December 20, 2025 • 35 mins
The following prospects are discussed:
1. Ethan Holliday (SS)
2. Charlie Condon (OF)
3. Cole Carrigg (OF)
4. Zac Veen (OF)
5. Sterlin Thompson (OF)
6. Roc Riggio (2B)
7. Robert Calaz (OF)
8. Roldy Brito (OF)
9. Sean Sullivan (LHP)
10. Max Belyeu (OF)
11. Cristian Arguelles (OF)
12. Kelvin Hidalgo (SS)
13. Drew Romo (C)
14. Ashly Andujar (SS)
15. Braylen Wimmer (OF)
16. Brody Brecht (RHP)
17. Jared Thomas (OF)
18. Sebastian Blanco (SS)
19. JB Middleton (RHP)
20. Andy Perez (SS)
21. Benny Montgomery (OF)
1. Ethan Holliday (SS)
2. Charlie Condon (OF)
3. Cole Carrigg (OF)
4. Zac Veen (OF)
5. Sterlin Thompson (OF)
6. Roc Riggio (2B)
7. Robert Calaz (OF)
8. Roldy Brito (OF)
9. Sean Sullivan (LHP)
10. Max Belyeu (OF)
11. Cristian Arguelles (OF)
12. Kelvin Hidalgo (SS)
13. Drew Romo (C)
14. Ashly Andujar (SS)
15. Braylen Wimmer (OF)
16. Brody Brecht (RHP)
17. Jared Thomas (OF)
18. Sebastian Blanco (SS)
19. JB Middleton (RHP)
20. Andy Perez (SS)
21. Benny Montgomery (OF)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Greetings everyone. It is the twentieth of December, about two
thirty in the afternoon. It is a Just Prospect podcast.
We are talking the Colorado Rockies top prospects and I
have decided to as a Christmas gift to release this
to all of members and to the general public on
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the spreaker feed. Everybody that listens to our podcasts, Spotify,
all of that gets the entire Rockies prospect lists. There
are twenty one players. You know, I think everybody who
listens to our podcast know that I really really struggle
with the Rockies approach their players. There's some guys that
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I like in here. Roaldie Brito is one of those guys.
I ranked him eighth. We'll get to him in a minute,
and he looks really encouraging. But I have said that
about so many Rockies prospects. And then they get the
double a double as the Eastern League where it is
more of a neutral ballpark, and the guys seem to regress,
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and then it's it's Warning Warming Bernable all over again,
where you know, they show some promise, they get to
the big leagues and they fall over. Zach Bean you
fill in the blank of the player uh. And you know,
Brendan Doyle. Hopefully he recovers a little bit. But it's
the guy that had one really good season in the
major leagues and then just was terrible. Yet last year,
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I know he had some insinuating personal circumstances. Hopefully that
is behind him. Maybe there were some injuries. The data
doesn't look great, you know when you take a look
at him. So I just am so down on the
Rockies system that I just I don't know if any
of these guys are any good. I really don't. I mean,
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and what and I love Ethan Holliday, love the setup there,
and then I just you know, bowed my not bound.
I dropped my head. That's the way to look at
drop my head when the Rocky he's picked him up
and he says like, oh no, here we go again.
Because this season before that, Charlie Condon was my number
one guy that really strong twenty twenty four was it? Yeah,
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two thousand and twenty four class and then he was
absolutely brutal when he got to Spokane, and then he
hurt himself last year and just it played a little
bit better as the season progressed, but just doesn't look
like the same guy did in college, and I don't know.
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I mean it was it was a Golden Golden Shoes winner,
the oh, you know, the best amateur player in the nation.
So I mean he had the whole everything set up,
and just now he looks like he's you know, going
to be okay, not great type of thing. Might actually
move to first base. It's probably going to be thirty
five home run guy that's going to have trouble in
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trouble hitting. So you know, it's just it's a real
bummer with the Rocky So if I sand a little
down as I go through the list, I apologize. I
do have a tude about the Rocky system and how
they developed players. I mean Drew Romo was a perfect example.
I mean it's a guy that looked like he had
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a chance to be, you know, not a great major
league baseball but a major league baseball player, and he
got you know, he got DFAD and then I think
it was a Pittsburgh that picked him up with the
Orioles that picked him up, and they got dfight. Again,
it's just a guy, another guy that didn't develop. He's
number thirteenth on the list, and I really shift way
shifted down home. The list should have shifted even further
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if I hadn't known the Rockies were going to DFA,
and but that's just what we've got with the Rocky system,
and it's just really really disappointing. The next one's gonna
be great. We're gonna talk Dodgers end of the week
and maybe I record that on Monday. Then we got
the San Diego po which is you know, there's the
only one I did that had less than twenty prospects
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was the scene Anca Padres. There's fifteen there, and we've
got the Giants, and then we get into the Al West.
So we're getting close to wrapping this puppy up. It's
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are over, my pdf of everything wrapped up together, preliminary
five list of five hundred prospects, all ranked. Then shortly
after that it'll be first year player draft stuff. We've
got Dynasty leagues that we offer to our members there.
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So there's lots of opportunities and fun stuff that you
get with the Patreon site. You also get my draft targets.
I didn't get any draft targets out this week. I'd
some personal stuff going on that I just wasn't able
to focus on that. Hopefully Short Stopping Outfielder comes out
next week and then I'll get pictures out shortly after that.
I have my first draft at the end of the
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calendar year January first, if you will, so I have
to be done by then. So the draft targets are
halfway done. Now. Hopefully I'll get some momentum going on
next week. But I encourage you to join us out
at the Patrons and by the way, you do get
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I get a ton of messages, and then Tim is
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always out on the Discord sign. I know he has
a lot of fun there and whenever you have access
to ten, that's a good thing. All right, Let's get
out of here. Ethan Holiday number fourth overall pick. Obviously
Jackson Holiday's brother, Matt Holliday's son. He is a different
player than Jackson Holidays a lot more like his father
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from a physicality standpoint. Just a big dude, six foot four.
He's got long lever so that you believe there's going
to be some swing and miss in his game. And
I kind of analyzed Jackson's first you know, one hundred
of bats in the big league, excuse me, in the
in professional ball and Ethan Holidays, and you know, there
was a lot more swing and miss and Ethan Holidays game.
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So it's kind of kind of fitting in that model.
He is currently was drafted as a shortstop, probably is
going to move to third base, maybe the outfield, but
there's gonna be big boy power there that I'm pretty
convinced of. Saw him as an amateur talk to the
Boris Corporation at length when he was sophomore junior, and
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it's it's loud, loud contact. They share with me. The
you know, the kind of ninetieth nineteenth percentile exit velocities
back then were, you know, one hundred and one hundred
and two miles an hours of sixteen year old. So
I mean, it's it's a chance to be serious, serious
power there. But he is going to have some swing
and miss in this game. And again I don't want
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to harp all day long on the rockies, but I
probably do that. I have no confidence that they're going
to be able to get him trained in how to
recognize spend better and how to get his hands into
his body so that he is getting a little bit
shorter to the ball, because that's what he's really going
to need, right He's going to have to get keep
short to the ball to try to keep that swing
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shorter so he doesn't strike out, you know, thirty percent
of the time and wind up new hitting you know,
hitting two forty to thirty. And that's the big worry
that we have with Ethan Holiday. But humble Bragg, I
think the I don't have many high picks in first
year player dress. I have a number four pick. Ethan
Holiday might be available at the fourth because you figure
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a couple of Japanese guys are going to go on
those first two, so I might have a shot to
get Ethan Holiday, and you know, I would feel pretty
confident taking him, as you know, still the top pick
in you know, the the talent that came in into
twenty twenty five draft. Again, it's a lot of high
school short stops and to me, Ethan Holliday has the
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loudest tools, and I think it is, you know, if
you're looking at him and Eli Will, it's and the
whole crew that came in. You know, to sit there
and go go with the guy who's with the loudest
tools is not a bad approach if you're looking at
a bunch of seventeen and eighteen year old kids. It's
disappointing that there's not a ton of college guys coming
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in because you go, well, gee, do I go with
an Ethan Holiday that has a chance to be an
all star? Or maybe go with a guy that's chanced
to be a full time regular but maybe not have
an all star talent. But there's a there's a higher
floor with him. He's going to be close, He's going
to be up in a couple of years. With a
college kid versus Ethan Holiday is going to take you know,
at least three years, maybe longer. But you just don't
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have that in this draft coming up. You just don't.
There's some guys there like Yuhi Alloy with the with
the Baltimore Orioles they picked, and there's a couple of
other guys, But twenty twenty six it's going to be
much much deeper on college bats, and I think it's
going to make the draft scenario a lot better. Might
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be more like that twenty twenty four draft. You know,
we've already seen some big leaguers and you know Nick
Kurtz are he's the first round draft pick in fantasy leagues.
So you know, maybe the twenty twenty six will be
more more like that twenty twenty four draft. But the
twenty five is not, just because everybody's so young. Coming.
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Number two is Charlie Condon. So far, my analysis on
him has been dead wrong. There's just more swing and
miss in his game than I thought. It's a longer
swing if you go back and read my draft profile
of him. That was my concern about Charlie Condon was
swing and missing his game. But it's even worse than
I thought. It is not as good of of plate
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coverage and swing decisions, all of that stuff is a
lot worse than I thought up when he was in
the University of Georgia. But much like Ethan Holliday, it's
loud contact and I would be shocked if he does
not hit thirty home runs. I have him kind of
in the outfield. There was a chance he moves to
first base. But even at first base, I mean he
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could be thirty thirty five forty home runs. Probably at worse,
he's Reese Hoskins. You know, it's pretty good, pretty good career.
Hopefully he's going to be a lot more than that.
I don't think he's going to ever be like a
Freddie Freeman or a Matt Olson. I just don't think
he has the bath, the ball skills to be that good.
But hopefully it'll be somewhere between Reese Hoskins and Matt
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Olsen kind of in that in that realm. Could he
be Nick Kurtz, I don't think so. I think Nick
Kurtz is got better swing decisions, and I believe Charlie
Condon does. And you know, look, I don't think Nick
Kurtz is going to hit what it hit to ninety
last season or something. I don't think he's going to
be that. But Kurts to me, feels like a two
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fifty two sixty batting average kind of guy. He hits
the ball hard enough that he's going to have a
high batting office of balls in play, so he could
extend his batting average a little bit just because Hardy
hits the ball. Charlie Condon could have that as well.
But I think Charlie Condon's starting with, you know, kind
of eliminating batting average of balls and playing putting that
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as league average. You're probably looking at a two thirty
batting average with hopefully you know, twenty to thirty points
on top of that that he gets from just hitting
the ball as hard as he does. Six foot five
guys going to have holes in his swing just this,
But I still like Condon, have him on a couple
of dinings of these got my fingers crossed. I think
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we see him at this season, but he is a
Rockies just buyer. Beware, I don't know where he is
going in the NFBC dress. Let's take a look here,
shall we. NFC Let's just go to Condon. Condon's five
point fifty six fifty two. Eh, it might not be
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a bad six fifty two divided by fifteen. That's forty
fourth round. Now that is all drafts. If I go
to draft and hold leagues, let's see draft champions leagues,
that puts him five point thirty three. So that's that's
not horrible, right. Let's actually find that interesting. It's a
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thirty sixth round. Yeah, that's not bad. I mean it
is Rockies, that's not that's not terrible. Thirty six round
for Charlie Connon. Have to think about that one that
might that might be doable. Okay, So let's uh, that's
the first two cocarrig. Look I said it at the top.
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The way the Rockies work is, you know, they start
off in low Way, which is a hitters park. HIA
is in Spokane Hitters Park. Double A is in Hartford
Pitchers Park, Pitchers League, Slash Neutral League, Triple A is
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al Paso. No, No, it's a Colorado Springs huge hitters park.
So it is. I mean three out of the four
leagues are hitters parks, and of course the DSL is
a big hitters park as well, Hitters League as well.
So that's you know, you just never get a good
sense for the Rockies hitters because they're always putting up
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great statistics. And as much as you say, I've got
to follow the scouting reports, I gotta follow the data,
it still gets skewed. And you know, so that that's
the concern that you have with Rocky as they're going
through the through the minor league system. Right Loway is
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in Fresno now, so Fresno is I mean it's I
went to Fresno to watch the two thousand pre COVID.
That's how you can always remember stuff COVID before COVID
and after COVID. So I think it was twenty eighteen
or nineteen. Also the California All Star League game, and
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it was one hundred degrees there. I mean it was
hot as Blaze's balls jumping off the bat. I've been
to Freso a couple of other times. It gets really
hot and balls do just fly out in the summertime.
So I mean again, great hitters park as well, and
that's just what we've got. And it's hard to evaluate
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Rockies players because of that. But I do like Cole carrig.
I mean, there's great speed there, it's got decent contact skills.
I think there's some power there. He should play a
lot better once he gets back to Triple A. I
don't think this guy is going to be, you know,
a third round talent at any any junction. But I
think it's going to be a two forty two to
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sixty kind of guy with some speed and power, a
really interesting fantasy player. I would not give up Hope
just because he had a tough season. Zach Vine. I
love Zach Vine. I mean, guy's really fast, really aggressive
on the plate. There's more power there than you think.
He just looks like he's stalled and he's had so
many injuries that maybe fourth is not the right place.
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But I mean, what am I going to Sterling Thompson
in front of Zach Viene. I think Zach Vine has
more upside than that we've already seen in the major leagues.
But he's really expands the strike zone too much. Needs
to get that out of the control. But if he
can hit a little bit, cut down on his making
poor swing decisions, make better contact. I think this guy
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could be, you know, a fifteen to fifteen kind of guy,
maybe even a twenty twenty type of contributor long term.
So I still haven't given up Hope. I am waffling
though Sterling Thompson again got out of double A. Things
looked a lot better when he was in triple A
ball sort of jumping off his bat. I think he's
more of a fifteen to fifteen type of player, good speed,
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a little light on the power, makes good contact, But
from a fantasy standpoint, I mean, it's not all of
that exciting. I wonder if he's going where he is
going and Sterling. Sterling Thompson's going seven fort He's only
been drafted in the thirteen leagues. I actually might like
that a little bit better than Charlie Condon because he's
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probably a little bit ahead of Charlie Condon. I'd have
to take a look at the the opportunities for playing time. Now.
Charlie Condon is, you know, kind of their bright shiny
star along with Ethan Holiday. So he's going to get
a chance, and when he does, he's going to get
a chance to play. Sterling Thompson is a nice player,
but doesn't come with that, you know, the r around
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him that a Charlie Conton has. But I still I
do like Thompson. But again with the negative vibe going
on with the Rockies, that's what you worry about there.
Rock Riggio. I love Rock Regio with the Yankees a ton.
I probably saw him play twenty games and he just
it's one of those guys that just grinds out at bats.
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Every time you look up, he's flying around the bases.
It's not the most athletic of looking kids, right, it's
a little bit of a short, squatty type of larger
lower half. But he's got good speed. I think there's
going to be a little bit of power there. And
I got a four point three four from home to first,
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which is, you know, average, just slightly above average speeds.
I think there's going to be enough there for handful
of stolen bases, a little bit of pop. I think
he's gonna hit. I kind of like the player, and
he should be ready. He could, but potentially be ready
in twenty twenty six. As I write my tool summing
high energy bats, sneaky pop, aggressive approach, second base only profile,
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I think that says it perfectly right. I mean, that's
who he is. You're gonna love when you see this
guy plays, a guy that you're really going to root for.
And I think you're gonna look up up and he's
gonna be again. Sixteen home runs, eleven stolen bases, hitting
two seventy and you're gonna go, who is this guy?
Rock Reggio Robert Calais are Patreon members. So I wrote
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about him a ton last season the year before h
he was always making some noise in the DSL and
the Complex League. It's got some loud tools. There are
some swing and missing his game twenty six percent strikeout
rate and Lowey is not great. Eight point seven percent
walk rate is not great. That's probably gonna worsen as
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he moves up the chain, but there is big boy
power there. Uh So, as I write, I think he's
a boomer Bus type of prospect, but a guy that
I find to be very interesting. The guy I love
in the system is Roldy Brito ro l d like Moldy,
but it's Roldy Imbrito speed, really good understand of the
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strike zone in low Way, a four hundred and twenty
thousand dollars sign by then in twenty twenty four, really
was one of the better players in the Arizona Complex
League slash line of three sixty eight four forty five,
five point fifty five, and he kept on cranking once
he got promoted to low Way. Thirty five stolen bases.
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I think he gets stronger, developed some power. This looks
like the setup that you want, and I think I
checked in my Dynasty leagues. I think he's pretty available.
Let me check real quick here go to players. One
nice thing about Fangrass. When you're playing multiple leagues like
I do, you can type in the player's name and
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then one of the tabs is called rostered and it
shows you all the leagues of this particular player. So
it brings up all my leagues and then tells you
where he's available. He's available in absolutely every league. He
needs to be owned in more leagues than that. I
think this guy again at Rocky at sucks. But I
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mean there's some tools there, some low tools there. I'm
going to put him on my list to make sure
he is drafted in first year player drafts. Sean Solivon
the first picture, I think of all the picture, maybe
Brody Breck. We're going to get tim and he's got
the better arm. Breck is probably going to be a closer.
But I think Sean Sullivan, because he's a lefty, I
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think he can remain a starter. I don't know, is
he going to be any good. I mean, Rockies they
just you know, they can't develop pictures because it's an
impossible environment in which to develop pictures. And I think
that's why, I mean, you know, as much as I'm
critical about the Rockies I mean, they've got the it's
the most difficult, challenging organization to lead, and you know,
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but having said that, everybody wants a crack at running
the Rockies because if you can figure it out, you'll
cook down in history as the guy that solved the
you know, the problems out and the Colorado where it's
miserable to try to find pitching. And Sean Sullivan, I
think in any other system would be kind of a
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guy that's talked about as a top two hundred type
of prospect, one hundred and fifty type of prospect. He's
get good stuff. Again, it's a lefty. It's not big stuff,
but he threw strikes and you know there's a lot
to like. But just wait till you know when he
gets into Triple A and Colorado Springs, he gets up
to the major leagues, it's going to be a four
to fifty year a guy at at best, but it's
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good arm Max Blue, b E l Y EU. He
was their seventy fourth overall pick in the twenty twenty
five draft. Big, big power, lots of swing and missing
this game. Really struggled when he uh in the Rocky
Summariason moved him straight into too high A. He hit
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one fifty with a thirty six percent strikeout rate. Yes,
small sample sized, blah blah blah, but he struck out
a lot in college and there's some question zone on
the swing on his ability to tell balls from strike.
So that's Max Blue, but it's a chance to be
big boy power there. Number eleven comes into Christian Aguiles
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and for our Patreon members, so I wrote about him
a ton this past year. He was one of the
more statistically impressive kids in the DSL, just always doing
something interesting. Led the league with four forty two batting average.
He was a DSL repeater, So I mean I talk
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about that a lot. I mean, there's really not too
much shame. There's always a little shame repeating the level,
but when it's the DSL, you usually get a bit
of a pass because again, a lot of those kids
out there are sixteen and seventeen years old and really
having a business being in professional ball. Even though the
DSL is DSL is definitely a professional league. It's professional ball,
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but it's kind of the star starter of that. So
there's really no shame if you're sixteen years old and
can't handle that level you come back strong, and Christian
Agiles was one of those guys that did that. So
I find him to be very interesting. Kelvin Hildalgo wrote
about him a lot in twenty twenty five when he's
in the DSL and he just he just kept hitting everything.
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He gets to full season ball and struggled a little bit,
but he's a seventy runner, can really run, can really
play shortstop. I think there's a chance that he becomes,
you know, a top twenty, top twenty five shortstop in
baseball that kind of level. I don't know if it's
a first team regular, it's more of a second team regular.
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I've got him as a utility floor there. But this
kid that I keep wanting to watch and manage, Drew
Romo was a lot higher last season, but really really
struggled last year, struggled in twenty twenty four and it
just hit a wall. Got up the double A. He's
obviously been DFA by the Rockies, and I think I
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don't know if he's even signed at this juncture. I've
had trouble following h you know who did he get
picked up? Drew Romo. Let's see Drew Romo did he
get dropped. Let's see what AI says. Yes, MLB picture
Drew Romo was designated for signed by the Baltimore Orioles
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was immediately cleaned off the waivers by the Mets on
December seventeenth, So there you go. So here was the process.
December fifth, the Rockies waived him, the Orioles claimed them
off of of their off the waiver wire. The Orioles
and designated him when they made when of their big
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trades and needed room. And now they probably now I
guess all the guys they just trade it for Shane
bos and our Dynasty League or excuse me, our Patreon
members got a long right up on that very very
fascinating trade. But all those guys weren't on the forty man,
so it was a previous trade. They did anyway, drop
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Romo and then the Mets claimed them on the seventeen.
So there. I mean, he's good enough that, you know,
the defensively with some offensive offside, that somebody is going
to hold on to him to see you know how
this all shakes out, and now the Mets it's tagged.
The Mets have them now have him now, so hopefully
he can find a spot there and Tim is, as
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you know, not big on their catching situation at all.
I'm a little bit stronger than I think. Francisco Alvarez
has got big boy power there. He's never going to
hit a lot. He's got big boy power there. Number
fourteen is Ashley Aduhar, contact kid, good speed. He really
needs to get stronger. It was a one point seven
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million dollars signing bonus top international signing in twenty twenty
for It's a kid that should be monitored in all
leagues at this juncture. Let's see how he does in Fresno.
When he gets there, I'll see if he can hit.
He does need to get stronger. Number fifteen is brayln
Weimer w I M M E R. Blotoon guy most
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likely hit three O two three seventy six five oh
three in Colorado Springs. That was, uh, you know which
is which is decent. But going back to double A,
it was back to two eighty four three forty six,
three eighty nine. So that big difference in in double
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A A three eighty nine slug to five oh three.
That's from a neutral slash pitching environment in the Eastern
League to all you know, no holds bar and Triple
A the Pacific Coast League, playing half your games in
Colorado Springs. And if you've ever been to Colorado Springs,
I mean the altitude is very high. In fact, I
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remember going out running my first time in Colorado Springs
this years ago, just being I mean it was maybe
a mile out and back then I was doing five
six miles a day. My knees just don't allow me
to do that anymore. And I just had a mile.
I'm like, oh my god, I'm just just gasping for air.
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That was tough. Man. So it's it is very thin
air up in Colorado Springs and Denver, and balls just
fly out. It's just a much better offensive environment. But Wiimbers,
you know, there's a possibility. It's power, speed, makes port contact.
It's probably eventually going to be a ventrol. But somebody
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that you probably want to watch, Birdie Breck, probably should
be a little bit higher on this list, anybody that
throws one hundred miles an hour. But he just gets
pushed down because he is a Rockies, a Rocky player.
It is big stuff, one of the better arms in
that twenty twenty four class. But you know, with the
move out to Colorado's it became a problem. But if
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you tell me in you know, two or three years,
he's the closer in Colorado, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
Now do you hold on to Brody Brack thinking that
he's the closer of the future. I don't. I don't
play that game anymore because I have kept guys, multiple
players that I thought would be the closer of the future,
and they never are the closer. That to me, And
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I know some of you think you really are good
at this, and maybe you are. I'm not good at it.
I cannot tell you the closer of the future is
in an organization. I can think if they're going to
be pretty good bullpen are. But there's so many factors
that go into being a closer. I mean a lot
of it is just opportunity, and sometimes the opportunity is luck.
You know, if closer becomes ineffective or gets hurt and
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you're you know, you're in the bullpen at the moment
you get a shot and you pitch well for a
few games tag you're it. And you know that kind
of stuff is random. It's very very difficult, you know,
to kind of do closures of the future, so I
don't do it, but I think he has a chance
to be that. Jared Thompson comes in at number seventeen,
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probably another platoon guy, really showing some splits. High eight hit,
eleven home run, still twenty two bases and then gets
up the Double A and again into the Eastern League.
Things kind of settle down a little bit. But the
big problem is is he just can't handle glove side
pitching very well. And you see that a lot with
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these guys. But you know, it's an interesting guy, maybe
a number five outfielder, potentially. Sebastian Blanco comes in at
number eighteen in the DSL six hundred thousand dollars sign
looks like a guy can hit a little bit, maybe
some power that he develops. Let's see, he's a guy
that probably won't be a repeater. Should come over and
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be state side. We can see what he can do there.
Number nineteen is JB. Middleton. He was their second round pick,
paid one hundred thousand dollars over slot. It's a pitcher though,
throws strikes and I think you know, when I did
my analysis with my AI assistant and I asked him,
you know, what he thought was the answer there. One
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of his thinking was just guys that can throw strikes.
And I think that's fair looking at Rockies players, if
you know, if basically, if you're going to be a
general manager of the Rockies, how would you approach pitching
knowing that it's never worked and the artificial intelligence looking
at all the data and like what what has worked? Statistically,
Guys that throw strikes have the better the best chance
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to be effective in Colorado. They're still going to give
up runs, right because the breaking pitches don't don't break,
and so forth. But guys that can throw strikes, you know,
have the best chance for success in Colorado Rockies, and
maybe maybe there is a chance for JB. Middleton at
least it's a guy to monitor. Andy Perez comes in
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at number twenty, speed power guy, five percent walk rate,
so he really needs to, uh to improve his approach.
You know. You know, we've seen this with so many guys,
particularly coming through the Rockies organization, speed and power guys
that just can't hit enough. And that might be Andy
Perez and then Benny Montgomery, former number one overall pick
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I just kind of threw him down here at the end.
He continues to show flashes every once in a while
to have a good three or four weeks. I'll make
daily notes of mine. You go, ah, maybe there's maybe
you can figure it out. It's just it's just not
very good. And I write in my tool summary is
a change of a scenery is probably in the works here.
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He's just he just seems to be regressing and not
making it as that is that the Rockies fault. Did
they overdraft him? Probably a little bit of both. But
he is really struggling if you own him in a
dining league at this juncture, He's not even on my
top five hundred anymore. He's just really nowhere to be seen.
So I I mean slash two to one, two seventy four,
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two sixty three in the Eastern League in eighty six games.
That's not a small sample sized, folks. That's four home
runts and six dollar basis. So he gets the better
pitching and it just, you know, he says not that good.
I don't know what to say. And let's see if
anybody still owns Beny Montgomery. This is this is Sometimes
people don't follow their manager teams as well as others do.
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Let's see if he's on any league, that's hopefully I
hope I don't see Ah, look at that one. He
said one, two, three, four five, he's in half the
he's rostered in half the league. Come on, guys, one
of them looks like I think one of the leagues
he's on. I think I won that league. So man,
I mean, what do I know? But it's a guy
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that I'm not investing in, uh anymore. I moved on
from Benny Montgomery, but I mean there is me. He
had loud tools when he was drafted, but it's now
been multiple years ago and he's just he just hasn't developed.
Which does happen? That is a Rockies list. If we don't,
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Tim and I would be back on Sunday. So you
hear my voice again before the holidays. But again I
wish everybody, you know, if you celebrate Christmas, a great,
wonderful Christmas holiday, if you're celebrating Hanuk, I think there's
two more days left of Hank. I don't even know
if Hank is a big deal, but if you're celebrating that,
of course we got Festivus comes up in three days.
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Everybody can celebrate Festivus, right, So there is no religious connotations.
That is the Seinfeldt holiday that they brought up, which
is absolutely fantastic encourage My wife and I watched that
episode every twenty third of December. It's hysterical and that
its become a thing. You know, people people have Festivus
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parties and you do the Green Evens's and you know
all the feats of strengths and all that. So it's
become a real fun thing. So so everybody can celebrate
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trades come in, and I wanted to get that out,
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Greetings everyone. It is the twentieth of December, about two
thirty in the afternoon. It is a Just Prospect podcast.
We are talking the Colorado Rockies top prospects and I
have decided to as a Christmas gift to release this
to all of members and to the general public on
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the spreaker feed. Everybody that listens to our podcasts, Spotify,
all of that gets the entire Rockies prospect lists. There
are twenty one players. You know, I think everybody who
listens to our podcast know that I really really struggle
with the Rockies approach their players. There's some guys that
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I like in here. Roaldie Brito is one of those guys.
I ranked him eighth. We'll get to him in a minute,
and he looks really encouraging. But I have said that
about so many Rockies prospects. And then they get the
double a double as the Eastern League where it is
more of a neutral ballpark, and the guys seem to regress,
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and then it's it's Warning Warming Bernable all over again,
where you know, they show some promise, they get to
the big leagues and they fall over. Zach Bean you
fill in the blank of the player uh. And you know,
Brendan Doyle. Hopefully he recovers a little bit. But it's
the guy that had one really good season in the
major leagues and then just was terrible. Yet last year,
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I know he had some insinuating personal circumstances. Hopefully that
is behind him. Maybe there were some injuries. The data
doesn't look great, you know when you take a look
at him. So I just am so down on the
Rockies system that I just I don't know if any
of these guys are any good. I really don't. I mean,
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and what and I love Ethan Holliday, love the setup there,
and then I just you know, bowed my not bound.
I dropped my head. That's the way to look at
drop my head when the Rocky he's picked him up
and he says like, oh no, here we go again.
Because this season before that, Charlie Condon was my number
one guy that really strong twenty twenty four was it? Yeah,
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two thousand and twenty four class and then he was
absolutely brutal when he got to Spokane, and then he
hurt himself last year and just it played a little
bit better as the season progressed, but just doesn't look
like the same guy did in college, and I don't know.
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I mean it was it was a Golden Golden Shoes winner,
the oh, you know, the best amateur player in the nation.
So I mean he had the whole everything set up,
and just now he looks like he's you know, going
to be okay, not great type of thing. Might actually
move to first base. It's probably going to be thirty
five home run guy that's going to have trouble in
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trouble hitting. So you know, it's just it's a real
bummer with the Rocky So if I sand a little
down as I go through the list, I apologize. I
do have a tude about the Rocky system and how
they developed players. I mean Drew Romo was a perfect example.
I mean it's a guy that looked like he had
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a chance to be, you know, not a great major
league baseball but a major league baseball player, and he
got you know, he got DFAD and then I think
it was a Pittsburgh that picked him up with the
Orioles that picked him up, and they got dfight. Again,
it's just a guy, another guy that didn't develop. He's
number thirteenth on the list, and I really shift way
shifted down home. The list should have shifted even further
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if I hadn't known the Rockies were going to DFA,
and but that's just what we've got with the Rocky system,
and it's just really really disappointing. The next one's gonna
be great. We're gonna talk Dodgers end of the week
and maybe I record that on Monday. Then we got
the San Diego po which is you know, there's the
only one I did that had less than twenty prospects
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was the scene Anca Padres. There's fifteen there, and we've
got the Giants, and then we get into the Al West.
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I didn't get any draft targets out this week. I'd
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I have my first draft at the end of the
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to ten, that's a good thing. All right, Let's get
out of here. Ethan Holiday number fourth overall pick. Obviously
Jackson Holiday's brother, Matt Holliday's son. He is a different
player than Jackson Holidays a lot more like his father
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from a physicality standpoint. Just a big dude, six foot four.
He's got long lever so that you believe there's going
to be some swing and miss in his game. And
I kind of analyzed Jackson's first you know, one hundred
of bats in the big league, excuse me, in the
in professional ball and Ethan Holidays, and you know, there
was a lot more swing and miss and Ethan Holidays game.
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So it's kind of kind of fitting in that model.
He is currently was drafted as a shortstop, probably is
going to move to third base, maybe the outfield, but
there's gonna be big boy power there that I'm pretty
convinced of. Saw him as an amateur talk to the
Boris Corporation at length when he was sophomore junior, and
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it's it's loud, loud contact. They share with me. The
you know, the kind of ninetieth nineteenth percentile exit velocities
back then were, you know, one hundred and one hundred
and two miles an hours of sixteen year old. So
I mean, it's it's a chance to be serious, serious
power there. But he is going to have some swing
and miss in this game. And again I don't want
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to harp all day long on the rockies, but I
probably do that. I have no confidence that they're going
to be able to get him trained in how to
recognize spend better and how to get his hands into
his body so that he is getting a little bit
shorter to the ball, because that's what he's really going
to need, right He's going to have to get keep
short to the ball to try to keep that swing
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shorter so he doesn't strike out, you know, thirty percent
of the time and wind up new hitting you know,
hitting two forty to thirty. And that's the big worry
that we have with Ethan Holiday. But humble Bragg, I
think the I don't have many high picks in first
year player dress. I have a number four pick. Ethan
Holiday might be available at the fourth because you figure
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a couple of Japanese guys are going to go on
those first two, so I might have a shot to
get Ethan Holiday, and you know, I would feel pretty
confident taking him, as you know, still the top pick
in you know, the the talent that came in into
twenty twenty five draft. Again, it's a lot of high
school short stops and to me, Ethan Holliday has the
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loudest tools, and I think it is, you know, if
you're looking at him and Eli Will, it's and the
whole crew that came in. You know, to sit there
and go go with the guy who's with the loudest
tools is not a bad approach if you're looking at
a bunch of seventeen and eighteen year old kids. It's
disappointing that there's not a ton of college guys coming
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in because you go, well, gee, do I go with
an Ethan Holiday that has a chance to be an
all star? Or maybe go with a guy that's chanced
to be a full time regular but maybe not have
an all star talent. But there's a there's a higher
floor with him. He's going to be close, He's going
to be up in a couple of years. With a
college kid versus Ethan Holiday is going to take you know,
at least three years, maybe longer. But you just don't
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have that in this draft coming up. You just don't.
There's some guys there like Yuhi Alloy with the with
the Baltimore Orioles they picked, and there's a couple of
other guys, But twenty twenty six it's going to be
much much deeper on college bats, and I think it's
going to make the draft scenario a lot better. Might
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be more like that twenty twenty four draft. You know,
we've already seen some big leaguers and you know Nick
Kurtz are he's the first round draft pick in fantasy leagues.
So you know, maybe the twenty twenty six will be
more more like that twenty twenty four draft. But the
twenty five is not, just because everybody's so young. Coming.
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Number two is Charlie Condon. So far, my analysis on
him has been dead wrong. There's just more swing and
miss in his game than I thought. It's a longer
swing if you go back and read my draft profile
of him. That was my concern about Charlie Condon was
swing and missing his game. But it's even worse than
I thought. It is not as good of of plate
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coverage and swing decisions, all of that stuff is a
lot worse than I thought up when he was in
the University of Georgia. But much like Ethan Holliday, it's
loud contact and I would be shocked if he does
not hit thirty home runs. I have him kind of
in the outfield. There was a chance he moves to
first base. But even at first base, I mean he
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could be thirty thirty five forty home runs. Probably at worse,
he's Reese Hoskins. You know, it's pretty good, pretty good career.
Hopefully he's going to be a lot more than that.
I don't think he's going to ever be like a
Freddie Freeman or a Matt Olson. I just don't think
he has the bath, the ball skills to be that good.
But hopefully it'll be somewhere between Reese Hoskins and Matt
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Olsen kind of in that in that realm. Could he
be Nick Kurtz, I don't think so. I think Nick
Kurtz is got better swing decisions, and I believe Charlie
Condon does. And you know, look, I don't think Nick
Kurtz is going to hit what it hit to ninety
last season or something. I don't think he's going to
be that. But Kurts to me, feels like a two
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fifty two sixty batting average kind of guy. He hits
the ball hard enough that he's going to have a
high batting office of balls in play, so he could
extend his batting average a little bit just because Hardy
hits the ball. Charlie Condon could have that as well.
But I think Charlie Condon's starting with, you know, kind
of eliminating batting average of balls and playing putting that
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as league average. You're probably looking at a two thirty
batting average with hopefully you know, twenty to thirty points
on top of that that he gets from just hitting
the ball as hard as he does. Six foot five
guys going to have holes in his swing just this,
But I still like Condon, have him on a couple
of dinings of these got my fingers crossed. I think
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we see him at this season, but he is a
Rockies just buyer. Beware, I don't know where he is
going in the NFBC dress. Let's take a look here,
shall we. NFC Let's just go to Condon. Condon's five
point fifty six fifty two. Eh, it might not be
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a bad six fifty two divided by fifteen. That's forty
fourth round. Now that is all drafts. If I go
to draft and hold leagues, let's see draft champions leagues,
that puts him five point thirty three. So that's that's
not horrible, right. Let's actually find that interesting. It's a
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thirty sixth round. Yeah, that's not bad. I mean it
is Rockies, that's not that's not terrible. Thirty six round
for Charlie Connon. Have to think about that one that
might that might be doable. Okay, So let's uh, that's
the first two cocarrig. Look I said it at the top.
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The way the Rockies work is, you know, they start
off in low Way, which is a hitters park. HIA
is in Spokane Hitters Park. Double A is in Hartford
Pitchers Park, Pitchers League, Slash Neutral League, Triple A is
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al Paso. No, No, it's a Colorado Springs huge hitters park.
So it is. I mean three out of the four
leagues are hitters parks, and of course the DSL is
a big hitters park as well, Hitters League as well.
So that's you know, you just never get a good
sense for the Rockies hitters because they're always putting up
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great statistics. And as much as you say, I've got
to follow the scouting reports, I gotta follow the data,
it still gets skewed. And you know, so that that's
the concern that you have with Rocky as they're going
through the through the minor league system. Right Loway is
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in Fresno now, so Fresno is I mean it's I
went to Fresno to watch the two thousand pre COVID.
That's how you can always remember stuff COVID before COVID
and after COVID. So I think it was twenty eighteen
or nineteen. Also the California All Star League game, and
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it was one hundred degrees there. I mean it was
hot as Blaze's balls jumping off the bat. I've been
to Freso a couple of other times. It gets really
hot and balls do just fly out in the summertime.
So I mean again, great hitters park as well, and
that's just what we've got. And it's hard to evaluate
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Rockies players because of that. But I do like Cole carrig.
I mean, there's great speed there, it's got decent contact skills.
I think there's some power there. He should play a
lot better once he gets back to Triple A. I
don't think this guy is going to be, you know,
a third round talent at any any junction. But I
think it's going to be a two forty two to
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sixty kind of guy with some speed and power, a
really interesting fantasy player. I would not give up Hope
just because he had a tough season. Zach Vine. I
love Zach Vine. I mean, guy's really fast, really aggressive
on the plate. There's more power there than you think.
He just looks like he's stalled and he's had so
many injuries that maybe fourth is not the right place.
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But I mean, what am I going to Sterling Thompson
in front of Zach Viene. I think Zach Vine has
more upside than that we've already seen in the major leagues.
But he's really expands the strike zone too much. Needs
to get that out of the control. But if he
can hit a little bit, cut down on his making
poor swing decisions, make better contact. I think this guy
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could be, you know, a fifteen to fifteen kind of guy,
maybe even a twenty twenty type of contributor long term.
So I still haven't given up Hope. I am waffling
though Sterling Thompson again got out of double A. Things
looked a lot better when he was in triple A
ball sort of jumping off his bat. I think he's
more of a fifteen to fifteen type of player, good speed,
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a little light on the power, makes good contact, But
from a fantasy standpoint, I mean, it's not all of
that exciting. I wonder if he's going where he is
going and Sterling. Sterling Thompson's going seven fort He's only
been drafted in the thirteen leagues. I actually might like
that a little bit better than Charlie Condon because he's
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probably a little bit ahead of Charlie Condon. I'd have
to take a look at the the opportunities for playing time. Now.
Charlie Condon is, you know, kind of their bright shiny
star along with Ethan Holiday. So he's going to get
a chance, and when he does, he's going to get
a chance to play. Sterling Thompson is a nice player,
but doesn't come with that, you know, the r around
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him that a Charlie Conton has. But I still I
do like Thompson. But again with the negative vibe going
on with the Rockies, that's what you worry about there.
Rock Riggio. I love Rock Regio with the Yankees a ton.
I probably saw him play twenty games and he just
it's one of those guys that just grinds out at bats.
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Every time you look up, he's flying around the bases.
It's not the most athletic of looking kids, right, it's
a little bit of a short, squatty type of larger
lower half. But he's got good speed. I think there's
going to be a little bit of power there. And
I got a four point three four from home to first,
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which is, you know, average, just slightly above average speeds.
I think there's going to be enough there for handful
of stolen bases, a little bit of pop. I think
he's gonna hit. I kind of like the player, and
he should be ready. He could, but potentially be ready
in twenty twenty six. As I write my tool summing
high energy bats, sneaky pop, aggressive approach, second base only profile,
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I think that says it perfectly right. I mean, that's
who he is. You're gonna love when you see this
guy plays, a guy that you're really going to root for.
And I think you're gonna look up up and he's
gonna be again. Sixteen home runs, eleven stolen bases, hitting
two seventy and you're gonna go, who is this guy?
Rock Reggio Robert Calais are Patreon members. So I wrote
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about him a ton last season the year before h
he was always making some noise in the DSL and
the Complex League. It's got some loud tools. There are
some swing and missing his game twenty six percent strikeout
rate and Lowey is not great. Eight point seven percent
walk rate is not great. That's probably gonna worsen as
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he moves up the chain, but there is big boy
power there. Uh So, as I write, I think he's
a boomer Bus type of prospect, but a guy that
I find to be very interesting. The guy I love
in the system is Roldy Brito ro l d like Moldy,
but it's Roldy Imbrito speed, really good understand of the
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strike zone in low Way, a four hundred and twenty
thousand dollars sign by then in twenty twenty four, really
was one of the better players in the Arizona Complex
League slash line of three sixty eight four forty five,
five point fifty five, and he kept on cranking once
he got promoted to low Way. Thirty five stolen bases.
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I think he gets stronger, developed some power. This looks
like the setup that you want, and I think I
checked in my Dynasty leagues. I think he's pretty available.
Let me check real quick here go to players. One
nice thing about Fangrass. When you're playing multiple leagues like
I do, you can type in the player's name and
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then one of the tabs is called rostered and it
shows you all the leagues of this particular player. So
it brings up all my leagues and then tells you
where he's available. He's available in absolutely every league. He
needs to be owned in more leagues than that. I
think this guy again at Rocky at sucks. But I
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mean there's some tools there, some low tools there. I'm
going to put him on my list to make sure
he is drafted in first year player drafts. Sean Solivon
the first picture, I think of all the picture, maybe
Brody Breck. We're going to get tim and he's got
the better arm. Breck is probably going to be a closer.
But I think Sean Sullivan, because he's a lefty, I
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think he can remain a starter. I don't know, is
he going to be any good. I mean, Rockies they
just you know, they can't develop pictures because it's an
impossible environment in which to develop pictures. And I think
that's why, I mean, you know, as much as I'm
critical about the Rockies I mean, they've got the it's
the most difficult, challenging organization to lead, and you know,
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but having said that, everybody wants a crack at running
the Rockies because if you can figure it out, you'll
cook down in history as the guy that solved the
you know, the problems out and the Colorado where it's
miserable to try to find pitching. And Sean Sullivan, I
think in any other system would be kind of a
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guy that's talked about as a top two hundred type
of prospect, one hundred and fifty type of prospect. He's
get good stuff. Again, it's a lefty. It's not big stuff,
but he threw strikes and you know there's a lot
to like. But just wait till you know when he
gets into Triple A and Colorado Springs, he gets up
to the major leagues, it's going to be a four
to fifty year a guy at at best, but it's
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good arm Max Blue, b E l Y EU. He
was their seventy fourth overall pick in the twenty twenty
five draft. Big, big power, lots of swing and missing
this game. Really struggled when he uh in the Rocky
Summariason moved him straight into too high A. He hit
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one fifty with a thirty six percent strikeout rate. Yes,
small sample sized, blah blah blah, but he struck out
a lot in college and there's some question zone on
the swing on his ability to tell balls from strike.
So that's Max Blue, but it's a chance to be
big boy power there. Number eleven comes into Christian Aguiles
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and for our Patreon members, so I wrote about him
a ton this past year. He was one of the
more statistically impressive kids in the DSL, just always doing
something interesting. Led the league with four forty two batting average.
He was a DSL repeater, So I mean I talk
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about that a lot. I mean, there's really not too
much shame. There's always a little shame repeating the level,
but when it's the DSL, you usually get a bit
of a pass because again, a lot of those kids
out there are sixteen and seventeen years old and really
having a business being in professional ball. Even though the
DSL is DSL is definitely a professional league. It's professional ball,
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but it's kind of the star starter of that. So
there's really no shame if you're sixteen years old and
can't handle that level you come back strong, and Christian
Agiles was one of those guys that did that. So
I find him to be very interesting. Kelvin Hildalgo wrote
about him a lot in twenty twenty five when he's
in the DSL and he just he just kept hitting everything.
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He gets to full season ball and struggled a little bit,
but he's a seventy runner, can really run, can really
play shortstop. I think there's a chance that he becomes,
you know, a top twenty, top twenty five shortstop in
baseball that kind of level. I don't know if it's
a first team regular, it's more of a second team regular.
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I've got him as a utility floor there. But this
kid that I keep wanting to watch and manage, Drew
Romo was a lot higher last season, but really really
struggled last year, struggled in twenty twenty four and it
just hit a wall. Got up the double A. He's
obviously been DFA by the Rockies, and I think I
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don't know if he's even signed at this juncture. I've
had trouble following h you know who did he get
picked up? Drew Romo. Let's see Drew Romo did he
get dropped. Let's see what AI says. Yes, MLB picture
Drew Romo was designated for signed by the Baltimore Orioles
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was immediately cleaned off the waivers by the Mets on
December seventeenth, So there you go. So here was the process.
December fifth, the Rockies waived him, the Orioles claimed them
off of of their off the waiver wire. The Orioles
and designated him when they made when of their big
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trades and needed room. And now they probably now I
guess all the guys they just trade it for Shane
bos and our Dynasty League or excuse me, our Patreon
members got a long right up on that very very
fascinating trade. But all those guys weren't on the forty man,
so it was a previous trade. They did anyway, drop
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Romo and then the Mets claimed them on the seventeen.
So there. I mean, he's good enough that, you know,
the defensively with some offensive offside, that somebody is going
to hold on to him to see you know how
this all shakes out, and now the Mets it's tagged.
The Mets have them now have him now, so hopefully
he can find a spot there and Tim is, as
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you know, not big on their catching situation at all.
I'm a little bit stronger than I think. Francisco Alvarez
has got big boy power there. He's never going to
hit a lot. He's got big boy power there. Number
fourteen is Ashley Aduhar, contact kid, good speed. He really
needs to get stronger. It was a one point seven
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million dollars signing bonus top international signing in twenty twenty
for It's a kid that should be monitored in all
leagues at this juncture. Let's see how he does in Fresno.
When he gets there, I'll see if he can hit.
He does need to get stronger. Number fifteen is brayln
Weimer w I M M E R. Blotoon guy most
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likely hit three O two three seventy six five oh
three in Colorado Springs. That was, uh, you know which
is which is decent. But going back to double A,
it was back to two eighty four three forty six,
three eighty nine. So that big difference in in double
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A A three eighty nine slug to five oh three.
That's from a neutral slash pitching environment in the Eastern
League to all you know, no holds bar and Triple
A the Pacific Coast League, playing half your games in
Colorado Springs. And if you've ever been to Colorado Springs,
I mean the altitude is very high. In fact, I
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remember going out running my first time in Colorado Springs
this years ago, just being I mean it was maybe
a mile out and back then I was doing five
six miles a day. My knees just don't allow me
to do that anymore. And I just had a mile.
I'm like, oh my god, I'm just just gasping for air.
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That was tough. Man. So it's it is very thin
air up in Colorado Springs and Denver, and balls just
fly out. It's just a much better offensive environment. But Wiimbers,
you know, there's a possibility. It's power, speed, makes port contact.
It's probably eventually going to be a ventrol. But somebody
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that you probably want to watch, Birdie Breck, probably should
be a little bit higher on this list, anybody that
throws one hundred miles an hour. But he just gets
pushed down because he is a Rockies, a Rocky player.
It is big stuff, one of the better arms in
that twenty twenty four class. But you know, with the
move out to Colorado's it became a problem. But if
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you tell me in you know, two or three years,
he's the closer in Colorado, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
Now do you hold on to Brody Brack thinking that
he's the closer of the future. I don't. I don't
play that game anymore because I have kept guys, multiple
players that I thought would be the closer of the future,
and they never are the closer. That to me, And
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I know some of you think you really are good
at this, and maybe you are. I'm not good at it.
I cannot tell you the closer of the future is
in an organization. I can think if they're going to
be pretty good bullpen are. But there's so many factors
that go into being a closer. I mean a lot
of it is just opportunity, and sometimes the opportunity is luck.
You know, if closer becomes ineffective or gets hurt and
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you're you know, you're in the bullpen at the moment
you get a shot and you pitch well for a
few games tag you're it. And you know that kind
of stuff is random. It's very very difficult, you know,
to kind of do closures of the future, so I
don't do it, but I think he has a chance
to be that. Jared Thompson comes in at number seventeen,
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probably another platoon guy, really showing some splits. High eight hit,
eleven home run, still twenty two bases and then gets
up the Double A and again into the Eastern League.
Things kind of settle down a little bit. But the
big problem is is he just can't handle glove side
pitching very well. And you see that a lot with
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these guys. But you know, it's an interesting guy, maybe
a number five outfielder, potentially. Sebastian Blanco comes in at
number eighteen in the DSL six hundred thousand dollars sign
looks like a guy can hit a little bit, maybe
some power that he develops. Let's see, he's a guy
that probably won't be a repeater. Should come over and
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be state side. We can see what he can do there.
Number nineteen is JB. Middleton. He was their second round pick,
paid one hundred thousand dollars over slot. It's a pitcher though,
throws strikes and I think you know, when I did
my analysis with my AI assistant and I asked him,
you know, what he thought was the answer there. One
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of his thinking was just guys that can throw strikes.
And I think that's fair looking at Rockies players, if
you know, if basically, if you're going to be a
general manager of the Rockies, how would you approach pitching
knowing that it's never worked and the artificial intelligence looking
at all the data and like what what has worked? Statistically,
Guys that throw strikes have the better the best chance
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to be effective in Colorado. They're still going to give
up runs, right because the breaking pitches don't don't break,
and so forth. But guys that can throw strikes, you know,
have the best chance for success in Colorado Rockies, and
maybe maybe there is a chance for JB. Middleton at
least it's a guy to monitor. Andy Perez comes in
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at number twenty, speed power guy, five percent walk rate,
so he really needs to, uh to improve his approach.
You know. You know, we've seen this with so many guys,
particularly coming through the Rockies organization, speed and power guys
that just can't hit enough. And that might be Andy
Perez and then Benny Montgomery, former number one overall pick
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I just kind of threw him down here at the end.
He continues to show flashes every once in a while
to have a good three or four weeks. I'll make
daily notes of mine. You go, ah, maybe there's maybe
you can figure it out. It's just it's just not
very good. And I write in my tool summary is
a change of a scenery is probably in the works here.
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He's just he just seems to be regressing and not
making it as that is that the Rockies fault. Did
they overdraft him? Probably a little bit of both. But
he is really struggling if you own him in a
dining league at this juncture, He's not even on my
top five hundred anymore. He's just really nowhere to be seen.
So I I mean slash two to one, two seventy four,
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two sixty three in the Eastern League in eighty six games.
That's not a small sample sized, folks. That's four home
runts and six dollar basis. So he gets the better
pitching and it just, you know, he says not that good.
I don't know what to say. And let's see if
anybody still owns Beny Montgomery. This is this is Sometimes
people don't follow their manager teams as well as others do.
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Let's see if he's on any league, that's hopefully I
hope I don't see Ah, look at that one. He
said one, two, three, four five, he's in half the
he's rostered in half the league. Come on, guys, one
of them looks like I think one of the leagues
he's on. I think I won that league. So man,
I mean, what do I know? But it's a guy
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that I'm not investing in, uh anymore. I moved on
from Benny Montgomery, but I mean there is me. He
had loud tools when he was drafted, but it's now
been multiple years ago and he's just he just hasn't developed.
Which does happen? That is a Rockies list. If we don't,
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Tim and I would be back on Sunday. So you
hear my voice again before the holidays. But again I
wish everybody, you know, if you celebrate Christmas, a great,
wonderful Christmas holiday, if you're celebrating Hanuk, I think there's
two more days left of Hank. I don't even know
if Hank is a big deal, but if you're celebrating that,
of course we got Festivus comes up in three days.
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Everybody can celebrate Festivus, right, So there is no religious connotations.
That is the Seinfeldt holiday that they brought up, which
is absolutely fantastic encourage My wife and I watched that
episode every twenty third of December. It's hysterical and that
its become a thing. You know, people people have Festivus
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parties and you do the Green Evens's and you know
all the feats of strengths and all that. So it's
become a real fun thing. So so everybody can celebrate
that on the twenty third. But so we get into
the end of the year, Tim and I continue to
continue to throw out as much content as we can.
Christmas and New Year's kind of falling weird times this year.
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I think they're both on Thursdays, which means, you know
those week we should be able to work early next
week and early the following week should be able to
record some podcasts, particularly on Sunday, so we still still
should still be good to go for that for Patreon members. Again.
I got my draft targets at Shortstop and Outfield. The
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analysis has been done. I just need to write the
notes up, which takes another hour or two, and I
was going to do that yesterday. We had two big
trades come in, and I wanted to get that out,
so I took my writing time and I got out
the Oriel trade. And it was another trade. I can't
remember what it was. They just seemed to all merge together.
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But another pretty interesting trade. So again I encourage you,
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