September 12, 2025 • 31 mins
The following players are discussed:
Travis Bazzana (Cle)
Kemp Alderman (Mia)
Victor Bericoto (SF)
Max Clark (Det)
Jansel Luis (AZ)
Aroon Escobar (Phi)
Kendall George (LAD)
Josue De Paula (LAD)
Sean Keys (Tor)
Caden Powell (Hou)
Alfredo Duno (Cin)
Dax Kilby (NYY)
Ethan Holliday (Col)
Roldy Brito (Col)
Robby Snelling (Mia)
Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz (NYY)
Carlos Lagrange (NYY)
Ty Johnson (TB)
Cam Caminiti (Atl)
Juaron Watts-Brown (Bal)
Travis Bazzana (Cle)
Kemp Alderman (Mia)
Victor Bericoto (SF)
Max Clark (Det)
Jansel Luis (AZ)
Aroon Escobar (Phi)
Kendall George (LAD)
Josue De Paula (LAD)
Sean Keys (Tor)
Caden Powell (Hou)
Alfredo Duno (Cin)
Dax Kilby (NYY)
Ethan Holliday (Col)
Roldy Brito (Col)
Robby Snelling (Mia)
Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz (NYY)
Carlos Lagrange (NYY)
Ty Johnson (TB)
Cam Caminiti (Atl)
Juaron Watts-Brown (Bal)
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Greetings everyone. It's Friday afternoon, about two o'clock and been
a while since we've talked. I've been obviously on vacation
last week, which was wonderful, and then some stuff went
down this week that drove my attention. My little Yorkie
poo while we were gone, had to have a spleen removed,
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so which wasn't good. But he's sitting right here next
to me doing the podcast. So he's eleven, so hopefully
he's going to be fine. We're waiting on the biopsy results,
so hopefully that'll come back negative. But yes, it was
that happened a week ago. Today. We got the call
we were in Paris that Beans was not doing well.
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So I got back and he's as honery as ever.
So he's doing well. So I appreciate all the well
wishes from everyone. I'm going to probably request his hot
prospects of the week of last week. So I know
it's a little late. Tim and I thought we were
doing podcasts to day, but he's he had a commitment today.
(01:04):
I thought he had a commitment on Sunday, so I
wrote up a bunch of notes to do for two days,
and I included a lot of comments from our from
Patreon members for questions or wonderful questions by the way,
but I hopefully we're gonna either record something tomorrow or Sunday.
I gotta once he gets back into town, I got
to reach out to him figure out what's going on.
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We had a kind of a I thought a calendar
of everything of what we were doing over the last
two weeks, but clearly got my signals crossed anyway, so
I thought I'd do Hot Prospects of the Week. This
will be the last official Hot Prospect. I'll probably send
it out to everyone. We'll do probably a Hot Prospect
next week to just ten players because all we're gonna
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have are double A and Triple A to choose from,
and then you know, then after that it's it's just
gonna be Triple A and Double A postseason going on,
all starting to prep up for the Arizona Fall League,
which begins in about a month. So it's pretty amazing.
It just keeps one thing rolls into the next. So
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this will be the last official Top Hop Prospect of
the Week where we'll have twenty and then we'll have
ten probably next Tuesday. All right, let's get at it
Travis Bazana second basement of the Cleveland Guardians. It's just
been a disappointing season. I don't know any other way
to put in. And one of the questions I got
for our podcast next podcast coming up is, you know,
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everybody took Rookie Sasaki and Travis Bizana and the guys
that really stood out this year were Nick Kurtz and
CAGs and other guys, and like what happened? And I mean,
Rookie Sazaki is just, you know, just disappointing. I mean,
I think we all were worried about his elbow and
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you know, so he's had some injury concerns, but I
mean the stuff is there. I think he's going to
be just fine. But Bizana has been a disappointment of
everybody that got drafted. To me like that top ten,
he is the one that's been the most mystifying because
his reputation. If he took a look at his data
when he was in college, he was a hitter first.
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I always thought the in fact, I wrote that it
was last year because I checked my notes. It was
a high floor player with kind of a fifteen to
fifteen type of fantasy vibe. But I thought he'd hit,
and he just has not hit. Now as the season
is Warren on, he's improved his contact rate, but it's
still sitting around twenty four percent, and I thought it'd
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be a lot better than that. And it looks like
his swing's gotten a little long because his end zone
contact is not what it was when he was in college.
He's not expanding the strike zone too much, which is
good because he walks a ton. So if you take
a look at his swing and his Z swing, his
contact and his swing and his Z contact, you can
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kind of see what's going on and from his you know,
from his approach. So I think maybe you've got a
little bit more aggressive, shortened up on the stroke a
little bit. I think the batting average and on base, well,
the one base percentage is fine, but the batting average
would improve. So but I still think it's you know,
twelve to fifteen home runs, twelve to fifteen stolen bases.
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I think who that's who the player was. And I
know he went on one overall, but the Guardians did
that to save money to try to get guys later on.
And look the the uh that was made popular. What
was it twenty twelve a long time ago with the
Carlos Correa and the Houston Astros did that and they
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parlayed that in the Lancema Colors and a couple of
other guys that went on to be big leaguers. And
but usually going cheap with the first overall pick and
trying to save money and come back is usually not
the best approach, and it's proven. Mickey Moniac is another
example of how that just did not work out. But
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you know so. But Travis Bizond, I think is who
he is. I've been disappointed with the contact right so
far this season, and I believe he's my most disappointing
player in the Guardians organization. Don't quote me on that
because I've written written up twenty out of the thirty
top twenties, and the Western Division haven't gotten to those yet.
Probably maybe I've done some work on half of them.
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But there will not be twenty from the San Diego Padres,
just FYI, because there's not enough. And I just don't
want to give you a bunch of guys that are
never going to make it and never be consequential. And
that's just who Padres is. Out of bullets, it's pretty amazing.
Kip Alderman, it's kind of been a sandwich season for him.
He looked really good at the beginning of the season.
It's looking strong here at the end of the season.
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Eight for twenty four double, four home runs, five strikeouts
and three walks last week. But in the middle and
most of the middle that middle three months was not
very good. But he is one of seven players who
went twenty twenty for the season. So you know, it's
if you're playing in a retisserie league, you know it's
you know, he's he's looks like he's maybe a bit
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of a streaky hitter, much like you know we see
with some of the guys, particularly like Josh Bell, who
was actually on a roll. So get him into your lineups.
Though he'll call off, cool off on what he does.
It's all over for weeks, if not months. And the
same thing appears to be true with Kemp Balderman. So
if you take a look at his stats, the twenty
twenty that he got, I bet you all of it
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was done in five or six week period of time,
or eighty percent of it. But you know, there's speed
and power, hits the ball really hard, there's some swing
and miss in this game. It's kind of who he is.
He should be up next season, though it's starting to
get a little bit crowded in Miami. So Victor Barracoto
b E R B E R I cot he's now
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at first base. Looked like he was gonna play a
little bit of third base, but now they've moved him
over the first base. Just you know, I was excited
about him a couple of years ago, but he's just
struggled against more advanced pitching. He's kind of stuck in
Double A. But it was a really good week, so
I wanted to include him and just kind of give
you an update on it. But I sicky overall, lacks
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of consistency to get too excited about the potential, so
I have as ceiling as an extra bat. A guy
that I continue to get excited about is Max Clark.
Maybe I'm the only one that does. But you know,
it's two seventy six, four oh eight, four forty, which
is a really good season, fourteen home runs, nineteen stolen basis,
I think the powers just starting to come. I look,
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he's not gonna be thirty run thirty home run hitter,
but to me, he's a kind of a twenty twenty
twenty twenty five kind of guy. I think he's going
to hit with pretty significant on base percentage. I think
he's going to be a really really good baseball player,
kind of at number two, number three round pick that
you have in a fantasy draft. And I think he'll
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be kind of one one of those in high floor,
very safe type of players because I think he's going
to hit. It's great defender. He's just going to fit in.
Now what happens to Meadows, you know, in terms of
is you know, I know he's playing in center field.
I don't think he's going to stand in the way
of Max Clark, and he's just had real trouble staying healthy.
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So I think it's Max Clark's opportunity next season. Jansel
Luise I was hoping he'd get moved to double A,
but I checked before he did the recording. He's looks
like his season is over, and it was a good season.
Eight you know, last week a for twenty one, a
couple of doubles, couple of stolen bases, for the season's
five home runs, twenty four stolen bases, but he had
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three to eleven never walks, which is a three forty
seven on base percentage, so that's a problem, and he
ended with a slug of four thirty four. It's a
guy that I continue to get a lot of really
positive feedback from people around the league in round baseball
as a guy that they feel like, is this going
to hit. There's going to be average power and plus speed.
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You know, it just hasn't really shown up yet. The
speed did this season in the stat line. He is
starting to make pretty good contact. I would like to
see him start to make better has improve his approach
a little bit, and I kind of reminds me a
little bit of Mike cal Garcia, and I wrote that
in and his write up where we finally have started
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to see the Mike cal Garcia I've been telling everybody
about for the last couple of years, who isn't a burner,
but he's got definitely twenty solar base potential. But I
think mikel Garcia has got twenty twenty five home run
pop there. I think he's a good hitter, and we've
seen him improve his approach this season and hopefully that
will carry on. It's the guy is moving into potential
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star to star territory that is MIKEL. Garcia, And if
Jancel Louise reminds me a little bit of a young
MIKEL Garcia, that you buy him early for the speed.
You just wait for the power to come and hopefully
wait for the improved approach to come and the more
walk so I have a slightly higher on base percentage
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over time. We do one more player, then I'll take
a break a run. Escobar third base with the Phillies
in High A. Started the season off in Low A.
Five for seventeen, a home run, stolen base, three strikeouts,
and four walks. It's been just a breakout season started
in Low way. He got the High A. The power
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kind of disappeared, starting to see some power as the
season wound down. I just think this guy is going
to have some significant power. And it looks like he's
going to stay at third base. Maybe has to move
to first base. I've got him sticking at third base.
But he hits the ball really hard. Part particularly for
some kid that's still a teenager. Hardest hit ball with
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one hundred and nine miles an already had a forty
percent hard hit rate in Low A. Hia started to
you know struggle a little bit, but I think that's
to be expected with these young kids. And we all
know that the Philadelphia Phillies like to rush their guys.
He will be in double A next season. That is
a ruined escobar. I'm I'm sorry. I'm not going to
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ton of stuff. Okay, Kendall George is the Minor league
stolen base winner of the season. If that's the leader winner.
Stole his hunter at bag and it was funny. Mid
season he was he was in the top ten, top fifteen,
and then he just if you listen to my hot
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prospects of the month of August, I think he stole
twenty eight bases. I'm going from memory. He just started
stealing bases left and right, as opposed to like Chandler Simpson,
who has no power. One of the things that the
Dodgers have encouraged Kendall George to do, and that's to
get stronger, and he did come into the season a
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little bit stronger. He popped three home runs, which isn't
a whole lot, but he hit a little bit more
double So I'm actually a little encouraged by Kenball George.
I don't think he's ever going to be a power hitter,
but I think he's going to hit enough to allow
him to be a full time regular. I don't know
if it's going to be for the Dodgers. He's a
really good outfielder. They probably want a little bit more
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pop that he can provide. But you know he's going
to steal bases at will, which we're seeing now again.
I don't know if he Chadler Simpson's a seventy run
I don't even think Chandler Simpson's an eighty runner. He
just is very aggressive on the base pass and I
think that's the same thing Kendall George's. So I think
there's a chance he goes kind of five to ten
home runs with fifty stolen bases, and the guy that
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can hit a little bit, it might be his upside.
It's a pretty good, pretty good, uh fan, well, a
very good fantasy player. I've got him as a top
sixty outfielder. I probably will up that a little bit
just because he's starting to show a bit more pop
as his partner in crime. I guess two partners in
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crimes that you're Hope and Hasway de Paula both promote
it to Double A. How'swa to Paula makes our Hot
Prospects of the week. Is hitless in his first three
games in Double A. You know, I wouldn't get read
anything into that. It's a really good baseball player. The
guy that's going to be a power hitting corner outfielder
maybe has to move to first base. It's a really
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good feel to hit. I mean, I think this guy
could be a forty home run guy. It's not going
to be a ton of speed. Maybe a little bit
a little bit of speed early in his career, but
I just given his age in his production in High A,
particularly the Midwest League, which is a miserable place to hit,
particularly until about mid June when it finally warms up,
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and Paula was just fantastic. And I think he's one
of the better prospects in all of baseball, and I
think he'll I think the Dodgers will make room for him.
Could he be the heir apparent to Freddie Freeman? He
could be Seawn Keys third based on first Nation with
the Toronto Blue Jays, a really good week, big strong kid,
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thirty arm run. Potentially there's going to be pressure on
his batting average. The Toronto Blue Jays has got some
interesting prospects and he's one of them. I think there
is a chance, a really good chance, that he makes
it all the way to the major leagues. But let
me just know that there could be some pressure on
his batting average. He should get a little bit more
aggressive on at the plate because it's a sixteen percent walk, right,
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So if he got a little bit more aggressive on
at the plate, I think that would help his over
all production. But Keys is a guy that's not getting
a lot of love, and you know, could be a
you know, a guy that pokes twenty home runs at
third base and it's not a terrible player. Kyd and
Pale always looking for Houston Astros as well, and so
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he's the first time he's made any list and it
was a big week. Nine for twenty two, a double
a triple, a home run, six toilet bases, eight strikeouts,
an eight walks, big strong kid, impressive power and speed,
but there continues to be concerning. You always hear this
with with guys that they're going to make enough contact,
and that's just the problem here. He's struck out thirty
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percent of the time. And I say it over and
over and over again. Guys who strike out thirty percent
of the time in low way have a very low
success rate of making it to the major leagues. Why
because low A pitching is not very good, and if
you can't hit low A pitching, it's only going to
get more it's only going to get more difficult. The
better the pitching, the better the pitching is as you
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move up in the in the minor leagues. But there's
speed and power there, so he makes it fantasy relevant.
So that is Caden Pale speaking of like shocking. I
don't know if it's shocking because he had such a
terrible season. That's or Elvis Martinez. You know, it's funny.
It's a lot of times you hear when you hear
guys that have the eighty gasis katy game suspension, you
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know they accidentally took something, or they took something for
some other reason. It wasn't truly trying to get bigger
and stronger, but or Elvis Martinez just what the bed
after he got back from from his suspension, and he
kind of makes you wonder if how long he was
how long he was using this stuff. I think the
last I looked he was hitting under two hundreds. I'm
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bringing up his stat line here, So he got released,
was it yesterday? This is unbelievable hitting one seventy six
with a three forty eight slug. It's a guy that
popped twenty eight home runs in twenty twenty three with
a five four ninety six slug, and then before his
call up or even after his suspension in twenty twenty four,
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he sluck five twenty three and then all of a sudden,
he's got thirteen home runs in a three forty eight slug.
I mean, and I think it was pretty evident with
the Toronto Blue Jays did not like the fact that
he was busted for peds because when he came back,
I think the general thought was he would get promoted
because he was having such a look so good in TRIPLEA.
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But they did not promote him once he came back
after his eighty game suspension, and then this season very well,
very underperformed one when I say, one seventy six batting average.
So where Elvis Martinez. Somebody will pick him up. But
it's a real shame. He was a top one hundred
prospect for me for a while and he's dropped way down.
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You know, if he's a top five hundred prospect for
me anymore. But if he is, he's going to even further.
Having Actually I have done fully done nineteen of the
thirty and I stopped at the Toronto Blue Jays, so
I haven't had a chance actually doing. He stole on
my list, so but so I have to figure out
where I actually want to slot him in. Okay, Alfredo,
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do you know? I think that's how you pronounced his
last name. He was one of the top international guys
a couple of years ago and is really starting to
make some noise here is with the Cincinnati Reds, six
for thirteen, three home runs of stolen base. It's had
a great season, power and speed, more walks and strikeouts,
exactly what you want to see from a young hitter.
I mean, everything is pointing up for this guy. So
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he's a big kid, high in exit velocity, so there
could be big boy power here. You know it's going
to strike out some. So two fifty two sixty batting
average doesn't run very well as a catcher, but it's
one of the better young catchers in the minor leagues.
Dex Kelby k i lby outfitter with the New York Yankees.
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I think he might have had the best pro debut
of anybody in the twenty twenty five class. I mean,
he was great, that stole sixteen bases, didn't hit home run,
but hit everything. And you know it's funny, it's we're
finally seeing with George Lombard is finally starting to turn
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things around here the last couple of weeks and Double
A's looked a lot better. I've seen so many games
of him and he just kind of just was not
swinging and missing a lot, just swinging and making weak contact.
And the last time I saw him play, he was
actually making a lot better contact. And I think that's
kind of continued and I've made the kind of the comparison.
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When George Lombard was taken in the first round, it
was like, huh, what's going on in George Lombard's obviously
turned out to be a great prospect, and I was
wondering if the same thing but happened with Dax Kilby
because there was some rumblings from a data standpoint that
you know, Dax Kilby looked pretty good in the performance
really matts that and he's got to get stronger or
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he might become a fourth outfielder type of type of guy,
you know, or you know, just a you know, utility
kind of player. But it's definitely a guy that's made
noise and might sneak into my top first round I
think of a first year player draft. So just know
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that Dak Kilby's had a really nice debut and it's
unfortunate because last season we had so many college kids
that they made a lot of noise. I mean, remember
camp Smith, did you know last year in the minor
leagues and didn't even play in the minor leagues in
twenty twenty five, and he was traded from the Cubs
to the Astros, and then you know, he's been up
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in the major leagues the whole time, and it's not
played very well. Eight RM runs, eight stolen bases, the
last I looked at it, but there's a lot more
there with Cam Smith. So you had all these college
guys that move quickly, and this season it's all of
these young high school kids that were in the first round,
in a bunch of pitchers that were in the first round.
So you just didn't have a lot of kind of
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drop drop Mike type of stat lines from college kids,
which is what you'd like to see in their professional debut.
So we're gonna have to wait till next season to
see how some of these high school kids will fare.
And I was fortunate to be able to put ethan
Holiday in here. I was glad to be able to
do that. Obviously, was it the third or fourth overall pick?
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Did I write that down here? First round, fourth overall pick?
He was my number one, number one player off the board. Obviously,
other teams didn't see it that way, went in a
different direction. And I mean he said to home had
two home runs in his first seventeen games, but he
also struck out thirty eight percent of the time. And
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just a little comparison, I did some comparison with his
brother and his brother during that same exact period. I
think his brother paid one more game than he did.
His brother hit two ninety seven with the home run
for stolen bases and only struck out thirteen percent of
the time. So it is holding true with what I
was told. It was it three years ago by his agent,
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not Scott Barris, one of Scott Barris's guys that was
actually in double A watching Jackson Holiday and was sitting
next to him, and he was giving me the line
on Ethan Holiday and said he was more like Matt
Holliday than he was Jackson. Jackson was a little bit
more athletic than Ethan, a better hitter, but would never
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have the kind of power that Ethan would happen. He
just this guy thought that Ethan Holiday would have massive power,
kind of in the thirty to forty range. And again
looking at his swing, swings got a little bit of length,
but it looks like he's a big, strong, six four kid,
so there's going to be big boy power. Just going
to see how much swing and miss he has his
game in his first seventeen games. Terribly small sample size,
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got last swing and missing his game. Still my number
one prospect, top twenty five prospect in the game. Still,
here's a new name for me at least Roaldy Britto
and it's a Colorado Rocky, and I hate putting Colorado
Rockies in here. But he's had a really good season.
Posted three seventy one four forty four five sixteen slash
line across the Complex League in Low A, four home runs,
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thirty five solen bases, only eighteen years old, so speed
and potentially a little bit of pop in there. So
if he can make enough contact, he could be a guy.
But he's a Rocky, so we try to avoid all
Rockies at least I do. Okay, So that is our hitters.
I think it was fourteen hitters. Let's get into the pitchers.
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Robbie Snelling, left handed pitcher. I'm shocked that he is
still in the minor leagues. I would have thought the
Miami Marlins would have given him at least a starter
or two here at the end of the season. They
still might, but he's been and bounce back is that
the right word. One of the better bounceback prospects this season.
He started off last year in San Diego and really underperformed.
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I thought he'd actually be called up last season, and
then he got traded at the deadline and the Miami
Marlins as they do, altered something got them throwing harder again,
and he's been shoving and in fact he shoved at
the whole season. He's had I think three bad starts,
and if you take away those bad starts, he's literally
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pitching to a one fifty ear a. I mean, it's
been that good. And last week seventies at seventy it's
one and run, thirteen strikeouts and no walks. And last
I looked he had still not been called up to
the big leagues. Very exciting. Got an email from the
Somerset Patriots telling me that they had indeed made the playoffs.
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So I've already got my ticket for the sixteenth game here.
So they're going to play the the three game series
against the Rumble Ponies, who won both sides of the
Eastern Division of the Eastern League. That makes any level
of sense, So they and all the minor leagues, they
they haven't split season, right, so they take the champion
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of the first the first half of the season against
the champion of the second half of the season. The
Rumble Ponies were the champion of both seasons because they
had Jonah Tongue and Carson Binge and you know, the
Jet Williams, the whole, the whole roster, but they all
moved up to Triple A, and you know, they kind
of promoted a j Ewings up. Really good prospect as well,
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but not the same as Jet Williams or Carson Binge
and Jonah Toong has now gone again got replaced by
pretty decent prospects. But they're going up against the Yankees
with Elma Rodriguez and Carlos Lagrange and both of them
make my list again. Just seems like over and over
and over. And it was another two start week by
Elma Rodriguez and he just shoved it. Oh, I didn't
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put the I know it was eleven ings pitch only
put the one start in there, so apologies on that,
but it wasn't actually a two start week for him.
And once again just absolutely annihilating competitors. And no one
can hit this guy. Carlos Lagrange is slightly better, stuff
doesn't quite have the doesn't quite have the control that
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Elmer Rodriguez Cruz has e erc has, but man, it's
both of these guys are impressive and I'm assuming they
will be rested and go two out of the three starters.
Probably Ben Hess will be the third starter, but it'll
be interesting to see if they can knock off the
rumble Ponies. I'm looking forward to that. But Erc and
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Carlos Lagrange, look I think Erc, I mean, I'm kind
of going between who's going to be more of a
bullpen guy. I think they both have a chance to start.
But Elma Rodriguez, this delivery looks more like a to me,
Carlo's GARANGI doesn't have the kind of control, so he
could be a reliever as well. They both could start.
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But if I were to, you know, if somebody put
a gun to my head, I think el I think
here c is the better pitcher that he might wind
up in the bullpen the garage, that can throw one
hundred miles an hour. And it's just, you know, it's
just impressive. Both these guys are great, just great. One
of two of the best pitching prospects in the game.
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And look you throwing Ben Hess and Cunningham the Bryce
conye Ham. The Yankees are loaded in the upper levels
of the minor leagues with starting pitching, and last season
I had not Cam Schlitter had just been promoted and
I had not a chance to see him in Double A.
I saw him in this particular setting where he pitched
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in the playoff game, and I'm like, I remember writing
it because I went to my Patren member like, wow,
I just saw something. I saw a guy throwing ninety
eight miles an hour. Doesn't have a change up, but man,
two pitches look fantastic. And he's gone on to have
a really good season for the Yankees this year. So
the Yankees, I think, are pretty much set up and
it'll be interesting to see if they try to sign
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more expensive free agents or let some of these kids
come up. They probably will sign the free agent, such
is how they roll. But I like these these young kids.
I love lagrange A and e erc Ty Johnson. He's
made my list a bunch, particularly in the second half.
Tampa Bay Rays again to delivery points a little bit
to a reliever, but he's got the size and really
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good stuff to be a starter, and it's in Double A.
Probably spend the next season at Triple A. So it's
a chance we see him next year again. The Rays
have got some really interesting pitchers coming up. Hopkins had
made my Daily Notes a couple of days ago. Nichols
has made my Hot Prospect of the week and months
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multiple times. He's just had a great season. So these
are Ty Johnson, another guy with a great arm. I
got him as a top fifty starting pitcher, maybe a reliever.
Cam Caminetti lefting a pitcher with the Atlanta Braves in
low Way again. Another guy who was a first round
draft pick by the by the Braves who has picked
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a lot of arms over the last few years, but
this was their first college arm that they did, and
he's probably got the best stuff of everybody that they've drafted,
and including Waldrip and some guys that have had schwellenback.
You know, all of these guys that have come up
in recent over the last couple of years have made
impacts in the major leagues. Cam Cannedetti's got the best
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stuff of all of them. Will be the best pitcher
of all of them. I mean, who knows. But it
was a really good season this year. Three to nine,
ear a, ninety strikeouts, twenty eight walks for a kid
that's nineteen years old. Last guy not in order for
some reason, Jeron Watts Brown. I guess he'll go by JWB.
He was the kid that was originally signed by the
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Blue Jays training at the deadline to the Baltimore Orioles.
And he was a guy that I know a ton
about as soon as he came average to the Oriols,
so I know a lot of guys in the organization.
They gave me a really good breakdown of him. There
was some platoon splits last season. He started to eliminate
some of those platoon splits. It doesn't always throw strikes,
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but it's really really good stuff. So I've got as
a number four starter with some upside. So that is
JWB Jeron j U A r O N. Watts Brown.
That is our list, A good little thirty minute podcast
to tie you guys over till Tim and I get
back and promise we all get on a run here
and be back to two a week until the end
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of the season. I think back to our Sunday shows
and talking to the playoffs and then getting ready for them,
believe it or not, to twenty twenty six season, which
hopefully fingers crawled it won't be the last season for
a while, because we know we got to collect the
bargaining agreement inspiring at the in December of twenty twenty six.
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But Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and they'll be able
to figure that out. But hopefully you guys are pushing
towards the end. I know on Oliver Dynasty Leagues people
are continuing to play it out, which I really appreciate.
Wish everybody the best here over the last couple of weeks.
Give it the give it your final push, and let's
bring some championships home for everybody. Until next time, guys,
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be well.
Greetings everyone. It's Friday afternoon, about two o'clock and been
a while since we've talked. I've been obviously on vacation
last week, which was wonderful, and then some stuff went
down this week that drove my attention. My little Yorkie
poo while we were gone, had to have a spleen removed,
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so which wasn't good. But he's sitting right here next
to me doing the podcast. So he's eleven, so hopefully
he's going to be fine. We're waiting on the biopsy results,
so hopefully that'll come back negative. But yes, it was
that happened a week ago. Today. We got the call
we were in Paris that Beans was not doing well.
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So I got back and he's as honery as ever.
So he's doing well. So I appreciate all the well
wishes from everyone. I'm going to probably request his hot
prospects of the week of last week. So I know
it's a little late. Tim and I thought we were
doing podcasts to day, but he's he had a commitment today.
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I thought he had a commitment on Sunday, so I
wrote up a bunch of notes to do for two days,
and I included a lot of comments from our from
Patreon members for questions or wonderful questions by the way,
but I hopefully we're gonna either record something tomorrow or Sunday.
I gotta once he gets back into town, I got
to reach out to him figure out what's going on.
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We had a kind of a I thought a calendar
of everything of what we were doing over the last
two weeks, but clearly got my signals crossed anyway, so
I thought I'd do Hot Prospects of the Week. This
will be the last official Hot Prospect. I'll probably send
it out to everyone. We'll do probably a Hot Prospect
next week to just ten players because all we're gonna
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have are double A and Triple A to choose from,
and then you know, then after that it's it's just
gonna be Triple A and Double A postseason going on,
all starting to prep up for the Arizona Fall League,
which begins in about a month. So it's pretty amazing.
It just keeps one thing rolls into the next. So
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this will be the last official Top Hop Prospect of
the Week where we'll have twenty and then we'll have
ten probably next Tuesday. All right, let's get at it
Travis Bazana second basement of the Cleveland Guardians. It's just
been a disappointing season. I don't know any other way
to put in. And one of the questions I got
for our podcast next podcast coming up is, you know,
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everybody took Rookie Sasaki and Travis Bizana and the guys
that really stood out this year were Nick Kurtz and
CAGs and other guys, and like what happened? And I mean,
Rookie Sazaki is just, you know, just disappointing. I mean,
I think we all were worried about his elbow and
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you know, so he's had some injury concerns, but I
mean the stuff is there. I think he's going to
be just fine. But Bizana has been a disappointment of
everybody that got drafted. To me like that top ten,
he is the one that's been the most mystifying because
his reputation. If he took a look at his data
when he was in college, he was a hitter first.
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I always thought the in fact, I wrote that it
was last year because I checked my notes. It was
a high floor player with kind of a fifteen to
fifteen type of fantasy vibe. But I thought he'd hit,
and he just has not hit. Now as the season
is Warren on, he's improved his contact rate, but it's
still sitting around twenty four percent, and I thought it'd
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be a lot better than that. And it looks like
his swing's gotten a little long because his end zone
contact is not what it was when he was in college.
He's not expanding the strike zone too much, which is
good because he walks a ton. So if you take
a look at his swing and his Z swing, his
contact and his swing and his Z contact, you can
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kind of see what's going on and from his you know,
from his approach. So I think maybe you've got a
little bit more aggressive, shortened up on the stroke a
little bit. I think the batting average and on base, well,
the one base percentage is fine, but the batting average
would improve. So but I still think it's you know,
twelve to fifteen home runs, twelve to fifteen stolen bases.
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I think who that's who the player was. And I
know he went on one overall, but the Guardians did
that to save money to try to get guys later on.
And look the the uh that was made popular. What
was it twenty twelve a long time ago with the
Carlos Correa and the Houston Astros did that and they
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parlayed that in the Lancema Colors and a couple of
other guys that went on to be big leaguers. And
but usually going cheap with the first overall pick and
trying to save money and come back is usually not
the best approach, and it's proven. Mickey Moniac is another
example of how that just did not work out. But
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you know so. But Travis Bizond, I think is who
he is. I've been disappointed with the contact right so
far this season, and I believe he's my most disappointing
player in the Guardians organization. Don't quote me on that
because I've written written up twenty out of the thirty
top twenties, and the Western Division haven't gotten to those yet.
Probably maybe I've done some work on half of them.
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But there will not be twenty from the San Diego Padres,
just FYI, because there's not enough. And I just don't
want to give you a bunch of guys that are
never going to make it and never be consequential. And
that's just who Padres is. Out of bullets, it's pretty amazing.
Kip Alderman, it's kind of been a sandwich season for him.
He looked really good at the beginning of the season.
It's looking strong here at the end of the season.
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Eight for twenty four double, four home runs, five strikeouts
and three walks last week. But in the middle and
most of the middle that middle three months was not
very good. But he is one of seven players who
went twenty twenty for the season. So you know, it's
if you're playing in a retisserie league, you know it's
you know, he's he's looks like he's maybe a bit
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of a streaky hitter, much like you know we see
with some of the guys, particularly like Josh Bell, who
was actually on a roll. So get him into your lineups.
Though he'll call off, cool off on what he does.
It's all over for weeks, if not months. And the
same thing appears to be true with Kemp Balderman. So
if you take a look at his stats, the twenty
twenty that he got, I bet you all of it
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was done in five or six week period of time,
or eighty percent of it. But you know, there's speed
and power, hits the ball really hard, there's some swing
and miss in this game. It's kind of who he is.
He should be up next season, though it's starting to
get a little bit crowded in Miami. So Victor Barracoto
b E R B E R I cot he's now
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at first base. Looked like he was gonna play a
little bit of third base, but now they've moved him
over the first base. Just you know, I was excited
about him a couple of years ago, but he's just
struggled against more advanced pitching. He's kind of stuck in
Double A. But it was a really good week, so
I wanted to include him and just kind of give
you an update on it. But I sicky overall, lacks
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of consistency to get too excited about the potential, so
I have as ceiling as an extra bat. A guy
that I continue to get excited about is Max Clark.
Maybe I'm the only one that does. But you know,
it's two seventy six, four oh eight, four forty, which
is a really good season, fourteen home runs, nineteen stolen basis,
I think the powers just starting to come. I look,
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he's not gonna be thirty run thirty home run hitter,
but to me, he's a kind of a twenty twenty
twenty twenty five kind of guy. I think he's going
to hit with pretty significant on base percentage. I think
he's going to be a really really good baseball player,
kind of at number two, number three round pick that
you have in a fantasy draft. And I think he'll
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be kind of one one of those in high floor,
very safe type of players because I think he's going
to hit. It's great defender. He's just going to fit in.
Now what happens to Meadows, you know, in terms of
is you know, I know he's playing in center field.
I don't think he's going to stand in the way
of Max Clark, and he's just had real trouble staying healthy.
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So I think it's Max Clark's opportunity next season. Jansel
Luise I was hoping he'd get moved to double A,
but I checked before he did the recording. He's looks
like his season is over, and it was a good season.
Eight you know, last week a for twenty one, a
couple of doubles, couple of stolen bases, for the season's
five home runs, twenty four stolen bases, but he had
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three to eleven never walks, which is a three forty
seven on base percentage, so that's a problem, and he
ended with a slug of four thirty four. It's a
guy that I continue to get a lot of really
positive feedback from people around the league in round baseball
as a guy that they feel like, is this going
to hit. There's going to be average power and plus speed.
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You know, it just hasn't really shown up yet. The
speed did this season in the stat line. He is
starting to make pretty good contact. I would like to
see him start to make better has improve his approach
a little bit, and I kind of reminds me a
little bit of Mike cal Garcia, and I wrote that
in and his write up where we finally have started
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to see the Mike cal Garcia I've been telling everybody
about for the last couple of years, who isn't a burner,
but he's got definitely twenty solar base potential. But I
think mikel Garcia has got twenty twenty five home run
pop there. I think he's a good hitter, and we've
seen him improve his approach this season and hopefully that
will carry on. It's the guy is moving into potential
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star to star territory that is MIKEL. Garcia, And if
Jancel Louise reminds me a little bit of a young
MIKEL Garcia, that you buy him early for the speed.
You just wait for the power to come and hopefully
wait for the improved approach to come and the more
walk so I have a slightly higher on base percentage
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over time. We do one more player, then I'll take
a break a run. Escobar third base with the Phillies
in High A. Started the season off in Low A.
Five for seventeen, a home run, stolen base, three strikeouts,
and four walks. It's been just a breakout season started
in Low way. He got the High A. The power
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kind of disappeared, starting to see some power as the
season wound down. I just think this guy is going
to have some significant power. And it looks like he's
going to stay at third base. Maybe has to move
to first base. I've got him sticking at third base.
But he hits the ball really hard. Part particularly for
some kid that's still a teenager. Hardest hit ball with
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one hundred and nine miles an already had a forty
percent hard hit rate in Low A. Hia started to
you know struggle a little bit, but I think that's
to be expected with these young kids. And we all
know that the Philadelphia Phillies like to rush their guys.
He will be in double A next season. That is
a ruined escobar. I'm I'm sorry. I'm not going to
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include this as ad free for our music interlude free
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I will insert some commercials in there, just because that's
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ton of stuff. Okay, Kendall George is the Minor league
stolen base winner of the season. If that's the leader winner.
Stole his hunter at bag and it was funny. Mid
season he was he was in the top ten, top fifteen,
and then he just if you listen to my hot
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prospects of the month of August, I think he stole
twenty eight bases. I'm going from memory. He just started
stealing bases left and right, as opposed to like Chandler Simpson,
who has no power. One of the things that the
Dodgers have encouraged Kendall George to do, and that's to
get stronger, and he did come into the season a
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little bit stronger. He popped three home runs, which isn't
a whole lot, but he hit a little bit more
double So I'm actually a little encouraged by Kenball George.
I don't think he's ever going to be a power hitter,
but I think he's going to hit enough to allow
him to be a full time regular. I don't know
if it's going to be for the Dodgers. He's a
really good outfielder. They probably want a little bit more
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pop that he can provide. But you know he's going
to steal bases at will, which we're seeing now again.
I don't know if he Chadler Simpson's a seventy run
I don't even think Chandler Simpson's an eighty runner. He
just is very aggressive on the base pass and I
think that's the same thing Kendall George's. So I think
there's a chance he goes kind of five to ten
home runs with fifty stolen bases, and the guy that
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can hit a little bit, it might be his upside.
It's a pretty good, pretty good, uh fan, well, a
very good fantasy player. I've got him as a top
sixty outfielder. I probably will up that a little bit
just because he's starting to show a bit more pop
as his partner in crime. I guess two partners in
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crimes that you're Hope and Hasway de Paula both promote
it to Double A. How'swa to Paula makes our Hot
Prospects of the week. Is hitless in his first three
games in Double A. You know, I wouldn't get read
anything into that. It's a really good baseball player. The
guy that's going to be a power hitting corner outfielder
maybe has to move to first base. It's a really
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good feel to hit. I mean, I think this guy
could be a forty home run guy. It's not going
to be a ton of speed. Maybe a little bit
a little bit of speed early in his career, but
I just given his age in his production in High A,
particularly the Midwest League, which is a miserable place to hit,
particularly until about mid June when it finally warms up,
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and Paula was just fantastic. And I think he's one
of the better prospects in all of baseball, and I
think he'll I think the Dodgers will make room for him.
Could he be the heir apparent to Freddie Freeman? He
could be Seawn Keys third based on first Nation with
the Toronto Blue Jays, a really good week, big strong kid,
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thirty arm run. Potentially there's going to be pressure on
his batting average. The Toronto Blue Jays has got some
interesting prospects and he's one of them. I think there
is a chance, a really good chance, that he makes
it all the way to the major leagues. But let
me just know that there could be some pressure on
his batting average. He should get a little bit more
aggressive on at the plate because it's a sixteen percent walk, right,
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So if he got a little bit more aggressive on
at the plate, I think that would help his over
all production. But Keys is a guy that's not getting
a lot of love, and you know, could be a
you know, a guy that pokes twenty home runs at
third base and it's not a terrible player. Kyd and
Pale always looking for Houston Astros as well, and so
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he's the first time he's made any list and it
was a big week. Nine for twenty two, a double
a triple, a home run, six toilet bases, eight strikeouts,
an eight walks, big strong kid, impressive power and speed,
but there continues to be concerning. You always hear this
with with guys that they're going to make enough contact,
and that's just the problem here. He's struck out thirty
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percent of the time. And I say it over and
over and over again. Guys who strike out thirty percent
of the time in low way have a very low
success rate of making it to the major leagues. Why
because low A pitching is not very good, and if
you can't hit low A pitching, it's only going to
get more it's only going to get more difficult. The
better the pitching, the better the pitching is as you
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move up in the in the minor leagues. But there's
speed and power there, so he makes it fantasy relevant.
So that is Caden Pale speaking of like shocking. I
don't know if it's shocking because he had such a
terrible season. That's or Elvis Martinez. You know, it's funny.
It's a lot of times you hear when you hear
guys that have the eighty gasis katy game suspension, you
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know they accidentally took something, or they took something for
some other reason. It wasn't truly trying to get bigger
and stronger, but or Elvis Martinez just what the bed
after he got back from from his suspension, and he
kind of makes you wonder if how long he was
how long he was using this stuff. I think the
last I looked he was hitting under two hundreds. I'm
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bringing up his stat line here, So he got released,
was it yesterday? This is unbelievable hitting one seventy six
with a three forty eight slug. It's a guy that
popped twenty eight home runs in twenty twenty three with
a five four ninety six slug, and then before his
call up or even after his suspension in twenty twenty four,
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he sluck five twenty three and then all of a sudden,
he's got thirteen home runs in a three forty eight slug.
I mean, and I think it was pretty evident with
the Toronto Blue Jays did not like the fact that
he was busted for peds because when he came back,
I think the general thought was he would get promoted
because he was having such a look so good in TRIPLEA.
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But they did not promote him once he came back
after his eighty game suspension, and then this season very well,
very underperformed one when I say, one seventy six batting average.
So where Elvis Martinez. Somebody will pick him up. But
it's a real shame. He was a top one hundred
prospect for me for a while and he's dropped way down.
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You know, if he's a top five hundred prospect for
me anymore. But if he is, he's going to even further.
Having Actually I have done fully done nineteen of the
thirty and I stopped at the Toronto Blue Jays, so
I haven't had a chance actually doing. He stole on
my list, so but so I have to figure out
where I actually want to slot him in. Okay, Alfredo,
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do you know? I think that's how you pronounced his
last name. He was one of the top international guys
a couple of years ago and is really starting to
make some noise here is with the Cincinnati Reds, six
for thirteen, three home runs of stolen base. It's had
a great season, power and speed, more walks and strikeouts,
exactly what you want to see from a young hitter.
I mean, everything is pointing up for this guy. So
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he's a big kid, high in exit velocity, so there
could be big boy power here. You know it's going
to strike out some. So two fifty two sixty batting
average doesn't run very well as a catcher, but it's
one of the better young catchers in the minor leagues.
Dex Kelby k i lby outfitter with the New York Yankees.
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I think he might have had the best pro debut
of anybody in the twenty twenty five class. I mean,
he was great, that stole sixteen bases, didn't hit home run,
but hit everything. And you know it's funny, it's we're
finally seeing with George Lombard is finally starting to turn
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things around here the last couple of weeks and Double
A's looked a lot better. I've seen so many games
of him and he just kind of just was not
swinging and missing a lot, just swinging and making weak contact.
And the last time I saw him play, he was
actually making a lot better contact. And I think that's
kind of continued and I've made the kind of the comparison.
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When George Lombard was taken in the first round, it
was like, huh, what's going on in George Lombard's obviously
turned out to be a great prospect, and I was
wondering if the same thing but happened with Dax Kilby
because there was some rumblings from a data standpoint that
you know, Dax Kilby looked pretty good in the performance
really matts that and he's got to get stronger or
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he might become a fourth outfielder type of type of guy,
you know, or you know, just a you know, utility
kind of player. But it's definitely a guy that's made
noise and might sneak into my top first round I
think of a first year player draft. So just know
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that Dak Kilby's had a really nice debut and it's
unfortunate because last season we had so many college kids
that they made a lot of noise. I mean, remember
camp Smith, did you know last year in the minor
leagues and didn't even play in the minor leagues in
twenty twenty five, and he was traded from the Cubs
to the Astros, and then you know, he's been up
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in the major leagues the whole time, and it's not
played very well. Eight RM runs, eight stolen bases, the
last I looked at it, but there's a lot more
there with Cam Smith. So you had all these college
guys that move quickly, and this season it's all of
these young high school kids that were in the first round,
in a bunch of pitchers that were in the first round.
So you just didn't have a lot of kind of
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drop drop Mike type of stat lines from college kids,
which is what you'd like to see in their professional debut.
So we're gonna have to wait till next season to
see how some of these high school kids will fare.
And I was fortunate to be able to put ethan
Holiday in here. I was glad to be able to
do that. Obviously, was it the third or fourth overall pick?
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Did I write that down here? First round, fourth overall pick?
He was my number one, number one player off the board. Obviously,
other teams didn't see it that way, went in a
different direction. And I mean he said to home had
two home runs in his first seventeen games, but he
also struck out thirty eight percent of the time. And
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just a little comparison, I did some comparison with his
brother and his brother during that same exact period. I
think his brother paid one more game than he did.
His brother hit two ninety seven with the home run
for stolen bases and only struck out thirteen percent of
the time. So it is holding true with what I
was told. It was it three years ago by his agent,
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not Scott Barris, one of Scott Barris's guys that was
actually in double A watching Jackson Holiday and was sitting
next to him, and he was giving me the line
on Ethan Holiday and said he was more like Matt
Holliday than he was Jackson. Jackson was a little bit
more athletic than Ethan, a better hitter, but would never
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have the kind of power that Ethan would happen. He
just this guy thought that Ethan Holiday would have massive power,
kind of in the thirty to forty range. And again
looking at his swing, swings got a little bit of length,
but it looks like he's a big, strong, six four kid,
so there's going to be big boy power. Just going
to see how much swing and miss he has his
game in his first seventeen games. Terribly small sample size,
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got last swing and missing his game. Still my number
one prospect, top twenty five prospect in the game. Still,
here's a new name for me at least Roaldy Britto
and it's a Colorado Rocky, and I hate putting Colorado
Rockies in here. But he's had a really good season.
Posted three seventy one four forty four five sixteen slash
line across the Complex League in Low A, four home runs,
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thirty five solen bases, only eighteen years old, so speed
and potentially a little bit of pop in there. So
if he can make enough contact, he could be a guy.
But he's a Rocky, so we try to avoid all
Rockies at least I do. Okay, So that is our hitters.
I think it was fourteen hitters. Let's get into the pitchers.
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Robbie Snelling, left handed pitcher. I'm shocked that he is
still in the minor leagues. I would have thought the
Miami Marlins would have given him at least a starter
or two here at the end of the season. They
still might, but he's been and bounce back is that
the right word. One of the better bounceback prospects this season.
He started off last year in San Diego and really underperformed.
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I thought he'd actually be called up last season, and
then he got traded at the deadline and the Miami
Marlins as they do, altered something got them throwing harder again,
and he's been shoving and in fact he shoved at
the whole season. He's had I think three bad starts,
and if you take away those bad starts, he's literally
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pitching to a one fifty ear a. I mean, it's
been that good. And last week seventies at seventy it's
one and run, thirteen strikeouts and no walks. And last
I looked he had still not been called up to
the big leagues. Very exciting. Got an email from the
Somerset Patriots telling me that they had indeed made the playoffs.
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So I've already got my ticket for the sixteenth game here.
So they're going to play the the three game series
against the Rumble Ponies, who won both sides of the
Eastern Division of the Eastern League. That makes any level
of sense, So they and all the minor leagues, they
they haven't split season, right, so they take the champion
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of the first the first half of the season against
the champion of the second half of the season. The
Rumble Ponies were the champion of both seasons because they
had Jonah Tongue and Carson Binge and you know, the
Jet Williams, the whole, the whole roster, but they all
moved up to Triple A, and you know, they kind
of promoted a j Ewings up. Really good prospect as well,
(25:39):
but not the same as Jet Williams or Carson Binge
and Jonah Toong has now gone again got replaced by
pretty decent prospects. But they're going up against the Yankees
with Elma Rodriguez and Carlos Lagrange and both of them
make my list again. Just seems like over and over
and over. And it was another two start week by
Elma Rodriguez and he just shoved it. Oh, I didn't
(26:01):
put the I know it was eleven ings pitch only
put the one start in there, so apologies on that,
but it wasn't actually a two start week for him.
And once again just absolutely annihilating competitors. And no one
can hit this guy. Carlos Lagrange is slightly better, stuff
doesn't quite have the doesn't quite have the control that
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Elmer Rodriguez Cruz has e erc has, but man, it's
both of these guys are impressive and I'm assuming they
will be rested and go two out of the three starters.
Probably Ben Hess will be the third starter, but it'll
be interesting to see if they can knock off the
rumble Ponies. I'm looking forward to that. But Erc and
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Carlos Lagrange, look I think Erc, I mean, I'm kind
of going between who's going to be more of a
bullpen guy. I think they both have a chance to start.
But Elma Rodriguez, this delivery looks more like a to me,
Carlo's GARANGI doesn't have the kind of control, so he
could be a reliever as well. They both could start.
(27:08):
But if I were to, you know, if somebody put
a gun to my head, I think el I think
here c is the better pitcher that he might wind
up in the bullpen the garage, that can throw one
hundred miles an hour. And it's just, you know, it's
just impressive. Both these guys are great, just great. One
of two of the best pitching prospects in the game.
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And look you throwing Ben Hess and Cunningham the Bryce
conye Ham. The Yankees are loaded in the upper levels
of the minor leagues with starting pitching, and last season
I had not Cam Schlitter had just been promoted and
I had not a chance to see him in Double A.
I saw him in this particular setting where he pitched
(27:52):
in the playoff game, and I'm like, I remember writing
it because I went to my Patren member like, wow,
I just saw something. I saw a guy throwing ninety
eight miles an hour. Doesn't have a change up, but man,
two pitches look fantastic. And he's gone on to have
a really good season for the Yankees this year. So
the Yankees, I think, are pretty much set up and
it'll be interesting to see if they try to sign
(28:13):
more expensive free agents or let some of these kids
come up. They probably will sign the free agent, such
is how they roll. But I like these these young kids.
I love lagrange A and e erc Ty Johnson. He's
made my list a bunch, particularly in the second half.
Tampa Bay Rays again to delivery points a little bit
to a reliever, but he's got the size and really
(28:36):
good stuff to be a starter, and it's in Double A.
Probably spend the next season at Triple A. So it's
a chance we see him next year again. The Rays
have got some really interesting pitchers coming up. Hopkins had
made my Daily Notes a couple of days ago. Nichols
has made my Hot Prospect of the week and months
(28:56):
multiple times. He's just had a great season. So these
are Ty Johnson, another guy with a great arm. I
got him as a top fifty starting pitcher, maybe a reliever.
Cam Caminetti lefting a pitcher with the Atlanta Braves in
low Way again. Another guy who was a first round
draft pick by the by the Braves who has picked
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a lot of arms over the last few years, but
this was their first college arm that they did, and
he's probably got the best stuff of everybody that they've drafted,
and including Waldrip and some guys that have had schwellenback.
You know, all of these guys that have come up
in recent over the last couple of years have made
impacts in the major leagues. Cam Cannedetti's got the best
(29:40):
stuff of all of them. Will be the best pitcher
of all of them. I mean, who knows. But it
was a really good season this year. Three to nine,
ear a, ninety strikeouts, twenty eight walks for a kid
that's nineteen years old. Last guy not in order for
some reason, Jeron Watts Brown. I guess he'll go by JWB.
He was the kid that was originally signed by the
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Blue Jays training at the deadline to the Baltimore Orioles.
And he was a guy that I know a ton
about as soon as he came average to the Oriols,
so I know a lot of guys in the organization.
They gave me a really good breakdown of him. There
was some platoon splits last season. He started to eliminate
some of those platoon splits. It doesn't always throw strikes,
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but it's really really good stuff. So I've got as
a number four starter with some upside. So that is
JWB Jeron j U A r O N. Watts Brown.
That is our list, A good little thirty minute podcast
to tie you guys over till Tim and I get
back and promise we all get on a run here
and be back to two a week until the end
(30:49):
of the season. I think back to our Sunday shows
and talking to the playoffs and then getting ready for them,
believe it or not, to twenty twenty six season, which
hopefully fingers crawled it won't be the last season for
a while, because we know we got to collect the
bargaining agreement inspiring at the in December of twenty twenty six.
(31:09):
But Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and they'll be able
to figure that out. But hopefully you guys are pushing
towards the end. I know on Oliver Dynasty Leagues people
are continuing to play it out, which I really appreciate.
Wish everybody the best here over the last couple of weeks.
Give it the give it your final push, and let's
bring some championships home for everybody. Until next time, guys,
(31:31):
be well.
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