2231 - Hot Prospects of the Week - August 19, 2025

The following players are discussed:
1. Jeferson Quero (Mil)
2. Ralphy Velazquez (Cle)
3. Kevin McGonigle (Det)
4. Jesus Made (Mil)
5. Robby Snelling (Mia)
6. Jarlin Susana (Was)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Greene's socialitations everyone at riche Weel's I'm Looking a Fantasy
Baseball Live or just Prospect podcasts. The day is August
of twenty first, about ten o'clock in the morning. Hope
everyone is doing well. It is raining here in the Northeast.
Was able to get off to a game on Tuesday
to see the Summrset Patriots against the Hartford yard Dogs,

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which was the Colorado Rockies Double A. So I got
a chance to see Charlie Condon and Benny Montgomery and
called Carrick and a whole bunch of guys, So it
was a lot of fun. Game was rained out last
night and it looks goofy today. The double hitter I've
unfortunately got planned for this afternoon, so hopefully get out

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to another game tomorrow. I've got us again our hot
prospects of the week. If you like all twenty names,
feel free to join us at the Patreon site patrio
in dot com formar SA prospect through sixty one. But
I've got six names for you today, the first being
Jefferson Corro. Catch up with the Milwaukee Brewers and triple
A eight for seventeens, two doubles of triple two home runs,

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three strikeouts, and two walks. The Brewers organization, it just
is on fire. The major league teams best record in baseball.
I think you guys, I mean, if you don't know that,
I mean it's they were on a fourteen game winning streak.
I know it got broken and they might have lost
again last night. So they've lost two in a row,
two in a row. But those of you been paying
attention at least to my narrative over the last couple

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of years, I've been really bullish on what the approach
to the Brewers have been taking. They were hiring the
right or signing and hiring I guess the right way
to say it, the right type of play. Guys that
were athletic but didn't have that could hit. I mean
the Lewis Penies of the world, Jose Madas, the Hazeses Moda,

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the Jackson Churios of the world. And it just goes
on and on to Jeffson Quaro, another guy that could
just flat out hit. And it was in the case
of Hazes Moday, which we're gonna get to in a moment.
I mean, guy's got huge power. Jefferson Quarra doesn't but
he's got, you know, ten to fifteen home runs, a
good defensive catcher. This is a really good baseball player.

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Now William Contreras is there. William Contrera is one of
the best catchers in baseball, gotten so much better defensively,
huge raw power. Yeah, the powers down a little bit.
I think that's just because of the fractured fingers that
he's been dealing with all season long. I think once
he has a chance to heal over the winter, you're
going to see the big home run power come back.
But still, he's going to have fifteen to twenty one

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runs this season, which is still pretty good. But Quaro's
is probably a better defense defense of catcher than William Contrera's.
But how do you tell William con Traras to move
the first base when he has gotten so much better defensively.
So I don't know how it all works out in Milwaukee,
but Quaro's in triple A and he's just about ready.

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Next guy to talk about is Ralphie Velasquez, first base outfielder,
Cleveland Guardians, double A twelve for twenty two, four doubles,
a triple, four home runs, three strikeouts, and four walks.
It's a guy that has massive raw power. It's finally
starting to show this season. First time he's really showed

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an impressive slug was at high A four sixty nine,
and then of course he got promoted to double A a
couple of weeks ago, and last I looked, it looked
it was a thirteen hundred slug. So he's just been
hitting everything again. When you have a nine extra base
hits in a week, I mean that's going to give
you a pretty big slug. But I think there's big

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boy power there. He is going to strike out a lot.
I don't think it's going to be in the thirty
percent kind of range, but it's probably going to be
a two thirty two forty batting average, but it's going
to be thirty home run pop potentially, and a guy
that's going to walk a lot. So it's in that
phylum of Kyle Schwarber. Is not saying he is Kyle Schwarber,

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but kind of in that world of three true outcome players.
So I do look like Ralphi Velasquez. Oh, let's see.
The next guy is Ryan Ryan Waldschmidt really moving quickly
in the Diamondbacks organization. He's an outfielders in double A
eleven twenty one a double, five home runs, two stolen bases,

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three strikeouts, and seven walks. This is a high floor player.
I think there's fifteen to fifteen type of upside and
I think he's coming on soon and we could see
him definitely next season in the second half, if not sooner.
I think it's the ceiling as a number three outfielder,
really good base ball player, and I think going to
be an interesting fantasy guy because I think there's going

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to be power upside with Walt Schmitz. I think he's
a fifteen to fifteen player now, but if you told
me he hits twenty two home runs and steals, you know,
fourteen sixteen, twelve stolen bases, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
It's a really good fantasy asset. Jesus Moday, one of
the best young players in the minor leagues in hi A,

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recently got promoted to Hya. He and Lewis Pinia finally,
and they're doing extremely well, particularly Mady with a really
strong first week in the in the league, dent't hit
a home run. Is this guy that's going to have
massive power? But the bath tootball skills are probably a
lot better than anybody anticipated. Just a real feel to hit,

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really good bat to ball skills, quick bat. It's everything
you want and a potential superstar. I'm on a couple
three dynasty leagues and I'm totally jazzed about it. I
think he's going to be a superstar. So let's if
we can do the Matthew with Moday. I think you
see him in high in Double A next season. I mean,
could they do with Jackson Churio and do all three

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levels next season? Sign him in the off season in
twenty twenty six, and then he hits the ground running
like Jackson Cheria did in twenty seven. Yeah, but I
think more realistically, it's going to be sometime in the
second half of twenty twenty seven where we see Heesu's Moday.
Remember the collective bargaining agreement runs out at the end

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of twenty twenty six, so who the heck knows what's
going to happen in twenty twenty seven. Pitchers Robbie Snelling
lefting a pitcher with your Miami Marlins, just having a
really good season. Six innings pitch this week, three hits
nowhere and runs nine strikeouts and two walks. Really hit
a skid with when he was with the San Diego

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Padres and the Miami Marlins definitely fixed them, got him
a little straighter to the plate. He saw his velocity
tick up, and now he looks like he's just about reading.
And again he's a lefty, and everybody's looking for left
handed pitching. In fact, I saw an article, I think
it was a Wall Street Journal artic going on. It
was a it was an athletic article that talked about

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how good left handed pitchers are this season. In particular,
it was like they only make up twenty five percent
of all pictures, but you like, I think out of
the top twenty five pictures in the league, thirteen of
them are left handed pitchers. There's some high number. So

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based on eer A or whatever metric they were using,
I only scanned the article, as you can tell. But
lefties are extremely valuable, right because your big your big
home run hitters are usually or many times or lefties, right.
So if you can neutralize those left handed batters, it's
a good thing. And so that's why they that's why

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you rarely will trade a left handed pitch. But obviously
the padres, which will trade anybody. Harlan Sesena last picture
to go through here writing a picture of the Washington
Nationals in double A five innues, pitch one hit, one
ear and run, nine strikeouts and two walks. Huge arm,
fastballs up to one hundred miles an hour, supposedly hit
one hundred and two a couple of years ago. I've

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never seen that before. But he just doesn't know where
the ball is going. So if he can ever get
his control even to slightly blow average, let's call it
three and a half walks per nine, this guy's chance
to be an ace. He's that good. And now to

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see what Jacob Mazerowski has done in his limit to
time in the big league, so I think he's hurt now, right,
So I mean I think anything is possible. You just
see what velocity and nasty stuff, how tough it is
to hit. And that's the kind of picture Harlan and
Cessina could be. I still think he's going to work

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better in the bullpen, but I mean it is big,
big stuff, it's a big arm, and he is the last.
I've gave you five guys, let me give you another
one to give you a bonus guy. Here, let me
look back through the twenty m here's that well do
Kevin McGonagall, short stop of the Detroit Tigers in DOUBLEA,

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six for nineteen, four home runs, of stolen base, one
strikeout in four walks. I heard this week that Mex
Clark went out of the game with an injury. Max Clark.
I've seen on some other list that some publications have
Kevin McGonagall in front of Max Clark. I could get

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that from a baseball standpoint, because Kevin McGonagall is a shortstop.
A shortstops are the most valuable players, so and he
looks like he might be able to stick at shortstop.
Even though I've got him his fantasy ceiling as a
top ten second baseman, I still like Max Clark better
because of the speed. Mcgonaga is only going to have
modest speed. Butcgonagall might have a bit more home run power.

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But he's definitely the better hitter. This is a guy
that can just flat out hit. But I think there's
going to be at least fifteen home run maybe twenty
home run pop and you know, but the powers really
starting develops and maybe there could be even a bit
more than that. But there's a really good chance he's
going to hit because he's hitting the ball a lot harder.
He's going to hit a two eighty to three hundred

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with it's called it. Eighteen to twenty home runs, eighteen
to twenty two home runs in five to ten stolen
base It's a really good baseball player. So he has
really come on. I think I've ranked him seventh. Let
me take a look here. If you become patron remember
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of September one. Let's see here, I've got Max Clark
is number two, behind Chase Burns. Kevin McGonagall is number eight,
so and again it's just because rankings are fantasy, and
because McGonagall doesn't have a ton of speed, he gets
dropped in the rankings. Let me take a quick break

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and come back and review all six of these guys again,
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support our calls. Here at prospect three sixty one six
prospects of Jefferson Quaro, catcher with the Milwaukee Brewers. I
think we see him soon. He looks like he's just
about ready. How does the whole thing with William Contreres
and Jefferson Quaro work. I don't know. That's Jefferson with
one F. So I know that Jefferson's the old sitcom

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back in the seventies and eighties was to us. But
Jefferson is his first name. It's spelled up with one F.
Let's see uh. Ralphie Velaskaez is our next guy, huge power,
first baseman, outfielder with the Cleveland Guardians. That's Ralphie as
in the kid on the Christmas Story of Alaska's v

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E l A z q u e Z Kevin McGonagall
later arrival. He was the six guy put out there.
One of the top players in baseball in the minor leagues.
Great hit tool, emerging power, not a ton of speed,
but a really good prospect McGonagall mcg O n I

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g l e as in Professor McGonagall from Harry Potter.
Let's see here Ryan wald Schmidt w A L D
S C H M I D T Wald as in
War's Waldo eleven for twenty one a double. It's a
kid that's another really good prospect in one of the

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top prospects in the game. At see where I ranked
him old fifty nine so high floor player type fifteen
fifteen type of player Jesus my Day eleven for twenty
four four doubles, one of the best prospects in the
game only eighteen years old. Following that Jackson Churio path

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in Milwaukee, Robbie Snelling, robb Y Snelling s n I
L L I n G lefty pitcher up to ninety
seven miles an hour with his fastball control is back together.
He's he's going to be really good. I am as
a number three starter. And then finally Harlan Sesina j

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A R l I N Sasina s U s A
n A writing a picture with the Washington Nationals. Doesn't
really know where the ball is going all the time,
but man can he throw hard. I think ultimately he's
a closer. But as we saw with Jacob Mizerowski, these
guys that throw really hard, if it could just get
a little bit better control, they can be a lot

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more than that. That is our list, Tim and I
will be back tomorrow with a take ten with Tim.
Until next time, guys, be well,