WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:07.519 Not five miles an hour. Riding to his head, he hopping down first 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:13.640 with the lump bonius face, and on the very next pitch he up and 3 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:27.960 stole second face with gretest be he wasn't born, he had yes uniform. 4 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:34.000 Welcome to episode sixteen of the Prospect B Sides podcast. I am Nate Handy 5 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:39.719 joining me again, the wonderful Rookster Nat Nat. I think has a last 6 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:42.200 name. I can't tell you. I can't tell you I know what it 7 00:00:42.280 --> 00:00:45.240 is. I'm kind of waiting for Matt to show up with like just Prince 8 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:51.920 style one day. It just like a squiggly lion maybe man, But how 9 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:56.840 are you, rookster? The rookster is good, getting excited for the holiday 10 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:02.079 season. We got some travel coming up, go visit it laws and wonderful 11 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:04.599 time of the year. We've had beautiful weather out here in the West Coast 12 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.640 lately, and nothing plain about. I can't say the same for beautiful weather. 13 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.640 Oh, we've had a couple of warm days. But I found myself 14 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:18.920 stuck on it at a truck stop Friday night into the emergency room, and 15 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:25.599 that couldn't It was brutal, But I am I'm having a beer tonight, 16 00:01:25.719 --> 00:01:30.200 Matt, I am celebrating that we have made it. This is the sixth 17 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:40.159 installment of our division by division breakdown that last right, Yeah, I don't 18 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:44.920 know. I don't know about that, but this has been This has been 19 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:52.439 a long track of mutting and divining rods and all sorts of unglamorous looks and 20 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:57.319 things. Matt, I think it's going to continue today. I said before 21 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.760 we started recording Boy, other than the guys that I picked our in our 22 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:07.480 drafts earlier on, this was a tough system for me. I think about 23 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:09.919 like one other guy other than the ones we've already talked about. Yeah, 24 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.879 well we'll get into it here. I just wanted a couple of housekeeping things. 25 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.319 I kind of have been failing to mention my Twitter handle, not that 26 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:23.080 that's a huge deal to me, but you can follow me at Pitching Specs 27 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:28.879 on Twitter. I have been trying to supplement some episodes with some videos of 28 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.840 some players we've talked about cut up some videos of like some of my selections 29 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:38.120 and some of Matt's months ago now, and I've kind of just been forgetting 30 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.080 to drop some of those. But you can take a look there. And 31 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:45.960 also two weeks ago I believe it was or two episodes ago when we were 32 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.319 talking about the n OH Central, I had kind of cross streams a little 33 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.800 bit, and I just wanted to clarify. We had started talking about pictures 34 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:58.599 in that division, and I had mentioned ninetieth Percentile podcasts with Jeff Ponds from 35 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:04.639 Baseball America and he had an episode with Rylan Domingas of tread Athletics and they 36 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:09.080 were talking about sliders with IVB right and how you know, it's kind of 37 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:14.360 counterintuitive, right, you want a slider that breaks away from a hitter or 38 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:19.919 into a hitter or down, and there are some sliders that have characteristics that 39 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.479 kind of ride a little bit. And Ryland was talking about how they had 40 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:28.439 been wondering if that is a useful pitch for some pictures. And I had 41 00:03:28.479 --> 00:03:31.199 mentioned when we were talking about Hunter Parks that I thought his slider might have 42 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:35.520 a little bit of that quality, and I had goofed there. I was 43 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:43.240 actually thinking about pirates selection Alessandro Erklanni. Erklanni, Oh, yeah, yeah, 44 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:47.680 his slider has some of those characteristics. Jeff had shared with me on 45 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:53.919 Twitter. I had asked Jeff if erkulani slider had this quality and Jeff responded 46 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.879 saying that he throws a slider with about five to seven inches of ride and 47 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.960 seven to eight inches of horizontal break. And in that episode they were also 48 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:05.000 talking about bridge pitches. God throws a fastball, guy throws a slider, 49 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:10.080 something in between that can kind of keep them off either of those pitches. 50 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:14.360 And Erkulani, like we had mentioned, also throws a cutter that's a little 51 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.160 bit harder at eighty six to eighty nine miles pro. But I just wanted 52 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:21.240 to clarify that kind of makes erku Lani a little bit more interesting to me. 53 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.000 Nice, well, I might, I might pop him near the top 54 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:30.480 of my two draft lists. I think I've mentioned this slow auction that I'm 55 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:33.639 in that's still going. We started this weeks and weeks ago, and the 56 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:38.279 slow auction is slow. You know, we did that on purpose. We're 57 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.439 not in a rush and all that good stuff, and it's been it's been 58 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:46.519 fun, but I definitely made some mistakes earlier on in the exciting part of 59 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.680 the draft, spent too much of my money, and now we're at the 60 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:55.680 end of the draft. I'm like one of maybe five guys still left drafting 61 00:04:55.800 --> 00:05:00.199 because everybody keeps taking my guys. I have no money. I can only 62 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:03.199 bid the minimum. So I'll put somebody up that I really like, often 63 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.480 one of our B side guys that we've talked about, and someone comes in 64 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:10.639 for one extra dollar and steals them from me. And so I've I think 65 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:15.800 I mentioned I've lost tang Van, Scooter McCarty, like a bunch of guys 66 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:20.360 that we both like, and I keep getting scooped on him, Logan Henderson. 67 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:24.120 I was so excited about Logan Henderson, and that one hurt too because 68 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:28.199 I had him up until like thirty minutes to go, and this is like 69 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.360 an eight hour clock, so he'd been at mine and I was like, 70 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.240 Okay, good, I got one of these guys that I'm really excited about. 71 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.800 And then no, somebody gave into the last second scooped me on him. 72 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:40.839 So I'm so bummed about the guys that, like, all of the 73 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:44.920 ones that I drafted are gone, except I think I think I snagged one 74 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:47.800 of them. But yeah, it's been a real bummer. So now I'm 75 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:53.399 like deep diving going back through all of our B side selections for each team, 76 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:57.240 Like I picked up Mullins because I'm excited about that. Hopefully he just 77 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.720 walks down and keeps striking everybody out. I've picked up a few guys here 78 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:02.600 and there. I picked up your guys, Sirmac, and see if you 79 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:08.319 can put it all together this next year. But yeah, it's this is 80 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:11.519 like why we do B sides, right, It's like, for this exact 81 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.600 thing, there's nobody left in this league. We are scraping the bottom of 82 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:17.720 the barrel. And so I've got a few more spots to fill out and 83 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:21.160 hopefully hopefully some of the guys on the on our B side list make it 84 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:27.120 to me. I'm glad that we have helped you. You have just for 85 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.920 those ridiculously deep leagues. I mean we're at like pick fourteen hundred or something 86 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:36.079 now, and I still have like twelve roster spots to fill. Is there 87 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:41.040 in season pickups in that league? There are? But it's a contracts league, 88 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:46.120 and so you can pick up minor league guys for free more or less, 89 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:48.240 you just kind of like drop whoever's at the bottom of your m ILB 90 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:53.519 roster. But for the major league guys, it costs you to cut a 91 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:59.079 roster spot, so it's gonna be I think fewer moving parts on the MLB 92 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:01.600 side or the uh ads and drops, And certainly for someone like me, 93 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:04.920 who I'm going to be pretty close to the cap all year, I bet, 94 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:09.199 and it's and it's tricky to get rid of to clear cap space too. 95 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.240 I mean you can trade it away and stuff, but it'll be tricky 96 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.360 because most of the teams are close to the cap. So it's gonna be 97 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.000 an interesting league right on. Well, hopefully a few of those pan out 98 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.920 to some degree for you. Yeah, hopefully they just turn into something because 99 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.399 the rest of my team I think is pretty good. I Like I said, 100 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:28.079 I was aggressive on the early side, and so a couple of these 101 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.160 guys hit and I can flip them for something useful on the major league side, 102 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.839 will be in business. There you go. Well, Matt, let's 103 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:39.759 get into this wonderful world of the nls B sads. Oh, we got 104 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:43.079 to start with the Braves. You know they're they're the best. So okay, 105 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:47.839 let's start with your braves, my Atlanta Braves. Now on the hitting 106 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:53.720 side here, you had selected Drake Baldwin. I did, indeed airly early 107 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:57.759 in our hitter draft during our hitter Draft episode, and Baldwin was also my 108 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:01.240 pick at that time not lying. So I don't know if we need to 109 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:05.519 get into him again too much, but I think we both agree that this 110 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:11.079 is a left handed catching prospect with an exciting bat, and I think maybe 111 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.920 maybe getting caught up a little bit more consensus wise, but a guy that 112 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:20.360 was what he was sitting at one percent in the middle of September, and 113 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:26.439 I think we both think he's deserving of some more gambles. Definitely, Yeah, 114 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:30.920 he was two percent in September, and I'm a huge train I did 115 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.120 watch a little bit more of him, just watching some of the other guys 116 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.879 in the system to touch on, and I did notice that he has changed 117 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.240 his hand set up a little bit throughout the year. So I think I 118 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:45.799 had mentioned when we talked about him in the draft that his hand set up 119 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:50.519 is really high. He has his hands start kind of above his head almost 120 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.360 and then drop down into that slot as he strides that I thought that that 121 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:58.519 was kind of a funky setup in that he hits the ball a little bit 122 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:03.360 too much on the ground for someone who has really solid power, and so 123 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:07.519 I wondered if lowering his hands might help get to some of that more of 124 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:13.039 that flyball spray, but I noticed that early in the year his hands were 125 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.240 a little bit lower and they didn't have such a pronounced drop, and so 126 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:18.519 I wonder if maybe that somebody one of the coaches was working with him sort 127 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:22.159 of in the opposite direction, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. 128 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.039 Like you look at the other guys that have the Braves have changed their 129 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:31.600 hand position. Akunya they dropped his hands to like flat with his shoulder and 130 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:35.200 really relax and Olsen as well. When he came over from Oakland, Olsen's 131 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:39.799 hands were quite a bit higher and now they're much more in front of him. 132 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.519 And I think that Baldwin might benefit from that same kind of adjustment, 133 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:48.039 And so it's something I'm going to watch for in spring training next year because 134 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.919 I think if he does that and he starts hitting more flyballs, we're looking 135 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:54.679 at a twenty five homer that as as a catcher, and he seems okay 136 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.799 back there, so like I think he's a real prospects as a catcher, 137 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.200 And of course the Braves very good catchers right now, but that's not something 138 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.720 that is going to last forever. I think Darnaut's probably on the tail end 139 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:09.279 of his career. And and even if those guys still stick around and are 140 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:15.080 great and and Darnau and Murphy, Baldwin might be a really interesting trade piece 141 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.759 to flip to somebody, like say the White Sox for Dylan Ceese or something. 142 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:26.519 So wouldn't shrack me, Well, hopefully Baldwin. You know you wouldn't 143 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:31.279 do that straight up. The problem is, I think they could do worse. 144 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:39.879 Well, hopefully Baldwin can follow in the footsteps of some of our former 145 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:43.879 Braves B side bats. Varm Grissom I think was a pretty good B side 146 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:50.879 selection, and then last year went with Nacho. He definitely gained some popularity. 147 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.039 I'm curious because you are a Braves fan, what are your thoughts on 148 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:00.240 Natcho? What do you think? I'm a fan. I think the knock 149 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.879 on him kind of coming into the year was was there going to be enough 150 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.799 power to be interesting? You know, Grissom kind of walks that line a 151 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.320 little bit too, and that the power isn't certainly the first tool that you 152 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:15.159 think of. And I think Grisom has a little bit better hit tool than 153 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:20.279 Nacho even but I was kind of happy with seven homers out of Alvarez because 154 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:22.320 I think the reports, even after you had turned me on to him last 155 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:26.600 year for Nacho, they were like, this might this guy might hit one 156 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.679 or two homers a year, and so to see him already put up seven 157 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.000 and that he does have some power, you know, twenty five doubles, 158 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.279 twenty four doubles, like it's not nothing. So I like him. I 159 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.519 also am a huge fan, like this is just such a classic B side 160 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:48.000 guy because I got him in like the sixth round of our offseason draft in 161 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.679 a league where we already roster one thousand prospects, and I included him in 162 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.519 a trade earlier this year, and it was like I got a ton back 163 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:01.639 for including him and a couple of other guys because he had such a good 164 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.639 year. He went from like nothing, you know, the thousand rngth prospect 165 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:09.440 in our league to something that somebody was actually asking for in trade. That's 166 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:11.799 like, to me, is like, man, not, you already did 167 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:15.679 his work for me, And you know, I wish him the best on 168 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.840 whoever else, whoever seem I trade him to. But yeah, I just 169 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.120 think it's a nice, well rounded skill set that does a lot of the 170 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:26.759 things that I really like for especially our B side kind of guys. Yeah. 171 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:30.200 Now, I don't know how much of Natro you've watched, but he's 172 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.720 kind of curious to me, you know, the questions about power, the 173 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:35.480 knock on power. I don't know if you feel the same way, but 174 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:41.279 he strikes me as a strong kid. He's got a strong lower half. 175 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:46.519 I think he does have barely quick bat. I have seen him hit some 176 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:48.639 hard balls into the apple gap. I don't know, what do you think. 177 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:54.639 Is it more just his approach his swing? I think there is power 178 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.039 in there. I just don't know if he's ever going to be that kind 179 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:01.840 of hitter. Well, I do like his swing, but I think the 180 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.000 thing is is that he is a little bit shorter levered, and so it 181 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:11.080 might look like his hands are moving pretty quickly, but because they're a little 182 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:15.960 bit closer to his body like that doesn't translate to the bathhead speed and therefore 183 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:20.720 not into the exit velocities on ball as like you might see with a bigger 184 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.519 guy like David McCabe or somebody else like that in the in the system, 185 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.080 or even Baldwin for that matter. Like those guys there, I agree with 186 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.919 you, their hands maybe don't look quite as quick as someone like Nacho, 187 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:37.080 but I think that they're also a fair amount stronger, like they are hitting 188 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:41.360 with a little bit. I don't have their EV numbers, but I bet 189 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:46.759 that it's a decent separation from somebody like Nacho. And what he does really 190 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.639 well is he's got a great batted ball profile, and I think he sprays 191 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:56.039 the ball really well and like it's line drives. It's line drives scround balls 192 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.000 and then not that many fly balls, which I think is right for his 193 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:03.039 kind of And it's interesting that the Braves seem to have a lot of those 194 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:07.600 guys in their minor leagues and then they just traded for quite a big cost 195 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.799 David Fletcher to do that exact same thing as their utility infielder this year. 196 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:15.200 So I don't know. It's sort of an interesting organizational approach for the Braves, 197 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:18.159 and I wonder if they think they can coax a little bit more power 198 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:22.440 out of some of these guys. Yeah, last season for a Brave's arm, 199 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:24.840 I went with the first year player, Adam Mayer, who did not 200 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:28.559 pitch it all this year or last season. I think he had did he 201 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:35.120 have the internal brace surgery. I think that may have been I think what 202 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.679 happened there, but he was a favorite kind of later first year player draft 203 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.000 arm. I think injury was kind of perhaps part of the reason why he 204 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:48.320 wasn't drafted earlier. He was drafted later but paid well. I think it 205 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:52.600 is from what I have gathered, you know, first round caliber kind of 206 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:54.799 stuff. Just questions on, like I said, the injury. So I'm 207 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:00.639 still holding on to a few shares there and anxious to just him as a 208 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:05.159 pro nice before we jump into our arms. I just wanted to touch on 209 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:11.080 Luke Waddell a little bit as another B side guy that got a lot of 210 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:15.080 consideration for me and in a number a bunch of other systems, even in 211 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.200 this division, I would have taken him in a heartbeat as my B side 212 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:22.720 selection. Again has a lot in common with the Nachos and the von Grissoms 213 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.399 of the world, and that he has really short levers, is really quick 214 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.759 and direct to the ball. Not a ton of power, you know, 215 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:33.240 eight homers over five hundred and seventy seven played appearances like that's forty thirty five 216 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.840 grade power, but stole twenty nine bags plays, played shortstop a lot this 217 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.039 year, and I think there are questions about his arm strength, Like he 218 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.759 really seems like he puts his whole body into it. So I probably is 219 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:46.279 in a shortstop, but maybe if he plays second base then again, I 220 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.120 think that sort of line is pretty interesting. You know, two seventy five, 221 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:54.679 three eighty four, three seventy six with twenty nine steals, Like that's 222 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:58.440 pretty solid. So he's another one just to keep in mind, especially in 223 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:02.120 leagues where there's like a big penalty, because he only struck out twelve percent 224 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.639 of the time, walked fourteen points seven percent of the time, So good 225 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:10.919 contact skills, good all around player. Probably a minus on the defense, 226 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:15.279 so you know, total overall ceiling is probably a little bit lower, but 227 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.960 definitely an interesting name to follow in your different leagues too. My little short 228 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:23.440 list of bats. Just curious about your thoughts on any of these guys. 229 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:30.120 Cody Milligan, David McCabe, and Ethan wer Yeah, liked. I liked 230 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.240 a couple of those guys. Milligan. I just want to see more from 231 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:37.200 I mean, I like the flexibility. Again, he's one of those guys 232 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:40.440 is playing all over up the middle, doesn't have a ton of power. 233 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.200 I mean again, it's just like a sort of a type that the Braves 234 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.519 have and I think Workinger is a little bit like that, although he strikes 235 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:49.000 out a little bit more than those other guys, even McCabe, who I 236 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:52.600 think is the best of those three and is starting to get a little bit 237 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.399 of love on some of the prospect lists. I know that Chris clegg is 238 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.759 a is a big fan of his. He has good skills, like he 239 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:03.400 doesn't swing and miss a lot, and I think over his two levels kept 240 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.240 his strikeout really below twenty two percent at both levels and hit for a little 241 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.880 more power. But again it's sort of like that contact first profile. And 242 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.960 again as a reminder, the Braves' lower minor league parks are really hard to 243 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:22.680 hit in Rome especially, but also Mississippi is not a great ballpark for hitters. 244 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:26.279 So these guys that when you see them in High A and Double A 245 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.680 that have pretty solid lines above league average, you probably want to round up 246 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.680 on some of those things, especially for power, like that was something that 247 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:38.640 I mentioned for Baldwin, but it's true for McCabe as well. Seventeen homers 248 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:44.599 that McCabe hit this year in Rome, like that's really really good. I 249 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:48.480 don't remember the historical numbers for it, but their Rome plays very very down 250 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.160 four hitters and hitting for that much power, like you might round up and 251 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.519 you might say, like, actually, that's more of a twenty five maybe 252 00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:59.119 thirty homer potential bat there. So just a note on those guys. I 253 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:00.880 really like McCabe. He is like at three percent when I looked at this, 254 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:04.359 and I really liked Baldwin so much that I went with him. Yeah, 255 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:11.119 I will say that. I mean, Baldwin was a pretty clear definite 256 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:17.200 selection over these three in my opinion. All right, so who's your braves 257 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:19.720 arm for this year? Well, I had a couple that I wanted to 258 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:23.680 talk about. I mean, the Braves Arms are pretty fun as a group. 259 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:30.039 As you note, there's guys like Meyer and Phillips that we didn't get 260 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:33.519 to watch at all this year. The dearly departed Phillips over to my other 261 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:34.799 team, the Mariners, so hopefully I get to watch some of him next 262 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:40.960 year out West. But they have a launch these like really high upside arms 263 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:45.599 and then also quite a few of these very low variants kind of boring arms 264 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.599 too, So it's an interesting system in that way. And one of the 265 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.119 guys that I wanted to talk about, who has since left as a minor 266 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:57.160 league free agent to Oakland is Domingo Roblez, and he's someone I think you 267 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:02.640 guys should keep an eye on because I would not be that surprised if he 268 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:07.200 sees some innings for the Athletics next year. I think the Braves mix up 269 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.559 his pitch mix. I think he changed his pitch mick. The stuff looks 270 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:15.319 the same, but he had a great year for them after being miserable for 271 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.839 I don't know, like eight years in the minor leagues. He was terrible, 272 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:22.519 and the Braves got him one year, changed his pitch mix and he 273 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:26.519 was good. He was really solid, and I think he might get a 274 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:30.359 chance to play for Oakland soon. A few years ago, I wrote up 275 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:38.119 Miranda's Jose Miranda's like first three hundred played appearances, and he just destroyed robless 276 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:45.079 Over. Everybody did so bad. I mean like it was like embarrassingly so, 277 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:51.160 yeah, I can't get that totally. And you know, he's not 278 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.599 like an impact arm by any means. He's a soft toss and lefty with 279 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:59.039 fringy command. I mean, nothing to get super excited about. But it 280 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:02.200 was just wild to me looking at this, Like I think he improved his 281 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:07.880 strikeout rate by more than ten percent and improved his walk rate by ten percent. 282 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.680 It was like in the good direction. I was like, who is 283 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:15.000 this guy? He seems kind of the same picture as I went back and 284 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:18.400 looked at a start or two of him from prior years, and it kind 285 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:21.519 of seemed like the same guy, you know, bigger bodied, kind of 286 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:26.039 not athletic looking lefty. He just shopped for the Braves, So that was 287 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:32.440 that was funny. That was that wasn't even the Braves like number one minor 288 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:37.599 league free agent success story, Ellen Winans. Yeah, he did quite a 289 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:40.319 bit with him too. He was he was one of my favorite guys to 290 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:44.319 watch in the minors last year. Yeah, and I thought that Roeblist was 291 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:48.359 kind of on that same train, like he might like winings, get some 292 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:52.000 depth starts for the big league squad and all that again in a similar way, 293 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:55.759 like never going to strike a ton of guys out, but you know, 294 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.480 limit walks and get some grounders and be a serviceable spot starter. Yeah. 295 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:06.519 I went with Luis de Avila. He I thought was the clear choice 296 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:10.160 after that, because again, a lot of the Braves upside arms are super 297 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:12.839 well known. They were high draft picks. They've performed quite well. That 298 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:18.200 is. Really it is a bit tricky B side arms in this system. 299 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:22.960 It is. It is because they've done such a good job turning mediocre talent, 300 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.359 you would say, you know, like fifth, fourth, eighth rounders 301 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.279 into really good major league pitchers. So the Avila is a he's a guy 302 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:34.839 who was a minor league acquisition as well. I think they claimed him off 303 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:38.759 of waivers last year, is that right, and then maybe outrighted him. 304 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:45.880 There was some weird train he was he was with them in twenty twenty two. 305 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:48.839 Okay, so maybe this was a couple of years ago because he was 306 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:52.279 kind of like he was kind of my one B selection last year. Okay 307 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:59.759 about him a little bit. Yeah, he is another lefty who in form 308 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.039 for me as a B sider, does an okay job limiting walks, although 309 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:07.759 the walks were a little bit on the high side this year, and gets 310 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:10.680 a decent amount of strikeouts but a lot of grounders. You know, one 311 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:12.799 hundred and twenty some innings this year, one hundred and twenty seven innings, 312 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:17.839 so volume is there made it up to triple a just for I think just 313 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:21.319 one start at the end of the year. Kind of a spot start at 314 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:22.880 the end of the year, but pitched a lot of the year at double 315 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:27.319 A and struck out twenty four percent of the time twenty three point six percent 316 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:30.599 of the time watched twelve percent, so little on the high side there, 317 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:33.599 but also got a lot of grounders. Like he was. Has that sort 318 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:40.400 of classic lefty pitchability profile. He's eighty eight to ninety one and sort of 319 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:44.559 interestingly, the stat cast wasn't sure what to make of his pitch mix. 320 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:49.079 It classified his most thrown pitch as change ups, but I'm pretty sure that 321 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.839 they were mostly two seamers, So he throws like this eighty eight to ninety 322 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:57.200 one two seamer. It also says he has like the changeup firmer, so 323 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.319 when he does throw a change up, it's like eighty five to eighty nine, 324 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:04.160 so that might blend a little bit there. And he's got a solid 325 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:10.440 slider too, Like his slider might be my favorite pitch of his. It's 326 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:12.960 just like one of those profiles that it's so boring. Nobody else is going 327 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:17.359 to be very interested in this. But I can see him next year for 328 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:21.799 the Braves giving a spot start. You know, he had one really great 329 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:25.400 start near the end of the year against a very good Double A Hubs team 330 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:30.079 who you know, had Shaw and Case and a bunch of their like Murray 331 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:33.160 and a bunch of their guys that had really really good years, and he 332 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:37.519 just dominated them. He like, I think, hit the first batter, 333 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:44.000 walked the next batter, and then struck out strikes out eleven and that might 334 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:48.960 have been the only base urners he gave up. It was like a wildly 335 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:53.680 good start and then and it's worth watching the start might have maybe against Durham. 336 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:59.839 I think it's against Durham Raised Triple A affiliate where he lost the control 337 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:03.279 a little bit, although again watching it you could kind of see the ABS 338 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.200 system at work, Like the balls that you might think usually would be a 339 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:08.920 strike, we're just missing. And so he gave him a couple of easy 340 00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:14.279 free passes, but still battled against a pretty good Raised Triple A affiliate lineup 341 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:17.680 in Durham too, which is a pretty good pitcher's park or a hitters park 342 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:22.960 rather and uh and did really well. So Avila I think he had a 343 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.680 very solid year over all, least two percent owned and in sort of a 344 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:30.839 tough system to find any sort of sleepers like this is the kind of guy 345 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:34.200 you find, you know, underrated lefty I dig. I think he's a 346 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:40.319 very solid B side selection. I've always last few seasons just generically speaking, 347 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:44.359 just found him to be a good pitcher, just y if the stuff is 348 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:48.000 going to be good enough to hack it in the majors. But he may 349 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:51.440 not be certainly not for like, I don't want him as the Braves, 350 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:53.960 you know, number four starter in a year or two like that, I 351 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:57.279 something would be wrong, I think if if that were true. But he's 352 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:02.640 solid, he's a decent guy. I went with, Like I said, 353 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:04.720 I was kind of struggling, and I went with an arm that I just 354 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:10.559 found just more intrigued than wanting to go out and roster or anything like that. 355 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:12.079 It is just kind of a watch guy for me. But did you 356 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:18.000 watch any Jorge Batista not ringing a belt? All right? So he's I 357 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:22.960 think he just turned twenty three years old. He's a righty from I think 358 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.039 the Dominican they list him at six foot, one hundred and fifty five pounds, 359 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:30.680 kind of a little bit of a different frame. He's got longer arms 360 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.839 and he has really big hands. I noticed, or at least they appeared, 361 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.400 so fingers just kind of wrapping around the whole ball. But he split 362 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.720 this season between A ball and hi A sixty seven and two thirds A ball 363 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:48.319 innings thirty nine and one third. High A innings K percentage went up just 364 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:52.960 to tick, just like one percent as he moved up. The walks jumped 365 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:56.359 up from seven and a half percent to eleven point eight, so that's not 366 00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:00.440 great. His whip went from one point zero three one point five to three. 367 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:06.160 Batista's primarily a two pitch attack guy, fastball slider. I don't think 368 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:10.079 I would even see in a change up tried. There might be some fastball 369 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:15.279 varietals going on, I'm pretty certain. And then his breaking balls seemed to 370 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:19.519 have some different pace going on, but with like similar movement profiles and if 371 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:25.200 I had to beat, I think there is definitely intent behind this with Batista. 372 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:29.000 But he had some interesting traits that I liked. He showed some length, 373 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:32.359 he was able to go in to deep, go deep into games. 374 00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:37.000 He averaged seventy nine pitches a start during his high A stint one hundred and 375 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:41.119 seven innings on the season, which included an FQO his last outing versus Hickory, 376 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.039 which I just rewatched today. He very much felt like a guy with 377 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:49.160 an arrow kind of pointing up to me down the stretch. He's induced ground 378 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:52.119 balls at a nice clip in the past, fifty one percent a ball, 379 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:56.680 forty seven percent at high A. I think he lacks the precision with like 380 00:26:56.759 --> 00:27:00.279 his limited attack, especially to get like lefties out. Lefties hit like two 381 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:07.240 eighty three against them, right he's hit just one seventy two slugged to eighty 382 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:10.519 nine. I mean, there's a lot of things here that kind of scream 383 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:15.319 relief pitcher, potential relief pitcher, doesn't hold runners well, and that Matt 384 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:18.599 A lot of these guys could shave off a decent trunk of their era, 385 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:23.440 especially in the lower as, if they just hold some runners. Yeah, 386 00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:27.119 but despite like the higher walk numbers and stuff, at least, I mean, 387 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:30.799 there are outings where he doesn't seem wild to me. He's just kind 388 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:36.200 of missing by a little bit more than you know, just non competitive pitches 389 00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:40.160 is high a run thirty nine and a third innings. He had a ten 390 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:42.880 point five to three k per nine, the four point eight to one walk 391 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:48.680 per nine, which is not the greatest walk wise, but man if Patista's 392 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:52.599 kind of fun to watch. He gets some really fun whiffs, guys losing 393 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:57.440 their bats, guys falling you. You could put together a decent little highlight 394 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:03.599 reel of him just making guys look silly, pitching Ninja style. Yeah, 395 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:07.480 yeah, yeah for sure. So I don't know. Just like I said, 396 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:11.119 I wasn't really like super in love with anyone down at this raster percentage, 397 00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:15.160 but Batista, there are some moments and they might they might have a 398 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:22.440 nice little relief pitcher in here. I will post some Jorge Bautista gifts here 399 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.920 throwing his fast bowed. I think it's like probably ninety three, but like 400 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.240 I said, I think it gets some life on it, going both directions, 401 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.880 maybe three directions, because I think he might throw a cutter too, 402 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:38.119 and then and then some wicked sliders that he can. He can't command the 403 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:44.240 slider pretty well I think at times. So Jorge Batista, just take a 404 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:47.480 look and see what he's doing this season, all right, So I'll have 405 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:51.960 a follow of him. I don't have any huge expectations, but let's see. 406 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:55.880 Yeah. The only other guy saw a little bit of and think might 407 00:28:55.880 --> 00:29:00.799 be somewhat interesting is Hayden Harris. He's a twenty four year old relief pitcher 408 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.559 made it up to double a struck out almost thirty seven percent of batters this 409 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:08.640 year had an acceptable nine point seven percent walk rate, So he really was 410 00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:14.480 pretty dominant, especially from a FIP standpoint, and the stuff looked like it 411 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:17.839 backed it up pretty well. So he's another one. Just you know, 412 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:21.119 watch watch. He might be in the middle innings for the Braves at some 413 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:23.759 point this year. Right if you happen to turn on Batista and you see 414 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:27.759 him doing a little twirl like after a pitch, that's when you know he's 415 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:32.720 feeling it. He likes to do this little little spin. I love that 416 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:40.119 when he's getting the whiffs. Brotherly love Philadelphia Phillies has not been a whole 417 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:45.240 lot of B side love here, Matt. I don't think past when with 418 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:49.119 Marcus Lee saying who I think is kind of like a nice skill set, 419 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:52.440 but just the case I think have just kind of sabotaged it all. I 420 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:55.279 mean, maybe a guy who still has a chance. I think he was 421 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.599 in the AFL, but the case kind of kind of ruined any interest for 422 00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:02.440 me. Then last year we went with Leandro Pineda, who was this young 423 00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:06.200 hitter that just kind of looked a little interesting to me. Perhaps some power, 424 00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:08.839 perhaps some speed, perhaps a good glove, but he overall just kind 425 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:14.319 of had a very middle A season. If that one o one WRC plus 426 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:18.720 and high A just doesn't seem to impact the ball enough, didn't really slug. 427 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:22.000 I don't know how much interest I have in Panaeda, but he's still, 428 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:26.559 what only twenty one years old. And then the pitcher we went with 429 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:29.920 last year was Noah Scurrow, and that I don't know why I had it 430 00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:33.559 in my head that he had missed the whole season, because he definitely did 431 00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:37.960 not. He pitched over one hundred innings in Triple A. It was kind 432 00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:41.880 of nice I saw before the season started he was pitching for Team Canada and 433 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.680 the World Baseball Classic. But I was kind of interested in his four seen 434 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:51.160 fastball. Although it wasn't really hard, I thought it had life that could 435 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.799 play really well in the top of the zone. And overall, I think 436 00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:59.759 Scurroll's stuff just kind of seemed to meet its match at Triple A this year, 437 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.160 just looking at like csw on his pitches. Nothing was really super hot, 438 00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:07.000 his numbers were not very good. I think he struck out like six 439 00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.880 per nine, gave up a lot of home runs, twenty five year old, 440 00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:15.000 good body. I don't know someone who I thought maybe could play himself 441 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:21.400 into a potential rotation try, but I think there needs to be some substantial 442 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:25.039 gains made if that's going to happen. So I don't know how interested I 443 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:27.400 am in Noah Screw anymore. Have you watched him at all? Yeah? 444 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:30.920 I watched him a bit last year because he had a really nice run at 445 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:36.839 Double A. Yeah he did, and I was pretty into it, and 446 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:41.599 he even did okay at Triple A last year. But yeah, this year 447 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.680 was kind of ugly. The strikeouts took a step back, the locks got 448 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.359 worse, gave him a bunch of homers. Like, he had a pretty 449 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.680 ugly year. And yeah, I'm seeing his swinging strike rate went down by 450 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.359 two percent as well, which is so wonder what's going on there because I 451 00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:59.880 thought there was something there. Maybe it seems like giving up a lot of 452 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:02.400 nine drives a lot of fly balls, which kind of makes sense, you 453 00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:05.720 know, with his arsenal. But so, yeah, so I don't know 454 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:07.839 who. Who do you want to talk about this year? Matt Well On 455 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:14.359 the pitching side, I struggled in this org a bit. I watched a 456 00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:20.799 couple of their guys and didn't come away super impressed. You know. Watched 457 00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:24.319 a little bit of Michael Platsmyer, who I had seen a few times back 458 00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:28.720 in the day because I think he was a Mariners prospect for a minute, 459 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:32.359 if I'm remembering that right, But didn't love what I saw there. Looked 460 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:37.799 at a couple you know again, sort of similar to Davila in the Brave 461 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:44.960 System, A lefty Matt Osterberg or Osterberg who I liked. I liked some 462 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:47.119 of what he did, but you know, it's at high A. He 463 00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:51.720 made it up to double A this year and isn't striking anybody out really, 464 00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:55.720 you know, twenty percent strikeout rate, which is like fringy already and does 465 00:32:55.759 --> 00:33:00.640 a good job limiting walks, you know, five percent is plus and get 466 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:04.759 some ground balls. But he's another one that seemed like a pretty boring no 467 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:08.079 upside at all I could see. But maybe he gets some big beginnings kind 468 00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:12.480 of guy. I kind of thought you'd be a little bit more excited or 469 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:17.519 more into oaster bird to bees. It's just the strikeouts like just aren't really 470 00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:22.119 there, and he just seemed like every kind of slow throwing lefty that I've 471 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:27.480 seen, and I've certainly picked some guys like this before. But it's just 472 00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.599 twenty one percent strikeouts, is like, that's like the bare minimum. And 473 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:34.640 if you're doing that at high A in double A, like, it's gonna 474 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.680 get worse. So now you're talking about can you really limit walks if you're 475 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:43.039 not striking anybody out and it's like fourteen or fifteen percent, right, like, 476 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:46.119 then you really need a plus something else. So I don't know. 477 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:52.680 He I thought his double A run though it was only six starts thirty what 478 00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:58.200 thirty one innings I think it was, but he had a whip of one 479 00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:01.559 point zero five. I didn't have the K and the walk percentages like like 480 00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:06.519 I should, but his K for nine was eight point nine and his walks 481 00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:08.760 for nine was one point seven to eight. Yeah, and I do like 482 00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:13.920 that. The walks for me are good. And watching him like he's commanding 483 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:17.199 his pitches pretty well, you know. Yeah, mixes sixty strikes during that 484 00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:22.039 double A run, And I agree he lacks the velo, but I got 485 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:28.119 a little bit of a little bit of Mark Burley in him. Maybe that 486 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:31.760 could be an upside outcome for him, certainly with the command. I guess 487 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:37.239 what I'm worried about. Osterburgh's never going to be a Hall of Fame pitcher, 488 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:42.159 likely, but that is true. But I find like, even though 489 00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:45.400 he didn't have the velocity, I found that he pitched inside well, at 490 00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:49.840 least at least in the looks. And that's very different in double A than 491 00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:52.599 you know, pitching well inside and double A than in the majors. But 492 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.800 Osberg was kind of interesting to me. He made my short list. Yeah, 493 00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:59.679 yeah, and again I thought we were going to come together a little 494 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:04.280 bit more here. I'm not trying to poopoo him too much. I think 495 00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:08.280 the thing that worried me was the he had a forty seven percent ground ball 496 00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:12.599 rate at high and then a you know, it went up a little bit 497 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:16.400 at double A. But I'm not sure that's going to stick. So I 498 00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:20.800 think that he's going to give up a few more fly balls as he goes 499 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:24.639 up just the velocity that you know, harder to bore under guy's barrels, 500 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:29.480 harder to get the chases below the zone that induced those kinds of ground balls, 501 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:31.760 And I think that's going to lead to pretty big uptick in his home 502 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:36.159 run rate. You know, his homer's per nine was below one at both 503 00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:39.880 stops this year, and if he doesn't get more ground balls, I think 504 00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:44.719 that's going to double maybe. So that's sort of where I was a little 505 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:46.480 worried about him. But he did have a good year, and like I 506 00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:50.599 said, the looks that I had, and I watched a couple of his 507 00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:53.679 starts last week when I was prepping for this and they were solid. And 508 00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:57.760 honestly, it's a coin flip between him and the guy that I went with. 509 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.760 I mean, it's he's got enough interesting stuff there that it's a totally 510 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:07.480 reasonable pick. But my guy was another guy that he's probably a reliever. 511 00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:12.199 But the stuff looked very, very good, and I wondered if they might 512 00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:15.320 stretch him out again because he did get a couple of starts early in the 513 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:21.079 year in when Hui Pan, who's made it up to double A this year, 514 00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:23.360 I believe, oh no, just Hi A this year, but had 515 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:29.440 like an over sixteen percent swinging strike rate at a ball and at high A 516 00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:32.719 this year. Even though his short stint at HYA this year was pretty poopy, 517 00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:37.639 it was still accompanied by getting a lot of whiffs fastballs ninety four to 518 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:42.639 seven and the slider is a wipeout slider. It is really really good. 519 00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:47.920 Is he Taiwanese? Yeah, number four, the fourth Taiwanese. We're finding 520 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:52.320 something here, look at us. Yeah, we're global, we are we 521 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:57.039 are. So again, I'm not super excited about him. Like I said 522 00:36:57.039 --> 00:37:00.000 at the outset, this was sort of a coin flippy kind of guy. 523 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:02.719 I could have gone him, I could have gone Osterberg, I could have 524 00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:07.280 gone Danny Wilkinson. They're all in sort of a clump for me. But 525 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.960 I just wanted to highlight another of our Taiwanese friends and pick pond here right. 526 00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.920 I found the Philly is a little bit more interesting maybe maybe than you 527 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:21.840 had. But Christian McGowan has since his draft has been interesting to me, 528 00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:24.320 and we were just kind of waiting for him to really get on the mound. 529 00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:29.880 But I think he's a guy with an interesting arsenal. It's kind of 530 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:34.119 all starting to point towards him probably being the reliever he was in the AFL 531 00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:37.400 this year. I'm curious if you watched. I don't even know how much 532 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:43.199 there was to watch. I think there was a of Alex McFarlane. Oh 533 00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:45.599 no, I don't think I did. Yeah, there was. He was 534 00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:50.840 in single a all year, I believe, seems like a guy with the 535 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:57.840 very appealing strikeout arsenal but just walks a lot of guys six point seventy nine 536 00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:02.960 per nine the Phillies. I'm curious. I'd love to know what the Phillies 537 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:09.079 do and what their philosophy. Philosophy is trying to help guys along with command, 538 00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:14.039 because I think they have done some things with some folks and then the 539 00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:19.000 so I think so I mean Andrew Painter, not that I watched a bunch, 540 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:23.679 but from his like perfect game stuff to what he was doing was I 541 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:30.119 thought just command execution wise was a whole other level. Yeah, I feel 542 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:35.559 like they've helped Griff McGarry, but I think man because he was the one 543 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:38.079 that came to mind, like the stuff is, you know, everybody loves, 544 00:38:38.199 --> 00:38:43.000 but he walks like twenty of his better city faces. I'm just like, 545 00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:47.159 that's not a guy. That's true. You know, maybe it's not 546 00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:51.519 great information, maybe it is, but from what I've been told, like 547 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:55.760 that's more of a blister issue with him, or it has been. But 548 00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:01.480 I think at least what year twenty twenty too, he was showing command that 549 00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:08.840 I think was not anywhere near his skill sets prior to maybe maybe that's maybe 550 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:12.840 that's just not great info. I don't know. And then there's some one 551 00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:16.079 of the guys that I'm like lower on than literally everybody I've ever talked to, 552 00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:20.760 because I watched a few of his his outings and this guy has no 553 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:23.679 idea where the ball is going right. But he is interesting though, because 554 00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:29.599 especially twenty twenty two, like a guy who would have outings where you're like, 555 00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:34.239 how is this guy have these walk problems and these command problems? This 556 00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:37.719 is it does not drive with what I'm watching this out and then you watch, 557 00:39:37.239 --> 00:39:40.199 you know, an outing or two later and you're just like, just 558 00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:45.440 didn't even seem like the same picture to me. And then I watched a 559 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:51.360 little bit maybe yeah, there was more of Geene Cabrera to watch in a 560 00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:55.159 ball kind of a smaller guy, but the Arsenal Arsenal seems to have some 561 00:39:55.320 --> 00:40:00.760 teeth, but he gets he was getting hit hard, which I know doesn't 562 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:05.119 make sense right, But he's another young pitcher that that I might keep tabs 563 00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:10.159 on this year. But my selection I was happy to see Samuel Elde Garry. 564 00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:19.639 It was an international signee from Italy left Dells this go around. Man, 565 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:27.599 uh, he's a lefty listed at six twenty two years old. I 566 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:31.840 think he was pitching most of this season at twenty one zero percent roster in 567 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:37.960 the middle of September. Now he made his full season debut back in twenty 568 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:44.880 one. Five Clearwater outings weren't broadcast. Twenty twenty two, he only logged 569 00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:49.280 twelve rookie ball innings. I think he was coming back from Tommy John don't 570 00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:52.679 quote me. Obviously, a fairly major injury that kept him out, and 571 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:57.480 then this was actually the first season that there were any broadcasts of him. 572 00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.239 Now. Still it was a pretty small look, only five outings to watch, 573 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:05.920 but we did have some savant data arsenal. He's got a four steam 574 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:09.920 fastball. I have a thousand pitch sample here from savant average, ninety two 575 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:13.639 miles prow he's got a slider, he's got a change up, he's got 576 00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:17.519 a curveball. And then they got some sinkers on here too. Not totally 577 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:22.719 sure if that's correct or not, but he had sixty seven and two thirds 578 00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:27.639 innings in a ball and then sixteen in High A this year twenty seven point 579 00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:32.800 eight k percentage in Hi, a walk percentage of six point nine percent walks 580 00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:37.760 for a little bit more walks, we're significantly more in a ball. So 581 00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:40.920 he's a lefty who splits were splits were all right, obviously right, He's 582 00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.360 hit him a little better, but not too significantly different. Now. It 583 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:50.320 struck me watching Elgarry is he's just he's got, you know, a full 584 00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:54.000 starter's kit arsenal and was commanding it fairly well in my looks. I like 585 00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:58.320 the fastball change up. He gets good differential on the change up, and 586 00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:01.840 I think he uses that well and you know for fuel pitch commands that pretty 587 00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:07.320 well. But the slider has got some teeth to it too. Csw on 588 00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:10.880 the slider in this samples thirty one point three percent. He also throws a 589 00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:15.840 curveball in there that you know, stell probably steal strikes at a pretty high 590 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:19.320 clip at this level with it my few looks, a guy who didn't get 591 00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.840 squared up very much at all gets a lot of ground balls on his secondaries. 592 00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:25.840 But yeah, I don't know, just kind of interesting. Just felt 593 00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:30.880 like a solid left handed pitching prospect, and the Phillies evidently feel the same. 594 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:36.679 Way nice. I was kind of curious to see how his game plays 595 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:39.519 as he gets into the uppers. Well, hopefully it doesn't play like McGarry's, 596 00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:50.519 who walked astonishing twenty nine point zero eight per nine twenty nine, what 597 00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:54.079 was it the year before? You know, ten per nine at Triple A, 598 00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:58.760 five and a half per nine at double A. He strikes guys out, 599 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:05.159 But man, I'm just yeah, he again, these are small sample 600 00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:07.880 sized, both at at triple A four and a third at Triple A this 601 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:19.119 year fourteen walks many like. Don't get me wrong, I'm not like a 602 00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:22.960 fan, but I do think that his command issues. I think there's more 603 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.480 to it than him just that might be right. I mean, you cannot 604 00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:30.039 be a professional and do this, you know what I mean. And there's 605 00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:32.719 still they're still running him out there. You know, he didn't pitch all 606 00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:36.639 of the year, and again, maybe that was trying to manage blister issues 607 00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.639 too, so that that would be a helpful explanation and might soften some of 608 00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:45.280 my hatred for this kind of a profile. But the other one I was 609 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:46.960 thinking of is Nick Abel. You know, he was sort of like a 610 00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:52.079 very polished high school arm and has been sort of middling with his command. 611 00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:57.000 It's like the thing that has knocked him way down my interestless because he gets 612 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:00.440 strikeouts and he seems like a solid pitcher, but he just walks too many 613 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:02.920 for me to like think he's in that elite tier, you know, Yeah, 614 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.119 for such a pretty boy. Arm I was like, agreed, did 615 00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:10.920 you didn't say bad already here? Did you didn't? But I had selected 616 00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:14.719 Matt Kruhn. Oh yeah, that's right, Crune. That was a good 617 00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:16.199 one. Yeah. I liked him a lot. Kind I kind of like 618 00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:21.840 I kind of liked my two Phillies here maybe the highlight of this of this 619 00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:25.960 division. But for my bad I was going with Brian Rincone. That's a 620 00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:30.480 good one. If I had known that BA was going to put him in 621 00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:37.079 their top ten, I would have drafted this dude. Yeah. I did 622 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.480 not see that coming. But Rincon is a switch it in shortstop. He's 623 00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:45.719 listed at five ten five, nineteen years old. He made it up to 624 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:51.440 high eight this year. This is a pretty nice draft find by The Phillies 625 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:57.760 took him in the what fourteenth round out of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Prep Northern teenager who 626 00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:00.840 was ranked four hundred and forty fifth had a perfect game in the class of 627 00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:06.360 twenty twenty two. And the story here is kind of he's got a legit 628 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:10.679 shortstop glove, perhaps the best glove in the system. But the offense is 629 00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:16.480 better than expected. Primarily a ball a little stint in high A, but 630 00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:21.360 four hundred and twenty five played appearances, he hit eight home runs, he 631 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:24.840 stole twenty seven bases. It line drives a twenty one point one percent, 632 00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:30.440 pulls the ball at a nice clip, hits his opposite field thirty two point 633 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.760 eight percent. Now, his batting average was just two thirty four, but 634 00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:39.079 he had obp three sixty eight and he slept only three sixty one. But 635 00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:44.760 he's a guy who struck out seventeen point nine percent of the time but walked 636 00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:49.039 sixteen percent of the time. It's good enough for a one oh seven WRC 637 00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:52.159 plus. Now he's a switch hitter, like I said, but I think 638 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:58.559 his right handed stroke, which is harder to see like with him being an 639 00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:02.760 a ball. I think there were three broadcast series and Matt he went over 640 00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:07.800 in all of those games, all the broadcast games in a ball and and 641 00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:10.480 you know, so kind of had to really search for some for some right 642 00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:15.800 handed at bats down there, I think, I really maybe only I only 643 00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:20.320 found him getting any hits in Hia from the right side. Point being I 644 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:23.920 think is his right handed stroke is more natural and he looks to do more 645 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:28.039 damage from that side. I think, I think he's like a hitter from 646 00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:30.920 the right side, whereas from the left side, I think he's kind of 647 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:36.400 surviving. But the numbers weren't were like too too different. Hit two thirty 648 00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:39.320 from the left side two forty seven from the right side, got on base 649 00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:43.800 on a much higher clip from the right side. Though. Another sort of 650 00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:49.719 demographic for good b siding is guys whose glove is going to carry them and 651 00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:53.760 who might be a better hitter than folks think or improving as a hitter, 652 00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:59.559 and Rincombe could could very well fall into that, agreed. And he reminds 653 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:02.239 me profile wives like a bunch of those braves guys that we just talked about, 654 00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:06.760 like very similar, not a ton of power, but controls the strike 655 00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:08.840 zone pretty well, maybe a little bit more athletic than you think. And 656 00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:13.639 yeah, I think I think he's a good pick. And well I was. 657 00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:16.760 I was watching a few more at bats of him today in Hya at 658 00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:22.679 Jersey shore where you get like velocity readings right, there were some relievers that 659 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:24.920 were that were like really pumping some gas, and man he was he was 660 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:30.800 handling velocity. I was impressed. I was impressed with the at bats that 661 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:32.199 he was putting together, even though this a guy who didn't put up a 662 00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:38.119 ton of huge numbers might might turn into a professional hitter here like that. 663 00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:45.280 Do you like anybody else in the system that wise? No, I didn't 664 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:49.519 have anybody else on my short list. I was pretty uh set with Cone 665 00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:54.920 pretty early in the process. The only other one I had Ringcone that I 666 00:47:54.960 --> 00:48:02.920 wanted to touch on to For your Cagori's leagues, I think a Marion Boyd 667 00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:07.079 is someone to keep an eye on next year. You know, there was 668 00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:10.239 no video of him that I could find this year, but didn't strike out 669 00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:14.880 a ton, you know, under fifteen percent of the time and stole fifty 670 00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:19.960 six bass this year. Yeah, so I think it's like defense and speed 671 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.159 profile, but the speed seems legit. He's one to monitor I don't want 672 00:48:24.199 --> 00:48:28.079 to get a look at. I think there were a few bats that I 673 00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:32.920 had wanted to check out but couldn't because there wasn't anything. And then the 674 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.360 other one that I wanted to mention is a guy who just got traded out 675 00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:40.920 of the system. But when I pulled this list was in here was Oliver 676 00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:45.840 Done. He had a really interesting year, and I think got recognized that 677 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:50.880 he was included in that trade with the Brewers. I think I think the 678 00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:53.400 story is now the Brewers. But my notes on him was like, this 679 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:58.880 is kind of an interesting breakout bat. He hit twenty one homers this year 680 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.920 hunt and forty eight WRC plus at double A. He was repeating it he 681 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.519 had come over from New York, but he hit as many home runs this 682 00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:17.000 year as he did in his previous five professional seasons and in his entire college 683 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:23.960 and summer baseball career. So it's like he is a totally different hitter than 684 00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:29.880 he has been in the past, and I thought it was worth pointing out. 685 00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:31.760 You know, he strikes out a lot and kind of always has in 686 00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:36.960 pro ball, but he improved it by a ton this year to sort of 687 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:40.679 like on the fringes of acceptable for this kind of profile, twenty seven point 688 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.360 five percent at double A. But with the power that he had, he 689 00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:51.280 looks like a totally different hitter, and there might be sort of some late 690 00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:54.800 blooming traits here, just with how different this profile is so Oliver Duns another 691 00:49:54.840 --> 00:50:02.119 one to watch in Brewer system next year. The Miami Marlins. Matt We 692 00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:08.559 came together on Troy Johnston talked about him during our Hitter Draft episode. Were 693 00:50:08.599 --> 00:50:13.880 there any other bats that Yeah, I agree. We talked a little bit 694 00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:17.559 about jab your Sonoha Sonoya. I'm not sure how you pronounce this, but 695 00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:22.159 yeah, he was my pick last year, and he's a good little player. 696 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:23.519 Man, he is. He is. I like a lot of the 697 00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:28.880 things that he does. Again, has that positional flexibility playing up the middle. 698 00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:30.440 The Marlins seemed to do this, you know, like they moved Jazz 699 00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:34.400 out to center field, and they've sort of done the same thing with him. 700 00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:37.199 Played short second and then got some time in center this year and seems 701 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:40.320 like he can handle it. Got the speed, doesn't strike out at all. 702 00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:44.719 It's just such a light hitting profile, like even for some of the 703 00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.920 other guys that we've talked about, Like he hit four homers this year, 704 00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:51.280 and I think he got lucky on a couple of them. Like there is 705 00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:54.159 no impact to this bat. But I like him, and you know, 706 00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:58.800 he's getting the most out of his frame and everything. So he's he's another 707 00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:00.320 one that I think is fun. In seven bags this year is good. 708 00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:07.079 He's a he's aggressive, took right, you know, that's on the touch 709 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:09.880 on the aggressive side, but isn't quite as bad as some of those guys 710 00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:15.639 you like who are down at like three percent or one point three. Yeah, 711 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:21.800 the guy who strikes me is really kind of maximizing what he's got. 712 00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:25.519 But I don't know if he's got enough to be like a major leaguer now. 713 00:51:25.559 --> 00:51:31.239 I think ultimately he's probably not a major leaguer, just quite not quite 714 00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:35.760 enough power. But I just really like the rest of what he has and 715 00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:39.239 maybe he does get a little stronger and gets to that five ten homer limit. 716 00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:44.199 Yeah, there were a couple other bats that I had watched a little 717 00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:47.039 bit of that were kind of interesting to me. Their fourteenth round pick out 718 00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:52.199 of Missouri in twenty twenty two, Porren Montgomery, first baseman. He's an 719 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:57.800 a ball in High A. Now. He only hit four home runs, 720 00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:02.599 but he does make so he does hit the ball fairly hard sometimes peeking at 721 00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:07.679 the stat cast stuff, fifty two point four percent ground ball right though, 722 00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:12.320 But he does hit a lot of line drives twenty three point one percent, 723 00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:17.000 hit two eighty eight with a four thirteen on base slugged only four oh two, 724 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:21.880 struck out twenty one point three percent at the time, walked fifteen point 725 00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:25.320 one percent of the time. But he's a little bit of an interesting It's 726 00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:29.880 just you know what, you're gonna play first base and not hit home runs. 727 00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:35.960 That's yeah, that's tricky. So then yeah, yeah, and then 728 00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:40.760 there. I mean, he was a second round pick out of Georgia as 729 00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:47.119 a prep back in twenty eighteen. But will Banfield Catcher that was in Double 730 00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:52.199 A this year, hit twenty three home runs, but he hit He hit 731 00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:55.159 two fifty eight with a three to oh two on base percentage, slugged four 732 00:52:55.480 --> 00:53:04.360 seventy two two one four ice strikeouts up there where you don't love at twenty 733 00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:08.079 four point six percent, my man walked five point one percent of the time. 734 00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:12.719 That you're gonna love that he is up there to hit. But you 735 00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:19.400 know, ed Catcher, I think he is a fairly good backstop. I 736 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.559 think I don't I don't know, don't don't necessarily don't quote me on that, 737 00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:25.159 but I think he is. So I know, he was a little 738 00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:30.559 bit interesting to me too, but none of those guys could could come close 739 00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:35.599 to mister Johnston. No. Johnson was was just awesome this year. Twenty 740 00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:38.360 six homers, twenty four steals, three oh seven, three ninety nine, 741 00:53:38.519 --> 00:53:43.079 five forty nine. I kind of can't believe he didn't get picked in the 742 00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:46.079 Rule five, but I'll I'll let that go at some point. The other 743 00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:51.400 guy that I wanted to touch on is the seem Nunez, who did get 744 00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.920 picked in the Rule five draft. He was another one that I thought had 745 00:53:53.960 --> 00:54:00.880 sort of an interesting line, like kind of scrappy slap hitter type, a 746 00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:04.800 little on the small side, which Nate knows. I love a solid base 747 00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:07.239 sealer like. He's somebody who I thought had pretty good instincts on the bases 748 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:12.559 as well. Plays a great shortstop like that's the reason that he got picked. 749 00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:15.239 He's definitely a round down on the back kind of guy. But he's 750 00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:19.519 a guy who's gonna play infield in the BIGS, and your pitchers will be 751 00:54:19.559 --> 00:54:22.480 happy to have him back there because he can really pick it, which I 752 00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:25.159 think is why he got scooped. I don't remember who took him in the 753 00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:29.480 Rule five, but yeah, he was another one that I just think there 754 00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:32.800 isn't a lot of power in this swing, but he's fast, controls his 755 00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:37.039 own decently well. Just another one that was in this system at least when 756 00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:42.480 I when I pulled this, yeah, last year, I thought this was 757 00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:49.320 a pretty decent B side pick here Luis Pelasios. Now I don't think he 758 00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:52.519 really gained too much popularity, and I don't think I got any more excited 759 00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:59.000 from a true sense. But Placios is a command guy. He has some 760 00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:02.400 really good outings, racked up a few f QoS. I had found a 761 00:55:02.440 --> 00:55:08.920 friend about a pitching selection last year and they had suggested Placios as being a 762 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:13.400 guy who's stuffed, you know, might not be you know, top shelf, 763 00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:20.039 but the command is definitely major league quality to perhaps like plus plus. 764 00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:22.840 Now, I did watch a handful of outings of Placios last year, and 765 00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:30.559 I thought the command was kind of inconsistent. The execution overall was pretty inconsistent. 766 00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:32.760 When he when he was on, he was really on, and then 767 00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:38.159 when he wasn't he was okay execution wise. But he's a guy who needs 768 00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:45.000 to be better than okay, I think, to find success, but still 769 00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:46.920 a guy. And then I kind of got my eye on a little bit. 770 00:55:47.079 --> 00:55:51.559 I know that I did use him as kind of a cherry on top 771 00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:55.239 of a few trades in larger leagues. I think that he, like that 772 00:55:55.440 --> 00:56:00.440 sort of stat line is sort of what I worry about for ooster you know, 773 00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:05.559 like goes up, continues to not walk guys, but stops missing bats 774 00:56:05.559 --> 00:56:08.800 and gets real fringy, real fast. So I just like looking at their 775 00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:13.039 lines, you know, he's like a level ahead, and I wonder if 776 00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:15.239 that that might be what we see out of Osterberg. Yeah, I think 777 00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:19.360 that's uh, I think that's spot on. But then this year, what 778 00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:22.880 you got an armed for this year? Yeah, I'm not excited about it. 779 00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:27.440 I mean I watched a good number of their starters and I was just 780 00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:32.000 not impressed. Like either they had some love from somebody else or I came 781 00:56:32.039 --> 00:56:38.559 away pretty underwhelmed. I'm gonna pick another reliever because I think this guy is 782 00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:43.840 going to be a potentially like back of the bullpen reliever, maybe as soon 783 00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:46.440 as this year. You know, was sort of excited about this guy. 784 00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:51.920 Anthony Maldonado. He's a twenty five year old relief pitcher made it up to 785 00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:58.159 Triple A. His calling card is just an absolutely disgusting slider. He threw 786 00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:00.760 it a lot. I forget the percentages, but he threw it a lot. 787 00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:04.880 And he also has a cutter. Struck out forty percent of batters this 788 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:08.960 year, walked almost eleven, but still barely gave up any runs because anytime 789 00:57:08.960 --> 00:57:12.400 anybody was on base, he would just go slider, slider, cutter, 790 00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:16.719 and just strike whoever was up out. It was It's like nasty. One 791 00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:20.960 of the best sliders that I saw major leagues or minor leagues this year. 792 00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:23.199 It is very, very good, and so I'm pretty confident he's going to 793 00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:27.280 be a high leverage relie. Where he's on there forty man, I would 794 00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:30.960 not be surprised if he's in the seventh inning as soon as next year for 795 00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:34.519 them, maybe even the eight. Yeah, the fastball wasn't as good as 796 00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.119 you would expect from someone who can run it up there a little bit. 797 00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:43.280 But I just think watching these triple A hitters just flail at this slider in 798 00:57:43.320 --> 00:57:45.880 this cutter, it was like, Yeah, this is a plus plus pitch, 799 00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:50.360 and he leans on it enough that I think he's going to be a 800 00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:54.519 real have a real shot to be like closer or setup man like it's it's 801 00:57:54.559 --> 00:58:00.880 that good. I watched Monteverde, who I think has some love your Controverde, 802 00:58:00.920 --> 00:58:05.079 and it's okay. He had a pretty good year and ended up in 803 00:58:05.119 --> 00:58:08.639 double A, but again wasn't super excited about it. I also watched Ike 804 00:58:08.719 --> 00:58:15.119 Buxton and he was a kind of short king that I couldn't get behind. 805 00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:20.599 I just didn't think he had enough to put it all together. So yeah, 806 00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:24.239 I ended up being underwhelmed by this B side hunting ground system. I 807 00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:29.320 don't know, did you find anything good here? I agree that the Marlins 808 00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:32.360 was a bit underwhelming, maybe more than a bit. I think they're in 809 00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:38.280 an organization that if you look at the top end pitching prospects, you're not 810 00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:43.119 getting a good look at the whole system because it's very different. There's a 811 00:58:43.159 --> 00:58:46.039 lot of soft tossers in here. But I did, I did have a 812 00:58:46.199 --> 00:58:52.239 clear cut favorite kind of ran away with it. And even though you weren't 813 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:55.119 perhaps as big of a fan, I liked Ike Buxton. Oh you did, 814 00:58:55.320 --> 00:59:00.760 okay, it did? It did well. He was a fourteenth round 815 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:05.440 no excuse me, a fifteenth round pick out of lipscumb In twenty twenty two, 816 00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:08.960 did we talk about a lipscumb pitcher Gilfoyle was from Lipscomb first and then 817 00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:15.119 to Kentucky. That's right, that's right. So Buckston listed at six three 818 00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:19.320 two eight and he's twenty three years old. Now I think he was twenty 819 00:59:19.360 --> 00:59:22.000 two for most of the season. But he strikes me as a guy kind 820 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:25.679 of starting to take off. I think. I don't know if it's pro 821 00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:30.480 coaching or things he's found on his own, but I can't help but wonder 822 00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:32.880 if he's in the phase of learning how to use and command some of his 823 00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:37.320 maybe some new weapons. Now obviously I don't know what he threw in college, 824 00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:40.199 so I can't, like, you know, totally say that. But 825 00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:45.519 his like Atlantic Sun numbers were all pretty middling. He's got some pretty easy 826 00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:51.920 looking velocity. It gets up to ninety five ninety six. He was at 827 00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:54.280 three levels this year, started in a high A, and then got I 828 00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:58.119 think one double A start at the end of the year. Yeah, remember 829 00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:00.880 correctly. So we get a little bit of stack casts from down in the 830 01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:07.239 fsl His four seamer average ninety three point one. Down there, they labeled 831 01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:13.440 a sinker that averaged ninety three point three. That a slider curveball. I've 832 01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:19.039 wondered about the slider and curveball. The velocities are are pretty similar and the 833 01:00:19.119 --> 01:00:24.360 movement profiles. Now I've seen slider and curveball called for separate pitches. I 834 01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:29.480 don't know. I have a lot of questions there. I think one of 835 01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:32.519 one of my notes is that I thought the slider and curveball blended together. 836 01:00:32.639 --> 01:00:37.239 Like I wasn't sure if it was two pitches or one very much, very 837 01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:42.480 much, but I did people like different signs going down A three, and 838 01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:47.760 the curveball definitely seemed to have more downward action. But like I said, 839 01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:53.800 the velocities were pretty similar. They labeled some cutters and I don't know entirely 840 01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:59.719 about that. And then I did see him tossing some changeups along the way, 841 01:00:59.719 --> 01:01:04.119 but but not very many down and a ball. His sinker was getting 842 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:08.880 forty point seven percent csw a thirty nine point four percent on the curveball. 843 01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:15.360 One thing that was kind of interesting with Buckston was that his walks he went 844 01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:21.440 from fifteen point six percent and a ball to ten point one percent in high 845 01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:28.800 A. Would you like to see his strike percentage went up as he moved 846 01:01:28.880 --> 01:01:36.400 up. I'm just curious, just wondering if he's just calibrating some new weaponry 847 01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:43.000 or some sharper weapons. The video I quite dug the breaking ball fastball combinations, 848 01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:45.880 even if they're inconsistencies in the breaking balls or what have you. He 849 01:01:45.960 --> 01:01:51.719 didn't strike me, And maybe there were some moments, there were some times 850 01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:54.800 where the command the execution would get away, but he didn't strike me as 851 01:01:54.840 --> 01:02:00.440 a guy who I mean, he was spotting pictures on different as to the 852 01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:04.320 plate, putting balls where they were called for executing his plan. I felt 853 01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:07.599 like at a pretty nice clip at times. The guy, what I felt 854 01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:10.119 like, was just just kind of improving. As I think we get a 855 01:02:10.199 --> 01:02:15.559 very different different feel from early in the season outing till later on. He 856 01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:20.920 did get seventeen and two thirds innings in the AFL this year, where he 857 01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:24.119 struck out nineteen, but the walks creeped up some there he walked ten, 858 01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:29.559 But I mean, not the only pitcher who's kind of struggle in the AFL, 859 01:02:29.559 --> 01:02:32.199 and who knows what he may or may not have been working on there 860 01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:37.880 now. Obviously the walks and he did hit some guys too, will be 861 01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:39.920 a thing, you know, And part of some of this too is I 862 01:02:40.519 --> 01:02:45.440 do think that he's a guy who's challenging himself. I did see him stick 863 01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:49.239 with some pitches, particularly with the breaking ball when he didn't quite have the 864 01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:52.119 greatest feel for them, and throwing them and counts. You know, you 865 01:02:52.719 --> 01:02:55.960 gotta have some cherries to stick with. He may very well be in Double 866 01:02:57.000 --> 01:03:00.599 A next year and we'll get a much better idea Buckston's got something for real 867 01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:05.320 or not. Yeah, that does make sense to me. And if he's 868 01:03:05.519 --> 01:03:09.519 really committing to working on stuff, then maybe that helps explain my big problem 869 01:03:09.519 --> 01:03:14.119 with him, which was that I thought the command was pretty bad, like 870 01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:19.480 he would just miss way off the plate with a pitch that he was going 871 01:03:19.519 --> 01:03:22.800 for, like yank a slider down in a way, or I saw him 872 01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:25.239 bounce a change up on one of the outings, and maybe that just turned 873 01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:29.599 me off a bit, And so maybe I was reading a bit more into 874 01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:35.000 his higher walk rates. So I think definitely I could definitely see him being 875 01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:37.360 the type. It's like, well, it kind of depends on when you 876 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:40.239 catch him. Yeah, yeah, that might be true. But you know, 877 01:03:40.320 --> 01:03:45.199 jump jumping three levels in a season ain't too shabby, and he's actually 878 01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:50.679 actually guy dominated. Yeah No, no, I don't think so. You 879 01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:52.159 know, he does get the ground balls, which I do like, and 880 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:58.400 that that's one thing about when he missed often it was low and so like, 881 01:03:58.559 --> 01:04:00.760 yeah, it's a ball, and you miss with your command, but 882 01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:04.400 you're not getting hammered with that. And so yeah, your guys major, 883 01:04:04.480 --> 01:04:09.840 you know, yeah, yeah, sixty point seven percent ground ball rate and 884 01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:14.760 a ball fifty seven and a half percent in the high A really good yeah, 885 01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:17.440 yeah yeah, And if he can keep that up, then then maybe 886 01:04:18.119 --> 01:04:23.719 I could talk myself into it. And you know, his swinging strike rate 887 01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:29.400 at HIA was only ten point four percent, so that's like a little fringy, 888 01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:31.960 especially at that level. You'd want to see a little bit more than 889 01:04:32.039 --> 01:04:34.599 that. But again, if he got a lot of ground balls, and 890 01:04:34.679 --> 01:04:38.440 if he can keep doing that at double A when he starts there next year, 891 01:04:38.559 --> 01:04:42.119 maybe there is something here. All things consider this, this was a 892 01:04:42.199 --> 01:04:46.400 much more exciting set of ingredients. Maybe maybe the whole the whole cake ad 893 01:04:46.480 --> 01:04:51.440 here, but there was more exciting ingredients here than I think anybody else from 894 01:04:51.480 --> 01:04:58.599 me, all right, the Washington Nationals, I mean history wise here, 895 01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:02.639 I kind of just stuck with my guy Israel Pineda for several years, and 896 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:06.760 I think it's still very much a B side as selection. And he's a 897 01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:11.719 guy who actually has had a couple of coffee in the major leagues. It's 898 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:16.360 forty. Man, He's a nice example of someone who cut k rates along 899 01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:19.159 the way. He's got a lot of power. I think he's pretty good 900 01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:26.320 defensively, has a cannon. Might have a chance maybe maybe. Last season 901 01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:31.079 I picked Pablo el Donis as our arm, and I'm gonna double up and 902 01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:34.440 just do it again this year, even though I don't even know if he's 903 01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:42.159 going to pitch this year. But man, this system for arms might Yeah, 904 01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:45.280 this this was the worst. This was like that was not good. 905 01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:51.800 Nobody throws hard and even even and like not that that has to is the 906 01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:57.760 end all be all, but even the like just not even anyone that interesting. 907 01:05:57.960 --> 01:06:02.679 I mean after after what like Mitchell Parker in their system, it's it's 908 01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:06.719 rough. Man. I was gonna go with the first year player guy who 909 01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:11.079 was like two hundred and sixty pounds and throws like eighty nine miles per hour 910 01:06:11.119 --> 01:06:15.880 and maybe has a breaking ball. Nice. I was just saying, I 911 01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:19.000 don't I don't want to do that. This was tough, Yeah, yeah, 912 01:06:19.039 --> 01:06:23.920 it was tough. So I just quickly Pablodonis. I talked about a 913 01:06:23.960 --> 01:06:27.920 little bit last year. He was actually kind of a higher brow signing of 914 01:06:27.960 --> 01:06:32.480 their international at twenty nineteen. I think this year he only logged five starts 915 01:06:32.519 --> 01:06:36.719 before getting shut down, and I think it was Tommy John. So you 916 01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:43.199 know that puts next year in question. He's left. He throws fastball in 917 01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:45.480 the low nineties, a bit of a short arm action, change up slider 918 01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:49.079 arsenal that he does play around his own. I think pretty well. He 919 01:06:49.159 --> 01:06:56.000 did have a really nice start on May fifth versus down East, five innings, 920 01:06:56.039 --> 01:07:00.280 gave up two hits, did have three walks, struck out eight through 921 01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:02.920 strikes at sixty five percent. I mean, very small sample size, and 922 01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:05.800 the very small sample size that I got to see of him in a ball 923 01:07:05.880 --> 01:07:10.440 last season that got me intrigued, but felt like a young one at that 924 01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:14.920 time. He was twenty years old. Execution plus stuff marriage that I was 925 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:18.559 much more interested in than than anyone else. And that's that's pretty much remains 926 01:07:18.599 --> 01:07:24.480 the story. He'll still be even if he misses all of this year. 927 01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:28.239 He'll be still only be twenty three years old in twenty twenty four. But 928 01:07:28.280 --> 01:07:30.559 I don't know that that was the best I could do for an arm here. 929 01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:33.880 Yeah, I'm with you. This was a sad state of affairs. 930 01:07:34.199 --> 01:07:38.880 I couldn't even get excited about the Reliever guys. You know, yeah, 931 01:07:39.639 --> 01:07:44.880 all right, I'm what's what's the philosophy here? Like, what's the theory? 932 01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:49.840 You want to tell? Yah? What They've drafted a bunch of like 933 01:07:50.280 --> 01:07:56.719 quote unquote big time stuff guys who might have some injury concerns in like Mason 934 01:07:56.760 --> 01:08:01.639 Denniberg and Jackson Rutledge from the last couple of years. Avali like probably is 935 01:08:01.679 --> 01:08:04.719 going to figure it out. Like I think he might have a really great 936 01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:09.320 year, but again that's on the higher end side of things. I love. 937 01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:13.119 Yeah, I think he's great and it might be the one that really 938 01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:17.800 puts it all together. Like DJ Hurs had an interesting year, but I'm 939 01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:21.880 a little worried about the walks with him, Like fourteen percent at double A. 940 01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:27.199 I'm just like, that is not owe well and he's beyond our threshold 941 01:08:27.239 --> 01:08:30.600 here. Yeah, for sure, for sure, I'm just saying the organization 942 01:08:30.640 --> 01:08:33.279 as a whole. And you know, Mitchell Parker, like you and I 943 01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:36.960 talked a little bit about him a while back and there are some things to 944 01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:41.840 like there, you know, twenty eight percent strikeouts. I saw some outings 945 01:08:41.840 --> 01:08:45.439 where the walks did look under control, but eleven percent on the year for 946 01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:49.920 a guy without elite stuff, I'm like, that's he's going to be walking 947 01:08:49.920 --> 01:08:54.319 a fine line. But you know, I could see those guys turning into 948 01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:59.000 a fifth, sixth, seventh depth kind of starter, but I'm not pumped 949 01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:02.000 about it. And both of them, I think are beyond our thresholds that 950 01:09:02.039 --> 01:09:08.520 we usually we usually use. I wanted to like Zach Bricksy. I think 951 01:09:08.520 --> 01:09:11.640 it's how you say it. I wanted to say Brizicky, because that's I've 952 01:09:11.640 --> 01:09:15.359 got a cousin. Some cousins name Brizicky, but it's spelled slightly differently, 953 01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:18.720 and I think it's Bricksy. Zach Bricksy. He's a reliever at Triple A 954 01:09:18.920 --> 01:09:23.640 for them, and I think is going to see the big leagues maybe again 955 01:09:23.680 --> 01:09:27.880 as soon as next year. But I couldn't really talk myself into that either, 956 01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:31.840 so I don't know. It was not good. And so I picked 957 01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:38.279 Andrew Alvarez, who like all the things, all the crap stuff I said 958 01:09:38.279 --> 01:09:43.319 about Osterberg all apply to him. You know, he's a soft toss and 959 01:09:43.399 --> 01:09:47.039 lefty who hits his spots for the most part, gets a decent number of 960 01:09:47.039 --> 01:09:50.720 ground balls, doesn't strike out that many people. But it just is it's 961 01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:56.600 so mid as the kids say that, I really couldn't get behind it. 962 01:09:56.800 --> 01:10:00.920 At best, he's like a depth guy, I think. I think the 963 01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:05.159 I saw a couple of his starts that were quite good, and I still 964 01:10:05.680 --> 01:10:10.760 came away thinking like, yeah, okay, Like he had this start at 965 01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:15.239 Tampa Bay's hi A affiliate, his last start at hi A eight innings, 966 01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:18.840 eleven strikeouts, no hits, two walks, so like sounds like a really 967 01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:26.800 great start, and it was, but he didn't get a strikeout until like 968 01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:30.079 the third inning, I think he got one, and then he got ten 969 01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:33.479 strikeouts over the last five innings, so like, I don't know, it 970 01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:36.399 was such a weird start, and it was a bunch of like soft contact 971 01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:42.560 groundouts and stuff. It was sort of a weird outing. And then you 972 01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:46.399 know, he had a good start in Double A against reading and five and 973 01:10:46.439 --> 01:10:50.640 two thirds, five hits, no walks, seven strikeouts. But I just 974 01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:56.720 like, it seems like he's walking a tightrope and I'm basically saying, prove 975 01:10:56.760 --> 01:11:00.720 it, Like show you can make this profile work, because unlike some of 976 01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:03.479 the other guys, I'm men. I guess this was the thing that I 977 01:11:03.560 --> 01:11:06.680 liked. At HIA, he had a fifty seven percent ground ball rate, 978 01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:13.600 but at double A, which was five games, four starts a decent sample, 979 01:11:13.640 --> 01:11:16.760 it was only forty five percent, and his swinging strike rate dropped to 980 01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:20.600 eight point two percent. And so to me, like those kinds of guys, 981 01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:26.560 like the Osterbergs, the Andrew Alvarez is like, if they really aren't 982 01:11:26.880 --> 01:11:29.720 hammering the ball in the ground and they're not getting a lot of whiffs, 983 01:11:29.840 --> 01:11:34.079 and there's like a fringe if there's fringe stuff, this is what I worry 984 01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:38.359 about, is that they get to a higher level. Yeah, they can 985 01:11:38.399 --> 01:11:42.079 get some grounders, but forty five percent is closer to league average. And 986 01:11:42.079 --> 01:11:45.279 if you're not whiffing, if you're not getting strikeouts, you're just not gonna 987 01:11:45.359 --> 01:11:49.199 have much success, you know, Like you'll have the outings where all those 988 01:11:49.239 --> 01:11:55.000 grounders go into people's gloves and the line drives turn into soft fly balls and 989 01:11:55.279 --> 01:12:00.119 those are caught. But year in or day in, day out, success 990 01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:02.600 so hard to come by for those kinds of guys. So I'm pretty there 991 01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:06.479 are like a bunch of red flags for his profile already, and this was 992 01:12:06.520 --> 01:12:11.560 like the best I could do. I'm just I was not a fan. 993 01:12:12.279 --> 01:12:16.840 The only theory that I could think of the Nationals had some coach or some 994 01:12:16.920 --> 01:12:21.159 program or something where they're like, I know how to add five miles of 995 01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:28.119 velocity to all these guys' fastballs, and then he just didn't deliver. Yeah, 996 01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:31.680 it's probably unlikely that he was listening to our wonderful pod. But I 997 01:12:31.760 --> 01:12:36.760 did know the one of the development directors for the minor leagues for the Gnats 998 01:12:36.800 --> 01:12:40.680 for a while, and when I lived out in DC, we had some 999 01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:44.079 mutual friends, and I knew a couple of books that worked at the work 1000 01:12:44.119 --> 01:12:45.439 for the Nats, and so ran in some of those same circles, and 1001 01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:49.119 I had talked with them a couple of times about their organizational philosophy. And 1002 01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:53.479 I think this might have been around the time they drafted Denniburgh. Was that 1003 01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:59.800 like twenty eighteen nineteen sounds about right, Yeah, And he was like gushing 1004 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:02.479 about Dennaburg. And then I knew a couple of the guys in the system 1005 01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:08.479 from playing with them. It was a very, very highly touted prep prep 1006 01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:12.039 arm Yeah, and and they got him kind of late in the draft because 1007 01:13:12.079 --> 01:13:15.159 he I think heard or something like he floated down way farther in the draft 1008 01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:18.600 than anyone thought coming into it. And so he was gushing about him, 1009 01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:25.000 and he had talked about how they were like all in on developing pictures. 1010 01:13:25.319 --> 01:13:28.600 You know, this is the time they had Schuzer and Strasbourg and Corbin as 1011 01:13:28.720 --> 01:13:31.840 like their ace guys who were going to be around for a really long time, 1012 01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:36.920 and that they were learning from them and applying those same principles in their 1013 01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:41.600 minor leagues. And it just like I had this conversation with this guy and 1014 01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:43.520 I was like, oh, it's super interesting, Like what sorts of things 1015 01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:45.319 you're doing. It's like, I can't tell you, but you watch these 1016 01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:49.560 guys, they're gonna come out. And then there haven't developed a pitcher since 1017 01:13:50.079 --> 01:13:54.880 And so I kind of wonder if you're right that they had somebody who was 1018 01:13:54.920 --> 01:13:59.479 in charge of that, like their minor league groving pitching coordinator or something higher 1019 01:13:59.560 --> 01:14:03.520 up, even that they were like this is our pitching philosophy and it just 1020 01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:12.399 really come together. Yeah, no more Nationals pitching prospect talk. Yeah, 1021 01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:19.760 yeah, now that's I also didn't have the greatest time. Agreed, it's 1022 01:14:19.880 --> 01:14:26.279 back. There were two kind of first base types, maybe maybe one of 1023 01:14:26.319 --> 01:14:30.439 them placed third base that were a little bit interesting to me, Murphy Staley 1024 01:14:30.600 --> 01:14:35.279 and Blake Glassen. But both of those guys are corner infield bats that I 1025 01:14:35.319 --> 01:14:40.199 think I liked enough. But they don't hit for power at all, So 1026 01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:47.000 good good luck with that. Back to the Nationals catcher prospect bucket here, 1027 01:14:47.159 --> 01:14:54.920 I liked what I saw from Maxwell Romero Junior. There wasn't a ton to 1028 01:14:54.960 --> 01:14:59.199 see, yeah, because he went from the Complex to a ball he was 1029 01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:02.359 hey, other Miami Hurricane here. He was a ninth round pick in the 1030 01:15:02.399 --> 01:15:08.079 twenty twenty two draft. So left handed catcher, uh, listed at six 1031 01:15:08.239 --> 01:15:13.000 one two eighteen. I think I'll take the over on that. Yeah. 1032 01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:15.479 Uh, he's got a little he's got a little jiggle in the mid mid 1033 01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:21.119 section. But yeah, so this year he loved nine Complex games and then 1034 01:15:21.199 --> 01:15:26.239 fifty four A ball games. I know he did have a hamstring injury that 1035 01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:29.399 caused him to miss some time after he had gotten to a ball, but 1036 01:15:29.439 --> 01:15:33.479 two hundred and fifty seven played appearances, seven home runs, pull the ball 1037 01:15:33.560 --> 01:15:38.359 fifty four point seven percent of the time. He ended up hitting two sixty 1038 01:15:38.399 --> 01:15:43.920 eight four twelve four twenty four, one fifty six ISO. He walked seventeen 1039 01:15:43.960 --> 01:15:45.680 point nine percent of the time. Mat I know you like that, right 1040 01:15:45.960 --> 01:15:49.920 I do. But he did strike out twenty six point eight percent of the 1041 01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:53.760 time. I don't. But with the power that he showed, like, 1042 01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:57.479 it's not egregious. I mean, you'd like it to be a little bit 1043 01:15:57.520 --> 01:16:01.199 lower at a ball, but it's not like I wouldn't write him off at 1044 01:16:01.199 --> 01:16:04.560 this stage because of that. Just you know, he showed some other stage 1045 01:16:05.079 --> 01:16:10.239 it was good for a one two w RC plus. Now I happen to 1046 01:16:10.640 --> 01:16:14.239 like the look of his left handed swing. There's a lot of strength there 1047 01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:18.560 and I thought he transferred it pretty well. I had mentioned during the hitter 1048 01:16:18.680 --> 01:16:23.840 draft about Baldwin hitting the walkoff home run I had crossed streams. There was 1049 01:16:23.960 --> 01:16:29.119 Max Romero Junior that hit this massive home run that I had seen. Now 1050 01:16:29.239 --> 01:16:33.439 I'll post a video of that. Good still had pretty efficient looking the splits 1051 01:16:33.439 --> 01:16:36.920 aren't pretty. Hitting lefties might be might be a thing for him. He 1052 01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:43.600 had just one sixty seven against lefties, select only two thirty three. But 1053 01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:47.399 we're talking it's well it's only it's only twenty four plate appearances, but not 1054 01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:51.359 the most encouraging sign. Now, I picked a catcher, and I have 1055 01:16:51.640 --> 01:16:59.039 no idea if he's any good defensively. I'd imagine he's probably not horrible as 1056 01:16:59.119 --> 01:17:02.600 a ninth round pick, but what do I know. Max Romero Junior just 1057 01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:05.560 kind of a bat that I wanted to flag here and take a look at 1058 01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:09.720 start next year. I like it. He's an interesting one. I didn't 1059 01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:14.039 watch any of him in pro ball, but I do think I saw a 1060 01:17:14.039 --> 01:17:17.560 little bit of him at Miami the year before. Was he is he like? 1061 01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:24.079 Is he a catcher? Catcher? I don't remember. I don't remember. 1062 01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:29.760 I remember like watching him hit more yeah, and thought that the power 1063 01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:31.640 was real. So it's nice to see that show up. I think he 1064 01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:34.119 had a remember him having a pretty good year. I think he was a 1065 01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:39.119 transfer from Vandy maybe, and then he kind of he kind of had a 1066 01:17:39.159 --> 01:17:42.640 solid year for Miami that year. That team was pretty good. I don't 1067 01:17:42.640 --> 01:17:46.159 know this two oh fastball that he hit like it went very far, Matt 1068 01:17:46.720 --> 01:17:50.560 Yeah, yeah, I think I think there might be some some hard hit 1069 01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:56.000 in his swing here. Nice. I like that. I'm gonna watch some 1070 01:17:56.039 --> 01:17:59.840 of the some of his video and brush up on him. But I remember 1071 01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:03.760 being someone I was semi interested in in fypds last year. He was a 1072 01:18:03.760 --> 01:18:08.600 deeper cut but nice that he had a decent year. Yeah, okay, 1073 01:18:08.640 --> 01:18:14.039 So two guys that I considered Darren Baker and Trey Lipscomb, and I'm gonna 1074 01:18:14.039 --> 01:18:18.279 tell you neither of them is exciting. They both did okay this year. 1075 01:18:18.600 --> 01:18:24.920 I think Baker made it up to triple A, stole twenty one. Bags 1076 01:18:25.359 --> 01:18:29.199 played a couple positions. I think he played second and outfield. Doesn't track 1077 01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:31.279 out very much, but has no power. My notes on his swing are 1078 01:18:31.319 --> 01:18:35.720 like, ugh, the swing is awful. It's geared for slap singles and 1079 01:18:35.800 --> 01:18:41.199 ground balls. But I thought maybe he's gonna be a utility guy with the 1080 01:18:41.279 --> 01:18:45.640 speed and the multipositionality. But I just could not get excited about that two 1081 01:18:45.680 --> 01:18:50.760 eighty four, three forty nine, three forty nine triple slash good for eighty 1082 01:18:50.800 --> 01:18:56.119 one WRC plus. Like, you know, we can forgive some guys for 1083 01:18:56.560 --> 01:18:59.560 not hitting homers. He only had three on the year in four hundred and 1084 01:18:59.560 --> 01:19:03.239 seventy nine and played appearances. He also only had eleven doubles in that time, 1085 01:19:03.560 --> 01:19:09.760 Like, whoof that ISO is like six z or something like, it's 1086 01:19:09.880 --> 01:19:13.640 not good. There's not enough power here. I don't think he becomes a 1087 01:19:13.720 --> 01:19:15.640 regular because of it, Like even if he has a great glove, like 1088 01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:18.960 this is just a really tough look. And then Trey Lipskumb, he made 1089 01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:24.199 it enough to double a again playing a little bit all around. He's kind 1090 01:19:24.199 --> 01:19:27.800 of more year kind of guy in that he only walked four point nine percent 1091 01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:30.279 of the time but only struck out eighteen point eight percent of the time. 1092 01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:33.079 He's like up there to make contact and swing two seventy two, three eleven 1093 01:19:33.239 --> 01:19:36.880 four, nineteen triple slash for him, good for a ninety eight WRC plus. 1094 01:19:36.920 --> 01:19:41.319 I'm just still not really in like it's probably a corner guy, even 1095 01:19:41.319 --> 01:19:44.359 though he did play some short stop this year. I mean, he did 1096 01:19:44.399 --> 01:19:46.760 play all around. But it's interesting her already sliding him over to first base 1097 01:19:46.840 --> 01:19:49.439 like it was glove is that good? Like why is he playing first base? 1098 01:19:49.520 --> 01:19:54.159 It's not like you have to have that triple slash in the lineup, 1099 01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:58.680 you know. So the thing that stood out to me when I watched Lipskam 1100 01:19:58.880 --> 01:20:02.159 was the swing scene soft, like you see him really trying gear up for 1101 01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:04.640 a ball and it just like, oh, it's like you hit it with 1102 01:20:04.680 --> 01:20:10.279 a wet newspaper. You know, I don't know. I was pretty underwhelmed, 1103 01:20:10.319 --> 01:20:13.960 like kind of comparing him to a guy like Caleb Durban who's tiny, 1104 01:20:14.079 --> 01:20:15.520 and you see him swing out of his ass and then he makes contact, 1105 01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:18.520 You're like, oh, he actually hit that ball pretty square. Like I 1106 01:20:18.560 --> 01:20:24.920 saw Lipscomb swing really hard and seemingly barrel the ball and it's like a soft, 1107 01:20:25.319 --> 01:20:28.359 sinking line drive into the left center gap, you know what I mean. 1108 01:20:28.479 --> 01:20:30.239 I was just like, that is not great. Although he did hit 1109 01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:34.680 for a lot more power, certainly than Baker twenty nine doubles and fourteen hommers 1110 01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:39.399 over a full season, it was still underwhelming, you know, Like push 1111 01:20:39.439 --> 01:20:43.800 comes to chev like he might be my selection. I would pick a first 1112 01:20:43.880 --> 01:20:46.399 year guy though here and kind of a pretty boy one too. You know, 1113 01:20:46.920 --> 01:20:50.199 we'll get into that do that at a future But I think he's just 1114 01:20:50.239 --> 01:20:55.000 being way underrated. Maybe Lipscomb just has a good arm, and maybe I 1115 01:20:55.000 --> 01:20:57.920 don't know what the hell I'm talking about, But let's not talk about the 1116 01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:02.119 Nationals. Let's not talk about the Nations anymore. Nice he done with that. 1117 01:21:02.520 --> 01:21:10.399 Yeah, the New York Mets not the greatest history here. Like I 1118 01:21:10.439 --> 01:21:14.000 went with Kevin Kendall a few years ago. I don't feel like it was 1119 01:21:14.319 --> 01:21:16.359 a bad hole. I feel like Kendall could play a little bit. It's 1120 01:21:16.439 --> 01:21:20.359 just kind of really unfortunate. He was a twenty twenty one seventh rounder out 1121 01:21:20.399 --> 01:21:26.039 of UCLA who just could not stay on the field. He played twenty eight 1122 01:21:26.119 --> 01:21:30.920 High A games this year after like not playing at all I don't think during 1123 01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:35.800 the twenty twenty two regular season. Then got in some af AFL games, 1124 01:21:35.840 --> 01:21:41.399 but they released them in November. The man played. He got sixty two 1125 01:21:41.439 --> 01:21:46.680 full season games in over three seasons, but twenty AFL games in in twenty 1126 01:21:46.720 --> 01:21:51.239 twenty. It was kind of unfortunate. Really sucks when you just don't get 1127 01:21:51.279 --> 01:21:55.520 to play. I don't know, maybe he pops up somewhere. Maybe now 1128 01:21:55.640 --> 01:21:59.039 I'm not gonna worry about it too much. And then last year for an 1129 01:21:59.199 --> 01:22:01.840 arm I went Withjeffrey Cologne. I don't think we need to worry about Jeffrey 1130 01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:05.760 Colone anymore. He had a nice little High A run to end twenty twenty 1131 01:22:05.760 --> 01:22:11.079 two, and I just don't think my man's got the stuff to get it 1132 01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:14.119 done, the Arsenal to get it done. He did not have a very 1133 01:22:14.119 --> 01:22:16.760 great year, and then the bat that I went with last year was Junior 1134 01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:20.840 Tillian, who got up to hi A. I kind of liked this player. 1135 01:22:21.000 --> 01:22:25.640 Now, I don't know if there's ever going to be enough offense to 1136 01:22:26.039 --> 01:22:30.319 really get Dynasty exciting, but I do think that he has a good glove. 1137 01:22:30.439 --> 01:22:32.920 I do think that he can hit the ball hard sometimes. Well let's 1138 01:22:32.920 --> 01:22:36.760 see, he hit two forty three, three twenty five, so i'd four 1139 01:22:36.840 --> 01:22:42.000 h six, struck out nineteen percent of the time, walked ten percent of 1140 01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:45.920 the time, but there was injuries. I kind of thought maybe he got 1141 01:22:45.000 --> 01:22:48.800 up to Hya and I think the first couple series he was there were kind 1142 01:22:48.840 --> 01:22:53.279 of nice. He popped a few home runs, but then he got hurt. 1143 01:22:53.439 --> 01:22:55.920 Only a lot of three hundred and sixty nine played appearances. I mean, 1144 01:22:55.920 --> 01:23:00.840 it was a pretty all in all, pretty middling offensive offense of performance 1145 01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:04.119 or production this year, but still only twenty years old. Maybe a guy 1146 01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:08.600 I'll keep a little bit of an eye on for this season. Will Freda 1147 01:23:08.680 --> 01:23:13.880 Laura was pretty much my pick from the get go. I did watch some 1148 01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:17.199 other bats, and I do think there are some interesting B side caliber bats 1149 01:23:17.239 --> 01:23:20.520 and the Mets system. The Mets system is kind of sneaky deep to me, 1150 01:23:20.840 --> 01:23:24.479 But we're not going to talk about Wilfreda Laura again. And then my 1151 01:23:24.600 --> 01:23:27.720 pitcher is actually going to be a first year player guy. And it's not 1152 01:23:27.800 --> 01:23:30.039 that there weren't some arms that I liked. I just really kind of like 1153 01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:34.840 this first year player and think that he very much was a B side category. 1154 01:23:34.920 --> 01:23:39.079 So what do you got, Matt Cool? Well, I'm a fan 1155 01:23:39.119 --> 01:23:43.760 of Laura too. I think he's really really good. I think of the 1156 01:23:44.079 --> 01:23:45.399 because I agree with you. I think there are some interesting bats here, 1157 01:23:45.399 --> 01:23:47.920 and I'll touch on a couple of them, but I think Laura's got the 1158 01:23:47.920 --> 01:23:54.760 most upside in this system of that B side caliber guy. You know, 1159 01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:59.279 he's quietly been league averager, a little bit better as a young for the 1160 01:23:59.359 --> 01:24:03.079 level at every stop so far. And I think he's quite interesting as a 1161 01:24:03.359 --> 01:24:06.399 like. I like his lady swing quite a bit. So I like that 1162 01:24:06.439 --> 01:24:10.600 pick and and I know we talked about him a bit. A couple other 1163 01:24:10.640 --> 01:24:14.920 guys that are interesting for different reasons. I mean, the Met's system is 1164 01:24:14.960 --> 01:24:17.399 pretty good. You know, they've made some high profile trades to bolster it. 1165 01:24:17.640 --> 01:24:23.159 But I credit to their dev teams too. They've developed quite a few 1166 01:24:23.159 --> 01:24:27.319 guys that kind of came out of nowhere, and especially on the pitching side, 1167 01:24:27.319 --> 01:24:30.680 which we'll talk a little bit about, but even on the hitting side, 1168 01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:34.159 a couple guys that I thought were interesting. Rowdy Jordan, twenty four 1169 01:24:34.279 --> 01:24:39.880 year old, made it up to double A. The plate skills seem solid, 1170 01:24:40.119 --> 01:24:42.960 you know, maybe not quite as much power as you'd hope for, 1171 01:24:43.119 --> 01:24:45.560 but I think he was like succumb to a little bit of babbit bad luck 1172 01:24:45.640 --> 01:24:50.800 this year and still put up a one oh five WRC plus again multipositional played 1173 01:24:50.840 --> 01:24:55.920 second, center field, and right field. Not the most eye popping line, 1174 01:24:56.039 --> 01:25:00.079 but thirteen homers and thirty steals and close to a full season. I 1175 01:25:00.119 --> 01:25:01.760 was like, eh, maybe this is something here. And watching him, 1176 01:25:01.800 --> 01:25:05.239 I was like I could squint and see a regular with a little bit of 1177 01:25:05.279 --> 01:25:09.439 development, probably not going to be good enough to be for play for Steve 1178 01:25:09.479 --> 01:25:13.680 Cohen, you know, he wants stars, not the role player that Jordan 1179 01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:17.000 might turn out to be. And another guy that I wanted to touch on 1180 01:25:17.199 --> 01:25:21.000 a bit and he my B side is Lara as well. Just to get 1181 01:25:21.000 --> 01:25:24.760 that out of the way. But the other guy that I liked enough to 1182 01:25:24.760 --> 01:25:29.520 talk about was Brandon McElwain. So he's got an interesting story. He was 1183 01:25:29.760 --> 01:25:34.520 a college quarterback and didn't play baseball full time until he was drafted, I 1184 01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:41.680 think, and has over the course of his career hasn't been great, but 1185 01:25:42.039 --> 01:25:44.960 he was an interesting enough one. You know, he's twenty five now, 1186 01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:49.680 but this is only his call it third year playing baseball like full time. 1187 01:25:49.840 --> 01:25:55.520 You know, obviously he played in college too, but he was okay in 1188 01:25:55.560 --> 01:26:00.000 his draft year at A ball and then had a decent stint at high end 1189 01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:03.479 in twenty twenty two last year. That took a bit of a dip in 1190 01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:06.600 when he got promoted to double A last year, but he started double against 1191 01:26:06.680 --> 01:26:12.079 or repeated it this year. Ran a two sixty three forty two three ninety 1192 01:26:12.079 --> 01:26:15.960 four triple slash good for one oh five WRC plus, and then got promoted 1193 01:26:15.000 --> 01:26:19.199 to Triple A and was even better. I mean, the line is worse, 1194 01:26:19.239 --> 01:26:23.000 but that's I think largely because the badup was worse. But he's hitting 1195 01:26:23.000 --> 01:26:26.840 for more power and stole more bases. So in half the plate appearances he 1196 01:26:27.000 --> 01:26:30.199 had five homers at Triple A as opposed to seven in double A. Again, 1197 01:26:30.239 --> 01:26:33.720 in half the plate appearances, he had eleven steals as opposed to nine 1198 01:26:33.800 --> 01:26:39.279 at double A. So he's getting better. And actually watched some of him 1199 01:26:39.359 --> 01:26:42.439 early in the year, late in the year and last year, and I 1200 01:26:42.439 --> 01:26:46.359 think he's changed his swing a little bit enough to like tap into his clear 1201 01:26:46.439 --> 01:26:50.760 athleticism and he's hitting for a lot more power. We got, you know, 1202 01:26:50.920 --> 01:26:54.920 triple A, so we had some exit Bulo data and his max EV 1203 01:26:55.199 --> 01:26:58.600 is one nine point five, which is good. Is that great? But 1204 01:26:58.640 --> 01:27:02.159 it's decent. And his average v's only eighty eight. But again, like 1205 01:27:02.199 --> 01:27:04.960 you could squint and say, like, this is a guy who's learning how 1206 01:27:05.000 --> 01:27:08.319 to hit. And I was pretty interested in him. I was like, 1207 01:27:08.520 --> 01:27:11.520 you know, fun story. Seems like he hasn't had many reps, so 1208 01:27:11.600 --> 01:27:15.039 he might be that kind of classic late bloomer. So it'll be interesting to 1209 01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:16.880 see him. You know, I don't expect stardom out of him, you 1210 01:27:16.920 --> 01:27:20.319 know, it's pretty late in his career, but serving as a fourth outfielder 1211 01:27:20.439 --> 01:27:23.720 or something like, I could see it, and he was sort of an 1212 01:27:23.760 --> 01:27:27.880 interesting story that I wanted to highlight as well. Yeah, nice, where 1213 01:27:27.880 --> 01:27:31.239 do you play cal? I think Okay, I don't watch football anymore, 1214 01:27:31.279 --> 01:27:35.079 so I seem to remember that was right as cal Yeah, and then there 1215 01:27:35.079 --> 01:27:41.520 are a couple of other hitters that I thought maybe there was something interesting there. 1216 01:27:41.720 --> 01:27:45.680 I think Jacob Rhymer Reamer. He's someone that other people have talked about 1217 01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:48.439 it a little bit, but I liked a little bit of what he did. 1218 01:27:48.199 --> 01:27:50.760 They have a ball, he does he hits them on the ground too 1219 01:27:50.840 --> 01:27:56.199 much, but the power seemed real. So I'm curious about his exit velos. 1220 01:27:56.239 --> 01:27:59.560 But decent plate skills too, you know, fifteen percent walk, twenty 1221 01:27:59.560 --> 01:28:01.319 percent s out like both of those things. And if you can hit the 1222 01:28:01.359 --> 01:28:04.199 ball in the air, especially as a nineteen year old, if he's twenty 1223 01:28:04.199 --> 01:28:06.239 in double end he learns to hit the ball in the air a little bit 1224 01:28:06.279 --> 01:28:10.800 like look out, that might be a guy who really explodes. Yeah, 1225 01:28:11.159 --> 01:28:13.840 you know, I liked a few guys in the system. I didn't really 1226 01:28:13.880 --> 01:28:17.319 like dive dive in on these guys with some names that stuck out to me 1227 01:28:17.399 --> 01:28:20.279 that maybe I want to pay attention to. And this this is kind of 1228 01:28:20.479 --> 01:28:26.439 a Jeff pondskuy. But Matt Ruddick, twenty four year old outfielder in Double 1229 01:28:26.479 --> 01:28:30.560 A who was only rostered at one percent. But he strikes me as a 1230 01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:33.119 guy that might have a chance at like a fourth outfielder or something like that. 1231 01:28:33.359 --> 01:28:38.520 Now I think he might have had a big injury though towards the end 1232 01:28:38.520 --> 01:28:41.119 of the season. Don't quote me on that, but I don't know when 1233 01:28:41.159 --> 01:28:45.119 we'll see him next. There was a catcher in Able, nineteen year old. 1234 01:28:45.359 --> 01:28:48.439 I think he was a catcher, Ronald Hernandez that I don't think there 1235 01:28:48.479 --> 01:28:51.760 was very much to watch, but he was interested. I thought maybe you 1236 01:28:51.840 --> 01:28:56.279 might bring him up because he walked twenty three percent of the time and struck 1237 01:28:56.279 --> 01:28:59.960 out only twenty one point seven percent of the time. Stanley Kin say, 1238 01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:03.159 I know it is a name that some folks have brought up before he hit 1239 01:29:03.199 --> 01:29:08.560 twenty three home runs. He's down in the lowers and he's striking out twenty 1240 01:29:08.600 --> 01:29:11.560 seven point six percent of the time. I did watch a little bit of 1241 01:29:11.680 --> 01:29:15.199 him. Now I get that he might have some more home run potential than 1242 01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:20.920 like a Laura, but not nearly as confident in his in his plate approach 1243 01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:26.319 and skills and swing. Really, I tend to agree. I watched a 1244 01:29:26.319 --> 01:29:29.039 bit of him. I picked him up in the league. I think after 1245 01:29:29.119 --> 01:29:32.560 Clegg had seen him and said this might be an interesting flyer, and I 1246 01:29:32.680 --> 01:29:39.119 was on impress that the plate skills were very, very fringy, bordering on 1247 01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:44.600 bad, but the powers powers decent. Yeah. Yeah, there's a teenager 1248 01:29:45.439 --> 01:29:50.079 Yoharo suade Us that I don't there might not have been anything to watch on 1249 01:29:50.119 --> 01:29:54.920 the archives, but I put him down as a name to watch early next 1250 01:29:55.000 --> 01:29:59.119 year. I hit six home runs, stole thirteen bases in like one hundred 1251 01:29:59.119 --> 01:30:00.680 and eighty one. Played a pain and says J. T. Schwartz, 1252 01:30:00.760 --> 01:30:03.520 I don't know if it was like a fourth round pick of theirs not too 1253 01:30:03.560 --> 01:30:08.239 long ago. But he's like a first basement it doesn't hit home runs. 1254 01:30:08.600 --> 01:30:11.319 He had four all season. He gets to the AFL and he hits like 1255 01:30:11.359 --> 01:30:15.680 two home runs right away, and people started chatting about him, like, 1256 01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:19.960 dude, he just had half a season where he he did that four times. 1257 01:30:20.039 --> 01:30:26.199 Man Like, he's not a home run hitter. Again, just just 1258 01:30:26.239 --> 01:30:30.199 some guys I want to watch. And then there I had four other arms 1259 01:30:30.199 --> 01:30:32.239 on my short list here. I don't know if you watch any of these 1260 01:30:32.279 --> 01:30:35.920 guys. Cameron Foster and now he was a twenty four year old in hig 1261 01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:41.119 A but just kind of I watched an outing or two of his, and 1262 01:30:41.760 --> 01:30:45.720 I kind of thought I had a good look. In Arsenal numbers were barely 1263 01:30:45.760 --> 01:30:49.359 middling nine point four to one k prinine three point four to three walk per 1264 01:30:49.439 --> 01:30:55.159 nine did log like eighty one eighty four inn or excuse me, eighty two 1265 01:30:55.239 --> 01:30:59.720 innings. Robert Kalina, he was in double A at twenty two years old, 1266 01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:03.680 las velocity, but was still still came over ten to nine. He's 1267 01:31:03.720 --> 01:31:09.279 a little interesting. And then two guys that did not have might not even 1268 01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:13.479 had an outing, but two guys of martyr is that I want to watch 1269 01:31:13.560 --> 01:31:17.680 Felipe de la Cruz and Douglas orana O r E L L A n A. 1270 01:31:18.199 --> 01:31:21.520 Okay, I don't think I watched any of those guys. Yeah, 1271 01:31:21.199 --> 01:31:25.600 yeah, but I feel like the Mets always have some interesting arms they do. 1272 01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:28.800 This is something I think they do really well, you know, like 1273 01:31:29.000 --> 01:31:32.039 they Christian Scott kind of came out of nowhere, like had a fine year 1274 01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:35.000 last year. But I want that guy. I want that guy to be 1275 01:31:35.039 --> 01:31:39.279 able to put on the innings. Man, he's good. I agree, 1276 01:31:39.439 --> 01:31:43.079 he's really good. I mean I stretched it out to eighty seven and two 1277 01:31:43.079 --> 01:31:46.840 thirds this year and like thirty strikes, three point six percent walks, Like, 1278 01:31:47.079 --> 01:31:53.239 sign me up, dude. That was that was a great, great 1279 01:31:53.279 --> 01:31:58.119 example of a good filter find early in the year, just filter some stats. 1280 01:31:58.520 --> 01:32:00.159 He was one of like three or four names that popped up put on 1281 01:32:00.359 --> 01:32:05.439 some video and I was like, oh, yeah, that's good, good 1282 01:32:05.560 --> 01:32:10.800 arsenal, good execution. But yeah, what he's never logged more than what 1283 01:32:11.000 --> 01:32:14.560 like sixty innings or something or seventy. I think this year was as high 1284 01:32:14.640 --> 01:32:19.239 at eighty seven. And you know, he was solid last year, but 1285 01:32:19.439 --> 01:32:23.479 like unspectacular, you know, like I think he was like a nine percent 1286 01:32:23.520 --> 01:32:29.079 walk guy and upper twenties strikeout rate. But that is like a pristine line. 1287 01:32:29.319 --> 01:32:32.399 So big fan of him, you know, Dominic Hamill. He basically 1288 01:32:32.439 --> 01:32:36.720 repeated what he did the year before, and I think remains pretty interesting as 1289 01:32:36.760 --> 01:32:40.920 an arm that like didn't have a ton of helium. I don't think Mike 1290 01:32:41.159 --> 01:32:44.560 Vasil like he did kind of the same thing, you know, not quite 1291 01:32:44.600 --> 01:32:47.439 as good, but made it up to triple A and league average walk rate 1292 01:32:47.600 --> 01:32:51.359 but above league average strikeout rate. And it's like that's pretty good for again 1293 01:32:51.399 --> 01:32:55.439 a guy that maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think people were really talking 1294 01:32:55.479 --> 01:32:59.039 about as a guy with a capital G. They've had a lot of success 1295 01:32:59.199 --> 01:33:03.479 kind of doing that sort of thing, taking an unheralded guy and then adding 1296 01:33:03.680 --> 01:33:08.479 to them. And that's my pick this year. He kind of fits that 1297 01:33:08.640 --> 01:33:15.399 to a tee Joander Suarez, and Suarez is the one guy that we've talked 1298 01:33:15.399 --> 01:33:20.560 about that's new today that I'm actually interested in. Yeah, everybody else, 1299 01:33:20.640 --> 01:33:23.960 I'm like, you can hear it in my voice. These guys aren't that 1300 01:33:24.039 --> 01:33:28.039 interesting. These are all depth fringy blah blah blah, other than the guys 1301 01:33:28.039 --> 01:33:32.520 obviously that we had already drafted and talked about. Suarez. He was Rule 1302 01:33:32.520 --> 01:33:36.079 five eligible and didn't get picked. He's been around for a long time. 1303 01:33:36.159 --> 01:33:42.319 He was a I think twenty seventeen international signee. I think that's right. 1304 01:33:42.439 --> 01:33:45.439 He had twenty seventeen, and then he's been pitching for a pretty long time 1305 01:33:45.560 --> 01:33:49.119 and it's been up and down, like he's had some good seasons, some 1306 01:33:49.279 --> 01:33:53.840 bad, not a lot of innings like this is kind of the knock. 1307 01:33:53.920 --> 01:33:58.880 He's been short, ineffective, and I think hurt. I think he was 1308 01:33:58.960 --> 01:34:01.520 hurt in twenty twenty one as well. And then rehabbed a bit last year, 1309 01:34:01.600 --> 01:34:05.079 so his kind of twenty one and twenty two were both sort of lost. 1310 01:34:05.199 --> 01:34:08.840 I think to injury. I can double check on that. I'm not 1311 01:34:08.880 --> 01:34:13.319 sure what it was. He looks like a guy now to me. This 1312 01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:18.840 year combined between mostly at high A, but his last three starts were at 1313 01:34:19.039 --> 01:34:25.039 double A. He went one hundred and eight and a third innings, so 1314 01:34:25.159 --> 01:34:29.640 like put on some real innings this year, after very limited over the past 1315 01:34:29.840 --> 01:34:33.319 three or four seasons. Struck out twenty nine point seven percent of batters and 1316 01:34:33.399 --> 01:34:38.600 walked ten point six, which is like a touch high for this But after 1317 01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:42.479 watching him, I was like, boy, this is kind of a dude, 1318 01:34:42.680 --> 01:34:45.640 and I have not heard anybody talk about it. I think Clegg has 1319 01:34:45.680 --> 01:34:49.039 him at the very very back of his off season five hundred, so nobody's 1320 01:34:49.159 --> 01:34:55.640 really on him. I don't think I'm way into it, like to the 1321 01:34:55.680 --> 01:34:58.920 point of like I'm in that slow auction. I'm going to try and sneak 1322 01:34:58.960 --> 01:35:03.359 him in late and hope that it really hits. Because the fastball I saw 1323 01:35:03.560 --> 01:35:06.560 up to ninety six and he was getting whiffs with it. I think he 1324 01:35:06.640 --> 01:35:11.800 might manipulate the shape. He might have a cutter and sort of a little 1325 01:35:11.800 --> 01:35:15.359 bit of a tail to his four seam, but so I think the fastball 1326 01:35:15.479 --> 01:35:21.279 might go in both directions. Pretty solid slider and a curve ball which looks 1327 01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:26.560 firm. I didn't get a velocity reading on it in the like five or 1328 01:35:26.600 --> 01:35:30.279 six starts that I watched, but I think it's firm, like it has 1329 01:35:30.319 --> 01:35:32.399 some bite, but it seems like it's not coming in there really slow. 1330 01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:38.680 And he got whiffs to lefties to right e's, like he was definitely using 1331 01:35:38.720 --> 01:35:43.439 it as a weapon to both sides. He also mixed in a change. 1332 01:35:43.479 --> 01:35:45.960 I didn't see a ton of those, and I think that's by far his 1333 01:35:45.279 --> 01:35:50.960 least used pitch. But it's there, and I've seen him dotted up well 1334 01:35:51.000 --> 01:35:54.680 and get some whiffs with it and get some soft contact too, but he 1335 01:35:54.720 --> 01:35:58.640 also can lose feel for it just a touch. Hia had a fifteen percent 1336 01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:02.159 swinging strike rate out eleven point seven to six per nine there, so like 1337 01:36:02.359 --> 01:36:08.000 he was really kind of overmatching batters. Walked a futuo many at high but 1338 01:36:08.199 --> 01:36:11.159 I think tightened it up as the year went on. I gif you look 1339 01:36:11.199 --> 01:36:15.880 at his kind of rolling game logs, the walks are way more clustered early 1340 01:36:15.920 --> 01:36:19.880 in the year, and I think he started to figure it out after May. 1341 01:36:20.119 --> 01:36:24.720 After the end of May May thirty, first he didn't have an outing 1342 01:36:24.760 --> 01:36:29.000 where he walked more than four, and he had four outings where he walked 1343 01:36:29.039 --> 01:36:31.680 four or more before that point, so like to end the year. And 1344 01:36:31.720 --> 01:36:39.039 then after June twentieth, he didn't walk more than three or didn't walk more 1345 01:36:39.079 --> 01:36:42.279 than two in any outing from there on out. So like I think he 1346 01:36:42.359 --> 01:36:45.479 tightened the command up to end the year. This is maybe bearing the lead 1347 01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:50.119 a little bit. But when he closed out his his stint at High A 1348 01:36:49.720 --> 01:36:57.760 at the end of August August twenty fifth against the Astros affiliate with six innings 1349 01:36:57.800 --> 01:37:00.840 of one hit, ball, two walks, strikeouts, he then didn't give 1350 01:37:00.920 --> 01:37:06.880 up a hit for the next nineteen and a third innings I think holy that 1351 01:37:06.960 --> 01:37:13.600 included part of the Houston outing. But then he went six no hit, 1352 01:37:13.720 --> 01:37:17.600 one walk innings against Washington's Double A team against the Nets Double A, and 1353 01:37:17.640 --> 01:37:24.720 then seven no hit innings at Hartford against Colorado's Double A team, again with 1354 01:37:24.840 --> 01:37:29.319 one walk. Then his last start against Reading, the Phillies Double A affiliate, 1355 01:37:29.439 --> 01:37:31.680 he went the first two innings without giving up any hits either, and 1356 01:37:31.720 --> 01:37:34.920 then he gave up a couple of soft singles in the third inning I think 1357 01:37:35.079 --> 01:37:39.920 there, but in that outing, three hits total, two walks, nine 1358 01:37:39.960 --> 01:37:44.880 strikeouts over five innings in that reading outing, and that was his worst at 1359 01:37:45.000 --> 01:37:46.560 double A. You know, if you look at it like that, So 1360 01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:53.840 the stuff seems exceptionally good, and it seemed like it held its effectiveness as 1361 01:37:53.880 --> 01:37:58.800 he went up the ladder. He also really improved his command in a noticeable 1362 01:37:58.800 --> 01:38:02.960 way throughout the year. So I actually think that Joander Suarez is a real 1363 01:38:03.119 --> 01:38:10.079 arm to watch, especially given the Mets history of coaxing pretty elite performance out 1364 01:38:10.079 --> 01:38:15.560 of sort of unheralded names, and Suarez kind of fits that bill to me, 1365 01:38:15.680 --> 01:38:16.479 like if I had to pick, and you know, that's sort of 1366 01:38:16.520 --> 01:38:18.319 what we're doing here, but if I had to pick someone to kind of 1367 01:38:18.359 --> 01:38:23.680 follow that Christian Scott path, like Suarez is that guy from the beginning of 1368 01:38:23.760 --> 01:38:29.039 June. Sort of that last outing where he walked four guys, he struck 1369 01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:32.880 out thirty two point seven percent of batters and walked seven point seven percent of 1370 01:38:32.880 --> 01:38:38.920 batters the rest of the way. That is plus like a slightly above average 1371 01:38:38.960 --> 01:38:44.199 command in sort of the limiting walks and plus the double plus on the strikeout 1372 01:38:44.399 --> 01:38:47.279 potential. So that's good for a two six seven fit over that time, 1373 01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:50.960 and again, a decent chunk of that was at double A. He's at 1374 01:38:50.960 --> 01:38:56.880 the point where it's sort of proven and he's proving it. So like he's 1375 01:38:56.920 --> 01:39:01.199 a guy that I'm I feel fairly confident if i dived deeply into him earlier, 1376 01:39:01.199 --> 01:39:03.960 he might have been on my list had taken our pitcher draft. Like 1377 01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:08.880 that's that's how I feel about Yeah, Jander Suarez, Like he's a he's 1378 01:39:08.920 --> 01:39:11.800 a guy and he looks at too. I mean, actually watching his motion, 1379 01:39:12.199 --> 01:39:15.600 I got a little bit of Edwin Diaz kind of vibes. Not quite 1380 01:39:15.600 --> 01:39:18.960 as much extension down the mound and kind of like with the arm action, 1381 01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:24.039 but just kind of the way that he sets up and the way that he 1382 01:39:24.119 --> 01:39:28.520 gets through his wind up reminded me a little bit of Diaz in some way. 1383 01:39:28.720 --> 01:39:30.399 So yeah, I'm way on it. I think this guy is like 1384 01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:36.319 actually really really good. And again nobody's really talking about him nice. I'm 1385 01:39:36.319 --> 01:39:42.319 gonna have to watch some heres slip by me. Four fqos on the season, 1386 01:39:42.359 --> 01:39:45.359 Matt, that's good, and yeah, he's a decent ground ball guy 1387 01:39:45.399 --> 01:39:49.119 too, Like you know, it wasn't It was forty five point five percent 1388 01:39:49.159 --> 01:39:54.079 at Hi A, but ticked up to fifty eight percent at Double A. 1389 01:39:54.319 --> 01:39:57.680 And again, I wonder if you eliminated some of those early starts in the 1390 01:39:57.760 --> 01:40:00.880 year, whether that ground ball race it might have been higher. In my 1391 01:40:01.199 --> 01:40:04.720 in my little date range, I didn't have the Grandble rate lag. Yeah. 1392 01:40:04.760 --> 01:40:10.000 Anyway, his last six starts, which were his last three in high 1393 01:40:10.479 --> 01:40:13.720 High A and then his first three in Double A, he gave up four 1394 01:40:13.760 --> 01:40:17.159 earned runs and six starts and those were all in one outing. It's covered 1395 01:40:17.199 --> 01:40:20.600 thirty four innings. He had a one point zero six CRA, a point 1396 01:40:20.640 --> 01:40:25.720 six two whip, eleven point three eight k per nine, a one point 1397 01:40:25.720 --> 01:40:29.960 eighty five walk per nine through strikes at sixty six percent of the time, 1398 01:40:30.159 --> 01:40:32.960 gave up no home runs. Yeah, that's what you call pitching there. 1399 01:40:33.439 --> 01:40:38.920 Yeah, And I think it's encouraging that he did improve a lot of those 1400 01:40:38.920 --> 01:40:43.600 things throughout the year. Like I do like that that he seemed like he 1401 01:40:43.760 --> 01:40:48.000 was working on stuff and not succeeding at it, but then pushed through and 1402 01:40:48.079 --> 01:40:50.479 for our benefit. Like a lot of that gets hidden, right, Like 1403 01:40:50.560 --> 01:40:54.279 you look at that A ball line, You're like, it's fine, you 1404 01:40:54.319 --> 01:40:58.239 know, decent, but not spectacular. And oh, it's really good at 1405 01:40:58.399 --> 01:41:00.880 double A. But it's just a couple of just three starts and that's not 1406 01:41:01.039 --> 01:41:03.479 very much like you're probably not going to put a ton of weight in that 1407 01:41:03.560 --> 01:41:06.720 by itself, and so a lot of people I think are going to write 1408 01:41:06.760 --> 01:41:10.239 him off, whereas if he had started the year the way he ended the 1409 01:41:10.319 --> 01:41:14.279 year, he would be like a top one fifty prospect. I think, 1410 01:41:14.520 --> 01:41:16.800 like, that's an incredible end of the year. Like that same those last 1411 01:41:16.840 --> 01:41:21.840 six starts that you quoted, that's a one eight four five again thirty five. 1412 01:41:23.000 --> 01:41:27.279 That's like an almost thirty percent came on as BB rate, which is 1413 01:41:28.000 --> 01:41:30.960 ridiculous, especially considering half of those are at double A. He's not that 1414 01:41:31.039 --> 01:41:34.960 picture. He's not quite this good. He I think had some fortune at 1415 01:41:35.079 --> 01:41:39.319 double A, certainly on the all those no hit innings, like they were 1416 01:41:39.479 --> 01:41:42.920 great, but you know, he didn't earn all of that. But he 1417 01:41:43.279 --> 01:41:47.319 I think is an actual dude and is one of my favorite little gems that 1418 01:41:47.319 --> 01:41:50.840 we've talked about. Thank God for the mets here, I guess, huh. 1419 01:41:50.920 --> 01:41:55.399 I like the Phillies. Yeah, to some extent, but that we 1420 01:41:55.479 --> 01:42:00.439 did it. We went through every division. Some whiskey to that should have 1421 01:42:00.520 --> 01:42:05.560 port a whiskey to to cheers you. Yeah, I need some new mutters 1422 01:42:05.600 --> 01:42:10.720 after this. I guess we're not We're not completely completely done. We are 1423 01:42:10.760 --> 01:42:14.039 going to talk about first year players, and we do have some like you 1424 01:42:14.079 --> 01:42:16.840 know, putting some stamps on some b sides. But we will do a 1425 01:42:16.880 --> 01:42:21.840 first year player draft episode, probably after the holidays, just the way that 1426 01:42:21.880 --> 01:42:26.720 our schedules are looking. Maybe we squeak it in before then, but I 1427 01:42:26.720 --> 01:42:32.319 wouldn't count on that. Yeah, and then leagues, I will post on 1428 01:42:32.399 --> 01:42:40.159 Twitter a just a complete little list of our selections at pitching specs. Yeah, 1429 01:42:40.199 --> 01:42:44.760 man, I don't know, man, I should call it. I 1430 01:42:44.800 --> 01:42:48.039 think we were ending on a high note with j like there was a lot 1431 01:42:48.520 --> 01:42:53.600 in there. I'm glad you ended with the Mats because I was like this 1432 01:42:54.359 --> 01:42:59.920 rough. Nleas is rough, no doubt at this at this roster rate. 1433 01:43:00.319 --> 01:43:03.439 All right, Well, we'll let Chicago Farmer take us out. We will 1434 01:43:03.560 --> 01:43:09.239 have great holidays if we don't talk to you before then, and we'll get 1435 01:43:09.279 --> 01:43:13.199 into We'll start the new year with some with some first year. Let's do 1436 01:43:13.319 --> 01:43:17.520 it until next time. Yeah, you all have miles an hour riding to 1437 01:43:17.800 --> 01:43:25.199 his head. He hop him down the first with the lumpbony his face, 1438 01:43:25.800 --> 01:43:35.720 and on the very next pitch he up in stove second face with greatstped He 1439 01:43:35.960 --> 01:43:43.239 wasn't born. He had the dirdy Yes uniform