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Not five miles an hour riding too
his head. He hopping down first with

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the mount Bonius face, and on
the very next pitch he up and stole

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second face with gretest be he wasn't
born he had yes, uniforn. Welcome

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to episode twenty four of the Prospect
B Sides podcast. I am your host

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Nate Handy joining me as always is
the rookie Matts. How are you my

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friend? The rookie with an exclamation
point where we're getting excited. Baseball is

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right around the corner. It almost
feels like the spring except for the fact,

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Nate, I can't watch most of
the spring training games. What is

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going on? Why this is?
What? Are we trying to watch?

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Some A ball pitchers in the Florida
State League, like the three of the

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major league complexes, have cameras set
up routinely. This is a travesty.

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Is it different than any other years? Does it seem less to you?

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I don't think it is, but
it remains really frustrating to me, especially

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in the last couple of years,
because I've been playing deeper dynasty leagues,

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so I love being able to watch
my guys on the same field, often

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sharing at that sharing the field with
these like no doubt major league studs,

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all star players, and getting that
visual comparison between them is great. And

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then it's fun seeing everybody turn over, so you get to see the b

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siders of say the Colorado Rockies,
like they turn it over and every guy

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they bring in is like interesting for
some reason or another, and that is

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so fun, especially in our dynasty
world here where we're trying to see how

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are these guys going to stack up? And it's one of the few times

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when even if you don't, they're
not always facing major league quality competition.

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It's the same field you just saw
Julio Rodriguez play, and then now you're

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seeing Cole Young step out and getting
to compare those two visually. Like that

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whole process is so fun, and
so it has been extra frustrating. I'd

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say for me that the Maritors,
most of their games aren't televised. This

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has been true of the Braves for
a long time. They never have a

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home setup. So yeah, it's
just been it's been extra frustrating. I

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think for me this year, tell
me if I'm if I'm off the mark

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here, but it seems to me
so for what will we two weeks in

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a spring training two and a half
weeks in with about three weeks left,

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it seems to me, you know, maybe my memory is just off,

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but I feel like we are getting
less guys coming over from minor league camp

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and playing in some games than we
have in years past. Maybe that's maybe

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I'm completely mistaken there, but it
doesn't seem like, you know, even

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when the guys come in later in
the games, doesn't feel quite as muddy

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to me as years past. I
think it depends on the game, and

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usually it's around this time. I
feel like things ramp up the most where

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you've got most of your major leaguers
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two three plate appearances, and then
they bounce and you're rolling through. You

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know, we have seven pitchers that
we want to get work, and the

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lineup turns completely over and sometimes you'll
see a third level replacement. But I

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feel like now is the time where
you see a lot of that. And

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then in a couple of weeks,
as guys continue to get reassigned to minor

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league camp, it trickles down lower. But I feel like we've gotten to

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see quite a lot of guys,
like more than I actually thought, you

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know, not always televised, which
is super frustrating, as I mentioned,

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but at least seeing some of the
stats, seeing a little bit of the

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box score, watching, I think
we've those guys are getting in the games,

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even if we don't always get to
see it. It seemed to me

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the ones come out or whatever version
of the ones comes out of the game,

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it's like the next rotation is like
kind of always the same for most

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of the teams. And I don't
know, maybe that's how it has always

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been early in spring, but I
find myself already just two weeks in be

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like, oh, okay, these
guys again. Yeah, yeah, well,

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I mean there's there's something to that. And it's actually one of the

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things that I was looking at.
On the hitter side, I think there

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are a couple of teams that really
are using spring training as the audition for

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the big club. And that is
a common thing that the Big Club will

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say, the GM will say,
oh, we're testing out lineups and shifting

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people around. I think there's a
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One in particular is the Padres.
The Padres are rolling out their B squad

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every single time and it's the same
guys, and sometimes those guys are actually

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getting starts with the A players.
I think it's out of necessity for them.

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They have holes in the outfield.
They want to see who are the

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positional versatility guys that are coming up
if one of their locked in infielders gets

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hurt. And it was one of
the takeaways actually when I was doing a

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little bit of an analysis to prep
for this, Like the top two guys

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I think in played appearances are both
padres minor leaguers, and a bunch in

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the top twenty are as well.
So it's just interesting there they seem to

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be using the same guys. They
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who has it? Who are they
gonna call first? And I think

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some people are showing out now there
are some other organizations that I think are

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spreading it around a bit more,
and I wish we could see a little

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more from some of some of the
B sides, some of the deeper minor

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league guys. But I'm also curious
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of minor league matchups. Did you
read about this? Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, the spring breakouts. See, I think that's gonna be an interesting

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thing too, and hopefully fingers crossed
those are fully broadcast as well. Yeah,

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that'll be fun. We're gonna talk
a lot of spring training stuff this

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episode, but before we get into
more of that, Matt, I want

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to do a little housekeeping. Well, last time we had our boy back

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on right, and we were talking
about out Robert Klea and his he's great,

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he's insanely yes. I don't know
what Beck's EXI velocities are, but

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Colas we're very high, and we
were talking about that. I just want

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to clarify. I had brought up
that the Rockies don't have a complex team,

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which is completely false. Matt.
I don't know what I was thinking.

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My brain flashed back to twenty nineteen
when that was the case, I

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suppose, but I just wanted to
clarify that now the Rockies do have the

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propensity though to skip a lot of
their more marquee named prospects from the DSL,

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A lot of their best guys they
have, right, I mean they've

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they've been pretty aggressive pushing those guys
once they're eighteen up to Fresno, Right,

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So I just wanted to I knew
better, Matt. I don't sometimes

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that your brain your mouth just does
dumb things, and you know better.

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I was going through some old show
notes and I found my itinerary for what

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would have been the next show before
I went on an unexpected hiatus last year.

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Right, and on the top,
I still might edit this out,

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but Matt, I did something so
dumb, so dumb and embarrassing and horrible.

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It's a horror story. It's horrific. I took my kid to the

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movie. Now, this would have
been a year ago, now, roughly

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a year ago, right, you
know. So we get in, we're

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ordering the snacks and the popcorn and
the drinks and all that stuff, right,

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and I'm looking at at the time, I thought were the popcorn sizes,

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right, But those were the soft
drink sizes and then the extra large

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soft DRNK. I mean, it's
just disgusting. I mean I thought it

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was the extra large popcorn. That's
how large the soft drink size is.

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Right. So I'm looking at that, I'm like, oh, we'll take

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a large popcorn. We'll take d
DA out of that. Well, the

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large popcorn was four times that size. It's humongous, tub, right,

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So bring that up to the counter. I'm like, well, too late

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now, I'll just take it whatever. I grabbed that big old thing the

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soft drinks, to grab the candy
and all that stuff right now. Mind

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you. Part of the reason why
I went on that little hiatus is because

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I was having some health issues.
I was having some joint problems that doctors

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couldn't figure out. Getting around was
tough. So I was really sore this

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day, right. My knees hurt, my ankle's hurt, my feet hurt.

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I was on my feet all day. Just wanted to sit down,

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right. So I got all these
things and we're going over. You know,

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it's like an AMC theater where you
got to hand the guy your ticket,

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you know, and all that,
and so I got the little one.

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There's a table right there. So
I'm starting to put all the items

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down so I can get the ticket
out of my pocket. And as I'm

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doing that, the dude's like,
hey, you know, good day,

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sir. How's it going. And
I'm like, man, my feet,

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my legs are just killing me.
I cannot wait to just sit down and

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watch this movie. And I'm pulling
the ticket out of my pocket now,

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mind you, I yet to make
eye contact with this person, And so

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I reached the ticket over and my
man's in a wheelchair. Oh no,

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and he just gives me a look
like, dude, that is not cool,

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man, you know that sort of
like, gee, dude, talk

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about your mouth unintentionally getting yourself in
trouble. I sat there, like the

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first half of the stupid Paw Patrol
movie that I wanted to see, just

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like, do I go back and
apologize to him? Like what what?

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I just feel horrible, like I
didn't mean it? Like ah, So

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that was a foot in the mouth
moment for me. So talking about the

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Rockies not having a complex theme as
far from the stupidest thing I've ever said.

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Yeah, I don't think. I
don't think the Rockies complex team is

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as offended as your movie pick there
would be. Yeah, right. Any

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who, let's talk some spring training. Let's talk some B sides. We

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haven't talked about our B side selections
too much. I've been periodically just jotting

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down the roster percentages for the guys
that we chose. I don't have like

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the initial when we first brought them
up and talked about them in episodes,

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But I'm pretty sure, Matt,
they're all like what not created to like

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two percent? Right, maybe we
Yeah, we had a couple that were

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in like the three or four percent
range, but those were pretty rare.

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Most of mine, I think we're
one and two, right. I think

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I had shared with you, like
just before Christmas, A lot of those

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jumped up quite a bit because we
don't have a lot of redraft leads and

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that sort of thing, And now
they're starting to kind of trickle back down,

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right. But I'm curious, Matt, can you guess now? I'm

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gonna take you had your Handy Morales
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which was, yeah, we talked
about we talked about that he's at

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he's at like thirty six percent right
now, so so not counting him.

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Who do you think are the top
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Oh? Interesting? Top five.
I'm surprised that position wise, how this

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has played out thus far, it's
very early. Someone like Luis Vasquez is

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going to be relatively high, not
a horrible guess. He's probably in the

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top fifteen or so. He's at
five percent now. Maybe some of the

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other FYPD guys, you know,
I know we mentioned like mac Krvath and

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Werner is at eight percent, which
is tied for six Okay, okay,

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the top top five guys number one
sitting at fifteen percent, which has actually

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gone up since the winter, since
Christmas time, so you know he's getting

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he's definitely getting a little bit more
popular. But is Troy Johnston? Yeah,

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yeah, it makes sense. He
was both of our Marlin selection.

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And then the next four are all
pitchers. Matt oh interesting, right,

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at fourteen percent is Will Dion,
At ten percent is Logan Henderson. Nice

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at ten percent is Mason Barnett,
and then at nine percent Isaac Coffee.

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Okay, so you got four of
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up the top five. Classic.
Yeah. I mean when I talked about

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Johnston, I remember saying like part
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part like he's an upper miners prospect. He hit really well. It's

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one of the reasons why I was
pretty surprised he wasn't a Rule five selection.

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Yeah. I mean I think as
a whole you took some like you

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took more upper level guys, I
think. Yeah, but you know,

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classic rookie mistake here, Matt.
You're spritten to start the marathon, you

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know, well, well, we'll
see, we'll see. I like,

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I like those arms. I mean, one of the guys that I am

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just dying to see make it into
a spring game, but I don't think

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he has, or at least not
a televised one. It's Logan Henderson.

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I mean, the report was that
he might have added a tick or two

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to that fastball, which, as
you know, I already think plays as

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a plus fastball, especially the way
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the zone and if he has another
tick there and if his slider is better,

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I mean, like, that guy
is just phenomenal. So that's one

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that I'm really really excited to see. And then, of course, my

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other guy who did get into a
spring game but we uh, there's no

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video of it that I could find, was Leander Suarez, who is I

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feel like I'm taking crazy bills a
little bit effectively wild. The podcast Ben

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Lindbergh and Meg Rally hosts. They've
been doing a running bit on the uniforms

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the sea through pants and how that's
great, and Meg keeps saying that she's

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losing her mind because they apparently had
the exact same pants last year, and

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she's like, I don't believe it, and then she sees pictures of last

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year it's like, oh, yeah, those are kind of see through and

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what is going on? So she's
got this like collective delusion about it.

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I'm feeling the same way about Leander
Suarez. I every time I talk about

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it, I kind of get a
little mad. I don't. I'm not

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really that kind of person that gets
worked up and mad about stuff, especially

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stuff like this. It's just like, yeah, you have your opinion.

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It's a fine, like whatever,
Like, well, I'll be happy and

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move on. But with Suarez,
it's just like I'm struggling to understand why

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nobody else likes this guy. Like
he didn't get taken in the rule five

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he was Rule five eligible. That
one is like kind of driving me nuts.

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And I really hope he gets into
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can see Suarez against some big leaders
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because man, he's so fun.
Any stats that I might reference here

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do not include today. We're recording
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got in one game for two innings, didn't give up a run. Whatever.

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Spring training, Matt it's a televised
practice, right, Yeah, and

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sometimes you see guys working on stuff, but you also see some guys that

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are like trying to make their roster
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that next level, and sometimes their
detriment. I do think that there are

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some guys that really appear to be
pressing and other guys that maybe are showcasing

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a new level or something new that
they've worked on over the offseason. And

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I think we'll talk a little bit
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it's a somewhat of a reality check, at least for me. It hits

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me a little bit, becomes a
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man, there's not a lot of
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Like, yeah, you're talking to
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couple of bullpen jobs, maybe a
couple of bench bets, and yeah,

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sure there's probably a few, I
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you know, but for the most
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rosters, Like you can, even
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you kind of know how this is
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did want to go through and perhaps
a highlight and talk about maybe some more

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of the interesting possibilities with a few
positions. You know, it's tough.

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What do you what do you take
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and twelve played appearances and stuff like
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I think is worthwhile to pay attention
to is who's playing with who? Who's

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running with the ones? A couple
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I was hoping on Casey Schmid or
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with an everyday job. Just by
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who they're play playing with. I
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the plan for both those clubs.
Those guys are mostly getting in with the

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with the twos later in games.
I don't think that's a great sign right

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now, well, especially in San
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Yep, Yeah, the Giants shortstop
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roster resource, says Marco Luciano.
Yeah, and they said they're giving

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him a run at it, but
skeptical he's gonna hold on me too,

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which makes Schmid maybe being the odd
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bit more. But yeah, they
signed nick A med just a few days

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ago, so you know, he's
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we'll see. But there is one
guy, Matt that has got my attention

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enough that I had to do some
digging and I had to had to watch

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some film of him coming up because
that got my attention. And that's Max

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Castillo. Oh yeah, Phillies.
Now he came up with the Blue Jays,

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was traded to the Royals, who
DFA on this offseason. The Red

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Sox picked him up for a minute
and they dfad him and now he's uh,

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he's made two outings with the Phillies
and he's on, you know,

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on their forty man as of right
now in the Phillies rotation. Well,

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you got your five, it's probably
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a little interesting because they it really
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recently. Yeah, well rollout Wheeler, Nola Ranger, Swarez, Taiwan Walker,

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that, yeah, it gets a
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got Spencer Turnbull who they picked up
Castillo, Kobe Allard. It's kind of

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interesting. I don't know who's got
the first turn and somebody goes down there,

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But but Castillo, you might eat
a lot. I wonder if he

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and Kiway Tang go out to dinner
often. Big Fella, big fellow buffets

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he is. I think they got
him listed at like six three to two

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eighty. I'd maybe take the under
on the two eighty. But regardless,

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Castillo coming up, he really had
his double A run with the Blue Jays

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was really impressive. I don't know. I think he was striking out thirty

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percent walks of as been kind of
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he has been able to get them
down at times. He's a right hander,

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fastball change up. The fastball I
don't think has ever been super remarkable,

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been fine grows ninety three, ninety
four. Maybe you can hit ninety

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five from time to time, but
the change up is probably if he's got

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a plus pitch in there. It's
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Now, when he was like striking
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A, the slider was a big
part of that. Right, He's got

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a gyro slider that I think now
in the stuff plus model type things I

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think kind of grades out as like
an average MLB slider, but it was

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always the command of the slider,
you know, as he moved up levels

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and that needed to be more sophisticated
and executed better. He wasn't able to

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do that, And his fastball command
probably has never been real great either.

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But he's also been a guy who
just like hasn't really gotten super settled,

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hasn't really gotten much of a MLB
run. I think he's up to eighty

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innings or something like that between a
couple of teams the last two years,

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but you can tell when he would
get back down into triple A, the

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slider usage would increase dramatically. So
I think that's an area of development that

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he's been working on. But let's
fast forward to his first start this spring.

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I think he went two winnings through
like sixty percent fastballs. It was

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televised. I watched it. Nothing
was I don't think too remarkable at the

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time or too exciting or outstanding,
but he looked a little crisper. The

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execution looked better than Castillo of last
year. Both of his starts you got

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stat cast stuff with it, right. So his second outing, he went

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three innings. I don't think he's
given up a run yet struck out four

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or five. But gleaning the stat
cast stuff, he looks a little crisper.

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It looks like the tools pictures have
gotten a little higher in quality like

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last year per picture list, his
three offerings were about MLB average in a

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vacuum, but he's getting like three
or four more inches of horizontal run on

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his four steamer. His change up
looked nasty as always. I don't have

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like IVB numbers, but I think
his fastball is also getting some more inverted

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vertical break. And when you look
at the just like the pitch plots,

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like my man is making triangles and
hitting edges. He's always been interesting because

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you know, fastball change up guy. He's always been really tough on lefties,

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and it's the righty's that he has
struggled to get out at a higher

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clip. And I think perhaps some
slider, some polish on the slider execution,

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slider command spotting that better would definitely
help. Then, like his second

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outing, Matt, he had thirty
percent whiffs. That's that's not typical Castillo.

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No, that's really solid. Yeah. Now, and I don't know

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it's spring training, just a little
bit of eyeball test, a little bit

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of what I know from him in
the history, a little bit of what

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I'm seeing on the stat cast.
I don't know his his forur steamer is

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a little it's interesting to me.
It's I think there's something a little bit

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different about it that I can't really
articulate. This is not my area of

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expertise, but like he has stretches
where he induces a lot of ground balls

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with his four seamer, Like I
think he had like sixty percent ground balls

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on it last year, which is
which is interesting. Yeah, I know,

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right, does a profile with more
horizontal run than you would expect that

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of a four steamer or does he
have a particular I can't recall if he

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has got like a particularly steep release
sometimes that's true. I was actually kind

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of chatting with Jeff just a little
bit about this last night, and I

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can't really say, I don't know. Maybe I'm not saying run out and

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get him anything like that, but
a guy that I'm going to be keeping

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my eye on a little bit this
spring training, and I know you right

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on right change ups and his strikeout
against Jordan Westbrook, his three pitch strikeout

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was he goes slider outside, he
goes four seen inside, and then change

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up for the swinging third strike bottom
of his own, just all on the

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edges, just a just a nice
little three three pitch paint paint job there.

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While you're talking about Castillo, I
was reminded I was looking at the

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Eno Cerrus's pitching plus and stuff plus
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And while Castillo's stuff plus is,
you know, below average at at

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eighty seven, the locations are really
really plus at at one fourteen, So

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his over pitching plus is really good. Just looking at a couple of innings

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and some stat cast stuff, his
location does seem markedly better. And if

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you cool, if you can get
that going with the slider and get right

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he's out. At the rate he
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he could be a thing. I
like it. I like it. Castillo

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has maybe been my most interesting little
little dive and look here so far this

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early spring. But you know who
else who has been continues to be damn

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interesting? Is my guy read van
Scooter, Hang on your guy, what

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is this rasure? We play in
one league together and I'm pretty sure he's

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on my team, Mat for now. For now, I saw that that

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trade offer in my inbox. But
man, he uh what I think he's

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been in two games so far?
Two games, yeah, four innings,

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He's faced fourteen batters, he's given
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And he had those two hits.
Those two hits. One was a

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seeing I single and one was a
pop up that dropped. Like, I'm

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not kidding you. He looks like
the best pitcher in Major League Baseball,

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Like, I don't know who else
looks better than this. It is really

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and I know that we we bring
him up often in episodes, but Matt,

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it's it's warranted. Like he's tied
for eighth in strikeouts amongst all pitchers

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in spring training so far. Eighth
again, out of date stats by by

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this point, because I think a
couple of the guys through today, but

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four innings, eight strikeouts. The
only person who has the same number of

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strikeouts in fewer innings is a guy
named Walter Pennington, who got to say,

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I'm not familiar with your work,
mister Walter. But now, now,

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Matt, you have already mentioned this
on this show, that don Scoter

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getting to the BIGS this season,
You don't You don't think is crazy,

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right? I think some things would
have to happen in order for it to

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come to fruition. I don't think
he's their first call. If you know,

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WU or Miller or somebody misses some
time, who is their first call?

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Because if I've done my homework correctly, I believe that after WU their

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first five, they've got like three
starters on the forty man, right,

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Hancock, Stout and then RVs right, Like, yeah, I know when

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when you initially said that RVs isn't
on the forty man though, So that's

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okay. I think, yeah,
he's in camp, he's a an NRI,

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but no a roster invitee. But
I think I would have said that

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Taylor Dollard might get the first start. Our first first look, it's probably

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Emerson Hancock at this point. The
GM Hollander was saying recently that they've been

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really impressed with him, and I
think Depoto had another quote too about how

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he's seemingly holding his stuff better.
I'm just not on Hancock. I think

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that was a bad draft pick in
a tough class, and he has not

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performed and even in the times when
he's going well, it's a sinker with

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the rest of the arsenal doesn't really
compliment it. So I'm pretty skeptical of

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Hancock as a starter, like maybe
a swingman. Maybe he plays up in

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relief. I could see that kind
of role. But I mean, for

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me, as far as who do
I think is going to be effective,

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Vince Gooter is that guy. The
only other one that I could potentially see

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them maybe giving a shot before that
is Levi Stout, and again, being

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on the forty man makes it I
think a lot more likely, But I

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don't know. Man Jimmy Joyce is
the other one who he's pretty good.

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He's a level ahead. You know, he finished at Double A last year,

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so he's the other one that I
think might get a look before Van

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Scooter. But all that said,
if Van Scooter comes up to Double A

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as expected and shoves like he did
and like, hey he's been doing in

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spring training, I just don't know. I mean, this is something that

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I was saying I think when we
first talked about him, is that I

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think a lot of the skepticism around
him is that the overall line you look

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at it, it's like, Okay, that's solid. But he was twenty

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four when he did that, and
it's at high A like mah, you

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know, like college guy at HIE. But he's gonna be twenty five this

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year. He's going to be in
Double A. And I think that most

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of the league that he's going to
pitch in the Southern League is going to

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be in pitcher in pitcher's parks.
And as we talked about playing in Everett,

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playing in the Northwest League, that's
a hitter friendly ballpark and a hitter

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friendly league, and he dominated it. So he's going to go to a

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more pitcher friendly league. And yeah, the competition is going to be better,

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but I'm just a believer in the
stuff. Like you watched it.

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Both his eyes were televised. Did
you watch him, Yes, yes I

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did. Like you see that slider, the wind, nobody manipulates that he's

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no one else he's hitting. Then
he tilts it down and throws a slightly

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different shape of that slider and gets
whiffs Righty's lefties. It just doesn't matter.

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And then the fastballs that he threw
I think I mentioned in his second

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outing, the broadcast gun I think
had him topping out at eighty six miles

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an hour, and it's possible that
gun was a little bit soft, a

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little bit slow, because I saw
they have Luis Castillo in that same game,

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sitting at like ninety two. And
while I think he usually dials it

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back in spring, that's a pretty
far cry from his usual you know,

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upper nineties, So I wonder if
the gun was a little bit slow there.

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But he he throws this eighty five
eighty six mile an hour fastball and

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guys are just topping it like soft
ground balls, or or missing it like

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there's some ugly swings like they take
him out. Yeah, and his change

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up plays off really well from his
other pitches, Like you watch him in

407
00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:22.759
his first batter of his first outing, he was a little uncharacteristically wild.

408
00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:25.680
I think he went three to zero
to that hitter, and then he just

409
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:30.880
dials in and just spot lone away, spot down and in spot up and

410
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.960
in change up below his own strikeout. So impressive the way this guy pitches.

411
00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.880
And unfortunately he hasn't pitched in a
stack cast stadium, so we don't

412
00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:44.599
have any of the the we know
he was sitting like low nineties though right

413
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:51.359
I'm not sure what I had seen
was consistently upper eighties. Maybe maybe averaging

414
00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:55.480
ninety is what I remember hearing from
the broadcast. But again, he hasn't

415
00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:59.319
played in any of the of the
stat cast park, so we don't have

416
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:03.039
also, and also to like,
you got a fair note like he's coming

417
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:07.920
in at the end of games against
the twos and threes. But yeah,

418
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.079
that is true. So I'm still
very excited to see him double a upper

419
00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:15.880
levels how this all works. But
I mean, dude, I mean every

420
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:21.839
test thus far, the man's dominated. Yeah, I mean, I mean

421
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:23.279
that's worth something, right, I
mean, put it in front of him.

422
00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:30.759
Now, good segue to talk a
little bit about what's meaningful, because

423
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.319
this is spring training, this is
hype season. Joe Boyle didn't walk anyone

424
00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.960
in his first inning and struck out
Mike Trout, so he's the next best

425
00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.160
pitcher in all of baseball, right. No, you gotta take these things

426
00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:44.480
with a lot of grain of salt. And I think I mentioned this when

427
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:48.880
we were talking with back last week. Your priors should update slowly. Now,

428
00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:52.000
maybe you want to move them a
little bit quicker with pictures when you

429
00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:56.519
see, like, hey, a
guy's velocity is down the pitch shapes look

430
00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:59.519
different, or he's added a new
pitch and it seems effective. Those are

431
00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:03.759
the kinds of signals that might tell
you, Yeah, something is different here,

432
00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:07.079
or I should be more interested in
this performance. And I think Bailey

433
00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:10.880
Ober is a good example. I
think Chris Clegg was tweeting about him the

434
00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:14.240
other day and it seems like Bailey
Ober has changed a couple of his pitch

435
00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:18.240
shapes. The performance is backing it
up. He's one of the very few

436
00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.880
guys that is ahead of Reed Van
Scooter as far as strikeouts per inning go.

437
00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:27.079
And I think that in general,
people overreact a bit too much to

438
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:30.240
spring training, and you only have
to go back the last couple of years

439
00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:37.079
and see this guy was running a
two hundred WRC plus over his forty plate

440
00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:41.880
appearances in spring, and theyvert back
to the same guy that they always were.

441
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:45.400
That said, the things that I
look at for both hitters and pitchers

442
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:49.599
are things like swinging strike rate.
So are you getting whiffs with your pitches?

443
00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:53.559
If you are, that might be
a leading indicator that your stuff is

444
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:59.279
playing better than it has And certainly
strikeouts are one of the things that stabilize

445
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:03.680
the fastest. But even then one
good outing can buoy your surface level stats

446
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:08.079
pretty significantly on both on both sides. But what I think we're trying to

447
00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:12.640
highlight is, you know, with
Reedvan Scooter his two inning outing the other

448
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:18.000
day, this is what two days
ago, he literally led spring training in

449
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.880
whiffs with twelve over two innings.
The guy through twenty four pitches and half

450
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.640
of them were whiffs, two of
them were soft contact. Like, it's

451
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:32.160
so impressive what he has been doing, and it's sort of like the underlying

452
00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:37.039
metrics are backing up kind of what
we had seen last year. To me,

453
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.480
it's like, Okay, you just
hopped into even if it's twos and

454
00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:44.920
threes in spring training, you just
happened in the major league spring training and

455
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:48.400
you're making guys look just like you
did in the Northwest League. So good.

456
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:52.079
It's a good first test. First
test has been passed, and there's

457
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.480
a bazillion more tests to go.
Yeah. Another one that pops on this

458
00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:00.880
same leaderboard of the strike at leaders
thus far in spring training is the guy

459
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:04.240
we talked about a couple of times
ago in Cody Bradford, and I don't

460
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.839
know if you caught his outing that
was televised a couple of days ago he

461
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:12.839
did. I was pretty impressed that
he was busting out the curveball more.

462
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:16.680
Yeah, yeah, he thought he's
he talked about that, used it in

463
00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:21.119
college, and now he's just he's
just trying to get a strike Steeler,

464
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:24.319
which I mean we we talked about
that, Like, he had two pitches

465
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:28.920
that seemed like they were really interesting
to us, but we were like,

466
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:31.839
I'm not sure the slider is it? And maybe a curveball to give a

467
00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:37.000
different look. Now you're looking at
three velocity bands like that, it's still

468
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.160
mostly a north south attack. But
I thought he looked pretty good in the

469
00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:44.640
outing that I saw, Yeah,
from when we talked about him. He's

470
00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:47.640
another guy so far, so good, looking up and up in. I

471
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:52.079
think that fifth spot is his.
The loose I think, yeah, certainly

472
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:55.400
out of the gate with their injuries
and the ain't gonna be cole Win and

473
00:32:55.559 --> 00:33:01.079
Colwyn Cowinn sucks ud. Wait he
went to drive line or tread this offseason.

474
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:05.240
I don't care where he went.
I can go to drive line too.

475
00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:07.799
It doesn't make me good. But
Owen White, is that the other

476
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:14.400
guy? Yeah? Yeah, maybe
it was that went to tread. We

477
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:17.000
can't talk about r VS and not
talk about Trevor McDonald. Well, I

478
00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:22.359
was gonna get to my man.
He's working on some things. Dude,

479
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:27.359
Trevor McDonald's gotten in I think two
games, is that right? Yeah?

480
00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:30.640
Yeah, I think he had some
gasoline on his tits. It's just nice

481
00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:32.160
to see him get in there.
Oh, I was wondering, did you

482
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:37.680
watch Logan Evans outing? I did, not, Mariners. He looks pretty

483
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.000
good. Man kind of got a
nice at least the depth arm in the

484
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:47.039
twelfth round. There nice crob has
gotten in a game we mentioned clean clean

485
00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:52.119
outing a crob no no strikeouts,
but no hits. No. Oh,

486
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.000
I wanted to ask you you didn't
Eldon Ato might break with the club.

487
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:58.839
I think he might, Honestly,
Yeah, I kind of think it might

488
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.519
too. I have too many Tanner
Scott shares. And I'm kind of pooping

489
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:05.559
myself a little bit with the way
that he's looked so far. And it's

490
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:07.280
not just that he's looked bad,
he's looked bad in the way that he

491
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:12.760
was bad for his whole career before
last season. So I'm a little worried

492
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:15.760
about it, to be honest,
Like his control is poor, the stuff

493
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:21.360
is incredible and once he tightened up
the control. I don't think the command

494
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:23.760
was even great last year. But
Tanner Scott he was elite and he has

495
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:29.360
looked so bad so far this spring. And Maldono just I think he's got

496
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:34.119
maybe two or three appearances already and
just comes in cutter, cutter, slider,

497
00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:37.400
wipes everybody out. I mean he
is, He's nasty. We see

498
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:40.159
a lot of questions like in the
discord and stuff like reliever prospects that you

499
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:45.519
might want to grab, like I
think Anthony Meldonado the Marlins is definitely someone

500
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.039
worth a look there. Michael Daryl
Hicks has gotten in two a game.

501
00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:52.400
Guilfoyle has seen him. Were they
were going to get to hurt her?

502
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:58.000
But did the other two were they
televised? You know, I don't believe.

503
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:01.760
So okay, I've been trying to
track my arms and watch him if

504
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:07.400
they're on video. But Herder was
on video. I don't know if you

505
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:10.920
saw his outing from yesterday, No, I didn't that Nate Brand. Herder

506
00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:17.360
looked good and I think the vela
was up maybe a tick or two.

507
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:22.320
It looked like he was throwing more
change ups as well. I want to

508
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:28.000
say he Yeah, he was in
a stat cast stadium. So we do

509
00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:34.239
have some of ENO's stuff plus metrics, and they look really good for mister

510
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:40.159
Herder. That one eleven point six
stuff plus one oh seven seven location plus

511
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:45.800
good for a combined one oh five
seven pitching plus score overall. That is

512
00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:51.719
really good for somebody who you know, he's this huge like six' six

513
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:57.559
maybe six seven lefty who I think
has plus extension. Like you watch him

514
00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.519
pitch and you see he is getting
way down the mound with these big long

515
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:05.920
arms. And when I saw him
and was turned on to him in I

516
00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:08.679
think it was early on last season
in High A, the stuff was like,

517
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:13.199
ah, I mean, he's like
really easy and fluid as a pitcher,

518
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:15.079
but it's not exploding out of his
hand. And I think the velocities

519
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:19.800
on the broadcast were in the upper
eighties, maybe touching low nineties. But

520
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.960
I think it's it's better than that
now. And maybe some of this is

521
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:28.320
that these were just kind of one
inning stints, but Herder looked really good

522
00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:32.880
in his one outing, and I'm
the one televised one that I saw,

523
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:38.559
and I especially seeing the stuff plus
numbers, it makes me double down on

524
00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:43.519
my hunch that there's more there,
and it might be the extension, it

525
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:45.800
might be the way that the pitch
shapes play off each other. But Brent

526
00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:50.480
Herder, for me, remains one
of the most interesting arms. And I

527
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.760
think he's one that I mentioned really
popped on some of the projection systems.

528
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:59.679
They loved his translation of his minor
league line last year. So he's one

529
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:02.840
that I personally have a bunch of
shares of. And while Herder might have

530
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:09.480
some difficulty cracking the rotation both because
the Tigers overall rotation I think is pretty

531
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:15.079
good. They've got five very solid
starters in their top five and then their

532
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:19.800
depth their triple A rotation is up
there, I think for one of the

533
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:23.199
very best in all of the minor
leagues. Casey Mayes looks revitalized. Wilmer

534
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:28.239
Flores, I'm on, I think
that guy is really good. And Sawyer

535
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:30.840
Gibson Long I've been talking about for
a year, Like I loved what he

536
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:35.400
did last year too, So yeah, Kider Montero as well. Like,

537
00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:38.880
that's four guys that I think are
big league starters, big league quality starters,

538
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:42.840
and that's their triple A rotation.
Yeah, I want I wanted to

539
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:47.039
talk about their rotation real quick.
So you've got school ol Flaherty. Are

540
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:52.320
we sure that the last two spots
are are decided? It seems like Olson's

541
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:58.400
in. Seems like Manning and Olsen
right, and they're gonna start. I

542
00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:02.360
think that Manning spot is the most
shaky. I think they're in on Olsen

543
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:09.360
along with the top three. Manning
I think is maybe a bit on the

544
00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:13.679
the wobbly chair call it, and
it's not quite the hot seat yet.

545
00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:16.360
But the way mys just looked the
way say Gifts and Long looked last year,

546
00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:22.159
I don't think they'll give Manning a
super long leash. If those guys

547
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:27.159
continue to be really good and Manning
remains kind of shaky, it sounds like

548
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:30.679
myz is starting in triple A right, just to get some more footing and

549
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.519
good. I think that's what they're
saying right now. But again, all

550
00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:37.719
of those guys, those those three
plus Kaider Montero, I think all of

551
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:43.360
them are seeing the bigs this year. The Tigers Tigers starting pitching situation is

552
00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:46.840
pretty pretty freaking interest and we just
shoot, Yeah, I really like time

553
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:52.360
Addam too. So oh oh,
I was talking about job job as well.

554
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:55.079
I know so job Troy Melton is
another one that's really good, and

555
00:38:55.559 --> 00:39:00.480
so Brent Herder in the packing order. Unlike with the Mariners, where it's

556
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:05.880
like there really aren't strong options in
between Van Scooter and the big leagues.

557
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:09.760
In our opinion, that's not true
in Detroit. Herder, I think is

558
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:14.639
on the outside looking in. This
is his Rule five year, so this

559
00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:17.519
is his last year before he has
to be protected and put on the forty

560
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:22.199
man. And they've got a lot
of starting pictures on that forty man right

561
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.880
now, so that that could be
an interesting one if they ended up not

562
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:30.079
protecting him this offseason. I mean, and he does anything like close to

563
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:32.760
what he did this last year,
he could be a first round maybe first

564
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:37.159
overall pick in the Rule five.
And then just two more b sides that

565
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:40.480
I noted have made an appearance.
My guy Ryan Jennings, who I think

566
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:45.079
was pretty dang good his first outing
and then got roughed up his second.

567
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:49.440
And then well you had went with
Andrew Alvarez right with the Nationals he got

568
00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:52.400
Yeah, but I didn't like it, Yeah right right, palm Quist,

569
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.719
he was on a televised game and
he looked great. I think one of

570
00:39:54.760 --> 00:40:00.320
his outings was televised and the other
one wasn't. But I really like what

571
00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:02.159
I saw from pump Quest and I
think he actually did face some of the

572
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:06.320
big league guys when he came in. He was like one of the second

573
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.199
or third guy out of the pen
in that game, and he looked really

574
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:12.440
good. Huh, some of our
B side bats have been getting a little

575
00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:15.599
bit of run. We're finally talking
about the athletes now. Yeah, you

576
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:21.039
got Brady Allen, at least early
in camp, was getting into quite a

577
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:23.880
what he's got five games in.
I don't know if he's really done too

578
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:27.519
much with the bat, but I
thought that was out of you know,

579
00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.599
we had talked about how they kind
of had a glut of not same types

580
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:36.159
of players, but guys interesting kind
of in the same spot, maybe up

581
00:40:36.199 --> 00:40:39.199
the ladder, and for Allen to
kind of come out of that group to

582
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:44.800
be the guy getting some major league
spring training run is interesting. Good call

583
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:47.199
on your part. Well, it
same to you on Jonathan Long. I

584
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:52.960
thought a couple of his at bats
early looked pretty good for the Cubbies.

585
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:57.159
I think he looks noticeably bigger than
last year. It looked to me like

586
00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:00.719
he had put on a bit of
that good muscle. So long it was

587
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:02.800
twenty pounds worth of muscle. Do
you think it's been twenty pounds worth of

588
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:06.320
I don't know if it's I don't
know if it's twenty pounds. But he,

589
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:10.039
as we noted when we talked about
Long last year, he had shown

590
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:15.960
some pretty impressive power, smooth swing
from the right side, just it really

591
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:19.440
extended well through the ball. And
he looked a little bigger to me this

592
00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:21.920
spring, and I thought that was
noteworthy. You know, it's something you

593
00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:27.239
expect and often can lead to some
power gross especially at those ages. So

594
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.960
that was one that I'm good to
see him in big league spring training.

595
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:32.880
You know, else is getting a
lot of a lot of run. Is

596
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.920
your guy Luis Vasquez with the Cubs. Yeah, he's And he's been hitting

597
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:42.199
too. He's had a good spring. I saw him make an air,

598
00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.480
though I didn't I didn't know that
was really in his repertoire. It's not

599
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:49.840
really he's He's a slick shoulder for
sure. Yeah, I don't know.

600
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.440
I think he's a squarely an option
for them on the forty man. I

601
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:55.400
don't think he's going to break camp, do you No? I know and

602
00:41:55.719 --> 00:42:00.559
I think they're gonna have him hang
out in Iowa be their injury fill in

603
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:05.639
if they need somebody, if God
forbid, Dansby goes down or corner or

604
00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:08.440
something like That's he might be one
of their first options up if they need

605
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:12.960
some glove to fill in one of
those gaps. And he's not going to

606
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.760
out hit those guys for sure,
but he's going to be a future big

607
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:17.760
leaguer on the back of his glove. And he showed a fair amount with

608
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:22.480
the bat, which is good and
your I think this was your number one

609
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:25.480
bat in our draft, your guy, Austin Goffieer has been getting quite a

610
00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:30.360
bit of run as well too.
I mean he's good twelve games coming into

611
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:32.920
today. Is that every single game
so far? I think so. And

612
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:38.719
he's he's played mostly second base,
but he's I think he got a little

613
00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:42.039
bit. Yeah, he got a
couple of games at third, I think

614
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:45.599
two, and today he had a
hit in a walk. I think his

615
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:50.639
OPS is up to almost eleven hundred. Now. I don't know, he

616
00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:53.480
was like six or eighteen coming into
today with with a tater who do you

617
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:57.599
get, I don't remember, but
it was a Grand Slam. I thought

618
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:00.320
you hit me up. I thought
it was like one of my pitchers or

619
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:01.840
something. I don't know. It
was a nice swing. And again this

620
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:06.920
was one that I got a little
a little testy about because Eric Long and

621
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:10.519
hanging at Fangrafts came out with his
top prospects for the for the Dodgers and

622
00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:15.599
really kind of crapped all over Gothier, like, no power here, can't

623
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:21.159
really play defense, like he's not
really a guy organizational depths, you know.

624
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:23.840
I think he threw a thirty five
plus on him. I'm glad that

625
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:28.920
Gothier is having such a good spring
and looks like a real player there.

626
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:31.159
You know, he's not playing over
Mookie Bets, but who is at second?

627
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:36.320
You know, But Gothier looks every
bit the player that he showed last

628
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:42.079
year. There's line drives, there's
spray to all fields. He's playing good

629
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:45.000
defense, like he's definitely a favorite
of mine, and I was. I

630
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:51.079
was a little annoying on his behalf
at the slights to his performance so far,

631
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:53.760
because he's very good. One of
those lines too, Matt, I

632
00:43:53.800 --> 00:44:00.360
mean, this guy can't crack tap
one thousands. You can't crack Eric's top

633
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:05.519
fifty Yankees prospects. But I mean
he can crack what seven eight major league

634
00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:07.679
spring training games, and Caleb Durban's
been getting quite a bit of run.

635
00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:12.480
Yeah. Yeah, he hasn't looked
great though. I think I saw just

636
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:16.159
one game that he got into and
the performance hasn't really been there. However,

637
00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:20.400
one of the things that but not
too bad for a guy who's not

638
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:22.360
a prospect in their system, right
yeah, yeah, I mean, what's

639
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:27.800
his triple slash at at this point? I think it's pretty bad. He's

640
00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:31.039
like one for one for ten,
but he continues to not swing and miss.

641
00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:35.039
I think when I looked at this
his swinging strike rate remained in the

642
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:37.199
single digits, which is quite good
and is one of those things that you

643
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:42.000
might read a little more into in
a small sample. But yeah, it

644
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.280
hasn't been the best start for him. We already mentioned him. But Troy

645
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:49.320
Johnston, is he gonna break camp
with them? I doubt it. I

646
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:52.320
mean, they're gonna give Bell the
run, and unless he gets hurt,

647
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:57.079
I don't think they're going to carry
Johnston just to back up Bell, especially

648
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.599
when they got Burger too, like
they could slide Burger over for and moved

649
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:04.360
their infield around one of their million
second basemen could play. He's still doing

650
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:07.679
what he does. Yeah, Yeah, he's looked good. Drake Baldwin had

651
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:10.960
that basis clearing double the other day
and I checked in on Baldwin again.

652
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.039
A lot of the Braves games haven't
been televised, so I think I only

653
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:20.599
saw some highlights of some Baldwin seems
like he's hitting everything on the ground,

654
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:23.000
you know, small samples still,
But as I had mentioned when we talked

655
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:28.159
about him, that was kind of
my issue with Baldwin. The power seems

656
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:31.639
real, seems like he's a decent
catcher with maybe bordering on above average,

657
00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:35.960
but he has a tendency to hit
the ball on the ground a little too

658
00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:37.559
much, and I think some of
that has to do with his hand placement

659
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:42.400
and load. And he's hitting seventy
five percent of his balls on the ground

660
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:45.639
so far, which again small sample. Those things take a little longer to

661
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:49.880
stabilize, but since that's something he's
done before, I'm a little concerned there

662
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:52.199
isn't a change there. Yeah.
I was watching the Dbacks game the other

663
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:59.039
night and the broadcasters were talking about
how their manager was talking about your guy,

664
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:04.519
Christians Serta as someone who has gotten
his attention this weekning. I think

665
00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:07.199
he got into a major league game, but I don't think he's he's gotten

666
00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:15.119
any at bats because my guy JJ
Dirazzio has been nice. Oh I want

667
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:17.719
to This isn't a B side,
but while I'm here, I wanna you're

668
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:23.320
a Braves guy. Former Rockies prospect
Forest Wall. Yeah, he is having

669
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:28.639
quite a spring here, early spring. He's got three dingers already. He's

670
00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:30.719
gonna be their backup outfielder, I
think. I mean, do you think

671
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:34.960
that's x. Yeah, that's what
he's auditioning for, and I think he's

672
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:37.440
got the inside track for it.
You know, he plays good defense,

673
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:40.079
got a little bit of pop,
got some speed. I think he's the

674
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:46.000
backup outfielder. I'm pretty confident in
that. Nice nice also, uh not

675
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:50.920
just been getting a lot of run. They like Choo Alvarez. I mean,

676
00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.760
he's a good hitter and it's going
to be interesting to see what they

677
00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:58.000
do with him this year, whether
they keep him playing short, really see

678
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.360
at the upper levels can he stick
there? So if he does, that's

679
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:04.440
sort of the one week spot on
the Braves team, depending on how you

680
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:08.239
feel about Jared Kelnick. But Orlando
Arcia is not some franchise cornerstone that they're

681
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:12.679
gonna keep there no matter what.
I mean. He's on a he's got

682
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:15.719
two more years on his deal and
it's you know, a couple million bucks

683
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:19.280
a year, But the Braves would
move on from that for Nacho if he

684
00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:22.239
shows he can stick there. Now
I'm not sure he can. I know

685
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:25.280
that perhaps doesn't have quite the range
though I think his hands are pretty good,

686
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:30.079
so and we'll see if the power
continues to blossom. Like that's something

687
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:34.159
I think you had pointed out last
year and said his hitting skills seem to

688
00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:37.199
be quality, but the knock on
him is that the power might be under

689
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:40.960
developed. He's a big looking guy. I mean, that's that's something that

690
00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:45.639
seems like it's he's grown into some
more power and if that continues to trend

691
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.880
up and he shows he can play
shorts up, maybe there's a real guy

692
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.719
there. Yeah. It's funny,
right man. I mean, we're what

693
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:57.320
a year and a half from his
draft where they took him in the fifth

694
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:01.800
round, and he's already in much
more valuable prospect than some you know,

695
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:07.639
what were they top five FYPD Prep
guys who were striking out for now.

696
00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:13.679
Nowadays things can change might mighty quick
like that. Right. Yeah. One

697
00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:16.519
thing that you know we touched on
is sort of swinging strike rate is something

698
00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:22.239
to pay attention to that for for
hitters. You know, a few whiffs

699
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:28.760
here and there can, especially in
small samples, potentially show issues maybe ahead

700
00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:31.119
of when they might show up in
a strikeout raid or an overall batting line.

701
00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:38.000
But you know who's leading the spring
training for kind of prospect eligible guys

702
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:43.800
in swinging strike rate for hitters?
Who's got the worst swinging strike rate before?

703
00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:47.159
He's a Mariner? He's a Mariner? Is it witt a Wolt No

704
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:54.400
Montes, No. We we talked
on this guy briefly. We were talking

705
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:58.639
about B side mariners and how it's
kind of tough to find it. But

706
00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:04.199
Hogan Windish, who's had a pretty
good year last year. He's got a

707
00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:08.239
sixty five percent swinging strike rate.
He's seen twenty strikes zero balls, and

708
00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:13.320
he has missed a lot of them. So yeah, that's like on the

709
00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:17.199
high end. But another guy that
is something a prospect of some note that

710
00:49:17.480 --> 00:49:22.280
I haven't seen any of his at
bats yet, but a bi Malek or

711
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:27.239
Tease. He's got a sixty one
percent swinging strike rate thus far. Again,

712
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:30.440
just ten plate appearances. That is
somewhat concerning. You know, you

713
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:35.960
don't want to see that out of
a slugger and that that might give you

714
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:43.239
a little bit of pause. Again, these are pretty small samples. Yeah,

715
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.559
I'll just run down quick the rest
of the be sides that I've seen

716
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:51.039
getting some spring training run and you
just holler if you want Billy Cook.

717
00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:53.480
That's all got into a game.
But I don't think he has had a

718
00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:59.599
plate appearance. Alan Castro heard a
beast is getting a good amount of run

719
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:04.000
there because on base percentage is like
seven hundred or something classic. But he

720
00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:06.760
does, you know, he gets
ground balls and gets on bass. You

721
00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:10.559
know, he's sort of like Shanuel
without the super accelerated timeline to the bigs.

722
00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:15.119
And I still think the Herdabiest is
sort of a valuable hitter. Again,

723
00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:20.960
like is in not the best context. So his skill set probably doesn't

724
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:23.360
play up at Great American Ballpark like
it might at some other places. And

725
00:50:23.519 --> 00:50:27.360
there's also a bunch of guys in
front of him, But I still like

726
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:30.760
his skills. Yeah, Ethan O'donald's
gotten into a few games. Dian Fries,

727
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:36.599
Ryan Ritter, Jimmy Harron. See
my guy Miguel Palmer popped a home

728
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:39.760
run the other day. Yeah,
Gustavo Campero, who Joe, Yes,

729
00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:45.480
this sat down nicely, Isaac Collins, Juan Baiez, Ordered Fajardo, Cooper,

730
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:50.119
Bauman, Matt Krun. Have you
watched any Kroun or paid any attention

731
00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:52.960
to Krun? I saw one of
the games that Krun was in. I

732
00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:55.840
don't think I saw a plate appearances, but I saw him play. He's

733
00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.239
playing right field in that game,
and I think it's been a quiet bring

734
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:04.480
training for him so far. But
he's again a guy that's like upper minor

735
00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:08.000
league depth for an organization that doesn't
have a lot of great outfielders. So

736
00:51:08.119 --> 00:51:13.159
I think Krone in Philadelphia could be
interesting. Yeah, I agree, a

737
00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:15.079
guy that I kind of got my
eye on in my deeper leagues in case

738
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:22.400
down the Road, Bryan Rincombe,
terso Ornellis, Leo Reeves, Trenton Brooks.

739
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:24.440
I saw my guy Alex I had
Discernia got into a game, but

740
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:29.039
he didn't get an AB and then
oh, your guy, Blaye Krim has

741
00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:34.760
gotten quite a bit of run and
is I think both have been doing what

742
00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:38.199
they do, like hitting the ball
and playing mediocre first base, you know,

743
00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:44.599
like they're both old for level quality
professional hitters, but I think they're

744
00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:49.320
pretty good and they seem to have
continued that at There's still just going to

745
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.719
be in triple A. Huh yeah, I think so. Outside of an

746
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:57.079
injury of some kind, I don't
see him cracking it. But let's talk

747
00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:00.480
about Ornelli's for a little bit,
because he's he's seen some run and as

748
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:07.480
I mentioned earlier, the Padres really
seemed to be running out their backup squad

749
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:12.760
a lot. So I mentioned that
the top two guys in kind of the

750
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:17.039
prospectum kind of sub age twenty seven
have seen the most played appearances thus far

751
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:22.000
this spring are Eggy Rosario, a
former target of mine that I still think

752
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:27.000
has some talent and sort of had
last year ruined by injury, and Jacob

753
00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:30.159
Marci, who is another one that
a lot of the kind of scout the

754
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:36.599
stat line type models really liked.
But he's got underwhelming power and sort of

755
00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:40.480
looks funny, you know, an
athletic looking but keeps getting opportunities and hits

756
00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:43.880
pretty well, you know, not
a lot of power, but good on

757
00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:46.039
base and I think he plays all
right defense. And they've played both those

758
00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:51.599
guys at a few different spots.
Jackson Merrill is sixth on the list at

759
00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:55.440
twenty five plate appearances. Grand Polly
tied there also with twenty five plate appearances

760
00:52:55.480 --> 00:53:00.920
coming into today, and both continue
to show that they look like leaguers out

761
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:06.880
there. So I think that that
list of San Diego depth, including Ornellis

762
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:09.719
because he's gotten a lot of run
in the outfield there, I think that

763
00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:15.400
they're giving each of them an opportunity
to win a job. In the case

764
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.960
of Rosario, it's probably in field
backup, in the case of Marci and

765
00:53:20.039 --> 00:53:23.800
Merril, it might be outfielder like
left field, even centerfield. Wouldn't be

766
00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:29.719
surprised if all of those guys,
including Polly, see significant time in the

767
00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:31.760
biggs this year. And I like
all of them. I think they're all

768
00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:37.760
quality prospects and obviously more owned than
most of the b siders that we're talking

769
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:43.719
about outside of Ornellis, But I
think that San Diego still are trying to

770
00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:47.039
compete pretty hard, and they've got
some significant holes that they're trying to patch

771
00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:50.920
and some of the some combination of
these guys I think is going to fill

772
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:54.800
those needs. We had talked about
this during first year players stuff. What

773
00:53:54.840 --> 00:54:00.880
are your initial thoughts on for Melo? The swing looks frint than it did

774
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:04.320
at the end of last year.
I don't know if you picked up on

775
00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:08.480
that. He's seemingly trying to reduce
the arm bar that he has with his

776
00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:15.000
right arm his bottom hand. It
was somewhat pronounced in his time in the

777
00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:19.360
colleague playoffs last year, but I
think it looks a little bit more direct

778
00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:23.039
to the ball. And he's fast. He is, he's got plus speed

779
00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:29.679
and in a couple of my fypds
this past year in the categories leagues,

780
00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:32.559
I've tried to target him later on. You know, he has less hype

781
00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:37.000
than a lot of the guys that
go before him, but with that speed

782
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:40.079
upside, I think that there's some
real it's pretty exciting, and he's hit

783
00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:44.079
a couple of balls pretty hard too. I've been pretty impressed. You know,

784
00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:47.239
he got beat one at bad I
forget who was pitching against him,

785
00:54:47.239 --> 00:54:51.840
but he got beat by what I
thought was sort of a mediocre fastball up

786
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:54.599
and away from a rity, but
it was really the only swing that I've

787
00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:59.440
seen of his so far the spring
that was non competitive, I thought the

788
00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:01.840
others he's done a pretty good job
of swinging at strikes, taking balls,

789
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:05.480
and when he hits it, he's
for the most part, hit it pretty

790
00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:09.119
hard. Now, I've liked my
looks so far, I'm cautiously optimistic about

791
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:15.400
Farmel. We've been seeing him get
more run than Colt so far. That

792
00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:21.199
is interesting, and I wonder if
that's partly because Cole Young is sort of

793
00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:25.440
in that mix to and is a
level above a pretty good early spring too.

794
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:30.400
Young is And I heard a couple
of quotes from I think this was

795
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:36.239
Depoto a few days ago, just
gushing about Emerson and how I think this

796
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:38.000
was in relation to the fact that
he's bulked up quite a bit. And

797
00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:45.119
Emerson looks much more physical that he
did even last years as a pretty physical

798
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:49.000
high schooler, And I wonder if
they're trying to make sure that he gets

799
00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:52.719
as many reps as possible. So
I kind of have a feeling he's playing

800
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:57.880
on the inner squad games and in
the backfields rather than playing with the big

801
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:00.519
club, because you know, he
still is pretty young, and he's got

802
00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:02.360
into a couple of games, I
think, But yeah, it's it's been

803
00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:07.159
mostly the Cole Young Ryan Bliss show
for the B squad in the big league

804
00:56:07.159 --> 00:56:13.159
spring training games. So, uh, Emmanuel Valdez hit a home run the

805
00:56:13.239 --> 00:56:15.880
other day and I think a ball
off the wall. But you know who

806
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:21.239
has impressed me. I've lost a
couple of games of Yeah, man,

807
00:56:21.559 --> 00:56:24.679
he's got a freaking cannon. Dude, you've got a cannon and he's hit

808
00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:30.079
He's hit some balls quite how hard. I mean he might get a chance

809
00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:32.719
to get quite a bit of run
here. Well, what do you think

810
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:37.880
about them? With the Gelido injury
news? They were in an interesting spot.

811
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.800
They've got a few young guys that
I'd like them to see them play

812
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:45.119
and see what they've got. Valdez
has one, Bray's another, and then

813
00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:50.519
the crop that's kind of just below
them in the minor leagues I think is

814
00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:54.599
pretty interesting. And so you know, with Mayor and Rumin Anthony coming fairly

815
00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:59.719
quickly along with Saddan Rafaela, there
are some spots that I think they want

816
00:56:59.719 --> 00:57:04.400
to see who's going to fill.
And in retrospect, I wonder if the

817
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:07.440
O'Neill move was a bad one.
For them, and that they're kind of

818
00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:12.760
locking up one of the spots where
you would rather see do you have something

819
00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:15.559
with one of your minor leaguers.
And I don't know, it's an interesting

820
00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:17.960
setup that they've got, and I
just think they're in a tough spot with

821
00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:22.119
the Al East and the injuries that
they've had, and they're sort of middling

822
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:27.039
pitching staff overall, and what do
you think that they're going to try and

823
00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:30.760
do the game? I was just
watching there is talking about all this in

824
00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:34.920
the booth. One thing that they're
talking about that seemed pretty certain is if

825
00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:37.920
Raphael makes the club, he's the
center fielder. But I don't know if

826
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:42.159
that's really going to happen. But
yeah, so you got O'Neill one and

827
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.480
left, and then Duran. I
mean, he's got to be the center

828
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:47.639
fielder, right, they would because
where's he where's he going to move?

829
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:52.480
If they if Rafael is in center, actually they said that they would move

830
00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:55.880
him to left field if that was
the case, right, And you got

831
00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:00.880
right right, You got your set
of d right, And I don't know,

832
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:05.599
I mean, I think a Brave's
at least this early is looking like

833
00:58:05.800 --> 00:58:07.320
gonna make make the club. So, I mean, I think Raphael is

834
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:10.719
the guy out right. I don't
think he'd break currently, that's true.

835
00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:15.079
We might have touched on this.
I sent will You're a bray you often

836
00:58:15.079 --> 00:58:19.880
a trade in one of my thirty
teamers because that team is pretty well set

837
00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:23.679
up to compete, and I really
wanted all of my hitters to have locked

838
00:58:23.719 --> 00:58:29.559
in starting jobs, and I traded
away in different deals Tyler O'Neill and will

839
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:30.679
you are a braid You not because
I don't like both of them. I

840
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:34.639
think they're both good players that are
I think are going to have pretty good

841
00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:38.119
fantasy years. What I'm worried about
is the playing time for both of them.

842
00:58:38.239 --> 00:58:43.960
I wonder if Tyler O'Neil doesn't bounce
back the way that I sort of

843
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:46.639
hope he's going to, if he
and a bray You start split in time

844
00:58:46.679 --> 00:58:50.920
and they've got Duran out there,
you know they're going to give him six

845
00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:55.199
hundred played appearances as long as he's
healthy in center platoon A bray you and

846
00:58:55.679 --> 00:59:00.760
O'Neil in in left or right and
bring up Rafaela to see what he's got.

847
00:59:00.920 --> 00:59:04.480
Play Yoshidah some and left. I
don't know, you know, like

848
00:59:04.599 --> 00:59:07.519
I'm just I'm wondering if there's going
to be a bit of a time share

849
00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:10.920
there, and I think it's suboptimal
for this team and the competitive the place

850
00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:15.000
they are on the competitive wind curve. So it's that's what I'm saying.

851
00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:19.679
It's sort of a fascinating spot to
be in, and the Gildo injury does

852
00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:22.800
not do anything good for their near
term future, and so I wonder if

853
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:30.719
like they eat some money and ship
out Story and even Yoshida and Paveta and

854
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:34.360
see, like, all right,
let's see what we can do with these

855
00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:37.559
young guys and see who's going to
be part of the next score, you

856
00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:39.519
know, because there's a lot of
good things to like. Justin Kassas is

857
00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:44.400
twenty four, Devers is still just
twenty seven, and both those guys sure

858
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:49.159
look like really really strong middle of
the order hitters. There's a lot of

859
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:54.360
interesting guys in Valdez and Grissom and
Mayer and Anthony, along with a bray

860
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:58.519
You and Duran that you could see
in a couple of years that that's like

861
00:59:58.599 --> 01:00:01.800
a new revamped lineup. And I'm
just worried they're going to start some of

862
01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:07.920
the development by sticking to Trevor's story
and Yoshida and O'Neil instead of giving some

863
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:10.159
of the young guys a little bit
of run, And this might be the

864
01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:14.039
year to do that, to see
what they've gotten those young guys. So

865
01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:15.800
I'm curious to see how it's going
to play out for them. It could

866
01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:19.840
definitely turn into that sort of year, right, I mean, things are

867
01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:22.719
never as good or as bad as
they seem for one, right, And

868
01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:27.480
we talk a lot about we'll spend
months in the off season looking at roster

869
01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:30.280
resource and how everything lines up and
all that stuff, And it's like spending

870
01:00:30.320 --> 01:00:34.480
months on like the time trial for
like the Indy five hundred, right,

871
01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:37.559
and like once the race starts,
it's like, no, that shit matters

872
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:39.360
anymore. Man, Like it changes
in like two weeks. You know,

873
01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:44.280
I'm much more of a just get
get the skills, get the talent,

874
01:00:44.360 --> 01:00:46.639
get the players that I like,
and then it'll just work itself out.

875
01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:51.119
Right. But the other night,
looking I'm giving a good look at like

876
01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:53.800
my three thirty team leagues and how
jobs might be, I was like,

877
01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:58.039
man, I like all these players, but not way too many dudes who

878
01:00:58.239 --> 01:01:01.559
don't have a full time job.
Right now, Like this could be a

879
01:01:01.639 --> 01:01:06.480
rough beginning of the season. Yeah, And as far as Dynasty's strategy goes,

880
01:01:06.519 --> 01:01:08.639
that's one of the tough choices that
you got to make. You might

881
01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:13.320
have to spend away a guy that
you really like, that you've held onto

882
01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:16.039
and stock has risen, and then
you send him away in sort of a

883
01:01:16.079 --> 01:01:21.760
bad trade. I trade you lose
because you need to consolidate, or you

884
01:01:21.840 --> 01:01:23.960
need to make sure that the guys
that are in your starting lineup have full

885
01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:29.400
time gigs because playing time is king. Yeah. I have so many I

886
01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:32.119
have so many pitching staffs in my
thirties. Was pictures that I really like,

887
01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:35.480
but it's like, yeah, they're
sitting like the sixth, seventh,

888
01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:38.119
eighth guy right now. Yeah,
Yeah, I'm going to be so much

889
01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:42.239
better later in the year. I
think a couple more bats Matt that I

890
01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:45.000
wanted to touch on real quick here. I thought it was interesting that the

891
01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:52.000
Rockies brought Sam Hilliard back that might
maybe not put a little damper on my

892
01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:55.599
Sean Bouchard hopes of him playing right
field and getting that every day. The

893
01:01:55.679 --> 01:02:00.159
Shard's not off to the hottest start
while a lot of the other Rockies are.

894
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:02.960
You think they're gonna platoon them.
I mean, Bouchard's arrighty and Hilliard's

895
01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:07.880
a lefty, so yeah, we'll
see. I mean slam Hillary is just

896
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:10.440
strikes out so much. But they
seem to just not care about any of

897
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:15.480
that. You you follow the Rockies
pretty closely, have they said that Chris

898
01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:20.119
Bryan is just the everyday first baseman, Like they don't plan on sticking them

899
01:02:20.119 --> 01:02:22.440
back out in the outfield at all. I think in that so many words,

900
01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:27.840
pretty much Black has talked about how
right field first base DH is like

901
01:02:27.920 --> 01:02:31.440
his room to play with the lineup
and rotate guys. I imagine they don't

902
01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:36.400
want to run Brian the outfield when
they have some other options. I think

903
01:02:36.400 --> 01:02:40.639
they really did do want to take
that job and run with it. The

904
01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:45.199
every day right Bouchard's interesting, and
I think there are some skills there that

905
01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:50.159
are are worth seeing what he can
do. So I'm certainly for that,

906
01:02:50.360 --> 01:02:53.639
Like I never want to encourage the
Rockies not to play one of their younger

907
01:02:53.679 --> 01:02:57.880
guys and find out what they've got. Like, I think that's a good

908
01:02:57.960 --> 01:03:00.079
shift that they've made in recent years. If they are willing to let Tovar

909
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:02.800
run out there as a twenty one
year old and see what he can do

910
01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:07.039
even when he struggles. But I'm
also sort of wondering, are they going

911
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:10.440
to try and get Montero some of
bats. Montero's a guy that his strikeout

912
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:14.960
rate today accepting I think he had
over three three k's today, but coming

913
01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:19.360
into today he had like an eight
percent strikeout rate. His swinging strike percentage

914
01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:22.360
was like one percent or something.
Definitely went up today after three k's.

915
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:27.639
But he's somebody that I've always liked. The power the bat seems like it's

916
01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:31.880
it plays in course. He just
really can't play defense anywhere other than first

917
01:03:32.079 --> 01:03:38.679
sort of. So I wondered if
there's a lineup where maybe Montero is playing

918
01:03:38.719 --> 01:03:43.800
first and Bryant's out in left field, and they shift Jones over to right

919
01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:46.360
with Doyle and center. Have they
talked about that as an option? Do

920
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:49.880
you think Black's gonna go with that. I don't think we want to take

921
01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:53.079
Jones out of left field, just
because the size of the outfield there.

922
01:03:53.280 --> 01:03:58.239
I think you want your rangeier guys
and left and center. But Montero,

923
01:03:58.360 --> 01:04:01.599
I think is best as a day
and he was really pretty scorching hat to

924
01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:04.000
the end of the year. Like
he had figured some stuff out, and

925
01:04:04.039 --> 01:04:08.880
ironically, Charlie Blackman was the guy
who helped him figure some stuff out,

926
01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:12.400
and they resigned Charlie Blackman. Who's
going to be their DH guy. I

927
01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:15.800
condone that decision. I like that
decision a lot. I think what you

928
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:20.280
might see, or maybe what they'd
like to see is maybe Charlie as the

929
01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:25.920
season progresses, just fits a little
bit more and more and Montero starts to

930
01:04:26.199 --> 01:04:29.159
you know, if you can continue
to progress, maybe he takes over that

931
01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:36.159
DH role or well as that and
fingrast step charts are projecting Montero for three

932
01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:42.239
hundred and fifty plate appearances, so
that's you know, more than or write

933
01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:45.920
about as many as Bouchard elist as
more than anyone else on their bench.

934
01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:49.800
So I mean I could see that. I think it's certainly possible. And

935
01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:54.440
you're also talking about I mean,
Brian, it's just a matter of time

936
01:04:54.480 --> 01:04:57.440
until he gets hurt, right and
then I hope not. I want to

937
01:04:57.440 --> 01:05:00.840
see a bounce back from him.
It's a sad tenure in Colorado, I

938
01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:02.920
hope. I think he's a good
hitter for sure. I think our guy

939
01:05:03.039 --> 01:05:08.760
Hunter Goodman's going to be starting in
triple A to begin the season. Yeah,

940
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.239
I think that's probably right. You
know, what do you think about

941
01:05:11.239 --> 01:05:15.079
Beef You think there's another tier there
that's been a time in a year or

942
01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:17.679
two. I think there could be
there, just hasn't been enough major league

943
01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:20.719
run yet to say. But I
mean, I think he's more or less

944
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:25.039
proven, you know, for his
for that sort of profile and that sort

945
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:28.519
of hitter. I think he's proven
at every level except for one. Well,

946
01:05:28.519 --> 01:05:30.719
while we're on the Rockies, let's
say something nice about their pitchers.

947
01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:36.960
I saw you talking earlier today about
Tyler Kinley and Justin Lawrence and they're having

948
01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:41.960
a bit of a battle for that
closer spot. I just took Tyler Kinley

949
01:05:42.119 --> 01:05:46.519
in like the forty seventh or forty
eighth round of fifty round draft and hold

950
01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:49.760
last week, what do you got
on those guys like you think that there

951
01:05:49.960 --> 01:05:53.679
they seem like the two arms to
own in the back of that bullpen.

952
01:05:53.800 --> 01:05:57.440
But they are their skills or is
it just opportunity? No, I think

953
01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:01.039
there's skills. Lawrence man last year
talking about this with my guy SPP.

954
01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:04.199
I don't know what month it was
in the season. Maybe it was around

955
01:06:04.199 --> 01:06:08.000
All Star break, maybe a little
bit after. But at that point,

956
01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:12.320
like Lawrence was like a pretty high
war guy because you know, their urders

957
01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:15.920
were so bad and they were running
Bullpen was running out there quite a bit,

958
01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:18.360
and I thought Lawrence was fantastic,
and they were running him out there

959
01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:21.559
so often. I thought he was
excellent. And then I think he kind

960
01:06:21.559 --> 01:06:25.679
of tailed off towards the end because
I think he was overused. And then

961
01:06:25.719 --> 01:06:29.320
of course Kinley he came back from
his injury last year. I don't know

962
01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:31.559
how many innings he got in twenty
or something like that, and they were

963
01:06:31.719 --> 01:06:36.159
real great, but his end of
twenty twenty one to the beginning of what

964
01:06:36.280 --> 01:06:41.599
the first twenty some innings of twenty
twenty two were just insane. Dude.

965
01:06:41.599 --> 01:06:45.280
I haven't combined those two stretches,
but I mean he was doing something crazy

966
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:50.079
like an Era under one, striking
everybody at like he was an elite relief

967
01:06:50.159 --> 01:06:54.400
pitcher for a short span there,
and then the injury occurred. Yeah,

968
01:06:54.440 --> 01:06:58.880
and he had a rough GOVID in
Colorado last year. But he's one that

969
01:06:59.079 --> 01:07:01.280
I think the skills be a little
bit certainly better than he showed last year,

970
01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:03.920
and I wonder if he's going to
see some saves this year. I

971
01:07:04.039 --> 01:07:06.960
like both those guys quite a bit. And there are two relievers that could

972
01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:11.159
be in darn near any bullpen in
the majors. Like they're legit. They're

973
01:07:11.199 --> 01:07:14.840
just the their numbers are going to
get a little bit wonky being in Colorado

974
01:07:14.880 --> 01:07:17.639
and all that, but pitching on
the moon, they're legit. Neither position

975
01:07:17.719 --> 01:07:21.960
battles that have popped out to you
this spring that seem worth noting. Well,

976
01:07:23.079 --> 01:07:28.199
you know I traded uh Luis anhel
Akunya with Darryl herne Is in that

977
01:07:28.280 --> 01:07:31.320
one episode. Do you think Herne's
is going to break camp? Is the

978
01:07:31.639 --> 01:07:38.039
starting third baseman shortstop with the A's. Oh no, I think he should.

979
01:07:38.199 --> 01:07:41.920
I don't think Nick Allen is very
good. You know, Nick Allen

980
01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.039
had a pretty good run in the
minor leagues last year in the upper miners.

981
01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:49.480
I think some of that might have
been driven by the PCL environment.

982
01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:54.519
And Hernees feels a little like Joey
Ortiz's light to me, I think you

983
01:07:54.559 --> 01:07:58.159
can pick it on either a third
and short, but I think the skills

984
01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:00.639
feel a little bit like Joey or
to me, what do you think about

985
01:08:00.679 --> 01:08:03.360
that as kind of a cop I
don't hate it. I don't remember when

986
01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:06.480
we were when we were talking about
him, but he was a guy who

987
01:08:06.679 --> 01:08:10.480
it wasn't obnoxious, but he hit
it on the ground a little too much.

988
01:08:10.480 --> 01:08:14.280
If I remember correctly, there is
more, maybe some more hard hit

989
01:08:14.519 --> 01:08:16.359
than you might think in that bat. It just might not be the right

990
01:08:16.439 --> 01:08:20.199
shape, but yeah, trile A. You know, average EV was eighty

991
01:08:20.279 --> 01:08:25.159
nine, which is right around big
league average, and MACS one twelve,

992
01:08:25.239 --> 01:08:30.359
which is smalid, but long jangle
three point two way too low. Fifty

993
01:08:30.159 --> 01:08:34.039
ground balls too low. And that's
why I don't remember. I mean when

994
01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:39.680
I first took him as my Orioles
B side whatever year, that was what

995
01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:43.359
drew me to him was kind of
like the pop in his bat. I

996
01:08:43.479 --> 01:08:45.960
thought there might be more of a
budding home run hitter in there, but

997
01:08:46.119 --> 01:08:48.640
yeah, the shapes now, but
yeah, I think he's definitely got the

998
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:51.239
glove. I think he's got the
arm to play third, and he's got

999
01:08:51.319 --> 01:08:56.199
the skills. I mean, there's
one league that I play in that we

1000
01:08:56.319 --> 01:09:00.359
might have talked about. It's a
points league that does penalize strikeouts a bit,

1001
01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:03.720
and he's one that I grabbed as
a depth guy for you know,

1002
01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:08.600
if he plays third or plays short, he might be useful in that league.

1003
01:09:08.600 --> 01:09:13.479
It's pretty deep, and his projected
strikeout rate is seventeen percent, but

1004
01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:15.439
I'm going to take the under on
that. I think he showed a new

1005
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:19.119
level at Double A and Triple A
last year, striking out just fifteen point

1006
01:09:19.159 --> 01:09:24.479
six percent of the time over two
hundred and three hundred and eight plate appearances

1007
01:09:24.760 --> 01:09:28.840
at Double A, and her Name's
only struck out ten point seven percent of

1008
01:09:28.880 --> 01:09:31.760
the time at Triple A over two
hundred and fifty three plate appearances, And

1009
01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:35.359
that's like, Yeah, the PCL
is a great place to hit, and

1010
01:09:35.439 --> 01:09:40.520
that includes being a better than average
place as far as strikeout rate goes.

1011
01:09:40.600 --> 01:09:45.479
But there's real bat to ball skill
here. And again the profile is just

1012
01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:46.960
he hits the ball on the ground
a bit too much, but everything else

1013
01:09:46.960 --> 01:09:49.920
about it I kind of like,
I don't know. Something about her Na

1014
01:09:50.039 --> 01:09:54.720
is that he feels like a sneaky
guy that a little bit of elevation and

1015
01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:58.359
some run and he could take that
third base job and hold it all year.

1016
01:09:58.479 --> 01:10:01.920
Got my eye on there, and
then I'm a little bummed with when

1017
01:10:02.159 --> 01:10:08.720
Richie Pelacios is getting his run.
But I still really like this profile.

1018
01:10:08.880 --> 01:10:11.279
I don't know if you've watched him
at all, but they had him playing

1019
01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:15.680
some second base and then he made
just a fantastic defensive play at second base,

1020
01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:19.279
and I saw he took Carlos Redond. Was that today? Yep?

1021
01:10:19.439 --> 01:10:21.960
Today? Yeah? So I don't
know. I don't you know. And

1022
01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:26.439
the Rays are kind of tricky and
tough. I don't know what they're gonna

1023
01:10:26.439 --> 01:10:30.479
do. Like out of anyone that
roster resource might be the most off on

1024
01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:33.920
right now, Like it could be
dumb. I don't know, but is

1025
01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:39.039
so tough man. I like a
lot of these guys for different reasons.

1026
01:10:39.439 --> 01:10:44.359
Jose Series another guy that they project
him for five hundred play appearances, and

1027
01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:47.000
the OBP is going to be terrible. It's gonna be sub two eighty for

1028
01:10:47.079 --> 01:10:53.079
sure. But he does everything else
so well. Plays incredible defense, well,

1029
01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:57.560
turns and pulls his homers, and
he's gonna hit maybe twenty homers this

1030
01:10:57.640 --> 01:11:00.960
year, and he's talking about getting
up to swipe forty bags this year.

1031
01:11:01.079 --> 01:11:04.560
I saw some quote about that.
Yeah, Jose, get it. I

1032
01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:08.960
was watching the Red Sox raised game
the other day. He's talking about hitting

1033
01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:12.840
thirty home runs this year, talking
about his defense, there was like if

1034
01:11:12.840 --> 01:11:15.840
it had been a regular season game, which obviously isn't. It's just practice,

1035
01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:19.119
that dude would have got a lot
of shit the media because he like

1036
01:11:19.239 --> 01:11:23.800
quit on like two plays, like
almost like back to back. Yeah,

1037
01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:26.880
yeah, I don't know what that
was all about. Rais are tricky,

1038
01:11:26.920 --> 01:11:30.560
but he's another guy Matt that like, I love Plastio so like I love

1039
01:11:30.600 --> 01:11:33.039
the skill set, I love the
profile, I love what might be coming

1040
01:11:33.119 --> 01:11:36.399
there. So he's just gonna sit
on my team and we're gonna see what

1041
01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:40.279
happens. Yeah, the Raids are
so tricky, man. You know,

1042
01:11:40.359 --> 01:11:43.720
it's funny. I was talking with
you and back last week about some of

1043
01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:46.560
the glory days after we stopped courting, and I realized that a guy that

1044
01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:50.359
I played against in the Northland League, he's still kicking around for the Tampa

1045
01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:55.520
Bay Rays, Rob Brantley. I
saw him in the spring training game the

1046
01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:59.439
other day, and that would played
against each other. Yeah, that's funny.

1047
01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:02.039
Okay. Now we spent a lot
of time talking about Miranda, but

1048
01:12:02.159 --> 01:12:05.960
uh, he's had a good little
early spring here. He's hitting it now.

1049
01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:10.800
I saw sounds like he's going to
be It sounds like first base DH

1050
01:12:11.119 --> 01:12:14.840
is going to be his only opportunity, which, yeah, and there's some

1051
01:12:15.159 --> 01:12:18.159
competition, but I mean, if
you keep swinging the bat like he is

1052
01:12:18.239 --> 01:12:21.720
right now, I know he's getting
kind of maybe a little bit of limited

1053
01:12:21.720 --> 01:12:25.800
time in the lineup because I think
there's still uh, you know, being

1054
01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:29.800
conscious of his health and that could
putting too much on his plate just quite

1055
01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:34.520
yet, but uh, he's been
swinging it. Minnesota. Minnesota's just another

1056
01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:41.680
interesting set that if everybody's healthy,
that lineup could be really good. But

1057
01:12:42.119 --> 01:12:46.159
if they aren't and they have some
clear people that have some difficulties staying healthy

1058
01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:50.640
and Buckston and Lewis and Korea,
that's a lineup that can just fall apart,

1059
01:12:50.800 --> 01:12:55.319
and that could be the Marina's benefit, you know, like this might

1060
01:12:55.359 --> 01:12:59.239
be one of those organizations that you
target for one of those death guys that

1061
01:12:59.479 --> 01:13:02.800
might be on on that fringe and
just expect there to be some injuries at

1062
01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:06.039
the top part of the lineup and
the fill in people are going to be

1063
01:13:06.119 --> 01:13:11.199
quite good. You know. Walner
and Kyle Farmer and Jeffers like those are

1064
01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:15.279
guys that maybe you want to place
a bet on for cheap and see if

1065
01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:17.760
they run into four hundred and fifty
five hundred played appearances. Yeah, and

1066
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:21.279
it does seem to me like the
Twins, no matter how how crowded their

1067
01:13:21.359 --> 01:13:26.800
lineup might seem at the beginning of
the year, there's always some guys that

1068
01:13:27.199 --> 01:13:30.119
seemed to crack it and do some
things. Yeah, like Willie Knello.

1069
01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:33.840
He was super useful in one of
my deeper road leagues last year, like

1070
01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:39.399
infield and outfield eligibility, stole a
bunch of bases, like and he was

1071
01:13:39.439 --> 01:13:42.119
free. He was a waiver wire
guy, even in a deep league.

1072
01:13:42.159 --> 01:13:45.399
So Minnesota is definitely an interesting spot. And they've got some really interesting young

1073
01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:51.159
minor leaguers too. Obviously, my
boy Manuel Rodriguez doing his thing in spring

1074
01:13:51.199 --> 01:13:56.159
training, striking out looking a lot, but hit a mammoth home run off

1075
01:13:56.159 --> 01:13:59.720
Craig Kimball the other day. And
Austin Martin they're talking about folding into the

1076
01:13:59.720 --> 01:14:03.279
lineup up and seeing if he can
place Mountfield. He's still around brooks Lee

1077
01:14:03.399 --> 01:14:06.680
too. Yeah, and and was
better a bit last year, you know,

1078
01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:12.039
still not good, certainly not top
five draft draft pick worthy, but

1079
01:14:12.239 --> 01:14:15.720
he did look a bit better last
year. And then the last bat I

1080
01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:19.960
wanted to bring up Matt is edist
Leonard who's had It's amazing what can happen

1081
01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:25.920
once you get a bat out of
a horrible development system like the Dodgers and

1082
01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:30.119
it comes over to the Tigers.
And I mean he was he was smoking

1083
01:14:30.119 --> 01:14:32.760
it last year man in Triple A
and he's having a hot spring now.

1084
01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:36.199
And I don't think i'd like wager
money that he's going to break camp,

1085
01:14:36.239 --> 01:14:41.479
but I think he's got a chance
to and be a bench infield type of

1086
01:14:41.520 --> 01:14:45.239
guy, or or maybe he just
sits in Triple A until there's an opportunity.

1087
01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:46.680
I've always kind of been a fan, you know. There was a

1088
01:14:46.760 --> 01:14:51.319
time when I wondered if he was
just as talented as the as the Martes

1089
01:14:51.479 --> 01:14:56.359
Luciano's and to bars that were in
the same league. And he kind of

1090
01:14:56.399 --> 01:14:59.520
just seemed to sputter out a little
bit with the Dodgers. But they might

1091
01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:02.520
have a train. I don't know. I keep coming back to this Detroit

1092
01:15:02.560 --> 01:15:09.479
Tigers team and Eddie's Leonard is one
of those guys. Ryan Kriidler is another

1093
01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:13.479
one that I was on after his
really good twenty twenty two and he got

1094
01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:16.279
shuttled back and forth between the Bigs
and Triple A last year and he's having

1095
01:15:16.279 --> 01:15:19.720
a great spring. I think I
saw he's walking like thirty five percent of

1096
01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:24.279
the time in spring training. You
know, again, small samples, but

1097
01:15:24.479 --> 01:15:28.399
it's always interesting to see that.
And then another guy that I've been on

1098
01:15:28.439 --> 01:15:32.359
as a B side esque bat for
years now is Buddy Kennedy who ended up

1099
01:15:32.359 --> 01:15:36.079
in the Tigers organization, and I
think he still hasn't swung and miss yet

1100
01:15:36.119 --> 01:15:42.359
this this spring training in limited sample. So they've got an interesting Triple A

1101
01:15:42.479 --> 01:15:45.880
team. It's going to be pretty
fascinating to watch and see who sticks.

1102
01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:50.119
Because I've already talked about Akil Badu
before I know when sel Perez is another

1103
01:15:50.159 --> 01:15:53.880
one that we've talked about is like
we like the bat, not sure where

1104
01:15:53.920 --> 01:15:57.680
he's going to play on defense,
justin Henry Malloy Justice big B. This

1105
01:15:57.760 --> 01:16:01.239
is a really interesting upper miners set
for the Tigers, and I like a

1106
01:16:01.239 --> 01:16:04.199
lot of their big leaders too.
Tigers might be one of my picks to

1107
01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:09.279
overperform, and I think that they
could win the ALE Central this year.

1108
01:16:09.399 --> 01:16:14.000
Yeah. I mean, it's not
like that's some huge undoable task I'm going

1109
01:16:14.079 --> 01:16:15.399
to get on. I'm going to
get on DraftKings and I'm going to start

1110
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:19.039
laying a bunch of prop bets on
the Toledo mud Hens because that seems so

1111
01:16:19.119 --> 01:16:24.000
good. They sound good. How
many games do you think the Toledo mud

1112
01:16:24.000 --> 01:16:30.239
Hens would win in the BIGS this
year? More than the White Sox?

1113
01:16:30.880 --> 01:16:36.239
Probably not, but it's not that
crazy, like, especially when you look

1114
01:16:36.239 --> 01:16:41.399
at the pitching depth there, like
that is a big league rotation. It

1115
01:16:41.399 --> 01:16:45.359
wouldn't be I think out of the
gates like great. But there's a lot

1116
01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:47.840
of guys that I really really like
there. I think the problem would be

1117
01:16:47.880 --> 01:16:50.520
is that defense I think would be
bad because I think a lot of those

1118
01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:55.239
guys are more bat first hitters,
which we care more about for fantasy,

1119
01:16:55.439 --> 01:16:59.319
and the pitchers are good, but
I think that their defense might be a

1120
01:16:59.359 --> 01:17:02.600
little bit underwhelming. Although again you
could say that about the big league squad

1121
01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:09.119
two. I mean, is there
a plus defender in that lineup? Maybe

1122
01:17:09.159 --> 01:17:13.600
Parker Meadows. I don't know if
he's plus centerfielder. Yeah, Bias certainly

1123
01:17:13.680 --> 01:17:16.520
isn't anymore he was at one.
Any other bets you want to talk about,

1124
01:17:16.560 --> 01:17:20.800
Matt, we touched on pretty much
all of the other ones. The

1125
01:17:20.840 --> 01:17:26.279
only other two that I wanted to
touch on just talking about swinging strike rates.

1126
01:17:26.399 --> 01:17:30.560
One was Dylan CRU's swinging strike rates
so far is a little worrisome.

1127
01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:33.119
Caught a few of his games and
he does seem like there's a bit more

1128
01:17:33.199 --> 01:17:38.319
chase than he showed in college,
and maybe that's partly why he struggled a

1129
01:17:38.359 --> 01:17:40.840
bit at double A last year when
he met it up there. So that's

1130
01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:44.359
one just to keep an eye on. Slightly worrying at like thirty six percent

1131
01:17:44.479 --> 01:17:46.960
so far. I saw this going
around the other day, but it's still

1132
01:17:46.960 --> 01:17:51.279
true. Spencer Jones hasn't swung and
missed at a pitch yet, and you

1133
01:17:51.319 --> 01:17:55.720
and I've talked about this before.
There are other things that he needs to

1134
01:17:55.760 --> 01:18:00.840
do to tap into his massive potential, but not swinging missing is a pretty

1135
01:18:00.920 --> 01:18:04.920
big component of that. So that's
another one to watch. If if that

1136
01:18:05.239 --> 01:18:10.720
sticks and it brings his strike out
strikeout right down into the twenties, even

1137
01:18:10.920 --> 01:18:15.239
that is potentially really interesting, even
if he doesn't change his as launch aggle,

1138
01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:18.520
because he's again another guy that hits
the ball really hard but on the

1139
01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:21.720
ground a bit too much. So
that's one that you know, I might

1140
01:18:21.760 --> 01:18:27.760
be wrong about. I've been skeptical
of him changing two fundamental things about himself

1141
01:18:27.800 --> 01:18:31.119
as a hitter. But if he's
already doing one, maybe showing a little

1142
01:18:31.119 --> 01:18:36.000
bit better contact skills, that might
portend his ability to get to more of

1143
01:18:36.039 --> 01:18:40.359
his ceiling than than I think.
So I just wanted to mention that one.

1144
01:18:40.560 --> 01:18:44.000
I think other people are trumpeting it
from the rooftop rooftops who've been way

1145
01:18:44.000 --> 01:18:47.600
on Spencer Jones, but worth noting
when you're you might be wrong too.

1146
01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:55.800
So yeah, so, Matt,
some rotation battles here or what rotations are

1147
01:18:55.960 --> 01:18:58.920
standing out to you? Well?
I do of want. I don't wanted

1148
01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:03.359
to start off by pointing out how
your mantang really screwed up this spring,

1149
01:19:03.439 --> 01:19:10.119
I think because I agree that Giant's
rotation right now, like eek, what

1150
01:19:10.319 --> 01:19:13.560
is going on? Who is gonna
be there? They're not like in the

1151
01:19:13.640 --> 01:19:18.199
running for Snell or Montgomery, are
they? I've heard people wish casting Snell

1152
01:19:18.239 --> 01:19:24.760
there. But I think Zaidi said
that they're out. I think he said

1153
01:19:24.760 --> 01:19:29.880
they're done after the Chapman signing.
I think he basically said we're not in

1154
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:32.960
on any of the available free agents
from here and out where there's poop,

1155
01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:38.079
there's opportunity, right, I mean
so you've got Logan Webb great, he's

1156
01:19:38.119 --> 01:19:44.359
good. He's good. Yeah,
Kyle Harrison great potential, but I think

1157
01:19:44.399 --> 01:19:46.680
there's still a lot to be proven
there. I mean, I know that

1158
01:19:46.720 --> 01:19:51.199
the walks got much much better,
but don't feel super safe about that.

1159
01:19:51.279 --> 01:19:56.920
And then back that up with Jordan
Hicks, is that really okay? I

1160
01:19:56.920 --> 01:20:00.840
don't know his his start the end
other day, I don't think was televised,

1161
01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:03.760
but I wanted to see it because
I think he'd showed a couple of

1162
01:20:04.079 --> 01:20:09.399
new pitches. I think he was
throwing curveball that he hadn't been throwing before.

1163
01:20:09.680 --> 01:20:13.560
He'd been talking about throwing two seam
and four seam and that that was

1164
01:20:13.600 --> 01:20:15.039
going to be a big thing.
But I didn't. I didn't see that,

1165
01:20:15.199 --> 01:20:18.960
and I think the results were mixed. He's talking about was he talking

1166
01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:23.720
at all about throwing strikes? I
don't care what pitch he used to do.

1167
01:20:23.880 --> 01:20:29.199
Yeah, I do think that was
continues to be a focus for him.

1168
01:20:29.560 --> 01:20:32.359
He was throwing way slower on purpose. I think he was throwing in

1169
01:20:32.399 --> 01:20:35.760
the mid nineties as opposed to over
one hundred. But I think that some

1170
01:20:35.840 --> 01:20:40.079
of that was supposed to be on
purpose as well. Again, I don't

1171
01:20:40.119 --> 01:20:43.640
know how that's going to go.
I love my boy Keaton Win, but

1172
01:20:44.199 --> 01:20:47.760
he's not healthy right now. And
he's a guy whereby walks and that you

1173
01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:51.800
know, his nasty splitter walks are
a thing. So I mean it's like

1174
01:20:53.039 --> 01:20:58.079
it's like the Giants rotation is to
walks, what the Rockies lineup is to

1175
01:20:58.199 --> 01:21:00.960
strikeouts. Here, I mean,
this is pretty iffy. And then what

1176
01:21:01.039 --> 01:21:05.239
they know? They got Black penciled
in who fourth, fifth, sixth inning

1177
01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:09.800
dive there, Matt Black? You
think that's what they're gonna do with him?

1178
01:21:10.039 --> 01:21:15.199
Well, no, just got Yeah, he was awful. Later I

1179
01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:20.840
think they got Spencer Howard somewhere in
there on fanglass, like, I don't

1180
01:21:20.840 --> 01:21:26.159
know, he's not in their death
charts, and they go they go pretty

1181
01:21:26.199 --> 01:21:29.079
deep, I think. So,
I don't know. I'd be surprised if

1182
01:21:29.319 --> 01:21:33.520
Howard gets any starting pitcher ran because
because Tristan back, he's he's like down,

1183
01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:36.640
he's out right yeah, And so
man, man, this is like

1184
01:21:36.720 --> 01:21:41.640
your boy Tang would be in there
right now, would definitely have a shot.

1185
01:21:41.880 --> 01:21:44.119
So I don't I don't know,
I don't know what the Giants,

1186
01:21:44.439 --> 01:21:48.800
well, the issue. The issue
is all the injuries with it because I

1187
01:21:48.840 --> 01:21:55.319
think the one positive note for them
is Alex Cobbs sounds like he's talking about

1188
01:21:55.479 --> 01:21:59.319
or turning from his injury sooner.
You know, he's got a hip thing,

1189
01:21:59.640 --> 01:22:01.840
and they're saying that he's going to
get one hundred and five innings,

1190
01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:05.920
and I think that might be based
on older information. So if he's more

1191
01:22:06.000 --> 01:22:11.439
like one hundred and forty, then
this rotation starts to look a bit better.

1192
01:22:11.680 --> 01:22:15.640
Obviously, Robbie Ray is going to
come back in the probably August time

1193
01:22:15.720 --> 01:22:18.439
frame. I'm guessing it's after the
All Star break, and I'm pretty bullish

1194
01:22:18.439 --> 01:22:24.800
on Keaton win so long as the
elbow is actually okay. I think that

1195
01:22:25.119 --> 01:22:28.800
he's maybe their second best starter.
What do you think about that? As

1196
01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:30.479
a hot take? You think he's
their second best starter? I mean,

1197
01:22:30.520 --> 01:22:35.600
I think that that outcome isn't super
sizzling to me looking at who else is

1198
01:22:35.640 --> 01:22:39.920
here. I actually you were mentioning
his walk rate, but he's really not

1199
01:22:40.119 --> 01:22:45.399
struggled with walks except for one stop, and he limited walks pretty significantly.

1200
01:22:45.680 --> 01:22:48.560
You know, it's a last year
to me, I think. I mean,

1201
01:22:48.680 --> 01:22:53.680
his his biggest weapon is a splitter, and splitter is just not you

1202
01:22:53.720 --> 01:22:58.600
know, that's not the most precise
tool out there, and it can be

1203
01:22:58.640 --> 01:23:01.600
an issue, it could be tough. He's did a pretty good job con

1204
01:23:01.800 --> 01:23:05.319
containing that, and he gets a
ton of ground balls. And I think

1205
01:23:05.439 --> 01:23:11.039
one thing that the Giants are doing
pretty well is there. The Chapman signing

1206
01:23:11.159 --> 01:23:15.600
just makes so much freaking sense.
And I think Matt Chapman is just gonna

1207
01:23:15.920 --> 01:23:19.840
swoop up so many ground balls from
these guys like Logan Webb, probably gonna

1208
01:23:19.880 --> 01:23:25.119
lead the majors again in ground ball
rate. Jordan Hicks, he's a big

1209
01:23:25.119 --> 01:23:29.199
ground ball guy with his like you
know, boring two seamer boring as in

1210
01:23:29.319 --> 01:23:31.079
like it bores in on the bat
or not boring, like it's dumb.

1211
01:23:31.159 --> 01:23:34.920
Yeah. Keaton Win his splitter gets
a ton of ground balls too. Harrison,

1212
01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:38.960
I think is the only one and
then Ray when he comes back,

1213
01:23:39.000 --> 01:23:43.640
are the only two that are fly
ball pitchers. I think that in that

1214
01:23:43.760 --> 01:23:48.439
sense, the Chapman signing makes me
like the depth starters for San Francisco even

1215
01:23:48.479 --> 01:23:54.319
more. I am bummed that Tang
was out of shape or something and pulled

1216
01:23:54.319 --> 01:23:59.039
an oblique or whatever it was like, because I really wanted to see what

1217
01:23:59.039 --> 01:24:01.279
he can do. I think he's
gonna see starts in the in the Giant's

1218
01:24:01.399 --> 01:24:05.239
rotation of this year, and I
think he's gonna do well. So his

1219
01:24:05.319 --> 01:24:10.680
pickle slipped out of his burger and
bent over to pick it up. Well,

1220
01:24:10.720 --> 01:24:12.600
you got to you gotta have the
pickle. You know, the pickle

1221
01:24:12.760 --> 01:24:16.479
is a critical part of the burger
experience, and Kaiwai knows that. So

1222
01:24:16.920 --> 01:24:21.600
yeah, I mean, I hear
you that there's a lot of questions here,

1223
01:24:21.640 --> 01:24:26.279
and especially for a team that makes
noise about being competitive, this is

1224
01:24:26.359 --> 01:24:30.199
not an exciting rotation outside of Logan
Web if your goal is to make the

1225
01:24:30.239 --> 01:24:34.560
playoffs and win the World Series.
But I do like a lot of the

1226
01:24:34.600 --> 01:24:41.159
skills here, like Cobb for an
injured old guy buy as a bounce back.

1227
01:24:41.199 --> 01:24:43.760
I think I have him a couple
of places. And like I said,

1228
01:24:43.760 --> 01:24:46.039
I've got Hicks on one of my
thirty teamers, and I'm kind of

1229
01:24:46.079 --> 01:24:51.680
looking through my fingers squinting, hoping
that he can find something, especially in

1230
01:24:51.720 --> 01:24:56.800
front of that defense, because they
can play defense, like I think they

1231
01:24:56.840 --> 01:24:59.439
can. You know, like you
said, Nick Ahmed, if he gets

1232
01:24:59.640 --> 01:25:03.319
the Bowl of the innings because Luciano
shows that he can't actually hit, that

1233
01:25:03.479 --> 01:25:08.560
is a hell of a defensive infield, especially on the left side. So

1234
01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:13.159
I don't know. It's it's interesting
enough for me that you might round up

1235
01:25:13.199 --> 01:25:16.760
on some of those guys just giving
their ground ball tendencies. Another rotation the

1236
01:25:16.800 --> 01:25:21.199
fifth spot might be a little interesting
right now depending on an injury. But

1237
01:25:21.319 --> 01:25:27.640
Sonny Gray might not be ready for
opening day, and so that might at

1238
01:25:27.720 --> 01:25:30.159
least to start things off, might
leave a little room for our guys Zach

1239
01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:34.279
Thompson that we talked about to perhaps
sneak in there. I could see it.

1240
01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:38.319
I mean, I think he's the
next man up, and it doesn't

1241
01:25:38.359 --> 01:25:44.239
sound like Sonny Gray's hamstring injury is
serious, but maybe he misses a turn

1242
01:25:44.319 --> 01:25:47.000
or two through the rotation, and
hey, if it bolsters my guy Stephen

1243
01:25:47.079 --> 01:25:50.880
Mattz too, I'm okay with that. Well, talking about bending over to

1244
01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:55.800
pick something up, I guess Baz
hurt himself some more picking up his gym

1245
01:25:55.840 --> 01:26:00.479
bag or something. Is that what
it was like that I'm believing he's driving

1246
01:26:00.520 --> 01:26:02.279
me crazy, stupid rays. What
are they doing well? I mean,

1247
01:26:02.479 --> 01:26:06.239
so I don't know about my fantasy
team. If you ended the season on

1248
01:26:06.319 --> 01:26:10.640
the sixty day iol, can you
just continue to be on the sixty day

1249
01:26:10.680 --> 01:26:13.960
io. No, I think they
take everybody off in the off season,

1250
01:26:14.039 --> 01:26:18.039
but they can, so it doesn't
that's so he's got to spend another sixty

1251
01:26:18.119 --> 01:26:25.079
days on Oh that's because I don't
totally know. But my little tinfoil hat

1252
01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:28.640
self was like, yeah, are
they just playing some games to keep him

1253
01:26:28.680 --> 01:26:30.760
on some il list because they I
mean, he wasn't going to get a

1254
01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:34.479
full season run of innings anyway,
So I get no. No, definitely,

1255
01:26:35.239 --> 01:26:39.439
so I get not using his bullets
early in the season. But I

1256
01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:42.760
kind of felt like there might be
some shenanigans there. I wouldn't put it

1257
01:26:42.840 --> 01:26:46.840
passed the major league teams to do
service time shenanigans of one kind or another.

1258
01:26:46.960 --> 01:26:50.439
But I don't know he's getting service
time. So it's not that I

1259
01:26:50.439 --> 01:26:54.920
don't really get it, other than
like maybe they are trying to protect his

1260
01:26:55.039 --> 01:26:58.439
health, but that's not very raised
like either. One guy that I see

1261
01:26:58.439 --> 01:27:02.800
a lot of folks questioning, understandably
so voting Francis, who looks like he

1262
01:27:02.880 --> 01:27:08.279
might be getting the fifth spot in
the Blue Jays rotation. The thing's like,

1263
01:27:08.840 --> 01:27:12.119
or at least I still I don't
know what's going on with rodrig As

1264
01:27:12.199 --> 01:27:15.319
their Cuban signee either. I don't
know if he's quite ready for a rotation

1265
01:27:15.479 --> 01:27:19.760
spot, but yeah, so this
Francis guy, what I'm curious about is

1266
01:27:20.199 --> 01:27:24.640
now he got I think in twenty
twenty two he got like a full season's

1267
01:27:24.680 --> 01:27:27.720
roun a starting in the minors,
but then last year he was injured.

1268
01:27:27.760 --> 01:27:31.159
He only threw like thirty thirty innings
last year, So I'm a little curious

1269
01:27:31.199 --> 01:27:35.000
about what his inning total might look
like now. But at the same time,

1270
01:27:35.199 --> 01:27:39.600
how worried are you about that for
your fifth starter to start the season,

1271
01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:43.359
a guy who doesn't have major league
experience. I've watched him a little

1272
01:27:43.359 --> 01:27:45.399
bit in the past. I don't
know if I'm how intrigued I am.

1273
01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:50.560
Obviously you got a deep league al
only or a thirty team er might want

1274
01:27:50.600 --> 01:27:53.640
to take a look at him,
But I don't know. Have you watched

1275
01:27:53.680 --> 01:27:57.479
him at all? Do you have
any thoughts? I haven't watched him this

1276
01:27:57.640 --> 01:28:00.960
spring, but he was another one
that's surprised me with how he popped on

1277
01:28:01.199 --> 01:28:08.039
the stuff, plus metrics from you
know, Sarahs and he I think has

1278
01:28:08.119 --> 01:28:13.479
swinging great so far the spring is
up above sixteen percent, which is really

1279
01:28:13.479 --> 01:28:15.640
good. Even in a small sample. This is an interesting one. He's

1280
01:28:15.640 --> 01:28:20.199
certainly looked a lot better than Alc
Manoa. Tiedaman's health continues to be a

1281
01:28:20.279 --> 01:28:25.560
concern. The fact that they continue
to like shuttle in back to backfield only

1282
01:28:25.920 --> 01:28:30.319
is worrying for Tetaman. So Boden
Francis, I like this shout as somebody

1283
01:28:30.359 --> 01:28:35.159
that he could be like your Sawyer
Gibson long from last year and sees a

1284
01:28:35.279 --> 01:28:39.840
rotation spot for fifty innings. It'd
be really good doing so. Yeah,

1285
01:28:39.880 --> 01:28:44.479
I mean he's the fastball, fastball, curveball guy right north south. A

1286
01:28:44.520 --> 01:28:47.680
lot of these guys have a new
pitch or a new something that they're trying

1287
01:28:47.960 --> 01:28:51.119
or have sharpened the tools, right, I mean this spring training. That's

1288
01:28:51.159 --> 01:28:55.760
one thing that I think is interesting
about spring training is what are these pitchers

1289
01:28:55.800 --> 01:28:59.159
coming out with and trying? So, I don't know, maybe maybe he's

1290
01:28:59.199 --> 01:29:02.000
put some more teeth on his on
his weapons here. You know, a

1291
01:29:02.039 --> 01:29:05.199
guy like him with his four steamer
and his curveball, you know, the

1292
01:29:05.239 --> 01:29:09.399
propensity for home runs is there.
Yeah, and he does give up a

1293
01:29:09.399 --> 01:29:13.239
decent number of fly balls and so
that could play up. But I remain

1294
01:29:13.760 --> 01:29:17.760
pretty interested in him and he's one
that I might knock on some doors and

1295
01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:23.760
see if he's available. Interesting how
the story of the Dodgers rotation has has

1296
01:29:23.920 --> 01:29:27.760
changed, right, I mean they
signed Packston and well where they gonna where

1297
01:29:27.760 --> 01:29:30.520
they gonna throw all these guys,
And now it's like, well, who's

1298
01:29:30.680 --> 01:29:33.800
who's gonna be the fifth guy?
Yeah? I mean I thought Shehan was

1299
01:29:33.960 --> 01:29:38.680
kind of a lock, but he's
he's not right, he isn't healthy.

1300
01:29:38.960 --> 01:29:42.479
It's Gavin Stone gonna get the fifth
spot there. It's kind of looking like

1301
01:29:42.520 --> 01:29:45.359
it, I think so. And
I don't know how you feel about this,

1302
01:29:45.439 --> 01:29:49.399
but I prefer to she And how
do you feel that's that's tricky?

1303
01:29:49.520 --> 01:29:56.479
Probably so, although she and like
his second weapon has gotten a lot better

1304
01:29:56.680 --> 01:29:59.800
than it was coming up, So
I don't I kind of I don't know

1305
01:29:59.880 --> 01:30:01.239
that. That's kind of a tricky
one. It's a tricky one to me.

1306
01:30:01.600 --> 01:30:09.800
Stone and Fought are sort of inextricably
linked for me because they both absolutely

1307
01:30:09.880 --> 01:30:15.279
dominated the minor leagues in twenty twenty
two and then came up and were mediocre

1308
01:30:15.359 --> 01:30:20.239
to bad for large portions of their
twenty twenty threes. But like Fought,

1309
01:30:20.560 --> 01:30:25.199
who I think figured it out late
in the season and obviously into playoffs.

1310
01:30:25.359 --> 01:30:29.319
I think Stone's going to have a
similar trajectory. I think he of the

1311
01:30:29.399 --> 01:30:33.159
younger guys for the Dodgers, like
Bobby Miller and Gavin Stone, or the

1312
01:30:33.199 --> 01:30:36.920
two that I'm betting on, you
know, not River Ryan, not Kyle

1313
01:30:38.000 --> 01:30:42.920
Hurt, not Emmitt Shean, not
Michael Grove. And I care a little

1314
01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:45.800
bit less. I know that lots
of folks resort to saying that change up

1315
01:30:45.920 --> 01:30:51.479
first, guys have bigger problems,
and that maybe there's some truth to that,

1316
01:30:51.560 --> 01:30:55.920
But I don't think that's all that
Gavin Stone is. I think he

1317
01:30:56.279 --> 01:31:00.800
has a relatively deep arsenal. He
limits his walk. He's had a bit

1318
01:31:00.840 --> 01:31:03.399
of bad luck last year and maybe
some of the stuff backed up a little

1319
01:31:03.439 --> 01:31:08.119
bit, But given what he showed
in twenty twenty two, that guy's still

1320
01:31:08.279 --> 01:31:11.640
in there. And I think that
that is a very very talented pitcher.

1321
01:31:11.760 --> 01:31:15.840
So I think for me, Gavin
Stone remains really interesting and I think he

1322
01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:20.479
could take this and run with it
for a pretty significant time. You know,

1323
01:31:20.640 --> 01:31:26.600
like viewers not healthy, Kershaw's not
healthy, Shean's not healthy. So

1324
01:31:26.640 --> 01:31:30.199
to answer your question, I'd rather
bet on Stone's career. But I think

1325
01:31:30.199 --> 01:31:33.279
I'd rather bet on Shehan in the
short term. If he's health I think

1326
01:31:33.279 --> 01:31:38.119
he can ride that fastball right now. I mean that's what he does.

1327
01:31:38.279 --> 01:31:43.880
But I don't think that age is
so well. She Han's been more successful

1328
01:31:43.920 --> 01:31:46.039
in the BIGS thus far. Right
the slider has come along to the point

1329
01:31:46.039 --> 01:31:50.359
that I think those two weapons he
could kind of where whereas I think Stone

1330
01:31:50.520 --> 01:31:55.479
still he has his arsenal in his
game. I think he's got more things

1331
01:31:55.520 --> 01:31:58.600
to figure out. Does that make
sense, Yeah, yeah, it makes

1332
01:31:58.760 --> 01:32:01.319
more. I think there's more Van
and Stones game, but I think there's

1333
01:32:01.720 --> 01:32:05.680
She kind of feels like almost like
a classic Raised guy to me in the

1334
01:32:05.760 --> 01:32:09.760
sense that it's going to ride a
big weapon. But after a while,

1335
01:32:09.920 --> 01:32:12.800
what's he gonna pivot to. I
don't know. Yeah, I just I

1336
01:32:13.039 --> 01:32:17.159
know the velocity is solid with Shean. I just don't think his fastball is

1337
01:32:17.199 --> 01:32:21.279
special, both in that I don't
think he commands it that well and I

1338
01:32:21.319 --> 01:32:26.279
think it's one of the ones that
has sort of middling shape, so it

1339
01:32:26.319 --> 01:32:30.880
doesn't play as well as you might
expect. And I think his slider is

1340
01:32:30.960 --> 01:32:35.560
good. I like his she and
slider. I've always thought OF's fastball shape

1341
01:32:35.560 --> 01:32:40.520
as being pretty top of the shelf. I don't think it is now,

1342
01:32:41.119 --> 01:32:45.359
and maybe I'm wrong about that,
but I think that it's okay rather than

1343
01:32:45.520 --> 01:32:49.159
plus. And given that he's like
routinely at ninety six ninety seven, you

1344
01:32:49.239 --> 01:32:55.000
might expect some more out of that. But yeah, I don't really think

1345
01:32:55.039 --> 01:32:59.560
that that's his calling card anyway.
I think it's his slider, is his

1346
01:33:00.079 --> 01:33:05.520
LUs pitch. Angel's fifth spot is
kind of interesting now that Bachman got hurt.

1347
01:33:05.960 --> 01:33:11.119
I don't know, is it Silseath
that's I think they got penciled in

1348
01:33:11.239 --> 01:33:14.560
right now on raster resource. But
I was watching the game yesterday or was

1349
01:33:14.560 --> 01:33:18.399
it today, and they're talking about
Jose Suarez potentially getting that fifth spot.

1350
01:33:18.640 --> 01:33:21.720
Yeah, we were just talking about
this in the Dynasty dug at discord a

1351
01:33:21.800 --> 01:33:28.520
couple of days ago, and Jose
Suarez did have a nice run a couple

1352
01:33:28.560 --> 01:33:32.800
of years ago, backed up pretty
significantly this year. I personally like Silsith

1353
01:33:33.239 --> 01:33:39.119
way more than Bachman, and I
think it should be Silsith that gets the

1354
01:33:39.119 --> 01:33:44.760
first crack at that fifth rotation spot
after Detmer's Sandoval, Anderson and Canning.

1355
01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:48.159
But Suarez, I think is going
to see some significant innings this year,

1356
01:33:48.520 --> 01:33:53.520
I'm not totally sure the role.
Obviously, they've got Zach Pleisach there as

1357
01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:58.159
well, and Davis Daniel had an
interesting, if surprising cup of coffee last

1358
01:33:58.199 --> 01:34:00.199
year too. So they got a
few guys, not many of them that

1359
01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:04.000
I think are great, But yeah, I think any of those guys that

1360
01:34:04.039 --> 01:34:08.359
we just mentioned are going to get
a little bit of opportunity. We were

1361
01:34:08.399 --> 01:34:12.279
talking about the Red Sox a little
bit with their rotation. Now that Jiulito

1362
01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:17.880
got hurt Is Borderline, the Borderline
Shit Show got Pavetta, you got Bello,

1363
01:34:18.479 --> 01:34:23.159
you guy Cutter Crawford, right,
he probably seems pretty pretty safe and

1364
01:34:23.199 --> 01:34:26.000
lacked in there. But then who's
going to get the last couple of spots?

1365
01:34:26.359 --> 01:34:29.239
How can whitlock? Sure seems like
I mean, they were the ones

1366
01:34:29.239 --> 01:34:31.640
competing for the fifth starter spot and
I think they both get bumped up to

1367
01:34:31.920 --> 01:34:35.279
four and five. Now I don't
feel good about it. No, I've

1368
01:34:35.279 --> 01:34:41.199
always I've always liked Murphy and Winkowski. I know Winkowski did great as a

1369
01:34:41.239 --> 01:34:44.720
reliever last year, but they've got
him. It seems like they're stretching him

1370
01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:47.479
out now, They're they're giving him
a shot at it. And Cooper Chris

1371
01:34:47.479 --> 01:34:53.720
Well through today, and he's I
think or talks about him having a chance.

1372
01:34:54.119 --> 01:34:57.000
I gotta say, I don't like
any of those guys. Like I

1373
01:34:57.039 --> 01:35:00.640
think Winkowski is a good reliever,
I'm not sure I see it as a

1374
01:35:00.680 --> 01:35:03.199
starter. I think the same is
true of Whitlock. I think Whitlock should

1375
01:35:03.239 --> 01:35:08.600
be in the pen. How is
sort of frustrating to me. I've seen

1376
01:35:08.680 --> 01:35:12.520
him be pretty good but have trouble
that third time through the order, So

1377
01:35:12.560 --> 01:35:15.800
he's more of a five and dive
kind of starter. I like the arsenal

1378
01:35:15.880 --> 01:35:19.079
to get there, but it's maybe
not quite deep enough, so he I

1379
01:35:19.079 --> 01:35:24.600
think profiles better as maybe a two
inning reliever rather than a guy you're trying

1380
01:35:24.600 --> 01:35:28.079
to count on every fifth day.
The Red Sox death beyond that, Like

1381
01:35:28.199 --> 01:35:31.319
Brandon Walter was really exciting to me
a couple of years ago, but the

1382
01:35:31.399 --> 01:35:35.880
stuff is way worse than it was
two years ago. A sort of a

1383
01:35:35.920 --> 01:35:40.760
low slot lefty that did have a
little bit of velocity and a good slider,

1384
01:35:40.800 --> 01:35:44.159
and now he looks bad. I
saw him in spring training maybe today

1385
01:35:44.239 --> 01:35:49.000
or yesterday, and it was not
good, which continued to trend from last

1386
01:35:49.079 --> 01:35:53.079
year. So when are they gonna
sign Montgomery. I don't think they're going

1387
01:35:53.079 --> 01:35:58.560
to I really don't. I just
think they're gonna cheap out and use this

1388
01:35:58.720 --> 01:36:01.720
to rebuild. Like that we talked
about a little bit on the offensive side

1389
01:36:01.760 --> 01:36:05.720
that I think it's more likely they
trade some of their veterans that maybe they

1390
01:36:06.079 --> 01:36:12.439
overbid on in Story and Yoshida and
make room for some of their young guys

1391
01:36:12.439 --> 01:36:15.760
and let the team kind of suck. I think they're gonna lose. I

1392
01:36:15.800 --> 01:36:17.079
think they're gonna be last in the
Alias this year, and I thought that

1393
01:36:17.199 --> 01:36:21.960
before Giulioto got hurt, even though
I maybe see a little more upside in

1394
01:36:23.000 --> 01:36:26.279
a couple of their arms, like
I like Bello a lot, I like

1395
01:36:26.359 --> 01:36:30.119
Paveda, I like Crawford, but
their depth is so bad on the pitching

1396
01:36:30.199 --> 01:36:32.640
side, and I think they've they're
in a weird spot with their offense,

1397
01:36:32.800 --> 01:36:35.840
so they're in a tough spot.
It's gonna be interesting to see how the

1398
01:36:35.880 --> 01:36:40.119
new regime approaches it. I'd love
to see Chris mur if you get a

1399
01:36:40.119 --> 01:36:44.479
couple of starts and see how that
goes there? What about your braves?

1400
01:36:44.520 --> 01:36:47.760
Who's the fifth starter? Sure seems
like it's gonna be Ronaldo Lopez, depend

1401
01:36:48.000 --> 01:36:53.039
like, based on what people are
saying, I've never been a Ronaldo Lopez

1402
01:36:53.039 --> 01:36:56.880
guy. Like literally ever so Bryce
Elder not going to be in the rotation,

1403
01:36:57.119 --> 01:37:01.079
huh. I mean he's gonna get
his starts. But I they seem

1404
01:37:01.239 --> 01:37:05.239
like they're going to give Renaldo Lopez
the first crack at it. I don't

1405
01:37:05.239 --> 01:37:11.000
know, man, I've it's confusing
to me because maybe some of this is

1406
01:37:11.079 --> 01:37:15.199
my own bias. I remember years
ago when Lopez was breaking in with the

1407
01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:19.319
White Sox that they were I think
it was like Paul spor back in the

1408
01:37:19.399 --> 01:37:23.840
day, was on the sleeper and
the bus talking about how he's way into

1409
01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:27.960
Renald Lopez. He throws triple digits, wipeout slider, He's gonna be so

1410
01:37:28.079 --> 01:37:30.920
good, and the guy just got
hammered all the time. He just gave

1411
01:37:31.039 --> 01:37:34.159
up hard contact, didn't strike people
out, walks people. I was like,

1412
01:37:34.239 --> 01:37:38.720
you can't tell me that the stuff
is good if the results are bad

1413
01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:42.479
like that, those things don't vibe. And the results were so bad for

1414
01:37:42.520 --> 01:37:46.319
so long. I think it really
soured me on Ronaldo Lopez once he converted

1415
01:37:46.359 --> 01:37:50.079
to being a reliever, only he
had some flashes that showed like, hey,

1416
01:37:50.079 --> 01:37:55.079
maybe this is maybe there's something there, And that's sort of when they

1417
01:37:55.279 --> 01:37:57.840
signed him. I was like,
oh yeah, it says a you know,

1418
01:37:57.960 --> 01:38:00.800
maybe two inning at a time reliever, a fifth sixth inning guy when

1419
01:38:00.840 --> 01:38:03.920
things aren't going well, and that
seems like a good role for him.

1420
01:38:04.199 --> 01:38:08.199
I was like, Okay, that
makes sense to me. Like strikes,

1421
01:38:08.239 --> 01:38:11.800
he's figured out how to strike guys
out a little bit more. Maybe his

1422
01:38:11.840 --> 01:38:15.199
stuff is playing better and he's got
you know, his last three years,

1423
01:38:15.560 --> 01:38:19.520
he's got three four ERA two seven
ERA three two seven ERA the last three

1424
01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:24.319
years as a reliever. Why are
we messing with that? Like, what

1425
01:38:24.319 --> 01:38:28.159
what are we doing here that we
think he's just gonna be a starter?

1426
01:38:29.199 --> 01:38:31.479
I don't I'm not sure I see
it, But all the reporting Dave O'Brien

1427
01:38:31.640 --> 01:38:34.720
and the other folks plugged in with
the Braves, it sure sounds like that's

1428
01:38:34.760 --> 01:38:39.439
where they're going, at least for
now. That's interesting. I don't think

1429
01:38:39.479 --> 01:38:43.359
he's looked that good the spring either. So that's the other weird thing.

1430
01:38:43.479 --> 01:38:45.560
You know, one eight ear a
maybe people are looking at but I'm seeing,

1431
01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:50.840
you know, three strikeouts and five
innings and five one FIP Like that's

1432
01:38:50.840 --> 01:38:55.239
not very good. Maybe the braves
do something with them and figured out.

1433
01:38:55.279 --> 01:38:58.840
But I mean, I don't think
much of that story had changed from when

1434
01:38:58.880 --> 01:39:01.520
he broke in. I watch play
like that, he would tease you.

1435
01:39:02.760 --> 01:39:08.960
I don't think too an arsenal change
here. He's ten percent swinging strike rate,

1436
01:39:09.000 --> 01:39:11.560
which is way below average. Like
I don't know, I don't know,

1437
01:39:11.800 --> 01:39:14.119
I don't really see it. I
the depth charts, for what it's

1438
01:39:14.159 --> 01:39:18.680
worth, project Elder to have twice
as many innings in the rotation as Lopez,

1439
01:39:18.720 --> 01:39:23.880
and I think that that's somewhat likely. I think those two are likely

1440
01:39:23.920 --> 01:39:28.239
trading off for the first couple of
months while they see what they've got with

1441
01:39:28.479 --> 01:39:31.600
aj Smith Shaver and Hirston Waldrip,
see if either of them have figured out

1442
01:39:31.640 --> 01:39:35.359
their walk issues. You know,
smith Shava looked pretty good the other day.

1443
01:39:35.560 --> 01:39:40.600
Waldrip again, the stuff looks enticing
and he's missing bats, but he's

1444
01:39:40.600 --> 01:39:43.760
also a little bit all over the
zone even when he's in the zone.

1445
01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:47.319
And then Pascarinoa is another one that
he had a really good run a couple

1446
01:39:47.319 --> 01:39:50.520
of years ago and then had some
unfortunate injuries, you know, broke his

1447
01:39:50.600 --> 01:39:55.680
hand punching something and then had TJ. So he's another one. That even

1448
01:39:55.720 --> 01:39:58.520
when he was having success, I
was a little bit skeptical of it just

1449
01:39:58.520 --> 01:40:02.079
because it was like mostly two pitches
fastball, slider. But he was doing

1450
01:40:02.119 --> 01:40:05.640
really well with that mix, and
it'll be interesting to see what he's got

1451
01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:10.319
coming back as well. It's kind
of something there, he Elder, thanks

1452
01:40:10.319 --> 01:40:14.279
for your thirty one starts last year, your one hundred and seventy five innings,

1453
01:40:14.520 --> 01:40:17.600
you're ERA under four and your whip
under one three, but you're out

1454
01:40:17.640 --> 01:40:21.079
of the rotation now. I mean, he's gonna get starts this year.

1455
01:40:21.159 --> 01:40:27.159
Like it's not he's not out out
like Ian Anderson, right, he's not

1456
01:40:27.279 --> 01:40:30.560
hurt and maybe never going to pitch
in the major leagues again. But Elder,

1457
01:40:30.640 --> 01:40:34.239
to me, I think the issue
was his playoff start. You know,

1458
01:40:34.359 --> 01:40:39.600
like he looked good for two innings
and then got demolished, right,

1459
01:40:39.680 --> 01:40:43.800
And that's like for a team that's
set up like this, you can run

1460
01:40:43.840 --> 01:40:47.399
Bryce Elder out there every fifth day
for months at a time, and he

1461
01:40:47.439 --> 01:40:51.399
can give you quality starts and he
can eat up some innings. But I

1462
01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:57.319
think what they're hoping for is to
not throw Bryce Elder at the end of

1463
01:40:57.399 --> 01:41:00.800
the season. Like that's what it
feels like to me, like they're trialing

1464
01:41:00.159 --> 01:41:05.680
is Renaldo Lopez three innings in September, October, November, you know what

1465
01:41:05.720 --> 01:41:09.039
I mean? Like that, that's
what it seems like to me, Like

1466
01:41:09.079 --> 01:41:13.239
this team so much is going to
have to go wrong for this team not

1467
01:41:13.359 --> 01:41:16.119
to make the playoffs, Like that's
weird to say in a sport like baseball,

1468
01:41:16.159 --> 01:41:24.039
but this team is ridiculously good and
their fifth starter and shortstop and left

1469
01:41:24.039 --> 01:41:27.399
field are like maybe the only spots
where you're like, I'm not sure what

1470
01:41:27.399 --> 01:41:30.079
this looks like by the end of
the year. And so I think that

1471
01:41:30.159 --> 01:41:33.479
what they're trying to do is figure
out is Ronaldo Lopez a guy that they

1472
01:41:33.520 --> 01:41:38.920
can rely on late in the year. Is that instead it just Misshov Is

1473
01:41:38.920 --> 01:41:44.079
it Bryce Elder? Like maybe Bryce
Elder can return to form and really tighten

1474
01:41:44.159 --> 01:41:46.840
up his locations so that his stuff
plays up. I don't know, but

1475
01:41:47.119 --> 01:41:51.279
that's my guess is they're trying some
stuff out to see what sticks. The

1476
01:41:51.319 --> 01:41:57.159
padres rotation Matt, I think our
guy Brito is looking pretty good to get

1477
01:41:57.199 --> 01:42:00.560
a rotation spot there. What we
got Musgrove, do Harvish probably King,

1478
01:42:00.760 --> 01:42:05.479
right, I think the guy Brito, And then I don't know who's after

1479
01:42:05.560 --> 01:42:10.199
that. Vasquez, man, I
think he had a rough one today,

1480
01:42:10.399 --> 01:42:13.199
he did, you know, I've
watched a lot of him. He can

1481
01:42:13.279 --> 01:42:18.439
be so good sometimes and his his
breaking ball can be just devastating sometimes.

1482
01:42:18.439 --> 01:42:23.880
But he's just I think, got
a long track record of being wildly inconsistent

1483
01:42:24.119 --> 01:42:27.800
outing the outing. No what,
I don't know, Matt Waldron. I'm

1484
01:42:27.840 --> 01:42:30.560
rooting for Waldron. Like my guy
who I think should be the fifth starter

1485
01:42:30.680 --> 01:42:33.720
is Waldron. I mean, like, yeah, throw that knuckleball, Let's

1486
01:42:33.840 --> 01:42:36.359
let's mix it. I know,
I know, like Grasser, resource had

1487
01:42:36.479 --> 01:42:40.479
like a Vila in there for a
while. I don't think. I don't

1488
01:42:40.479 --> 01:42:43.560
think that's I don't think he's a
starter, is he? What do you

1489
01:42:43.600 --> 01:42:46.319
think of Erie Arte? Know,
he's like a top one hundred prospect for

1490
01:42:46.439 --> 01:42:49.359
some folks now and stuff, And
I'm like, I don't know, man,

1491
01:42:49.960 --> 01:42:56.439
He's another guy who later in outings
no bueno has been no bueno.

1492
01:42:56.680 --> 01:43:02.079
He to me is in that mix
of how stuff high excitement guys that I'm

1493
01:43:02.199 --> 01:43:09.039
just not sold on. Like the
walks have been bad basically everywhere, not

1494
01:43:09.279 --> 01:43:15.399
like awful, but not good.
And he has shown some propensity to like

1495
01:43:15.640 --> 01:43:19.359
have his strikeouts like he had a
great run at double A last year.

1496
01:43:19.520 --> 01:43:24.840
You know, fifteen and a half
strikeouts per nine is really good. It

1497
01:43:24.880 --> 01:43:30.319
came with five walks per nine though, And I don't know man like these,

1498
01:43:30.520 --> 01:43:33.399
especially given the way that the stuff
seems to back up as it gets

1499
01:43:33.399 --> 01:43:38.479
deeper into outings. Like he looks
a lot more like an electric reliever to

1500
01:43:38.560 --> 01:43:42.720
me than the starter. I'm way
more team Drew Thorpe, Like, I

1501
01:43:42.760 --> 01:43:45.159
think Thorpe is going to be a
better starting pitcher again as a change up

1502
01:43:45.239 --> 01:43:50.640
first guy, a smaller statued guy, doesn't have like electric velo like Erie

1503
01:43:50.760 --> 01:43:55.760
Rte does. But I'm team Thorpe
there. Yeah, erie Arte picked him

1504
01:43:55.840 --> 01:43:59.479
up everywhere, traded him everywhere.
But I think I traded him everywhere too

1505
01:43:59.479 --> 01:44:02.960
soon. I should waited a little
bit longer. It's got a couple more

1506
01:44:03.039 --> 01:44:09.319
one to bounce off of. You. What what's a Brewers rotation or maybe

1507
01:44:09.479 --> 01:44:14.520
last spot gonna be because I think
it's well, it's Peralta Wade Miley,

1508
01:44:14.600 --> 01:44:19.600
but he's not healthy right now,
Junis and I think Reya is probably solidly

1509
01:44:19.800 --> 01:44:26.479
in the rotation to start, but
then dal hall Ashby Gasser, Joe ross

1510
01:44:26.520 --> 01:44:29.520
I don't know. I mean,
is Hall a lot to be the fifth

1511
01:44:29.520 --> 01:44:31.920
starter? I don't know. I
think he might be out of the gate.

1512
01:44:32.119 --> 01:44:35.479
He and Gasser, I think are
are both going to be in the

1513
01:44:35.560 --> 01:44:41.199
rotation to start, especially if Miley
misses much time. I think Colin Rey

1514
01:44:41.319 --> 01:44:45.159
is not good. Can't imagine they
run him out there for the one hundred

1515
01:44:45.199 --> 01:44:49.159
plus innings that Rosser Resource has them
projected for. I don't know, man

1516
01:44:49.239 --> 01:44:53.880
deal. Hall has looked a bit
different. I saw, you know,

1517
01:44:53.920 --> 01:44:57.479
again highlights, so like we didn't
see the full amount of his outing the

1518
01:44:57.560 --> 01:44:59.880
other day. It was just today. I think it was just today.

1519
01:45:00.079 --> 01:45:03.239
But he looked good. He's finding
the zone and the electric stuff is still

1520
01:45:03.279 --> 01:45:06.199
there. And you know, I'm
a fan of Gasser. I really like

1521
01:45:06.279 --> 01:45:11.359
his pitch mix, you know,
deep and deep and varied again. Junis

1522
01:45:11.520 --> 01:45:15.640
to me feels more like depth.
So the way I think this rotation ends

1523
01:45:15.720 --> 01:45:18.319
up looking maybe part way through the
year, Freddy P, I think,

1524
01:45:18.479 --> 01:45:23.439
does this thing, maybe even takes
it to the next year and keeps the

1525
01:45:23.479 --> 01:45:28.159
walks down and the strikeouts tick up
even more. We've seen that from him

1526
01:45:28.159 --> 01:45:31.039
before, so I think Freddy P
turns into an ace. Gasser and Hall

1527
01:45:31.199 --> 01:45:36.279
are the two and three, and
then Miley's your four, with Junice,

1528
01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:43.680
Rea and Ross maybe filling in behind. I think Ashby they're gonna pen him

1529
01:45:43.800 --> 01:45:46.079
again. I don't think he's going
to start, and then maybe they depending

1530
01:45:46.119 --> 01:45:51.000
on how injuries and things shake out. Don't forget about Carlos Afrodriguez, who

1531
01:45:51.119 --> 01:45:56.039
I think has a shot to take
another step forward this year and prove he

1532
01:45:56.079 --> 01:45:59.560
can be a big league contributor as
well. But to me, that leaves

1533
01:45:59.600 --> 01:46:03.159
Junis and Reya more on the out
looking in again early in the season.

1534
01:46:03.319 --> 01:46:06.359
It sounds like it's going to be
more of the old guys. So Junis,

1535
01:46:06.520 --> 01:46:12.319
Reya, Ross, maybe even Ashby
are maybe going to get some starts

1536
01:46:12.359 --> 01:46:15.520
early on. But I don't see
that working out that well in the long

1537
01:46:15.600 --> 01:46:19.279
term. And I think that especially
if the offense looks takes a step forward

1538
01:46:19.319 --> 01:46:24.239
with some of the young guys and
it looks pretty good, I wonder if

1539
01:46:24.279 --> 01:46:30.079
they'll they'll push the young starting pitchers
in Gasser and Hall and Rodriguez to see

1540
01:46:30.079 --> 01:46:34.399
if they can pick up and push
in as well. So the Brewers are

1541
01:46:34.439 --> 01:46:40.520
a tricky organization. They're cheap and
they're trying to play cheaply with old guys

1542
01:46:40.640 --> 01:46:43.640
or rookies. There's some guys that
I really like in there though, And

1543
01:46:44.000 --> 01:46:46.840
of course maybe Logan Henderson explodes and
gets up there too. I don't know.

1544
01:46:47.760 --> 01:46:53.000
Another rotation that I think is a
little murky and interesting is the Pirates.

1545
01:46:53.399 --> 01:46:58.319
You got color, Martine Perez,
Marco Gonzalez. What's after that,

1546
01:46:58.439 --> 01:47:03.479
Matt Because I know Ortiz has got
the crazy slider, but he's got to

1547
01:47:03.479 --> 01:47:06.399
wringle it in, he's got to
tighten it up white a bit. Have

1548
01:47:06.479 --> 01:47:10.159
you watched him? Have you watched
it in the spring, Yes, I

1549
01:47:10.239 --> 01:47:14.359
have. Fastball looked impressive of the
Spring too. I thought he was super

1550
01:47:14.359 --> 01:47:17.319
slappy when I saw him. Yeah, I don't know. It hasn't been

1551
01:47:17.319 --> 01:47:23.560
the best execution of location, for
sure, but it seems like the stuff

1552
01:47:23.880 --> 01:47:28.520
is better than I remembered. And
that's He's the one that I think has

1553
01:47:28.680 --> 01:47:31.680
impressed me the most. Like yeah, Jared Jones is hitting one oh one,

1554
01:47:32.159 --> 01:47:35.399
like yawn, the guy is still
walking a bunch of guys. He's

1555
01:47:35.399 --> 01:47:39.399
not getting punch outs with it,
like wake me up when he starts striking

1556
01:47:39.399 --> 01:47:43.319
people out with it, like he
was another guy who late and starts when

1557
01:47:43.840 --> 01:47:47.119
Yeah, I don't know. I
know people are pumping with Jones, but

1558
01:47:47.720 --> 01:47:53.680
I'm not sure about that Ortiz.
Of the guys that might break out a

1559
01:47:53.720 --> 01:47:58.239
bit, you know, Roonsey Contreras, Jared Jones, Quinn Priester, my

1560
01:47:58.520 --> 01:48:01.479
pick of those is Orchie. It's
like, I think Ortiz is better than

1561
01:48:01.720 --> 01:48:05.760
those guys. So he's the one. And I'm not interested in Marco Martin

1562
01:48:05.840 --> 01:48:10.159
Perez. Like, if you need
depth in a thirty teamer like yep,

1563
01:48:10.239 --> 01:48:13.439
he'll probably provide you that. Mitch
Keller, I'm still not sold on.

1564
01:48:13.520 --> 01:48:15.840
I know he took a step forward
last year, but I want to see

1565
01:48:15.880 --> 01:48:18.159
him repeat it because I worry that
he's going to backslide to be the same

1566
01:48:18.479 --> 01:48:24.079
high velocity, bad shape, bad
results. The Pirates's quite a bit of

1567
01:48:24.079 --> 01:48:28.800
money in him. I know that
doesn't Yeah, but that doesn't instill a

1568
01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:32.720
ton of confidence. And you know, you know who was really good actually

1569
01:48:32.720 --> 01:48:38.640
I think got better in a lot
of those stats later and starts was Jackson

1570
01:48:38.640 --> 01:48:42.119
Wolf. Yeah. I like Jackson
Wolf. I've got him a couple of

1571
01:48:42.119 --> 01:48:45.319
places, and I hope I can
use him on my taxi squad in a

1572
01:48:45.359 --> 01:48:48.000
couple of ways. I don't think
he's going to rise to the level of

1573
01:48:48.079 --> 01:48:54.680
one hundred and fifty inning quality major
league starter. But he's got enough funk

1574
01:48:54.840 --> 01:48:58.840
that there there's a real could be
a useful piece there. So I like

1575
01:48:58.920 --> 01:49:02.920
Jackson Wolf. This one, which
we were bantering about quite a bit today

1576
01:49:03.079 --> 01:49:08.079
that I had is I think the
A's fifth starter at least to start the

1577
01:49:08.159 --> 01:49:12.199
year is kind of open right now. Medina got hurt. I don't know

1578
01:49:12.239 --> 01:49:14.720
if he's going to be ready for
opening Day. I don't know if he

1579
01:49:14.960 --> 01:49:18.600
was locked in to that fifth starter
spot to begin with, but I know

1580
01:49:18.840 --> 01:49:25.960
all of the boil heads in the
Dugout are all excited that he may now

1581
01:49:26.079 --> 01:49:30.159
have a rotation spot to start the
season. You think you think he does.

1582
01:49:30.520 --> 01:49:34.319
Joe Boyle is such a fascinating case. And we've talked about this before

1583
01:49:34.399 --> 01:49:40.840
in the Dynasty dug Out discord and
on the pod too, But guys that

1584
01:49:41.079 --> 01:49:46.840
walk people more than fourteen percent of
a time rarely turn out well. Like

1585
01:49:46.960 --> 01:49:51.439
there's a small handful that might turn
into good season, like your Blake Snells,

1586
01:49:51.640 --> 01:49:57.560
that that might turn into volatile career. Guys that walk more than sixteen

1587
01:49:57.600 --> 01:50:02.399
percent of batters almost never and become
major league starters. Guys that have a

1588
01:50:02.439 --> 01:50:08.079
season where they walked more than nineteen
percent of batters over a decent sample only

1589
01:50:08.159 --> 01:50:13.439
become relievers. So for me,
Joe Boyle, his whole minor league journey

1590
01:50:13.680 --> 01:50:16.279
has been this is electric stuff that
is going to end up in the pen

1591
01:50:16.680 --> 01:50:21.520
as a high walk, high strikeout
guy that might turn into a good reliever.

1592
01:50:21.760 --> 01:50:27.640
But there's no way you're doing this
in the major leagues as a starting

1593
01:50:27.680 --> 01:50:31.640
pitcher. By god, it seems
like he's trying to turn himself into something

1594
01:50:31.680 --> 01:50:36.359
of a control artist. Sixteen innings
in the major leagues last year had a

1595
01:50:36.760 --> 01:50:42.640
eight point three percent walk rate.
He had a good stint at Double A

1596
01:50:43.039 --> 01:50:47.439
last year when he came over from
since he the trade, but every other

1597
01:50:47.560 --> 01:50:53.760
stop had a walk rate above sixteen
percent, including in Triple A with Oakland.

1598
01:50:53.840 --> 01:50:56.560
So like, if you think Oakland
worked some magic on him, it

1599
01:50:56.600 --> 01:51:00.640
disappeared in PCL again. Maybe that's
the automatic ball strikes this time, I

1600
01:51:00.640 --> 01:51:04.560
don't see. Yeah, I had
shared this in the Discord and some other

1601
01:51:04.560 --> 01:51:08.800
places a few times, but how
many Major league audiings did he have last

1602
01:51:08.840 --> 01:51:11.960
year? Four? I think three? I know. I went back and

1603
01:51:12.000 --> 01:51:15.319
I looked at game logs, and
even when he was with the Reds,

1604
01:51:15.359 --> 01:51:18.760
he had I don't know, four
or five outing stretches where his walk rate

1605
01:51:18.880 --> 01:51:23.199
was around what was it, eight
percent or six percent or whatever it was,

1606
01:51:23.279 --> 01:51:26.359
So when he was still with the
Reds, So that wasn't like an

1607
01:51:26.479 --> 01:51:30.840
unprecedented stretch for Boyle. Now I'm
not saying that he hasn't made improvements.

1608
01:51:30.880 --> 01:51:33.720
I don't know. Maybe Theys did
do something with them, I don't know.

1609
01:51:33.800 --> 01:51:39.159
I'm just saying he has had stretches
where the walks weren't as egregious before

1610
01:51:39.439 --> 01:51:42.960
and then they got I think that's
a good it's a good point, Nate.

1611
01:51:43.119 --> 01:51:45.359
And this gets back to sort of
the theme of the episode, which

1612
01:51:45.439 --> 01:51:50.680
was you should adjust your priors pretty
slowly. Right, Joe Boyle has shown

1613
01:51:50.800 --> 01:51:57.960
us who he is for so long
his entire minor league career, Like these

1614
01:51:58.000 --> 01:52:02.039
are just some of the most errocious
walk rates that we've ever seen. And

1615
01:52:02.520 --> 01:52:09.079
I'm not sure a cherry picked like
grand total of forty innings is going to

1616
01:52:09.199 --> 01:52:14.359
change my mind here, Like if
you take his best stops Oakland double a

1617
01:52:14.760 --> 01:52:18.159
Oakland Major Leagues last year, and
then the you know, five innings,

1618
01:52:18.199 --> 01:52:23.560
five and a third innings before today
when he was pretty good again today but

1619
01:52:23.640 --> 01:52:28.479
did have a couple of walks,
like Cherry pick his forty best innings as

1620
01:52:28.520 --> 01:52:31.680
far as walk rate goes, and
yeah, he looks like a stud and

1621
01:52:31.720 --> 01:52:36.880
the stuff is impressive. But his
second inning today, like we were talking

1622
01:52:36.920 --> 01:52:43.520
about, he went eight straight balls
that were just non competitive, went three

1623
01:52:43.560 --> 01:52:46.359
to one to the next batter by
missing a slider up, a slider down,

1624
01:52:46.439 --> 01:52:50.159
and a fastball arm side. Like
that's all over the place. That's

1625
01:52:50.199 --> 01:52:55.600
not a consistent miss. That's not
just barely missing, it's not getting squeezed.

1626
01:52:55.840 --> 01:52:58.600
That's the guy that I remember watching
when I was like, these are

1627
01:52:58.640 --> 01:53:02.199
some gaudy strikeout totals, but whoa, these are also some gaudy walk totals

1628
01:53:03.600 --> 01:53:10.039
closely to like really have internalized his
motion, but it didn't look different to

1629
01:53:10.079 --> 01:53:13.960
me. It looked the same,
kind of like limbs flailing, a lot

1630
01:53:14.000 --> 01:53:16.159
of movie excuse me, a lot
of moving parts. Like I don't know,

1631
01:53:16.279 --> 01:53:20.079
man, I still am not convinced, and it's probably gonna mean that

1632
01:53:20.119 --> 01:53:24.119
I miss out on boil. I've
got him in one league, but it's

1633
01:53:24.119 --> 01:53:26.920
a limited keeper league, and there's
a zero chance that I keep him,

1634
01:53:26.960 --> 01:53:30.119
so It's likely that this is the
kind of guy that I'm going to miss

1635
01:53:30.119 --> 01:53:33.239
out on, But he's got to
show me more to convince me that there

1636
01:53:33.279 --> 01:53:36.920
the walks aren't still a significant part
of his game. To the question,

1637
01:53:38.039 --> 01:53:40.600
like, I think they are going
to give him a shot at that fifth

1638
01:53:40.600 --> 01:53:44.880
fifth spout in the rotation. They
also gave Fujinami a shot to start to

1639
01:53:45.119 --> 01:53:48.840
did do you know who? Who? I'm not totally sold has shown us

1640
01:53:49.079 --> 01:53:54.079
who he is or is gonna be. Who's that? Joey asked this,

1641
01:53:54.600 --> 01:54:00.520
Ah, Joey testes he also pitched
also bitched today and struck out five and

1642
01:54:00.640 --> 01:54:03.600
didn't walk any and didn't give up
ahead or did he give up it?

1643
01:54:03.800 --> 01:54:08.199
No, I don't think he did. I don't think. I don't know.

1644
01:54:08.319 --> 01:54:13.000
We have we have a fun Boil
versus Estes feud going on in the

1645
01:54:13.079 --> 01:54:17.680
Dynasty discord and Dynasty Dugout discord Es. I think is still figuring out some

1646
01:54:17.760 --> 01:54:21.680
things and figuring out his repertoire and
what works best for him. So I'm

1647
01:54:21.680 --> 01:54:27.039
not sure what to totally expect from
him sometimes on an out into outing basis,

1648
01:54:27.079 --> 01:54:30.920
but excited to see that little fun
debate play out. I don't know

1649
01:54:30.960 --> 01:54:34.359
who you got who has more major
league starts this year? Boil or Estes.

1650
01:54:34.600 --> 01:54:42.439
Oh, it's a good question.
I think I'll say Boil because I

1651
01:54:42.439 --> 01:54:45.560
think they're going to give him the
first shot. But I don't think is

1652
01:54:45.640 --> 01:54:49.640
like breaking camp or anything like that. But yeah, and I do think

1653
01:54:49.760 --> 01:54:55.439
looking at their depth chart, I'm
not even sure that he's the next man

1654
01:54:56.119 --> 01:55:00.359
now, you know, depending on
how bad the knee is with Luisman Dina.

1655
01:55:00.640 --> 01:55:03.560
I think they want to see Medina
next, That's my guess. And

1656
01:55:03.600 --> 01:55:09.359
then obviously Walder chucks out for a
while, but they gave him a rotation

1657
01:55:09.479 --> 01:55:13.119
spot and they might give it back
to him. Kyle Muller is another one

1658
01:55:13.119 --> 01:55:16.319
that they've put in the rotation before, and maybe they see what Muller has.

1659
01:55:16.520 --> 01:55:23.000
I guess I just see a few
more guys that they're gonna run.

1660
01:55:23.279 --> 01:55:28.000
Yeah, you got Sas hang out
too, and I'm a fan of Salinas.

1661
01:55:28.039 --> 01:55:30.119
I think I'm not sure if we've
talked about this before, but Rouber

1662
01:55:30.319 --> 01:55:35.000
Salinas is one that he came over
from the Braves along with ss in one

1663
01:55:35.039 --> 01:55:40.920
of their trades. Were they both
in the Olsen trade? Probably? I

1664
01:55:40.920 --> 01:55:44.680
can't remember the Murphy trades A couple
of them. Yeah, they did,

1665
01:55:44.720 --> 01:55:46.960
and they were like in quick successions, so they blend together in my head.

1666
01:55:47.000 --> 01:55:50.239
But Robert Selenis is a guy who
looked like maybe he was following the

1667
01:55:50.319 --> 01:55:56.560
Joe Boyle path towards the major leagues, like high strikeout rates, but didn't

1668
01:55:56.560 --> 01:56:00.520
really know where it was going.
But he's actually tightened up his command signify.

1669
01:56:00.760 --> 01:56:02.920
I didn't really really, I didn't
really realize, but I threw some

1670
01:56:03.640 --> 01:56:08.560
of him on from last year just
recently, and I'm kind of I was

1671
01:56:08.760 --> 01:56:11.399
even from the beginning. I was
not into this. I was like,

1672
01:56:11.560 --> 01:56:14.520
all right, you got a guy
in the lowers with a nasty pitch,

1673
01:56:14.760 --> 01:56:16.399
like just yeah, and for him
it was the slider, like he would

1674
01:56:16.399 --> 01:56:20.800
just lean on his slider and just
wipe out these jets everyone. But he

1675
01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:28.039
fair amount last year at Double A, and I'm I'm excited to see him

1676
01:56:28.159 --> 01:56:30.279
this year. I think that's the
other thing about Selenas though, is he's

1677
01:56:30.279 --> 01:56:33.239
he's a little bit further behind,
you know, yeah, just at double

1678
01:56:33.279 --> 01:56:36.840
A. He may start there again
this year, but if he has a

1679
01:56:36.840 --> 01:56:40.880
good year, I could see him
vaulting up. I mean, I was

1680
01:56:40.920 --> 01:56:44.039
impressed by the strides that he took
last year. Yeah, boil Man,

1681
01:56:44.079 --> 01:56:47.840
he teeters that very fine line.
I mean, I guess the A's have

1682
01:56:48.119 --> 01:56:54.760
the liberty to play around, give
guys like that opportunity like they did with

1683
01:56:54.840 --> 01:56:58.600
Fujinami last year. Losing a couple
more games on top of what they are

1684
01:56:58.640 --> 01:57:00.560
they are going to isn't that big
of a deal. But here's the real

1685
01:57:00.640 --> 01:57:04.279
question with the A's. Are they
going to move to Vegas? Poor?

1686
01:57:04.359 --> 01:57:10.520
What do you call somebody from Las
Vegas, A Las Vegan, Las Vegas,

1687
01:57:10.880 --> 01:57:15.000
and yeah, I don't know you, but it sounds like they've got

1688
01:57:15.039 --> 01:57:18.760
those guys forking over a bunch of
money again for another stadium. So I

1689
01:57:18.800 --> 01:57:21.119
don't know if that's a done deal
yet. I mean, I think it

1690
01:57:21.159 --> 01:57:26.680
got blocked at the legislature. I
don't think it's I don't think they what

1691
01:57:26.720 --> 01:57:30.960
they've asked for has been approved.
They did this rush job. It seems

1692
01:57:30.039 --> 01:57:35.239
like on the stadium renderings, which
are just getting smashed on social media,

1693
01:57:36.199 --> 01:57:41.399
they don't look good. It's like
you ripped off the Sydney Opera house and

1694
01:57:41.600 --> 01:57:44.720
you said this is going to be
a baseball stadium. Just don't pay attention

1695
01:57:44.800 --> 01:57:48.279
to any of the details, so
that is I don't know. If John

1696
01:57:48.279 --> 01:57:53.680
Fisher seems like such an idiot and
this is not going well, I don't

1697
01:57:53.720 --> 01:57:57.199
know, but there are the A's
this year. They do exist. Yeah,

1698
01:57:57.199 --> 01:57:59.399
I don't know, Matt, that's
a lot of there's a lot of

1699
01:57:59.399 --> 01:58:01.800
spring muddy. Yeah, for what
it's worth. I don't know if this

1700
01:58:01.920 --> 01:58:05.000
was included in the intro, but
Nate didn't think we had very much to

1701
01:58:05.039 --> 01:58:10.880
talk about today, and I assured
him we had plenty to talk about.

1702
01:58:10.920 --> 01:58:14.319
And who knows what this will get
cut up into, but we've been talking

1703
01:58:14.399 --> 01:58:18.039
for going on three hours, so
we're we found a couple of things to

1704
01:58:18.079 --> 01:58:21.399
talk about. At least we did. We did. We should get out

1705
01:58:21.399 --> 01:58:26.239
of here. You can follow me
on Twitter at Pitching Specs. You can't

1706
01:58:26.239 --> 01:58:30.479
follow Matt. You could probably chat
with them in the Dynasty Dugout discord,

1707
01:58:30.560 --> 01:58:32.239
though I don't know what we're gonna
talk about next week. Maybe we'll get

1708
01:58:32.279 --> 01:58:36.039
another guest on here. That could
be a good time. Yeah. Yeah,

1709
01:58:36.199 --> 01:58:40.600
we'll be a little further along spring
training. Maybe some more things happen,

1710
01:58:40.720 --> 01:58:44.279
some injuries. I don't ever wish
for injuries, but if there was

1711
01:58:44.319 --> 01:58:47.720
ever a year where I wouldn't mind
some pictures getting hurt and not being around.

1712
01:58:47.760 --> 01:58:51.359
It would greatly help a bunch of
my thirty teen leagues. But it's

1713
01:58:51.399 --> 01:58:55.560
just not happening yet. Well,
I'm not the evil person rooting for injuries.

1714
01:58:55.600 --> 01:58:59.199
I hope everyone is healthy and everyone
has a wonderful season. Yet that's

1715
01:58:59.199 --> 01:59:00.640
what I like minors. I'm like, oh, you know, uh,

1716
01:59:00.880 --> 01:59:04.479
Tyler Anderson's got some blister problems,
all right? Cool, Like, hey,

1717
01:59:04.640 --> 01:59:09.600
hey, hey, he's a key
part of my rotation in our thirty

1718
01:59:10.760 --> 01:59:14.640
Well. This was episode twenty four
of the Prospect B Sides podcasts. We'll

1719
01:59:14.680 --> 01:59:17.239
let Chicago Farmer take us out.
Everyone be well, and we'll talk to

1720
01:59:17.239 --> 01:59:21.920
you next time. See y five
miles an hour. Riding to his head,

1721
01:59:24.640 --> 01:59:30.600
he hopped down first with the lumpboni
his face, and on the very

1722
01:59:30.840 --> 01:59:41.399
next pitch he up and stole second
face with gretest speed. He wasn't born.

1723
01:59:42.600 --> 01:59:45.960
He had the dirty yes you,
the bonne