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<v Speaker 1>Nine, five miles an hour, riding too his head. He

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<v Speaker 1>very next pitch he up and stole second phase with

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<v Speaker 1>greatest me. He wasn't born, he had the dirt.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, beautiful, all right. So Episode thirty nine of the

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<v Speaker 2>Prospect B Sides podcast. Welcome, Thank you for turning us

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<v Speaker 2>on if you have not listened to this podcast before.

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<v Speaker 2>Myself and my buddy Matt. Here we are getting muddy,

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<v Speaker 2>getting into the dirty, grimy, maybe hard to see full

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<v Speaker 2>season ball, trying to dig around and find some interesting

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<v Speaker 2>prospects that might not be real popular in the Dynasty world.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think we got a good little little muddy

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<v Speaker 2>exercise to get into this episode. But Matt, how are you, buddy?

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<v Speaker 3>All right? I'm good, Nate, I am good. Spending a

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<v Speaker 3>bunch of time working and dadding and then squeezing in

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<v Speaker 3>any little bit of minor league baseball that I can watch.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, I was mentioning this to some friends that

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<v Speaker 3>I hung out with last weekend. I was like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I watched way less major league baseball these days, just

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<v Speaker 3>because like when I have a free minute, I'm like, no,

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<v Speaker 3>let me peruse some minor leagues, and let's catch up

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<v Speaker 3>on a couple guys that I've put on a watch

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<v Speaker 3>list because one of my leaderboards has them as interesting.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know, to build on your point, we're not

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<v Speaker 3>really talking about the pretty boy prospects. It's pretty rare.

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<v Speaker 3>We'll dive into anybody on anybody's top one hundred. We're

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<v Speaker 3>really trying to identify some of those guys that we

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<v Speaker 3>think maybe belong in some public top one hundreds but

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<v Speaker 3>aren't there yet, or we might have an eye on

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<v Speaker 3>as a riser. But yeah, we're mostly interested in talking

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<v Speaker 3>about how the pretty boys, as Nate likes to say,

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<v Speaker 3>aren't actually all that pretty and maybe you can get

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<v Speaker 3>some discount. Pretty boys wipe off.

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<v Speaker 2>The mud exactly. And you know, Matt one, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>my main I don't know, maybe lack of a better term,

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<v Speaker 2>process is just watching MiLB dot TV. That's what I

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<v Speaker 2>like to do. And part of the benefit and what

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<v Speaker 2>I really like about it is a lot of times

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<v Speaker 2>Matt eyeballs are faster than spreadsheets or gouting reports. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>I think we saw that maybe some with some of

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<v Speaker 2>the arms that we picked this offseason, right we turned

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<v Speaker 2>on a few innings of a few guys, and we

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<v Speaker 2>were kind of, you know, interested before they started hitting

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<v Speaker 2>lists and getting blurbs and whatever. And in the dynasty world,

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<v Speaker 2>deeply especially, that's the name of the game. We got

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<v Speaker 2>to beat your opponent to the punch.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's also paying attention after the beginning of the season.

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<v Speaker 3>I think you mentioned this on our last pod, But

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<v Speaker 3>some of the performances that we've seen in midsummer to

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<v Speaker 3>late summer, where guys have started to turn it on

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<v Speaker 3>or maybe come back from injury and are really performing,

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<v Speaker 3>or we saw some kind of a change and now

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<v Speaker 3>they're really succeeding. They'd been doing that in April, everybody

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<v Speaker 3>would be talking about them. Yeah, you know, just think

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<v Speaker 3>about how quickly people jumped on some of the hot

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<v Speaker 3>names early this year, and now some guys are putting

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<v Speaker 3>up similar kinds of performance, but nobody's really talking about them.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, And this is a good time to

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<v Speaker 2>do some mudding too, because I think a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>you know, a lot of people played fantasy baseball and

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<v Speaker 2>fantasy football, and all those footballers are getting ready for

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<v Speaker 2>their football drafts.

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<v Speaker 3>You know. Yeah, yeah, you do such a thing. But

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<v Speaker 3>you know, some people do, apparently.

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<v Speaker 2>So Matt and I before the season started this year,

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<v Speaker 2>back way back in October, almost a year ago now,

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<v Speaker 2>Matt getting to be a year, we went back through

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<v Speaker 2>and picked a pitcher and a hitter from every organization

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<v Speaker 2>that was either not created yet in fan tracks to

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<v Speaker 2>maybe two percent roster. There was a few occasions maybe

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<v Speaker 2>we went a little over guys we think might have

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<v Speaker 2>sent get more popular, become a good trade chip for you,

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<v Speaker 2>a prospect for you. Right, And we had three more

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<v Speaker 2>guys hit the bigs just this last week. Matt, think

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<v Speaker 2>that brings our total up five bad?

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<v Speaker 3>And is that thirty five across? Like your Yeah, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>doing this because you because yeah, because you had a

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<v Speaker 3>few more that have had some time to percolate. Do

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<v Speaker 3>you know what it is from our last offseason?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I don't have it right in front of me,

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<v Speaker 2>but I could count that up. You've done well. You've

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<v Speaker 2>been two guys going at it tonight in the same game,

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<v Speaker 2>Brent Herder, who's I think looks pretty good and is

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<v Speaker 2>what three.

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<v Speaker 3>Or four outings he's just sporthouting.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he's got an opener going for him, but he

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<v Speaker 2>like went six last time. Then Matt tonight. He uh,

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<v Speaker 2>he took like one and ten and eleven line drive

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<v Speaker 2>off the leg and like trying to finish the play,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think faced one more batter after that before

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<v Speaker 2>he got a pulled, probably a little prematurely because of that,

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<v Speaker 2>but he's looked good still. I don't know what the

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<v Speaker 2>story was in triple A why his numbers weren't better,

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<v Speaker 2>but I think that was a good call by you.

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<v Speaker 2>He's just like funky and nasty. Yeah, yeah, I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like that.

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<v Speaker 3>It's interesting what Detroit has been doing so far. Wonder

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<v Speaker 3>if it's like an innings management thing as much as

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<v Speaker 3>anything in TRIPAA. I feel like his era was elevated

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<v Speaker 3>largely due to Babbit and just some left on base luck.

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<v Speaker 3>I think that he was more or less the same

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<v Speaker 3>guy that I saw in twenty twenty three, twenty twenty two.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, International League. It's not the PCL, but it's

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<v Speaker 3>still a pretty tough place to pitch, especially with the

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<v Speaker 3>strike zone the way it is. I think that might

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<v Speaker 3>have affected it. He posted his highest walk percentage that

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<v Speaker 3>he ever has, and I feel like he hasn't walked

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<v Speaker 3>anybody since he's been up in the bigs. Right, like

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<v Speaker 3>at least the three outings that I've seen, I think

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<v Speaker 3>he just has one walk and yeah, and they're piggybacking him,

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<v Speaker 3>but I do wonder. You know, we've talked about Detroit

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<v Speaker 3>has a pretty good pitching staff and especially upper miners

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<v Speaker 3>depth as well. But I still like Herder as a

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<v Speaker 3>guy who's going to settle in as a pretty useful

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<v Speaker 3>big leaguer for them. So again, kind of funky lefty

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<v Speaker 3>with some sink and some change up and some slider

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<v Speaker 3>that keeps the ball on the ground a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>Definitely.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I like him a lot, and I haven't been

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<v Speaker 3>discouraged by his triple A this year at all personally.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, he's run a five to eight ear, but

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<v Speaker 3>his FIP is like a run and a half lower

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<v Speaker 3>than that, and the x FIP agrees that he's just

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<v Speaker 3>been getting unlucky. So I don't know, I'm still quite

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<v Speaker 3>a fan of Brent Herder.

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<v Speaker 2>We do not shy away from loving on some soft tossers,

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<v Speaker 2>some soft toss and lefties especially, and Hearder doesn't throw

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<v Speaker 2>all that hard. It works, you know, I'm just getting

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<v Speaker 2>to see this run, you know. To me, that's the

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<v Speaker 2>biggest question, Like, all right, how is this gonna play

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<v Speaker 2>against major league hitters, And like tonight he had some

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<v Speaker 2>Cubs just looking goofy man, so the funk I think

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<v Speaker 2>can play then.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>In the same game, Matt, your boy Jack Neely, who

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<v Speaker 2>was traded to the Cubs, made his debut. I shut

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<v Speaker 2>it off right when we started recording here, and he

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<v Speaker 2>looked like he was in a little bit of trouble,

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<v Speaker 2>but I think he's promising. Looking bullpen a possibility for

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<v Speaker 2>the Cubs. And then we had True Romo get called

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<v Speaker 3>Nice.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And so Matt, you know, you were talking about

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<v Speaker 2>if some players we've been looking at now had started

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<v Speaker 2>off the season like they're playing right now, how different

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<v Speaker 2>there may dynasty reputation would be right now. And to me,

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<v Speaker 2>at the top of that sort of list is young

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<v Speaker 2>Bo Davidson. Last episode I mentioned him and Louis Castillo

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<v Speaker 2>as a couple guys i'd turned on a few times.

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<v Speaker 2>We're putting up some numbers, needed to do some homework

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<v Speaker 2>on still, and I did that. I have to say,

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<v Speaker 2>Luis Castillo doesn't really strike my interest too much. He's

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<v Speaker 2>hit a lot of home runs, but he's kind of

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<v Speaker 2>a wild, swinging looking lefty. I'm not so sure about,

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<v Speaker 2>but Bo Davidson man undrafted out of junior college. I

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<v Speaker 2>think the story is he didn't start playing baseball until

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<v Speaker 2>a handful of years ago, came back from an injury

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<v Speaker 2>on July twentieth, and he has just been on fire. Dude,

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<v Speaker 2>in my opinion. You know, stats are one thing. He's

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<v Speaker 2>not going to keep running a five point fifty babbit

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<v Speaker 2>or whatever it is. Whatever it's been, right, But you

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<v Speaker 2>saw some of them. I've been watching, and I think

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<v Speaker 2>the eyeball test piques my interest just as much as

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<v Speaker 2>those numbers. What do you think, Matt.

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<v Speaker 3>I think one of the things that I've liked about

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<v Speaker 3>my looks at Davidson so far, just from an esthetic perspective,

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<v Speaker 3>is seeing how much the power has played to all fields,

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<v Speaker 3>you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>Like he's more of an opposite field hitter. I think

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<v Speaker 2>he's grooved and they hit left center, and he's got

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<v Speaker 2>the power to hit him out that way. More of

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<v Speaker 2>his home runs have gone opposite field than pulled.

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<v Speaker 3>And he has that kind of spray Looking over the

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<v Speaker 3>data that we have so far that he does spray

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<v Speaker 3>it around the yard like it's not he's not super

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<v Speaker 3>pole happy. For some guys, I think that that's a

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<v Speaker 3>conscious choice that maybe they don't have the exit velocities,

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<v Speaker 3>the swing speed to really take advantage of you know,

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<v Speaker 3>pulled homers, pulled eyeballs. Yeah, but I think the very

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<v Speaker 3>best hitters are the ones who can get to their

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<v Speaker 3>power no matter where the pitch is and where the

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<v Speaker 3>ball goes. You look at Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, Ronald Akunya,

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<v Speaker 3>Shoheo Tani, like these guys leave the yard to center

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<v Speaker 3>and to their pull side and to the opposite field.

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<v Speaker 3>And one of the things that has been I think

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<v Speaker 3>separating Bo Davidson for me from some of the other

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<v Speaker 3>guys that we get excited about at this stage is

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<v Speaker 3>he's showing that power to all fields, and I think

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<v Speaker 3>is pretty special. You know, he's a little bit old

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<v Speaker 3>for the level. He was twenty one on the complex

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<v Speaker 3>to start this year coming back from injury, and now

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<v Speaker 3>he's twenty one in a I.

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<v Speaker 2>Want to interrupt that, Matt, because this was brought up

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<v Speaker 2>before he started the season in a ball, got hurt

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<v Speaker 2>and then.

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<v Speaker 3>And then came back to comy.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, right, and he also he just turned twenty one

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<v Speaker 2>July fifth, Yeah, and if you look up on Baseball Reference,

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<v Speaker 2>that makes some point one year younger than the average

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<v Speaker 2>hitter in the calg Now, which.

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<v Speaker 3>Is which is what I was going to say. It's like,

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<v Speaker 3>it's not it's not like he's seventeen in a ball young,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's also not like he's a college kid that

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<v Speaker 3>the lesser competition post draft in a ball right, Like

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<v Speaker 3>what I was mostly going to do that as a

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<v Speaker 3>positive as far as like kind of the mental adjustment

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<v Speaker 3>that you do for hitters, I do think that they're

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<v Speaker 3>like I think there's two components to the age to

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<v Speaker 3>the pounds and then the exitbulers are going to follow.

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<v Speaker 3>My contention, and I've done a little bit of research

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<v Speaker 3>like that we should actually temper expectations there. And so

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<v Speaker 3>the power projection piece is one part of the age level,

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<v Speaker 3>and the other is the mental library, Like have you

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<v Speaker 3>built up the reps of being able to see pitches,

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<v Speaker 3>pitches that you are swinging at, And that one is

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<v Speaker 3>way more complicated, and it's one of the reasons that

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<v Speaker 3>gives me pause about people that are new to the sport.

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<v Speaker 3>So lots of people like to point to somebody that's

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<v Speaker 3>a two way player, now they've given up pitching and

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<v Speaker 3>now they're hitting full time. Or they were a multi

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<v Speaker 3>sport athlete in high school and really were actually better

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<v Speaker 3>to run with that now, and that's a reason to

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<v Speaker 3>be optimistic about their development. And I've looked into this

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<v Speaker 3>a little bit and I'm a little skeptical of that. Like,

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<v Speaker 3>to me, that's the one flag I have for Davidson.

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<v Speaker 3>He's new to the sport and is immediately having success.

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<v Speaker 3>And so one of the narratives around that is even

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<v Speaker 3>building that mental library, and there isn't a lot to

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<v Speaker 3>nitpick about his approach so far. Maybe a touch high

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<v Speaker 3>on the case side. It's not bad by any means,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's a little bit elevated. But he's got good

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<v Speaker 3>walks and the swinging strike rate maybe a little bit high,

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<v Speaker 3>and so maybe he's being smart and passive and letting

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<v Speaker 3>the balls come to him. Like I like that kind

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<v Speaker 3>of hitter personally. As we've talked about before, I do

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<v Speaker 3>wonder how this is going to go as he starts

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<v Speaker 3>to get challenged at levels right, and as there are

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<v Speaker 3>people who have spent their whole lives building up that

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<v Speaker 3>mental library, Like how much of that discipline piece is

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<v Speaker 3>going to stick? So for me, the only like sprinkle

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<v Speaker 3>of cold water I put on Davidson is that the

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<v Speaker 3>new to Baseball narrative is one that is actually a

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<v Speaker 3>minus for me, and it's one that gives me pause

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<v Speaker 3>about like, maybe this is just a pretty impressive hot streak,

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<v Speaker 3>and we should expect quite a bit of regression, especially

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<v Speaker 3>in things like his plate approach. That said, I have

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<v Speaker 3>been very impressed by the power piece, and while I

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<v Speaker 3>haven't seen any underlying data, I don't know if you have, Nate,

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<v Speaker 3>But I haven't seen any underlying data about his exit

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<v Speaker 3>bulos yet. I suspect they're impressive, Like I suspect that

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<v Speaker 3>we're looking at like really good ebs.

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<v Speaker 2>I just know Clegg had chimed in and he didn't

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<v Speaker 2>give any specifics, but he kind of signed off and

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<v Speaker 2>said that the data that he has all looks legit.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh interesting. I haven't seen that, So that kind of

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<v Speaker 3>jibs with my looks at him and kind of seeing

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<v Speaker 3>what he's got. I think that plays with the like

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<v Speaker 3>opposite field power when he's gotten into balls to the

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<v Speaker 3>pull side or just straight away like they're mashed, and

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<v Speaker 3>even for a twenty twenty one year old in the

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<v Speaker 3>Cow League, like that's different. Like, you know, I watch

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of the COLL League. You watch a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of the Collleague guys when the hit homer is there,

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<v Speaker 3>like yeah, it's quote unquote of no doubt, but it's

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<v Speaker 3>like ten feet past the fence, you know, like it's

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<v Speaker 3>really not they You see these guys, they're younger, they

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<v Speaker 3>don't hit bombs. And a lot of those parks, at

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<v Speaker 3>least the ones we have good views for, they're great

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<v Speaker 3>hitters parks you know, like especially for power. So when

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<v Speaker 3>he gets into some of these balls and really nukes them,

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<v Speaker 3>you're like, Okay, that's impressive power. Like that's kind of

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<v Speaker 3>the kind of power that we were seeing from Likelzara

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<v Speaker 3>Montes down there.

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<v Speaker 2>I've made some home run montages before video, I can't

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<v Speaker 2>say that I've ever really made one that looked like

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<v Speaker 2>like that with that high percentage of opposite field and

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<v Speaker 2>letting the ball travel and getting the barrel on in

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<v Speaker 2>some different spots and putting charges in them quite like

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<v Speaker 2>that opposite field. If you're not familiar with Davidson, he's

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<v Speaker 2>an athletic guy. He's good sized, he plays center field,

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<v Speaker 2>he can run like it just strikes me as an athlete. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>get me, man, I'll tell.

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<v Speaker 3>You what it would just go really like they seem

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<v Speaker 3>he seems like a real prospect, like one is worthwhile

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<v Speaker 3>in I would say even like sixteen twenty team leagues,

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<v Speaker 3>Like this is to me, this is a guy that

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<v Speaker 3>there's enough signal here from the eyeball view and the

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<v Speaker 3>numbers that he's putting up that like he seems like

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<v Speaker 3>a top five hundred guy to me with a chance

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<v Speaker 3>that that looks stupidly low in another six months or

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<v Speaker 3>you know, early next year. So I'll tell you like,

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<v Speaker 3>I acted on this in a couple of leagues and

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<v Speaker 3>snagged him over some guys that like might be helpful

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<v Speaker 3>for my competing teams because I was like, there seems

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<v Speaker 3>to be some lightning in the bottle potential here and

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<v Speaker 3>he was still on the waiver in a couple of thirties,

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<v Speaker 3>so I was like, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna try

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<v Speaker 2>He kind of checks some boxes for me, just like

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<v Speaker 2>mechanical stuff. But I like to look for he's he's

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<v Speaker 2>got a pretty still, calm, balance, still head thing going

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<v Speaker 2>on that I like to look for. He doesn't have

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<v Speaker 2>to like wind up to get into it, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I think he's a legit prospect. He's on

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<v Speaker 2>the back of pipelines trying his top thirty. Like, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't think we're the only ones who might think that

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<v Speaker 2>he's pretty good or has the chance. Is maybe the

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<v Speaker 2>best way of what I'm trying to say here. I've

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<v Speaker 2>seen guys that were taken in the top five, young

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<v Speaker 2>guys taken in the top five of the drafts before that,

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<v Speaker 2>I was way worse mechanics than he does, and we're

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<v Speaker 2>lauded for their athleticism and what could be and what

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<v Speaker 2>have you. So, and I'm not getting hung up that

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<v Speaker 2>he is an undrafted guy. We're down to twenty rounds.

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<v Speaker 2>Lots of guys in the BIGS who were drafted past

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<v Speaker 2>the twentieth round. Some of these undrafted free agents still

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<v Speaker 2>signed six figure signing bonuses. You know, given his story

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<v Speaker 2>and where he came from, I'm not surprised that not

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of teams were on him. He's from some

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<v Speaker 2>junior college that no one has ever played pro ball

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<v Speaker 2>from before. You know, they have lou Davidson man a

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<v Speaker 2>bit of fun middle of August early August sort of

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<v Speaker 2>mud find here. And he's still at I think zero

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<v Speaker 2>percent roster. I would like to see what that's going

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<v Speaker 2>to look like at the end of the year. I

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<v Speaker 3>Well. I did notice that Chris Clegg talked him up

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<v Speaker 3>a couple of times recently, and had seen a couple

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<v Speaker 3>of tweets come through the Dynasty dug Out discord, And

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<v Speaker 3>I did notice that there's a real cleg effect here.

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<v Speaker 3>When Clegg posts something about somebody, you see that numbers

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<v Speaker 3>start to tick up. I think he went out zero

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<v Speaker 3>point four percent. Like in the day after Clegg talked

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<v Speaker 3>about talked about him, so Chris quit talking about our guys.

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<v Speaker 2>So cleg roster a Clegg endorsement is worth zero point

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<v Speaker 2>four percent the roster percentage increase? Is that what you're

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<v Speaker 2>telling me?

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, it seems it's it's not nothing. I'm not

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<v Speaker 3>going to attribute at all to him and all that.

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<v Speaker 3>And there's lots of leagues that you know, he's still

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<v Speaker 3>probably is a watchless guy instead of a must add.

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<v Speaker 3>But he's pretty good.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, super interesting. So Matt, I don't know this

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<v Speaker 2>last week, last couple of days or so, I kind

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<v Speaker 2>of did something I haven't really done before. A little dig,

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<v Speaker 2>a little exercise. I think I've done things like this,

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<v Speaker 2>but maybe quite this thorough. But I was looking at

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<v Speaker 2>and watching a player that we had mentioned in passing

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<v Speaker 2>a few times, I think, but we never really talked

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<v Speaker 2>about that. I was like, hey, you know what, this week,

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<v Speaker 2>we need to shout this guy a little bit more

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<v Speaker 2>and get into him. And that led to this he

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<v Speaker 2>is one of these. But I was like curious, I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>how many guys have like legit jumped two levels. This year,

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<v Speaker 2>I've gotten two real promotions. And I don't mean fill

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<v Speaker 2>in for an injury. I don't mean rehab assignment. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't mean a guy who was in High A last

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<v Speaker 2>year or Double A at the end of last year

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<v Speaker 2>was maybe coming back from something. I mean, like legit

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<v Speaker 2>moved up two levels. And I think this time of

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<v Speaker 2>year is maybe a good time to do that. As

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<v Speaker 2>a minor leagues start to gear up for the playoffs,

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<v Speaker 2>you might get some guys that get bumped up just

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<v Speaker 2>for that little run and go back. You see that,

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<v Speaker 2>and you see that with the White Sox, I think

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<v Speaker 2>often with what they do with their Double A and

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<v Speaker 2>what have you. So so I just got curious. I

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<v Speaker 2>scraped every player in the minor leagues that had played

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<v Speaker 2>at three different levels, and matt that probably returned I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, between four hundred and five hundred guys, and

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<v Speaker 2>then I did the tedious task of vetting all of them.

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<v Speaker 2>Which ones are legit you know, moved up two levels

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<v Speaker 2>not you know the other things that I talked about.

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<v Speaker 2>There'll be some complex guys that'll jump up and fill

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<v Speaker 2>in for a week and Double A and things of

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<v Speaker 2>that nature, and I don't mean those guys. How many

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<v Speaker 2>bats do you think legit received two promotions this year?

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<v Speaker 3>Bats that received two I'm gonna say.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's played in three levels. If you were promoted twice.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna say fifty.

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<v Speaker 2>This is not super scientific. I could have missed a

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<v Speaker 2>few guys. I could have deleted a guy off my

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<v Speaker 2>list for maybe in that appropriate reason. But Matt, I got,

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<v Speaker 2>I think you're looking at more like thirteen.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh wow, that is a lot lower than I thought.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you got guys. You know, maybe I may have

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<v Speaker 2>deleted a couple guys that are in the majors too,

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<v Speaker 2>so maybe it was a little bit more than that.

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<v Speaker 2>I think the point that I was trying to make,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's like, not nearly as many as you might think,

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<v Speaker 2>or at least I thought. Right, So you got Christian Campbell, right,

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<v Speaker 2>he started in high he's gone. He's up in triple

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<v Speaker 2>A now he got Password Garcia started at A, balls

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<v Speaker 2>in double A. Now Dezenzo, who started off in double A.

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<v Speaker 2>He's in the Biggs now, right. Alex Freelan hya to

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<v Speaker 2>triple A. Jacob Wilson, of course, he went double A

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<v Speaker 2>to the Biggs. Trey Morgan started off a ball. He

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<v Speaker 2>just got to double A. And then Will Wagner was

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<v Speaker 2>what he was at, like high A, double A, and

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<v Speaker 2>then the Biggs right after after the trade, and those

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<v Speaker 2>guys are all on the map, right we know these guys,

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<v Speaker 2>these guys are fairly popular. And then the guys who

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<v Speaker 2>aren't roster zero to one percent at o Kemp we've

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<v Speaker 2>talked about a little bit. Peyton Elis Eels, who I've

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<v Speaker 2>seen some buzz around. He was a guy that the

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<v Speaker 2>Twins signed from Independent Ball, kind of the speedy, top

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<v Speaker 2>of the order type guy. Uh, he started off in

420
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<v Speaker 2>a ball. He's up in triple A now. Philip Glasser,

421
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<v Speaker 2>he was a college draft he who maybe kind of

422
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<v Speaker 2>started lower than maybe he quote should have, but he

423
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<v Speaker 2>was a ball to start the year. He's up to

424
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<v Speaker 2>double A now. We've mentioned him in passing a little bit.

425
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<v Speaker 2>And then the guy that started this whole thing off

426
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<v Speaker 2>for me, Romeo Santa Bria, who we've passing a little bit.

427
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<v Speaker 2>But and I guess maybe there's there's one more guy

428
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<v Speaker 2>that I don't know if you really fit this sort

429
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<v Speaker 2>of these guidelines, but there's a young I guess, middle

430
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<v Speaker 2>infielder with the astros Ja Maal incarnacion. I don't know

431
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<v Speaker 2>if you've seen him at all. I didn't really realize

432
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<v Speaker 2>what his season story was. But he's played at a

433
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<v Speaker 2>ball for a few weeks at a time. Hiated a

434
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<v Speaker 2>few weeks at a time double A and then like

435
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<v Speaker 2>back to highest. So I don't know, filling in where

436
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<v Speaker 2>they need. But I don't know. I think it's a

437
00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:39.640
<v Speaker 2>little bit more than that. He's he's a nice looking player.

438
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<v Speaker 2>To me, he's he's speedy. I think he's good with

439
00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:44.839
<v Speaker 2>the glove. He's stolen like thirty six bases. He's popped

440
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<v Speaker 2>only three home runs and like his ISO and slug

441
00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:50.359
<v Speaker 2>is pretty low. But the home runs that I saw

442
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<v Speaker 2>him hit, like dude, they were jacked man. And he's

443
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<v Speaker 2>twenty years old, so I'm not you know, this doesn't

444
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<v Speaker 2>go rush out, but he's kind of put himself on

445
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<v Speaker 2>my radar or something. I'm going to pay attention to him.

446
00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:03.519
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if he totally fits this criteria. So

447
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<v Speaker 2>I don't know these guys that are still in the mud,

448
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<v Speaker 2>I don't ken. What do you got any thoughts on him?

449
00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:11.640
<v Speaker 2>He hit pipeline. He's at like number twenty eight for them,

450
00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:14.880
<v Speaker 2>and I saw BA named him like the first half

451
00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:18.119
<v Speaker 2>Phillies prospect of the year. I kind of like him

452
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<v Speaker 2>in a Yeah, I think this guy has a chance

453
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<v Speaker 2>to make the big sort of sense fifteen home runs,

454
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<v Speaker 2>seventeen stolen bases on the year. I think there's solid

455
00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.000
<v Speaker 2>contact ability to slug. I don't know about the defense.

456
00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:32.640
<v Speaker 2>I think he plays around several positions in the dirt.

457
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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I don't know. I don't ken you got

458
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<v Speaker 2>any thoughts.

459
00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:39.039
<v Speaker 3>I think I watched him a little bit. This was

460
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<v Speaker 3>maybe a month or so ago, maybe like early July.

461
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<v Speaker 3>I want to say he'd been on a pretty hot heater.

462
00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:49.880
<v Speaker 3>I think I think this was probably when he was

463
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<v Speaker 3>still in high A in Jersey Shore. I want to

464
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<v Speaker 3>say I watched him a little bit. And I think

465
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<v Speaker 3>this was after you had mentioned him and you had

466
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<v Speaker 3>said that you were pretty in interested in him. And

467
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<v Speaker 3>what I saw was a lot of similarities to what

468
00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:06.839
<v Speaker 3>you were saying in that he does lots of things

469
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<v Speaker 3>pretty well.

470
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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I didn't think there was kind of up your alley.

471
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<v Speaker 3>It is. I like the kind of well rounded skill

472
00:23:13.720 --> 00:23:16.559
<v Speaker 3>set of he doesn't strike out a lot, shows a

473
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<v Speaker 3>propensity to walk more than average. He didn't seem super

474
00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:22.720
<v Speaker 3>fast to me, but he seemed like he used his

475
00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.079
<v Speaker 3>speed pretty well. I think I pulled a couple of

476
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<v Speaker 3>games where he had stolen bases and there looked like

477
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<v Speaker 3>like he, you know, is an athlete in that sense

478
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<v Speaker 3>that he kind of is taking advantage of his athleticism

479
00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:36.279
<v Speaker 3>that he does have. I think the thing that slowed

480
00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:39.839
<v Speaker 3>my role as far as like a full throated endorsement,

481
00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:44.640
<v Speaker 3>was the we hadn't seen this kind of performance out

482
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<v Speaker 3>of him in his previous two minor league seasons. Especially

483
00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:50.440
<v Speaker 3>when I looked at him, he was like a twenty

484
00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.279
<v Speaker 3>four year old in high A, and I was like, okay,

485
00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:56.920
<v Speaker 3>does look good, but given where he has been, it

486
00:23:57.079 --> 00:24:00.200
<v Speaker 3>was like, all right, this is kind of underwhelming performs

487
00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.240
<v Speaker 3>the last couple of years. I at the time, my

488
00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.799
<v Speaker 3>evaluation was like this is solid, like somebody that I

489
00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:09.880
<v Speaker 3>do think could make the major leagues. But I wasn't.

490
00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:14.240
<v Speaker 3>I wasn't thrilled by any anything in the profile that

491
00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:16.559
<v Speaker 3>I saw, you know what I mean, Like, to me,

492
00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:18.880
<v Speaker 3>he looks like a guy that might end this year

493
00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.519
<v Speaker 3>at Double A, start next year at Double A, maybe

494
00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:25.160
<v Speaker 3>make it up to Triple A. But then it's now

495
00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:29.039
<v Speaker 3>he's twenty five. What makes him difference from a Matt

496
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<v Speaker 3>Kruhn or something like we talked about, who was kind

497
00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:33.440
<v Speaker 3>of an older guy that had performed for the level

498
00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:36.519
<v Speaker 3>and then was stalling out in the upper miners for

499
00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:39.480
<v Speaker 3>the Phillies. Right, So he reminded me in some ways

500
00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:42.039
<v Speaker 3>of Krune, although a Krune does some things differently than

501
00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:45.400
<v Speaker 3>he does. But that was my look is like, hey,

502
00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.480
<v Speaker 3>there's stuff like here, but I don't know if this

503
00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:50.799
<v Speaker 3>is somebody to get super excited about.

504
00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:54.799
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Philip Blasser with the Nats is kind of similar

505
00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:58.799
<v Speaker 2>to accountant. Yeah, maybe not quite as much pop, but

506
00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:01.480
<v Speaker 2>I think he is be a bit more athletic. He's

507
00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:04.240
<v Speaker 2>got twenty two stolen bases on the year, But some

508
00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:06.559
<v Speaker 2>of that I'm just talking up to, you know, a

509
00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:09.759
<v Speaker 2>ball pitchers and catchers not being good at controlling the

510
00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:14.240
<v Speaker 2>run game. Maybe he's an auto kemp light if you will.

511
00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:17.519
<v Speaker 2>And it doesn't strike my interest a whole ton here,

512
00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:21.640
<v Speaker 2>but worth noting. You know, he's moved up a couple

513
00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:23.440
<v Speaker 2>levels and not a lot of guys are doing that.

514
00:25:23.680 --> 00:25:26.880
<v Speaker 2>I was surprised to see that Glasser didn't get a

515
00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:31.160
<v Speaker 2>top thirty designation by pipeline for that system. I kind

516
00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.319
<v Speaker 2>of thought he would fit in the NATS top thirty,

517
00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:37.119
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, what do I know. And then Matt I

518
00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:40.079
<v Speaker 2>saw some I don't know if it was a tweet

519
00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:44.960
<v Speaker 2>or somebody sharing in the dugout, but Peyton Elis was

520
00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:48.640
<v Speaker 2>getting I think a lot of love from some sort

521
00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:53.119
<v Speaker 2>of stat based system or something something of that nature. Right,

522
00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:57.039
<v Speaker 2>He's twenty four seven home runs, He's stolen thirty bases,

523
00:25:57.480 --> 00:26:00.359
<v Speaker 2>he walks fifteen percent of the time, strikes out than

524
00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.279
<v Speaker 2>that thirteen percent of the time on the season. As

525
00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:05.119
<v Speaker 2>a whole, I've turned him on a little bit. My

526
00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:08.759
<v Speaker 2>whole thing is like I have gleaned a liking to

527
00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:12.599
<v Speaker 2>a few independent ball signees over the years, and it

528
00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:15.960
<v Speaker 2>just never really turns into much more than having a

529
00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:21.039
<v Speaker 2>really nice minor league season before they're released. But at

530
00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:25.079
<v Speaker 2>least for hitters, this is kind of a I think, Yeah,

531
00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:28.000
<v Speaker 2>like I said before, I think top of the lineup

532
00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:31.240
<v Speaker 2>sort of guy. Maybe he's a bit slappy, I don't know.

533
00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:33.160
<v Speaker 2>I haven't watched a ton of him, but yeah, I

534
00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:36.559
<v Speaker 2>don't know. I point being is, I'm not like over

535
00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:39.960
<v Speaker 2>the moon that this is some b side gem here.

536
00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:43.720
<v Speaker 2>But nonetheless, a guy, you know, doing some things but

537
00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:47.079
<v Speaker 2>could very well fall into like a career triple A

538
00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:48.240
<v Speaker 2>or I think.

539
00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:55.519
<v Speaker 3>Pretty interesting for this is really Peyton Eel's first full season. Yeah,

540
00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:57.799
<v Speaker 3>and you know he's another one that like I think

541
00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:00.319
<v Speaker 3>he's super short, right like him.

542
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:03.960
<v Speaker 2>Up, Yeah, I don't think he's very big, and you know, lots.

543
00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:08.519
<v Speaker 3>Of people hate on that, but I'm certainly no grtist here.

544
00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:11.400
<v Speaker 3>If you can play the game, you can play the game.

545
00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:17.240
<v Speaker 2>So so yeah, and then the guy that started this all,

546
00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:20.079
<v Speaker 2>Matt Let's I want to talk about Romeo Sanabria, some

547
00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:23.559
<v Speaker 2>who was catching my eye watching some cal League earlier

548
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:25.599
<v Speaker 2>in the year. He was putting up some good numbers.

549
00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:28.920
<v Speaker 2>He's got a really nice left handed stroke. Again, a

550
00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:31.519
<v Speaker 2>lot of the same things I talked about earlier that

551
00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:35.559
<v Speaker 2>I like to look for, just calm, quick, direct, balance,

552
00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:39.279
<v Speaker 2>still head and I was kind of surprised. I didn't

553
00:27:39.319 --> 00:27:41.880
<v Speaker 2>really even realize that he got you know, he was

554
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.319
<v Speaker 2>obviously got promoted to high and then what last week,

555
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:47.400
<v Speaker 2>week and a half ago now he got promoted to

556
00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:49.680
<v Speaker 2>double A. I don't have the numbers in front of me,

557
00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:53.319
<v Speaker 2>but he scorched his first week with San Antonio saw

558
00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:56.279
<v Speaker 2>him rip a double, but he's only twenty two years old.

559
00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:59.480
<v Speaker 2>Eleven home runs on the season. He swiped a few bags. Now,

560
00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:01.799
<v Speaker 2>I think he's listed as a catcher in places, but

561
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:03.920
<v Speaker 2>he has not caught this year. He plays first base.

562
00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:07.720
<v Speaker 2>He's got an on base percentage throughout his three levels

563
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.880
<v Speaker 2>combined at four to twelve. He's slugged four sixty three.

564
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.440
<v Speaker 2>I so, you know, maybe we'd like to see that

565
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.599
<v Speaker 2>a little higher, but he is. He has had a

566
00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:20.640
<v Speaker 2>nice season at the plate. And this is a guy

567
00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:24.640
<v Speaker 2>who's jumped three levels and is only rostered in one percent.

568
00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:28.000
<v Speaker 2>Pipeline put him number twenty four in the Padre system.

569
00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:31.000
<v Speaker 2>Now they've jettison some guys, so there's some room on

570
00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:33.839
<v Speaker 2>that list. But I think Santa Bria is a pretty

571
00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.519
<v Speaker 2>underrated prospect here, Matt, are you with me or not

572
00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:38.160
<v Speaker 2>so much?

573
00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:43.960
<v Speaker 3>I am intrigued. I will say, I don't really think

574
00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:47.680
<v Speaker 3>he's that athletic. I mean, he's he stole three bags

575
00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:51.279
<v Speaker 3>in Low A this year and is zero for three

576
00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:56.680
<v Speaker 3>in High A and Double A combined, So I don't

577
00:28:56.759 --> 00:28:58.880
<v Speaker 3>think that's going to be a big part of his game.

578
00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:03.240
<v Speaker 3>And then the first space profile only is one that

579
00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:07.039
<v Speaker 3>you should look at with some degree of skepticism, right,

580
00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:10.359
<v Speaker 3>like that it's hard to make that position work in

581
00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:13.440
<v Speaker 3>the fantasy realm and in real life baseball too, so

582
00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:19.079
<v Speaker 3>that like, starting from that perspective as Okay, this guy's

583
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:21.319
<v Speaker 3>really probably only going to play first base for you

584
00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:25.599
<v Speaker 3>or you know, DH, I guess you should. He's really

585
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:28.839
<v Speaker 3>got to be showing some other skills that you're into

586
00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:33.160
<v Speaker 3>for you to, like, I think, be excited about rostering him. Luckily,

587
00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:35.559
<v Speaker 3>for Santa Bria, I do think he has some of that.

588
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:39.359
<v Speaker 3>He's another one who his played approach and his back

589
00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:41.880
<v Speaker 3>to ball skills seem pretty good to me having watched

590
00:29:41.880 --> 00:29:43.640
<v Speaker 3>a little bit of him, and I think the numbers

591
00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:45.799
<v Speaker 3>back this up a bit. I don't think he swings

592
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:49.039
<v Speaker 3>and miss misses all that much, and while he can

593
00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:52.440
<v Speaker 3>get himself worked into deep counts and then maybe chase

594
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:55.480
<v Speaker 3>because of that, I've on balance thought that his approach

595
00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:58.599
<v Speaker 3>was a plus for me, you know, not super elite,

596
00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:02.640
<v Speaker 3>but not He's not chasing a ton, he's not being

597
00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:06.039
<v Speaker 3>overly aggressive, and I think that that leads into some

598
00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:10.000
<v Speaker 3>of the other positives, which is he seems to hit

599
00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:12.680
<v Speaker 3>the ball well but at like pretty good angles, Like

600
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:14.920
<v Speaker 3>I think he's a guy that I don't know. I'm

601
00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:17.960
<v Speaker 3>not going to comp him directly to like a Freddie Freeman,

602
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:21.000
<v Speaker 3>but he's got that kind of vibe to me of

603
00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:23.880
<v Speaker 3>a guy who's going to run a little bit higher

604
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:28.039
<v Speaker 3>than average line drive rates and he's not going to

605
00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:31.000
<v Speaker 3>be like you're kind of elevate and celebrate kind of

606
00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:33.359
<v Speaker 3>hitter at least I don't think. I don't think he's

607
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:36.920
<v Speaker 3>like selling out for fly balls or pulled flyballs. He's

608
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:39.160
<v Speaker 3>I think to your point, like you called that, you've

609
00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:42.200
<v Speaker 3>seen him just smoke some doubles. That's kind of what

610
00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:45.079
<v Speaker 3>I've seen out of him too. It's not as much

611
00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.680
<v Speaker 3>over the fence power as it is like he just

612
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:51.839
<v Speaker 3>kind of laces these line drives all over the yard

613
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:55.480
<v Speaker 3>and that leads to you know, slightly higher babbitbs. Like

614
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:58.240
<v Speaker 3>he's run high babbits the whole time in the minor leagues,

615
00:30:58.279 --> 00:31:01.039
<v Speaker 3>and right now he's at babbit at double is absurd, Like,

616
00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:04.640
<v Speaker 3>you know, ignore that really it's super super high. But

617
00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:08.359
<v Speaker 3>I like him in that gonna run a little higher

618
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:12.279
<v Speaker 3>babb gonna hit lots of line drives and doubles, and

619
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:15.519
<v Speaker 3>I think he's got a pretty reasonable plate approach, and

620
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:17.759
<v Speaker 3>all that to me says that this guy might be

621
00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:21.119
<v Speaker 3>a real solid, kind of real life hitter, a little

622
00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:24.720
<v Speaker 3>bit like the like the blame crim kind of archetype

623
00:31:24.759 --> 00:31:27.160
<v Speaker 3>you know that I have talked about before for the Rangers.

624
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:29.839
<v Speaker 3>Like that, he's just he's not gonna leave the yard

625
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.279
<v Speaker 3>forty times in any season. I don't think that, like

626
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:34.759
<v Speaker 3>that's not the kind of upside. But he does everything

627
00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:37.000
<v Speaker 3>else well enough that you're like, this is a big

628
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:41.000
<v Speaker 3>league regular quality bat. Now whether he can sustain this

629
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:42.880
<v Speaker 3>kind of thing and does he stall out at the

630
00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:45.839
<v Speaker 3>uppers because he's a first baseman without like that true

631
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.359
<v Speaker 3>light tower power, I don't know. I don't know. So

632
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:53.400
<v Speaker 3>I'm I'm round down because of the position inflexibility, but

633
00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:56.400
<v Speaker 3>the rest of it looks pretty interesting to me. And

634
00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:59.880
<v Speaker 3>I do think he's a bat to be not fu

635
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.920
<v Speaker 3>but like I would add him in places if he

636
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:03.759
<v Speaker 3>were available.

637
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:06.240
<v Speaker 2>I haven't done this with a hitter this year. I

638
00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.599
<v Speaker 2>don't think. Well, I guess I guess I did like

639
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:12.880
<v Speaker 2>all of Brooke Baldwin's bad at ball events, But I'm

640
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:14.839
<v Speaker 2>kind of thinking, man, when we get to the off season,

641
00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:17.640
<v Speaker 2>I might like try to view all of his at

642
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:21.240
<v Speaker 2>bats because I've seen a good handful, it'd just be

643
00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:24.039
<v Speaker 2>fun and I don't, like I haven't seen it at

644
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:26.880
<v Speaker 2>bat was like, oh that was a bad swing. That

645
00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.359
<v Speaker 2>was a bad choice, Like, oh he got really full there,

646
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:31.839
<v Speaker 2>Like he just seems so solid to me. You know,

647
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:35.400
<v Speaker 2>the numbers aren't like gaudy, right, there's not anything over

648
00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:38.519
<v Speaker 2>the top. But why is that? I guess is what

649
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:43.160
<v Speaker 2>I want to know? What's missing? Yeah? Yeah?

650
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:47.279
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? And to me, the only number that like stood

651
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:49.400
<v Speaker 3>out to me when I was reviewing his profile was

652
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:54.359
<v Speaker 3>that the babeps have been pretty high and in his

653
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:56.839
<v Speaker 3>couple of weeks in double A, like he's just hitting

654
00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:00.960
<v Speaker 3>everything on a line. Yeah, nobody does that. Nobody, even

655
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:04.359
<v Speaker 3>the very very best guys can't sustain a forty percent

656
00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.319
<v Speaker 3>line drive rate, Like that's gloser eyes can't do that,

657
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:09.279
<v Speaker 3>Freddie Freeman can't do it. Nobody can do that. Right,

658
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:12.759
<v Speaker 3>So that's the part, like it's gonna that is gonna

659
00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:16.119
<v Speaker 3>come down. You might expect some of the other numbers, like,

660
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:19.359
<v Speaker 3>you know, his strikeout rate might tick up a little bit, walker,

661
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:22.039
<v Speaker 3>it might come down a little bit. And then he's

662
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.960
<v Speaker 3>a first baseman in double A who's like a little

663
00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:27.400
<v Speaker 3>bit younger than average, like twenty two year double a

664
00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:31.960
<v Speaker 3>that's still comfortably below average, but that WRC plus now

665
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:36.279
<v Speaker 3>maybe evens out to like one twenty or so after

666
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:41.160
<v Speaker 3>those regressions, and then you're to your point like what

667
00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:43.599
<v Speaker 3>what's the thing wires and he leaving the yard, like

668
00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:46.839
<v Speaker 3>what else do we want to see here? So it

669
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.119
<v Speaker 3>seems to me that he might be more of a

670
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:54.720
<v Speaker 3>good doubles as kitter than like a corner matcher. The

671
00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:59.079
<v Speaker 3>plate skills and the batted ball profile are really strong,

672
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:01.759
<v Speaker 3>so like maybe there is more power coming, or maybe

673
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:04.640
<v Speaker 3>he will run into thirty homers a year at some point.

674
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:08.400
<v Speaker 3>I don't know. That's the part that keeps me interested

675
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:11.079
<v Speaker 3>is that there isn't anything to point to that's like

676
00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:14.719
<v Speaker 3>an obvious like, Okay, yeah he's super hot, but this

677
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:18.519
<v Speaker 3>can't possibly sustain. There's enough here that you're like, you

678
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:20.840
<v Speaker 3>could see him running a three thirty BABP and you

679
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.000
<v Speaker 3>could see him running a twenty five percent k rate,

680
00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:25.000
<v Speaker 3>but everything else looks really good, and you're like, yeah,

681
00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:25.679
<v Speaker 3>that's a good hitter.

682
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:29.119
<v Speaker 2>I agree. Maybe some off season homework there, maybe he

683
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.280
<v Speaker 2>stays at one percent, And that's that's my bat for

684
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:35.199
<v Speaker 2>this offseason. But we'll see that's premature at this point.

685
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:38.599
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, we're too early to make those kinds of calls.

686
00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:42.239
<v Speaker 3>But good to put some guys on shortlists. Yeah, do

687
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.079
<v Speaker 3>you have any more of the double Mover guys that

688
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:46.039
<v Speaker 3>you wanted to highlight?

689
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:48.119
<v Speaker 2>No, that was it. That was it for me.

690
00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:52.159
<v Speaker 3>Well, I wanted to contribute something, you know, I rarely

691
00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:55.559
<v Speaker 3>do on these podcasts, but I wanted to do something

692
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:58.920
<v Speaker 3>for the people. And I don't know if this guy

693
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:02.039
<v Speaker 3>is a well I feel like he's definitely not a

694
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:05.440
<v Speaker 3>household name these days. I've not heard much about him,

695
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:07.719
<v Speaker 3>but he's someone that I wanted to highlight as Like,

696
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:09.960
<v Speaker 3>as you know, I spent a lot of time in

697
00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:13.880
<v Speaker 3>a Ball because I'm always really really interested in the

698
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:17.639
<v Speaker 3>guys that we've never seen, whether that's from you know,

699
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:20.440
<v Speaker 3>high school where we've just seen like showcase stuff or

700
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:25.079
<v Speaker 3>college or the Complex or or the DSL, and then

701
00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:26.639
<v Speaker 3>guys that can promote it to a ball. It's like

702
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:28.880
<v Speaker 3>our first view of some of these guys that maybe

703
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:31.559
<v Speaker 3>we've read about or we've seen some interesting lines and

704
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:35.639
<v Speaker 3>first first time to like actually get eyes on guys.

705
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:39.480
<v Speaker 3>And one of the guys this year that I had

706
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:42.119
<v Speaker 3>I think I had him on a Complex watch list

707
00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:46.239
<v Speaker 3>when I was just going through like really young guys

708
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:49.199
<v Speaker 3>that had performed well at the DSL last year, and

709
00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:52.000
<v Speaker 3>then I was like, I really like to watch all

710
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.400
<v Speaker 3>of those guys. Basically every sixteen year old or seventeen

711
00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:57.079
<v Speaker 3>year old that gets at bats in the DSL kind

712
00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:00.599
<v Speaker 3>of regardless of how they perform, that they're at young

713
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:05.079
<v Speaker 3>playing at a level. You know. Again, dsls can be

714
00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:08.760
<v Speaker 3>variable in quality, but to me that's a good leading

715
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:12.679
<v Speaker 3>filter that there might be something here. And this guy

716
00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:18.400
<v Speaker 3>for the Guardians, Luis Morejo, he had a pretty good

717
00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:21.880
<v Speaker 3>DSL last year, popped a couple homers, walked some, didn't

718
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.079
<v Speaker 3>strike out very much, but had an interesting flyball prin

719
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:27.599
<v Speaker 3>City that I was like, hmm, that's kind of interesting.

720
00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:31.880
<v Speaker 3>Played kind of all over first base third base again,

721
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.679
<v Speaker 3>like at the DSL, if you're already playing left field

722
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:37.320
<v Speaker 3>or something, that's like can be a bit of a flag.

723
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:39.119
<v Speaker 3>But anyway, he was a guy that I thought was

724
00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:42.400
<v Speaker 3>interesting and then he was really bad on the Complex

725
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:45.559
<v Speaker 3>to start, like punching out all the time, power wasn't

726
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:47.599
<v Speaker 3>showing up. It was like I was like, Okay, I'm

727
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:50.880
<v Speaker 3>not that interested. And then I forget what I think

728
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:54.920
<v Speaker 3>I did some like complex ret rolling filter, and he

729
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:57.559
<v Speaker 3>showed up as like having a really good couple of weeks,

730
00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:01.679
<v Speaker 3>and then he got promoted to Low. That Lynchburg team

731
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:04.119
<v Speaker 3>had a couple of I think it might have been

732
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:07.480
<v Speaker 3>a couple of weeks ago when they were playing down

733
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:11.400
<v Speaker 3>East or there's another team that I was pretty it

734
00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:14.719
<v Speaker 3>might've been down East. That might have been Columbia or something.

735
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:16.519
<v Speaker 3>They were playing another team, and it was like an

736
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:19.440
<v Speaker 3>interesting bunch of guys that had just been promoted or

737
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.719
<v Speaker 3>were like I think you've mentioned this before, like the

738
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:26.679
<v Speaker 3>Carolina League is often really full of interesting guys, and

739
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:30.760
<v Speaker 3>so I turn on this matchup and am watching like

740
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:34.079
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of different kind of like an interesting set

741
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:37.320
<v Speaker 3>of guys on both sides and Morejo just showed out.

742
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:41.599
<v Speaker 3>He had two bombs in the game. He was absolutely

743
00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:45.440
<v Speaker 3>scorching the ball. He's this big, framed, athletic looking, you know,

744
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:48.920
<v Speaker 3>corner guy. They've mostly played him at first base thus far,

745
00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:52.440
<v Speaker 3>although I know he's gotten some time in the corner

746
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.440
<v Speaker 3>outfield spots as well. And you know, six ' four

747
00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:58.679
<v Speaker 3>or something six three one ninety ish to me. But

748
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.400
<v Speaker 3>in the first bad of this game against I think

749
00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:04.280
<v Speaker 3>it might have been fan Bilt, maybe it was fanfil

750
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:06.920
<v Speaker 3>this one I was looking at. He takes this slider

751
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:10.559
<v Speaker 3>that's below the zone and right on right, so righty

752
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:13.840
<v Speaker 3>batting slider just below the zone, and he takes this

753
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.480
<v Speaker 3>hack and this pitch is definitely like knee level or below,

754
00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:20.159
<v Speaker 3>like this is not some hanging ball, but he takes

755
00:38:20.199 --> 00:38:24.239
<v Speaker 3>it and just muscles it out to center field and

756
00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:27.440
<v Speaker 3>it was like, not the longest home run that I've seen,

757
00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:30.000
<v Speaker 3>but it was a really impressive swing on that kind

758
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:33.960
<v Speaker 3>of pitch. He homered again later in the game. Somebody

759
00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.880
<v Speaker 3>around this time might have posted some nugget about his

760
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:41.039
<v Speaker 3>exit Bilows being really really impressive. I think somebody might

761
00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:42.800
<v Speaker 3>have shared this in the dug out. Maybe it was

762
00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:45.239
<v Speaker 3>Maddy Backpack or somebody who I think also really likes

763
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:48.360
<v Speaker 3>somebody that. So he's now eighteen, is in full season ball,

764
00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:52.440
<v Speaker 3>has done nothing but hit, and I kind of think

765
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:57.360
<v Speaker 3>there's real power here, and I suspect there's a sneaky athleticism.

766
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:00.639
<v Speaker 3>So I'm curious what Cleveland's going to do with the

767
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:04.519
<v Speaker 3>defensive position. It's nice that they haven't pigeonholed him just

768
00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:08.360
<v Speaker 3>to first base or third base. Even like he's they're

769
00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:11.679
<v Speaker 3>already trying him out in different spots. While he's still

770
00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:14.679
<v Speaker 3>mostly playing first base. He's playing around the diamond still

771
00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:16.199
<v Speaker 3>a little bit, and I think he may have the

772
00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:19.079
<v Speaker 3>athleticism to make that work. But the power, to me,

773
00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:23.400
<v Speaker 3>seems pretty interesting. I've made a couple of like small

774
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:25.960
<v Speaker 3>bets on him in a couple of deeper leagues as

775
00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:31.400
<v Speaker 3>somebody that I'm cautiously optimistic about for the next year.

776
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:34.119
<v Speaker 3>He's a guy that I could see kind of dominating

777
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:37.360
<v Speaker 3>a ball and maybe even high a next year and

778
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:41.559
<v Speaker 3>then being considered a legit kind of power focused prospect.

779
00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:44.199
<v Speaker 3>So Luis Morejo to me is one of the most

780
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:46.519
<v Speaker 3>interesting guys that I've seen at a ball that I

781
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:47.800
<v Speaker 3>hadn't had eyes on before.

782
00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:49.760
<v Speaker 2>Sweet, I like that.

783
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:51.840
<v Speaker 3>Have you watched him at all? Have you caught him

784
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:52.480
<v Speaker 3>at all in the Caroline?

785
00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:54.039
<v Speaker 2>I don't believe. I don't believe.

786
00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:56.559
<v Speaker 3>So he's just been there for like three weeks maybe,

787
00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:59.840
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, he's he's fun and I think you'll dig

788
00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:02.639
<v Speaker 3>his swing. Who do you remind me of a guy

789
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:05.800
<v Speaker 3>that you liked, big, righty swing? I can't remember who,

790
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:08.840
<v Speaker 3>I thought I remember watching him last week and being like,

791
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:10.960
<v Speaker 3>I feel like he looks like one of Nate's guys.

792
00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:14.119
<v Speaker 3>That it's kind of a big swing, but like still

793
00:40:14.199 --> 00:40:17.360
<v Speaker 3>head and good stuff to like for sure.

794
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:19.719
<v Speaker 2>You know, this is a good time of year to

795
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.639
<v Speaker 2>keep an eye on some teenagers that might be hitting

796
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:26.400
<v Speaker 2>full season. We've had some, you know, edgar Quero came

797
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:29.880
<v Speaker 2>across my radar in that fashion and that's turned out

798
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:31.519
<v Speaker 2>to be a pretty dang good b side.

799
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:35.320
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, definitely a good time to keep an eye out

800
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:38.880
<v Speaker 3>for these kinds of players. And again, like lots of

801
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:40.880
<v Speaker 3>your league mates, like you said, they might be playing

802
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:44.559
<v Speaker 3>some other stupid sport instead of our interesting one.

803
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:46.719
<v Speaker 2>You hear a lot of chatter like, oh, they need

804
00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:49.719
<v Speaker 2>to promote this guy, like oh he needs better competition,

805
00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:51.760
<v Speaker 2>like oh he's too old for the level, and like

806
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:55.679
<v Speaker 2>just a lot of the times it's just incorrect. They're

807
00:40:55.719 --> 00:40:57.800
<v Speaker 2>not too old for the level because all the levels

808
00:40:57.800 --> 00:41:02.840
<v Speaker 2>have gotten older and nobody moves up to two uh

809
00:41:03.079 --> 00:41:06.440
<v Speaker 2>levels in a year, like unless it's like somebody like

810
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:11.559
<v Speaker 2>we mentioned, right, I mean, just it doesn't happen like that. Yeah,

811
00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:14.400
<v Speaker 2>you guy was killing abell. He got up to high A.

812
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:16.960
<v Speaker 2>He had a good couple first two weeks and let's go,

813
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:19.119
<v Speaker 2>he's got to go to double A. It's like, eh,

814
00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:23.360
<v Speaker 2>slow roll, give it a couple months, and a lot

815
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:25.639
<v Speaker 2>of times a couple months later you're like, yeah, you

816
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:28.559
<v Speaker 2>know he's struggling now, but yeah.

817
00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:31.960
<v Speaker 3>And there's also the contraction of the minor leagues plays

818
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:35.159
<v Speaker 3>into this too, where I think we see some of

819
00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:38.400
<v Speaker 3>the younger guys get pushed a little bit more and

820
00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:41.519
<v Speaker 3>some of this maybe team focus, like they're trying to

821
00:41:41.559 --> 00:41:44.360
<v Speaker 3>promote guys so that maybe they have a hot couple

822
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.000
<v Speaker 3>of weeks leading into the trade deadline, and now they

823
00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:49.480
<v Speaker 3>pop for the model based teams, like the teams that

824
00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:53.639
<v Speaker 3>really really care about age to level. There's some gaming

825
00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:56.199
<v Speaker 3>the system that I think can happen there, But there's

826
00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:59.440
<v Speaker 3>also with the contraction, there's just fewer spots to go around,

827
00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.679
<v Speaker 3>so like maybe a guy does get aggressively pushed up

828
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:05.960
<v Speaker 3>to double A, but then the double A and triple

829
00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:08.360
<v Speaker 3>A lineups are filled with guys that are on the

830
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:11.159
<v Speaker 3>forty man, are almost on the forty man, and there's

831
00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:13.320
<v Speaker 3>nowhere else for them to go. And we saw this

832
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:15.639
<v Speaker 3>with the Orioles. They had a ton of guys that

833
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:19.280
<v Speaker 3>were interesting up and down their system, but the very

834
00:42:19.320 --> 00:42:21.920
<v Speaker 3>top of the system, including the major leagues, they just

835
00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.559
<v Speaker 3>don't have roster spots for all those guys, Like they

836
00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:30.280
<v Speaker 3>don't want Tearstad and Mayo and Holiday before he came

837
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:32.159
<v Speaker 3>up the second time and crushed like that. They don't

838
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:34.840
<v Speaker 3>want them just to languish on the bench for four

839
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:37.119
<v Speaker 3>out of seven games in a week, like they want

840
00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:39.760
<v Speaker 3>them seeing reps and seeing at bats. And at some

841
00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:42.559
<v Speaker 3>point you have this good problem of like you don't

842
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:45.599
<v Speaker 3>know where to put everybody. And we've said this about

843
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:48.360
<v Speaker 3>some of like that next tier down of the Orioles prospects,

844
00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:51.079
<v Speaker 3>that they're really good, We're really interested in them, and

845
00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:54.320
<v Speaker 3>I think they did an awesome job identifying some of

846
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:57.880
<v Speaker 3>the guys to send away to consolidate, Like it was

847
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:01.119
<v Speaker 3>very Dynasty Baseball level trade when they sent you know,

848
00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:06.800
<v Speaker 3>et Seul and Horvath and Bonmeister for zach Eflin, Like, yeah,

849
00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:08.760
<v Speaker 3>I love that trade on both sides, Like those are

850
00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:11.119
<v Speaker 3>three guys that I think are really interesting and one

851
00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:14.199
<v Speaker 3>guy that went healthy looks like a sp number two,

852
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:18.400
<v Speaker 3>although the other effort is hurt now and it's so

853
00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:21.000
<v Speaker 3>bad timing I think for you too, Right, you have

854
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:24.599
<v Speaker 3>Efflin in a couple of important places. Yeah, it's brutal.

855
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:26.440
<v Speaker 2>So if you're out there, if you're on fangrass and

856
00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:29.159
<v Speaker 2>you do this sort of of a filter and look

857
00:43:29.159 --> 00:43:32.440
<v Speaker 2>at guys at three levels, this is not something that

858
00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:35.639
<v Speaker 2>I was naive to. But you will also catch a

859
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:39.320
<v Speaker 2>lot of names, Matt that started in the complex, started

860
00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:42.880
<v Speaker 2>in a Ball, moved to Hya, moved for a few weeks,

861
00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:44.559
<v Speaker 2>moved to double A for a few weeks, and then

862
00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:49.760
<v Speaker 2>we're released. It's like one last quick shot, throw them up.

863
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:52.239
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what what all the thinking is behind it,

864
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:54.599
<v Speaker 2>but there are a lot of guys that was the

865
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:57.119
<v Speaker 2>end of my vetting road with them was like, well

866
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:01.159
<v Speaker 2>you got released after your little whirlwind of the system.

867
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:05.039
<v Speaker 2>But another interesting part of this, Matt, So I'll just

868
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:08.199
<v Speaker 2>tell you so you know, this is one of five

869
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:12.679
<v Speaker 2>thousand reasons pictures and pitching is so much better than hitting.

870
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:15.880
<v Speaker 2>But there's about twice as many pictures that have had

871
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:19.599
<v Speaker 2>these sort of true double promotions this year, or more

872
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:23.239
<v Speaker 2>then your dumb hitters. But on the total list, on

873
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:26.679
<v Speaker 2>the total list, Matt, a third of these guys we're

874
00:44:26.719 --> 00:44:31.679
<v Speaker 2>from the Houston organization either still with them or traded

875
00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:36.400
<v Speaker 2>away and did you see Matt Pipeline and those guys

876
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:42.159
<v Speaker 2>put Houston Houston System at number thirty once again, and.

877
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:42.840
<v Speaker 3>I did see.

878
00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:48.360
<v Speaker 2>That drives me bonkers, dude, How well you know, we

879
00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:51.679
<v Speaker 2>don't know, you know, the talent isn't there. They develop well,

880
00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:53.239
<v Speaker 2>but we don't know where it comes from. It's like, well,

881
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:56.400
<v Speaker 2>then your process is screwed up, man, because the whole

882
00:44:56.440 --> 00:45:01.280
<v Speaker 2>point of a system is to produce major lead talent

883
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:04.440
<v Speaker 2>help and Houston does that better than anybody, but yet

884
00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:06.760
<v Speaker 2>never gets recognized for it. So I just I just

885
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.400
<v Speaker 2>wanted to note that a third of these guys that

886
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:12.880
<v Speaker 2>have jumped up multiple levels are from that system.

887
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.760
<v Speaker 3>It's interesting for lots of reasons, like Houston's a fascinating

888
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:20.599
<v Speaker 3>system for over the past decade for lots of different reasons,

889
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:24.320
<v Speaker 3>from the Super Tanky years to the early adopters of

890
00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:28.000
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of the kind of cutting edge tactics that

891
00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:32.639
<v Speaker 3>we see in player development, the under the radar kind

892
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:36.320
<v Speaker 3>of moneyball at two point zero esque identification of what's

893
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:39.239
<v Speaker 3>valuable and what's going to be good going forward. They've

894
00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:41.639
<v Speaker 3>been fascinating. And now they've got Dana Brown at the

895
00:45:41.639 --> 00:45:45.480
<v Speaker 3>helm and that's an interesting shift in their approach. I

896
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:49.599
<v Speaker 3>did think that their trade for Kukuchi this offseason was

897
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:54.920
<v Speaker 3>probably not one that someone like Michae Elias would have done.

898
00:45:55.360 --> 00:45:57.199
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what did you think about that? Like

899
00:45:57.800 --> 00:45:59.639
<v Speaker 3>to me, it felt like a trade I might do

900
00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:04.039
<v Speaker 3>in dynasty, where I'm like, these four guys, I think

901
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.000
<v Speaker 3>maybe three of them are going to be big leaguers,

902
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:09.960
<v Speaker 3>maybe like a below average big leaguer or two, but

903
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:13.440
<v Speaker 3>they're like they belong on a big league roster, is

904
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:15.760
<v Speaker 3>what I felt like. But maybe none of them is

905
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:18.559
<v Speaker 3>going to be a star. And Kakuchi's like a good

906
00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:21.079
<v Speaker 3>depth arm that I'm happy to roster and plug in

907
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:25.119
<v Speaker 3>as my fourth best starter or whatever. I felt like

908
00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:29.360
<v Speaker 3>it was an interesting shift in tactics from the Astros.

909
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.719
<v Speaker 3>But to your point, the point of a minor league system,

910
00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:37.159
<v Speaker 3>for if you're really trying to win, is to develop

911
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:39.920
<v Speaker 3>major league assets, and whether you do that by trading

912
00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:42.199
<v Speaker 3>them away or turning them into major league assets, I

913
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:45.679
<v Speaker 3>think is part of the trick for a major league team.

914
00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:51.719
<v Speaker 3>It's an interesting shift in their surplus value chasing approach.

915
00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:54.639
<v Speaker 3>I think right like I feel like under Alias, they

916
00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:57.719
<v Speaker 3>really cared about the dollars and cents of it because

917
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:01.199
<v Speaker 3>they had a strict payroll budget. They were going to

918
00:47:01.239 --> 00:47:03.760
<v Speaker 3>be lean until they were sure they had stars and

919
00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:06.519
<v Speaker 3>then try and extend them on team friendly deals. And

920
00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:10.079
<v Speaker 3>it was an interesting sort of shift, like Kakuchi's a

921
00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:14.119
<v Speaker 3>rental and they sent four guys away who have decent

922
00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:17.559
<v Speaker 3>shots at being productive mlbers that are all pre orb

923
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:20.840
<v Speaker 3>they're all in their first or second year eligibility right

924
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:23.199
<v Speaker 3>first year right like they sent nobody away that was

925
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:27.239
<v Speaker 3>It's an interesting philosophical shift. I will definitely agree with

926
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:29.159
<v Speaker 3>you that I think Houston is doing a bunch of

927
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:33.280
<v Speaker 3>things right in the searching for value where other teams

928
00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:37.599
<v Speaker 3>still are ignoring, and their player development does seem to

929
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:40.360
<v Speaker 3>be pretty good. Like, you know, we had talked about

930
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:42.760
<v Speaker 3>low Berfido a year ago and we're like, he looks

931
00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.079
<v Speaker 3>like a pretty interesting guy, and nobody was really on him.

932
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.760
<v Speaker 3>And then he had an awesome year this year in

933
00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:51.159
<v Speaker 3>the upper minors and I think found himself on the

934
00:47:51.159 --> 00:47:54.280
<v Speaker 3>way to some top one hundreds. I'm still skeptical that

935
00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:58.000
<v Speaker 3>he's like a major league average or better player, Like

936
00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:00.800
<v Speaker 3>he looks to me more like a one more to

937
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:04.159
<v Speaker 3>half a war kind of player at Steady State. Hey,

938
00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:06.599
<v Speaker 3>they netted a good player on them. I don't know.

939
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:09.199
<v Speaker 3>Houston is just a fascinating organization, I think, to both

940
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:11.480
<v Speaker 3>of us. And it's not always for the reasons that

941
00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:12.920
<v Speaker 3>you would think.

942
00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:15.760
<v Speaker 2>Trade the wait Gilbert, you know, their first round pick

943
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:19.039
<v Speaker 2>from a few years ago. And I think they're almost

944
00:48:19.159 --> 00:48:21.719
<v Speaker 2>like how I would how I want to fancy myself

945
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:24.639
<v Speaker 2>in dynasties, like oh, I don't care you want my

946
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:28.119
<v Speaker 2>pretty boys or my trendy guy, like we take them,

947
00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.719
<v Speaker 2>you know, unless I really really love him and believe

948
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:34.639
<v Speaker 2>in them. Right. I think the Astros kind of spoke

949
00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:39.480
<v Speaker 2>that those players weren't super valuable to them, right, and

950
00:48:39.519 --> 00:48:42.440
<v Speaker 2>they're just gonna backfill and they're gonna develop some more

951
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.440
<v Speaker 2>guys and just keep it coming. And I don't think

952
00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:48.960
<v Speaker 2>they gave away anything that they can't live without.

953
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:52.480
<v Speaker 3>Definitely not, definitely not. I know it was a bit

954
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:54.639
<v Speaker 3>of a meme in The Dynasty. I got discorded this

955
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:59.280
<v Speaker 3>offseason that I was kind of low on Lowferfeedo and

956
00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:02.400
<v Speaker 3>then he just went nuts at Triple A and was

957
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:04.719
<v Speaker 3>just hitting a bomb every day, and I kept getting

958
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:08.039
<v Speaker 3>tagged about it. I forget which member was was doing that,

959
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:09.800
<v Speaker 3>but it was it was a good bit. And then

960
00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:12.280
<v Speaker 3>you know he's been in the bigs for most of

961
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:16.400
<v Speaker 3>this year and was the last I looked like an

962
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:19.840
<v Speaker 3>eighty w RC plus player had like two bombs or

963
00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:23.039
<v Speaker 3>something in the bigs, and that was three. I guess

964
00:49:23.079 --> 00:49:26.679
<v Speaker 3>now at seventy eight WRC plus now you know, striking

965
00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:29.480
<v Speaker 3>out a time, not walking us like that looks like

966
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:31.840
<v Speaker 3>the guy that we saw just he was on a

967
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:35.760
<v Speaker 3>hell of a heater in in Triple A. So it's

968
00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:37.280
<v Speaker 3>it's interesting how that works out.

969
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:39.559
<v Speaker 2>I want to get into some of the pictures here.

970
00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:41.199
<v Speaker 3>We have to.

971
00:49:41.679 --> 00:49:44.480
<v Speaker 2>There's some good ones, man, There's and and some a

972
00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:46.639
<v Speaker 2>few guys that were new to me that I turned

973
00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:50.239
<v Speaker 2>on a little bit, mostly from the Houston system. But

974
00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:54.280
<v Speaker 2>so you got your obvious guys, right, Waldrip it was,

975
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:58.360
<v Speaker 2>you know, first round pick whatever. He's moved up three levels,

976
00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:01.320
<v Speaker 2>and I gotta say, I think he hasn't really lived

977
00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:04.159
<v Speaker 2>up to the first year player draft tight this year, Matt,

978
00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:10.719
<v Speaker 2>I would, uh, we got George class, you know, I

979
00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:13.480
<v Speaker 2>was traded and now he's up in Double A. First

980
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:18.239
<v Speaker 2>couple of Double A starts, Matt, where's all those strikeouts

981
00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:22.480
<v Speaker 2>that that big nasty fastball was supposed to get your

982
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:26.960
<v Speaker 2>boy Logan Henderson, God, I love him, been pretty good.

983
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:31.199
<v Speaker 3>He's so freaking good man. I I wish if he

984
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:35.079
<v Speaker 3>hadn't gotten hurt in that Breakouts game, right that he

985
00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:38.159
<v Speaker 3>got hurt, Yeah, it was if it wasn't for that.

986
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:40.719
<v Speaker 3>I wonder if we were would see him in the

987
00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:42.800
<v Speaker 3>show this year. He has just been so fire.

988
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:49.599
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you'd still take him over miss Rawski, Yes, definitely, Yeah,

989
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:50.239
<v Speaker 2>I'm with you.

990
00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:52.960
<v Speaker 3>I think is gonna end up being an awesome reliever,

991
00:50:53.239 --> 00:50:57.320
<v Speaker 3>like stuff is so impressive. But I think Henderson is

992
00:50:57.320 --> 00:50:58.639
<v Speaker 3>going to be a really good starter.

993
00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:02.599
<v Speaker 2>Matthews, of course, who's started at HYA, has made a

994
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:05.760
<v Speaker 2>couple of major league starts now, amazing season for him.

995
00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:09.199
<v Speaker 2>Andrew Morris, also in that same system, went from High

996
00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:12.119
<v Speaker 2>A to now in Triple A. Andrew Morris is pretty

997
00:51:12.159 --> 00:51:14.719
<v Speaker 2>good dude. I have to admit that he's a guy

998
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:17.000
<v Speaker 2>that I probably the first couple of times I saw

999
00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:20.760
<v Speaker 2>him when he first came up, probably underestimated him. But

1000
00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:22.599
<v Speaker 2>he's gotten to be a pretty dang good picture. He's

1001
00:51:22.639 --> 00:51:25.679
<v Speaker 2>twenty two years old now in Triple A. I think

1002
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:31.360
<v Speaker 2>that's a dude. But I was too late Brandon Sproute, right,

1003
00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:33.960
<v Speaker 2>he's moved from high A to double A, Triple A.

1004
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:38.440
<v Speaker 2>Thomas Harrington. Quinn Matthews, which is a good call by

1005
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:40.920
<v Speaker 2>you this preseason. By the way, how many innings has

1006
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:43.920
<v Speaker 2>that guy lock now the last two years? Quite a few?

1007
00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:48.360
<v Speaker 3>Huh, probably a lot. Yeah, I know that when we

1008
00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:50.719
<v Speaker 3>looked at him last year, when I was saying that

1009
00:51:50.760 --> 00:51:54.719
<v Speaker 3>I liked him, as you know, I'm shy on pictures

1010
00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:57.199
<v Speaker 3>going out coming out of the draft generally, and it's like,

1011
00:51:57.239 --> 00:51:59.039
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, there's gonna be some pop ups that

1012
00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:00.719
<v Speaker 3>we don't really know who they are, and so I

1013
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:02.800
<v Speaker 3>just kind of picked Quinn Matthews as a guy that

1014
00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.320
<v Speaker 3>I had seen that was good in his time at

1015
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:11.400
<v Speaker 3>Stanford and obviously had that great was that super regional

1016
00:52:11.480 --> 00:52:15.320
<v Speaker 3>or regional game against Texas and when he went one

1017
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:18.400
<v Speaker 3>hundred and fifty six pitches or something. But yeah, he's

1018
00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:22.280
<v Speaker 3>logged quite a few innings, and it's interesting this year

1019
00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:26.800
<v Speaker 3>that I think he's held his pro velocity games still

1020
00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:28.920
<v Speaker 3>even if he's made it up, even as he's made

1021
00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:29.599
<v Speaker 3>it up to double A.

1022
00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:33.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Jake Bloss who's started the year, you know, his

1023
00:52:33.519 --> 00:52:36.880
<v Speaker 2>first pro full pro season started hi A. He's made

1024
00:52:36.920 --> 00:52:39.760
<v Speaker 2>up to the bigs. He got traded to Toronto from Houston,

1025
00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:44.440
<v Speaker 2>and then Brad Lord the National system started off in

1026
00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:46.719
<v Speaker 2>hy A's up in Triple A. Now, I don't know

1027
00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:50.000
<v Speaker 2>how much you've watched Lord, if any this preseason that

1028
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:52.320
<v Speaker 2>we were talking about the Nats system in their arms

1029
00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:54.400
<v Speaker 2>right and how it was just like such a sleeper,

1030
00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:59.199
<v Speaker 2>like I don't know, grasping to get excited about somebody

1031
00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:03.400
<v Speaker 2>that wasn't you know, already rostered highly, like you know whoever.

1032
00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:05.320
<v Speaker 2>And I feel like Lord is just kind of like

1033
00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:08.840
<v Speaker 2>the king of that of that sort of profile. Like

1034
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:11.400
<v Speaker 2>is that a great season? I don't want to discount

1035
00:53:11.440 --> 00:53:14.599
<v Speaker 2>his production. It's been awesome. I'm just not so sure

1036
00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:17.719
<v Speaker 2>there's like stuff there to get too excited about, or

1037
00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:21.559
<v Speaker 2>any sort of funkiness to get excited about, or deception,

1038
00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:25.960
<v Speaker 2>lots of flyballs, not a ton of caves. Just kind

1039
00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:30.159
<v Speaker 2>of overall feels pretty major league lackluster to me unless

1040
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:32.159
<v Speaker 2>I'm missing something that I don't.

1041
00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:34.840
<v Speaker 3>Think you're missing anything. And this is something that we've

1042
00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:37.880
<v Speaker 3>talked about with that system. I don't know whether it's

1043
00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:42.519
<v Speaker 3>the Nationals haven't or like maybe they've tried for some

1044
00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:45.320
<v Speaker 3>of the pitchability guys and they haven't been able to

1045
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:49.079
<v Speaker 3>put it all together or what the deal is. But yeah, yeah,

1046
00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:51.039
<v Speaker 3>I kind of agree with you on Lord.

1047
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:53.880
<v Speaker 2>I kind of wonder with them if they're just of

1048
00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:57.480
<v Speaker 2>the thinking, which I think is a very smart tact,

1049
00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:01.960
<v Speaker 2>gather some of the pitchability skill if you will execution stuff.

1050
00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:05.320
<v Speaker 2>Maybe maybe the tools the pictures aren't real loud and

1051
00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:07.960
<v Speaker 2>then we can get them louder, And maybe that just

1052
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:10.960
<v Speaker 2>hasn't really panned out with some guys that they were

1053
00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:11.519
<v Speaker 2>hoping for.

1054
00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:14.000
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and you know, they've got the guys like Sikora

1055
00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:18.360
<v Speaker 3>and ardenssan On those guys that I think are kind

1056
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:21.800
<v Speaker 3>of definitely the stuff Maven's and seem like they know

1057
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:24.639
<v Speaker 3>how to pitch a bit, especially in Sikora's case. I

1058
00:54:24.719 --> 00:54:27.320
<v Speaker 3>wonder because they had like a few drafts in a

1059
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:32.039
<v Speaker 3>row where they took top like fireballing pictures pretty early

1060
00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:34.559
<v Speaker 3>that maybe had some questionable injury history and I don't

1061
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:36.480
<v Speaker 3>know if that worked out for them or they were

1062
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:39.079
<v Speaker 3>trying to diversify their risk, but it really made a

1063
00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:42.800
<v Speaker 3>lot of their system seem kind of boring outside of

1064
00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:45.559
<v Speaker 3>like the top kind of pretty boy arms which looked

1065
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:48.679
<v Speaker 3>particularly risky to me. So I don't know whether that

1066
00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:51.639
<v Speaker 3>was a systemic thing or what, but yeah, it's an

1067
00:54:51.639 --> 00:54:53.920
<v Speaker 3>interesting phenotype that they seem to have.

1068
00:54:54.199 --> 00:54:59.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and those are the guys that are well beyond

1069
00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:03.800
<v Speaker 2>beside roster percent. The next guy I'm want to bring

1070
00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:06.599
<v Speaker 2>up here Hester passed that he's at five percent. He's

1071
00:55:06.679 --> 00:55:10.079
<v Speaker 2>number twenty nine on the Brewers pipeline list. And I

1072
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:13.239
<v Speaker 2>know has been chatted about quite a bit in the discord.

1073
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:17.000
<v Speaker 2>But Casey Hunt with the Brewers started off in a

1074
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:20.920
<v Speaker 2>ball is now in double a right. Story with him,

1075
00:55:20.920 --> 00:55:24.719
<v Speaker 2>he was mostly a reliever in Mississippi State or exclusively

1076
00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:27.760
<v Speaker 2>a reliever, I don't know for certain, got drafted in

1077
00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:30.119
<v Speaker 2>the twelfth round the twenty twenty two draft, but the

1078
00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:33.000
<v Speaker 2>Pirates did not sign with them. I don't know what

1079
00:55:33.039 --> 00:55:35.119
<v Speaker 2>the story is there why that was. And then he

1080
00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:37.400
<v Speaker 2>went and played independent ball and then the Brewers signed

1081
00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:40.039
<v Speaker 2>him last year. And he's put up some great numbers, right,

1082
00:55:40.039 --> 00:55:42.679
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, his K minus BB's really good, his

1083
00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:46.239
<v Speaker 2>strikeout percentage, all that stuff. Right, I've seen some little

1084
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:50.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, wo'd you rather when Casey Hunt and Logan

1085
00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:53.000
<v Speaker 2>Henderson in the same conversation I'm just like, whoaha, whoa

1086
00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:56.199
<v Speaker 2>why I can't I can't get on board that. I

1087
00:55:56.239 --> 00:55:58.480
<v Speaker 2>don't know if you've watched Hunt Matt, but you're talking

1088
00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:01.239
<v Speaker 2>about I don't know, fastballs like ninety one, ninety two.

1089
00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:04.800
<v Speaker 2>He's right handed, high seventies. I think it's pretty decent.

1090
00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:08.639
<v Speaker 2>Furmer slider change up right. He's got he's got the tools,

1091
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:12.079
<v Speaker 2>his good body, good size. He can pitch, you know,

1092
00:56:12.159 --> 00:56:14.960
<v Speaker 2>although I have to say the outings that I've seen,

1093
00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:17.639
<v Speaker 2>there's you know, a lot of the catcher calm for

1094
00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:20.400
<v Speaker 2>something in the location and him him not hitting that,

1095
00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:23.079
<v Speaker 2>him missing it. But you know, more more so than

1096
00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:25.679
<v Speaker 2>someone i'd say was pitching real clean right. I wonder

1097
00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:28.519
<v Speaker 2>if there's like a little Johnny right hander in him.

1098
00:56:29.599 --> 00:56:32.320
<v Speaker 2>I see the fastball. When there's damage done, it's usually

1099
00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:36.400
<v Speaker 2>the fastball. Tend to wonder if his pitchability and his

1100
00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:40.199
<v Speaker 2>like you know, good secondaries, good use of secondaries, kind

1101
00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:43.960
<v Speaker 2>of mask what could maybe be a big major league hurdle.

1102
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:47.480
<v Speaker 2>Wondering about that fastball quality, and I think he, I

1103
00:56:47.519 --> 00:56:49.800
<v Speaker 2>don't know what's the best way to say it, Maybe

1104
00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:52.639
<v Speaker 2>he knows the fastball and like his greatest pitch because

1105
00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:55.920
<v Speaker 2>he is trying to tuck that thing down and down

1106
00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:58.679
<v Speaker 2>and the way in the zone quite often. So I

1107
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:01.119
<v Speaker 2>don't know. I know some people are really excited about

1108
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:03.159
<v Speaker 2>Casey Hunt. He there's a lot of things that we

1109
00:57:03.199 --> 00:57:05.760
<v Speaker 2>would like about him, right man. We like pitchability. Guys

1110
00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:09.400
<v Speaker 2>like guys you can execute a whole arsenal and sequence differently,

1111
00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:11.239
<v Speaker 2>and I think he's got some of that in this game.

1112
00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:15.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm I'm just tampering some of my big league dreams

1113
00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:17.559
<v Speaker 2>with him. But of course he's the type of guy

1114
00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:19.800
<v Speaker 2>if he comes back next year and he put on

1115
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:23.119
<v Speaker 2>a couple of clicks on the fastball or reworked in

1116
00:57:23.519 --> 00:57:27.639
<v Speaker 2>it's a better quality fastball, you could go Zebbie Matthews esque.

1117
00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:30.199
<v Speaker 2>I think so I like it. I like it. I'm

1118
00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:33.039
<v Speaker 2>just not sure I'm as excited as some I'll.

1119
00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:35.880
<v Speaker 3>Admit I haven't watched any of Hunt this year, and

1120
00:57:35.920 --> 00:57:39.440
<v Speaker 3>that's probably a mistake because, like you said, it sounds

1121
00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:41.800
<v Speaker 3>to me like there's a lot of things here that generally,

1122
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.400
<v Speaker 3>I like, you know, somebody that maybe isn't a fastball

1123
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:48.639
<v Speaker 3>first guy, or isn't succeeding in the minor leagues based

1124
00:57:48.679 --> 00:57:51.280
<v Speaker 3>on a fastball only, and maybe had some of those

1125
00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:54.719
<v Speaker 3>other traits to dive into. So let me hold off

1126
00:57:54.800 --> 00:57:57.880
<v Speaker 3>my view until I get a chance to dive into

1127
00:57:57.920 --> 00:57:59.760
<v Speaker 3>a start or two of hunts.

1128
00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:02.199
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the next guy I want to bring up, he's

1129
00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:05.519
<v Speaker 2>the only one who wouln't teetering on the B side

1130
00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:08.840
<v Speaker 2>popularity right now. Matt. He's at three percent and he's

1131
00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:11.639
<v Speaker 2>gone from abel to high A to just promote it

1132
00:58:11.679 --> 00:58:13.400
<v Speaker 2>to double A. I think he made one double A

1133
00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:15.559
<v Speaker 2>start just the last couple of days. I'm not one

1134
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:18.639
<v Speaker 2>hundred percent on that, but that's cold Drake with the Rangers,

1135
00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:22.039
<v Speaker 2>and I know Clegg has liked him quite a bit,

1136
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:24.400
<v Speaker 2>and I think I have to agree with Clegg. And

1137
00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:27.800
<v Speaker 2>part of this is some other opinions that are closer

1138
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:30.920
<v Speaker 2>to the situation, but I think they really like him,

1139
00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:35.519
<v Speaker 2>and well he's twenty one on the pipeline list, but

1140
00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:38.320
<v Speaker 2>I think this is another candidate for like one of

1141
00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:42.760
<v Speaker 2>the most underrated prospects maybe in all baseball. I still

1142
00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:45.320
<v Speaker 2>want to see The Rangers for a long time have

1143
00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:48.280
<v Speaker 2>had tons of interesting arms and the lowers, and then

1144
00:58:48.320 --> 00:58:50.039
<v Speaker 2>they get to the uppers and they can't get them

1145
00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:53.159
<v Speaker 2>over the hump. Like really, Matt Bradford's like the only

1146
00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:57.079
<v Speaker 2>guy that they have totally developed or has totally come

1147
00:58:57.159 --> 00:58:59.639
<v Speaker 2>up through their system. Everybody else that's been pitching for

1148
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:02.480
<v Speaker 2>them for several years now like wasn't you know. I

1149
00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:04.880
<v Speaker 2>got to imagine that's a big emphasis for them that

1150
00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:08.320
<v Speaker 2>they need some of their homegrown arms so they don't

1151
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:11.039
<v Speaker 2>have to pay all these high dollar free agents. But

1152
00:59:11.079 --> 00:59:13.679
<v Speaker 2>I think Cold Drake, of all the interesting arms that

1153
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:17.199
<v Speaker 2>were in Hickory down East this year, and there's been

1154
00:59:17.239 --> 00:59:20.039
<v Speaker 2>a lot, man, I think he might be the best

1155
00:59:20.039 --> 00:59:20.599
<v Speaker 2>of the bunch.

1156
00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:22.800
<v Speaker 3>So I've watched a little bit of Cold Drake and

1157
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:25.760
<v Speaker 3>I agree with you. I think he's a nice underrated

1158
00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:30.599
<v Speaker 3>prospect and definitely co signed him. Had I watched a

1159
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:33.320
<v Speaker 3>couple of the starts earlier this year that were impressive,

1160
00:59:33.440 --> 00:59:36.840
<v Speaker 3>both in the pitchability realm of like he was executing

1161
00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:40.039
<v Speaker 3>as you like to say. It wasn't just use leveraging

1162
00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:42.639
<v Speaker 3>the stuff to get the results like it was. There

1163
00:59:42.719 --> 00:59:45.079
<v Speaker 3>was you could see the intent, you could see the plan,

1164
00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:47.280
<v Speaker 3>and you could see him executing that pretty well. So

1165
00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:50.360
<v Speaker 3>I do like Drake, and he's one. It'll be interesting

1166
00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:53.480
<v Speaker 3>to follow how his promotion to Double A goes. I

1167
00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:57.079
<v Speaker 3>wanted to ask, have you seen another guy at Hickory

1168
00:59:57.159 --> 00:59:59.519
<v Speaker 3>and I think he spent most of the year at

1169
00:59:59.679 --> 01:00:03.159
<v Speaker 3>down East. Maybe good in his first couple of starts

1170
01:00:03.199 --> 01:00:11.400
<v Speaker 3>in Hickory, and that's David de villov Yeo Deva Leo?

1171
01:00:11.559 --> 01:00:12.559
<v Speaker 3>Is that that Deva Leo?

1172
01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:15.480
<v Speaker 2>I think it's I don't.

1173
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:17.480
<v Speaker 3>Know Deva Leo. I think because it's just the one

1174
01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:20.800
<v Speaker 3>l first in the But anyway, he I've actually really

1175
01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.239
<v Speaker 3>liked my looks at him. I agree the kind of

1176
01:00:23.639 --> 01:00:28.440
<v Speaker 3>movement profile that's got some decent east west to it.

1177
01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:31.000
<v Speaker 3>Induced his ground balls pretty well, but he still gets

1178
01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:34.920
<v Speaker 3>some whiffs, seems to have decent command. I just have

1179
01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:37.480
<v Speaker 3>got a couple of his starts, but I was pretty

1180
01:00:37.480 --> 01:00:40.079
<v Speaker 3>interested in him. Like you mentioned, I think there have

1181
01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:43.000
<v Speaker 3>been some good arms in the Lowers for Texas, but

1182
01:00:43.079 --> 01:00:45.000
<v Speaker 3>he was one that I hadn't really heard many people

1183
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:47.159
<v Speaker 3>talk about. And I think he's a zero percent or

1184
01:00:47.159 --> 01:00:50.119
<v Speaker 3>one percenter on fan tracks too that I have on

1185
01:00:50.239 --> 01:00:52.280
<v Speaker 3>a couple of watch lists, like I want to see

1186
01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:54.840
<v Speaker 3>a little more. I'm not sure there's the swing and

1187
01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:57.639
<v Speaker 3>miss to the profile for the long term, but he's

1188
01:00:57.679 --> 01:01:01.199
<v Speaker 3>shown some really impressive signs and it just seems like

1189
01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:04.159
<v Speaker 3>UH has has some skills that I like to bet on,

1190
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:07.960
<v Speaker 3>including the fact that he's approaching one hundred innings already

1191
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:10.239
<v Speaker 3>as a twenty one year old in Low ay to

1192
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:11.159
<v Speaker 3>High this year.

1193
01:01:11.599 --> 01:01:14.599
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Matt, in my opinion, he he's a pitcher, he's

1194
01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:17.880
<v Speaker 2>a young pitcher. He's he's got several weapons, can put

1195
01:01:17.960 --> 01:01:20.440
<v Speaker 2>them in different places, can pitch differently. You know that.

1196
01:01:20.519 --> 01:01:22.840
<v Speaker 2>You don't see that, you know, with a ton of

1197
01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:25.960
<v Speaker 2>guys and a ball, butting some of all parts sort

1198
01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:29.039
<v Speaker 2>of down for sure. And he was like my last

1199
01:01:29.079 --> 01:01:31.079
<v Speaker 2>cut in a couple of deep leagues. As I dropped

1200
01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:33.079
<v Speaker 2>him for like a reliever that might help me in

1201
01:01:33.119 --> 01:01:36.760
<v Speaker 2>the playoffs sort of thing. I might end up regretting that,

1202
01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:40.639
<v Speaker 2>but but we'll see. I caught four guys that started

1203
01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:42.800
<v Speaker 2>the year in the DSL and are now in a ball,

1204
01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:46.559
<v Speaker 2>So that's a I consider that a couple of promotions.

1205
01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:50.440
<v Speaker 2>I caught Hayes, who's Flores of the Brewers, nineteen year old,

1206
01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:55.280
<v Speaker 2>good sized kid. I watched them at Fredericksburg. Now he

1207
01:01:55.320 --> 01:01:57.960
<v Speaker 2>came in with like one out, bases loaded, got down

1208
01:01:58.199 --> 01:02:00.800
<v Speaker 2>three to zero, there was a wild pitch and then

1209
01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:03.159
<v Speaker 2>I think a couple more run score and then he

1210
01:02:03.199 --> 01:02:06.360
<v Speaker 2>put three more zeros up after that. I don't know

1211
01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:10.280
<v Speaker 2>if there's anything to soundbriter alarms too much here, though.

1212
01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:13.119
<v Speaker 2>He's got like a high eighties fastball and looks like

1213
01:02:13.159 --> 01:02:16.239
<v Speaker 2>a big breaker and that seemed about it. But curious

1214
01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:18.440
<v Speaker 2>as to why the Brewers might have him in full

1215
01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:22.039
<v Speaker 2>season ball right now. They when they've done that with

1216
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:25.519
<v Speaker 2>players in the past, the pitchers in the past, they

1217
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:28.800
<v Speaker 2>tend to get interesting at some point. Houston kind of

1218
01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:31.239
<v Speaker 2>older guy that was in DSL. For whatever reason, they

1219
01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:34.119
<v Speaker 2>signed him internationally started him there, twenty two year old

1220
01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:36.400
<v Speaker 2>by the name of Pedro Marquez. I don't think there's

1221
01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:39.400
<v Speaker 2>anything too interesting there right now. It looks like a

1222
01:02:39.559 --> 01:02:43.559
<v Speaker 2>kind of classic reliever. The Rangers had another older DSL

1223
01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:48.239
<v Speaker 2>guy on Hill a Moscow, same thing a couple appearances.

1224
01:02:48.280 --> 01:02:51.320
<v Speaker 2>I think he's probably a reliever all the way. But

1225
01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:54.119
<v Speaker 2>then I saw now, I don't know, was this a

1226
01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:58.159
<v Speaker 2>highbrow signing or something. Matt Anderson Brito of the Astros

1227
01:02:58.719 --> 01:03:01.480
<v Speaker 2>is raster and two sent of leagues right now, and

1228
01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:05.599
<v Speaker 2>I think he's like the number eighteen prospect on pipeline

1229
01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:08.880
<v Speaker 2>for them right now, which I thought was interesting. He's nineteen.

1230
01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:12.199
<v Speaker 2>I don't know how many innings he has with them

1231
01:03:12.199 --> 01:03:13.519
<v Speaker 2>in a ball right now, but.

1232
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:17.199
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, not many, just fifteen. But I think it was

1233
01:03:17.320 --> 01:03:21.480
<v Speaker 3>on the back he had, like, oh, absolutely wild start.

1234
01:03:21.559 --> 01:03:23.719
<v Speaker 3>Let me see if I can find it. I think

1235
01:03:23.800 --> 01:03:28.000
<v Speaker 3>he had a start. Yeah, his last DSL start I

1236
01:03:28.039 --> 01:03:30.800
<v Speaker 3>think blew up because he went four and two thirds

1237
01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:34.159
<v Speaker 3>and had twelve punch outs and just one hit. And

1238
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:37.480
<v Speaker 3>I want to say Baddler or somebody down there like

1239
01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:40.840
<v Speaker 3>posted about him after that, like saying, hey, this guy's

1240
01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:44.400
<v Speaker 3>on a real heater. The Astros really love him, and

1241
01:03:44.440 --> 01:03:47.920
<v Speaker 3>then they promoted him right to Complex. He had one

1242
01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:50.159
<v Speaker 3>start the Complex, and then they promoted him to a

1243
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:53.159
<v Speaker 3>ball again as a nineteen year old. So I think

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01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:55.679
<v Speaker 3>that was what it was. And I remember this because

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01:03:55.679 --> 01:03:57.840
<v Speaker 3>I picked him up because of that in one league

1246
01:03:58.079 --> 01:04:00.159
<v Speaker 3>where I had some I think that was right on

1247
01:04:00.199 --> 01:04:02.000
<v Speaker 3>the trade deadline for me, and I had sent away

1248
01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:04.920
<v Speaker 3>a whole bunch of prospects to try and shore up

1249
01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:07.519
<v Speaker 3>a good team for the run, and he was one

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01:04:07.559 --> 01:04:09.920
<v Speaker 3>that I was like, Oh, that's pretty interesting and seems

1251
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:12.840
<v Speaker 3>like there's something there. So I haven't actually watched him

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01:04:13.159 --> 01:04:17.760
<v Speaker 3>at Lowa yet, but the I think the hype came

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01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:19.119
<v Speaker 3>from baseball America.

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01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:22.320
<v Speaker 2>Well, I was pumped because I saw that. What is

1255
01:04:22.840 --> 01:04:26.000
<v Speaker 2>so his first A ball appearance was in Lafayette and

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01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:29.880
<v Speaker 2>that's a crappy angle. It's like from right center field

1257
01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:33.400
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't be so great for alariety. But then I was like, oh,

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01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:36.119
<v Speaker 2>he pitched at Augusta. That's awesome. That's like one of

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01:04:36.159 --> 01:04:38.280
<v Speaker 2>the best angles. And and then I turned on the

1260
01:04:38.280 --> 01:04:41.159
<v Speaker 2>broadcast mat and for whatever reason, they weren't filming from centerfield.

1261
01:04:41.320 --> 01:04:44.719
<v Speaker 2>It was really it was all from like the side,

1262
01:04:44.840 --> 01:04:48.719
<v Speaker 2>from this weird angle that I've never even seen broadcasts

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01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:52.880
<v Speaker 2>from Augusta. So, Matt, interesting, do you want to talk

1264
01:04:52.920 --> 01:04:57.719
<v Speaker 2>about my Houston Astros conspiracy theory? They don't want people

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01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:00.440
<v Speaker 2>to know how good their prospects are for some reason.

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01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:02.440
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, maybe I'm.

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01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:05.719
<v Speaker 2>Telling you it's just weird stuff like that that happens.

1268
01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:08.599
<v Speaker 2>But long story short, they didn't get any really good

1269
01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:11.639
<v Speaker 2>looks at his stuff. Right, he's short, but he does

1270
01:05:11.719 --> 01:05:13.760
<v Speaker 2>get down the mound, So that sided you. You know,

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01:05:13.800 --> 01:05:15.800
<v Speaker 2>I'm not accustomed to watching a lot of pictures from

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01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:18.239
<v Speaker 2>the side, but he's short, but he really gets far

1273
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:22.280
<v Speaker 2>down the mound, and the fastballs hitting upper nineties, there's

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01:05:22.320 --> 01:05:24.639
<v Speaker 2>a curveball, there's a slider, there's a change up. I

1275
01:05:24.639 --> 01:05:26.800
<v Speaker 2>don't really know. I was just really disappointed in that

1276
01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:31.599
<v Speaker 2>broadcast Anderson Brito maybe a budding dude. And then the

1277
01:05:31.639 --> 01:05:35.880
<v Speaker 2>next day one of those other DSL guys pitched, and

1278
01:05:35.920 --> 01:05:37.679
<v Speaker 2>so I turned that game on and it was back

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01:05:37.719 --> 01:05:39.599
<v Speaker 2>to back to center field camera.

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01:05:39.960 --> 01:05:41.480
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, that's so funny.

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01:05:41.840 --> 01:05:45.960
<v Speaker 2>It's just weird. Yeah, man, Like my conspiracy theory isn't like,

1282
01:05:46.559 --> 01:05:49.519
<v Speaker 2>obviously teams are going to see them, but I just

1283
01:05:49.559 --> 01:05:52.519
<v Speaker 2>feel like for some reason, they like don't want their

1284
01:05:52.559 --> 01:05:55.599
<v Speaker 2>prospects like hyped in the public sphere or something. I

1285
01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:56.760
<v Speaker 2>don't know, it's just weird.

1286
01:05:57.119 --> 01:06:00.320
<v Speaker 3>But your conspiracy theories, Nate, you know that.

1287
01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.960
<v Speaker 2>There's just weird stuff like that that happens. And I'm

1288
01:06:04.199 --> 01:06:08.119
<v Speaker 2>constantly being ranked at the bottom. Is weird to me

1289
01:06:08.199 --> 01:06:12.599
<v Speaker 2>and for our purposes, for our b siding, it's like, honeypot.

1290
01:06:12.679 --> 01:06:16.280
<v Speaker 2>I think like there's there's so many interesting prospects, so

1291
01:06:16.280 --> 01:06:19.719
<v Speaker 2>many guys that jump up in that system and don't

1292
01:06:19.719 --> 01:06:21.719
<v Speaker 2>get a lot of a lot of hype in the

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01:06:21.760 --> 01:06:22.440
<v Speaker 2>public world.

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01:06:22.679 --> 01:06:25.239
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, my money. Jose Fleury has has turned it on

1295
01:06:25.400 --> 01:06:27.719
<v Speaker 3>after a slow start to the year and I think

1296
01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:30.239
<v Speaker 3>injured for a bit, but he's been looking pretty good

1297
01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:30.639
<v Speaker 3>of late.

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01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:33.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and there's I've had three more astro arms on

1299
01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:37.599
<v Speaker 2>my list here, let's go. So maybe I don't think

1300
01:06:37.639 --> 01:06:41.159
<v Speaker 2>I clarified either, I like eliminated a bunch of relievers.

1301
01:06:41.199 --> 01:06:44.239
<v Speaker 2>I was just thinking starting pitchers here, so there were

1302
01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:47.159
<v Speaker 2>a lot more relievers too that jumped multiple levels. And

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01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:50.760
<v Speaker 2>I think, like in a legit manner, but maybe the

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01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:54.280
<v Speaker 2>last I know, Jeff Ponce talked about this guy and

1305
01:06:54.440 --> 01:06:58.599
<v Speaker 2>they I think we're talking about him to people their

1306
01:06:58.679 --> 01:07:01.440
<v Speaker 2>last sort of like ds el stud pitcher that came

1307
01:07:01.960 --> 01:07:06.400
<v Speaker 2>Stateside olimber Santa Santa. I don't think he's quite lived

1308
01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:09.559
<v Speaker 2>up to the to the hope he did. He started

1309
01:07:09.599 --> 01:07:11.480
<v Speaker 2>off in the complex this year and now he's in

1310
01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:15.159
<v Speaker 2>double A. I kind of think though that it sure

1311
01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:18.519
<v Speaker 2>seems like the track is a reliever right now, or

1312
01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:22.440
<v Speaker 2>they're just really limiting his innings. I know they, you know, Piggyback,

1313
01:07:22.800 --> 01:07:24.960
<v Speaker 2>I have a lot of guys they want to try

1314
01:07:24.960 --> 01:07:28.239
<v Speaker 2>to develop, but he's not even getting like three innings.

1315
01:07:28.239 --> 01:07:30.679
<v Speaker 2>He's like it's like two max. So I don't know,

1316
01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:33.280
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what the whole story is with him there,

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01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:36.400
<v Speaker 2>but well, he's one percent roster and he's number sixteen

1318
01:07:36.440 --> 01:07:39.639
<v Speaker 2>on pipeline, but then two other guys that are sitting

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01:07:39.639 --> 01:07:45.000
<v Speaker 2>at zero percent. If the Astros are promoting some starting pitchers,

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01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:48.719
<v Speaker 2>I'm definitely going to take notice. But James Hicks and

1321
01:07:48.920 --> 01:07:52.800
<v Speaker 2>Ethan Pecco went from a ball to double A this year.

1322
01:07:53.119 --> 01:07:55.400
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you've watched any of them. Matt

1323
01:07:55.559 --> 01:07:59.119
<v Speaker 2>James Hicks, I think he was like mostly an SEC reliever.

1324
01:07:59.239 --> 01:08:02.320
<v Speaker 2>I think I missed Sippy State. Maybe no at South

1325
01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:05.239
<v Speaker 2>Carolina started a little bit for them, maybe, But this

1326
01:08:05.400 --> 01:08:09.000
<v Speaker 2>is kind of when I think of an Astros pitching prospect,

1327
01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:12.000
<v Speaker 2>or at least what they gobble up in the draft

1328
01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:14.880
<v Speaker 2>is a fastball that plays really well up in the zone.

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01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:17.439
<v Speaker 2>I think it's better than some of the grades I've

1330
01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:20.960
<v Speaker 2>seen slapped on it, but it's not super high velocity,

1331
01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:23.680
<v Speaker 2>low nineties, but I think it's got, you know, movement

1332
01:08:23.720 --> 01:08:28.000
<v Speaker 2>profiles at work. I'm not like overly pumped about James

1333
01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:30.600
<v Speaker 2>Hicks here, but he's a guy that if they I

1334
01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.359
<v Speaker 2>think he does have a good breaker already, but if

1335
01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:38.039
<v Speaker 2>the stuff sharpens up a little bit or comes up

1336
01:08:38.039 --> 01:08:41.720
<v Speaker 2>a grade, he could be really interesting. Then Ethan Peco.

1337
01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:47.159
<v Speaker 2>He's twenty one, big body, fastball breaker, another fastball up

1338
01:08:47.199 --> 01:08:49.800
<v Speaker 2>in the zone guy. I think he's got with stuff,

1339
01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:53.960
<v Speaker 2>with stuff that plays, you know, up and down. He's

1340
01:08:54.039 --> 01:08:58.000
<v Speaker 2>he's more interesting to me than Hicks. But another guy

1341
01:08:58.039 --> 01:09:01.319
<v Speaker 2>on in that pitching farm that's that's moving up, So

1342
01:09:02.039 --> 01:09:05.600
<v Speaker 2>maybe that turns into a good pop up next year.

1343
01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:06.199
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

1344
01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:09.439
<v Speaker 3>They are so good at taking these guys that are

1345
01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:13.800
<v Speaker 3>just like late picks or under aft free agent signs

1346
01:09:13.840 --> 01:09:16.640
<v Speaker 3>and nobody else is talking about and turning him into

1347
01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:22.640
<v Speaker 3>potentially interesting players seemingly every year. So you know, I'm

1348
01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:24.479
<v Speaker 3>not going to bet against that development team.

1349
01:09:24.720 --> 01:09:29.159
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I know, right, Another arm that I guess technically

1350
01:09:29.239 --> 01:09:32.319
<v Speaker 2>has like moved up three levels. But it's a little

1351
01:09:32.439 --> 01:09:37.920
<v Speaker 2>maybe a little cheating here. But Wyatt Crowell of the Dodgers,

1352
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:42.199
<v Speaker 2>he was there, what fourth rounder from twenty twenty three,

1353
01:09:42.279 --> 01:09:44.520
<v Speaker 2>but he had I believe he had Tommy John I

1354
01:09:44.520 --> 01:09:48.159
<v Speaker 2>think cut his college well maybe last year short or whatever,

1355
01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:50.800
<v Speaker 2>so this is really his first pro season. But he's

1356
01:09:50.880 --> 01:09:53.880
<v Speaker 2>up in High A now, he's twenty two. He's a lefty.

1357
01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:57.239
<v Speaker 2>I'm kind of surprised these zero percent roster do you

1358
01:09:57.279 --> 01:09:59.800
<v Speaker 2>think you know, someone a picture that the Dodgers taking

1359
01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:03.319
<v Speaker 2>the four or five rounds usually gets some pub from

1360
01:10:03.399 --> 01:10:05.960
<v Speaker 2>Florida State. I think he's one of these sort of

1361
01:10:05.960 --> 01:10:09.920
<v Speaker 2>potentially maybe like a tough angle from the left side.

1362
01:10:09.960 --> 01:10:14.079
<v Speaker 2>He's kind of side armed three fourth a slot. He's funky,

1363
01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:17.119
<v Speaker 2>interesting that he's, you know, like a funky left y.

1364
01:10:17.239 --> 01:10:20.199
<v Speaker 2>I think he's got the good breaking ball that could

1365
01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:23.159
<v Speaker 2>play well versus both hand hitters. Maybe a guy to

1366
01:10:23.239 --> 01:10:26.159
<v Speaker 2>keep an eye on him has been a little slept on.

1367
01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:27.720
<v Speaker 2>He's not like the biggest guy in the world. I

1368
01:10:27.720 --> 01:10:29.960
<v Speaker 2>think they have him listed a six foot But yeah,

1369
01:10:29.960 --> 01:10:33.079
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why A Crowel's career is underway, and

1370
01:10:33.199 --> 01:10:36.239
<v Speaker 2>I think he's had some nice performances. Have you watched

1371
01:10:36.319 --> 01:10:40.640
<v Speaker 2>him at all? I haven't no My Giants B side

1372
01:10:40.720 --> 01:10:45.560
<v Speaker 2>arm Trevor McDonald, he really hasn't. Like last year, he

1373
01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:47.560
<v Speaker 2>didn't throw a lot of innings, but they liked him

1374
01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:49.119
<v Speaker 2>enough to throw him on the forty man and he

1375
01:10:49.239 --> 01:10:51.560
<v Speaker 2>started off in a ball. He's in triple A now.

1376
01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:54.920
<v Speaker 2>I still, you know, think that there's there's some nasty

1377
01:10:54.960 --> 01:10:58.000
<v Speaker 2>stuff and there strikeout appeal. I think there's some pitchability

1378
01:10:58.039 --> 01:11:00.960
<v Speaker 2>with him. I didn't look to see how his tria

1379
01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:04.439
<v Speaker 2>A run has been going of late. But I think

1380
01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:08.720
<v Speaker 2>he's still a very interesting starting pitching prospect that's only

1381
01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:09.800
<v Speaker 2>two percent rostered.

1382
01:11:10.319 --> 01:11:12.520
<v Speaker 3>Has he thrown any innings, because wasn't that one of

1383
01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:14.479
<v Speaker 3>my knocks on him, as like he couldn't stay on

1384
01:11:14.520 --> 01:11:15.239
<v Speaker 3>the mound.

1385
01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:17.600
<v Speaker 2>Pretty much pretty much? Yeah, But I mean I think

1386
01:11:17.640 --> 01:11:20.800
<v Speaker 2>he's been there was another injury or something that kept

1387
01:11:20.840 --> 01:11:25.920
<v Speaker 2>him out early. He's been thrown for a minute now.

1388
01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:29.239
<v Speaker 2>Another guy who has jumped three levels from the complex

1389
01:11:29.319 --> 01:11:34.159
<v Speaker 2>to High A. Another Ranger, Isaac Tiger. He was a

1390
01:11:34.399 --> 01:11:38.920
<v Speaker 2>seventh rounder the Junior College and the last two drafts

1391
01:11:38.920 --> 01:11:42.479
<v Speaker 2>ago twenty twenty three listened at six to two. I

1392
01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:45.960
<v Speaker 2>watched the August fifteenth start at Hudson Valley, which I

1393
01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:49.279
<v Speaker 2>think was like the only really decent angle in High

1394
01:11:49.319 --> 01:11:52.000
<v Speaker 2>A from him. He started, he went three, four hits,

1395
01:11:52.239 --> 01:11:56.760
<v Speaker 2>one and run three walks five k's fastball, dry ro slider,

1396
01:11:57.000 --> 01:12:00.159
<v Speaker 2>and I think he uses pretty well the locates. Well,

1397
01:12:00.359 --> 01:12:03.560
<v Speaker 2>there's I think there's plenty of developmental meat, you know,

1398
01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:06.079
<v Speaker 2>still on the bone here, but there's just knowing the

1399
01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:09.000
<v Speaker 2>rangers and stuff. There's got to be some sort of

1400
01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:13.600
<v Speaker 2>outlier or weird characteristic with something with him that they

1401
01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:16.960
<v Speaker 2>like him. He's been you know, there's a lot of

1402
01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:19.239
<v Speaker 2>piggyback and there's a lot of arms to get innings

1403
01:12:19.239 --> 01:12:22.479
<v Speaker 2>to and he's kind of rising above a couple other

1404
01:12:22.560 --> 01:12:25.159
<v Speaker 2>names that I really like, at least, you know, level

1405
01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:28.279
<v Speaker 2>wise and getting the three innings. So I don't know,

1406
01:12:28.399 --> 01:12:30.319
<v Speaker 2>he's just kind of an interesting guy. I might watch

1407
01:12:30.359 --> 01:12:30.920
<v Speaker 2>a little bit.

1408
01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:33.960
<v Speaker 3>More of speaking of like kind of small sample size

1409
01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:38.399
<v Speaker 3>Johnny cum lately's have you checked out Kumar Rocker since

1410
01:12:38.439 --> 01:12:39.079
<v Speaker 3>he's been back?

1411
01:12:39.479 --> 01:12:41.119
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he shoved again today too.

1412
01:12:41.399 --> 01:12:43.720
<v Speaker 3>He looks so different and it's so good.

1413
01:12:44.399 --> 01:12:46.720
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Well, I mean there's a reason why you got

1414
01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:48.119
<v Speaker 2>millions of dollars, right.

1415
01:12:48.199 --> 01:12:50.600
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And I loved him in college. You know, his

1416
01:12:51.279 --> 01:12:55.880
<v Speaker 3>run it in the playoffs was really special, and you know,

1417
01:12:55.920 --> 01:12:59.119
<v Speaker 3>I didn't think he was like three overall talented, but

1418
01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:01.359
<v Speaker 3>it's pretty cool to see him put it together after

1419
01:13:01.479 --> 01:13:04.800
<v Speaker 3>so much injury and middling success. But that's what we're

1420
01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:07.039
<v Speaker 3>talking about the Rangers. I was thinking about Rocker again.

1421
01:13:07.520 --> 01:13:08.239
<v Speaker 3>It's pretty cool.

1422
01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:13.079
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he's been pretty good again, Like just horsepower, isn't

1423
01:13:13.159 --> 01:13:16.279
<v Speaker 2>there is gonna stay on the mound? Is all this

1424
01:13:16.319 --> 01:13:19.920
<v Speaker 2>stuff gonna hold up. I don't you know, there's no solid,

1425
01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:22.520
<v Speaker 2>fool proof answer for that. You just gotta wait and see.

1426
01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:23.279
<v Speaker 3>Yep.

1427
01:13:23.560 --> 01:13:25.479
<v Speaker 2>But then the last guy I want to talk about, Matt,

1428
01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:28.399
<v Speaker 2>who was who got me digging the most and thinking

1429
01:13:28.439 --> 01:13:31.159
<v Speaker 2>the most doing this dive on the arm side. He

1430
01:13:31.319 --> 01:13:33.600
<v Speaker 2>just got promoted to Double A. He started off in

1431
01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:36.800
<v Speaker 2>a ball. There's been some shoulder stuff in his history.

1432
01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:40.600
<v Speaker 2>It's why he's probably progressed a little bit slower or

1433
01:13:40.640 --> 01:13:42.760
<v Speaker 2>moved up a little bit slower. He's twenty three years

1434
01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:45.000
<v Speaker 2>old and I've wanted to bring him up a few

1435
01:13:45.039 --> 01:13:47.840
<v Speaker 2>times prior Mat, but I'm terrified trying to pronounce his

1436
01:13:47.960 --> 01:13:51.520
<v Speaker 2>name right now. But I reached out to Nathaniel Schultz

1437
01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:56.640
<v Speaker 2>from Prospect Live, who I wrote like a super awesome,

1438
01:13:57.079 --> 01:14:00.840
<v Speaker 2>great deep dive on him with video. You know, I

1439
01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:03.800
<v Speaker 2>love that sort of stuff. That's my kind of prospecting there.

1440
01:14:04.159 --> 01:14:07.680
<v Speaker 2>But he said that I should pronounce it Chen John

1441
01:14:08.119 --> 01:14:14.039
<v Speaker 2>Ao June. Oh yeah, with the with the A's what

1442
01:14:14.199 --> 01:14:18.119
<v Speaker 2>he's from Chinese Taipei? Is that right? But yeah? He

1443
01:14:18.279 --> 01:14:20.479
<v Speaker 2>just I think it was a Double A debut or

1444
01:14:20.479 --> 01:14:22.880
<v Speaker 2>maybe his second start with Midland, and he like struck

1445
01:14:22.920 --> 01:14:26.800
<v Speaker 2>out nine. Man. He's he's interesting dude. He's got a

1446
01:14:26.840 --> 01:14:31.439
<v Speaker 2>fastball that's hard and you know you can you could

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<v Speaker 2>just see eyeballs just rides. He's got a great change up,

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01:14:35.079 --> 01:14:38.159
<v Speaker 2>really nasty change up. But he went like six scoreless

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01:14:38.199 --> 01:14:41.800
<v Speaker 2>against Tulsa. There only two hits. One walk. Wasn't the

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01:14:41.840 --> 01:14:43.800
<v Speaker 2>first time that I turned him on, but it was

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01:14:43.920 --> 01:14:46.600
<v Speaker 2>definitely like a start that got me thinking about him more.

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<v Speaker 2>And then I read uh Nathaniel's piece and that was

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01:14:49.640 --> 01:14:51.680
<v Speaker 2>awesome and got me thinking more. He's watched him a

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01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:55.560
<v Speaker 2>lot in Midland, or excuse me, a lot in Lansing.

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01:14:55.880 --> 01:14:58.039
<v Speaker 2>I think his numbers have been really awesome this year.

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01:14:58.239 --> 01:15:01.119
<v Speaker 2>A little bit short on be the K side, and

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<v Speaker 2>I think that part Matt has a lot to do

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<v Speaker 2>with breaking ball stuff. His fastball change. Evidently has experimented

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<v Speaker 2>with a lot of different kinds of breakers, a different cutter,

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01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:17.920
<v Speaker 2>maybe a couple of different cutters, but something of that

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01:15:17.960 --> 01:15:22.800
<v Speaker 2>ilk right. So I think maybe Nathaniel suggested that part

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<v Speaker 2>of the lack of ks this season might be from

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01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:29.199
<v Speaker 2>him throwing a lot of breakers and working on that.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a you know, decent sized guy. I don't think

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01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:34.720
<v Speaker 2>he's real tall, but you know, he's strong looking. I

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01:15:34.720 --> 01:15:37.079
<v Speaker 2>think there's a little bit of funk to his release.

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01:15:37.359 --> 01:15:40.039
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what the height is on it, an

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01:15:40.039 --> 01:15:43.279
<v Speaker 2>interesting arm, and there's system. He's one percent rostered right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Definitely a candidate for me to be my ASB side

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<v Speaker 2>next year if that roster percentage stays down. I think

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01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:53.039
<v Speaker 2>he throws like six or seven pitches right now technically,

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01:15:53.239 --> 01:15:55.039
<v Speaker 2>but I think a lot of that is just trying

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<v Speaker 2>to find that that third offering, that spin that he's

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01:15:58.520 --> 01:16:00.399
<v Speaker 2>probably going to need, and that's probably going to be

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01:16:00.880 --> 01:16:03.479
<v Speaker 2>the biggest question with him, and the biggest hurdle if

1476
01:16:03.479 --> 01:16:05.880
<v Speaker 2>he's really gonna take off as a starting pitcher. But

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<v Speaker 2>Chen Jean al June, I think that's how you say it.

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<v Speaker 3>Do love the command, you know, low sub four percent

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01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:18.199
<v Speaker 3>walk rate been up to double a this year. I

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<v Speaker 3>like that.

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01:16:19.159 --> 01:16:22.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And he's definitely you know, throws a ton of strikes,

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01:16:23.039 --> 01:16:25.640
<v Speaker 2>Lou with the you know, fastball change up combination. I

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01:16:25.680 --> 01:16:27.840
<v Speaker 2>will say, though I don't I don't know what his

1484
01:16:27.960 --> 01:16:30.479
<v Speaker 2>command grades are and stuff like that, but it seems

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01:16:31.079 --> 01:16:33.920
<v Speaker 2>more to me strike thrower than real like you know,

1486
01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:38.600
<v Speaker 2>execute executing more sophisticated locations and stuff like that. But

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01:16:38.800 --> 01:16:42.079
<v Speaker 2>you know that fastball is that combo so effective that

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01:16:42.199 --> 01:16:44.520
<v Speaker 2>you know, maybe he doesn't have to be super pinpoint

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01:16:44.560 --> 01:16:47.399
<v Speaker 2>with it. You know, he hasn't been up this level

1490
01:16:47.399 --> 01:16:50.079
<v Speaker 2>of hitter, but who knows when he moves up. But yeah,

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01:16:50.159 --> 01:16:53.920
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, man, that was probably you do Mutton,

1492
01:16:54.199 --> 01:16:58.159
<v Speaker 2>and you do these long, tedious processes and stuff, and

1493
01:16:58.239 --> 01:17:00.159
<v Speaker 2>sometimes there's not a whole lot at the end. But

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01:17:00.399 --> 01:17:04.000
<v Speaker 2>this was the most interesting new new find, so to speak,

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01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:05.159
<v Speaker 2>for me doing this.

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<v Speaker 3>Nice And I'd seen him pop on a couple of leaderboards.

1497
01:17:07.560 --> 01:17:10.199
<v Speaker 3>I think when I was looking at the low walk

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01:17:10.319 --> 01:17:12.640
<v Speaker 3>guys who have built up some innings this year, he

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01:17:12.760 --> 01:17:14.560
<v Speaker 3>was on that list. I think we talked a little

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01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:16.880
<v Speaker 3>bit about that last week when I was quizzing you

1501
01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:20.920
<v Speaker 3>one who was at the top of the walk leaderboards

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01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:23.359
<v Speaker 3>in the miners, and he was, you know, midway down

1503
01:17:23.399 --> 01:17:26.640
<v Speaker 3>that list. But I got to be honest, I haven't

1504
01:17:26.640 --> 01:17:29.000
<v Speaker 3>watched any of him this year, So yeah, I'll put

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01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:30.800
<v Speaker 3>him on the list and see if there's anything else

1506
01:17:30.840 --> 01:17:32.840
<v Speaker 3>that stands out to me. But that sounds like a

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01:17:32.840 --> 01:17:34.319
<v Speaker 3>pretty good recommendation there.

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01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:37.760
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think I think that you'd like him ultimately,

1509
01:17:37.800 --> 01:17:40.039
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, you know how excited you get, but

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01:17:40.119 --> 01:17:44.199
<v Speaker 2>I think you'd sign off as a decent little watch here.

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01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:49.079
<v Speaker 2>I know he's pitched like internationally for that team against

1512
01:17:49.159 --> 01:17:53.840
<v Speaker 2>like some big leaguers and stuff on WBC. Perhaps for

1513
01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:57.760
<v Speaker 2>something that has had some success on that level, but yeah,

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01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:00.359
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Matt doing pretty dirty here.

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01:18:00.720 --> 01:18:03.000
<v Speaker 3>Got a little money today, Maybe.

1516
01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:06.439
<v Speaker 2>I'll start cutting up some video of Santa Bria. That

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01:18:06.520 --> 01:18:10.600
<v Speaker 2>might be my next little project here. Yeah, I think

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01:18:10.600 --> 01:18:13.359
<v Speaker 2>that'll do it for episode thirty nine of the Prospect

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01:18:13.399 --> 01:18:16.800
<v Speaker 2>B Sides podcast. Unless you've got anything else you want

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<v Speaker 2>to talk about, Matt, I.

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01:18:18.399 --> 01:18:21.000
<v Speaker 3>Don't think so. We're still working on getting our special

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01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:24.239
<v Speaker 3>guest in. Yeah, still sounds like he's he's into it,

1523
01:18:24.279 --> 01:18:27.239
<v Speaker 3>but schedules have gotten in the way this week. So

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01:18:27.399 --> 01:18:29.439
<v Speaker 3>hoping to get something in with with him in the

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01:18:29.479 --> 01:18:33.840
<v Speaker 3>next week or two. But yeah, other than that, happy money.

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<v Speaker 2>You will and we'll talk to you next time.

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<v Speaker 1>Later, five miles an hour were riding to his head.

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01:18:41.920 --> 01:18:46.800
<v Speaker 1>He hopped down first with the lump bonius face, and

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01:18:47.000 --> 01:18:51.119
<v Speaker 1>on the very next pitch he up and stole second

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01:18:51.199 --> 01:19:02.359
<v Speaker 1>face with greatest He wasn't born, he had dir yes

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<v Speaker 1>uniform