Dynasty Baseball Pickups: Ep 106 - Dynasty Trade Strategies and Week 18 Pickups - Prospects Live Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hello, and welcome to the Dynasty Baseball Pickups podcast. Today
is August ninth. I am Kyle Santeig and I am
joined as always by Taylor Corso, how are you doing today? Taylor?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm done pretty good. We had a big debut for
the Giants last night Drew Gilbert, so it wasn't the
best performance at the plate, but I made a really
good catch and right field there, and I still really
like him as a acquisition there in San Francisco, so
I'm pretty excited about that. But how are you doing, Kyle?

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm doing well, But I gotta ask was it a
really good catch or was it be Nick Castiano's catch
where he takes a bad route, slips and falls and
makes it look really good, Because I've seen that highlight
and I think the end result looked better than the
path to get there in my opinion. Yeah, I guess
you could say that it was an impressive catch, don't
get me wrong, to recover and make the catch, but

(00:55):
I don't think it needed to look as good as
it did.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I would say that's true, give you that one.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I appreciate he's good defensively. We'll talk about him a
little bit more later on, but before we get into
anything else, Taylor, the MLB trade deadline is behind us,
but the fantasy trade deadline, for the most part, are
still ahead of us. There might be some leagues that
have theirs have come in past, because everybody gets to
decide when their league's deadline is. But for those of

(01:23):
us that haven't reached that deadline yet, I want to
discuss it a little bit with you, Taylor, and just
how you typically approach the trade deadline in your fantasy leagues.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, I think it really depends obviously on where you
are in the standings at this point and what kind
of league and the depth and everything. But in general,
I feel like this time of year, I'm trying to
fill gaps in my roster, trying to trade from surplus.
I might have to get pieces that are gonna help

(01:54):
fill some of the injury holds. It left you to
injury and per performance and everything like that. So I'm
usually I usually don't wait till the trade deadline to
make moves. If I need players during the season, I'll
make those moves, but really, the trade deadline's that last
last chance to make those moves. And in general, I
talked about in my article this week. In general, there's
a few sort of principles that I try to go

(02:17):
by at the trade deadline, and I'm sure you have
your own sort of trade strategies as well, But for me,
one of the things I'm really wary of is like
trading for high end starting pitching. I know if this
is unavoidable in some leagues, if you need starting pitching,
you need starting pitching. But if I am gonna make
a trade for high end starting pitching, I'll try to
give up pitching prospects rather than hitting prospects, just because

(02:38):
you're trading risk for risk there. And for the most part,
I'll try to do more of like the mid rotation
arms rather than trying to target like a true ace
or anything like that. I'd get the older guys, the
guys that maybe they're gonna be a little bit cheaper,
have less hype on them, that sort of thing, because
chances are whoever you trade for as a starting pitcher
is probably gonna end up on your il. At least
that's my experience.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
So I had really good luck with that this year,
haven't you.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh yeah, yeah. I have teams where I have ten
plus pitchers on the IL. And last year in a
league I rode a league, I was towards the top
of the standings, but I struggled with pitching all year.
I'd made ten trades for pitchers and I think eight
of them ended up on the IL. So it's one
of those where I've just learned over the years just
don't invest a lot of capital in it if you can,
because chances are it's gonna you're not gonna reap the

(03:23):
rewards of trading for a high end starting pitcher. Just
lessons that I've learned. That's one of the big ones.
But curious to hear your thoughts Kyle on sort of
your strategies.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, so first I just want to say, Taylor, if
you do trade for any pictures at this deadline, let
me know so I know who I need to offload
before they get hurt, because you seem to be absolutely
cursed with that and I'd like to know who I
need to get out from under before it gets bad.
But I think I largely align with a lot of
what you're saying. I try not to make the big
splashes in season in general, but especially as we lead

(03:52):
up to the deadline because typically the closer we get
to the deadline, the higher the prices get for the
win now assets. So your high end assets, whether it
be an arm or a bat, are going to be
at their peak value in the season right around the deadline.
So I don't want to make the really big moves.
It's more kind of, like you said, filling in some

(04:13):
gaps on the roster. That being said, though, if the
opportunity presents itself and somebody is shopping a big name
and I can get him for a good price, that
changes things. But it's all about the opportunity that presents itself.
I'm not going out and actively looking for that big
splash to really shake things up. That's more of an

(04:35):
off season move in my opinion. In season, like you said,
it's filling in the gaps and trying to marginally improve
where your team is weakest.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah. Yeah, because for the most part, like if you're
a contender at the top of the standings, like you
probably already have a really good team, you probably don't
need to just go all in and trade everything to
make the best team possible. I feel like, yeah, flags
fly forever, but that can also back fire, particularly when
you're talking about pitch. Now fifth you're talking about hitting.
I think that makes more sense, right, because I think
big time hitters are going to be more reliable in

(05:07):
terms of future impact on your roster than big name pitching.
I do feel like if if you're at the top
of the standings, you want to go all in, you
want to boost your lineup with hitters. I have no
problems going all in and trading a bunch of stuff
to upgrade your hitting. It's just pitching that is just
more of a crapshoot in my mind. And the other
thing I'll say is I have no problems trading prospects
for MLB pieces. I think the hit rate of prospects

(05:29):
is lower than we'd like to think. And as I
think we've proved on this podcast in our article series,
it's really easy to find prospects throughout the year unless
that they're like a top ten, top twenty five prospect.
Maybe I'm hesitant on those, maybe I'm only going to
trade those from really high end first or second round
hitters or something like that. But outside of that, I
think prospects can be moved and then that you just

(05:51):
restock your farm system, and that's how successful teams do it.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, I'm with you there. I will say I have
a hard time moving prospects, but that's more my internal
struggle with I found this guy, I really like him.
I want to see what he becomes. But I definitely
agree with you that the win now assets are always
going to be worth more. And I have had some
success making those types of trades before. There's one that

(06:16):
stands out in my mind that if I go back
and look at it now, maybe I would redo it.
I think I traded Bobby Witt Junior, Bobby Miller, and
Francisco Alvarez away before any of them had debuted, but
I got Ronald Acunya Junior and that resulted in I believe,
two straight championships in that league. So while looking back

(06:36):
on it, I might prefer Wit over Acunya right now,
it was absolutely worth it for the back to back ships.
So but it's a little bit tricky in that regard,
But in general, I agree with you. Trading your prospects
and then backfilling with all of these names that we
have been recommending all year is typically the way to
go for your win now teams.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, and then the last thing I want to mention too,
is just don't get in this trap of so I'm
a selling team, so I have to sell off everyone
that's like over the age of twenty seven, because I've
seen that in a lot of leagues where people will
be selling off guys in their prime, and I get it,
you're at the bottom of the standings, but you know,
fantasy leagues are not the MLB unless you have contracts
or something like that, Like, it doesn't make a lot
of sense to trade off your assets when in most

(07:20):
leagues you can rebuild in one or two years. Twenty
thirty teamers, yeah, it's a little bit different of a scenario,
but I think most fifteen teamers, unless you should be
targeting being in contention within at least two years, and
so trading guys twenty seven twenty eight guys in their
prime doesn't really make a lot of sense to me.
And I feel like that's something I see all the

(07:40):
time where people just I need to have all prospects
if I'm not competing, and so no, then that's just
gonna make your window that much further out. So that's
my last point of just kind of strategy that I
live by.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's a really good point I will say, it's a
lot of fun to have those all prospects crosss and
just hope and dream on what could be. It's exactly that.
It's that mystery box scene from Family Guy.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
You could have the boat, or you could have the
mystery box. It could be anything. It could even be
a boat. You don't really know what you're getting with
these prospects. So while it's nice to have this fully
stocked farm and have it overflowing on your bench and
it's a lot of fun to look at, it doesn't
win championships. You need those pieces, like you said, in
their prime, and you can usually flip a lot of

(08:27):
those other prospects to improve and like you said, turn
your team around within a couple of years now. I
have seen and I have taken over some rosters where
there's very little to work with, and it makes that
sort of a scenario difficult, but when possible, I'm one
hundred percent with you that you need to try to
hold onto the guys in their prime unless you've got

(08:51):
just an overwhelming deal. But again, that goes back to
what I was saying right off the top of this
conversation is it's always about the opportunity that presents itself
at the trade deadline.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, one hi percent agree.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
All right, we will move on Taylor because we do
have a lot more great baseball discussion coming today, and
that includes a lot more news and notes from around
the baseball world. We've got a big contract extension to discuss.
We've got some more injuries, some demotions, promotions, and a
couple of big league debuts this week. Before we get
into our main topic, which as always, is a discussion

(09:24):
focused on some of the names that you will find
in our Dynasty Pickups written articles this week. But before
we get to any of that, I want to remind
everyone about all of the incredible content we've been pumping
out at Prospects Live. We've got the Daily Sheets, the
Dynasty prospect and Open Universe lists. There's the Trade Analyzer
and Trade match Maker. There's p Live Plus and Hobby Plus,

(09:46):
the card version of P Live Plus. There's the Dynasty
Closer Hierarchy. There's our Dynasty Baseball Pickups written articles, Sunday
Smoke from Darren Eisenhower, Diamond Diplomas from Lucas Morell, three Up,
three Down from Tom Gates. There's the DSL Weekly rundown
from Reese White Andrew Dahl just wrote an article discussing
prospects whose autographs have been making the largest gains recently.

(10:09):
Joshua Salguero continued covering the undrafted free agents from this
year's class as he dove into the ALE and NL West.
He's been covering every division in baseball. Nate Rasmussen updated
that Dynasty Closer hierarchy following all of the trade deadline moves,
and he wrote a little piece outlining some of the
moves there as well. He also posted an article highlighting

(10:31):
Gerangelo Sinche and why he's maybe a bit of a
real life cheat code. Reese White and Will Thompson covered
every player moved at the deadline in what was just
a massive, really cool article. Max Ardeburn discussed the most
recent update to Hobby Plus. Joe Lowry put out another
Trading Cards and Trading Stories article in which he discusses
some of his favorite insert cards. And on the podcast front,

(10:55):
we had episode seven of Amateur Hour that came out
with Reese White joining Trevor and Adam Keel to discuss
the trade deadline. Nate, Drew and Reese released episode twenty
four of the on Deck Pod as they discussed their
favorite and least favorite trade deadline moves, and they also
released episode twenty five with guest star Mama Rasmusen, who

(11:16):
if you guys have been listening to the on Deck Pod,
has been rumored to be coming on, so this was
a really cool episode to get to hear from Nate's mom.
And then episode seventy eight of the Prospects Live Dynasty
podcast also dropped as Greg Hucamp and Lucas Morell discussed
the top prospect performers in the month of July. So,
as you can tell, there's a lot of awesome work

(11:37):
being done up and down Prospects Live. And whether you
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(11:59):
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gmail dot com. Now let's get into the news and

(12:23):
notes from baseball over the last week, and we start
with a big contract extension for one of the brightest
young stars in the league. Roman Anthony, signed an eight year,
one hundred and thirty million dollar extension with the Boston
Red Sox. If I heard correctly, I believe there are
some some factors in this deal that could escalate the

(12:45):
contract too as much as two hundred and thirty million dollars,
so wide gap between one thirty and two thirty here.
But I think, frankly, a really great deal for both
sides here. If you're Boston, you've locked up one of
your young stars not only through arbitration years, but a
little bit beyond that. And if you're Roman Anthony, you've
guaranteed yourself some really nice paychecks here. But Taylor, what

(13:07):
do you think about this deal for both sides, both
Anthony and the Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, I think you covered it well. I think it's
a good deal for both sides. These early career contracts
always look like a steal for the team, but you
got to factor in the pre arbers, the rbers and
everything like that, and then the risk that team is
taking on as well. So I think for both sides
it makes a lot of sense. It's pretty cool now
that the Red Sox have both Roman Anthony and Christian

(13:32):
Campbell locked up long term. I know Campbell hasn't really
had the season that most hoped he would have, but
I still think he's gonna be a really good player
long term, and I think the two of them together
holding it down for the Red Sox for eight years
is going to be pretty awesome to see. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Unfortunately, though, Taylor, we have some not so awesome stuff
to talk about next because we are getting into the injuries,
and that starts with Jacob Mazerowski hitting the aisle with
a tibia confusion. There's some speculation out there that he's
probably okay and maybe this is a way to manage
his innings. We won't dive into that too much because
we do have a few more injuries to go over.

(14:10):
That includes Austin Riley who has a core strain. We've
got Nick Lidolo dealing with a blister. Mike Soroka, who
was just traded to the Cubs, is already on the
shelf with a shoulder strain. Tyro Estrada has a hamstring strain,
Logan Henderson is dealing with elbow inflammation, Colton Kowser has
a concussion, and Tyler O'Neil is dealing with wrist inflammation.

(14:33):
So Taylor not quite the super high end names. There
are still some big names in this list, but not
quite to the extent that we were talking about last week.
So who here is most concerning for you?

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, I think it's Austin Riley because it's a repeat injury.
He came off the injured list, believe earlier in in August,
coming back from ab donald injury, and then he's back
on the the al for that same injury. So I
think it's really pretty concerning When a player like that
has a repeat injury. It makes me wonder how much

(15:07):
we're going to get out of him for the rest
of the year and whether that's going to be an
issue going forward. Obviously, the other ones are pitcher injuries.
Logan Henderson with the elbow inflammation. You'd never want to
hear that. They did say there doesn't appear to be
any damage to the UCL, so that's good. But we've
seen so often with these inflammations where the initial response

(15:28):
comes back, oh yeah, it came back clean, and the
next thing you know, they're getting TJ. So I'm not
saying that's what's happening with Logan Henderson, but one that
I'm really worried about there. And then obviously Mike Soroka
with the shoulder strain. This guy, I know is not
a huge name, but I was pretty excited about him
going to the Cubs. He's pitched better than the numbers show,
and with the shoulder strain now it looks like you'll
probably be out for most, if not the whole rest

(15:50):
of the year. Really big blow to the Cubs there
as well for him being their big starting pitcher pickup
at the deadline there.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, absolutely, I think that's the big thing for me
with Soroka is just that this was the move that
they made at the deadline, right. They didn't go out
and make a big splash. The biggest name they got
is already on the injured list and Unfortunately. I think
it's a little bit predictable because, as you said, he's
not known to have the greatest track record of health,

(16:17):
so I think it puts into question a little bit
more so what the Cubs were doing at the deadline,
only going out and getting a Soroka and a couple
other smaller pieces. So that's disappointing for Cubs fans. It's
concerning for his fantasy value, but I think you nailed
it on everything else. Hopefully it's not a big deal

(16:38):
like the Brewers say it is for Logan Henderson. And
then I'm just I'm starting to get really concerned with
Austin Reiley because not only has he had a handful
of injuries over the last couple of years that have
taken him out, but when healthy, he just hasn't looked
like himself recently, and I'm wondering if all of those
injuries are starting to add up and unfortunately maybe cutting

(16:58):
his prime a little bit here. But the same can
be said for a lot of that Braves lineup, So
I wonder if there's something going on and maybe next
year is a big bounce back here. What do you
think about that? For the Braves are they running out
of time with their competitive window here, or is this
just a blip on the radar.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's tough because I think coming into this year we
thought last year was just a blip on the radar
with guys like Riley Nausey, Albi's there. Yeah, it just
hasn't gotten better this year. And going back to the
Roman Anthony discussion, everything, there was so much made about
how the Braves had this young core under contract and
how it was going to set them up for incredible

(17:38):
performance for years and years, and now as these guys
are entering their mid to late twenties, it's like all
of a sudden, the injuries are taking their toll. They
can't stay healthy. The performance hasn't been there. But I
would say for both Riley and Albi's I'm not too
concerned long term. Especially for Riley, I think he'll bounce back.
I think he just needs health. Albi's he's just a
weird one. He's had such up and down seasons throughout

(18:00):
his career that a couple down seasons here. I'm not
ready to write him off at age twenty eight there,
but I'm a little bit more worried about him than
I am about Riley.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, I'm with you there. I'm thinking I'm hoping Riley
will come back strong. I've got a couple of shares,
so it would be great for me in a selfish
way as well, but obviously just good in general when
you know a lot of the best players in the
league are healthy. So hopefully the Braves can turn things around.
But we will move on to a couple of injury
updates now Taylor as Grayson Rodriguez had elbow surgery. It's

(18:33):
not Tommy John, It's not the internal brace. He had
a debridement procedure I believe, to remove some bone chips
from his elbow. I think this effectively ends his season though.
And we also have Esoch paradees who if you remember
last week, I mentioned he is set for season ending surgery,
but they went back on that and have decided that

(18:55):
he's going to try to rehab the injury instead of
getting that surgery. So a couple of different versions of
updates here. What do you think about these, because it's
a couple of really interesting situations.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, I would agree. I think with Grayson, I'm happy
he's not getting the TJ. It sounds like this is
a more minor procedure. He should be ready to go
for the start of spring training next year. So hopefully
the massive injury has been avoided here and we should
have a healthy Grayson Rodriguez next year. But obviously there's
still a lot of injury risk there. And then with

(19:31):
Isaac Brady's this is a weird situation. Maybe the rehab works,
but I feel like most of these injuries, when they
choose rehab over the surgery, they usually end up having
the surgery eventually anyway. So I just wonder if the
rehab doesn't work and he has to have the surgery,
is that going to impact his timetable for next year
because he waited.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
I'm with you on that. It's really I'm concerned about
both of these. It's nice to see Grayson not getting,
like you said, the TJ, but at the same time,
he as a track record of injuries now at a
very young age. And then when you look at paredas
I think you're bang on. This seemed like a major

(20:12):
enough injury if they were announcing that he's getting season
ending surgery and they've now gone back on that, or
he's gone back on that and he's going to try
to rehabit. This just seems like something that's going to
probably delay his return and hopefully not too far into
next year. But there's a good chance that he's missing
at least part of twenty twenty six unless this just

(20:34):
goes exceptionally better than anyone is expecting. Yeah, all right,
We've got a few demotions to move on to next
as Michael Tolia has been sent down by the Rockies,
and then a couple of players that were just dealt
at the deadline have been demoted within a week of
being traded for, as the Yankees have sent down Jake

(20:56):
Bird and the Padres have sent down JP Sears. So
a couple of players traded for that fan bases might
not be too happy to see it down in the minors.
What do you think about those? And then when we
look at totallya in Colorado, do you think there's a
chance we get a comeback from him or was he
maybe sort of a one hit wonder last year?

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah? I think he was a one hit wonder last year,
and he was a pretty divisive name coming in the year.
There was a lot of people that were really high
on him, But I think you and I were among
the people that were really not buying into him being
able to make enough contact for the significant power there
to really translate, and I think we got it spot on.
So I'm not surprised at all about totally struggles, and
I think he's pretty much done as being a intriguing

(21:42):
fantasy asset there at least until he gets traded off
the Rockies and then guess what happens. But as far
as the guys that got sent down, I'm really not
surprised in either one, because you know, you look at
Jake Bird. He was stellar for the first few months
of the season up until early July. He had two
point seven to six ERA, which is really impressive, particularly
pitching half his games in Colorado. But he'd actually been
really bad in July. Since July second, including his performance

(22:06):
with both the Rockies and the Yankees, he has an
ER over twenty four and he has given up runs
in four of his last five appearances. So really, the
Yankees kind of bottom while he was in a slump,
and then the slump has just continued with the Yankees,
so that one's not too surprising. The JP series one
again is not that surprising. I think the Padres acquired

(22:27):
him as depth that they needed, and I think the
key with him is its optionable depth. They can send
him down to the miners, whereas like a Neestra Cortes,
who they also picked up, doesn't have any options, so
they can't send him down to the minors. So Michael
King is back this weekend, I believe, and so that
means that there's one less spot in the rotation. So
JP Sears has the options. He's getting sent down if

(22:49):
Cortez struggles or there's another opening, we're gonna see JP
series again. But yeah, I would say this is not
that big of a surprise.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I'm with you there, and I think that's something that
goes under the radar sometimes with these deals at the deadline.
Like you noted, Sears and Bird both have options on
their contracts still, so I think that was maybe a
not necessarily a driving factor, but something that San Diego
and New York liked about these arms because it did
give them some roster flexibility in being able to send

(23:19):
them down when players come back off the injured list
or if they are struggling in the case of Jake Bird.
And then with Tolia, You're absolutely right. We discussed him
at nauseum because we were not buying in, Like much
of the fantasy community seemed to be, the hype just
never seemed to line up with the peripheral numbers. But

(23:39):
Taylor speaking of some players whose hype maybe got a
little bit out of control at points in their career.
We've also seen Matt Mervis released by the Miami Marlins.
He's someone that following a big AFL performance a couple
of years ago, saw his stock rise significantly, but we
were maybe a little bit more hesitant to really buy in.

(24:01):
This is a player that we've already seen released and
picked up, and released and picked up, and now he's
released again. Do you think Matt Mervis has a shot
to get added somewhere again? Or is the fact that Miami,
of all teams is cutting him, is that kind of
a really bad sign for his career going forward.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Yeah, I think this is the last time we discussed
Matt Nervis on this podcast. Let me put it that way,
So I'd be ok with that. I think he'll land
somewhere as organizational depth. But I think it's shown that
he's a quad a guy. Like it's just he's got
his opportunities. He hasn't done anything with him, and I
think this is yet another lesson to not buy into
what in the Arizona Fall League. You look at the
last few years, it was Matt Nervis, then it was

(24:40):
Jacob Marcy. Last year really good. He looks great, but
I don't buy it. He looks really good.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Even the stack cast looks phenomenal, but they're not. The
numbers he's posting are not who he is.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
And he was really bad the year after the AFL. Yes,
and then you had Caleb Durban. Oh he's whatever, but
he's fine, but he's not the superstar that he looked
in the Fall League. There. So I just cautioned everybody
who's going to First Pits Arizona going to the Fall
League this year, please don't buy into these performances, particularly

(25:15):
for redraft. It never works out.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, yeah, I'm with you there. I will say there
are situations where you can maybe buy in. I look
at what Joseph Barsagio did, and I think you look
at in particular some of the underlying stuff that he
did in the AFL, and I think that is maybe
where you can start to get excited about players. Because yes,
Brasignio won the Triple Crown in the AFL and was

(25:37):
a tremendously hot player for the entire stretch of that season,
But it was more about kind of the contact rates
and what he was doing under the hood that gave
me at least reason to be excited in Bersanio, and
for me, he has continued moving up prospect lists this year.
So while you can't take everything from the AFL at
face value, I do think you can't be in entirely

(26:00):
dismiss of either, which I don't think you are saying, Taylor.
It's more of a tale of caution than anything else. Yeah, exactly, exactly,
Just take it for what it is exactly. Now, let's
move on to some good news. Let's move on to
some promotions, and we've got a handful of really fun
players moving up to Hia as the Brewers promoted both

(26:21):
Jesus Made and Luis Pania, the Pirates promoted Sammy Steffura
after trading for him, and the Orioles promoted Victor Figueroa
after trading for him. So Taylor, lots of fun names here,
in particular the duo from Milwaukee. Tell me why you
are excited about seeing Made and Paana in Hia and

(26:43):
if either of Steffura or Figueroa really get you excited
as well.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, Maday and Pania. So cool to see these guys
pretty much get promoted to every level together. It just
shows like the the faith that the organization has in them,
that these guys are pretty much in lockstep, and the
fact that they already both have a home run in
Hia again just speaks to their upside and what these
guys both provide so embarrassment of riches for the Brewers there.

(27:09):
It's pretty insane and pretty cool that they're both in
the same organization, and these guys are going to be
compared to each other for a very long time. But
I know I'm still team made. I assume you're still
team made, but it keeps getting closer and closer. Just
a really cool duo there. I do want to talk
a little bit about Victor Figueroa. I think this is
an interesting prospect because so much of his value came

(27:31):
with his performance early on this year, where he was
just absolutely demolishing Complex as an older player. Then he
got moved to single A did very well, but not
to the level he was in Complex, and now he's
getting promoted to a more age appropriate HIA, so I'm
really interested to see what he does because he's this

(27:53):
defensively limited cornerbat, so he's really going to have to perform,
and if he could perform at an age appropriate level,
then I think it builds his stock a little bit.
But I still have my doubts. I want to see
it first.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
I think that's a really good call out. He's remained
stagnant in at least my prospect rankings since that initial
hype where he hit like six hundred or whatever it
was in complex ball and then was good enough in
single A. I really want to see how he does
in HIA here. That's going to be I think, really telling,
like you said, about which direction his stock is going

(28:27):
to go. And then I also do want to mention
Stuffer here quickly. He's a prospect that I've liked in
the past. I'm not a big fan of the move
from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh for his development. I am curious though,
to see how he continues to perform going forward, because
he's another player who similar to figuar Oa. Since that
initial big jump Stuffura's stock, in my mind, has remained

(28:50):
pretty stagnant this year, So if he moves up to
Higa and performs well, he might be worth taking another
look at here. But I think he's slowly moving down
my rankings at this point. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, I was never super high on him, but yeah,
I agree. I think he's one of those where he's
gonna have to show something pretty intriguing or he's just
gonna be sitting out there at the back end of
the rankings as a guy who you know is fine
that were to gain.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Fine, really not all that different from a guy like
Caleb Durban. Yeah, yeah, just fine, he's there. We'll move on, though,
to some players that are now in Double A, as
the Mariners have promoted Colt Emerson and Durangelo Sancha, the
Guardians have promoted Alfonso Rosario, the Yankees promoted Ben Hess

(29:45):
and the Nationals i'll call it a promotion. But Jarlin
Susana is up in Double A again really as he
comes off of his rehab. So some big names here,
A really fun duo in Seattle who's catching your attention
as they've moved up to though Taylor.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, there's a few guys I want to talk about.
So first, as the two Mariners Colt Emerson. It's really
good to see the power start to come around a
bit this year. The contact has continued to be there,
but the ground ball rate is still an issue. He's
still running around fifty percent ground ball rates. I do
him starting to wonder what does the fantasy outlook look
like long term. I think as a real life player,

(30:21):
he's gonna be very good, but I don't think he's
gonna steal a lot of bases. The power is still
a question. The hit tools really good, so is it
I don't know. I think you're hoping for a really
good ratio player with enough power that he develops into
and I think best case scenario he's like a Corey
Seeker or something, but I just really don't see that
at this point. So I don't know. I'm really curious

(30:44):
to see what cold Emerson develops into. I'm not I
still have him fairly high in my rankings. I'm not
moving him down too much, but the ground ball rate
is pretty scary to me. And then Durendalist Agentia, I
gotta read Nate Rasmussen's article that he just put out
on this. I haven't read it yet. Profile Andigentia I
just don't really get it. I've never really gotten it.
I get the stuff as good. I get he's both hands,

(31:05):
but like you look at the performance this year, and
it wasn't very good. But he had a four point
five eight a five point four to six FIP in
High A. He had walk problems, he had home run problems,
and even like recent to this promotion, since July first,
he has a three point nine to one RA, which
that's a lot better, but it's still a fIF close

(31:26):
to five, a four point nine to six FIP, And
while the walks have come down, he's still experienced a
big time home run problem. Maybe that's with one arm
versus the other. I haven't really dug into the splits
on it, but I just I continue to feel like
he's pretty overrated despite being a arm with good stuff
in the Mariners system. I just I don't really know
what this actually looks like at the big league level.

(31:48):
But I gotta read Nate's article and maybe that'll provide
some clarity to me.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, so I will say Saintsha's interesting. I think he
needs to scrap the switch picture thing. It's really fun,
it's cool, but he's a much better right handed pitcher
than he is left. I don't know what the splits
look like, but I know that the stuff is significantly
better from the right side than the left. If I'm
remembering correctly, he's mid to upper nineties. From the his

(32:15):
breaking balls are better, he's flashed a solid change up,
and from the left side it's okay, but it's like
it's ninety to ninety three and everything takes a step
or two down from a grade standpoint. So I think
it's a lot of fun, but I think that the
switch pitcher thing is maybe hurting his overall stock and
his overall performance. Yeah, I think you're probably right. But

(32:40):
it's hard enough to do one thing really well. To
try to do multiple things really well. Is that much harder? Yeah,
I'm I've never been a big cgential guy. I'm still
not a big cgential guy, and the timing of the
promotion to me seems a little odd.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
But I guess this is a college arm that should
see time in Double A before the season, and you
want your college arm to look like that and being
a big time prospect, I guess it. It does make
some sense there. The last name I wanted to talk
about real quick is Ben Hess because Ben Hess's interesting guy.
Really started out the season strong, got a lot of hype,
and then at one point the walks really ticked up,

(33:16):
the performance ticked down, and we talked about him on
one of our podcasts we did with James Anderson where
we talked about players were dropping, and I think James
had listed Hess as one in the players he was dropping.
But he's really turned it on lately, and across his
last five High A outings he has a one point
two to nine ERA and just a six point three

(33:36):
percent walk rate, So he seems like he's made the
adjustments prior to this promotion to really get back to
the exciting starting pitcher that we saw early on in
the year. And I'm I'm really excited to see what
he does at this higher level here, because Yeah, it
looks like he's really turned things around lately.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
I think that's a great call out on Hess. I
was going to mention him if you didn't, so I
will quickly go into both Rosario and Susana here. For Susana,
I think this is a really nice opportunity to recoup
some stock because being out for most of the season
to this point, he's slid down a little bit in rankings,
but I think more than that, he's been passed by

(34:15):
a lot of other prospects, So I think this is
a really nice opportunity for him to maybe approach that
borderline top one hundred value again. And then with Alfons
and Rosario, I'm just really curious to see what it
looks like in double A because while his contact rates
took a step forward in Hia after moving to the
Guardians organization, which is a really good sign because he's

(34:38):
tooled out for days, they still weren't great. So I'm
curious to see what everything looks like in double A,
and this might be a really good opportunity for us
to get a look at what Rosario could be going forwards.
Now that's not to say that contact rates couldn't continue improving. Again,
they took a big step forward, and this is his
first year in the Guardians organization, so it's entire really

(35:00):
possible that we see those contact rates continue to trend
in the right direction in following years. But I think
what happens here in double A is going to be
really telling for Isario.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, I would agree, And one quick circle back to
Cigentia before we move on. I took a look at
the splits, and yeah, it is is ridiculous. He definitely
needs to just pitch as a righty because as a
right handed pitcher versus so as a right handed pitcher,
he's giving up a four to eighty one OPS against
right handed hitters, and then as a left handed pitcher

(35:34):
he's giving up a eleven hundred OPS against left handed batters.
So really, it seems like all the damage being done
against him is coming when he's pitching as a lefty.
So that actually makes me like him a lot more
because I think once he scraps the switch pitching and
just sticks as a right hander, I think there's a
lot to like there. I'm glad I looked into that, because, yeah,

(35:54):
it looks like that's really what's dragging down his numbers,
at least from the limited split information I can see here,
is that it's really it's really him as a lefty
that has really stunk.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah, and if the whole point of doing that is
the platoon advantage, and you're not getting the platoon advantage
when you switch to your left hand, what's the point.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, Yeah, he's been actually worse pitching to left handed
hitters as a lefty than he has been as a righty.
Now he's been pretty bad as a righty too, pitching
to left handers, but it's a very small sample. Yeah,
I just I don't see this working. Well.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, he's one that I'm going to get excited about
him when it is announced that he's done with the
switch pitching, because again, the right arm is just significantly better.
It's fun, it's exciting, it's cool. It doesn't work, yeah, exactly.
But let's move on to some players whose stuff is
working as they now are moving up to Triple A,

(36:50):
one being Tommy Troy being promoted for the Diamondbacks, Peyton
Toley has been promoted for the Red Sox, Yoniel Curette
for the Rays, and abbamelech or Tez for the Rangers.
Tommy Troy is one that I want to focus on
real quick because he really saw his stock drop last
year after a bit of a down year, but also

(37:10):
an injury riddled year that really kind of limited him.
Even when he was quote unquote healthy, he just didn't
look like himself. And I believe in the off season
I called him abye and said this was a big
opportunity for him to recoup some value, and he's looked
good in Double A and now he's got an opportunity
to continue to show out in Triple A. So I'm

(37:31):
really excited to see what Tommy Troy continues to do.
But Taylor, who are you excited for in this group
of players moving up to Triple A?

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, I agree with you. One on Tommy Troy. One
that sort of caught my eye this morning is I
was looking at these names. I noticed, let's see how
this guy's doing is Abby Melick Ortiz, And then, like
you alluded to, I went out and picked him up
in a couple of my leagues because what he's been
doing lately is insane. And I think he might have
been one of my names on that same James Anderson
podcast that I listed as a guy I'm dropping. He's

(38:01):
really turned it on since, been on an insane tear
since his promotion too. Tripa a here four home runs
in four games, already has a ball at I think
it's one twelve point seven miles an hour. Eleven of
his twenty home runs on the year have come since
July first, in his last twenty eight games, and in
that span. He has a thirteen point nine percent strikeout rate.
Aby Belcartiz, I've been on a roller coaster ride with

(38:22):
this guy because I was super high on him in
my very first rankings I did for Prospects Live. Because
last year, at the beginning of the year, it looked like,
you know, this is the guy we knew had immense power.
The contact took a big step forward, and I thought, awesome,
this is gonna be a really valuable bat. But with
the step forward of the contact, the power really went
downhill last year and this year started out the same way.

(38:45):
The contact games persisted, but the power wasn't really there.
The power has really come on lately and he's knocking
on the door to the big leagues and there is
some room for him in that that Rangers roster when
he's ready. You look at the options that the Rangers
have had first base recently, and it's not great. When
you look at DH You've got Jock Peterson first base,

(39:07):
You've got Jake Berger and Rowdy Tellez. All those guys
have struggled this year. So if Abby Malcortiz is ready,
he could get a shot as soon as this year,
or if not, could be potentially an option for next
year as well. Just one of those situations to keep
an eye on. But he's reaching that point where he's
starting to put the power in the contact gains together,

(39:27):
and what he's done so far at Triple has been
really exciting. So yeah, I went out and grabbed a
couple shares, and if he's out there in your leagues,
I might recommend you do the same.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah, he's definitely become a really interesting name again. But
I want to go back to Peyton totally real quick,
because this is a guy I wrote up earlier in
the year and he's just looked more and more dominant
every step of the way as he's moved up the
organization for the Red Sox. I think this is a
guy who could potentially show up down the home stretch

(39:57):
for the Red Sox and could even be a nasty
bullpen piece for them in the in the playoffs here,
depending on how things go at the end of the year.
I think Peyton Toley has firmly put himself in the
conversation for similar to our ties, if not the end
of this year, the start of next year for the
Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's a great call.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
All right, let's move on to a few players heading
up to the MLB. Now we've got Curtis Mead up
with the White Sox. Now after his trade, Cad Cavali
was brought back up with the Nationals and with the
Tyro Estrada injury, Adile Almador is once again back with
the Rockies. They have really been jerking him around, up

(40:40):
and down and up, and I think this is the
third or fourth time we've talked about him. Do you
see anything changing this time around for Amador Taylor?

Speaker 2 (40:47):
No, unfortunately not. I'm pretty much out on him at
this point. Hasn't been good at Triple A when he's
been there, hasn't been good in the majors, and like
you said, just yo yod back and forth now still
twenty two years old. Maybe there's hope that he does
put it together eventually, but hasn't looked that great. I
guess you look at the Triple A numbers. They look
good on the surface, but that's a really offensive, friendly

(41:08):
environment and despite pretty decent slash line in Triple A,
it's still at eighty six WRC plus and there's not
a ton of power there in terms of the exitvelosses.
And everything like that. I don't know. He's not a
guy that I'm like super invested in long term, even
where I have him, I think he's one that I
would be super happy to get anything for in trade
because I just I really don't see it working out

(41:28):
for a guy that had a lot of pedigree when
he was a prospect.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah. Unfortunately. Omador is another one laying credence to the
Never Rockies, saying that Teleport has made famous over an FBD.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
What about Mead and Cavali, These are a couple of
guys that we've seen in the big leagues in the past,
but for one reason or another. With Mead it's been
the lack of opportunity in Tampa, and with Cavali it's
been the fact that he's been hurt for three years
since we first saw him. Do you have any in
either of these guys?

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Yeah. Cavali's super intriguing. I think the problem is he's
pretty much rostered everywhere, at least in my leagues. But
he had a great MLB outing season debut this year,
and then the performance in TRIAA wasn't great. It was
pretty bad. So you gotta wonder which Cavali you're gonna get.
But I do think that if he can stay healthy,

(42:22):
which is a big if. He's the most intriguing of
this bunch. Curtis Mead. He was a big time prospect.
He never really got much run with the Rays, never
really did much with the run that he had. He
should get some playing time with the White Sox. I'm
intrigued in like a deep league sort of way, but
I'm not like rushing out to grab him. If I

(42:44):
have an open roster spot he's somehow available, I'll pick
him up. But he's not one that I'm scouring the
wire or trying to add him in trades or anything
like that.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
I'm with you on both of those. I have a
sharer or two of each. I'm not super excited for
either of them, but I am intrigued to see what
things look like down the home stretch here.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Lastly, in the News and Notes, we will get into
a couple big league debuts, the first of which is
a Colorado Rockies prospect, Kyle Carros, who is getting the
call this weekend. And if I'm not mistaken, Taylor, you
wrote him up last season, so I'm gonna let you
take it from here and tell everyone what to expect
from the son of Eric Carros.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, he's a weird prospect. He is. I think he's
gonna be a good one for real life. I'm wondering
what he's gonna be for fantasy. Because the thing with
him is he has really good contact skills and he
will draw a good amount of walks, so he's like
good ratio booster, But in terms of power and speed,
he really doesn't provide a whole lot of either. So

(43:49):
you look at his career and like his career highs
in both home runs and stolen bases were last year
where he went fifteen to twelve. I just maybe you
get something like that where you get double digit home
runs and maybe double digit stolen bases and good ratios.
He's gonna be a deeply guy. You never know what

(44:10):
the Rockies, how much they're gonna screw him up with
their development. But Carols has hit everywhere he's been and
he's a good defender as well, so he should get
plenty of opportunities there that should be like a Caleb
Durban type. So if that's something that's exciting to you,
then yeah, go for Caros. I did pick up a share.

(44:31):
I think he got picked up in most places when
he got promoted in my leagues, but I did pick
up a share this week. He's gotten off to a
pretty good start. But it's been one game. I can't
really read too much into it, but yeah, I think
he's in a deeply context. He's an interesting prospect, just
don't expect a super high ceiling.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
So Taylor, what do you think about maybe a two
fifty three forty three sixty slash with thirteen home runs
and ten stolen bases.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
That sounds about right.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
That's Nolan Shanuel last year. So that I think is
the peak that you're looking at. If you get excited
by that kind of profile, good for you, but it's
not one that does a whole lot of anything for me.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Yeah, I think the batting average will be higher, but yeah,
I just again, like you said, it doesn't really do much.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah, it's I think what you said earlier about him
being a ratio stabilizer but not going to provide a
ton of counting stats. I think you're bang on with
that right there. Yeah, all right, let's move on to
the second debut to discuss here, and we've got another one, Taylor,
that I am going to let you take the lead
on because, in what can only be called a four

(45:40):
D Chess move, Drew Gilbert is getting the call to
the Giants. So Taylor, hop back on your soapbox here
and tell Reese White why he's wrong about Gilbert.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Yeah, be recent, but joking a lot about his takes
on the Giants, because I think he's become the most
hated person in in Giants world at this point. O
giants read it. At least giants at least giants read it,
which I don't blame him, honestly, I'm offended he compared
the Giants to the Angels and the Rockies. You don't
compare the Giants to the Rockies. Those are fighting words

(46:11):
right there, saying that they're one of the worst run
organizations and one of the I guess stupid organizations. But
I don't remember exactly where math They hate Math. He's
not a big fan of Buster Posey. But again, as
I reminded him, I think part of that goes back
to the fact that Buster Posey helped the Tigers lose
a World Series. So yeah, I think there's some animosity there,
but I really like Reese and I think he's fun.

(46:34):
So we've been having a lot of fun with us.
But going back to Drew Gilbert, Reese is not a fan.
He thinks he's a waste of a forty man roster spot.
I don't think that's the case. I think with Drew Gilbert,
what you're hoping for is younger version of Mike Yastremsky.
So platoon outfielder who probably better off in a corner
but maybe can play a little bit of center field.

(46:56):
Is not gonna wow you with the fantasy stats or anything,
but will be a deep League five outfielder kind of
guy who will play, maybe be a better real life
player than a fantasy player. I don't have huge hopes
for his fantasy ceiling, but it's worth noting this is
also a guy that dealt with a lot of injuries
throughout the last couple of years. He was a really

(47:18):
highly ranked prospect coming into last year, dealt with injuries
all year. Those injuries carried over to this year. I
believe it was like hamstring, lower body injuries. Got a
late start to this year, really struggled out of the
gate again this year, and then turned it on more recently,
before and after the trade to the Giants. So made
his debut last night. He didn't do a lot in

(47:39):
terms of the offense. In terms of the defensive play
we talked about earlier, I'm watching it right now. I
don't think it was a bad read. I think he
just slipped and still managed to recover and catch the ball.
Right field at Oracle Park there is not an easy
place to play, and I think he made a fantastic play.
So I still stand by saying that was a good catch.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
But misremembering. I've seen the replay once and it was
from a really weird low angle, so it was hard
to tell what the read looked like. But I think
the slip at the end made it look better than
it actually was.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
I don't know, he had a lot of ground to cover.
I think it was a good play. But anyway, enough
time on that. I will say what to expect Counting
stats wise from Drew Gilbert, I would say you're probably
gonna end up with a pretty good OBP. I think
that's really his best skills. He tends to draw a
lot of walks there. I think you'll you might end
up with decent power In terms of like average power.

(48:32):
I don't think he's gonna be twenty five plus home runs.
Maybe you get like fifteen to twenty home runs with him,
maybe you get a few stolen bases as well, but
with the lower body injuries, that really hasn't been a
big part of his game. I would say in general,
I'm not like super excited about his promotion from a
fantasy standpoint, but I do think that he's gonna be
a solid, deeply guy.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Yeah, I think a couple of things you said there
really resonate with me. One Like you said, we love Reese,
he's fantastic. We love joking around with him. Everything we're
saying is very lighthearted right now, it's all in jest.
But with Gilbert in particular, the couple of things you
said that stand out are the fact that he's maybe
the Yas replacement and maybe a better real life player

(49:16):
than fantasy, but still some deep league viability. So I
don't think we can or should expect a ton from him,
but I do think he's going to be a fine player,
maybe again in that Caleb Durban realm where he's not
gonna run wow you, but he's just gonna be there,
and he's gonna be a fine player exactly. Yeah, all right, Taylor.

(49:36):
We were certainly lighter on the news and notes this
week than we were when we had to discuss the
trade deadline last week. So we are going to return
to two recommendations each this week, and I'm gonna get
you to lead us off with your first name to know.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Yeah, that's Luis Kova, So, eighteen year old outfielder in
the Marlins organization. In the DSL six one, one sixty
is what he's listed at. Hits right handed, four percent
rostered on fan tracks, and came in at five ninety
six in our latest top six hundred update this year
in the DSL two or eight plate appearances two ninety
six four eighteen five twenty one slash, eight home runs,

(50:15):
thirty four stolen bases, fifteen point four percent walk rate,
eighteen point three percent k rate. Now, this is a
tough one for me because COVID represents two different buckets
of players that I want absolutely nothing to do with.
So the first is that he's repeating the DSL as
an eighteen year old. I think we talked about it

(50:36):
earlier this year when we discussed the Rockies player. I
don't remember who it was, but generally I stay far
away from players that repeat the DSL, and I've been
very vocal about my distaste for Marlin's hitting prospects, particularly
in the low minors, and the reason why is that
the Marlins have the worst hit or development of any

(50:59):
major league going back several years. I have a question
for you, Kyle, can you name the last Barlin's homegrown
player so either originally signed or drafted by them, to
have a qualified WRC plus over one hundred in a season.

(51:19):
You could also say, no.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
If I'm going to make a guess here, I'm going
all the way back to Christian Yelich.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
It's not quite that far back. So Brian Anderson did
it in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Brian Anderson.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Wow. Yeah, And if you look before, if you don't
want to, if you want to throw out, twenty twenty,
that's for fely understandable. Was a weird year. Brian Anderson
also did it in twenty nineteen. The last player not
named Brian Anderson to do it was JT. Real Mudo
in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Okay, other than Anderson, I was on the right track.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Yeah, you have to go back to the real Mudo,
Yelich and ozudah Days, Yeah, Stanton, all those guys. Since
those days, it's been really bleak in the Marlin system.
And you can look at their currents and see just
how few players they've developed to the big leagues. The
only guys on their major league roster that originally drafted

(52:09):
and developed by them are Javier Sonohan and Troy Johnston,
who just got the call to the big leagues. That's it.
All their other hitters have come from outside their organization.
So it is awful. And there are rumblings that like
the Marlins development has gotten better this year, but still,
like we have to see it and man, like that

(52:30):
is such a bad track record. I can't even imagine.
And it's not like the Marlins haven't been drafting high
in drafts as well. They've had their opportunities, they just
haven't hit on any of them. So going back to
Cova again, like two buckets, I have zero faith in
working out, but Covid in particular is actually really interesting
and I can't really ignore what he's doing any longer. Yes,

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this is a second trip through the DSL, but he's
hitting for a lot more power this time around. He's
nearly tripled his home run total from last season and
twenty one fewer played appearances. He's raised his ISO by
one hundred and twenty three points. And you look at
what he's done recently, and it's been an insane hot streak.
So five of the eight home runs have come in
his last sixteen games. He's also stolen twenty bases in

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those sixteen games while being caught stealing just three times.
It's a three sixty five forty seven six eighty three
slash during that time period with a fifteen point four
percent walk rate and just a nine percent strikeout rate
nine percent. So he's on absolute fire again, old for
the level, repeating the level. But this is also a
guy that has some pedigree as well. He was the

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largest of the Marlins international signings from the twenty twenty
four j fifteen class, caught at one point four million
dollar bonus. We ranked him in the Marlins Top twenty
heading into this year. Matt Thompson did his scouting report,
gave him a fifty hit tool, forty power, seventy run
and fifty five field and said quote, Quova has posted
strong exit velocity numbers for someone his agent size. He

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needs to find a way to hit the ball in
the air more often, which is a common issue for you.
You have to play the long game here, but Covid
projects as an above average center fielder with power and speed.
Now that is really enticing, and it looks like he's
found a way to hit the ball in the air
more because he's hitting for far more power than he
did last year. It's also worth noting his performance last year.
The slash line doesn't look great, but it was also

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dragged down by a two to fifty five babbit. He
got off to a slow start in the DSL last year,
which is probably the reason why they had him repeat
the level this year. I actually wrote it up his
fantasy blurb for that offseason scouting report, and in it
I was anticipating he would come stateside, and I actually
made exception for a Barlin's hitter and said, this is
a pretty intriguing prospect in somebody that should be rostered

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in leagues of three hundred fifty plus prospects. Then he
repeated the DSL and I dropped him way down in
my rankings. But I think he's back to that same
level of like three hundred and fifty plus prospects. We'll
see what he does stateside next year, but I don't
know that there's some big upside there, but it's going
to take a lot to get there. So he's not
one that I'm like wholeheartedly endorsing. I haven't rushed out

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to grab him in any of my league's perersonally, but
I do think this is an intriguing profile if you
think the Marlins hitter development can get it stuff together
anytime soon.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
And we know from what you were just saying, you
definitely believe in that, don't you, Taylor?

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Oh yeah, you could tell I have a lot of
faith at that.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Yeah, I will say, excuse me, A lot of what
he's doing is exciting. You noted that the there has
been an increase in power and that there's an increase
in flyballs here, and there absolutely has been. He's cut
his ground ball rate from forty eight percent last year
to twenty nine percent this year, and he's increased his

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pull rate from thirty eight percent last year to forty
five percent this year. So I think it's pretty clear
where this newfound power is coming from. But then I
look at some more of his profile and as a
player repeating the DSL, he is still striking out more
than he is walking. Now, neither the K or walk
rates are overly concerning in and of themselves, but in

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the DSL specifically, especially when we're talking about a player
repeating the level, I need to see a hitter walking
more than he is striking out to consider him breaking out.
So I do think there's some intrigue here. But I'm
just I can't get excited about Cova for all of

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the reasons you mentioned, as well as this approach concern
that I have in the DSL specifically.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Yeah, no, I think that's fair. I mean, it's a
eighteen point three percent strikeout, right, so it's not it's
not super high. And the fact that more recently he
has way more walks than strikeouts showing that he's might
be putting things together in that regard. And you look
at what he did last year in the DSL, I mean,
he had way more walks than strikeouts. So the strikeouts

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are actually up this year, which is one of the
major kind of faults that you could look at in
his season. But and again in the pull and ground
ball rates, it's hard to say how accurate those are
because we're talking about DSL numbers, and I don't know
if those are calculated.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Or a little bit more seriously then say swing and
contact rates though.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Okay, yeah, I'm not quite sure how those are sourced
or how accurate they are. But I will say, if
you're undergoing swing transformation, you're changing the path at which
you're hitting the balls, I think a little bit more
swing and miss is expected, But the walk rates remain
steady for both seasons at fifteen percent. So I don't
care as much about the swing and miss because I
don't see it being a major problem long term, particularly

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with the recent improvements he's made in that regard. And
I'll take that if it comes with more power, for sure.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
So the other thing to your point here regarding the approach, again,
we need to take these numbers with a grain of assault.
But looking at his Fangrafts page here, his swing rate
has dropped significantly. Again, take it with a grain assault,
but we're talking about a fifteen percent decrease from fifty
five percent to forty percent swing rate. And then looking
at the called striker, it was two percent last year,

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it's seventeen percent this year. How much weight you can
actually put in those numbers again up for debate, but
when you're seeing that big of a difference, I tend
to believe it's more than just a statistical anomaly. There's
probably something to that. Again, how much weight you can
or should put into those numbers is very low, but

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it's worth looking at and considering that there is probably
an approach change as well as the swing change here.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's definitely definitely something there, and
maybe he's being a little bit too passive, but you
look at Again, I don't want to spend too much
time with this because we're really grasp we had straws
with these numbers, but you know, you look at the
jump and the call strike rate. The swinging strike rate
has also fallen five percent. So yes, again, like I
would much rather take the guy that's getting called strikes

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than the guy that's whiffing. And based on these numbers,
which I don't buy into at all, I think you
could make the case that raisin strike out rate is
just coming from called strike which I don't think there's
a lot of concern there long term. If that's the case, Yeah,
I think this is a player, maybe more than almost
anybody else in the DSL that we really need to
see stateside and see what some of these approach and

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contact numbers look like. And I think if you're like
me and heus a tant to buy in on this profile,
think about it for next year, keep him in mind,
keep him on a watch list, see where he starts.
Does he start in complex? Next year? Do they push
him to single A which you would like to see
that he's going to be nineteen years old, you'd hope
that he doesn't go to Complex, but they might slow

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play him. Pay attention to where he lands, see what
he does early on. But I think this is a
guy who I might be recommending on the podcast the
next year or somebody to pick up because he's somebody
who had some intrigue and is now showing it stateside.
But as of right now, yeah, there's still major questions
on what this is going to look like long term.
Yeah very much.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
But we will move on to a player who is
performing stateside, and that is Yankees prospect Brendan Jones, not Spencer.
Everybody knows plenty about him. We're going to talk about
Brendan Jones, twenty three year old outfielder in Double A
for the Yankees, listed five ten, one point eighty just
one percent rostered on fan tracks, and he came in

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at four eighty eight overall in our July prospect rankings,
thanks in large part to Drew Wheeler, who I'll get
into a little bit more later on with regards to Jones,
but in ninety three games this year between HYA and
Double A, Jones is slashing two thirty nine three forty
nine four oh two with eleven home runs and thirty
three stolen bases. He has an eighteen and a half

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percent strikeout rate and a fourteen percent walk rate.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Jones was a twelfth round pick of the Yankees in
twenty twenty four and was the player I called out
as my minor league by from the Yankees when we
did our Al East preview in the offseason. He was
also briefly discussed on the most recent episode of the
Prospects Live Pod because although his overall numbers the slash

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line in particular aren't fantastic, he did have a really
good month of July, and he slashed two seventy eight
three ninety five five point eighty three in the month
with five home runs and eight steals, and that has
carried over into August as well. He's continued to slash
well two seventy three, four forty eight, four to oh nine.

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He's got another home run already in the early goings
of the month of August. Here Now, Jones was a
bit of an afterthought in last year's FYPD class. We
ranked him one oh seven overall in the class, but
as I noted earlier, that did not stop Drew Wheeler
from seeing the upside here and hyping up Brendan Jones.
Because Drew wrote up the blurb forour Jones in that

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FYPD rankings article and called him quote unquote, radically underrated
and said that he could return gargantuan value in round
five of your FYPD or beyond. Now, Drew was the
reason I recommended Jones as a bye in the off season,
and while much of the fantasy community is still yet
to catch up, including myself up until very recently, I

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think Drew absolutely nailed this because on the year, Jones
is hitting for extra bases on more than one third
of his hits. Overall, he's got thirteen doubles, five triples,
and eleven homers, and he's also stolen thirty three bases
on forty attempts, so he's very efficient on the bases
as well, while walking more than fourteen percent of the
time and striking out less than twenty percent.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Of the time.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Now, he did post some borderline plus contact rates in
single A, and while they have expectedly come down a
bit in double A, they're still above average. The approach
is where I start to question things a little bit.
It's looked borderline passive at times, but he's gotten more
aggressive since being promoted to double A, with his swing

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rate increasing from below forty percent to a more palatable
forty seven percent now, and he's still chasing just twenty
six percent of pitches out of the zone, which is
a better than average rate for the level. Now, I
will admit here, even though he's got eleven home runs,
even though he's hitting for plenty of extra bases, I
don't know how real the juice actually is. But for

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a guy who was given forty or forty five grade
power coming into the year, reaching double digit home runs
and reaching that many extra bases as he has been
at this point in the season is really encouraging. Now
I do wonder a little bit if this is a
future trade ship for the Yankees with the way that
they handle their prospects, and frankly, that could hurt Jones's

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value a little bit because his lefty swing isn't going
to play quite as well if he's not playing half
his games in Yankee Stadium with that short porch. But
I still think he's gained a ton of value this year,
and while Drew is still the high man, he ranked
him two h eight overall in our July update to
that top six hundred. I'm now looking at Jones as

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an ad in any league with three hundred and fifty
plus prospects rostered, and one that you can most likely
grab for free right now and absolutely should before that
roster rate climbs. But Taylor, I am really curious to
hear your thoughts on Brendan Jones because this is a
player that we have not discussed at all this year,
and typically we do get into at least some conversation

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beforehand about a lot of these players.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Yeah, he's an interesting one. He's not one that I
had a lot of interest in when he was at
High A, just because he was old for the level,
not a lot of power, did in good contact, but
that didn't really translate to the batting average there, and
his performance at Double A has really changed my opinion
of him. Everything has ticked up. You always like to

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see when a player reaches a new level and can
somehow up their performance, and that's exactly what Jones has done,
much more power. The contact, like you mentioned, has come
down a little bit but is still very good, and
the overall performance has really come up. The big question
I have with him is just like batting average, what

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are you gonna get long term? Because he had a
three twenty one average and nine games at Single A,
but in High A, in Double A, he's never had
a batting average over two forty three. So in a
batting average league, I don't know how much enthusiasm you
can have for him long term because despite the good contact,

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he runs really low babbeps and that's been consistent this
year and last year. So I don't know if that's
just something with the way that he hits the ball,
something with his swing profile or something, but or if
he's just been insanely unlucky for two straight years. But
I do wonder what that looks like long term. The
contact is there that you would think it would be
better than it actually is. But yeah, that's the question

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I have. I think with obp leagues, I think that
he shows a strong walk rates consistently, so I think
he'll be better asset and obp leagues. But it's just
strange with that. In terms of the power coming on,
it's really been recent. His last twenty two games, he
has six home runs, six of his seven home runs
that have come at double a A three zero six

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ISO during that span. So you hope this continues and
this represents a shift in approach or the way that
he's hitting the ball there, because I think that power
makes him a lot more intriguing. There's definitely speed there.
That same twenty two games that he had six home runs,
he also had six stolen bases. That just shows you
the power speed upside. I don't know. I think there's
a lot to like here. I still have some questions

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about that batting average long term, the power long term,
but those are questions he can answer as soon as
this year, depending on what he does for the remainder
of the season. So he's a guy that might pick
up some shares, but I'll definitely keep a close eye
on because I think he's a good under the radar
pick and one who could see his stock improves if
he can keep this up at double A. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
So couple of quick thoughts here, one of which going
back to the babeps. They're not terrible. It's two seventy
one on the year. You'd like to see it a
little bit higher. But I look at the batted ball
profile and I wonder if a little bit of that
is coming from the fact that he does have a
near twenty six percent infield flyball rate. Obviously, your babbit

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isn't going to be very good on those types of
batted balls in particular. It's not a terrible rate, but
it is a little bit high. So I wonder if,
given his limited raw power, he's maybe getting into a
bit of a lift and pull approach, because it's also
a forty five percent pull rate, which is going to
help him maximize his power and would really play in

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Yankee Stadium in particular. And that kind of leads me
to my second point here, where I've seen some people
maybe compare him to somebody that we've discussed. Rock Regio
is no longer in the Yankee system. Is Brendan Jones
maybe the actual next Brett Gardner.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
I'm with you there. I don't think it's quite the
same profile.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
They're a different profile. I think they both have their value.
I still Regio more than I like Brendan Jones, but
we'll see what the Rockies do to reach you as well.
I think I don't know. I'm not ready to chime
in on that. I need to see more from Brennan
Jones before I could really tell who he's gonna because
what he's been lately is so different than what he's

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been prior to that that it's really hard to say
if this is just a hot streak or this is
tangible changes to get to more power. So yeah, he's
one that is more of a wait and see for
me before I say, yeah, he's the next Brett Gardner
or whatever. And I don't know, do you know much
about his defense? Looks like he's primarily been playing centerfield,
which is good to see.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
I don't know a ton about it, but I from
what I gather, it's at least average.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
That's good. Yeah, so I think that'll afford him opportunities there.
But yeah, we'll see what we get with him, but
definitely intriguing bat for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Absolutely, let's move on to one more intriguing bad here, Taylor.
I will round things out with an arm. But you've
got one more bat for us.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Yeah, this is another DSL bat. This is Lewis andahar
seventeen year old third baseman in the Red Sox organization
at DSL, listed at six foot onet eighty five, right
handed hitter, zero percent roster currently on fan tracks. Overall
on the year in the DSL, eighty four played appearances,
two seventy nine four to sixty four, five fifty seven slash,
four home runs, seven stolen bases, twenty point two percent

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walk rate, seventeen point nine percent k rate. So there
you go, more walks and strikeouts. I know that you
mentioned that earlier, and really I've been trying. I'm always
trying to find breakouts in the DSL, guys who are
flying under the radar, because obviously these are the guys
we know the least about. Breakouts can really happen the
most when we're looking at the lowest level of the miners,
and Lewis Andahr is one that has really popped out

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to me over the last week or so because this
is a guy who got a late start to the year.
He didn't debut until July seventh. But since then, you
know that slash line I read, He's really showed everything
you want to see. He's showing power, he's showing speed.
You're showing you more walks than strikeouts. Great slash line.
And this is a twenty thousand dollars Jay fifteen signee
this season out of the Dominican Republic, so not a

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ton of pedigree. But you look at somebody like Marconi Herman,
who everybody was all excited about. He's really rise up
rankings a lot, but same kind of deal. He wasn't
a guy that had a lot of pedigree coming into
the DSL. It's like his rise has really been based
solely off of his stats. And when you compare what
he's done since andiw Har debuted on July seventh, Andrew

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Harr has a much better batting average, better OBP, better slugging,
twice as many home runs, more walks, less strikeouts, and
a better WRC plus than Marconi Herman. Now Rman does
have four additional stolen bases, so he has eleven stolen
bases to Atahar's seven. But other than that it's ANDWHR

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has been performing way better than Marconi Herman. If you're
gonna look at both prospects, is the fact that, oh
they're putting up big numbers in the DSL. I think
you gotta really be intrigued by what and Har is
doing now. The main difference is Arman splitting time between
second and shortstop, so he's more of that up the
middle player, where Andu Harr has spent time at third

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base and DH. Now, I didn't look specifically at which
games he played at DH, so I don't know if
he primarily DHD when he was first coming off of
his injury and then I switched to third base. I'm
not exactly sure, but that could potentially indicate a limited
defensive profile there. I can't really tell you much about
the defense or anything else because there's been literally nothing
written about Lois and Ahar as far as I know,

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I've written the most of anyone on Lewis and Ahar
because there really just isn't anything out there on this guy.
And I think that shows really the lack of pedigree
coming into this year. And to be fair, I mentioned
this with Irman as well. DSL statline scouting is not
the most effective way of finding prospects. To add, it
doesn't always pan out. But I do think that if

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Marconi or Man's a guy that got picked up in
your leagues and so many people were excited about, then
you should probably pick up and A Harr because I
don't think there's a huge difference between these two guys,
and right now Andrew har is the one who's playing better,
so I think he's a fun a lot of ticket
for deeper leagues. Right now, I have him as a
pickup and leagu's of fourner fifty plus prospects because he's
zero percent rostered. But like I talked about, when Marconi

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or Mon's hype took off, all it takes is a
couple people seeing what Andrew Har's doing, posting something comparing
him to Hazues Made, and then everybody's going to be
all over him. I'm not going to be that guy,
but I do think if you want to under the
radar DSL guy, Andrew Harr is a name to go after.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
So this is one that's really difficult for me because
the surface stats look really good. You mentioned he's got
the right ratio of walks to K's here, but there
are a few outlier numbers under the hood that are
scaring me off a bit, and as you mentioned before,
we have to take even the batted ball data with
a bit of a grain of salt here. But the
first thing that stands out to me is the fact

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that he has a ridiculous seventy three percent poll rate,
which is likely feeding into the other abnormal numbers I'm
looking at, which would be his twenty two percent home
run per fly ball rate, which is a little bit
more normal, but still around twice what you would like
to see as far as an average, they're typically ten
to fifteen percent there, and then you look at a

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fifty percent in field fly ball rate as well. So
to me, those numbers indicate that Andrew Hart is just
looking to pull the crap out of every pitch he sees,
and while it's working against DSL pitching, I do wonder
how much success he's going to have with that approach
when he comes Stateside. So again, lots of intrigue here.

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The surface stats look really good, but that batted ball
profile really worries me.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Again, though I don't think that poll rate is accurate.
I think that's calculated based on the performance if I'm
not mistaken. So the fact that he's hit for a
ton of power in a short amount of time time
could be feeding into inflated poll estimations. So again, I
think it's we have to make it really clear that, like,
we're not one hundred percent sure that these numbers are accurate,

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and I would err on the side of their not
accurate at all. So yes, if that is an accurate number,
that's pretty insane. But I do think that isn't very accurate,
and that I think if we see him come stateside
next year, I think we're gonna see that's when we'll
see more accurate numbers once he gets into like single
a versus the sort of calculated numbers that we're seeing

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now in the DSL.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
Yeah, and again I will say take it with a
grain of salt. As you said, we're not one hundred
percent certain on any of these, But I have never
seen a polarate that high, even in the DSL, and
even looking at Marconi Hermann, his pul rate is fifty
eight percent, so it's still quite high, but it's not
even close to what Anduhars is. So again it's maybe
a little bit of an estimation but when it's that

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abnormally high, that's when I start to take some weight
in some of these numbers. Yeah, all right, let's move
into another deep name here with some pretty eye popping
numbers throughout the stat line. I'm moving to the mound though,
for Wellington Risna, a twenty year old pitcher in High A. Now.

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He was just recently traded from the Mets to the Orioles.
He's listed six foot three, one hundred and eighty pounds,
two percent rostered on fan tracks and unranked in our
most recent update to the Top Prospects list. And he's
got seventy three innings on the year, two point two
to two ERA, one point zero seven whip, a thirty

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two point three percent strikeout rate, but a thirteen point
one percent walk rate, And that walk rate should jump
out at you immediately. Normally I wouldn't have much interest
in a picture with such a high walk rate. But
I'm gonna get back to that in a minute, because
I want to touch on some of his stuff and
just are sane as a whole. First, because he came
to Baltimore in the deal that sent Gregory Soto to

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the Mets, and initially I didn't think much of this deal,
but after digging in, there's a lot more here than
meets the eye. With Rasena, he spent most of the
year in Single A. He made one start there with
his new organization before they promoted him to High A,
where he had a stellar debut on August sixth, pitching
four hitless innings and striking out six, But he did

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allow one earned run on three walks. And again, keep
that stat line in mind. Keep the walks in mind
because it really encapsulates who Arisena is as a pitcher.
He's got big stuff and a wide arsenal for such
a young pitcher. MLB Pipeline gave him a sixty grade
for both his fastball and cutter. They also gave him

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fifty five grade slider, fifty grade curve, and a forty
grade change up. Now that big fastball sits in the
upper nineties, it can cross into triple digits. But the
star of the show here might a actually be his
cutter because it sits low to mid nineties and has
proven to be nearly impossible for opposing hitters to square up.
His slider is an upper eighties offering with good depth.

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The curve is a power curve in the mid eighties
and that change up it is a bit firm, it's
in the lower nineties. It could use some work, but
even if we scrap that pitch altogether, it's a nice
four pitch Arsenal here on the flip side. Now, I'd
get into the command and control because they have been
major issues for Arisena, and there might not be a

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better example of his upside and risk than the fact
that he has pitched more games this year without allowing
a hit, which he's done twice. But he's pitched more
games this year without allowing a hit than he has
games without allowing a walk, because he has not walked
zero batters in a single appearance this year. He has

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at least one walk every single time he pitches. He's
also walked the exact same number of batters as he
has allowed hits, and that's thirty nine on the year.
So again, this lends itself to the fact that he
is tremendously talented but just has no idea where that
ball is going. I do have to give him some

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credit though, because as poor as the command numbers have been,
they are dramatically better than last year. He's cut his
walk rate by seven percent from last year, from twenty
percent to thirteen percent this season, and he's improved his
strike throwing from fifty six percent last year to sixty
percent this year. Obviously, the command still needs to continue improving,

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but when you consider the fact that he's walking that
many batters and still has just a one point zero
seven whip, it really emphasizes just how unhittable Risan is
now in the Mets system. He was already starting to
make some of his appearances out of the bullpen, and
going from the Mets to the Orioles is a step
down develop mentally. But I am really interested to see

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how Baltimore continues to bring him along because he has
been a starter in his two appearances in the organization
so far, and he's got the kind of stuff to
be a lockdown closer even if he's walking twelve percent
of batters. But if he can continue to improve his
control and command, he could be a dominant front line
starter even if he's walking that ten to twelve percent range.

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I do think the path to the bullpen is a
far more likely one for Arasena, and because of that,
I'm only recommending him in deeper leagues of five hundred
plus prospects rostered. But this is a name I am
really interested in keeping tabs on, and I'm really interested
what you think about him, Taylor.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Yeah, I really like him. I think this is a
high upside arm now just got to HIA, still quite
a ways away twenty years old. You mentioned that the
walk issues, and I'm right there with you, but Arsenal's
like this, don't grow on tree, even with the organization
downgrade from going from the Mets to the Orioles. I

(01:20:05):
think there's just a lot to like here. And I
think your five hudred recommendation might be a little too
conservative because and we'll get to our rankings later, because
I'm gonna have him spoiler pretty high on those rankings.
And I think a big reason why is it's not
just that the walks have improved from last year to
this year. The walks have actually improved throughout this year. Now,
it's still not great, obviously for the reasons you mentioned,

(01:20:28):
but if you look at what he's done since May fifteenth,
one point twenty seven era A two point zero seven FIP,
zero point seventy nine WHIP thirty six point three percent
strikeout rate eleven point six percent walk rate, and that
includes his bad start he had in his High A debut.
I don't know. I eleven point six percent walk rate
for most of the season. Yeah, it's high, but it's

(01:20:51):
palatable for a guy with this amount of stuff and
this amount of development still going forward. I don't know.
I think that you might be under selling him a
little bit, really excited about him.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
The good news is I haven't released my article yet,
so I've still got time to dig in further and
maybe change that recommendation a little bit. So I'm gonna
have to look into it and maybe take your advice
here on bumping him up a little bit. But you
alluded to it there. I'm curious to see where you've
got him in these rankings. Now that we've discussed every player,
we do need to rank Luis Cova, Brendan Jones, Louis

(01:21:24):
and Harr and Wellington Rasena. So how would you rank
those four players?

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Taylor? Yeah, this is a tough one. Yeah, I think
you could really go in a lot of different ways
with this one. I at the top, I have Covia, Jones,
and Arsenya in a bundle. I think they're both around
the same value. I would be picking them up in
similar sized leagues. I think Jones just being the guy
in double A showing the inkor proved power now maybe

(01:21:50):
having a good combination of approach, power, speed and contact.
Potentially he's the one I would take number one. Ursenya
is one that I would go too, and it's not
that far behind Jones. I just think the arsenal is
really intriguing. There's a lot of upside here. Yeah, there's
a ton of reliever risk, but if it doesn't pan out,
you just churn him for something else. So I really

(01:22:10):
like him. Cova. He's intriguing, but for all the reasons
I mentioned, he's a little bit more of a wait
and see guy for me than somebody I'm like rushing
out to grab. So he'd be by number three, and
then Andrew Harr the fact that no one even knows
he exists before listen they do this podcast. I think
he belongs forth on this list.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
So I've actually got the same order as you, but
I'm looking at it a little bit differently. I see
Brendan Jones as the easy number one here. I think
he's in a tier of his own and then I
think ra Asena Cova and maybe and do her, but
definitely are Asena and Kova are really close together. Coming
into the podcast, I think I would have put any

(01:22:50):
one of Arsena, Cova and and do Her in any order.
I initially actually had Cova over aur Asena, but you
talked me into it there, and I probably will be
changing my recommendation, maybe closer to four hundred plus than
five hundred plus. So in the end we've got the
same ranking. It's Jones, Arsena, Kova, and Duhar, but I

(01:23:11):
think we're getting there in a little bit of a
different way.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
Yeah. Yeah, and Aresana too is one of those guys
because of the Arsenal, Like, all it takes is one
really good outing or somebody to post something, and his
value is just gonna skyrocket. If you missed out on
the Esteban Mahia and Kendri Cherio. This is the kind
of arm that you might want to take a shot
on now while you still can, because it's not gonna

(01:23:35):
take much to push his hype pretty substantially.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Yeah, you're absolutely right with that. He could be a
very fast riser the way that we've seen some other
young arms rise this year. All right, that is everything
we have for you guys today. Thank you all for
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