Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome everybody to episode one forty nine of
Speaker 1: Cards and Categories. I am Mike Coolard from Baseball Prospectus,
Speaker 1: joined per usual by my very good friend Jeremy Brewer
Speaker 1: from Rasball. How you doing tonight, buddy? How many times
Speaker 1: have you watched that Detroit Tigers chasing the black squirrel
Speaker 1: video at this point?
Speaker 2: Probably not enough, but that's just because you know, the
Speaker 2: Skip Schumacher cannot be outdone by this in chasing squirrels,
Speaker 2: so I didn't want to get a little jealous of
Speaker 2: that one. But lots of fun, and that's probably pretty
Speaker 2: much the only entertaining thing about the Tigers recently until
Speaker 2: the trade deadline here and we see true Schooble find
Speaker 2: a potentially new home. But besides that, you know things
Speaker 2: are going great. Ready to get in some fun news
Speaker 2: and notes. I don't think we have everybody injured tonight,
Speaker 2: and got a few few trades and things like that,
Speaker 2: so we are just getting into the thick of trade deadline,
Speaker 2: so I'm excited there's actually some movements talk about.
Speaker 1: Yes exactly, we will have certainly tons of it to
Speaker 1: talk about next week, that's for sure. Usually I've looked
Speaker 1: back Historically, our trade headline pods are like pushing to
Speaker 1: two and a half hours just because of the volume
Speaker 1: of moves that happen. And you know what, people are saying,
Speaker 1: it might end up being a muted trade deadline here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. I think we've also said that
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, as we've been earning the
Speaker 1: underneath this new playoff format system with that third wild card,
Speaker 1: and I think it always surprises us because it is
Speaker 1: always on a razor's edge, it feels in terms of
Speaker 1: teams being in or out and how quickly it can happen.
Speaker 1: I mean, just look at how rapidly the Marlins the
Speaker 1: Cardinals have fallen out. I actually think Tigers are probably
Speaker 1: going to be keeping schooble and going for it only
Speaker 1: a handful of games out in the Al Central. So
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a fun deadline. I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. We're gonna have a very very long
Speaker 1: pod next week probably to cover it. Also, make sure
Speaker 1: you practice do those vocal warm ups accordingly. Before we
Speaker 1: get into our normal show, though, let's preview what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do for our main segment here today. If you're
Speaker 1: looking at the name of the pod. You're probably like,
Speaker 1: what on Earth prospect face off? What is this reference
Speaker 1: back to this ninety movie with John Travolta and Nick Cage. Well, one,
Speaker 1: I just finished Spider and Water on Prime Video, great
Speaker 1: series with Nick Cage. So that's maybe why I'm feeling
Speaker 1: it a little bit. But I've also noticed the past
Speaker 1: few years, I think it's really stood out that there's
Speaker 1: lots of organizations that are really drafting the same type
Speaker 1: of profile or acquiring the same type of profile and
Speaker 1: stocking their minor league systems with it. We've run into
Speaker 1: this a little bit with the Giants and the Luis Hernandez,
Speaker 1: Johnny Lovell, Joe suargen Zals talk that we had a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. It also came up a little bit
Speaker 1: when we were talking about Nathan Fluelling and putting him
Speaker 1: into our PC, where I called that like Nathan Fwelling
Speaker 1: versus Taitan Gray's a pretty interesting discussion now for the Rays,
Speaker 1: and so we've got a handful of names, a handful
Speaker 1: of teams where we've got prospect debates. I'll offer them
Speaker 1: up to you and then we'll discuss from there. See
Speaker 1: what our preferences are. But before we do that, let's
Speaker 1: get into those news and notes that you alluded to.
Speaker 1: We've got one trade to cover, but it is maybe
Speaker 1: if we hadn't discussed this on Sunday when it happened
Speaker 1: over the weekend, it would have been a different story.
Speaker 1: We had the Red Sox and Nationals linking up for
Speaker 1: a trade, sending Connolly early the Southpaw to the Nationals
Speaker 1: in exchange for Curtits Mead infielder you know, first basement,
Speaker 1: second basement, third baseman, future DH and future il stint
Speaker 1: person for the rest of play twenty six. Maybe because
Speaker 1: the first game with the Red Sox, Mead came out
Speaker 1: and shattered his wrist, So that's not great allowing them
Speaker 1: to bring back Nick Soguard. I mean, if this is
Speaker 1: the end of the season for Curtis Mead, is quite
Speaker 1: the little run that he's put together in his age
Speaker 1: twenty five season two fifty three, three fifty three, four
Speaker 1: ninety eight slash line a one thirty three WRC plus
Speaker 1: with seventeen homers and six dolen bases can almost double
Speaker 1: that up. It would have been like thirty homers. Tense
Speaker 1: deals over an entire year with like a two fifty average,
Speaker 1: very very useful. And then on the flip side, Condonly
Speaker 1: Early is still dealing with an elbow injury while he
Speaker 1: joins the Nats, probably a little bit of why he
Speaker 1: was traded, because you never like to hear anything about
Speaker 1: elbow injuries in young arms like Connolly Early. But it's
Speaker 1: apparently only inflammation and should be back at some point
Speaker 1: later this season for the Nats. So what's your take here?
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's a little bit more of a
Speaker 1: long term view. I think it would have been a
Speaker 1: little bit more glowing in terms of mead joining the
Speaker 1: Red Sox and getting to a hacked the Green monster there.
Speaker 1: But going forward, what do you like about these landing
Speaker 1: spots or dislike about these landing spots for Meat and Early?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I actually think it's a pretty good
Speaker 2: landing spot for both of them, you know, I think
Speaker 2: it is it tells you where where their values are.
Speaker 2: I think ultimately Early is. I think Early a really
Speaker 2: really intriguing pitcher. He's definitely been kind of figuring things
Speaker 2: out this year. He looked dominant last year when he
Speaker 2: came up for a cup of coffee, But I think
Speaker 2: he ultimately kind of settles into maybe like a type
Speaker 2: number three, number four type type type role. But he's
Speaker 2: going to be I say, in a lower pressure environment,
Speaker 2: probably a better division, to be pitching in, better ballpark
Speaker 2: in my opinion, to be to be pitching in, and
Speaker 2: uh surprisingly a decent enough team. That's not kind of
Speaker 2: the things that we've we've worried about with the Nationals
Speaker 2: before the wind total. So I think it's it's relatively even,
Speaker 2: if not better for early because he was having trouble.
Speaker 2: You know, there was questions about was he going to
Speaker 2: be a full time that rotation and once you had
Speaker 2: everybody healthy next year, like they were gonna have a
Speaker 2: tight rotation. Once Crochet is getting back, you know, there's
Speaker 2: just a lot going there. Meat. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: he I say, he's come out of nowhere this year,
Speaker 2: But he's come out of nowhere this year after a
Speaker 2: few middling years trying to figure things out. He was
Speaker 2: a strong prospect. So it gives me a lot more credence.
Speaker 2: And under the covers things look pretty gosh darn good.
Speaker 2: So I think it's a kind of a win win trade.
Speaker 2: It's rare that you see the one for one trade
Speaker 2: and both teams kind of come out in a better spot.
Speaker 2: Both players come out.
Speaker 1: On a better spot.
Speaker 2: And I think that's what this one was. Am I
Speaker 2: like incredibly high en curased speed. Next year probably not,
Speaker 2: but give me, give me mead As kind of a
Speaker 2: corner infield, a decent corner infield, and I'm happy with that.
Speaker 2: And he might become more like maybe he's playing a
Speaker 2: little this Miguel Vargas kind of kind of roll post
Speaker 2: type prospect, and there's a lot lot worse things could
Speaker 2: happen here with the guy that's really approved his plate
Speaker 2: approach and just overall, you know, play profile. So I
Speaker 2: like it for both teams, like for both players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm there with you too, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you on Mead. In terms of
Speaker 1: it being maybe like a possible Vargas or Munsi situation,
Speaker 1: I think in real life it's a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a muted trade just because Meat is an actual
Speaker 1: just like a straight up butcher with the glove like
Speaker 1: he is not great in the field and has no arm,
Speaker 1: and so it'll be interesting to see where they find
Speaker 1: a home for him in Boston, considering the corners are
Speaker 1: already pretty clogged up, and so is DH and yeah,
Speaker 1: everything in the in the profile just screams like this
Speaker 1: dude finally figured it out. And he made tweaks as well,
Speaker 1: like in the box and at the plate. And what's
Speaker 1: also encouraging about that too, is he showed that adjustment.
Speaker 1: So just kind of like Miguel Vargas or it's a
Speaker 1: little bit like next monthsy Ish too in terms of
Speaker 1: the profile, but from the right side where you got
Speaker 1: a lot of good traits that have kind of come
Speaker 1: together for meat and I think there's a good chance
Speaker 1: you can keep going all right. Well, time for another
Speaker 1: first rounder injury to discuss, because this one's actually the
Speaker 1: second one for Juan Soto, the New York Mets outfielder,
Speaker 1: went down with a stringed calf. And if that sounds familiar,
Speaker 1: he did it earlier this season. That's what kept him out.
Speaker 1: It's the other calf now, so it is the right
Speaker 1: calf at the beginning of the year, it's the left
Speaker 1: half now. The first one was about I think it
Speaker 1: was just a shade over three weeks he was out.
Speaker 1: This one it's a little bit more serious of a
Speaker 1: string So it sounds like it's gonna be four to
Speaker 1: six weeks. Now. This is a situation where actually I
Speaker 1: do believe that Sodo is going to work his way
Speaker 1: back because there's an element to this where you know
Speaker 1: Mike trut has done this over the years too, where
Speaker 1: once you know you're an all time great and you've
Speaker 1: pretty much just got a player way into the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, you're looking to accumulate stats. And so even
Speaker 1: if the Mets are out of it, I think Sodo's
Speaker 1: got that fire underneath him to really push the numbers
Speaker 1: up and make that Hall of Fame resume even better
Speaker 1: than it already is. Right now, it's a two eighty three,
Speaker 1: four oh eight, five thirty nine slash time one fifty
Speaker 1: eight wic plus with twenty one homers, seven stolen bases
Speaker 1: in eighty four games. Again, it's a situation you double
Speaker 1: that you're looking at forty to fifteen. This is exactly
Speaker 1: who Wan Soto is, right and so probably an easy
Speaker 1: first round pick because you can just about pencil in
Speaker 1: this line for next year. Is that what you're doing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where I'm what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: I was trying to look to see where I had
Speaker 2: them my top one, my top ten for next year.
Speaker 2: I think I had them like number five. From a
Speaker 2: hitter perspective, there's there's enough speed there to be dangerous,
Speaker 2: but overall it's just the floor for a healthy Soto
Speaker 2: is just unbelievable. Like you look back the last three years,
Speaker 2: this guy's averaging basically forty homers, one hundred and ten runs,
Speaker 2: one hundred and five RBIs and call it twenty steals. Now,
Speaker 2: let's be fair, it's like twelve seals, seven steals, thirty
Speaker 2: eight steals, like I think there's an outler in there,
Speaker 2: but you know, also able to hit basically to seventy five.
Speaker 2: Like that's just an absolute slam dunk first rounder. Really
Speaker 2: never has had health issues until a little bit creeped
Speaker 2: up this year, but I'm willing to chalk that up.
Speaker 2: So if anything, he actually got better this year. He's
Speaker 2: strikeout rate was down to thirteen percent, which is kind
Speaker 2: of where he was, you know, in his heyday with Washington,
Speaker 2: even a little bit better than that. So yeah, plug
Speaker 2: and play. So it was an early first rounder next year,
Speaker 2: no questions about it. I do agree with you, he's
Speaker 2: gonna probably get back later this year. You know, he
Speaker 2: could also take a little easy on the base paths
Speaker 2: as well. The rest of the year. I would be
Speaker 2: too concerned with that. Maybe there's a discount next year
Speaker 2: just because of a little injury concern, but discounts like
Speaker 2: one spot in the first round maybe not much there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean given the volume of injuries we
Speaker 1: had We've had to first rounders this year that I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody's getting dinged a little bit, So I think, yes, true,
Speaker 1: it's very true. I mean you have Otani with the knee,
Speaker 1: you have Judge with the rib, you have Bobby Wit
Speaker 1: with the back room mirrors, with the hammate soda with
Speaker 1: the cavs Acuna with legs. So you're going to run
Speaker 1: into I think a lot of injury questions where I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's going to be that big of
Speaker 1: a discount unless there is any push within the fantasy
Speaker 1: kind of realm at large trying to move Pca and
Speaker 1: James Wood and Junior Camanaro further up. But like I think,
Speaker 1: when you look at the plate skills, it's really tough
Speaker 1: to overlook that kind of five pack that we just
Speaker 1: talked about from this year's first rounders, that they walk,
Speaker 1: they don't strike out, a ton, they make great impact,
Speaker 1: they give you all categories, and so it's really tough
Speaker 1: to overlook that. And I think they'll probably still be
Speaker 1: around the top of the first round next year.
Speaker 2: Two yep, I agree.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get to a minor league injury, which we
Speaker 1: don't usually cover, but when it it haunts the number
Speaker 1: one overall pitching prospect in all of the game, I
Speaker 1: think we've got to talk about it. So we're talking
Speaker 1: Seth Hernandez from the Pirates going down with an oblique
Speaker 1: strain on his left side. So certainly this ends any
Speaker 1: chance that he was maybe going to make a debut
Speaker 1: for the Pirates late in the season as a part
Speaker 1: of the playoff run. I think that could have been
Speaker 1: a possibility, but this oblique strain looks like it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna keep him out six to eight weeks. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: think he's probably done for the season because you don't
Speaker 1: mess around with a guy like this and try to
Speaker 1: rush him back from an oblique injury like this. Look
Speaker 1: at what like the Marlins are doing with Thomas White
Speaker 1: in that shoulder. It's you know, different because it's a shoulder,
Speaker 1: but you're still talking a pretty major part of the
Speaker 1: torso and oblique strains like this can really derail things fast,
Speaker 1: I think for prospect pitchers, because not only if you
Speaker 1: return from it, are you risking reinjury, but you're also
Speaker 1: risking just mechanical change and wonkiness that can result from pain.
Speaker 1: And so the Pirates are probably going to play this
Speaker 1: one pretty slow. I would think seventy four innings of
Speaker 1: two forty three ERA with a three fifty five fip, A,
Speaker 1: forty point four percent strikeout rate, twenty nine point eight
Speaker 1: percent K minus b B if it is the end
Speaker 1: of the season for Seth Hernandez, did that across low
Speaker 1: A and high A? So Brew is is this giving
Speaker 1: you any pause in terms of I know you've been real,
Speaker 1: real into Seth Hernandez yep and really have been trying
Speaker 1: to invest in him where you can. Does this oblique
Speaker 1: injury give you any just doubts about what he can
Speaker 1: do going into the future.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. It's not really changing anything for me.
Speaker 2: The only thing it changes is maybe the timetable a little,
Speaker 2: because I really do believe what you said about the
Speaker 2: Pirates and a playoff run was actually in the cards.
Speaker 2: Like if you looked at his innings pitched for the
Speaker 2: last like four or five starts, they were they were
Speaker 2: tailoring him down. They were really trying to protect that arm.
Speaker 2: And I I think we were really close to a
Speaker 2: Double A promotion where he was gonna have about a
Speaker 2: month at Double A and then if they were close,
Speaker 2: he was coming into the bullpen arm to the major
Speaker 2: league level. I really think that's the path we were down,
Speaker 2: and that's why they were fine, like not I say,
Speaker 2: de stretching him, kind of shortening those those outings to
Speaker 2: protect the arm because he was going five or six
Speaker 2: innings earlier in the year, no problem, no questions asked.
Speaker 2: And you know the last few starts three and two
Speaker 2: thirds three innings, two innings, three innings like that, they
Speaker 2: were absolutely slowing him down. And it's not like he
Speaker 2: wasn't successful. I think in the last three starts he
Speaker 2: gave up one earned run. Now the fourth one there
Speaker 2: he have a five, which is like his worst start
Speaker 2: of the entire year. But this guy is no question,
Speaker 2: best pitching prospect in the miners in my opinion. And
Speaker 2: now I think instead of questioning whether he's gonna break
Speaker 2: camp next year with with the Pirates, I think This
Speaker 2: is kind of pushing him back towards that like May
Speaker 2: June debut next season, which in the grand scheme things
Speaker 2: is probably not a bad thing because they he can
Speaker 2: get a little wrestle, he'll do on six and seven
Speaker 2: day rests and short outings, start spring training late like that.
Speaker 2: You can see the pattern that's gonna happen here. So
Speaker 2: still love South Fernando's going forward. This is puts a
Speaker 2: damper on at least a lot of my prospects of
Speaker 2: really hoping that he made the debut late in the season,
Speaker 2: kind of like a Jacob Mizerowski type thing and really
Speaker 2: make make an impact to the team and create keeper
Speaker 2: discussions all over the fantasy outlook and things like that.
Speaker 2: But he's done for the season in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I agree too. All Right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk catchers because we had quite the rash of
Speaker 1: catcher injuries over the past week where I think anybody
Speaker 1: in any league was probably scrambling, especially if you've got
Speaker 1: multiple leagues and you had to hit one of these
Speaker 1: land mines in terms of the injuries that hit the
Speaker 1: catcher field. So let's start with the worst first, Shy
Speaker 1: leng Lear's going down with that torn meniscus, had surgery,
Speaker 1: is out for the rest of the season. Honestly, we're
Speaker 1: you drafted, shay Linglears. You already got your money back,
Speaker 1: So everything from here on out is just straight gravy
Speaker 1: on top two sixty three average, three thirty two OBP
Speaker 1: four ninety seven slugs. So it's a little bit lower
Speaker 1: than it was last year, but I still pop twenty
Speaker 1: three homers gave you mid fifties runs in RBI in
Speaker 1: four hundred and sixteen plate appearances. You've also got the
Speaker 1: loss of Samuel Bissio this past week hit the il
Speaker 1: with a right shoulder string that he's been battling. Now
Speaker 1: it has been a bit more of like a muted
Speaker 1: season four by SiO, but he's also I think he's
Speaker 1: a streaky dude. We're still probably getting a beat on
Speaker 1: him in total, but does seem like he would go
Speaker 1: through bouts of getting red hot and then cool back off. Honestly,
Speaker 1: part of it is probably a little bit because of
Speaker 1: his shoulder, because I think it had been nagging him
Speaker 1: for a little bit. Two forty one, three h five,
Speaker 1: four fifty slash line for him, but sixteen homers, so
Speaker 1: far this he'son only twenty one. That's crazy. He still
Speaker 1: looking at or maybe you were affected by Kyle Teal
Speaker 1: going down. Looks like he's got a high ankle sprain.
Speaker 1: They're talking like eight to twelve weeks. So probably the
Speaker 1: restless season here on Kyle Teal gonna be a great
Speaker 1: buying opportunity, I think because the injuries that he's dealt with,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're really gonna affect his long
Speaker 1: term outlook, but certainly when he gets back and going
Speaker 1: for the White Sox next year, is going to be
Speaker 1: a great bat overall from the catching position. Obviously, with
Speaker 1: all three of these you can kind of taper it
Speaker 1: based on the information. I think you're not cutting the
Speaker 1: SiO unless you're really running out of Iyel spots Wherever
Speaker 1: you had him and you were using him. He's going
Speaker 1: to be useful when he comes back. Laying the leers
Speaker 1: you can, you can probably cut if it's a redraft league.
Speaker 1: Same with Teal. My question here is what are you
Speaker 1: doing to make up for this? Because I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're searching that wire for any catchers, it's getting pretty sparse.
Speaker 1: I will say all throughout, my favorite name that's cropped
Speaker 1: up because of this, it's Jonaheim. Jonaheim's already been hitting
Speaker 1: cover off the ball in Sacramento, and it's in Sacramento,
Speaker 1: and was getting dh in first space time, gonna get
Speaker 1: even more playing time of che Langleiers down. So I
Speaker 1: think he's probably my number one target for a Cutcher
Speaker 1: replacement out there. But anybody else that you might be
Speaker 1: looking at, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, it's Jonahim as well. Like I was,
Speaker 2: I was looking at all three teams here, like who's
Speaker 2: who's the kind of guys that are next in the line,
Speaker 2: And like chub Wick Trump is not truly too enticing
Speaker 2: here or any anybody that on. Basically, the Chicago White
Speaker 2: sucks from a Drew Romo perspective or a Guraquero's perspective,
Speaker 2: but Himes looks good. He's strong. I mean, he's never
Speaker 2: gonna hit for average, but he's gonna give you some
Speaker 2: strong power numbers. I actually was sneakily looking at Augustin
Speaker 2: Ramiroz to see like he's been like killing it in
Speaker 2: the minors. He's dealing basically crazy. But then I looked
Speaker 2: at his defensive stats and they're like worse than they
Speaker 2: were in the majors and so like that guy's not
Speaker 2: getting called up anytime soon for the Marlin, So I
Speaker 2: think it's pretty thin. I think that's why where we're
Speaker 2: going is Jonah him. He should be available pretty much everywhere,
Speaker 2: and now he should be pretty much playing full time.
Speaker 2: So I think it's a pretty easy plug and play,
Speaker 2: especially for a team playing a pretty nice ballpark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean I think in Miami it might
Speaker 1: be another great catcher to pursue if he's not scooped
Speaker 1: up already. Joe mack has really settled in. I mean,
Speaker 1: nothing special. It's like a two thirty two forty bat
Speaker 1: with what would paste to like twenty five homers in
Speaker 1: a season. But I mean, beggars can't be choosers this
Speaker 1: late when it comes to catchers in the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Mackheim, pursue them if they're available for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk a guy who I can't believe it's this
Speaker 1: far up the list in terms of the injuries and
Speaker 1: importance that has gone down. And this one hurt because
Speaker 1: I had him in quite a few places and he's
Speaker 1: been performing everywhere I had him. Let's talk Casey Schmidt
Speaker 1: of the San Francisco Giants, because we haven't really much
Speaker 1: this season. He just cracked your top one hundred this
Speaker 1: past weekend. Top. Yeah, you finally got him up there.
Speaker 1: I mean I could and like I could see in
Speaker 1: terms of there was a lot of track record behind
Speaker 1: Schmidt that did not at all indicate what was going
Speaker 1: to come this season. It is probably a season ender,
Speaker 1: I would imagine, because it does sound like he's having surgery.
Speaker 1: They're saying maybe like a six to ish week timeline.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Giants will really want to
Speaker 1: rush it, especially considering this pile of gold, the slump
Speaker 1: of gold they've uncovered with Casey Schmidt now where I mean,
Speaker 1: he could play all over the place, and he's been
Speaker 1: hitting like an elite bat for the entire season. Four
Speaker 1: hundred and nine played appearances, twenty one bombs in that
Speaker 1: crappy park, for home runs, nine stolen bases, a two
Speaker 1: seventy one, three h one four eighty three slash line. Yes,
Speaker 1: that was only a thirty hurt. The thirty point difference
Speaker 1: between the average and the opp That's maybe the one
Speaker 1: flaw is Schmidt does not walk. He hacks at everything
Speaker 1: he's up there to hit. He did not come to
Speaker 1: look at pitches. So what is going on with this
Speaker 1: profile is what has changed? And do you believe it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean if I just make it pretty uchtur
Speaker 2: and simple, it's over aggression and that's what this profile is.
Speaker 2: And that can work when you're making strong contact and
Speaker 2: solid contact, and so his barrel rates up when he's
Speaker 2: his contact rate is up when he's chasing, or even
Speaker 2: when it's in the zone. The problem is he chases
Speaker 2: a lot, He swings the first pitch a lot, he
Speaker 2: swings in a lot in general, and that's it's it's
Speaker 2: a very dicey profile. Even if you make good contact.
Speaker 2: This is the kind of profile that can get exploited
Speaker 2: pretty easy. And that's that's what's taking me a long
Speaker 2: time to kind of like give it a shot, because
Speaker 2: it is easier to exploit the guy that really just
Speaker 2: doesn't have the patients around the plate. And basically what
Speaker 2: people are doing or giving them a chance to hit,
Speaker 2: they give them things that are close enough to make
Speaker 2: make it happen. I don't know if that's maybe he's
Speaker 2: the one guy that's like taking advantage like the ABS
Speaker 2: stuff like that, where you know, he's going up there
Speaker 2: hacking people can't get him to chase enough outside the
Speaker 2: zone by just throwing junk up there. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but that's I mean, overall, making good barrel contact, hitting
Speaker 2: hard hit norere. They're not, but when you have a
Speaker 2: middling bat speed, he's fifty six percentile first percentile walk rate,
Speaker 2: those in a full poll profile. Those are the things
Speaker 2: that got me a little little antsy on him. Why
Speaker 2: I have not moved him up faster. I think he's
Speaker 2: still going to be valuable, but I see this more
Speaker 2: as like a two point fifty hitter twenty home run
Speaker 2: kind of cap with a low OBP, and I think
Speaker 2: from a you know, overall draft perspect there's enough guys
Speaker 2: that can provide that that I'm just not jumping on him.
Speaker 2: So I do think he's out the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: I think he'll be valuable next year. But it's kind
Speaker 2: of that filling out your roster and not the guy
Speaker 2: that you want to immediately plug in to be your starter.
Speaker 2: That's kind of my feeling on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think part of it is it's a very
Speaker 1: slight tick, but he went from I mean, he wasn't
Speaker 1: qualified in bat speed last year, but seventy one point
Speaker 1: seven percent and now it's seventy two or not percent,
Speaker 1: but miles power seventy two point five miles power and
Speaker 1: bumping him up a few percentiles. But I think that's
Speaker 1: about the range. It feels like around seventy two where
Speaker 1: things really start going well. If you're on one side
Speaker 1: of seventy two versus the other. It reminds me I
Speaker 1: am a nerd. I also do bowling. I have a
Speaker 1: Beer League bowling a team that I'm on during the winter,
Speaker 1: and this also happens, like when you go from fourteen
Speaker 1: to fifteen pounds on your ball that like there's just
Speaker 1: something about I'm sure it's actually calculable. I'm just not
Speaker 1: a physics dude, but there's something with the force equals
Speaker 1: mass times acceleration where once you kind of like start
Speaker 1: going past a point, it becomes a little bit more parabolic.
Speaker 1: Is that the word I'm looking for, But like it
Speaker 1: shoots up faster than you would think. And I think
Speaker 1: that's what's happening with Schmid's profile a little bit this
Speaker 1: year is that he added a tick of bat speed,
Speaker 1: but it was right at the right level where you
Speaker 1: needed to be an impact hitter. And I think you
Speaker 1: see this a little bit in Curtis Mead as well.
Speaker 1: But Mead was also swinging it pretty hard last year,
Speaker 1: and there were more like batting stance changes and stuff
Speaker 1: that were behind it. Schmidt, it's more of like a
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe there was a little bit of a
Speaker 1: batting stance and approach change too, but it's certainly a
Speaker 1: little bit more I think of this little tick of
Speaker 1: bat speed. So yeah, it could fall apart fast because
Speaker 1: of the aggreshing you're talking about, but he should still
Speaker 1: have some decent qualification on the infield next year. And
Speaker 1: even so, like he's fine as your third fourth outfielder,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of like and almost an
Speaker 1: adult Garcia mode, like prime Adulas Garcia.
Speaker 2: It's interesting the quality contact comparables on Baseball Savant and
Speaker 2: like they feel right. Like sometimes you're like, I don't
Speaker 2: buy this, Like these guys feel right. It's like Colt Keith,
Speaker 2: Andrew Vaughn, Ezekiel Tovar, Like it's those guys that like
Speaker 2: just continue to border on yes value, but not quite enough.
Speaker 2: Like it's like a little injury, a little thing. But
Speaker 2: then they if they figure it out, they have a
Speaker 2: great season, like an Andrew Vaughn or Schmid Colt Keith.
Speaker 2: You think he's gonna like you just think he's right there,
Speaker 2: and then he just never fully does it like he's
Speaker 2: to your point. It's like right on this razor's edge
Speaker 2: of being useful, good something you want to plug in
Speaker 2: every day, versus a few path weeks of dropping him
Speaker 2: like he's he's that kind of guy for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I agree. Okay, let's move on
Speaker 1: to our next injury. We are talking Cody Bellinger, the
Speaker 1: outfielder for the New York Inky. He's the All Star
Speaker 1: Game MVP with the RBI single that he knocked in,
Speaker 1: and he's hitting the IL with a Grade two left
Speaker 1: hamstring strain out roughly four to six weeks. This certainly
Speaker 1: comes at a terrible time for the Yankees because their
Speaker 1: neck and neck with the Rays for that division. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Yankees are worried about not making
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but certainly they would rather have that buy
Speaker 1: that comes with winning the Al East. And one thing
Speaker 1: to call out first, I mean, the Yankees lineup without
Speaker 1: Stanton Bellinger and Judge honestly kind of streamable against, especially
Speaker 1: when they're on the road. At home, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more questionable, but just because you're talking about the
Speaker 1: short dimensions of Yankee Field or Yankee Stadium. But on
Speaker 1: the road, I think they're much more streambul against unless
Speaker 1: you're Davis Martin tonight, who's getting just shelled, including by
Speaker 1: Bellinger's replacement Spencer Jones, who should get full run in
Speaker 1: Bellinger instead, you know, a strong side platun ish, I
Speaker 1: would say, because I think they're gonna give him a
Speaker 1: little bit of run against lefties because probably they have to,
Speaker 1: like they've got to make good use of that roster spot.
Speaker 1: And two, I think they want to do it because
Speaker 1: this is a situation where you know, it's not when Jones,
Speaker 1: like when Jones came up earlier in the season, where
Speaker 1: there was an element of, hey, you have to produce
Speaker 1: to stay unless he's like striking out eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the time, I think he's probably playing and staying in
Speaker 1: this lineup spot for Bellinger. Well, i'll pack at three
Speaker 1: run Homer tonight as we're speaking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the funny thing is of any guy that actually
Speaker 2: might pull off at eighty percent strikeout right, Spencer Jones
Speaker 2: might be the guy, but yeah, I'm kind of with
Speaker 2: you here, like that, Spencer Jones, Jesson Demingez, those guys
Speaker 2: are guys that actually I'd like to see get a
Speaker 2: full run for a little bit to see what happens,
Speaker 2: because they've just there's so much potential but just never
Speaker 2: comes to fruition. Bellinger like, it's a big loss, big
Speaker 2: loss for fantasy teams. He doesn't putting up amazing numbers,
Speaker 2: but he's just putting solid all around production up in
Speaker 2: a good lineup, and there's nothing, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: So I think this is a tough one where I
Speaker 2: struggle to see if he's truly back for much more
Speaker 2: of the season because this is a four to six
Speaker 2: week kind of kind of view here, and if the
Speaker 2: Yankees are really, you know, locking into that playoff spot,
Speaker 2: I think they're not gonna want to rush things because
Speaker 2: they want Judge and Bellinger and Stanton and everybody back healthy.
Speaker 2: Because that lineup with those three is completely different than
Speaker 2: like Jose Cabiero and Spencer Jones, like big old difference here,
Speaker 2: and so I think that they're going to try to
Speaker 2: make sure that he's healthy, especially coming back from a
Speaker 2: hammy issue, like that's ripe for reinjury if you come
Speaker 2: back too early, and that those are the easy ones.
Speaker 2: I've done it before myself, where I've like, you think
Speaker 2: you're you're back, you think you're back, you can crew
Speaker 2: it through it, and then it just takes one bad
Speaker 2: step and you are out for another two months. And like,
Speaker 2: I think the he's are smart enough that they're not
Speaker 2: gonna rush him. So I don't want to say drop
Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger, but I could, I could see the argument
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been pretty mid from Bellinger, you know,
Speaker 1: you have it's backed back up in terms of like
Speaker 1: the power has fallen apart, the ISOs dropped off, the power,
Speaker 1: the home runs, i'ven't been there. Obviously, he's gonna miss
Speaker 1: the hottest stretch of the season in New York, which
Speaker 1: probably would have boosted that a little bit. But any
Speaker 1: any questions with Bellinger going into next year now too, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know how to frame this not more than usual
Speaker 2: for I mean Cody Bellinger, for is, outside of like
Speaker 2: one year, like has always had these questions of like
Speaker 2: which guy's gonna show up? He's gonna give you enough
Speaker 2: counting stats he's gonna give you. He's gonna fill the
Speaker 2: statue across the board, but you don't know if you're
Speaker 2: gonna get a fifteen to fifteen guy or a thirty
Speaker 2: thirty guy, And you don't know if he's gonna hit
Speaker 2: two twenty or two ninety. And that's just who Bellinger is,
Speaker 2: And once you're used to that roller coaster, then you're
Speaker 2: kind of happy with it. But that's also the reason
Speaker 2: I rarely ever own Cody Bellinger, just because somebody's always
Speaker 2: willing to pay for that upside and market value is
Speaker 2: generally blow what you see at draft tables for a
Speaker 2: guy like Bellinger. So probably the same questions going to
Speaker 2: next year that I have for this year in prior
Speaker 2: years on Bellinger.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, next injury we have is for Josh Young
Speaker 1: going down with a calf strain of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1: This is when I'll admit I was wrong Onne, but
Speaker 1: it's also I don't know if it was just like
Speaker 1: it does feel like maybe this was an extended four
Speaker 1: hundred played appearance hot stretch for Josh Young. It's two
Speaker 1: ninety four three sixty one four one career best one
Speaker 1: twenty eight WRC plus and the nine homers over ninety
Speaker 1: two games. But this is also there was regression certainly
Speaker 1: where he did cut the walk or cut the k rate,
Speaker 1: increase the walk rate. But the babbit was three forty three.
Speaker 1: The ex wOBA is just about Lee gaverage, and so
Speaker 1: there's a lot that I think was gonna start kind
Speaker 1: of You see it, especially in the profile on Savant
Speaker 1: when you see this where if the bat speed's kind
Speaker 1: of middling, and we're talking seventy and a half mile
Speaker 1: pern hour bat speed for Josh Young and the squared
Speaker 1: up is off the charts, That's where I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit like m I'm not totally into the profile because
Speaker 1: that does scream a little bit more of like a
Speaker 1: hot streak, especially when you're looking at a player who
Speaker 1: maybe hasn't traditionally had a great squared uprate, you know,
Speaker 1: and isn't somebody that is notoriously known for that. You know,
Speaker 1: this isn't Want Soto, this isn't Aaron Judge. Also, look
Speaker 1: at the spray chart. Most of his home runs are
Speaker 1: going to right field, so he's pushing stuff away. It's
Speaker 1: a little bit of sometimes when Andrew Vaughn's running hot
Speaker 1: it looks like this too, White Sox and Drew Vaughn
Speaker 1: looked like this a lot more like the Brewers transformed
Speaker 1: him to get him to the pole side. More So,
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of throwing that out there because something
Speaker 1: can consider for dynasty keeper situations where it may look
Speaker 1: like Josh Young has really taken off here. But I
Speaker 1: think it's a lot of like this is who he is,
Speaker 1: and so I would lean a little bit more towards
Speaker 1: like his career slash line at this point. You know,
Speaker 1: you're looking at seventeen hundred player appearances two sixty four,
Speaker 1: three thirteen, four point thirty. That feels better for me
Speaker 1: in terms of a Josh Young slash lining expect going forward.
Speaker 1: Still pretty solid, just below a seven to fifty ops there,
Speaker 1: but maybe more of a corner infield guy than a
Speaker 1: third base guy. So are you there with me and
Speaker 1: Josh Young or do you think there is more in
Speaker 1: the profile here? Will be twenty nine next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm with you. It feels a little
Speaker 2: bit like Kesehy Schmidt conversation we just had as far
Speaker 2: as again on that razor's edge, the thing you called
Speaker 2: out the bat speed and the squared up. Those are
Speaker 2: two variables that you look at, and they it's a
Speaker 2: tale of two stories. If you've got strong bat speed
Speaker 2: and you square the ball up like the rest of
Speaker 2: the profile can come together real quickly and look really
Speaker 2: really strong. If you have low bat speed in a
Speaker 2: high squared up profile, a lot of times that's the
Speaker 2: speedster with a spray profile to roll out a different
Speaker 2: kind of game. But if you have to look at
Speaker 2: the kind of pedigree here, that's not Josh Young. Josh
Speaker 2: Young is not the speedster sprint speed. We haven't played
Speaker 2: the game in a while with you know Josh Young's
Speaker 2: sprint speed off the top of your head without looking
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 1: I didn't actually look at it when I was on
Speaker 1: the slot page. So you can quis me, you can
Speaker 1: Chris me, I haven't looked, I swear.
Speaker 2: So let's where to go. We both know Josh Young
Speaker 2: is probably not the fastest guy in the world. So
Speaker 2: we're going to go over under fortieth percentile sprint speed fortieth.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go a little bit over, just a
Speaker 1: little bit like forty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna go way under sixteenth sixteenth percentile. And
Speaker 2: so when you when you talk Yeah, when you when
Speaker 2: you talk about that kind of spray hitter, the guy
Speaker 2: that's trying to get on base by just making things
Speaker 2: happen using the sprint speed getting on like, that's not
Speaker 2: his profile. So when I see the guy with lower
Speaker 2: bat speed but great squared up, that is a little
Speaker 2: bit concerning because that means the profile that we're from
Speaker 2: a power perspective we're getting is probably gonna be a
Speaker 2: little bit in question because that's what his game ultimately is.
Speaker 2: And so I think that your point, like what we've
Speaker 2: seen in the past is probably closer to what he
Speaker 2: will be in the future. His expected home runs is
Speaker 2: actually six point six compared to his actual nine that
Speaker 2: he has, and so I think things have come together
Speaker 2: better than he has. And I think you and I
Speaker 2: have both actually kind of been out on him, even
Speaker 2: though I love his rookie season. I just I don't
Speaker 2: see enough recovery here in some of those other areas
Speaker 2: that we really need to see for me to kind
Speaker 2: of push him into like sleeper or breakout or something
Speaker 2: for next year. I think this is probably his peak,
Speaker 2: and it's a not terribly useful peak. Like I said,
Speaker 2: it's more of a at this point, it's a quarter
Speaker 2: in field with a better batting average and low power,
Speaker 2: and that's just not who we signed up for with
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that's all very fair. So maybe
Speaker 1: something keep in mind if you roster Young in a
Speaker 1: dynasty keeper situation, maybe we're shopping him at this point
Speaker 1: if you're going for a title and have somebody who
Speaker 1: might be interested in him. Okay, we've got another injury
Speaker 1: to discuss here. Addison Barger of the Toronto Blue Jays
Speaker 1: underwent elbow surgery. It's actually the brace internal brace surgery
Speaker 1: on his right arm and complete loss season. Only got
Speaker 1: into nine games, twenty eight played appearances, and they were
Speaker 1: not great. He looked pretty pretty rough during those plate appearances. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: So it's a total loss lost season here for Asen Barger,
Speaker 1: who will be turning twenty seven in the off season.
Speaker 1: And you know, I will say, like we've both been
Speaker 1: into Barger, but this worries me a little bit because
Speaker 1: like it starts getting into you. Look at the thing
Speaker 1: that really stands out on his avant page is that
Speaker 1: bat speed, Like it's always been there and it's always
Speaker 1: caused a lot with him in his game and now
Speaker 1: it's kind of like resulted in some injuries, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like he was always a little bit
Speaker 1: iffy with like obliques that felt like too and just
Speaker 1: like all sorts of torque related muscles in his body
Speaker 1: to where like it starts making me worry a little bit,
Speaker 1: like the Tristan Cassus, And I think this is happening.
Speaker 1: This concern is coming up more and more for me nowadays,
Speaker 1: as a lot of these hitters are trying to max
Speaker 1: out their bat speed and really pushing their trunk to
Speaker 1: the limits that I can go. And I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of maxims in there out there in the
Speaker 1: league in terms of swing harder, swing as hard as
Speaker 1: you can every time, a lot the way that we've
Speaker 1: seen on the picture side, and I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: worried that some bodies might not be able to withstand
Speaker 1: that type of rigor over an entire season, especially when
Speaker 1: you're talking about asking Barger. You know, he's shorter than
Speaker 1: six week tall, not exactly the biggest frame, and it's
Speaker 1: maximizing every ounce of it that he can to be
Speaker 1: able to sock the ball hard. So maybe not as
Speaker 1: much of a conversation about Barger. But what's your take there?
Speaker 1: Is that something that you worry about on anyone's profiles nowadays,
Speaker 1: or is it something where you're like, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: guys who get hurt will get hurt. It's always happened,
Speaker 1: and this is just kind of another way that manifests.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably lean a little bit more to guys
Speaker 2: get hurt and the just things happen, and I know
Speaker 2: we can always get into the connect chain and all
Speaker 2: what happens. Really, what I look at is this guy's
Speaker 2: the kind of profile that is just very hot and cold. Like,
Speaker 2: this is a profile I think we've seen with a
Speaker 2: lot of guys which strong bat speed, good hard hit rates,
Speaker 2: good x of velocities, but really really poor uh plate discipline.
Speaker 2: This is the Brett Rooker profile. This is to a degree,
Speaker 2: the Mark Viento's profile. It's it's those kind of guys
Speaker 2: that can really break out and do something special, but
Speaker 2: it can catch up to them real fast too, and
Speaker 2: so they're gonna be really streaky. They're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 2: cause you some pain. And it can work. It can
Speaker 2: like it can work, It could absolutely work. But if
Speaker 2: the league makes an adjustment, to you, you have to
Speaker 2: adjust back and if you can't do that, then you're
Speaker 2: you're you're in trouble. So uh, that's really I think
Speaker 2: where where we're at with Barger is that I I
Speaker 2: I really did like it, But the more I kind
Speaker 2: of look at that profile, I've been trying to shade
Speaker 2: away more and more from those guys that have high
Speaker 2: strikeouts and low walk rates. Uh, just because there's too
Speaker 2: many variables when a when the league adjusts to you,
Speaker 2: especially the young guys, I will take it with a
Speaker 2: little bit more of a veteran or somebody who's been
Speaker 2: around the league and proven that they can use that profile.
Speaker 2: But I see too many young guys coming in now
Speaker 2: that have this really aggressive swing path. Uh. They do
Speaker 2: have the high bat speeds, those kind of things, Uh,
Speaker 2: and they make a lot of noise and then they
Speaker 2: go cold for a month, and once that adjustment happens,
Speaker 2: they they really struggle to adjust backpeaks In the minors
Speaker 2: that that profile works, huge bat speed, big contact rate,
Speaker 2: you know, squared up rates. Uh, you know that stuff plays. Uh.
Speaker 2: You get to the majors and these pitchers are crafty
Speaker 2: and there there's all that uh statistics and technology playing
Speaker 2: against you, it's gonna be hard. So that's really what
Speaker 2: has me a little bit more worried with Barger than
Speaker 2: the injury. But put them both together, and he's more
Speaker 2: of a flyer for next year. Uh, maybe a comeback rebound,
Speaker 2: kind of a sleeper guy, anything I would want to
Speaker 2: invest in.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I think that's that's a fair take. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's something I'm just kind of keeping my
Speaker 1: eye on going forward as a trend we see in
Speaker 1: the league. So something to maybe consider when you see
Speaker 1: other kind of big bat speed guys where the risk
Speaker 1: maybe you know, if you especially if you have a
Speaker 1: valuation model that you're using on your own that has
Speaker 1: like a risk meter, maybe that's something to kind of
Speaker 1: layer in there, is that there's maybe another risk indicator
Speaker 1: for bigger bat speeds that just the way that you
Speaker 1: would I think for pitchers that throw hard. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of I think it's a similar parallel. All right,
Speaker 1: one last injury. Let's talk Spencer Steer. We haven't talked
Speaker 1: about him all season. It's been a sneaky, kind of
Speaker 1: under the table decent fantasy season. Pretty much the same
Speaker 1: line that he put up last year is when he
Speaker 1: was on pace for It's a two thirty eight three
Speaker 1: nineteen four to twenty one slash line, ninety nine WRC
Speaker 1: plus sixteen homers, three stolen bases, and three hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty four plate appearances. Going down with a right wrist
Speaker 1: injury where it's a it's a string. I don't know
Speaker 1: if like we're getting just I think it is just
Speaker 1: we're getting really precise medical information nowadays. I think in
Speaker 1: the past we would just call this a sprained wrist.
Speaker 1: But if you want the details, essentially one of the
Speaker 1: tendons in his wrist, like your tendons, have sheaths around them,
Speaker 1: and it tore the sheath around the tendon and is
Speaker 1: causing the pain and inflammation. Gonna be in a splint
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks and then still has to
Speaker 1: go through the rehab process. I don't think surgery is
Speaker 1: out the door here either, so something to consider as well.
Speaker 1: Either way, probably does And Spencer Steer's season, I would
Speaker 1: imagine just because of when you're looking at getting that
Speaker 1: scent on for two weeks, you're in mid August, you
Speaker 1: do four to six weeks, you're done for the season.
Speaker 1: So you know, and at that point too, minor league
Speaker 1: season will be shut down, there's not really a place
Speaker 1: to rehab, and the Reds will be out of it.
Speaker 1: I think they'll probably want some of your young players
Speaker 1: to get to run. Although Spencer Steer younger than you
Speaker 1: would imagine, he's been around forever, doesn't turn twenty nine
Speaker 1: till December. I'm throwing this out there just because I've
Speaker 1: been watching him a little bit as like a really
Speaker 1: cheap back end option where at home he actually paces
Speaker 1: more for like a twenty five to ten, like two
Speaker 1: point fifty line at home, and then on the road
Speaker 1: it's a much more garbage situation, but puts up good
Speaker 1: eligibilities somebody that I'm kind of starring in drafts going
Speaker 1: forward because it's a little bit of like a Willy
Speaker 1: Castro profile, and the Reds play a lot of stretches
Speaker 1: where it's a week full in Cincinnati, the way the
Speaker 1: Rockies play a week full in Colorado. So something I
Speaker 1: just kind of want to throw out there for Spencer
Speaker 1: Steer back into a draft dart for me, certainly, nothing
Speaker 1: really much more than that, but an easy way to
Speaker 1: extract cheap value. What do you think about Spencer Steer.
Speaker 1: Is there more to it or are you on board
Speaker 1: or you just totally out because you think that there's
Speaker 1: no way the Reds continue to give him run.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're going to continue to give
Speaker 2: him run. Like this is a guy that is kind
Speaker 2: of in core to their being and he can play
Speaker 2: all over the field, and so I chink and cheap, yeah,
Speaker 2: and so like, I don't think see anything wrong. He
Speaker 2: is the kind of guy that you like to to
Speaker 2: grab late in the draft because he's he's better than
Speaker 2: your normal bench guy. But he can also end up
Speaker 2: playing you know what, four positions or something like that.
Speaker 2: I don't think you enough run at third bas this
Speaker 2: year to make that happen. You got four innings at
Speaker 2: third bas this year, but first second outfield, you know
Speaker 2: that's just going to come into play. So I do
Speaker 2: like Steer because he can do that. You also know
Speaker 2: how to play the matchups. That's pretty clear, right. You
Speaker 2: just play him a home and you fill him in
Speaker 2: when somebody else is hurt. He's an easy play. So
Speaker 2: I like that. I think we also should know at
Speaker 2: this point this sinsor Steer is who Spinscer Steer is.
Speaker 2: There's not gonna be like another gear. You're gonna get
Speaker 2: a low about an average and you get a nice
Speaker 2: little pop fu stolen basis for fun. I had a
Speaker 2: lot of strikeouts. That's just what you're going to get.
Speaker 1: Yep. I think I'm there with you. So not somebody's
Speaker 1: interested in the past, but I think he's opened my
Speaker 1: eyes a little bit just after rostering up a little
Speaker 1: bit in an RCL this year. So certainly a versatile,
Speaker 1: a little player that you can plug and play, especially
Speaker 1: in daily leagues. Okay, check out that baseball card release
Speaker 1: calendar that we got down in the show notes. No
Speaker 1: really substantial updates. Bowman Chrome does have a pre order
Speaker 1: now that's coming out on August tenth. We are speaking
Speaker 1: on July twenty ninth here. So it was the release
Speaker 1: date for Tops, Tribute, Tops, Dynamic Duels, both more high
Speaker 1: end or ish sets, you know, kind of mid range
Speaker 1: I would say in terms of like akin to five
Speaker 1: Star or Inception. And it's also a big weekend for
Speaker 1: cards in general because the National Card Show going on
Speaker 1: in Chicago in Rosemont at the Convention Center. I'll be
Speaker 1: there on Saturday. Actually I'm gonna go on Saturday, So
Speaker 1: there's gonna be thousands of people there. But if you
Speaker 1: can spot the one guy in a Cards and Categories
Speaker 1: red hat and some rat in a RAS ball shirt,
Speaker 1: that's me. So you'll see one of the cards and
Speaker 1: Categories hats in the wild that I'm always pimping at
Speaker 1: the end of the show. So if you are at
Speaker 1: the National, come say hi to me, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. It's my first time going.
Speaker 1: I don't really have a huge objective, but I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see some cool stuff and if i can find
Speaker 1: like a cheap T two oh six or a like
Speaker 1: late eighteen hundredsu in Ginter, just something really cool. I
Speaker 1: don't have anything that old in my collection. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be looking for. But mostly I'm gonna be gawking.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be gawking at all the ridiculous stuff people
Speaker 1: have and looking at all the millions and millions of
Speaker 1: dollars of cardboard that are in front of me. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. With that, we're gonna wrap
Speaker 1: up the first half of our pod and we'll be
Speaker 1: back on the flip side to talk about prospect face off.
Speaker 3: Get ready, everybody, Welcome.
Speaker 1: Back, everybody. Let's get right into our discussion of prospect
Speaker 1: face off. So, like I said at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the podcast, here, what we're trying to aim at is
Speaker 1: analyzing prospects in the same system that are at the
Speaker 1: same position as well and kind of have a same
Speaker 1: or similar profile. Just because I had noticed, especially in
Speaker 1: this year's draft, I felt like it really stood out
Speaker 1: that lots of teams were almost starting to just acquire
Speaker 1: archetypes where I think they've all got such tailored models
Speaker 1: and stuff that they're all kind of pursuing the same
Speaker 1: type of player internally, so you get the same profiles
Speaker 1: on a lot of the same team. And what I
Speaker 1: think that also creates is position battles going forward for
Speaker 1: these similar players. And so you know, you can already
Speaker 1: see examples of this on really high end prospects that
Speaker 1: are pretty well known in dynasty situations. I alluded to
Speaker 1: the Giants shortstop situation earlier with Louise Hernandez, Johnny Lovell,
Speaker 1: and Joe swar Gonzalez. I think you get this to
Speaker 1: a degree with the Dodgers that you know, with their
Speaker 1: outfielders host way to Paula Zaire Hope mostly I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lump them together because especially those two you know very
Speaker 1: well fit together. And then maybe you also have Mike
Speaker 1: Saroda and James Tibbs kind of on their own island
Speaker 1: as well, And so you've got lots of examples of this.
Speaker 1: I did stray away all the way away from Pittures
Speaker 1: because you can never have enough pictures. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be an issue when they're coming through the system,
Speaker 1: while you know, on the other hand, like pretty soon
Speaker 1: the Brewers have to figure out what they're gonna do
Speaker 1: with Cooper Pratt, Jesus made Luis Pana and fitting them
Speaker 1: around Bryce Terrang and how it's all gonna work. So
Speaker 1: it's something to consider, I think when you're looking at
Speaker 1: these prospect profiles, because it's just another element to their
Speaker 1: overall value that maybe you like this situation they're in
Speaker 1: right now, the system they're in the ballpark, they might
Speaker 1: come up it too, But if there's another guy they're
Speaker 1: jocking for a position, they might not get that chance
Speaker 1: to stick in the system you might like. And so
Speaker 1: it's just another kind of thing I think to track
Speaker 1: on these profiles going forward. We're calling it prospect based
Speaker 1: off shout out to John Travolta, Nick Cage. It's been
Speaker 1: forever since I've seen that movie. But I can tell
Speaker 1: you we are not cutting anybody's faces off today. We're
Speaker 1: just doing a regular old fantasy baseball analysis. Nothing gory,
Speaker 1: nothing weird. And let me make sure none of these
Speaker 1: dudes are injured. Okay, they aren't, so they're not gonna
Speaker 1: do anything gory brou I mean, is there too am
Speaker 1: I reading into this too much? Or is it something
Speaker 1: you do need to think about with these profiles where
Speaker 1: I mean, then you add in the element too of
Speaker 1: like just the day to day humanness of changing organizations,
Speaker 1: refinding your locker room if you do get traded, and
Speaker 1: I feel like it also sends a message to that
Speaker 1: prospect as well. So is this something that I'm just
Speaker 1: like over hyping and overanalyzing because we had an extra
Speaker 1: week in July and needed a podcast topic or is
Speaker 1: there something legitimate here?
Speaker 2: Well, maybe you might be over analyzing and just we
Speaker 2: needed a topic, But I do think there is very
Speaker 2: clear traits that a lot of teams have where they
Speaker 2: want to have their archetype. They want to try to
Speaker 2: broom into their system because they know that they're good
Speaker 2: at developing a certain type of player. At the same time,
Speaker 2: you get into this part of the season and you know,
Speaker 2: these are the guys that come up in trade discussions
Speaker 2: and you're like, well, you can't fit all of them.
Speaker 2: At some point, you're going to have to make a
Speaker 2: choice of who goes where. At the same time, I
Speaker 2: kind of look at it is like a lot of
Speaker 2: these guys, they're they're pure athletes. If they're good enough,
Speaker 2: they're going to find a spot. Like, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: a lot of these are we're gonna be talking about
Speaker 2: are just strong, strong defenders. They can play a few
Speaker 2: different spots. So they might come up as, just to generalize,
Speaker 2: come up as a short stop, but the guy can
Speaker 2: play third and second. He's gonna come up as a
Speaker 2: center fielder, but they can play left and right. Like
Speaker 2: you get a lot of that with this with you know,
Speaker 2: these young guys, And so I think that's what teams are, Okay,
Speaker 2: drafting the bat and the makeup and then they're like,
Speaker 2: I'll figure out the rest later because it's hard to
Speaker 2: just rely on guys to pan out. So I think
Speaker 2: there is something to it, but I don't want to
Speaker 2: overlean into like, hey, which one guy gets traded another
Speaker 2: guy straight? I don't. I don't really think teams are
Speaker 2: thinking that deeply unless we're getting into the upper miners,
Speaker 2: and then you start to truly get into that block scenario,
Speaker 2: like maybe maybe with catchers. That might be the one
Speaker 2: exception where where I'd say that's true is that you
Speaker 2: can the upper miners and you have a stalwart behind
Speaker 2: the plate in the major league level, like you're you're
Speaker 2: trying to get something for that guy while his prospect
Speaker 2: stock is still up there. But generally, the talent plays.
Speaker 2: The talent plays. Maybe not in La I guess, but
Speaker 2: everywhere else talent plays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, maybe not for the Dodgers. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the other element here with these players too
Speaker 1: is like I'm skinning through again, I don't. You know,
Speaker 1: these aren't like the upper crust guys where like they're
Speaker 1: always going to get a shot. So that's another consideration.
Speaker 1: You know, these are guys who are in the mid
Speaker 1: to back end of top one hundreds, and so the
Speaker 1: means you're starting to get into territory where it's starting
Speaker 1: to become you know, less all star players in more
Speaker 1: kind of everyday regulars. Or platoonish guys, and so you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of talent here, but it's not that elite,
Speaker 1: elite talent where you're going to get a shot no
Speaker 1: matter what's happening with like Eli Willitts, Eli Willets, when
Speaker 1: he's ready to go, the Nationals are going to let
Speaker 1: him run and take over wherever they've got the position.
Speaker 1: As opposed to these guys, I think there's a little
Speaker 1: bit more question there where you could have a little
Speaker 1: bit more blockage created, and just another kind of thing
Speaker 1: to consider when you're looking at these profiles. So let's
Speaker 1: start with the first one that also kind of like
Speaker 1: inspired this couple weeks ago when we talked about Nathan
Speaker 1: Fluelling going into our PC for his performance in the
Speaker 1: M Will Be Futures game. So we've got face off
Speaker 1: between Nathan Fluelling and Tatan Gray. Fluelling was a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four third round pick out of high school in
Speaker 1: Canada and he is currently a catcher, but I think
Speaker 1: he's already at the state where the bat is probably
Speaker 1: going to outstrip his his catching ability and they're probably
Speaker 1: gonna want him in the bigs playing a corner or
Speaker 1: dh and getting that bat in the lineup, because it
Speaker 1: looks really great at high A this year in eighty
Speaker 1: three games two point fifty eight three eighty three, four
Speaker 1: seventy five slash line. That's a one twenty three wr
Speaker 1: plus seventeen homers and seven stolen bases. Again, that's been
Speaker 1: as a nineteen year old. There. On the other side,
Speaker 1: we've got Titan Gray with a he was a high
Speaker 1: school pick in twenty twenty five, also out of the
Speaker 1: third round, so they went third round back to beat
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 2: It was like within like eight picks of each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is a switch hitter while Fluelling is left handed,
Speaker 1: so that's a consideration here too. But already exclusively a
Speaker 1: cold corner guy and gonna be a bat only coming
Speaker 1: through the system. But it looks great two ninety one,
Speaker 1: four h six, four eighty eight over two stops only
Speaker 1: fifty one games because he has battled an elbow injury
Speaker 1: where he had some of those loose bodies that everyone
Speaker 1: was catching. So nothing also like overly concerning, especially when
Speaker 1: you're talking to first baseman. It's okay. The balls just
Speaker 1: screams off of his bat in every scouting report that
Speaker 1: I see, and he is at a one WRC plus
Speaker 1: one level behind Nathan Fluelling one year younger. What's your
Speaker 1: choice here in the face off? And why are you
Speaker 1: picking them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one is a really close one for me.
Speaker 2: It is ironic how similar to these guys are. Like
Speaker 2: I said, they were drafted like eight picks apart. Both
Speaker 2: guys were catchers and are probably gonna be first baseman
Speaker 2: type of things, and so there's a lot to like here.
Speaker 2: I think it comes down to who do you think
Speaker 2: reaches the power ceiling the most, because I think that
Speaker 2: they're going to be relatively similar all around. I think
Speaker 2: Gray is maybe a little bit more athletic overall than Fluelling.
Speaker 2: I think through Fluelling might reach a slightly higher peak
Speaker 2: from a power perspective. But it's it's very close for
Speaker 2: me as far as what you think that body is
Speaker 2: gonna do. I mean, we're talking about guys, you know,
Speaker 2: Fluelling six to two hundred pounds, Grays six four two
Speaker 2: twenty both strong. I think Gray might have a little
Speaker 2: more raw power. I'm just I'm not as certain that
Speaker 2: he's going to get to it in games. Fluelling has
Speaker 2: a little bit more patience at the plate and seems
Speaker 2: to be a little more selective at this point. Again,
Speaker 2: we're we're really talking to young eighteen nineteen year olds here,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of kind of hard to play in that.
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm if I'm forced to pick one
Speaker 2: right now, I think I'm probably gonna go with Tait
Speaker 2: and Gray. But I mean it's by it's like a
Speaker 2: fifty five forty five split for me. They are so close.
Speaker 2: I almost went with Fluelling on this because I think
Speaker 2: he's had a bigger rise this season, but I think
Speaker 2: Gray has seems to have a little bit more mature
Speaker 2: played approach, just barely. And like I said, the raw power,
Speaker 2: I think he hasn't tapped into it like the way
Speaker 2: Fluelling has, but I think he has a little bit
Speaker 2: stronger raw power, a little better build for that. So
Speaker 2: if they both end up in that first base position,
Speaker 2: I think Gray has that little better chance of being
Speaker 2: the middle of the order type of type of bat.
Speaker 2: But both of them pretty gush darn close for me
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, i think I'm right there with you in
Speaker 1: terms of I prefer Gray, but it's not by much.
Speaker 1: And I think the reason for me is I think
Speaker 1: the ceiling for Gray is a little bit higher because
Speaker 1: I think the power is pretty upper tier. Like it's
Speaker 1: about as close to eight power as you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: find in the in the miners right now, next to
Speaker 1: Lasara Montes. But like Gray's got a way better played
Speaker 1: approach than Lasara Montes and does not have, per the
Speaker 1: scouting reports, the same holes that Montes does in his swing,
Speaker 1: So that gives you a lot more faith in Gray
Speaker 1: being able to really handle big league pitching and work
Speaker 1: his way through the miners. I will say I think
Speaker 1: flu Willing's probably got the higher floor though, just because
Speaker 1: of the athleticism to be able to catch and to
Speaker 1: still have that avenue maybe open to him for another season.
Speaker 1: You know, if he does turn her corner in the
Speaker 1: off season and shows up in the spring next year
Speaker 1: and is a markedly better catcher, then if that opens
Speaker 1: up for him, certainly, I think that gives him a
Speaker 1: huge boost, because then you're starting to talk like maybe
Speaker 1: the best minor league catching prospect just because the bad
Speaker 1: is so great when you combine it, he'll be right
Speaker 1: there with like Alfredo Duno and yeah, Roanyelle Rodriguez too,
Speaker 1: So that's the type of like bat we're looking at
Speaker 1: with fluelling. It obviously like once you put that at
Speaker 1: first base, it becomes a different conversation for fantasy than
Speaker 1: that catcher. So, yep, I think I'm with you. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm going gray in this face off over fluelling. Next one,
Speaker 1: we're sticking the Al East. We're going with the Toronto
Speaker 1: Blue Jays. We've got two shortstops here. So we got
Speaker 1: Argin Namala and Jojo Parker. These dudes were both first
Speaker 1: round picks, not back to back years. Namala went in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Parker in twenty twenty five. Namala was
Speaker 1: a high schooler when he was drafted, and so was Parker,
Speaker 1: so you kind of got similar profiles there. Namala is
Speaker 1: a right handed hitter, Parker is a left handed hitter.
Speaker 1: And when you're also looking at the overall stats this year,
Speaker 1: so Namala has done this across three levels. He did
Speaker 1: go back to the Complex for a little bit because
Speaker 1: they've been tweaking his swing like every year to get
Speaker 1: him right in terms of he seems to fall apart
Speaker 1: the past couple of years, but the Complex fixes him
Speaker 1: and he comes right back fine. It's been a two
Speaker 1: sixty four three sixty six four sixty two slash line
Speaker 1: one nineteen WRC plus with eight homers across fifty eight
Speaker 1: games in High A, Low A, Double A, A little
Speaker 1: bit complex ball. The thing that will really stand out here,
Speaker 1: remember this twenty two point eight percent strikeout rate, twelve
Speaker 1: point six percent walk rate. Jojo Parker, first year in
Speaker 1: the minors, nineteen year old at Low A, it's been
Speaker 1: a two thirty six three seventy six four twelve slash
Speaker 1: nine A one to thirteen WRC plus right there, you're
Speaker 1: talking six ticks of WRC plus. He has nine homers,
Speaker 1: more stone bases twenty one but certainly easier competition. Sixteen
Speaker 1: point three percent walk rate, twenty four point three percent
Speaker 1: walk rate. So the walk rates and k rates or
Speaker 1: the second one, the twenty four point three was a
Speaker 1: k rate there on Parker, I think I said walk rate,
Speaker 1: but you're looking at walk rates and k rates that
Speaker 1: are pretty similar. Both of them. Have a little bit
Speaker 1: of question about short stuff, you know what I mean. Namala,
Speaker 1: it's partly because Namal's got a cannon for an arm
Speaker 1: that he might just make more sense at third. And
Speaker 1: then for Parker, it's just he's got a little bit
Speaker 1: of a chunky body. I would say where I think
Speaker 1: he probably is going to end up in second base
Speaker 1: third base conversation, but they're going to try him at
Speaker 1: short as long as they can. Two pretty similar players
Speaker 1: here coming through the Blue Jay system. Which way do
Speaker 1: you lean?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm gonna give you credit. You did a good
Speaker 2: job picking guys that are pretty cush darting similar and
Speaker 2: maybe that's the reason we're having this this podcast conversation
Speaker 2: just took me this long as the podcast figured out.
Speaker 2: But when I look at these guys, I both of
Speaker 2: them have really high upside. Both of them are very
Speaker 2: athletic players. I think Parker's got a little bit more speed.
Speaker 2: I think uh Namala might have a little bit of
Speaker 2: a pickup on the hit tool just slightly. But I
Speaker 2: think what I look at for these two is I
Speaker 2: think Parker's got a little bit better floor. I think
Speaker 2: all around game, I think he's going to grow into
Speaker 2: a little the power. The power might be similar between
Speaker 2: the two guys. Parker might grow into slightly more. I
Speaker 2: think the speed's gonna kind of separate, and he's already
Speaker 2: kind of showing that he's only quite quite a few bases.
Speaker 2: He's to on for twenty five and eighty games at
Speaker 2: single A. It's single A, so like put you know,
Speaker 2: put a little damper on that. But I think that
Speaker 2: overall profile has a little bit better flow and has
Speaker 2: a chance to play. I think Damala has maybe a
Speaker 2: wider range of outcomes that we could see him, you know,
Speaker 2: really mature and become something special. That's the bigger question
Speaker 2: for him. But when I look at you know, one
Speaker 2: of the things I think is as a tiebreaker is
Speaker 2: like body type Jojo Parker six to two hundred, Namala
Speaker 2: at least what they're listed is six foot one ninety.
Speaker 2: That's that's not the biggest guy, and so it's not
Speaker 2: like he's going to grow into a ton more power.
Speaker 2: And so I do question, uh, for Namala if those
Speaker 2: counting stats are gonna kind of come around, even if
Speaker 2: he does end up having a slightly better hit tool.
Speaker 2: Both guys young for their levels, so it's it's you know,
Speaker 2: they're being really challenged. But I mean, I'm given Parker
Speaker 2: the edge. I said, I went fifty five to forty
Speaker 2: five in the race system. I'm gonna go like sixty
Speaker 2: to forty h here with Parker, it's still pretty close.
Speaker 1: Well, this might end up being a little bit boring
Speaker 1: that we might just end up like agreeing, although down
Speaker 1: because I think everything that you said is the reason
Speaker 1: I've also got Parker a little bit over Namala in
Speaker 1: terms of the left handed bat too, just helps. It's
Speaker 1: another leg up in terms of if you're facing right
Speaker 1: handed pitching more often, you want the left handed bat
Speaker 1: better shot at a higher batting average, and just more
Speaker 1: power and just a little bit easier than trying to
Speaker 1: hit right on right constantly. Overall, I think that Nomala
Speaker 1: might end up being the better player because the glove
Speaker 1: is slick like the.
Speaker 2: Glove yeah, is like real world player.
Speaker 1: Yep, Yeah, the glove on Nomala could like start bordering
Speaker 1: on like Carlos Korea if he puts it together, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But also kind of a similar profile,
Speaker 1: lots more of like contact and power at the plate too,
Speaker 1: with very few stolen bases, where I think Jojo Parker
Speaker 1: can be a lot more rounded, holistic five y five
Speaker 1: roto category like just offering it up across the boards.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm with you right here. Parker's winning the
Speaker 1: face off twoelve sweep once again. Okay, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. We've got two here with Eric Hartman and
Speaker 1: aj Grossia. Eric Hartman was drafted in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: in the twentieth round out of high school, but was
Speaker 1: certainly given a little bit of a bonus to be
Speaker 1: able to buy him out of a college commitment has
Speaker 1: broken out this year. Aj Grossia was just drafted out
Speaker 1: of Virginia a few weeks ago by the Braves with
Speaker 1: the number nine overall pick. And we're looking right here,
Speaker 1: I think at two corner outfielders in the future for
Speaker 1: the Braves. Hartman is left handed and so is Grossia,
Speaker 1: so we don't even have that distinguishment here. Let's see
Speaker 1: in terms of their future hit grades and power grades
Speaker 1: on fangrafts, it does look like we've got a little
Speaker 1: bit more on Grossia's page, But the current does it
Speaker 1: favors him a little bit? I will say the the
Speaker 1: distinguishing factor, Hartman certainly runs a lot more. But if
Speaker 1: we'd had this discussion last year, it would have not
Speaker 1: even been a face off, I think because Hartman was
Speaker 1: just an all speed guy with forty eight stolen base
Speaker 1: lacross two levels. The breakout has been real for Hartman
Speaker 1: this year, twenty two homers to go, thirty six stolen bases,
Speaker 1: two seventy four, three sixty one five nineteen slash line
Speaker 1: in high A with a one thirty WRC plus. Grossia
Speaker 1: is just coming off of a year at Virginia three
Speaker 1: fifty four forty nine six thirty two, one forty four
Speaker 1: WRC plus just to be able to write size that
Speaker 1: with NCAA fourteen homers more walks. Thanks, But it's a
Speaker 1: little bit hard to compare those numbers compared to what
Speaker 1: we've done with the past few guys, because you're talking
Speaker 1: college to minor league stats. But I think you're talking
Speaker 1: pretty similar profiles here. Hartman is a little bit smaller
Speaker 1: than Grassia. Grascia is at six three one ninety five
Speaker 1: listed Hartman's at six, So they're both right there, and
Speaker 1: they've both got decent fielding grades, but I think neither
Speaker 1: of them is going to even come close to sniffing
Speaker 1: center field. So who's your choice here in the face
Speaker 1: off of Atlanta Braves corner outfielders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gave a good rundown here. The few things
Speaker 2: we'll add is Hartman I think has bulked up during
Speaker 2: the season, So the metrics a year thrown from a
Speaker 2: size perspective, I think they would he'll clock in a
Speaker 2: little bigger next year. He definitely seems like he's bulked up,
Speaker 2: So give me a six on him if i'm if
Speaker 2: I'm guessing. The other thing is, even though Grassia was
Speaker 2: just drafted, Hartman's younger, Hartman just turned twenty years old
Speaker 2: at the beginning of June, or actually mid June, and
Speaker 2: so Grassia is actually because he went through some college
Speaker 2: ball at Virginia a year and a half older, and
Speaker 2: I feel like he's got a little bit more runway
Speaker 2: to figure things out. So kind of because of that,
Speaker 2: Like I'm going with Hartman here, I just I think
Speaker 2: he's kind of proven it already. You've seen a lot
Speaker 2: of growth this year and it was a notable change
Speaker 2: in the profile, like he's lifting the ball more like
Speaker 2: it goes back to the generation of the launch angle
Speaker 2: discussions that we had years ago. He feels like he's
Speaker 2: kind of growing into that power. And I don't know
Speaker 2: that he's going to be a true I don't think
Speaker 2: either guy unless Garassia really like pops the power, like
Speaker 2: really fills out I don't think either guy is like
Speaker 2: a true middle of the order bat, but I think it's,
Speaker 2: to your point, a good corner outfielder. And I think
Speaker 2: Hartman's just gonna fill a little bit more of the
Speaker 2: stat sheet. And he's just shown me a little bit
Speaker 2: more being young at the level that he's producing. So
Speaker 2: I'll give him the edge and I'll give this one
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger gap for me. I really really
Speaker 2: do like Hartman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is another clean sweep. I'm right
Speaker 1: there with you. I mean this is probably one of
Speaker 1: the more lobsided ones, honestly, because Hartman the breakout has
Speaker 1: been very, very next level, and when you add in
Speaker 1: the speed element, I don't know how well the power
Speaker 1: will stick. I think that's probably the biggest question as
Speaker 1: he rises, because the other component here is he did
Speaker 1: give back a couple ticks of contact to be able
Speaker 1: to find that speed. I think as he goes up levels,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to shade the other way back and
Speaker 1: give a little bit of the contact back to be
Speaker 1: able to hang, and that'll decrease the power. But you're
Speaker 1: still looking at somebody when he gets up kind of
Speaker 1: a j Pollock, but from the left side, I think,
Speaker 1: and so you're looking at a lot more stolen bases
Speaker 1: than power. But well, also probably not the ability to
Speaker 1: play center field like Pollock, although he has been out
Speaker 1: there a lot more at high A than I would
Speaker 1: have anticipated. But so maybe the Braves do give him
Speaker 1: that chance. But also at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like Michael Harris the Second isn't going anywhere. So unless
Speaker 1: Michael Harris the Second really does start slowing down and
Speaker 1: dealing with lower body injuries, it's his center field to Rome.
Speaker 1: And so I do not want to give short shrift
Speaker 1: to Grassia though, because there's a pretty decent chance he
Speaker 1: becomes the best bat out of this draft class. The
Speaker 1: one factor that's gonna go against him, I don't think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of speed in that profile, where it's
Speaker 1: like Kyle Tucker without the speed it could be, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's where you could see the peak the
Speaker 1: ceiling for and I'm talking like good Kyle Tucker, not
Speaker 1: this year's Kyle Tucker Grassia. So yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: is a pretty easy choice for Hartman. But Grassia is
Speaker 1: certainly knowing to ignore when you're getting into fipds this year. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to Cincinnati. We've got two shortstops here between
Speaker 1: steel Hall and Justin Lebron. So steel Hall was drafted
Speaker 1: just last year in the first round out of high school.
Speaker 1: Justin Lebron is coming out of Alabama this year was
Speaker 1: the eighteenth overall pick, so already off the bat, you
Speaker 1: got a little bit of an age gap where steel
Speaker 1: Hall just turned nineteen and Justin Lebron is going to
Speaker 1: be turning twenty two in November. Lebron, let's get Let's
Speaker 1: look at those numbers at Alabama. They were pretty solid.
Speaker 1: Two seventy seven, three eighty six, five thirty four slash line,
Speaker 1: one oh five WRC plus forty two stolen bases. Though
Speaker 1: in his sixty one games you can also kind of
Speaker 1: see where like he was facing much stiffer competition in
Speaker 1: the SEC than Garse than Gracio was in the ACC regularly,
Speaker 1: that like, even though the ACC still has lots of
Speaker 1: good teams in it, the SEC is like another tier
Speaker 1: up from the ACC when it comes to pitching, especially,
Speaker 1: steel Hall has been putting it together over the summer
Speaker 1: at Complex Ball, so that is another kind of factor
Speaker 1: here that's pretty low for this guy. I think, although
Speaker 1: he should be getting a bump up to the next
Speaker 1: level here pretty as soon as complex ball is wrapping up.
Speaker 1: But it's been a two eighty eight three eighty seven
Speaker 1: five eighteen slash line. It's only been a one oh
Speaker 1: seven WRC plus, which kind of shows you the pitching
Speaker 1: environment being pretty or the pitching just overall, and complex
Speaker 1: ball has been awful. So the the stats are pretty boosted.
Speaker 1: Ten homers, twenty four stolen basis in his fifty eight games,
Speaker 1: twenty four percent strikeout rate. There, you're looking at two
Speaker 1: dudes who can pick it. They've got great speed as well.
Speaker 1: So the question here, I think on both is actually
Speaker 1: the hit tool. Both of them currently have a twenty
Speaker 1: current rating on their hit tools from Fangrafts. Steel Halls
Speaker 1: is a forty five future, Lebron's is only a thirty future.
Speaker 1: But all those considerations, who's your pick here between Hall
Speaker 1: and Lebron.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you a good job describing it, Like
Speaker 2: the question is the hit tool and what's going to
Speaker 2: happen with that? Steel Halls maybe got a little more
Speaker 2: speed than Lebron, and I think that would probably get
Speaker 2: some people go, Yeah, that's that's where I want to be,
Speaker 2: but I just don't know that he leaves a little
Speaker 2: too much like Billy Hamilton being there in Cincinnati. He's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if we can get enough power or
Speaker 2: enough batting averaging on base to take advantage of the speed.
Speaker 2: And so I'm gonna go Justin Lebron here just because
Speaker 2: I think that he he might be a more of
Speaker 2: a true athlete project at this point in time. But
Speaker 2: I think the ceiling is a decent more than steel Hall.
Speaker 2: I just I think Hall is kind of who he is.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a speedster. He's gonna pop a
Speaker 2: few few homers here and there, he's gonna have a
Speaker 2: low average, and I and hopefully you know it all
Speaker 2: it all sorts out. I think Lebron has a much
Speaker 2: more interesting bat, much more wide variation of outcomes. But
Speaker 2: when I think you're looking at this kind of profile
Speaker 2: if you want it to really be an impact player,
Speaker 2: I think Lebron has a much a higher chance of
Speaker 2: being an impact player, even if steel Hall might have
Speaker 2: a higher chance actually been a long term major leaguer,
Speaker 2: which is kind of a weird, weird dynamic. But I'm
Speaker 2: given going Justin Lebron here again. Very close, very similar profiles,
Speaker 2: but I think a little bit more mature approach from
Speaker 2: Lebron as he comes through from the college ranks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm with you as well, and I
Speaker 1: think that is going to be one element that you
Speaker 1: brought up to consider that, you know, if you are
Speaker 1: in like a really true keep forever dynasty league where
Speaker 1: it really does behoove you to stash away somebody likes
Speaker 1: Steel Hall who's at the complex league, and you can
Speaker 1: wait for two years and see what happens. Maybe it
Speaker 1: tips the scales a little bit because I will say
Speaker 1: it's relatively close from an actual profile, but I like
Speaker 1: the ability for Lebron to probably get to the majors
Speaker 1: much quicker and establish himself in front of Hall and
Speaker 1: then create that block maybe for Hall as well as
Speaker 1: third base and second base should be pretty wide open
Speaker 1: for the Reds next year going into the season. And
Speaker 1: I mean maybe there is even a discussion about whether
Speaker 1: or not they let Elie de Lacruz stick it short stop,
Speaker 1: But let me check his I haven't checked his defensive runs.
Speaker 1: I mean they've actually been fine, so maybe not. You've
Speaker 1: probably still got a couple more years of l at shortstop,
Speaker 1: but Lebron could easily take over second or third base
Speaker 1: because I don't think they're going to pick up a
Speaker 1: u Haannino Suarez's mutual option there. They're probably gonna let
Speaker 1: him walk. They're pretty cheap in Cincinnati, as we alluded
Speaker 1: to earlier. So yeah, because of those factors, I'm going
Speaker 1: with Lebron. But I think this one's probably the closest
Speaker 1: one for me because when you're talking ceilings, they're pretty similar.
Speaker 1: I think, like we do need to see Lebron show
Speaker 1: up and perform. We've seen it from Hall, but it's
Speaker 1: also been a sub seventy percent contact rate in the
Speaker 1: Complex League, which I mean it can be a little fluky,
Speaker 1: but that's that's some pretty dangerous territory down there. Okay,
Speaker 1: next one. We do have six of these, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna this is our fifth one.
Speaker 2: We're almost there.
Speaker 1: Yes, we're am. We're not going to go through. If
Speaker 1: we did all thirty, man, we'd be facing off forever.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's something.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't agree on all thirty. I'm just curious if
Speaker 2: we somehow agree like and and for those listening, we
Speaker 2: do not talk about these things prior to getting on
Speaker 2: on the air with the podcast. We don't sit here
Speaker 2: in like debate and whatnot, Like we just run into this.
Speaker 2: You set things up, I react, and we see what happens.
Speaker 2: And so if we agree, we agree. If we don't,
Speaker 2: we don't. It's just it's actually kind of surprising with
Speaker 2: guys this far away from the majors that were actually
Speaker 2: a line so far, I think I'm setting this up
Speaker 2: for not being a line on this one. Again, we
Speaker 2: haven't talked about it, but maybe maybe this is gonna
Speaker 2: be the one that we're a little different on.
Speaker 1: Okay, because yeah, this is where I think these next
Speaker 1: two they're starting to get a little bit They're starting
Speaker 1: to deviate a little bit more because like there's only
Speaker 1: so many of these like exact same dudes you could find,
Speaker 1: and so we've got similar situations, I would say, and
Speaker 1: we'll we'll we'll parse it out, but you're gonna have
Speaker 1: we're gonna start getting a little bit more into like
Speaker 1: Red Delicious versus Granny Smith Apples as opposed to Red
Speaker 1: Delicious versus Bigger Red Delicious.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you get that one fell apart real
Speaker 2: fast on you.
Speaker 1: It's close to land in that plane. Okay, let's go
Speaker 1: to Kansas City because we've got two standout outfielders now
Speaker 1: in that system that are have popped up. So in
Speaker 1: one corner, we've got Onebelle or yeah, in Injabelle Gomez.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna or on a Belle Gomez. I'm we're gonna
Speaker 1: only call him Gomez from here on out. So uh,
Speaker 1: he has been lighting the Complex League. Well, it's not
Speaker 1: even Complex League, it's been the DSL on fire this season.
Speaker 1: Was signed as an amateur of Venezuela in January and
Speaker 1: has been one of the best bats in the DSL
Speaker 1: this year. Three forty five, four fifty six six twenty
Speaker 1: seven slash line with six homers and twelve stone bases
Speaker 1: in thirty four games, so one forty nine WRSC plus.
Speaker 1: He is a seventeen year old turns eighteen in December.
Speaker 1: Right right profile, six foot two one seventy five ish,
Speaker 1: and then on the other side, we've got the first
Speaker 1: round pick for Kansas City this year, Zion Rose out
Speaker 1: of Louisville. He is a right right outfielder as well.
Speaker 1: Twenty one years old, turns twenty two next May. Little
Speaker 1: bit shorter, supposedly six foot one two hundred. I guess
Speaker 1: the other component here with Annabel Gomez is that he
Speaker 1: might grow another inch or two. So something to consider
Speaker 1: because I think that was a part of the reason
Speaker 1: why Toronto also took Nomala as early as they did.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've gotten more than another inch of
Speaker 1: growth of Nomala, but there could be more in Gomez's
Speaker 1: profile going forward. Rose at Louisville ACC again absolutely lit
Speaker 1: it up four seventeen four ninety one, six forty six,
Speaker 1: one forty seven WRSCT plus only six twenty four stolen bases.
Speaker 1: A little bit more of like a gap to gap
Speaker 1: doubles line drive guy, but pretty decent frame to be
Speaker 1: able to add a little bit more power. We'll be
Speaker 1: We'll just see if the Royals can do that going forward.
Speaker 1: So here we got two similar ish guys. Gomez is
Speaker 1: significantly younger, you know, yoking a guy who's three years
Speaker 1: younger and was just signed recently. Rose has the background
Speaker 1: of playing three years of college ball. Who you picking
Speaker 1: in this face off?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think for me, I have to look at
Speaker 2: upside with with with this this battle, and I don't
Speaker 2: think that's incredibly close between these two. If I'm truly
Speaker 2: talking upside and that's gonna be Gomez. Gomez is a
Speaker 2: lanky kid. He's found surprising game power for what he's
Speaker 2: the lankiness that he is. I do agree he's going
Speaker 2: to fill out more. He's kind of that fast, twitchy
Speaker 2: kind of player that you can really kind of dream on,
Speaker 2: and so I think he's a guy that has a
Speaker 2: chance to really reach some power potential and really kind
Speaker 2: of contribute across across the stat sheet. If we're trying
Speaker 2: to make a Kansas City comp here for maybe like
Speaker 2: the outcome you're hoping for, it's kind of like a
Speaker 2: Carlos Beltron type type of profile. That's probably like best
Speaker 2: case scenario. Maybe you're getting into more of like a
Speaker 2: Starling Marte type, you know, a little bit further further
Speaker 2: down with some powers speed, But that that lanky kind
Speaker 2: of guy that's gonna gonna make an impact. I think
Speaker 2: he has the highest potential for this to come through.
Speaker 2: I do like Rose, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 2: value there. I just don't know that he has quite
Speaker 2: the same overall upside from a power perspective. He probably
Speaker 2: has it. On the speed side of things, He's gonna
Speaker 2: be a mature, more mature. Again, he spent three years
Speaker 2: with with Louisville playing, so I think, you know, he's
Speaker 2: probably he's obviously going to see the majors first. He's
Speaker 2: gonna get the chance to, uh, to prove himself. He's
Speaker 2: probably got the better floor. But I I just look
Speaker 2: at these two type of guys and say, you know,
Speaker 2: Rose might just be a slightly above average across the
Speaker 2: board kind of guy, whereas I think Gomez could be
Speaker 2: average in a few spots but really really strong from
Speaker 2: a specifically from the power perspective, and the speed is
Speaker 2: still gonna be intriguing to boot, maybe just not quite
Speaker 2: as strong as Rose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you, and this one's not particularly close
Speaker 1: for me either. That like, this was a little bit
Speaker 1: of like a way to shoehorn in a discussion about
Speaker 1: Gomez because this is actually, I'll let you in on it,
Speaker 1: this is the next guy that if I get to
Speaker 1: auction and stash away a dude and not Anu, this
Speaker 1: is the next one. I think this is more Carlos
Speaker 1: BELTRONI I think this is like pretty special that like
Speaker 1: when you put together what he's done in the DSL
Speaker 1: at the age that he's done I think that the
Speaker 1: Royals have really found a gem here in Gomez where
Speaker 1: I think I think next year he's probably gonna really
Speaker 1: tear through the miners pretty quickly, where it reminds me
Speaker 1: a little bit of like it's right handed like Jose
Speaker 1: Depaula for me in terms of what I see across
Speaker 1: the board, where he's flashing more speed, but I think
Speaker 1: the speed will even out because the bat is so
Speaker 1: good and I think the steals that he's picking up
Speaker 1: it's a combination of it being the DSL and the
Speaker 1: pitching not being great and the catching not being great
Speaker 1: and finding his opportunities, but the bat is legit out
Speaker 1: of Gomez, and so I think if you're in dynasty
Speaker 1: keeper situations and he's available and you're rebuilding, certainly put
Speaker 1: him on your auditu roster, I think now before he
Speaker 1: becomes hot commodity going into next year as well as
Speaker 1: he should be on the board for fypds. I mean
Speaker 1: most fypds, I would say do, but you always have
Speaker 1: the odd one where they treat Jan's twenty or the
Speaker 1: Jan period inner national signings a little bit differently. I
Speaker 1: think Gomez in I've been trying to debate this because
Speaker 1: I'm not actually in like a situation where I've got
Speaker 1: a FYPD, but if like I was, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think Hernandez is probably number one for me, but Gomez
Speaker 1: is right there with Chilowski and Emerson too, So like
Speaker 1: that's how much I believe in it that, like I think,
Speaker 1: especially when I'm in like thinking about those even though
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm not in a league like that,
Speaker 1: but I think I would like to shade for trying
Speaker 1: to find a little bit more upside in that mix.
Speaker 1: And so Chilowski and Emerson are are cool, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if they've got quite the ceiling that I
Speaker 1: would want. And Hernandez and Gomez do, I think so
Speaker 1: somebody to I think star out there is Annabel Gomez
Speaker 1: from the Royals and another Quean sweep. Okay, we got
Speaker 1: to our last one, Miami Marlin shortstop, and we're going
Speaker 1: with another draft D from this year. I don't have
Speaker 1: stats to read off because he was a high school
Speaker 1: pick number five overall, we're talking Jacob Lombards. I'll just
Speaker 1: rattle off some of his pipeline scouting grades and his
Speaker 1: age and kind of profile. So he was out of
Speaker 1: a Florida High School was eighteen turns nineteen in September,
Speaker 1: so a tick older, but not like one of those
Speaker 1: I'm always wary of those dudes that come through like
Speaker 1: nineteen and a half in our first round out high school, Like,
Speaker 1: oh boy, that's not great. Six foot three, one ninety
Speaker 1: five shortstop all the way future grades of fifty five
Speaker 1: hit sixty power, sixty five run, fifty armed, fifty five
Speaker 1: field sixty overall, pretty solid. Little shortstop was right in
Speaker 1: the discussion I think for quite a long time with
Speaker 1: Chilawski and Emerson until kind of the everything really started
Speaker 1: settling at the end of the draft. So this is
Speaker 1: not like a situation of the Marlins cheaping out on
Speaker 1: somebody that they went out and got one of the
Speaker 1: better prospects that they could at that spot. It's coming
Speaker 1: on the heels of Iva Arquette, who was their number
Speaker 1: seven overall pick last year out of Oregon State. Is
Speaker 1: twenty two turns twenty three in October. Has been at
Speaker 1: high A and double A this year with a two
Speaker 1: forty two ninety seven four to sixty two slash line
Speaker 1: just a ninety four WRC plus, but the power has
Speaker 1: been pretty solid. Nine homers, twelve stolen bases, the glove
Speaker 1: is starting to fade a little bit where he might
Speaker 1: end up being more of a third baseman. But it's
Speaker 1: a big frame six five, two twenty out of our quet.
Speaker 1: You've got two short stops here for the Marlins. Which
Speaker 1: way you going?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a tough one because specifically to Lombard,
Speaker 2: there's just not a lot I mean, being at high school,
Speaker 2: there's just not a lot of information to go on him.
Speaker 2: But I think that the two ways I'm to look
Speaker 2: at this is our ket like he went early in
Speaker 2: the draft, but like he seems like he hasn't really
Speaker 2: found his footing in the minors folly at this point.
Speaker 2: The batting avergi hasn't picked up there. He seems to
Speaker 2: be kind of a little bit lighter on the on
Speaker 2: the hit tool. He is going to be twenty three
Speaker 2: coming up soon. So the fact that he's not quite
Speaker 2: getting to some of the hit tools in the game
Speaker 2: power that I would want to see at that age,
Speaker 2: at the levels he's at, I'm a little I've kind
Speaker 2: of soured a little on our cuts overall game. That said, Lombard,
Speaker 2: this this is an incredibly athletic pick like he's one
Speaker 2: of those This is a not fair comparison, but but
Speaker 2: bear with me, is a kind of James Wood like
Speaker 2: talent athleticism type type of pick. He he has incredible speed,
Speaker 2: great defense, the profile from off from his perspective, he
Speaker 2: has crazy, crazy raw power. Some of it does show
Speaker 2: open games. The problem is he's a strikeout maven like.
Speaker 2: He is a swing miss type of guy, and he's
Speaker 2: you're you're dreaming on him with his top ten type
Speaker 2: type pick that he could become something incredible, or he
Speaker 2: could be kind of like a number of prospects we've
Speaker 2: seen drafted that just can't figure out how to actually
Speaker 2: access that hit tool and so there can be incredibly exciting,
Speaker 2: but they're not gonna make it through. So for me,
Speaker 2: our kent like he hasn't shown enough that he's something.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, I'm gonna invest in more than like
Speaker 2: a utility player. And I think that's maybe his ceiling
Speaker 2: right now. And maybe that's not fair to a guy
Speaker 2: that was just a a top ten pick not too
Speaker 2: long ago. But I think Lombard has some incredible tools
Speaker 2: and if he can figure a few things out in
Speaker 2: pro ball and not get exploited by pitchers, and he
Speaker 2: can mature again be in a high school bat, absolutely can.
Speaker 2: There's a lot more upside there, and again with these two,
Speaker 2: I'm looking upside. So give me Lombard, but we have
Speaker 2: very little to go on of a high school bat.
Speaker 2: That that just I believe he was just activated for
Speaker 2: the Marlins today actually if I was looking at the
Speaker 2: transaction reports the PCL. So we'll see, maybe we'll get
Speaker 2: stats tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so we've also got I should have thrown
Speaker 1: it out there that Lombard is also George Lombard's son,
Speaker 1: brother of George Lombard Junior. So that's another factor here too,
Speaker 1: which I think actually is the the factor that makes
Speaker 1: me pick him too. So we got a clean six
Speaker 1: ozero sweep on the face offs. But I think that
Speaker 1: that just like bloodline of coming through and having the
Speaker 1: father that was in baseball and he's still involved in baseball,
Speaker 1: having the brother that was there too, to be able
Speaker 1: to learn those ropes where I think that might be
Speaker 1: a little bit of like what's tripping up our caut
Speaker 1: you know, as he goes forward, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of latent power in that profile, and it's just kind
Speaker 1: of not quite translating folly. I mean, if anything, you
Speaker 1: almost want to see our cat. The contact rate is
Speaker 1: too high, like he's got to like let a few
Speaker 1: more pitches go by, which Alsos kind of tells me
Speaker 1: too that maybe he's pressing a little bit to try
Speaker 1: to work his way through and prove that he was
Speaker 1: a top ten pick is as opposed to just like
Speaker 1: letting it ride. I think he's got the body to
Speaker 1: do it and be a solid third baseman, and I
Speaker 1: think he can be a pretty good contributor for fantasy,
Speaker 1: where you know you're looking at something like twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five Homers with like a two seventy average and just
Speaker 1: pretty good solid third base defense. Lombard I think because
Speaker 1: it is a little bit of a mystery box, I'll
Speaker 1: take the mystery box too, because, like the upside, the
Speaker 1: size is already there too. Another situation where maybe he
Speaker 1: does add another int or two, but like he's huge.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he sticks at shortstop like he
Speaker 1: maybe he does move to the outfield, and certainly the
Speaker 1: error bars are huge because like Lombard could be his
Speaker 1: brother or better and probably better. It does sound like
Speaker 1: from a scouting perspective, he's got more power and.
Speaker 2: Just better better tools.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and so there's that. But I also like
Speaker 1: Drew Jones was not too far behind us, and.
Speaker 2: So yeah, like Elijah Green like guys guys like that,
Speaker 2: Like that's that that's the risk with this profile the
Speaker 2: other But on the flip side, you look at our
Speaker 2: cats like comps. I was looking at prospects of the
Speaker 2: comps and they were like Adam Fraser, Maurisio Dubon like like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: you're talking to the guy that's like yeah, at times
Speaker 2: has been useful in a fantasy game, but like never
Speaker 2: the guy that you like target. It's the kind of
Speaker 2: guy that you you it's the fallback play and that
Speaker 2: and that feels like maybe the upside for our cats.
Speaker 2: So I will to your point, I will take the
Speaker 2: mystery box on this one and not be too disappointed.
Speaker 1: If I'm wrong. Yeah, And that's I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: just like straight comparing them like this, that's I think
Speaker 1: always going to be the answer. When you're talking Dynasty leaks,
Speaker 1: it might be a little bit different because I do
Speaker 1: think that there's still when you kind of like do
Speaker 1: the beat bop boops in the computer and like put
Speaker 1: it all out there. Depending on where you're at in
Speaker 1: your life cycle of your Dynasty, team Arquette might still
Speaker 1: make more sense for you if you're looking at if
Speaker 1: you need a shortstop our third baseman, who could be
Speaker 1: up late twenty twenty seven, early twenty twenty eight. Maybe
Speaker 1: that is a consideration and you bump them up a
Speaker 1: little bit more because you who knows how Lombard's going
Speaker 1: to take it could be two years, it could be
Speaker 1: four or five, So something to kind of put together
Speaker 1: in your consideration and analysis going forward. So there we go,
Speaker 1: prospect face off, we wrapped it up. It was a
Speaker 1: clean suite, but I mean, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: them were closer than you would expect. We just kind
Speaker 1: of if you've been listening to this pot over the years,
Speaker 1: you know we think pretty similarly.
Speaker 2: We spent too much time together, I think, is what
Speaker 2: the analysis at the end of this pot is. But
Speaker 2: if you made it this far, we appreciate you listening along,
Speaker 2: joining us with the clean six sweep on this.
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