WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:07.799 Ninety five miles an hour riding two is him. He hopped down first with 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:13.640 the lump on his face, and on the very next pitch he up and 3 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:25.839 stole second face with greatst be he wasn't born, that he had a day. 4 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:31.839 Yes, yes, welcome to prospect B Sides. We are getting there. 5 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:37.799 This is the sixth installment of our divisional B side histories and selections for 6 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:42.920 twenty twenty three. It has been a long trek through mud and griminess, 7 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:46.719 but it is what it takes to find some B side gems and I commend 8 00:00:46.759 --> 00:00:49.640 you. I am your host, Nate Handy be talking at you for a 9 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:54.119 little while here, and as it is custom around here, we start off 10 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.759 the show with a little Q and A. But this week I have a 11 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.359 question for you, my lovely handy dandies. Do you believe in signs like 12 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:04.799 signs from the gods, signs from the universe? Because I can't say that 13 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:10.760 I ever did until last week, last Thursday night, on the eve of 14 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:17.879 IL three Sport MLB DEVI Draft, whereupon you select first year players and unknowned 15 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:21.519 prospects. Mind you, it's a league that you cannot pick up prospects in 16 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:25.799 season, so much juicier than leagues in which you can do such a thing. 17 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.560 But on that eve I did something potentially reckless, and I traded four 18 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:36.040 first round picks and Colson Montgomery for the first selection in the draft the following 19 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:40.400 day, in which I selected Andrew Paynter, who I happen to think, 20 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:45.159 or at least wonder if he is the number one prospect in baseball for fantasy 21 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.400 purposes. And a few hours later we got the news, which has been 22 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:53.079 the news of no news at least up to me talking right now, that 23 00:01:53.159 --> 00:02:00.200 his elbow is injured or exploded or something wonderful. It quite fitting event in 24 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:04.319 a week that was very up and down for me, both fantasy wise and 25 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:09.319 personally. But needless to say, I was feeling pretty stupid and pretty down 26 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.199 in the fantasy dumps. Now, mind you, this is a slow draft. 27 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:16.280 So the next day I declared to my league mates that I was going 28 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:22.919 to make a giant Day two come back and redeem myself from a potentially horrible 29 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:29.120 mistake. I likened this come back to Rocky three, whereupon a potentially cocky 30 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:34.199 Rocky is defeated by clubber Lane and he works his way back, redeeming himself 31 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:38.439 by defeating clubber Lane at the end of the movie. I figure a movie 32 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:40.919 from nineteen eighty two. I cannot spoil apologies if I did now. I 33 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:46.000 didn't have a pick for a while, so my next turn wasn't until the 34 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:50.199 evening when I was pulling into my work parking lot, put the car in 35 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.719 park, pick up my phone to see if it is my turn yet. 36 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:55.919 I'm on deck. I'm looking at some things in the draft room, and 37 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.039 the fantrack's alarm goes off, alerting me it is my turn, and I 38 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:06.159 kid you not friends. At that precise moment, I of the motherfucking Tiger 39 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:10.280 started playing on the radio, and I knew that I was back, that 40 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:15.199 the fantasy gods held me in their favor. I had been converted. I 41 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:23.800 am a believer of signs you shall see thy wonderful to two you shall see 42 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:32.800 you a cow on the roof of gool Cotton House. The selection, if 43 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:36.840 you care to know, was Sterling Thompson, so he's bound to be a 44 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.360 Hall of Famer. Get him everywhere to further my beliefs. A few days 45 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:44.159 later, at the grocery store with my daughter, she's goofing off and knocks 46 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.400 down some magazines off of the magazine shelf. I go to pick them up. 47 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:53.000 The first magazine that I pick up is a Life magazine forty fifth anniversary 48 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:59.919 of Rocky the Gods again letting me know that twenty twenty three is my year 49 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.120 that Apollo won't know what hit him. You're gonna roll over, Ampo. 50 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:08.280 Ros The Al East holds some exciting stuff for us to talk about today, 51 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:11.080 though, I think, much better than last week. So let's get into 52 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.199 it, all right. The Boston Red Sox. Our initial selection was the 53 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:21.720 Shelley V Special Shelley very Straight who wrote Pitcherless Top fifty Boston Red Sox Prospects 54 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:26.160 for Fantasy back at the start of two thousand and twenty one, and she 55 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:30.560 suggested Sedana Raphaela, and she sure crushed that one a year early, but 56 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.839 she saw the signs. It was a lot of fun before Asabase became famous. 57 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:40.120 And I think this is a very typical, very typical ASA base moment 58 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:46.319 around this hidden gems coming out of two thousand and twenty. Raphael didn't really 59 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:50.519 do anything super remarkable in rookie ball in two eighteen and nineteen, but in 60 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.199 two thousand nineteen he did it a three game stint in low Way, so 61 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:58.879 being our two thousand and twenty one selection, he didn't really have a crazy 62 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.160 two thousand and twenty one in a ball. In four hundred and thirty two 63 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:05.399 played appearances, he hit two fifty one three oh five on bass four twenty 64 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:09.720 four slug. He did hit ten home runs and stole twenty three basses. 65 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:12.800 Though, And as I was tuning in and watching a lot of Nick York 66 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.879 at that time, I was seeing plenty of Rafaela and he fit the mold 67 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:21.439 of the young, aggressive hitter that I like getting his swings in. And 68 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:29.360 then of course twenty twenty two he exploded into a top one hundred prospect. 69 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:34.480 Wake up buss off Peking look good now. I know some folks have pointed 70 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:41.720 out his twenty four point four percent strikeout percentage and his very aggressive, quote 71 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:46.639 immature approach, and you know, whatever, that's fair. Rafaela went from 72 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:49.879 a hitter who had nineteen home runs in I don't want to call them like 73 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:55.839 years or seasons because there weren't that many games. Let's call it two seasons, 74 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:59.160 rookie ball and a ball to a twenty one year old who hit twenty 75 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.279 one home runs in High A and Double A. Now, I think some 76 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:04.800 of young hitters can mature and become more selective, but there are also some 77 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:09.439 hitters that that's just them. Do you want them to not be that? 78 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.079 I like to think of Tim Anderson, who's quoted as saying, no one 79 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:16.920 came to the ballpark to watch me walk. And he does damage hits for 80 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.360 a high average. You can hit for some power hits doubles. He's a 81 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:26.759 dangerous hitter. If you told Tim Anderson he needed to walk more, you 82 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:30.639 would ruin Tim Anderson. Raphael is still pretty young, but is his approach 83 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:35.199 immature or is that what is required for him to be as productive as he 84 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:39.680 was? And I guess the beautiful thing about baseball is that we will find 85 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:44.319 out if you can be Tim Anderson esque in these regards or if he's going 86 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.480 to have to make some changes. Now in the fantasy perspective of things, 87 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:50.000 I just thought his value got a little bit more than I wanted to bet 88 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:54.079 on him, So I have sold most of my shares, but I don't 89 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.879 believe anyone who wants to stick around either his glove, I don't know. 90 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:01.279 It's probably centerfield now. But he can play and has played like all over 91 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:05.319 the place, could help him out tremendously getting an everyday job. Rafaela was 92 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:10.639 zero percent owned when he came onto the list Initially. Last night trecked he's 93 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.759 on fifty percent of Fan Tracks rosters, and it turned out to be a 94 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:15.560 pretty good call to keep him around on the list for two years. This 95 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:18.920 will be the first season we'll have to replace him. We should probably also 96 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:25.120 mention our Houston Astros twenty twenty two B side selection. That was Emmanuel Valdez, 97 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:29.839 who was traded to Boston last season. Another Houston Astro's mystery to me 98 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.319 twenty twenty one. He led their system in home runs and still was only 99 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:38.560 rostered in one percent of fan Tracks leagues. Veldez turned out to be just 100 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:42.680 a little lefty home run mighty mouse. He's hit fifty three home runs over 101 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:46.319 the last two seasons, and he's teetering on a big league job right now. 102 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.480 Veldez isn't really the hitting profile that I dug, so another B side 103 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:55.959 win that I have kind of flipped into other assets. Last sight trecked he 104 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.800 was owned in thirty three percent of leagues. Now, obviously he's graduated. 105 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.160 So this season we're going to go a young hitter by the name of Maguel 106 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:07.920 Ugueto. Two twenty two was his nineteen year old season. He's a right 107 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:11.680 hand hitter six two, one hundred and eighty five pounds, currently rostered in 108 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:16.639 one percent of leagues. So two thousand nineteen international free agent from Venezuela who 109 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:20.519 had a very productive two thousand and twenty one and complex ball hitting three thirty 110 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.279 one, three seventy five, twenty eight and one hundred and thirty five played 111 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:28.639 appearances. Two twenty two was obviously the first time I got to see him, 112 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.240 but it was very brief. He started off the season as Salem's two 113 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.720 whole hitter, but he got just twenty two games in as he had an 114 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.080 abductor injury and an illness that cut his season short. So another very small 115 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:46.200 sample selection here, but I was intrigued. I think there's a good looking 116 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:50.639 stroke with perhaps some budding pop to all fields. He had an eight point 117 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.440 six percent swinging strike right in the very small sample. He was off to 118 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.440 a three nineteen start with a seventeen and a half k percent. I think 119 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.840 he's definitely a corner outfield tie. I don't think he's very fleet of foot. 120 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:03.799 I might have even read a coach saying that about him. So maybe 121 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:09.440 a corner outfield DH type as he gets older. Fact, why do you 122 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:16.159 take a laugh, Go run a lap. I'm timing you pick it up 123 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:24.120 faster. You know, he's very young nineteen. Didn't seem to me to 124 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.639 have the greatest pitch recognition at times, but yet he was pretty athletic enough 125 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.840 to produce good results with mid pitch adjustments, reaching, getting off balance and 126 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.399 that sort of thing. But I felt like Ugueto was really intriguing selection here. 127 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.039 I imagine he'll probably start off an a ball again. He'll be twenty 128 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.879 years old, plenty young for that level, and I'm curious to see just 129 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:48.159 how good that bat is, and a young red sock hitter producing in the 130 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:54.720 minor leagues could definitely grab some fantasy attention. A red sock pitcher selection is 131 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.960 Juan Daniel and Canar Sion, who in November when I put the list together, 132 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.440 was owned in two per percent of leagues, but as more leagues have 133 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.360 come about and such, he's now back down to zero percent. Obviously not 134 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:09.360 a true zero, but not enough to be one percent. He will be 135 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:13.120 twenty two years old this season. He's a right hand pitcher listed at six 136 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.679 two, one hundred and seventy five pounds. He's a twenty eighteen international free 137 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.399 agent out of the Dominican He spent the large majority of his season in A 138 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.000 ball, but did get a stint of High A at the end. Over 139 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.720 one hundred and thirteen total innings pitched, only ten of those were in High 140 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:33.759 A. Two High A starts. He had a four point zero five er, 141 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:37.080 a A one point two seven one whip and one hundred and twenty nine 142 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.399 strikeouts to just forty two walks. Found it interesting that Knarcion only gave up 143 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:46.559 four home runs on the whole season, one in his first start, one 144 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:48.600 in his second start, one in the middle of the season, and then 145 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:52.159 one in his first High A start. Now it is interesting to me because 146 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:56.799 he's kind of a flyball pitcher, creeping up too close to forty percent fly 147 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.240 balls. He's a lead pitcher. There's definite only room on the frame to 148 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.720 grow. I don't necessarily know if it will. He's not like Tristan McKenzie, 149 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.559 skinny, but that kind of lean. The fastball velocity I believe is 150 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.000 about ninety to ninety four and can pick up a smidge. He's got a 151 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:18.159 sweeper and a changeup. Per his high a pitching coach, the changeup is 152 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:22.799 the better of his secondaries in my views. His slider looks a little inconsistent 153 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.600 in shape, yet I kind of felt he seemed to execute or command it 154 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:31.000 better than the changeup. He has a lower arm slot and man's He pitches 155 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:33.279 with a little piss in vinegar, and I like that a lot. There's 156 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:39.360 some really interesting ingredients here. You gotta eat a cake that sounds good, 157 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:41.360 it's not. You have to eat the ingredients of a cake. And I 158 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:46.559 did throw a tweet out there of his I believe it was his seven strikeouts, 159 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:48.519 his last outing of the season. I don't know. The info is 160 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.039 up there. And now that little highlight reel, like most of them, 161 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.279 makes the player look pretty damn good. But I think you could see some 162 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:00.840 of the exciting potential with him, twenty one year old, commanding his secondaries 163 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:05.919 fairly well. Looks to have some life on that fastball. Definitely curious about 164 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.440 Juan Daniel Incarnacion. Going to ask some questions about him and keep an eye 165 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:13.519 on him, all right. The Baltimore Orioles. You know that team Mecho's 166 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:20.519 five hundred and everyone thinks is amazing. I'm just plained they should be better. 167 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.240 Let's just hope they don't go the route of perhaps the way my White 168 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.279 Sox are going these days. But AnyWho, Our initial selection back in twenty 169 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:33.000 twenty one was Elio Prato, who was another one of these powers, speed 170 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:37.879 potential, sort of blind dart throws after a twenty nineteen that saw him go 171 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:43.840 three hundred four h three with a three ninety six slug a sub fourteen percent 172 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:46.759 k rate, three home runs, twelve stolen bases in two hundred and sixty 173 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:50.799 one played appearances. Pratto plays all over the outfield. I think he was 174 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.840 and is currently owned in one percent of leagues believe this will be his twenty 175 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.120 one year old season. He's right handed, listed at six foot one hundred 176 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.480 and sixty. I think he's a little bigger than that. Twenty twenty two 177 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.759 he played a ball. He's another young Venezuela. We've got lots of those. 178 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.360 Prado is another hitter we just haven't seen much of. He did not 179 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:15.519 play in two twenty two because of injury, so we moved on from our 180 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:20.279 list, But I'm not completely moving on from Prado here. But we didn't 181 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.679 get much from him this season either. We got like sixty six games, 182 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:28.320 so roughly half a season. He didn't get back until May from whatever injury 183 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:31.080 it was that he was out the year prior, and then he spent even 184 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:35.240 more time on the aisout later. He hit only one ninety seven three thirty 185 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:39.159 five and sled two fifty two with a home run. And I do have 186 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.559 to say, though the home run was a pretty well struck Appo Taco. 187 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:48.639 Strikeouts weren't too horrible twenty two point two percent. He stole three bases. 188 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.480 But I'm not writing this kid off completely yet. There might be a nice 189 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:58.320 combination of power and hit here. He just needs some time. Thirty eight 190 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.759 percent of his badded balls went opposite field, thirty five percent we're pulled. 191 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.519 Groundball rate was a little heavy. He's strong with I think some pretty good 192 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:09.000 looking technique up there. Obviously, he wasn't lighting the world on fire by 193 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:13.960 any means, but was producing at a higher clip and just tailed off at 194 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.840 the end there. I mean, we're talking about sixty six games in three 195 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.440 years. But regardless, we had moved off him and put Daryl Hernaz on 196 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:28.360 the list. Entering last season, we talked about him during the Oakland A's 197 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:31.240 episode, well the al West episode. So this season, I'm gonna go 198 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:39.200 with some beef, some young beef. Hi Creed Willems, who is a 199 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:46.080 catcher slash DH nineteen years old left handed hitter listed at six foot two twenty 200 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.960 five. I think the beginning of the season I would have taken the over. 201 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:52.519 I think end of the season, maybe that's right. He was owned 202 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.360 in one percent of leagues in November, zero percent. Currently he's a twenty 203 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:00.799 twenty one eighth round pick Texas prep out of Odessa Exist, I believe, 204 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:07.759 and the Orioles paid him one million dollars, which may sound kind of crazy, 205 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.879 but I think you can maybe see why. It is a very quiet, 206 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:16.480 compact, powerful swing. I mean, don't get too specific here, 207 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:22.720 but I mean, are we talking like a Vogelbach junior here? Now? 208 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.320 On the season, he only hit one ninety two sixty four three twenty one 209 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:30.960 with four home runs and a twenty seven point six K percentage in two hundred 210 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.720 and forty six played appearances, which was about sixty eight games. He spent 211 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.440 some time in the aisle, but when he came back at the end of 212 00:15:37.559 --> 00:15:41.360 July. From there on out he hit two seventy six with a three twenty 213 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:45.679 nine on base percentage and slupt four eighty seven with two home runs. I 214 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:48.759 know one of those was a walk off, so I understand this is a 215 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:54.159 iffy fantasy profile, whereupon, if things even go amazingly, well may not 216 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.399 be too valuable of a player. But Williams is a fun guy to watch, 217 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:03.279 and he evidently has a million dollars wing our Orioles pitching selection this season 218 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.120 is Juan de los Santos. This will be his twenty year old season, 219 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.240 so he's pitching as a teenager last year in a ball He's a righty listed 220 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:15.000 at sixty three two hundred and fifty pounds, and that sounds about right to 221 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.919 me. But I mean, who doesn't like a fat pitcher, big sexy 222 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:22.279 bartolo fat lance. I would say De los Santos might look a little bit 223 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.759 like a young Michael Pineda. Boty Wise, so a future fat grade it's 224 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:33.000 got to be seventy eighty at least, currently owned in zero percent of leagues. 225 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:37.600 He was a twenty nineteen international free agent out of the Dominican dal Santos 226 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.039 got off to an extremely productive start of twenty twenty two. I reviewed him 227 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.840 back in May for a Prospect Pitcher listing review. We're talking a young, 228 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:49.799 raw power arm with two fastballs and a breaker showing potential. I didn't see 229 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:53.159 a change up during my early reviews, but there was one showing up at 230 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:56.519 the end of the year versus lefties, which might be a huge ticket for 231 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:00.399 Santos, who needs to combat lefties who hit well. The changeup looks to 232 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:04.079 have a long ways to go. Execution as a whole is not where it 233 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:08.759 needs to be, which has probably landed him a relief pitcher outcome tab. 234 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:12.440 But I think it's far too soon to be talking about a nineteen year old 235 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:17.839 and full season ball as having only relief pitcher outcomes. I mean, if 236 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:22.599 that's the case, half the teenagers drafted in the first round are future relievers. 237 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:26.680 On the season in a ball he pitched seventy nine and two thirds innings 238 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:30.039 with a four twenty nine ERA, a one point four something whip and eighty 239 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.640 four k's with a four point seven walk per nine rate, but down the 240 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:37.799 stretch unsure if it was inning management or not the outings did shorten, but 241 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:41.200 over his last twenty five and two thirds innings, which was nine outings, 242 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.000 he had a three sixteen ra, a one point three five whip, twenty 243 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:51.240 two strikeouts to fourteen walks, while I believe he was incorporating a new pitch 244 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:56.039 or using it a bit more often. So this year our Oriole selections are 245 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.880 both a little beefy and all about power. I think I failed to mention 246 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.920 Dlo Santos's fastball gets up to I think ninety eight roughly. I know the 247 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.559 Orioles are a truck full of a lot of young talents, but both of 248 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:12.519 these selections are far from even being part of any sort of conversation about the 249 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:15.559 big leagues yet. But I think there's some exciting skill here to watch, 250 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:22.880 all right. The Toronto Blue Jays are the Great White North aka Canadian Corner. 251 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.599 How's it going? A Bob m Kansas pen brother Doug. Admittedly a 252 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.160 tough organization to go b siding. Well, it got easier this year as 253 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:34.440 Vancouver, their high A affiliate, started broadcasting, But prior to that, 254 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:38.039 the Low Miners were really tough for a guy like me just watching TV. 255 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:41.160 As we know their low way affiliate played in the league. We're only one 256 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:47.559 team broadcast that was Bradenton up until last season. Vancouver played in the Northwest 257 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:52.160 League. That league got nice this year because two other teams started broadcasting. 258 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:57.240 Blue Jays are also interesting because they will more so the most organizations I think. 259 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.960 I want to say the Mariners do this little bit that I've noticed anyways, 260 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:04.559 but they'll like to send a young guy up, a teenager to an 261 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:08.000 upper level for a little brief stint and then bring him back down to rookie 262 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.319 ball. Now, I know that can happen and just be fill in stuff, 263 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:15.680 but I think there's several options, several ways that a organization could fill 264 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.920 in for a roster that was a little short for a small time. But 265 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:23.680 it really seemed to like to send up some teenagers. Our initial selection was 266 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:27.920 Leonardo Yemanez, who I think just goes by Leo Yemenez. Now, he's 267 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:33.000 a middle infielder and someone who was added to the forty man roster after the 268 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:37.559 twenty twenty one season, so I think that's a b side success. But 269 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.119 he's starting to fall out of dynasty owner's favor a little bit. I see 270 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.960 his roster percentage on fantracks has been as high as eight percent and is now 271 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:49.599 down to five percent last Sight tracked. Anyways, but I guess that makes 272 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:53.200 sense a little bit. He'll be turning twenty two this season. He's a 273 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:56.799 right hand hitter, listed at six foot two hundred pounds or one hundred and 274 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:02.000 ninety five pounds. He played high last season. He was a two thousand 275 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:06.000 and seventeen international free agent out of Panama, signed for eight hundred and twenty 276 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:10.160 five K, which I think might have been the blue Jays highest signing that 277 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:12.400 year. Don't quote me on that, but one of their higher ones at 278 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:17.039 the very least. Now, his twenty twenty one was cut to just fifty 279 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:21.160 four games in a ball due to an injury, but he hit three fifteen 280 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:25.880 with a five seventeen on base percentage, which, like I said, led 281 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:27.839 to the Blue Jays adding him to the forty man. You know, Injury 282 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:32.920 just a very common theme in our B siding endeavors, which makes a lot 283 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:34.680 of sense, right, Guys who get hurt might go under the radar. 284 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:38.880 But yeah, two twenty two was also cut short, only sixty nine high 285 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:44.440 A games, nice where he hit two thirty three forty on base percentage and 286 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:48.960 slugged three eighty five. But here's an interesting part to me is he hit 287 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:53.599 six home runs. He had only hit one pro home run previously his whole 288 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:59.079 career, not like whole career is super long, but he was tabbed early 289 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:02.680 as a soft, hitty, high contact, high on base guy. Jemones 290 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:06.519 is a strong looking player, and I think he just might be proving those 291 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:10.279 thirty power grades wrong. But it'd be nice to see him actually play it 292 00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:14.039 for more than a few months at a time. Yemenes has been getting into 293 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:18.759 some Major league spring training games the last couple of weeks and getting on base 294 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.039 at a high percentage. Shocking, But if Humanez is going to be hitting 295 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:26.880 some home runs, see him again regaining his spot in the Blue Jay's top 296 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.640 ten prospect list. He has a reputation of being a good defender and can 297 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:34.519 play you know, middle infield, but could probably play all over the place, 298 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:40.480 so perhaps twenty twenty three it's a little bit of a Leo Yumanez renaissance. 299 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.480 Regardless, we had to move on because he was owned too much entering 300 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:48.240 last season, and I went with another very small sample look as he was 301 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.680 playing in High A which wasn't broadcast very much at all, and that was 302 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:56.799 Sebastian Espino, who's a corner outfield type. I think he played a little 303 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:00.680 bit of corner infield spots too. Some say he has the best outfield arm 304 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:04.920 in the system, currently owned in zero percent of leagues. He'll turn twenty 305 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:08.480 three this season. He's a right hand hitter, listed at six two, 306 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:11.680 one hundred and eighty pounds. He's strong, though I might have to take 307 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:17.359 to over. He played Double A this season and statistically it wasn't super great. 308 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:21.079 But Espinho is not without a little bit of I don't know if it's 309 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:25.039 buzz pedigree from you know, pre end of the world. He was initially 310 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:27.920 signed with the Mets in twenty sixteen out of the Dominican and despite a little 311 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:33.039 bit of buzz about a potential, you know, real powerful bat, he 312 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:37.200 didn't really produce too much for several rookie league seasons and the Mets let him 313 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:41.119 go. The Blue Jays picked him up prior to two twenty one, and 314 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:45.359 he had some pretty impressive production in sixty games at HIGHA as a twenty one 315 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:48.160 year old. He had two ninety five three fifty eight with a five eleven 316 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:52.400 slug eight home runs, so that was my draw. But then twenty twenty 317 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:56.960 two we saw a twenty seven point four k percentage from the year prior blow 318 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:03.720 up to forty three point seven seven percent. The goddamn plane has cleft. 319 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:08.119 His three hundred and eighty Double A plate appearances, he hit one eighty one, 320 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:12.480 two thirty four, three sixty four, but he did hit fourteen home 321 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:17.960 runs and last I checked these one for five in spring training and hit a 322 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.119 home run off of a Mark Appel sinker. He's interesting that. Now he 323 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:26.839 didn't hit either well this last season, obviously, but he's always been a 324 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:32.000 righty who has hit right He is better than lefties both average wise and long 325 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.359 ball wise. Now, obviously we're not going to have very much interest, 326 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:37.839 and a guy who's striking out forty some percent of the time, but he 327 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:41.680 was twenty two years old in Double A, hasn't had a huge amount of 328 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:45.400 plate appearances since the end of the world is getting some major league run in 329 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:52.240 spring training. Does have some exciting potential defensively, so I'm not completely writing 330 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:56.240 Sebastian espino off. I think there's a powerful swing in there that you don't 331 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.440 write off too quickly. But that being said, I did move on to 332 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:03.480 a new selection this season. And now bear with me a little bit, 333 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:08.240 because this is more for fun or at least it just has my curiosity than 334 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:11.640 any sort of hey, you need to pay attention to this guy for fantasy 335 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:15.640 reasons. But I went with Robert Robert Tisse, who was owned in one 336 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.720 percent of leagues. This will be his twenty year old season. Left handed 337 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:23.279 hitter listed at five eleven, one hundred and eighty eight pounds. He played 338 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:27.079 rookie A and double A ball last season. But we'll get into it. 339 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:32.319 It was a little screwy. He was a twenty nineteen international free agent out 340 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:36.640 of Venezuela. Like we had mentioned earlier, the Blue Jays like to send 341 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:40.839 some teenagers up to a level for a brief spell, and that's exactly where 342 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:45.519 I saw Robert Robertise. A little shout out to Jeff Ponce, who I 343 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:48.759 believe it was watching his double A debut or those first couple of games, 344 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:52.720 and we were having some fun talking about Robert Robertise. At least on my 345 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.440 end, I was like, who is this guy? So now, last 346 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:02.119 season twenty twenty two played complex ball then he got a brief five game stint 347 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:06.359 in low A. None of those games were broadcast. He went back down 348 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:10.799 to Complex and then he played the last five Double A games for New Hampshire, 349 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:14.920 whereupon he took mick Abel yard in his second at bat and an outing. 350 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.799 Mick Abel was pitching very well. He also doubled later in that game. 351 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.359 Then he hit a three run home run. His second game added a 352 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.039 few singles. His third game went like O for six. The last two 353 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:30.440 games he had a twenty percent k rate and complex ball. Then he had 354 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:33.519 one strikeout in all five of his Double A games. Really hard to get 355 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:37.960 a good sense of a hitter with no reports and only five games to watch. 356 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:41.240 The technique at to play it leaves me many questions. Doesn't seem like 357 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:45.480 the most compact motion and I'm not real soul that like energy gets transferred real 358 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:48.039 well. But a fun guy for us to keep tabs on early in the 359 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:52.400 season. And I don't know, I didn't really have many other blue Jay 360 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:56.200 ideas this go round. Maybe we'll get better with more to watch in the 361 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.680 lowers and our blue Jay's pitching selection was a little tricky to find. There's 362 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:04.319 a lot of good blue Jay pitchers, a lot of popular blue Jay pitchers, 363 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:08.640 but we're gonna keep tabs on Michael Dominguez, who has currently owned in 364 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:12.880 zero percent of leagues. Twenty two year old, righty, shorter guy five 365 00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:17.680 ten but one hundred and seventy five pounds. He's he's a very solid, 366 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:22.359 very stable looking five to ten. He was a twenty nineteen fifteenth round pick 367 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:26.559 out of Florida, a prep selection. Twenty twenty two, he pitched eighty 368 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:30.559 and two thirds innings between a ball and HIGHA. He had one hundred and 369 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:36.160 four strikeouts with a five point zero two r a, a one point four 370 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:38.960 one three whip, a decent three point four to six walks per nine. 371 00:26:40.119 --> 00:26:41.519 But as I say, it's not how you start, it's how you finish, 372 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.480 and Michael Dominguez had a pretty dang good finish to the season after promotion. 373 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:49.160 His last three starts, which included two of the best lineups he probably 374 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:53.839 faced all year in Spokane and Eugene, he went fifteen and two thirds innings 375 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:59.000 with twenty three strikeouts and three walk It's giving up only ten hits and four 376 00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:03.640 earned runs. He set a career best in strikeouts. His last outing of 377 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:07.799 the season when he struck out nine of Eugene's hitters, minding Eugene was the 378 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:11.920 best offense in that league. He ended up winning the Northwest League's Pitcher of 379 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.440 the Week and clinched them a playoff. Berth that outing he's a four seams 380 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:19.960 slider change guy. Not sure which pitch is really his best fastball sits like 381 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:25.319 ninety three ninety four, and it's a fastball that gets a lot of swing 382 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:30.119 a miss up in the zone. Perusing some semi public savant stuff, he 383 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:33.640 maybe was upping the slider usage more down the stretch. Perhaps that pitch had 384 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.720 something to do with his more successful finish. Regardless of righty, I want 385 00:27:37.720 --> 00:27:41.559 to check in on early in the season and see if the trajectory is holding. 386 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.920 The Blue Jays have been, I think, doing some interesting things with 387 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.000 pitchers and it surely had some arms just take big jumps over an offseason. 388 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:52.640 Obviously not betting that Michael Demanez will be that, but let's just see what 389 00:27:52.680 --> 00:28:00.319 he's all about this season. The evil, evil empire that has been basically 390 00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:06.640 ruled over nothing or maybe one season over like the last twenty years. Alex, 391 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:11.240 that's for you. Obviously a very storied franchise. They just haven't quite 392 00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:17.880 been dominant like that of late. Definitely not as dominant as Matt Vogel's Pom 393 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:23.640 Last Night, Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him. You know, one 394 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:29.319 thing I don't hear folks mentioned often. Maybe it's changed a little bit now, 395 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:32.720 but the Yankees system, I mean, definitely in twenty twenty one, 396 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.480 across like all levels, was just much much older than the other teams. 397 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:40.599 I don't know. I just found that a little interesting. In our twenty 398 00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:44.319 twenty one selection was a little bit of an older hitter, especially for his 399 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.039 level. That was Jacob Sanford, who we don't have to worry about in 400 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.279 a fantasy sense anymore, but maybe if you have some like sporting equipment or 401 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.559 something, lock it up. Evidently he was like stealing stuff from teammates and 402 00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:00.519 selling it or something. I don't know the Yankees really he's gone poor one 403 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:04.319 out on that fantasy dream. But going into twenty twenty two, I think 404 00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:10.680 we did well. We went with Andres Traparo, who is making noise this 405 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:15.200 spring. I was just quite surprised that he was rostered in only two percent 406 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:18.680 of leagues going into last season, and that was after an AFL appearance where 407 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:23.400 he had some success and I know turned some heads with some ex of velocities 408 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:29.440 and giant bombs. On Dress Severe's podcast last year, I had likened him 409 00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:33.920 to perhaps like a little Erman Mercedes type of hitter. I don't think it's 410 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:38.640 too horrible. I'm a friend of Sierra Kano. I had also wondered if 411 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:42.279 Treparrow would get added to the forty man this last offseason. He wasn't, 412 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:45.160 but he also wasn't taken in the Rule five draft. But this is a 413 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:49.559 very powerful hitter, tremendous pool side power. But I mean saying that he 414 00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:53.160 could hit some some long Jack's opposite field too. But he's a pole hitter 415 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.200 fifty two point five percent. Today, I think he hit his third in 416 00:29:56.279 --> 00:30:00.200 spring training home run of the year. He and j Tomnez went back to 417 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:06.359 back double A last season. He struck out like sub twenty percent. Swinging 418 00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:10.559 strike raid is like twelve percent. He hit two ninety six with a three 419 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.880 seventy on base and select five ninety two. But now the Yankees are tricky 420 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:18.559 to me. Their system isn't short, untalented, and you know fantasy dynasty 421 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:23.440 excitement, but it sure can be a tough rotation or lineup to crack. 422 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.640 I see Treparo's roster raid is up to fifteen percent. I don't know. 423 00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:33.200 I've used him as a trade chip of late, not because I don't think 424 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.039 there's major league potential, but he needs to trade to a different organization for 425 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:40.000 me to get excited, Like, do we really think Treparo is going to 426 00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:44.279 crack the Yankees lineup? I mean, maybe should have seemed like the Yankees 427 00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:48.240 might be lacking in offense more so than perhaps ever in recent memory. Maybe 428 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:52.839 I shouldn't have traded him. AnyWho, this season, we're gonna go with 429 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.799 Taylor Aguar, who I first knew of as a prep in my home state, 430 00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.359 Colorado. I believe his class he will was the top ranked or second 431 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:06.559 ranked player in the state who ended up going and playing playing college ball a 432 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:11.000 Grand Canyon. He was the first year player this season. Drafted last draft 433 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.279 in the fifteenth round, signed for one hundred and twenty five K. Listed 434 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:17.960 at six foot two hundred and five. He's a strong guy, strong left 435 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.480 handed bat. He'll be twenty two this season. He's from Greeley, Colorado, 436 00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:25.440 which doesn't smell the greatest, but Aguar doesn't stink up baseball. He 437 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:29.240 got in twenty eight games this last year, hit three home runs, and 438 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:33.759 he had a game spring training night game, maybe the only game on where 439 00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:36.200 he showed a little bit of what he could do. Believe he hit like 440 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:41.039 a big RBI double and then he threw a guy out from right field at 441 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:45.039 home plate with a just fantastic throw. But I don't know. His college 442 00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.359 career was I think fairly middling. Not that I'm like followed Grand Canyon, 443 00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:52.480 but his name has been a guy that I was keeping semi tabs on. 444 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.559 But then I think his senior year he really kind of took off. He 445 00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:00.160 had twenty three home runs, slugged over seven hundred with a sub nineteen in 446 00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:04.680 K percentage. Like I said, strong cannon of an arm doing some things 447 00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:08.240 in Major league spring training games. Yankees prospects are quite popular, but I 448 00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:13.960 think Aguar is a college bat with some exciting elements. I think he could 449 00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:16.799 very much hang with some upper level competition. We'll see how far he goes 450 00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:23.480 this year. Then a Yankees pitching selection is Joe Sway panaqull p A n 451 00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:29.119 A c u A L. He is a twenty one year old Venezuelan right 452 00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:31.960 hander. Not very tall in stature five ten, listed at one hundred and 453 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.920 fifty eight pounds, but he has long arms. He's currently owned in zero 454 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.880 percent of leagues, and when I reviewed him for Prospect Pitcher List and Review 455 00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:45.640 in June, he was not rostered by anyone because he had not been created 456 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:50.799 in fan tracks yet. Split Time between a Ball and High a a twenty 457 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:57.720 eighteen international free agent. I recently tweeted out his strikeouts from his June eleventh 458 00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:01.640 outing, which was the best game of his life, and I just happened 459 00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:06.799 to watch it, and I got a little excited at the time. But 460 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:10.240 watch that video, Watch that little thirty second video and tell me that isn't 461 00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:16.160 interesting to you. We're talking about a guy throwing just Frisbees and some hard 462 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:23.039 frisbees and some soft Frisbees and was just painting the edges that whole outing. 463 00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:28.519 It's a very lively looking sinker change of slider combo. And we know the 464 00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:31.119 Yankees can coach some stink, I mean, up and down that organization. 465 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:36.759 They just seemed to have a little extra gear going on with some of their 466 00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:42.079 spin. But I reviewed a few more panic Wells outings and the execution never 467 00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:46.519 got nearly as fantastic as it was that outing in June. But the encouraging 468 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:51.480 part is I still think, you know it's hard on video, but I 469 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:54.960 still think the offerings held up still looked pretty nasty, And you know, 470 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:59.359 that might be part of the problem as well, part of the difficulty of 471 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.359 executing and commanding, especially for a twenty year old. But over his seven 472 00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:07.240 low A starts, which was twenty nine and a third innings, he struck 473 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:10.000 out thirty seven while walking fourteen. Now, his walk rate has never been 474 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:15.000 very stellar. Through his young career. He had a three point three eight 475 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:19.239 low A RAA with a one point two six whip, and then over thirteen 476 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:22.679 high A starts sixty one and a third innings, the era jumped to four 477 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:27.719 point ninety nine, a one point six six whip, forty one k's and 478 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:31.599 a whopping thirty four walks. The world is a nightmare. I do think 479 00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:37.199 there is some exciting strikeout paired with groundball rate potential here. The groundball rate 480 00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:40.840 on the season was sixty percent. That great outing, I don't think anybody 481 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:44.119 hit the ball in the air. He didn't give up a home run until 482 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:46.079 his last start in June. Now when he got to high A. He 483 00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:51.079 ended up giving up four home runs on his last five outings. I believe 484 00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:53.760 the sinker gets up to about ninety four, I think, but it's lively 485 00:34:53.920 --> 00:35:01.360 and in terms of just execution, panak Well is interesting difference between his best 486 00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:06.119 outing of the season June eleventh, where he went seven innings, gave up 487 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:09.840 six hits, no runs, no walks, nine strikeouts versus Jersey Shore, 488 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:15.400 and probably his worst outing of the year beginning of August versus Jersey Shore, 489 00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:17.719 where he went three innings, gave up nine hits, six earned runs, 490 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:22.400 two walks, and three strikeouts two home runs. All of his offerings seemed 491 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:28.239 quite similar, but the execution of the pitches were miles apart. I don't 492 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:30.480 know. To me, that's how big of a difference. Putting the ball 493 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:37.679 where you want to makes so Jassuay panic wall not without potential, not necessarily 494 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.119 my type of guy. I'd prefer much better execution. But if that starts 495 00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:45.159 to tighten up, I mean, he's still very young, things could get 496 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:49.800 interesting. But like I mean, the Yankees have a lot of these guys 497 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:53.440 that are interesting but kind of gets stuck. We'd love to see Randy Vasquez 498 00:35:53.880 --> 00:35:57.280 well, I mean, he made the forty man now, but it's just 499 00:35:57.320 --> 00:36:00.639 a tough rotation to crack. Maybe Clark Schmidt is finally cracking it this year. 500 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:05.000 I don't know, but regardless, I think dress Way Panakwall is a 501 00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:08.440 fantastic B side pitching arm to watch in twenty twenty three. All Right, 502 00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:14.719 the Tampa Bay Rays a system often given a lot of praise, and you 503 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:19.719 can't deny they have created some good baseball teams, But I'm not so sold 504 00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.880 that they are a great system for us dynasty owners. I think they do 505 00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:29.039 a fantastic job of I don't know, manufacturing some kind of plastic pieces, 506 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:32.119 good parts, players with good parts, But on both sides of the ball, 507 00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:37.440 they just don't really strike me as chuck full of the kind of prospects 508 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:42.639 I want to highly invest in players that seem to be quite functional in spurts, 509 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:45.199 But I don't know. We'll get to more of that a little later, 510 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:47.119 perhaps, But I do think it's been a decent place for us to 511 00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:52.199 go B siding. I think we've had some success. Our original selection was 512 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:57.280 a Sleivis Basabe, who is now on their forty man roster and rostered in 513 00:36:57.559 --> 00:37:00.760 thirteen percent of fan tracks leagues. Twenty two year old right hander six one, 514 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:05.920 one hundred and eighty eight pounds. He split last season between HIGHA and 515 00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:10.239 Double A. Yet again another Venezuelan who was signed in twenty seventeen by the 516 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:15.519 Rangers. Actually, it's funny how baseball can work sometimes. He and Herroberto 517 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:21.599 Hernandez were the gets for the Rays when they traded the Rangers Nate Low and 518 00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:24.199 for most it was Hernandez who seemed to be the biggest get there. But 519 00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:30.119 it's turning out that Bessave might be the better prospect. Besave graduated off the 520 00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:32.639 list after the first season. This past year, he played fifty five High 521 00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:37.880 A games and then fifty seven Double A games, where he arguably was better. 522 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:40.199 In Double A. I think he was better on the season. He 523 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:45.320 hit three twenty four with a three eighty six on base percentage and select four 524 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:49.840 sixty three with four home runs and twenty one stolen bases. In HIGHA he 525 00:37:49.880 --> 00:37:52.800 struck out fourteen point four percent of the time, and then in Double A 526 00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:57.760 that dropped under ten percent six point nine percent swinging strike rate. I watched 527 00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:01.320 a decent amount of Montgomery this past season. And now, granted, these 528 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:05.239 four guys weren't all on the team at the same time, but I think 529 00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:09.119 they all took turns looking like Montgomery's best hitter, Curtis Mead, Brett Wisely, 530 00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:15.920 Besave, and Kyle Menzardo. Psave's turn was in August, where over 531 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:21.719 his one hundred played appearances he hit four twenty five with a four seventy five 532 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:25.440 on base percentage and slug five ninety eight, and at five ninety eight slug 533 00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:29.559 was without any home runs, hit a lot of doubles, hit a lot 534 00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:32.280 of triples, twelve extra base hits, and stole seven basses that month. 535 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:37.800 Boy. Now, of course, it might be hard to see where Bessave 536 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:42.199 might fit in with the big league club, but the Rays weren't without some 537 00:38:42.199 --> 00:38:45.239 pretty good options. They had a forty man crunch, as they usually do. 538 00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:50.599 Menzardo didn't have to be added, yet Mead made it, Besab made 539 00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:54.639 it, while they chose to trade Brett Wisely, who was our twenty twenty 540 00:38:54.639 --> 00:39:00.320 two selection and was traded to San Francisco this offseason, and I know we 541 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:05.840 spoke about him already and all West episode, but Wisely not having a bad 542 00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:10.079 spring training whatsoever. And some of the things Gabe Kapler is saying about him 543 00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:16.000 is his pretty complimentary and wisely just might be pushing for a spot on the 544 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:24.719 twenty six man. I thought it was interesting that Kapler said they view him 545 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:29.880 as a shortstop. First, he did not play very much shortstop because of 546 00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:35.559 Pisab in Montgomery and some others Besabe most lead well beside they played like twice 547 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:39.039 as much third base as shortstop. But now Besabe like home runs not really 548 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:44.039 you know his game. And to circle back to Rafaela, you know, 549 00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:47.760 talking about his approach being quote immature, it's interesting to me when we think 550 00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:53.119 about hitters like so, fantasy owners might want Raphaela to be more mature at 551 00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:57.400 the plate, But then does that mean that he is putting up stat lines 552 00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.000 like Pisab And then Dynasty owners will be like, oh, that's not a 553 00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:05.519 very exciting profile. I want more home runs. Well, then maybe it 554 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:07.400 needs to look like a more aggressive hitter. So I don't know, maybe 555 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.920 that's an interesting thought or not, but something I think about when thinking about 556 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:16.039 raphael and save Yeahsab's restaurant thirteen percent of leagues right now. Wisely, I 557 00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:21.079 think is up to nine now has jumped a couple percentage points. He was 558 00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:24.119 at three percent in November. For regardless, I think we were two for 559 00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:29.239 two on our rays so far, but now I'm probably not quite as confident 560 00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:35.039 in our selection for this season. Another very small sample sized selection, but 561 00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:39.400 we're going to keep our eyes on Edwin Barragan b A R R A G 562 00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:45.920 A N who played second base and third base, currently owned in zero percent 563 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:50.639 of leagues. He's a smaller right hander five to seven, one fifty eight 564 00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:53.559 list of that, but I don't know about that. He seems a little 565 00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:59.719 bit, maybe not taller, but he seemed strong. Another young friend is 566 00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:04.960 Way signed in the twenty nineteen period. Began had a nice looking DSL line 567 00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:08.719 from a contact standpoint, but slugt only three sixty eight with two home runs. 568 00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:13.599 But then this year, at eighteen years old, his first official Stateside 569 00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:15.679 at bat, he hit a home run. And I don't know, this 570 00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:21.400 isn't scientific by any means, but hitters who hit a home run during a 571 00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:24.559 debut, I don't know. There's just there's something special to me about that. 572 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:29.639 I'm sure there's plenty of hitters who have hit home runs during debuts that 573 00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:35.840 did not amount to great fantasy success. But like he and Robertise, I 574 00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:37.679 don't know, it makes me want to pay more attention, at least for 575 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:43.920 a little while now. That home run was the only home run of Berrigan's 576 00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:47.119 season, but he only had ninety three at bats between A Ball and rookie 577 00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:52.920 His A ball stint was only thirty five played appearances before going back to rookie 578 00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:55.440 ball. But again, at eighteen years old, he was It wasn't like 579 00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:00.159 a demotion because of lack of production. He was more than holding his own. 580 00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:04.599 He only had like a seven point four percent swinging strike rate, but 581 00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:08.239 the problem was over seventy percent of his batted balls were groundballs. He went 582 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:15.119 back down for seventy seven complex plate appearances and the groundball rate dropped to fifty 583 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:17.760 six point four percent. Well, the swinging strike rate dropped to seventeen percent. 584 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:22.880 Again, these are really small, you know, samples, But it 585 00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:27.440 was the quiet in his swing at the plate, seemingly advanced zone awareness and 586 00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:30.679 pitch recognition that got my attention. I mean, just don't see a lot 587 00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:34.280 of eighteen year olds with that kind of control at the plate in full season 588 00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:38.000 ball. I don't think Berrigan is like a burner or extremely fast or anything 589 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:42.800 like that. But ultimately he got my attention. The feel at the plate, 590 00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:47.119 I just got like right handed pinango vibes from him. I think the 591 00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:52.320 foundation of being you know, a solid, real legit hitter doesn't strike out 592 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:55.079 a town, makes a lot of contact. Now, again, not going 593 00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:59.159 to know how powerful he might be, and obviously you don't want him to 594 00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:02.239 hit seventy percent ground balls, but this was a teenager getting his first taste. 595 00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:07.280 So I'm very intrigued to see if Bergen gets a whole season in at 596 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.039 a ball this year at nineteen years old, what that just might look like. 597 00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:16.159 And then our Rays pitching selection raise prospect pitching so much love, but 598 00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:21.840 as a whole, I'm really not a Giant fan at at all. Disputing 599 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.760 that they develop and do what they need to do and get results at the 600 00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:30.480 major league level. I'm just again saying for fantasy purposes, not really my 601 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:35.079 cup of tea, as a lot of their arms just seemed to lack diversity, 602 00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:39.920 or maybe a better way to say it is potential for multiple ways of 603 00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:45.199 attacking hitters, which I feel like is a characteristic for our selection. Ben 604 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:49.840 Peoples, who is currently owned in one percent of leagues. It's a twenty 605 00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:52.360 one year old right hander listed at six one hundred and seventy five pounds. 606 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:57.599 He was drafted in the twenty second round of the twenty nineteen draft. He 607 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:00.519 was a Tennessee high schooler assigned for three hundred and forty seven K. I 608 00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:06.079 don't recall where People's was committed to, but obviously they signed him away. 609 00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:07.800 Saved up a little bit of money in that draft to sign him away. 610 00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:13.480 He spent last season in A ball and High over ninety four innings, ten 611 00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:15.119 of which were in High A, so he had two starts in High A 612 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:19.239 at the end, and both of those outings were pretty productive, pretty good. 613 00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:21.800 But on the season, he had a three point zero six ERA, 614 00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.719 a one point two two whip, one hundred and twenty one strikeouts, made 615 00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:29.880 four point zero two walks per nine, but he did cut the walks down 616 00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:35.199 significantly down the stretch. His fastball is another one that plays really well up 617 00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:38.039 in the zone. It's I don't know, invisiball esque or you know, 618 00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:43.440 I'm sure it's release point and in vertical break and all that jazz. It 619 00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:47.000 also looks to me sometimes like maybe it has Ashcraft esque cut to it. 620 00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:52.719 So I don't know, something like between a Tommy Romero and Ashcraft fastball, 621 00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.199 lots of bats swinging underneath it, and then there's and then off of that, 622 00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:59.679 he likes to play a breaking ball that looks like it gets some good 623 00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:02.400 lay. I don't know, two to seven o'clock break or something like that, 624 00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:07.119 or two to eight o'clock. I guess it's how a clock works. 625 00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:12.920 There was a changeup that was spotted a few times but looks pretty unremarkable to 626 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:16.360 me, interesting or maybe not, but left he's struggled versus him more than 627 00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:21.760 right, he's obviously those were some pretty good numbers on the season, barely 628 00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:24.440 over three r a, one point two two whip, one hundred and twenty 629 00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:28.880 one strikeouts in ninety four innings. And that's the kind of thing that we'll 630 00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:31.840 get Dynasty owners attention, I mean, especially if he's producing at that level, 631 00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:35.360 you know, in double A at some point. And I kind of 632 00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:38.199 feel like maybe his attack quality of those two pitches, I mean, we've 633 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:42.960 seen this act before in this system, and so for that reason, I 634 00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:46.239 think he's a fantastic B side. Now me personally it's just not really the 635 00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:51.760 profile that I want to get excited about for fantasy purposes. Will it work 636 00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:54.519 well for the Rays potentially, but I don't think it works really well for 637 00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:59.400 me finding a starter in my dynasty league. But we'll see. Pitching can 638 00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:04.000 change quite quickly, and you know, maybe People's adds another offering or two, 639 00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:08.000 or adds more velocity, something that perhaps makes him a little bit more 640 00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:10.880 excited, you know, twenty one years old, still quite young. I 641 00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:15.480 like the chances of him becoming more popular with dynasty owners, but not nearly 642 00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:21.199 as confident. He truly becomes more intriguing to me. All right, Episode 643 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:24.800 seven and the last of the what would you call it? What's two trilogies? 644 00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:30.119 Trilogy squared? And I don't know, no, that would be like 645 00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:35.719 nine. Regardless, if you have made it through these six divisional episodes and 646 00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:39.599 the origin story, you, my friend, have earned your dirty muddy b 647 00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:45.440 side stripes. I commend you crack a beer celebrate. We have discussed about 648 00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:51.239 one hundred and twenty players over these last six episodes. A few maybe household 649 00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:53.800 names now, most of them very much nat but a few of them very 650 00:46:53.800 --> 00:47:00.199 well could be relatively soon One that's getting more popular right now. This ring 651 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:05.079 training who we spoke about in the AO Central episode is is Andre Elpsius. 652 00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:08.119 Yesterday he hit his third home run of the spring training. It might be 653 00:47:08.199 --> 00:47:13.360 a guy very much pushing for a twenty six months, but three home runs. 654 00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:15.800 Man, he hit. I mean, as we discussed, he hit 655 00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:20.000 twelve last year and twelve the year before. Who knows spring training whatever, 656 00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:23.880 I don't even I didn't even look to see what the pitchers were location anything 657 00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:27.920 like that. But maybe they were just some meatballs. But you know, 658 00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:30.400 you gotta hit the meat balls. But mind you, this is a hitter 659 00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:35.599 who was owned in what just last month in November four percent of leagues. 660 00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:38.880 He's up to six percent. Now. I've been keeping tabs on Jeremy Reeves, 661 00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:43.519 Young Jeremy Reeves or the Cardinals who we spoke about, and wouldn't you 662 00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:45.280 know it, today, bottom of the eighth, they're down a run, 663 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:49.960 two outs. I believe he had two strikes on him, maybe it was 664 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:54.480 two one, but he laced a two run single to center field line drive. 665 00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:58.960 Shocking, right, But I think he's something like three for six in 666 00:47:59.079 --> 00:48:01.559 his you know, some late inning action. But fun to see him getting 667 00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:05.639 in there. But I'm just excited. I'm excited to start talking about some 668 00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:08.920 new news instead of all this old news that we've been going through. Next 669 00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:13.480 week, I will have a guest, Jeff Pons of Baseball America, going 670 00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:15.800 to hop On. I'm looking forward to that conversation. I have a lot 671 00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:19.440 of things that I want to talk to him about. We'll talk about some 672 00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:22.719 B sides. We're gonna talk about some other stuff too. Hopefully I don't 673 00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:25.039 jinx it. We're both pretty busy, but I'll just make it right by 674 00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:30.280 saying I won't put an episode out until Jeff and I talk till then. 675 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:34.760 I'll be watching some spring training, some World Baseball Classic. But I saw 676 00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:38.199 Jordan that Diaz hit a home run today while playing with the Columbia team exhibition 677 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:42.880 game. Aren't they all exhibition games? Though? But I appreciate you all 678 00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:45.960 trudging along with me here. Let Chicago farmer do his thing. Be well, 679 00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:55.360 Jeff, and I will touch you on Monday first, and now on 680 00:48:55.400 --> 00:49:05.159 the very next pitch, he up and stoves sack in face with greatest speak. 681 00:49:06.360 --> 00:49:14.480 He wasn't born, but he had a daddy as uniform