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Not five miles an hour. Riding
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with the lumpbonius face, and on
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second face with gretest me. He
wasn't born, he had bad yes uniform

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all right. Welcome to episode fifteen
of the Prospect B Sides Podcast. I

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am Nate joining me as always is
the man of many monikers, many labels,

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the rookie Matt with the rookie who
is not a bad and mutter in

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his own right. If you are
joining us for the first time, Matt

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and I have been perusing every organization, going very deep, looking for prospects

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that might be rostered in zero two, maybe not even created in fan tracks,

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looking for someone who may be worth
rostering or keeping an eye on.

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Been going down division by division,
one division an episode, and tonight we're

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going to talk about the al East. Matt, How are you though?

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You doing all right? I'm doing
great. Got to play some tennis earlier

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tonight and we're recording a little bit
later, so I'm ready to dive in.

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You're not doing quite as well as
me, though, I have to

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say, oh tell more. The
last twenty four hours Man the White Sox

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have locked down their ace for this
year, and Eric Spetti they have locked

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down the back end of their rotation, plucking Shange Rohan from the Red Sox

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and the Rule five draft after shoring
up our middle infield with the young and

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nicky Lopez. Who thank you,
Jerry, thank you. I really really

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am looking forward to this. Did
you also hear the rumor that Jerry Reinstorf

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met with the mayor of Nashville at
the winter meetings? Dude? That yeah,

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I mean, of course, I
mean that I don't know saw that

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come in a while ago, just
being sarcastic and playing the parts of what

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I imagine Jerry wants us peons and
moronic dumb people in the room to think

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it's unfortunate, because it's like,
damned if you do, damned if you

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don't as a White Sox fan,
because you know, he had the biggest

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drop in attendance rate, not of
anyone in baseball last year. I do

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believe. So hey, we'll just
stop giving you our money and then he'll

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just pivot to look at my poor
attendance. Who's going to help me buy

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a new stadium? So the John
Fisher away, right, I fell for

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it last time. I really did
think he wanted to win another championship.

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Maybe he really did. I don't
know, but uh yeah, I'm just

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I'm I'm I'm kind of just over
this. This is pretty hopeful, hopeless.

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I don't even like any other players
really, like, I don't know

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what what I'm gonna watch, what's
gonna get me going? I mean Luis

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Robert, I mean, fantastic talent. I do like watching him, but

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like I don't really like him,
like he's not like a fan favorite or

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something. Andrew Vaughn. I hope
nothing about the best for Vaughn and think

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he puts in the work and is
talented. It's always fun in a way

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to watch eloy him and has play
the outfield. So yeah, yeah,

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yeah, there's like not even like
a picture that I there's always the white

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sex have always my whole life,
had at least like one picture that I

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was like, oh, he's one
of my favorite pictures in the league.

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And it's like, not even that
now. So maybe that'll be Mike Soroka.

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I'm just gonna I'm gonna progress in
my life and just move on and

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let's go Rockies, you know,
big upgrade huge. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, AnyWho Rule five draft was
today, Matt Adam was, Yeah.

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I don't, I don't know.
Probably not the most exciting Rule five drafts.

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I don't know how exciting Rule five
drafts ever really truly get, but

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I enjoy them. It's always fun. There's a intersection of B siding and

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Rule five drafts. Dale Santos probably
the headline. If there was a headline,

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right that doesn't that doesn't bote.
Maybe it doesn't bode too well for

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Noel. Maybe it doesn't matter Noel. They at least play in the outfield

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a little bit. I still think
they might want to see him see if

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he can stick in the outfield,
whereas DBLs that's first base DH you know.

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So, yeah, I did see. I don't want to. I

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don't want to like give out their
content, but I don't know. If

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you saw Dylan White and Jeff put
out a little robo scout twenty bats,

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no, I didn't see that one
available in the Rule five And I won't

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name the names. There were three
of your B side selections that were that

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were there, Oh nice, one
of mine and then one of mine from

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last year. None of those guys
got selected. I will talk about one

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of them tonight. Though I was
sort of interested that Johnston didn't get picked

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from Miami. You know, I
thought he had a chance to be this

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year's Ryan, nota just he's like
a well rounded hitter and he's yeah,

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he's probably first base only, but
he played a little bit of left field,

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and yeah, I thought maybe one
of the outfield starved teams might try,

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especially if they're bad Cleveland or something, they don't have a very good

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outfield. I think, just for
me personally, the most interesting part of

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the Rule five draft was Dariel Lopez
was not protected by the Pirates in the

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minor league portion and the Giants picked
him up. I'd be lying if I

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said I completely understand how the minor
league portion works. I know there is

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a list here, man, I
know there's a list of players that has

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kept secret or maybe a few writers
get access to and then they can like

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pick minor leaguers that aren't protected.
And I don't know what the ras I

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don't know. I don't know how
it all works, but just kind of

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surprised the Pirates didn't have him as
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in their system as all see how
that goes, I guess, But shall

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we get into it? Shall we
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it? Where are you wanna start? Let's just let's start with the Yanks.

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They've been in the news today.
But have they a lot of tweets

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out there in the in the birdland
that kind of lacked the don't really quite

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bring it home, you know.
I guess. I guess we'll see Soto

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be a Yankee soon. I don't
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yeah, okay, the Yankees Yankees
last year, I selected Taylor Aguar,

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who was a Colorado prep who went
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correctly. Yeah, he struck out
like all the time I did see.

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He did hit seven home runs.
He does have some some juice in the

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bat, but I don't I don't
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him. And then I chose as
the Yankees pitcher last season, Joshuaye panic

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Wall. I don't know if you've
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I have not. I did do
a little video review of him,

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I think a couple of seasons ago. Kind of smaller Panamanian picture, right,

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hander just kind of throws a lot
of junk and had some like really

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impressive outings in the lowers. But
he didn't pitch it all last year.

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I think he had Tommy John So
that much to report there. Chaparo was

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a selection a couple of seasons ago. I don't know. Maybe he still

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has a chance. There's a lot
of power in that bat. Yeah,

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and he's with Arizona now, so
they lose Dal Santos and add added Chaparo.

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That's interesting, But this season the
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is another other pretty small sample size
by me, but a young infielder by

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the name of Jose Kloman Airis.
I don't know if you watched him at

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all, Matt, there wasn't much
to see. I did, but he

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Yeah, but he's a well he
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little bit of shortstop. Rostered in
zero percent of leagues. He was not

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a big signee. In the July
of twenty eighteen class out of Venezuela,

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the Yankees brought him stateside his first
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He didn't do much production wise in
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and then I don't know the story. Twenty twenty one, he only

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logged eleven rookie ball games, and
then he didn't play at all in twenty

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twenty two, So I don't know
if that's injury, if he's just a

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practice cloud guy, if you will, or what. But then this season

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he got activated from the sixty day
IL in the beginning of July. He

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played one game and then doesn't play
for a few weeks, and then he

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hit two home runs in that first
game, and then Matt he just kind

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of explodes onto the FSL For the
last twenty five games. He hit two

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forty four with a four to ten
on base a five to sixty four slug

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and hit seven and hit seven home
runs. Hit seven home runs in his

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first twenty five FSL games. Like
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just doesn't really happen. So that
is what kind of got me interested.

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Just from a just looking at a
player page stat sheet. Eleven of his

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nineteen hits went for extra bases.
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the time, but he also walked
twenty percent of the time. Again,

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this is one hundred plate appearance sample, so very small. But you know,

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being down there you do get some
stack cast data. Yeah, how

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did the stack cast stay? To? Look? He had a fifteen point

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four percent barrel percentage on a forty
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max VILO of one hundred and six
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Now, the stack cast sample was
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plate appearances, so again really small. So I had to watch him,

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right, but there just wasn't many
games to view. Two in fact,

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both of them he played second base
and hit ninth the two games broadcast for

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August first and August third at Bradenton, of course, so I watched all

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the at bats. See what's up
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got picked off. He had a
fairly well struck ball fly out to center

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field on a first pitch fastball ninety
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he hit a double to left center
field on a three to one fastball one

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hundred and five miles per hour,
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nine on a well struck ball on
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per hour, and then he lined
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one fastball. The second game,
he had a good six pitch battle to

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earn a walk against so I think
as a decent pitching prospect Owen Collington.

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Then he had a five pitch walk
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on a three to two count.
Then he struck out swinging on a two

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two slider. Those were the nine
viewable play appearances. He's listed at five

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to eleven one seventy three. I
don't know if that if that's his weight,

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it's a very strong one seventy three, some strong forums. I feel

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like i'd really have to bring it
if I was going to like shake this

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guy's hand. I don't know if
I mentioned his age. He's twenty one

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years old. But he's got a
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of an effort in the swing,
if that's a good way to say it,

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you know, not like the calmest, easiest looking swing. I mean,

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he seems to have a good eye. I did peruse like some other

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game logs and look at, you
know, the little little pitch charts and

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count some things. I do think
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He only hit the ball on the
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rate of over fifty uh. The
swing though, I did like dig the

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look of his swing again that we're
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I don't know, but very much
the guy who I think a swing that

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can you know, put the ball
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And I did see him hit that
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I felt it was like good spin, the right kind of spin going opposite

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field. I don't think speed is
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beats me. He was two for
three on stolen bases on this month,

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but that isn't saying much in a
ball I didn't get any real looks

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of him running so in this system
that is popular, and I wasn't really

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jazzed about and any other bats kind
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Coleman airas is just kind of a
very curious story to me. Minuscule look

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with some of these numbers. I
don't know, Matt, let's put it

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on the B side board and let's
see how crazy I am. Super interesting.

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I'm definitely gonna watch those Bradenton games
and check him out because that is

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an interesting story and no word on
what caused him to miss a year and

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a half. Basically, I don't
know. My Google, my Google,

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my Google searches came up empty.
Interesting. I know he wasn't like a

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big eyebrow signing that year, So
yeah, I don't know. Well,

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my hitter, we've already talked about
in diminutive short king Caleb Durban. Oh,

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yeah, that's right, he of
the refusal to strike out. I

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did have I did have Durban on
my list, but I but I will

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admit that I I was gonna go
with Coleman Arris before Durban, uh,

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even before you got into him.
Now today would I would I make that

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same choice? No, but I
wasn't gonna jump ship on my guy here.

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And did Johnny come lately? Fair? Fair? Yeah? I mean,

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looking at the rest of the organization, it's not great. Like I'd

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say that there isn't a lot of
competition for for me, for for Durban.

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One other guy to note was a
guy got traded into the organization late

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this year in Jay Savina, who
I think you've talked about before from Milwaukee,

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have I I thought I thought you
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anyway, Jason Vina is like yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe a right

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handed hitting guy that outfielder a ton
of power, like kind of absurd amount

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of power for his size and everything. He strikes out a bit too much,

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but he's still had success now for
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to back years of showing pop as
a younger than level hitter. So he's

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someone that I think might be interesting
to follow next year. But the strikeouts,

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you know, he almost thirty percent
of the time last year, and

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his power wasn't quite as prodigious it
was the year before. So anyway,

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I mean, it's just a guy
to follow. I've I've picked him up

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in a couple of super deep leagues. But yeah, I like killed Durbin

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here. I did my Yankees process
here several months ago. Now that we're

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in December, I have a little
list of names here, but some of

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them I don't think I even I
can't really even get a picture in my

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head of at this point. But
Aaron Polenski, Anthony Hall, Christopher Familia,

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Dinson, Duran, Jeus Rodriguez,
Juan crisp Omar Martinez were some guys

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that I had watched. I don't
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Yeah, I watched I watched Polenzki
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he's someone that after watching him,
I was like, I'm not I'm not

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into it. Like I he had
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watching him, I was like,
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across the board kind of guy who's
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I also watched Jeus Rodriguez, and
I did like some parts of his

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swing. He's got a little bit
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way that he sets up and then
the way he takes pitches. He's got

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a little bit of that Sodo shuffle
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He's pretty athletic for a catcher.
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the Port of State League two and
his eggy deals were kind of pretty bad.

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I do recall getting my short list
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the stack cast stuff from the ABE
guys and not being super impressed with what

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I saw there. To put it, just very vaguely, yep, all

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right, should we go on the
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right, I'm gonna go. I
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draft, maybe just missed it.
It might have been a bit of a

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reckless pick on my part, but
he is. He's now twenty two years

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old, right hand pitcher, listed
at six four one point eighty from the

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Dominican. He spent all of twenty
twenty three in High A. Sixteen starts,

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sixteen games, all starts, seventy
nine innings. He ran a four

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fifty six ERA one point three whip. He struck out ninety, which was

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ten point twenty five per nine.
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gave up some home runs one point
four to eight per nine. Threw

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strikes at sixty four percent eighty one
pitches a game. The first game of

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his that I threw on, I
probably watched. I probably watched about five

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or six of his starts. The
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fourth. I'm going to digress here
for a second, man, and I

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might just delete this, but there's
something really odd that happens. And maybe

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I'm just being too much of a
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date that becomes very prevalent, especially
when I was doing like video stuff,

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doing a lot of gifts and stuff
like that. A picture had a really

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interesting outing, a really good outing, really bad outing, or some sort

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of video that I wanted to take
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date that is like, for some
reason, lots of guys have these things

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on the same day. Like this
year it was July fourth, for some

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reason. There's a ton of July
fourth outings that I have highlighted and pulled

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stuff from. Year before it was
September eleventh. The year before that,

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it was like April twenty ninth or
something like that. But I don't know,

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just this weird thing. So like
when I I had like my video

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gifts, like all on spreadsheet and
stuff whatever, and you sort by date,

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there'd just be like a huge amount
a video from those days from all

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sorts of different pictures. Anyways,
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But anyway, so July fourth start, I kind of felt like it

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was a good microcosm of what I
saw from Yuli here that game. He

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starts off with some wildness in and
out of the zone, leaving a few

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balls over the heart that get hit
hard. One is a solo home run,

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one is a hard hit double,
one is a flyout. He strikes

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out two guys, and he like
goes on a run whereabon he strikes out

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six in a row swinging. He's
looking super locked in executing some nasty looking

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stuff and mixing it up. Well. His fastball slider combination kind of leads

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the way, but there are other
offerings that are mixed in there and earning

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some cold strikes and some swinging strikes. Kind of strikes out a few more

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the rest of the way, maybe
got squared up once. The rest of

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the time didn't give anything up except
for like one more walk. He's got

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a fastball and I think gets up
there about ninety six ninety seven. I

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think he throws two varietals, a
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slider that's probably his best secondary change
up. You know, just an uncommon

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primarily against lefties. Is pretty dominant
the splits. He's pretty dominant versus righties.

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Okay, against lefties, I guess. And I don't know what the

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story was. He was shut down
early August. I tend tofying especially well,

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you don't get to watch a lot
of Yankees and a ball, but

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you do get to see them in
high A and over the years put it

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generically tantalizing looking guys, wicked sliders, good velocities, good fastballs. I

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think it's fair to question, how
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some of the nasty system there.
But Uly strikes me as a guy who

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I know the walks are probably a
bit alarming. But like I said,

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but I liked in the looks that
the walks usually came in bunches together.

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He was able to prolong multiple innings
of being pretty pretty dialed in. You

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got a right hander here who's dominating
at high a at times like we're really

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dominating, really cruising through a few
innings at a time. So you know,

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outlook, I'm not going to make
any any strong bets on Yuli here,

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but I think he's definitely got some
electric stuff, perhaps enough of the

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polish to stick as a starter.
Interesting. I mean, I think a

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lot of it kind of reeks like
potential, really good reliever. Yeah,

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well, you know, maybe that's
fine too. You know, I've got

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no problem finding good potential relief pictures
b siding here. Well, I'm glad

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you said that, because that's who
I picked in the system. And to

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the point that you made a couple
of weeks ago about there being perhaps a

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bit of East Coast bias in the
prospecting world. With that in mind,

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I was like, oh, yeah, anybody that has any success in the

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Yankee system, they just get talked
about ad nauseum and their roster kind of

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just goes way up. I mean
at the top of the system and Thorpe

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and Hampton and Salvage and Warren,
all those guys are way over the thresholds

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that we usually caroused. And then
even the sort of mid tier guys like

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a Justin Lang or something like,
they're still pretty pretty well owned. And

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again that's not even a guy that
gets me that excited with a sixteen percent

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walk, right. But anyway,
I'm just saying, like, when I

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was going through this, I was
like, boy, I'm pretty deep in

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this system and I'm not seeing a
starting pitcher that I I'm really into.

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But I did see a couple relievers
that are pretty nasty. And the guy

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that I'm gonna pick is Jack Neely. This dude is huge. He's six

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eight two fifty easy, but he
like just looks like a huge lumberjack.

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You know. He's not tubster like
some of my other dudes that I've but

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his stuff is wicked, you know, runs it up to ninety eight.

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You know, I saw most of
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seven range, and has a gyro
slider that seemed like especially when he located

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it down, guys were whiffing over
it all the time he did and I

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went back. I mean, he
had a great year, you know,

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two seventeen ERA over sixty six innings
again all in relief. Struck out one

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hundred in sixty six innings, so
thirty eight point six percent strikeout rate and

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seven point seven percent walk rate on
the year. He did give up a

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few more homers when he was in
double A again shorter sample just seventeen point

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two innings and double A, but
gave up two homers per nine and a

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lot of them were on the slider
when he left it up. So while

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he has good control, does it
walk many guys he does? I think

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need to tighten up the slider command
a little bit because when he keeps it

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down it nobody was hitting it.
But he did seem to have a tendency

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to leave it up, and he
gave up an absolute mammoth. I think

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like extraining home run to Jase Young
or late in the season that I saw

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as it was an uphanging slider that
just crushed. But overall, this is

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just a power, you know,
middle to late believer that the Yankees seemed

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to grow on trees and nearly.
I think of the guys that I looked

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at had I thought both proximity and
stuff wise, like that guy looks like

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he's going to be in a big
league pen in potentially a higher leverage role.

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Too nice. I'd like that You've
you've plucked some relievers. It's give

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some reliever love. It's not an
area that I that I dig around in

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too much, but I wish I
did. Just Yeah, you know,

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a lot of and a lot of
the best relievers were guys that were starters

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and then get converted. So it's
it really is like this is you know,

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I'm not advocating for picking him up
anytime soon, but if you see

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the name as he progresses to double
A and triple A next year and the

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Yankees need a middle world lever like
they might pick Nealy. Yeah. The

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Boston Red probably one of the better
B side success stories here. When Saddani

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Raphaela, nobody was rostering him that
was actually that was actually I can't take

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the credit for that though. That
was that was Shelley V who turned me

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on to that and suggested that last
season, wouldn't say wear the greatest.

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I went with a young bat that
was in a ball at the time,

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Miguel Ugueto, who really was on
and off injured most of this season,

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only got two hundred and five played
appearances in. But I wouldn't say he

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was producing quite well. I'm gud
that I'll probably still pay some attention to.

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Maybe it was just health that held
him back more or less. When

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I selected him, I saw a
little bit of him and I I just

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liked the look of him from the
left side of the plate, thought he

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had nice mechanics and a potential power
stroke. Pitching wise, I went with

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Wan Daniel and Karnassion, who I
don't know. I wouldn't say had awful

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production. There was some stuff that
was okay maybe, but he pitched ninety

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nine innings. Those were all at
all at Hia as well. But I

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think he was just kind of a
young arm with some arsenal that I thought

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had some interesting qualities. Struck out
nine per nine, walked under four per

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nine, the era and whip were
not very pretty, and I admit I

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didn't really watch a whole lot of
Wan Daniel in Karnassion this year. Yeah,

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So then this season I'm gonna go. I wrote a little bit about

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him already and shared a little bit
with you, but another extremely small sample

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size look pitcher, I'm gonna go
with left handed hidden Mullins. Mullens was

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a twelfth round pick out of Auburn
in the twenty twenty two draft. But

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if you follow amateurs, you follow
a perfect game. This is probably a

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familiar name to you, as he
was like the third ranked left hand pitcher

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in the twenty nineteen class. But
his Auburn his college career was really decimated

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by injuries. I don't know,
forget how many innings he had logged in

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total there but not many. I
think Tommy John was part of it,

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but I think there was also some
other injuries involved. But he finally made

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his way back this season at the
end for two Rookie ball and two A

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ball appearances. In total, there
was three point two viewable innings. I'd

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say at least the first outing,
I wouldn't even say Mullens was really pitching

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trying to knock off some rust,
trying to throw some strikes with his fastball,

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change up, slider, arsenal.
But in those capern I was nineteen

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point six y four. He did
walk some guys, but out of all

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the guys roster this rate, in
this system, I'm just going to take

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a put him as a kind of
a priority. Watch see if some of

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the talent from yesteryear kind of maybe
shows back up. Maybe he can stay

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healthy. Just a flash of some
pretty dominant innings. We did get a

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good angle in Augusta that I have
shared. Hard to tell, but fastball

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I think was ninety three ninety four. I know he could get it up

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there when he was a teenager.
A few clicks more than that September second,

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he's at Augusta if you want to
take a look at him. So

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you shared that date with me,
and I went and watched after we had

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first talked about him, and I
did come away pretty impressed. You know,

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it looks the stuff looks legit,
and he did look pretty rusty,

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which is to be expected coming off
such a significant injury and long layoff.

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But yeah, this one, I
was like that at any level, over

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any stretch, when you can do
strike out half the batters that you face,

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like, that's worth paying attention to
you. And yeah, I mean

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I think so he got nineteen outs
and fifteen of those were strikeouts. It's

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a I don't think that rate's sustainable
in that but I do not think so.

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No, no, even if he
keeps walking seven per nine, if

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he's also averaging twenty strikeouts per nine, he I think is the best picture

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of all time. I'll break my
rule against guys with bad command if he

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can keep punching out twenty for nine. Yeah, I'm watching. I'm watching

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the some of his sliders right now, and I've got some lags, so

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the video is going slow. I
wonder what stuff plus measurements will kind of

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say about that pitch. I wonder
I remember it moving quite a bit,

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like, Yeah, it had a
lot of movement, So Hydden mullins,

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let's uh a little blast from the
past maybe and see what happens. I

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like that pick. I like it
better than my here. I really struggled

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with the rest of this organization,
especially on the pitching side. It's another

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popular system, so it's tough,
right, and the arms that I like

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in this system are way too popular
for us to b side and made it

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tough for me. I watched a
bunch of guys that are just like a

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bunch of Dalton Rogers, and I
was just like, the command doesn't look

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there, even though he was getting
a lot of whiffs. Hunter Dobbins,

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who I sort of liked but ultimately
said, doesn't have the stuff and isn't

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quite gonna make that transition to being
a reliever useful. You know, we

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had a solid season at double A, but I just, yeah, I

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thought on balance the stuff was going
to tick down as he went up and

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couldn't tuck myself into it. So
I kind of cheated here, and I

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did take a three percenter, So
I'm taking Isaac Coffee, and I so

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three percent owned in fan tracks when
we pulled this in September. I think

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a lot of that is from just
scouting the stat line, because most publications

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look at his be low and say
this isn't sustainable. He's not gonna He's

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not gonna keep it. But one
thing that gives me some hope about Coffee.

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Unlike some of the other guys in
this velocity range, like eighty eight

407
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to ninety one, he has a
huge outlier trait in where he releases the

408
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:33.440
ball, so he's a very very
like drop and drive, low release,

409
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low arm slot righty that I think
it's so unusual that the velocity plays way

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up. I mean, the guy
got thirty one and a half strikeouts this

411
00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:52.559
year end of the year in double
A, had really good command at high

412
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A, and then the command ticked
down a little bit for the second half

413
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of the year when he was in
double A. Thought that arsenal. You

414
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:04.279
know, it's this really low slot, fastball change up from the same spot

415
00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:07.960
that he throws to right he's throws
to lefties, gets a lot of outs

416
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:14.160
on and then his slider and cutter, which I think we're new for him.

417
00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:18.359
I think I read an article about
that that he added certainly the cutter

418
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.839
this year and was leaning on the
slider more. But he uses that four

419
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:30.119
pitch mix in any count and can
command all of those pitches and really had

420
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.960
a phenomenal year. The one knock
other than the velocity and sort of the

421
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kind of traditional scouting of his stuff, the one knock on him is homers

422
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:48.559
and he gave up on the year
like one point six five six' eight

423
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.880
something like that. Homers per nine, so he gave up his fair share

424
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:57.599
of homers and then some. And
I don't think that's an accident really either.

425
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:02.039
You know, the fastball all not
missing a ton of bats. You

426
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:07.519
know it doesn't have that missing at
the top of the zone even from its

427
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:13.240
odd low angle. And then the
change up I think is still his best

428
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.480
secondary pitch. And again, if
you miss with that change up, it's

429
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:21.359
a little more likely to go for
a home run. So I unbalance,

430
00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.279
I think Coffee had a great year. He's got a lot of unusual traits

431
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:29.640
that I like, and the sort
of b siding archetypes that we like to

432
00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:32.640
talk about at least and highlight.
So even though he's a little bit more

433
00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:37.480
owned than normally I would go for
in this exercise, like three percent is

434
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:43.640
my absolute outer limit. I just
wanted to talk and give some credit to

435
00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:49.160
Coffee's unique traits that he brings to
the table and say, I think there's

436
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:54.119
something here even if the velocity doesn't
tick up, as it hasn't really yet,

437
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.039
but he's got a chance to continue
to be successful with this kind of

438
00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:01.359
profile, and I think that's more
than most folks are giving him credit for.

439
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:06.720
And then the last thing. You
know, Steamer just read his stat

440
00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:10.079
line and gave him a projected him
for a four to nine er dropped in

441
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:15.960
the matrix this year, which by
itself is really good. But I think

442
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:21.240
that Zips was even more bullish and
projected like a four to six something era.

443
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:27.160
So both of those projection systems really
liked what they saw from Coffee this

444
00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:30.680
year. So I think again,
just another thing to note. You know

445
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.720
that he's going to get dinged for
his whole career based on the velocity,

446
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:38.680
but the command, the mix,
the odd angle, the art arm angle,

447
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:42.920
I think are going to give him
a shot. So Isaac Coffee is

448
00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.839
my big here. They they took
him fairly high in the draft, did

449
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:52.240
they? At No, he was
a tenth rounder. Was okay? Arms

450
00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:54.799
wise, like you said, I
was pretty tough. The I was like,

451
00:33:55.200 --> 00:34:00.079
gonna very reluctantly go with Grant Gambrel, the another yeah, last from

452
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:05.279
the past, if you will.
I think has battled some injuries in his

453
00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:07.920
career. I don't know, but
I think I don't really remember the reason

454
00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:09.119
why I was going to go with
him. But then I came across Moons

455
00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:12.039
and I was like, oh,
yeah, this is this is far more

456
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:15.000
exciting. Gambrell had a decent,
decent year. I mean, he was

457
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:20.800
guys that I looked too. He
was in a right yeah, okay,

458
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:23.920
all right, bats, what do
you got for Red Sox bats? Mat.

459
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:30.760
Yeah. I picked a guy who
was Rule five eligible and didn't get

460
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:36.920
picked and wasn't on any of the
sort of Rule five guys to know boards

461
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.480
that I saw out there, and
so I'm going with Alan Castro. You

462
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:46.199
know, you know that's my pick. Nice nice, all right, all

463
00:34:46.280 --> 00:34:50.079
right. Well I was a little
validated by that, even though I was

464
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:53.880
kind of bumming that nobody even was
talking about him as the Rule five selection.

465
00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:57.760
He was on that robo scout list
like that, Oh he was,

466
00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.679
Oh he was okay, okay,
yeah, I didn't and read that one,

467
00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:05.800
but yeah, no Castro. I
watched him ranked him for our draft,

468
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:07.719
and I think he was maybe like
eleventh or twelfth, So it was

469
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.519
unlikely I was going to take him
unless we were just like picking the exact

470
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:15.320
same guys. But I liked him. I really liked what I saw.

471
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:19.320
He had a level of athleticism that
I think a lot of the guys that

472
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.280
I ended up taking in the b
sides they don't really have. And I

473
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.559
say this not just that he gets
some steals, although he does, but

474
00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:30.239
he seems very athletic in the box, the way he swings, the way

475
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:35.559
he plays defense. Even I caught
a couple of glimpses of him for a

476
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.239
switch hitter. I really liked both
of his swings, which I think is

477
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:43.079
unusual. Usually there's one that I
like a lot more than the other.

478
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:47.480
I thought that the lefty swing was
really smooth, but the righty swing was

479
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.440
just as smooth and maybe even a
little bit more polished. I don't know.

480
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:54.920
I just my notes on both were
like, Wow, I really liked

481
00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:00.480
how he sets up, and why
is nobody on this guy? And I

482
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:02.320
guess a couple of people do have
him ranked. I think BA had him

483
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:07.880
like down low twenty or high twenties
in there or green. I think he's

484
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:12.519
Yeah, I think he's currently thirty
on thirty line. Okay, he is

485
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:16.079
one percent rostered, so yeah,
yeah, he's got some guys invested in

486
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:22.079
the owners and he does. But
I really thought that he had a good

487
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:27.960
year, and really he's been a
consistently solid performer. Other than a small

488
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.599
cup of coffee to end, the
year at low A. Last year,

489
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.519
he's been sort of a twenty percent
better than the league average hitter at every

490
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:37.760
stop. He's been fairly young for
level. I mean, he was an

491
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:42.199
international guy. That's why he was
Rule five eligible this year. Yeah,

492
00:36:42.360 --> 00:36:45.480
Alan Castro, I'm kind of into
it. I was like, this is

493
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:49.360
this is sort of an under the
radar athletic guy who can do a little

494
00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:51.880
bit of everything. That was kind
of my notes here. It was just

495
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:55.719
like it might seem kind of boring
on the surface, but after watching him,

496
00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:59.800
it was I thought a bit more
interesting. I've read some reports that

497
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:06.840
I felt like kind of even like
speed and athleticism, I thought was maybe

498
00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:09.000
a little bit under sold in some
of those. But like one thing that

499
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:13.840
I thought maybe most interesting about at
least his numbers, was but he got

500
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:19.320
three hundred and six single A plate
appearances in and then finished with one hundred

501
00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:23.280
and eighty six high A plate appearances, and the walk percentage dipped from six

502
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:29.280
point seven percent to nine point two, and then the k's jumped from seventeen

503
00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:32.239
point six to nineteen point four,
but the ISO, the batting average,

504
00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:37.519
and the slug all increased. He
hit four home runs in that short high

505
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:40.360
a stint after hitting three in the
longer a ball stint, he was pulling

506
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:44.199
the ball a little more at five
percent, while the line drives kind of

507
00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:46.719
stayed the same. His home run
to fly ball rate jumped, obviously,

508
00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:52.119
But I don't know, wondering if
this guy is deciding to be a hitter

509
00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:55.079
instead of a lame walker, Matt, I think he's got a little bit

510
00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:59.920
of both in him. And yeah, you know, I I do like

511
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:05.599
the plate decisions, and I love
that he dropped his k rate as he

512
00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:08.119
climbs the levels this year. Yeah, you don't see that a whole lot.

513
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:10.920
No, and he did it while
continuing to walk. I mean,

514
00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:16.880
I do think there's a potential plus
approach here. And yeah, that sample

515
00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:22.119
at Hya looked really good. Yeah, and he's stole nineteen bases. I

516
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:24.559
mean, I don't Sometimes you gotta
be careful with stolen bases and the lowers

517
00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:28.440
and thinking about the future. But
yeah, like you said, was really

518
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.559
sold me was. I really like
the look of him at the plate.

519
00:38:31.159 --> 00:38:35.920
It's an easy, well balanced head, very still swing. He's not drifting

520
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:37.440
and that coming forward. You know, the kind of guy that, if

521
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.599
you like, stuck a pole down
the back of his jersey. He would

522
00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:45.440
just kind of like stay right there
on the same spot. Despite not being

523
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.679
like a power guy right now,
the kind of swing where I do think

524
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.280
a lot of times you will just
hear people generically, in my opinion,

525
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:54.360
generically just kind of say, well, you know, if you add some

526
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:58.719
muscle to his frame, you'll hit
more home runs. Like this looks to

527
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:02.159
me like mechanics the guy that that
holds true that if he does get stronger,

528
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:07.519
I think there is some more power
potential in there without having to change

529
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:10.119
a bunch of mechanics or what have
you, or approach, or at least

530
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:14.599
his approach in high A. Now, the splits were he was much better

531
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:17.440
from the left side, hit for
more power, hit more racial. Yeah,

532
00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:21.840
he was like two seventy three seventy
six four to twenty five as a

533
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:27.159
lefty and two ten three nineteen two
ninety only one home run from the right

534
00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.320
side. Interesting because I did like
his righty swing quite a bit. He

535
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:34.559
had doubles at a higher clip than
anyone in low Ah, even more than

536
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:37.239
Basalo. But yeah, and Basala
had fourteen more games, but then he

537
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:43.719
also hit twelve home runs. I
don't really know what that's saying, but

538
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:46.880
uh, maybe kind of a guy
that does nothing real great, but a

539
00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:51.159
lot of things really well. Kind
of like you said, and I don't

540
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:55.440
know, maybe a little bit juicier
than than maybe the reputation is right now.

541
00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:00.159
I don't know, I agree with
that. And you know, just

542
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:04.440
on the doubles point, he reminds
me a little bit of will you or

543
00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:07.320
or bray you in that way like
that was sort of a brain who's calling

544
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:10.079
card during the minors was he didn't
hit a ton of homers until what like

545
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:15.159
four or five years into his career, but he was just racking up doubles.

546
00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:17.880
Yeah, and Castro is only he's
only twenty years old. I don't

547
00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:22.159
know if we mentioned his name his
age. I think he was nineteen for

548
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:25.119
part of this season. Yeah,
he is a little bit like more wiry.

549
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:29.199
I think they got him listed at
six foot one seventy the way he

550
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:31.559
just kind of like catch the ball
with the bat and I and the swing

551
00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:35.079
decisions and stuff like. Yeah,
I thought he was pretty good looking.

552
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:37.199
Hit her. That's it then,
right? Were there any other bats from

553
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:39.719
the Red Sox that run your short
list? Matt? I don't know,

554
00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:44.440
Uh, I think what I kind
of feel like, there's the Red Sox

555
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:50.480
are kind of chuck full of interesting
bats at kind of all times. Even

556
00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:53.679
though they were a popular organization.
There there are bats that aren't rostered very

557
00:40:53.760 --> 00:41:00.000
much that still interests me, like
Brooks Brandon catcher, Corey Rozier, who's

558
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:06.559
yeah, yeah, it was that. I liked Johann from Garcia, who

559
00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:08.599
I think did he did he get
plucked in the minor league portion? Or

560
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:13.960
did John Frank Salazar one of those
two? Okay, one of the Valas.

561
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:17.840
Salazar is on my list too,
Yeah, Nathaniel u Ten, Tyler

562
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:23.000
Dearden, Tyler Esplin, Tyler Miller, this kid you Roberto Mahicano. Now,

563
00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:29.519
but those are awesome guys that I
had watched and considered. None of

564
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:34.199
them with like alarming strikeout strikeout rates. I don't think they all that kind

565
00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:37.239
of slugged a little bit, But
I honestly don't remember watching a lot of

566
00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:42.280
them right now. I think watching
I always would like to watch Salem in

567
00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:45.199
Greenville. There's it seems like there's
always some interesting both sides of the ball

568
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:51.039
pitchers and and hitters. One thing
just to keep in mind and looking at

569
00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:57.440
the Red Sox minor league system is
that Salem is a pretty good hitters park,

570
00:41:57.519 --> 00:42:05.000
Like it's it's fairly significantly above average, and then Greenville is plays a

571
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:10.360
little bit closer to average, and
then Portland is well below average one of

572
00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:15.000
the you know, it's not not
like quite near the bottom, but it's

573
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:19.719
definitely the worst park to hit in
in in the Red Sex system. So

574
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:22.599
when you see a guy that has
success in double A and that's it's something

575
00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:28.199
sort of to take notice, especially
the hitters. And it's also I think

576
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:31.400
why you look at someone like Coffee
who did so well at high A and

577
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:36.079
you might round up on that a
little bit just because the park is a

578
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.960
little bit more friendly to hitters.
All right, Matt, the Toronto Blue

579
00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:45.000
Jays, dude, this system sucks. Ooh, I strong disagree, even

580
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:50.000
even like top and I know that
we're we're digging around in the in the

581
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:53.719
mud in the system depth wondering if
anyone might have a major league chance.

582
00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:58.880
But the Blue Jays, even in
even the top of the at least at

583
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:04.239
least that wise, who's who's an
MLB every day or in this system,

584
00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:09.639
I still think is okay, that's
fair? Now him completely flapping in the

585
00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:15.159
bigs, I think is on the
table still, like I don't have the

586
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:20.199
utmost Yeah maybe, I mean,
I get what you're saying, like he's

587
00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:23.119
a pretty divisive prospect. I mean
I was total, I was totally done.

588
00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:28.559
But Jeff Pance right rightfully, so
turn turned me around with his opinions

589
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:30.639
on that. I think. But
yeah, and I'm on it. I

590
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:37.239
like, I have no shares because
either whoever I play in the league's with

591
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:42.360
a bunch of huge Blue Jays fans, and any Blue Jays prospect of any

592
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:46.039
kind is just gone like that.
So I've I've acquired a number of times

593
00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:51.760
when Orelvos was on like the downturn, It's just been rebuffed every time,

594
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:57.000
like, yeah, you can send
me your ace starting pitcher and I'll consider

595
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.519
selling or Elvis Martinez and Michael Hell
that's too rich for me. But I

596
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:05.920
think the power is legit, and
I think that just gives him such a

597
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:12.400
floor that I kind of don't care
the knocks on his defense and I'm willing

598
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:15.360
to kind of live with the ups
and downs of that because I think the

599
00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:20.719
power is really okay. So I'll
give I'll give him Martinez Hortz you don't.

600
00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:23.960
You don't like Spencer Horwitz. I
mean he's not exciting. I mean

601
00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:30.280
it's like not a plus guy like
as in Barger is still sort of interesting,

602
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:34.239
but I know what you mean,
like it drops down after him,

603
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.760
I mean the guy. You know, I know they drafted Namala, but

604
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:43.760
even even him is kind of I
mean, I'm no amateur high school especially

605
00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:47.639
like expert or file. But here's
some people talk about his ability to stay

606
00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:52.239
up the middle and some questions about
that, like point being he's still a

607
00:44:52.280 --> 00:45:00.639
developmental you know guy, dude.
Honestly, perhaps other than Martinez, my

608
00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:05.639
favorite bat might be Leo. Him
and az former B side selection from a

609
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:08.000
few years ago. Now, I
don't have any huge expectations, but I

610
00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:13.400
think could potentially be a solid utility
type in the bigs. David Schneider.

611
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:17.119
I don't think he's an everyday player
start to his career. I mean,

612
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:22.559
yeah, so hot, right,
But and you know, you look at

613
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:24.960
their past drafts the bat. I
know that they have gone pitcher heavy,

614
00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:30.320
but a lot of the higher round
bats that they've taken like not not looking

615
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:35.239
super great. I mean, if
you're doing if you're doing a fantasy list,

616
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:40.159
a Dynasty list for the Blue Jays
or Elvis Titaman. I love Ricky,

617
00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:44.880
but a lot of people, I
know a lot of people worried about

618
00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:47.239
shoulder and injury and all that stuff. I'm I don't know. I try

619
00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:52.000
not to just even worry about that
stuff, so I get that. But

620
00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:54.039
like, okay, so maybe those
two And like, honestly, the third

621
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:58.760
guy that I would put is Connor
Cook, who I think could very much

622
00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:04.519
be a closer. I do think
there's some some relief picture prospects that are

623
00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:07.599
are kind of exciting, and they
do have some exciting arms. But for

624
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:12.719
the amount of draft capital, high
draft capital capital they've spent on pictures,

625
00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:17.639
man, just I don't know this. This this organization felt felt rough to

626
00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:22.519
me. When you get into you
get into our mud in our area,

627
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:25.480
and I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm not picking a bat. I

628
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:30.039
can't. I can't. I'm just
gonna take yours. I'm gonna take your

629
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:34.719
bat where. I'll just I'll just
I'll just piggyback that. I mean,

630
00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:37.960
what they get. I know,
like Jace Bohofrian Boho, I don't know

631
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:42.559
how to say it. He sounds
interesting. Who else was gonna take Nick

632
00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:47.119
Nick Goodwin seventh round pick, did
whatever for a little bit and a ball.

633
00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:51.280
I was actually gonna go with Peyton
Williams, my guy from Iowa.

634
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:54.000
Have you ever seen Peyton Williams.
I don't think so. Peyton Williams is

635
00:46:54.000 --> 00:47:01.360
a giant, large, not in
a great way, lefty who has a

636
00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:07.239
powerful bat and just beats the ball
into the ground. I think I might

637
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.400
know who you're gonna pick because he's
kind of the stature that you like.

638
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:15.679
Some Arius guy that was like two
high games that I watched some and he

639
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:22.480
hit a single. You're Barrel.
I don't know. Like Martin Kasovic even

640
00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:28.519
I liked. I was like in
the Tucker Towman the last draft, and

641
00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:32.639
he had like a very unimpressive season. Yeah, the son freaking Brown was

642
00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:35.800
one of the highest bats that they
took, and like, oh cool,

643
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:38.159
he's fast. I mean this this
bowfroun guy. If I had to make

644
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:42.199
a list, he might be like
my number four guy. Yes, I

645
00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:45.280
don't know who's your bat. Who's
our bat, Matt, who's our bat?

646
00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:51.519
Well, I guess our bat is
Raphael. I knew it because he's

647
00:47:51.559 --> 00:47:57.679
five to seven. He's five seven, he's tiny little Putian utility guy is

648
00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:01.000
what I wrote to start my little
bit year. But he's got so many

649
00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:07.639
of the things that I like.
He's got a robust played approach seventeen percent

650
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:10.280
walks this year, only struck out
eighteen point five percent of the time,

651
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:19.360
both very comfortably plus hit for not
much power but not nothing. Twelve homers

652
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.320
this year, three zho five four
to twenty five four sixty nine on the

653
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:27.880
year with forty doubles and twenty eight
bags. So I'm going to talk about

654
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:34.039
sort of across the board fantasy production. It's not half bad now the negatives.

655
00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:37.480
He is small, five seven one
point fifty something. I think he's

656
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:44.239
listed at but under looking yeah yeah
maybe maybe you know, I might take

657
00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:47.000
the over on the weight, but
he's he's five to seven probably, and

658
00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:53.559
he played a bunch of different positions. I don't think he's really a short

659
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:58.679
stop. He played a good number
of innings there, but I don't think

660
00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:04.840
he sticks as a shortstop, and
obviously is block in Toronto there, but

661
00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:08.920
he also played third base, second
base, left field, center field,

662
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:15.360
right field, like plays all the
positions and with the played approach as well

663
00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:20.639
as you know, not a nothing
power on the power side, even if

664
00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:23.239
it's more doubles than Homer's. I
was just like watching this guys like,

665
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:29.079
I think he's better than Cavin Bigio
right now and plays more positions. Picked

666
00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:32.079
him super early on and he was
on my short list to be drafted in

667
00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:35.920
our draft just because I was like, this guy's gonna play in the big

668
00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:39.199
league somewhere and he's gonna be fine. But Steamer thinks he's going to be

669
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:45.239
even a little better than fine.
Steamer projects him for this year at a

670
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:51.760
ninety eight WRC plus, which if
he's playing second base and spelling, you

671
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.440
know, playing third base even you
know, after Chapman leaves and they don't

672
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:59.079
think Irrelevans is ready or whatever.
I mean. I think he plays this

673
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:01.559
year, is my point. I
think he's going to get some run for

674
00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:08.199
the Blue Jays and that's useful enough
for us. You know, I'm not

675
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:12.159
this isn't He's not going to be
a stud for sure. That's why I

676
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:15.719
ended up not taking him in our
draft earlier. The evs aren't great,

677
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:20.679
and it's it's just a lot of
line drives that he finds gaps and uses

678
00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:25.400
his speed to stretch. But the
flexibility in both position and the way his

679
00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:29.320
plate approach. I like him.
I like his I like how he plays

680
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:36.239
well. I like him too.
Is my pick to Matta and little Lentigua.

681
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:38.719
We're going places, all right,
let's move on to the arms here.

682
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.199
All right, Well you were poo
pooing the arms too. Who are

683
00:50:43.239 --> 00:50:46.280
you going for? Quickly? Last
year went with Michael Dominguez. I don't

684
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:51.400
know if you've watched any domingas a
little bit kind of interesting. He got

685
00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:53.679
up to double a one hundred and
two winnings, ten point five to five

686
00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:58.440
kpro nine, but he walks a
lot of dudes. But I still I

687
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:04.599
wonder if diminga is make for an
interesting relief pitcher. Yep, moving forward,

688
00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:07.360
but yeah, so this year again, man, I'm gonna go with

689
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:14.519
a guy that had one outing to
watch, because again, Matt a huge

690
00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:19.400
fan of the others. I had
watched a little bit of Trenton Wallace in

691
00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:22.679
double A lefty with a wide angle, low nineties. I don't think there

692
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:25.800
was much to watch where you got
injured. And then there is this guy

693
00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:30.599
Devereux Harrison that I think is hitting
some list who was in high A.

694
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:36.280
I just didn't know if there was
enough juice there. And I just found

695
00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:42.079
Ryan Jennings, their fourth rounder from
the twenty twenty two draft class out of

696
00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:45.519
Louisiana, attack a bit more interesting, even though I only, like I

697
00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:49.639
said, watched one game, because
that's all there was. Ryan Jennings.

698
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:53.400
He's alrighty listed at six foot one
hundred and ninety pounds, He's twenty four

699
00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:58.719
years old now, like derailed by
injury in June, I think too.

700
00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:02.199
In college his last year of college, I don't recall exactly, but I

701
00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:06.119
don't think he pitched very much.
Yeah, so he was injured in June,

702
00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:08.360
but he did get back for an
unbroadcasted September start, so I don't

703
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:14.239
think the injury was too significant.
None of Drenning's A ball appearances were broadcast,

704
00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:16.239
and only one of his high A
was that's the one I got to

705
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:21.920
watch. But I thought he showed
a fairly polished fastball, mid nineties fastball,

706
00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:24.280
knuckle curveball attack. He has the
rest of the kitchen sink too,

707
00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:29.840
But this is the main two offerings
North South game, and I admit,

708
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:32.280
you know, this could very well
be more of a bullpen looking future.

709
00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:37.480
Like most of the arms in this
system over the last few years, but

710
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:40.000
I don't think the book has closed
on him. Starting three starts this year,

711
00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:44.800
ten innings, two point seven,
the ra struck out nine point nine

712
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:47.880
whatever. It's not enough to really
get into too much, but he struck

713
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:52.320
out fifty five batters in forty three
innings while walking seventeen. I think I

714
00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:58.519
shared a gift in that little article
that I did of him striking out Victor

715
00:52:58.519 --> 00:53:02.760
Barracoto on some pretty nasty breaking balls. Yeah, Ryan Jennings, That's that's

716
00:53:02.760 --> 00:53:07.280
what I'm going to saddle up with
in this awesome system. I am pulling

717
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:12.719
a little bit of a page out
of your book and taking a guy that

718
00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:19.280
I have seen all of like two
innings. Welcome to Welcome to the wild

719
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:22.719
irresponsible side. Man. Yeah,
I don't love doing it. He did

720
00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:25.840
throw a lot more innings in that
this year, but of course it was

721
00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:30.280
in the stupid Florida State League where
there's just no video. Never pitched against

722
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:36.079
Bradenton, did he did he pitch
against Saint Lucy? No? Nothing.

723
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:43.440
But I am going Lazaro Estrada on
the small side five ten one A and

724
00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:49.559
has actually been around for a really
long time. You know he's Rule five

725
00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:53.199
eligible and didn't get taken. I
actually thought he had a chance to get

726
00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:58.199
taken because for reasons I'll talk about
here in a minute. But he didn't

727
00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:02.960
get taken because he's still in a
ball. He's been so what he was

728
00:54:04.599 --> 00:54:10.079
a signee in I think twenty seventeen
and he's now twenty four. So he's

729
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:15.159
been in the minors for what seems
like forever, and he's spent three of

730
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:20.559
the past four years at a ball. So all that is like terrible,

731
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:27.320
right, like red flags everywhere,
except that he just keeps striking everybody out

732
00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:34.079
and he doesn't walk very many.
He's like for a picture that hasn't advanced

733
00:54:34.119 --> 00:54:39.880
past a ball. He actually got
a really encouraging projection from Steamer. Again,

734
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:44.079
all this is contextual, but I
like to use that as a flag

735
00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:47.360
of like, oh am, I
looking for things that showcase future potential,

736
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:51.480
and that's obviously what projection systems are
all trying to do. And so it

737
00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:53.639
was a nice little note in his
favor that it's like, oh wow,

738
00:54:53.760 --> 00:55:00.800
Like Steamer never projects pictures that are
in a ball for low fives eras in

739
00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:05.800
the Major League. They waits until
they get into hy a double A and

740
00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:07.880
then it starts to say, like, ah, this is a real arm.

741
00:55:08.079 --> 00:55:14.320
So this year he started the year
relieving, which is he's kind of

742
00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:16.159
been doing this. He's like done
some starting, done some relieving, and

743
00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:20.400
then this year he was doing a
lot of relieving early in the year,

744
00:55:20.480 --> 00:55:22.559
and then they put him back on
the starter's role, and so he ended

745
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:27.679
up starting nine games mostly to end
the year. I think, I think

746
00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:31.719
that's what all it starts were.
But he had a fascinating year. He

747
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:37.719
struck out thirty three point three percent
of batter city face only walked eight point

748
00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:39.960
four percent, so that's, you
know, just better than average, just

749
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:45.039
barely better than average on the walks, and way better than average on the

750
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:49.360
strikeouts. And yeah, seventy six
and a third innings, one hundred and

751
00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:54.960
three strikeouts, only fifty five hits
two So his whip for the year was

752
00:55:55.639 --> 00:56:00.800
one point six Pretty good, pretty
good. The thing about Estrata that is

753
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:07.280
really interesting is that he has this
bugs bunny lookin' fastball, like it just

754
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:13.320
it is one of I think one
of the best fastballs that I've seen,

755
00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:16.480
and not because he throws it really
hard, although I think he can run

756
00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:21.480
it up there decently fast. He
gets it up to ninety five. I

757
00:56:21.519 --> 00:56:25.320
think it's mostly in the ninety two
to four range in there. But if

758
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:30.320
I had to guess, and I
don't know if I looked at this or

759
00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:32.079
saw anything about it, but I
think he's got one of the highest spin

760
00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:37.719
rates in the minors. So super
high spin fastball. Even though it's only

761
00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:44.039
quote ninety five, it kind of
has some Bryce Miller traits to the fastball

762
00:56:44.159 --> 00:56:46.639
in it. It just rises so
much. You see these guys like so

763
00:56:46.960 --> 00:56:51.559
again, I've only seen like four
innings of him pitch, and they were

764
00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:54.880
all in last year, maybe two
years ago, twenty twenty one, when

765
00:56:54.880 --> 00:56:59.599
he made it up to high A
and he I think all the outings that

766
00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:05.400
I saw him at Hillsborough, and
you just watch these high hitters try and

767
00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:07.840
hit his fastball at the top of
the zone, and like you can tell

768
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.519
that they are trying, like they
know he's going to throw it at the

769
00:57:10.559 --> 00:57:14.079
top of the and they're trying so
hard to stay on top of it,

770
00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:16.079
and they still pop it up,
just pop it right up in the infield

771
00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:23.400
or with So it's this incredibly high
spin fastball that he throws up to ninety

772
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:29.639
five at the top of the zone, and his curveball is wildly good,

773
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:34.639
I think. I mean, it
just looks like this massive hammer that it

774
00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:37.760
has none of the loop that you
see in a lot of a lot of

775
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:40.760
curveballs. It just looks like it
is spinning. It's like he's spinning that

776
00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:45.480
as fast as he's spinning his fastball, Like he really seems to have a

777
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:49.800
feel for how to spin the ball. And then he also has a slider,

778
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:52.880
which I didn't think was very good
in the looks that I saw two

779
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:57.840
years ago, but I'm guessing has
taken some steps forward just because he's probably

780
00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:01.239
been throwing it now for a couple
of years. But for only seventy six

781
00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:07.000
innings pitch this year, and again
at a ball, this was a really

782
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:09.599
exciting arm. I've really really liked
a few of the arms that I've seen

783
00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:15.519
at a ball, which is unusual
for me. I feel like that's not

784
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:19.119
usually where I'm looking for pitchers.
Usually I wait until they're at high A

785
00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:22.000
or double A and then they're showing
out and then I'll snag some under the

786
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:28.320
radar guys there. But there's a
good crop at a ball and Estrata's in

787
00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:31.639
that mix. For me, he
had a really really interesting year, And

788
00:58:32.199 --> 00:58:37.360
some of the traits here are round
way up on the velocity and round up

789
00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:42.039
on the command, because this isn't
a guy who's living on the edges.

790
00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:46.239
This is a guy who his stuff
can play in the zone. And I'm

791
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:52.599
so fascinated to see him go up
to high again and double A maybe next

792
00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:57.440
year. The reason I thought he
might get popped in the rule five is

793
00:58:57.440 --> 00:59:00.119
that he kind of looks like the
guy that might be able to pay ch

794
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:04.320
out of a bullpend just because that
fastball and curveball and slider, like you

795
00:59:04.320 --> 00:59:08.440
can probably play that in middle or
lower leverage innings for a year, especially

796
00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:13.880
if you're not a contender and you're
like twenty fourth and fifth spots on the

797
00:59:13.960 --> 00:59:16.639
roster, like aren't that important.
But he's still in low A, and

798
00:59:16.679 --> 00:59:21.119
so I mean, it makes sense
why he didn't get picked. But yeah,

799
00:59:21.159 --> 00:59:24.400
Lazaro Estrada, I'm just fascinated by
it. And maybe some of that's

800
00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:29.280
because I've seen so little of him
that I really want to see more.

801
00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:31.599
So he was one of the guys
that I'm actually most excited to watch next

802
00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:37.480
year. Guys like that. I
mean for our purposes, it's just let's

803
00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:39.719
watch this guy. Let's keep an
eye here, and if it's looking really

804
00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:44.679
good, maybe we jump on him
before all of our league mates do.

805
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:50.639
Yep, the Blue Jays, according
to MLB Pipeline, the twenty fifth ranked

806
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:54.440
farm system. Well, the Astros
are ranked thirtieth. That's what we like

807
00:59:54.519 --> 01:00:00.199
the Astros. I don't mean to
be offensive to it was like any Blue

808
01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:04.760
Jays fans out there, you guys
have a really good baseball team. You

809
01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:07.679
don't have to have a great farm
system. There are other ways to have

810
01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:16.679
a great baseball team. The Baltimore
Orioles last year went with for Bat.

811
01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:22.519
I went with Creed Williams. There's
some Creed Williams fans out there. Yeah.

812
01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:25.960
We had a lot of fun,
especially during his a ball run where

813
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:30.920
he was he was scorching, he
was on a tear, and then you

814
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:36.079
know, things didn't go quite as
well in Hi A still an interesting watch

815
01:00:36.119 --> 01:00:40.719
for me, if I recall correctly. Didn't didn't Gunnar Henderson have some struggles

816
01:00:40.760 --> 01:00:45.480
when he went when he moved up
to Aberdeen? Did he? I don't

817
01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:49.960
know, maybe it was just like
a month or something, but AnyWho you

818
01:00:50.000 --> 01:00:53.119
know. Back in twenty twenty one, we went with Ilio Prato. He

819
01:00:53.239 --> 01:00:59.000
kind of had a sneaky good season
between a ball and hi A. I

820
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:01.719
think he's I don't know how how
old is he twenty one twenty two.

821
01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:05.960
I'll just stick with my first year
player, but we'll do that during the

822
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:10.760
first year Player Draft episode. Last
year's pitcher was Juan de Los Santos,

823
01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:15.239
who was a young guy who was
cutting his teeth and a ball who I

824
01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:20.079
thought showed some pretty good stuff but
did not really back it up. This

825
01:01:20.199 --> 01:01:23.280
year, he struck out eight point
nine k per nine, walked almost five

826
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:28.840
per nine, ad era of four
point six over ninety a ball innings,

827
01:01:29.039 --> 01:01:34.280
big body guy, maybe still still
a name to watch, but didn't quite

828
01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:37.159
have the success I thought maybe he
could. And so this year pitcher,

829
01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:40.639
I mean, I don't know,
I don't know what your thoughts were digging

830
01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:45.960
in on the arms at this level, but I kind of thought there was

831
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:51.559
a good chunk of interesting ones.
And I know the Orioles starting pitcher future

832
01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:53.280
is a question that a lot of
folks like to talk about, but I

833
01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:58.920
kind of felt like they seemed to
have a good bunch of interesting arms that

834
01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:02.599
had like in history, like they've
kind of went to like the injury the

835
01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:07.360
injured college arm discount rack. A
little bit later in draft came down to

836
01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:10.840
four arms for me, Peter Van
Loon, Ryan who was in the AFL,

837
01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:15.960
I think Ryan Long, and Daniel
Lloyd. But Cameron Weston, the

838
01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:20.239
right hand pitcher who was in High
A this year, was the most interesting

839
01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:24.039
to me. And this could very
well be end up a relief pitcher more

840
01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:28.480
so than most. But he was
a twenty twenty two eighth round pick out

841
01:02:28.519 --> 01:02:30.599
of Michigan. I don't know,
did you watch any of Weston? I

842
01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:35.360
don't think I did. Right,
So he's listed at six two, two

843
01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:37.599
hundred and fifteen pounds. This is
kind of shocking. I didn't think he

844
01:02:38.119 --> 01:02:42.480
Yeah, maybe he's that big.
He's twenty three years old right now.

845
01:02:42.679 --> 01:02:45.760
His stat Ryan first caught my eye. He liked four point one innings.

846
01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:51.599
He pitched three point four innings per
outings. Only three of his twelve appearances

847
01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:54.639
where technically starts like I said,
you go three to four innings during some

848
01:02:54.760 --> 01:03:00.199
stretches. I had a two point
six eight ERA one point two four or

849
01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:06.880
whip struck out forty nine walked only
two point six eight per nine, didn't

850
01:03:06.920 --> 01:03:10.519
give up hardly any home runs maybe
a home run through strikes at sixty two

851
01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:14.440
percent. You know, there wasn't
not a whole lot of reports and stuff

852
01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:17.079
on Weston that I found. I
did find one draft scouting. The report

853
01:03:17.400 --> 01:03:22.280
back in twenty twenty one said that
he had a fringy breaking ball. But

854
01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:24.679
now I'm you know, it's tricky, but I'm kind of wondering if maybe

855
01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:30.039
Weston is a little bit of a
spin doctor. Now pretty twenty some inning

856
01:03:30.159 --> 01:03:34.800
pitch shutdown showing during the twenty twenty
two Cape, and I want to feel

857
01:03:34.800 --> 01:03:37.360
like I heard Jeff talking about him
a little bit and his breaking ball.

858
01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:43.920
He's got a three quarter arm slot
fastballs mid nineties. Regularly think he throws

859
01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:47.000
a two seamer. No, it's
it's more of a two seam shape.

860
01:03:47.039 --> 01:03:52.480
I think. I'm not totally sure
the quality really is, Especially in some

861
01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:57.920
outings or some stretches that I saw, he was pretty heavy on the breaking

862
01:03:57.960 --> 01:04:00.920
ball, probably throwing the breaking ball
more than the fastball. A change up

863
01:04:01.079 --> 01:04:04.400
comes in at eighty three eighty four, I think looks pretty good. And

864
01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:08.960
then that little report they kind of
remarked that his change up may have been

865
01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:14.719
the best pitch back in Michigan.
There's like gyro like downward movement, Like

866
01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:17.079
it's tricky, Like we've talked about
this before, but I feel like sometimes

867
01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:23.039
there's some different pace on the breaking
ball. I don't know if that's intentional

868
01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:28.800
or just inconsistencies sometimes, and you
know, I don't know, maybe this

869
01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:33.000
is just broadcast speed or something,
but I feel like sometimes the breaking ball

870
01:04:33.039 --> 01:04:39.760
seems to take there forever, but
the velo on them it comes out firmer,

871
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:43.480
you know, than you might think. And I think it does have

872
01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:45.559
some you know, hard to tell
from our angles, but it seems to

873
01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:50.679
break a little bit later than your
sort of average or your average like gyro

874
01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:55.719
slider is down here at high A
just watching a little bit of him.

875
01:04:55.760 --> 01:04:59.599
There's not a ton to watch.
Is this guy's kind of like mastering this

876
01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:03.639
break or is this like very much
still like in a developmental phase and he's

877
01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:08.920
learning how to spin it. I
can't really say, but the outcomes look

878
01:05:10.159 --> 01:05:13.119
really nice. I don't know,
maybe more of like East West, But

879
01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:16.000
like I said, there's there's more
vertical break on the breaking balls. He

880
01:05:16.079 --> 01:05:20.000
was much more effective versus right east
and west east. Part of the reason

881
01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:24.440
why I didn't watch that many innings
is he came off the ale in June,

882
01:05:24.639 --> 01:05:27.239
like I said, he was mostly
like a piggybacker then, and then

883
01:05:27.239 --> 01:05:30.920
they kind of throttled him down the
last couple his last couple of outings,

884
01:05:30.960 --> 01:05:35.000
he only went one. I am
kind of wondering if maybe there's a maybe

885
01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:40.079
there's a quota that he's supposed to
be hitting with the with the breaking balls,

886
01:05:40.280 --> 01:05:43.760
throwing them all the time, and
kind of kind of like at times,

887
01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:46.039
it just doesn't really make a whole
lot of sense. He had some

888
01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:50.800
pretty impressive lines against Bowling Green,
gave up two runs, didn't walk an

889
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:54.920
he struck out nine. I watched
some of that. You know, his

890
01:05:55.440 --> 01:06:01.280
strikeout his strike percentages range from like
fifty nine to seventy two in games.

891
01:06:01.679 --> 01:06:05.079
But again, if this is a
guy that's really trying to work on spinning

892
01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:09.960
it, I could get you know, I can accept some lack of lack

893
01:06:09.960 --> 01:06:13.400
of efficiency. So I don't know. Cameron Wesson, like I said,

894
01:06:13.400 --> 01:06:16.159
there were some interesting arms, but
he just kind of caught me the most

895
01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:20.079
and got me drawn in the most
out of anyone. And like I said,

896
01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:26.159
even if the future is reliever,
he could maybe be a good one.

897
01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:30.000
Interesting, I didn't watch any O
Weston, so I'll have to throw

898
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:32.599
him on and check out the breaker. He does very much feel kind of

899
01:06:32.639 --> 01:06:36.039
like in between to me as far
as like is this a reliever or is

900
01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:40.920
this a starter, because I think
there's traits that go both ways that I

901
01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:45.360
imagine the Orioles will continue to explore
and see where he ends up. They

902
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:49.280
certainly need the pitching help, so
hopefully some of these guys turn into something

903
01:06:49.320 --> 01:06:55.400
because they seem allergic to actually spending
money on pitching. And so there you

904
01:06:55.440 --> 01:07:00.679
go. Baside, Jeff, there's
a Michigan Wolverine for you. That might

905
01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:05.440
be good. Well for my arm, I'm going to go back to the

906
01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:13.159
SEC and take Trace Bright from Auburn. Bright had a little bit of helium.

907
01:07:13.320 --> 01:07:17.599
I think, you know, maybe
before his draft year he was getting

908
01:07:17.639 --> 01:07:25.119
talked a little bit about and he
had a really nice stretch of starts in

909
01:07:25.159 --> 01:07:29.320
the middle to late ish this season
I think, where he had something like

910
01:07:29.480 --> 01:07:34.280
twenty seven strikeouts over three outings,
So it was like twenty seven strikeouts in

911
01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:39.800
like fifteen or fourteen innings or something, so pretty impressive. So he's sort

912
01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:47.159
of like a more polished college arm
who's moving relatively quickly through the system and

913
01:07:47.960 --> 01:07:54.360
had a good year overall, especially
you know, didn't quite throw one hundred

914
01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:59.440
innings, but started twenty one games, struck out almost thirty four percent of

915
01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:03.679
batters he faced. Spent most of
the year at high A, but did

916
01:08:03.719 --> 01:08:11.320
get what was this his last four
he has last four games were in double

917
01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:18.520
A in Buis, and he really
did pretty well at both spots. Maybe

918
01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:21.439
a few too many walks when he
was at Hi A, you know,

919
01:08:21.640 --> 01:08:27.039
certainly more than I like to see
up around that twelve percent range that I've

920
01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:30.960
said before is a bit of a
danger zone, but dropped the walks a

921
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:35.039
little bit at double A, although
he was getting a fair bit fewer swinging

922
01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:40.680
strikes just ten percent swinging strikes at
double A, which is again not great,

923
01:08:40.760 --> 01:08:44.760
and I think that is partly where
I watched most of his Double A

924
01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:48.279
starts, and that's sort of where
my tempering of my enthusiasm went. You

925
01:08:48.319 --> 01:08:53.000
know, he was on my little
longer list of guys to evaluate for our

926
01:08:53.039 --> 01:08:58.199
picture draft, but I kind of
ruled him out pretty early because after watching

927
01:08:58.279 --> 01:09:00.920
him a bunch I just wanted to
round down on everything that he had.

928
01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:06.199
He's ninety to ninety five on the
fastball, which I'd seen a report before

929
01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:11.079
that it was like an interesting pitch
or a plus pitch or something, but

930
01:09:11.119 --> 01:09:14.399
I don't really think it is.
He didn't seem like he was getting a

931
01:09:14.439 --> 01:09:17.199
lot of whiffs with the fastball,
and he seemed like he located it.

932
01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:19.760
Okay, he was trying to pitch
at the top of the zone, but

933
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:25.239
he still wasn't getting that many whiffs. Looked like a lot of his whiffs

934
01:09:25.239 --> 01:09:30.199
were on a pretty big, breaking
seventy five to seventy eight mile an hour

935
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:34.359
curveball. And then he throws a
harder, kind of cuttery slider. I

936
01:09:34.359 --> 01:09:38.239
couldn't tell whether it was a cutter
or a slider, but it was a

937
01:09:38.359 --> 01:09:41.319
kind of slider shape, but I
think a little bit firmer, maybe not

938
01:09:41.399 --> 01:09:45.039
quite as much movement or break.
But I didn't love the command with that

939
01:09:45.079 --> 01:09:48.840
one. He seemed to miss arm
side on that a lot, which is

940
01:09:49.079 --> 01:09:51.680
bad, Like you don't want to
miss armside with a cutter. And then

941
01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:57.159
an occasional change which he also would
miss arm side some. It just seemed

942
01:09:57.199 --> 01:10:00.720
like he didn't his command wasn't tight
for those secondaries, and he was pretty

943
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:05.520
decent landing his curveball and his fastball
for strikes. But since his curveball to

944
01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:11.119
me was his best pitch, that
gives me pause. You know how a

945
01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:14.680
lot of people they see a change
up first guy and they're worried about how

946
01:10:14.720 --> 01:10:17.920
that plays. For me, I
feel like that's a curveball if you're I

947
01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:23.079
feel like a good curveball. A
decent curveball can hide a lot of other

948
01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:26.920
stuff in the minor leagues, but
that seems to get hit quite a bit

949
01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.880
more once you get to the big
leagues, unless it's a real, like

950
01:10:30.119 --> 01:10:33.720
sharp kind of hammer curveball. Bright
gave me those kind of vibes. So

951
01:10:33.800 --> 01:10:39.439
even though he struck out quite a
lot of batters this year and the walks

952
01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:44.399
seem to be trending in the right
direction, I feel worried about how the

953
01:10:44.520 --> 01:10:48.640
profile is going to play because all
the things kind of put together command middling

954
01:10:48.960 --> 01:10:54.279
round down on the fastball, round
down on the cutter slider, and then

955
01:10:54.479 --> 01:10:58.279
the only plus pitch here is probably
the curveball. I don't know. I

956
01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:01.760
wasn't blown away, and I think
that he's a guy that might struggle a

957
01:11:01.800 --> 01:11:05.159
bit more as he goes up the
ladder and then he gets to the big

958
01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:10.479
lee level and all that said,
I still like him. He was definitely

959
01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:14.680
a guy that interested in for our
picture draft, and some of the projection

960
01:11:14.800 --> 01:11:17.840
system seems to like him okay as
well, so it'll be interesting to see

961
01:11:17.920 --> 01:11:23.000
if he sharpens some things up this
year. But yeah, trace Bright interesting

962
01:11:23.399 --> 01:11:27.840
without a ringing endorsement. I see
him on some lists. I think only

963
01:11:27.880 --> 01:11:30.439
one percent owned, so you know, yeah, squarely within our B side

964
01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:35.359
Muddon territory. I felt there were
a couple other interesting bats here, and

965
01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:42.199
I'm not going to say this.
Anita Mordan is a catcher first base who

966
01:11:42.239 --> 01:11:45.479
got a little bit of a ball
run like I don't know how many of

967
01:11:45.479 --> 01:11:47.159
his aid home runs were in a
ball were all of them? But just

968
01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:50.760
he's just got kind of an interesting
profile. I want to watch some more

969
01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:55.880
of a short leverage swing. I
liked him, Yeah, okay, right

970
01:11:55.920 --> 01:11:58.359
on. I kind of thought you
would go with Billy Cook, to be

971
01:11:58.399 --> 01:12:01.079
honest, but maybe maybe it don't
walk enough for you or something. But

972
01:12:01.399 --> 01:12:05.119
Cook going Billy Cook. I'm going
Billy Cook. Oh yeah, yeah,

973
01:12:05.239 --> 01:12:10.600
okay, all right, did you
watch any Maxwell Costas. Yeah, yeah,

974
01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:14.159
he's kind of interesting, undrafted guy
from Maryland. It's tough though.

975
01:12:14.439 --> 01:12:17.119
Maybe this is silly of me,
but if if we are playing sort of

976
01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:20.479
the game within the game here,
it's kind of tough for me to get

977
01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:26.239
on board with some of the guys
in the uppers here, just because there's

978
01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:30.000
so much talent at the top here. Yeah, that, even though I

979
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:32.960
may really like Billy Cook or a
hitter in the uppers, for them,

980
01:12:33.039 --> 01:12:38.720
it's like other dynasty owner is going
to be into it when playing time seems

981
01:12:38.920 --> 01:12:43.600
very dicey, you know, No, agreed, And they're major league team,

982
01:12:44.079 --> 01:12:46.279
very very good for not a hundred
win team like they were this year

983
01:12:46.439 --> 01:12:51.600
and they way overperformed on their pipeg
and everything, but still a very very

984
01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:56.840
good team, very young. And
then the top of their like their pretty

985
01:12:56.840 --> 01:13:02.680
boys are awesome, like definitely and
maybe the lowest person on Jackson Holiday.

986
01:13:02.920 --> 01:13:06.439
And I still think that guy's going
to be a star. I just don't

987
01:13:06.439 --> 01:13:11.359
think he's like the next coming of
you know, Fantasy Superstar greatness. I

988
01:13:11.399 --> 01:13:14.640
think he's gonna be a very very
good major league player, you know,

989
01:13:14.800 --> 01:13:18.199
all star multiple time. I feel
pretty confident about that. I just worry

990
01:13:18.199 --> 01:13:23.920
about his you know, sort of
top three round fantasy impact that some folks

991
01:13:23.920 --> 01:13:27.640
seem to think is just an absolute
lock. But yeah, Kobe Mayo,

992
01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:32.880
Samuel Bissalo, like those guys can
absolutely rake and are gonna be phenomenal big

993
01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:36.479
leaders as well. I mean when
you're talking about like Connor Norby, Hessen

994
01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:41.880
Kirstad, Joey Ortiz, Colton Kowser
as like the guys on the outside looking

995
01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:45.760
in on their starting rotation are starting
lineup, like especially their hitters are just

996
01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:50.640
man, there are interesting guys up
and down this system, and that did

997
01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:55.760
make it a little bit hard to
pick a B sider because all those guys

998
01:13:55.800 --> 01:14:00.640
are popular and worthily, so you
know they definitely deserve it. But going

999
01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:03.359
Billy Cook here, and you know, I'll talk about Billy Cook, but

1000
01:14:03.399 --> 01:14:09.920
there's also like five other names that
I also like in other organizations would be

1001
01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:13.720
my no doubt best side picks.
John Rhodes. I think he's a guy

1002
01:14:13.760 --> 01:14:16.840
we've talked about once or twice before. I've been interested in him for a

1003
01:14:16.880 --> 01:14:20.119
couple of years, and he had
a solid year this year, just like

1004
01:14:20.359 --> 01:14:25.359
slowly sort of progressing to the ORG
and pretty solid. Her Naves was a

1005
01:14:25.359 --> 01:14:30.239
guy who like just couldn't even Yeah, I know, these solid potential,

1006
01:14:30.319 --> 01:14:34.960
everyday big leader, I think,
yeah, yeah, and then guys like

1007
01:14:35.359 --> 01:14:42.760
Max Wagner had a solid year,
Frederick ben Cosmy like super interesting, just

1008
01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:45.920
a weird kind of profile guy,
super skinny, makes a lot of contact,

1009
01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:48.640
feels bags, but doesn't do anything
else. You know. Yeah,

1010
01:14:48.680 --> 01:14:53.079
they're almost like a lot of Dynasty
owners that I play with, Like,

1011
01:14:53.359 --> 01:14:56.840
cool man, you're loaded up with
all these bats, but like, uh,

1012
01:14:56.880 --> 01:15:00.560
what are you going to do on
the other hand, Yeah, yeah,

1013
01:15:00.920 --> 01:15:02.319
a little bit tough for going on
the other side, I thought,

1014
01:15:02.439 --> 01:15:08.359
But just so many interesting games.
And then there's maybe the FYPD guy that

1015
01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:13.920
you're referencing. They have like three
that I'm really into, which again is

1016
01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:19.800
like they're doing something pretty impressive on
the hitting side of things with their minor

1017
01:15:19.880 --> 01:15:25.760
league system. It's just like,
I'm honestly baffled why they haven't traded for

1018
01:15:25.840 --> 01:15:30.640
more of this depth because they just
have such a surplus and the logjam is

1019
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:34.520
coming in the big league level.
Oriol fans out there, if this turns

1020
01:15:34.560 --> 01:15:40.319
into some sort of Dynasty esque championship
team, I will give it to you.

1021
01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:45.479
I will accept it. I just
want like one huge, pinch hit

1022
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:50.800
home run like Creed Willems in some
playoff or something, because I think that

1023
01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:56.520
would be so much fun. I
think we'll be waiting a long time for

1024
01:15:57.159 --> 01:16:00.279
that, and honestly for Billy Cook
too. Like so Billy Cook is is

1025
01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:06.119
my b side guy here. He
had a really solid year, not outstanding

1026
01:16:06.239 --> 01:16:11.199
by any means. One hundred and
ten WRC plus on the year, five

1027
01:16:11.279 --> 01:16:15.000
hundred plate appearances, twenty four homers, thirty steals, walked eight point four

1028
01:16:15.000 --> 01:16:17.760
percent of the time, struck out
twenty five percent of the time. Good

1029
01:16:17.880 --> 01:16:21.760
overall line. Good for a two
fifty one three twenty four fifty six.

1030
01:16:23.039 --> 01:16:26.880
He's mostly an outfield. Everybody has
played some second base, so I did

1031
01:16:26.960 --> 01:16:31.960
like the positional flexibility. I really
liked his setup an approach to the plate.

1032
01:16:32.079 --> 01:16:38.359
He has really still quiet hands,
which I like, and when there's

1033
01:16:38.359 --> 01:16:41.479
not a lot of moving parts,
it seems like he's going to be fairly

1034
01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:45.840
consistent, even if the upside is
certainly not close to a lot of the

1035
01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:47.600
other guys in this system. And
then the thirty bags. Like, he's

1036
01:16:47.640 --> 01:16:51.079
an athlete, He's a really good
athlete, has some power, has some

1037
01:16:51.119 --> 01:16:57.159
speed, and especially for you know, a categories focus league like this kind

1038
01:16:57.159 --> 01:17:00.159
of guy is the kind that I
am often drawn to sort of across the

1039
01:17:00.159 --> 01:17:04.960
board category production like those kinds of
guys I think are really interesting, and

1040
01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:10.159
then you have your smattering of specialists
that you roll in there. But yeah,

1041
01:17:10.199 --> 01:17:14.399
Billy Cook, I just liked the
overall shape of the production. This

1042
01:17:14.439 --> 01:17:19.520
isn't a star. He's really probably
not going to ever get much playing time

1043
01:17:19.560 --> 01:17:23.880
with Baltimore, but there are lots
of other ways that that can go,

1044
01:17:24.159 --> 01:17:28.039
whether it's Rule five, whether he
gets traded out again. He's just sort

1045
01:17:28.039 --> 01:17:31.920
of an under the radar name to
keep an eye on when he I think

1046
01:17:31.960 --> 01:17:36.600
inevitably makes the big leagues somewhere else. So, yeah, Billy Cook up

1047
01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:41.920
to Double A this year, spent
the whole year actually in Double A.

1048
01:17:42.079 --> 01:17:48.479
So he'll be twenty four season yep. And it's on the back of fifteen

1049
01:17:48.479 --> 01:17:51.640
to twenty five season last year,
so it's not out of the question.

1050
01:17:51.760 --> 01:17:56.399
And you know, Pat tipping again
to him being a pretty good athlete.

1051
01:17:56.479 --> 01:18:00.199
This isn't just him being a smart
based stealer, but thirty steels all only

1052
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:03.039
three caught stealing this year. Last
year was twenty five and four. That

1053
01:18:03.319 --> 01:18:08.399
kind of ratio says like he probably
could steal even more. So again,

1054
01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:12.439
good athlete here, and a nice
fine. And the other thing too,

1055
01:18:12.720 --> 01:18:18.399
was this year his strikeouts he cut
by six percent and walked more than he

1056
01:18:18.439 --> 01:18:23.920
ever has in his career, so
like it looks like he's optimizing his plate

1057
01:18:23.960 --> 01:18:27.720
approach to as he continues to do
the things that he does well. So

1058
01:18:27.800 --> 01:18:30.800
yeah, Billy Cook is interesting guy. Yeah yeah, Yeah, Iso over

1059
01:18:30.960 --> 01:18:35.880
too, huh yeah. And the
other reason that I liked him is his

1060
01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:40.680
babbeb was pretty low. So he
was a two ninety eight babbit guy last

1061
01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:44.119
year and then a two ninety babbit
guy this year. And some of that

1062
01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:47.640
is the shape of his swings,
Like he hits a lot of fly balls,

1063
01:18:47.640 --> 01:18:53.159
so forty five forty seven percent fly
ball rate, thirty two percent ground

1064
01:18:53.159 --> 01:18:58.039
ball rate, and that's a lower
babeb kind of production. But it does

1065
01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:02.239
mean that if he spikes a year
where he's hitting twenty four percent line drives

1066
01:19:02.600 --> 01:19:06.520
and forty percent fly balls like that, Babeb's going to tick up. And

1067
01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:10.920
I think that there's going to be
a lot more doubles to go along with

1068
01:19:11.279 --> 01:19:14.560
a decent number of homers. So
yeah, Billy Cook, interesting dude,

1069
01:19:14.960 --> 01:19:18.279
interesting, interesting guy to followup.
He had a little AFL run as well.

1070
01:19:18.319 --> 01:19:24.319
I think I think he did some
things down there. Tampa Bay Rays

1071
01:19:24.840 --> 01:19:29.720
always truck full of interesting players in
my opinion, even down you know,

1072
01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:33.600
down here in the mud. Last
season, pitching wise went with Ben People's

1073
01:19:33.800 --> 01:19:39.800
Now, I had expressed that I
like in a long term, real serious

1074
01:19:39.840 --> 01:19:43.279
sense. I didn't think I was
too too interested, but I felt that

1075
01:19:43.359 --> 01:19:48.439
he kind of had the sort of
one loud weapon that the Rays like to,

1076
01:19:49.319 --> 01:19:51.760
you know, get the most out
out of them, move along,

1077
01:19:51.800 --> 01:19:55.520
and he had a I think he
had a pretty decent season. Twenty two

1078
01:19:55.560 --> 01:19:59.680
starts in High A as a twenty
two year old eighty four and a third

1079
01:19:59.680 --> 01:20:03.159
inning four point zero six ERA a
whip that was a little a little high

1080
01:20:03.159 --> 01:20:06.039
at one point four to three,
but he did strike out ten for nine

1081
01:20:06.119 --> 01:20:11.880
walks for not the greatest at four
point eight, but he did have some

1082
01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:15.880
really nice outings, some really big
lines. You put up some numbers in

1083
01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:17.840
the Rays system as a pitcher,
you're going to get some attention. So

1084
01:20:18.039 --> 01:20:24.279
maybe a guy who's still a little
sneaky under the radar some extent We've had

1085
01:20:24.319 --> 01:20:28.760
some success with the bats too here
in the past. Oslaves Psave was our

1086
01:20:28.800 --> 01:20:31.159
original B side selection, and he
made the major leagues this year. I'm

1087
01:20:31.199 --> 01:20:34.960
not expecting any sort of like or
a lot of impact with the bat,

1088
01:20:35.039 --> 01:20:39.079
but I do think he's a good
hitter. There's probably a lot of ways

1089
01:20:39.079 --> 01:20:41.439
that the Rays can go, and
I don't know where he fits in with

1090
01:20:41.479 --> 01:20:44.399
all of it, but I think
he's got a chance that if he produces,

1091
01:20:44.439 --> 01:20:47.119
he could stick around. We went
with Brett Wisely in the past,

1092
01:20:47.119 --> 01:20:51.159
who was obviously traded to the Giants, but he made the big leagues as

1093
01:20:51.199 --> 01:20:55.239
well. Not that I believe he's
going to be some huge star, but

1094
01:20:55.399 --> 01:21:00.319
I do think that he's better than
his major league performance last year. Be

1095
01:21:00.319 --> 01:21:03.359
better. Just a guy who good
athlete who can kind of do it all.

1096
01:21:03.720 --> 01:21:10.079
He just has to stop striking out
all the time. I don't know

1097
01:21:10.079 --> 01:21:14.039
if he was really ready, to
be honest, went from a two way

1098
01:21:14.079 --> 01:21:17.560
player to exclusively a hitter, and
in what and then two and a half

1099
01:21:17.640 --> 01:21:21.399
seasons went got all the way up
to the big leagues like and then this

1100
01:21:21.439 --> 01:21:27.399
season for the bat, I took
I took Ryan Sermac number one overall on

1101
01:21:27.479 --> 01:21:30.640
our in our hitter drafts. Yeah, what do you got for a bat

1102
01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:34.880
this year, Matt? There are
a lot of good B side options here,

1103
01:21:34.960 --> 01:21:40.399
I do believe. I looked at
Drew Baker a bit. I liked

1104
01:21:40.479 --> 01:21:45.159
the light power, but some power, batch of deals with a decent played

1105
01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:48.520
approach outfielder made it up to double
A this year. Even liked a little

1106
01:21:48.560 --> 01:21:55.159
bit of what Ronnie Simon did this
year at triple A kind of utility infielder

1107
01:21:55.279 --> 01:21:59.720
that you know, ninety five wrsc
pluses but thirty one steals playing all around

1108
01:21:59.760 --> 01:22:04.319
the feel like again, there's some
utility in keeping tabs on those kinds of

1109
01:22:04.359 --> 01:22:09.640
guys. Tristan Peters had an interesting
season where he ended up in Double A.

1110
01:22:09.680 --> 01:22:12.319
Another outfielder, a little bit of
power, a little bit of speed.

1111
01:22:12.640 --> 01:22:15.199
Yeah that's who they That's who they
got in the Wisely trade. Oh

1112
01:22:15.279 --> 01:22:18.840
that's right. Yeah, yeah,
yeah Peters. I liked him, But

1113
01:22:18.960 --> 01:22:25.000
I'm going with someone that it sort
of fits what you were saying of like

1114
01:22:25.079 --> 01:22:27.439
a one tool guy. Do you
know, do you know who it is?

1115
01:22:27.640 --> 01:22:32.640
One tool guy? This one sackisaki
no no similar though, so it's

1116
01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:40.479
stolen bases is a stolen basis or
walking a bunch. Chandler Simpson second in

1117
01:22:40.560 --> 01:22:45.159
the minors in steals this year,
just behind Victor Scott. Wait wait wait,

1118
01:22:45.159 --> 01:22:48.039
how tall is he? He's tall. He's he's a like tall skinny

1119
01:22:48.079 --> 01:22:51.640
guy. Okay, all right,
yeah, six two six two, one

1120
01:22:51.800 --> 01:22:57.319
seventy and I kind of believe that, like he's he's skinny, six seventy,

1121
01:22:57.720 --> 01:23:05.399
ninety four steals this year, no
homers, so unlike Victor Scott,

1122
01:23:05.479 --> 01:23:09.520
who you know, is a top
one hundred prospect I think a lot of

1123
01:23:09.560 --> 01:23:14.479
places, and rightfully so, especially
for fantasy, who had ninety five steals

1124
01:23:14.600 --> 01:23:17.399
and like ten or twelve homers or
something. So he has, you know,

1125
01:23:17.479 --> 01:23:23.159
some power. Chandler Simpson. No
power, There's there's none here.

1126
01:23:23.479 --> 01:23:29.039
The ISO on the year was point
five to oh or something five to two.

1127
01:23:29.399 --> 01:23:32.239
It's I mean, he has just
no pop at all. It is

1128
01:23:32.520 --> 01:23:36.319
a really goofy swing. You watch
him and you're like, what are you

1129
01:23:36.439 --> 01:23:43.039
doing? But he's so fast,
dude. I just like watching him is

1130
01:23:43.159 --> 01:23:47.199
really fun. He's just a totally
different kind of player than lots of other

1131
01:23:47.279 --> 01:23:51.800
guys. Does he bunt? He
bunts, He like shoots balls in the

1132
01:23:51.840 --> 01:23:57.560
gap and and just runs and runs, and runs. The reason you probably

1133
01:23:57.600 --> 01:24:00.760
don't have him on your list is
he was at three three percent when I

1134
01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:03.479
pulled this, and and so it
was like a little a little high,

1135
01:24:03.520 --> 01:24:06.640
and so a lot of the other
guys that we talked about were lower than

1136
01:24:06.680 --> 01:24:12.359
that. But Chandler Simpson, I
just couldn't pass up the like the one

1137
01:24:12.479 --> 01:24:17.920
tool star who just I think just
isn't getting love anywhere else because the swing

1138
01:24:18.039 --> 01:24:23.439
is so goofy and there's he is
never going to hit home runs, like

1139
01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:28.560
he might not hit two in a
season ever, but the speed is absolutely

1140
01:24:28.600 --> 01:24:31.359
real. And so you know,
focusing on a category, its like like

1141
01:24:31.399 --> 01:24:34.920
this is a guy who I'm never
interested in in any of like my power

1142
01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:41.359
focused points leagues, but I couldn't
help but pick him just because he is

1143
01:24:41.680 --> 01:24:46.479
so fast. I got him eleven
one on a triple O this year for

1144
01:24:46.720 --> 01:24:50.359
context, the fastest in the major
leagues and a triple this year, I

1145
01:24:50.399 --> 01:24:57.560
think was was like Ellie at eleven
oh five and Corbyn Carroll was right behind

1146
01:24:57.640 --> 01:25:00.439
him at eleven oh six. Something
that you know, again, I'm not

1147
01:25:00.560 --> 01:25:04.880
stat casting this. I was like
me timing on my phone watchson, but

1148
01:25:05.279 --> 01:25:10.479
it was like eleven one eleven two
like it right in there. That is

1149
01:25:11.119 --> 01:25:16.279
lightning fast around around the bases.
And the other fun thing about him is

1150
01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:21.399
he's got no power, but he
doesn't k He like eight point seven percent

1151
01:25:21.479 --> 01:25:27.479
strikeout right on the year, which
I think is really important for a guy

1152
01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:30.199
like this because if he just puts
the ball in play, it puts so

1153
01:25:30.279 --> 01:25:34.960
much pressure on the defense. And
when he does find holes, that's a

1154
01:25:35.039 --> 01:25:42.199
double, that's a triple. So
it's I normally really right off guys whose

1155
01:25:42.359 --> 01:25:45.279
ISO is is below one hundred,
and his is way below one hundred,

1156
01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:48.840
and it's deserved. It's not like
he was getting unlucky. It's just like

1157
01:25:48.960 --> 01:25:54.159
this is his swing. But the
speed is truly a top of the scale

1158
01:25:54.399 --> 01:25:57.880
tool. And then the contact skills
are good good to very good. So

1159
01:25:58.640 --> 01:26:02.760
Jaylor Simpson, I think that this
is one of the more interesting one tool

1160
01:26:02.840 --> 01:26:06.680
players in the minor leagues. And
and you may you might even call it

1161
01:26:06.680 --> 01:26:11.199
two tools because like I said,
the contact skills are are solid, and

1162
01:26:11.399 --> 01:26:14.640
you know, he hit two ninety
three this year and seems reasonable for him

1163
01:26:14.640 --> 01:26:16.399
to keep doing it, especially in
the minor league. So he's just going

1164
01:26:16.439 --> 01:26:19.199
to keep hitting the ball in the
ground, finding holes and running. I

1165
01:26:19.239 --> 01:26:23.359
mean, I kind of decided that
I was going to go with Cermak pretty

1166
01:26:23.359 --> 01:26:27.880
early on. But I have here
too as far as upper miners, Blake

1167
01:26:28.000 --> 01:26:31.439
Hunt, Bob Seymour, Kenny,
Piper Tanner, Murray thought, we're all

1168
01:26:31.960 --> 01:26:38.800
very viable B side selections, and
then in the Lowers Blake Robertson and then

1169
01:26:39.720 --> 01:26:43.800
at the time was Shane's Sasaki,
But I think he's gone up. He

1170
01:26:43.880 --> 01:26:46.800
was at two percent. Then I'm
sure he's gone up now after the AFL,

1171
01:26:46.960 --> 01:26:49.159
but when I pulled in, I
think he was. He was still

1172
01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:53.560
at three percent or something. But
again, like and honestly, I probably

1173
01:26:53.640 --> 01:26:57.560
wasn't as interested in him as as
those other guys. I have a feeling

1174
01:26:57.680 --> 01:27:00.159
this season, Matt, that we
will be talking to about a good slew

1175
01:27:00.359 --> 01:27:04.279
of Tampa Bay ray Bats when we're
looking at guys who are not rostered at

1176
01:27:04.319 --> 01:27:08.840
a high rate and doing some things
offensively arms, I think, again,

1177
01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:13.159
there were some good options. I
was I was probably gonna go with Logan

1178
01:27:13.239 --> 01:27:15.560
Workmen. He kind of you kind
of got buzz in the a f L,

1179
01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:18.520
and I don't know if he's really
B side esque, But I watched

1180
01:27:19.119 --> 01:27:25.840
this Roel Garcia, who was in
hi Ah Duncan David a little bit who

1181
01:27:25.880 --> 01:27:30.279
was in High A two felt a
little too raised plastically for me. And

1182
01:27:30.319 --> 01:27:33.640
they're older in High A. Not
that that's a huge deal now. I

1183
01:27:33.680 --> 01:27:41.600
know Trevor Martin is on some lists. Drake Christiansen, He's not on the

1184
01:27:41.640 --> 01:27:45.560
list. But here's another interesting guy
in a ball. And then Anthony Molina,

1185
01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:50.199
who I think the Rockies just picked
in the Rule five draft if I'm

1186
01:27:50.239 --> 01:27:57.359
not mistaken, Yeah, yeah,
he was in Triple A. I kind

1187
01:27:57.359 --> 01:28:01.199
of decided against him because I feel
like he was probably a relief pitcher and

1188
01:28:01.479 --> 01:28:06.600
I think that's probably the plan for
the Rockies here. Yep. So I

1189
01:28:06.800 --> 01:28:13.159
actually ended up going. And this
is very very much because of the system

1190
01:28:13.239 --> 01:28:17.399
that he is in. But Gary
gil Hill, who was a sixth round

1191
01:28:18.079 --> 01:28:24.399
twenty twenty two selection of Theirs out
of New York Prep selection. He's only

1192
01:28:24.479 --> 01:28:29.000
nineteen years old, and there was
again this is another very small sample size

1193
01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:32.319
for me. He logged three and
two thirds A ball innings after a late

1194
01:28:32.359 --> 01:28:38.319
August move off the complex, and
all of those reviewable. He's listed at

1195
01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:43.359
six y two one sixty. He
is lean, you know, hard to

1196
01:28:43.399 --> 01:28:45.960
tell, but I was kind of
surprised that they had him listed at six

1197
01:28:45.000 --> 01:28:47.760
' two. I didn't think he
was that tall. Maybe he is,

1198
01:28:48.159 --> 01:28:55.439
but the innings is a it's a
sharp fastball slider combination. Fastball I think

1199
01:28:55.640 --> 01:29:00.760
was getting up to ninety six and
the slider looks like yes, sorry,

1200
01:29:00.760 --> 01:29:03.479
So fastball was like ninety four ninety
five I think maybe ticked up to ninety

1201
01:29:03.520 --> 01:29:10.520
six. But the slider I feel
like could maybe turn into a special pitch,

1202
01:29:11.279 --> 01:29:16.439
especially with the Rays, who are
going to get this probably two pitch

1203
01:29:16.479 --> 01:29:21.680
attack, probably as sharp as it
possibly can be get it in the lab

1204
01:29:21.920 --> 01:29:29.079
and tuned up. And not that
I have like real true dynasty interest in

1205
01:29:29.159 --> 01:29:31.920
Hill, but I do feel like
this is a guy who is going to

1206
01:29:32.039 --> 01:29:36.279
rack up a bunch of k's be
in the Rays system and get a lot

1207
01:29:36.319 --> 01:29:41.439
of attention. I know that might
be a silly bet to put on a

1208
01:29:41.520 --> 01:29:45.640
nineteen year old that you've barely seen
any of You're nothing if not bold made.

1209
01:29:45.720 --> 01:29:49.520
I love it. It feels like
this feels like prime Rays clay to

1210
01:29:49.600 --> 01:29:55.039
me that they're going to sharpen into
their one of their like little plastic pieces

1211
01:29:55.039 --> 01:29:59.520
here with a big weapon. Maybe
I mean power to you for getting excited

1212
01:29:59.520 --> 01:30:04.760
about a nineteen year old in a
ball with the twenty k RA and five

1213
01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:10.920
to five e RA. Well,
Gary Gil Hill. I always like learning

1214
01:30:10.960 --> 01:30:13.840
about new players, so that is
always fun, you know. I mean,

1215
01:30:13.840 --> 01:30:15.880
what what was the sign what was
his signing bonus? It was fairly

1216
01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:19.800
high in the sixth round. Oh
really, I just yeah, I just

1217
01:30:19.800 --> 01:30:23.760
feel like they well, you know, he's you know, maybe he maybe

1218
01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:26.960
he could fill out, get a
little stronger. I don't know all that

1219
01:30:27.000 --> 01:30:30.439
stuff, but I don't know.
I'm gonna make I'm making a wild bet

1220
01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:34.479
that Hill racks up a bunch of
k's in a ball next year and gets

1221
01:30:34.600 --> 01:30:38.960
gets noise. But again, not
a guy that I would like seriously be,

1222
01:30:39.479 --> 01:30:42.319
you know, wanting to roster right
now. But maybe just a little

1223
01:30:42.359 --> 01:30:45.079
watch put a tab on Hill and
see how his k's looking a ball next

1224
01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:49.920
year. I was drawn to their
A ball arms as well. I watched

1225
01:30:49.960 --> 01:30:55.680
a bit of Trevor Martin and Marcus
Johnson. I think both sort of interesting

1226
01:30:55.760 --> 01:30:59.000
for different reasons, but they're like
this is you know how I was saying

1227
01:30:59.199 --> 01:31:04.199
about Logan Henderson the other week and
talking earlier today about Trace Bright like guys

1228
01:31:05.000 --> 01:31:10.479
and lazarro astrata like guys that are
at a ball low a they're so far

1229
01:31:10.560 --> 01:31:15.520
away, so unless they're just absolutely
dominating, it's really hard to be like

1230
01:31:15.840 --> 01:31:19.479
it's super excited about what they're gonna
do. And so that's why Martin and

1231
01:31:19.560 --> 01:31:24.600
Johnson for me, I both were
sort of interesting, but after watching him,

1232
01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:28.079
I was like, I need to
see this work at higher levels.

1233
01:31:28.359 --> 01:31:33.000
And none of the other kind of
b side esques starting pitchers really jumped out

1234
01:31:33.000 --> 01:31:36.800
to me. Again, I'm very
sure that some of the guys that I

1235
01:31:36.880 --> 01:31:42.039
passed over the Rays are somehow we're
going to turn into a good one hundred

1236
01:31:42.199 --> 01:31:46.239
inning pitch starter. They're gonna find
someone. I'm just not I couldn't figure

1237
01:31:46.279 --> 01:31:50.439
out which one it is. And
actually Logan Workmen might be the pick.

1238
01:31:50.640 --> 01:31:55.079
Like I did watch a little bit
of him, but didn't come back to

1239
01:31:55.119 --> 01:31:58.239
it, and maybe that was a
mistake because he did some things that I

1240
01:31:58.399 --> 01:32:01.039
liked and what you were saying,
yeah, yeah, he's got some plus

1241
01:32:01.119 --> 01:32:08.199
weapons and just generically speaking, it's
an okay picture uses them all right,

1242
01:32:08.319 --> 01:32:11.840
I think. Yeah, Santiago Suarez
was like that too, you know,

1243
01:32:11.880 --> 01:32:15.720
he's again member that a ball rotation, and I did end up watching quite

1244
01:32:15.760 --> 01:32:18.199
a few of those games, just
because I was like, oh, well,

1245
01:32:18.520 --> 01:32:24.039
this guy's interesting, and this guy's
interesting another super low walk okay,

1246
01:32:24.079 --> 01:32:29.680
strikeout kind of guy. So I
think that trio is of interest for me.

1247
01:32:29.880 --> 01:32:34.680
As they rise in Trevor Martin,
Marcus Johnson, and Santiago Suarez,

1248
01:32:34.800 --> 01:32:38.760
and then again Logan Workman, I
might dive into him a bit more.

1249
01:32:39.039 --> 01:32:43.439
I do think Workman's got like I
think they say, he's got a pretty

1250
01:32:43.640 --> 01:32:47.880
like kind of highbrow designer fastball if
you will, Okay, okay, Yeah,

1251
01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:51.399
the guy that I wanted to which
he kind of really checks out with

1252
01:32:51.479 --> 01:32:58.479
the race. Yeah, totally the
guy that I wanted to pick and talk

1253
01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:01.439
about for my official piece. I'd
here is another reliever. So I'm not

1254
01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:08.319
super excited about it. But as
you were describing Gil Hill, mister Gilhill,

1255
01:33:08.319 --> 01:33:12.479
which I can't believe that's his name, Gil Hill. What we need

1256
01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:16.600
to discover the story behind it's Gary
gil Hill. So is it Gary gil

1257
01:33:17.359 --> 01:33:24.239
It's last name Hill or Gary Gary, Gary gil Hill, no hyphen nothing,

1258
01:33:24.399 --> 01:33:28.760
just Gary gil Hill. I don't
know Gary gil all right. I

1259
01:33:28.800 --> 01:33:31.640
still want to know the story behind
that name. But I'm going to go

1260
01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:39.960
with Keishan Askew rostered had a really
good year, but is a reliever.

1261
01:33:40.119 --> 01:33:43.720
I mean, he started nine games
this year, but and through almost one

1262
01:33:43.760 --> 01:33:47.800
hundred innings ninety seven innings this year. But I just feel pretty sure he's

1263
01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:51.399
going to be a reliever. And
maybe in sort of that like Jalen Beaks

1264
01:33:51.520 --> 01:33:55.960
mold that the Rays have done before, of like a guy who can go

1265
01:33:56.079 --> 01:33:59.119
multiple innings, they might use as
an opener, they might use as a

1266
01:33:59.159 --> 01:34:01.439
follower, maybe with a little bit
of volume behind it because they have let

1267
01:34:01.560 --> 01:34:08.079
him stretch out a little bit.
Mister Askew has a wicked slider, and

1268
01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:12.600
you want to talk about movement profile, like this thing from the left side,

1269
01:34:12.720 --> 01:34:15.119
it just dives across the plate,
and I think he gets a decent

1270
01:34:15.159 --> 01:34:19.079
amount of depth for being a sweeper. For like being a sweeper esque slider.

1271
01:34:19.119 --> 01:34:21.800
I think it also crosses the zone
a lot, but I think it

1272
01:34:21.800 --> 01:34:26.680
also has a little bit of bite
to it at times. And whether that's

1273
01:34:26.720 --> 01:34:30.399
him manipulating it or he just has
a little more depth to his sweeper,

1274
01:34:30.520 --> 01:34:32.920
I'm not sure. But it is
a very very good pitch. He struck

1275
01:34:32.960 --> 01:34:38.640
out thirty one percent of batters face
this year and walked eleven percent, a

1276
01:34:38.680 --> 01:34:42.880
little high for me, and I
think it's largely because his slider moves a

1277
01:34:42.960 --> 01:34:47.279
ton and his other secondary is a
changeup that it really doesn't seem like he

1278
01:34:47.279 --> 01:34:50.159
knows where it's going. Like I
saw a smattering of strikes with it,

1279
01:34:50.199 --> 01:34:55.479
but I wouldn't be surprised if his
strike percentage with his changeup is below fifty

1280
01:34:55.520 --> 01:34:59.439
percent. Again, anecdotally from the
starts that I watched, it was the

1281
01:34:59.720 --> 01:35:01.600
he missed with that one a lot. But his fastball is good, you

1282
01:35:01.640 --> 01:35:04.479
know, it's a ninety one to
three with sync and from a kind of

1283
01:35:04.520 --> 01:35:10.439
low short arm action slot. He
seems again to me, like a pretty

1284
01:35:10.520 --> 01:35:15.159
high probability big leaguer and just maybe
in that swingman role that they've relied on

1285
01:35:15.439 --> 01:35:17.840
from a lot of their a lot
of their starters, and with the way

1286
01:35:17.880 --> 01:35:21.800
that the Rays chew through their starting
pitchers, end up needing this kind of

1287
01:35:21.840 --> 01:35:25.319
guy a lot, And so that's
why I kind of went with him.

1288
01:35:25.359 --> 01:35:28.079
He made it up to double A
this year and was pretty good there as

1289
01:35:28.119 --> 01:35:30.159
well, so he's not far away. That's sort of what broke the tie

1290
01:35:30.199 --> 01:35:34.920
for me between a skew and trying
to decide between Martin and Johnson and Suarez.

1291
01:35:34.960 --> 01:35:39.279
So Kishanasku super interesting guy. Think
he's going to be a reliever,

1292
01:35:39.560 --> 01:35:44.000
but maybe more interesting than most relievers, just because of the way that rais.

1293
01:35:44.119 --> 01:35:46.079
The Rays tend to deploy this kind
of arm. I like when you

1294
01:35:46.079 --> 01:35:50.079
talk about some pictures I haven't watched, so I'm always always down for some

1295
01:35:50.159 --> 01:35:55.039
new arms to watch. That's the
Al East, that's the al least,

1296
01:35:55.359 --> 01:35:59.600
don't you think though, it's a
You get out to these Eastern divisions and

1297
01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:03.520
I like just the prospects are more
popular. Yeah, but we had lots

1298
01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:08.159
of guys to talk about in Baltimore. I mean, their hitters there was

1299
01:36:08.199 --> 01:36:12.359
deep and I am really excited about
the two guys that I talked about in

1300
01:36:12.359 --> 01:36:14.960
Toronto. I know that I tend
to agree with you. The rest of

1301
01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:16.920
that system is a little bit shallower. You know, a couple of decent

1302
01:36:16.920 --> 01:36:20.239
guys up top, a couple of
interesting names, and then it's not a

1303
01:36:20.239 --> 01:36:26.600
lot there. Next week it will
be our last division installment, right,

1304
01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:30.560
we got the n Allis. It's
been a few months of this. Huh

1305
01:36:31.079 --> 01:36:34.520
Yeah, so many names, so
many names. We're probably gonna have like

1306
01:36:34.600 --> 01:36:40.479
at least mentioned five hundred names,
four hundred. Yeah, we've got to

1307
01:36:40.680 --> 01:36:45.920
We've got to hit on one of
them. Matt. I know, I'm

1308
01:36:45.960 --> 01:36:49.079
kind of feeling down today just with
the Rule five and not none of our

1309
01:36:49.319 --> 01:36:53.760
none of our guys got popped,
you know. Yeah, it's not everything

1310
01:36:53.840 --> 01:36:56.279
right, you know, like,
but it is a nice little feather in

1311
01:36:56.319 --> 01:36:59.600
your cap if you get one Rule
five guy, you think, uh,

1312
01:37:00.159 --> 01:37:04.039
Devis Davison, Dela Santos will uh, I think I'll do anything this year.

1313
01:37:04.159 --> 01:37:11.720
I don't know. Our buddy Don
really likes him, and he sounds

1314
01:37:11.760 --> 01:37:18.199
really in the losers. I know
he does like Luis Matos, so I've

1315
01:37:18.239 --> 01:37:21.039
heard. I've heard that. Yeah, I'm just giving down hard the time.

1316
01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:24.920
I really don't have a problem with
those players did less. You know

1317
01:37:24.960 --> 01:37:27.560
what, he missed a little bit
of time this year, and I think

1318
01:37:27.640 --> 01:37:30.720
some of that that it was hypothesized
that it was for developmental reasons, like

1319
01:37:30.760 --> 01:37:33.760
they wanted him to work on a
swing, and then he came back after

1320
01:37:33.800 --> 01:37:40.079
that and was better and hit better
and the power is legit. I just

1321
01:37:40.119 --> 01:37:45.119
think his swing decisions are so bad, like he chases so much, and

1322
01:37:45.319 --> 01:37:48.359
while he's got power, it's almost
like he's giving away so many at bats

1323
01:37:48.359 --> 01:37:55.079
that he can't let the power flourish. So while I like him and Jock

1324
01:37:55.119 --> 01:37:58.680
Hessey, Noel too very similar in
a lot of ways, like young a

1325
01:37:58.720 --> 01:38:01.000
ton of power, have yet to
really put it all together. And it's

1326
01:38:01.000 --> 01:38:04.399
interesting they're both in the same organization. Now they might, you know,

1327
01:38:04.439 --> 01:38:09.680
compete with each other for spots,
but Cleveland's they're not dumb, and I

1328
01:38:09.680 --> 01:38:13.439
think they know that they need more
power in their organization. Like they've got

1329
01:38:13.920 --> 01:38:17.720
three hitters on their Major League forty
man they have any power at all,

1330
01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:24.359
that's it. And and like even
they're good prospects, they've got two that

1331
01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:29.720
might have average power, which in
Cleveland system looks like wow, those are

1332
01:38:29.760 --> 01:38:32.479
the big homer bats and Manzarto and
the latter. But other than that,

1333
01:38:32.720 --> 01:38:38.079
like they've got no thump in that
lineup, other than Jose Ramirez and the

1334
01:38:38.159 --> 01:38:41.000
Naylor brothers. So that's why,
Like, if I'm a Guardians fan,

1335
01:38:41.279 --> 01:38:44.000
I'm sitting here and like, why
do we have why do we have Juan

1336
01:38:44.079 --> 01:38:49.359
Brido sitting in a j Well Nolan
Jones is I don't know, Yeah,

1337
01:38:49.479 --> 01:38:53.199
that is an interesting one. And
I like Juan Brido and I like a

1338
01:38:53.239 --> 01:38:58.119
lot of them guys. But I
wonder if getting ddls and seeing if he

1339
01:38:58.600 --> 01:39:04.239
can be a low OBP, high
slug kind of first base DH right handed

1340
01:39:04.239 --> 01:39:06.680
power bat you know, might be
in the mix. What do you think

1341
01:39:06.720 --> 01:39:13.159
his major league strikeout percentages this season
next year? Yeah, above thirty percent

1342
01:39:13.279 --> 01:39:15.840
for sure. I'm gonna go thirty
second because he Yeah, I'm not going

1343
01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:19.399
to disagree with you. I mean, he was like above thirty even after

1344
01:39:19.680 --> 01:39:25.319
he improved and had a little time
off. Like that's and a lot of

1345
01:39:25.359 --> 01:39:28.800
that I think is from the chase
in zone contact numbers off the top of

1346
01:39:28.800 --> 01:39:30.880
my head for him. But I
remember looking into him after talking about him

1347
01:39:30.920 --> 01:39:33.319
with Don one time, and I
was like, yeah, that power seems

1348
01:39:33.359 --> 01:39:38.199
interesting. He does seem like some
things have changed, quieted up his stance

1349
01:39:38.279 --> 01:39:40.920
a little bit, and I thought
it looked better. But he still is

1350
01:39:40.960 --> 01:39:44.479
just swinging at everything out of the
zone, especially breaking balls, Like he

1351
01:39:44.600 --> 01:39:46.720
just whiffs at so many sliders.
That's a hard thing to change. So

1352
01:39:47.000 --> 01:39:51.439
if he can get a little bit
more selective and actually hunt those pitches like

1353
01:39:51.560 --> 01:39:56.279
he he's got a ton of pop
and it's young enough that maybe he can

1354
01:39:56.319 --> 01:40:00.560
still make that change. All right, So that'll do it for episode fifteen

1355
01:40:00.600 --> 01:40:04.479
of the Prospect. Besides, we'll
let Chicago Farmer take us out. D

1356
01:40:04.680 --> 01:40:09.479
Well, we'll talk to you next
time. Adios for miles an hour.

1357
01:40:10.000 --> 01:40:16.199
Riding to his head, he hopped
down first with the lumpbon in his face,

1358
01:40:16.800 --> 01:40:26.279
and on the very next pitch he
up and stole second face with greatst

1359
01:40:26.560 --> 01:40:34.760
speed. He wasn't born, but
he had the dirdy Yes uniform.