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Ninety five miles an hour, riding
too his head. He hopped down the

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first with the lump on his face, and on the very next pitch he

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up and stole second face with greatst
be he wasn't born. He had to

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welcome to prospect b sides. We
try to talk about some prospects and no

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one else is or very few are, and who knows, maybe we find

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a dynasty gem. But I am
made handy. I'll be talking at you

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for a little while here. I
last week I shared some personal stories about

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some annoying folks. Am I wrong? No? You're not wrong? Am

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I wrong? You're not wrong,
Walter, You're just an asshole. Okay,

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Then this week I won't lie.
I'm a little up against it time

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wise. Since I recorded the last
show, it has been a week.

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My youngest daughter was in the hospital
for a few days. Everything's good,

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everything's fine. This one's getting a
little squeezed in. We always start off

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with some Q and A, and
I've got some questions this week, but

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I'm not going to be able to
get through all of them. But I'll

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take one here at beach bum Brenda
asked, I hear you talk about backdoor

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savant data. What is that well
at beach bum Brenda backdoor. Savant is

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the nickname given to me by Matt
Vogel's mom. Ladies and gentlemen, we

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got him. Sorry, I'm fourteen
years old. But in seriousness to answer

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your question, in two leagues last
year, in two minor leagues last year,

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the Florida League and the PCL,
you could get some semi public baseball

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savant data from from the games if
you took the game ID number, which

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you could get from like the box
score page and subs du did it in

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place of like a major league score
give you some data, So thank you.

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Sorry. I had a little fun
there, but we're gonna get into

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it here. This is probably the
system that I watched the least off.

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I just don't need to be disappointed
multiple times exponentially, so I really don't

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pay close attention to the White Saxe. Of course, I'm not completely naive,

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and I watched some stuff, but
for the most part, I don't

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keep close tabs. Coming out of
twenty twenty, our original selection was Jenobille

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Lariano, who was a twenty eighteen
kind of oddly February of twenty eighteen,

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International free agent from the Dominican Republic. He was a center fielder who put

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up some impressive DSL numbers as a
nineteen year old, which is a few

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years old, but nonetheless, he
went three fifty seven, four thirty seven,

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five forty three with six home runs
six stolen bases over fifty nine games.

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The very little that I had read
about him, it was talk of

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a potential athletic center fielder who could
maybe hit some home runs and steal some

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basses, So that was enough for
a dart throw choice. Twenty twenty one,

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he struggled a couple of weeks in
Lowe after a fairly unremarkable, I

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don't know, forty games in rookie
ball his first state side and go at

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things. So he didn't stick around
another season, as I had a better

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idea. But I did actually get
around to watching him a little bit this

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season, so he got in nineteen
games and rookie ball this past year as

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a twenty one year old. He
put up some okay numbers, hit a

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home run, whatever, nothing really
remarkable, and he got up for seven

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games in Knnapolis, and I could
just see why the White Sox might be

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kind of interested in him. Or
you know, stubborn, trying to develop

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him. He's a good, like
probably six foot maybe two hundred pounds,

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strong athletic. Not like he did
a bunch of damage, but a couple

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of the swings I saw him put
on some balls where we're pretty impressive.

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Just it's kind of an effortless,
quick, compact swing and the ball just

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really kind of jumped off his bat. But I mean pops off the bat.

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You can hear it all over the
ballpark, a lot of pop coming

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off the bat. And definitely,
if he's a good hitter, why does

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he hit good? So John Abel
Lariano, maybe we see him around,

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maybe we don't. Going into two
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Luis miasis I believe that's how you
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es. He's a big left handed
bat, sixty three, probably two hundred

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pounds something like that got my attention
at the end of two thousand and twenty

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one in high A. It seemed
like a fast bat, hit some balls

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really hard. It was coming off
a pretty good season in low A.

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Doesn't strike out a bunch. He
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agent out of the Dominican. Twenty
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old season. But he kind of
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I didn't really realize that he was
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took him as more of a I
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which he does pull the ball a
lot, but he has the ability to

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drive the ball the other way too. In his four hundred and fifty one

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high A played appearances this past season, he hit two eighty one with a

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three twenty four on base percentage.
Right, I think he is a fairly

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aggressive hitter. He slugged four to
forty eight with twelve home runs. Nothing

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too crazy. But now Chris Getz, who I don't know what his title

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is, farm director for the White
Sax, maybe did something kind of interesting

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this year. They kind of took
their select prospects from the lower levels and

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sent them to Double A for a
month to end the season, had them

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all played together. What have you
Misis was one of the selected and the

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jumped Double A didn't really phase him. He produced had a better clip than

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some of their more marquis names.
Jose Rodriguez, Brion Ramos Wholsa, Montgomery

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Westcalf. Granted he's a little older
than those guys, but he hit two

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ninety nine with a three thirty three
on base percentage and slugged four forty three

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and one hundred and two played appearances
up there with three home runs. Wake

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up russ Off, look good.
Makeesis is a corner outfield type. I

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think he plays a decent corner outfield. I think he has a good arm,

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but he's not really the fastest guy
around. Stolen bases aren't part of

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his game. He stole one base
over the last two seasons. His total

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line on the season was two eighty
four three twenty six forty seven with fifteen

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home runs. And I think the
story is he's just been a little bit

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of a slower burn just kind of
see gradual improvements. He used to hit

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a lot of ground balls. He
doesn't really do that anymore. He actually

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hits the ball in the air quite
a bit. It's no secret that the

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White Socks for a few years now
have been longing for a left handed outfield

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bat. I don't necessarily know if
Makeesis will be that guy, but he

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was an r this year. But
he's got a major flaw. He does

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not hit left handed pitchers. He
hit just one two sixty six two eighty

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three against them in one hundred and
nine plate appearances. So until that gets

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better, I don't think the dream
can be any more than a strong side

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platoon. So moving on to this
year, Jacob Burke was my pick.

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Burke was the first year pro,
A twenty twenty two eleventh round draft pick

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out of the University of Miami,
signed for a little over two hundred K.

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He's a right hand hitter, listed
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I believe he will turn twenty two
this coming season. There wasn't a whole

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lot to watch quite yet, but
he did Bosom rookie ball and from Lowe

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and I first noticed him with a
web gem. It reminded me very much

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of Aaron Rowan back in the day, so I started digging around a little

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bit on him, watching a little
bit more. The biggest impression I got

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is he is a guy who kind
of plays with his hair on fire.

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He's gonna give you everything he's got. He was playing center field for Kannapolis.

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I don't know if that's the most
ideal spot for him, that's what

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he played in college. I know
there were some draft heads who thought Burke

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would maybe much earlier in the draft
than he did. He transferred to Miami

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for his junior season from Southeast Louisiana
and put up way bigger numbers than he

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did at his previous school. He
hit three forty seven five ninety nine with

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thirteen home runs and ten stolen bases, struck out eighteen and a half percent

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of the time. I'm not running
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first year players or anything like that. This is much more just a curiosity.

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Could potentially be a guy that moves
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strike me as a super loaded system. Oh no, we suck again.

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I think there's definitely room for an
outfielder to ascend quickly. It wasn't anything

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super crazy statistically in his short stint
that jumped out at me, but I

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did like the at bats you could
tell he was, you know, more

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of an advanced college player, hitting
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the look of his swing. So, Jacob Burke maybe a guy we keep

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an ion. Then my White Sox
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who is currently owned in three percent
of leagues, which is kind of wild

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when you consider that he is a
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San Diego State. His dad was
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He's a writing twenty three years old, six one one ninety. He got

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in Low A and Double A this
year. Another one of these guys that

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was part of the select crew that
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end of the year. Now,
I don't know what the story was.

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In college, he was a reliever, but he only pitched twenty seven innings

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his whole college career, which is
kind of wild considering he pitched twenty one

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innings in two twenty one, his
draft year for the White Sox. In

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rookie ball this season, he got
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which was fifteen starts in Low A, where he had a three sixty five

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R seventy six strikeouts, a three
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a one point two three wit.
Simus has a four pitch mix, and

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I think all four of his offerings
and you know, and my limited looks

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took turns looking like his best pitch. His fastball gets up to like ninety

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six ticks up if he's relieving,
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right now. It's kind of wild
how baseball can work, right. You

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know, some of the bigger lists
up there have Simus now higher in their

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system than Jared Kelly, who was
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A few years ago. The White
Sox seemed to very much use kid gloves

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with a lot of their prospects in
the lowers, trying to keep pitch counts

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down and innings down, and I
think there was definitely some of that going

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on with Simus, and you know, makes sense for a guy who has

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barely pitched. It'd be nice to
say, hey, wow, look at

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this. My White Sox actually might
have found a little gem here. But

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I can't help but think this was
just something that kind of fell into their

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lap because of their relationship with his
dad, Cole. Simus kind of come

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out of nowhere to definitely be a
name in this system and is at least

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at some point this next year he'll
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The Minnesota Twins a bunch of losers
the target field. Come watch the worst

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team in baseball, the worst team. Now, my guy Aaron likes to

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give me a hard time because I
do happen to find myself interested in quite

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a few Twins prospects these days,
but we're yet to have a official Twins

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B side and hit really, and
part of that is because I've been bullish

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on my original selection, Jefferson Morales, who's been on the list the first

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two years. I've looked for this, but for the life of me could

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not find it. But several years
ago I read an article I'm guessing it

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was probably on Baseball America about a
Venezuelan academy and different drills and things that

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they were doing with catchers, and
a young teenager by the name of Jefferson

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Moralis was part of that article.
Twins signed Morales in the two thousand and

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sixteen international free agent period. Two
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old season. The right hand hitter, smaller compact guy five eight one seventy,

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he spent twenty twenty two in HIGHA
with maybe a rehab stint in rookie

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ball going into two twenty one.
Somewhere along the line, I caught wind

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of the Twins being high on his
bat and his defensive abilities. Behind the

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plate. The g had put up
some decent rookie ball numbers, so he

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was my selection two twenty one.
He didn't necessarily light the world on fire

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offensively as a twenty two year old, but he didn't strike out very much

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eighteen percent. He hit seven home
runs in seventy one games, and he

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was promoted to HIGHA where over one
hundred plate appearances he went three oh one

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with a three to fifty on base
percentage and slugged five to sixteen with five

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home runs. Struck out twenty percent
of the time, so that kind of

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finish of his season kept him around. I'm drawn to his compact swing and

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good balance at the plate, guy
who seems to cover the plate well,

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reacting to velocity looking away, and
maintaining his power through the swings and throughout

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his full season career. Despite being
a good defensive catcher. The Twins play

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him in the outfield, I think
mostly left field, because they think highly

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of the bat and want him to
get his abs. That trajectory that we

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were seeing at the end of twenty
twenty one to not carry into two twenty

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two. He was off to a
rough start, a rough month, then

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he had a pretty pretty hot month
and got hurt in June. He missed

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about a month, but he never
really got going. When he came back,

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he batted one sixty eight with three
home runs, striking out at the

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highest clip we've seen him over the
last two years. I'm not done with

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Jefferson Morales, but he is going
to be twenty four this year and has

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no upper level experience yet, and
my guess is that he'll probably start in

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High A. Maybe I'm wrong,
maybe they'll just skip him up to Double

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A. And you know, the
Twins always do seem to have at least

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one bat just really kind of put
it all together and blow up and get

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a lot more fantasy appeal. I'm
not weighing down bets that it's Morales,

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but I do think that he's a
fairly sound guy at the plate. His

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ownership rate has never eclipsed one percent, and in November it was at zero,

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and regardless of everything going on,
hitters always do end up hitting,

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so we'll keep an eye. But
I had a more interesting hitter to go

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with this year, and that's Dalton
Shuffield, who in November was owned in

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zero percent of leagues, and I
think he still is I believe this will

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be his twenty three year old season. He's a right hand hitter, smaller

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guy at five nine, one seventy
and he was a twenty twenty two tenth

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round pick, so he is a
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He had a very brief stint of
rookie ball after the draft, played in

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High A, and then got sent
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So we're gonna you know, we're
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here, but Shuffield is not without
some interesting his He was I believe a

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second team All American in college at
Texas State. He had a very minus

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twenty thousand dollars signing bonus. He
could very well be on a quick prove

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it to me sort of plan here
for the Twins. Yeah. So he

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had three games from rookie ball eight
games and high and then to Triple A

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for the last fourteen games of the
season, where he hit two seventy one,

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three fourteen and select five forty two
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base. Now, the home runs
one was a real nice piece of hitting

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where he took a high and outside
and fastball and just hit a rocket line

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drive out of right center. The
other home run was an inside the park

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home run, not that he needed
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truff Field is fast, and he
is a guy who said to be pretty

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dang good up the middle, infielder, shortstop, second base. Now,

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the strikeouts were a little bit high
in these brief stints, but I'm not

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going to knock him too much for
that, just kind of just accelerating right

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after the draft up three levels.
Real quick strikeouts were not a thing in

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college, not that that is a
one for one, but he doesn't strike

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me as a guy who will struggle
with that too much. In college,

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he slugged over six hundred put up, you know, very good numbers.

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But of course the question was if
the level of competition was high enough and

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if that was going to translate over
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One of the things you'll notice with
shuff Field is that he does have

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a fairly pronounced leid kick, but
in my looks, that didn't seem to

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be much of an issue. That
stuff is really just a timing mechanism,

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and as long as you're staying balanced
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That's how I've come to understand it, and I was pretty dang impressed with

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Shuffield from a technical aspect, at
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shuff Field is, you know,
another one of these small sample sized guys

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who has really gotten my attention.
I have come really close to drafting him

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at the end of a few of
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haven't quite gotten there yet. But
if he's up in Triple A, shoot,

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even if he's in Double A,
and he has a real hot month

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to start things off, I'm gonna
think real hard about picking up a share.

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I'm curious to see now he's a
minor league camp the spring training,

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but I'm curious to see if he
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games. So Dalton Shuffield not without
some interest. Then my Twins pitching selection

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is a guy who, again I
have not been able to see much of

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because he pitched a large trunk of
the season in Low A in the league

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that he was not broadcast and then
when he was promoted to High A,

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he was either pitching in parks that
broadcasts from a press box or were just

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really poor quality. Not a very
good angle to get a good look at

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his offerings. And what's even more
disappointing is that he actually did have one

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game in Bradington in low A,
which probably has the best camera angle out

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of anywhere in the miners. Sometimes
there archives there are just shoppy and digitally

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skip and all this weird stuff.
And of course his one outing was that,

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oh man, and I should probably
tell you his name. I'm talking

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about Jaln Nolan, who was owned
in two percent of leagues. Twenty two

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year old lefty six one one eighty. He was a twenty twenty one nineteenth

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round draft pick out of a Florida
junior college. He's a fastball, slider,

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changeup guy. Now the semi public
savant stuff labeled a sinker and a

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four steamer. I'm not totally sure
if they're different now. Lynn pitched seventy

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one innings this year and struck out
one hundred and eleven. His walks were

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around four and a half per nine, which is an ideal, but man,

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check this out. His last fifty
five innings, which included his promotion

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to High A, he struck out
ninety and fifty five innings. Dear Lord,

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baby Jesus seeing his numbers. I
had to check this guy out.

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You get three high A starts.
Two of them were in Cedar Rapids,

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which has a not very great angle
and it's not a very good broadcast.

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But the sinker seems to sit about
ninety two and the slider, you know,

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given the savant info in the video, doesn't really seem to be anything

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too crazy, and his command doesn't
seem to be the greatest. Yeah,

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he gives these hitters all sorts of
problems. I imagine there's quite a bit

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of deception for the hitter and his
delivery, which is kind of I think

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a lower arms slot, and my
kind of guesses from the from the hitter's

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vantage probably looks like the ball is
probably just like kind of shooting out his

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ear, coming out of his shoulder, and some guys up there just don't

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seem real. I don't know,
machine like delivery varies. They'll they'll lose

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balance and fall over on occasion,
and they're following through and stuff like that.

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And no one has caught me as
sort of that guy, at least

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right now. Maybe an easier way
to say it is I think there's still

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kind of a lot of rawness there, But I'm anxious to get a better

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look at his offerings and maybe even
try to steal some under the hood stuff

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from a friend. But a guy
putting up that kind of strikeout numbers and

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not really totally sure why, needless
to say, has my interest. And

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that's Jalen Nolan, who will be
checking out probably early in the season,

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hopefully from a good broadcast. All
Right, the Lamo Detroit Tigers, I'm

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kind of like, to god,
it looks for all the kitties in the

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park. Back in twenty eighteen,
they signed a Denzo Reyes for about one

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and a half million dollars, big
strong bat out of the Dominican Republic.

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I think he's currently listed at like
six two, two hundred pounds. I

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believe this will be his twenty one
year old season, right handed hitter.

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He was owning just two percent of
the league's when he came onto the list.

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He's at well, he was at
three percent in November. This was

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another dart throw who put up big
numbers in the DSL. Now, of

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course he had some pedigree if getting
signed for a lot of money as a

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teenager is pedigree. But in twenty
nineteen in the DSL is a seventeen year

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old. He hit three thirty one
in sixty two games, and he hit

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seven home runs, striking out fifty
one times in two hundred and forty two

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at bats, and of course twenty
twenty happened. It seemed like a decent

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selection, and it was their big
money signing, or one of their big

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money signings that no one really owns. Well. He came stateside two twenty

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one and didn't really impress too much. In forty eight games. He did

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hit seven home runs, but the
k rate jumped to about forty five percent.

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Excuse me, it was about forty
percent, a little bit under forty

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percent. It did not leave me
with enough interest to keep them around as

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our two twenty two pick, but
it did seem that after thirty two games

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this last season he had finally kind
of conquered rookie ball. Strikeouts were down

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to twenty four percent. He hit
five home runs and one hundred and thirty

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two played appearances, and he got
promoted to a ball where he got in

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twenty two games, struck out forty
two percent of the time. I know

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Ray has still makes some of the
bigger lists for the Tigers. You know

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this just isn't really my cup of
tea, but you know, still young.

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See if he makes some noise this
year or not. But heading into

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twenty twenty two, we went with
Andrea Lipsis, who's owned in three percent

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of leagues at the time and as
of November was at four percent, but

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I imagine that has now gone up
some. Lipsis will be entering his twenty

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five year old season. He's a
right hand hitter by about sixty one two

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hundred pounds, played most of his
season in double A last year, did

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get up to triple A for forty
six games. He was a twenty nineteen

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third round pick out of Tennessee,
and Lipsis was added to the forty man

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roster this offseason. In college,
he was lauded as a guy with a

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pretty good glove and some offense that
had kind of maybe just come together.

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His last season there, where he
hit sixteen home runs. Power was kind

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of a question. I guess the
home run numbers haven't really come as a

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pro either. He hit twelve home
runs in two thousand and twenty one,

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and he hit twelve home runs in
two thousand and twenty two, granted higher

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levels, but watching them some in
two thousand and twenty one. He was

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this guy who just kind of really
caught my eye at the play, just

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looked really sound, looked balanced,
looked in control. When I'd see him,

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he would I seem like he would
always impress me one hard hit ball

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or something, and I was just
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And I think he hit like two
thirty something with you know, like

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I said, twelve home runs and
whatever. But when I dug on him,

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you could see he would have these
like really hot or very productive stretches

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and than just nothing for a few
weeks at a time. Maybe I was

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just catching them in the good moments
during the better weeks, but he was

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the guy got a sense that the
Tigers were still hopeful about just seemed like

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too good of a hitter to not
put up better numbers, and then kind

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of turned out to be a good
call. In two twenty two, he

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hit two sixty four with a three
ninety two on base percentage, slugged four

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to twenty six in eighty eight Double
A games with nine home runs. Then

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in forty six Triple A games he
hit three o two with a three eighty

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eight on base percentage and slugged four
to fifty three with three home runs,

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stole twelve bases in Double A,
which was two more than his whole previous

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pro career. Hit a fifteen percent
strikeout rate in double A eighteen percent in

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Triple A. Lipsus is a guy
who's never struck out at a high rate,

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and it seems he's become a much
more patient and selective hitter. His

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on base percentage in twenty twenty one
was three twelve. It was three ninety

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two twenty two. He's the guy
who plays I think a plus second base

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and third base. I think he
was primarily a third baseman. Anxious to

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see how his spring training goes and
his push to get a job in the

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bigs. Even if all goes well, it may not be the most exciting

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fantasy profile, but a high OBP, some home runs, some stolen bases,

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and we're also talking about a guy
who may be still developing and ascending

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as an offensive player. Regardless,
I think Lipsus was a pretty good call

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and still not super popular. Interestingly, the Tigers traded for Justin Henry Malloy

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this offseason, who was our twenty
twenty two brave selection, and Malloy may

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very well be some of Lipsu's competition
for a job you. Malloy was a

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six round pick out of Georgia Tech. In twenty twenty one. He was

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owned in one percent of leagues.
In last February, he's now up to

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I think over twenty percent. I
think it was like twenty three percent.

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So we're talking about a guy who
has owned in, you know, four

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to five times as many leagues as
Lipsis and bust out the Spider Man meme.

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My name is Julius. I'm a
twin prog. Because these two guys

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offensively are so dang similar. A
lot of their batted ball profile is very

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very close. Malloy probably hits the
ball a little bit harder. I mean,

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I think he had like sixteen home
runs this year or something like that,

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but he also strikes out seven to
eight percent more often Lipsis. It's

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probably a little more fleet of foot. Malloy may be more of a natural

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third baseman, but we'll probably be
playing corner outfield. In terms of splits,

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Lipsis was and kind of has always
been just very similar. Not much

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difference between right handed and left handed
pitchers. For him. Lloyd, on

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the other hand, four hundred and
fifty played appearances versus righties, went two

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sixty two, three seventy eight four
oh nine twenty four percent k rate versus

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lefties one hundred and forty one played
appearances. He hit three seventy eight,

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five h four, six h four
with a twenty one percent k rate and

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hit home runs at about twice the
rate. Malloy is also on the forty

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man roster. It might be a
little interesting spring training competition. I mean,

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not that it's a lack one of
them makes the opening day roster,

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but one could you know, both
higher OBP guys who you know maybe in

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that park could hit for a lot
of doubles. Neither one of them get

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me too too excited in a fantasy
sense. Good B side calls regardless.

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But concerning the two, and I've
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We'll send him off for whatever and
just pick up Lipsus. I don't

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know sure. Malloy's a couple of
years younger, and if you want to

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say he's still ascending and there might
be some power in there, I won't

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argue against that. But like I
said, too. I think Lipsis might

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be ascending a little bit as well. So for this season, we're gonna

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go with Manuel Saquara, who played
some shortstop, third base, second base

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this year. Long term, he's
probably a corner infielder, and November he

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was owning one percent of leads and
a player. I really don't get why

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he isn't more popular right hand hit
or listed at six one seventy. I'll

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take the over on that. Spend
twenty twenty two playing a ball for Lakeland.

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He was at twenty nineteen international free
agent out of Venezuela. In his

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first pro season twenty twenty one,
he won the Florida Complex League MVP and

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Home run Championship. Square has a
powerful bat. I don't think there's any

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doubt about that. Backdooring some savant. This can just stacked some ex velocity

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games, four or five struck balls
with high evs, and of course being

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in that league, it's hard to
watch a lot of him. Only two

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stadiums were broadcasting this last year,
Bradington and Saint Lucy. We got to

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watch him some, and you know
that might play into his lack of popularity.

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He's another young guy who's getting his
swings in up there. But I

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don't think the chase is all that
bad, at least from the little looks

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I saw. I've read some reports
that that's an issue for him, but

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he doesn't strike out too often.
He struck out twenty two point four percent

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of the time this year. He
hit nineteen home run this season. He

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hit two fifty four with a three
eleven on base percentage, sled four sixty

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three with nine home runs over his
last fifty five games. He's the guy

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who wants to hit the ball out
in front, heavy poll hitter, you

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know. So just like in a
hitting sense, he might be a little

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bit raw, and I'm sure you
can get much better with some of his

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swing choices. But two pro seasons, I mean, I think Sequare is

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two for two, two very productive
progressive seasons. So I'm sure we'll be

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watching a twenty year old and high
a And if he starts to produce some

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numbers, puts up the home runs
like he has been, I'd imagine he'd

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start to get some fantasy attention,
or at least some more fantasy attention.

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So Manuel Sequara is our Tigers B
side hitter for twenty twenty three. The

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pitcher I chose was Kider Montero,
so twenty two year old who spent the

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season in High A, listed at
six one one forty five, owned in

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three percent of leagues. He was
a two thousand and sixteen international free agent

417
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out of Again Venezuela. And he's
a righty who had more success versus right

418
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hand hitters. And when you watch
them you could see why. He's got

419
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a two steamer that he pitches inside
with very effectively. Season numbers might not

420
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wow you, and he actually spent
I think most of twenty twenty one in

421
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HIGHA as well, with like a
plus six DR or something like that.

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And y this year is four and
a half. He had one hundred and

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one strikeouts and one hundred and three
point two innings. But I think the

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story of his season is more so
about how it ended. Now. Through

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July, he was at a plus
six ERA again at the same level,

426
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producing much like he was at his
fifteen starts there the previous year. But

427
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over the last two months seven starts
he had a one five four ERA with

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a one eighty three batting average against
thirty strikeouts in thirty five innings. He

429
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went five innings and all of those
outings with only fourteen walks and only twenty

430
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two hits. Four of those outings
were of five plus k's and watching him

431
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:04.359
the attack is to both sides hitters
very much inside outside east west. That

432
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two steamer that I mentioned, he's
got a firm curveball that he seemed to

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actually have quite a bit success with
landing it high in the zone, which

434
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seems precarious. I believe there was
also a slider or it was his cutter

435
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that he's been working on that was
just inconsistent. It was hard to tell.

436
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I think the velocity on the fastballs
or probably he probably sits low nineties,

437
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but the effectiveness is I think on
the movement of them, and he

438
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could really paint the edges of the
zone with all of his offerings when he

439
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was going well. And so for
a guy with him who might not have

440
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:45.119
any like cheap code pitches or out
of this world stuff, it's going to

441
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:49.839
be requisite that he can can pitulate
that with the command. I don't know,

442
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:52.880
I don't think it's it's been anywhere
near there, But I think his

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success down the stretch was because it
was much improved and it was interesting catching

444
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:02.440
the broadcast where they were talking about
Montero struggling out of the stretch that was

445
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:06.839
a big focus for him, and
they were saying that that had gotten much

446
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:08.799
better as well. So you know, of course, not someone we need

447
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to go out and roster, but
the guy who may have taken a big

448
00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:17.240
developmental leap towards the end of the
year and will be entering some upper levels

449
00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:22.039
this year. It has me a
little bit interested. All right, let's

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talk some Cleveland guardians. My goal
is to not call them by their old

451
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.359
name, which I have a horrible
habit of doing, and do not mean

452
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:35.920
to be offensive. Why are you
the way that you are? Honestly,

453
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:39.680
every time I try to do something
fun or exciting, you make it not

454
00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:46.440
that way. But our original selection, unlike many others in this division,

455
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:51.400
was a bit of a rookie ball
dart throw that actually hit, and that

456
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:54.640
was John Kenzie Noel. Not sure
what his ownership rate was when he came

457
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on to the list, but in
May so a few months after, he

458
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was at six percent. He is
now currently oh I don't know, at

459
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least seventeen twenty percent somewhere in there. A man early twenty twenty one,

460
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.680
he really burst onto the scene.
By July of that year he was at

461
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ten percent, and then to start
twenty twenty two he got up to thirty

462
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four percent. But man, his
stint in Low A one hundred and sixty

463
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:23.359
two played appearances, he had eleven
home runs, he struck out only sixteen

464
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point seven percent of the time,
and he went up to High A,

465
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where he got twenty six games in
one hundred and eleven pit played appearances with

466
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:36.480
eight home runs. The strikeout rate
jumped to twenty seven point nine percent.

467
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Mind you, this was his nineteen
year old season. He had three ninety

468
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:43.440
three in Low A in two eighty
and High A. Now, yeah,

469
00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:46.039
obviously graduated off the list at this
point, but I'm wanna talk about him

470
00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:50.400
for just a second. This past
season he jumped three levels, which is

471
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:52.920
great twenty years old, got all
the way up to Triple A and now,

472
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:58.839
granted, his stint in Low A
was fairly short, less than forty

473
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:02.400
games, But I have to say, despite Noel hitting thirty two home runs

474
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:07.200
last year, I'm not really a
fan of the hitter. He's become back

475
00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.360
on that short Low A stint.
I was watching a good bit and he

476
00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:15.239
struck me as a guy who could
really slug with the ball in front and

477
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middle behind him, you know,
really slug to all fields. Saw a

478
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:22.199
lot of line drives. You know
a lot of times hitters like that you

479
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:27.519
will just home runs will just come. He's strong, powerful, he was

480
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:31.000
hitting for the high average, wasn't
striking out. But now ever since then,

481
00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:36.079
looking at his bad ball profile a
ball he pulled the ball thirty eight

482
00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:39.000
percent of the time. Since then, every stop has been over fifty percent

483
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:43.280
of the time. He hit the
ball up the middle thirty two percent of

484
00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:46.719
the time during his low A stint, that's higher than any other stop hit

485
00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:50.719
the ball the other way thirty percent
of the time. He hasn't hit the

486
00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:52.880
ball the other way twenty three percent
of the time. Since then, the

487
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:58.880
sixteen point seven percent k rate and
loway gone to twenty eight percent, thirty

488
00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:02.239
two percent, three percent in double
A. This last year just isn't so

489
00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:07.079
bad. Now. Of course,
I understand hitting gets harder as you faced

490
00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:09.840
better pitchers, but I was sure
way more into the kind of hitter he

491
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:14.480
was early twenty twenty one. But
I mean, who can blame him?

492
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:17.119
Home runs can make you a lot
of money. I mean it's one banana,

493
00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:22.519
Michael, what could it cost ten
dollars? You've never actually set foot

494
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.519
in the supermarket, have you.
I don't have time for this Nowell had

495
00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:29.920
actually graduated off middle of that season, so at that point it was time

496
00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:35.119
to pick a replacement, and that
was Jose Tanya, who was one percent

497
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:37.920
owned in July of two thousand twenty
one. And I'd call this another B

498
00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:42.840
side win, as he was fifteen
percent owned to start two thousand and twenty

499
00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:45.440
two and we had to graduate him
off the list as well. But Tania

500
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:51.880
is interesting that fifteen percent had dropped
down to nine percent in November of twenty

501
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:55.440
twenty two, and it's now less
than that as well. But it's another

502
00:35:55.519 --> 00:36:00.440
case where I think there has been
some nice progression coinciding with some lack of

503
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:06.639
dynasty interest. He'll be entering his
twenty two year old season, most likely

504
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:08.559
in Triple A. He's on the
forty man roster, has been for a

505
00:36:08.599 --> 00:36:14.159
whole year now. Left handed hitter
five eleven one ninety he first grabbed my

506
00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:17.519
attention just kind of a left hand, a little mighty mouse with a lot

507
00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:21.400
of pop in his bat, and
sure there was some swinging miss but he

508
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:24.320
was, you know, another young, fairly aggressive guy, and I dug

509
00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:29.559
that. And he's a lefty who
this past season in the upper levels significantly

510
00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:34.840
hit lefties better than right hand pitchers
and struck out significantly less against left handed

511
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.079
pitchers. And the league he was
in had some good ones, but he

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00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.400
struck out twenty seven percent of the
time versus right he's eighteen percent of the

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00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:45.039
time versus lefties. Now, his
total season numbers may not wow you.

514
00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.920
He hit two sixty four, two
ninety nine on base, slept four eleven,

515
00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:53.119
but it's less three hundred and twenty
six played appearances. After a little

516
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:55.760
time off, I don't know if
it was a little injury or what have

517
00:36:55.880 --> 00:37:00.000
you. He didn't play for a
week or two, was never officially on

518
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:04.840
an injured list after that, and
on he hit two seventy five with a

519
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:08.639
three twenty two on base percentage and
select four sixty seven during that time,

520
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:12.679
which I think was in June.
That time on, he hit twelve of

521
00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:15.280
his fourteen home runs on the season
and only struck out twenty two percent of

522
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:20.559
the time. And since moving on
to the upper levels, his k percentage

523
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:23.159
has taken a very small tip.
I mean, it's basically the same twenty

524
00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:27.440
six percent to twenty five percent.
And you know, just looking at his

525
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:30.800
pro career, I think Daniel was
a guy who you know, I think

526
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:35.639
he's more naturally a contact type of
hitter, but has learned how to be

527
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:39.360
a more powerful hitter. I'm still
very much a Jose Atania fan, and

528
00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:45.039
I think we'll see him in the
bigs relatively soon. So perhaps somewhat of

529
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:51.039
an odd By Lowe candidate. Entering
last season, we went with Christian Cairo,

530
00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:55.199
the son of former Major leaguer Miguel
Cairo, who was owned in two

531
00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:59.079
percent of the leagues at the time. As of November, he was owned

532
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:01.360
in four percent leagues. But I'm
not really sure why that jump. Twenty

533
00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:06.440
twenty two was not a great season. Believe he turns twenty two this year.

534
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:09.239
He's a right handed hitter, smaller
guy, five eight, one seventy.

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00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:14.119
He only got fifty eight games in
roughly I think maybe there was a

536
00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:16.440
little bit of a rehab stint in
rookie ball, but he only got fifty

537
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:21.079
eight games in High A this year. He was a fourth round selection in

538
00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:24.880
the twenty nineteen draft, and he's
never put up super impressive numbers. But

539
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:29.079
in two twenty one. He got
called up to High A at the end

540
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:32.119
of the year last month or so, and that's when I started gaining some

541
00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:37.119
interest. Lake County had and still
has a fairly loaded lineup, and it

542
00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:39.360
was Cairo that was batting two whole
for them. I believe down a playoffs

543
00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:45.360
stretch and I just kept seeing super
quality at bats, younger guy not getting

544
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.440
full lace and line drives left and
right, and that little High A stint

545
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:53.280
was by far his most statistically impressive
leg of his career. This year,

546
00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:58.000
though, I mean it was pretty
much a dud. I think there were

547
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.519
some injuries and what have you.
I mean, I had to have been

548
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.039
for him to only play fifty some
games. But he s last three sixty

549
00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:07.320
two, which is nice, but
select only two eighty three. He had

550
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:10.960
a couple home runs, stole ten
bases. He didn't get back until August,

551
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:14.800
and production did see him a little
bit better than Yeah. I don't

552
00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:17.840
know, maybe twenty twenty three will
be a rebound year. I do think

553
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:22.039
there is some exciting skill here.
I don't know how exciting it might ever

554
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:28.519
get for Fantasy. Tough organization to
find a prospect that is not very popular

555
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.880
that I'm actually excited about. To
some extent, flirted with the idea of

556
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:35.800
just keeping Cairo on the list,
but he was at four percent. I

557
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:38.119
really wanted to stick at two percent
of less. I don't really know why,

558
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:45.039
and I still could not come up
with a very exciting Cleveland Guardian B

559
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:49.800
side for this season. I don't
even really want to call my I guess

560
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:53.159
selection a B side, but I
went with Joe Naranjo, who was owned

561
00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:58.119
in one percent of leagues. I'm
not going to pretend like I have like

562
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:04.000
any serious interest in Nornjo, because
I mean, maybe maybe just the slimmest,

563
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:06.800
but he's still fairly young, and
I have to say, when I

564
00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:10.239
watch him, he seems to always
do something impressive, but he's just never

565
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:15.280
put up any sort of decent numbers, and he repeated high a last year.

566
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:19.280
Nornjo was a third round pick in
twenty nineteen out of California Prep and

567
00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:22.840
really just kind of an odd profile. He's a smaller guy five eight maybe

568
00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:27.800
two hundred pounds, so he's strong. He's thick, left handed hitter,

569
00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:31.159
but not really like a place to
play. They play him at first base.

570
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:35.119
That's a fairly small target, but
you know, it kind of fits

571
00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:39.400
the mold of a Guardians hitter these
days, like they really liked the high

572
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:45.599
contact on base percentage. Nernjo on
the year hit two thirty nine with a

573
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:49.360
three to sixty eight on base percentage
and slept four h nine. He did

574
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:53.559
have eighteen home runs, but he
does tend to struggle against lefties versus right

575
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:58.000
He's he hit two fifty with a
three eighty six on base percentage and slept

576
00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:01.239
four forty four with fifteen of his
eighteen home runs. So it's not that

577
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:06.360
I don't think Neronho has some skills
as a hitter, and like I said,

578
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:09.239
he's still pretty young. He could
be playing in Double A at twenty

579
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:14.280
one if they gonna have his third
season at High A. But this just

580
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:19.159
doesn't feel like a track to any
sort of fantasy find. But I wanted

581
00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:22.039
one guy in the Guardian system to
at least keep an eye on early in

582
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:28.679
the season that no one was rostering, So Joe Narranho was the reluctant choice.

583
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:34.440
What you just said is one of
the most insanely idiotic things I've ever

584
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:40.519
heard. At no point in your
rambling incoherent response. Were you even close

585
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:46.719
to anything that could be considered a
rational fund? Everyone in this room is

586
00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:51.679
now dumber for having listened to it. And then it was time to pick

587
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:57.079
a B side pitcher. A Cleveland
B side pitching prospect very much sounds like

588
00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:00.599
an oxymoron because they're all pretty popular, and rightfully so. But I went

589
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:04.559
with my guy, Aaron Davenport,
who was owned in four percent of leagues.

590
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:09.159
Davenport caught my eye when I was
researching and trying to watch put together

591
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:14.519
a list for some twenty twenty one
first year player draft, you know,

592
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:17.360
late round pitching targets. I had
never seen him before, you know,

593
00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:21.800
he started pitching some a ball.
At the end of twenty twenty one,

594
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:24.440
Guardians took him in the sixth round
out of Hawaii and signed him to a

595
00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:29.159
four hundred and fifty k signing bonus. Not a huge guy, six foot

596
00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:31.599
one hundred and eighty, but his
curveball is what really kind of got my

597
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:36.360
attention. First, traditional hook,
you know, twelve sixth hook. He

598
00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:38.639
works with a lot of energy up
there, kind of fast, looking like

599
00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:43.960
he's real anxious to get that pitch
out. Then his delivery seemed a little

600
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:46.719
herky jerky. I think he's toned
some of that down, though, But

601
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:51.400
in Guardians fashion, they took an
arm whose secondaries were probably ahead of the

602
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:55.360
fastball, probably still are. But
it's not like his fastball lacks some punch.

603
00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:00.559
It just lacks command. And that
might really be his biggest bugaboo.

604
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:04.360
I mean, I don't think he's
a great command guy all the way around.

605
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.800
He probably commands the curveball better than
anything, but when he is more

606
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.280
on, he can really tease you. And what I really like about Davenport

607
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:15.840
is he seems to work his entire
repertoire every outing, and we'll stick with

608
00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:19.960
pitches that he may not necessarily be
having the greatest success with that day,

609
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:22.000
you know, And I like that. To me, that's pitching to progression,

610
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:27.239
not necessarily pitching to results. He's
trying to get himself to be a

611
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.679
full rounded pitcher. He has a
huge uphill battle to become a starting pitcher

612
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:34.840
in that system. There are tons
of talented guys ahead of him, but

613
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:38.920
I don't think he lacks ingredients to
maybe get there now, you'd probably say

614
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:43.400
more than likely. Right now,
his future role might be a relief pitcher

615
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:45.480
and I wouldn't argue that, but
he and the Guardians aren't there yet.

616
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.239
On the season, he had twenty
three starts at HIA, the four point

617
00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:52.760
two one er a a one point
three two whip, struck out one hundred

618
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:57.639
and eighteen and one hundred and seven
innings pitched. Now, those strikeout numbers

619
00:43:57.639 --> 00:44:00.599
are a little interesting to me,
though, because he can rack him up

620
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:05.400
in clumps. I think there's more
strikeout potential than those numbers suggest. I

621
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:08.360
think he just has some outings he's
not completely dialed in, and the strikeouts

622
00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:14.440
don't come as heavily like two and
one and three strikeout performances and stuff like

623
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:16.679
that. But he's also a guy
who could go on a three outing run

624
00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:21.159
and rack up, you know,
twenty five strikeouts. And now I didn't

625
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:24.039
watch any of his later season outings
from last year, but he produced at

626
00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:29.679
a higher clip. He had four
outings, gave up three runs, strikeout

627
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.320
twenty eight, walked only three,
gave up only one hit in one of

628
00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:36.519
those outings, and only three hits
and two though, so he was he

629
00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:40.320
was producing pretty nicely down the stretch
there. Maybe you're a guy Aaron Davenport's

630
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:45.599
tighten things up a little more needless
to say, I'll be watching Aaron Davenport.

631
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:50.199
I'll probably watch Aaron Davenport, whether
I'm interested fantasy wise or not the

632
00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:55.039
rest of his career. You're darting
two. And last, and definitely least

633
00:44:55.559 --> 00:45:00.320
the Kansas City Royals. Not the
least in a beast sense, but who

634
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:05.599
likes the Royals. The Royals have
an interesting system, a lot of speed,

635
00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:10.280
good defenders, at least that's kind
of their international profiles. This division

636
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:15.960
was chuck full of some guesses at
rookie ball, international rookie ball guys in

637
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:20.199
our initial list, and that was
true with the Royals as well. We

638
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:23.840
went with Willman Candelario, who was
owned in one percent of leagues and still

639
00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:29.320
is and not totally sure why.
This will be his twenty one year old

640
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:32.039
season, so I mean, he's
still pretty young. He's a switch hitter,

641
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:36.800
which also could take a little more
time. Listed at five eleven,

642
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:40.000
one hundred and ninety five pounds,
he was a twenty eighteen international free agent

643
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:45.639
out of the Dominican Republic. Candelario
was tabbed as a very good defensive shortstop,

644
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:50.519
and as I've mentioned a few times, that gets my attention he was

645
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:55.119
coming off a twenty nineteen DSL season
where he slashed three fifteen, three,

646
00:45:55.239 --> 00:46:00.800
ninety six and five oh five with
four home runs and eleven stolen bases,

647
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:05.320
struck out twenty nine percent of the
time. So for me, a defensive

648
00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:09.000
guy who shows that kind of offense, Hey, maybe that narrative wasn't so

649
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:15.039
on point. Maybe we got a
sneaky guy here. Yet since coming stateside,

650
00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:19.679
he's had one hundred and forty two
complex plate appearances. In twenty twenty

651
00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:23.280
one, he struck out fifty one
percent of the time. In twenty twenty

652
00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:25.880
two is thirty nine percent of the
time. He was sent back down to

653
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.079
rookie ball, where it crept over
forty percent. Now, he did come

654
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:34.119
back to Loway this last year in
August, and the bat did start to

655
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:37.960
get going and produce a little bit
better, especially from the right side.

656
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:42.920
But I mean, there's really no
reason to get too excited about a guy

657
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:45.159
who strikes out this much. So
we'll see how much time the glove will

658
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:50.800
give him to write the offensive stuff, or we just won't pay any attention

659
00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:52.599
to him at all and probably not
lose any sleep over it. So he

660
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:57.920
got booted off the list fairly quickly
in July of twenty twenty one, when

661
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.119
I went with a guy that I
was very, very excited about at the

662
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:09.000
time, and that is Daryl Collins, who was owning only two percent of

663
00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:12.800
leagues at the time, but he
was the guy that I was getting about

664
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:16.519
as excited for as anyone in low
A, and I wasn't the only one.

665
00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:20.599
By the beginning of twenty twenty two, he was owning seven percent of

666
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:23.599
leagues, but has since dropped back
down to three percent. This year,

667
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:28.199
Collins will be twenty one years old. He's a left hand hitter, good

668
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:31.960
size six two, probably two hundred
pounds and really fit, really strong.

669
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.119
I'm pretty chriseled teenager at the time. This last year he played in low

670
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:43.880
A again and finally got promoted to
HIA. He was a twenty eighteen international

671
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:47.920
free agent out of the Netherlands,
which is interesting. He was a very

672
00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:52.920
young kid playing and whatever their highest
league is over there. But he first

673
00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:55.320
caught my attention watching a lot of
Low A that year, watching pitchers,

674
00:47:55.400 --> 00:48:00.239
pitchers who had great outings, you
know, guys who only gave up one,

675
00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:04.280
two, three hits. So watching
these pictures against Columbia and it just

676
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:08.079
seemed like every single time I watched
a picture who gave up hardly any hits

677
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:13.159
out of anyone in that Columbia lineup, it was Collins getting the hits against

678
00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:15.320
these guys. At the time when
I added him to the list, he

679
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:20.920
was again nineteen years old, hitting
two seventy six with a three eighty five

680
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:24.599
on base slugging three eighty four with
four home runs and eight stolen bases.

681
00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:29.840
Touted for his contact abilities, and
sure the slugging wasn't there, but I

682
00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:31.039
was like, oh, man,
this guy's hit four home runs. We

683
00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:32.960
saw a couple of them. I
was like, man, yeah, some

684
00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:37.679
pop in his bat. I will
say he's a lefty who, like we've

685
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:42.199
talked about in previous episodes, lack
of a better way of expressing it,

686
00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.760
just kind of a disjointed swing.
I don't think the energy from his lower

687
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:50.199
half gets transferred into his swing very
well at all. And like I said,

688
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:53.440
he's big, he's strong, But
since that half a season stretch in

689
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:58.159
low Way, he's had one home
run ever since then. Then, of

690
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:01.000
course the rest of twenty twenty one
and he hit two h five slugged under

691
00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:05.039
three hundred. I guess I'm sorry. I guess he did have one home

692
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.800
run that second half, but then
didn't hit another one until this last August

693
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:12.599
twenty twenty two. Up until an
injury in June, he was batting two

694
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:15.480
thirty something, slugging only three thirty
six. He got a month in at

695
00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:19.960
the end of higha where he went
two sixty nine, three seventy four,

696
00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:22.119
three fifty five and hit that home
run. Oh, I guess, I

697
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.079
guess he did have a home run
the first half two so he's had two

698
00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:29.920
home runs since that stretch. But
regardless, it's looking like a pretty tough

699
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:34.960
profile for a guy who has only
ever played left field and DH it's a

700
00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:38.760
shame because there does seem to be
pretty good contact skills and and like he

701
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:42.960
was at least when I was watching, and he was just kind of a

702
00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:45.320
dude, had a lot of clutch
hits, had some walkoffs and stuff.

703
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:49.400
But yeah, I don't know,
don't really have a whole lot of interest

704
00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:52.960
in Daryl cons these days. But
there was some excitement at the time.

705
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:55.639
I mean, I saw some people
talking about a few was potentially a top

706
00:49:55.679 --> 00:50:00.599
one hundred prospects, which you know, just sometimes we just get a little

707
00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:07.320
too excited. Sometimes you eat the
bar and much blood. Sometimes the bar

708
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:15.840
wat you. But anyways, going
into last season, going into twenty twenty

709
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.039
two, our selection was a guy
who found himself getting added to the Royals

710
00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:25.159
forty man but not yet receiving any
dynasty popularity because he was owning only one

711
00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:30.119
percent of leads. And that's Michael
Garcia, who is much more well known

712
00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:35.119
these days but still owned in only
I think fourteen percent. That's got to

713
00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:37.239
be creeping up by now, but
I don't think we have to talk too

714
00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:42.599
much about him. He's a guy
who again another another plus defender who offense

715
00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:45.239
was a big question, but he
is at least put himself looking like a

716
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:50.400
guy who isn't going to be nothing
offensively. Royals like they're fast guys.

717
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:53.679
He's fast, played some plus defense. He might be getting a shot at

718
00:50:53.800 --> 00:51:00.079
their shortstop position relatively soon here looking
forward to watching Garcia camp. Nonetheless,

719
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:05.360
this was a B side, a
B side win. So then this season

720
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:09.719
in our selection is another guy who
has snuck onto the Royals forty man roster

721
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:16.159
without any or a much fantasy attention, and that's Diego Hernandez, who November

722
00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:21.400
wasn't owned in one percent of leagues. Twenty two year old lefty listed at

723
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:24.119
six foot one hundred and fifty.
I think he's bigger than one hundred and

724
00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:27.920
fifty. Last year he played in
High A, in Double A. He

725
00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:31.559
was a twenty seventeen international free agent
out of the Dominican Republic. You know,

726
00:51:31.719 --> 00:51:35.880
making a forty man roster at twenty
one isn't too shabby. He's the

727
00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:38.719
guy who the Royals have publicly talked
about his work ethic and the work that

728
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:43.159
he put on to put on strength. I know there was talk about them

729
00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:47.719
actually like really rehauling his swing coming
into this year or at some point this

730
00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:52.599
year. In twenty twenty two,
he really went from just kind of a

731
00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:58.599
middling prospect or middling guy in their
system to the forty man. He had

732
00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:02.000
only hit two pro home heading into
twenty twenty two, and then he hit

733
00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:07.760
nine last year, including two over
a thirty two game span during his first

734
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:10.159
Double A's taste. He's a bit
wiry, but showed some muscle. I

735
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:14.119
got a glimpse of a side view
of a home run that he hit.

736
00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:17.119
I believe I tweeted that out.
At one point whatever where he seemed to

737
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:22.719
start his swing, stop his swing, finish his swing, and just hit

738
00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:28.599
a just rope home run out of
right field. Ex Velocity had to have

739
00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:31.039
been pretty impressive on that one.
And now I've watched him a little bit

740
00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:36.760
more since then two and that thing, that little pause or something, seems

741
00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:40.239
to happen on occasion. So I
don't know what that's all about. I

742
00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:44.159
don't know if I like it.
But for a guy who like never hit

743
00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:47.440
any home runs and can have like
an interruption in his swing like that and

744
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:52.000
still hit the ball really hard is
quite interesting. But last year his batting

745
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:57.639
average just kept soaring every month,
getting better even through promotion, just hitting

746
00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:00.519
more and more. And he's a
really fast guy. He stole forty bases,

747
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:05.920
lauded as a plus center fielder with
big range. There is some swing

748
00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:07.360
mists and things to be cleaned up. You know, this is a guy

749
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:12.840
who might have kind of just discovered
himself at the plate. So the trajectory

750
00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:17.760
of his development was evidently pretty exciting
and maybe exciting to somebody else, and

751
00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:24.159
the Royals knew that or felt that
and kept Diego Hernandez protected. So we'll

752
00:53:24.199 --> 00:53:29.239
be seeing him in the uppers and
see how just how good he can be

753
00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:35.000
offensively, and our Royals B side
pitching selection is Adrian el Kantara, who

754
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:37.760
is owned in three percent of leagues. This will be his twenty three year

755
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:40.639
old season, right hander six to
one, listed at one hundred and seventy

756
00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:44.679
eight. I think he's probably a
little bigger than that. He pitched in

757
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:49.719
HIGHA in Double A last season.
He was a twenty seventeen international free agent

758
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:54.159
out of the Dominican Now. Elkantara's
season stats aren't going to jump off the

759
00:53:54.199 --> 00:54:00.360
page, but over his last eight
low A starts, two forty nine ERA

760
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:06.159
A point ninety three whip, fifty
five strikeouts in fifty and two thirds innings,

761
00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:10.239
and mind you, in that stretch
he had a five run five inning

762
00:54:10.239 --> 00:54:15.079
pitch outing just like a cobra.
I had to shed my loser skin to

763
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:19.599
find my true power. And he
got two double as starts in at the

764
00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:22.280
end of the year in which he
gave up nine runs total. But mind

765
00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:28.519
you, he faced Frisco both of
those outings. Frisco's lineup was loaded,

766
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:31.239
especially at that time Evan Carter had
just come up as well. I mean,

767
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:37.800
I think something like six of their
top thirty prospects were in the lineup

768
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:40.159
something like that. You know,
these week long series now and the miners

769
00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:45.360
is interesting if you're the pitcher going
twice, which was his case that week.

770
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:47.000
He really wasn't bad at all.
That first outing, I think he

771
00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:52.559
struck out all their top dogs Foscue, Akunya, Carter. Then the second

772
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:58.239
outing they kind of got to him
a little bit more. Alcantara seems to

773
00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:01.119
do well against both right hand and
left handed hitters. He's got an arsenal

774
00:55:01.199 --> 00:55:05.760
that I think is, you know, pretty full starters. Seems to have

775
00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:09.880
a decent breaking ball. I think
velocity on the fastball might it probably sits

776
00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:14.079
like ninety three, ninety four or
something like that. There's a change up

777
00:55:14.079 --> 00:55:16.840
in there. He seems to command
them all fairly well. So nothing I'm

778
00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:22.559
getting like too crazy excited about here, But a guy who has caught my

779
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:24.840
eye enough to want to take a
look and see how the development is to

780
00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:30.119
start this season, and that's Adrian
el Kantara. All right, I'm sure

781
00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:32.039
you're sick of hearing me talk at
this point, so let's get out of

782
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:37.519
here. But the AO Central,
it's had some interesting b siding outcomes.

783
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:40.719
Might not be the crew that I
have the most anticipation to watch this season,

784
00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:44.800
but I still think there could be
some Dynasty wins in here. I'm

785
00:55:44.960 --> 00:55:47.000
recording this before the fact, but
I'm gonna say I had a lot of

786
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:52.519
fun on the Baseball America Fantasy Summit
talking with Dylan White Andrew Wheeler. Hopefully

787
00:55:52.519 --> 00:55:57.039
I didn't make a fool of myself. Next week we will get into the

788
00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:00.840
National League East, which has some
guys I'm very much looking forward to watching

789
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:06.639
this year, and one hitter who's
actually probably already graduated off of their list,

790
00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:10.079
whose ownership has jumped since November,
so we'll get into all that big

791
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:15.400
Thanks again to Welsh, who I
know is like the busiest man in fantasy

792
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:20.400
baseball content these days, for making
this show happen. And thanks again to

793
00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:22.920
Chicago Farmer, who will send us
off. Be well and I'll talk to

794
00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:30.039
you on Monday. Two is him. He hopped down first with the lump

795
00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:37.039
on his face, and on the
very next pitch he up and stole second

796
00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:47.159
face with greatst bet he wasn't born, but he had a day. Yes, uniform