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<v Speaker 1>Ninety five miles an hour, riding to his head. He

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<v Speaker 1>hopping down first with the lump bonius face, and on

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<v Speaker 1>the very next pitch he up and stole second face

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<v Speaker 1>with greatst speed. He wasn't born, he had yes uniforn.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Welcome to episode Birmingham Barons Michael Jordan forty

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<v Speaker 2>five of the Prospect B Sides podcast. You didn't like that.

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<v Speaker 3>That's a deep cut. I have no idea what you're

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<v Speaker 3>talking about. But wow, MJ is Birmingham Baron's number one.

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<v Speaker 3>That's what. Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, who else is forty five?

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, uh, Chadwick Trump or something? What?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, MJ. Anyways, welcome to the number.

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<v Speaker 3>Everyone associates with.

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<v Speaker 2>MJ.

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<v Speaker 3>Forty five.

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<v Speaker 2>Dude, Jordan could have been a major leader.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't think so. His swing was jank, he was

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<v Speaker 3>never gonna hit.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe as it was, but if she had started just

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<v Speaker 2>playing bass or just stuck to baseball, I think he

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<v Speaker 2>could have been. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe he's tall, like the tall guys, it's kind of

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<v Speaker 3>hard to be good at baseball.

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<v Speaker 2>Picky. Can't be too short, can't be too tall.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like a but you could definitely be too short

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<v Speaker 3>or short like I'm all about that. It's the tall guys,

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<v Speaker 3>especially as a hitter, like there are just not many

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<v Speaker 3>tall guys that really really end up like six six

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<v Speaker 3>and above. I mean, and what was Jordan like? Six seven?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, six six six five probably. Anyways, this intro has

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<v Speaker 2>gotten really derailed, but uh, welcome to the podcast. It's

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<v Speaker 2>been too long.

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<v Speaker 3>It's been too long, addled by our time off and

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<v Speaker 3>the cold air. We're talking muddy b siders though, so

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<v Speaker 3>that's always a good night.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes we are. We are back after the holiday break,

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<v Speaker 2>going division by division, picking out what zero to one

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<v Speaker 2>to not created yet prospects from every org a, bat

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<v Speaker 2>and arm that I don't know the rook and I

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<v Speaker 2>or another, and that they might be undervalued, underappreciated in

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<v Speaker 2>the Dynasty world, can maybe gain some utility or as

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<v Speaker 2>you mentioned last time, that we just like them and

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<v Speaker 2>want to talk about them.

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<v Speaker 3>So some of those guys this week just guys that

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<v Speaker 3>going to be good, but some guys that are pretty fun.

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<v Speaker 3>In this week's episode.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and tonight we're doing the National League Central. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know as a whole how excited I am about this,

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<v Speaker 2>but we'll talk about that.

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<v Speaker 3>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>You have a good holiday, eat some bird and two

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<v Speaker 2>of them things.

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<v Speaker 3>Hit no bird for us this year. It's a first

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<v Speaker 3>year in a long time that we didn't visit family

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<v Speaker 3>or do a friends giving. Two kids by ourselves at home. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>we eschewed the bird and we'll do I have a

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<v Speaker 3>nice turkey on or for Christmas when we will have

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<v Speaker 3>some family in town. But yeah, we just did some

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<v Speaker 3>of our other traditional Thanksgiving dishes. We do this thing

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<v Speaker 3>every year called pumpkins stuffed with everything good, and it's

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<v Speaker 3>become our favorite dish every year Thanksgiving. Anyway, Like we

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<v Speaker 3>were like, it's better than mashed potatoes and gravy, it's

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<v Speaker 3>better than turkey, it's better than all the other sides.

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<v Speaker 3>So we just made a couple of those and that

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<v Speaker 3>was our Yeah, just quiet, quiet as quiet it can

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<v Speaker 3>my son's birthday party here. So the house is as

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<v Speaker 3>clean as it's ever been with at least since a

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<v Speaker 3>two year old arrived. But yeah, it was a good,

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<v Speaker 3>good holiday.

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<v Speaker 2>I was yours, nice good man. I drink a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of gin I haven't done a lot of in my life,

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<v Speaker 2>but paid for the next day a little bit. But

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<v Speaker 2>that was fun. And my sister in law, dude, man,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, I don't know the recipe of her

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<v Speaker 2>to her, not that she would be listening at all,

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<v Speaker 2>but she kills turkey, dude, like brings turkey to a

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<v Speaker 1>Man.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like the most flavorful, delicious, never eating turkey that

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<v Speaker 2>tastes like this before thing. And I look forward to

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<v Speaker 2>that every year. Thanks gonna be definitely my favorite holiday. Nice.

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<v Speaker 3>You got to get that recipe and share it out

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<v Speaker 3>with the people. We can do a live reading of

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<v Speaker 3>your your turkey your in laws turkey recipe next episode.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I don't know if they'll give it out.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I don't know what the deal is there.

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<v Speaker 2>I haven't cried, but any of who met, I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know if a lot has happened in the baseball world

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<v Speaker 2>per se since uh last.

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<v Speaker 3>Freaking nothing, and everyone is so all up in arms

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<v Speaker 3>about Juan Soto where he's gonna go, And I just like,

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<v Speaker 3>have we talked about this that I don't think the

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<v Speaker 3>signing news breaking thing is a real job, Like like

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<v Speaker 3>I don't understand why people care or what the value is,

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<v Speaker 3>Like why do you care? Why do you not wait

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<v Speaker 3>thirty minutes later, two days later, ten days later, Like

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<v Speaker 3>it just doesn't matter, you know, especially this time of

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<v Speaker 3>the year. Like maybe if you're a mid draft and

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<v Speaker 3>you like see somebody sign somewhere and it's a big

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<v Speaker 3>change in value, like you care about that. But what

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<v Speaker 3>degenerates are doing drafts right now? You know? So I

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<v Speaker 3>the whole news breaking thing in basketball, baseball, football, Like,

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<v Speaker 3>I don't understand it. It's really stupid to me.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, need everything answered right now sort of mentality.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. But we did have. As I mentioned

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<v Speaker 2>before we started recording one of my B sides, Selections,

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<v Speaker 2>has already switched teams. About a week after we recorded

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<v Speaker 2>the Al West episode, Juan Mercedes elected free agency and

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<v Speaker 2>signed with the Giants, which I think for whatever major

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<v Speaker 2>league aspirations or possibilities there might be for him, Like

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<v Speaker 2>that's probably a better avenue than trying to break in

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<v Speaker 2>with the Mariners.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, maybe and interesting. I'm super curious how their for

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<v Speaker 3>an office is gonna run things. The early signs are

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<v Speaker 3>kind of baffling, Timmy, Like Buster Posey is the POBO

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<v Speaker 3>and he's doing a bunch of really weird stuff, and

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<v Speaker 3>our analytics departments all leaving, and he's like, RBIs are

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<v Speaker 3>important again. And so I don't know if that bodes

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<v Speaker 3>well for mister Mercedes development. But it's going to be interesting, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>to see what the Giants do.

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<v Speaker 2>So maybe the baseball world was a bit quiet in

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<v Speaker 2>news and exciting events and stuff, Matt. But I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know if this has affected you like it has me.

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<v Speaker 2>But I understand this is a baseball podcast, but I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like I got to do my part to help

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<v Speaker 2>make a shift here. But the second Congressional hearing on UAPs, Matt,

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<v Speaker 2>did you watch this?

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<v Speaker 3>Of course, not what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>We are amidst the unfolding, the unveiling of probably the

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<v Speaker 2>most important shift in the human experience in our lifetimes, Matt,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe ever, and starting to uncover the government cover up

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<v Speaker 2>of information technologies intelligence far beyond our understanding, and it

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<v Speaker 2>is happening that we are slowly getting cutting through the

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<v Speaker 2>bureaucracy and starting to learn some things about other intelligence

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<v Speaker 2>and what.

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<v Speaker 3>Have you learned? What have you learned from this? I

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<v Speaker 3>am so curious what the cover up and the new

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<v Speaker 3>information is here.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, let me just put on a different hat for

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<v Speaker 2>a minute. Here. I mean, we have go we have

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<v Speaker 2>government officials, high ranking government officials, admirals from the Navy,

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<v Speaker 2>Folks who worked on secret reverse engineering programs trying to

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<v Speaker 2>reverse the reverse engineer technologies that were recovered. Folks from

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<v Speaker 2>NASA testifying under oath about I mean, they're like whistle blowing,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and they're wanting to cover up the hiding

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<v Speaker 2>of information to cease and let science start exploring some

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<v Speaker 2>of this stuff. I've learned that probably one of the

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<v Speaker 2>big hurdles in that is defense contractors have bought probably

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<v Speaker 2>rights to information. But these folks all believe there's definitely

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<v Speaker 2>intelligence out there that isn't us. They testify as such,

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<v Speaker 2>and that there are a retrieval program retrieving what I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, technologies that we don't have. But my point

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<v Speaker 2>is like, why isn't this a big deal for folks? Am?

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<v Speaker 2>I am I overreacting to this?

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<v Speaker 3>Matt, are you on a Wednesday? Night in December wearing

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<v Speaker 3>a tinfoil hat, a literal tinfoil hat, on a baseball

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<v Speaker 3>podcast about obscure minor leaders. Are you making too big

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<v Speaker 3>a deal about hearing that is a huge nothing burger?

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<v Speaker 2>How can you say this is a nothing burger? There

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<v Speaker 2>are I don't know if they're aliens, I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if it's us from the future. But how does this

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<v Speaker 2>not make you feel happy? That doesn't this make me

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<v Speaker 2>feel good? This is like the most hopeful news I've

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<v Speaker 2>ever heard in my life. Like, maybe we don't kill

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<v Speaker 2>ourselves because there's a lot of in the future.

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<v Speaker 3>There there is a lot of unexplained intelligence. And I'm

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<v Speaker 3>glad to hear that there's some intelligence out there, because

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<v Speaker 3>there's not a lot on this podcast right now, and

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<v Speaker 3>it's certainly not a lot on in Congress.

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<v Speaker 2>Look, we're not the smartest, the smartest beings out there,

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<v Speaker 2>Thank god, we are not it.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, of course there are other beings out there. The

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<v Speaker 3>universe is basically infinite, no worse, there are other things.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, But I mean, I mean here very interested in

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<v Speaker 2>our nuclear sites and bases and interfering with stuff there

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<v Speaker 2>because maybe they don't want us to kill ourselves. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know. We are going to find out more though,

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<v Speaker 2>but this is.

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<v Speaker 3>You think you think the intro went off the rail.

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<v Speaker 3>We're thirteen minutes in and you're you ain't be hearing.

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<v Speaker 2>You got to watch it, man, you gotta watch it. Boy.

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<v Speaker 2>This is great. You can because it's important and it's

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<v Speaker 2>moving from heretical and tabloid realms to becoming legitimized. And

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's I think that's fantastic. AnyWho. Yeah, wow,

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<v Speaker 2>me to watch it before you before you judge my

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<v Speaker 2>takes here, Matt, that's.

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<v Speaker 3>Some that's some good stuff. That's got me good. That

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<v Speaker 3>was good.

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<v Speaker 2>AnyWho, Let's talk about some loser prospects. Let's start with

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<v Speaker 2>the Cubs. I don't know how you felt digging on

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<v Speaker 2>this organization, but as a whole, felt a little And

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<v Speaker 2>I understand that I'm biased, so so maybe you can

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<v Speaker 2>steer me right. But I did come away with a

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<v Speaker 2>bat that a young bat that I I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe he's the top ten beside that for me this year.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's Jose Escobar. Oh interesting, who's currently in September

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<v Speaker 2>was rostered and zero percent of leagues I don't believe

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<v Speaker 2>he's ranked on Pipeline. Nineteen year old second base, left field,

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<v Speaker 2>left hand hitter listed at five ten national free agent

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<v Speaker 2>from Venezuela. Last year, he spent what time forty seven

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<v Speaker 2>games in the Complex three with Myrtle beach and A

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<v Speaker 2>ball eighty four a ball played appearances. He hit four

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<v Speaker 2>home runs, walked thirteen percent of the time, struck out

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<v Speaker 2>fifty seven four seventy eight slash and that small sample

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<v Speaker 2>good enough for a one forty three WRC plus in

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<v Speaker 2>that league. But Matt, I don't know if you've watched

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<v Speaker 3>Like in they're both Cubs, in that they're.

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<v Speaker 2>Both Cubs, but like it's probably going to be a

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<v Speaker 3>So I did watch quite a bit of Hotel Escobar,

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<v Speaker 3>and I'm I'm happy to report that I'll begrudgingly co

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<v Speaker 3>sign this one with you. But I think with a

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<v Speaker 3>to go for that will talk about in a bit.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's just like a little over our roster thresholds.

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<v Speaker 3>But we're still gonna talk about the guy who I

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<v Speaker 3>for Escobar, we're talking like eighty four played appearances in

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<v Speaker 3>five percent home run to fly ball rate, whereas he

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<v Speaker 3>really good job in a ball pulling his fly balls

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<v Speaker 3>and getting some homers, and I watched all of those

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<v Speaker 3>homers that were broadcast and they were good, like good

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<v Speaker 3>pulled the ball, got it up in the air, and

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<v Speaker 3>good things happened. But I'm a little skeptical that there's.

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<v Speaker 2>Last one opposite field ways that I liked.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, yes, And some of the ones that he pulled

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<v Speaker 3>I thought were like good process, it seemed like, but

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<v Speaker 3>he's not a guy that's gonna run a teens homer

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<v Speaker 3>to flyball rate. I think this is like some small

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<v Speaker 3>a twenty four percent k rate, Like, okay, that's that

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<v Speaker 3>up levels. The reason to like him from my perspective

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<v Speaker 3>and seemed like he was trying to be intentional in

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<v Speaker 3>pulling the ball and putting it in the air. And

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<v Speaker 3>that's good, like as we've talked about ad nauseum, right,

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<v Speaker 3>and he should have. I don't know if the exit

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<v Speaker 3>velows were if we got much out of that, but

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<v Speaker 3>if you got any reporting on.

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<v Speaker 2>That, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>It seemed like he squared up enough balls that I

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<v Speaker 3>was like, Okay, there's some power here that it's worth following.

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<v Speaker 3>But I'm not this is not like a oh Man,

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<v Speaker 3>it seems like I want to see a lot more.

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<v Speaker 2>I agree with that. I'm not saying that this is

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<v Speaker 2>think there's some stuff to like here and think there

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<v Speaker 2>might be a chance ground ball rate of forty five

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<v Speaker 2>forty six percent, which you know is probably not what

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<v Speaker 2>we want to see necessarily, but for this system, that's

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<v Speaker 2>kind of an outlier in a good way.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and he's still like and thirty seven percent in

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<v Speaker 3>the air, So he's sort of taking those ground balls

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<v Speaker 3>in exchange for the line drives. But I don't know

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<v Speaker 3>with the way that he swings it, like I kind

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<v Speaker 3>of take that trade off, Like I don't think he's

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<v Speaker 3>He's like trying to hit some homers and that comes

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<v Speaker 3>with some ground balls in his case.

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<v Speaker 2>And I like the look of his swings, like it's

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<v Speaker 2>fairly simple and clean and not a lot of moving parts,

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<v Speaker 2>but still headn't but uh yeah, it wasn't super you know,

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<v Speaker 2>into a lot of bats here and young Jose Escobar,

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<v Speaker 2>let's see if it gets a little more popular, he

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<v Speaker 2>has a little bit more success than the Lowers.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. So I mean the CUB system as a whole

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<v Speaker 3>is pretty good. I think in that Matt Shaw and

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<v Speaker 3>moisse By Steros are both I think big leaguers comfortably

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<v Speaker 3>with a chance for you know, all star or really

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<v Speaker 3>good seasons mixed in there. Owen Casey, for me, is

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<v Speaker 3>a little bit of a boomer bus, but I think

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<v Speaker 3>he's a big league regular for sure. You know, a

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<v Speaker 3>little higher strikeout profile, but I think the power is

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<v Speaker 3>going to be legit. Kevin Alcantra, he's super athletic, maybe

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<v Speaker 3>he's starting to pull everything together. I remain a little

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<v Speaker 3>skeptical of him and his approach, but he's still pretty

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<v Speaker 3>young and sniffed the majors this year and then kind

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<v Speaker 3>of further down. But like some hype around your guys

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<v Speaker 3>like Jefferson Rojas and Alex Canario is another guy who

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<v Speaker 3>I quite like and thought he was gonna mash some

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<v Speaker 3>homers in the show this year, but hasn't quite. I

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<v Speaker 3>think injuries derailed him the last kind of year and

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<v Speaker 3>a half or so. So they've got a lot of

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<v Speaker 3>guys that I think are really good on the hitters side,

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<v Speaker 3>but the most underappreciated. And James Triontos too, I think

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<v Speaker 3>he gets underappreciated for what he does. He's another one

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<v Speaker 3>that's way too for our exercise, but his contact and

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<v Speaker 3>speed combo. I think he's done really, really well the

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<v Speaker 3>last couple of years, and I think he'll be a

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<v Speaker 3>useful big leaguer as well. So that's like a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of prospects already that are real pretty good man.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd rather talk about Aliens and Cubs pretty boys.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, let's talk about Jonathan Long then, who I don't

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<v Speaker 3>know if you recall what his his ownership percentage was,

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<v Speaker 3>and we've talked about mister Long before, no relation to

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<v Speaker 3>Jeff Long. I don't think I think Jeff would have

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, so Long was that two percent in September?

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<v Speaker 3>Two percent okay, so pretty close to our thresholds and

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<v Speaker 3>one would one hundred percent have been my pick if he.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I just felt like we talked about him enough

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<v Speaker 2>this year that that would have been kind of yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know we did.

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<v Speaker 3>But I wanted to come circle back around and highlight

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<v Speaker 3>that I really appreciate his patients at even advanced levels.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, he made it up to double A this

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<v Speaker 3>year and I think was really really good there and

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<v Speaker 3>his ability to limit strikeouts. I mean, on the year,

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<v Speaker 3>he ran out twenty point seven percent strikeout rate, which

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<v Speaker 3>is quite good, especially given the fact that he popped

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<v Speaker 3>seventeen homers and twenty one doubles in less than five

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<v Speaker 3>hundred plate appearances on the Earth. So that's like those

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<v Speaker 3>are pretty solid rates like that poortends some twenty five

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<v Speaker 3>maybe plus homer power I think at peak not going

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<v Speaker 3>to be one who's going to run a high babbit,

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<v Speaker 3>But I think if he can raise his launch agle

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<v Speaker 3>just a little bit more, this has been the thing

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<v Speaker 3>with him that like it's a little like you mentioned

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<v Speaker 3>in this system, touched to ground ball heavy, and he's

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<v Speaker 3>got the juice and the contact skills to make the

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<v Speaker 3>most of his flyballs. If he can just get a

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<v Speaker 3>few more of those line drives into fly balls, there's

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<v Speaker 3>a world in which he's a thirty plus homer bat

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<v Speaker 3>with good on base and is a middle of a

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<v Speaker 2>Talking about his launch agle talking about him is lyft.

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<v Speaker 2>He's kind of an extreme opposite field guy, right, Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>thirty eight percent APO, So he's letting the ball travel

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<v Speaker 2>on him quite a bit. And I don't think it's

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<v Speaker 2>like you can't catch up the velocity or anything like that.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's an intentional approach to hitting. If you

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<v Speaker 2>did start to hit the ball out in front more,

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<v Speaker 2>wouldn't that lead to more fly balls just naturally the

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<v Speaker 2>way that a swing path works.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's a little bit counterintuitive. I think because we

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<v Speaker 3>talk so much about the value of a pulled fly

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<v Speaker 3>ball that we associate the two. But what actually happens

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<v Speaker 3>with the swing path is that the more opposite field

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<v Speaker 3>you go, the more likely it's going to be a flyball.

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<v Speaker 3>So flyballs to the off gap, to the other way

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<v Speaker 3>are much more common than flyballs to the poll side.

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<v Speaker 3>Generally speaking, there are guys who like, if you got

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<v Speaker 3>a really flat batpath, you know, Alex Bregman or esk Paratus,

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<v Speaker 3>and you're really trying to get it out front, like

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<v Speaker 3>you're really kind of selling out for that kind of

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<v Speaker 3>pulled flyball. But mostly you see pulled balls are on

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<v Speaker 3>the ground. And that is one thing that he does

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<v Speaker 3>pretty well is that he's not a huge worm burner.

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<v Speaker 3>He's just kind of a spray guy, right Like he'll

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<v Speaker 3>go all over the place, and as you mentioned, his

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<v Speaker 3>his propensity to go the other way I think does

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<v Speaker 3>limit a little bit of you know, he's got the

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<v Speaker 3>juice to leave the yard to center and the opposite field.

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<v Speaker 3>But if he was more middle of the diamond, more

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<v Speaker 3>like you know, Freddy Freeman esque, where it's all middle,

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<v Speaker 3>it's all middle, maybe he would get some more of

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<v Speaker 3>those homers too. So one thing you know, he wrote,

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<v Speaker 3>he wrote a pretty high Babby in double A and

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of that was on opposite fields, hits doubles

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<v Speaker 3>and singles the other way. He's not a high babbit

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<v Speaker 3>guy long term for me, maybe a slightly above average guy.

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<v Speaker 3>But I do think that he's got a above average

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<v Speaker 3>slightly above average babby skill and the power to hit

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<v Speaker 3>homers to all fields. And at twenty two at double A, like,

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<v Speaker 3>let's see him start the year keep crushing double A

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<v Speaker 3>and make it up to triple A. And I mean,

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<v Speaker 3>I think the Cubs have a real first basement on

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<v Speaker 3>their hands here if he can keep showing this kind

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<v Speaker 3>of stuff, and I don't think enough people appreciate it,

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<v Speaker 3>just how good his season was. And last bit for

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<v Speaker 3>me on him is that he projects right now. Steamer

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<v Speaker 3>thinks if they chucked him in the majors right now,

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<v Speaker 3>he'd run a ninety nine WRC plus as a twenty

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<v Speaker 3>two year old, and that's I guess age twenty three

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<v Speaker 3>season upcoming. That's pretty good. That's a rare thing for

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<v Speaker 3>one that young. That Steamer already thinks that he is

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<v Speaker 3>a league average bat. Now he's got to be a

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<v Speaker 3>bit better than that to really play at first base, obviously,

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<v Speaker 3>but that to me says that in a year or

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<v Speaker 3>two we might be looking at a guy that is

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<v Speaker 3>a real contenders first baseman in the making.

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<v Speaker 2>He had a really nice AFL season. I think that

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<v Speaker 2>got him a little bit more attention, but not a

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<v Speaker 2>bad pool there from the Cubs with their ninth round

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<v Speaker 2>pick from last year. Really good season. Yep, So you

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<v Speaker 2>and I were both calling Escobar.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, officially okay, with a head nod towards long

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<v Speaker 3>but yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Moving on to the Cub's arms, you're talking about a system.

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<v Speaker 2>Most popular guys Kate Horton at fifty three percent rostered,

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<v Speaker 2>then Caleb Killian at five, Brandon bird Cell at three,

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<v Speaker 2>man Jason Wiggins at three, Cole Franklin at two, like

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<v Speaker 2>it is. I don't know. The cubs pitching conveyor belt

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<v Speaker 2>here has been pretty lackluster. I think for maybe a

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<v Speaker 2>few years, getting down to the zero one percenters. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know. I guess maybe there were a few guys.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm still a little bit interested in my pick from

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<v Speaker 2>last year, Grant Kip, who has heard a lot this year.

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<v Speaker 2>He was in the AFL some but I landed on

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<v Speaker 2>an undrafted free agent.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, hang on, before you get into your pick. You know,

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<v Speaker 3>my boy, Jack Neely, Yankees b side from Yankees beside

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<v Speaker 3>arm from last year, got traded into the system this

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<v Speaker 3>year and kept doing his thing at the upper miners,

422
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<v Speaker 3>just punching everybody out, kept the walks in check. I

423
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<v Speaker 3>think he still looks like a late inning leverage reliever

424
00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:10.759
<v Speaker 3>for them, and you know it's upper nineties. It's a

425
00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:13.279
<v Speaker 3>hammer slider. He is a power writy that is going

426
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<v Speaker 3>to slot in Nicoly at the back of our pen.

427
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<v Speaker 3>I think next year, Like, I think he's a big

428
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<v Speaker 3>league arm. I mean, he's on the forty two. So

429
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<v Speaker 3>I think Neely is going to be a leverage reliever

430
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<v Speaker 3>for the Cubs next year. Whether the Cubs are good

431
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<v Speaker 3>and whether he's getting holds and stuff like, I don't know,

432
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<v Speaker 3>but Ne's Neelly's going to be in that pen. In

433
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<v Speaker 3>my opinion.

434
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<v Speaker 2>Seems like they might have a collection too of relievers

435
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<v Speaker 2>with some open jobs and who's going to take it

436
00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:39.799
<v Speaker 2>sort of thing. So yeah, the Cub's relief situation next

437
00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:43.039
<v Speaker 2>year is I think interesting for dinas or for fantasy

438
00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:47.720
<v Speaker 2>for sure. But yeah, man, I went with Nico Zeglin. Familiar, Yeah,

439
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<v Speaker 2>right on. Forgive me, I don't remember who it was.

440
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<v Speaker 2>But somebody was chatting about having seen him this year

441
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<v Speaker 2>in the discord, and I had to just like chime

442
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<v Speaker 2>in a little bit and be like, yeah, man, I agree.

443
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<v Speaker 2>Of course he's older. He's twenty four, maybe he'll be

444
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<v Speaker 2>twenty five at the start of the season. And he

445
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<v Speaker 2>pitched just in a ball and High A this year

446
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<v Speaker 2>a total of sixty six innings, so you know, perhaps

447
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<v Speaker 2>he was a bit more of an advanced college arm

448
00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:14.799
<v Speaker 2>from Long Beach State, and like, yeah, maybe he should

449
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<v Speaker 2>be doing well in the lowers like this, but I

450
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<v Speaker 2>don't know. Man, six ' four righty arsenal, Like I

451
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<v Speaker 2>don't know the fastball I saw anywhere from like ninety

452
00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:28.480
<v Speaker 2>to ninety six. He's got slider, curve, change up. You know,

453
00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:31.599
<v Speaker 2>he's got the full starter's kit. I think there's he's

454
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<v Speaker 2>a righty, but I think there is a little bit

455
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<v Speaker 2>of I don't know, maybe a little bit of funk

456
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<v Speaker 2>to his release, maybe a little bit of a lower

457
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<v Speaker 2>lower release point, do you think, yeah, a little bit, yeah,

458
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<v Speaker 2>And twenty seven and two thirds innings in High A

459
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<v Speaker 2>point three three era point eight three, whip thirty one

460
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<v Speaker 2>point four, strikeout percentage eight point six percent, walk rate

461
00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.920
<v Speaker 2>swinging strike rate of sixteen point two percent. But I

462
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<v Speaker 2>don't know, man, just video reviewing, I don't know a

463
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<v Speaker 2>dozen guys from this system. Zegland was just kind of

464
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<v Speaker 2>a no brainer for me that I that I liked

465
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<v Speaker 2>the most is a long term potential. Maybe he gets

466
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<v Speaker 2>to the bigs. Obviously it will depend on how it

467
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<v Speaker 2>goes in the uppers. But you know, a full kit,

468
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<v Speaker 2>decent enough stuff can execute it fairly well, Like, let's

469
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<v Speaker 2>see what happens. I don't know, you Goozeglin.

470
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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Deglin was fine. Seemed relievery to me, and in

471
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<v Speaker 3>what way? Just I felt like that, you know, they

472
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<v Speaker 3>were already using him in a reliever type of way.

473
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<v Speaker 3>He's an undrafted free agent and that is old, like right,

474
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<v Speaker 3>he's gonna be twenty five next year, and just sniffed

475
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<v Speaker 3>Hi a uh So, you know, I looked at him

476
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<v Speaker 3>a bit too, thinking like, oh, maybe they're just slow

477
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<v Speaker 3>playing him after long year whatever it is. Ah, maybe, But.

478
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<v Speaker 2>I think there's there's a couple and this is obviously

479
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<v Speaker 2>just all speculation from from our seats here, but I

480
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<v Speaker 2>think there's a couple of different ways you can look

481
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<v Speaker 2>at that sort of stuff, Like he's an undrafted free agent, right,

482
00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:06.599
<v Speaker 2>there's with the condensing of the minor leagues, there's there's

483
00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:10.000
<v Speaker 2>stress and more pressure. Like the teams will have a

484
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<v Speaker 2>lot of guys that they want to get like three

485
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<v Speaker 2>hundred developmental innings too, so for an undrafted guy to

486
00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:18.519
<v Speaker 2>push guy another guy out and get those innings, that

487
00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:20.720
<v Speaker 2>could be a thing. The strike throw, I mean, he's

488
00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:23.799
<v Speaker 2>sixty nine percent a ball, sixty six percent on the year.

489
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<v Speaker 2>I don't think there's I don't think there's any execution

490
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<v Speaker 2>issues as far as can he start or not. I

491
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<v Speaker 2>think there's there's arsenal there to do it. I think

492
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<v Speaker 2>there's enough ways to attack different hitters. I'm just kind

493
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<v Speaker 2>of leaning and wondering that like this was more about

494
00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:40.519
<v Speaker 2>him just breaking through some guys that they maybe had

495
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<v Speaker 2>some bigger plans for.

496
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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I don't I don't disagree with that that part.

497
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<v Speaker 3>And maybe he picks up where he left off in

498
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<v Speaker 3>a full starter's workload at high A or or maybe

499
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<v Speaker 3>even up into double A, like they're going to need something.

500
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<v Speaker 3>You know, they're an interesting system as far as their arms,

501
00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:00.799
<v Speaker 3>even their good ones like Horton, you know, older injury.

502
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:02.000
<v Speaker 3>How much is he going to pitch.

503
00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:03.920
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. So I don't think there's a lot

504
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<v Speaker 2>of good ones.

505
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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, No, I don't at all like this is this

506
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.839
<v Speaker 3>system was really tough. Even like you said, the quote

507
00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:14.279
<v Speaker 3>unquote pretty boy arms that are higher than our roster

508
00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:16.559
<v Speaker 3>percentage limits. I don't really like.

509
00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:20.039
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So again, like I'm not saying I'm not rostering,

510
00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:23.759
<v Speaker 2>I'm not drafting them fypds or anything like that. But

511
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<v Speaker 2>watch and you know, I think I think he's got

512
00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:30.160
<v Speaker 2>it in him to get to the uppers this year

513
00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:32.599
<v Speaker 2>and maybe have some success. And if he's doing that

514
00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:36.160
<v Speaker 2>at twenty five in maybe a weaker system, maybe he

515
00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:38.240
<v Speaker 2>gets this. Maybe maybe he has a chance. I don't know.

516
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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Well, I mean I can't really talk in this

517
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<v Speaker 3>system because the two guys that I liked along with

518
00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:47.680
<v Speaker 3>Zeglin that I kind of was choosing between. If you

519
00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:51.160
<v Speaker 3>smushed him together, I think he got a pretty good pitcher,

520
00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:55.680
<v Speaker 3>but separately they both have some real issues. The two

521
00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:58.880
<v Speaker 3>guys that I liked were Kenton Egbert and Juan Bellow.

522
00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:02.839
<v Speaker 3>Bayo egg is also an under after free agent from

523
00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:06.960
<v Speaker 3>last year from twenty twenty three who didn't pitch last

524
00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:11.160
<v Speaker 3>year and then started sixteen games, twenty three total in

525
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:15.079
<v Speaker 3>a ball the whole year, ninety seven and two thirds innings,

526
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:17.880
<v Speaker 3>twenty six point five percent strike at rate, eight point

527
00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:22.000
<v Speaker 3>one percent walk rate. You know, decent fIF decent average suppression.

528
00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.480
<v Speaker 3>The issue was like, he's a funky, long levered guy

529
00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:30.200
<v Speaker 3>with a good fastball. Like this fastball looks like it plays,

530
00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.079
<v Speaker 3>it's he looks like he's got a little bit lower

531
00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:37.559
<v Speaker 3>release point but good extension. It runs, it rides, and

532
00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:41.400
<v Speaker 3>hitters really seemed to struggle with his fastball. But all

533
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:44.039
<v Speaker 3>of his OSCR pitches I didn't really like. I don't

534
00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:46.960
<v Speaker 3>think any of them was all that good. Seeing him

535
00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:49.720
<v Speaker 3>with the like try and get guys out, like I mean,

536
00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:51.960
<v Speaker 3>decent strikeout rate, but a lot of it was on

537
00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:55.440
<v Speaker 3>fastballs up that a ball hitters couldn't really hang, and

538
00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:58.799
<v Speaker 3>he took advantage of that. And he's twenty two already

539
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:02.559
<v Speaker 3>in low A for the whole year. Like again, he's

540
00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:05.599
<v Speaker 3>probably behind some guys organizationally, but he did enough to

541
00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:08.000
<v Speaker 3>meet for me that I'm like, oh, that's an interesting

542
00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:10.400
<v Speaker 3>ish guy, and he has a fast ball that I

543
00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:12.440
<v Speaker 3>think is interesting. And the other guy, the guy that

544
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:15.039
<v Speaker 3>I'm actually gonna choose, I don't even feel good about it.

545
00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:20.759
<v Speaker 3>Is Juan Bao Bao great offspeed. I thought his slider

546
00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:26.240
<v Speaker 3>was good, movement profile really got guys all flummoxed, lefties, righties.

547
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:28.720
<v Speaker 3>I thought it was good. His curveball might have been

548
00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:31.319
<v Speaker 3>even better. And he runs them in different velocity bands,

549
00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:34.440
<v Speaker 3>so they're like clearly separate. And when he was throwing

550
00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:37.720
<v Speaker 3>his off speed, guys really struggled to make contact and

551
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.400
<v Speaker 3>to hit the ball hard. But his fastball is eighty

552
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.160
<v Speaker 3>eight and it's not a like eighty eight with that,

553
00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:45.319
<v Speaker 3>you know, I would defend you know what I mean,

554
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:47.839
<v Speaker 3>Like it's it's an eighty eight that's not getting whiffs,

555
00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:52.119
<v Speaker 3>it's an eighty eight that's not getting grounders. No, no,

556
00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:54.880
<v Speaker 3>not at all, or a red van scooter or a

557
00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:57.359
<v Speaker 3>bunch of these other guys that we've like, I think

558
00:28:57.400 --> 00:28:59.640
<v Speaker 3>eighty eight mile on air, Isaac Coffee and those kinds

559
00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:02.920
<v Speaker 3>of fast can play when they're unique, when they have

560
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.559
<v Speaker 3>some funky traits to them. BeOS is not that. So

561
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:09.680
<v Speaker 3>like if you paired Kent and Egbert's fastball with Jean

562
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:13.920
<v Speaker 3>Beo's offspeed, that might be an interesting picture. Unfortunately, there

563
00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:16.319
<v Speaker 3>are two different guys, and I'm gonna go with the

564
00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:19.400
<v Speaker 3>one that spins it a bit. I don't feel good

565
00:29:19.400 --> 00:29:22.480
<v Speaker 3>about it, though, and I really can't recommend either of

566
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:23.319
<v Speaker 3>these guys that much.

567
00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:26.759
<v Speaker 2>We've talked about you talk about K minus BB percentage, right, Yep,

568
00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:29.480
<v Speaker 2>you're familiar. You know. Do you know who Kyle Bland

569
00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:30.400
<v Speaker 2>is pictureless?

570
00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:31.160
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

571
00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:33.839
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I been wanting to mention this for what four

572
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:36.559
<v Speaker 2>episodes now, and I'm finally remembering too. But I was

573
00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:40.160
<v Speaker 2>watching he and h forgive me, I don't remember who

574
00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:42.440
<v Speaker 2>the other two folks were, but Pittreless he was just

575
00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:46.240
<v Speaker 2>kind of talking about and I think maybe unveiling his

576
00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:51.599
<v Speaker 2>projections for this upcoming season. I like Kyle because, of course,

577
00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:54.000
<v Speaker 2>he's like a really smart numbers guy. I mean, he's

578
00:29:54.039 --> 00:29:56.920
<v Speaker 2>like inventing metrics and stuff, right, it has tons of

579
00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:58.920
<v Speaker 2>good information. But what I like about him is that

580
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:00.920
<v Speaker 2>he's really smart on that of things, but he also

581
00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:05.079
<v Speaker 2>like contextualizes it and like makes it makes sense with baseball,

582
00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:07.400
<v Speaker 2>and it hasn't been like baseball mine too. You know,

583
00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:10.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna paraphrase and summarize yere, but long story short,

584
00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:13.359
<v Speaker 2>he's talking about different metrics numbers and how he's including

585
00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:16.240
<v Speaker 2>different things and his projections and maybe some other people

586
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:18.519
<v Speaker 2>aren't blah blah and all this stuff right, But then

587
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:21.720
<v Speaker 2>he also is like, but like, still K minus BB

588
00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:25.519
<v Speaker 2>percentage might really just be more predictive than any of

589
00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:30.359
<v Speaker 2>this as as simple you might think it is or whatever, Like,

590
00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:34.160
<v Speaker 2>it really is one of the best predictive metrics out there,

591
00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:37.519
<v Speaker 2>per Kyle Bland. And if he says that, I believe

592
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:42.240
<v Speaker 2>that Nico Zeglin K minus BB percentage this year twenty

593
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:43.480
<v Speaker 2>nine point one percent.

594
00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:44.799
<v Speaker 3>That's pre period.

595
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:49.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but anywhoo, I thought you'd maybe like hearing that's

596
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:50.720
<v Speaker 2>from from Kyle Bland.

597
00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:53.680
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Nice when smart people agree with you. You know, I'm

598
00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:55.839
<v Speaker 3>a big fan of K minus BB. And if a

599
00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:58.359
<v Speaker 3>guy with great stuff isn't doing great on the K

600
00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:02.000
<v Speaker 3>minus BB, I question and how good that stuff actually is.

601
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.640
<v Speaker 2>You know, So talking to aliens is out of bounds.

602
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:09.480
<v Speaker 2>But you like playing lego man with two different pitching

603
00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:12.039
<v Speaker 2>prospects and trying to put them together. That's that's okay.

604
00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:12.799
<v Speaker 2>You can do that.

605
00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:17.119
<v Speaker 3>Now. Listen, if you're alien congressional aliens, we know how

606
00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:20.519
<v Speaker 3>to do that. If you're if your alien congressional hearings,

607
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:24.480
<v Speaker 3>tell me that we can recreate one Bao and and

608
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:28.599
<v Speaker 3>uh Kent and Egbert in the aggregate. I like, now

609
00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:30.279
<v Speaker 3>we're talking. Now you've got my attention.

610
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:34.200
<v Speaker 2>So BeO is your official pick? Right? Yeah, all right,

611
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:36.200
<v Speaker 2>so we got we got the Cubs out of the way.

612
00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:39.559
<v Speaker 3>He's like, that's a bottom three b side them for me.

613
00:31:39.720 --> 00:31:46.119
<v Speaker 2>Like, it's okay, fair enough, Matt the Saint Louis Cardinals.

614
00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:48.480
<v Speaker 2>I gotta say, I don't know Matt as a whole.

615
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:52.119
<v Speaker 2>Just looking at these raster percentages. I wasn't like super

616
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.039
<v Speaker 2>into a bunch of dudes on either side. Yeah, I

617
00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:57.319
<v Speaker 2>don't know the bat that I landed on. This is

618
00:31:57.359 --> 00:31:59.599
<v Speaker 2>a little bit different for me. But I'm gonna go

619
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:04.680
<v Speaker 2>with Ian Patrus, first year player, guy from Alabama when

620
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:07.920
<v Speaker 2>but he was rostered in zero percent of leagues in September.

621
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:10.000
<v Speaker 2>But I know he's getting a little bit of attention

622
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:12.839
<v Speaker 2>a little bit, folks. I think given Beck was kind

623
00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:14.359
<v Speaker 2>of interested in him.

624
00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:17.319
<v Speaker 3>Curious hat a hell of a debut, right, Like, that's

625
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:18.960
<v Speaker 3>one of the loudest debuts.

626
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:21.759
<v Speaker 2>He did twenty eight games after the draft, all in

627
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:25.480
<v Speaker 2>a ball one hundred and fifteen played appearances, no home runs,

628
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:29.640
<v Speaker 2>five stolen bases, pots caught once walked fifteen percent of

629
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.039
<v Speaker 2>the time, struck out only eight percent of the time

630
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:35.880
<v Speaker 2>three forty four, forty two four thirty three point zero

631
00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:40.279
<v Speaker 2>eight nine ISO three eighty eight babip ground ball percentage

632
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:44.240
<v Speaker 2>of fifty two point five percent. Curious way smart people

633
00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:48.119
<v Speaker 2>were interested, turned them on and watched him. He's left handed,

634
00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:50.319
<v Speaker 2>corner outfield type. I don't know. He's listed at six

635
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:52.599
<v Speaker 2>foot I bet you he's not six foot tall, but

636
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.240
<v Speaker 2>a little strong, you know, looking what is he now?

637
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:58.000
<v Speaker 2>He's twenty not twenty one years old, or at least

638
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.640
<v Speaker 2>he was this last season, But I got I wasn't

639
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:03.240
<v Speaker 2>like super impressed. Man. I don't like I don't like

640
00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:07.079
<v Speaker 2>the swing. It just seems like a worm burner, really

641
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.319
<v Speaker 2>kind of geared towards hitting ground balls. I think part

642
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:12.440
<v Speaker 2>of the reason why you don't see the slug or

643
00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:14.839
<v Speaker 2>the ISO there or any home runs. I guess he

644
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:16.599
<v Speaker 2>had a couple of hard hit balls. A one hundred

645
00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:18.920
<v Speaker 2>and ten one hundred and ten mile per hour single

646
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.039
<v Speaker 2>on ground ball, one hundred and eight mile per hour

647
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:23.359
<v Speaker 2>sharp line drive, one hundred and six mile per hour

648
00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:26.519
<v Speaker 2>line drive, one hundred and four mile per hour ground ball.

649
00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:30.000
<v Speaker 2>There's not loft in this swing. Now, there was a

650
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.640
<v Speaker 2>guy that we talked about last year, Richie Pealacios, who

651
00:33:33.039 --> 00:33:36.000
<v Speaker 2>was I think very much kind of a ground ball hitter.

652
00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:39.160
<v Speaker 2>I think the Cardinal's unlocked and may have helped him

653
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:41.559
<v Speaker 2>get some more loft in his swing or change that

654
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:44.359
<v Speaker 2>up some. I don't not saying that every Cardinal hitter

655
00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:46.000
<v Speaker 2>now will be able to do that or they'll do

656
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:49.480
<v Speaker 2>that with him. But Patruce is probably bottom five six

657
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.799
<v Speaker 2>bat for me this year, and I kind of just

658
00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:54.839
<v Speaker 2>didn't really like anybody else. But I'm like, hey, this

659
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:57.559
<v Speaker 2>guy's already getting a little popular. Like maybe I'll just

660
00:33:57.640 --> 00:33:59.880
<v Speaker 2>kind of be a lame out and throw him out.

661
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:03.880
<v Speaker 3>Well that sounds pretty lame of you. Yeah, No, I

662
00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:05.599
<v Speaker 3>I tend to agree. I watched a bit of Pertrus

663
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:09.679
<v Speaker 3>as well and think that he does have some swing

664
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:13.760
<v Speaker 3>loft issues, but good contact and that's interesting to me.

665
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:15.800
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, maybe there's walk.

666
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:18.559
<v Speaker 2>I don't even walk twice as much as he's struck out.

667
00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:22.159
<v Speaker 2>You know, from Alabama to a ball, it's not everybody's

668
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.199
<v Speaker 2>doing that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So like, you know, maybe

669
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:27.920
<v Speaker 2>there's maybe maybe there's something here. I don't know, he's

670
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:30.239
<v Speaker 2>what they've they popped him in the twelfth round right

671
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:33.079
<v Speaker 2>for two hundred and fifty K. So yeah, I don't know.

672
00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:36.519
<v Speaker 2>The imp Patrus probably my waynst pick of the year.

673
00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:37.440
<v Speaker 2>What do you got?

674
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:43.039
<v Speaker 3>I you know, the Cards system is interesting in that

675
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:45.880
<v Speaker 3>a lot of their dudes are are either in the

676
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:49.199
<v Speaker 3>BIGS or have been, so, you know, their Triple A affiliate.

677
00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:51.679
<v Speaker 3>It's awesome. I don't know, Like when I flipped through

678
00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:54.960
<v Speaker 3>him watching it, like that's a stacked International league lineup

679
00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:58.360
<v Speaker 3>when they're rolling out there with Walker, Gorman, Luke and Baker,

680
00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:01.320
<v Speaker 3>like that's that's a bunch of big league quality hitters

681
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:03.800
<v Speaker 3>in there. Victor Scott two for a lot of the year.

682
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:07.360
<v Speaker 3>But there's not a lot of like really exciting even

683
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:10.880
<v Speaker 3>pretty boy names. Farther down the list for me in

684
00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:14.239
<v Speaker 3>the card system, a couple guys we've talked about before,

685
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:19.599
<v Speaker 3>Nathan Church and says our Preeto both are this like

686
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:25.639
<v Speaker 3>slappy contact forward, some speed profile that the Cardinals seem

687
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:28.760
<v Speaker 3>to really like. Brian Torres was another one that's kind

688
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:32.159
<v Speaker 3>of an older guy that is very slappy, stole a

689
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:35.559
<v Speaker 3>bunch of basses, but barely hit extra base hits. I

690
00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:37.639
<v Speaker 3>guess he legged out a bunch of doubles. But guy

691
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:39.880
<v Speaker 3>had two homers in five hundred and twenty eight play

692
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:42.320
<v Speaker 3>appearances this year, and all three of those guys like,

693
00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:46.719
<v Speaker 3>that's a fun profile. I like contact guys, think each

694
00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:50.519
<v Speaker 3>of them brings something to the table. But I wasn't. Yeah,

695
00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:54.360
<v Speaker 3>I couldn't quite bring myself to pick another light, small

696
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.159
<v Speaker 3>slap hitting guy. So I went with Matt Caperniac. You

697
00:35:58.239 --> 00:35:59.800
<v Speaker 3>watch a bunch of Coperniac this year.

698
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:02.599
<v Speaker 2>I'm familiar. He was definitely a guy that I've watched

699
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:05.119
<v Speaker 2>the last few years. He uh was just added to

700
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:05.960
<v Speaker 2>the forty man too.

701
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.519
<v Speaker 3>He was, and I was encouraged to see that I

702
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:11.360
<v Speaker 3>had picked him before I'd seen that. But I had

703
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:17.079
<v Speaker 3>a guess that he might be just given both his level,

704
00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:19.360
<v Speaker 3>you know, he was up in Triple A all year,

705
00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:23.000
<v Speaker 3>led the International League in hits this year. Undrafted free

706
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:25.599
<v Speaker 3>agent from twenty twenty, but really worked his way through

707
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:29.320
<v Speaker 3>the system and mostly performed really well. Like the only

708
00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.800
<v Speaker 3>couple of times he didn't immediately settle in as an

709
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:36.559
<v Speaker 3>above average bat was his first stint in a Double

710
00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:39.039
<v Speaker 3>A in twenty twenty one, when he ran a ninety

711
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:41.559
<v Speaker 3>four WRC plus, and his first stint at triple A

712
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:45.119
<v Speaker 3>in twenty twenty three when he ran a ninety seven

713
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:48.400
<v Speaker 3>WRC plus. So like, the guy's a good hitter everywhere

714
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:51.480
<v Speaker 3>he goes, Gonna be twenty seven next year. Probably is

715
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:55.559
<v Speaker 3>like injury insurance for some of their outfield in Saint

716
00:36:55.639 --> 00:36:58.840
<v Speaker 3>Louis is my guests. But as I mentioned, he led

717
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:02.920
<v Speaker 3>the International League in hits. He has kind of a funky,

718
00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:06.239
<v Speaker 3>flat swing, but he still has enough juice in there

719
00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:09.119
<v Speaker 3>to leave the yard to the opposite field. He popped

720
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:12.239
<v Speaker 3>twenty homers this year, stole five bags, and I think

721
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:15.119
<v Speaker 3>that that's probably right. He steals have never really been

722
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:17.119
<v Speaker 3>a part of his game. He's kind of hovered in

723
00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:20.159
<v Speaker 3>the high single digits for the most part in stops

724
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.039
<v Speaker 3>in the minor leagues. So not a burner by any means,

725
00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:26.440
<v Speaker 3>but controls the strike zone well enough. You know, never

726
00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:29.320
<v Speaker 3>has had high strikeout rates. Again, you watch him swing

727
00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:31.760
<v Speaker 3>and you kind of see why. It's a flatish swing.

728
00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:35.719
<v Speaker 3>He's definitely gearing up for contact. Has always run decent

729
00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:38.960
<v Speaker 3>walk rates. This year was more league average ish, but

730
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:41.960
<v Speaker 3>still that's solid when you've got twenty homers in the

731
00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:45.880
<v Speaker 3>bat there maca prettyek to me, is just like reminds

732
00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:47.880
<v Speaker 3>me a little of Matt Krun last year when I

733
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:50.440
<v Speaker 3>was talking about guy who toiled in the minor leagues

734
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:53.239
<v Speaker 3>for a decent while. Has kind of an interesting story.

735
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:56.840
<v Speaker 3>He played for Great Britain in the World Baseball Classic

736
00:37:56.920 --> 00:38:00.599
<v Speaker 3>last year. Because he was born in the UK, I

737
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:04.440
<v Speaker 3>think American family, I think military family maybe, But he

738
00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:08.000
<v Speaker 3>went to a small school, undrafted free agent and then

739
00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:10.760
<v Speaker 3>has basically just done nothing but hit and do pretty

740
00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:13.920
<v Speaker 3>well and plays all three outfield positions. Seems like a

741
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:18.079
<v Speaker 3>passable centerfielder without being exceptional to me, but can definitely

742
00:38:18.119 --> 00:38:21.599
<v Speaker 3>play the corners. And yeah, Matt Caperniac. I liked enough

743
00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:24.920
<v Speaker 3>about the overall shape of his production that that seems

744
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:27.440
<v Speaker 3>like a big leaguer to me. And Steamer projects him

745
00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:30.239
<v Speaker 3>as a ninety three WRC plus coming into the year,

746
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:32.400
<v Speaker 3>which is fine. You know, you don't really want to

747
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:34.639
<v Speaker 3>see that in left field or right field, and if

748
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:38.159
<v Speaker 3>he's playing center field for your team, it's probably not

749
00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:41.440
<v Speaker 3>what you want to see. But as a serviceable backup

750
00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:44.480
<v Speaker 3>that maybe he gets some run, maybe he does a

751
00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:47.559
<v Speaker 3>touch better than that, I could see that playing. So

752
00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:49.559
<v Speaker 3>Matt Caperniac is my B side pick and I don't

753
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:51.960
<v Speaker 3>feel awful about it. He's somebody that I might look

754
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.559
<v Speaker 3>for in some of my thirties where I need a

755
00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:58.159
<v Speaker 3>bench insurance outfielder kind of thing, and he's free. He's

756
00:38:58.400 --> 00:38:58.960
<v Speaker 3>zero percent.

757
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:01.599
<v Speaker 2>When I look, I dozed off. There were you talking

758
00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:06.960
<v Speaker 2>about Matt Coperniac. Yeah, I'm just kidding. He's just boring

759
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:08.360
<v Speaker 2>that boring profile.

760
00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:12.000
<v Speaker 3>Ye, boring guys who hit above average at every stop

761
00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:14.559
<v Speaker 3>along the way and hummers and we'll stand back.

762
00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:17.960
<v Speaker 2>He probably better, probably better call the mind. Mine was

763
00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:22.000
<v Speaker 2>lame and yours is boring. But yeah, probably got a

764
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.880
<v Speaker 2>big lead shot coming. Otherwise they wouldn't adden to the forties.

765
00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:26.199
<v Speaker 3>So that was my thinking.

766
00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:29.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're probably smarter there than me. All right,

767
00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:31.559
<v Speaker 2>who you got for a Cardinal arm here? Who'd you

768
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:32.960
<v Speaker 2>go with? Last year? I don't remember.

769
00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:37.320
<v Speaker 3>Ian Bedell was my last year and he was okay. Yeah,

770
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:39.840
<v Speaker 3>some of the stuff took a little step back. I

771
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:42.280
<v Speaker 3>thought I wasn't quite as good. I still like him,

772
00:39:42.360 --> 00:39:44.760
<v Speaker 3>and as you know, he's a Cardinals kind of depth

773
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:47.079
<v Speaker 3>arm where the strikeouts aren't going to be there, but

774
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:49.760
<v Speaker 3>he doesn't walk a ton, and I think the deal

775
00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:52.400
<v Speaker 3>was still was Legit wasn't as cool.

776
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:54.519
<v Speaker 2>As wasn't as cool as mine, But yeah, not a

777
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:54.960
<v Speaker 2>bad pick.

778
00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:58.480
<v Speaker 3>I'm fine not being cool. So there were two arms

779
00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:01.480
<v Speaker 3>that I really liked in this system.

780
00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:03.840
<v Speaker 2>This is a loaded This is kind of a loaded

781
00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:04.880
<v Speaker 2>bitching farm.

782
00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:07.199
<v Speaker 3>I think there's some fun guys in here. I don't know.

783
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:09.440
<v Speaker 3>I don't know who you ended up with, but there

784
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:11.920
<v Speaker 3>were quite a few that I looked at as like, oh,

785
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.960
<v Speaker 3>that sort of an interesting guy, and there's something there.

786
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:17.440
<v Speaker 2>Well, I don't, I don't necessarily, I'm not just more

787
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:19.679
<v Speaker 2>like on the pretty boy side, like tink Kent's forty

788
00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:23.400
<v Speaker 2>one percent, Quinn Matthews thirty percent, Roby twenty one percent,

789
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:25.239
<v Speaker 2>Duerpe nineteen percent.

790
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:28.440
<v Speaker 3>Give me Matthews over any of those three any day.

791
00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:33.519
<v Speaker 2>Greevy nineteen percent, Grousepo fifteen percent, Robert seven percent, Clough

792
00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:37.360
<v Speaker 2>and Stein is six percent. My guy from last year, Lynn,

793
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.199
<v Speaker 2>he's up to three percent. Yeah, there's a several two

794
00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:42.559
<v Speaker 2>percent guys that were like in the lowers that are

795
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.639
<v Speaker 2>interesting to me. But yeah, a big difference from a

796
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:48.880
<v Speaker 2>year ago. I think when we bruise this system.

797
00:40:48.639 --> 00:40:50.800
<v Speaker 3>I agree with that, and that, like, like you said,

798
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:53.199
<v Speaker 3>there's a bunch of guys in there that are quite

799
00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:58.119
<v Speaker 3>interesting personally set like kind of settled in on two

800
00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:01.039
<v Speaker 3>that you know, check me if I'm if I'm off here,

801
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.719
<v Speaker 3>because maybe one of them is a little more owned

802
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:07.719
<v Speaker 3>than is our usual rate. But the first one that

803
00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:10.880
<v Speaker 3>I'll talk about is Juan Salas. You watch Solace this year?

804
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:13.119
<v Speaker 2>Yep, he was zero percent in September.

805
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:17.920
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So Solace is super fun. I love the huge

806
00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:20.039
<v Speaker 3>leg kick that he's got. Have you seen that thing?

807
00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:22.760
<v Speaker 2>Yep? He was definitely on my short list of three

808
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:23.880
<v Speaker 2>or four here, but.

809
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:29.000
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, super fun leg kick. I thought his spa speed

810
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:31.800
<v Speaker 3>were really, really good. He had a great year a

811
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:34.760
<v Speaker 3>ball for the whole year, twenty two starts one hundred

812
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:38.559
<v Speaker 3>and what eleven innings, one hundred and thirteen innings, struck

813
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:41.719
<v Speaker 3>out one hundred and nineteen, walked only five point five percent.

814
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:45.360
<v Speaker 3>Like this guy goes after hitters, he really pounds the zone.

815
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:47.960
<v Speaker 3>He knows how to pitch. I like all of those things.

816
00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:55.199
<v Speaker 3>My one issue for him is that his fastball was fine,

817
00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:58.599
<v Speaker 3>but I kind of it's not like an elite angle

818
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.599
<v Speaker 3>or anything, and it's I think tops out at ninety four,

819
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:06.000
<v Speaker 3>so bordering on playable for alrighty, And I really like

820
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:09.320
<v Speaker 3>his changeup. His change up is super fun, threw it

821
00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:13.639
<v Speaker 3>a lot, threw it in fun counts, and his curveball

822
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:15.480
<v Speaker 3>was as better of the breakers in my looks. I

823
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:16.920
<v Speaker 3>don't know if you felt that way as well. I

824
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:20.159
<v Speaker 3>thought he commanded that one pretty well and could get

825
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:23.000
<v Speaker 3>some whips with his curve. His slider was pretty mech

826
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:25.679
<v Speaker 3>to me. I don't know if you felt that way too,

827
00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:27.960
<v Speaker 3>but that was the one that seemed like it had

828
00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:31.199
<v Speaker 3>room for improvement. I almost wonder if he turned that

829
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:33.280
<v Speaker 3>into a bit more of a cutter, like, threw it

830
00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:35.960
<v Speaker 3>a little harder, if he might have some more success.

831
00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:38.440
<v Speaker 3>But one salce was super fun. I liked him a lot,

832
00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:41.280
<v Speaker 3>and if if it wasn't for this other guy, I

833
00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:44.079
<v Speaker 3>think I would have been pretty happy taking one sauce

834
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:46.159
<v Speaker 3>like I would have taken nim over. I think any

835
00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:47.639
<v Speaker 3>picture we've talked about so far.

836
00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:51.360
<v Speaker 2>You know I love young Mexican arms and Unsallas is

837
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.599
<v Speaker 2>that I think ultimately for me with him, it feels

838
00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:57.800
<v Speaker 2>like a lot of the same from past, like young

839
00:42:57.880 --> 00:42:59.920
<v Speaker 2>Mexican Arms that I liked that. I just don't know

840
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.559
<v Speaker 2>if the stuff is going to be enough. And yeah,

841
00:43:02.599 --> 00:43:04.639
<v Speaker 2>I hear that. I feel like I want to bet

842
00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:06.400
<v Speaker 2>on him getting better.

843
00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:08.039
<v Speaker 3>I hear that for sure, And you know, as a

844
00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:10.559
<v Speaker 3>twenty one year old in a ball it was it

845
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:13.239
<v Speaker 3>was a really good year, you know. But still that's

846
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:15.519
<v Speaker 3>a twenty one percent came min as b B, which

847
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:18.159
<v Speaker 3>is more quite good. And especially at a ball like

848
00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:20.719
<v Speaker 3>you know, you want to see maybe a touch better

849
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:23.599
<v Speaker 3>or see that at an advance level like double A

850
00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:24.639
<v Speaker 3>or triple A this.

851
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:26.800
<v Speaker 2>Day and age, you never know. Man. So there's a

852
00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:29.920
<v Speaker 2>guy that we're going to talk about later than unbelievable

853
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:32.639
<v Speaker 2>jumps and just stuff this year.

854
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:35.480
<v Speaker 3>So I'm interested to hear hear that one the guy

855
00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:37.280
<v Speaker 3>that I'm that I want to pick here, and you

856
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:39.599
<v Speaker 3>tell me if I'm off on my percentages. He was

857
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:42.840
<v Speaker 3>zero percent when I looked, But Darlin Saladein.

858
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:46.079
<v Speaker 2>He was he was two percent, and oh.

859
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:48.599
<v Speaker 3>Daggers, Daggers. Well, maybe I have to check down to

860
00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:52.760
<v Speaker 3>Solace for my pick. But Saladin, Saladin was really exciting

861
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:56.159
<v Speaker 3>to me. I liked him quite a lot. The fastball

862
00:43:56.599 --> 00:43:59.679
<v Speaker 3>has major league looking traits. To me, this is a

863
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:03.400
<v Speaker 3>Rule five eligible guy. I'm curious if somebody might try

864
00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:05.880
<v Speaker 3>and pop him. He spent about half the year at

865
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.480
<v Speaker 3>low A and halfier at high so I'm thinking maybe

866
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:11.760
<v Speaker 3>they'll sneak him pass. And the other knock on Saladin

867
00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:13.559
<v Speaker 3>is that he's a little shorter. I think he's like

868
00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:16.800
<v Speaker 3>five ten maybe. But the fastball looked playable to me,

869
00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:20.320
<v Speaker 3>and that is always a good place to start. There's

870
00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:24.039
<v Speaker 3>a curve that he really likes, and he goes to

871
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:26.800
<v Speaker 3>a lot which I also quite liked, and then a

872
00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:28.719
<v Speaker 3>slider or a cutter. I couldn't really tell. It kind

873
00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:31.719
<v Speaker 3>of a harder breaker that I didn't see a ton

874
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:34.599
<v Speaker 3>of positive things out of, Like I thought it was

875
00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:37.360
<v Speaker 3>like maybe below average at getting whiffs for a cutter

876
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:39.840
<v Speaker 3>slider thing. But then in an occasional change that I

877
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:42.679
<v Speaker 3>thought he could use more because it seemed like it

878
00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:45.119
<v Speaker 3>played like he kept it below the zone one at

879
00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:47.239
<v Speaker 3>that in particularly that I'm recalling where it was a

880
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:50.840
<v Speaker 3>three to two changeup that he shook two and dotted

881
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:52.880
<v Speaker 3>it just below the zone and got a whiff for

882
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:55.840
<v Speaker 3>the strikeout, which I thought was really nice. And I

883
00:44:55.880 --> 00:45:00.559
<v Speaker 3>also liked his motion, like there's good flow to it's

884
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:03.440
<v Speaker 3>like easy. Everything about it is kind of easy and whippy.

885
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:06.960
<v Speaker 3>This isn't a smash the button go by this guy,

886
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:09.800
<v Speaker 3>Go try and acquire him. But I really liked what

887
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:13.840
<v Speaker 3>I saw. And you know, along these DSL guys that

888
00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:16.480
<v Speaker 3>take a little bit to get going as arms, you know,

889
00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:18.480
<v Speaker 3>he just doesn't have a ton of innings under his belt.

890
00:45:18.519 --> 00:45:21.559
<v Speaker 3>He threw one hundred and twenty some innings and that

891
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:26.719
<v Speaker 3>like almost tripled his previous career high in the minor leagues,

892
00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:29.400
<v Speaker 3>and he's still just at HI. Maybe someone tries to

893
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:31.719
<v Speaker 3>scoop him and stuffs him in a pen because they

894
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:34.119
<v Speaker 3>think he can be a reliever for a year or whatever.

895
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:36.559
<v Speaker 3>But I think he'll probably pass through the rule five

896
00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:39.760
<v Speaker 3>pretty comfortably and get another year and see what he

897
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:42.800
<v Speaker 3>can do with the mid to uppers for Saint Louis.

898
00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:46.840
<v Speaker 3>But Darlin Saladin is my guy for the cards.

899
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:50.000
<v Speaker 2>Pipeline had him fourteenth the last time I looked at

900
00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:53.519
<v Speaker 2>other lists in their system. I like that call. I

901
00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:58.639
<v Speaker 2>decided to go with another teenage armed Matt small sample

902
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:03.079
<v Speaker 2>look young infante. I don't know if you watch any

903
00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:05.639
<v Speaker 2>of his well, he got in a total of thirteen

904
00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:09.000
<v Speaker 2>point one innings thirteen and a third innings in a

905
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:11.920
<v Speaker 2>ball and not all that was broadcast. I'm not even

906
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:16.039
<v Speaker 2>sure exactly. Maybe half of those I watched, but he

907
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:19.280
<v Speaker 2>was nineteen this year, righty listed at six ' three

908
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:23.639
<v Speaker 2>from the Dominican his thirteen innings. I don't know, what

909
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:27.559
<v Speaker 2>do you do? It only struck out nineteen percent, twenty percent,

910
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:31.000
<v Speaker 2>struck out twenty eight percent in the complex, walked eleven

911
00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:34.119
<v Speaker 2>and a half percent. Don't love that. Three strikes at

912
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:36.679
<v Speaker 2>fifty nine percent in a ball, but seventy percent on

913
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:40.480
<v Speaker 2>seventy percent on the complex. Small sample size, Matt, small

914
00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:44.119
<v Speaker 2>sample size. This is UH turning on some video and

915
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:46.320
<v Speaker 2>getting a little bit on the edge of your seat,

916
00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:49.000
<v Speaker 2>a little bit more excited than anybody else I watched

917
00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:51.679
<v Speaker 2>down at this roster percentage. Well, he's a writing, he's

918
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:55.119
<v Speaker 2>got a little a little drop and drive a little

919
00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:57.800
<v Speaker 2>bit lower release. I think to him maybe a little

920
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:01.519
<v Speaker 2>bit of an oddity to his whole delivery there. According

921
00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:06.440
<v Speaker 2>to Savant, through four seamer sinker those what average about

922
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:09.760
<v Speaker 2>ninety three. But you see there's also something that touched

923
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:13.559
<v Speaker 2>ninety six. Ninety seven. Curveball was his most thrown secondary

924
00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:16.519
<v Speaker 2>through that seventeen percent of the time. Again, this is

925
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:18.800
<v Speaker 2>this is a pretty small sample size. So there's a

926
00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:21.239
<v Speaker 2>change up and there's a slider and I kind of

927
00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:24.920
<v Speaker 2>thought all of the secondary the fastballs, all of the secondaries,

928
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:27.639
<v Speaker 2>and my little watch is like, especially for a teenager,

929
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:31.920
<v Speaker 2>seemed to be executed fairly decently. I thought like he was,

930
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:34.559
<v Speaker 2>he was pitching him mixing and I don't just really

931
00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:37.119
<v Speaker 2>really caught me, really kind of impressed me for a kid.

932
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:39.400
<v Speaker 2>Last year, I went with a guy just kind of

933
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:42.480
<v Speaker 2>based on stuff and when that worked out, all right,

934
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:45.320
<v Speaker 2>I guess maybe not quite as much velocity here. I

935
00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:47.800
<v Speaker 2>don't think he's touching one hundred, but I don't think

936
00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:50.880
<v Speaker 2>that this kid has fully grown here. And yeah, I

937
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:53.000
<v Speaker 2>don't know, man, there could be a real starter year.

938
00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:56.480
<v Speaker 2>I think there's plenty, plenty of time to let this develop.

939
00:47:56.639 --> 00:47:59.519
<v Speaker 3>I like that change up you shared, that was thanks. Yeah,

940
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:00.760
<v Speaker 3>he turned it over pretty well.

941
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:04.239
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's a couple of the breakers looking real nasty

942
00:48:04.280 --> 00:48:06.599
<v Speaker 2>at times. Like I don't know, man, I was just

943
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:08.960
<v Speaker 2>I was into it six innings or whatever the hell

944
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.880
<v Speaker 2>it was. Got to be interested in what teenagers they

945
00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:15.039
<v Speaker 2>decide to pull up and give some aall a ball.

946
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:15.840
<v Speaker 2>It looks too.

947
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:18.599
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, fun little dice roll there. That's not when I

948
00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:19.840
<v Speaker 3>watched Antio, So.

949
00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:22.800
<v Speaker 2>I guess it's max fastball on the Savant was ninety

950
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:26.039
<v Speaker 2>six points three or whatever that's worth. Yeah, that'll play.

951
00:48:26.199 --> 00:48:27.079
<v Speaker 2>You can live up there.

952
00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:28.760
<v Speaker 3>I sure can't throw that hard.

953
00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:30.840
<v Speaker 2>It's just always kind of interesting you watch some of

954
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:34.360
<v Speaker 2>these international teenagers come up and you're like, and then

955
00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:36.320
<v Speaker 2>you get to you know, you get the juxtaposition. You

956
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:38.599
<v Speaker 2>get to look at I don't know, Ben Kundro when

957
00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:41.679
<v Speaker 2>he was a teenager, you know, his first pro season,

958
00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:45.119
<v Speaker 2>or Maddox Brounze or somebody like that, and you're just like, dude,

959
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:48.039
<v Speaker 2>this this kid that they signed for twenty k or

960
00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:51.440
<v Speaker 2>whatever is like way better right now. So you know,

961
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:53.199
<v Speaker 2>if they were in the draft sort of thing, where

962
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:55.440
<v Speaker 2>would they get drafted? I don't know, but I was

963
00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:58.760
<v Speaker 2>into this. Nice let's go to the Pirates Mac because

964
00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:02.400
<v Speaker 2>the Pirates have the guy that I'm most into tonight.

965
00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:04.800
<v Speaker 3>Ooh interesting, okay, but I'm gonna.

966
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:06.960
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna let you go first. Let's go Pirates' Bats.

967
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:08.280
<v Speaker 2>I'll let you go first though.

968
00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:11.039
<v Speaker 3>For the bats I, I don't know if we we

969
00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:17.320
<v Speaker 3>mentioned him before, but Sammy Siani Sioni is not my choice,

970
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:20.280
<v Speaker 3>but like, I think this guy is likely to get

971
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.920
<v Speaker 3>taken in the Rule five because he seems like he

972
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.519
<v Speaker 3>can really play center field. His brother is a good

973
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:29.920
<v Speaker 3>center fielder in the card system, Mike, and they're you know,

974
00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:32.639
<v Speaker 3>he didn't hit great at Double A this year, but

975
00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:35.559
<v Speaker 3>he was really good at high A to start the year,

976
00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:38.199
<v Speaker 3>and that got me intrigued enough I kind of followed

977
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:40.320
<v Speaker 3>him a little bit throughout the year. He's another one

978
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:43.239
<v Speaker 3>that I think is, you know, maybe a twelve homer

979
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.880
<v Speaker 3>bat in the BIGS, but like could have thirty some

980
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:48.719
<v Speaker 3>steals and play really good center field. Still some production,

981
00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:51.079
<v Speaker 3>but I could see him getting popped. The guy I

982
00:49:51.119 --> 00:49:54.400
<v Speaker 3>am gonna pick is someone else that I mentioned a

983
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:58.559
<v Speaker 3>little while back, Nick Simeo, Yeah, Samilo Samo You and

984
00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:00.800
<v Speaker 3>I talked about him when I meant that he was

985
00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:04.239
<v Speaker 3>having just a hell of a power run down in

986
00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:12.159
<v Speaker 3>High Greenville, Greensboro, Greensboroboro, and in Greensboro. As you noted,

987
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:18.199
<v Speaker 3>they have a higher park factor anyway, especially for or

988
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:22.960
<v Speaker 3>especially for rightis, and that's worth noting. You know, overall

989
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:26.159
<v Speaker 3>it's like a slightly above average for hitters, but for

990
00:50:26.280 --> 00:50:29.360
<v Speaker 3>righty's and especially for homers, it's it's quite high. And

991
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:31.519
<v Speaker 3>he was taking advantage of that. Right he was lifting

992
00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:32.360
<v Speaker 3>and pulling.

993
00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:34.079
<v Speaker 2>If you're hitting them the dead center there though I

994
00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:35.000
<v Speaker 2>think it's legit.

995
00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:37.039
<v Speaker 3>But see, that's the thing is he was doing that

996
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:40.440
<v Speaker 3>as well. What did I We were talking about somebody earlier, Escobar,

997
00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:42.800
<v Speaker 3>I think for the Cubs, and I was skeptical of

998
00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:45.039
<v Speaker 3>his homer and a flyball rate, and I was like,

999
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:48.360
<v Speaker 3>twenty three percent. Smeo had a thirty four point seven

1000
00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:53.679
<v Speaker 3>homer to flyball rate at Greensboro this year. So yeah,

1001
00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:56.440
<v Speaker 3>he probably didn't earn all of those homers, but the

1002
00:50:56.519 --> 00:51:01.119
<v Speaker 3>dude mashed seventeen of them two hundred and twenty played appearances.

1003
00:51:01.719 --> 00:51:05.960
<v Speaker 3>Seventeen and in two hundred and twenty played appearances is nutty. Now,

1004
00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:09.639
<v Speaker 3>of course, I'm not saying he's like the next coming

1005
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:13.000
<v Speaker 3>of Joey Gallo or whatever, but there's real power here.

1006
00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:16.280
<v Speaker 3>You know. He's a big right right first base Mnata Rutgers.

1007
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:19.320
<v Speaker 3>He's going to be twenty five this upcoming year and

1008
00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:23.559
<v Speaker 3>was more league average at a double A than really

1009
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:26.760
<v Speaker 3>great and that should give you, I should give you

1010
00:51:26.840 --> 00:51:30.679
<v Speaker 3>some pause. Al Tuna's like a pretty neutral park, so

1011
00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:32.679
<v Speaker 3>you can't blame a ton of it on the park.

1012
00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:35.679
<v Speaker 3>I watched a lot of his double A games there

1013
00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:38.320
<v Speaker 3>for the curve. And the thing that I like about

1014
00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:40.079
<v Speaker 3>him that kind of sets him apart from some of

1015
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:43.320
<v Speaker 3>the other right right kind of first baseman that you

1016
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:46.239
<v Speaker 3>see around the minor leagues is I think his contact

1017
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:50.079
<v Speaker 3>skills have actually improved as he's gone up levels. His

1018
00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:54.239
<v Speaker 3>swinging strike rate has gone down. He's I think, doing

1019
00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:57.039
<v Speaker 3>a pretty good job controlling the zone, walks in above

1020
00:51:57.079 --> 00:52:00.960
<v Speaker 3>average amount. And while Steamer is still skeptical of his

1021
00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:03.800
<v Speaker 3>strikeout rate, like project him as a slightly worse than

1022
00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:06.800
<v Speaker 3>average strikeout rate guy, and with the can I just

1023
00:52:06.880 --> 00:52:09.719
<v Speaker 3>okay OBP and power, I think there might be a

1024
00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:13.519
<v Speaker 3>tick better contact skills there than you see. I've seen

1025
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:16.079
<v Speaker 3>him adjust pretty well. There was a really good at

1026
00:52:16.079 --> 00:52:18.639
<v Speaker 3>bad I saw late in the season in Double A,

1027
00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:23.199
<v Speaker 3>and he missed a slider like one one to go

1028
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:26.239
<v Speaker 3>to a one two count like down and away, good pitch,

1029
00:52:26.280 --> 00:52:29.320
<v Speaker 3>and he swung and missed, and previously in that bat

1030
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:31.840
<v Speaker 3>swung and miss at a fastball kind of up middle,

1031
00:52:32.119 --> 00:52:36.280
<v Speaker 3>but he adjusted, fouled off like four pitches, couple of sliders,

1032
00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:39.320
<v Speaker 3>couple of fastballs, and then Pitcher missed his spot and

1033
00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:42.840
<v Speaker 3>dude hit a nuke to center field like in Altuna

1034
00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:46.320
<v Speaker 3>like deep and has like that's just a really good

1035
00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:48.800
<v Speaker 3>at bat and I think demonstrated some of the Like

1036
00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:50.880
<v Speaker 3>you know, he ran an eight point five percent swinging

1037
00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:53.840
<v Speaker 3>strike rate in double A over you know, one hundred

1038
00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:56.199
<v Speaker 3>and eighty five played appearances, Like that's a decent sample

1039
00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:59.000
<v Speaker 3>for your swinging strike rate and that's plus and this

1040
00:52:59.079 --> 00:53:02.480
<v Speaker 3>guy also plus power, Like is he a forty homer

1041
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:05.599
<v Speaker 3>bat like he was showing in Greensboro? No, but could

1042
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.400
<v Speaker 3>he be thirty and could the strikeout rate help him

1043
00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:11.400
<v Speaker 3>get to that? Maybe he also was a flyball dude,

1044
00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:13.920
<v Speaker 3>which you know, I love for these power guys, Like

1045
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:16.239
<v Speaker 3>he's going to get to his power and that didn't

1046
00:53:16.239 --> 00:53:20.119
<v Speaker 3>show up a ton in Altuna, but again it wasn't

1047
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:22.440
<v Speaker 3>a huge sample size for the kind of home and

1048
00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:25.079
<v Speaker 3>a flyball rate to stabilize. So I think he's going

1049
00:53:25.119 --> 00:53:27.519
<v Speaker 3>to be a guy that is a corner masher and

1050
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:30.440
<v Speaker 3>has has a real shot to be like a first

1051
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:34.320
<v Speaker 3>baseman for the Pirates for a decent amount of time.

1052
00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:39.079
<v Speaker 3>Maybe not next year, but soon. You know, he's a

1053
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:40.840
<v Speaker 3>really interesting corner power bat.

1054
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:43.039
<v Speaker 2>To me, who is this who is this version of

1055
00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:45.480
<v Speaker 2>the Roough just loving on so many right handed first

1056
00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:46.280
<v Speaker 2>Basemen tonight.

1057
00:53:46.519 --> 00:53:49.119
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's just like that's you know, nobody else interesting

1058
00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:52.079
<v Speaker 3>in these systems, right, Well, I am.

1059
00:53:52.599 --> 00:53:55.119
<v Speaker 2>I don't't lie. I'm thrilled that you did not pick

1060
00:53:55.199 --> 00:53:57.840
<v Speaker 2>my guy because I thought for sure you were going

1061
00:53:57.880 --> 00:53:59.599
<v Speaker 2>to and I knew that you'd liked some Millo to

1062
00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:02.559
<v Speaker 2>some degree. But I'm going with a guy that you

1063
00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:06.400
<v Speaker 2>brought up this year, young eighteen year old Xio Plaz.

1064
00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:08.159
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Platz is a great pick.

1065
00:54:08.199 --> 00:54:10.159
<v Speaker 2>I love him, dude. And I was trying to not

1066
00:54:10.239 --> 00:54:13.119
<v Speaker 2>pick any catchers this year, but I had I had

1067
00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:16.079
<v Speaker 2>to make this, make this call here, my man hits

1068
00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:20.679
<v Speaker 2>the ball hard, dude. Yeah, how this is probably a

1069
00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:24.559
<v Speaker 2>top ten guy for me. Maybe who I guy for

1070
00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:28.800
<v Speaker 2>the draft, I don't know. We'll see Rastered in September.

1071
00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:32.519
<v Speaker 2>Not on Pipeline's list. Last I saw Catcher. I think

1072
00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:35.039
<v Speaker 2>he did play a little bit of first base, right handed.

1073
00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:37.400
<v Speaker 2>Listed at five to eleven. I don't know if he's

1074
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:38.719
<v Speaker 2>quite that tall from.

1075
00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:40.800
<v Speaker 3>VENEZUELA little fire hydrant guy.

1076
00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:43.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Eight games in the complex

1077
00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:46.119
<v Speaker 2>this year. I don't know if that was rehab stuff

1078
00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:48.000
<v Speaker 2>for something. I don't know. Most of the year in

1079
00:54:48.239 --> 00:54:51.119
<v Speaker 2>a ball seventy six games, two hundred and eighty one

1080
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:54.920
<v Speaker 2>played appearances. My man hit fifteen home runs. I swept

1081
00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:58.239
<v Speaker 2>the baby. He's not going to be stealing bases, walked

1082
00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:01.440
<v Speaker 2>eleven percent of the time. I'd strike out twenty nine

1083
00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:04.400
<v Speaker 2>percent of the time. Don't love to see that two

1084
00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:08.840
<v Speaker 2>seven three two four thirty eight slash two thirty one iso,

1085
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:11.880
<v Speaker 2>and he ran a two thirty five babbit which was

1086
00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:14.599
<v Speaker 2>good enough for a one tow eight WRC plus hits

1087
00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:16.519
<v Speaker 2>it on the ground less than thirty five percent of

1088
00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:18.960
<v Speaker 2>the time, pulled the ball forty percent of the time.

1089
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:23.719
<v Speaker 2>But mat to me, it's the compact, quick, powerful swing, dude.

1090
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:26.920
<v Speaker 2>I pulled up his hardest hit balls this year. It's

1091
00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:30.199
<v Speaker 2>not necessarily the mile per hours that I like, but

1092
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:33.599
<v Speaker 2>the results right. One hundred and twelve and a half

1093
00:55:33.679 --> 00:55:36.239
<v Speaker 2>mount so one hundred and thirteen off the bat home

1094
00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:38.800
<v Speaker 2>run was his hardest hit ball the year. One hundred

1095
00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:41.119
<v Speaker 2>and twelve. It was a ground out. One hundred and

1096
00:55:41.159 --> 00:55:44.039
<v Speaker 2>eleven was a double on a sharp line drive. One

1097
00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:47.800
<v Speaker 2>hundred and eleven line out, one hundred and eleven home run,

1098
00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:51.199
<v Speaker 2>one hundred and eleven line drive, one hundred and eleven

1099
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:55.320
<v Speaker 2>line drive, one hundred and ten home run, his top

1100
00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:58.280
<v Speaker 2>what would be his ninetieth percentile one ball hit on

1101
00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:01.880
<v Speaker 2>the ground. He's hitting it hard and it's hardest hit

1102
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:06.239
<v Speaker 2>balls are in the air. Obviously, catcher this young. Fantasy wise,

1103
00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:09.880
<v Speaker 2>I get hesitancy there. I get a guy who's striking

1104
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:13.280
<v Speaker 2>out almost thirty percent. But mind you two, he's eighteen

1105
00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:16.079
<v Speaker 2>and this is what like a little over half of

1106
00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:19.679
<v Speaker 2>a season. Yeah, a ball like, I don't know, there's

1107
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:22.400
<v Speaker 2>enough fump in this bat for him to be way

1108
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:25.400
<v Speaker 2>more exciting to me than anybody else. Zero one percent

1109
00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:26.159
<v Speaker 2>with the Pirates.

1110
00:56:26.440 --> 00:56:28.159
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you know, I'm a fan, and I think you

1111
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:32.239
<v Speaker 3>nailed it. There's power, there's some patience, he gets the

1112
00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:34.400
<v Speaker 3>ball in the air. He's pretty fun.

1113
00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:37.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was surprised you didn't take him, man, And

1114
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:41.119
<v Speaker 2>I'll be dropping videos of my picks here on Twitter

1115
00:56:41.320 --> 00:56:44.800
<v Speaker 2>at pitching Specs so you can see what maybe some

1116
00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:46.800
<v Speaker 2>of the stuff that we're talking about here. But yeah,

1117
00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:49.199
<v Speaker 2>I was surprised. It just a strikeouts or you just

1118
00:56:49.320 --> 00:56:51.559
<v Speaker 2>like Samilo that much and us further along.

1119
00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:54.199
<v Speaker 3>I mean, it's the strikeouts, and I think ended up

1120
00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:56.480
<v Speaker 3>sort of being kind of similar profile, right like that,

1121
00:56:56.960 --> 00:56:59.599
<v Speaker 3>I think Samila hits the ball harder and strikes out

1122
00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:02.199
<v Speaker 3>less at a higher level, Like you know, give me

1123
00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:06.000
<v Speaker 3>that reduction and risk. And I still haven't forgotten Plause

1124
00:57:06.159 --> 00:57:09.719
<v Speaker 3>for tricking me with his stupid DSL good numbers when

1125
00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:12.199
<v Speaker 3>I was going to take Bisio instead of him, and

1126
00:57:12.280 --> 00:57:15.199
<v Speaker 3>I took Plause and then two picks later Bisio goes.

1127
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:17.800
<v Speaker 2>So maybe still there's history there.

1128
00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:19.440
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think I mentioned that on the pot at

1129
00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:24.079
<v Speaker 3>one point, but I still have some hidden resentment towards Axial.

1130
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:26.960
<v Speaker 3>But no, I think that's interesting. And like you mentioned

1131
00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:30.719
<v Speaker 3>this guy at eighteen, Yeah, that's you could see some

1132
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:33.039
<v Speaker 3>progression here in a way that a lot of the

1133
00:57:33.039 --> 00:57:35.800
<v Speaker 3>guys we talked about. It's tough to do that, but yeah,

1134
00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:38.039
<v Speaker 3>he's got some stuff to like for sure.

1135
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:40.239
<v Speaker 2>It's kind of fun to think about if he had

1136
00:57:40.280 --> 00:57:43.000
<v Speaker 2>played the whole season in the FSL with his home

1137
00:57:43.079 --> 00:57:46.079
<v Speaker 2>run total might have been because yeah, fifteen and seventy

1138
00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:49.920
<v Speaker 2>six FSL games is pretty freaking unheard of. What was it?

1139
00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:53.920
<v Speaker 2>I think the league leader was what twenty nineteen? If

1140
00:57:54.000 --> 00:58:00.159
<v Speaker 2>that so impressive power stuff there in my opinion. Yeah,

1141
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:04.280
<v Speaker 2>with the Pirates arm Farm Matt pretty pretty right.

1142
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:10.079
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god, this system is fucking stacked arms.

1143
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:13.239
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm just stucking at the top. Obviously, Skiings he's

1144
00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:16.639
<v Speaker 2>not a prospect anymore. But Bubba Chandler thirty eight percent,

1145
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:20.480
<v Speaker 2>Cela medow Is twenty three percent, Braxton Ashcraft was eighteen,

1146
00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:25.840
<v Speaker 2>Thomas Harritt Harrington eighteen, Hunter Barcos seven, Xander Moomouth six,

1147
00:58:26.039 --> 00:58:29.239
<v Speaker 2>Mike Burrows, who I'm a big fan of, six percent,

1148
00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:33.239
<v Speaker 2>Carlson Reid four percent, Michael Kennedy two percent, Josh Hartle,

1149
00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:36.679
<v Speaker 2>who's the first year player guy right two percent.

1150
00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:38.800
<v Speaker 3>Was four percent. That's a bummer because I want to

1151
00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:39.840
<v Speaker 3>talk about him.

1152
00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:40.960
<v Speaker 2>And then I got to say and then you know

1153
00:58:41.079 --> 00:58:45.679
<v Speaker 2>my guy from last year, Erkulani, No, I still have

1154
00:58:45.719 --> 00:58:47.760
<v Speaker 2>some interest in him. But there was a know, I

1155
00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:50.920
<v Speaker 2>got four or five guys that were, you know, on

1156
00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:53.639
<v Speaker 2>my short list here with the Pirates. But if you're

1157
00:58:53.639 --> 00:58:55.400
<v Speaker 2>a Pirates fan, I think you got to feel pretty

1158
00:58:55.400 --> 00:58:57.519
<v Speaker 2>good about what they've been doing with some arms the

1159
00:58:57.559 --> 00:58:58.679
<v Speaker 2>last several years.

1160
00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:00.760
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and these are these are pretty boys that I

1161
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:04.760
<v Speaker 3>think are actually really good, you know, with Tayler, Braxton Ashcraft,

1162
00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:07.719
<v Speaker 3>Thomas Harrington, Mike Burrows, Carlson Reedal. I'll talk a bit

1163
00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:11.440
<v Speaker 3>about like Salomatto. I think all of those guys are

1164
00:59:11.639 --> 00:59:14.599
<v Speaker 3>the real deal. Hunter Barco, it really impressed me this year.

1165
00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:17.239
<v Speaker 3>I was a bit skeptical, but he thought was pretty

1166
00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:20.079
<v Speaker 3>good this year too. This arm farm they got going

1167
00:59:20.119 --> 00:59:23.920
<v Speaker 3>here in Pittsburgh is really exciting. And you know, if

1168
00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:26.480
<v Speaker 3>i'm them, I'm probably trading a few of these guys

1169
00:59:26.480 --> 00:59:29.360
<v Speaker 3>to try and bolster their hitters because they're missing some

1170
00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:31.920
<v Speaker 3>pieces on the hitting side. But they, I think pretty

1171
00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:34.000
<v Speaker 3>quickly are going to have a rotation that can compete

1172
00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:36.719
<v Speaker 3>with freaking anybody. I mean, this is this is a

1173
00:59:36.760 --> 00:59:38.840
<v Speaker 3>good crop. Let me let me talk about Carlson read

1174
00:59:38.840 --> 00:59:41.000
<v Speaker 3>a bit because he was a new new one to

1175
00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:43.280
<v Speaker 3>me in diving into the system. And when I looked,

1176
00:59:43.320 --> 00:59:46.519
<v Speaker 3>I think he was one percent, but again I looked

1177
00:59:46.840 --> 00:59:51.320
<v Speaker 3>kind of late. This He is fun. I mean he's tall,

1178
00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:56.559
<v Speaker 3>six or four, lanky, long arms, long legs, gets down

1179
00:59:56.599 --> 01:00:00.760
<v Speaker 3>the mound. He's got a sinker, a slider, and a split.

1180
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:03.800
<v Speaker 3>And I think when I was reading up on him

1181
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:06.880
<v Speaker 3>doing some background, he mostly had been a reliever and

1182
01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:08.599
<v Speaker 3>people thought he was going to be a reliever, but

1183
01:00:08.639 --> 01:00:11.320
<v Speaker 3>Pittsburgh popped him in the fourth and we're like, we're

1184
01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:13.639
<v Speaker 3>gonna out of West Virginia, I think, and he's like,

1185
01:00:13.679 --> 01:00:16.079
<v Speaker 3>we're gonna try and make you a starter. But maybe

1186
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:19.599
<v Speaker 3>Baseball America or somebody was like exciting stuff up to

1187
01:00:19.719 --> 01:00:22.599
<v Speaker 3>ninety nine. But it's two pitches, and really one of

1188
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:25.360
<v Speaker 3>those isn't very good. I don't think that's true at all.

1189
01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:30.360
<v Speaker 3>It's a nasty sinker. He will throw a four seamer

1190
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:35.840
<v Speaker 3>as well. The slider is really good and he'll go

1191
01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:39.639
<v Speaker 3>to it a lot. And then the split was nasty,

1192
01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:42.440
<v Speaker 3>and that's new, I think. I don't think he had

1193
01:00:42.440 --> 01:00:45.800
<v Speaker 3>had that before. But it's pretty good. The one knock

1194
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:48.480
<v Speaker 3>on him is that the walks trended a little higher

1195
01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:50.920
<v Speaker 3>than I like, you know, approaching that kind of twelve

1196
01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:53.760
<v Speaker 3>percent mark. That's really my no go. But there were

1197
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:55.880
<v Speaker 3>a lot of outings where it was like one or

1198
01:00:55.920 --> 01:00:59.599
<v Speaker 3>two walks, and so I'm it seems like when he's

1199
01:00:59.599 --> 01:01:02.639
<v Speaker 3>got it, it works really well. His arm swing is

1200
01:01:02.679 --> 01:01:05.280
<v Speaker 3>a little long for my liking, like he gets kind

1201
01:01:05.280 --> 01:01:07.239
<v Speaker 3>of behind himself, and I think that that might be

1202
01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:11.280
<v Speaker 3>why he can sometimes lose it. But the pure stuff

1203
01:01:11.519 --> 01:01:14.760
<v Speaker 3>and execution of that stuff is up there for among

1204
01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:17.119
<v Speaker 3>the best arms in the system. Like I'll put him

1205
01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:20.920
<v Speaker 3>right up there against Solometto and Ashcraft and you know,

1206
01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:24.679
<v Speaker 3>maybe a half step behind Chandler for like stuff. And

1207
01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:27.760
<v Speaker 3>he's twenty one, gonna be twenty two. Made it up

1208
01:01:27.800 --> 01:01:30.480
<v Speaker 3>to double A this was this was like, I guess

1209
01:01:30.519 --> 01:01:32.000
<v Speaker 3>he made it up to high. Maybe he didn't quite

1210
01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:34.320
<v Speaker 3>make the double, but he was so exciting to me.

1211
01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:37.559
<v Speaker 3>I loved my watches of him, and I think he's

1212
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:39.760
<v Speaker 3>he's a really fun one. But I'm going to try

1213
01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:40.960
<v Speaker 3>and get some shares of soon.

1214
01:01:41.119 --> 01:01:43.360
<v Speaker 2>I think I was watching him a little bit this season,

1215
01:01:43.400 --> 01:01:45.239
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, not a guy that I was like super

1216
01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:46.039
<v Speaker 2>tuned in on.

1217
01:01:46.320 --> 01:01:49.280
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I got just super super jazz when when

1218
01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:51.480
<v Speaker 3>I was watching him, and I was just like, dude,

1219
01:01:51.519 --> 01:01:53.199
<v Speaker 3>why is nobody talking about him? But you know, I

1220
01:01:53.239 --> 01:01:55.320
<v Speaker 3>guess if he's four percent like some people are, some

1221
01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:56.000
<v Speaker 3>people are in.

1222
01:01:56.079 --> 01:01:57.760
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, would you go with?

1223
01:01:58.199 --> 01:02:00.920
<v Speaker 3>Well, I decided to go with Dominic s Paracchi.

1224
01:02:02.880 --> 01:02:03.679
<v Speaker 2>Coach guy.

1225
01:02:03.639 --> 01:02:08.400
<v Speaker 3>Yea nice, Yeah, yeah I'll do I'll do the short version.

1226
01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:11.760
<v Speaker 3>You can dive a little deeper. Like my TLDR on

1227
01:02:11.880 --> 01:02:15.480
<v Speaker 3>him is that he is a solid lefty with a

1228
01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:19.719
<v Speaker 3>really nice slider fastball combo, and I think there might

1229
01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:23.360
<v Speaker 3>be room for some additional growth in here. But I

1230
01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:25.400
<v Speaker 3>liked a lot of what he did. You know, he's

1231
01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:28.519
<v Speaker 3>a small college guy, late round pick. This is like

1232
01:02:28.639 --> 01:02:31.480
<v Speaker 3>our fodder year for B sides. But the walks ticked

1233
01:02:31.559 --> 01:02:33.199
<v Speaker 3>up a bit when he got up to double A,

1234
01:02:33.400 --> 01:02:35.519
<v Speaker 3>but I think the skills were still there and it

1235
01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:37.639
<v Speaker 3>was just a bit of a blip. And his era

1236
01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:40.960
<v Speaker 3>balloons too. But he's one that I think a savvy

1237
01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:44.320
<v Speaker 3>Dynasty person might target as a throw in in some trades,

1238
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:48.159
<v Speaker 3>and that might be profitable really soon, as like a pitchability,

1239
01:02:48.400 --> 01:02:52.079
<v Speaker 3>solid stuff lefty that has a chance to be in

1240
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:54.079
<v Speaker 3>a back end of a rotation. So I liked him

1241
01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:56.239
<v Speaker 3>quite a lot. I don't know, what did you like

1242
01:02:56.280 --> 01:02:56.960
<v Speaker 3>about Paracchi.

1243
01:02:57.119 --> 01:02:59.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so Paraci got my attention this year when he

1244
01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:02.519
<v Speaker 2>was in Greensboro, because I mean, dude, he was fucking

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01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:06.000
<v Speaker 2>dominating there. He was dominating in greens Yeah, yeah, striking

1246
01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:08.800
<v Speaker 2>out twenty eight point two percent, walking six point six

1247
01:03:09.159 --> 01:03:12.480
<v Speaker 2>eer just over to a whip under one. But dude,

1248
01:03:12.559 --> 01:03:15.800
<v Speaker 2>the most impressive thing that he did there was zero

1249
01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:19.320
<v Speaker 2>home runs, not a one, not a one in Greensboro.

1250
01:03:19.599 --> 01:03:21.920
<v Speaker 2>That's that's pretty phenomenal. So he got my to I

1251
01:03:21.960 --> 01:03:24.119
<v Speaker 2>actually picked him up in a few spots, but then

1252
01:03:24.280 --> 01:03:26.760
<v Speaker 2>you know, promotion came to double A where he got

1253
01:03:26.760 --> 01:03:30.880
<v Speaker 2>in ten games, eight starts, forty one innings and kind

1254
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:33.840
<v Speaker 2>of I mean, I don't know, cliche, but guy's doing

1255
01:03:33.880 --> 01:03:37.079
<v Speaker 2>really well in low A in the lowers, right, But like,

1256
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:39.840
<v Speaker 2>is this stuff good enough to play in the uppers, right?

1257
01:03:39.880 --> 01:03:42.800
<v Speaker 2>That's a huge question, and I think Paracchi just kind

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01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:45.760
<v Speaker 2>of fell victim to that. You look at his arsenal,

1259
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:49.880
<v Speaker 2>it's a low nineties fastball, right, a low eighties slider,

1260
01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:53.199
<v Speaker 2>mid eighties change, and I think all, like you said,

1261
01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:54.840
<v Speaker 2>there's a curve ball in there too, But I think

1262
01:03:54.880 --> 01:03:57.719
<v Speaker 2>all of it's just like bit and bit lacking a

1263
01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:00.239
<v Speaker 2>bit vanilla. I don't know if he was necessarily like

1264
01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:03.880
<v Speaker 2>executing his pitches any worse or anything like that. From yeah,

1265
01:04:03.920 --> 01:04:06.199
<v Speaker 2>I didn't think so, no, no, no, I think it's

1266
01:04:06.239 --> 01:04:08.199
<v Speaker 2>just like really kind of a matter of like this

1267
01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:10.719
<v Speaker 2>new level, your stuff needs to be a little bit better.

1268
01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:12.960
<v Speaker 2>So that's my that's my hope with him. I like

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01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:16.400
<v Speaker 2>I like the frame six ' three, I like delivery,

1270
01:04:16.679 --> 01:04:19.119
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, six four, like all that stuff. I like

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01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:21.079
<v Speaker 2>him as a picture, but it's I think it's just

1272
01:04:21.159 --> 01:04:24.280
<v Speaker 2>gonna require an uptick in Arsenal to really kind of

1273
01:04:24.280 --> 01:04:26.440
<v Speaker 2>take off and be good and be a more legit

1274
01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:29.960
<v Speaker 2>major league candidate. But again, Matt, like, I don't mind

1275
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:32.639
<v Speaker 2>thinking that needs to happen with guys, because it happens

1276
01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:34.559
<v Speaker 2>with a lot of guys these days.

1277
01:04:34.679 --> 01:04:36.960
<v Speaker 3>And so much of the underlying things that he does

1278
01:04:37.199 --> 01:04:40.000
<v Speaker 3>are there already in my opinion, so that if the

1279
01:04:40.039 --> 01:04:43.159
<v Speaker 3>stuff does tick up a hair, now you're really like,

1280
01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:47.119
<v Speaker 3>it's it's a super exciting guy. So probably I'm I'm

1281
01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:48.559
<v Speaker 3>with you on I think that's a good guy.

1282
01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:51.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Yeah, I think it's definitely a I don't raster

1283
01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:53.960
<v Speaker 2>him anymore in my leagues, but uh, you know, if

1284
01:04:53.960 --> 01:04:55.519
<v Speaker 2>it comes out on a ball he's got i don't know,

1285
01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:57.920
<v Speaker 2>another tick on the fas a sliders firm, or maybe

1286
01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:00.239
<v Speaker 2>he's throwing more of like a cutter thing or something whatever,

1287
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:03.199
<v Speaker 2>if anything's taken up a little bit, looking a little

1288
01:05:03.239 --> 01:05:06.039
<v Speaker 2>bit more tougher on hitters in double A, like, I'm

1289
01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:10.760
<v Speaker 2>gonna be quite interested. But yeah, Dominic Paracci, I probably

1290
01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:13.239
<v Speaker 2>in all my NL Central arms, man, I just kind

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01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:16.159
<v Speaker 2>of loosely kind of ranked them them all, and they're

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01:05:16.320 --> 01:05:19.360
<v Speaker 2>all my NL Central guys are just like all clumped

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01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:21.519
<v Speaker 2>up together. I don't know if there's anyone that I'm

1294
01:05:21.559 --> 01:05:25.480
<v Speaker 2>talking about tonight that I love significantly or like significantly

1295
01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:27.760
<v Speaker 2>more than any of the others on the arm side.

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01:05:27.920 --> 01:05:30.320
<v Speaker 3>Ooh, I'm interested to see these last couple that we

1297
01:05:30.360 --> 01:05:32.880
<v Speaker 3>talked about then, because there's yeah, I'm telling you, there's

1298
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:35.159
<v Speaker 3>one guy I think is so good.

1299
01:05:35.480 --> 01:05:38.760
<v Speaker 2>Another note on Paracchi. One thing I noticed watching him.

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01:05:38.880 --> 01:05:41.760
<v Speaker 2>I'd be curious what Connor would maybe think about about this,

1301
01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:44.800
<v Speaker 2>But like he is kind of a fiery guy, you know.

1302
01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:47.679
<v Speaker 3>Like that, yeah, yeah, and he would have.

1303
01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:51.360
<v Speaker 2>Especially down in Greensboro, he'd have some just dominant stretches

1304
01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:53.960
<v Speaker 2>right where he strikes out like five out of six

1305
01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:57.280
<v Speaker 2>batters or whatever, right, get real pumped up about that.

1306
01:05:57.519 --> 01:05:59.960
<v Speaker 2>And he was like, I like, I wonder, I wonder

1307
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:02.960
<v Speaker 2>about sort of like his psychology up there, because it

1308
01:06:03.039 --> 01:06:06.039
<v Speaker 2>seemed like it didn't happen often in Greensboro, but when

1309
01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:09.639
<v Speaker 2>things started to not really go his way, maybe there

1310
01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:12.159
<v Speaker 2>was a ground ball that got through or bloop single

1311
01:06:12.280 --> 01:06:13.760
<v Speaker 2>or something like that. Like I kind of felt like

1312
01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:16.199
<v Speaker 2>he like just kind of lost his moxy a little bit,

1313
01:06:16.239 --> 01:06:18.639
<v Speaker 2>and like that stuff kind of kind of bothered him

1314
01:06:18.679 --> 01:06:21.000
<v Speaker 2>and things started to like snowball on him in that way.

1315
01:06:21.239 --> 01:06:23.280
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, There's there's a few times where I

1316
01:06:23.320 --> 01:06:25.199
<v Speaker 2>was just like, well, well just just slow down, man,

1317
01:06:25.239 --> 01:06:27.280
<v Speaker 2>You got like a you got like another couple of innings.

1318
01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:29.079
<v Speaker 2>You got to finish this thing off. And I thought

1319
01:06:29.079 --> 01:06:31.559
<v Speaker 2>it was interesting because I think there were times where

1320
01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:35.760
<v Speaker 2>his velocity was like ticking up a little bit, maybe

1321
01:06:36.039 --> 01:06:38.760
<v Speaker 2>the fourth inning and stuff like that, and I'm like, well,

1322
01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:41.079
<v Speaker 2>that's interesting. But at the same time, I felt like

1323
01:06:41.159 --> 01:06:44.400
<v Speaker 2>he was weaker production wise and didn't pitch quite as

1324
01:06:44.440 --> 01:06:46.519
<v Speaker 2>well later in some of his starts.

1325
01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:49.000
<v Speaker 3>But well, as we like to preach, you know, velocity

1326
01:06:49.079 --> 01:06:51.440
<v Speaker 3>is and everything you hear that you stuff Yep.

1327
01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:54.880
<v Speaker 2>For sure, for sure. But yeah, needless to say, I'm

1328
01:06:55.119 --> 01:06:58.440
<v Speaker 2>interested there. Let's move on to the Reds, Matt. There

1329
01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:01.239
<v Speaker 2>might not be a difference between one side versus like,

1330
01:07:01.280 --> 01:07:04.559
<v Speaker 2>I'm not very I'm not very keen on my bat here,

1331
01:07:04.599 --> 01:07:07.239
<v Speaker 2>but I am really interested in my arm. So I

1332
01:07:07.280 --> 01:07:12.079
<v Speaker 2>want to start there. Okay, young Jose Montero, are you familiar?

1333
01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:16.840
<v Speaker 2>No right hander six ' two strong too, like dud

1334
01:07:17.320 --> 01:07:21.639
<v Speaker 2>Dude's got some muscle. These Venezuelan zero percent roster spent

1335
01:07:21.719 --> 01:07:25.880
<v Speaker 2>the whole season Florida State League twenty five games, sixteen starts,

1336
01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:29.800
<v Speaker 2>ninety six innings, three four seven ERA, A one point

1337
01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:32.719
<v Speaker 2>three eight whip, a K percentage of twenty one point

1338
01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:36.840
<v Speaker 2>seven percent, a walk percentage of eleven percent, which you know,

1339
01:07:37.079 --> 01:07:41.480
<v Speaker 2>neither of those are super appealing. Swinging strike grade of

1340
01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:46.119
<v Speaker 2>thirteen point one percent, three strikes at sixty two percent.

1341
01:07:46.519 --> 01:07:49.079
<v Speaker 2>But Matt, I went back and I watched some Montero

1342
01:07:49.719 --> 01:07:53.360
<v Speaker 2>from last season, and this is the guy who's fastball

1343
01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:57.599
<v Speaker 2>went from like eighty eight eighty seven to like maybe

1344
01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:01.239
<v Speaker 2>touching ninety to mid nineties on the regular this year.

1345
01:08:01.639 --> 01:08:06.920
<v Speaker 2>Oh interesting, Yeah, he added a lot of velocity there.

1346
01:08:07.320 --> 01:08:10.760
<v Speaker 2>I think the changeup was looking pretty freaking nasty, and

1347
01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:12.480
<v Speaker 2>I don't even think he was I don't even know

1348
01:08:12.519 --> 01:08:14.239
<v Speaker 2>if he was throwing one last year.

1349
01:08:14.440 --> 01:08:16.840
<v Speaker 3>He's got things looked really good in this video that

1350
01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:17.399
<v Speaker 3>you shared.

1351
01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:21.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, right, he's got a firm hiaties slider, that commanding.

1352
01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:26.000
<v Speaker 2>That might be his biggest weakness right now. I really

1353
01:08:26.039 --> 01:08:29.399
<v Speaker 2>think there is an MLB caliber like tool set here.

1354
01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:32.760
<v Speaker 2>And what's interesting, like with the walks, is that they

1355
01:08:32.760 --> 01:08:36.000
<v Speaker 2>weren't a problem last couple of seasons and they really

1356
01:08:36.039 --> 01:08:39.000
<v Speaker 2>ticked up this year. I'm kind of wondering, just this

1357
01:08:39.039 --> 01:08:42.479
<v Speaker 2>guy's got a lot more juicier stuff that he's working with.

1358
01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:47.079
<v Speaker 2>Maybe some calibration hopefully that's that's the reason why the

1359
01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:49.800
<v Speaker 2>walks were higher. But there were some looks, there were

1360
01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:53.520
<v Speaker 2>some outings that I was just like, now, this is

1361
01:08:53.560 --> 01:08:57.840
<v Speaker 2>like a good developmental sort of like case study for

1362
01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:00.439
<v Speaker 2>the Reds here and this guy has really ticked up.

1363
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:01.720
<v Speaker 2>What are they gonna do with this guy?

1364
01:09:02.359 --> 01:09:05.880
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, like the ground ball tendency too, That's that's somewhat interesting.

1365
01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:08.760
<v Speaker 2>He was doing, you know, kind of maybe some piggyback

1366
01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:11.439
<v Speaker 2>and stuff. I don't know. He pitched, he went five

1367
01:09:11.479 --> 01:09:15.239
<v Speaker 2>innings several times early in the season. Maybe he had

1368
01:09:15.239 --> 01:09:18.319
<v Speaker 2>some shorter outings that he was like good in down

1369
01:09:18.359 --> 01:09:20.960
<v Speaker 2>the stretch. Maybe his last start wasn't so great. But uh,

1370
01:09:21.279 --> 01:09:22.880
<v Speaker 2>I was just kind of wondering if they were they

1371
01:09:22.880 --> 01:09:25.439
<v Speaker 2>were ratching him down a little bit just pitch count wise,

1372
01:09:26.359 --> 01:09:29.000
<v Speaker 2>and who knows. I mean, he's still just an a ball.

1373
01:09:29.520 --> 01:09:32.920
<v Speaker 2>Maybe a little fairal relieving could very well, you know,

1374
01:09:33.039 --> 01:09:35.600
<v Speaker 2>be the future, but he's got a starter's kit and

1375
01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:38.520
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, man I was he might be just

1376
01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:41.279
<v Speaker 2>a smidge more interesting to me than the other four

1377
01:09:41.319 --> 01:09:43.399
<v Speaker 2>guys here, But like I said before, it's all pretty close.

1378
01:09:43.399 --> 01:09:46.359
<v Speaker 2>But Jose Montero and I'm interested. I'm excited to see

1379
01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:49.560
<v Speaker 2>what happens with his just I think across the board

1380
01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:52.279
<v Speaker 2>improved arsenal and if you can rain that in some

1381
01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:53.439
<v Speaker 2>might be a dude.

1382
01:09:53.760 --> 01:09:56.199
<v Speaker 3>Yeah interesting shout. He's not someone I watched much, but

1383
01:09:56.359 --> 01:09:58.920
<v Speaker 3>that little video you got me get me a little

1384
01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:03.920
<v Speaker 3>little intrigued. Yeah, right, doesn't look so bad, well my

1385
01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:08.840
<v Speaker 3>arm I Yeah, he's another one that has some real warts,

1386
01:10:08.920 --> 01:10:11.399
<v Speaker 3>but some other really interesting things. I'm gonna go with

1387
01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:13.720
<v Speaker 3>Nestor Laurent. Can you watching Nestor this year?

1388
01:10:14.199 --> 01:10:15.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm familiar? Yeah, yeah.

1389
01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:18.720
<v Speaker 3>First the good. He had a top twenty five season

1390
01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:22.199
<v Speaker 3>by k mine. It's BB minimum ninety things I think

1391
01:10:22.199 --> 01:10:25.800
<v Speaker 3>as the minimum map, so you know, we're getting starters

1392
01:10:25.880 --> 01:10:29.479
<v Speaker 3>kind of workload. He was like twenty third or fourth,

1393
01:10:29.520 --> 01:10:33.520
<v Speaker 3>I think, with a twenty nine point seven percent strikeout

1394
01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:36.159
<v Speaker 3>rate and a seven point one percent walk rate, both

1395
01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:42.800
<v Speaker 3>quite good. The problems though, one He was twenty two

1396
01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:45.680
<v Speaker 3>at low A this year, where he spent most of

1397
01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:49.119
<v Speaker 3>the of the year, so that's like a little old,

1398
01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:51.880
<v Speaker 3>you know, he got a bump. His last couple of

1399
01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:55.640
<v Speaker 3>games were up in high but his dominating stretch in

1400
01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:01.239
<v Speaker 3>low A was a repeat from twenty twenty three, and

1401
01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:05.000
<v Speaker 3>he was pretty old for not like crazy old, but

1402
01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:07.119
<v Speaker 3>definitely old for the level for that being where he

1403
01:11:07.239 --> 01:11:09.840
<v Speaker 3>was all year. And I think the reason is because

1404
01:11:09.920 --> 01:11:13.319
<v Speaker 3>he's another guy with eighty eight to ninety one mile

1405
01:11:13.359 --> 01:11:17.399
<v Speaker 3>an hour fastball, and as a righty, that's tough to

1406
01:11:17.479 --> 01:11:20.960
<v Speaker 3>see that playing. He's Rule five eligible this year again,

1407
01:11:21.119 --> 01:11:23.760
<v Speaker 3>kind of rip and replace what I said earlier. I

1408
01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:26.520
<v Speaker 3>don't think he's getting picked, but I do think that

1409
01:11:26.680 --> 01:11:31.439
<v Speaker 3>he's somewhat interesting. As his change up is awesome. It

1410
01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:34.199
<v Speaker 3>really dives off the table. It was way too much

1411
01:11:34.279 --> 01:11:37.840
<v Speaker 3>for hitters at a ball. He ran like a seventeen

1412
01:11:37.880 --> 01:11:41.319
<v Speaker 3>point eight percent swinging strike rate. I think largely because

1413
01:11:41.319 --> 01:11:43.199
<v Speaker 3>he would go to his change up a lot and

1414
01:11:43.479 --> 01:11:46.079
<v Speaker 3>it really played off of his fastball. And then he's

1415
01:11:46.079 --> 01:11:47.920
<v Speaker 3>got a curveball that I thought was pretty good. He

1416
01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:50.840
<v Speaker 3>would spend that one below the zone as well. Command

1417
01:11:50.960 --> 01:11:54.720
<v Speaker 3>pretty solid too. He was throwing those pitches to different quadrants,

1418
01:11:55.399 --> 01:11:58.439
<v Speaker 3>missing below the zone when he intended to and hiding

1419
01:11:58.479 --> 01:12:02.199
<v Speaker 3>his fastball up in the zone when he needed to

1420
01:12:02.560 --> 01:12:04.680
<v Speaker 3>and made it work. I think he can do that

1421
01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:07.680
<v Speaker 3>at a ball, but I don't think there's the outlier

1422
01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:10.359
<v Speaker 3>traits for eighty eight to ninety one to play as

1423
01:12:10.359 --> 01:12:13.760
<v Speaker 3>he goes up higher. That's why I'm not that excited

1424
01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:17.760
<v Speaker 3>about him. Gave up like what one homer this year,

1425
01:12:17.800 --> 01:12:21.800
<v Speaker 3>which is pretty impressive throughout the whole year. Three over

1426
01:12:22.279 --> 01:12:25.640
<v Speaker 3>almost one hundred innings this year, so that's that's pretty good.

1427
01:12:25.880 --> 01:12:29.279
<v Speaker 3>But I think that's going to tick up if he's

1428
01:12:29.319 --> 01:12:32.119
<v Speaker 3>really just sitting eighty eight to ninety one. If the

1429
01:12:32.359 --> 01:12:35.199
<v Speaker 3>stuff does stick up tick up. Though, I really like

1430
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:38.279
<v Speaker 3>the rest of what he has, so I thought there

1431
01:12:38.399 --> 01:12:41.520
<v Speaker 3>was plus to maybe double plus pitch in the change up.

1432
01:12:41.640 --> 01:12:44.479
<v Speaker 3>The curve ball was maybe average, the fastball was just

1433
01:12:44.520 --> 01:12:47.319
<v Speaker 3>way below average, and like off to see that working

1434
01:12:47.359 --> 01:12:49.079
<v Speaker 3>in the huppers. But I want to see it. I

1435
01:12:49.119 --> 01:12:52.439
<v Speaker 3>want to see him really get some run at high

1436
01:12:52.439 --> 01:12:55.560
<v Speaker 3>A and maybe double A next year and see if

1437
01:12:55.720 --> 01:12:58.640
<v Speaker 3>there is a real pitcher here. Otherwise it's probably just

1438
01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:01.079
<v Speaker 3>or depth because of the fastball playability.

1439
01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:04.279
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I had laurent On, I don't know, final five

1440
01:13:04.399 --> 01:13:07.720
<v Speaker 2>or six here with the Reds. For me, the breaking

1441
01:13:07.760 --> 01:13:11.359
<v Speaker 2>ball game, I think is what I understand, the velocity stuff,

1442
01:13:11.399 --> 01:13:13.399
<v Speaker 2>what you're saying with the fastball. But to me it

1443
01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:17.159
<v Speaker 2>was like the breaking ball game just wasn't It kind

1444
01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:17.960
<v Speaker 2>of turned me off.

1445
01:13:18.159 --> 01:13:20.399
<v Speaker 3>But you didn't think as kurveball is any good. I

1446
01:13:20.399 --> 01:13:21.560
<v Speaker 3>thought it was kurball was solid.

1447
01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:23.880
<v Speaker 2>I mean to be honest at this point, what I

1448
01:13:23.920 --> 01:13:26.680
<v Speaker 2>watched some I don't really remember what it looks like. Yeah, yeah,

1449
01:13:27.159 --> 01:13:29.359
<v Speaker 2>I mean watched some in September. But my note here,

1450
01:13:29.439 --> 01:13:32.600
<v Speaker 2>my final note is fastball, change up guy. Breaking ball

1451
01:13:32.600 --> 01:13:36.199
<v Speaker 2>game is poop. Hard to read all that stuff on

1452
01:13:36.479 --> 01:13:39.119
<v Speaker 2>you know, just video. But we shall see. We shall

1453
01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:41.479
<v Speaker 2>see there. I mean the Reds man their arms, they're

1454
01:13:41.520 --> 01:13:44.159
<v Speaker 2>pretty boys there. They got some names, right, I mean

1455
01:13:44.199 --> 01:13:48.439
<v Speaker 2>Rhet Lauder fifty seven percent, Chase Petty twenty seven percent,

1456
01:13:48.720 --> 01:13:51.800
<v Speaker 2>former b Sadder. You only ag you are. It's thirteen

1457
01:13:51.840 --> 01:13:55.199
<v Speaker 2>percent of using the Biggs Ty Floyd Chase Burns of course,

1458
01:13:55.239 --> 01:13:57.880
<v Speaker 2>first year player, second pick in the draft, Connor Phillips,

1459
01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:01.640
<v Speaker 2>Line Richardson Adams Ronowski. I thought maybe you were gonna

1460
01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:04.479
<v Speaker 2>pick him, Matt, but he was two percent. I guess

1461
01:14:05.279 --> 01:14:06.479
<v Speaker 2>were you talking about him?

1462
01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:08.279
<v Speaker 3>I think I mentioned him before, but I'm not a

1463
01:14:08.399 --> 01:14:09.920
<v Speaker 3>huge Serwenhowski guy.

1464
01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:13.359
<v Speaker 2>Okay, but they got some they got some guys hererors

1465
01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:15.720
<v Speaker 2>all right. I was kind of at a loss when

1466
01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:17.880
<v Speaker 2>it came to bats here, Matt, I don't know again,

1467
01:14:17.920 --> 01:14:19.600
<v Speaker 2>So I just kind of went to my default, like

1468
01:14:19.640 --> 01:14:21.840
<v Speaker 2>some teenage hitter that I watched him in a ball

1469
01:14:21.880 --> 01:14:23.520
<v Speaker 2>that I was like, Hey, this guy kind of looks

1470
01:14:23.560 --> 01:14:27.560
<v Speaker 2>good sometimes. S Smith pineda nineteen year old corner outfielder,

1471
01:14:27.720 --> 01:14:31.560
<v Speaker 2>right handed, maybe about listed five to eleven. He's from Panama.

1472
01:14:31.960 --> 01:14:35.520
<v Speaker 2>Four hundred and twenty seven played appearances this year, nine

1473
01:14:35.560 --> 01:14:39.199
<v Speaker 2>home runs, nine stolen bases, walked twelve percent of the time,

1474
01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:42.000
<v Speaker 2>struck out twenty seven percent of the time. Not great.

1475
01:14:42.199 --> 01:14:46.159
<v Speaker 2>Slash line not great two thirteen, three, sixteen, three, forty six,

1476
01:14:46.439 --> 01:14:49.560
<v Speaker 2>one thirty four ISO two eighty Babbitt it was a

1477
01:14:49.680 --> 01:14:53.800
<v Speaker 2>ninety five WRC plus pulls the ball some. I felt like,

1478
01:14:54.600 --> 01:14:59.800
<v Speaker 2>maybe though that season line I don't think represents maybe

1479
01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:01.880
<v Speaker 2>kind of how good he was looking towards the end

1480
01:15:01.960 --> 01:15:04.479
<v Speaker 2>of the season as the season progressed. But in the

1481
01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:07.159
<v Speaker 2>savant sample hit a ball one hundred and ten miles

1482
01:15:07.159 --> 01:15:10.600
<v Speaker 2>per hour off of elizer Dishmy, which was a ground out,

1483
01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:13.479
<v Speaker 2>but I had some decent evs. I don't know, Matt,

1484
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:16.399
<v Speaker 2>just a young guy. I thought maybe it wasn't nothing,

1485
01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:16.960
<v Speaker 2>that's all.

1486
01:15:17.039 --> 01:15:19.600
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't love.

1487
01:15:20.039 --> 01:15:21.520
<v Speaker 2>I really struggled dude, Like.

1488
01:15:21.880 --> 01:15:24.880
<v Speaker 3>I didn't love my red choices here either. On the

1489
01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:29.319
<v Speaker 3>bat side, you know, they've got some interesting dudes at

1490
01:15:29.359 --> 01:15:33.479
<v Speaker 3>the top end of this system of varying degrees. You know,

1491
01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:37.039
<v Speaker 3>Hector Rodriguez I thought had an interesting season, and I

1492
01:15:37.079 --> 01:15:40.840
<v Speaker 3>know some people really like him, Cam Collier, Sal Stewart,

1493
01:15:40.920 --> 01:15:44.159
<v Speaker 3>Sammy Steffera. Each of those guys is exciting in their

1494
01:15:44.199 --> 01:15:44.720
<v Speaker 3>own way.

1495
01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:48.720
<v Speaker 2>They guy like confidant and who's the other guy who

1496
01:15:48.760 --> 01:15:51.960
<v Speaker 2>hits the ball and believably fucking hard? Oh you talked

1497
01:15:51.960 --> 01:15:56.239
<v Speaker 2>about Aril Almonte Almonte. Yeah, those two guys were just

1498
01:15:56.359 --> 01:15:59.479
<v Speaker 2>one percent hit the ball, like, yeah, zillion miles per hour.

1499
01:15:59.560 --> 01:16:01.640
<v Speaker 2>But I don't think they're like legit.

1500
01:16:02.079 --> 01:16:04.239
<v Speaker 3>No, al Monte didn't do enough this year to like

1501
01:16:04.319 --> 01:16:07.640
<v Speaker 3>I was intrigued, but he didn't put it together. Maybe

1502
01:16:07.680 --> 01:16:08.840
<v Speaker 3>he will next year.

1503
01:16:08.880 --> 01:16:12.439
<v Speaker 2>But my guy from last year, Ethan O'Donnell, like, I

1504
01:16:12.479 --> 01:16:15.520
<v Speaker 2>guess he was alright for Kyle's guys stole thirty bags,

1505
01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:17.359
<v Speaker 2>but he wasn't nearly as good as.

1506
01:16:17.600 --> 01:16:19.520
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I was just gonna I was just gonna

1507
01:16:19.520 --> 01:16:22.159
<v Speaker 3>follow up and double tap that because I didn't like

1508
01:16:22.279 --> 01:16:25.239
<v Speaker 3>really anybody else like and nothing really new to say here.

1509
01:16:25.359 --> 01:16:28.399
<v Speaker 3>He wasn't as good as his short, small debut. I

1510
01:16:28.439 --> 01:16:31.920
<v Speaker 3>was hopeful that the Reds might unlock something because Virginia

1511
01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:34.760
<v Speaker 3>is in a great place to develop as a baseball player.

1512
01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:37.279
<v Speaker 3>I think that's been kind of proved out over the years,

1513
01:16:37.520 --> 01:16:40.720
<v Speaker 3>so maybe there's still some upside there. Like you said,

1514
01:16:40.880 --> 01:16:44.239
<v Speaker 3>it's it was some bags. It was I don't know,

1515
01:16:44.479 --> 01:16:48.119
<v Speaker 3>maybe there's an approachier, but the strikeouts ticked up, and

1516
01:16:48.520 --> 01:16:51.520
<v Speaker 3>I don't love the profile personally, like he's pretty low

1517
01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:53.960
<v Speaker 3>down my bat list. But no, I thought it was

1518
01:16:53.960 --> 01:16:55.359
<v Speaker 3>a good pick by you last year, and I was

1519
01:16:55.399 --> 01:16:57.840
<v Speaker 3>going to give you some kudos and double tap this year.

1520
01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:00.319
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was. I took him in a d aft

1521
01:17:00.479 --> 01:17:03.760
<v Speaker 2>I think like fourth or something. I've had a lot

1522
01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:06.560
<v Speaker 2>more hope there than it kind of turned out. But yep,

1523
01:17:06.680 --> 01:17:09.199
<v Speaker 2>you know, who knows, he's still what. He's only twenty

1524
01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:13.439
<v Speaker 2>two two, and he'll be a double next year. We'll see,

1525
01:17:13.479 --> 01:17:16.279
<v Speaker 2>we'll see but all right, so I'm going with uh

1526
01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:21.560
<v Speaker 2>some loser teenager. You're going with o'donald. Yeah, all right,

1527
01:17:21.680 --> 01:17:25.479
<v Speaker 2>let's move away. We got just one left right, just Milwaukee. Ooh,

1528
01:17:25.600 --> 01:17:28.800
<v Speaker 2>the Brewers. All right, man, let's start. Let's do the

1529
01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:31.880
<v Speaker 2>pitching side first. Okay, so they're pretty boys. They got

1530
01:17:31.920 --> 01:17:35.159
<v Speaker 2>Miserowski at forty eight percent. We've talked a lot about

1531
01:17:35.239 --> 01:17:39.680
<v Speaker 2>him and his future as a reliever. Robert Asser thirty

1532
01:17:39.680 --> 01:17:42.880
<v Speaker 2>eight percent. Guess you're still wait is guys, you're still

1533
01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:47.880
<v Speaker 2>with him? Okay? Uh? With Krowsky eighteen percent? Your boy

1534
01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:50.319
<v Speaker 2>Thatch was a great call last year. Logan Henderson's at

1535
01:17:50.359 --> 01:17:55.079
<v Speaker 2>twelve percent, Coas Rodriguez eleven percent, Josh Note eleven percent,

1536
01:17:55.199 --> 01:17:58.359
<v Speaker 2>Casey Hunt seven percent. Who is uh you know has

1537
01:17:58.560 --> 01:18:02.119
<v Speaker 2>definitely has his stand specially in the discord. Shane Smith

1538
01:18:02.199 --> 01:18:06.039
<v Speaker 2>is three percent, Bishop Letson was two percent, and then

1539
01:18:06.039 --> 01:18:09.680
<v Speaker 2>everyone else was like zero maybe two guys at one.

1540
01:18:10.439 --> 01:18:12.520
<v Speaker 2>But who did you go with? Matt?

1541
01:18:12.560 --> 01:18:16.600
<v Speaker 3>Okay, this is the guy I mentioned before that this

1542
01:18:16.880 --> 01:18:20.479
<v Speaker 3>is the most I think he's my number one beside

1543
01:18:20.600 --> 01:18:23.039
<v Speaker 3>arm this year. There's a couple that might challenge him

1544
01:18:23.039 --> 01:18:24.600
<v Speaker 3>for this, but like he was the one that I

1545
01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:29.600
<v Speaker 3>was like hell, yeah, okay, Chad Patrick, I'm so in Yeah.

1546
01:18:29.640 --> 01:18:31.039
<v Speaker 3>So he got added to the forty.

1547
01:18:31.279 --> 01:18:31.439
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

1548
01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:34.720
<v Speaker 3>He spent the whole year at Triple A and kind

1549
01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:37.159
<v Speaker 3>of dominated. I mean he led the International League in

1550
01:18:37.239 --> 01:18:41.119
<v Speaker 3>strikeouts better than everybody else. Other some other guys had

1551
01:18:41.159 --> 01:18:44.760
<v Speaker 3>better strikeout rates and would have exceeded, like I think

1552
01:18:44.760 --> 01:18:47.520
<v Speaker 3>Bubba Chandler was like one behind him or something and

1553
01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:53.239
<v Speaker 3>through fewer innings. But man, Chad Patrick is real sexy

1554
01:18:53.319 --> 01:18:57.079
<v Speaker 3>as an arm to me, it's a cutter first approach,

1555
01:18:57.880 --> 01:19:01.199
<v Speaker 3>which I love, Like that's fun. Who wants to lead

1556
01:19:01.279 --> 01:19:03.960
<v Speaker 3>with the fastball when you can lead with a better

1557
01:19:04.039 --> 01:19:07.279
<v Speaker 3>pitch and it is good. He's got a four scene

1558
01:19:07.279 --> 01:19:10.439
<v Speaker 3>with plus ride and I think a decent release point,

1559
01:19:10.520 --> 01:19:12.880
<v Speaker 3>so I think it plays up from his like you know,

1560
01:19:13.039 --> 01:19:15.920
<v Speaker 3>ninety four or like ninety two to five kind of

1561
01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:18.239
<v Speaker 3>range on the four seamer, but it's like twenty four

1562
01:19:18.319 --> 01:19:22.319
<v Speaker 3>hundred RPMs, which is plus given that velocity, and a

1563
01:19:22.359 --> 01:19:25.279
<v Speaker 3>distinct two seamer that has a totally different shape and

1564
01:19:25.359 --> 01:19:29.279
<v Speaker 3>he uses it differently. He uses it into righty's and

1565
01:19:29.640 --> 01:19:32.079
<v Speaker 3>runs it away from lefties like he I mean, I

1566
01:19:32.159 --> 01:19:35.520
<v Speaker 3>love that, Like that's three hard pitches. That he pitches

1567
01:19:35.520 --> 01:19:38.880
<v Speaker 3>off primarily. He has three more pitches that he'll throw,

1568
01:19:39.239 --> 01:19:44.119
<v Speaker 3>his change up, his slider, and his occasional curveball. I

1569
01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:47.279
<v Speaker 3>think his slider is really nasty. He just doesn't really

1570
01:19:47.359 --> 01:19:49.520
<v Speaker 3>have great command of that pitch. His command of his

1571
01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:52.760
<v Speaker 3>other pitches is really good, but his command of his

1572
01:19:52.880 --> 01:19:56.880
<v Speaker 3>slider is not great. But nobody fucking hits it. He's

1573
01:19:56.920 --> 01:19:59.359
<v Speaker 3>got like a fifty percent with rate on that slider.

1574
01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:02.119
<v Speaker 3>He just you know, sometimes has a zone rate of

1575
01:20:02.159 --> 01:20:05.720
<v Speaker 3>like ten percent. Like I went through a bunch of

1576
01:20:05.760 --> 01:20:10.000
<v Speaker 3>his statcast data and every game it was like ten

1577
01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:12.479
<v Speaker 3>percent sliders. Four of them were in the zone and

1578
01:20:12.600 --> 01:20:15.720
<v Speaker 3>two got whiffs. The other ones they spound because like

1579
01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:18.600
<v Speaker 3>they weren't going to swing it at him. So you know,

1580
01:20:18.680 --> 01:20:22.439
<v Speaker 3>he's he's got a really really interesting arsenal. I think

1581
01:20:22.439 --> 01:20:25.439
<v Speaker 3>he should throw the slider more. But other than that,

1582
01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:28.760
<v Speaker 3>I'm I'm just like, this is a big league pitcher,

1583
01:20:28.840 --> 01:20:31.039
<v Speaker 3>and I think quite a good one. Like I could

1584
01:20:31.039 --> 01:20:33.720
<v Speaker 3>see him slotting in as their you know, number four

1585
01:20:33.800 --> 01:20:37.640
<v Speaker 3>or five starter and outperforming a bunch of guys in

1586
01:20:37.640 --> 01:20:40.039
<v Speaker 3>in the major leagues as a starter, and at b

1587
01:20:40.239 --> 01:20:43.359
<v Speaker 3>side levels of roster ownership. That's like, sound the alarm,

1588
01:20:43.640 --> 01:20:46.079
<v Speaker 3>go get this guy. He I think is going to

1589
01:20:46.119 --> 01:20:49.000
<v Speaker 3>be a good major league starter and not surprising that

1590
01:20:49.039 --> 01:20:52.640
<v Speaker 3>Milwaukee just like turned you know, he has been traded twice,

1591
01:20:52.920 --> 01:20:57.079
<v Speaker 3>has been around the league. Was a small school guy

1592
01:20:57.239 --> 01:21:00.479
<v Speaker 3>like he's you know, Perdue University, Northway, US. What the

1593
01:21:00.520 --> 01:21:03.680
<v Speaker 3>fuck even is I don't know, Like I watched a

1594
01:21:03.680 --> 01:21:04.199
<v Speaker 3>bunch of.

1595
01:21:04.119 --> 01:21:05.720
<v Speaker 2>Old videos Indiana somewhere.

1596
01:21:06.359 --> 01:21:08.479
<v Speaker 3>I watched a bunch of old videos of him from

1597
01:21:08.479 --> 01:21:10.479
<v Speaker 3>college and they're like working out in like a high

1598
01:21:10.520 --> 01:21:14.600
<v Speaker 3>school gym or something else, like he doing. But he is,

1599
01:21:14.880 --> 01:21:18.439
<v Speaker 3>he's so good. I'm I'm way way on Patrick.

1600
01:21:18.479 --> 01:21:25.239
<v Speaker 2>I think that I didn't see that he's okay.

1601
01:21:25.319 --> 01:21:27.680
<v Speaker 3>And unfortunately, in a couple of my deep leagues, he's

1602
01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:31.399
<v Speaker 3>already rostered by the sharpest guy in our league. Like

1603
01:21:31.479 --> 01:21:34.199
<v Speaker 3>he's this guy he's he's is so good at this

1604
01:21:34.319 --> 01:21:37.479
<v Speaker 3>And this is a classic pickup for my buddy Pat

1605
01:21:37.520 --> 01:21:41.399
<v Speaker 3>because he's Pat is really sharp and Chad Patrick, this

1606
01:21:41.479 --> 01:21:44.560
<v Speaker 3>is a great, great gift for him, just last little

1607
01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:48.359
<v Speaker 3>thing on him. So his last five starts in the

1608
01:21:48.479 --> 01:21:52.479
<v Speaker 3>International League were against Baltimore, you know, so like a

1609
01:21:52.520 --> 01:21:55.800
<v Speaker 3>bunch of those like baby Oh's had graduated but that

1610
01:21:55.920 --> 01:21:58.159
<v Speaker 3>was still a pretty good lineup the Cardinals, who are

1611
01:21:58.199 --> 01:22:01.000
<v Speaker 3>already talked about that triple A line up was quite good.

1612
01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:03.720
<v Speaker 3>A lot of major leaguers and major league talent in there.

1613
01:22:03.960 --> 01:22:07.600
<v Speaker 3>The Braves and the Marlins. They're they're fine whatever. The

1614
01:22:07.600 --> 01:22:10.239
<v Speaker 3>Braves twice and the Marlins twice. And in that run,

1615
01:22:10.520 --> 01:22:13.399
<v Speaker 3>the last five starts, he ran a thirty nine percent

1616
01:22:13.439 --> 01:22:16.279
<v Speaker 3>strikeout rate, five percent walk rate for a one eight

1617
01:22:16.359 --> 01:22:20.119
<v Speaker 3>eight fit. It was nasty to watch, and that included

1618
01:22:20.199 --> 01:22:22.920
<v Speaker 3>one like kind of shaky outing against the Braves. But

1619
01:22:23.000 --> 01:22:25.880
<v Speaker 3>he came back, you know, five days later against the

1620
01:22:25.960 --> 01:22:29.920
<v Speaker 3>same essentially the same lineup and went sticks one hit,

1621
01:22:30.239 --> 01:22:33.279
<v Speaker 3>one walk, eight punches against the lineup that had just

1622
01:22:33.319 --> 01:22:36.520
<v Speaker 3>tagged him for four runs the five days before. Like,

1623
01:22:36.640 --> 01:22:40.640
<v Speaker 3>this guy can fucking pitch and it is so nasty,

1624
01:22:40.840 --> 01:22:44.560
<v Speaker 3>Like this guy's How was this guy not more owned?

1625
01:22:44.720 --> 01:22:45.880
<v Speaker 3>Is my like question?

1626
01:22:46.199 --> 01:22:48.279
<v Speaker 2>Right? I think he get I think he gets the

1627
01:22:48.680 --> 01:22:52.479
<v Speaker 2>is older, Yeah a bunch for like, well, let's hey, guys,

1628
01:22:52.720 --> 01:22:53.720
<v Speaker 2>what's his velocity?

1629
01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:55.960
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean it's like ninety two to five. It's

1630
01:22:56.000 --> 01:22:59.439
<v Speaker 3>not awful. And with the ride that he gets, like

1631
01:22:59.520 --> 01:23:01.720
<v Speaker 3>that pad fastball is really good.

1632
01:23:01.880 --> 01:23:04.079
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, the dynasty. They just kind of hate

1633
01:23:04.079 --> 01:23:08.359
<v Speaker 2>these guys sometimes that are dominating these second hardest level.

1634
01:23:08.680 --> 01:23:10.640
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and he was he was a fourth rounder, so

1635
01:23:10.840 --> 01:23:15.720
<v Speaker 3>like not nothing, and multiple organizations have wanted him in trades,

1636
01:23:16.159 --> 01:23:19.800
<v Speaker 3>so like, I don't know, he's basically been quite good

1637
01:23:20.079 --> 01:23:23.159
<v Speaker 3>all of the minor leagues. He was fucking awesome this

1638
01:23:23.239 --> 01:23:25.640
<v Speaker 3>year and he's you know, he's like going to be

1639
01:23:25.680 --> 01:23:28.399
<v Speaker 3>twenty six going into next year. But Steamer loves him.

1640
01:23:28.640 --> 01:23:32.199
<v Speaker 3>Four two three er projection from Steamer for a guy

1641
01:23:32.239 --> 01:23:34.199
<v Speaker 3>that hasn't been in the major leagues yet, Like that

1642
01:23:34.359 --> 01:23:36.439
<v Speaker 3>is so good. And you know some of that is

1643
01:23:36.439 --> 01:23:39.600
<v Speaker 3>because they think he might relieve some so that usually

1644
01:23:39.720 --> 01:23:43.199
<v Speaker 3>depressed it, like it brings down the era a bit.

1645
01:23:43.359 --> 01:23:47.079
<v Speaker 3>But but I think I also saw you know, Sarahs

1646
01:23:47.640 --> 01:23:51.439
<v Speaker 3>in his stuff model really liked him too. So yes, man,

1647
01:23:51.840 --> 01:23:54.520
<v Speaker 3>I'm telling you this guy is Chad Patrick. If he

1648
01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:57.680
<v Speaker 3>gets some run, and I'll tell you, like the Milwaukee

1649
01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:01.920
<v Speaker 3>starting pitching, I think they're gonna have some openings. You know,

1650
01:24:02.239 --> 01:24:08.199
<v Speaker 3>they're they got Peralta at the top, maybe woodruff shoulder is.

1651
01:24:09.880 --> 01:24:11.920
<v Speaker 2>They ain't gonna sign anybody, know that.

1652
01:24:11.840 --> 01:24:15.239
<v Speaker 3>They're not gonna sign anybody Tobias Myers was awesome, like

1653
01:24:15.279 --> 01:24:19.680
<v Speaker 3>great story for him making good and he's decent volley.

1654
01:24:20.640 --> 01:24:24.199
<v Speaker 3>I think I would prefer Patrick straight up. Aaron Ashby

1655
01:24:24.720 --> 01:24:27.119
<v Speaker 3>hurt all the time they had him in the pen.

1656
01:24:27.279 --> 01:24:30.520
<v Speaker 3>Maybe they're gonna start him again, Gasser hurt like he's

1657
01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:32.319
<v Speaker 3>not probably gonna be ready for the start of the year.

1658
01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:35.319
<v Speaker 3>And then of their you know, like their pretty boy arms,

1659
01:24:35.319 --> 01:24:37.039
<v Speaker 3>they've got some good ones, like you know, I love

1660
01:24:37.159 --> 01:24:39.600
<v Speaker 3>Logan Henderson, Carl Stroi, Reguez got a little bit of

1661
01:24:39.680 --> 01:24:42.319
<v Speaker 3>run this year. Patrick is a more complete pitcher than

1662
01:24:42.359 --> 01:24:46.279
<v Speaker 3>Henderson Henderson. I think the fastball change up combo is

1663
01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:49.840
<v Speaker 3>is elite, but his slider still isn't quite there. And

1664
01:24:50.000 --> 01:24:52.199
<v Speaker 3>he was obviously hurt for a decent check of last

1665
01:24:52.279 --> 01:24:56.239
<v Speaker 3>year too. But man, that that Patrick guy so in

1666
01:24:56.439 --> 01:24:57.439
<v Speaker 3>it is so good.

1667
01:24:58.039 --> 01:25:01.800
<v Speaker 2>Nice. He shouldn't be one percent as many thirty team

1668
01:25:01.880 --> 01:25:04.039
<v Speaker 2>leagues that are out there and stuff like, you should

1669
01:25:04.119 --> 01:25:05.199
<v Speaker 2>not be one percent.

1670
01:25:05.399 --> 01:25:09.680
<v Speaker 3>And I'm telling you, like, if it looks like this,

1671
01:25:09.720 --> 01:25:13.079
<v Speaker 3>this is like a fourteen team, sixteen team, like this

1672
01:25:13.159 --> 01:25:16.000
<v Speaker 3>is an arm that is going to be useful, you know,

1673
01:25:16.039 --> 01:25:18.039
<v Speaker 3>like he might not be a start him every single

1674
01:25:18.079 --> 01:25:20.720
<v Speaker 3>time out kind of guy. But it's good.

1675
01:25:20.840 --> 01:25:24.960
<v Speaker 2>The Brewers they really like, They really value like stuff

1676
01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:30.600
<v Speaker 2>plus type models and the highbrow pitch characteristics types, and

1677
01:25:30.680 --> 01:25:35.039
<v Speaker 2>I think it's kind of their efficient, maybe cost friendly

1678
01:25:35.199 --> 01:25:38.520
<v Speaker 2>way of doing a lot of their pitch evaluation. So

1679
01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:40.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm not surprised that the guy that I landed on

1680
01:25:40.960 --> 01:25:43.920
<v Speaker 2>kind of fits that. I'm gonna go with Tate Coooner.

1681
01:25:44.039 --> 01:25:46.600
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you're familiar. He was a twenty

1682
01:25:46.680 --> 01:25:49.520
<v Speaker 2>twenty three seventh round pick out of Louisville. He was

1683
01:25:49.600 --> 01:25:52.079
<v Speaker 2>mostly he was mostly a reliever in college, but I

1684
01:25:52.119 --> 01:25:54.680
<v Speaker 2>think he's on a bit of a starter track now.

1685
01:25:55.119 --> 01:25:57.479
<v Speaker 2>Like we like lefties that might have a little bit

1686
01:25:57.479 --> 01:25:59.720
<v Speaker 2>of a different arm angle. I think he's definitely got that.

1687
01:26:00.079 --> 01:26:05.399
<v Speaker 2>He's kind of, I don't know, three quarters side army,

1688
01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:09.199
<v Speaker 2>sort of more upright guy, a little different looking. He

1689
01:26:09.359 --> 01:26:12.640
<v Speaker 2>spent last season one hundred and four total innings, thirty

1690
01:26:12.680 --> 01:26:16.560
<v Speaker 2>five of those in double A and sixty eight of

1691
01:26:16.600 --> 01:26:20.279
<v Speaker 2>those in HYA. His K percentage went from twenty nine

1692
01:26:20.319 --> 01:26:24.600
<v Speaker 2>percent to twenty two percent. His walk rate is not great.

1693
01:26:24.960 --> 01:26:27.760
<v Speaker 2>Was that twelve percent went to fourteen percent. And we

1694
01:26:27.920 --> 01:26:32.039
<v Speaker 2>don't like that, Matt. This is not like our kind

1695
01:26:32.039 --> 01:26:35.680
<v Speaker 2>of guy, I don't think, But dude, I think the

1696
01:26:35.840 --> 01:26:41.159
<v Speaker 2>whole arsenal I think could be nasty as shit. He's

1697
01:26:41.199 --> 01:26:43.840
<v Speaker 2>no excuse me from that sort of different looking fastball.

1698
01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:46.600
<v Speaker 2>He gets that up there to the mid nineties on

1699
01:26:46.640 --> 01:26:48.880
<v Speaker 2>the regular. It's pretty good for a lefty. He's got

1700
01:26:48.880 --> 01:26:51.319
<v Speaker 2>a change up, He's got two different sliders, one that's

1701
01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:54.479
<v Speaker 2>more sweepy and one that's hard and firm that seems

1702
01:26:54.560 --> 01:26:56.880
<v Speaker 2>to be really tough on the hitters. I think there's

1703
01:26:56.920 --> 01:27:00.319
<v Speaker 2>a lot of upside in the arsenal all Brewers. Obviously,

1704
01:27:00.359 --> 01:27:02.399
<v Speaker 2>the strike throwing and the execution is what you want

1705
01:27:02.399 --> 01:27:05.039
<v Speaker 2>to see and has to improve if he's going to

1706
01:27:05.039 --> 01:27:08.439
<v Speaker 2>be a starter. But in watching him, like man, there

1707
01:27:08.439 --> 01:27:10.199
<v Speaker 2>are stretches where I'm just like, there's no way that

1708
01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:14.239
<v Speaker 2>this guy is walking eleven percent, like just flowing through

1709
01:27:14.319 --> 01:27:17.800
<v Speaker 2>like Montgomery. Dude starting off the game striking well, I

1710
01:27:17.800 --> 01:27:19.880
<v Speaker 2>guess that game. I think he started off striking out

1711
01:27:20.119 --> 01:27:23.439
<v Speaker 2>seven of the first nine hitters. The other two were walks,

1712
01:27:23.960 --> 01:27:26.319
<v Speaker 2>but like, dude, they were bogus walks.

1713
01:27:26.359 --> 01:27:26.560
<v Speaker 3>Man.

1714
01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:29.119
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I don't we don't have the greatest angle there,

1715
01:27:29.119 --> 01:27:31.800
<v Speaker 2>but I was just like, seriously, you're calling that a ball?

1716
01:27:31.960 --> 01:27:34.880
<v Speaker 2>Like they were a lot of close pitches, dude, and

1717
01:27:34.920 --> 01:27:36.680
<v Speaker 2>I kind of felt like it was kind of like

1718
01:27:36.720 --> 01:27:38.199
<v Speaker 2>that a lot. This is a guy that was just

1719
01:27:38.239 --> 01:27:40.159
<v Speaker 2>like all over the place and it was just like

1720
01:27:40.199 --> 01:27:42.720
<v Speaker 2>a lot of close misses. And you know, maybe still

1721
01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:45.800
<v Speaker 2>part of the progression of going from relieving to throwing

1722
01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:48.279
<v Speaker 2>some more innings. I don't know, but if there is

1723
01:27:48.439 --> 01:27:52.159
<v Speaker 2>an improvement in the execution, which is something that I

1724
01:27:52.199 --> 01:27:54.640
<v Speaker 2>don't like to bet on, I think this dude could

1725
01:27:54.640 --> 01:27:58.760
<v Speaker 2>really take off though. And he's interesting. I don't even

1726
01:27:58.760 --> 01:28:01.920
<v Speaker 2>think he made it on Clegg's Top fifty for the Brewers.

1727
01:28:02.119 --> 01:28:05.000
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, I thought was surprising. I bet you're the pitch.

1728
01:28:05.119 --> 01:28:08.680
<v Speaker 2>The stuff plus stuff is high on this guy. Yeah,

1729
01:28:08.720 --> 01:28:10.920
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Tay Kooner is already in the uppers.

1730
01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:12.680
<v Speaker 2>Let's see, let's see what happens here.

1731
01:28:12.840 --> 01:28:14.720
<v Speaker 3>No, I like I like this one, you know, even

1732
01:28:15.359 --> 01:28:20.319
<v Speaker 3>control concerns aside. He's an interesting arm. Let's see what

1733
01:28:20.359 --> 01:28:23.880
<v Speaker 3>the stuff does. And you know that the Brewers kind

1734
01:28:23.880 --> 01:28:26.920
<v Speaker 3>of they're they're happy to let that stuff play out,

1735
01:28:26.960 --> 01:28:29.920
<v Speaker 3>you know, and yeah, worry about the walks later.

1736
01:28:29.880 --> 01:28:31.680
<v Speaker 2>For sure, you know. Like I think I said at

1737
01:28:31.720 --> 01:28:34.840
<v Speaker 2>the discord today talking to Maddy backpack and like, if

1738
01:28:34.880 --> 01:28:38.000
<v Speaker 2>you got a lefty with like some unique basketball qualities

1739
01:28:38.039 --> 01:28:41.560
<v Speaker 2>and is getting up into the mid nineties, like I'm intrigued. Yeah,

1740
01:28:41.640 --> 01:28:45.800
<v Speaker 2>for sure, Milwaukee Brewers bats man, I'm going to uh

1741
01:28:46.399 --> 01:28:49.039
<v Speaker 2>go back in time a few years and bring back

1742
01:28:49.119 --> 01:28:52.439
<v Speaker 2>up and pick and select Ernesto Martinez Junior. It's a

1743
01:28:52.439 --> 01:28:54.279
<v Speaker 2>good pick who I liked when he was an a

1744
01:28:54.439 --> 01:28:58.000
<v Speaker 2>ball as kind of a unique profile in that he

1745
01:28:58.119 --> 01:29:00.880
<v Speaker 2>was a big guy, a big lefty. I don't know

1746
01:29:00.960 --> 01:29:04.039
<v Speaker 2>if he was primarily playing first base back then. I

1747
01:29:04.039 --> 01:29:07.399
<v Speaker 2>think he might have been. But steels, bags, hits home runs,

1748
01:29:07.640 --> 01:29:09.920
<v Speaker 2>and he can play center field, like he was actually

1749
01:29:09.920 --> 01:29:12.359
<v Speaker 2>playing some center field this year. I don't think that's

1750
01:29:12.399 --> 01:29:15.359
<v Speaker 2>where he like sticks. But I know the Brewers they

1751
01:29:15.399 --> 01:29:17.680
<v Speaker 2>signed him as a minor league free agent, re signed him,

1752
01:29:17.760 --> 01:29:20.279
<v Speaker 2>you know. And I saw a little article at that

1753
01:29:20.399 --> 01:29:22.520
<v Speaker 2>time last offseason where they were talking about how they

1754
01:29:22.840 --> 01:29:25.760
<v Speaker 2>still feel like there's big league upside here. I know

1755
01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:27.600
<v Speaker 2>a lot of his development, there was a lot of

1756
01:29:27.680 --> 01:29:30.880
<v Speaker 2>injuries early on in his career. The Brewers said, I

1757
01:29:30.920 --> 01:29:33.239
<v Speaker 2>think for a minute now kind of struggled with the

1758
01:29:33.239 --> 01:29:36.479
<v Speaker 2>first base position. Looking for some guys. Point is like,

1759
01:29:36.520 --> 01:29:39.760
<v Speaker 2>I think there is a legit opportunity for this guy

1760
01:29:39.840 --> 01:29:42.680
<v Speaker 2>to get a shot in the BIGGS. On the season

1761
01:29:42.840 --> 01:29:45.119
<v Speaker 2>all in Double A as a twenty five year old

1762
01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:49.199
<v Speaker 2>listed at six six, he one hundred and ten games,

1763
01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:52.680
<v Speaker 2>four hundred and fifty seven played appearances, hit thirteen home runs,

1764
01:29:52.680 --> 01:29:56.720
<v Speaker 2>stole twenty bags, got caught five times, and I saw him.

1765
01:29:57.000 --> 01:29:59.680
<v Speaker 2>I know at least two of those were him getting

1766
01:29:59.720 --> 01:30:02.279
<v Speaker 2>caught trying to steal third, and I did see him

1767
01:30:02.319 --> 01:30:05.279
<v Speaker 2>steal third a few times. Walked nine percent of the time,

1768
01:30:05.359 --> 01:30:08.359
<v Speaker 2>struck out under seventeen percent of the time two eighty four,

1769
01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:11.800
<v Speaker 2>three sixty five, four sixty six, one eight to two

1770
01:30:11.920 --> 01:30:14.600
<v Speaker 2>ISO on a three twenty two babbit That was good

1771
01:30:14.600 --> 01:30:17.600
<v Speaker 2>for a one forty six WRC plus in the Southern League.

1772
01:30:17.680 --> 01:30:19.319
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, maybe probably more of like a line

1773
01:30:19.399 --> 01:30:22.239
<v Speaker 2>drive hitter, but he's got enough enough juice in the

1774
01:30:22.279 --> 01:30:24.840
<v Speaker 2>bat to hit some home runs. And I don't know,

1775
01:30:24.840 --> 01:30:27.800
<v Speaker 2>man just like kind of a different, I think, potential

1776
01:30:27.840 --> 01:30:30.760
<v Speaker 2>fantasy profile. If he does ever get any run, the

1777
01:30:30.880 --> 01:30:33.159
<v Speaker 2>guy could trip in some home runs and some steals,

1778
01:30:33.159 --> 01:30:35.319
<v Speaker 2>And that just was kind of big been a fan

1779
01:30:35.359 --> 01:30:38.239
<v Speaker 2>and dude's an all dream I think is still still

1780
01:30:38.279 --> 01:30:40.239
<v Speaker 2>alive here. And I really love a lot of the

1781
01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:43.000
<v Speaker 2>other bats a zero one percent. So I'm gonna bust

1782
01:30:43.000 --> 01:30:44.720
<v Speaker 2>out or Neesto Martinez Junior again.

1783
01:30:44.920 --> 01:30:47.760
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I like Martinez Junior. He's a fun one to

1784
01:30:47.840 --> 01:30:51.319
<v Speaker 3>watch play. That's something that a lot of walking bats

1785
01:30:51.359 --> 01:30:54.399
<v Speaker 3>have in common that there just is something fun about that.

1786
01:30:54.760 --> 01:30:56.960
<v Speaker 3>And seeing a big guy like this move around as

1787
01:30:57.000 --> 01:31:00.960
<v Speaker 3>ethelically is as athletically as he does is a treat,

1788
01:31:01.079 --> 01:31:03.159
<v Speaker 3>you know, Like you see him stealing bags, it's it's

1789
01:31:03.359 --> 01:31:06.760
<v Speaker 3>it's like me saying something positive about Jose jos Way Depaula,

1790
01:31:06.880 --> 01:31:09.159
<v Speaker 3>like he's a big dude and loves to kind of

1791
01:31:09.199 --> 01:31:13.000
<v Speaker 3>steal bases and arnessa. Martinez has some of that as well.

1792
01:31:13.439 --> 01:31:16.119
<v Speaker 3>Like you noted, it's more of a line drive profile.

1793
01:31:16.239 --> 01:31:17.439
<v Speaker 3>He hits the ball pretty hard.

1794
01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:20.520
<v Speaker 2>It looks like to me, yeah, yeah, if he could.

1795
01:31:20.279 --> 01:31:22.960
<v Speaker 3>Lift it a little more like maybe this would be

1796
01:31:23.000 --> 01:31:25.840
<v Speaker 3>And I think did I include in the video.

1797
01:31:25.880 --> 01:31:29.239
<v Speaker 2>I think there was just an absolute fucking mammoth home

1798
01:31:29.319 --> 01:31:32.079
<v Speaker 2>run that he hit in the playoffs, Like, oh yeah,

1799
01:31:32.199 --> 01:31:34.159
<v Speaker 2>he did pull it, he did get it in there

1800
01:31:34.199 --> 01:31:36.159
<v Speaker 2>and do it. It was large.

1801
01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:39.439
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, No, he's he's an exciting one. And I almost

1802
01:31:39.479 --> 01:31:42.159
<v Speaker 3>went with him. I think he's a fun pick and

1803
01:31:42.239 --> 01:31:45.119
<v Speaker 3>I co sign as well in that way. But I'm

1804
01:31:45.119 --> 01:31:50.319
<v Speaker 3>gonna end, as we often do, talking about a funny looking,

1805
01:31:51.000 --> 01:31:51.840
<v Speaker 3>tiny guy.

1806
01:31:52.199 --> 01:31:53.920
<v Speaker 2>With funny looking fella.

1807
01:31:54.600 --> 01:31:57.199
<v Speaker 3>Funny looking fella that we've already talked about him before,

1808
01:31:57.239 --> 01:31:58.840
<v Speaker 3>so I won't believer the point, but I'm gonna go

1809
01:31:58.840 --> 01:32:00.520
<v Speaker 3>with arganamo for my bat.

1810
01:32:00.680 --> 01:32:02.560
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, Okay.

1811
01:32:02.560 --> 01:32:06.119
<v Speaker 3>Just the best batwaggle in the miners. Like it's maybe

1812
01:32:06.159 --> 01:32:09.039
<v Speaker 3>more about aesthetics than his actual ability to be a

1813
01:32:09.039 --> 01:32:11.840
<v Speaker 3>major league baseball player, but he's just so fun, you know,

1814
01:32:12.079 --> 01:32:15.359
<v Speaker 3>plays all over the infield, second, short, third. It's he

1815
01:32:15.439 --> 01:32:18.159
<v Speaker 3>hit ten homers this year. That seemed high to me.

1816
01:32:18.439 --> 01:32:20.880
<v Speaker 3>I just don't think he's going to hit a ton.

1817
01:32:21.520 --> 01:32:24.880
<v Speaker 3>He stings the ball and hustles, so he racked up

1818
01:32:24.920 --> 01:32:28.119
<v Speaker 3>thirty doubles too, not a burner. But he's a smart

1819
01:32:28.119 --> 01:32:32.640
<v Speaker 3>base sealer and two bags. So I think that the

1820
01:32:32.680 --> 01:32:37.039
<v Speaker 3>play here is he's a decent defender, maybe plays up

1821
01:32:37.079 --> 01:32:41.439
<v Speaker 3>the middle, maybe gets to seven homers, but chips in

1822
01:32:41.439 --> 01:32:43.840
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of steals and a decent average to go

1823
01:32:43.960 --> 01:32:46.800
<v Speaker 3>with it. He's an interesting one, and that his swinging

1824
01:32:46.800 --> 01:32:50.000
<v Speaker 3>strike rate is more good. Like it's you know, nine

1825
01:32:50.039 --> 01:32:52.680
<v Speaker 3>point six percent at high A this year, which is

1826
01:32:52.680 --> 01:32:56.960
<v Speaker 3>is okay, but he only had an eleven percent strikeout rate,

1827
01:32:57.159 --> 01:33:00.279
<v Speaker 3>And it's partly because when he's got two strikes, dude

1828
01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:03.119
<v Speaker 3>chokes up like three inches up the bat and really

1829
01:33:03.159 --> 01:33:05.439
<v Speaker 3>shortens up his swing and makes a ton of contact

1830
01:33:05.439 --> 01:33:07.880
<v Speaker 3>with two strikes. And he's a fairly aggressive hitter too,

1831
01:33:07.960 --> 01:33:09.640
<v Speaker 3>like in the balls in the zone he's gonna swing.

1832
01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:12.159
<v Speaker 3>Still still walked seven percent of the time this year,

1833
01:33:12.199 --> 01:33:15.039
<v Speaker 3>which was an improvement for him over the last couple

1834
01:33:15.079 --> 01:33:18.279
<v Speaker 3>of years. I'm this is not like a huge This

1835
01:33:18.319 --> 01:33:20.439
<v Speaker 3>is not quote unquote one of my guys. This is

1836
01:33:20.520 --> 01:33:24.479
<v Speaker 3>he's not doesn't have Durban's speed or level of bath

1837
01:33:24.520 --> 01:33:27.159
<v Speaker 3>to ball, but he is in that same kind of vein,

1838
01:33:27.439 --> 01:33:30.600
<v Speaker 3>and I think those guys get underappreciated, especially in your

1839
01:33:30.800 --> 01:33:34.119
<v Speaker 3>roto leagues where you need some cheap steals or in

1840
01:33:34.159 --> 01:33:37.880
<v Speaker 3>your points leagues where you're really penalized for strikeouts. This

1841
01:33:37.920 --> 01:33:40.920
<v Speaker 3>is a guy that could could succeed in that way.

1842
01:33:42.000 --> 01:33:43.920
<v Speaker 3>He's still got a long way to go, but he's

1843
01:33:43.960 --> 01:33:47.119
<v Speaker 3>just so fun watch him hit. It's it's hilarious. Every

1844
01:33:47.119 --> 01:33:47.920
<v Speaker 3>single time.

1845
01:33:47.760 --> 01:33:49.920
<v Speaker 2>It was it was more wild. Last year he toned

1846
01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:50.560
<v Speaker 2>down it was.

1847
01:33:50.520 --> 01:33:52.640
<v Speaker 3>He toned it down a bit. Yeah, yeah, I know,

1848
01:33:52.680 --> 01:33:53.359
<v Speaker 3>we talked about it.

1849
01:33:53.960 --> 01:33:57.840
<v Speaker 2>So those Carolina Mudcats, all those weird hitters with the

1850
01:33:58.039 --> 01:33:59.960
<v Speaker 2>you know, they're weird ticks and things that they did,

1851
01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:03.039
<v Speaker 2>are starting to get you know, this year we're getting

1852
01:34:03.119 --> 01:34:06.840
<v Speaker 2>up to Wisconsin, right, and Wisconsin will wear those broughtworst

1853
01:34:06.960 --> 01:34:10.640
<v Speaker 2>uniforms fromtimes time. You know, they look like German whatever

1854
01:34:10.840 --> 01:34:13.399
<v Speaker 2>suspenders and all that stuff. And dude, I had a

1855
01:34:13.439 --> 01:34:16.359
<v Speaker 2>game on where it was like Arian Namo and uh

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01:34:16.680 --> 01:34:20.920
<v Speaker 2>Luke Adams who like Adams stilly running. They just have

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01:34:21.039 --> 01:34:23.399
<v Speaker 2>so many of these silly looking guys and I don't know,

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01:34:23.600 --> 01:34:27.479
<v Speaker 2>maybe silly's mean, but you know, just just goofy looking, goofy. Yeah,

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01:34:27.520 --> 01:34:30.039
<v Speaker 2>And they had all these goofy hitters in this line

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01:34:30.079 --> 01:34:32.319
<v Speaker 2>up wearing those goofy uniforms, and I was just like,

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01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:35.760
<v Speaker 2>what what's going on here? Man? This is this is

1862
01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:41.239
<v Speaker 2>quite the minor league view here. Yeah. Blow yeah. The Brewers, man,

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01:34:41.279 --> 01:34:43.439
<v Speaker 2>they don't shy away from. They don't mind if you've

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01:34:43.479 --> 01:34:46.359
<v Speaker 2>got a little goofiness in your game. Oh, Tayton Hall

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01:34:46.560 --> 01:34:47.399
<v Speaker 2>was was one.

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<v Speaker 3>I was gonna say, he's another one with a funny map. Yeah,

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01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:53.159
<v Speaker 3>you said nice things about Luke Adams. I like him.

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01:34:53.199 --> 01:34:53.960
<v Speaker 3>He's a good hitter.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well because he freaking walks like forty percent of

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01:34:57.159 --> 01:34:59.159
<v Speaker 2>the time or whatever, and you're just so in love

1871
01:34:59.199 --> 01:35:01.720
<v Speaker 2>with that. Love it that walk in the first stuff?

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01:35:01.880 --> 01:35:03.600
<v Speaker 2>All right, man? I think does that cover it?

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01:35:03.840 --> 01:35:04.279
<v Speaker 3>I think so?

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01:35:04.600 --> 01:35:07.479
<v Speaker 2>Wow? Did it got some good alien talking there too?

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01:35:07.600 --> 01:35:12.840
<v Speaker 2>Talk about some turkeys next aliens they will up?

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01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:16.119
<v Speaker 3>Man, oh man, good stuff.

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01:35:16.600 --> 01:35:19.199
<v Speaker 2>You are you like a skeptic, like like do you

1878
01:35:19.640 --> 01:35:22.079
<v Speaker 2>are you in denial like the rest of the world

1879
01:35:22.119 --> 01:35:23.319
<v Speaker 2>seems to be on this matter.

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01:35:23.520 --> 01:35:26.159
<v Speaker 3>I guess I just have to watch the hearings and

1881
01:35:26.479 --> 01:35:28.880
<v Speaker 3>have the veil lifted from my eyes.

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01:35:29.199 --> 01:35:30.920
<v Speaker 2>So it was like, what are you saying if there

1883
01:35:30.960 --> 01:35:33.680
<v Speaker 2>was like some big giant government cover up and all

1884
01:35:33.720 --> 01:35:36.640
<v Speaker 2>this stuff. I'm like, yeah, that's kind of exactly what

1885
01:35:36.680 --> 01:35:39.880
<v Speaker 2>they're talking about, you know, I'm doing so I don't know,

1886
01:35:39.960 --> 01:35:42.199
<v Speaker 2>all right, man, just wild to me, like we're more

1887
01:35:42.239 --> 01:35:47.199
<v Speaker 2>interested in like senior citizen dating shows on ABC or whatever,

1888
01:35:47.279 --> 01:35:50.800
<v Speaker 2>then like maybe there's intelligence that can save us from ourselves.

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01:35:50.880 --> 01:35:53.800
<v Speaker 2>But whatever world would do that, I don't.

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01:35:53.640 --> 01:35:56.359
<v Speaker 3>Know if that's happening, But if somebody wants to save

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01:35:56.439 --> 01:35:57.520
<v Speaker 3>us from ourselves. That'd be great.

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01:35:57.800 --> 01:36:02.359
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's gonna be some opier Matt. All right, so

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01:36:02.600 --> 01:36:05.199
<v Speaker 2>I'll do it for episode forty five of the Prospect

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<v Speaker 2>B Sides podcast. Again. You can follow me along on

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01:36:08.039 --> 01:36:11.479
<v Speaker 2>Twitter at pitching Specs. I'll share some videos. I'm also

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01:36:11.520 --> 01:36:13.960
<v Speaker 2>on the I also started an account on what's it

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01:36:14.159 --> 01:36:17.239
<v Speaker 2>Blue Sky? Yeah, yeah, so if you're over there, I

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01:36:17.239 --> 01:36:20.319
<v Speaker 2>don't want Muddy Looks. That's the name. That's my name,

1899
01:36:20.560 --> 01:36:23.319
<v Speaker 2>Muddy Looks. I've just been posting links to the show

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01:36:23.560 --> 01:36:25.560
<v Speaker 2>over there. So far, I think I've made one post.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, next week, well, who do we have left?

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01:36:28.239 --> 01:36:30.920
<v Speaker 2>We have the Al East left too. I'm excited for

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01:36:30.960 --> 01:36:38.119
<v Speaker 2>that one. And we've got the Ale Central A Central. Yeah,

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01:36:38.199 --> 01:36:39.960
<v Speaker 2>maybe you want to do Al East next week or

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01:36:40.000 --> 01:36:43.640
<v Speaker 2>next time? All right, Ale East next that has my

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01:36:43.720 --> 01:36:48.119
<v Speaker 2>favorite B sider of the year. It'll be well and

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01:36:48.279 --> 01:36:49.960
<v Speaker 2>uh we'll talk to you next time.

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01:36:50.239 --> 01:36:51.920
<v Speaker 3>Sound schedule. Appreciate you.

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<v Speaker 1>Five miles an hour riding too is Head. We have

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<v Speaker 1>it down first, but the lumped on his face, and

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01:37:02.479 --> 01:37:06.680
<v Speaker 1>on the very next pitch he up and stole second

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<v Speaker 1>face with gretest speed. He wasn't born he had the

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<v Speaker 1>dirty Yes uniform,