WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:07.719 Not five miles an hour riding too his head. He hopping down first with 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:15.039 the lumpbonius face, and on the very next pitch he up and stole second 3 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:28.559 face with gradest speed. He wasn't born. He had yes uniform. I 4 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:33.920 had Episode thirty one of the Prospect b Sides podcast. I am Nate Handy. 5 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:38.560 He is the rook and we have been mutting around the minor leagues trying 6 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:43.159 to find trying to see what might be interesting out there in the mud for 7 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:47.479 our dynasty leagues. Now, how are you, my friend? I'm good. 8 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.479 You know. We're got some weird weather here so far today, a 9 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:56.079 lot of rain, a lot of sun, which doesn't happen that often usually 10 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:59.240 kind of picks one. Watched a lot of minor league baseball, yeah, 11 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:03.200 last week or so. I really got into it this week unintentionally. I 12 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.200 think there's a little theme for me this week. But Cardinal's pitching prospects got 13 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:11.560 me interested, got me watching it. I mean, like like tink Hens 14 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:15.879 and Quinn Matthews right, like those are no those guys. I was I 15 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:19.760 was going to ask you and wonder if you've been well. I don't know 16 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.640 if I think they weren't broadcast this week down in Low A, if I 17 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.280 remember correctly, So I don't know if you could. I don't think I 18 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:29.400 don't think he was this week. Yeah, but I mean he is clearly 19 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:33.879 dominating a ball, right, I mean his numbers are pretty definitely, and 20 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.959 I want to see him promoted yesterday, you know, like I want him. 21 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:41.359 I want him up to Higa in no time. But I will say 22 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:45.359 this is something that that I I think I had mentioned in the dynasy do. 23 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:49.319 I got discord this off season, and Beck reminded everybody today of this 24 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.599 that the Florida State League already a great place for pitchers. You know, 25 00:01:53.640 --> 00:02:00.319 a lot of those parks play way down and it's notoriously pretty difficult to hit 26 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:06.079 there, and that's where they're trying out this twenty inch wide abs strike zone. 27 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.800 So it's another it's possibly another reason why we're seeing a lot of really 28 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:15.680 great pop up pitching performances in Low A. I really want those guys out 29 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:19.199 of there. I want them all to bump up to high to see if 30 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.000 if it's the competition it's at the league, is at the parks. You 31 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:28.280 know, let's see what's actually playing into this a couple of thoughts. Now, 32 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:32.719 I was no follower of Stanford baseball, so I don't know what his 33 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.919 velocity was in college. But from what I have been gathering is that his 34 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:45.240 velocity is up since college. Yeah, so part of part of my just 35 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.479 wondering, are we talking about a guy who maybe has a little more juice 36 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.000 on the fastball. I noted his walk rate is not super pretty if I 37 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:58.360 remember correctly, when I lost a couple of high walks, starts early, 38 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:00.879 but it's it's trending in the right direction. I like, So what I'm 39 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:05.599 just kind of zero? So right, So what I'm just kind of wondering 40 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.560 out loud, and maybe it explains why he is still sitting in a ball 41 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:15.319 is that maybe he's just got a little bit spicier arsenal spicier fastball and they're 42 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:17.960 just having him work that out and get more comfortable with that and a ball, 43 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:22.599 which if that was the case, makes some sense to me. But 44 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.439 I can't imagine he will be down in Palm Beach for very long if she's 45 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.680 pitching like this. Yeah, and then with the strike zone stuff. You 46 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:34.360 know, I've probably watched FSL Florida State League more than any other league that 47 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:38.439 in the Midwest League I've been the two leagues I found myself watching the most, 48 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:42.960 but the expanded strike zone stuff. Honestly, the only time I ever 49 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.039 think about it watching is when there's been some challenges the rest of it, 50 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:51.560 And maybe in part is that the guys I tend to be watching are more 51 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:55.840 north south. And I don't think the strike zone is growing horizontally or excuse 52 00:03:55.879 --> 00:04:00.520 me, vertically, right, it's just wider. I think that that's right. 53 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:04.599 Though there is the like the ABS system does affect the top part of 54 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:08.000 the zone, and I think that that Again, don't quote me on this 55 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:11.800 part, but I think that this is another way that it's slightly different from 56 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.560 Triple A, where they've got a slightly different definition for for that top part 57 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.319 of the zone. But I can't remember the specifics. Just as someone watching 58 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:24.439 a lot of video, I struggle with some of that stuff, like hey, 59 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:28.319 maybe we need to, you know, think about this guy's higher strike 60 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:30.279 percentages and stuff like that because the zone is bigger, and like that makes 61 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.680 a lot of sense. I get that, but it's not really at the 62 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:36.720 forefront of me my thoughts when I'm like watching these guys I'm just kind of 63 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.120 looking. I don't know, I don't know, does that make sense now? 64 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.920 Like I'm looking for how they're like using their stuff, what they're trying 65 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:46.279 to do, what their stuff might be, and not so much worried about 66 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.600 if they're getting calls or not, or if their numbers are looking the greatest 67 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:56.040 the Yeah, you know what I'm saying with you, Oh totally, And 68 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.959 I agree with you. I think it's more it's something to keep in mind 69 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.560 because it's one of those small things that you might not notice on two, 70 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:09.319 three, four watching of the game as it goes on, and again there's 71 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:13.000 other stuff that's happening. It's more important from an evaluation perspective, But I 72 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.920 don't know. For me, it's just another sort of like it's another question 73 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:20.759 to answer, and it'll be interesting to see how do some of these guys 74 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:25.759 on the hitter side when they graduate up, does that do they see sort 75 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:30.560 of less of a promotion penalty? And on the picture side, is it 76 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:33.279 the reverse like it? Do they does their stuff seem to not play as 77 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:35.600 much? And so I think it's just something that we don't really know, 78 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.759 right, we don't know how much this is going to affect things, and 79 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.959 I have a hypothesis that it might be affecting things a little bit, and 80 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:46.879 we'll see how that plays out. But yeah, I guess I haven't noticed 81 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:49.519 it watching it either. To be honest, I guess maybe to summarize the 82 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:53.560 sentiment I might be trying to get to, is that I feel like that 83 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:59.399 is more of like an aspect, an element of thinking about THEIRS statistics maybe 84 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.720 than sort of their development, if that makes sense. But the Cardinals, 85 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:08.800 Matt, there's some interesting things percolating in their system. I think what that 86 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:12.759 ends up looking like on the major league level, I don't know, but 87 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:17.439 interesting enough that do some homework, maybe try to find some pieces what might 88 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.160 be coming down the road in the major leagues. But just kind of looking 89 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:26.519 at their system. In Triple A, you've got Sam Roberts, Gordon gricefo 90 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:33.000 Adam Kleefenstein, Michael McGreevy, young Victor Santos across the board. Their starters 91 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:36.279 are pretty young. I mean, those five guys are twenty two to twenty 92 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.759 three years old. In Triple A, DOUBLEA you got Tink hence to Ko 93 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:44.720 Roby, Ian Bdell, Max Rogic. I think, is that how you 94 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.800 say I know you've talked about him before. Down in Hya there's Cooper, 95 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:54.360 Guerpe, Bryce and Motts Pantagua, and then down in a ball they're guys 96 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:58.600 getting some starts. Are really interesting, Quinn Matthews, Eisen Henderson. I 97 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:02.560 think, is how you say it? An Juan Salas, chen Way Lynn 98 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.040 and a couple others. So I got sucked into four guys this week, 99 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:10.199 Matt, I don't know who are I don't know who I want to start 100 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:15.399 with. I think maybe you notice a young Wan Salas popped. He's thrown 101 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.639 a couple of fqos fqos or going six innings, giving up three earned runs 102 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.759 or less, walking less two or less, not giving up a home run, 103 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.160 having a game whip of under one point three. Just kind of a 104 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:30.759 little marker that I try to look for find some guys that maybe I want 105 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:34.160 to go watch. But I had to turn Saalace on after a couple of 106 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:39.120 those types of outings. He's twenty one. He's from Mexico. He's six 107 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:43.839 foot one, p eighty nine right hander. His first three starts, seventeen 108 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.639 innings, a point five to three ERA, a point seventy to one whip, 109 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:50.759 a thirty seven percent K percentage, walking guys a six and a half 110 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:56.839 percent clip throwing strikes at sixty six percent. Fourteen pitches an inning hasn't given 111 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.560 up a home run, has given up one earned run. I don't know 112 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:05.600 how many young Mexican pitchers you've watched at A ball, but I find them 113 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:11.480 to be just such a fun little pitching nerd joy because these guys come out 114 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:16.639 of the box with like some pitching acumen and knowledge of how to use their 115 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:22.759 tools, unlike most young American arms. And I think that's definitely some of 116 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:26.160 Salas's case here and the reason for his A ball success. He throws a 117 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:31.480 four steam fastball that averages ninety three miles per hour. He throws a curveball. 118 00:08:31.960 --> 00:08:35.360 Those are his two main pitches. He tosses in a slider a change 119 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:39.919 up, and they label the cutter. I don't really know about that. 120 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:43.000 Perhaps I don't know, but I'm not going to spend too much time on 121 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.600 Salas other than saying that, like, I think he's an excellent A ball 122 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:50.519 pitcher, different sort of ability to execute his arsenal and know how how to 123 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.639 use it for A ball hitters. I don't think there is like any reason 124 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.639 that we need to go out and roster. Mister Salas at this point kind 125 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:03.600 of me in some aspects of what the last couple of young Mexican arms that 126 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:09.759 I got into were, like Victor Horez of the Rockies and like Victor Lizarraga 127 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.080 of the Padres, who actually just had a really nice outing and is he 128 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.840 in Double A right now, Double A or High? I don't remember where 129 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:18.960 he is, but kind of two guys. I don't think they'll ever like 130 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:24.039 the Dynasty interest will ever skyrocket or get too crazy. But you know, 131 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.159 when we just talk about the ability to pitch, like these guys kind of 132 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:33.679 have it. But it's also I think some I don't know, maybe somewhat 133 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.639 of cautionary tale of like, you know, their offerings might not be as 134 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:39.759 spicy, and if you're a stuffist, you would point to guys like this 135 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:43.320 is as they move up, you know, they can struggle and they might 136 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:48.440 have to make some adjustments. I wonder if that's what has been Victor Horrez 137 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:52.360 story with the Rockies. He got beat up pretty bad last year in Hya. 138 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:54.159 He was, you know, very much kind of a command little walk 139 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:58.320 guy. The Walks ballooned on him, and I'm kind of wondering I haven't 140 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.120 watched a ton of him if that's because he's trying to get some spicier offerings, 141 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.960 and that's an adjustment there. But young want Salas here, not a 142 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.799 nobody. I think, have you watched You haven't watched him at all? 143 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.559 Uh, I haven't no interesting watch to me, you know. And down 144 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:18.919 in a ball he gets like good gets wifs on his four steamer and curveball 145 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.240 and a good CSW and all that stuff. But again, just as he 146 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.799 moves up, I don't know how those numbers hold up. And I'm trying 147 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:30.360 to put out some videos on Twitter to kind of supplement some of the guys 148 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:33.600 that I talked to talk about here. It's tough to put into words some 149 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.480 things that you might be seeing, or at least for me, So maybe 150 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.000 that can help. But you can follow me at pitching specs. I don't 151 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:45.080 think I put up any solace video that go around with these these next three 152 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:48.720 guys. I definitely did, and then Matt. One night I noticed that 153 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.639 Eisen Henderson pitched three point three and a third innings and struck out nine. 154 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.639 He was a guy I looked into him. A little bit first year player 155 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.759 player draft research. I had to turn him on heros in Fort Myers. 156 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:05.200 He's a lefty, not the greatest angle. It's a good idea of a 157 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:09.679 lefty, but that outing. He came in in like the sixth and ended 158 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:11.960 up finishing the game. He gave up one hit, one hand roun walked, 159 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.519 one, struck out nine. Like I said, through strikes at a 160 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:20.360 sixty seven percent clip. The main thing here was his sinker. He threw 161 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.320 it sixty seven percent of the time. You got ten whiffs on fifteen swings 162 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.279 csw fifty six percent. I got some video I think all of his strikeout 163 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:33.639 pitches, and I think they're all but maybe one. This fastball. But 164 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:37.159 Matt, he kind of makes me think that you might kind of like him 165 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:43.080 because he's a lefty with a different sort of look, a different fastball. 166 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.480 It's not about the velocity, it's about the movement. And I would say 167 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:50.799 that he didn't even necessarily, you know, execute it all that well. 168 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.879 He just had to like get that pitch in the strike zone. These guys 169 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:56.919 couldn't touch it. He did toss in a change up, a slider, 170 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:03.000 got some whiffs, marked a curveball, and a four stem fastball as well. 171 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:05.720 Kind of a guy that I feel like is up our sort of soft 172 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.679 toss and lefty with maybe some K potential. Alley here, Matt, if 173 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:11.600 you get a chance to check him out, I would recommend it. I'd 174 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:16.080 love to know what you think about him. But guy who has put put 175 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.799 himself on my watch list for sure. I want to see some more outings 176 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:24.720 with him, and then Matt. My Cardinals B side arm n Way Lynn 177 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:28.320 is getting some attention. I know we had mentioned him last week. I 178 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.279 think he touched one hundred in his first outing. I see him getting picked 179 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.159 up in my leagues. I think he's been picked up in all my leagues 180 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:39.320 now. But I watched his last outing, cut up his k pitchers and 181 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.000 whatnot and put that out on Twitter. But I want to talk about his 182 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:46.840 fastball. I wonder if folks might ridden box scores and maybe getting a bit 183 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.000 of a I don't know if I want to say wrong idea, but different 184 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.759 idea about this fastball. Let's see, he went seven innings, gave up 185 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.879 three hit, no walk, struck out seven three strikes at a seventy five 186 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:03.759 seventy three percent clip, and that he threw seven innings on sixty six pitches. 187 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.720 That is that's pretty efficient. But I think the sort of generic story 188 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.080 is going to be that he's a tall, lanky flame thrower, you know, 189 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:16.840 dominating an a ball lineup with a big fastball. But it's not really 190 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:20.200 what I'm seeing very much, Matt. He does throw a hard, forcing 191 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.519 fastball that sits ninety six. I touched ninety eight this outing, and like 192 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:26.200 I said, we've seen him touch one hundred in his first outing. But 193 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:31.840 to me, it's way more about the shape from his release that is intriguing. 194 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:35.960 I don't know how much you have seen of like Joey Estes, and 195 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:39.399 it's not a one for one, but I'd love to see some somebody smarter 196 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:45.559 about pitch shapes talk about and maybe compare Joey Estes to Lin's fastball, because 197 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:48.600 they both strike me now. It might be different amount of movement and a 198 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.480 different amount of velocity. I think Linn gets a lot more velocity and a 199 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:58.399 lot more movement, but it's a forcing fastball from a ariety that plays seems 200 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:03.720 to play really well high into the arm side against both righty's and lefties. 201 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:07.720 It's got a lot of runs so to get in on a righty's hand get 202 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.919 away from a lefty. And we've seen Es this in his major League time 203 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:16.240 and this year in Triple A really rely on that on that pitch. But 204 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.159 man, Len's like it can really run. Man, They're up to twenty 205 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:22.679 inches of run on that pitch, this outing, and he's got the I 206 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.960 don't know how to articulate this all that well, Matt, but I think 207 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:30.480 you might know what I'm talking about here. But with the Taiwanese guys, 208 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:35.240 right, but like Tang, there's something about their arm motion and their release 209 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:39.720 where I don't know if this would scientifically bear out like this, but just 210 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.320 from the eyeballs, it seems like the release is like kind of way more 211 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:48.399 out in front of their torso than maybe a lot of guys who are more 212 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:50.879 out outside. Does that? Does that make sense? You know what I'm 213 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.799 talking about? I feel like there's a there's like a different range of motion 214 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.440 in those two guys, is like shoulder or something. I don't know. 215 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.879 It just seems like a different a different look, a different release point. 216 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.240 You know. Even against this team here was the a ball, a lot 217 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.720 of young guys, a lot of names. I'm not familiar with. You 218 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.559 know, they don't really have that hard of a time catching up putting the 219 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:18.240 bat on ninety eight, Like Lynn isn't blowing this fastball by people. There's 220 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.759 a lot of foul balls. He threw this pitch seventy one percent of the 221 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.840 time, So I don't necessarily think was the plan. I think it just 222 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:28.840 there was a lot of contact, a lot of balls in play early in 223 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.440 counts. That's why the pitch count was so low. But like he got 224 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.840 uh what three whiffs on twenty eight swings on that four scene fast right, 225 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:41.240 So not really what you might think from a guy with this reputation. I 226 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:45.960 caught up his seven strikeouts is that right? Seven of them, eight of 227 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:48.600 them whatever it was, and uh, you know, two were on the 228 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.080 change up and two were on the slider, and he only threw the change 229 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.679 up seven times and the slider five times. But what I liked, and 230 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:58.919 you'll see it in the video, is that he wasn't trying away from trying 231 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:03.000 to throw those pitchers. He was shaking off the catcher a lot to get 232 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:06.440 to those and you know, last year there wasn't a whole lot to watch, 233 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:10.320 but it was his sinker that was his main pitch. He was throwing 234 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:12.159 that like sixty percent of the time, sixty five percent of the time, 235 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.919 and he swapped that out for the four seamer. And I think in part 236 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:19.320 because the sinker, I think, just maybe in a dream world, is 237 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:23.759 a much nastier fastball. But I don't think that my man can throw strikes 238 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:29.639 with it consistently enough, and that's why it's been swapped. Similar velocity, 239 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:33.720 similar horizontal run. But that thing we'll just sort of disappear and drop. 240 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.919 And you know, Lynn, I don't think putting up high strike percentages on 241 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.440 his outings. I think seventy three percent, sixty eight percent, seventy one, 242 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:45.320 sixty four. You know, he's very much a strike thrower, not 243 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:48.559 some sort of precision hitting his spots really well. Like that. There was 244 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.639 a lot of times this outing, the catcher would set up on his glove 245 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:56.720 side, call for the fastball, that thing would run way arm side, 246 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:00.720 but still end up being a really nice strike on the shadow right. And 247 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:03.160 like you were talking about the expanded strike zone thing, in that video too, 248 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:07.839 you'll see him challenge a couple of pitches that were on the edges and 249 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:12.599 get them, and that feels like perhaps a byproduct of that bigger strike zone. 250 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:17.960 The change up is an upper eighties to ninety change that kind of I 251 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.279 think mimics the fastball really well in its shape. That thing can run way 252 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.200 off arm side two. That looks like a really hard pitch to square up 253 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:29.839 this outing, Matt is what his sixth inning I thought was maybe kind of 254 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:33.319 a little bit of a microcosm of this total outing. But you don't see 255 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:37.039 this very much. It was a five pitch six which included a hit and 256 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:40.880 a strikeout, got a double play in there, obviously. I think you 257 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.319 got a couple of double plays, which was nice to see. But you 258 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:47.799 know, it's folks who like to talk about velocity, right Like I think 259 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:52.559 when I looked at all of his forcing fastballs and the ones that were above 260 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.200 ninety seven miles per hour or above ninety six point nine and below and it's 261 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.680 harder forcing fastball, there's fifty seven of them through the sixty seven point seven 262 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:06.160 percent for strikes, it was a thirty one point six percent CSW a twenty 263 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:11.440 five point nine percent with two hundred babbit on that pitch. When it was 264 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:15.359 below that velocity, he threw for much more strikes seventy seven point three percent, 265 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:19.839 but just a twenty three point eight percent csw at eight point two percent 266 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:25.880 with and a two seventy two babbit. So does seem at least in these, 267 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:30.000 you know, just four early starts, velocity might be more important for 268 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:33.640 when at this juncture and the velocity is trending down. Three of his four 269 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.359 outings we have stat cast for when we do not first out he had twenty 270 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.440 four that were harder, twenty one that were harder the next start, and 271 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:45.480 then this last start was just twelve. So I don't know. For folks 272 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.799 who like velocity, I think that it matters significantly. That might be the 273 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:53.039 case here. I don't think the slider is a particularly good pitch at this 274 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:56.319 juncture. You know, he landed it for strikes and got a couple of 275 00:18:56.359 --> 00:19:00.640 strikeouts on and stuff, but like they were far from from hitting the mark 276 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:04.359 where he wanted were. They were good misses. Just landing that pitch for 277 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:08.079 strikes with the rest of that arsenal might might work out well for him. 278 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.039 Yeah, I think his first we kind of talked about how he was probably 279 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:15.640 just like a project. But I think the first step is maybe has been 280 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.279 taken here and he's just throwing strikes. A lot of the writings, he's 281 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.279 just kind of hammering inside, which makes a lot of sense. I'd love 282 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:26.480 to see what a guy like Eastak Paradus would do against him. Yeah, 283 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.119 I don't know, man, there's watching him. There's a lot of stuff, 284 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.160 like a lot of a lot of guys in a ball. You're like, 285 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:37.000 man, I think this could really be the foundation of his arsenal and 286 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:41.480 you know, his his ascension. But maybe it's not. Maybe that's not 287 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:44.559 that good though. I don't know. There's a lot of waffling back and 288 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:48.279 forth if I'm liking kind of what I'm all seeing here. But yeah, 289 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:49.839 I don't know. That was my homework, Matt, know you got any 290 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:55.440 thoughts for me? So Nate and I we usually share ideas about what we're 291 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:57.160 going to do or we're going to talk about what sorts of things we want 292 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:02.200 to cover, usually like kind of late in the week or over the weekend, 293 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:04.640 and uh, Nate had had said, Hey, how about this idea, 294 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:07.839 and and I was like, oh, it's cool. Yeah, like 295 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:10.519 we can highlight some of these guys that we're going to talk about. And 296 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:15.480 then I get on today and Nate's like, by the way, I didn't 297 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:22.079 do that. I instead deep dove into these four cardinals arms and I'm gonna 298 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:22.720 I'm gonna talk about that. I was like, all right, cool, 299 00:20:22.759 --> 00:20:26.640 sounds good. Then he boots me out of the recording software, so I 300 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.559 can't even respond. I mean, he's just sitting here, like reading it 301 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.119 from his notes and looking at his stats and talking about these guys, and 302 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:36.759 he keeps asking me questions and I'm like, oh, it's a good point, 303 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:40.519 Nate, but I can't respond. I can't talk about it. So 304 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:45.200 that was a great little deep dive. I wish I could have contributed something 305 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.839 to it, technical difficulties had had me booted. Well, did he hear 306 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:51.880 anything that I said anything? I heard the whole thing. I was in 307 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:53.559 the like lobby room the whole time. I heard the whole thing. It 308 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:59.279 was great. Like something, that's an interesting note about Lynn if there's more 309 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:00.960 of a of a picture in there, which I think is what you were 310 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:06.359 getting at, that it's not just some velocity, like the velocity is helping, 311 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:08.640 but that he's got some other bits and pieces. I think that's a 312 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:12.160 really a strong mark in his favor. I mean, I know it's the 313 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:17.960 velocity is what got his roster percentages up, and that's what's I think exciting 314 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.920 some dynasty owners. But it sounds like there's more there than just that. 315 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:23.680 I will say though, Like you know, just that little look from last 316 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:27.960 year, it seems a lot. It was kind of like lanky and elbows 317 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:32.680 and you know, inconsistencies and like he does. I mean, I think 318 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:37.039 my man has put some work in here. He looks cleaner and interesting that 319 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.640 I getting some popularity. Nonetheless, I like it. I like it. 320 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:42.559 Well. I have to throw on some of those other guys as I'm scoping 321 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:48.119 around and bouncing here and there. But you know, we've talked a lot 322 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.480 about soft toss and lefties, right mm hmm, but we haven't really talked 323 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:59.359 about soft toss and righties. I gotta say I'm guilty. Sam Roberts here 324 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.000 young, what is he? He's Dutch? Right, yeah? Twenty two 325 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.759 in triple A just is thrown back to back fqos. What I think he 326 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:11.279 went like seven and eight innings or something like that. Has just been really 327 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.200 dominant. But I think I'm guilty of sort of obviously aware of him. 328 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:18.119 He was in the futures game last year and what have you. But I 329 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:21.359 was like, man, this right, he throws ninety I don't know, 330 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:23.200 and I haven't really paid much attention to him, but I watched him this 331 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:26.599 week, Matt, and I got to say, dude, I am kind 332 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:33.440 of loving it when you talk about pitchability, execution, knowing how to maximize 333 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.680 what you're working with, having the ability to put your offerings where you want 334 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:41.359 to at a really high clip like my man is sexy, dude, like 335 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:45.440 he's And the clip that I put up on Twitter, I think was a 336 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:49.880 good example. It was a four pitch strikeout, made a nice triangle all 337 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.960 on the edges with three of his pitchers. There was one I think it 338 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:56.759 was a change up on like two that he threw into the dirt. That 339 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:00.720 wasn't a great you know, but he wasn't going to roll that for in 340 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:03.440 the strike zone anyway. Is that was gonna that was gonna be a waste 341 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:07.799 pitch try to get the hitter out himself, right. But that was the 342 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:11.920 three strikes in that clip. I thought, we're mighty pretty. But he 343 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:15.759 was part of the return the Cardinals got for Jordan Hicks, And you know, 344 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:19.359 I see him what I think Clegg has him at three eighty eight right 345 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:26.000 now on his new Dynasty prospect list. Now, I get that league size 346 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:30.039 and format might matter here, but I'm a guy, especially in a big 347 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:33.759 league I'm shoving him way up. Oh interesting, I'll try to explain why 348 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:40.039 here. On the season, twenty nine and two thirds innings over five starts, 349 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:42.279 one point eight five ERA, a point nine to two whip, the 350 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:47.920 twenty six K percentage, walking guys at a five percent clip, throwing strikes 351 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:51.319 sixty five percent of the time. He's given up one home run in six 352 00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:56.079 urn runs over that. His last start for twenty six he threw cutter, 353 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:00.200 change up, slider, four seam fastball. Over the course of the season, 354 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:03.519 he will mix it a little bit. And as far as which pitch 355 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.240 is, which offerings are getting thrown the most, I think some of that 356 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:11.519 might, you know, just kind of play out and there's more righties or 357 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:15.200 lefties in a lineup. But over the season, the slider is throwing twenty 358 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:18.759 eight point seven percent of the time, the cutter is twenty seven point nine 359 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:22.920 percent of the time, the forcing fastball is twenty four percent of the time, 360 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:26.079 the change up is nineteen percent of the time, so a pretty even 361 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:32.000 clip even rate amongst his four pitches versus righties, he's slider, cutter, 362 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:36.079 and now his cutter. I would call it on the spectrum of cutters, 363 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:40.079 it's more breaking ball than fastball. I think throws the four team or twenty 364 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:45.279 percent of the time versus righty's and will on very brief occasion throw right on 365 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:48.279 right change up versus lefties. A changeup comes out thirty percent of the time, 366 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:52.000 the forcing fastball twenty seven percent of the time, the cutter twenty six 367 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:56.759 percent of the time, the slider seventeen percent of the time. Now he's 368 00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:59.799 a righty. I don't know if I mentioned that righties are hitting two thirty 369 00:24:59.839 --> 00:25:03.599 five I have two fifty three point fifty three against him with a thirty seven 370 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:07.720 point two with percentage. Lefties are hitting one fifty nine two forty five one 371 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:12.559 two with a twenty five point five percent with percentage. The velocity on the 372 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:18.599 four steamer is averaging ninety point seven. So you know, Matt, that 373 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.519 that will probably turn a lot of folks off like it didn't. Now, 374 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.119 Matt, I'm wondering, I don't know what perceived velocity is. Do you 375 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:30.559 know what perceived velocity is on statcast. I don't know what that is. 376 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:36.039 It's a calculation that takes into account the extension. Okay, so it is 377 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:40.200 perceived velocity is about a half mile per hour harder. I don't think that 378 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:45.400 makes too much of a difference. He's spinning that thing about twenty four hundred 379 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:51.160 RPM's extension of six point four feet, which I think is about average. 380 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:55.640 Right, hard hit percentage on that is eighteen point eight percent. Hard hit 381 00:25:55.680 --> 00:26:00.400 percentage in the mL in MLB is thirty nine point one. So even though 382 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.559 it's soft, it's not getting hit hard. Now, he doesn't get a 383 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:07.599 lot of whiffs on that pitch nine point eight percent. I don't know what 384 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:11.799 MLB network show it was, but they had Robbers on. He was talking 385 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:17.119 about his other pitches and how they are keeping hitters off of his four steinge 386 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:21.119 fastball, and that I think is the brilliance in Robbers. Here is the 387 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:25.279 way that he can use his four pitches. The guy's with a maybe not 388 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:29.920 a good fastball in a vacuum. I'm always curious about first pitch fastballs, 389 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.400 right, Matt, I feel like that's an important pitch on first pitches against 390 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:37.759 his what one hundred and twenty eight batters faced. He's thrown thirty two forteing 391 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:41.240 fastballs on the first pitch. That's twenty five percent of the time, which 392 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:45.240 is more or less in line with his overall pitchnicks. Right, he's gotten 393 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:49.599 a seventy one point nine percent strike percentage on that Batters are zero for one, 394 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.039 so it's only been put in play once, and he's got a forty 395 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:59.920 three point eight percent CSW on first pitch fastballs, which I think is a 396 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.759 pretty good sign, MA, don't you. I think that this kind of 397 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:08.400 guy is really fun for a lot of the reasons you've articulated, and you 398 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:15.319 know me that I'm a believer that you can succeed with a well below average 399 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:19.640 velocity fastball, and it sounds like he's got some of the tools to do 400 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:22.880 that. I think Roberts is one of those guys that he's got such a 401 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:27.200 fun rest of his repertoire that maybe he can make it work with a ninety 402 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:33.880 mile an hour average fastball velocity with not other plus shapes, other plus traits. 403 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:40.640 I think the thing that has made me a little bit less excited about 404 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:45.480 him than some of the other soft tossers that we've seen in the past is 405 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:51.680 just that there's sort of a history of like mixed performance, and so it's 406 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:56.440 almost like guys have figured him out as they've seen him a couple of times, 407 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:00.440 like through the league, you know. And so while well, I 408 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.079 think there's something interesting here, and the fact that he's doing this at Triple 409 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.480 A on the back of being fairly successful at Double A and Triple A last 410 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:11.720 year is impressive. But he's he's one of those guys for me that I 411 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.960 want to see a little bit more of, just because we've got some history 412 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:19.079 of people sort of figuring him out and him not putting it all together at 413 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:23.119 the lower levels. It's and it's rare to see this kind of picture succeed 414 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:27.000 more at the higher levels like he's done up to this point in Triple A. 415 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:30.480 So it's it's not like I think, I think for me, it's 416 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.599 more of like this is a wait and see kind of guy. And in 417 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.960 your deep leagues, absolutely, I think he's going to be big league starter. 418 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.599 I Mean, the Cardinals rotation is all old and they are not going 419 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:45.319 to be around for that long a lot of them, so they're going to 420 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.160 need guys to fill some of those innings, and I think Roberts could be 421 00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:52.599 that kind of guy. But as for like a kind of smaller league, 422 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:57.319 shallower format, I'm still pretty skeptical of his impact. We haven't talked about 423 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:02.839 his good pictures yet. The slider, which he's thrown more than anything, 424 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.279 forty two point nine percent with of course, this is in triple A, 425 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:11.039 but that's not too shabby. Hard hit percentage of sixteen point seven percent on 426 00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:15.079 that pitch, what barrel percentage of I guess it gets barreled about average amount 427 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:19.440 of time change up. It's got a forty eight point four percent with a 428 00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:23.799 hard hit of twelve and a half percent, hasn't been barreled once, and 429 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:29.440 that's in the sixty six times thrown the cutter. The cutter doesn't get as 430 00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:33.559 much with as those twenty five and a half percent, which what MLB average 431 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:37.240 I think with is thirty percent. Oh, but that doesn't get barreled up 432 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:41.079 either, hasn't been that's a five percent. I don't know. He's a 433 00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:45.759 you know, Matt some of all parts, right, I mean, I 434 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:51.079 just think that those kinds of stats at this stage in the season are still 435 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:55.880 pretty noisy, and he's given up like what one homer so far this year, 436 00:29:56.039 --> 00:30:00.000 and that is not a trait that he has showed really in the past. 437 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:03.279 You know, he gave up one and a half homers per nine at 438 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.400 triple A last year, one point four at double A, one point four 439 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:10.839 to six at double A the year before. I just think that homers are 440 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.079 going to be part of his game, just given the velocity and given that 441 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:18.359 I don't think there's even with the secondaries, overwhelming amount of with for or 442 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:22.039 command. You know, I don't think it's like pinpoint precision here, and 443 00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:26.279 so we might expect a little bit less. So I expect that home run 444 00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:30.480 rate is going to go back up to over one. And then now you're 445 00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:34.279 looking at a guy who's like maybe low fours era in triple A, maybe 446 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:37.759 a tick above that in the bigs. So again, that's good, Like, 447 00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:41.720 that's a right. He's shown a lot of things to really really like. 448 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:47.000 But I'm not counting twenty nine ish innings in triple A and saying that 449 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:52.440 he's kind of figured out this homer against problem. And yeah, so I 450 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:55.279 think for some of these things, I think it's like he's on a nice 451 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:57.759 start to the year. But I want to see more. Okay, fair 452 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:02.319 enough, I'm just telling you he's pitching clean, man, he is, 453 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:06.160 he is sharp. Nice, But yeah, I know those those were four 454 00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:08.759 Cardinals arms that got a lot of my attention this week. Matt forty five 455 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:14.880 minutes on the not the assignment for this week, it's this is this is 456 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.440 b siding with Nate. Everybody. Hey, sometimes you just go where the 457 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.680 mud leads you. Man, I'm with you, I'm with you on that. 458 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.240 I definitely had a bit of that as I was bouncing around leagues and 459 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:30.440 trying to narrow down because to bury the lead a bit here. One of 460 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.079 the things that we wanted to do was we're now almost a month into the 461 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:38.079 season, a little bit less for obviously the lower miners and obviously complex ball 462 00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:41.319 starts this week, which is fun. We were going to look at each 463 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.200 league and see if we could find a guy that we liked, maybe a 464 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.799 half grade more. You know, as I've tried to preach, as we 465 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.599 talked about guys this early in the season, you want to change your mind 466 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.440 on guys slowly. Sometimes it can go a little bit faster because it's just 467 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:00.759 someone that you had no data on and so you're really essentially forming an opinion. 468 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:05.799 But for guys that we've maybe seen before or had overlooked before, is 469 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:09.000 there anyone that's catching our eye that we want to round up a half grade 470 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:13.319 or a full grade on. So we went around each league, I think, 471 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.440 right like, you got a guy from each league night. Yeah. 472 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:22.279 Yeah, So we went and come through all the hot starts and kind of 473 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.519 tried to suss out what's what's real and what's not and what we like and 474 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:28.680 what we want to see more of. So I don't know if that's a 475 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:34.880 good segue into talking about the real assignment this week, boring Hitters. Yeah, 476 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.160 that's why I was so excited about it. I like dove in and 477 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.359 I'm looking at all these guys and I did a lot of work for this 478 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:43.240 one, the guys that were going to talk about. But first I'm going 479 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:47.279 to start in the PCL, and technically still in the PCL, I think 480 00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:52.319 as of right now, Jordan Beck just got called up to the BIGS. 481 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.799 And he's a guy that made some top one hundreds I think, and I 482 00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:01.000 think rightfully, so one who I think there's a real fantasy friendly profile here 483 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:06.559 in terms of he's gonna steal a few bags he's going to hit I think 484 00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:10.519 a decent number of homers, and if the thing that I'm excited about really 485 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:16.279 has happened, if he's really improved his contact skills and his strikeout rate really 486 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:22.640 as down as it is comfortable to say that this guy's like a top fifty 487 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.359 kind of fantasy prospect if he gets the time and if he gets the run. 488 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:30.400 But Nate, you had said this offseason that he was the top prospect 489 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:37.599 in a fairly well regarded Rockies system, ahead of Idel Amador Fan for fantasy, 490 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:39.759 for fantasy, and I think he took some heat for that, but 491 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:44.319 they're early going. You know, it looks really good. I think for 492 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:49.240 me, the biggest thing is the strikeout rate is down below twenty percent, 493 00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:54.240 which he hasn't done since low A in twenty twenty two, So that's pretty 494 00:33:54.240 --> 00:34:00.000 impressive. Doing it in triple A. The swinging strike rate looks better, 495 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.640 so it's you know, he's probably going to strike out more than that at 496 00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:06.039 the big league level, and especially out of the gate. You know, 497 00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:09.199 don't be surprised if it's an upper twenties, slow thirties percent strikeout rate, 498 00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:15.039 because he's run that kind of strikeout rate before. I think he's maybe focused 499 00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:19.639 more on the contact skills and let everything else play. There's average or slightly 500 00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.480 better power here, and I think he's going to swipe some bags too. 501 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:24.599 So I like him. I mean, I think that this is a great 502 00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:28.519 call up. I hope they give him some run and I hope he makes 503 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:30.400 the most of it because he's a guy. That is an up arrow for 504 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:35.119 me from watching him both in spring. Although he's struck out a bit more 505 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.280 in the spring, I think, but the early goings here, the strikeout 506 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:40.199 rate improvements, if that sticks, this is a guy, you know. 507 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.039 I agree, And that was that was my PCL. Nice look at that, 508 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:46.239 look at that. Hopefully we don't agree in all of them. But 509 00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:51.400 let's let's speed through the PCL, speed through the triple A, because these 510 00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.639 are not our guys. These are not muddy enough. Yeah, we've been 511 00:34:54.239 --> 00:35:00.960 watching some backup. Just generically speaking, I think it's it's clear there's some 512 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:05.559 good maturation that has taken place at the plate. And but I've seen a 513 00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:09.400 couple of outings where he like walked like three times, Like that's not it's 514 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:15.079 not like typical back So I think you love to see that in the International 515 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:19.159 League, Matt I went with a guy that I have been skeptical of, 516 00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:22.400 and I think maybe I mentioned before, but I gotta give props. I 517 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:29.719 think or Elvis Martinez has definitely moved up a grade or after grade or or 518 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:34.639 something in my fantasy opinion. Now, obviously I don't have any shares and 519 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:37.880 I ain't going to try to get him now, but just gotta gotta give 520 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:40.719 him a shout and some and some props for improving his game. And you 521 00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:45.639 know, he's been on a pretty good tear and I think they're calling him 522 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:47.719 up pretty soon from what it sounds like. Yeah, maybe. I mean, 523 00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:52.320 I did see somebody share a report in the Donasy Dugout that said they 524 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:54.800 really want him to work on his defense, which is definitely can be code 525 00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:59.239 for like he's going to be down there a while longer. But again, 526 00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:04.159 bit bit a strikeout rate improvement for him, and everything else looks really good. 527 00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:06.599 Like he's hitting a lot of fly balls, which for someone with the 528 00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:08.440 plus power that he has. You know, I'm a fan. I think 529 00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:13.960 he's firmly a top big fat middle part of the top one hundred guy for 530 00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:19.559 me. But I chose Aurelvis's teammate Addison Barger, who we had also talked 531 00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:24.039 about this offseason when you made a dig about the Toronto's minor leagues and I 532 00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:27.519 said, well, you know, Irrelvus is definitely a guy, and I 533 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.719 said, like, I think Addison Barger is a is a regular too, 534 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:35.519 And I think I think Addison Barger might be more than that. Like he's 535 00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:37.800 not as good as Eurelvius, I don't think, and never have thought. 536 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:42.000 And he also just got called up. He's got a couple of games under 537 00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:45.079 his belt at the BIGS, but again the walk and strike up numbers are 538 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:50.159 going in the right direction as he gets older. He's, you know, 539 00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:52.760 got some power in his bat. I don't think he's like a you know, 540 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:58.239 double plus kind of power guy, but there's plus power at peak there, 541 00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:00.400 I think. And he's I think one of those guys that he's going 542 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:04.599 to play a couple of positions, got the potential to be a better version 543 00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.559 of Kevin Bigio, you know, like actually some power in the bat. 544 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:13.000 He walks a lot. He's got a pretty good strike strikeout rate and it's 545 00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.480 backed by a single digit swinging strike rate, which is also really good. 546 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:19.159 So He's just one of those guys that I think he does a lot of 547 00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:22.159 stuff pretty well and that it can be under rated. So yeah, that 548 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:27.400 Barger, I think is taking another step forward and definitely earned his promotion. 549 00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:32.719 And I hope he sticks and succeeds right on nat in the Southern League. 550 00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:38.159 You know who. It's interesting and excuse me, you traded him off in 551 00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:44.800 our in our little trade episode and Carson Williams says, looks like you might 552 00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:50.079 be answering or taking care of the biggest wart. Yeah, he's one of 553 00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:53.360 the very biggest up arrow guys this off season for me, are this early 554 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:58.440 early going foreshure. That's that is definitely a good call out and something I 555 00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.039 wasn't sure he could do. But he definitely has showed that he can play 556 00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:06.760 the defense and it's maybe that hard work is paying off in his hitting as 557 00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:12.440 well. Yep. Another guy who referred to the minor leagues as practice. 558 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.199 Yep. But he's looked good man. I don't know, I don't have 559 00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:21.360 his strikeout percentage up, but it's markedly improved from last year, right it 560 00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:24.480 is. But he's also you know, back down in Double A, and 561 00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:30.559 he's not walking either. I do think that his strikeout rate improvements were more 562 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:36.920 notable early on. And I think he's had a few strikeouts lately. Yeah, 563 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:38.360 this last week, I think he struck out. Yeah, the last 564 00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:40.760 two weeks, I think he started out really well, but the last two 565 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:45.119 weeks he's struck out quite a few times. So twenty one strikeouts to three 566 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:50.199 walks so far. You know, if he can keep those down. I 567 00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:52.320 mean, there's no doubt he's got power. There's no doubt that he can 568 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.159 play defense. It's just that that strikeout rate part is can be tricky. 569 00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:59.679 Is he your guy for the Southern League? He's my guy for the Southern 570 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:01.880 League? Yes, all right, Oh, I'm gonna, you know, 571 00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:07.239 say some more good stuff about Nate. I was pretty skeptical of your pick 572 00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:13.360 for the Angels. Beside, I had watched a bit of Cole Foughtinel and 573 00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:15.920 I was like, guy, it seems okay, you know, like I 574 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:20.599 third base kind of corner guy. Maybe there's some pop here, but I'm 575 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:24.239 not really sure. He's been really good in the early going, more so 576 00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:30.239 than I expected, I guess. And I think that he's you know, 577 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.239 not striking out very much. He's walking at a decent clip, and unlike 578 00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.239 a lot of the guys that are starting really hot to start the year, 579 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:40.519 he's not running some absurd babb it either. You know, it's three p 580 00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:45.039 fifty so that's PI. But with the amount of line drives that he's hitting, 581 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:49.039 some of that is earned. And he's doing it at double A, 582 00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.719 which he's skipped over hi A. He like you know, spent most of 583 00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:58.880 his post draft year at a ball and then just skipped totally over Hi A 584 00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:01.920 and now, and that's not unusual for the Angels. They are definitely ones 585 00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:07.960 to push their prospects and see who sinks or swims. But he's showing surprising 586 00:40:07.119 --> 00:40:13.079 speed, like ten bags already in the early going. Is honestly, wildly 587 00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:17.079 impressive. And the strikeout walks look really good. So good call on Cole 588 00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:21.199 Fought. No, I did not see this one coming in, especially with 589 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.400 this shape of production either. Yeah, I haven't been. I haven't been 590 00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:27.119 paying too much attention to him, to be honest to them. Yeah, 591 00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.480 it's not like a bunch of things aren't jumping off the page. But ten 592 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:34.119 stolen bases is near the minor league lead right now. And I've watched a 593 00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:37.159 couple of and he looks athletic out there, So I don't know. I've 594 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:40.480 been pretty impressed and early going like that's he's moved from a follow to like 595 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:44.599 I've looked at who has him, and I've sort of inquired, like, 596 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:47.400 hey, maybe that's an interesting one again and in rotal leagues, I think 597 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.400 that matters more. But yeah, he's good. Early call by Nate Eastern 598 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:58.639 League. Who you got Matt Eastern League was fun. Number one guy is 599 00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:04.320 Agustin Ramirez. Like I ended up with him in a few spots because I 600 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:09.280 think I liked the improvements, like that he's a guy who he doesn't strike 601 00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:15.320 out a lot and had good underlying data and so even though he scuffled at 602 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:19.800 his promotion to Double A, he was so good at high last year that 603 00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:24.840 he was Like I think I drafted him in maybe four FYPD leagues because or 604 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:29.159 off season drafts. Obviously he's not an FYPD guy, but I drafted him 605 00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:32.079 in a bunch of spots because I was like, I really buy the hitter 606 00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:35.800 that he is, you know, so he like I mentioned, he scuffled 607 00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:38.440 a bit in thirty one games at Double A to end the year last year 608 00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:44.400 and is just lighting double a on fire right now. So for Somerset, 609 00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:49.519 he's hit nine homers already, he's striking out under twenty percent of the time, 610 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.639 nineteen percent of the time, he's walking sixteen percent of the time. 611 00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:55.840 His babb it is two hundred. Some of this is he's leaving the yard 612 00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:59.719 a lot, right, like, you know, hitting nine homers, that's 613 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:01.920 it's like a forty five percent home and a fly ball rate, and that's 614 00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:05.920 not going to keep happening. He's not peak Berry Bonds or anything here, 615 00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:09.679 but I think this stick is gonna play. And I've watched a little bit 616 00:42:09.679 --> 00:42:14.119 of them on defense, not enough to get a sense for if it's going 617 00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:17.760 to be a really good backstop. It's interesting with the Yankees. They've got 618 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:22.039 a lot of guys on their forty man who are catchers. I'm not convinced 619 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:24.119 that Ramirez isn't the best of them, you know, just from a whole 620 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:30.320 package standpoint. So he's he's like I think, you know, firmly top 621 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:34.880 one hundred guy, and he was super cheap this offseason, So that one 622 00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:37.679 that one feels good. Small pat on the back for pat on the back 623 00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:40.280 for me for lucking into him in quite a few places, because he's now 624 00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:45.239 really showing out so far this year, Like he's he's jumped up a grade, 625 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:47.800 so to speak for you. Yeah, like I I grabbed him. 626 00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:52.039 I know you liked them coming into into the season. I did, But 627 00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:55.639 I really didn't expect this kind of power explosion. I didn't expect the you 628 00:42:55.679 --> 00:42:59.519 know, he's going to strike out a bit more, but it looks like 629 00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:04.679 this is a major league starting quality catcher here. Like that's certainly with the 630 00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:07.920 bat, and it remains to be seen with the glove, but to pass 631 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.679 my expectations already, and hopefully he keeps it up because he looks really good. 632 00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:15.960 Eastern League. I'm gonna go with Zach Vine, who seems to be 633 00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:22.800 back being the Zach Vine from the AFL a couple of years ago or whatever 634 00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:25.239 it was. And I know folks have talked about and he had injury last 635 00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:29.159 year and what have you, but UH just got to give a shout to 636 00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:32.880 him. What he's sixteen games, he's hit two home runs, swiped seven 637 00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:37.880 bags, he's been caught once, he's walking fifteen percent of the time, 638 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:40.679 he's striking out twenty six percent of the time, three twenty seven, four 639 00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.480 thirty one five eighty two slash. Now he is running like a four forty 640 00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:51.440 four babbit, but that's good for a one eighty three WRC plus. He's 641 00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.079 keeping the ball off the ground at a pretty nice clip, pulling it well. 642 00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:58.400 I know that I've talked about him in the past and I've seen him 643 00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:00.639 shift sort of his approach at the plate, and that I haven't watched a 644 00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:04.039 ton of him this year. With a little bit that I watched, I'm 645 00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:07.960 kind of wondering if he's found a good, little happy medium for himself. 646 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:13.800 And I think, if you were being hopeful or believer, lots of good 647 00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:16.880 news this year so far. Yeah, like a lot of the guys that 648 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:22.280 littered the top of the early WRC plus leaderboards, like you mentioned, running 649 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.519 a really high babbeb you know, four forty four, and he's quote unquote 650 00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:30.000 earning it up to this point. He's hitting almost forty percent line drives, 651 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:32.840 which is unusual for him. I think one of the things that I had 652 00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:37.079 knocked him for in the past was that for a guy who supposedly had such 653 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:40.880 good power, he hit the ball in the ground a lot and he's doing 654 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:46.920 that less. But nobody really hits forty line drives. So it's going to 655 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:52.079 be interesting to see which direction those bat and balls turn as the year goes 656 00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:57.480 on, because if they eke more into the fly ball range, like I 657 00:44:57.480 --> 00:44:59.760 think that's going to be good for his power. He has the power to 658 00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:05.440 back that up the raw power, that is, if they leak back towards 659 00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:07.960 the veen of old and he's hitting them on the ground, like, it'll 660 00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:12.559 be interesting to see, but definitely nice to see him hitting the ground running, 661 00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:15.199 agreed. And then in the Texas League, Matt, I'm going to 662 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:21.719 go with someone I'm probably guilty of doing the same and not giving enough credit 663 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:25.280 for maybe his offensive potential this first year player draft season, but uh, 664 00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:30.480 Jacob Wilson is off to a pretty nice start. Mm hmm. That he 665 00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:37.000 is he slashing or seventeen four thirty eight six' thirty three. Again, 666 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:42.039 he's got a four sixty babit and he's hitting the ball on the ground at 667 00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:45.360 a fifty four percent clip. But he's popped a few home runs, stole 668 00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:50.039 a few bases, he's striking out fourteen percent of the time, he's not 669 00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:54.719 walking, which you love that profile. He have mixed opinions on that, 670 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.960 but the whole point is this is a guy who is uh is the defense. 671 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:04.800 He's gonna be playing shortstop in Oakland, and maybe there was some more 672 00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:09.960 bat here than the first year player consensus had it. So he's moved up 673 00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:14.119 half grade or what have you? For me? Yeah, I like it. 674 00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:17.440 I didn't watch either of his homers how they look. Were they squeakers 675 00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:21.880 or they didn't get into him? Did you see him? Saw one? 676 00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:24.039 I think I only saw one. I haven't watched a lot of them. 677 00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:28.320 This is mostly mostly stat stuff, but I saw one that it was like, 678 00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:31.559 it was like a really hard line drive. Interesting the homer. He's 679 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:35.599 got two already, which is sort of surprising because, like I remember, 680 00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:37.800 the report on him was that he is like a zero homer, kind of 681 00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:43.920 no real speed threat, like he was sort of like great glove, good 682 00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:47.280 contact skills, and then kind of an empty profile. Otherwise, maybe it's 683 00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:52.360 not so empty, like yeah, and calling out a little bit of power 684 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:57.119 in there, fantasy darling here, but just maybe better than we gave him 685 00:46:57.119 --> 00:47:01.360 credit for it. Well, I've got a name for Texas League that I 686 00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:06.280 gotta be honest, I wasn't familiar with. I think i'd seen him a 687 00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:12.000 bit here and there last year, but wasn't really a guy on my radar. 688 00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:15.679 But he's doing something interesting at Double A this year. His name is 689 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:20.599 Nathan Church. Do you know? Do you know Nathan Church? Sounds like 690 00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:23.440 a country artist? Kind of does kind of does I know the name, 691 00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:29.880 but I haven't paid much attention. He's a college hid from Irvine, you 692 00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:34.719 see Irvine two years ago, eleventh round pick. Like, not a big 693 00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:38.719 prospect by any means, and part of the reason is he has almost no 694 00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:44.800 power, like very very little power. Six hundred and twenty nine plate appearances. 695 00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:49.239 Coming into this year, he had three home runs, so that's not 696 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.920 that impressive. He already has three this year. He hit two backed on 697 00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:59.320 back to back days last week and is really hitting the snot out of the 698 00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:02.760 ball now. I say that as in like he's getting a lot of hits. 699 00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:07.000 Is babeb is three forty two, so a little bit higher than average, 700 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:10.800 but not one of these super unsustainable guys. But the thing that makes 701 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:15.719 me pretty interested in him, especially in points leagues, is he's running a 702 00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:20.519 five point four percent k rate so far this year in Double A. I 703 00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:22.079 watched quite a few of his at bats because he was just a guy that 704 00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:27.400 I wasn't really familiar with, and I get why. Like he he is 705 00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:31.039 not one of these really strong, really fast bat kind of guys. He's 706 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:36.159 sort of got that like Caleb Durban slow bat thing going on. What that 707 00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:39.719 means that when he's fooled by a pitch, he's still on time, Like 708 00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:44.880 he gets his barrel to that ball and he might not hit it super hard. 709 00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:50.119 But both his homers this past week were on looked like curveballs or loopier 710 00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:52.320 sliders that were left up and that he was out in front of. But 711 00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:57.719 he just extended the barrel like we had talked about previously with Caleb Durban, 712 00:48:57.880 --> 00:49:00.119 and he found the barrel and you know, both squad out. Neither neither 713 00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:06.320 was a big jack or anything. But I love this kind of profile, 714 00:49:06.519 --> 00:49:10.880 like the you know he's gonna make contact, he walks a decent amount, 715 00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:14.239 you know, like I would say, an average amount, and if he's 716 00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:19.679 finding a little bit more power. This looks like a regular me and from 717 00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:22.360 somebody who I would have looked at this line and looked at his year last 718 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:27.239 year and be like, this guy isn't making the major leagues and he's better 719 00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:32.000 than half his strikeout rate and matched his homer total from last year in ninety 720 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:36.760 two played appearances. That's that's something. This is a guy to keep an 721 00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:38.079 eye on. I'm not saying run out and get him, though. If 722 00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:42.440 you're playing in a really strict K penalty league, like any guy like this 723 00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:45.519 should be on your radar. If he keeps this up, we might be 724 00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:50.039 going full Durbin on him. So I'm actually pretty excited about him. It's 725 00:49:50.079 --> 00:49:53.880 not the it's not the not full Durban alarm, but it's somebody that in 726 00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:58.760 your strikeout penalty leagues were we're half Durbin here, We're half Durbin. Nice. 727 00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:01.320 I like it. The Sale League was a little tough for me. 728 00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:06.039 I think the Sale League as a whole is a little tough. Can't say 729 00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:10.480 I'm getting overly excited about anyone knew, so to speak, or jumping up 730 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:14.760 for me. But I just wanted to note and give a little shout to 731 00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:21.119 Jalen Vasquez Aberdeen the Orioles. We had briefly talked about him during our first 732 00:50:21.159 --> 00:50:24.400 year Player Draft episode. I think he was like the Orioles, I don't 733 00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:29.280 know, twentieth round pick or something that like that out of a small college 734 00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:31.440 or whatever. Right, but I've been catching just a few at that. 735 00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:36.280 It's nothing crazy. You know, he's walking more than he strikes out. 736 00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:40.000 I know you like that, hitting two eighty four thirty eight, slugging four 737 00:50:40.039 --> 00:50:44.000 to twenty. He's popped a home run, hit a couple doubles in a 738 00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:46.800 triple I saw. I've seen a little bit of defense him, had shortstop 739 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:52.519 and looked nice, quick and clean. Again, not a guy to go 740 00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:55.239 out and get, but like you know, this was just a little bit 741 00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:59.840 of a mentioned interesting guy, first year player draft season, and now I'm 742 00:50:59.880 --> 00:51:02.800 like, maybe he's gonna be one of these next o's that come up and 743 00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:07.320 become kind of like a real prospect for them. Just a little little shout 744 00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:12.599 there, a little muddy showy. They do find those guys. And I 745 00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:15.559 actually did catch him swipe a couple bags the other day as I was looking 746 00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:21.800 at guys. So yeah, he's got n got once, pretty pretty solid. 747 00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:24.039 Well. The Sound League was actually pretty fun for me. I watched 748 00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:30.079 quite a few, and I've found myself drawn to another Yankees catcher, if 749 00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:34.880 you can believe it. I think, uh, I think Beck might have 750 00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.440 shouted him out on his three cap his daily Minor League three cap. But 751 00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:44.880 Omar Martinez for Hudson Valley is somebody to keep an eye on. He's another 752 00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:49.719 catcher, first base type who is showing plus played, approach, walking, 753 00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:53.079 striking out, not very much, getting to some power, and he's not 754 00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:58.639 even running an above average BABBB and he's still rocking a one fifty two WRC 755 00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:02.760 plus so far. He he hit a monster homer might have been just yesterday. 756 00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:08.199 It looked really nice, like beautiful left handed uppercut swing, got all 757 00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:13.119 of this ball and put it out. He's forty man eligible this year, 758 00:52:13.239 --> 00:52:15.719 so this is his forty man evaluation year because he's been in the minor. 759 00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:19.840 He was signed at sixteen. You know, he's one of the international assignees, 760 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:23.199 and so he has to be protected at the end of this year. 761 00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:27.000 I don't know if he's gonna be like he's got a. I think got 762 00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:30.119 a lot to prove from low A that they should protect another catcher. But 763 00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:34.719 there's precedence for this, like this is kind of what I guess In Ramirez 764 00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:37.719 did last season. He showed out at Hya, got bumped to double A 765 00:52:38.079 --> 00:52:43.400 and wasn't great, but they protected him after that season. So it's possible 766 00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:46.719 that this happens for Omar Martinez. So far, I really like I like 767 00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:50.360 what he does. And the other thing I wanted to note is he's got 768 00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:53.840 that kind of sweet uppercut swing that means he's gonna get to his power. 769 00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:59.400 He's one that was a fun under the radar find for me. And while 770 00:52:59.400 --> 00:53:02.719 we're in Hudson Valley, watched a bunch of Hudson Valley games. And there's 771 00:53:02.760 --> 00:53:07.280 a ton of fun prospects in the Salleague right now. But a guy that 772 00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:10.840 I've been I think we talked about a while back, Jase Avina. He 773 00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:15.800 was either my Milwaukee B side or somebody that I mentioned when we were talking 774 00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:19.840 about Milwaukee this offseason, but he got traded to the Yankees in the offseason. 775 00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:22.800 I forget for who for like a reliever or something. Anyway, the 776 00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:27.239 deal with Avina is that he's not a very big guy, but he has 777 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:32.920 incredible raw power and is getting and like lifts the ball all the time, 778 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:36.519 so he's going to get to a lot of it. But he had one 779 00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:40.400 of those like totally unacceptable strikeout rates in the low miners, like above thirty 780 00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:45.239 percent on the complex above thirty percent at low A and so it was always 781 00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:49.199 this question of like, Okay, he's got great power, but how is 782 00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:51.880 that going to show up if he's going to strike out this much? And 783 00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:53.880 he's like probably a left fielder, so it's not like he plays a plus 784 00:53:54.039 --> 00:53:59.920 defensive position. But common theme here in the early going, the strikeout rate 785 00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:05.440 looks really good. He's below twenty percent after really not being below thirty percent 786 00:54:05.480 --> 00:54:08.199 at any level, and he's not hitting in a great park. It's cold 787 00:54:08.199 --> 00:54:12.920 as balls up there in the in the sal League at the moment, rocking 788 00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:16.639 a one to sixty two WRC plus, so even slightly better than Omar Martinez. 789 00:54:16.719 --> 00:54:20.599 But Jasvin is another guy to keep an eye on. He's only got 790 00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:22.880 one homer so far, and he is hitting the ball on the ground a 791 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:27.360 bit more than he usually does, but he's gonna revert to type. Like 792 00:54:27.840 --> 00:54:30.280 remember, batted ball statistics are pretty sticky and they take a little while to 793 00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:35.360 stabilize, so you should expect that he's gonna hit a bunch of fly balls 794 00:54:35.599 --> 00:54:37.320 and there a bunch of them are going to be homers. So Jasvin is 795 00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:40.679 a guy that like keep an eye on. He could really start to put 796 00:54:40.679 --> 00:54:45.239 something together. Here, so I had a lot of fun watching some Hudson 797 00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:47.639 Valley games. Nice, I'm glad you have been getting sucked into the Sale 798 00:54:47.719 --> 00:54:52.280 League more than I Midwest League. Matt. This was a I feel like 799 00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:55.119 there's so many guys who have become more interesting for me, so many hitters. 800 00:54:55.400 --> 00:55:02.400 Alex Freeland, Will Simpson, Cafis a Collier, Sale Stewart key Shall, 801 00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:07.000 Luke gold Through Rodriga is awesome guys. All guys off to some pretty 802 00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:10.039 good starts in that league. I won't do you know who's fourth in that 803 00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:15.239 league right now? In Opsango? Oh yeah, he's. He's honestly of 804 00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:20.079 those names like he's He's one of the ones that I looked long and hard 805 00:55:20.119 --> 00:55:22.800 at to see who we want to talk about. But all right, I'm 806 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:25.079 not talking about him, but okay, I kind of just went with the 807 00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:30.599 guy who's the newest this week to me, that got my attention. That's 808 00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:35.400 Alex Mooney with Blake County mine too. Oh nice, Nice. I don't 809 00:55:35.400 --> 00:55:37.599 know if you saw I cut this up and put it on Twitter. He 810 00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:42.440 had a five hit day. Yeah? Well man? What he was a 811 00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:45.840 seventh round pick out of Duke for them last draft. You know, it's 812 00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:49.239 interesting that he's popped five home runs already, and I think he hit five 813 00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:52.800 all last year in college, if I remember correctly, when I looked, 814 00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:54.960 and you know, he's just swinging it and he's hitting it to all fields, 815 00:55:55.480 --> 00:56:00.400 popping some home runs he hit me in college last year. But still 816 00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:02.280 like on a rate basis, man, Yeah, it feels like kind of 817 00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:07.280 my guy, you know, sea strike, hit strike, But not that 818 00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:09.400 I've like, you know, gone all crazy like I did with Baldwin and 819 00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:14.079 watched all of his at bats and all that. But from my looks like, 820 00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:17.199 I think his swing decisions look good. He's swinging his strikes, hitting 821 00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:22.440 three thirty nine, three seventy nine, slugging six sixty one, five home 822 00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:25.599 runs, five doubles, but he's struck out thirteen times to two walks. 823 00:56:25.880 --> 00:56:30.840 Kind of an athletic looking middle infielder, I don't know, just a good 824 00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:35.039 looking the player in his first pro season, and I picked up a few 825 00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:37.559 share. I had some relievers, you know, arms fall off or something, 826 00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.840 just had some spots, and I picked him up in a few just 827 00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:45.159 to see what would happen. Yeah, I really like what I saw from 828 00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:49.519 him. I do think that the approach is going to catch up with him, 829 00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:53.400 especially because he's had so much success and his swing looks really good to 830 00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:59.159 me, Like he's got that nice right handed, athletic kind of flat finish 831 00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:01.519 to his swing, but it's really through the ball. And I saw him 832 00:57:01.559 --> 00:57:06.920 scorch a double to right center. He hit one of his homers this past 833 00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:09.519 week pretty far out, like over the four to ten sign, so it 834 00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:14.199 was like probably four thirty four forty, So he's got some juice in there. 835 00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:16.880 Nice to see that it's showing up so far. I do think he's 836 00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:21.280 going to have some swing and miss concerns, and I if he's going to 837 00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:24.840 continue to not walk, and you know, he was okay at walking last 838 00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:30.039 year for a college guy, and albeit young college guy. He was a 839 00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:34.800 draft eligible sophomore and currently only walking three percent of the time. Like that's 840 00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:37.199 something to keep an eye on as the book gets out, and having on 841 00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:40.760 the back of such a hot week that he just had, it'll be interesting 842 00:57:40.840 --> 00:57:45.440 to see how folks approach him this upcoming week. Like I imagine he's going 843 00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:49.719 to see fewer strikes. I get your point, Like he was doing sort 844 00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:53.119 of his best Seeger impression right where he got strikes and then was just hammering 845 00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:55.880 them. Has definitely worked for him up to this point. And like I 846 00:57:55.880 --> 00:58:00.199 said, I was pretty excited, Like this guy was really looking like he 847 00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:01.920 had put something together here, and I watched a lot of him. I 848 00:58:01.920 --> 00:58:05.719 watched a lot of Cafus. Like the Midwest League, like you said, 849 00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:08.719 has a ton of interesting guys going on right now. And again hat tip 850 00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:13.519 to Cafus, Like Cafus is doing basically the same thing, except he's walking 851 00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:16.440 more and striking out less. Like Cafus looks really really good too, has 852 00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:22.039 a couple of steels already, Like mooney Man, what a what a nice 853 00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:28.480 breath of fresh air in the Guardian's system. Doesn't seem very Unguardians like a 854 00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:30.039 bit. I mean, he definitely has some swag. I mean he's got 855 00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:35.079 the haircut, the headband that he wears, and like his hat falls, 856 00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:39.239 his helmet falls off after every double like like you know, high contact walk 857 00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:44.360 noodle bat guys in the mud level, you know. And then here's this 858 00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:49.039 aggressive guy slugging. Yeah, it's nice to see. Did you see definitely, 859 00:58:49.239 --> 00:58:52.519 well we're on the Midwest League. This shocked me in a few ways, 860 00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:55.119 But did you see who one hitter of the week this week in the 861 00:58:55.159 --> 00:59:00.519 Midwest League. This was the very first Brewer Visa selection. And to be 862 00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:02.880 honest with you, Matt, I didn't even know that he was still playing 863 00:59:02.920 --> 00:59:07.559 professional baseball. But Edwarki Fernandez, who's still only twenty two years old, 864 00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:13.320 center fielder for Wisconsin. He went five twenty four, five eighty three, 865 00:59:13.400 --> 00:59:16.639 selugged one thousand this week. I hit two home runs, stole five no 866 00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:21.960 excuse me, stole two bases, four doubles. Like oh, Like I 867 00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:23.519 said, I didn't even know he was still around, and here he is 868 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:28.360 having a better week than all these other hot hot thats. So that was 869 00:59:28.440 --> 00:59:31.599 kind of fun to see. Well, that Cleveland High a team there in 870 00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:36.800 Lake County. I had another guy that I was totally unfamiliar with that I 871 00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:39.840 just wanted to highlight his name. I'm not even totally sure how to pronounce 872 00:59:39.880 --> 00:59:47.079 it. Mike Coiato m a I ck cool ad O. He is off 873 00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:51.119 to a really good start too. Again, this one seems a bit more 874 00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:54.119 babup driven to me. He popped a couple of times when I was watching 875 00:59:54.199 --> 00:59:58.880 him in the past couple of weeks, hit a couple of really nice singles 876 00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:04.519 a few days ago, hit a homer, say the week before that looked 877 01:00:04.559 --> 01:00:07.639 really well struck, and he's just someone that like no idea about him. 878 01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:12.960 I've never read about him. He looked interesting to me. So he's one 879 01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:16.159 that made one of my follow lists partly two because he seems like he's got 880 01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:22.599 a really good eye and is walking a lot. Northwest League. I'm not 881 01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:27.719 going to talk more about Gavin Contosolo, but he's the guy who's jumped up 882 01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:30.960 the most for me, what about you for me? I'm not going to 883 01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:34.679 talk too much about him either, But the one in the Northwest League is 884 01:00:34.719 --> 01:00:37.920 Ben Williamson. We've talked a bit about him before, and I do think 885 01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:43.039 that his swing looks better than it did in the pre draft video that we 886 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:47.360 looked at. I think what he's doing looks just solid across the board, 887 01:00:47.480 --> 01:00:51.800 like there's not a lot here to poke at, you know, it just 888 01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:55.519 looks it looks like he's backing it up again slightly high. Bab it four 889 01:00:55.559 --> 01:01:00.480 point nine percent swinging strike rate, Like that's so low. He's walking, 890 01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:02.719 he's barely striking out. He's only got one homer, but I think there's 891 01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:07.440 more coming. Like he looks like he belongs at this level and then some 892 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.159 so I didn't really expect him to hit the ground running quite this much. 893 01:01:10.440 --> 01:01:15.679 I kind of want to see him in double A before too long, playing 894 01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:19.840 alongside Cole Young. Those two might make up make it up to the bigs 895 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:23.159 relatively soon. And then a ball, Matt, I'm gonna I'm gonna blow 896 01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:28.719 through mine pretty quick here only because of my own lameness, but uh, 897 01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:34.800 Carolina League, I had written down Glader figure roa I've seen a little bit. 898 01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:37.760 Didn't really finish my homework, but he was a guy that wasn't on 899 01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:39.599 my radar at all to like, hey, I want to get my eyes 900 01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:44.239 on him, see him. And then in the FSL, I'm gonna go 901 01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:47.679 with Ricardo Cabrera kind of the same story. I want to get more eyes 902 01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:51.760 on him, see what he's about. And then in the Cal League, 903 01:01:51.760 --> 01:01:54.719 I gotta go with Perez as the guy who's jumped up and become the most 904 01:01:54.760 --> 01:01:59.719 interesting to me. Even though Junior Garcia went three games in a row with 905 01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:04.480 a whole home run, still still kind of bummed that didn't go on my 906 01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:07.519 short look Perez for my d sid Er Dodgers. But yeah, I got 907 01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:12.719 sucked in the pitcheon because it's so much more interesting did in classic forum. 908 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:16.760 I spent more time watching the A ball guys, so I've got extra A 909 01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:21.400 ball guys to talk about too. Yeah. The one that has jumped up 910 01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:27.360 just globally the most for me is Jason Cheerio. He looks like a slam 911 01:02:27.480 --> 01:02:30.400 dunk top one hunter prospect to me, and there aren't that many of those 912 01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:34.039 at A ball Who are you know, nineteen years old or whatever he is 913 01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:38.079 right now. Everything about what he's doing looks sustainable. He looks different than 914 01:02:38.119 --> 01:02:42.519 the guys that are hitting around him, many of whom are like three years 915 01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:45.000 older than he is. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets moved up to 916 01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:50.159 Lake County before too long, and that might be one of my most favorite 917 01:02:50.199 --> 01:02:52.440 teams. If Jason Cherio gets up there, that would be super fun to 918 01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:55.719 watch up in high But I'm not going to talk about him too much because 919 01:02:55.760 --> 01:03:00.000 a lot of people know him obviously Chario brother, and he seems like he 920 01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:05.920 might be the real deal. So love him, but not the guy that 921 01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:12.239 I wanted to highlight from Carolina League Jesus Lopez. He's an eighteen year old 922 01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:16.239 catcher for the Rangers who has been around for a couple of years, but 923 01:03:16.280 --> 01:03:21.480 this is his first state side appearance and he's in the d catchers tonight. 924 01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:23.360 I am. I didn't plan that at all, and I think I have 925 01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:27.800 one more coming. Actually I don't know. I think this is my last 926 01:03:27.800 --> 01:03:30.559 one. I think one of his homers so far this year was on video 927 01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:35.519 and it was a really smooth left handed stroke. It just looked so easy 928 01:03:35.719 --> 01:03:39.280 and went way out. Pretty impressed with that swing. He's not running a 929 01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:44.360 very high babbit either, so it doesn't look like this is super unsustainable. 930 01:03:44.519 --> 01:03:47.119 He might be swinging and missing a bit much, but I do think he 931 01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:51.800 might be a guy who changes his approach a bit when he gets to two 932 01:03:51.800 --> 01:03:53.840 strikes, so you know, there might be he might be able to sustain 933 01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:59.119 a slightly better than average k rate even if his swinging strike rate is more 934 01:03:59.159 --> 01:04:01.079 average. He's a catcher. It doesn't look like steels are going to be 935 01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:04.079 a part of his game at all. But he doesn't look He's at Moises 936 01:04:04.159 --> 01:04:10.119 Ballistaro's at Bysteros at there like he's He's an athletic looking guy, so he's 937 01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:12.800 one to follow. Again, this isn't a rush out and pick up. 938 01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:15.800 This is deep league only, but I liked what I saw from him so 939 01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:19.960 far, and I think Longenhagen might have written him up and said some nice 940 01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:24.639 things about about him too, So anyway, he's he's the guy to follow 941 01:04:25.039 --> 01:04:30.239 in the Cal League. I watched a bunch of guys because I hadn't done 942 01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:34.519 a ton of colleague watching other than a few Modesta Nuts games here and there. 943 01:04:34.639 --> 01:04:38.880 And I'm not going to pick any of the Nuts. They're all pretty 944 01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:42.840 well known and pretty I think well rated. Like none of them have really 945 01:04:42.920 --> 01:04:45.559 changed my opinion, although maybe Michael Arroyo, like he seems to be an 946 01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:48.199 arrow up guy for me, and I think he gets lost in the shuffle 947 01:04:48.280 --> 01:04:54.400 a little bit with that Nuts team. But I'm gonna go with Andy Perez, 948 01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:59.960 who was not somebody that I had ever watched coming into this year, 949 01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:02.800 or or maybe I had seen him a bit last year because he spent most 950 01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:06.840 of the year at A at low A in Fresno, and so I definitely 951 01:05:06.840 --> 01:05:11.440 had seen him, but he didn't really show out to me really looked good 952 01:05:11.480 --> 01:05:14.800 to start the year. I think Nate he's your kind of guy in that 953 01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:18.360 he swings all the time, he's constantly swinging, and even with that, 954 01:05:18.480 --> 01:05:21.880 he's still got like an almost six percent walk rate, so he's walked a 955 01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:26.480 few times at least. But he is really good at getting the bat on 956 01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:29.239 the ball. He fouls off a lot of pitches. I do think his 957 01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:32.360 bat to ball skills are comfortably plus. I also don't think he's going to 958 01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:35.480 be in Fresno for all that long, just because he spent most of the 959 01:05:35.559 --> 01:05:41.360 year there last year and he's looked way better than the competition so far. 960 01:05:41.719 --> 01:05:45.599 Hit three homers. He had a game last week where he hit two triples 961 01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:49.400 in the same game. He's swiped a couple of bags, got caught stealing 962 01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:53.920 a couple of times too. But I think he's pretty aggressive and he's looking 963 01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:57.320 to go. I also thought he's a pretty slick shortstop. I didn't see 964 01:05:57.360 --> 01:06:00.559 a ton of his defense, but I got to see a few play and 965 01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:03.280 they were pretty flashy too, which is always fun. Like, you know, 966 01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:08.800 it's looked like slick fielding but also some fun and he's got some swags, 967 01:06:08.840 --> 01:06:12.920 So he's somebody that I think it's not a perfect profile, but it 968 01:06:13.079 --> 01:06:16.760 looks pretty compelling. Like I really liked what I saw out of Pez so 969 01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:20.679 far nice. And then I got another guy in the colleague that stood out 970 01:06:20.719 --> 01:06:27.199 too. So I watched a fair amount of Visalia last week, you know, 971 01:06:27.239 --> 01:06:30.480 because Jancel Luise has not looked very good, so I wanted to get 972 01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:32.679 eyes on him. I hadn't watched much Christopher Torren, so I wanted to 973 01:06:32.679 --> 01:06:35.400 watch them. Wanted to check out on Drew Jones see how he was doing. 974 01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:39.960 Drew Jones still looks bad. Hancel Luise doesn't look very good either. 975 01:06:40.280 --> 01:06:44.480 He's striking out a lot, hasn't been very impressive. But again it's still 976 01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:46.519 early and I think it's starting to look maybe a little bit better. But 977 01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:53.960 the guy on Visalia that really stood out was I want to say Ann Derdson 978 01:06:54.599 --> 01:06:58.480 Rojas, but I think it's it's Anderson. Really. As you say, 979 01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:00.559 you just kind of dropped the second D. But he's got a weird second 980 01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:06.360 D in Anderson. So Anderdson Rojas is a little outfielder. I think he 981 01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:12.760 plays actually all around the field. He was on that Viaze team last year. 982 01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:15.320 But thus far in the early going, he looks like he's taken a 983 01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:19.239 big step forward in his bats to ball. He's walking a bit more, 984 01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:23.920 has a nice line. So far, he hasn't hit a homer this year, 985 01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:28.639 but he also I think had multiple triples in a game earlier this season. 986 01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:30.360 Let me see, I think that's right. Yeah, he had two 987 01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:33.679 triples in the game in the game last week. He's looked really good, 988 01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:36.559 like lat of line drive. He's still small, he's still young. He's 989 01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:41.159 nineteen, I think turning twenty this year. But he's somebody to keep an 990 01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:45.119 eye on because I think there's some speed. I think there's some potentially positional 991 01:07:45.159 --> 01:07:50.000 flexibility and a really fun kind of bat to ball, a little dynamo type. 992 01:07:50.039 --> 01:07:55.800 So Anderson Rojas is one to keep an eye on. Nice I've been 993 01:07:55.800 --> 01:08:00.239 tuning into those guys very much. Now there's a name to watch though, 994 01:08:00.440 --> 01:08:01.800 thank you. Yeah, and then I think I've got one way to go 995 01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:05.920 in the Florida State League. A former Dodgers prospects. So I don't know 996 01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:11.440 if we can talk about former Dodgers prospects too. I'll allow it, you'll 997 01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:14.239 allow it, Okay. He's a guy who got a bunch of hype I 998 01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:16.520 think out of the International signing period a few years ago, and he was 999 01:08:16.560 --> 01:08:20.800 really good on the DSL. But Rain and Don Cone hasn't been very good 1000 01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:26.159 the last couple of years. He is his third year in low A, 1001 01:08:26.520 --> 01:08:30.479 and I think last year especially, the Dodgers got sick of him and chipped 1002 01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:33.720 him off after just a seventy six WRC plus at Rancho. And I don't 1003 01:08:33.720 --> 01:08:36.640 think he was very good. Like it wasn't there. There wasn't a lot 1004 01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:40.800 to like about that performance. But I do think some of it was a 1005 01:08:40.840 --> 01:08:45.880 suppressed babbit, right, Like he ran a low babbit both the previous stints 1006 01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:48.199 at a ball and now his babbeb is about one hundred points higher up at 1007 01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:51.640 three point fifty two, and everything else looks solid. You know, he's 1008 01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:56.079 not striking out that much. He hit a mammoth homer the other day. 1009 01:08:56.359 --> 01:09:00.760 Fort Myers and Fort Myers their their camera is terrible. It's nice that they 1010 01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:03.239 have one, like because you get to see a few more guys. It 1011 01:09:03.319 --> 01:09:06.640 was particularly shaky this day, I think, But he hit a big homer, 1012 01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:10.960 so he's one that like there's some prospect pedigree there. I think maybe 1013 01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:14.800 he wore out as welcome and had some bad luck before, but he might 1014 01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:16.760 be a quick mover. And that Fort Myers team is pretty fun, Like 1015 01:09:16.800 --> 01:09:19.119 there's a bunch of guys to watch on there. So I think I'm gonna 1016 01:09:19.159 --> 01:09:24.199 keep tuning into Forested League, like Winnakers there forgetting who else. But the 1017 01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:29.920 team is fairly fairly interesting in we get to see so much more fso it's 1018 01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:32.920 yeah, and like I said that, that team has enough guys that it's 1019 01:09:32.920 --> 01:09:38.920 worth watching see they all develop. But dun Cone is one that I just 1020 01:09:38.960 --> 01:09:43.399 wanted to flag. Is like maybe it's not totally he might not be totally 1021 01:09:43.439 --> 01:09:45.600 done, Like there seems like there's some still skills there. And again you 1022 01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:48.760 look at him and you see why people were excited about him coming out of 1023 01:09:48.760 --> 01:09:54.000 the DSL cutting up a lot of FSL pictures this year, I will say 1024 01:09:54.039 --> 01:10:00.000 he seems to be getting a disproportionate unfair amount of just nasty ass pictures. 1025 01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:03.039 He's still doing pretty well, yeah, yeah, yeah, but like I 1026 01:10:03.039 --> 01:10:06.520 feel like he's sort of popped up as a guy, Like several of these 1027 01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:11.479 arms putting the montage together, like that might have been the nastiest pitch and 1028 01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:16.479 oh it's against him again. Yeah, and when Walker Jenkins comes back, 1029 01:10:16.520 --> 01:10:20.640 that's gonna be where he'll be back at LOWA. I expect to so Jenkins 1030 01:10:20.680 --> 01:10:27.680 and dunt coone Byron Turio Jose Rodriguez who looks like a beat standing of himself. 1031 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:32.079 Yeah, it's a fun crew there at low A. Well, I 1032 01:10:32.119 --> 01:10:35.560 got some other notes from the week. I just wanted to touch on some 1033 01:10:35.640 --> 01:10:42.640 other guys here. Tuesday, nice afternoon watch aj blue Ball went against Christian 1034 01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:45.800 Mana. Not to be a turd hat here, but I feel like the 1035 01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:49.479 blue Ball outing went pretty much exactly how we thought it might the night before 1036 01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:53.640 when we were talking about it. He went three innings, seven hits, 1037 01:10:53.640 --> 01:10:58.000 four and runs, two walks four k's definitely not as nice of a line 1038 01:10:58.079 --> 01:11:00.760 as his first triple A outing had had people the buzz and made him like 1039 01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:04.960 the trendiest pickup of the week, And he actually gave up less hard contact 1040 01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:09.239 this go around, but kind of the same story, you know. To 1041 01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:13.199 his credit, the execution did get better through the start. First inting was 1042 01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:15.680 really rough, but like even the strikeouts I'd say that like three of the 1043 01:11:15.720 --> 01:11:20.600 four strikeout pitches really weren't good pitches. He missed his mark substantially. So 1044 01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:25.439 yeah, I still have my my reservations about how excited we should be with 1045 01:11:25.479 --> 01:11:29.760 blue Ball. There. I watched his outing on Sunday, and Yeah, 1046 01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:33.079 had similar concerns, like I didn't think he was all that sharp. He 1047 01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:36.079 was getting hit hard even when they were out, and he gave up a 1048 01:11:36.079 --> 01:11:40.800 few runs in that Sunday outing as well. So as we talked about, 1049 01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:43.520 like, I do think there's value there. I think he's going to pitch 1050 01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:47.119 in the major leagues. I'm just not sure it's gonna be all that great. 1051 01:11:47.520 --> 01:11:51.159 Like if you got somebody who's you know, full on on the blue 1052 01:11:51.159 --> 01:11:55.840 ball train and it's coming at you for a trade, I would think hard 1053 01:11:55.880 --> 01:12:01.279 about that. Leo Davrees, Dvriise Devrees and McGonagall their debuts Tuesday, tuned 1054 01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:06.039 into some of that kind of all. His first six batted balls were fairly 1055 01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:11.279 hard. One O three ninety one eighty three is not that hard. But 1056 01:12:11.439 --> 01:12:15.359 he hit one O six one hundred ninety one off to the you know, 1057 01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:19.439 the start that we thought he would have. I think I watched some DJ 1058 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:25.640 McCarty, my number one B side arm draft selection. He went four innings 1059 01:12:25.640 --> 01:12:29.920 in relief, gave up one hit, three strikeouts, no walks. What 1060 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:34.119 I liked is that he was throwing strikes and seemed to be commanding. Wednesday, 1061 01:12:34.359 --> 01:12:39.279 discovered that Hickory is broadcasting now. Mark another one off the list, 1062 01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:43.680 although it's still just like a press box view. But as we've seen with 1063 01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:47.079 the new places broadcasting, it kind of starts off that way and then then 1064 01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:51.039 a centerfield camera shows up, so we'll see how that looks. I watched 1065 01:12:51.159 --> 01:12:58.479 thatch just like Ashville and Spokane. No, Spokane's broadcasting now, so it's 1066 01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:04.359 just just Ashville and Hya and then uh yeah, and down East I think 1067 01:13:04.439 --> 01:13:09.800 is still not broadcasting. I watched some Gary gil Hill. He's got an 1068 01:13:09.800 --> 01:13:13.199 interesting arsenal. He's throwing a four steamer, a two steamer. Uh. 1069 01:13:13.279 --> 01:13:16.239 They were talking about two different cutters that he throws and a slider. I 1070 01:13:16.279 --> 01:13:19.199 think that the home run he gave up was like a slider or a cutter 1071 01:13:19.279 --> 01:13:21.680 that backed up on him, and it was just kind of like a wall 1072 01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:26.439 scraper. He was pitching really clean, unraveled in the fourth a little bit. 1073 01:13:26.600 --> 01:13:30.199 All after. I thought this was interesting. All after, he didn't 1074 01:13:30.199 --> 01:13:33.159 get a call that seemed to bother him, and I don't think he responded 1075 01:13:33.239 --> 01:13:38.239 very well to that. Lots of soft contact on the ground, seven groundouts 1076 01:13:38.439 --> 01:13:41.279 to just one air out. He's kind of sucking me in a little bit 1077 01:13:41.319 --> 01:13:45.960 more and watched and listened to most of RVs versus Team Hence Matt, which 1078 01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:53.479 was maybe the most interesting matchup Mud versus Pretty Boy for us. It's funny 1079 01:13:53.520 --> 01:13:58.399 how lines can work, right. RVs went five, Hence went three and 1080 01:13:58.439 --> 01:14:01.560 a third at like the amount of hits and runs giving up and walks and 1081 01:14:01.600 --> 01:14:09.479 strikes strikeouts the same strike percentage. But Man RBS was pretty dominant and hence 1082 01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:13.279 struggled it figures after I give him, perhaps he kind of went back to 1083 01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:17.479 being what I don't like about him, inefficient, lack in command, RBS 1084 01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:23.720 rebound scooter. He went a stretch where I think he retired like fourteen out 1085 01:14:23.720 --> 01:14:27.600 of fifteen or something like that. The first two batters he walked. I 1086 01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:30.680 don't know what the umpire was. I think he was tough for the umpire 1087 01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:34.000 to pick up because there were some ball, some strikes, some balls getting 1088 01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:38.560 called that were just right over the middle. And of course those two guys 1089 01:14:38.720 --> 01:14:42.279 came around to score, and then the two that he left on when the 1090 01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:46.159 reliever came in scored as well. But again no one could square him up. 1091 01:14:46.239 --> 01:14:50.279 Man. There was like one hard contact ball. I think, just 1092 01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:57.239 an interesting juxtaposition of a couple of performances there in a season high four strikeouts 1093 01:14:57.319 --> 01:15:00.159 for RVs. So that was nice to see. I had mentioned in the 1094 01:15:00.199 --> 01:15:03.880 previous setting, which was I thought a pretty good outing overall. Nice to 1095 01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:08.560 see him get a couple more punch outs again. That's still something that I'm 1096 01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:12.800 watching over the next couple of starts. He's got a nice matchup on tomorrow 1097 01:15:13.199 --> 01:15:16.920 against my San Diego beside arm Austin Crop. I watched a little bit of 1098 01:15:17.319 --> 01:15:21.600 Jaden Ham versus Austin Peterson. I was watching more of the Ham side, 1099 01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:27.039 but I gotta check out Austin Peterson a little closer. I think here he's 1100 01:15:27.079 --> 01:15:29.840 a bit of an older guy in Hia, but he put up an f 1101 01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:32.680 QO. That outing had some nice lines. So I don't know what the 1102 01:15:32.680 --> 01:15:35.680 whole story is with Peterson, but I kind of want to do some home 1103 01:15:35.960 --> 01:15:41.720 just on Ham real quick. Did you see Mooney got Ham for for homer? 1104 01:15:42.359 --> 01:15:45.600 I did, Yeah, that was that was pretty impressive. I thought 1105 01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:49.479 like that. They said that that was tripled his earned runs that he'd given 1106 01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:53.680 up so far in his minor league career in that one swing. Yeah, 1107 01:15:53.720 --> 01:15:58.279 I think that's what kind of got started my Mooney interest. This week, 1108 01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:02.760 Emmett Olsen had FQO and I've heard some chatter and people ask about him. 1109 01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:06.399 I know Vogel was asking me about him. But only one of his three 1110 01:16:06.439 --> 01:16:11.279 outings had been broadcast so far, and that was Fort Myers from a press 1111 01:16:11.279 --> 01:16:15.000 box, so kind of hard to get a look there. But he threw 1112 01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:18.079 an FQO. It looks like he's a he's a lefty, maybe a softer 1113 01:16:18.199 --> 01:16:23.279 toss and lefty. I think his fastball averages like ninety one slider, curve, 1114 01:16:23.399 --> 01:16:27.159 change up. But he's a sixteen innings nowhere in runs, a point 1115 01:16:27.239 --> 01:16:30.399 seventy five whip, thirty two percent k you know, fourth round. I 1116 01:16:30.439 --> 01:16:33.880 think he was a fourth round pick. Yeah, fourth round pick this last 1117 01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:38.319 draft for them. I think did he get promoted too? I think Vogel 1118 01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:41.479 might have told me he got promoted. So I think his next start is 1119 01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:45.039 in Beloite. See how those Midwest League hitters treat him. I saw that 1120 01:16:45.119 --> 01:16:48.560 night too, Bubba chandler Man. He couldn't get out of the first inning. 1121 01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:53.039 Two thirds of an inning, two earned runs, two walk. He 1122 01:16:53.119 --> 01:16:59.680 struck out Khalil Watson to lead things off well, tracking he hit Dan frees, 1123 01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:03.239 the louder flied out, and then a walk and a walk and he 1124 01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:09.960 was done because he was at like thirty four pitches. So Alan Castro had 1125 01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:13.439 a nice little WPA bump that night, Matt, he had a walk off 1126 01:17:13.479 --> 01:17:17.439 double to win the game. Nice Thursday, Matt Wilkinson had his fifteen strikeout 1127 01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:23.640 performance. Yeah, that it has everyone a buzz. Now, try to 1128 01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:27.159 do some homework on him. There's been really no good views of him. 1129 01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:30.199 He's a lefty, and the only one from a center field cam was this 1130 01:17:30.359 --> 01:17:35.399 camera was like this poor, kind of grainy, faraway Salem outing from the 1131 01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:39.760 nineteenth. So I did go back and I watched that, and you know 1132 01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:43.159 what a fun kind of conundrum here for us, Matt. We got a 1133 01:17:43.159 --> 01:17:46.760 soft toss and lefty who's racking up a bunch of k's and my man's fat. 1134 01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:49.560 Oh he's so fat. Yeah, but you know, kind of a 1135 01:17:49.960 --> 01:17:56.039 dropping drive gets down that mound pretty fast. It seems like maybe the fastball 1136 01:17:56.079 --> 01:17:59.319 is what they'd call like heavy or something. I don't know, but he's 1137 01:17:59.319 --> 01:18:03.479 still like very liable to have pictures go off. And don't want to discredit 1138 01:18:03.640 --> 01:18:09.159 the great fifteen strikeout outing, but I think there's a lot of questions here 1139 01:18:09.319 --> 01:18:13.680 still about until we figure out how much we want to really value Matt Wilkinson 1140 01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:16.479 and I cut this one up and put it on Twitter at pitching Specs. 1141 01:18:16.520 --> 01:18:21.399 But my Phillies B side Aldegari been pretty good so far this year. Matt, 1142 01:18:21.520 --> 01:18:24.960 I know he had a little stint on the list, but he put 1143 01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:30.039 up an FQO then he and then he had this last five inning ten strikeout 1144 01:18:30.079 --> 01:18:32.479 affair. We still don't get like a real great angle on him. We 1145 01:18:32.520 --> 01:18:38.319 got to see him in Bradington last year, some but interesting lefty arm. 1146 01:18:38.359 --> 01:18:43.800 I'm still very much intrigued. In Following Friday, you see Blaine Kram had 1147 01:18:43.800 --> 01:18:49.560 like two home runs and seven RBIs Rangers B side Montai Yeah yeah, Bizara 1148 01:18:49.640 --> 01:18:56.520 Montas said, walk off home run for your nuts. Saturday we got a 1149 01:18:57.039 --> 01:19:00.840 Trevor Werner finally got on the home run board, did he? I hadn't 1150 01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:03.279 seen that. That's great. Yeah. Prospects that are trending on fans. 1151 01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:08.239 On the top of the board is Joey La Braffito, who's getting the call. 1152 01:19:08.520 --> 01:19:12.239 Makes a lot of sense. Juel Perez is up six percent, He's 1153 01:19:12.319 --> 01:19:15.560 up to ten percent. Makes sense. Matt Wilkinson is up to six percent. 1154 01:19:15.600 --> 01:19:19.479 He's up five point four so the third most added. Quinn Matthews up 1155 01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:25.439 a few percent. Jonah Thong again up a few percent. See Jonathan Bolan 1156 01:19:25.640 --> 01:19:28.640 is going to get a start for the Royals here. Man, he was 1157 01:19:28.720 --> 01:19:31.079 a guy I know injuries say night, but did he tonight? I didn't. 1158 01:19:31.119 --> 01:19:33.920 I didn't say so. But he was a guy man that I liked 1159 01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:39.840 quite a bit before a bunch of injuries kind of derailed them. Sam Roberts 1160 01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:44.239 is up a few percent, but those were the big the big gainers this 1161 01:19:44.359 --> 01:19:46.560 week. Did you see who won the International League Player of the Week? 1162 01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:53.399 I did not. It was your Brewers b side that Isaac Collins nice, 1163 01:19:53.479 --> 01:19:58.239 who is fourth in the International League in ops at one point zero nine to 1164 01:19:58.319 --> 01:20:01.920 five. Nice. Kind of interesting, huh? Coming up this week? 1165 01:20:02.199 --> 01:20:06.039 Might have my eye on and you know, things can change. I wanted 1166 01:20:06.039 --> 01:20:11.039 to watch Lynchburg last week, but it was a bad press box view and 1167 01:20:11.199 --> 01:20:15.479 people get promoted and you just don't know. I watched a bunch of Cardinals 1168 01:20:15.479 --> 01:20:18.800 that I wasn't planning on. Right what I'm kind of thinking. International League 1169 01:20:18.840 --> 01:20:21.640 got Buffalo at Indianapolis. Man, it would be kind of fun to see 1170 01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:26.760 or Elvis versus Skiings. Huh, I'll be sweet. Yeah right, and 1171 01:20:26.840 --> 01:20:30.560 I haven't watched Skiings, so maybe this is the week in the PCL. 1172 01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:35.119 I'll check this out. Now, we got Tacoma your Mariners at Sacramento, 1173 01:20:35.359 --> 01:20:41.319 which is more of a pitcher's park than people might realize. Yep, But 1174 01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:45.439 like, can we maybe have a PCL kind of pitching duel happening here? 1175 01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:49.600 Because these are probably the two best staffs, at least statistically they have like 1176 01:20:49.720 --> 01:20:54.560 six of the of the best starting pitchers in the league in this series? 1177 01:20:55.239 --> 01:20:59.680 Can that actually be a thing? Sure, they're both tied for first, 1178 01:21:00.119 --> 01:21:03.359 and maybe we get to see, uh, your boy Tang start to right 1179 01:21:03.439 --> 01:21:06.680 the ship a little bit. Well, my, he's not gonna have to 1180 01:21:06.720 --> 01:21:13.800 face my Mariners B side pick who's currently on the show. Yeah right, 1181 01:21:13.920 --> 01:21:18.000 what did you say? He had a triple like his first triple. Nice, 1182 01:21:18.479 --> 01:21:23.039 he's gonna get I think a little bit around while JP Crawford's out nice 1183 01:21:23.199 --> 01:21:27.399 Eastern League. I'm thinking maybe Eerie at Booie some fun matchups in that one. 1184 01:21:27.520 --> 01:21:30.600 Yeah, my, my Orioles B side arm Cam Weston got promoted curious 1185 01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:33.560 to see what kind of usage they're going to have for him there. Is 1186 01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:36.680 he gonna get some lengthen starts or not, I'm not sure. Well, 1187 01:21:36.760 --> 01:21:43.039 maybe I can see what the buzz is with Bencosme of course, Basallo and 1188 01:21:43.079 --> 01:21:45.560 those guys. I was thinking they was going yeah, yeah, I was 1189 01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:49.000 thinking they would maybe have a chance to go up against Ty Madden at some 1190 01:21:49.079 --> 01:21:54.239 point. But it seems he got promoted to our mud hens. Matt oh 1191 01:21:54.319 --> 01:21:58.600 nice, yeah, those Mudhends man. Maybe see some some exel. Do 1192 01:21:58.600 --> 01:22:01.319 you think he's gonna get the cold? Maybe not this week, but maybe 1193 01:22:01.359 --> 01:22:03.920 not this week, but I could see it soon. You see a Horvath 1194 01:22:04.199 --> 01:22:08.000 is starting to starting to turn it on a bit, had a really nice 1195 01:22:08.039 --> 01:22:14.000 homer last week. Southern League. I'm thinking Racket City at Birmingham at least 1196 01:22:14.039 --> 01:22:17.800 where the Caden Dana start. Perhaps that would be his toughest matchup yet versus 1197 01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:23.159 Baldwin and those boys who've been swinging it for Birmingham. Have you have you 1198 01:22:23.199 --> 01:22:27.720 watched any Dana yet? Just a little bit, a few winnings, nothing 1199 01:22:27.760 --> 01:22:31.119 in depth. I'm wondering where the strikeouts have gone. Like the strikeouts every 1200 01:22:31.239 --> 01:22:34.960 outing seem like they're taking a step back, and his swinging strike rate is 1201 01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:39.760 now under ten percent, so I think there might be something going on there. 1202 01:22:39.760 --> 01:22:42.560 And yeah, he's walking a few more than I expect, like he 1203 01:22:42.600 --> 01:22:46.279 had that great first start against the Baldwin led boys. But we'll see, 1204 01:22:46.359 --> 01:22:50.039 we'll see that goes. Maybe that'll be a good a good start to watch 1205 01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:54.880 and see what's going on. Yeah, in the Texas League, I'm thinking 1206 01:22:55.199 --> 01:23:00.840 maybe Midland at Amarillo. Midland is quietly a good team at Jacob Wilson and 1207 01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:06.800 we talked about Colby Thomas, our b Sides Malone and Cooper Bowman. They 1208 01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:11.199 have given up the least runs in the league. They got Selinas there, 1209 01:23:11.640 --> 01:23:15.760 Baso Cusick Hog j t Gin. But yeah, they'll be going up against 1210 01:23:15.760 --> 01:23:21.960 the highest scoring offense with DDLS AJV the Titanic, So that might be kind 1211 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:27.119 of a fun one fun. In the Sale League, I'm thinking maybe I'll 1212 01:23:27.239 --> 01:23:31.560 maybe I'll do some Winston Salem at Greensboro. How McAdoo fairs against Schweitzer and 1213 01:23:31.560 --> 01:23:35.560 Schultz. Midwest League kind of got I mean, I love the Midwest League 1214 01:23:35.640 --> 01:23:40.720 right now, but Great Lakes at Wisconsin two first place teams. I want 1215 01:23:40.760 --> 01:23:45.840 to see my guy Rosario Ferris Bronze and the like with a decent angle and 1216 01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:50.800 a gun at that Wisconsin Broadcast Northwest League is a no brainer. It's Eugene 1217 01:23:50.840 --> 01:23:58.359 at Spokane because the other two series are press box and Eugene and Spokane are 1218 01:23:58.800 --> 01:24:02.359 the top two teams in that league right now. Carolina maybe some down east 1219 01:24:02.399 --> 01:24:08.479 at Fredericksburg, mostly because I want to see my guy DJ McCarty and I 1220 01:24:08.520 --> 01:24:13.600 want to watch some of that figaroa guy that I mentioned earlier. Florida State 1221 01:24:13.720 --> 01:24:15.520 League. Oh, I've been waiting for this one, Matt. This is 1222 01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:19.479 a good one, but it's a battle for first place. Clearwater is at 1223 01:24:19.560 --> 01:24:25.840 Lakeland, So you got Aiden Miller, Walton Pouaco, Grego Saltabah the dude, 1224 01:24:26.239 --> 01:24:29.800 he's an older guy. But they also got an outfielder one player of 1225 01:24:29.840 --> 01:24:33.399 the week I forget his name, uh in classing versus you know, Max 1226 01:24:33.479 --> 01:24:39.079 Clark, McGonagall, Braseno. So that's that should be a good one. 1227 01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:43.079 In the Call League, I'm going Rancho at Modesto. Kind of a no 1228 01:24:43.199 --> 01:24:46.520 brainer. Most most exciting bat prospects in that league are kind of basically on 1229 01:24:46.600 --> 01:24:50.439 those two rosters. I think probably watched some of that late night love those 1230 01:24:50.520 --> 01:24:56.560 rundowns. Shoot, we're getting muddy. Yeah, it's getting fun. We've 1231 01:24:56.560 --> 01:24:58.960 been talking for a while here. We should probably get out of here. 1232 01:24:59.119 --> 01:25:00.560 But uh, yep, Like I said, I try to put as much 1233 01:25:00.640 --> 01:25:03.640 video out there as I can for some things I think I might talk about 1234 01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:08.560 here and it probably helps. She listening to me ramble about some stuff. 1235 01:25:08.920 --> 01:25:13.119 But you can follow me at pitching specs. We'll let Chicago Farmer take us 1236 01:25:13.159 --> 01:25:16.439 out. And this cold episode thirty one a rat Matt and thanks man, 1237 01:25:16.479 --> 01:25:19.920 thanks again for shedding some light on some guys I should maybe pay attention to. 1238 01:25:20.159 --> 01:25:24.520 Yeah, maybe you'll do your homework next time. Hey, hey, 1239 01:25:25.199 --> 01:25:27.880 I just go I go with it, man, you know, I just 1240 01:25:27.960 --> 01:25:30.000 go where the signs tell me to. I guess that's what we do. 1241 01:25:31.439 --> 01:25:33.680 All right, have a good week. We'll talk to you next time. 1242 01:25:33.920 --> 01:25:41.399 Bye. Five miles an hour riding to his head. You hop it down 1243 01:25:41.640 --> 01:25:47.359 first with the lump bonius face, and on the very next pitch he up 1244 01:25:47.399 --> 01:26:00.399 and stole second face with gretested he wasn't born, he had to heat. 1245 01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:01.840 Yes, you deform