WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:07.559 Not five miles an hour. Ratting to his head, he hop 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 --> 00:00:28.079 stole second face with gretest be he wasn't born, he had yes uniform. 4 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:33.719 Welcome to the thirty second edition of Prospect B Sides. I am May the 5 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.079 rook be with you. We are in the month of May. Had to 6 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:41.240 have a little Star Wars shout out in there for my nerd friend, the 7 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:45.439 Muddy b Side original himself. Ate Handy, how's it going? Not too 8 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:49.719 bad. It's mighty windy outside tonight, so I'm I'm hunkered down in my 9 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:54.560 garage, just listening to things rattle around me. But hopefully we stay online 10 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:58.920 and then good standing here with the interworld. Yeah, the wind can get 11 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:02.200 you in. I think we were talking about this a couple of weeks ago, 12 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.319 but it's been pretty windy, and I don't know if you've noticed that 13 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:10.719 and some of your film washing. I've even heard some broadcasts mention how much 14 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.239 windier it seems like it's been. I know the Midwest League heard that on 15 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:18.239 a couple of broadcasts. Definitely out here in the Northwest. I heard it 16 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:21.799 on a broadcast for a Hillsborough game the other day, and I don't know 17 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:25.799 if you saw this, Travis Bazana had himself a hell of a weekend against 18 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:30.920 the old Washington State Cougars. And I'm pretty familiar with that ballpark. As 19 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.680 you might recall, Travis Bazana, left handed hitting, top prospect. You 20 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.879 know, he's very much a pretty boy from Australia. He was using what 21 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.560 we used to call the jet stream because the way that the wind blows at 22 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:48.159 Bailey Brayton Field, it is either directly out to right field or sort of 23 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:51.480 out to right field every time, like that's the only way that the wind 24 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:55.959 blows consistently. And he hit an absolute tank against the Koogs. I think 25 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.680 that that was Sunday or maybe this Saturday. It was one of the weekend 26 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.599 games, and I was like, oh, yeah, I've seen that ball 27 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:04.959 get hit there quite a few times. But even with that, you know, 28 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:07.919 like I'd seen an Ike Davis homer that was absolutely majestic out to right 29 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:12.280 field before, but I think Bazanas was just as impressive. So yeah, 30 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.599 he's what he's uh, using that wind out here pretty well. I think 31 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:17.599 you get what five home runs this weekend something like that or this week, 32 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:21.520 and I think he hit I think he hit like another one today, even 33 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.520 like he's on a streak. Did you ever take advantage of that jet stream? 34 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:29.520 I did. I mean I was a writing and so like that's gone 35 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:31.159 to Opo for me. But I hit a couple out to right field. 36 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:36.599 Yeah, yeah, one one I remember against I can't remember the pitcher's name. 37 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:38.520 He was a lefty for Oregon State at the time. I uh, 38 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.199 actually put a really good pitch. I want to say it was even a 39 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:45.879 two strike pitch, maybe fastball down in a way and I put it up 40 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:47.919 in the jet stream. Like I didn't hit great, but I put it 41 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:52.879 up in the air enough and had enough of the launch angle that it got 42 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:54.360 out. I mean it barely got out, I think. But it was 43 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:58.439 Opo Homer, And I remember feeling pretty good about that one. I was 44 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:00.800 like, pretty good piece of hitting, man. I didn't usually get to 45 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:04.080 say that. My good pieces of hitting was like I found the four hole 46 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:07.120 and the other way damn shot. Yeah, you know, so that one 47 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.719 was pretty good. What would you say is like, was your max distance 48 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:17.759 on a home run? You think max distance? I hit one at Stanford 49 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:23.919 that I think might have been my farthest. I hit one. Yeah, 50 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:29.120 I hit one at home at WSU that off of Arizona State's Friday Night Guy. 51 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.639 He loved to like pitch fastballs up and in and I was like sitting 52 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:35.120 on it because we had a pretty good scouting report on him that year. 53 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.680 And I hit a real pank out to left field, but again because it 54 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:40.719 was pulled, so it was like probably not quite as far as this one 55 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:45.759 at Stanford that I hit out to almost straightaway centerfield and got pretty far out, 56 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:47.840 but like I didn't have great power, certainly not elite. And at 57 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:53.680 our Park the wind was often working against the US righty's, so the lefties 58 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:57.240 at at our Park definitely fared better when they when they turned on one nice. 59 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:00.120 I enjoy when I get you get a little bundy and yeah, and 60 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.759 talk about some of your past accomplishments. What are we going to talk about 61 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:06.879 this week, Matt? I think we have a little a rhythm going. 62 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.960 I think I mean we've got you as usual. Didn't quite do your homework 63 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:15.120 and got distracted by some dumb pictures, and so we'll focus on some of 64 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:19.680 those pictures. I'm sure our main focus today is We're going to scour some 65 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:25.079 leaderboards kind of we're about a month into the big part of the minor league 66 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:30.079 season. There are some surprising leaders in some categories, some others that are, 67 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:31.759 you know, maybe more expected. But we're going to look at both 68 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:36.160 pitching and hitting and just kind of highlights some guys that we think it's interesting, 69 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:40.639 or maybe ones that we've seen one way or the other kind of performing 70 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:44.319 well or maybe not performing as well. Just highlight some of those guys, 71 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:46.160 and then, you know, stick around to the end. Nate's got some 72 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.120 hidden wisdoms to drop, and I think he's going to save it to the 73 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:54.720 very very end. And then of course we'll preview the week upcoming, which 74 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:58.040 is one of my favorite things where Nate tells us who to watch because he's 75 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:01.040 just got impeccable taste as to what the best matchups are going to be. 76 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.439 So stick around to the end for that. But I think that's the rough 77 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:08.519 order show. Did I miss anything? No, Yeah, we'll talk a 78 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:13.600 little bit about some prospects whose roster percentages are trending up, as we usually 79 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:15.199 do towards the end. That's right, And then I think you're also going 80 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:19.199 to kick us off with quick look at some B sides this offseason. What 81 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:23.920 we started in what like October, Matt I think it was. And Matt 82 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:30.120 and I scoured video and spreadsheets and picked out picture and a hitter from every 83 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:34.399 organization that was rostered at that time two to one to zero to not create 84 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:39.519 it yet in the fan tracks percentage and kind of pegged them with someone to 85 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:42.920 watch that might get a little bit more popular. So after a month of 86 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.680 the minor league season, Matt I just took a little look at some of 87 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:51.879 those guys's roster percentages and that leaderboard. Now you took jo Handy Morales as 88 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:57.720 your national's bat and at the time that he was very different because he was 89 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.199 rostered much higher, especially after first year player Draft season. Yeah, because 90 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:04.399 I mean when I took him, it was before the off season, so 91 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:08.439 it was like a lot of pre FYPD. But I was just for highlighting 92 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:11.720 him as a guy that I hadn't seen. He's on FYPDS, but he 93 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:14.199 was higher. Yeah. Yeah, he's at the top of the list at 94 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:16.399 nineteen percent right now. But Matt, I would say that's trending down. 95 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:21.000 Yeah, I means much more. Yeah, Yeah, do you know do 96 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:25.439 you have any guests that which of our B sides might be at the top 97 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.360 of this list, or maybe I told you. I don't know. I 98 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.040 think you did, but I already forgot. So my Mariner's arm logan Evans 99 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.319 is that fifteen percent. He wasn't even created yet I first talked about him, 100 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:40.360 So that's a pretty significant jumping popularity, I think. And I watched 101 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:43.800 his last start, Matt, and you know, we've talked about Evans a 102 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.720 little bit, and wasn't quite sure how how much I was in and how 103 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:50.600 much I mean excited that this was a guy that has popped for Dynasty owners 104 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:54.519 that was kind of the point of our exercise, but still had a lot 105 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.639 of reservations after watching him. But I got to say, this last start, 106 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:01.800 Matt was pretty impressive, and I'm kind of way more on the bus 107 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:06.120 than like, I have one share and I was thinking about trading it and 108 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:10.240 I'm not thinking about trading it anymore. Matt, well, that was something 109 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.160 we kind of identified with him as we'd watched him a bit, right as 110 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:17.720 saying he has this skill set. The slider I think has a plus shape 111 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:21.399 and movement, and he obviously has some velocity and I think maybe some other 112 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:26.959 characteristics about his fastball that play well and that stuff gets Dynasty people excited. 113 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:30.000 I don't know if the Mariners are pretty high on him. Baseball America Jeff 114 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.720 Ponce and the crew were hyping him up and the in spring training. I 115 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:35.439 think there's a lot of pieces to really like, and seeing a start like 116 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.120 last week, he really did put it together. I mean, the strikeouts 117 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.000 were there, he didn't I don't think he had a walk in that outing, 118 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:45.240 and it was like he went, he went, We had one hit, 119 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.720 which, if I remember correctly, was kind of a cheapie zero walks, 120 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:54.000 nine k's sixty two pitches only to go sixty or six innings eighty two 121 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.480 percent straight. You don't see that? Did you watch this one, Matt? 122 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.160 I watched a good bit of it. I didn't watch the whole thing, 123 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.720 but I think I went back after the outing and flipped through kind of 124 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:05.639 the first four or five innings, and I thought he looked really good, 125 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.040 Like that's the version of him that we'd seen in fits and spurts. Like. 126 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.680 I think that was kind of his first inning in the breakout game. 127 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.759 The spring breakout game looked kind of like this, and you could see why 128 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:18.399 it's super exciting and awesome to see him do it over a whole start. 129 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:20.879 But I mean, I think that's the thing with him that I keep calling 130 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.360 him kind of an enigma, is like, I think he's got these starts 131 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.040 in him, but I want to see him string a few of them together 132 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:31.839 before I really get jazz. But you know, early early signs are quite 133 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:35.759 positive with you know, watching some of his earlier starts, we noted like 134 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.720 there seemed to be a high percentage of secondaries being thrown and him shying away 135 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.200 from this fastball that was you know, getting a lot of buzz and accolades 136 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:48.440 to some extent, and I kind of felt like maybe that was intentional. 137 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:52.399 Maybe there is some some pitching to development going on in those earlier starts, 138 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.960 and this one was you know, him using his weapons fairly well. Now 139 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:00.639 he's still I think there's still plenty of room for growth in the execution department, 140 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:05.559 but those two pitches working together are pretty freaking nasty, and him just 141 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.840 you know throwing them executing them decently well or all right, as we saw, 142 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:16.480 was quite successful. So I'm way more into Evans after watching that start 143 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.919 than I was prior. Also on the top of our B side raster percentage 144 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:26.879 leader board, third is will Dion your guardian's arm selection, but he is. 145 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.639 He's at seven percent and that's he was higher, So that might not 146 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.639 be trending in the right direction for Dion. I mean, I think part 147 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.240 of it was he got bumped up to triple A and is you know, 148 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:43.240 starting and results have been kind of undeone. Like so far, he's getting 149 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:46.159 k's, which is one of the things that we were sort of worried about. 150 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.799 Would his low velocity, kind of deceptive fastball be able to play at 151 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.039 triple A. You know, while the International League is not the PCL, 152 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.960 it's still a tough environment for pitchers, like the run environment is still quite 153 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:03.120 high. The thing that's been surprising about Dian those he's walking a ton of 154 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.399 guys like he was one that I circled on the International League leader board is 155 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:11.279 like he's eighth in walks so far, and that's not really like him. 156 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.960 So I'm wondering. I've only watched one of his starts, and even that 157 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.559 I only watched a partial. It didn't look that different to me. So 158 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.759 I'm wondering if this is just a bit of a rough patch, and so 159 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:26.399 some owners were like, oh, you know, he had a good spring 160 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.000 and he got bumped to triple A. Is he going to get some starts 161 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.320 in Cleveland? And maybe that's why his Brosher percentage was up. And then 162 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.960 the early returns are just okay. And I think Cleveland's rotation is getting healthier 163 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.120 rather than more injured, so the spots might be closing up, so I 164 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.559 can see him being a drop in some of those leagues. Yeah, my 165 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.440 Tiger's arm Jade Hamm is at six percent, that's going to keep going up. 166 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.480 Yeah, I think he's trending up. And then your Royals arm Mason 167 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.600 Barnett, who's off to a pretty good start to the year, is at 168 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:01.759 six percent, and Caleb Durban, Chandler Simpson and Troy Johnston, three of 169 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:07.840 your bat selections are at five percent. Small, but yeah, we'll see 170 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.159 what those look like a calendar year after we picked him. But I thought 171 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:13.600 after a month it was worth just taking a little little peak. We did 172 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:18.759 have Matt Another b sider hit the big leagues this week, yep, Brett 173 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:24.679 Harris. And yeah, originally Brett Harris caught my interest. You know, 174 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:30.200 he's a very good third baseman defensively, question was about his bat and then 175 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:31.799 he had a little string. I don't know what would that have been. 176 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:37.240 Twenty twenty two where he started popping home runs made me start to wonder. 177 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:41.480 Chose him as an A's bat. So he makes his debut right, and 178 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:43.360 of course someone in a chat room asked me about it. I'm like, 179 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.879 oh, this is my time to shine. Like you know, I know 180 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:48.799 about Brett Harris. I've watched him plenty. I don't think the bat's going 181 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.879 to be quiet enough to really do much for you fantasy. And then lo 182 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:58.080 and behold, his first two major league hits were home runs. I mean 183 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:03.679 I would not expect a lot of that from Brett Harris. Still what he 184 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:07.879 had three in Triple A this year. Do you have any thoughts on Harris? 185 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:09.799 Have you have you dug around on Brett Harris at all? Yeah, 186 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:15.759 And I've owned him in places a couple of my deeper leagues before. I 187 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.399 think he's been a cut in the last six months or a year or so, 188 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.399 so I don't think I have any shares now. But Brett Harris is 189 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:24.879 sort of a classic B side story where I think he's got good contact, 190 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.919 plays good defense, and so you can see a scenario in which he gets 191 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.440 a decent amount of run on the back of that. You know, I 192 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.559 think they've even had him playing down the defensive spectrum a bit like third base 193 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.720 and stuff, and he's like a pretty decent shortstop. I thought, Yeah, 194 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:41.240 I saw him a year and a half ago or so. Don't think 195 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:45.519 the power, certainly, not two home runs a game kind of power is 196 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:46.720 going to be. I don't know if he's ever hit two home runs in 197 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.360 a game before. Yeah. Yeah, Like he's got that kind of hitter 198 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:56.080 skill set, lower strikeouts, decent swing decisions that I like in hitters. 199 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.799 I feel like it gives him a good floor. So he's someone that I 200 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:03.080 do think that Oakland has done a decent job collecting some of these guys, 201 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:07.000 along with some of their boomer Bus prospects that maybe they've gone after higher in 202 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:11.519 the drafts. I think they've found a nice collection, either trade or through 203 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:16.879 development to have some more well rounded bats like Harris or Darryl Hernez or that 204 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:20.000 kind of bat that I think helps compliment the boomer Bus, like the Lawrence 205 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:24.320 Butlers and and soder Shrims and they're like, you know, yeah, yeah, 206 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:28.200 so Harris, it was our seventh B sider to make a debut so 207 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.159 far this season. Hopefully we get some more and the nineteenth ever, So 208 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.840 that's that's always fun to see. Yeah, And Maldonado is another one I 209 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.519 don't think we touched on because he might have debuted right after our last podcast 210 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:43.559 or something like that. But Anthony Maldonado for Miami. You know, I'd 211 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.519 identified him this offseason as a high leverage reliever, like very high probability, 212 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.600 and that's sort of what he's been, although they actually used him as an 213 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:54.840 opener in his in his very first start, which is kind of funny, 214 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:58.399 Like he gets called out, he's I don't think really ever started in the 215 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:01.720 minor leagues, and then he gets called up and starts on his first his 216 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.639 first game, and he's looked good. I mean, he's he's like to 217 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:11.120 say yes later in the week. Yeah, I feel like that's something we 218 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.559 should Maybe I'll call up one of my stats buddies and look into that, 219 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:20.000 because I feel like that's pretty unusual to get a start in your very first 220 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:22.960 outing despite being a reliever in the minor leagues. And then also get a 221 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.759 save in that very same week. I feel like that's very unusual. So 222 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:31.360 anyway, he's he looks the same wicked slider, good cutter, and a 223 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.240 nasty sinker with a lot of run. I really like his his profile. 224 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.559 Yeah, I like I even picked him up in a smaller league. That's 225 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.519 my team's not very good and I don't really have any great relievers. So 226 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:45.000 it's that guy. Let's see what happens here and we'll just hang on to 227 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:46.399 him. Yeah, let's talk some leader boards. What do you got. 228 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.159 I don't know how you chose to come at this, Nate, but what 229 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:54.600 I decided to do was look at sort of the raw numbers just to see 230 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:56.480 what that was going to tell us. You know, like, you can 231 00:14:56.480 --> 00:15:00.960 get some funky stuff when you do rate stats, the surly and guys who 232 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.279 don't play that much or have been on the shelf, you can get some 233 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.960 funky readings this early. But when you look at sort of the raw just 234 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:11.679 basic stats of strikeouts and walks for pictures, I just think it tells you 235 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:16.360 something that maybe the eras don't or some of the other noisier stats don't. 236 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.480 So I went through all the leagues and just kind of organized it by league 237 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:24.320 and just highlighted some guys that popped one way or another. So like, 238 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:28.080 the strikeouts are good, the walks are bad. This isn't rocket science stuff 239 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:31.080 here, but it's more of an excuse to talk about some of these guys 240 00:15:31.080 --> 00:15:33.879 that either I've seen or Nate has seen, and the International League so up 241 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:37.559 in triple A. This is like getting closer to pretty boy territory. A 242 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:41.399 lot of these guys are going to make the major leagues this year and be 243 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:45.039 contributors. And some of them are guys that we've talked about starting a little 244 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:48.440 bit on a downer note, just because I actually have shares of like a 245 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:54.440 bunch of these guys. These were some of my sleeper starterish arms that I 246 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.840 think we're going to be depth options for this next year. So I sort 247 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:03.279 of the International League leaderboard for most walks allowed so far, and number one 248 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:10.360 is Chase McDermott for the Baltimore Oriols puts there and Naffolk I really like is' 249 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:14.440 he looked great. His last outing actually limited some his walks. I think 250 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:17.240 he only gave up one or two and struck out eleven. He also shows 251 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.639 up on the leaderboard for the most strikeouts. So he's doing a lot of 252 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:23.840 striking out or walking people and thus far has a pretty decent ear ray, 253 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:27.639 partly because the defense behind him has been pretty bad. I'd say, like 254 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:33.360 he's given up quite a few more runs than he has earned runs. He's 255 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:36.000 gotten a bit lucky. He's also been kind of hard to hit. You 256 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.000 know, eighteen hits in twenty eight innings, but twenty five walks is so 257 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.639 many night, It's so many. This was has been a problem for him 258 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:48.639 in the past, and early on his rotation mate Kid Povich has looked a 259 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.879 lot better way, fewer walks and almost as many strikeouts, and so I've 260 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.039 been a little worried that Povich has leave frogged McDermott. Neither really got a 261 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:00.000 shot at the rotation even as Means was out, so but they're both sort 262 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.640 of knocking on the door. I still like McDermott a touch better, but 263 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:07.839 I think that gap it's like flip a coin now between him and Povich. 264 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:11.079 This guy in second in the International League in walks is Lyon Richardson, who's 265 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:14.640 another guy that I had picked up. Is like, I think this guy's 266 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.839 going to pitch for the Reds. He's got twenty two walks in twenty six 267 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:21.200 innings and he's been super frustrating. I've tuned into a few of his outings 268 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:23.960 and it's like three and two thirds innings, six walks, you know, 269 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.640 like he's thrown some real stinkers in there, but he's still striking guys out. 270 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:33.920 Thirty strikeouts in twenty six innings is still a three eight one era. 271 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:37.359 Again, I think he's getting even luckier, and he has not looked as 272 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.559 good. To me, McDermott still looks like pretty much the same guy, 273 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.839 just maybe he's been he's had a couple of tough outings where he hasn't been 274 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.279 quite as sharp. Richardson and this other guy I'm going to touch on, 275 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.480 Carlos E. F Rodriguez. They both are like kind of wild in the 276 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:56.359 bad way where you don't really know where the ball's going. It's it's sort 277 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:02.640 of consistent wildness rather than sort of start start variance. I'm worried and you 278 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:07.519 see Carlos Frodriguez. His results have been way worse than Richardson's, but they've 279 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:12.920 pitched very very similar similarly so far, so I kind of lump them together 280 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:18.400 as like they're talented arms. They've got some interesting traits, and maybe there's 281 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.920 a starter in here, but both are sort of trending down for me, 282 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.920 just because they haven't been able to corral this walk issue. And it's something 283 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:32.039 that I'm watching, watching pretty closely up to this point. International League Sam 284 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:37.039 Roberts is just my He's just my pitching infatuation right now. And so I 285 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:44.079 was perusing International League Triple A total Triple A leaderboards in the light and I 286 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:48.680 couldn't help but notice something interesting with Roberts here. He's the only pitcher in 287 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.359 Triple A that's in the top ten in these four metrics. Matt ground ball 288 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:56.799 percentage he's at fifty two percent, that's seventh in all of Triple A. 289 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:03.519 He is top ten in K percent now this is qualified qualified pitchers. He's 290 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:07.319 top ten and K percentage at twenty five point seven percent, that's tenth. 291 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:11.960 He is fifth in walk percentage at five point one percent, and he's ninth 292 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:17.279 in swing strike percentage at thirteen point six percent. Now you take those four 293 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.599 ratios filter all of the minor leagues, there's only two other guys doing that, 294 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:26.759 Zebbie Matthews with the twins who just got promoted to Wichita, and a 295 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:30.200 pitcher that I'm not real familiar with but has kind of been on top of 296 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:36.559 some filters and leaderboards. I was looking at Jose Atensio of Fredericksburg the Nationals, 297 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:38.960 and those guys are at like twenty two innings pitched on the year only 298 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:45.440 where Roberts is at thirty six. Intriguing, interesting little filter there for Roberts, 299 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.039 I think. And I watched some of his last outing, Matt. 300 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.440 I don't know if you saw any part of it. He gave up a 301 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:55.279 homer to somebody that I like. Yeah, he gave up a solo home 302 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.759 run, and that was the only thing that stopped him from getting his third 303 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:02.000 FQO row. But he went six, gave up six hits and just the 304 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:04.519 one homer, right, So one walk, six k's yeah, ninety three 305 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:08.079 pitches, sixty two for strikes. You know, we talk about how he 306 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:11.400 does not have a good fastball, but he has figured out a way to 307 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.039 work with it and get some results from it. The cutter and the slider 308 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:18.559 led the way. Again. He's getting thirty six percent with on the cutter, 309 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:23.200 forty five percent CSW. But again I'm just this is my big pitching 310 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:26.799 crush at the moment, and I'm super curious to see how this might play 311 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.200 in the bigs. One thing that we'll we'll talk about in another of these 312 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:34.640 leaderboards coming up. Look at Sam Roberts and Christian Scott, who just got 313 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:38.519 promoted. Guy, I think we both quite like they they're right neck and 314 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.599 neck. You know. Scott thirty six strikeouts to six walks, Roberts thirty 315 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:48.519 five strikeouts to seven walks. Very similar strikeout to walk raw numbers, and 316 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.599 very different fastball quality, very different fastball qualities. And Scott did that in 317 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:56.640 twenty five in a third innings and Roberts, as you said, is thirty 318 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:00.599 thirty five point two too, Yeah, five and two thirds. So what 319 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.319 is that? And I think that one of the next paris of guys that 320 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:08.079 we'll talk about maybe throws it even into starker relief. But which which of 321 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.640 those is sort of more impressive to you? Maybe a couple of angles, 322 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.839 Like the walk stuff is more impressive from Scott, right because he's pitched more 323 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:21.319 walked less by the way around Roberts. Roberts pitch more walked less. Oh 324 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:22.160 oh, okay, you're right, You're right, right, Okay, so 325 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:26.880 that's more impressive. I'm so like enthralled and interested and curious, but like, 326 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.920 it's super impressive to me that Roberts can do this stuff without a good 327 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:34.480 fast but with a bad fastball. So from a from a I don't know, 328 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:38.279 what do you say, pitchability standpoint, that's super impressive to me. 329 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:42.720 But yeah, I don't know. I think Roberts is just more impressive just 330 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:47.599 from from this angle. From I don't really have a lean one way or 331 00:21:47.640 --> 00:21:49.880 another, but it's it's something that popped up when I was looking at one 332 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:56.000 of the other leaderboards in sort of a similar way. Now, do I 333 00:21:56.039 --> 00:22:02.160 think Roberts debuts and is and is as an impressive as Scott was his debut. 334 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:04.119 No, I don't think so. I wouldn't bet. I just think 335 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.759 it's something it's something for us to keep an eye on because, you know, 336 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:11.759 looking at the raw numbers, obviously the percentages, Roberts has a much 337 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:17.720 lower walk percentage than Scott does, even though both are good. But Scott's 338 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:22.160 strikeout percentage is significantly higher than Roberts. And I think what I would lean 339 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:26.920 towards is it's more impressive to do what Scott has done. That many more 340 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:33.039 strikeouts in you know, almost ten fewer innings, I think is slightly more 341 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:37.839 impressive. However, it's I think it's noticeable and impressive the longer that goes 342 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:41.519 on, and like, the more you should be impressed by that really low 343 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:45.519 walk rate as well. And I think that's that's my point, And it's 344 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:49.279 sort of a transition to talking about a guy you touched on already in Jaden 345 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:53.440 Hamm just to jump down to the Midwest League real quick, ham has one 346 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:57.680 of just the very most impressive K minus BB's in all of the minors, 347 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:02.880 twenty three and two thirds in so far, thirty seven strikeouts to just three 348 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:08.119 walks. That's like video game level stuff. But the guy who's second in 349 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:12.160 the Midwest League, I would not have guessed this. If you'd given me 350 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:15.680 like thirty guesses, I don't think I would have got it. Austin Peterson, 351 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:22.200 who's a slightly old for level pitcher for Cleveland, is second with thirty 352 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:26.920 six strikeouts, but he also only has three walks given up. Now he's 353 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:30.559 done this in thirty four point two thirds innings, so eleven innings more to 354 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:34.839 get one and a fewer strikeout than him, like him more impressive, but 355 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:40.160 thirty four and two thirds innings and he's only given up three walks Like that 356 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:48.079 has me pretty intrigued, and especially after some decent interesting stuff last year too. 357 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.519 Like I don't know, I just think there's Austin Peterson is not a 358 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:56.000 guy that was on my radar, and it's worth kind of monitoring a guy 359 00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:59.359 like that who's showing that kind of command. It's at high he's older for 360 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:02.279 the level, but I kind of don't care as much for pictures, and 361 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:03.519 so that was another one I just wanted to bring up. It's sort of 362 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.000 the same thing with like, Okay, you said that Roberts was more interesting 363 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.039 to you, Well, Austin Peterson is kind of doing the same thing, 364 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:15.160 albeit at a lower level to like the more pretty boy Ham Scott comparison. 365 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:19.720 So that's what I just wanted to I was thinking about as an interesting set 366 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:23.240 of comparisons. Yeah, Peterson's the guy that I keep wanting to do homework 367 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:27.119 on but just not getting to him. I put it together our B side 368 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:33.000 arms leaderboard, Matt I found this interesting. Gary gil Hill leads in ground 369 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:37.759 ball percentage at sixty seven point four percent, which is up there with anybody 370 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:41.720 in the minor leagues. Yeah. I just wanted to note that because I 371 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.599 don't know if that was really something that I had thought about with him or 372 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:49.000 attracted me to him as a B side call when I watched very little of 373 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:53.119 him from last year. So Slider and a couple of different cutters seems to 374 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.880 be getting a lot of ground balls. And that's, uh, you don't 375 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:02.480 hate to see that? Nice? Yeah, you know, speaking of B 376 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:08.400 sides, our fandoms and Nate, your prescience in kind of liking guys before 377 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:14.960 they're cool. You the hipster pitching guru that you are. I In looking 378 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:19.920 at these leaderboards, I was astonished to find how many Colorado Rockies farm hands 379 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:26.440 popped on the lower levels as the leaders, like from Hartford on down. 380 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:30.880 Pomp Quist number one in the Eastern League, Handy Dark Candy, Rather, 381 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:36.119 you're Handy, he's Candy. Candy's in the top ten I think in strikeouts. 382 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:37.920 So the two of them looked pretty good in Hartford, in Spokane, 383 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:42.759 in Higay like their top two. Sullivan and Dolander are I think like one 384 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:48.920 in three. Blake Adams isn't far behind, and Mason Green is doing decently. 385 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.960 He's a first pager too, and Spokane's like not the easiest place to 386 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:55.599 pitch, and they're both They're all getting a lot of strikeouts. And then 387 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.359 a couple of other arms in Fresno that I have no information on. I 388 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:02.599 think I've watched a couple of them now this year, but they're totally new 389 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:06.839 arms to me. Isaiah Kupitt, Coupe, I don't know, Jace Kaminski, 390 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:12.359 Jack Mahoney and Austin Eminer and Fresno are all chopping like. They all 391 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:17.079 look really good so far, and I don't know. Man Like people give 392 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:22.359 the Rockies shit, and it is definitely a risk to invest in pitching prospects, 393 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.920 let alone Colorado Rockies pitching prospects. But this on the back of some 394 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:30.519 of the success that they have had in developing or drafting guys in the last 395 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:33.799 few years. I mean, the Rockies. I would not be surprised in 396 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:37.519 a couple of years, like maybe even as soon as next year to have 397 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:41.480 one of the best sets of minor league arms like that. After we see 398 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:45.799 a bunch of graduations from Detroit and Pittsburgh, the Rockies just by pure volume 399 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:51.720 and stuff and things that we've seen. They might be next in terms of 400 00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:55.799 like the next wave, So a ton of interesting guys. I'm gonna try 401 00:26:55.799 --> 00:27:00.000 and get eyes on these guys more. But that those kind of the numbers 402 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:04.359 in the collleague, like Coupey, Kuopit, Kaminsk, Mahoney and Emminer are 403 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:10.400 all in the top fifteen in strikeouts in the colleague already. That's impressive. 404 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:14.079 So anyway, like the Rockies seem to be doing something right. I think 405 00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:18.319 some really interesting names to follow there because a few of them too. Kaminska 406 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:25.039 and Coopey both have fixed or fewer walks to twenty nine strikeouts. That's really 407 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:29.640 good so far in twenty one innings. Like that's that is note that shit 408 00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:33.839 down. Like some other guys that have gotten a lot of love are noticeably 409 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.240 worse, like King Grice is, you know, throwing fewer innings but has 410 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:42.880 five walks and fewer strikeouts. Brody Hopkins, I've heard people like anointing as 411 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:48.000 the next Truth, but he's got twenty three strikeouts to twelve walks. Like 412 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:51.960 there are some much more impressive pitching performances happening, and they just happen to 413 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:56.319 be by Colorado Rockies. So many Colorado Rockies farm hand pitching rant over. 414 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.079 But they're doing some impressive stuff. It doesn't get much muddier than that. 415 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:04.519 Matt, good luck trying to sell that to people. But mind you too, 416 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:08.680 a lot of the kind of bigger arms are not pitching right now, 417 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:12.079 bigger named arms. I'm pitching right now because they had time John last year. 418 00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:17.079 Man, how about Sean Sullivan so far? Yeah, I mean I 419 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:21.559 did mention the Sullivan. I think he's leading to the Northwest League in strikeouts. 420 00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:23.640 Yeah, you did it. So you sort the minor leagues by x 421 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:27.000 FIP one point two to one, and that's what thirty He's only given him 422 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.599 one walk. I mean, like again, he and Heal and Dolander are 423 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:34.400 one and two in the Northwest League so far in strikeouts, or they're tied 424 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:38.400 at first. I guess Sullivan only one walk, giving up no home runs 425 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:41.960 so far, so they're off to some great starts. I'm I'm intrigued. 426 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:47.400 Yeah, it's like they almost know what they need the most and they're trying 427 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.200 to get it. I was looking at that x FIP leaderboard, Matt, 428 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:53.880 minimum twenty innings pitched. You know this is this is probably pretty noisy stuff, 429 00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:57.519 but hey, this is fun to dig around in. You got Sullivan 430 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:03.400 on top, and Jonah tom Quinn, Matthews, and then maybe my second 431 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:08.000 biggest pitching interest at the moment, Johanniere Herrera the Brewers. He was the 432 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:11.359 first guy this year, and I just had some openings that I wanted to 433 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:15.279 had in the four Dynasty leagues that I could. I picked him up across 434 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:22.279 the board after watching his high a debut with Wisconsin this week and going back 435 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:26.319 and watching some of his outings from last season. I think it was last 436 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:30.079 week. Talked about him a little bit and about how he has a ninety 437 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:33.039 five ninety six mile per hour four seemer that he does not throw all that 438 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:37.960 much. It's kind of wondering why that might be. So I watched this 439 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:41.799 debut. He came in relief. He pitched the seventh, eighth, and 440 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.599 ninth innings, face nine hitters and struck out six of them. Wisconsin's got 441 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:51.720 a pretty decent angle and it gives you some velocity on the broadcast, which 442 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:55.599 is nice. I was really interested in this fastball thing, right Matt because 443 00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:57.799 what the first inning, I feel like he threw at a decent amount I'm 444 00:29:57.839 --> 00:30:00.720 like, Okay, here we go. Now he's going to go to his 445 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:04.160 big weapon here and let's see how this goes. But then he kind of 446 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:08.240 put it back in his pocket or the second and third innings and he was 447 00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:12.759 throwing he threw a lot more up secondary. So I got real nerdy and 448 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:17.240 I watched the whole thing closely, and I charted pitchers Matt and his pitch 449 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:19.960 breakdown. He threw his slider forty one percent of the time, through the 450 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:25.000 four seamer twenty two percent of the time, two seamer nineteen percent of the 451 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:26.759 time. Now, mind you, there might be one or two of the 452 00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:30.039 fastballs that I didn't wouldn't say I'm one hundred percent sure if it was a 453 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.720 four seamer or two seamer. There's definitely two fast balls, So I don't 454 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.039 know. I would say he threw those two fastballs about equally. And then 455 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:41.559 he threw the curveball nineteen percent of the time. There's definitely two different breaking 456 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.559 balls. Have not ever seen him throw a change up, so I don't 457 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.480 think that's part of ours. Now, is he just trying to develop some 458 00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:52.319 secondaries? Throw these more? What's the story? So I went back and 459 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:55.960 I watched a couple of his outings from twenty twenty three, and man, 460 00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:00.599 he was definitely throwing the four seamer more than anything else, and he was 461 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:04.880 definitely a lot looser with the execution of all of his pitches than he is 462 00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:10.240 this year. To me, this just isn't something you see every day. 463 00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:12.960 You see all the time in the minor leagues, especially in the lowers, 464 00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:18.160 a guy with a higher velocity fastball that is maybe his third favorite pitch to 465 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.759 throw, he definitely would shake off the fastball to get to the slider or 466 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:27.000 a breaking ball or the curveball. I shared some video on Twitter at Pitching 467 00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:30.680 Specs of him shaking some stuff off, and I think I shared his six 468 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:36.880 strikeout pitches. But for me, you know, a guy with perhaps a 469 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:41.599 well rounded arsenal that he does execute fairly well. Now, he's more strike 470 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:47.599 thrower than you know. Pinpointing his offerings, he threw strikes at seventy three 471 00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:52.000 percent this outing. But I'm kind of I'm excited. I didn't want to 472 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:56.480 go the route of Logan Evans and being interested in guy and like not having 473 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:00.200 any shares of him. So I had some openings and I'm just gonna let 474 00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:05.160 him sit on my rosters while we learn some more about Herrera here. But 475 00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:08.680 I'm more than intrigued by what I'm seeing. That nice. He's one I 476 00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:13.880 haven't watched yet, but I know you were texting me the updates when when 477 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.799 you were charting on him. And it's interesting to hear that about the fastball 478 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:22.000 usage, that you don't see that at the lowers that often, and I 479 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:24.839 do think that's something worth following. This was an interesting one too because of 480 00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:29.400 the usage, you know, like he's not just a on starter usage, 481 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:32.440 like I wonder if they're thinking about his usage sort of differently. And this 482 00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:36.920 was against Great Lakes, not a bad lineup, and these guys really, 483 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:38.640 I mean, he just kind of took the bat out of their hands some 484 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:43.119 that. Like these guys just you know, you see a couple sliders and 485 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:45.720 then a fastball over the place. They couldn't even couldn't even pull the trigger 486 00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:51.599 spotting the breaking balls, especially the lefty sort of back foot like really well, 487 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:53.119 and you know he's righty, he's big. He ain't gonna be on 488 00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:58.200 the cover of any fitness magazines. I'll tell you that. I wouldn't call 489 00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:01.200 him like fat, but I mean he's widest in the middle. You know, 490 00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:06.839 maybe some horse power there. We'll see. I'm anxious to see him 491 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:09.480 in Wisconsin, you know, go five innings and see what that looks like. 492 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.839 You know, I think there is the ability to attack in several different 493 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:15.880 ways here and you don't see that from a lot of a ball pitchers. 494 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:21.319 Yeah. Well, just to kind of round out some of these other able 495 00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:27.039 ones, I think the Florida State League has most of the really interesting pop 496 00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:30.039 up arms. We've talked about them a decent amount. Quinn Matthews, George 497 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:34.079 Classan, Jonah Toong Cade Smith, like, these are all guys, you 498 00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:37.160 know, even Michael Kennedy I think had some love last year and he's up 499 00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.799 there. A couple other guys just to keep an eye on. Fernando Perez 500 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:45.599 is one that I hadn't watched, but he's six in the Florida State League 501 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:50.400 as a twenty year old for Toronto. So Perez is one that made my 502 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:53.160 watch list because he's got thirty two strikeouts to seven walks. I think that's 503 00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:59.279 impressive. Jack Weininger, he's got thirty two strikeouts to six walks. And 504 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:04.440 Brian Edgington, who's older for the level but it's really dominating. Thirty one 505 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:09.000 strikeouts to just three walks, Like that's I think pretty interesting. You know, 506 00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:13.840 I don't even really care that he's that old, similar to Quinn Matthews 507 00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:16.679 and George Classon, Like, let's get these guys out of the Forest State 508 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:21.159 League at this point and let's see what they do at High A, because 509 00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:24.440 I think that level there's just not a lot more to be to be proved. 510 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:29.360 Well, Tom did move up and make his high debut, Matt That's 511 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:30.920 right, that's right, he did. Yeah, Yeah, I watched that. 512 00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:36.159 I thought that was an interesting look. It wasn't hard to see the 513 00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:39.440 nastiness and the uniqueness of his fastball the first time we saw him, But 514 00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:44.920 this this outing, I was pretty impressed with his ability to land the breaking 515 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:49.599 ball, the curveball, especially like inside the lefties glove side to lefties. 516 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:52.639 I know, he had three walks, and he's got a history of walk 517 00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:55.599 stuff. Mind you. He went from the FSL big plate to what I 518 00:34:55.639 --> 00:35:00.039 thought was an umpire that had seemed to have a pretty tight strike zone from 519 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:05.320 what I could see. And I continuously get more and more hopeful with Tom, 520 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.800 and I think there's good things happening in way of execution, and we 521 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:13.159 know the stuff is going to play if you can use it. Well, 522 00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.920 yeah, Well, the other video game numbers guy down in a ball is 523 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:22.639 tug Boat Wilkinson in the Carolina League, and he's pacing all minor leaguers in 524 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:27.440 strikeouts I think at this point, with forty six in his twenty five and 525 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.320 two thirds, and he's just given up the one run and has held the 526 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:36.039 walks in check two with nine. I mean, he's looking really great again 527 00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:38.400 as a college dude. Like, let's get him out of a ball and 528 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:43.400 see if this stuff is going to play against some better hitters soft toss and 529 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:46.760 lefty with a lot of k's. Yeah, yeah, and you can see 530 00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:51.880 he's got some funk to his delivery and really nice slider for sure. So 531 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.119 we'll see, you know, as we get better looks at him, especially 532 00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:58.639 at the next level for Cleveland, I think you're gonna see the walks jump 533 00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.840 up or at least have yeah cloutings where the walks get him because he's not 534 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:05.920 super cool. Agree with that. I would agree with that. You know, 535 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.239 he's he's given up nine walks in his twenty five and two thousand innings. 536 00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:13.199 It's okay, I'd say at this point, especially given the strikeouts and 537 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:15.880 how few hits he gives up. But it'll be interesting to see how much 538 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:19.960 the shape of that production changes as he goes up. But a couple other 539 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:23.320 guys that I haven't heard anybody really talk about in UH are at the top 540 00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:29.599 of this Carolina League leaderboard. Luis de Leon for Baltimore, Trey Gibson also 541 00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:32.519 for Baltimore, Lucas Gordon for the White Sox, and Seth Keener for the 542 00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:37.159 White Sox round out the top five with Wilkinson. They all like have interesting 543 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:42.119 numbers. Keener looks like he walks too many for me to be really interested 544 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:45.559 at this point, but dal Leon, Gibson, and Gordon like color me 545 00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:49.079 interested. I'm gonna seek out their next couple of starts and see if there's 546 00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:52.079 anything there, literally names that I've not heard anybody talk about there. This 547 00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:57.079 is why I'm always doing pitching homework, because it's at and there's always so 548 00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.760 much to do. It's so boring. We're gonna We're gonna forward to some 549 00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:02.920 of the rest of them. There are some there are some other interesting guys, 550 00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:07.480 you know. I jotted down in Double A in the Southern League. 551 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:12.159 Mason Adams my guy. I think he's started off this season really well, 552 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.000 thirty six strikeouts just to just three walks. Ian Seymour is another one that 553 00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:20.079 I think his is sort of underrated for Tampa that I really like what he 554 00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.320 has done. I caught a bit of his outing this week and thought he 555 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:24.320 looked pretty good, and I thought it was sort of interesting. Kai Bush 556 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:30.079 and Jake Eater seemed to be doing pretty well so far for the White Sox. 557 00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:34.519 In Erie Arty and Drew Thorpe a kind of the ones who get the 558 00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:37.559 headlines and are much farther up prospect leader boards, but so far when you 559 00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:43.000 look at the strikeouts, Bush and Eater are out performing Erie Art and Thorpe. 560 00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:45.719 So just something to keep in mind. You know, that's that's an 561 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:47.800 interesting group to follow. There might be some good things going on with the 562 00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:52.360 White Sox hitching development right now. I can't help with wonder and you know 563 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:57.159 me, I'm not one to give the White Sox much praise, but I 564 00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.920 did watch that Erie Arte's last start, Matt. It was interesting because erie 565 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:05.360 Artu was a guy that I jumped on pretty early and guy and I've already 566 00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:07.000 traded off all my shares, thinking, Okay, this is a guy with 567 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:10.559 like really good weapons. This is your your stuffest sort of guy. I 568 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:15.519 don't know how much I love his pitching ability, so to speak, but 569 00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:19.800 man, he was he was a bit different version than I've seen in the 570 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.920 past, and that he was pounding strikes. Man, he was throwing strikes 571 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:27.159 like I had not seen him before. But he ended up going seven innings. 572 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:30.440 He gave up eight hits, three yearned runs, He watched one struck 573 00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:35.239 out seven eighty three pitches, seventy two percent strikes. I don't think we've 574 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:39.280 seen erie Arty get up to seventy percent in an outing before. I can 575 00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:43.960 verify that, but I haven't. But point being, Matt is like, 576 00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:47.079 I'm wondering if this is maybe a point of emphasis here, and yeah, 577 00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:52.719 I mean this right, guy who's Yeah, you're gonna see a guy who's 578 00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:54.639 trying to you know, who's been like more like mad at or trying to 579 00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:58.840 be more bull and more aggressive in the strike zone. And he goes and 580 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:02.719 he gives up eight hits strikes out seven, which for him is far from 581 00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:07.199 like a ton of strikeouts, and especially in a seven inning outing right, 582 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:12.639 So maybe not the most impressive Eriarty line if you're if you're a stand but 583 00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:16.400 I think in the development department we might be seeing stuff going in a better 584 00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:21.320 direction. I think, yeah, well that the whole Birmingham lineup, that 585 00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:25.000 starting rotation for them is Adams, Bush, Eater, eri Rty and Thorpe, 586 00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:29.800 and I think they've all looked quite good so far this year, you 587 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:31.480 know, one reason or another. You know, I think Bush and eri 588 00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:35.360 Arty still need to work on their walks. Like that's a great outing for 589 00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:39.519 eri Arty, but he still has twelve walks in the early going that's pretty 590 00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:44.639 high, and Bush similarly thirteen walks through twenty seven and a third. But 591 00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:47.639 all the other guys like are keeping their walks down pretty well getting their strikeouts, 592 00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:52.639 and that lineup are that starting rotation rather, I think has been one 593 00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:55.480 of the more impressive ones in all the minor leagues so far. And Birmingham 594 00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:59.480 it's a good team. And Birmingham as a park plays a little more on 595 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:01.800 the hit her friendly side too, so that's something to keep in mind that, 596 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:05.800 like, if you start to adjust this for park factors, like I 597 00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:08.760 think those starting pitcher lines tend to look even better, So just something to 598 00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:13.519 keep in mind. Might be some decent pitching coming in in Chicago. Yeah, 599 00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:15.840 Mason Adams has looked good man. A good call on your part there, 600 00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:20.760 But just while we're at Birmingham, I just wanted to mention mat Now, 601 00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.199 you didn't pick him as your B side that, but you had mentioned 602 00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:25.440 and talked about him. But Wilfred varies. I don't know if I don't 603 00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:29.639 know if you've been paying attention to him at all this year. But I 604 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:31.119 mean, he's got a really he's running a really high babbit, but he's 605 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:35.000 putting up some numbers. He said, four home runs. But the biggest 606 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.079 thing that I wanted to note with him, like, do you see my 607 00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:40.000 man shape this year? He looks good? He does, he has he 608 00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:44.159 has lost some fat, because that's something I was talked about. It's like 609 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.320 he was sort of a bigger guy who had sort of a control oriented stick, 610 00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:50.480 but he does look better and he was a fat guy stealing bases, 611 00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:53.320 but like, yeah, he's he's looking trim and has gotten gotten more interesting 612 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:59.679 to me. Yeah yeah, interesting team. Yeah yeah, it is kind 613 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:04.079 of speaking through these last couple. I think the Texas League, my guy 614 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:07.719 Gilbert Diez looks great. He's striking everybody out. Walks are still a bit 615 00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:10.880 of a concern, But that last outing, I ended up turning that one 616 00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:15.280 on Nate. Your guy, your guy, my guy. He was your 617 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:17.440 guy first, But I didn't know that. I didn't know that he's he 618 00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:22.159 looks really zark guy and he's our guy for sure. He's a muddy b 619 00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:23.559 sider. Yeah, what do you think? Do you think I have a 620 00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:28.400 hard time with him, Matt, Because I think I've mentioned before probably the 621 00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:31.199 player that I've picked up and drafted the most over the last couple of years. 622 00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:36.119 If he's gonna what he threw seventy percent strikes this last outing, eighty 623 00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:38.920 nine pitches, didn't walk anybody. Am I crazy? But if this is 624 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:44.400 a dude who can throw strikes like that and be efficient, like, the 625 00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:49.320 upside feels pretty large to me, agreed, I mean, like honestly enormous. 626 00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.519 I mean, it was sort of surprising to me that his was so 627 00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:54.559 low when I was looking into him, like it was a one percenter, 628 00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:59.480 maybe even a zero percenter when we looked at him this offseason, because the 629 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:04.199 fastball is plus in just terms of velocity, But I think it's plus in 630 00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:07.480 its shape too, Like you watch it and he just blows this thing by 631 00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:12.039 everybody. Yeah, and that's where Godi strake And that's been the story with 632 00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:15.920 his fastball from first time I got him, but that was yeah, yeah, 633 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:19.239 one hundred percent. But I would say the issue and the reason why 634 00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:22.280 you keep dropping him and why he's such like a heartburn kind of picture to 635 00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:28.599 own is because he had twelve walks in eighteen innings before that start, right, 636 00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:31.639 Like that's awful, Like that's that's really really bad. That's Jacob Mazerowski 637 00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:37.039 level control, right, and so he has definitely not shown that the control 638 00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:40.360 was there just yet. But the fact that you could turn in a seventy 639 00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:45.840 percent strike rate in a full seven innings start is like that's I mean, 640 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:47.760 that's the kind of stuff that you're like, Okay, maybe we're taking a 641 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:51.079 step forward. So right, like the beginning of the year, if you 642 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:54.039 would have shown this line to me and was like, Yolberdiez does this once 643 00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:57.960 this year? Yes? Or no? Or been like hell no, yeah, 644 00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:00.800 yeah, here we are. If he starts bring in outings like this 645 00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:06.760 or similar to this, like I will be picking them back up. Yeah, 646 00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:08.960 you know some of our other favorites in the Texas League. Roy Ver 647 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:15.360 Salinas still has some walk issues, but the strikeouts remain intriguing. Mason Barnett, 648 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:17.559 who we talked about with Kansas City. He looks really good so far 649 00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:22.440 this year. Lots of strikeouts and is doing a decent job limiting walks. 650 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.840 Still a little on the high side. Chandler's Champlain. He's looked pretty good 651 00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:28.840 for Kansas City as well. The results haven't quite been there, but the 652 00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:31.920 strikeout and walk rates are looking pretty good. So I watched one of his 653 00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:36.559 starts and was actually impressed. I thought he was commanding. His pitch is 654 00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.599 much better than he had in my review of him last year. No Cameron 655 00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:43.559 even has looked okay to start the year. He's not someone I've ever been 656 00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:46.400 super high on, but after I think everybody has written him off after some 657 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:51.000 middling years. The last couple of years he's looking better. And yeah, 658 00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:57.039 that whole Northwest Arkansas rotation I think has shown a little bit. So anyway, 659 00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:00.320 there's there's a few interesting names amongst the pretty boys, like your Team 660 00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:04.360 Hences and Tacoa Robi's and even Adam Maser, who you know we both like, 661 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:07.280 and has shown some stuff too. Texas League, I think is really 662 00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:12.320 headlined by Gilbertaz and everybody else is just trying to play catch up quick bit. 663 00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.480 In the Sally South Atlantic League, Own Murphy has looked really good. 664 00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:19.159 A couple of times I turned him on. You know, the walks maybe 665 00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.320 are touch higher than you'd like, but he's just blown everybody away. Winston 666 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:27.719 Santos also looks really good for Texas PYA. I think he's been well publicized 667 00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:30.440 by Chris Klegg and others. I think he's seen him a couple of times, 668 00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:35.599 and Winston Santos continues to put up really really good numbers. Andrew Lara 669 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:40.400 for Nationals he's one that I know you hit talked about before and we might 670 00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:44.880 have talked about him a bit this offseason, but he's off to a really 671 00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:47.719 nice start to the year after I think we kind of said he needs to 672 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:52.280 show something after the hype he got coming out of DSL and Complex. But 673 00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:57.719 he's looking pretty good finally. And then of course No Schultz is another the 674 00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.599 headliners. He's just dominating everybody at nineteen or twenty, I guess, And 675 00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:05.679 yeah, he looks he looks pretty good, pretty early returns at all the 676 00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:07.679 gary Again, that's one we've talked a bit about, as your Phillies B 677 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:12.760 side guy getting his strikeouts, limiting the walks, and that Frisbee slider of 678 00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:15.519 his really does seem to be befuddling hitters. At this level. He's dominating. 679 00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:20.199 You mentioned Winston Santos. I had not done my homework on him, 680 00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:22.639 so I went back and I watched some this week. Matt. I don't 681 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:24.599 know if you've seen him, there's no argument, like, you know, 682 00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:29.639 he's producing right now. He's putting up some pretty pretty dang good lines and 683 00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:32.840 whatever. But I gotta say, just from like a Dynasty dannpoint, I 684 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.599 wasn't really like all that into it. The fastball is a slider. Now, 685 00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:40.960 perhaps someone with redsheets telling you about the great qualities of these two pitches 686 00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:44.360 might be more excited. But this is like, this is a two pitch 687 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:46.239 guy. He throws a change up the lefties on occasion, but two pitch 688 00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:51.960 guy kind of commanding it okay, and just really kind of dominating at this 689 00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.800 level. Guys like that like yeah, great, sort of like flip investment, 690 00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:59.880 potential flip investment, like pick him up if you can that's what you're 691 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:04.639 after. I'm a bit skeptical of Santos or at least this version of Santos 692 00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.199 as all right, moves up the ladder, I don't know, not very 693 00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:10.320 big. You know, we highlighted plenty of guys like that. Like I 694 00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:14.800 think he's like a great sort of like B side sort of arm but I 695 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:19.599 don't know if he's starting to creep up into more pretty boy like territory and 696 00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:23.400 ranks. I'm not quite sold on all that or whatever. All right, 697 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:27.599 well, let's stop talking about dumb pictures. The only other thing I don't 698 00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:30.400 think we touched on the PCL and we had done talking about dumb pictures. 699 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:38.199 Jonathan Diaz, the Mariner's twenty seven year old guy that we talked about like 700 00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:42.880 two weeks into the offseason that you did a little deep dive into. He 701 00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:46.639 keeps doing it like he's still turning in solid starts every time out. He 702 00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:50.519 hasn't quite reached the heights of those first couple of weeks, but I think 703 00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:53.480 he was the PCL Picture of the Month for April, and he's still leading 704 00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:58.360 the league in strikeouts forty two strikeouts and thirty eight innings. I don't know, 705 00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:00.239 man, I think there's anything yeah here, Like I don't think my 706 00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:04.880 own evaluation really has changed. But that's a pretty impressive month for sort of 707 00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:07.199 a journeyman type guy. Right, No, you can't deny that, but 708 00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:09.880 I mean it's like he kind of feels like, look at Tommy Henry, 709 00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:14.159 right, he's up in the bigs, gets shelled, he comes back and 710 00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:19.400 absolutely dominates a PCL lineup. You know, like I'm skeptical on Diaz there, 711 00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:22.400 but Matt, how could we not? We got We can't be done 712 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:27.840 talking about pitching without mentioning. Joandre Suarez is perfect six and a third innings 713 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:30.559 this week. Yeah, that was sweet. He didn't start the game because 714 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:35.119 who was it Magol or whatever was rehabbing yea Tyler Magill. Yeah, and 715 00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:37.800 I was watching that because I was watching I was watching Candy start and I 716 00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:42.000 had no idea that Suarez was going to come in. He's still only two 717 00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.719 percent rostered. But the Dynasty world is just not not on this guy at 718 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:50.280 all. I'm getting And so he went six and a third perfect, and 719 00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:54.280 like it looked great. It wasn't like he was giving up a hard hits, 720 00:47:54.280 --> 00:47:58.239 punched out seven. It was effishent Yeah, don know, man, 721 00:47:58.360 --> 00:48:01.559 Like it was nasty good the stretch at the end of last year, this 722 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:06.679 outing, I don't think there's been any more dominant of a double a pitcher 723 00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:09.320 than Suarez, Like, yeah, very least he's on the short list. 724 00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:14.920 And so he turned tickets a couple of tickets. Okay, starts to start 725 00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:19.559 the year. But he's been awesome, Like really in April, he's still 726 00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:22.559 awesome. Like you maybe want to see a few more strikeouts so far this 727 00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:25.599 year, but yeah, I mean, fuck, he's so good. He's 728 00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:30.320 really really good. He gets so much weak contact into the ground too, 729 00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:32.000 like it's you love to see it. Just a note on Canny. You 730 00:48:32.039 --> 00:48:35.519 mentioned Candy. Let's start, man Like, this is what I love about 731 00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:38.800 him, Like he's just a grimy just like he might not have his best 732 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:42.920 stuff, he might not be executing all that great, but just like figures 733 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.960 out a way to power through, get in it long innings. And we 734 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:51.000 saw him go seven consistently last year. This out, he threw fifty four 735 00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:54.920 percent strikes. That's not great. He was struggling to locate, especially the 736 00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:59.199 secondaries. And he goes five and a third, gives up one hit Wanner 737 00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:01.800 and run walks, three strikes out six Like he's just like a like a 738 00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:07.079 lunchbucket sort of guy and curious to see the war of attrition with pitching specs 739 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:12.280 how it goes for him in that organization. But I'm a fan of Jared 740 00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:15.000 Candy, no doubt. Yeah, I mean bringing it back to where we 741 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:17.360 started Colorado doing something right. Yeah, And I just wanted to mention Cam 742 00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:22.760 Weston made his double a debut. Looked pretty gard four innings of relief, 743 00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:25.679 two hits, zero walks, eight strikeouts. Very interesting to see how they 744 00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:30.760 might develop and use him. Could very well be a reliever track. But 745 00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:34.920 I don't think they're done giving him some innings. And that we had we 746 00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:38.480 had seven B side arms through f QoS this week. Matt, that's nice. 747 00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:44.440 Good, it was pretty good. Aronde Eldegari again. Now Suarez didn't 748 00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:47.360 make the start, but he went over six innings, So Sworerez, Gilbertez, 749 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:53.519 Mason Adams, Logan Evans and Sunday your guy Luis dia Villa through one. 750 00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:58.039 Yeah, start stacking those and they'll get more popular. Talk some loser 751 00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:01.639 hitter leaderboards. Let's do it. A guy who has shown up to me 752 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:07.960 Breus and some leaderboards. Is the Cardinals infielder Caesar Prieto, who I have 753 00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:12.679 lastered in the past. The Orioles signed him originally out of Cuba. He's 754 00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:15.440 the one with a super cool story. I don't know if you ever read 755 00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:20.199 that, Like ESPN the magazine maybe did the story about his defection from Cuba. 756 00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.559 Phenomenal, like great reporting, super interesting. Yeah, really really good. 757 00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:27.000 You should you should read that. I'll find it, I'll send it 758 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:30.440 to you, okay, sweet. But he's what he's top ten in K 759 00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:32.920 percentage in triple A. He's number one, Matt check this out, number 760 00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:37.679 one in triple A and handy percentage. I love the handy percentage. Handy 761 00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:43.519 percent You don't know handy percentage. You know it's a very telling, huge 762 00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:47.360 metric. Matt one minus one percentage plus strike percentage. I like it, 763 00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:52.119 and you want higher numbers at A he's at eighty three point six percent number 764 00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:58.159 one in the land. Matt Man is hitting well. He's slashing three eighteen 765 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:02.280 three, forty eight, five hundred one e two iso three thirty three babbits, 766 00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:07.360 so potentially sustainable and he's only rostered in four percent of leagues. Twenty 767 00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:12.239 five years old and triple A knocking on the door. He's available in some 768 00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:14.639 of my leagues still because I think I had him and dropped him and no 769 00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:15.880 one cared about him. I don't know, man, a guy who can 770 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:20.239 swing it some. I think he hits a lot of line drives. He's 771 00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:25.239 got five home runs already this year. Interesting infield possibility for the Cardinals if 772 00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:30.519 need be, I think, all right. Also sortin our b side bat 773 00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:35.360 leaderboard, Matt, I know Durban doesn't strike out very much, and you 774 00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:37.840 love him for that. He's at ten point two percent this year. But 775 00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:40.960 you know, of course one of my bats is going to outdo him in 776 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:45.719 that department, Matt. And Juan Bayez is only striking out six point seven 777 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.599 percent of the time, and he is playing he's in uh, he's in 778 00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:52.079 low A. Yeah, he's like he's like twelve years old. Dude, 779 00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:55.119 Man, talk talk to me when he's doing that in a real league. 780 00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:59.599 I mean, that's but I don't know, if you've looked at he's kind 781 00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:02.599 of near the top of some some leaderboards, Matt. And it's interesting if 782 00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:06.599 you look at his batter ball profile. Now he's a little guy, he's 783 00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:09.400 young, but the batter ball profile. He hasn't hit any home runs, 784 00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:14.719 but he's a guy. I kind of wonder if the sort of adage that 785 00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:20.360 some power could come later might hold true. Here still an interesting young bat 786 00:52:20.400 --> 00:52:22.119 that I got my eye on. All right, Matt, I don't you 787 00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:24.760 know, we talked about the Midwest League bats quite a bit, but did 788 00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:29.559 you see who won the Midwest League Bat of the Week this week? I 789 00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:35.480 did not Cubs B side selection Pedro Ramirez. Yeah, he's hit a couple 790 00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:37.880 of home runs. I think he's running a pretty high babbit too, and 791 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:43.159 hitting the ball on the ground a lot like the Cubs on that level tend 792 00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:45.400 to do. He's kind of producing a little bit more than I had kind 793 00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:49.920 of expected to be honest. It's near the top of our B side list 794 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:55.320 for ops and WRC plus. Interesting little switch hitter there. Well, who 795 00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:59.679 else is standing out to you on the hitter side? I had created two 796 00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:01.599 thousand and twenty three draft lists, Matt, and was kind of looking at 797 00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:07.480 those leaderboards, the prep bats and the college bats from that class. Kind 798 00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:10.159 of interesting how it works, right, I'm just looking at WRC plus. 799 00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:15.599 Two of the top three guys are those prep catching prospects that folks don't want 800 00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:20.800 to go after. Right, Blake Mitchell granted. Mitchell's striking out thirty four 801 00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:24.280 percent of the time. Aden Miller second, and ralphie Velaskaez. They're off 802 00:53:24.320 --> 00:53:29.360 to some I think pretty good starts. Now you know who are neighbors on 803 00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:31.880 this list, Matt with A, Walt Emerson and TJ. Walton. No 804 00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:37.639 way, we both have about same amount of played appearances. Emerson's at sixty 805 00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:42.599 two, Walton's at fifty nine. They're walking about the same rate. Now 806 00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:45.760 there's a huge discrepancy a strikeouts. Right, Walton's striking out twice as much 807 00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:51.039 as as Emerson. Walton's at thirty two point two percent. But your boy 808 00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:55.679 Walt is hitting a lot of ground balls, Matt sixty two point five percent. 809 00:53:55.920 --> 00:54:02.119 Walton's got the fourth hardest hit ball in Statcast's minor league database. He 810 00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:07.920 had a well end up being a double, but I think landed just past 811 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:10.760 the infield dirt and would have rolled all the way to the wall it was 812 00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:15.159 hit that hard. But I think he's got more extra base hits than Emerson 813 00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:20.239 at this point. They both have two home runs. Walton's stolen three bases 814 00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:23.440 been caught three times. Emerson stolen one base hasn't been caught. Like I 815 00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:28.159 said from the very beginning, you know, Walton might be a top five 816 00:54:28.199 --> 00:54:30.519 prep bat of this class. I don't know. I'm not ready to go 817 00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:35.719 there. And I really want him to see to stop striking out so much. 818 00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:38.320 Like he's you know, like figured it out. I've been watching. 819 00:54:38.519 --> 00:54:42.199 I've been watching him. He's getting better, I think. And the fact 820 00:54:42.199 --> 00:54:47.039 that both he and Colet have missed a little bit of time small naggling injuries 821 00:54:47.159 --> 00:54:51.559 is sure that kind of sucks. Well, I don't know if far Walton's 822 00:54:51.639 --> 00:54:53.920 was nagging so much. It was a fastball to the face, but yeah, 823 00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:55.639 I mean like he can't get all of the way of that, Like 824 00:54:55.679 --> 00:55:00.360 it's not that hard man, uh you know. I mean I'm just saying, 825 00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:05.559 like we're looking at small, small samples for both and so like as 826 00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:08.639 far as Emerson's ground ball rate, like I'm not super worried about that yet. 827 00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:13.639 I don't think he had a particularly bad ground ball rate last year. 828 00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:15.360 And Walton, it's great to see that he you know, as we talked 829 00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:20.320 about early on, our guy does not get cheated with his swings. No 830 00:55:20.679 --> 00:55:22.519 swinging out of his out of his butt, and that's great to see for 831 00:55:22.679 --> 00:55:25.960 a potential power hitter. And I just think, you know, striking out 832 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:30.840 this much at such low levels, it's not it's not like a death sentence 833 00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:35.360 by any means for fantasy relevance, but certainly for leagues where you care about 834 00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:39.039 a plus plate approach. Like nobody who has a great plate approach in the 835 00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:45.320 minor league or in the major leagues ran thirty percent plus k rates at this 836 00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:47.960 level. So it's just something to keep in minded to add into the context 837 00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:52.440 for sure. But guys who hit the hit ground balls at like sixty two 838 00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:54.880 percent of the time don't really do much for your fantasy team either potentially. 839 00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:59.679 But like both of these guys, like I, we're far from like settled 840 00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:02.079 in this season. They haven't played a ton Like I'm just having a little 841 00:56:02.119 --> 00:56:05.800 bit of fun here, But I like both of those guys, and I 842 00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:08.039 think it's just going to be a fun watch because they're very different types of 843 00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:15.679 hitters. Definitely just eyeballs. I'm going to say that that strikeout rate settles 844 00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:19.000 under where it's at right now by the end of the year. Yeah, 845 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:20.760 I mean, I think it's trending in the right direction, right, I 846 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:23.599 mean he started out like swinging at everything, So yeah, I mean, 847 00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:28.119 what's a hitter like that, Matt, What would you want to see his 848 00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:31.440 strikeout rate at by the end of the year and you'd feel, you know, 849 00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:37.159 all right, I'm still interested in this guy. I think if he 850 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:45.119 gets promoted to Hi A, say, and between A and Hi A his 851 00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:51.400 strikeout rate is in the mid to upper twenties, and he's like really showing 852 00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:55.199 the power that we think is there, that's that's doable. I really do 853 00:56:55.320 --> 00:57:00.159 think if he's at either level and he runs a single dinificant sample size and 854 00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:05.639 it's above thirty, big old red flashing warning sign that you're like, that's 855 00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:09.239 a big thing you're going to have to change in order to bring real relevance. 856 00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:12.559 I mean, I think about the guy we talked about last week, 857 00:57:12.639 --> 00:57:16.679 Jaysavina. He has put up some really impressive exit velocities, has very good 858 00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:22.599 batted ball shape for a power hitter, but has run thirty plus percent strikeout 859 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:25.440 rates at the lower levels and is just now in the mid minors bringing that 860 00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:29.280 down into the twenties. And I said that that's finally like, Wow, 861 00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:32.960 I'm hanging on. But he's like such a fringy guy. And you're saying, 862 00:57:34.119 --> 00:57:36.840 you know, TJ. Walton's in the top five prep bats in this 863 00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:39.280 class. I'm like, boy, that you don't run a strike out rate 864 00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:45.440 that starts with a three and call someone the best top five prep bat in 865 00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:49.679 the class. So that's I really think we need to see that in the 866 00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:54.480 twenties. Fun Gambles number one, Fun Gambles maybe number one, maybe, 867 00:57:54.760 --> 00:57:58.760 but yeah, I think that's what we want to see. I mean, 868 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:01.679 it's interesting because the guy that popped for me as I was looking at some 869 00:58:01.679 --> 00:58:07.920 of these leader boards is Ariel Almonte. Are you familiar with Almonty? Uh 870 00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:13.360 No, not really? Yeah, I wasn't really either. But he's thus 871 00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:19.840 far showing some really impressive power for the Reds in the Florida State League. 872 00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:23.199 His strikeout rate is abysmal. I mean, it's thirty six percent, but 873 00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:29.800 he's already popped nine homers and now he's twenty and repeating low A. So 874 00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:34.199 he was at LOWE for all last year and was terrible. He's just absolutely 875 00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:38.679 murdering the ball. So his ninetieth percentile exit velocity is one oh nine. 876 00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:45.079 Like, that's ridiculous for a twenty year old that is really really good. 877 00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:50.000 Legit in the top five in all of the published minor league stackcast database, 878 00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:54.360 so literally just behind James Wood and Matt Wallner and Patrick Wisdom. Like that's 879 00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:59.920 you know, major league plus two double plus level power out of a twenty 880 00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:05.320 year old in the Florida State League. His contact rate is terrible, under 881 00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:07.960 sixty percent, So like, this is the kind of bat where you're like, 882 00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:13.400 this is Joey Gallo esque in terms of power and swing and miss. 883 00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.480 So even for him, I'm looking at that and being like, he has 884 00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:21.440 to improve his contact rate and that's like near top of the scale power, 885 00:59:21.559 --> 00:59:24.880 especially for his age. But he's someone that I'm super intrigued by this early 886 00:59:24.920 --> 00:59:30.039 season leaderboard data. So ariel Amante is like, again you want to talk 887 00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:34.800 about risky gambles. He seems like he might be showing something here. And 888 00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:38.320 while his strikeout rate is really really bad thirty six point eight percent again as 889 00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:44.519 a twenty year old in low A, that's not even close to palatable, 890 00:59:44.800 --> 00:59:49.880 but his swinging strike rate is fourteen point eight percent and he's walking a decent 891 00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:52.559 amount too, So it might be just like an approach tweak helps get this 892 00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:59.320 into more of an acceptable upper twenties low thirties range. But the dude is 893 00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:02.159 murdering BA balls so far, and I think is worth a look in your 894 01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:08.039 deeper leagues. Some other fun early season leaders. The stolen base leader continues 895 01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:12.280 to be Chandler Simpson guy we talked about. He led the miners and steals 896 01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:15.400 last year. It looks like he's gunning to do it again. He's had 897 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:19.199 some really fun I've watched a couple of his seals and he's like, very 898 01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:22.000 very good at it. He has yet to hit an extra base hit, 899 01:00:22.519 --> 01:00:25.559 has walked thirteen times and struck out thirteen times, like he's one of these 900 01:00:25.599 --> 01:00:30.480 like bonkers silly profiles. But he's scored twenty three runs because the number of 901 01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:34.000 times he just like gets on seals two bases and then somebody behind him knocks 902 01:00:34.039 --> 01:00:38.320 him in is ridiculously high. Yeah, twenty three runs on twenty nine singles, 903 01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:42.360 Like that's that's it, you know, that's crazy. Our guy, 904 01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:47.440 Caleb Durban. He's fourteenth in the BIGS or in the minor leagues in steals, 905 01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:52.599 but he's fifth in triple A and again continues to walk way more than 906 01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:57.119 he strikes out. You know, he's striking out now ten percent of the 907 01:00:57.119 --> 01:01:00.199 time. That's obviously much worse than his like four percent that he had at 908 01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:05.280 Double A last year. But it's still showing a plus bat to ball and 909 01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:08.760 plus speed. What do you know about Duke Ellis? He's second in the 910 01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:13.639 minors in steels so far. Is really fast a catcher. I don't think 911 01:01:13.679 --> 01:01:15.440 has ever thrown him out. At the times that he's been thrown off, 912 01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:20.800 it's been like pickoffs. Oh interesting, like that. He can run. 913 01:01:21.119 --> 01:01:24.519 He's really really skinny, really fast. He's in that fun, fun Birmingham 914 01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:29.159 team in for the White Sox in Double A, Yep, yep, and 915 01:01:29.159 --> 01:01:31.119 they like to use them. He'll come in to pinch ron steal some basses 916 01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:35.360 and stuff like that. But I don't know about a major league prospect there, 917 01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:38.840 to be honest, yeap. Surprising and not so surprising. Emanuel Rodriguez 918 01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:44.000 continues to lead the minor leagues in walk percentage if you're set your minimums at 919 01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:47.679 an appropriate level, and even just in raw because he missed a little bit 920 01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:52.480 of time he had a hamstring deal and a hand thing that might have cost 921 01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:57.000 him a game or two. But he's got twenty seven walks in ninety two 922 01:01:57.199 --> 01:02:01.320 played appearances. He's just two behind the the raw leader, who has thirty, 923 01:02:02.039 --> 01:02:07.440 yeah, thirty twenty nine plate appearances more than he does, so Manuel 924 01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:10.400 Rodriguez. I mean, he's he's just looked I think great, like bringing 925 01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:15.599 the strike out rate down below thirty percent, murdering the ball, nine steals, 926 01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:20.079 one caught stealing, and continues to be mini Barry Bonds with his walk 927 01:02:20.159 --> 01:02:22.880 rates. Again. He for me like he's in my top five prospects. 928 01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:28.360 Easily. He might be number one or number two by the end of the 929 01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:32.199 season. I'm just like, I think that he represents closest to the most 930 01:02:32.239 --> 01:02:37.039 productive version that a hitter can be. Absolutely great ax of velocities. He's 931 01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:40.559 fast and then is really passive at the plate, and then when they throw 932 01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:45.440 strikes, he just tries to murder the ball. So I'm a big sometimes 933 01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:47.719 when it's sometimes when he's got two strikes and they just lay one over the 934 01:02:47.719 --> 01:02:51.639 middle, he doesn't swing at it, and that drives me free and he 935 01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:54.679 should he should swing at those more. But yeah, he's twenty one in 936 01:02:54.760 --> 01:02:59.400 Double A and might be the best player in Double A, and like, 937 01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:01.920 I don't know, He's incredible. I think he's great. Yeah. Alex 938 01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:06.199 Freeland, who we briefly touched on last week. He's one that I think 939 01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:08.760 is having a really good start to the year. He is running a higher 940 01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:12.719 babbit, but I think a lot of the other things that he's doing have 941 01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:15.480 looked really good to me. Walking a lot more than he's striking out for 942 01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:21.760 great Lakes and his hit while just two homers, he's laced ten doubles, 943 01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:24.079 like he's hitting the ball pretty hard, and I like to see that. 944 01:03:24.239 --> 01:03:29.320 Like guys that you know, maybe not lighting up the leaderboards with the home 945 01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:31.119 runs, but are still managing to hit lots of doubles. I think that 946 01:03:31.239 --> 01:03:35.119 portends good things as well. So Freelan's one that you know, I think 947 01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:37.679 you touched on briefly last week. But I just wanted to co sign that 948 01:03:37.719 --> 01:03:39.840 I have watched a decent amount of him and I really like what I've seen 949 01:03:40.079 --> 01:03:45.920 Matt looking at the looking at the college bat first year player leaderboard. I've 950 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:49.360 been wanting to bring this guy up a few times, but haven't gotten to 951 01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:52.599 it. Minimum of sixty played appearances, who do you think has the lowest 952 01:03:52.719 --> 01:03:58.079 K percentage? I was going to say McGonagall. But he doesn't have sixty 953 01:03:58.119 --> 01:04:01.079 play appearances yet. I don't think this college bats. Oh just college bats. 954 01:04:01.239 --> 01:04:04.800 U. Yeah, well you'll never guess this, so okay, I 955 01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:09.159 won't even try that. Who you got, dude, Cole carrig. Wow, 956 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:12.639 he's striking out eight point three percent of the time in the Northwest League. 957 01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:15.119 That is that is shocking to me. I mean, this is a 958 01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:18.639 guy who maybe I just had it all wrong, but I thought this was 959 01:04:18.679 --> 01:04:24.440 like kind of like big athlete project at the plate, gonna have some swing 960 01:04:24.519 --> 01:04:27.639 and miss issues and all that stuff. Right, it feels like a classic 961 01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:32.280 sort of Rockies investment. But he has been impressive, man like walking twelve 962 01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:35.199 percent of the time, striking out eight percent of the time. He slashed 963 01:04:35.199 --> 01:04:40.559 from two seventy one three fifty seven, four fifty seven and that's on a 964 01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:44.480 two sixty six babbit hitting line, drives twenty percent of the time, ground 965 01:04:44.559 --> 01:04:46.480 balls forty six point two percent of the time. Don't want to see it 966 01:04:46.519 --> 01:04:49.599 that high. He's got twelve stolen bases, two home runs. He's been 967 01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:54.079 caught stealing twice, like and I don't know if did you see the play 968 01:04:54.119 --> 01:04:56.719 that I posted where he almost threw a guy out at first, he almost 969 01:04:56.719 --> 01:05:00.880 threwout Day's live. Actually first happen to be. Yeah, I having to 970 01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:03.239 be watching that game, and I was gonna say that his arm looked really 971 01:05:03.239 --> 01:05:08.320 impressive on that throw, trying to yeah, he's like he's got some tools 972 01:05:08.360 --> 01:05:12.000 and if he's not going to be like a big strikeout monster, like he's 973 01:05:12.039 --> 01:05:16.000 gotten way more interesting to me. Pair that I wanted to compare Joy Loperfito 974 01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:20.000 made the bigs super happy. He's already had a little bit of success so 975 01:05:20.079 --> 01:05:25.239 far. But the guy right behind him in Homer's in the minor leagues is 976 01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:29.719 Ryan Ward. You look at their production and it looks really similar. Just 977 01:05:29.800 --> 01:05:33.920 Ryan Ward is running in seventy points lower Babbit and he is. Ward is 978 01:05:33.960 --> 01:05:38.719 also walking a little bit less. But nobody's really talking about Ryan Ward in 979 01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:42.400 the same way that they were talking about low Perfito and Ward was matching him 980 01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.320 Homer for Homer. I mean, he has twelve in fewer plate appearances than 981 01:05:45.400 --> 01:05:48.599 low Perfido and he's striking out less too. I mean, again, the 982 01:05:48.679 --> 01:05:54.280 walk rate is a significant difference and all of that, but Ward also seems 983 01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:58.840 like he's fast, like he has a higher speed scorer than low Perfito does. 984 01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:00.760 Again, that's a noisy stat still at this point. But I just 985 01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:04.400 think, like to the conversation we had about low Berfido last week, like, 986 01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:08.800 yes, he had a great April. Yes, I think he raised 987 01:06:08.840 --> 01:06:12.199 his stock a lot, and it's awesome he's getting a shot with Houston. 988 01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:15.760 They certainly have some places that he might be an improvement, But I think 989 01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:21.119 that the shape of low Perfito's production is a lot rarer are a lot more 990 01:06:21.159 --> 01:06:25.800 common than you might think, And like Ryan Ward is basically doing the exact 991 01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:30.639 same thing, minus about ten points in walk rate and minus about five points 992 01:06:30.639 --> 01:06:33.719 in strikeout rate. And it's like nobody's clamoring for Ward to get promoted, 993 01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:38.639 right, like it was Sandy Payes that got the call for them. So 994 01:06:39.239 --> 01:06:42.599 I don't know, it's just like kudos to Ward for also a great start 995 01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:46.320 to the year. And also like that's the shape of production that Liberfido kind 996 01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:50.559 of had, so temper your expectations for how that might translate. So Matt, 997 01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:54.800 for I don't know if these guys are really like leaders and stuff, 998 01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:59.280 but perusing leaderboards, there was a few guys got my attention and Dug around 999 01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.360 and I've been why but uh, I just wanted to Charles McAdoo. Oh 1000 01:07:02.480 --> 01:07:04.960 yeah, last year I put out a little bit, put out a little 1001 01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:08.599 tweet, right, just doing a little number, weighing in a little filter. 1002 01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:13.000 But it was guys in full season who had a pool percentage greater than 1003 01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:16.360 forty one percent, the ground ball rate less than forty four percent, struck 1004 01:07:16.360 --> 01:07:20.920 out less than twenty two point six percent, home run to fly ball rate 1005 01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:26.400 fourteen and a half we're twenty one or younger, and had a swinging strike 1006 01:07:26.519 --> 01:07:30.719 rate less than twelve point two percent. That filter brought up five names last 1007 01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:34.519 year, Matt White, Langford Cold, Keith, Jordan Lawler, Gustin Ramirez 1008 01:07:34.559 --> 01:07:40.000 and then Macado. Now McAdoo had only it was only one hundred and fourteen 1009 01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:43.639 played appearances, right, But the point was, and like we've talked about 1010 01:07:43.639 --> 01:07:45.920 some, I want to see if you know how that tracks this season. 1011 01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:50.760 Right, He's moved up a level, but those metrics are all right there 1012 01:07:50.880 --> 01:07:55.360 still or better. He's got four home runs. Now, mind you, 1013 01:07:55.400 --> 01:07:58.800 he's playing his home games in Greensboro, right, and they have pretty short 1014 01:07:58.880 --> 01:08:03.800 porches except center field, Like centerfield is still four hundred feet The gaps are 1015 01:08:03.840 --> 01:08:08.119 still fairly deep, and then it gets just real sharp down the line right. 1016 01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:11.119 Well, the home runs I see him hitting at home are still going 1017 01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:14.480 well over four hundred feet, so I don't think he's getting cheepies there. 1018 01:08:14.480 --> 01:08:17.399 He's stolen five bases he hasn't been caught yet, slashing three h nine three 1019 01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:21.159 ninety six five point thirty one. You know, we were curious if that 1020 01:08:21.359 --> 01:08:26.000 little run at the end of the year the Florida State League was something to 1021 01:08:26.039 --> 01:08:28.479 really be excited or now. But I don't know, man, he might 1022 01:08:28.520 --> 01:08:31.600 be more real than mirage here. Yeah. You know, I'm a fan. 1023 01:08:31.960 --> 01:08:38.760 He's got a funky little swing, but he's such a strong athletic guy 1024 01:08:38.920 --> 01:08:44.119 that he's made it work. And I haven't really seen a compelling reason to 1025 01:08:44.239 --> 01:08:46.720 say that he's not going to be able to keep making that work. Right, 1026 01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:51.079 He's off to a really, really fun start to the year. Yeah, 1027 01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:56.039 And of course I've got some Midwest League bats that I wanted to touch 1028 01:08:56.119 --> 01:09:00.199 on. Matt. Just randomly, I kept seeing Jake de Leo de Leo 1029 01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:04.600 d e l e O makes some really loud outs just skipping around, So 1030 01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:08.880 I started digging around on some stack cast he was down at a ball, 1031 01:09:09.319 --> 01:09:11.880 but like I said, has moved up. And I don't know, this 1032 01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:15.000 is just an interesting hour speed guy. His numbers aren't going to jump out 1033 01:09:15.039 --> 01:09:18.039 of the page. You know, he's hitting two ten, he's striking out 1034 01:09:18.239 --> 01:09:20.960 not too much, twenty three point one percent of the time. But I've 1035 01:09:20.960 --> 01:09:25.319 seen him just lace like one hundred and nine mile per hour line drives and 1036 01:09:25.359 --> 01:09:30.239 groundouts and not get anything for it. He's stolen seven bases on ten tracks. 1037 01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:31.560 He's you know, he's twenty three years old, but now he's in 1038 01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:35.560 Hyatt's his first pro season playing center field. I'm sure there's some swing of 1039 01:09:35.600 --> 01:09:40.479 miss stuff is wa he's below league average WRC plus, But I don't know, 1040 01:09:40.680 --> 01:09:43.159 interesting guy. I want to be surprised if he starts putting up some 1041 01:09:43.279 --> 01:09:46.159 like counting stats here and maybe gets a little more attention. And I can't 1042 01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:49.039 help. But notice, man, have you seen what Noah Miller's been doing 1043 01:09:49.079 --> 01:09:51.680 at the plate? Matt, Hmmm, I haven't followed. Now, Noah 1044 01:09:51.720 --> 01:09:56.680 Miller's like he won like a gold glove, right like minor league goal glove 1045 01:09:56.840 --> 01:10:00.680 shortstop got traded over to Dodgers from the Twins. He's still just twenty one 1046 01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:04.960 years old. It's been very light, that right all glove. But he's 1047 01:10:05.039 --> 01:10:10.359 popped five home runs this year. He's striking out seventeen point seven percent of 1048 01:10:10.359 --> 01:10:13.600 the time, walking fourteen percent of the time, slashing two thirty eight, 1049 01:10:13.680 --> 01:10:15.960 three forty seven, four twenty nine. And that's on a two fifty three 1050 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:19.479 babbitt. Now he's hitting a lot of fly balls. He's pulling the ball 1051 01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:24.359 a decent amount. I don't know, like this is a guy if offense 1052 01:10:24.800 --> 01:10:28.399 comes along, like there's the glove, is probably a ticket to the Biggs. 1053 01:10:28.680 --> 01:10:30.960 And if some offense comes along. I love these kinds of sort of 1054 01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:34.720 b side plays. You know, a top shelf defensive shortstop, but maybe 1055 01:10:34.760 --> 01:10:39.880 starts hitting. Could could turn into a dynasty, you know, gem of 1056 01:10:39.880 --> 01:10:43.479 a find. I think and get him for nothing. So no I got 1057 01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:46.680 my eye on Noah Miller here. It was nice to see Alex Aidisernia finally 1058 01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:49.279 came back from injury hit a home run. I think his first game back. 1059 01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:53.319 One of my favorite players. I'll be watching him something mat I think 1060 01:10:53.359 --> 01:10:57.840 I'm gonna I'm gonna hold off one more week. But if Johndrick Panango he's 1061 01:10:57.920 --> 01:11:00.760 doing what he's doing we're gonna be talking about him, all right, agreed. 1062 01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:06.039 Oh, Matt. Taking a look at some prospects whose roster percentage is 1063 01:11:06.079 --> 01:11:10.680 trending up in fan tracks this week. Top of the list at a plus 1064 01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:15.880 thirteen percent is Brett with Krausky, the Brewers pitching prospect to just moved up 1065 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:17.680 a level. We've talked a little bit. I'm gonna have to do some 1066 01:11:17.720 --> 01:11:20.239 more homework and take another look at him, I think, Matt, see 1067 01:11:20.279 --> 01:11:24.560 what's up here? Cale Manzarto is up eleven percent with his you know, 1068 01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:28.880 his call up. Jason Black got called up seven percent. Did you see 1069 01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:31.439 Black's outing today at all? Matt? I just saw the line looked bad. 1070 01:11:31.720 --> 01:11:34.720 He was really good the first time threw the lineup, and then not 1071 01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:39.319 so good. It kind of kind of backs up our little dig that we 1072 01:11:39.399 --> 01:11:43.920 did there. Sam Roberts is up four percent. Mike is it? Mike 1073 01:11:43.960 --> 01:11:47.239 Bovey tearing it up very much a all bat sort of profile, I think. 1074 01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:50.680 But he's up three percent. Jay Allen's up two percent, Jonah Tong's 1075 01:11:50.760 --> 01:11:55.119 up another two percent, and then Ben Cowles did how you say it with 1076 01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:59.479 the Yankees, who's getting some buzz, is up two percent, looking ahead 1077 01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:02.239 to this week, Matt, some matchups that I might be putting my eyeballs 1078 01:12:02.239 --> 01:12:09.199 on. International League Norfolk at Memphis. I want to see Roberts versus those 1079 01:12:09.279 --> 01:12:13.279 bats Mayo Own Company, see if they get them for some home runs or 1080 01:12:13.319 --> 01:12:17.800 not. In the PCL, I haven't watched like any Miguel Vargas and a 1081 01:12:17.840 --> 01:12:23.439 B side blast from the past. Andre Lipschiz is having a pretty good season. 1082 01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:27.600 They're going up against first place Sugarland. Pedro Leone has been pretty hot, 1083 01:12:27.640 --> 01:12:31.640 I think, so maybe looking there Texas League Ulsa at Midland. I'm 1084 01:12:31.640 --> 01:12:35.319 just kind of all about some Jacob Wilson watching right now. In the Texas 1085 01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:40.279 League, Matt, he's been swinging it and that's looking a lot more enticing 1086 01:12:40.319 --> 01:12:42.960 than I thought it might. And a couple of pitchers that might be a 1087 01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:46.439 good test for him and Casparius and Robleski. Southern League. I mean, 1088 01:12:46.720 --> 01:12:50.720 it's hard to not put eyes on Birmingham. They're at Pensacola. There's some 1089 01:12:50.800 --> 01:12:55.720 kind of like crafty arms that might be a good test for Baldwin, Veris 1090 01:12:55.760 --> 01:13:00.119 and Kierro to go up against Eastern League Binghamton at Portland. Man. You 1091 01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:04.359 know, I've got to tune in and watch Leandra versus arguably the best lineup 1092 01:13:04.359 --> 01:13:08.520 in the Eastern League. Whenever that's going on, I'll be I'll be watching 1093 01:13:08.520 --> 01:13:12.319 that for sure. In the Sale League, Wilmington at Jersey Shore, I 1094 01:13:12.319 --> 01:13:15.199 want to see some more Eldagari, maybe some Andrew Laura And you know, 1095 01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:18.800 I haven't really watched Laura in a couple of years, So let's see how 1096 01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:23.039 that has changed, and see what some of these older bats who got promoted, 1097 01:13:23.159 --> 01:13:26.600 Like this Glasser guy was tearing up a ball and is now in High 1098 01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:31.239 A for Wilmington. I haven't watched him. Midwest League Peoria apploit check in 1099 01:13:31.319 --> 01:13:35.920 on some ISA Dicernia, this Delao guy. See what they got going on. 1100 01:13:36.000 --> 01:13:41.319 Maybe Northwest League Spokane. It's at Hillsboro. I don't know if you 1101 01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:45.399 saw, but Andrew Pintar had a really hot week. Yeah, another good 1102 01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:49.399 lefty test for Contescello versus Sullivan. If Sullivan's still there. I want to 1103 01:13:49.399 --> 01:13:53.359 see young Victor Horrez and see what he looks like this year. I haven't 1104 01:13:53.359 --> 01:13:56.319 really watched him, and this will be at Hillsborough. Will be a you 1105 01:13:56.359 --> 01:14:00.680 know what that is that the best that the Northwest League gets for a picture 1106 01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:03.319 I think it might be and it's not usually and it's not that great of 1107 01:14:03.359 --> 01:14:08.239 an angle. Cal League Modesto at Fresno. Let's see what some of your 1108 01:14:08.279 --> 01:14:12.359 nuts can do against these good A ball pitchers, Matt. It's going to 1109 01:14:12.399 --> 01:14:15.319 be an interesting test there. I mean that nuts lineup is ridiculous at like 1110 01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:19.199 top to bottom. They're all really really good. But like I said, 1111 01:14:19.279 --> 01:14:24.760 that Fresno rotation, yeah, pretty good starts all yeah, and you know 1112 01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:27.560 they might be older pictures, but that'll be a good test for them, 1113 01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:30.479 you know, definitely. And then uh, Carolina League, I don't know, 1114 01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:34.359 maybe Salem at Columbia. I want to see what Ronde can do if 1115 01:14:34.359 --> 01:14:38.920 you can back up his FQO that he had. I'm wondering how much more 1116 01:14:38.960 --> 01:14:41.600 a ball is going to be. I think I think you might need a 1117 01:14:41.640 --> 01:14:45.880 little better challenge here. Florida State League Saint Lucy is at Bradenton and Man 1118 01:14:45.920 --> 01:14:50.079 Saint Lucy has a slew even with with Tom getting promoted as a slew of 1119 01:14:50.359 --> 01:14:54.720 arms that I want to watch at that, you know, fantastic Brandington angle 1120 01:14:54.920 --> 01:15:00.720 Kate Morris was it Tesser Mercedes winning winninger Thornton, but I I'll probably be 1121 01:15:00.760 --> 01:15:04.039 tuning in there a decent amount. Complex League is up and running, but 1122 01:15:04.239 --> 01:15:08.079 I mean, we don't get to watch those, but it's always a fun 1123 01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:11.600 time of year to see who starts getting buzz and who gets dropped in. 1124 01:15:11.800 --> 01:15:15.720 I'm always curious players that my other owners are going to drop to pick up 1125 01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:19.840 some of these speculations, because I am not above taking some other folks trash 1126 01:15:19.880 --> 01:15:25.239 if I like it. Yeah, maybe that's something we can dig into in 1127 01:15:25.279 --> 01:15:30.000 the next little bit. I know that recently, after the kind of wave 1128 01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:33.199 of pop up pitching prospects that we've talked about, I've grabbed a few in 1129 01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:41.039 different leagues, and now I would say most of my rosters are pretty full 1130 01:15:41.119 --> 01:15:45.399 and I'm pretty happy with their composition at this point. Also, my injured 1131 01:15:45.439 --> 01:15:48.760 lists are full in most of my leagues. I don't know if you saw 1132 01:15:48.800 --> 01:15:53.279 that in our league to show I can't fill a roster now we don't have 1133 01:15:53.359 --> 01:15:57.720 enough eyel spots. But it's going to be interesting now with complex starting, 1134 01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:01.159 that's really where you see like the early hitter pops. I'd say, like 1135 01:16:01.199 --> 01:16:04.640 I'm less interested in a complex pitcher, even if they're doing great because it's 1136 01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:08.960 just like, I don't know, the competition isn't really there, but seeing 1137 01:16:09.119 --> 01:16:14.840 which of these DSL guys really put it together in the complex that becomes some 1138 01:16:14.920 --> 01:16:18.239 tough ad drops for me too. So maybe that's something we can keep an 1139 01:16:18.239 --> 01:16:21.680 eye on and see if there are any any interesting ad drops in our many 1140 01:16:21.760 --> 01:16:27.479 leagues. Jeremy Cabrero is one of the few DSL guys that I still picked 1141 01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:30.199 up a few shares of and hanging on to us. So he's got two 1142 01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:31.920 home runs. He had a home run in his first two games so far. 1143 01:16:32.079 --> 01:16:35.680 So Clegg or anyone else, write them up, blow them up, 1144 01:16:35.760 --> 01:16:40.800 give me that trade value. But I think that'll do it. For episode 1145 01:16:40.920 --> 01:16:44.319 thirty two of the Prospect B Sides podcast, I am trying to put some 1146 01:16:44.439 --> 01:16:46.720 video out of things that I've cut up and watched over the week and that 1147 01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:50.439 I might bring up on Twitter at Pitching Specs. We'll be doing some of 1148 01:16:50.479 --> 01:16:55.600 the same again next week, same time, Matt getting dirty, seeing what's 1149 01:16:55.640 --> 01:16:59.159 out there in the mud. Yeah, if any of you listeners made it 1150 01:16:59.199 --> 01:17:03.079 through to the end, hit Nate at Pitching Specs on the twixter and hit 1151 01:17:03.159 --> 01:17:09.319 us up in the Dynasty dugout discord for questions. What's proving helpful in your 1152 01:17:09.359 --> 01:17:13.159 leagues? What's proving useful as far as we talk about these guys, I 1153 01:17:13.159 --> 01:17:15.039 mean, I think we're probably not next time, but think in the near 1154 01:17:15.079 --> 01:17:20.359 future we'll do another Questions episodes. If people have some burning questions or things 1155 01:17:20.399 --> 01:17:23.960 they want to get answered, let us know and we can do some deeper 1156 01:17:23.960 --> 01:17:28.000 dives. But yeah, or any guys you want want me to really get 1157 01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:30.960 in on the video and cut up and stuff, I'll put it out there 1158 01:17:30.960 --> 01:17:33.960 for you. Just throw me the name. We'll let Chicago Farmer take us 1159 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:39.199 out and be well. We'll talk to you next time. Adios Miles an 1160 01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:45.720 hour riding to his head, you have them down first with the lump bonus 1161 01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:55.000 face, and on the very next pitch he up and stole second thase with 1162 01:17:55.359 --> 01:18:04.720 greatest be He wasn't born. He had bad years. Uniform