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first with the Mount Bonius face,
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and stole second face with gratest be
he wasn't born he had yes uniform all

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right, Episode twenty six. So
the Prospect B Sides Podcast, as always,

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I am Nate and joining me as
always is Nat the rook or MTR.

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You're going to MTR today, MTR
next week, I'll upgrade to co

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hosts. You know, like last
time you anointed me a co host finally

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and it's only been almost Yeah,
I was twenty episodes together. Well I

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was gonna like congratulate you because I
was gonna call you the host MTR.

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So I am co hosting MTR.
I like it. Oh I'm wearing the

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big pants today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you should.

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Now it's spring break, so we're
gonna talk the spring breakout games. I

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know you and I have cruised watched
some gotten into it, and I thought

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it would be fun to kind of
go game by game and talk about some

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mud and some pretty boys and what
we may have gathered from these showcase games.

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That sound good to you? Yeah, it sounds great and can we

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start by saying this as a whole
is just such a great idea. Like

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Major League Baseball had a really good
idea and I was listening to one of

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the broadcasts and it was apparently the
brainchild of one of the folks that works

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for MLB dot Com, like the
Prospect team there. They worked with a

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bunch of the folks at the teams
and with the league itself and pitched it

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as like the AFL Fall Stars Game, but as ill a tournament. That

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was the original proposal, I guess. And the issue with like the tournament

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aspect of it is it's still spring
training. There's limits on the arms that

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are available for this kind of an
event, and they really want to keep

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these guys on a schedule. But
on the position player side, you know,

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the real athletes, they were ready
to go, like they wanted to

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do more of these games. We
do still have one to go. I

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don't know if you saw that the
much anticipated Mariners Padres matchup is coming in

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on Saturday. I think so that'll
be pretty exciting. That was one of

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the ones that obviously, I as
a Mariners fan, was the most excited

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for. And I forget who it
was, but somebody was saying that it

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was ten top one hundred prospects were
in that game, and that's never happened

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outside of a futures game. So
even like better than the Fall Stars game

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that that had never happened and happened
just between the Padres or is going to

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happen between the Padres and the Mariners
on Saturday, So we still have one

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awesome one to look forward to.
But overall, like great idea. Yeah,

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yeah, I agree. Talking about
that game that's coming, there's that

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many top one hundred prospects. And
I heard a rumor Logan Evans, my

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Mariners b said arms selection this offseason
was slated to start that game originally.

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Did you hear that rumor as well? I did. The Logan Evans hype

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train has has picked up, my
friend, it is. Well, I've

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seen a little bit has been the
discord. Yeah, I've seen a little

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bit on the discord, And if
the reports start to be believed like it

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sounds like the stuff has taken a
fairly substantial jump forward, and I think

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that it's going to end up looking
like a great call. I'm super excited

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to watch him. Hopefully he does
throw on Saturday. You know, I'm

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curious where they're going to assign him
to start the year. Does he go

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right to ever? It is there
going to be some amount of play in

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low Ay. Either way, we
should get to see a fair amount of

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him this year. Yeah, talking
about his fastball velocity has reached the upper

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nineties. You know that, you
and I it's not like the biggest news

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in the world to us, like, that's not what we're gonna get the

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most excited about. But I was
excited about his little East West game that

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I had seen from him post raft
and as we talked about last week,

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right, I mean, I think, not so many words, but in

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a roundabout way, a nice East
West game might be a little bit more

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tantalizing than a nice North South game
from Pittrid, do you do you agree

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with that? It certainly can be. I think, to refresh the listeners

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on what we were talking about before, that horizontal location is just a little

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bit ahead of vertical location when it
comes to how well your fastball plays as

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far as results, But both are
way more important than how fast it is

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or the ride or the approach angle. And I think that that's an interesting

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thing. And from a philosoph standpoint, it seems like the Mariners are targeting

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and developing more of these kinds of
pitchers that have these East West types of

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profiles, whereas you see a lot
of organizations like the Yankees are pretty famous

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for this. The Dodgers to a
certain extent too. They want the north

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South attack. They want that extra
fat like the fastball that has a lot

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of ride and a low approach angle
and then a change up or a gyro

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slider or a sweeper for that like
downward attack part. I think there was

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this was something that maybe BA Baseball
America reported on the Mariners through the most

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sinkers of anybody in the minor leagues, and that's an interesting trend to follow.

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And in this game of chess between
hitters and pitchers, it seems like

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maybe the hitters are starting to figure
out a little bit of the kind of

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flat, high spinning fastball, and
one way to counteract that might be a

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return to more sinkers. So I
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can develop from that perspective, and
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of that. Yeah, Logan Evans. His percent is at four percent now

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on fan tracks. Of course,
it was zero percent when we had first

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talked about him this offseason, but
he has increased his raster percentage like three

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point seven percent over the last week. So wow, that's the spring training

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hype there. Yeah, right,
enough with the games that are still to

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come. There were eleven of these
spring breakout games. We had three rained

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out, and obviously the Mariners is
getting rescheduled, but the White Sox and

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Cubs got rained out and the Giants
in the athletics got rained out on the

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same day. On that Friday,
we had thirteen other games that went I

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think, so how many How many
of those were you able to watch,

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Nate? I watched a couple of
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game, Tigers Phillies game, and
then the rest I kind of watched after

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the fact, we're bits of as
they were going on. Now, the

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archives got a little tricky for us. Of course, there were a couple

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of games that were not broadcast at
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on MLBNW work just went to like
condensed games that were that were pretty condensed,

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I would say, So I didn't
get to watch everything that I wanted

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to see there. But I kind
of went just like apropos to the Times

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Matt, like I'll look hart right. I kind of just jumped around and

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watched the parts of the games other
games that I really wanted to see,

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and I was focusing getting my eyes
on players that I had not ever seen

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before or seen very little love and
mostly not in game action. So some

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college guys who had not made their
full season debuts yet were drafted last year,

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or complex guys, or guys jumping
from the DSL who may have pitched

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an inning or gotten an at batter
too. So I made a list of

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all those guys and really wanted made
an effort to try to get my eyes

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on all of those. I couldn't
for some, but that was my main

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focus, not that I didn't see
or take some observations away from some you

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know, more pretty boy type names. So that was my main focus.

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How about you similar in that I
was antenna up or the guys that I

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hadn't seen much of or that we
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looks. Because one of the things
that was pretty awesome about most of the

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games that were televised were they had
legit major League spring training level production.

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I mean, not all of them. Some of them we had kind of

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janky, minor league esque views that
we're familiar with. But it was pretty

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cool to see some of these guys
in like actual high definition with real slow

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motion swings that they would show on
replay and hearing you know, actual experienced

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broadcasters talking about them. I mean, also hat tipped to the team the

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production teams. They had a lot
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organizations in sometimes heads of the scouting
department. I'd say those interviews varied in

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quality and insight, but there were
some that you got some use, some

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additional nuggets of information as they were
talking about their prospects, especially some of

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the ones that maybe are less talked
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So that was pretty cool. And
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most of the of the broadcasts where
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of had them on in the background
and then with like something interesting when happening

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happen, or there would be a
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on and I pause and rewind it
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Yeah, probably eight of the games
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and then watch the condensed games for
the others that were visible. So I

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got eyes on most of these games, and man, it was fun,

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like it was cool to see.
So I agree, where do you want

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to start a lot of fun.
It was a lot of fun to see

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the different level of players matching up
against each other. And some interviews.

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I think the interviews were my favorite
part. Some of the interviews we'll get

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into that we'll probably go game by
game. I saw someone had the idea

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that I like this idea. And
this isn't to knock any of the broadcasters

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that were doing these games, but
they should have the minor league broadcasters from

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these organizations doing these games. In
my opinion, they know a lot more

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about these players. Then then some
of these these announcers that were, you

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know, doing the best that they
could be something that I'd put in in

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the suggestion box for the future.
Let's start with the call it the marquee

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matchup of the ones that we Pirates
and Orioles. You were you able to

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watch this one, Pirates and Orioles. I did not watch very much of

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this one. That whatever was going
on at the time, I couldn't watch

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it live, and then I watched
a little bit of the condensed version,

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but they didn't really have the ad
bats of the guys that I had wanted

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to see the most. So,
yeah, you might have more lay on

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this one. Well, it was
an interesting game for a couple of reasons.

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One, there is just there's a
ton to talk about with respect to

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the Orioles bats. But as happens
in a game, you watch one game

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and you might not get to see
anything interesting for the guy that you're you're

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most excited to see. Luckily,
right, Baltimore has a ton of prospects,

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and when we talked about their B
sides, we went pretty deep highlighting

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guys that we thought were interesting.
And that's outside of your holidays. Norby's

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Mayo, the SAO. I mean, like, there's Dylan Beaver's. The

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guys that we were talking about also
were interesting in this game in Billy Cook

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and Ben Cosme and Brailn Tavera,
John Rhodes got in this game, and

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ry K Bradfield let off and on
the other side, the Pirates, they

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don't have a ton on the hitting
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in the muddy area. We talked
about Jase Bowen a bit and he had

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a really nice game. I know, Garrett Forrester is one that Chris Clegg

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is pretty high on, and that's
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of. He had a couple of
walks in this game. It's not that

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great outside of their top couple guys, you know, Tamar Johnson, but

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they're pitching staff. They threw all
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So we got in the very first
inning last year's number one overall pick

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versus the previous year's number one overall
pick, who just so happens to be

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the number one overall prospect for a
lot of publications right now, in Paul

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Skeens versus Jackson Holiday, and that
was It was fascinating. Bradfield was interesting

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to watch him, and I was
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maybe more than him striking out Holiday. He threw a well located one

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hundred and one mile an hour fastball
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and making Bradfield swing and miss is
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strike erate is really really low.
So that was an impressive outing for Paul

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Skeens. And again it's one inning, but his slider looked great, his

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change up looked wicked. I was
just like man Paul Skeen's. The one

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hundred and two mile an hour fastball
by Jackson Holiday got a lot of the

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love for the you know, pitching
ninja gifts. But his sliders down and

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in to the lefties and the change
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out Holiday was special. And so
it was interesting then to compare Paul Skeins

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with three distinct really great pitches.
I think he only threw the three in

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that outing with this just litany of
flame throwing, varying levels of command and

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control, roster of prospects behind for
Pittsburgh. So they followed schemes with Braxton

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Ashcraft Hunter, Barco Curtis, who
I didn't know, Riley, who I

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had seen like a short ride up
of and flagged as like this is somebody

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that I want to get some eyes
on this year, and he struck out

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the side in his outing. And
then Bubba Chandler, who was just ripping

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nine to nine mile an hour fastballs
to buy some guys too to close out

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the game. So you know,
Pittsburgh through like every one of those guys

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looked like they could pitch in a
bullpen, like a major league bullpen at

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the very least. I think some
people were pretty interested in Ashcraft. But

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he his outing was I think the
shakiest for me. He had a couple

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of walks. He didn't look like
he was commanding his pitches very well.

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I was less enthused by that,
even though he was bringing the heat as

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well, and I think that popped
for some people. But yeah, I

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thought that was that was an interesting
roster against really good hitters, and they,

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for the most part carved up the
Orioles prospects. The only hit in

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the whole game for the Orioles was
an Enrique Bradfield infield single where you saw

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the eighty grade speed. I mean
he was down the line in like three

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seven. I think, you know, it's sort of a swinging bunt kind

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of thing, but man, that
guy is fast. So that's it.

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It's funny just like how many of
these guys kind of played to type in

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this game. So there was like
five five new guys quote new guys to

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me that I had wanted to see. Curtis was one. He was a

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DRAFTD I didn't get to see him. Maybe there was a couple of pitches

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in the condensed. Tony Blanco junior
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the DSL, thus far I saw
that he got a single, but I

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don't think I got to get to
see that. I was really interested to

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see Tomas Sosa with the Orioles Tavera
like you had mentioned, and then Leandro

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Arius as well, those three with
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and they're one at bats, and
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I think I saw Sosa's one swing
because it was I think seven mile per

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hour four scene that got them pretty
These were the guys that he was a

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big guy. Sosa is a big
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But yeah, definitely, And and
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guys that the Orioles brought in late
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the guys that haven't really played state
side, and seeing them against guys

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that have gotten up to double A. The Pirates pitching staff like they were

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pretty clearly outmatched. It was an
interesting reminder of the gap in talent,

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Like I'm sure that that is the
first time that they had seen consistent ninety

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nine mile an hour fastballs, you
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So that's one thing that I think
is really cool about this. If if

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you don't watch a lot of minor
league baseball and you get to see these

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different levels come together on the same
field, and there was a lot of

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these rookie level guys coming in later
in games, and you're just like,

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yeah, you're not. I don't
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It really is a good reminder of
the levels in here. And just that

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you know, the shorthand that we've
talked about before is every level you should

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adjust about twenty points of WRC plus, so like twenty percent more difficult at

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each level. And when you're talking
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A this year, looking at a
public Bubba Chandler, you know, he

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might make the big leagues at some
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choose to use him, versus a
guy who's only seeing DSL level pitching or

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maybe complex level pitching. Like that
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of talent gap between those two,
a lot of experience gap, and so

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that was just an interesting game to
kick it off with. And you know,

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it's one of the first two games
on real real headliner matchups, but

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a lot of other interesting notes in
there. Yeah, it's funny, Matt,

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So that's the big headliner, right, and don't I don't know if

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you felt this way, but for
me, I thought there were so many

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better games and so many more interesting
games. Definitely, that one what I

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thought might have been the most fun
game, at least for me, getting

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to see players that I wanted to
see that I haven't yet, and that

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was the Tigers and Phillies game.
I think we think we both watched that

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in its entirety, but that that
was a fun one, good mix of

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muddy and pretty and new guys.
So I don't know who who stuck out

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the most to you there, but
I know we've talked about jess Way Brasanio.

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Now he has played some full season
ball, he played some A ball

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last year, but I don't think
any of his games were broadcast last year,

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so I don't think we saw him
in Bradenton. Yeah, yeah,

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so this was the first time I
got my eyes on him, and I

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got to say, just from a
physical tableau like that was not what I

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was expecting. I was expecting much
more of an Eduardo Tajit, who we

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saw in this game for the first
time. Two type of physique, a

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little bit rounder. But yeah,
Racena was just like he's just kind of

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a big body, like taller than
I had in my mind's eye. Man,

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I don't know what did he go
one for three? I think he

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ripped like a Yeah. He smoked
his double off of Mick Abel Yeah,

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yeah, which was at that point
the announcers were saying the hardest hit ball

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in the series, in the breakout
series up to that point. I liked

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the look of his of his swing
and him at the plate. I think

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he struck out once or whatever.
But if anybody in this whole thing,

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he might be the guy that got
a little bit more interesting to me,

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more so than anybody else. Yeah, he was already a target of mine.

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I unfortunately left draft season and passed
over him in a couple of spots

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where semi regret it. I wonder. One of the things that was interesting

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listening to I think it was Detroit's
director of player development mentioned Versano, and

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they did mention that they might move
him off catcher, which you know,

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like he seems like he's big enough
obviously to the and the power seems real.

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Maybe his back could still stick there. But you know the fact that

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they're already talking about it and he's
this young, like it, if he's

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not a catcher, then it's like, Okay, he's got a high barticlear.

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He's got to hit like Xavier Isaac, you know, for it to

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be like, oh, this is
a slammed kind of prospect. But the

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power, the contact skills, it's
pretty interesting. And the one thing that

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I remember from his A ball data
is that he might hit the ground.

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Hit the ball on the ground a
little too much right now, but it's

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not bad, Like it's it's a
decent batted ball profile, and the underlying

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data, like his ninetieth PERCENTNLE exit
is already well above big league average,

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and it's the physique to look at
him, it kind of backs it up

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like he's got a nice swing.
I think he was the only player in

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this series that kind of after the
fact, I was like, Okay,

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I'm going to check my leagues.
Where is he? Matt Roster and kind

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of make that work because Yeah,
he looks exciting to me, and like

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you said, it's going to probably
be very bad first bat heavy and that

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can be tough. But I'm excited
to see what he does this season.

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Yeah. I think the other one
that stood out in this game that I

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really wanted to see, well,
your guy Walton. I thought he had

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a really nice hit and it was
nice to see him live, Like that

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was really really good to see,
did it? And like I said,

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this was a nice broadcast, and
so we got a really good view of

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Walton. Like I ended up with
a bunch of shares of Walton because nobody

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else wants him and this is like
a Nate Handy special and I was able

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to snag him late in quite a
few of my deeper leagues, and I'm

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really excited about seeing what he can
do this year. So I'm a fan,

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man, I'm a fan. You
got me on that one, right,

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I wanted to I really wanted to
see some Carson Rucker too. I

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don't remember if we talked about him
in the first year player Draft episode,

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but kind of either. You know, another Tennessee prep, Evan Carter,

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who wasn't like real big on the
circuits or anything like that. But the

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Tigers had popped fairly early. I
think they took him at the fourth round

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or something like that, but he
only got in as a defensive substitution at

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the end, So that was that
was kind of a bummer. Another guy

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who I ended up with a ton
of shares of Matt is Evan Sultabam in

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Philly's third round pick. He got
one at bat and man, he just

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missed a home run. He took
one out to the gap. It was

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kind of true. I think he
punched out in his other one. And

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then a guy that that's the name
Paulaco Grego. Yeah, that's a Kiwi

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boy like me, yho Paca Grego. Yeah, he's somebody that I'm pretty

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interested in. Two. I think
coming into last year he showed some pretty

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hitterish traits, like good bats of
ball, maybe like a sneaky, you

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know, down under hitter, and
then lost all last year. I think

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it was an acl right, Yeah, and so it was nice to see

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him get one at bat he struck
out, which was a bummer, but

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I just yeah, I just wanted
to get my eyes on him, and

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I gotta say, you know,
these guys that you hear about rookie ball.

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Maybe there's a little bit of video
out on him. I don't think

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there was, though I don't think
so either. Know, you know,

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you just got out the stat line
and they're like, hey, this is

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an interesting guy. He was a
lot bigger than I thought that he might

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be from the left side. There
there's a lot more physical look then I

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thunk so. And then there was
two other Phillies guys. Man, the

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Phillies were super interesting. And evidently
I'm like a big lower levels Philly bat

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fan because I have a ton of
these young Phillies guys on my teams.

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And I was not intending to do
such a thing, but uh, what'd

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you think of your look of Tayit
who had a giant DSL season? And

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then what you did you get in
there for a couple of that bats?

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I think, yeah, I got
a couple couple of bees struck out once.

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I think that might have been against
my guy Herder. I think he

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might have got him for a strikeout. But like you said, little on

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the rounder side already, and he's
like nineteen, and I mean he was

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dhing this game, like didn't catch
I gotta say, I actually didn't know

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either of the other two Phillies catchers, like I've never heard of them,

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and so I was like, okay, yeah, maybe it's because he's extra

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young and they want someone more experienced
catching what we ended up being like a

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litany of the kind of better Phillies
pitchers pitching prospects. So maybe that had

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something to do with it, but
I don't know. I got to say,

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like that did dampen my enthusiasm a
little bit for Tighty, but it

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was cool to see him, and
again he's very very young and face talking

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about pitching staffs. As we've mentioned
before, the Tigers are replete with their

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pitching and they threw a bunch of
their interesting arms too, And so I

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want to get into some of those
guys in a bit. Ye, just

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talking talking, just like the younger
Phillies guys. Did you catch any starling

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Kaba? Yeah, that was the
last guy that I wanted to bring up.

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Another guy who was just DSL didn't
get to see before, not a

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very big dude. He started.
I think he flew out to the warning

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track Apo versus Herder, which was
kind of Yeah, I don't hate seeing

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that. He felt a little.
I mean, it's tough because what is

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he's seventeen years old? Eighteen years
old, he turns eighteen. What we

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got three at bats? I think
it was felt a little slappy to me,

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a switch hitter. And are he
small? Yeah, yeah, he's

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not very big. But did you
see the play that he had at second

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base? They had him at second
base? Yes, yes, that was

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like legitimately sort of electric, looked
major league quality. And this is a

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thing that I was kind of hoping
we would get to see. And I

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was a little surprised he didn't play
shortstop, because you know, no offense

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to ring Cone, who's a shortstop, decent shortstop prospect in his own right.

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But Eric Longenhagen just gushed about CABA's
defense. I think he might have

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stuffed him in his top one hundred
or maybe it was like a pick to

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click, like forty five plus kind
of grade on a guy this young,

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basically on the back of his defense, and that, you know, a

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lot of times gets ignored by fantasy
players because we don't really get points for

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people playing defense usually. However,
it does help force a player into the

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lineup. And as I was mentioning
to somebody on the discord. Today we

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underrate the value of plate appearances across
all leagues, you know, but especially

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in your deeper leagues, where any
plate appearance might be valuable. And if

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a guy plays elite defense, the
bar for their offensive contributions comes way way

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down. And at this play was
like he was lightning fast moving to his

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right and in and it was a
speedy runner. I can't remember who hit

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it, but he just lightning fast
hands, gloves it, side arm,

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underarm, whip the ball to first
base and just kept jogging like he knew

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he had this play the whole way. And that sort of like stone cold

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confidence is pretty cool to see.
And like in the minor leagues, you

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see a lot of like crappy plays, and you know, the farther down

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you go like I saw some I
actually saw Travis Bizana this week here and

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he you know, looked great at
the dish, but definitely had a couple

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of plays on defense that I would
be like, hmm, this is like

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a below average defensive second basement and
it's interesting to see that. But then

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you see like someone like Kaba,
I couldn't see Bizana making that play look

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like that, like he might make
that same play, but just in terms

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of the defensive capability, like that
was damn impressive. Yeah, I agree.

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Yeah, you know, gloves can
carry guys into into jobs and points

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leagues. You can be productive.
I mean, look at a look at

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Crawford with the Mariners. Man,
that guy has been like a thirty team

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points guy for me for years.
No one ever wants him, and he's

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done just fine for me. And
then he busted out a little bit and

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had some offense. What did you
think, I hurt Her? Oh,

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I love that guy, and I
think this is this is interesting because you

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know, I had seen a lot
of I saw. I watched quite a

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bit of him in our when we
did our al central picks and lowered down

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in the minors, Like it was
kind of tough. There were a bunch

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of guys that I was looking at, and I kept coming back to hurt

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Her, and I was like,
I don't really know if I see it.

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Man, it's like low nineties and
the change up looks all right,

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but he doesn't throw it very much. Like I kind of had to talk

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myself into it. But then the
more I watched him, as I was

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watching some of these other guys,
I kept like thinking like, wow,

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this is he's always liked this,
like it's always really smooth. He's always

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throwing a lot of strikes. He
could stand to throw his change up more

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because it looks like a pretty good
pitch. But even though he was mostly

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a two pitch pitcher last year and
had one of the best lines in double

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A of any pitcher you know,
so seeing him in this kind of his

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showcase facing a decent crop of Phillies
hitters. He threw three innings, four

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punch outs, of course, no
walks, give up a couple of hard

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hit balls, but a couple of
the hits were kind of seeing I singles

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and give up just the one run. And I asked a couple of our

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buddies who were there what they think, and our buddy Beck said that he

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thought it was just okay. Didn't
like the stuff. Thought it was like

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swingman swingman kind of profile. But
I also saw that his stuff plus numbers

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00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:49.359
from you know's this because this was
a stat cast game, his stuff plus

409
00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:56.119
numbers were comfortably well above big like
a standard deviation above big leg gaverage.

410
00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:59.000
And this gets to something I was
saying before. It's like he's a huge

411
00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:02.839
guy. You know, he's sick
six maybe six seven and big, but

412
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.359
it's so easy and I think he
gets such good extension that the fastball is

413
00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:10.519
playing up. You know, I
think he topped out it ninety four maybe

414
00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:14.680
ninety five in this game. His
slider looked sharper to me than it had

415
00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:17.640
last year. And again maybe this
was like we had a little better camera,

416
00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:19.400
a little bit better set up,
and he did throw a few changeups

417
00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:22.880
in this game, even though it
was just three nings. So I wonder

418
00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:26.759
if that's been a focus for them. And they're director of player Development actually

419
00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.400
said that they're really impressed, like
they they love Herder like that, They're

420
00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:33.519
like, this is a guy for
us, like someone that we think is

421
00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:37.839
maybe better than sort of the public
prognosticators think. And you know, some

422
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:40.839
of that might be smoked the director
of player dev. But the fact that

423
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:45.079
Herder got the start over time Adden, over Troy Melton, over Wilmer Flores

424
00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.400
in a game like this, like
it says something, right, And I

425
00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:52.000
think that's something is that the Tigers
aren't bluffing when it comes to this.

426
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:56.160
And I don't know, man,
like I think other people are just missing

427
00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:59.759
it because he looks so smooth when
he throws, and it's not you know,

428
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:03.559
ninety eight miles an hour, it's
all the other things about his pitches

429
00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:06.680
that play up. And he was
making guys look bad. Man. Yeah,

430
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:08.319
no, I agree, And you
know, me and Matt put on

431
00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:12.079
a tinfoil hat sometimes. But I
just couldn't help but think that. I'm

432
00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:17.359
like, they're trying to get their
trade ship some value here. They got

433
00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:19.480
director of player personnel in here talking
them up. They're going to throw them

434
00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:22.480
three innings. He's looking good there. You know, a lot of sp

435
00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:27.640
prospects on the door step and Herd
her like we've talked about, is going

436
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.640
to be forty man. You know, the decision needs to come last year.

437
00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.720
And I don't know. I was
just like, man, you guys

438
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:34.920
are going to trade this guy,
aren't you. We're going to try to

439
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:40.279
Yeah, it's it's possible. It's
possible. Yeah. And I also wonder

440
00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:44.039
if that's like how they chose these
particular prospects right, Like, you know,

441
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:47.240
you didn't see Jackson Job out there, and you know he threw earlier

442
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:49.000
in the spring, and they talked
about Job a lot. Yeah, And

443
00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:53.160
I think there's definitely an element to
that in the AFL, you want to

444
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.680
get some exposure to some guys to
see what happens. Maybe you get some

445
00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.319
interest from other teams, so you
know, there might be a little bit

446
00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:03.839
of that GM gamesmanship going on here. Who knows. Yeah, I think

447
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.680
it'd be dumb, not too if
you've got a guy like a Herder that

448
00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:10.519
you want to you don't know how
he's going to fit in and what have

449
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:12.920
you, maybe even get some interest. But the pitching as a hole in

450
00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:17.759
this game was super into interesting.
Man, there's a lot of good names

451
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:21.559
here. Yeah, what'd you think
of Abel? I think I think I

452
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:25.480
of Abel? How I've kind of
always thought about him, like, I'm

453
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:30.039
not that into it. It's how
hard was he throwing in this game?

454
00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.759
I had? Yeah, So I
don't know, he's got a major league

455
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:38.039
velocity, doesn't command it all that
well. Yeah, you get some k's.

456
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:42.240
You know we've talked about before.
These are short stint outings. Abel

457
00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:47.440
hasn't been that great the longer he
goes in the starts and yeah he struck

458
00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:51.799
out three over two. He did
give up the home run young Yeah,

459
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:53.279
Yeah, I don't know, man, Like you know, he's not a

460
00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:57.799
top one hundred type of pitching prospect
to me and never really has been.

461
00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:03.319
But you know, different different strokes
for different folks. I guess, yeah,

462
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.119
I'm with you. I thought the
command was just okay, even though

463
00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:10.960
he didn't walk anybody, but he
was missing spots all over the place.

464
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.200
And I was really underwhelmed by the
fastball velocity. Like, you know,

465
00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:19.319
I'm not a big velocityist anyway,
but when people are describing this guy as

466
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:23.839
electric stuff out of high school and
it's ninety four ninety five from the right

467
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:29.079
side, like, that's not electric
to me unless it has some other interesting

468
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:32.319
traits. And I, yeah,
I don't know. I can think of

469
00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:37.319
probably one hundred arms that I like
more than able, which is like that

470
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.240
doesn't say a lot like he's.
He was very much underwhelming to me.

471
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:44.680
And of course I got to see
my guy Griff McGarry, who I talked

472
00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:47.000
a bit about before. He had
a good outing, you know, like

473
00:31:47.160 --> 00:31:52.119
one one struck up the side and
actually showed some things that I think he

474
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.599
has improved his arm stroke a little
bit. It looked shorter to me than

475
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:00.279
I had seen it in the past. Still gave up a dong and the

476
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:04.079
guy because of course he did,
but got him too. I was gonna

477
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.799
say that I at least said something
nice about Griff McGary like. It seemed

478
00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:10.519
like there was some progression here even
though he got gave up that home run.

479
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:14.119
Yeah, I mean, and to
me, that's not like not too

480
00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.599
much new. Maybe there was a
little bit different armstroke happening, but like

481
00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:22.480
I've seen McGary like carved before over
multiple innings, like he's got that in

482
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:24.960
him. It's just, you know, we've talked about his potential issues and

483
00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:30.759
why he can just completely lose it
sometimes and for a whole season. Even

484
00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:34.920
so, he's an interesting I'm not
investing in him dynasty wise at all,

485
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:37.200
but but still a guy. And
then uh he said arm got in there,

486
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:39.759
Alde Gary, what'd you think of
him? Yeah, yeah, you

487
00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:44.799
know, the command was a little
spotty, like he was a little a

488
00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:49.039
little wild. But the slider is
pretty interesting. Like I do kind of

489
00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:52.759
see what you're what you're saying there
that it seems sharp and it seems like

490
00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:55.920
it has some real horizontal plane action
to it. He's got the whole kit,

491
00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:00.960
the arsenal wise, I mean,
he's mixing it up and throwing them

492
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:02.519
on. I thought he did pretty
good. The first inning of the second

493
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:07.119
inning is when he got a little
uh ran into some trouble. But yeah,

494
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:08.519
it was fun to see him.
Watched a couple and then and then

495
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.000
yeah, the Cabrera that followed him
gave up the hit to knock him in.

496
00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:15.599
But yeah, I mean interesting arm
for sure. Yeah, Flora's payment

497
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:20.160
at the end, he was pumping
pumping some heaters and I was gonna ask

498
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:23.880
about Flores, like, you know, Flores had that breakout year in twenty

499
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:28.839
twenty two where I don't think people
were expecting that much after his you know,

500
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:31.799
twenty twenty one season in complex in
low A. But then in twenty

501
00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:37.160
twenty two he went from high to
Double A and looked great all year,

502
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:43.720
like jumped into the conversation for one
of the better pitching prospects in the minors.

503
00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:45.279
And then I guess he did the
same thing last year, you know,

504
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:47.880
hyate and then Double A, and
he spent most of the year in

505
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.799
Double A. But people were kind
of like off him, you know,

506
00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:54.920
and the performance wasn't that different.
I don't know, Like, do you

507
00:33:55.000 --> 00:34:00.200
ever read on why did people sour
on him after he did moral? That's

508
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:02.640
the same thing. The numbers weren't
as good, I don't think right,

509
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:07.960
but to me what year was at
twenty twenty two. I had a really

510
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:12.679
tough time that When I was putting
together that pitching prospect list of like Flores,

511
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:15.039
Olsen, and Joe with these guys, I was like, man,

512
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:20.000
I don't know. I didn't like
Olson because I didn't like the headwhack thing

513
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:22.960
nearly as much as those guys.
You know, you like Joe, but

514
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:25.880
he's a young guy. You don't
know, he still hasn't put up innings.

515
00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:30.480
He's a high school guy. But
so I liked Flores the most out

516
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:32.159
of those three on that list,
and I did so because I thought that

517
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:37.320
there was good MLB stuff with really
good execution, like that guy would carve

518
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:42.000
it up spot pretty much his whole
arsenal pretty well, I thought in my

519
00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:45.719
looks. And admittedly I didn't really
watch too much of them last year,

520
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:49.239
but I do know that in that
tool it looked to me that there was

521
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:52.079
somebody like I don't know if he
was trying something new or what it was,

522
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:55.760
but he got absolutely rocked in early
innings of starts, got really blown

523
00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:00.320
up in some games early on,
but then he was really good when he

524
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:01.679
went late in too starts. So
I don't know. I don't know what

525
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:05.239
you want to take away from all
of that, But I have been a

526
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.800
fan Flores's interest. He was a
junior college guy who was said to have

527
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:12.800
really big stuff but no command,
and when he showed up in pro ball

528
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.840
it was that was not the case. Like he had. He had very

529
00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:19.760
good command in my opinion. So
yeah, even last year when his walks

530
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.159
ticked up, I still I don't
know. I still really like him,

531
00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:27.039
and he seems like the guy that
stuff as should like more because he can

532
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:29.480
run it up to ninety nine.
I think the slider is quite good.

533
00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:34.039
I'm still in on him, yeh. I don't think the story's written like

534
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:38.400
obviously Job has surpassed him, and
Job been in spring seeing seeing that has

535
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:43.880
been pretty impressive and backed up his
impressive year last year. But I'm still

536
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.599
in on Flores too. I like
him. This is a fantasy baseball show.

537
00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:51.519
I have bought the dip, as
they say on Floras in a few

538
00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:53.719
spots when I could, so take
that for whatever it's worth. But the

539
00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:58.719
only other thing is just to touch
on one more pretty boy. Watching Max

540
00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:04.159
Clark's swipe second was pretty sweet.
Like he's fast and has sort of had

541
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.639
sort of like a trade turner type, really smooth slide into second base like

542
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:13.840
that. That's one that I'm really
interested to follow. I wonder if Clark

543
00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:16.599
makes the Tigers look better than it
seems right now, just just with that

544
00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:20.760
pick, Like I thought, he
had some good swings and he went over

545
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:24.000
to but had to walk and had
to steal, and cautiously optimistic that there's

546
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:29.400
still that elite level that I think
some expected, and you know, maybe

547
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.559
they will regret that pick just because
Langford looks incredible, but I think Clark

548
00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:36.480
looks really good too. Yeah,
for sure. I think there was some

549
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:39.360
folks who think and I don't think
I disagree with him. Got some FYPD

550
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:45.840
bargains on Clark there. Yeah,
he's a primo athlete. They had the

551
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:50.360
Royals Brewers. That was a good
one. But it was sucked to see

552
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:54.400
Logan Henderson leave. But hopefully it's
nothing major. So Logan Henderson my b

553
00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:59.519
side arm for the Brewers, who
I am just through the roof about.

554
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:02.559
I think the guy's electric. It
sounds like the velocity had ticked up over

555
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.880
the offseason and he'd been working on
his slider, and so I was so

556
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:10.880
excited to see that because his change
up is already up there with Drew Thorpe

557
00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:14.960
and Gavin Stone, is the best
change up in the minor leagues. Like

558
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:17.519
it's incredible. It's an incredible pitch. But his slider had like kind of

559
00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:22.360
funky shape, and I think I
always thought he released it slightly differently than

560
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.880
his fastball and his change up,
and his fastball was like average ninety two,

561
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:28.079
I think, is the data that
we got, you know, touched

562
00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:31.519
ninety four, I think, but
apparently in all spring in the backfields had

563
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:35.719
been running it up ninety six ninety
seven, it had been averaging closer to

564
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:38.039
ninety four. The change up is
still playing and all of that. But

565
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:42.639
he warms up, comes into this
game in the fourth inning, and they

566
00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:45.880
were saying on the broadcast that they
expected him to go like three innings,

567
00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:49.559
like it was gonna be like a
Masarowski to Henderson kind of thing. And

568
00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:54.519
unfortunately, he's like kind of raising
his left arm as he's warming up in

569
00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:59.400
between pitches, trying to stretch out
that left side of his body. Throws

570
00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:04.400
a couple of pitches just so happened
to Trevor Werner, another b side favorite

571
00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.280
of ours. And in the middle
of that bat, he's still doing it.

572
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.599
He's stretching it out, raising his
arm after every pitch, and he

573
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:16.119
gave up a homer to Warner on
an up fastball that Werner tattooed, and

574
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:21.639
great swing by Werner on that one. Afterwards, like Henderson's stretching even more.

575
00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:24.400
I think he threw one pitch to
the following batter and had to come

576
00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:29.119
out of the game because his side
looked like an oblique of some kind.

577
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:31.880
So Henderson got hurt and we didn't
get to see too much out of that

578
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:35.960
other than a really great swing from
Trevor Werner. Yeah, that was a

579
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.199
bummer. I wanted to see him
go more. But that swing that was

580
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:43.639
man Werner. I always think a
moneyball of the old scouts, like the

581
00:38:43.719 --> 00:38:46.000
ball just flies off his bat like
whatever. But like that, Yeah,

582
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:50.320
that swing wasn't that. I mean, that looks so easy and it was

583
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.599
just like drop the head on it
and that's gonna be a line drive over

584
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:55.599
the left field wall. Yeah,
and it was smoked like it was a

585
00:38:55.719 --> 00:39:00.679
line drive into the bullpen behind the
left field wall, like real easy.

586
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:04.159
He stayed on top of it too, And that was a decently located pitch

587
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:06.440
at near the top of the zone. Yeah, I think it was.

588
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:09.840
It was like a cookie. It
wasn't a cookie middle, No, And

589
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:14.360
I think the velocity was decent on
that. If I'm remembering Ryan, I

590
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:16.880
think it was a ninety five mile
an hour pass ball from Henderson. So

591
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:20.199
you know, it would have been
fun to see a lot more of that.

592
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:23.400
But Warner looked great. He struck
out against Miserowski, but showed a

593
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:27.800
pretty good eye, you know,
took three pitches to run at three to

594
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:31.159
zero, and then he then swung
at three straight balls and missed them to

595
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:35.159
strike it against Miserowski. But yeah, Warner looked good, and they talked

596
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:37.000
a lot about him that they're really
excited, and he had obviously one of

597
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:42.000
the very best debuts of any twenty
twenty three drafty. So yeah, yeah,

598
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.719
and I will say I have some
FYPD regret with Warner. I did

599
00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:47.719
get a couple of shares, but
I played the game of Okay, I

600
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:52.559
can get them later in a few
spots, and then I couldn't because somebody

601
00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:54.920
else did. That kind of bums
me on and I know folks were making

602
00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:59.920
made some deals about his defense.
I guess he committed a bunch of airs

603
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:01.519
last year in his short stint at
third base. But like, and they

604
00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:05.280
talked about this on the broadcast,
like this was a two way guy.

605
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:09.159
Give him some time maybe east corner
infield. I'm sure first base or third

606
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:13.920
base, But I want to make
too much about the defense and all that

607
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:16.639
just just yet. He's twenty three, but like they were saying on the

608
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:22.519
broadcast, he has he's like seems
younger as an everyday bat than a twenty

609
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:24.440
three year old. So yeah,
and they did have him playing first base

610
00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:27.519
here, and they talked a bit
about that, but I think it was

611
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:30.800
more because they wanted to get Kaden
Wallace out there, yeah, with some

612
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:34.360
reps at at third base. So
a young guy that I was anxious to

613
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:38.639
see who made some noise in the
DSL was Ramon Ramirez, and I think

614
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:43.599
he came in and got one at
bat right, pinched hit for the d

615
00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:46.400
eightpearances though, but oh yeah,
I'm sorry he walked, so he had

616
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:50.960
to walk And what do you do, like ground out? Ground out?

617
00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:52.519
If I remember, Yeah, what'd
you think about him? I don't know

618
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:58.840
it was he didn't like overly grab
my attention in any way bad or good.

619
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:01.559
Yeah, tough toll from kind of
two plate appearances like that, but

620
00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:06.159
he didn't look out of place,
and the Brewers did throw out some pretty

621
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:09.000
good pitching prospects. He didn't face
Miserowski. I think he faced Winkowski when

622
00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:13.039
he walked, So that was,
you know, a tough a tough look

623
00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:15.159
too. Yeah, and he was
a he was a new guy. He

624
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.719
was a draft I don't think had
played full season ball yet Wikowski or I

625
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.719
don't even know how to say it, wick Rowski. He threw hard like

626
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:24.639
that. He kind of looks like
a reliever to me, a hard thrown

627
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:29.079
reliever. And they were talking him
up on the show. Actually thought he

628
00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:32.320
looked pretty good and better than Note, which was nice to see notes too.

629
00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:36.639
So that was that was another one
that it was fun to see kind

630
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:38.440
of back to back. Yep.
So no, I don't think he pitched

631
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:42.440
at all last year, right,
not even in the complex. He was

632
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.320
coming from high school. I watched
him a bit as a prep on some

633
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.639
showcases and things like that, and
I was reminded why I didn't put him

634
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.039
on my first year player Draft list, Matt Like, sure, he's got

635
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:58.159
a fastball that appears to have some
nice ride and curveball that looks pretty nasty.

636
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:00.000
But you man, he's he's so
raw in my opinion, Like he's

637
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:04.119
a he's a thrower. He's got
work to do. Could he be great

638
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:07.199
somedays? But yeah, I mean
the Brewers do things. But that's yeah,

639
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:10.320
that's not that's not my cup of
tea. Yeah, this first year

640
00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:15.800
player draft season, Yeah yeah,
yeah, and a couple other preps I've

641
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:21.320
seen before like that, but got
to see Batante and Pratt. Pratt put

642
00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:23.159
a charge into one. We didn't
really get to see though, if I

643
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:27.440
remember correctly, we didn't really get
the camera angle of where it all went,

644
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:30.800
but we just saw the center fielder
I think, on the track with

645
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:34.480
the ball. Yeah, that seemed
like an easy charge. But I like

646
00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:37.599
Pratt. I'd liked the looks at
him as as a prep. And then

647
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.760
I think a guy that a lot
of people were anxious to see was how

648
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:45.199
do you say it? Yo free? Jef free, yo free? Rodriguez,

649
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:47.880
Uh, yeah, it might be
it might be free, but I've

650
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:51.320
heard a lot of people say yo
free. I don't know Jo free.

651
00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:53.760
Okay, but he put up you
know, he's a DSL guy, got

652
00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:55.760
a lot of buzz. What did
you think of him? I don't know.

653
00:42:55.880 --> 00:43:00.679
He's uh, he's small. He
is smaller than I thought. But

654
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:05.760
I'm pretty interested, like because he
had really good plate skill, plate skills

655
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:08.480
coming out of the DSL. I
think makes pretty good swing decisions. Didn't

656
00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:12.800
look out of place in the battershbacks. I think he hit a single in

657
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:15.519
it for his one hit. But
yeah, he's someone I'm excited to watch

658
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:17.599
more of. You know, it
was tough to get a real read.

659
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:21.440
You know, they did give him
three at bats in the game, but

660
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:24.960
play he did. And but yeah, Lara too. I mean Lara hadn't

661
00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:29.800
seen much of him, and he
kind of lived up to the building of

662
00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:35.119
like kind of three soft pieces of
contact that found gloves each time. Wasn't

663
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:38.039
overly thrilled with my look at Lara, But you're free excited to see some

664
00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:42.840
more of And I don't know if
you noticed our guy arian Amo. Yeah,

665
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:45.920
am I off here? But did
he tone down the batwagon a little

666
00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:53.039
bit? Because I loved his batwagle
last year Perpendicular. Now it's only just

667
00:43:53.199 --> 00:43:58.079
like abbreviated. Yeah, it was
much toned down, and you know,

668
00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.400
he got a hit, so maybe
maybe that's a sign of things to come

669
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:05.840
for him. But I just thought
he was one of the most fun swings

670
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:08.480
in all the minor leagues last year. That pre prep batwaggle was something.

671
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:14.599
I know he got into this game, but it was my Brewers B side

672
00:44:14.679 --> 00:44:16.800
that, right, Juan Bias,
Yeah, that's right. This is even

673
00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:21.920
before this game. Some stuff on
Twitter, but I saw some some side

674
00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:27.320
views of his swing, and it's
another Brewer with some sort of wild mechanism

675
00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:30.360
in their in their swing or their
load or something. But yeah, I

676
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:34.599
don't know if you notice his his
leg kick is pretty pretty connounce. Yeah,

677
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:36.800
yeah, I don't. I don't
know if I really care for that

678
00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:39.039
too much. But he did hit
a home run a major league spring training

679
00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:45.159
game this year. That's attention.
Yeah, big old like wind up leg

680
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:50.400
kick and then Beryl found it.
Yeah, let's touch on the casey pictures.

681
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.760
You know, Mason Barnett I'd taken
as my B side arm and he

682
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:59.960
didn't look very good. Pree Walks
was I thought sort of uncharacteristically wild.

683
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:04.199
Normally he has better command, but
tried to work around things, and I

684
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:07.679
don't know, he had an okay
outing even though the underlying metrics were pretty

685
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:13.039
bad. No, Cameron's someone that
I've had on a couple of rosters and

686
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:16.199
he just looks like a six starter
to me, not that exciting, but

687
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:21.559
he looked okay. Chandler Champlain was
one that they're scouting. Director that was

688
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:23.519
on talked about that they were excited
to see what he could do this year.

689
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:28.519
Two clean innings, just one shrek
out for Champlain. But he's one

690
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:32.360
that there's potentially interesting stuff. I
think there, like pitch metrics might be

691
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:36.119
sort of more interesting, but I
think he still has a little bit of

692
00:45:36.199 --> 00:45:39.320
command challenges even though he was throwing
strikes. But yeah, No, those

693
00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:44.079
were those are the guys that I
was most curious to watch. And then

694
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:46.000
Klein came in and had a couple
of strikeouts to close it out. But

695
00:45:46.119 --> 00:45:51.000
I hadn't I hadn't much to compare
him to. I thought when we were

696
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:54.199
talking Royal's B side arms, I
feel like you would like sort of him

697
00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:58.559
and had for these guys, maybe
at least three of them, And I'm

698
00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:02.639
like, that's great, maybe,
but not super super thrilled or super excited

699
00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:07.039
about any of them. Yep,
did Miszierowski. Did your opinion of him

700
00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:12.800
change whatsoever? No, that's who
he is. Like short outings, he's

701
00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:15.559
throwing as hard as he could.
You know, the angle is weird.

702
00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:20.800
He's throwing it outside the zone.
So he got five strikeouts in two and

703
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:23.800
two thirds. But if he had
gone another inning, like the stuff starts

704
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:29.719
to drop, he just wasn't throwing
any strikes. He you know, three

705
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:35.000
walks and two of those strikeouts easily
could have been additional walks. He hit

706
00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:38.679
two batters. That's the Maserowski experience. And people are going to see the

707
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:44.559
gifts of him whiffing guys with the
fastballs out of the zone that he garners

708
00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:47.599
chase on and that is impressive.
But I'm just not here for that kind

709
00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:51.320
of guy. Like, I don't
think that's a starter. I think he's

710
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:55.599
going to be a wild reliever who
or maybe it's like the Blake snell in

711
00:46:55.880 --> 00:47:00.840
even shorter outings, right, Like
it's it's that kind have an approach and

712
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:05.159
I don't know it's the stuff is
electric. He is so goofy looking on

713
00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:09.320
the mound, so skinny and wild
flailing limbs and all of that. Just

714
00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:14.519
I get the appeal, it's just
not for me. Saw some tweets and

715
00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:17.559
stuff going out about how his velocity
dropped significantly, and it's like, man,

716
00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:21.639
you gotta be careful with these guys. Like he can look great in

717
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:24.159
an inning or two, but like
that's that's kind of how he's been.

718
00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:28.880
I mean, I'm pretty sure his
velocity is dropped when he goes deeper into

719
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:31.400
games last year, and I just
whatever, we don't need to like dogpile

720
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:35.760
on him more. But just seeing
these couple of innings, like nothing has

721
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:38.800
changed. I don't think with him, so neither does my opinion. Yep,

722
00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:42.679
let's talk Yankees blue Jays. You
want to do Yankees blue Jays?

723
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:45.239
Yeah, this was a really fun
one, and then it really wasn't fun

724
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:51.119
in part because now watching the archive
of this, there's there's like a HEIGHTI

725
00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:54.440
moment super Bowl back in the day, halfway through the fifth inning, the

726
00:47:54.599 --> 00:48:00.039
broadcast went to New York NBA coverage
in the last like hour was NBA stuff

727
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:04.320
in it. It was right when
like a bunch of these like DSL guys

728
00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:07.440
that I wanted to watch like got
into the game. So I was wow,

729
00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:09.599
I was kind of bummed about this
about that, but this had some

730
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:16.119
excitement and some some pretty boys doing
some things right. I thought there was

731
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:20.480
a lot of interesting moments in this
game, or at least the five and

732
00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:22.719
a half innings that I got to
watch or four and a half innings that

733
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:24.400
I got to watch. But you
know what was the most interesting part of

734
00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:28.880
this game for me, Matt once
you see did you see when they were

735
00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:34.559
talking about your boy, Caleb Durban. How awesome of a moment was that,

736
00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:37.719
dude? So they got I don't
remember if it was was Brad Osmis

737
00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:42.840
talking to them, actually talking to
the booth, but they were they were

738
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:47.079
talking about Caleb Durman, and maybe
they were just relaying relaying what Osmis has

739
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:52.679
said and what Boone has said about
Caleb Durban, but they were both then

740
00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:54.519
you know, maybe they're just hyping
up their guy here on a broadcast,

741
00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:59.960
but they were both talking about how
he's impressed them the most out of anybody

742
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:04.480
in camp, how Boom thinks that
he's a major leaguer for a long time.

743
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:07.840
And then while they're talking them all
up, Durban rips a double down

744
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:12.480
the line. Dude. It was
anybody. He stole a couple of days

745
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:15.039
and he stole second and third,
and yeah, I think it just stole

746
00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:20.679
second this game, but he's stolen
quite a few in in regularly. Had

747
00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:22.760
he had third stolen, whether it
was like a foul ball or something,

748
00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:28.719
that's right. Yeah, Again,
like seeing Durbin on a Major League quality

749
00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:32.199
broadcast, they did the slow motion
of his swing from the side, and

750
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:37.719
you see how still his head stays
like this was on the double. You

751
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:39.599
know it was on an off speed
pitch. He was out in front of

752
00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:44.599
it, but his head stayed so
still. He's locked in on that back

753
00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:49.360
leg and then he's just got this
incredible barrel control and he just kind of

754
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:52.239
slows down a swing just in the
right way, barrels it and pulls it.

755
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:55.119
And that's something I had talked about
that he does quite well. When

756
00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:59.039
you watch him, it's like he's
trying to hit the ball in the good

757
00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:00.480
parts, trying to pull I'm trying
to put it in the gap. And

758
00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:05.719
that he did in that at bat
too. I love that guy, like

759
00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:09.880
and you were talking about which was
surprising to me that they were talking about

760
00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:15.159
his defensive versatility too. Right,
So, yeah, they had a field

761
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:19.960
in this game. Yep, unless
you're trying to unless you're trying to sell

762
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:23.880
them. It sounds to me like
they think a MLB bench utility type role

763
00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:28.920
is definitely on the cart on the
table here. Yeah, that's kind of

764
00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:30.920
how I summed to death, like
when I was saying just how impressed I

765
00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:37.000
was with Durban this last year.
He has so much skill in some of

766
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:39.360
the things that is the hardest to
do, which is make contact with the

767
00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:44.039
baseball. And he's got some defensive
versatility and he's got some speed and that

768
00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:47.480
those things are gonna make him able
to play in the major leagues for a

769
00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:52.840
while. But it's hard to see
that all translating as a as a regular

770
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:55.800
you know, like there are only
so many jose L two v's who can

771
00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:00.840
really make that work from a power
standpoint. And I don't know if we

772
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:05.000
know that about Durban just yet,
but he has done nothing but hit and

773
00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:08.159
steal and play all over the diamond
this spring. I loved hearing that at

774
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:12.719
a boon, Like, of course
that's probably smoke or whatever, but good

775
00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:15.400
for him, Good for him that
he's opening eyes like this, and so

776
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:19.519
it was fun to see him such
a good game after Like, you know,

777
00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:25.079
he's what not even on Eric long
Inhiggin's top whatever prospects for the Yankees,

778
00:51:25.119 --> 00:51:28.599
and I think our buddy Chris Glegg
I don't think he had him in

779
00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:31.719
the top thousand prospects, right,
So it sounds to me that even though

780
00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:37.440
those folks might not view him as
a legit prospect, it sure seemed like

781
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:40.280
the manager and bench coach did.
That was super interesting to me. I

782
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:45.559
was anxious to see Boafron, But
did I even see him? Yeah,

783
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:50.559
he started the game of DH right, I think we saw one he like

784
00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:54.559
one at the backgrounded out or something
like that. But maybe the guy that

785
00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:59.840
I was most interested to see here
because of all the praise and the hype

786
00:51:59.880 --> 00:52:01.800
was Henry Lallane, and I did
get to see him. That was the

787
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:06.599
last half inning before it went to
NBA basketball. But what do you think

788
00:52:06.639 --> 00:52:10.480
about Leilani there? So this is
one I only saw some of the highlights

789
00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:15.519
of Lelani. I didn't get to
watch this whole game. It looked good,

790
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:20.480
I mean, it didn't look out
of place in amongst these decent prospects,

791
00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:23.000
which were of varying levels obviously,
but there were still quite a few

792
00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.639
of their upper level prospects, and
I think Lallana is gonna rise up.

793
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:30.920
You know, he's already got a
ton of helium from some of the hype

794
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:34.719
from Jeff Ponce and some of the
others at Baseball America and some of the

795
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.840
videos that we've seen this spring.
He looked good. But just like from

796
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:42.079
a fantasy baseball standpoint, like I'm
selling all my shares, like I had

797
00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:45.360
a couple, and I think I'm
trading Lelane in both the leagues that I

798
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:47.400
had him in. So but again, we talked a little bit about the

799
00:52:47.719 --> 00:52:51.119
why of that, but I thought
it looked good in the bit that I

800
00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:52.800
saw. You know, this is
a this is a young guy, big

801
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:59.000
guy. Some folks are getting real
excited and like future number one pitching prospect

802
00:52:59.079 --> 00:53:01.639
and all the land. I'm just
like, nah, I can't get on

803
00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:06.360
that sort of bus here, Like
no, no, I mean, it's

804
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:08.960
one inning, it's the first things. But he did not if you're hoping

805
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:15.320
for like a Yuri Perez Andrew Paynter
type of ascension or something like that,

806
00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:19.280
like I would not be putting my
money down that it's with Henry Lalane here,

807
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.800
and maybe this is just optics,
a little too much optics. But

808
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:25.440
I'd heard about like his athleticism for
a big guy and stuff, and he's

809
00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:30.519
got some like Hunter Pence in his
shoulders. Man doesn't. He doesn't strike

810
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:34.159
me as the most athletic looking fella
in the world, but I mean his

811
00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:37.679
he's got a lot of limbs and
elbows and stuff, and he throws strikes

812
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:42.119
fine enough. But anyway, he
grounded out Gabriel Martinez, struck out Namala,

813
00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:45.159
and then got Tucker Toeman to fly
out to center field. Like,

814
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:47.840
okay, cool, we're not big
velocity people, But I didn't think this

815
00:53:47.960 --> 00:53:52.559
stuff was like super wowing to me
from our little center field view. But

816
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:55.400
I don't know. I thought I
was hoping to get a little bit more

817
00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.960
excited, but I didn't, And
maybe that's an problem. All right,

818
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:02.159
all right, did you? Oh
so I guess you didn't catch any of

819
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:06.760
Jack Neely either. No, I
didn't get to see Neely. I didn't

820
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:09.000
get to see Yeah, I didn't
either, But I did think it was

821
00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:14.000
interesting that Neely was who they went
to like close out the game. Yeah,

822
00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:19.480
and I know, uh Morodis Morodis
the prep guy got to see him,

823
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:21.239
which is cool. I want to
see him. There was a lot

824
00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:24.599
of praise and hype and speculation about
him. I was not impressed with him

825
00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:30.360
whatsoever. You know, he got
hit around, he walked guys like it

826
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:35.480
wasn't I didn't. I didn't see
what I was supposed to be super pumped

827
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:37.800
about there. But yeah, and
then there was some complex guy that I

828
00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:42.480
wanted to see that. I don't
think I got to Tahada Cruise Delgado.

829
00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:45.480
I think that was all missed.
I saw in the malls strikeout against Lelane.

830
00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:50.880
I didn't get to see Minosa or
Bonilla, two guys from the Blue

831
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:52.880
Jays that were just in the DSL, So I don't. I don't know

832
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:57.360
if you saw any of that,
but I did not. I did watch

833
00:54:57.599 --> 00:55:01.000
Roderick Arius and we got like a
whole game of Roderick Arias more or less

834
00:55:01.079 --> 00:55:04.719
right. Yep, he had at
those three at bats. Yeah, what'd

835
00:55:04.719 --> 00:55:07.199
you think? What'd you think there? I know there's a lot of a

836
00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:09.679
lot of dynasty love there, and
I see some some trades going down to

837
00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:14.559
get some get some shares there.
Yeah. I picked up a share actually

838
00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:19.440
of him in another trade, and
I'm excited to see more of him.

839
00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:22.239
I will say one of the things, you know, two walks to strike

840
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:24.360
out, I think like a fly
out in a ground out, you know,

841
00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:28.360
he kind of it wasn't that exciting
at the plate, you know,

842
00:55:28.440 --> 00:55:31.119
he looked decent swing in a little
bit that I saw, But I thought

843
00:55:31.159 --> 00:55:34.800
he looked pretty good on deep.
He had a couple of nice plays that

844
00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:38.000
he looked like a shortstop. They
did slide him over to second base late

845
00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:43.000
in the game, so that Lombard
I think they switched right, like Lombard

846
00:55:43.039 --> 00:55:46.039
started at second and then switched to
play short But I thought Arius had a

847
00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:49.880
couple of nice plays in the bit
that I got to see. So I'm

848
00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:52.559
really excited to see him this year. Yeah. Of course, Jones hit

849
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:57.039
the two home runs off of some
scrub pictures, so everyone's like, you

850
00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:00.159
know, getting all crazy about that. But what, I don't know what

851
00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:04.159
else. Did you any other takeaways
from this game for you? Yeah,

852
00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:07.400
it was nice to see Lombard in
this kind of outing. You know,

853
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:10.480
he didn't have a loud game,
but it was good to see my The

854
00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:15.559
a couple of catchers that I like
here for the the Yankees both played and

855
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:20.000
they both got singles. Ben Rice
and Augustin Ramirez. I like both.

856
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:24.519
I think we got some side views
of Ramirez's swing, and now he's a

857
00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:30.320
guy that you look at like bad
at ball shape and like checks out fantastically

858
00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:32.760
far as like hitting home runs and
whatever. But esthetically, you know,

859
00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:37.400
I've seen him before, but maybe
I didn't really see side views or something,

860
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:39.320
but I kind of hated his swing, man, I kind of hated

861
00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:45.480
the look interesting. It seemed like
really uh golf swingish to me or something

862
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:47.480
like. I don't know, I
can't articulate these things that well, but

863
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:51.679
I was wondering if you had noticed
anything like that, But I guess that

864
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:57.320
I did not know. What do
you think of Brox Salvage's like gesticulations and

865
00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:00.360
how fired up he was in this
game? Yeah, I love it.

866
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:02.719
I had a great outing. I
love it. I love when pictures are

867
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:07.480
like that, man, it's awesome. Gave up the triple to Addison Barger

868
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:09.400
and then struck out the side I
think after that, or at least struck

869
00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:13.800
out two to get out of it, and he was pumped. He was

870
00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:16.559
he was pretty pumped. He's a
legit prospect picturing prospect for them, and

871
00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:20.840
they've like they do. Every year
they've sent some guys out, there will

872
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:23.000
be some room to grow come up. Yeah, I mean he had arguably

873
00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:27.199
the best outing out of any picture
in the Spring breakouts. You know,

874
00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:30.679
four innings, eight punches, the
one hit and one walk. You know,

875
00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:36.480
he looks good, big lefty,
big stuff for sure, all right,

876
00:57:36.519 --> 00:57:39.760
Matt. So the Marlin's Cardinals,
I did not get to see very

877
00:57:39.880 --> 00:57:44.840
much of this. I saw,
I think, just some condensed game stuff

878
00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:50.079
and I was looking to try to
watch Fabian Lopez and Andres Valor, but

879
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:52.039
I didn't see much of those two. What did you see from this game?

880
00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:54.320
So I wasn't able to watch quite
a bit of this one. I

881
00:57:54.360 --> 00:57:58.320
had it on the background while I
was doing some work, so I didn't

882
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:00.440
pay as close attention to this one
of some of the others. And I

883
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:04.039
got to watch on the weekend.
But there were some things of note,

884
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.840
I mean, kind of skipping over
the bigger names in this, like you

885
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:10.719
know Victor Scott and Mason Wynn and
Thomas to JC, like we know a

886
00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:15.559
lot about them. And then on
the Marlin side, Jacob Maya I've seen

887
00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:19.639
a ton of over the years,
and he's a good shortstop that has a

888
00:58:19.719 --> 00:58:22.639
light bat and I think is going
to be a big leaguer, but probably

889
00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:28.079
not an impact one. Our guy
Troy Johnson got a knock and they talked

890
00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:31.360
quite a bit about him on the
broadcast with sort of glowing results like that

891
00:58:31.639 --> 00:58:36.559
he's got speed, he's a really
interesting hitter, had a great year in

892
00:58:36.599 --> 00:58:39.599
Triple A, and it was encouraging
that they had as much good things to

893
00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:44.159
say about him. And you know, for what it's worth, the Marlins

894
00:58:44.199 --> 00:58:49.599
batted Johnston third in this game,
which still is a position of some respect.

895
00:58:49.800 --> 00:58:52.440
I think he had a knock in
an RBI he drove in Jacob Barry

896
00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:55.920
in. I think it was like
the fifth inning or something. Griffin Conine

897
00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:01.559
was the big standout in this game. It a really long home run,

898
00:59:01.679 --> 00:59:06.960
like he really got into this homer
that he hit off Max Radchik, I

899
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:10.000
think he say his name, who
actually liked. You know, he had

900
00:59:10.039 --> 00:59:15.000
the worst line out of any of
the Cardinals pitchers that threw, but Max

901
00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:19.960
Radgick I thought had some interesting traits
that might be worth following. And I

902
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:22.920
think he had a decent line last
year if I'm remembering right, in the

903
00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:29.239
lower minors. So he's one that
the results don't say much, but I

904
00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:31.679
still think he's worth a follow in
some of your deeper leagues. For example,

905
00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:37.719
I think he has as much interesting
stuff as Gordon Grossefo does. And

906
00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:40.199
we talked a bit about him with
your buddy Matt on the last show,

907
00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:45.280
and both through in this game,
and I thought that Radjik compared favorably with

908
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:49.119
Grisefo. We also got to see
Tink Hence do what he does well,

909
00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:52.000
which is show out like a reliever
in short stints. You and I were

910
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:58.199
texting in this game, and you
ask you think anybody's mind is changed when

911
00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:00.599
they see Tink Kents throwing like this, And I'm like, no, because

912
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:05.079
this is when he looks good.
He throws two innings of three strikeout,

913
01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:07.800
one hit. You know, the
stuff was playing up. He was touching

914
01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:12.239
ninety seven slider, looked good.
But the stuff backs up the farther he

915
01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:16.159
goes into games and it was not
good command, even though he was getting

916
01:00:16.239 --> 01:00:21.199
some strikeouts. But I realize now
that I'm looking I watched like the first

917
01:00:21.239 --> 01:00:23.159
five innings of this game live,
so I don't know what I'm talking about.

918
01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:27.960
Yeah, we were texting during it. I thought like we were watching

919
01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.280
it. Yeah. Yeah, But
when I asked that about hence, I

920
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:34.159
meant like in the other direction,
like do you think that this is going

921
01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:37.760
to change anybody's mind? And like
maybe he hasn't like a top one hundred

922
01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:42.000
guy, But it turns out that
that was not the case, because he

923
01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:45.119
was good for a couple of innings. But yeah, like you're saying,

924
01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:46.800
this is how I knew what you
were saying. I knew what you were

925
01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:51.079
saying because he was like kind of
wild and he was kind of like you

926
01:00:51.159 --> 01:00:55.960
know, it was you see just
how skinny he is and barely fifty percent

927
01:00:57.199 --> 01:01:01.639
strikes seventeen strikes, thirteen balls in
thirty pitches. That's not great. But

928
01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:05.639
it goes to when he strikes out
three and only gives up a hit and

929
01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:07.360
people are like, yep, that's
it, and it's like, man,

930
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:12.000
you've got to watch this guy through
a whole like outing watch him for four

931
01:01:12.079 --> 01:01:15.440
innings, five innings and yeah,
I don't know, man, Yeah,

932
01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:20.039
smell from fake in here. Yeah. The other exciting thing though, the

933
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:22.639
guy that started the game for the
Marlins, Tommy White, is my first

934
01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:28.320
real view of him outside of some
high school highlights. Night White looked phenomenal

935
01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:30.639
dude, Right, I know,
you know it's funny to see the Twitter

936
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:34.239
hype and all this stuff, and
like, you know, not to be

937
01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:37.880
a turn hat, but I'm like, tell me you didn't do a great

938
01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:42.480
job of assessing White versus Meyer without
telling me you didn't do a very great

939
01:01:42.559 --> 01:01:45.079
job of assessing White versus Meyer,
because, like we've talked about, those

940
01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:51.559
guys, in my opinion, should
be valued very similarly in the dynasty sphere

941
01:01:51.679 --> 01:01:54.480
here and White showed out. I
mean, he looked fantastic, mentioned to

942
01:01:54.519 --> 01:01:58.639
you and some others too, Like
to me, in this look, you

943
01:01:58.679 --> 01:02:01.480
had White that pitched the first and
it looked really good. And then Meyer

944
01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:07.000
came in and kind of struggled to
throw strikes and lokate and execute his execute

945
01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:10.039
his pitches. But for me,
that's kind of like reversed from my previous

946
01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:15.599
looks. White was the one that
struggled to throw strikes more so than when

947
01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:19.239
I watched these two the Meyer,
but not on this day. White was

948
01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:23.440
fantastic. And if he if he
executes his three plus pitches like he did

949
01:02:23.880 --> 01:02:27.800
that outing, that's going to get
pretty exciting in my book. I mean,

950
01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:32.119
people got Meyer pegged as like potential
future overall number one overall pitching prospects.

951
01:02:32.239 --> 01:02:35.360
Like, Man, if you're gonna
do that with Meyer, you might

952
01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:38.119
want to consider doing that with White
too. Yeah. I mean again,

953
01:02:38.239 --> 01:02:42.199
I don't have as much of a
track record with these guys as you did.

954
01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:46.039
Just in this one outing, White
looked way better than Meyer. You

955
01:02:46.079 --> 01:02:51.360
know, Meyer couldn't find the strike
zone. Meyer's stuff didn't seem that impressive,

956
01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:53.360
Like it wasn't like he was wild
in the Miserowski way. He just

957
01:02:53.519 --> 01:02:58.199
was like pulling his slider way down
in a way that it wasn't even close

958
01:02:58.519 --> 01:03:01.480
fastball. Didn't seem like it was
nothing anything special. I think White was

959
01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:06.239
throwing harder than Meyer, and usually
you would want that reversed if you've got

960
01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:09.440
a righty and a lefty and Meyer
and White. So the fact that White

961
01:03:09.519 --> 01:03:13.599
was showing out from the left side
and Meyer looked pretty bad from the right.

962
01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:16.000
I mean, Meyer and Able to
me are sort of linked. You

963
01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:20.880
know, they were teammates at Jesuit
High School here in Oregon, and you

964
01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:24.320
know, both highly highly touted prep
right handers that you know, we'll see

965
01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:29.239
if Meyer follows a similar trajectory.
But as we talked about with Abel earlier.

966
01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:31.920
Abel has not lived up to that
promise. And I wonder if a

967
01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:36.760
lot of folks that ended up with
White in their fypds, you know,

968
01:03:36.960 --> 01:03:39.800
fifteen twenty picks after Meyer, whether
they're going to be the ones that are

969
01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:44.599
thrilled coming out of this because we're
way later. Man, A couple of

970
01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:50.199
mine he went fifty sixty wow,
whereas Meyer went you know much earlier,

971
01:03:50.320 --> 01:03:52.719
top top half of the first round
or whatever. Like a couple of those

972
01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:55.079
I had to trade into, and
it's be like, all right, enough

973
01:03:55.119 --> 01:04:00.440
of this, I'm gonna nab some
white here. Continuing on the mar Carlin's

974
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:03.920
pitching train, Jacob Miller through.
He was fine. I thought. I

975
01:04:03.960 --> 01:04:08.039
think some people were pretty excited about
it, but I've seen enough of Miller

976
01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:11.559
that I was like, eh,
I'm not convinced there. Ike buxt In

977
01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:15.079
through and he's someone that I've sort
of tried to talk myself into in some

978
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:17.760
deeper leagues, but I don't think
that's a starter in the long run.

979
01:04:17.920 --> 01:04:21.679
And then my b side arm for
the Marlins. He closed out the game

980
01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:27.119
and Anthony Maldona, that dude is
so filthy. I think he's going to

981
01:04:27.159 --> 01:04:30.119
be a back end impact reliever as
as soon as this season, Like his

982
01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:36.679
cutter slider two seam combo is just
disgusting. He was getting whiffs that weren't

983
01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:41.480
even close to the zone because his
slider just looks like it's going to be

984
01:04:41.559 --> 01:04:44.239
right at the knees and it ends
up at your shoelaces and he is so

985
01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:47.280
nasty. Did he get optioned yet
or is he still I haven't seen,

986
01:04:47.480 --> 01:04:51.360
still has a chance break camp.
But thanks for pooping on I beside selection,

987
01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:56.159
just going right into all the praise
of yours. Yeah, that's all

988
01:04:56.199 --> 01:04:59.239
right. Buckston getting into this game. I don't think it was a bad

989
01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:01.639
B side. Oh he's got some
attributes, he's got some weapons, but

990
01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:04.519
yeah, no he does. He
does. And it's not like I said,

991
01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:08.360
I've been interested in him before too. It's not it's not bad.

992
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.800
I just don't think it's a starter. And so the Marlins played a couple

993
01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:16.840
of DSL guys in this game.
Maybe in Lopez came in, played shortstop,

994
01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:20.320
got a couple at bats. I
don't know if I saw the at

995
01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:24.800
bats at all, but number one
of them had a line out to left

996
01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:29.880
that was decently hit. I admittedly
wasn't a DSL guy that got onto my

997
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:34.159
radar at all. But he made
a spectacular play at shortstop where he went

998
01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:39.280
deep into his right and gunned one
and got a man. I don't remember

999
01:05:39.280 --> 01:05:42.360
who it was. It wasn't a
slow guy by an eyelash, but his

1000
01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:45.760
DSL stats a little bit. And
I don't know if there's anything super crazy

1001
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:51.840
offensively to get super excited about at
the athletics. Shortstop is going to look

1002
01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:56.159
like hopefully he's in full season ball
this year. We get to see something

1003
01:05:56.400 --> 01:05:59.360
it does it's braydon Tin or whatever
it might be. But he got my

1004
01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:03.239
attention and I wanted to see Andres
Velor. And I don't think I was.

1005
01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:06.000
I saw his at that, but
I think you did. I did.

1006
01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:09.679
It was over one with a strike. I think I asked you and

1007
01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:13.719
you're just like, yeah, he's
big. He's big. He's you know.

1008
01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:15.639
I think he was young for the
DSL last year, so I think

1009
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:20.960
he's turning eighteen this year and or
maybe just turned eighteen. But I think

1010
01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:25.760
he's pretty young. But he's huge, like looks six' five, you

1011
01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:29.800
know, two hundred pounds or something. I mean, he is large specimen

1012
01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:32.159
of a human being. And I
think he if I'm remembering right, he

1013
01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:38.960
faced Grocepo it might have been maybe
he faced Roby late in the game and

1014
01:06:39.079 --> 01:06:42.880
struck out, but it was got
off a couple of good hacks. Like

1015
01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:46.079
I think he put one ball pretty
deep foul that was down the left field

1016
01:06:46.119 --> 01:06:49.079
line. He was a little late
on but and ended up striking out.

1017
01:06:49.079 --> 01:06:53.119
But it still was interesting, interesting
seeing him, and I think we're going

1018
01:06:53.199 --> 01:06:56.880
to hear more about him as as
the year goes and he makes it stayside.

1019
01:06:57.159 --> 01:06:59.719
That was a fun one. Good
to see some some of our guys.

1020
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:01.880
Yeah, Levinston hit a home run. I think we talked about him

1021
01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:04.719
a little bit in the first year
player Raft, But the Cardinals side,

1022
01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:08.559
for the most part, was like, Okay, I know a boy.

1023
01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:14.159
You guys yep. Mat The Angels
Dadgers game I thought was kind of interesting.

1024
01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:18.039
Caden Dana definitely impressed some folks.
He got Twitter a buzz man.

1025
01:07:18.079 --> 01:07:23.639
Did you see he didn't miss a
lifting weights this offseason? No, he

1026
01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:26.679
looked jack. Yeah, he was
already I mean big and strong, but

1027
01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:31.199
he looks bigger and stronger. The
most exciting thing to me with his performance

1028
01:07:31.239 --> 01:07:34.079
there was that he was throwing the
change up good amount. I know when

1029
01:07:34.119 --> 01:07:36.559
I when I rode him up a
little bit for the dugout. You know,

1030
01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:41.960
he talked about his fastball curveball combination. But nice to see that he

1031
01:07:42.159 --> 01:07:45.679
I think he's making a concerted effort
to try to improve the change up.

1032
01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:47.679
So I like that, of course. I mean he's kind of a popular

1033
01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:51.039
name on the pitching side to rise
quite a bit this year, and I

1034
01:07:51.119 --> 01:07:58.320
think that's definitely a possibility. Yeah, yeah, for sure too. And

1035
01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:00.960
then with the guys that I was
trying to to watch the complex guys,

1036
01:08:01.199 --> 01:08:06.679
Man, what a stark difference between
the three bats that the Angels ran out

1037
01:08:06.719 --> 01:08:12.719
there for their little cameo towards the
end or whatever and the Dodgers complex guys.

1038
01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:19.399
Like Angels threw out Skull Ortez la
Verde and all those guys just looked

1039
01:08:19.560 --> 01:08:24.199
pretty overmatched. In my opinion,
I think they all struck out in their

1040
01:08:24.239 --> 01:08:28.359
one at that And then I thought
the three complex guys the Dodgers threw out

1041
01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:33.399
there looked pretty interesting. What is
Albert Albertas He's got a strong, strong

1042
01:08:33.479 --> 01:08:36.640
lower half. But what he went
a double is first at bat, I

1043
01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:41.159
thought it was a pretty good swing, and then he struck out swinging on

1044
01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:45.439
three pitchers the next that bat,
and you could tell he saw MVP of

1045
01:08:45.520 --> 01:08:49.520
the game in his eyes, I
think. But he was kind of impressive.

1046
01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:53.840
I hadn't seen him before strongly.
What he played some second base?

1047
01:08:54.159 --> 01:08:57.159
Is that your hope, the guy
that they traded for. I've seen some

1048
01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:00.399
of him before. M hm,
A couple of things, I hope.

1049
01:09:00.600 --> 01:09:02.880
Yeah, yeah, Munos. I
thought he had a really well he had

1050
01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:06.239
like an RBI sack fly if I
was good at bat though. It looks

1051
01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:10.920
like a good sized lefty kind of
the look of his swing there, and

1052
01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:13.680
I kind of wanted to dig on
him a little bit more and get a

1053
01:09:13.720 --> 01:09:16.640
little bit more interested in him.
What's that you're excited about Dodgers prospects?

1054
01:09:16.920 --> 01:09:21.479
Hey, wow, there are Dodger's
prospects that I like. This is true,

1055
01:09:23.720 --> 01:09:28.920
but it's it's not always the Tulsa
rotation that throws three innings at a

1056
01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:31.720
time and everybody loves Josh Waita.
Paula had a couple hits in this one.

1057
01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:36.159
If you haven't watched a lot of
him, that's what his hits look

1058
01:09:36.279 --> 01:09:41.760
like. Soft line drive the other
way, reasonably hard ground ball through the

1059
01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:44.880
right side, those were his two
hits. Okay, like yep, some

1060
01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.680
people are really into that, but
I just think the pressure on his bat

1061
01:09:47.800 --> 01:09:51.439
is going to be so enormous.
Dana struck him out in the first I

1062
01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:55.840
think too, so I did think
his single the other way. One thing

1063
01:09:55.880 --> 01:09:59.880
that was visible with the much nicer
cameras we got to see was his back

1064
01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:05.439
elbow was well separated from his torso
on that swing, which is something you

1065
01:10:05.560 --> 01:10:10.960
see when hitters are actually getting extended
and getting to their power. That was

1066
01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:14.159
nice to see. I don't know. I'm still, as you know,

1067
01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:17.560
quite skeptical of my boy. Gothier
didn't have a good game this game,

1068
01:10:17.640 --> 01:10:20.520
but has had a really great spring
training. As we've talked about, once

1069
01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:24.680
you think of the Dodgers' arms,
they threw out a really interesting assortment of

1070
01:10:24.760 --> 01:10:29.319
them. I don't think I really
watched too much of the Dodger's arms here.

1071
01:10:29.399 --> 01:10:32.399
I think I was kind of hopping
around and didn't pay too much attention

1072
01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:38.479
to him. Honestly, I was
pretty impressed with Robleski mixed speeds pretty well,

1073
01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:42.840
and again, the Angels lineup was
probably the saddest of any of the

1074
01:10:43.079 --> 01:10:46.119
spring breakout lineups. For the most
part, but I thought Robleski looked pretty

1075
01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:51.199
good. It was my first extended
look at Jackson Ferris and he was pretty

1076
01:10:51.279 --> 01:10:56.239
wild. I thought, but,
you know, interesting young arm to follow,

1077
01:10:56.760 --> 01:10:59.800
and that I didn't actually see the
last two. I think this is

1078
01:10:59.800 --> 01:11:01.760
what the ones where I watched the
first half and then had to get onto

1079
01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:04.920
something else, and so I missed
the last half. But I'm pretty interested

1080
01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:10.760
in Edgardo Henriquez, who closed it
out with three strikeouts. He's he's an

1081
01:11:10.880 --> 01:11:14.920
arm that Longenhagen had identified like a
year and a half ago, I want

1082
01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:19.720
to say, as a converted infielder
that he thought had huge velocity, a

1083
01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:24.319
potential to feel for a slider,
and thought he might be a real interesting

1084
01:11:24.359 --> 01:11:27.640
back end reliever. And it's been
like a couple of years of development and

1085
01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:30.439
not much has changed, I don't
think. But I was kind of bummed

1086
01:11:30.439 --> 01:11:31.600
I didn't stick around to see see
that. I don't know if that,

1087
01:11:31.800 --> 01:11:34.920
if anything about his outing jumped out
to you, but he's one that I've

1088
01:11:35.079 --> 01:11:39.720
add in the back of my mind
as a potential lateening, you know,

1089
01:11:39.840 --> 01:11:42.840
relief ace kind of thing if it, if it all clicks, and it

1090
01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:45.840
hasn't so far. But one inning, three strikeouts hard to do better.

1091
01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:47.920
I don't know much. Just say
all right, I want but I wanted

1092
01:11:47.960 --> 01:11:53.520
to ask you, Matt, about
fellow Washington State cougar in this game that

1093
01:11:53.720 --> 01:11:57.079
I had not paid much attention to. I don't think he played at all

1094
01:11:57.319 --> 01:12:00.279
post draft last year. But was
Sam Brown, who started first base got

1095
01:12:00.319 --> 01:12:03.479
three at bats for the Angels.
What do you know about your boy Sam

1096
01:12:03.600 --> 01:12:10.680
here? I actually know quite a
lot about Sam Brown because he was a

1097
01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:16.000
transfer to Washington State from the University
of Portland. So I have seen a

1098
01:12:16.119 --> 01:12:21.720
lot of Sam Brown. And he
is not a prospect. I'm gonna say

1099
01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:27.880
that he's got He got into a
Big league spring training game the other day

1100
01:12:28.119 --> 01:12:31.960
and actually ended the game with a
quote unquote hit. But the hit was

1101
01:12:32.479 --> 01:12:39.039
a ground ball that got pounded into
the dirt and popped up over the first

1102
01:12:39.079 --> 01:12:43.119
baseman who couldn't field it, and
then like the winning run came home from

1103
01:12:43.199 --> 01:12:47.279
third or like it was basically an
error. Was terribly hit ball. And

1104
01:12:47.359 --> 01:12:54.159
what I know about Brown is he
hunts fastball basically only like he'd be one

1105
01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:58.199
who I would be astonished if we
ever got his splits against certain pitch types

1106
01:12:58.359 --> 01:13:01.319
in the minor leagues is going to
hit it way better against fastballs and just

1107
01:13:01.399 --> 01:13:06.600
get eaten up by pro off speed
pitches. So very much not a prospect

1108
01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:11.840
at all, honestly, kind of
surprise he got drafted in. Good for

1109
01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:15.199
him, like he got to play
on the same field as Mike Trout this

1110
01:13:15.560 --> 01:13:18.800
this spring. But less than zero
expectations for Sam Brown, all right,

1111
01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:21.920
So so nothing to see there.
I had. I had to ask about

1112
01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:26.199
that there. Yeah, you know
the Angels, they're they're funny. Like

1113
01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:30.239
we talked a little bit about Cole
Fontinelli and he's gotten tons of run with

1114
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:34.399
the major league club this spring training. And you're like, Okay, well

1115
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:40.640
that's cool. But just because they're
promoting these guys and doesn't mean they're someone

1116
01:13:40.720 --> 01:13:44.479
we need to really pay attention to
too much. Like yep, I think

1117
01:13:44.560 --> 01:13:47.159
Funtinelle has some nice traits or whatever, but I think he's a little above

1118
01:13:47.239 --> 01:13:50.439
his head at this juncture. But
I had to ask you about Brown,

1119
01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:54.000
so thank you for that. For
sure. I was like, oh,

1120
01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:56.960
guy, I never heard of I
click on his like Washington State. I'm

1121
01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:00.319
like, all right, man,
yeah, you're holding out on me or

1122
01:14:00.399 --> 01:14:02.359
not or what I am not?
I am not. We could do the

1123
01:14:02.840 --> 01:14:09.039
Nationals Mets briefly because I did watch
most of this one that was going on

1124
01:14:09.079 --> 01:14:13.479
at the same time as the Cardinals
game. Oh, the Brandon spro at

1125
01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:16.560
game where everyone realized that, hey, he's a good pitching prospect too,

1126
01:14:16.760 --> 01:14:21.960
right yep? And Nolan Maclain,
Yeah he looked pretty good too. Yeah.

1127
01:14:23.359 --> 01:14:26.920
I did not watch a lot of
this one. Spro at seven pitches

1128
01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:30.479
that got everybody all excited. Cora's
outing or inning? What do you pitch

1129
01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:33.000
an inning? Watch? Inning?
And then a couple of at bats from

1130
01:14:33.039 --> 01:14:35.560
the from the young guys. But
but that was it for me. I

1131
01:14:35.600 --> 01:14:41.079
don't think we talked about Sprout too
much in the FYPD episode. Maybe a

1132
01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:43.159
little bit. I mean, he
was a guy that I threw up there

1133
01:14:43.199 --> 01:14:46.000
on the list and now I don't
think there was really anything that was different

1134
01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:49.479
than what I've seen from him before
or why I liked him. Maybe he

1135
01:14:49.600 --> 01:14:55.920
was throwing a tick harder, but
that's you know, seven pitches, seven

1136
01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:58.560
pitches. But yeah, I like
Spro quite a bit, and I think

1137
01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:01.840
probably a guy in fyp didn't get
enough love as maybe he should have.

1138
01:15:02.039 --> 01:15:04.720
But what did you think of him? Yeah? He looked good and this

1139
01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:09.000
was true. If I think most
of the Mets pitchers, I thought they

1140
01:15:09.279 --> 01:15:13.159
almost all of them looked pretty good. The one that looked the worst was

1141
01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:16.119
Blade Tidwell, but I've seen him
look really good before, so I'm not

1142
01:15:16.199 --> 01:15:20.560
putting a lot of stock in his
one inning. Noel McLain and Sprote back

1143
01:15:20.600 --> 01:15:26.439
to back both looked really good.
McClain there, I think I remember where

1144
01:15:26.439 --> 01:15:29.359
they mentioned this on the broadcast,
whether they're going to let him try and

1145
01:15:29.479 --> 01:15:31.600
hit it all. But he was
a two way guy college, so they

1146
01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:34.680
might let him try that. But
he looked good off the mountain. He

1147
01:15:34.800 --> 01:15:39.119
was up to ninety seven as well, and I thought his breaking ballocked really

1148
01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:43.119
good. I think strictly a reliever, though I don't I think, yeah

1149
01:15:43.199 --> 01:15:45.039
he was. I don't think they're
going to try stretch him out at all.

1150
01:15:45.479 --> 01:15:50.039
The Met's pictures all looked really good, and Net's pitchers didn't do much

1151
01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:55.399
for me. And I know people
are excited about Susannah's outing because he was

1152
01:15:55.439 --> 01:15:59.520
popping on some of the publicly accessible
stuff. Plus numbers. You know that

1153
01:15:59.600 --> 01:16:03.960
guy on Twitter that we see sometimes
in the Dynasty dug out Discord TJ stats

1154
01:16:04.039 --> 01:16:08.680
or something like he's got his own
version of kind of stuff plus and was

1155
01:16:08.720 --> 01:16:12.439
saying that Susannah's popping, and I
don't know, man. I watched that

1156
01:16:12.760 --> 01:16:16.439
whole inning of him pretty closely because
it was my first real look at him

1157
01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:19.520
after hearing a lot of reports from
him for the past few years. And

1158
01:16:19.760 --> 01:16:25.520
I just wasn't very impressed. Like
he was throwing one hundred and two and

1159
01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:29.399
people were fouling it off or taking
it because it wasn't close to the strike

1160
01:16:29.520 --> 01:16:32.119
zone. His breaking ball didn't look
good, like it wasn't getting whiffs.

1161
01:16:32.319 --> 01:16:36.760
I think he threw mostly fastballs in
his like twenty nine pitches. I counted

1162
01:16:38.039 --> 01:16:41.880
two whiffs, So it's like,
that's just not very good for this pitch

1163
01:16:41.960 --> 01:16:45.159
that is supposed to be, you
know, this really good pitch. You

1164
01:16:45.199 --> 01:16:46.600
know. He had one walk.
He ended up getting two strikeouts, but

1165
01:16:46.680 --> 01:16:50.439
one of them was on I think
a changeup which was okay, well located

1166
01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:54.119
below the zone, and one was
on a fastball. But he gave up

1167
01:16:54.159 --> 01:16:58.720
three hits a walk. I just
I was not impressed. Like people loved

1168
01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:01.600
the triple digits of it, but
I thought he kind of earned that giving

1169
01:17:01.680 --> 01:17:05.680
up two runs. Yea, yeah, I did not come away impressed with

1170
01:17:05.920 --> 01:17:10.600
him or confident in his ability to
make it as a starter at all.

1171
01:17:10.840 --> 01:17:13.920
Yeah, another guy who's caught a
lot of buzz and rookie ball, and

1172
01:17:14.199 --> 01:17:17.399
I get it. I think there
is like some really interesting clay there,

1173
01:17:17.479 --> 01:17:20.880
so to speak. But yeah,
he's he's like a lot of velocity on

1174
01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:25.319
a fastball that he needs some more
some more there for me to get too

1175
01:17:25.399 --> 01:17:29.399
excited. Was this the first time
that you saw Scora? Yes, fastball

1176
01:17:29.439 --> 01:17:32.520
looked like it played. Do you
think it's it's it's a firm fastball like

1177
01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:35.760
he was in the upper nineties,
But he did a pretty good job locating

1178
01:17:35.880 --> 01:17:41.840
like it looked consistent out of his
hand. And I don't think his secondaries

1179
01:17:42.079 --> 01:17:45.479
really showed out that well, but
he threw decent strikes with the fastball at

1180
01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:47.199
least want to see more. But
he might have been my favorite arm.

1181
01:17:47.239 --> 01:17:50.399
But you could see them on the
side. Yeah, you could see though,

1182
01:17:50.479 --> 01:17:54.159
Like you know, he was like
the vel king of this prep class.

1183
01:17:54.199 --> 01:17:58.199
But he's not just velocity like he
can, like you said, Lokate

1184
01:17:58.319 --> 01:18:00.279
execute that pitch well. And I
think it does have like a slider that

1185
01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:04.840
it's not like this wild arl offering. I don't think like I for a

1186
01:18:04.960 --> 01:18:09.600
v Lo king. I kind of
like him more than than a Susannah,

1187
01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:12.920
if you will, m hmm,
yeah, I can see that. Yeah,

1188
01:18:13.159 --> 01:18:17.680
now we might as a dynasty community
look back and regret how far we

1189
01:18:17.840 --> 01:18:21.800
let Colin how falling drafts. I
think I really like the look of him.

1190
01:18:21.880 --> 01:18:25.600
Then I like the look of his
swing. I'd like to take a

1191
01:18:25.680 --> 01:18:30.600
picture of him his photo shop meteor
thighs and put it next to little Wolt

1192
01:18:30.720 --> 01:18:34.760
because Colin has got a little stronger. I think as well too. But

1193
01:18:35.399 --> 01:18:40.079
how can Pratt to me are linked
in my mind? Because I just have

1194
01:18:40.279 --> 01:18:45.359
no opinion about them yet and have
seen only grainy high school footage and then

1195
01:18:45.640 --> 01:18:49.359
like a couple played appearances between them
in minor league. So far, I'm

1196
01:18:49.399 --> 01:18:54.199
not sold on either. I ended
up with no shares of either. This

1197
01:18:54.399 --> 01:18:57.720
isn't like a judgment one way or
the other. I just I don't feel

1198
01:18:57.760 --> 01:19:02.600
like I know enough about them,
and I'm kind of skeptical about both too

1199
01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:09.520
that I've heard touted as like these
guys are dropping way too far down big

1200
01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:14.199
upside and are going to be dudes. Yeah, And I'm just I don't

1201
01:19:14.279 --> 01:19:17.119
know. I don't know if we've
seen enough to make that case one way

1202
01:19:17.159 --> 01:19:19.800
or another, Like for me,
like I would be more interested in taking

1203
01:19:19.880 --> 01:19:24.279
Kevin McGonagall over both of them.
As far as what I know right now,

1204
01:19:24.479 --> 01:19:28.960
I totally agree. But think about
where how is gone and some seem

1205
01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:31.319
getting plucked in like the sixties and
some first year player drafts like Man,

1206
01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:35.880
he's been in like the top fifteen
in a couple of mine, and some

1207
01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:40.680
of those lads actually ends up being
like the late thirties. How Ca and

1208
01:19:40.920 --> 01:19:46.279
Pratt both mostly have been pretty early
relatively speaking in my drafts. So Pond

1209
01:19:46.359 --> 01:19:50.079
Scott how so late in ress thirty
and I was so pissed about it.

1210
01:19:50.199 --> 01:19:54.800
But both of those guys to me
feel like the kind of guys that you

1211
01:19:55.079 --> 01:19:59.840
like for your fantasy teams potentially like
solid across the board, maybe their fifties

1212
01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:03.239
fifty five, but like there's pedigree, they've they've played against high level competition.

1213
01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:06.760
They're very young, Like what if
that becomes sixties across the board,

1214
01:20:06.840 --> 01:20:12.279
then we're we're talking right, And
then I don't know this bias skin from

1215
01:20:12.279 --> 01:20:15.439
the complex third basement. For the
Mets, he looks strong, man.

1216
01:20:15.319 --> 01:20:18.680
I think he struck out once ripped
the hard, hard line drive to center

1217
01:20:18.800 --> 01:20:25.039
field and then any thoughts on this
sort of dsl Darling rod Rigaz for the

1218
01:20:25.159 --> 01:20:29.520
for the Mets, Jeremy Rodrigez,
Is that right? Yeah, he got

1219
01:20:29.640 --> 01:20:35.119
a double. I think in this
game had ground ball wasn't very it wasn't

1220
01:20:35.239 --> 01:20:39.000
very big, it wasn't very big. Guy. I thought very skinny.

1221
01:20:39.239 --> 01:20:43.239
Pitch was kind of a yeah.
I thought that pitch was a pretty meatball,

1222
01:20:43.319 --> 01:20:45.399
breaking ball too that he probably would
have been a great pitch to pool

1223
01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:47.479
and he didn't. He didn't do
that. He just kind of slapped the

1224
01:20:47.640 --> 01:20:50.319
ground ball the other way. I
think it was a drive up in the

1225
01:20:50.319 --> 01:20:53.680
middle. Yeah, like and it
was. It was, you know,

1226
01:20:53.840 --> 01:21:00.159
decently located away and I liked the
swing decently. But he's small and like

1227
01:21:00.199 --> 01:21:02.680
the way that he's young, like
he's skinny, Like you look at that

1228
01:21:02.760 --> 01:21:08.000
swing and I just watched the slow
moo, which again these cameras seeing it's

1229
01:21:08.039 --> 01:21:12.880
like it's so great. You can
really see in that swing how close his

1230
01:21:13.199 --> 01:21:15.800
back in his case, his left
arm as a lefty, his back arm

1231
01:21:15.960 --> 01:21:20.199
is really close to his hip as
he's swinging through and so like he hits

1232
01:21:20.239 --> 01:21:25.279
a line drive because he like made
contact in a decent spot with where the

1233
01:21:25.359 --> 01:21:29.079
pitch was, but rather than driving
it for a double like you might see

1234
01:21:29.159 --> 01:21:30.880
a big leaguer do, he doesn't
have that kind of strength because I think

1235
01:21:30.920 --> 01:21:35.680
he's still really young, and he
slaps it for a single, and that's

1236
01:21:35.880 --> 01:21:39.359
like part of it, Like he
just doesn't have the leverage to get his

1237
01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:43.439
arms extended on that kind of a
ball, And that's more typical of guys

1238
01:21:43.479 --> 01:21:45.840
you see when they're younger, and
I think that's something I was critical of

1239
01:21:45.039 --> 01:21:47.960
Hustwaita Paula a bit last year.
So he did a lot of that,

1240
01:21:48.319 --> 01:21:51.359
and you know, like I mentioned
earlier, he might be getting stronger and

1241
01:21:51.680 --> 01:21:56.199
doing a better job of getting that
elbow cleared, so you know, good

1242
01:21:56.319 --> 01:22:01.479
good swing. Just the note on
Yo Hondih Handy Morales. He had a

1243
01:22:01.560 --> 01:22:04.199
knock. He was one for three
in this game. But one thing that

1244
01:22:04.399 --> 01:22:11.880
I'm going to be watching closely with
Morales is he seemingly has trouble pulling fly

1245
01:22:12.079 --> 01:22:16.000
balls. Like he hits the ball
hard and his battered ball spray is decent,

1246
01:22:16.279 --> 01:22:19.439
but when he hits fly balls,
it seems like more often there to

1247
01:22:19.560 --> 01:22:23.319
the opposite field, and that I
don't know whether it was during the game

1248
01:22:23.479 --> 01:22:26.960
or what, but I think somebody
mentioned that about or maybe that was part

1249
01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:29.920
of somebody's right up of him.
It could have been long in Hagen,

1250
01:22:29.960 --> 01:22:31.239
it could have been somebody else,
but they had mentioned that, And I've

1251
01:22:31.279 --> 01:22:34.000
started to notice that a bit.
I've watched him a bit this spring,

1252
01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:40.520
and he does seem to foul off
flyballs to the right field side or when

1253
01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:42.920
he hits the ball in the air, it seems to be the center at

1254
01:22:42.960 --> 01:22:45.000
a right think in this game,
his hit, I want to say,

1255
01:22:45.159 --> 01:22:49.479
was the like just a single up
the middle or something like So it's just

1256
01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:54.479
something to keep an eye on with
him as we get more data this year.

1257
01:22:54.600 --> 01:22:57.640
Because he's got good power. He
does hit home runs, but I

1258
01:22:57.720 --> 01:23:00.479
wonder if there might be some more
in there, if you would to pull

1259
01:23:00.600 --> 01:23:05.560
more of those fly balls. You
know, No, Handy, you watched

1260
01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:11.239
the Braves game, right, I
did. I think I had just hopped

1261
01:23:11.279 --> 01:23:15.319
around to get my eyes on Drake, Benitez and Guanipa. But what were

1262
01:23:15.359 --> 01:23:19.479
your thoughts on who they play?
The Red Sox? Yeah, what were

1263
01:23:19.479 --> 01:23:24.720
your thoughts on the on the Braves
Red Sox game. Let's start on the

1264
01:23:24.880 --> 01:23:29.119
Red Sox side. I mean they
a bit more was happening on the offensive

1265
01:23:29.159 --> 01:23:33.279
side for them. Roman Anthony did
his thing where he showed really good plate

1266
01:23:33.319 --> 01:23:36.600
and disciplin, put a couple of
swings on things with not a lot of

1267
01:23:38.079 --> 01:23:41.279
loud contact to show for it.
He played right and center, a couple

1268
01:23:41.319 --> 01:23:44.840
of walks, Marcella Mayor three punch
outs, and again this wasn't like the

1269
01:23:44.920 --> 01:23:47.680
cream of the crop that the braves
were throwing out there from on the pitching

1270
01:23:47.800 --> 01:23:51.079
side. So yeah, again we
might I think this is a big year

1271
01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:55.960
for Mayor. I know he was
hurt last year and that might have depressed

1272
01:23:55.960 --> 01:23:59.239
his performance, but I still think
there's more to see there. Kyle Tiel

1273
01:23:59.439 --> 01:24:02.880
showed his barrel control. It was
super impressive in this game. Again,

1274
01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:05.479
I watched a bit of him last
year, and I've been a little skeptical

1275
01:24:05.680 --> 01:24:10.439
of how high he's been pushed on
some other rankings just because it seemed pretty

1276
01:24:10.640 --> 01:24:14.399
babbit fueled. I don't think there's
a ton of power there, and so

1277
01:24:14.520 --> 01:24:16.760
you're really saying like, yeah,
this catcher is going to be elite at

1278
01:24:17.399 --> 01:24:20.399
running high babbeps in order to see
like a ton of value there. But

1279
01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:24.720
he showed that he's kind of earned
some of that. Like I think one

1280
01:24:24.840 --> 01:24:28.800
thing that I might be coming around
on with respected heals that he might be

1281
01:24:29.319 --> 01:24:32.720
more of that line drive hand manipulate
the barrel all around the yard kind of

1282
01:24:32.760 --> 01:24:38.479
guy, so you might expect slightly
higher babbups from him. He really great

1283
01:24:38.520 --> 01:24:41.720
barrel control and a slider down and
in that he hit for a double,

1284
01:24:41.840 --> 01:24:45.079
which I was pretty impressed with.
Saddan Rafaela. His homer was good.

1285
01:24:45.159 --> 01:24:48.159
He's been good all spring if you've
watched any of him. He's really pushing

1286
01:24:48.279 --> 01:24:51.520
to make the Red Sox roster.
And again, I think that might be

1287
01:24:51.560 --> 01:24:56.039
at the expense of our guy.
While you're a bray You and Miguel Blise

1288
01:24:56.560 --> 01:25:00.159
was good to see in this game. I think he's been more impressive in

1289
01:25:00.600 --> 01:25:03.239
some of the backfield games he was. He didn't do anything of note.

1290
01:25:03.359 --> 01:25:06.920
He struck out once, walked once
in this game. But my guy Alan

1291
01:25:08.039 --> 01:25:13.319
Castro had a couple of our guy, Sorry, our guy Alan Castro had

1292
01:25:13.319 --> 01:25:16.039
a couple of nice hits in this
game. Showed off his athleticism too.

1293
01:25:16.239 --> 01:25:21.159
He stretched one into he scored from
first on something, or he did something

1294
01:25:21.199 --> 01:25:24.880
with his legs that I remember being
impressed with it. Must have been he

1295
01:25:25.039 --> 01:25:27.840
went to second when he got a
hit and drove some runs in. I

1296
01:25:27.880 --> 01:25:30.199
think that's what it was. It's
nice to see he in a classic Castro.

1297
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:35.079
Yeah, yeah, a couple of
hits, and I noted down that

1298
01:25:35.239 --> 01:25:40.319
he might look a little bit stronger. He was, you know, athletic

1299
01:25:40.439 --> 01:25:44.319
looking last year. But I wonder
if he put on that proverbial ten pounds

1300
01:25:44.359 --> 01:25:47.800
of muscle in the off season or
if it's just the new performance unis that

1301
01:25:47.880 --> 01:25:50.600
are really making him pop. But
he looked a little bit bigger than me.

1302
01:25:50.840 --> 01:25:54.760
Red Sox their lineup was fun like
they did a lot of had a

1303
01:25:54.800 --> 01:25:57.560
lot of hits. Got to see
a lot of them. That was really

1304
01:25:58.119 --> 01:26:01.439
good. Wilcolm and Gonzalez is somebody
that I've had interest in before. Gonzalez

1305
01:26:01.479 --> 01:26:05.079
started the game for the Red Sox. He was okay, he was wild.

1306
01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:09.800
He's been wild in the past three
walks, one strikeout over three innings,

1307
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:15.319
and I think his success was more
because the Braves lineup was less interesting.

1308
01:26:15.880 --> 01:26:18.479
Overall. Our Braves picks, for
the most part, guys that we've

1309
01:26:18.520 --> 01:26:24.239
talked about before in Nacho and Drake
Baldwin. They didn't have great games.

1310
01:26:24.720 --> 01:26:28.920
Nacho worked a good walk and that
was the first inning Baldwin went over to

1311
01:26:29.079 --> 01:26:32.319
with the k. He did throw
out a runner and looked really good on

1312
01:26:32.439 --> 01:26:38.119
that. I think he had one
steal against him. Yeah, Blie stole

1313
01:26:38.560 --> 01:26:42.439
against him. Oh and then Paulino
got third. Oh yeah, he gave

1314
01:26:42.520 --> 01:26:45.840
up a few actually, but his
cut stealing of nick Yorkey threw this ball

1315
01:26:45.920 --> 01:26:48.680
on a dime to get him at
second. I noted that down. I

1316
01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:51.680
thought that was a really good throw
and nice to see. But really,

1317
01:26:51.720 --> 01:26:56.560
the only guy who did anything of
note on the Braves was was Drake.

1318
01:26:56.600 --> 01:27:00.159
And I know you wanted to get
eyes on a Drake for one. Yeah,

1319
01:27:01.479 --> 01:27:05.279
it hit a triple, and he
also walked and the advertised for a

1320
01:27:05.359 --> 01:27:11.119
bitch fastball. Yeah, and he
got a steal to off of Peel,

1321
01:27:11.239 --> 01:27:14.359
who is who was supposed to be, you know, quite a good catcher

1322
01:27:14.399 --> 01:27:16.680
as far as preventing stolen bases,
he had a good game. You know.

1323
01:27:17.239 --> 01:27:20.039
Again, hard to draw a ton
of conclusions out of this, but

1324
01:27:20.359 --> 01:27:25.560
the triple he was motoring on the
steal, he's showing speed. Hard to

1325
01:27:25.600 --> 01:27:28.000
get more of a read than that, to be honest, but he was

1326
01:27:28.039 --> 01:27:30.920
the only one that really showed out
for the Brave. So it was nice

1327
01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:34.159
to see. What'd you think of
the Glenipa over from the DSL. What'd

1328
01:27:34.159 --> 01:27:36.560
you think game? He let off, played center field, played the whole

1329
01:27:36.640 --> 01:27:41.520
game. Really No, I mean
he seems smaller than I thought, Like

1330
01:27:41.600 --> 01:27:45.359
it seems kind of on the shorter
side, like when Nacho was sort of

1331
01:27:45.439 --> 01:27:47.359
like towering over you, like,
not just not a huge dude, you

1332
01:27:47.439 --> 01:27:50.560
know, Yeah, but I thought
he was quite a bit bigger. Not

1333
01:27:50.640 --> 01:27:56.680
a ton to note there. Sabaios
was was good to see him play.

1334
01:27:57.119 --> 01:28:00.279
He had a couple of plays at
third that looked like sure handed and had

1335
01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:03.640
a walk. Do you know anything
about Diego Benitez? He was new to

1336
01:28:03.720 --> 01:28:09.880
me. Came over Benitas. It
looks like looks like a strong kid,

1337
01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:14.960
but I mean what he went over
one. He was one of the higher

1338
01:28:15.039 --> 01:28:18.800
regarded guys in there. Two years
ago DSL class, which I think was

1339
01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:24.840
like the first international class that the
Braves had had in years, remember,

1340
01:28:24.920 --> 01:28:30.199
because they had all the penalties from
the what's his name era? Why can

1341
01:28:30.279 --> 01:28:32.720
I remember that guy's name? Coppol
Ela lied about a bunch of people's signing

1342
01:28:32.760 --> 01:28:38.760
bonuses and whatever and got got suspended
her band and then I guess it was

1343
01:28:38.800 --> 01:28:42.079
lifted. But anyway, this was
their first I think Benitas was part of

1344
01:28:42.119 --> 01:28:46.720
their first like significant class after that, but was just okay in the DSL,

1345
01:28:46.880 --> 01:28:50.720
I think, and then even worse
on the complex. So Guenipa is

1346
01:28:50.760 --> 01:28:56.159
sort of the next one. And
then obviously they got Perdomo this last class,

1347
01:28:56.319 --> 01:28:59.640
and he's supposed to be the best
that they've gotten internationally sin Setunia.

1348
01:28:59.760 --> 01:29:02.760
So so they just like throw in
their like top signings from the last couple

1349
01:29:02.800 --> 01:29:08.680
of international classes into this game.
Is that what gotcha? All right?

1350
01:29:08.880 --> 01:29:13.079
Well, Matt I wanted to This
is crazy to me. So the Astros

1351
01:29:13.520 --> 01:29:18.199
Cardinals game on Sunday morning at what
eight am Eastern? Is that? No?

1352
01:29:18.359 --> 01:29:21.880
No excuse me? It was eight
am at ten am Eastern? Not

1353
01:29:23.119 --> 01:29:27.560
broadcast? Like, is that a
little weird to you? This is really

1354
01:29:27.640 --> 01:29:31.720
weird to me. I mean,
you've got this system that is always ranked

1355
01:29:31.760 --> 01:29:36.399
at the bottom, yet arguably the
best system of the last second, y'all,

1356
01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:41.760
yeah, this is We're gonna handy
tinfoil hat time. Just just make

1357
01:29:41.800 --> 01:29:45.119
sure you get your at home,
your handy hands. Well, we're gonna

1358
01:29:45.199 --> 01:29:50.800
not broadcast this System's Spring breakout game
and shove it Sunday morning. Why could

1359
01:29:50.800 --> 01:29:55.479
you imagine them doing this to the
Dodgers. Well, I'll say I'll say

1360
01:29:55.520 --> 01:29:59.479
this, like we praised the idea
and the execution for the most part at

1361
01:29:59.520 --> 01:30:03.920
the outset. But I am so
motivated to watch these games, Like this

1362
01:30:04.119 --> 01:30:09.279
is why I watched spring training games
is for so I can see these kinds

1363
01:30:09.319 --> 01:30:13.439
of players. And they made it
so hard to find them. They made

1364
01:30:13.520 --> 01:30:16.960
like even on their on the like
MLB dot com, this is where how

1365
01:30:17.079 --> 01:30:19.399
you watch just so you follow the
streams, you go to those pages.

1366
01:30:19.600 --> 01:30:24.920
None of them actually linked to the
streams. You couldn't pick and choose which

1367
01:30:25.039 --> 01:30:30.560
games. It was bafflingly hard to
find where to get the streams. And

1368
01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:33.960
I've heard from some of the folks
that actually went to the games that even

1369
01:30:34.039 --> 01:30:38.560
on their tickets some of the games, some of the spring breakout games were

1370
01:30:38.600 --> 01:30:42.359
sort of combined with the big league
games spring training games, and so some

1371
01:30:42.560 --> 01:30:45.960
of them started earlier then later,
And I think this was one of them,

1372
01:30:45.119 --> 01:30:48.600
right, Like I think this is
one that like started three hours before

1373
01:30:49.159 --> 01:30:53.039
the big league game, and so
that's why it was early, Like that's

1374
01:30:53.079 --> 01:30:56.520
the reason why it started at ten
because the big leaguers obviously aren't going to

1375
01:30:56.560 --> 01:31:00.720
play at ten. They're like other
teams did that, they shove their game

1376
01:31:00.840 --> 01:31:02.960
that early. I don't know,
man, Like I don't think it's a

1377
01:31:03.079 --> 01:31:08.239
conspiracy so much as like it's just
how they had to do it to make

1378
01:31:08.319 --> 01:31:11.680
it work for the teams and the
schedule and all of that. I've at

1379
01:31:11.800 --> 01:31:15.159
least wondered about this, But like, I think the Astros don't want hype

1380
01:31:15.279 --> 01:31:18.880
on their prospects, you think,
so, I really think there's I really

1381
01:31:18.960 --> 01:31:24.319
think there was something to that.
Anyways, they had four player rookie ball

1382
01:31:24.840 --> 01:31:28.359
level players that I wanted to see
but I couldn't. But We've talked about

1383
01:31:28.439 --> 01:31:31.079
Quinn Matthews before, and I guess
he was like pretty impressive from what I've

1384
01:31:31.079 --> 01:31:34.920
been told in that outing, thrown
pretty hard and what have you. I

1385
01:31:34.960 --> 01:31:39.119
think you only pitched an inning though, but yeah, just just the last

1386
01:31:39.159 --> 01:31:42.439
thing. No, So I didn't
want to. I didn't watch it at

1387
01:31:42.439 --> 01:31:45.439
all. I didn't watch it any
You couldn't. You couldn't, you couldn't

1388
01:31:45.479 --> 01:31:47.960
watch any of it. I don't
know. I just thought that was quite

1389
01:31:48.039 --> 01:31:53.880
peculiar that it was the Astros that
got tucked away out of sight Nate and

1390
01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:57.079
his conspiracy theories. I tell you
what, guys classic, Well, we

1391
01:31:57.159 --> 01:32:00.800
didn't get the Rangers game. They
had a few rookie lefs I would have

1392
01:32:00.880 --> 01:32:03.359
liked to Yeah, I really wanted
to see. I wanted to see that

1393
01:32:03.520 --> 01:32:06.079
one. They had a bunch of
guys that I wanted to get eyes on.

1394
01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:11.279
I don't think any of them did
particularly well, but they had guys

1395
01:32:11.319 --> 01:32:14.479
that I was interested in seeing.
We didn't get the Reds Guardians game,

1396
01:32:14.680 --> 01:32:17.399
right. That was also on radio. No, that one was broadcast,

1397
01:32:17.520 --> 01:32:23.800
but it was a mostly press box
camera. They did have a camera,

1398
01:32:23.920 --> 01:32:27.920
but it wasn't the bad version of
spring training, you know, like how

1399
01:32:27.920 --> 01:32:30.479
some of the Spring training broadcasts like
it's just two cameras and not a ton

1400
01:32:30.560 --> 01:32:33.079
of production. But it was the
radio crew. But I did get to

1401
01:32:33.119 --> 01:32:35.960
watch some of this, but it
was hard to like, hard to read

1402
01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:40.520
too much into it. Not a
ton to report. Louder didn't own the

1403
01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:42.760
Louder throw in the other one.
He threw the other one. Oh,

1404
01:32:42.800 --> 01:32:45.720
I was saying. Doug Nigazi through
to start the game for the Guardians.

1405
01:32:45.960 --> 01:32:50.159
He threw three innings and got six
punch outs. He's someone that I have

1406
01:32:50.279 --> 01:32:54.000
on a couple of teams. I
think I inherited one share of him.

1407
01:32:54.119 --> 01:32:57.199
I think that's the show maybe with
you. He was one of my late

1408
01:32:57.279 --> 01:33:00.479
picks in the in our dispersal draft. He's a name to you know.

1409
01:33:00.600 --> 01:33:03.640
There's some there's some stuff there that
I think is interesting. Hard to see

1410
01:33:03.720 --> 01:33:08.600
much out of this game done.
That's Rockies game I watched. I watched

1411
01:33:08.680 --> 01:33:12.439
that. I don't know. There
wasn't too much other than these three complex

1412
01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:15.000
players that the Diamondbacks throughout there.
I feel like I pretty much knew.

1413
01:33:15.439 --> 01:33:19.600
I didn't really take too much away
from this game. So this guy Jones

1414
01:33:20.680 --> 01:33:28.840
from center field, Dude, what
is that? Man? They're trying to

1415
01:33:29.199 --> 01:33:33.840
classic boy? It's a Rockies highlight
for one Drew Romo RBI single. They

1416
01:33:33.960 --> 01:33:40.920
turned that MLB turns that into look
at Drew Jones. Great throw from center

1417
01:33:41.039 --> 01:33:45.119
field, shallo center field. You
got ninety four miles per hour on this

1418
01:33:45.359 --> 01:33:49.439
and didn't throw the guy out.
But this is our Drew Jones hype tweets.

1419
01:33:51.039 --> 01:33:56.479
Yeah, silly, that was something. There was this little fire hydrant

1420
01:33:56.680 --> 01:34:00.840
d h guy that the I never
heard of that the Backs throughout there Barriga,

1421
01:34:01.159 --> 01:34:04.720
you know the Diamondbacks have. Yeah, I don't know what he I

1422
01:34:04.760 --> 01:34:08.560
don't know. I think he really
did much. Two k's and a soft

1423
01:34:08.600 --> 01:34:10.720
grounder to the picture. I'm like, okay, well, I don't know

1424
01:34:10.760 --> 01:34:16.520
why they're throwing him out there.
Reuben Santana one ab towards the end like

1425
01:34:16.560 --> 01:34:20.279
a guy took his And they had
this lanky left that took a walk and

1426
01:34:20.319 --> 01:34:25.119
stole a base although he was really
out, but they didn't give Romo the

1427
01:34:25.199 --> 01:34:28.000
call. But yeah, I don't
know. There wasn't really too much exciting

1428
01:34:28.119 --> 01:34:30.520
in this game for me. The
Rockies threw out you know who you think

1429
01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:33.359
they throw out their top prospect.
They've thrown Goodman out there, you know.

1430
01:34:33.560 --> 01:34:35.520
But did you watch this one at
all? No, No, I

1431
01:34:35.600 --> 01:34:40.279
didn't have the pitching. Look how
Dolander look. It was like an inning.

1432
01:34:40.359 --> 01:34:44.880
He looked fine. I don't know, didn't really I feel like he

1433
01:34:45.000 --> 01:34:48.079
got yeah, yeah, I feel
like Dolander got got like a quick ground

1434
01:34:48.159 --> 01:34:50.880
ball. It was just like some
weak content. I don't think he really

1435
01:34:50.920 --> 01:34:57.000
got deep into any counts and it
was over quick. Nothing else saying yeah,

1436
01:34:57.039 --> 01:35:00.520
palm Quist, Yeah he looks fine. He looks I mean interested to

1437
01:35:00.560 --> 01:35:01.960
see. I don't know, man, I mean they have like no starting

1438
01:35:02.039 --> 01:35:06.760
pitching depth. So does pump Quist
get a shot in June or something?

1439
01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:10.520
I wouldn't I wouldn't put it past
them. I don't know. Speaking of

1440
01:35:10.880 --> 01:35:15.239
Rocky's pitching, you see that the
Rays just traded for Joe rock I know,

1441
01:35:15.479 --> 01:35:16.720
right, Yeah, I thought that
was interesting. Joe you know a

1442
01:35:16.800 --> 01:35:19.399
guy, Yeah, the guy that
we've talked about. It's like, I

1443
01:35:19.479 --> 01:35:24.920
think there's a pretty interesting reliever look
here with the you know, big guy,

1444
01:35:25.520 --> 01:35:30.800
maybe struggle throwing strikes over long outings, but the stuff seems pretty interesting.

1445
01:35:30.960 --> 01:35:32.880
And I've liked some of what I've
seen out of rock But yeah,

1446
01:35:32.920 --> 01:35:36.079
pump pump Quist is you know,
I think more our type of guy,

1447
01:35:36.199 --> 01:35:40.920
like throw strikes, seems to just
get everybody out. And even though he's

1448
01:35:41.039 --> 01:35:45.680
a lefty throwing ninety one, like
it's great for sure. Uh, I've

1449
01:35:45.680 --> 01:35:47.800
got to see your justa Luis.
But I mean we've seen him before.

1450
01:35:48.079 --> 01:35:53.000
Lin gave some guys some trouble.
Yeah, he's throwing a little bit harder.

1451
01:35:53.199 --> 01:35:55.840
Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, nothing super interesting in this game.

1452
01:35:55.960 --> 01:35:58.680
It was nice to see Sullivan.
Oh that's what I wanted to say

1453
01:35:58.840 --> 01:36:01.640
talk about So they were talking about
his fastball. That's up, that's up

1454
01:36:01.720 --> 01:36:05.399
our alley. Matt doesn't throw hard, but nobody can square it up.

1455
01:36:05.960 --> 01:36:14.159
Very interesting lefty basketball there. How
did gilbertz look for looked amazing the first

1456
01:36:14.239 --> 01:36:17.279
inning and then not so great after
that, didn't make it through the second.

1457
01:36:17.439 --> 01:36:20.199
It just kind of feels in that
look. Maybe I mentioned that before

1458
01:36:20.239 --> 01:36:25.560
and that tool Diaz was actually better
later and starts, which was very surprising

1459
01:36:25.680 --> 01:36:28.399
to me. I forget who it
was that he got. He got somebody

1460
01:36:28.520 --> 01:36:32.439
on just an absolutely disgusting curveball,
right, We've seen that before, and

1461
01:36:32.520 --> 01:36:35.000
then it was a good win.
Maybe it was good win. And then

1462
01:36:35.039 --> 01:36:38.680
we go and then he goes back
and then he goes back to it the

1463
01:36:38.760 --> 01:36:42.880
next pitch right and just spikes at
like six feet short of the plate,

1464
01:36:43.039 --> 01:36:45.680
you know, and you're like,
yeah, that's that's the olber Diz for

1465
01:36:45.880 --> 01:36:53.399
you. Yeah, while Sterling Thompson
was was batting because he threw a wild

1466
01:36:53.479 --> 01:36:56.520
pitch in there. Yeah yeah,
and I think maybe even a run did

1467
01:36:56.560 --> 01:37:00.159
a run score there a runner advanced
or something runner advanced? Yeah, yeah,

1468
01:37:00.359 --> 01:37:06.600
just kind of classic. Yeahs there. Agnosis is nasty for a reliever

1469
01:37:06.720 --> 01:37:10.399
for the Rockies. He came in, he gave up a couple of hits

1470
01:37:10.399 --> 01:37:13.359
to be struck, a couple of
guys out. I'm anxious to see him.

1471
01:37:13.439 --> 01:37:15.520
I think we'll see him in the
bigs. But yeah, then I

1472
01:37:15.560 --> 01:37:17.319
think we just got one game left, right, man, the Twins and

1473
01:37:17.399 --> 01:37:20.640
the Rays. I gotta say,
we were talking last week with Bogel right

1474
01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:24.840
and talking about Winnaker, and I
was like, man, I don't remember

1475
01:37:25.199 --> 01:37:28.199
why I just kind of crossed him
off my list, and I was watching

1476
01:37:28.239 --> 01:37:31.039
this game and I quickly remembered why
I crossed him off the list, Like

1477
01:37:31.239 --> 01:37:35.920
I absolutely hate his swing, big
step, and like, yeah, he's

1478
01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:39.840
like this, he's a really good
athlete and this big guy, but man,

1479
01:37:39.960 --> 01:37:43.199
he just it looks like that thing
needs a lot of work. I

1480
01:37:43.239 --> 01:37:47.479
don't know. We got he's big
and tall, and he's like I kind

1481
01:37:47.479 --> 01:37:50.319
of know what you mean, though
I'm not sure all the levers are working

1482
01:37:50.399 --> 01:37:54.359
together just yet. Yeah. Yeah, but I was like, yeah,

1483
01:37:54.479 --> 01:37:57.279
that's that was it, That's why. But yeah, so I don't know,

1484
01:37:57.560 --> 01:38:00.159
soa Soto Charlie Soda there. I
don't know what you thought of him,

1485
01:38:00.199 --> 01:38:03.439
but I'm like yeah, when I
remember when I remember why I crossed

1486
01:38:03.520 --> 01:38:06.079
him off the list too, like
I know he got rouffed up or whatever,

1487
01:38:06.119 --> 01:38:09.600
but didn't have anything to do with
that, Like, my man throws

1488
01:38:09.680 --> 01:38:14.520
hard, but that delivery is just
violent and he's a thrower checked out with

1489
01:38:14.640 --> 01:38:17.760
all of the high school looks that
I had gotten into. I'm that a

1490
01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:21.720
huge fan him there, And then
I thought this was kind of interesting that

1491
01:38:21.920 --> 01:38:27.119
did you see this? I had
no idea who he was. Chris crisos

1492
01:38:27.279 --> 01:38:30.920
Homo, this reliever that came in
for the for the Twins towards the end,

1493
01:38:30.119 --> 01:38:34.960
pastball slidder guy, not like overly
impressive reeks of a reliever, but

1494
01:38:35.239 --> 01:38:41.520
he was signed by the Red Sox
International Class twenty eighteen and then the Twins

1495
01:38:41.600 --> 01:38:45.000
signed him like last year and he
pitched in the DSL as a twenty three

1496
01:38:45.079 --> 01:38:48.279
year old and there was nothing in
between on Baseball Reference or I was just

1497
01:38:48.399 --> 01:38:50.760
clear. I'm like, where where
did he come from? Where was he?

1498
01:38:51.199 --> 01:38:56.319
Like? Wow, he was playing
baseball or not? But I got

1499
01:38:56.359 --> 01:38:58.720
all pumped. I was like,
who is this guy from the DSL that

1500
01:38:58.840 --> 01:39:00.880
the Twins are thrown out there?
And then I was like, oh,

1501
01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:04.000
yeah, okay, that's not mysterious, but not very exciting. Look,

1502
01:39:04.479 --> 01:39:10.279
ask you, I mean I was
curious to see this Jose Rodriguez guy from

1503
01:39:10.319 --> 01:39:13.560
the Twins and ask you just,
I mean he had no chance against your

1504
01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:18.039
guy. Yeah, he's going to
be a good reliever. Ben Ross didn't

1505
01:39:18.039 --> 01:39:24.640
takehim yard. No, I know, we did have the we had b

1506
01:39:24.880 --> 01:39:28.399
side on one of my bats.
Did take one of your arms yard,

1507
01:39:28.520 --> 01:39:31.199
but it wasn't the right. They
didn't quite sync up either though they were

1508
01:39:31.399 --> 01:39:33.640
inning off. I think they would
have seen each other. But yeah,

1509
01:39:33.720 --> 01:39:36.279
my man, Ross, what do
you do? He grounded out? Is

1510
01:39:36.319 --> 01:39:42.000
one at that? Yeah? They
were talking about his athleticism and he is

1511
01:39:42.159 --> 01:39:45.239
very athletic, but uh, dude, check out how b side. This

1512
01:39:45.439 --> 01:39:47.560
kind of is right. Notre Dame
College in Ohio. You know, you

1513
01:39:47.680 --> 01:39:53.079
hear about colleges getting rid of their
baseball programs and all that. My man's

1514
01:39:53.119 --> 01:39:59.000
school is closing down like the whole
university. Funny they were talking about the

1515
01:39:59.079 --> 01:40:03.640
only other athletes of note from Notre
Dame College in Ohio or Mma Fighters.

1516
01:40:04.760 --> 01:40:08.920
I watched a good trunk of it. It was it was exciting. Eight

1517
01:40:08.920 --> 01:40:11.800
to eight. This is where Isaac, Oh, yeah, Isaac hid a

1518
01:40:11.920 --> 01:40:15.359
couple of home runs, so he
took Noble I don't know, I don't

1519
01:40:15.399 --> 01:40:17.920
know who Noble is, took him
yard and then took this twenty three year

1520
01:40:17.920 --> 01:40:21.720
old DSL guy who probably spent like
four years in prison or something. I

1521
01:40:21.760 --> 01:40:28.399
don't know. On the race,
got to see Santana wasn't super impressive to

1522
01:40:28.520 --> 01:40:31.199
me and anyway, but just one
at that, But I've seen some prep

1523
01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:34.880
stuff from him. Not really a
guy that I'm super into. Yeah,

1524
01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:39.920
I don't know. Even the pictures
for the Twins weren't like really exciting.

1525
01:40:40.680 --> 01:40:43.640
Kishull got in there. I don't
really have too much to say about that

1526
01:40:43.720 --> 01:40:45.359
game other than what I like I
said, I just like I said,

1527
01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:49.800
I just saw the highlights. It
was mostly Xavier Isaac. It was mostly

1528
01:40:49.880 --> 01:40:54.199
like just the guys that we already
know a lot about, and we've seen

1529
01:40:54.479 --> 01:41:00.319
a lot Isaac and Cameron Arrow and
Carson Williams on the race side, and

1530
01:41:00.399 --> 01:41:06.479
then Brookslee, Austin Martin, Manuelardriguez
on the Gabriel Gonzales on the OH the

1531
01:41:06.920 --> 01:41:12.199
Twins side. I was impressed with
a pitcher that I hadn't seen before.

1532
01:41:12.279 --> 01:41:14.439
On the race, I had the
guy who closed out the game, well

1533
01:41:14.760 --> 01:41:18.119
finished the game. Zuraga. He's
a smaller right hand right hander, but

1534
01:41:18.319 --> 01:41:23.520
man, his fastball looked nasty and
cut off a couple of breaking balls.

1535
01:41:23.880 --> 01:41:26.199
He was kind of interesting. I
think he showed up when I did like

1536
01:41:26.279 --> 01:41:30.199
a ninth inning dig as well.
Potential young reliever to keep an eye on.

1537
01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:32.760
Yeah, spring breakouts. What I
needed just starting to jones for some

1538
01:41:33.199 --> 01:41:36.359
like a ball and stuff. I
just want to start watching some minors and

1539
01:41:36.560 --> 01:41:41.760
this was pacified me for a couple
of more weeks here. Yeah, all

1540
01:41:41.840 --> 01:41:45.800
in all, it was fun and
obviously we talked for over three hours about

1541
01:41:45.920 --> 01:41:51.000
about these games. But please,
please please do this again, Major League

1542
01:41:51.039 --> 01:41:57.359
Baseball, but make it easier to
see this was it was difficult. We

1543
01:41:57.439 --> 01:42:00.600
were sharing around links to make sure
we were to actually watch the feed,

1544
01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:04.159
and a couple of them weren't broadcasts
at all, and some of them had

1545
01:42:04.199 --> 01:42:10.039
obviously like the crapcams. So hopefully
they get like good feedback about this and

1546
01:42:10.199 --> 01:42:14.119
good ratings for however they evaluate these
things. I know that a bunch of

1547
01:42:14.159 --> 01:42:17.600
the people that were on the broadcast, like Jonathan Mayo and Jim Kallis from

1548
01:42:17.840 --> 01:42:23.760
Pipeline MLB Pipeline they were on various
broadcasts hyping it up and like how pumped

1549
01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:27.000
they were about this. And they
had a few other people, I think

1550
01:42:27.119 --> 01:42:30.800
Lance Bridowski or how we say his
last name, who's all over Twitter and

1551
01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:34.680
stuff. He was doing the Cubs
White Sox game that got rained out,

1552
01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:38.800
but they were talking up how excited
they were to do this, like in

1553
01:42:38.920 --> 01:42:42.399
the pregame show for that one too, So a lot of people were pretty

1554
01:42:42.720 --> 01:42:45.359
excited about this, you know,
this being the first time they did anything

1555
01:42:45.439 --> 01:42:48.880
like it. I think it went
off fairly well. But yeah, please

1556
01:42:48.960 --> 01:42:53.159
do it again, and please make
it easier to watch and change your priors

1557
01:42:53.279 --> 01:42:58.119
slowly. Right, these are showcases
one inning, what have you. Yeah,

1558
01:42:58.560 --> 01:43:01.399
Like we mentioned, especially for some
pitchers, it can be very misleading.

1559
01:43:01.680 --> 01:43:04.680
Yeah, well, we just talked
for three hours about minor leaguers,

1560
01:43:04.760 --> 01:43:09.479
Like, are we going to talk
about Shoho Tani being four and a half

1561
01:43:09.520 --> 01:43:14.640
million dollars into gambling and the best
player that we've ever seen might be getting

1562
01:43:14.680 --> 01:43:16.960
suspended because he's under federal investigation?
Are we going to talk about that?

1563
01:43:17.119 --> 01:43:20.680
Or I can't say that I know
too much about the situation other than it

1564
01:43:20.960 --> 01:43:26.560
smells fishy. Yeah, was sort
of joking at the end because it's like

1565
01:43:26.640 --> 01:43:30.319
the biggest story in sports and we
just spent three hours talking about baseball and

1566
01:43:30.359 --> 01:43:32.000
didn't mention it. Yeah, because
we like to talk about baseball on that

1567
01:43:32.159 --> 01:43:36.199
freaking drama. All right. So
that's episode twenty six of The Prospect.

1568
01:43:36.319 --> 01:43:42.159
Besides podcasts, just a couple guys
who watched some spring breakout games and just

1569
01:43:42.279 --> 01:43:45.720
sharing some notes. I don't know
how helpful or that may or may not

1570
01:43:45.880 --> 01:43:48.399
be, but is what it is. Yeah, Like you said at the

1571
01:43:48.520 --> 01:43:53.079
end, change your prior slowly,
like these games don't matter. It was

1572
01:43:53.159 --> 01:43:56.439
one look at a bunch of these
guys. It was just some interesting things

1573
01:43:56.520 --> 01:43:59.880
that stood out to us, and
we've found the games fun to watch,

1574
01:44:00.079 --> 01:44:02.920
right, and these guys have been
playing a whole lot of baseball before this

1575
01:44:03.359 --> 01:44:08.279
one game. But we will let
Chicago Farmer take us out, you will,

1576
01:44:08.319 --> 01:44:13.119
and we'll talk to you next time. Bite five miles an hour riding

1577
01:44:13.279 --> 01:44:18.359
to his head. He hop him
down the first with the lump bone in

1578
01:44:18.399 --> 01:44:25.399
his face, and on the very
next pitch he up in stove second face

1579
01:44:27.760 --> 01:44:38.079
with gratst speed. He wasn't born. He had the dirty yes uniform,