Sports On Deck - Brewers 2024 MLB Draft Preview

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You're listening to Sports on Deck withDave Gasper. Welcome to Sports on Deck
with Dave Gasper here on thirteen tenWida. I am, of course Dave
Gasper. You can follow me onTwitter at de Gasper twenty four and I
got a lot of stuff going onover there. It's a busy time of
year, it really is. Youmay think, oh, no, there's
really not much going on in theworld of sports. No, there is

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a ton. There is a tonhappening and a lot of it's really all
in baseball right now. But wehave got trade deadline season, we have
got the All Star Game coming up, and we have got the MLB Draft,
my favorite event of the entire year, my favorite event of the baseball
calendar outside of the World Series,but the MLB Draft. I am still

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looking forward to this. I've beenlooking forward to this for months. I
am a total draft nerd. Ifyou haven't learned that by now, after
listening to the show for however long, you will here today total draft nerd.
But I love it. Sunday nightis when the draft begins. Continues
Monday and Tuesday as well. Twentyrounds. We will get into that.

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What the Brewers could do their bonuspool, the players that are going to
be there, all that kind ofstuff. We're going to get into that
later on here in the show,but first we got to kind of talk
some All Star Game because that isanother big thing coming up this week.
It's part of the All Star festivities. You know that you have the Draft
kind of kicking things off. Yougot the All Star Futures Game with the
prospects, you got the Home RunDerby, then you got the All Star

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Game itself. It's all really kindof balled up into one for Major League
Baseball. So you got all thesedays, so much is happening at the
exact same time. You also gotthe celebrity softball game that continues to get
played every single year. And Idon't know how much people actually watch that,
but still that's another part of theAll Star festivities. But the All

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Star Game itself, the rosters thathave come out. We knew the starters,
We knew that Christian Yelch and Williamcon Tres are going to be in
the lineup. We were expecting acouple of more, and the reserves and
the pitching staffs were conspicuously missing.Any extra brewers, none of them were

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in there. No Joey Ortiz,no Trevor McGill, no Brian Hudson,
no Bryce terrang seemed like some egregiousoversight to not include any of them.
Meanwhile, the Phillies get seven AllStars seven somehow, I don't know.

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Well, you know, it's theplayer ballot, right, that's what it
is. Coaches don't have a ballotanymore. Used to be, you know,
managers would get a ballot and thatwould that would weigh in. But
it's the player ballot now that thatkind of determines the rest of these reserves,
and then the league they have tostep in and give some of these
teams all star representatives who don't haveany. And that's what happened with a

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lot of the National League. Alot of teams they just had to simply
get their one All Star in andthat led to not so many reserve spots
available for guys like Bryce terrag or, Trevor McGill, or Brian Hudson or
Joey Ortiz, so they end upgetting left on the outside looking in.
Now, there's still time for thatto change. Between now and then,

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they could be named as injury replacementsfor some of these guys, but no
extra Burwers made. It's just goingto be Yellowchin contraras as of right now
at the All Star Game. Andthe biggest snub of all really is is
terrang Now. As much as I'dlove to be like, you know,
Brian Hudson and Trevor McGill, theyare very deserving. They have had fantastic

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seasons. They've broken out in ahuge way in that Brewers bullpen, and
they are deserving of the All StarGame. But I'm not too upset about
those guys not being there, andthe reason why is I'd rather have them
rest. I don't want them goingto the All Star Game. I don't
want them pitching in the All StarGame. I love those guys and they

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deserve the recognition. But they havebeen worked pretty hard here in the first
half, and we have seen somecracks in the armor here for the Brewers'
bullpen in the past couple of weeks, we have seen that they've been taxed
pretty heavily in this first half becausethe rotation has pretty much been a mess.
The rotation is a mess, sothey have had to cover a lot

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of endings. Brian Hudson especially andbecause of that, you're starting to maybe
see them get tired a little bit, get a little bit worn down,
and you still need them for acouple more months here. You still need
them to be sharp down the stretch. So I would rather have them rest.
I would rather have them take thatwhole week off, just rest their

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arm, recover and be ready forthe second hand recharge the batteries. I
would much rather have those pictures dothat. It's one thing when you have
the starting pitchers and they just kindof throw one inning and it's kind of
like a bullpen session for them,you're not kind of as worried about it.
But for the relievers, they stillgot to go a full ending.
They kind of got to do afull workload there when they go into the

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All Star Game, and you know, plus it's the extra couple of days
of flying and doing all that.I am fine with McGill and Hudson not
being in the All Star Game.Terrang though, is a bit more of
a miss by the league, whetherit's Major League Baseball or the players themselves
that missed. That's a huge missnot having Bryce Turing in there. And

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here's kind of the crazy part too, that I've noticed because whenever we talk
about you the All Star Game votingand the process of it, you know,
there's always complaints about the process andwho decides what The fans always seem
to get it wrong right. It'salways complaints the fans got it, they're
just going for the big names,not necessarily the best players, YadA,

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YadA, YadA. And it's alwaysthose same kind of complaints. Let it
be the players who decide. Theyknow, they know what's going on,
they know this game better than anyof us. Let them choose. It
was the players that chose Luisa Riseover Bryce Terrang. The players were the

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ones blindsided by the name power ofLuis Rise rather than the numbers that Terrang
has put up. Because if youlook at every single metric, pretty much
outside of batting average, which youknow, if you pay any sort of
close attention to baseball, you know, batting average is not the end all,
be all stat that it used tobe. It's not. Bryce Terrang

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is better in every category. Heis better defensively, he has more power,
he has more speed, he getson basement like, it is just
all around better Bryce Terrang than LuisaRise. But Luis Rise makes it.
Why Because the players know him asa guy who has won back to back

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batting titles and he's still up thereamong the league leaders again this year.
That commands respect. It does.He has a reputation around the league that
everyone has recognized. Now, BryceTerrang, he's in his second year.
He's in his first year of beinggood. Last year he was bad at
least offensively, great defense great greatdefensively. Bryce Terrang always has been,

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always will be. But the offenseis kind of a new thing. His
offensive reputation is pretty fresh. Therest of the league doesn't know him that.
They don't know him that well theway they know Luisa Rise as a
hitter. You can show him thefan grafts war all you want. You

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can show him the expected on basepercentage you know. You can show him
the ex wOBA. You can showthem whatever random, obscure analytical stats you
want. That Bryce Terrang is better. The players know Luisa Rise. He
has that reputation as a batting champion, and that's going to carry with him,

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and that's going to carry him toAll Star Games. It's what carried
Manny Machado to being number two inthird base voting in the National League over
Joey Ortiz because he's Manny freakin Machado. So players are susceptible to the same
things as US fans, where theyget kind of carried away by the name

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recognition and it's all about the namerather than who's the best player, because
that's what we think the All StarGame should be, right, who's the
best player in an ideal world,Yes, that's what it is. But
the best players generally have that namerecognition, and they can get in there
even if they're not having the bestseason because they're still generally recognized as one

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of the best players. So LuisaRise has that recognition. It doesn't matter
that he doesn't play second base anymore. He was on the ballot at second
base. It doesn't matter that BryceTerrang has been better than him this year.
Luisa Rise has been doing it forlonger. He has a reputation.

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Bryce Terrang is just starting to buildhis reputation. Now. In time,
Terrang can get there. You know, perhaps next year when it comes to
the same issue, everyone else aroundthe league be like, oh, yeah,
Bryce Trang, he's really good.I'm going to vote for him instead.
Maybe that'll happen at some point,but for this year it hasn't happened.

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Players are just as susceptible to thethe name value of all Star selections
as fans are. Everyone complains aboutthe fans when they do it, but
the players do it too. Justan important thing to remember because Bryce Strang

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was absolutely snubbed every objective look atit. Just looking at the numbers,
it's terrang. We can complain allwe want about the system, but whether
it's fans voting or whether it's playersvoting, you end up with these same
kinds of mistakes. Maybe there justis no perfect system for determining all Stars.

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Coming up, the MLB Draft isgetting started on Sunday night. We
will dive into that coming up.What could happen? Where could the Brewers
go? That's all coming up nexthere. Stay tuned. This is Sports
on Neck, but Dave Gasper hereon thirteen ten WIBA Sports on Deck.

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Dave Gasper rolls on here on yourSaturday afternoon and we're getting you set for
the MLB Draft coming up on Sundaynight. Mark Brewers hold the seventeenth overall
pick in the first round, ClevelandGuardians. They ended up winning the draft
lottery at the winter meetings. Lastyear they got the number one overall pick.

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Cincinnati Red's number two overall, bothof them making big moves up in
the draft lottery to the top twospot. They're gonna have quite an interesting
choice there at the top. There'skind of this group of a couple of
guys. There's no consensus number onethis year. Last year, there's kind
of a runaway, you know,group where you kind of knew is like,

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Okay, it's gonna be kind ofkind of this is the route they're
gonna go. No one really knowswhat Cleveland's going to do. You got
Travis Bizana infield out of Oregon State. You got Charlie Condon corner infielder out
of Georgia. You got JJ Weatherholtzout of West Virginia. Those are kind
of the three names being bandied aboutthere for number one overall. That Cleveland

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could go with Weatherholt, you know, if they want to save money,
because here's the thing. Here's thething with MLB draft and how it's so
much different from the NFL draft.A lot of it has to do with
money. It has to do withyour signing bonus pool. How much of
a discount can you get, howmuch can you say for other guys later?
How much are you going to cost? That is more of what this

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is about than who is the purebest player. It is not just who's
the best player available, who canhelp you as soon as possible. Part
of that is there, yes,but it's also about money. It's also
about how much money are you willingto accept as you're signing bonus, what

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you can sign for, how muchof a discount can you get. You
know, is it going to takeslot or you're gonna have to go overslot
under slot. All of that hasto be taken into consideration, and that
is what Cleveland is going to bedoing here. When it comes to the
number one overall pick. It's notnecessarily who is the best player on the
board, it's who is the bestdeal on the board. So Bazana's in

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consideration, weather Holts in consideration,Charlie Condon's in consideration. Those are the
three names being bandied about the mostat the top of this year's draft.
But moving to the Brewers down atseventeen, because a lot can happen between
number one and number seventeen, thereare a there's a whole mix of players,

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it's kind of a consensus top groupof like ten or eleven players.
After that, it kind of dropsoff the tier of talent. You're down
to that second tier, and thattier is kind of a jumbled mess.
So I mean it could go reallyanywhere from you know, twelve to fifty

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on some of these big boards.I mean, they're all grouped pretty similarly,
so that's gonna make things a littlebit difficult to prognosticate. That's a
big word for me using that forthe draft. So what the Brewers do
at seventeen, A lot of thatis gonna be determined by what happens and
picks one through sixteen, because lastyear, you know, the Brewers love

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up the middle college hitters in thefirst round, and all of the up
the middle guys got taken. There'sa massive run of college hitters right before
the Brewers went on the board,and the Brewers ended up going to college
hitter oute, but they went corneringfield. They went third base with Brock
Wilkin. So they just kind oftook the guy that they kind of fell
to them of that group and justkind of see if any of those up

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the middle guys fell now this year, there's a couple of guys that could
make sense based on the Burr's historyand in terms of what they like,
which has led me to create mylittle short list here of five guys that
I think are going to be verystrong candidates for the burs at seventeen overall,

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So in the first round a coupleof different ways than they can go.
They could go hit, or theycould go pitcher. If they go
the pitching route. There is onepitcher that really stands out to me as
someone that Milwaukee could really target andreally love to get, and it is
my most exciting player in this draft. Jerangelo Siginja, who bless you.

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I know it's it's an interesting name. He's out of CIROSL but he's he
played at Mississippi State the last coupleof years. The Brewers drafted him two
years ago. He is a switchpitcher. Yes, you heard that correctly.
Durangelo Sinja is a switch pitcher.He throws with his right and his
left arm. He throws mid ninetiesfrom the right, low nineties from the

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left, actually up mid upper ninetiesfrom the right side. Stops out at
ninety eight over there. So thisis this is a guy who would be
perfect for the Brewers pitching lab.Just just imagine, just imagine the Brewer's
pitching lab, the Brewers coaching staffgetting their hands on a switch pitcher.

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We've seen what they can do withColin Ray. We've seen what they can
do with Tobias Myers. We've seenwhat they can do with a bunch of
guys who no one thought would bebig league arms, and they've turned them
into studs. They've done a yearafter year, time after time with guys
who only throw with one arm.Now you give them a guy who throws

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with two. Come on, it'sgame over for the league. Signja as
a Brewer. It would just beso perfect. The pitching lab would go
insane. I don't know if there'sa scout in the pitching lab or if
anyone there has a seat at thetable in the war room, but they

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are going to be pounding the tablefor Durangelo Signja, because how could you
not wait with his stuff? Imean, he's got legit, first round
stuff. It's not just that he'sa switch pitcher, because succeeding as a
switch pitcher in the big leagues isvery difficult to do. You don't see
it very often, but he's beenable to do it the last couple of

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years. And if anyone, ifanyone's player development staff can get a switch
pitcher to succeed at the big leaguelevel and have some longevity there, it
would be the Brewers. He isgoing to have to go to an organization
that knows how to develop pitching.The Brewers are one of those organizations.
The Brewers, the Guardians, andthe Rays are probably the three best organizations

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at developing pitching. So if hegoes to one of those three, this
dude could be a stud. Andthe Brewers have drafted him before, so
we know that they like him.So for me, Jerangelo signja he's there,
I'm taking him. So he's onmy short list for seventeen overall because
he's I don't think he's gonna lastto thirty four. Someone else is going

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to take a chance on that armbetween seventeen and thirty four. So if
he's there at seventeen, I thinkyou're gonna have to take him. Now,
moving on, I've got four morehitters. I've got four hitters here
on my short list as well.Because the Brewers, they tend to go
hitters in the first round. Theyhave taken two pitchers with their first round
pick the last ten years. Neitherof them have worked out. Ethan Small

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in twenty nineteen, Cody Maderos intwenty fourteen. Neither pitcher worked out,
so they have tended to go hitters, and hitters have had a better success
rate. For him, Trent Grisham, Kessenhiro for a little bit, Bryce
terrang Garrett Mitchell sal Freelick, sogot a little bit more success there.

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So for me, a couple ofhitters that stand out A couple of college
bats. Number one Carson Benji outof Oklahoma State. This is a guy
who I think would fit perfectly wellwith Milwaukee Brewers. Great defender in the
outfield, left handed bats, aboveaverage bat, you know, the bat
to ball skills, hitting the ballhard, doing damage with it. I

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think that is something that the Brewerslove to target in the draft. Those
are the guys that they tend togo after, Guys who have that kind
of combination of hit and power,but especially hit, because your power tool
is only as good as your hittool. Look at Joey Weimer, for
example, He's got power for days. Man, he could hit fifty home
runs in the big leagues. Theproblem is, Joey Weimer does not make

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enough contact with the baseball to hitfifty home runs in the big leagues,
So his power is really only asgood as as often he makes contact,
which isn't often enough in Weimer's case. But for Benji, he's got really
good power, and he's got thebat speed and the bat to ball skills

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to tap into it. He's alittle bit of a two way guy too.
He's done some pitching Froklahoma State.He's not going to stay that way
in the big leagues. Maybe theBrewers could send him out there on the
mound a couple of times if youwanted to. You have that as a
fallback in case hitting completely falls aparton him. But Carson Benji college outfielder
LA plus hit tool that sounds likea Brewer's pick to me. So if

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he's there at seventeen, I'd alsovery strongly consider taking him. Now.
Another guy on my short list here, Walker Janek. Catch you're out of
sam Houston State. Got a cannonfor a throwing arm, a really solid
bat. The Brewers they kind ofare lacking in catching prospects in their system.

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You got Jefferson Caro, who's basicallyleading the system as the catching prospect,
but he underwent shoulder surgery early thisseason. He tore his labram on
opening day down in Triple A.You don't know if he's going to be
the same when he comes back.Now, they feel confident that he will.
They feel confident that he's going toend up being just fine to be

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the player was before, But youreally don't know. I mean, they
said the same thing about Jimmy Nelson, you know, when he tore his
labor and he when he came back, he was not the same. Of
course, he's a pitcher and Carois a catcher, but still, I
mean, that's that's a lot ofpressure on the throwing arm. So if

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the throwing arm isn't as good asit was before, Caro is not as
good of a prospect as he wasbefore. And in a couple of unless
William Contrera signs an extension, he'sgonna be leaving. So he might need
that next catcher of the future comingup down the pipeline. Walker Janet could
very well be that guy with histhrowing arm, with his bat and the

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pop that he has He's someone whoalso would make a ton of sense.
Now he needs to, you know, improve a little bit defensively with his
receiving, but the Burs have alsoshown an ability to develop that. I
mean, William Contrera's was not agood receiving catcher when the Bruers got him.

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He is now. Same thing withOmar Narviaz. He's a very poor
defender behind the plate. The Burscleaned him up all of a sudden,
he was a great defender, soI think the Brewers could work with him
now. Another guy here on myshort list, sticking with the catching ranks
is Malcolm Moore, catcher out atStanford. Now he's a guy who also

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has some struggles defensively, you know, with his glove that the Brewers could
hopefully improve. But you know,there's a lot more confidence in his bat
that he's going to be able tohit hit tall fields, hit with some
power, and have a really goodapproach at the plate, do some damage.
And he doesn't swing and miss thatmuch. He really doesn't. He

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doesn't chase, he doesn't swing andmiss. Those are all very good traits
for a hitter. You know,if you're going to succeed at the big
league level, you can't swing andmiss in the zone much. You can't
chase out of the zone much.So the fact that he's able to do
a really good job with that alreadyat the college ranks, I think that's

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a very good sign, and theBrewers could look at more. It's like,
Okay, he's maybe a bit underratedhere. Maybe we could get him
a little bit underslot and we canget perhaps a catcher of the future in
Malcolm Moore, and you just cleanup that receiving and you got a start

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and catcher. So that's another routethat they could go. And I will
talk about more with the draft comingup as well, what the Brewers could
do with later picks and just someof my just absolute favorites in this draft.
We'll get into that coming up.We got to take a quick break
here. You're listening to Sports onDeck with Dave Gasper here on thirteen ten
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WIBA. We are talking MLB Draftthat is getting started on Sunday night and
it will continue through Tuesday, alltwenty rounds of it. The Brewers have
twenty two selections in the twenty rounds. They have one Incompetitive Balance Round B

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that they get for being a smallmarket team, and they have one in
Competitive Balance Round A that they pickedup in the Corbyn Burns trade. Yes,
they still got that extra pick there, so the Burns trade Joey Ortiz
playing well, dial Hall been hurtquite a bit. But there's still one
more player to join the organization fromthat deal, and we will find out
who that is on Sunday night witha thirty fourth overall pick. But before

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we get to that selection, onemore guy on my short list. One
more guy on my short list.It is Christian Moore, second baseman out
of Tennessee. Now, the questionat this point might just be if he's
still there, but really, ChristianMoore has had a fantastic season for Tennessee

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and he has boosted his draft stockhit a he hit for the cycle in
the College World Series, and hemay have pushed himself to the point where
he is not going to be onthe board at seventeen overall. But if
he is the hit tool, thepower he has, he can be a
power hitting second basement at the bigleague level. And you know, twenty

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five thirty home runs a season fromthat spot. You know, he does
have a little bit of a chaseissue, which you know isn't ideal,
but he's certainly gotten a lot betterin that area this year, so that
helps lead to a bit more confidencethat he can, you know, keep
on improving that going forward. SoChristian Moore, I think he'd be you

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know, a fantastic pick. Imean, with what the Brewers love with
with hitting potential, hitting ability withguys. If more falls through the cracks
here, which there's a possibility thathe does, I think the Brewers will
be happy to snap him up atseventeen overall, because when you get into
this kind of jumbled mess that isthe MLB draft, you're gonna get guys.
You're gonna get teams that take guysthat are well below slot early on

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there. They want to play thosekinds of slot games and they want to
maybe you know, reach for aguy early on on to save a whole
bunch of money to use on otherguys later in the draft, and that
sometimes leads to chaos when some ofthe guys who aren't expected to go in
in that top you know, tophalf of the first round, when they

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go, and that just kind ofpushes everyone else down the board a little
bit. That could lead to abunch of these you know, really strong
college players falling down the board enoughto be available to the Brewers at seventeen.
You see this in the NFL Draftall the time when you're looking at

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you know, offensive linemen that arefalling down the board. You saw that
run of receivers, that run ofoffensive players in the draft in the NFL
draft this year. That pushed allthe defenders down the board. And when
you're the Packers, you're you know, of course all the Packers fans were
all looking for defense there think,okay, Packers are sitting pretty they will
have their pick of the litter whenit comes to defenders. All these top

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corners in safeties, they are stillout there on the board, and you
could trade back. You're sitting insuch a great spot. Of course,
Packers went offense. But still that'sbeside the point. All those guys fell,
all of them fell because of thathuge run on players. It's like
no one really expected it to beall offense there early on. So you

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could have that same kind of thinghere with the draft, where you could
have a run of maybe some ofthese high school guys or some guys who
are a little bit fittigue deals tomove up earlier in the draft, and
that pushes a guy like Christian Mooredown to seventeen overall. And the Brewers
they kind of like to go safein the first round. They don't like
to take their big swing on upsidewith their first round pick. They like

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to go safety, and they willjust take whoever falls, And that could
very well be Christian Moore if he'sthere, an offensive minded second baseman out
of Tennessee. I think that'd bea great direction for them to go.
The College World Series champion Tennessee volunteers. So Christian Moore another guy on my

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short list there to kind of roundit out. So I got Christian Moore,
Malcolm Moore, Walker, Janet Carson, Benji and Durangelo signed you.
So if the Brewers take any ofthose guys, you heard it here first.
And if the Brewers don't take anyof those guys, well, it's
because the Brewer has probably heard ithere first and they wanted to go in
a different direction intentionally, because itseems like they do that to me all

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the time, because that's always howit goes. You want them to draft
a certain guy, they always gowith somebody else. It happens with the
package every single year. Everyone wantedthe you know, everyone wanted Cooper Dejene.
Cooper dejen is there and the Packersare like, Nope, offensive tackle.
You just It's always seems to behow it goes. But as I
was kind of mentioning there, youhave slot money to play with here,

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and you have to kind of makedecisions on how you want to play with
it. The Brewers have five picksin the top one hundred. They have
a top ten bonus pool. Theirbonus pool is just a shade under thirteen
million dollars this year twelve point ninemillion and some change. They can go
up to five percent over that.So it gives them an extra couple hundred

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thousand to work with when it comesto signing their players. Because last year
they came within twenty nine dollars ofhitting five percent over twenty nine dollars,
they barely had enough for a coupleof pizzas after the draft, So I
think they're gonna do something similar againthis year in terms of maximizing their bonus

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pool. So if you're going safety, you know, probably with college players
there in the first round, yougot to go upside somewhere. And I
think that's where pick thirty four isreally going to come in. I think
the brew is gonna be looking foran upside play. Now, who is
that upside play that that's a greatquestion. I've got a couple of ideas

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as to who it could be.I think the Brewers could go the pitching
route once again, because pitching isrisky demographic, especially high school pitching.
But they're very talented high school pitchersthis year that the Brewers could very well
be interested in. William Schmidt,a high school right out of Louisiana,
is one of them. I don'tknow if he's gonna last to thirty four,

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but perhaps the Brewers could float himdown there with a big enough signing
bonus offer. William Schmidt three thousandrpm curveball, ninety nine mile an hour
fastball, six foot four. Imean, that is incredible stuff to work.
That's a great foundation for the Brewers'pitching lab to just salivate over.

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If they can get William Schmidt,they can try and develop a third pitch
for him. He's gonna need thatto stick as a starter. But as
you can probably imagine, when youthrow ninety nine miles an hour with a
three thousand rpm power curveball, youreally kind of don't need a third pitch
to succeed in high school baseball.When you're playing those other high school kids,

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those poor high school kids down there, and they're facing ninety nine with
a hammer of a curveball, they'renot going to be able to do anything.
You don't need a third pitch tosucceed in that. You're gonna need
that at the big league level.But the Birds' pitching lab could give him
that. So William Schmidt is aname to watch, a name to keep

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an eye on there for the Bruis, especially at thirty four. I don't
think the Birds take him at seventeen, But if he's there at thirty four,
if they can float him down toit, I think William Schmidt could
be that next Bruce pitching project.Another one from just down south a little
bit, Ryan Sloan, a highschool righty from Illinois. He's someone who

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also tops out at ninety nine milesan hour on his fastball. His change
up is actually his best secondary pitchdoesn't have a curveball, it has a
change up in a slider, butstill, you know, a lot of
good movement on those pitches. Sixfoot four, you know, big strong
kid, and that's someone that's youknow, he's got a little bit of

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inceptive deliveries as well as well,and the Brewers do love deceptive deliveries,
they really do so. Ryan Sloananother guy who could make a ton of
sense with the Burgers at thirty fourhigh upside prep pitcher from just south of
the border in Illinois. But myfavorite of this group, the guy who

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I think absolutely screams Milwaukee Brewers isbrailn Doty, right handed pitcher out of
out of a California high school.He's someone who if he's there at thirty
four, I'm gonna be screaming thatthat the Brewers should take him, and
I if they do take him,I'm not sure if I'll be surprised or

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not surprised. I'll be surprised inthe sense that they actually take the guy
I expect them to, but notsurprised in the sense that this dude fits
everything that they have looked for overthe past several years. You know,
he's a guy who played on theBrewers' Area Code Games roster. The Area
Code Games are a huge national showcase. The Brewers have a team and their
area code is not like it's notlike the four one four area code.

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It's not like they're pulling only Wisconsinkids at these Area Code games. The
area codes that the Brewers are assignedfor the Area Code Games is Southern California
and Hawaii. So they have likeone of the biggest hotbeds of high school
baseball talent. That's their Area CodeGame team. So all the best Southern
California high school talents works with theBrewers scouting staff at this showcase event.

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And according to MLB pipelines, rightup on him that you know, those
who are around him at the AreaCode Games saw a plus makeup and a
kid who is a sponge for pitchingknowledge, a sponge for pitching knowledge.
He was a sponge for pitching knowledgethat the Brewer's scouting staff was given them.

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They know this kid and he's eatingup everything that they're teaching them.
He is athletic, he's got youknow, a mid upper nineties fastball,
three thousand rpm curveball. The Brewerslove guys that can spin the ball.
He's got three plus pitches. Itjust screams Brewers. He's a lot like

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Josh notth the Brewers comp a picklast year. They're both six foot one,
about one hundred and ninety pounds.They both throw mid upper nineties.
Both have a great spinning curveball.The only difference is Dody has an extra
pitch. Dody's got four pitches,not only had three. So for me,
Braylan Dody, everything I read aboutthis kid, he just screams Milwaukee

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Brewers. If he's there at thirtyfour, and there's a very good chance
he will be, I think theBrewers take him now. Again, Like
I said, we've been there beforewith draft and thinking, oh, if
this guy's there, you know ourteam's going to take him. And then
that guy is there, and thenthey still don't take him. You know,

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it's just kind of the nature ofthe business here. Because you know,
I'm not inside the draft room.I can't see the Brewers draft board.
They don't show that to me andlet me live to tell the tale
about it. So I don't knowtheir actual draft board. But knowing what
they've done in recent years and whatthey've said that they've liked in draft guys.

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This dude has all of that.So Braylan Doty if he gets drafted
by the Brewers, just remember youheard it here first. You heard it
here first, right here on Sportson Deck, Dave gaspertold you Braylan Doty
was going to be the guy forthe Brewers. And if the Brewers don't
take Braylan Doty over there at thirtyfour, uh, my name is Steve

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uh. And that's that's all youneed to know. So that's I think
what the brew is going to do. And you're you're going to go safety
kind of a safe college guy therein the first round. Then you go
upside potentially high schooler there in thisin this with their second pick at thirty
four. Overall, that's what they'regoing to use to finalize the Corbyn Burns

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trade. That's what that pick is. Then the Brews don't pick until fifty
seven, so you know later onin the second round would have been their
next would be their next pick,So they have a ways to go.
So they got that to kind ofsplit the difference there, get themselves some
extra talent, some extra bonus poolmoney that they can split up, and

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they're going to maximize this year.I'll tell you that right now, they're
going to maximize their bonus pool onceagain. And I'll also tell you one
other thing that I just know fora fact they're going to do in this
draft that is coming up right afterthe break. You're listening to Sports on
Deck with Dave Gasper here on thirteenten WIBA Texas Sports on Doctor Dave Gasper

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rolls on here for just a littlebit longer on your Saturday afternoon. Yes,
I'm playing God Bless Texas because theAll Star Game, the Draft,
all that is in Texas this yearat the home of the Rangers. So
that's where this draft will be takingplace, and that's where the All Star
Game will be taking place. Andbefore it close up here, I want

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to tell you that the one otherthing that I can guarantee you will happen
during the Major League Baseball Draft isthat the Milwaukee Brewers will select a junior
college pitcher at some point. Theywill it is It is not a matter
of if, it is a matterof when and who. They have done

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it every single year since twenty seventeen, with the exception of the shortened twenty
twenty draft. But they always takeat least one, sometimes two, junior
college arms in the first couple ofrounds with a ton of success. Boden
Francis MLB pitcher, Aaron Ashby MLBpitcher. You got Antoine Kelly, who

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they traded for Matt Bush. Yougot Logan Henderson. You have Jacob Mesowski,
you got Carlos F. Rodriguez,you got Ryan Burschard. Last year
you got Tyler Weisner. You havea ton of top guys, ton of
top pitchers. As the Brewers havetaken out of the junior college ranks,
they take at least one every singleyear, every single year. It is

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not a matter of if. Itis a matter of when and who.
The Brewers will take a junior collegearm at some point in this draft.
Who could it be? Oh,Brandon Clark is one name out of State
College of Florida. Connor Ware outof Pearl River Junior College in Texas.

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Got Kevin Mannel out of Cloud CountyCommunity College in Kansas. Yes, we're
talking community colleges all across the country. The Brewers scout that area incredibly well.
They always grab one or two.Who will it be? I don't
know, could be one of thoseguys that I named, It could be

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somebody else. Entirely, I'd tryto be as read up on these junior
college guys as as anyone, butthere is not much information to be found
out there because these are community collegesthat the Brewer scouts are finding pictures at.
So that's my other guarantee. Myguarantee is that at some point the

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Brewers will take a junior college pitcherin this draft. You don't get many
guarantees in the MLB draft, butthat is one of them. The Brews
are taking a junior college arm I'mout of time. Thank you for listening.
Be sure to stay tuned to Reviewingthe brew dot Com. That's where
all my draft coverage is going tobe. I know you love hearing my
voice talking about it, and we'lltalk about that again next week as a

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draft you know, concludes, we'lltalk about that right here on the show.
But also for more immediate draft coverage, Reviewing the brew dot Com is
where all my stuff is going tobe, where you can read up on
the Brew's draft picks as they comein. I've got a ton of stuff
up over there preparing you for thedraft already, so be sure to check
out reviewing the brew dot com.Thank you for listening. This has been

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Sports on Deck with Dave gasper hereon thirteen ten wib a chance Sam spread message