 01:02:20.119 --> 01:02:22.800 such a fan of joey Es. I hope he crushes. I mean, 942 01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:27.840 just to be honest, there aren't many better teams to come up and face 943 01:02:27.920 --> 01:02:31.079 right now. Them Harris offense looks terrible. Yol Berdiez we've talked about, 944 01:02:31.159 --> 01:02:35.880 is up three percent. You know, Ramos up three percent, Jacob Wilson 945 01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:38.559 up three percent, Brett Harris up two percent. And you see Brett Harris 946 01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:43.199 has three hits since he's been up, and they're all home runs. That 947 01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:45.480 it's just like not Brett Harris. Yeah, that's that's about it. Brian 948 01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:49.800 Ramos is up one and a half percent. I don't know is he still 949 01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:52.480 hitting for the White Sex. I know he was off to a pretty good 950 01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:54.480 start on his call up, but I haven't been saying he was a decent 951 01:02:54.599 --> 01:02:59.920 start. And I actually traded him away. You'll be interested in this deal. 952 01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:02.960 One of the guys who had a sort of interesting roster, fringy, 953 01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:07.079 competitive like, probably was going to make the playoffs, but then a bunch 954 01:03:07.079 --> 01:03:09.360 of injuries hit in this thirty teamer and he had a big sell off this 955 01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:14.239 weekend. And I've had conversations about a bunch of his guys before, and 956 01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:17.599 I ended up sending Brian Ramos and a couple of other Braden Taylor for the 957 01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:22.360 Rays and somebody else decent. I'm forgetting for Nolan Jones and Tyler McGill. 958 01:03:22.519 --> 01:03:27.599 So I acquired a share of Nolan Jones, which I felt good about buying 959 01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:30.840 law on, but I was kind of sad to sell Brian Ramos. You 960 01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:32.920 know, I've been a fan of his for a long time as somebody who 961 01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:37.280 I thought was a little underrated got something. He'd shown enough to be like 962 01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:40.000 a solid, you know, top fifty ish hitting prospect, even with his 963 01:03:40.039 --> 01:03:44.159 struggles against right handed pitching, and so when he got called up, that 964 01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:47.159 helped tip that deal in my favor. And hopefully Jones comes back and is 965 01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:51.320 good. But I'm excited for Ramos. I think he's going to get a 966 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:53.599 lot of run. He's probably going to pick up second base eligibility pretty soon, 967 01:03:53.719 --> 01:03:58.440 and I think I think he'll have adjustments. He's still really really young 968 01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:02.159 or something like that. Yeah, as long as he's doing okay, I 969 01:04:02.199 --> 01:04:06.000 expect the White Sox to give Ramos quite a bit of run. So I 970 01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:10.119 was sad to see him go, but it was a trade that made sense 971 01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:13.960 for me. Well, Matt the hottest team in baseball just got a little 972 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:17.920 bit hotter because they just beat the Padres five to four. Hey, Machado 973 01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:21.159 was up in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded one out and 974 01:04:21.320 --> 01:04:26.880 got them the ground into a double play. Nice work. What nine eight 975 01:04:26.960 --> 01:04:30.000 more game road trips. So I'm just gonna enjoy this well I can, 976 01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:36.039 because the depression could be coming back at any moment. At any moment, 977 01:04:36.119 --> 01:04:41.239 but let's look ahead to this week in the miners Matt in the International League, 978 01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:45.559 I'm thinking my eyes might go to Omaha at Saint Paul. I know 979 01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:48.559 a guy that you've talked about quite a bit to Shaun Cercy, some grumblings, 980 01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:55.159 some mumblings about him maybe getting some MLB run And I started the year 981 01:04:55.519 --> 01:04:59.480 like the remember I talked about him and Joiner for Haardo as like kind of 982 01:04:59.519 --> 01:05:03.159 similar shape production of like guys that could play defense and maybe some interesting power 983 01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:08.960 speed combo. Except Cursey's been way better than the heart of up to this 984 01:05:09.039 --> 01:05:11.519 point. Yeah, so I'm gonna flip the coin wrong. And I've been 985 01:05:11.559 --> 01:05:15.239 a fan of Cursey since he was at college at Utah. He was Utah's 986 01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:17.000 best player back in the day, and I got to watch him quite a 987 01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:21.039 bit, and I'm yet to watch I know you first mentioned him during spring 988 01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:25.320 training in kind of a who the hell is this guy sort of way, 989 01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:30.119 but I'm yet to watch Walter Pennington of Omaha, who is still thinks striking 990 01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:32.079 a bunch of people out, So I don't know what that's all about. 991 01:05:32.119 --> 01:05:34.559 So maybe I should watch some of him, but I don't know. It's 992 01:05:34.599 --> 01:05:38.719 hard. It's hard for me to get to the Triple A. You hate 993 01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:42.039 the Triple A. I like it because you could watch most of the feeds 994 01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:44.719 are decent, and you have the stack Cast data, so I love that 995 01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:48.000 combo. Like I often have live feed, Game Day and the stack cast 996 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:50.760 feed all up together because I feel like that. I don't know, you 997 01:05:50.800 --> 01:05:53.840 just get a lot of information. That's great, That's right. I mean 998 01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:56.719 I definitely do that with like Joe yes this and stuff like that, and 999 01:05:57.239 --> 01:06:01.920 pcl Reno at Round Rock. I don't know, Delcastillo has been really hot. 1000 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:04.960 Taparo, you know, I don't know, Krim, maybe see some 1001 01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:11.480 see some long balls. Eastern League Eerie at Harrisburg, the Nats called Andre 1002 01:06:11.599 --> 01:06:15.679 Laura up to double A. I watched a bit of him this week, 1003 01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:18.119 and I know he's having a nice year. It was still just like very 1004 01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:21.679 Yeah, I don't know, man, I don't know how excited I am, 1005 01:06:21.719 --> 01:06:26.000 but but you have to have to get props. He's he's much improved 1006 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:28.280 than he was a couple of years ago. I know that. And I 1007 01:06:28.320 --> 01:06:32.159 haven't watched any Brady House yet this year or you know, Handy or Pinkney 1008 01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:36.519 like at all, and I know Houses off to a start. Pinckney had 1009 01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:40.159 a really hot, hot week, and I don't think I've watched much of 1010 01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:43.760 Eerie and curious to see if Draydan Ham's up there this week. Yeah, 1011 01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:45.800 that'd be fun. Southern League. I think I'm gonna, you know, 1012 01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:49.679 Southern League smaller and it One thing about the Southern League too that maybe I 1013 01:06:49.679 --> 01:06:54.639 didn't really realize until this year is there's a lot of bad angles in this 1014 01:06:54.719 --> 01:06:58.159 small league. For Double A, it's kind of a tough watch. But 1015 01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:00.639 Rocket City is at Tennessee and I think it might be time for me to 1016 01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:05.119 really get into a Dana start and just get really nerd out on it again. 1017 01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:10.760 Heard some interesting lineup is pretty good too. Yeah, despite what some 1018 01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:14.719 might say, I think the Smokey's lineup is a really good test and who 1019 01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:17.360 knows, maybe we get Pinango in that lineup this week. Maybe just real 1020 01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:24.159 quick on that Smoky's lineup. Moiss By Asteros is just hitting the absolute piss 1021 01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:26.880 out of the ball, and I still think he's underrated. I mean he 1022 01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:32.400 he to me is looking like everybody was saying Samuel Basio was going to be. 1023 01:07:32.519 --> 01:07:36.760 I think he's got a great played approach and he's huge and probably not 1024 01:07:36.840 --> 01:07:40.360 a catcher, but boy, can that guy hit. He's got a lot 1025 01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:43.079 of weight to put into it. You know, he's got a lot of 1026 01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:47.480 masks. Boy, Yeah. Yeah. In the Texas League, I was 1027 01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:54.599 thinking maybe Midland at Springfield no our b side bat's Cooper Bowman, then Brennan 1028 01:07:54.679 --> 01:07:58.159 Malone had really big weeks. I was curious to see if one of them 1029 01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:00.840 was going to win Texas League hit or the week. I'm sure that'll come 1030 01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:04.840 out tomorrow, see if they can keep it going versus you know, Roch 1031 01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:10.079 Sick and Badel and I guess Tink Kentz, who is kind of just being 1032 01:08:10.199 --> 01:08:14.559 a booger again. So Matt, I gave him props. Matt. Ever 1033 01:08:14.679 --> 01:08:18.239 since he's just been the same old sal League Brooklyn at Bowling Green. I'm 1034 01:08:18.279 --> 01:08:24.079 thinking maybe Xavier Isaac has had some has kind of led some really hot Bowling 1035 01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:27.119 Green bats that I'm not super familiar with, but just looking at the week 1036 01:08:27.199 --> 01:08:31.960 stats had some monster weeks versus Ton de la Cruz Oreana, who have been 1037 01:08:32.039 --> 01:08:35.880 racking up big k numbers and those are I've watched tong, but those other 1038 01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:39.640 two I haven't seen too much. Kind of want to maybe check them out 1039 01:08:39.640 --> 01:08:44.479 and see what they're about. Northwest League again, slim pickens Vancouver at Spokane 1040 01:08:44.680 --> 01:08:47.319 is really kind of the only good look, so I guess that's the choice 1041 01:08:47.359 --> 01:08:50.880 by default. I was watching a young Victor Horrez. We talked about last 1042 01:08:50.920 --> 01:08:54.880 week a little bit here, like is I don't know eight k's and like 1043 01:08:55.079 --> 01:08:59.640 five innings or something like that, but watch him and Sullivan Dolander again versus 1044 01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:03.640 I guess, maybe the worst lineup in the league. Vancouver watched Olunder throw 1045 01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:08.119 up an egg after being nails to start the year, and he faces a 1046 01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:12.640 really bad lineup. Finally it just gets rocked right right, That's how it 1047 01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:15.239 goes. Midwest League. I mean the two teams. I've probably been watching 1048 01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:19.000 a ton of Midwest League, but Lake County and Lansing have been probably the 1049 01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:21.720 two teams I've been watching the most, and they play each other this week, 1050 01:09:21.800 --> 01:09:26.279 so I just assume tune into the most, uh you know, Sullivan 1051 01:09:26.399 --> 01:09:30.159 versus Cafus and Mooney and this, uh that Johnston pitcher is getting called up 1052 01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:33.239 to Lansing now, so we would get another decent look at him. I 1053 01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:36.199 know there's a couple of decent angles in that league, but man, it's 1054 01:09:36.239 --> 01:09:40.640 fun having Cafus and Mooney like hitting like right next to each other in that 1055 01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:43.800 lineup. It's such a you guy and a me guy, and they're both 1056 01:09:43.880 --> 01:09:46.720 having really really good seasons. But I mean, Mooney's clearly better. But 1057 01:09:48.079 --> 01:09:54.319 the Carolina League, Charleston at Columbia bound to have some good pitching matchups there 1058 01:09:54.359 --> 01:10:00.239 with like Arondez Pattison, Bosacker versus like Sworez, Gil Hill Wild some in 1059 01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:02.119 that week, there's gonna be a good pitching matchup. I think Florida State 1060 01:10:02.199 --> 01:10:06.960 League, I'm thinking Jupiter at Dunedin. Maybe let's get a look at White 1061 01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:11.079 and Meyer, who you know, weren't broadcast this last week, and I 1062 01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:14.520 think that maybe the last two weeks they haven't been I want to watch this 1063 01:10:14.640 --> 01:10:17.920 Perez kid again for Toronto, only seen very little and then the Cal League 1064 01:10:18.199 --> 01:10:23.399 maybe San Jose at Modesto again, want to see, you know, if 1065 01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:26.840 Whitman's supposed to be this advance lefty arm, that could be kind of a 1066 01:10:26.920 --> 01:10:31.079 nice test versus with a Wolt and Montes who they need a test man that 1067 01:10:31.880 --> 01:10:35.560 keeps chugging along. Emerson had a pretty good week that series. Last week, 1068 01:10:35.680 --> 01:10:40.119 back half of the series was the better Fresno pitchers, and I don't 1069 01:10:40.159 --> 01:10:43.079 think they did quite as well, but they kind of beat up the first 1070 01:10:43.119 --> 01:10:46.520 three games. I still think they did pretty well and it was not as 1071 01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:53.239 much loud contact, but like they were earning walks like Fermelo, Cole and 1072 01:10:53.760 --> 01:10:57.479 Montes all I think had multi walk games like towards the end of the week, 1073 01:10:57.640 --> 01:11:00.760 and that, you know, is encouraging because as we had noted, 1074 01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:04.520 there are some decent pitchers in that yeah present rotation, and they've been pitching 1075 01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:10.000 really well. So I still think they quitted themselves against decent competition there. 1076 01:11:10.079 --> 01:11:12.399 Yeah they're good, man, Those two guys are good. But yeah, 1077 01:11:12.439 --> 01:11:16.199 you can follow me along on Twitter at Pitching Specs posting some video, some 1078 01:11:16.279 --> 01:11:20.159 stuff that maybe we'll talk about on the podcast here. But next week, 1079 01:11:20.359 --> 01:11:24.600 Matt, I don't know, I might have to get a haircut, maybe 1080 01:11:25.079 --> 01:11:28.840 xfoliates a little bit, because we're going to get pretty we're talking pretty boys 1081 01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:31.119 next week. I think what we might do is I think Matt might share 1082 01:11:31.199 --> 01:11:35.560 his top twenty hitting prospects for Dynasty, and I think I might share my 1083 01:11:35.680 --> 01:11:41.079 top twenty pitching prospects for Dynasty. And we will share the list, and 1084 01:11:41.880 --> 01:11:45.319 I will tell him that where he's got it wrong or right and vice versa 1085 01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:47.479 or something like that. Sound good to you, Yeah, sounds fun. 1086 01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:51.840 Get into some of these pretty boys and maybe for what we can, like 1087 01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:57.399 one week promote this, like we'll get all our get some new listeners as 1088 01:11:57.439 --> 01:12:01.760 we're talking about relevant twelve team mix kind of redraft prospects, and then the 1089 01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:05.640 next week when people tune in, they're like they're talking about some teenager and 1090 01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:11.560 a ball, like what about listening to But yeah, we'll let Chicago Farmer 1091 01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:16.119 take us out. Tune in next week for the Pretty Boy podcast. Be 1092 01:12:16.279 --> 01:12:21.880 well, Bye Bye house. An hour riding to his head, he hopped 1093 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:29.840 down first, but the lumpbone his face and on the very next pitch he 1094 01:12:30.039 --> 01:12:41.319 up and stole second face with gradest speed. He wasn't born. He had 1095 01:12:41.439 --> 01:12:44.720 the dirty Yes Uniforne