Dynasty Baseball Pickups: Ep 108 - Potential Realignment and Week 20 Pickups

On this episode, Kyle (X:@Sonny_108/BS:@Sonny108) and Taylor (X/BS:@DynastyPickups) discuss potential realignment plans as well as the latest injuries, promotions, and this week’s recommendations including Jesus Travieso, John Gil, Blake Burke, and Yorman Gomez.

Topics Discussed:

• Potential Realignment - 0:20
• Injuries, News, and Notes - 6:13
• Promotions - 17:28
• Jesus Travieso - 31:41
• John Gil - 36:44
• Blake Burke - 41:02
• Yorman Gomez - 47:06
• Recommendation Rankings - 53:15

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hello, and welcome to the Dynasty Baseball Pickups podcast. Today
is August twenty third. I am Kyle Santeg and I'm
joined as always by Taylor Corso. How are you doing today, Taylor?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm doing pretty good. How are you, Kyle?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I am doing well now, Taylor. We've got a lot
of really fun baseball discussion coming up here. But one
thing I wanted to run by you before we get
into any of the news or notes any of the
players that we're recommending this week is actually something Rob
Manfred said in a recent interview I believe at the
Little League World Series game that they played recently. It's
been making headlines because he hinted at not only league

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expansion in the coming years, but possibly a realignment of
the divisions as well. Now plenty of people have given
their thoughts on what those divisions could look like. Some
look awesome, some I think are more fantasy than anything else,
and frankly, do not look realistic in any way, shape
or form. But that's another discussion for another day. We

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are not going to dive into what we think those
divisions could look like. What I am curious about, though, Taylor,
is whether or not you think the idea of realignment
is a good one, or if you think they're messing
with a good thing and should just leave it as
is and find a different way to integrate these new teams.
If they do expand, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
It makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
I think when you're adding teams, you need to move
things around, and I don't have a problem with that.
Like I anticipate division realignment is going to happen. I
think where I have a problem is some of the
proposals where long standing rivals like the Dodgers and Giants
or the Cubs and Cardinals are all of a sudden
in different divisions. I think there's no reason to break

(01:46):
up those rivalries, and you know, I just think it
doesn't make sense. So I think those are some of
the proposals that got some of the most grief. But
other than that, I think as long as you keep
the rivals together and like the real make sense, I
don't have a problem with it.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
But what about you, I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I've seen some that don't make a ton of sense.
Like I saw one that had Minnesota in a South division. Somehow,
I don't know how anybody got to that. That doesn't
make any sense. And like you said, it doesn't make
sense to be separating some of these big rivalries that
we have in the game. I do think it's necessary
if we're going to be expanding the league, because it
wouldn't make any sense to all of a sudden just

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have two of the divisions with an extra team in it.
That just messes everything up. I think we need some
form of realignment where we end up with those divisions
of four teams, But as you noted, I think it
needs to stay pretty close to what it already is.
I don't think we need to radically change anything.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, exactly, all right, Taylor.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
We will move on though, because there are a lot
of great things going on in the game right now,
a lot of fun discussion coming up that includes some
more signings, some injuries, demotions, promotions, big league debuts, and
then we will get into our main discussion focused around
some of the names that you can find in our
Dynasty Baseball pickups written articles this week. But before we

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get to any of that, I do want to remind
everyone about all of the incredible content that we have
pumping out at Prospects Live. That includes the Daily Sheet,
the Dynasty Prospect and Open Universe lists, with the Dynasty
List in particular just getting an update this past week.
And I can't emphasize enough how much work Smata puts

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into the Dynasty List. It is countless hours, tireless work,
and he just gave it a fresh ranking of more
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Hobby Plus, which just got another update as well. We've

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We've got Who's Up from Andrew Dall, focusing on some
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Greg Hoopcamp's Live looks article as he sat in on

(04:17):
a game between the Arkansas Travelers and Frisco Roughriders lately,
he published that Live Looks article. It features some really
big names, including the likes of Colt Emerson and Sebastian Walcott,
among a number of others. Those are a couple of
loaded rosters, so make sure you go check out Greg's
live look at that game as well. And then on
the podcast front, Nate, Drew and Reese released episode twenty

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eight of the on Deck Pod as they previewed the
update to our pro scouting team's top one hundred lists,
so yet another list about to get a big update.
And then they also released episode twenty nine where Nate
and Drew graded out the twenty twenty four MLB draft
classes for every team. There was also episode eighty of

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the Dynasty Pod in which Greg was joined by Reese
and Trevor to discuss the recent update two our Dynasty ranks.
Make sure you go listen to that conversation as well.
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Speaker 2 (05:45):
While you're at it.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
You can find me at Sunny Underscore one eight on
X and Sunny one eight on Blue Sky. You can
find Taylor at Dynasty Pickups on both. You can also
get a hold of us with all of your Dynasty
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If you send those in, we will be trying to
answer them on the podcast, So make sure you get
us those questions. Especially this time of year, there's some

(06:09):
very important decisions to be made. We are happy to help. Now,
let's get into some of the news and notes from
baseball over the last week. We'll start with a few signings.
I'm gonna lump the next few in together, but to
kick things off, we need to discuss Samuel Bassio, who
signed an eight year, sixty seven million dollar extension. Huge

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contract for a player who just debuted earlier this week.
We were calling for it last week, Taylor, it finally
came true. What do you think about this deal for
Bosio and for Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, I think this is a good deal for both parties.
It's similar in scale to the Christian Campbell contract, so
I think his was eight year sixty million, so it's
closer to that than to the I think it was eight.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Years, one to twenty million that Roman Anthony got.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
But overall, as we've discussed before, these early career signings
are usually good for both parties. It gives financial stability
to the player and then obviously it helps the team
out if the player can reach their potential. I do
think that this means Samuel Basil's gonna get more run
early on in his career than maybe Kobe Meo did

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or Histon kirsch Dad did. We've seen a lot of
these players come up and down with the Orioles not
really get extended run based on the contract, I feel
like the Orioles would give that extended run to Basio.
Whether or not that means that Adlee Reshman could be
on the move this offseason, we'll see. It's been the
weird transition here for basioh I think he's played two games,

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had a game off, and then played a game, so
I'm not quite sure if he's gonna get every day
played appearances. Looks like he's played three of the five
possible games that he could play since he's been up.
Maybe they're managing his load a little bit. But again,
and with the contract and obviously the talent there, I
would expect him to get plenty of run going forward.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, I don't think it'll quite be everyday reps throughout
the rest of the season here, but the main reason being,
and I'll mention it again shortly here, Adley Rutchman is
now on the il with an oblique strain. So they've
announced that Basio is going to be their main catcher
going forward. So where he was getting some reps at DH,
he might have seen some reps at first base if
Adley was in the lineup on a daily basis. He

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is now going to be their main catcher, which means
that he's maybe catching maybe it's the three out of
five like we've seen, maybe it's two out of every
three sort of thing. But he is going to be
their catcher going forward for the rest of the season,
so he's going to get, if not every day reps,
about as close to it, I think as you would
let a catcher get to end the season here, so
we should see plenty of Basio and get a good

(08:52):
idea of exactly what he's going to bring to the
table over the last month or so of the season here.
All right now, Taylor, we will get into some news
and notes from around the baseball world over the last week.
But before we do that, I will apologize to everybody listening.
We had some technical difficulties. We've already gone through all
of our episode, unfortunately it was not recording. We are

(09:14):
in a little bit of a time crunch here, so
we're still going to go over the news and notes,
but we are going to be relatively quick, and then
we're still going to get through our four names that
you need to know this week. With that out of
the way, though, Taylor, are you ready to get into
these news and notes?

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, let's do it again. All right?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Then, we have a group of veterans that signed with
some new organizations, as with Nathaniel Lowe heading to the
Boston Red Sox, cal Quantrell to the Atlanta Braves, and
Craig Kimberl to the Houston Astros. Are you expecting much
from a fantasy standpoint from any of those veterans.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
I think maybe Nathaniel Lowe off to Hot Star with
the Red Sox there. He seems to be their primary
first base option, at least on the strong side, but
you never know, he's been pretty bad. What he'll he'll
bring to the table, So maybe deeply for Nathaniel low
For the other two, I really don't see impact this year.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
I'm looking at low maybe as a utility or bench
piece corner infield if you're really desperate. Quantrill is maybe
a low end streaming option, but that's really it. There's
nothing for Craig Kimberl here. So we will move on
to some injuries, the first one being the big one,
the scariest one, the most real life impact as well
as Zach Wheeler is out with a blood clot near

(10:29):
his shoulder. He has undergone a thrombolysis procedure to remove
the blood clot, but his timeline is yet to be determined.
Then we've got some lower stakes injuries, at least from
a real life standpoint. Jack Perkins is dealing with a
strained right shoulder, Kyle Stowers has a left side strain,
Victor Scott a sprained ankle, a growing strain for Brendan Donovan,

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a wrist sprain for Jake Berger, Francisco Alvarez has a
thumb injury. Huss On Kim is back on the injured
list with another back problem. Will You're a bray You
is dealing with a calf strain, Adley Rutchman has an strain,
Jordan Westberg has an ankle sprain, and Evan Carter has
a fractured wrist that could result in him missing the
rest of the year. Taylor, I said, it, obviously the

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scary one here, the big one is Zach Wheeler. But
what are you most worried about from the rest of
those players?

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, I think obviously Perkins as a pitcher with the
shoulder injuries pretty worrisome. But overall, I think these are
all injuries where you have to wonder what impact any
of these players is going to give you for the
rest of the season. I think, in particular, the Evan
Carter injuries a little bit discouraging because this is a
guy who has been through a lot of injuries Since

(11:41):
his most recent injured list Stint had a one to
fifty five WRC plus and his eight games back look
like he was finally getting things going, figuring it out,
and then he gets plunked by a pitch and fractures
his wrists. So just the guy cannot catch a break.
But overall, I think a lot of these are just
ones where you expect them to be back healthy next
year and you're not expecting much for the rest of

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this year.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, Like you said, it's unfortunate timing for anybody that
goes down at this point. The one that I'm looking
at in particular is Kyle Stowers because he has been
I think a surprise major contributor for a lot of
fantasy teams. A left side injury is problematic, and in particular,
I think just the impact that you'll be missing in
your lineups now is a big hit.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, I would agree with that, all right.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
A few injury updates next, the first of which being
a player that actually hasn't touched the IL at all.
Kyle Tucker reportedly suffered a hairline fracture in his hand
back in June, so that could explain a little bit
of the cold stretch that he's been going through lately.
But then we've got a few players that have varying
degrees of surgeries here and will be missing at least

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the rest of this year, as Marcelo Meyer had season
ending wrist surgery Austin Reiley had season ending core surgery.
Both of them, I believe are expected to be ready
for spring training next year. But Felix Boutista also had
surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff and torn labram
in his shoulder, and he is expected to miss the

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next calendar year, so we are probably without him for
all of twenty twenty six as well. That's obviously the
big one here. But how much are you worried about
Kyle Tucker going forward because he now has some mounting
injuries and it was a similar situation last year with
a I think shin injury that was really weirdly handled.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, I think Tucker at this point you have to
bench him. He's had a seventy three WSC plus since
July first. He's playing through that fracture in his hand.
I believe they're giving him some time off. So he's
one where you don't really know what you can expect
for the rest of the year with him. You have
to wait and see if he can start performing again.
I'm really curious what if any impact this has on

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his free agency next season, because I know he's going
to be the I believe, the top free agent coming
in to twenty twenty six. There will be interesting to
see that among these other injuries here. There's some pretty
concerning ones with Phil k Swatista, but I think Austin
Riley I expect him to bounce back next year. I
think he's a guy who Yeah, he's had a couple

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down years, He's dealt with some injuries, but he's definitely
a BILO for me this offseason.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, I'm with you there. Austin Riley's a nice bi
low cannid I think Marcelo Meyer maybe to a lesser degree.
If you can get someone really down on him right now,
he could be an interesting buy. More likely he is
a hold though, but as a fantasy owner with a
few Felix Boutista shares, if I can get anybody to
give me anything for them right now, I might just
be selling him for pennies on the dollar.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, I don't expect much going forward from him.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
We'll move on to a few minor league injuries, then
one where we know what's going on. Because Charlie Soto
has had surgery to remove a bone spur in his elbow,
and then a couple of unspecified or undisclosed injuries. DDA
Flentes and Carson Benge have also hit the shelf trio
and names here trio of names with intrigue. But do

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any of these concern you more so than the others?

Speaker 3 (15:11):
I think obviously Flentes being a pitcher and not knowing
what the injury is pretty concerning. Charlie Soto again, anytime
you have an elbow injury, even if it's bone spurs
being removed, is a little bit concerning there. So I
think those are definitely the two guys that concern me
the most. It is worth noting that Carson benj has
been slumping pretty hard since the beginning of August. He's

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got just the eighty WRC plus since then. This is
a guy who was like hottest hitter in July in
the miners there, So I think that maybe could be
attributed to the unknown injury.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
But it's really difficult to.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Say, yeah, I'm with you there. It's nice to potentially
have an explanation for Carson Benge's cold snap. Flentes and
Soto concerning injuries, especially flentees because we don't know what's
going on. It's always nice to know what's happening why
these guys are hurt, because if it is an arm
or shoulder and now, but whatever it might be, that
then creates a bigger problem going forwards. But speaking of

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players with maybe problems going forwards, we do have one
demotion with Joe Boyle getting sent down by the Rays,
and that problem going forwards is the fact that his
control has really hit a speed bump again lately after
looking much better in that regard to start his major
league career with the Rays specifically. So, Taylor, how concerned

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are you about Boyle And is he a player that
you are willing to maybe try to buy low on
or is he more the one that you just want
to grab for free if he's available out there.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, I think if.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
He gets dropped, depending on my situation, I'll grab him
for free. But yeah, he's not one that I'm investing.
We've just seen such a long history of Boyle struggling
with the command with the control. Yes, the stuff is awesome,
but he's never been able to get it to materialize
for any length of time in the majors. There and
I think we both were interested when he came over

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to the Rays. But again, it doesn't seem like it's
fully working at this point, and it may never fully work.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, I'm with you there. I do have a couple
of Joe Boyle shares. I might end up having to
drop them if my roster crunch gets bad enough. So
I'm right on the fence as far as how much
I like him, whether or not I'm willing to even
add him for free. But I do think if you
can get him for free, there's some fun opportunity there,
some fun upside. But speaking of fun upside, we will

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move over to promotions. A couple of players actually making
their professional debuts in single A as the first overall
pick this past year, Eli Willetts is making his debut,
and the Dodgers draftee Charles Davilon also makes his debut
in single A.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
So Taylor.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Obviously, Eli Willetts is the big name here, being the
first overall pick. But is he the player that you
are most excited to see between these two?

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, I mean he's I think my number two ranked
FIPD player. I think being able to see him this
year is not something that I think we necessarily so
I think that'll really impact his value one way or
the other going into next year. But Davlon's a very
interesting player in his own right and it's worth knowing that. Yeah,
super small sample, but both of them are off to

(18:11):
really nice starts as well, So definitely Davalon is one
that arguably could increase his stock a lot more because
he has more room to increase his stock there as
being more of a maybe mid round FYPD pick currently,
but he could definitely boost that with a strong performance.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, I think that's a really good call out the
differentiation there. Obviously, both could boost their stock, but Eli
Willitts is a player that some people have already as
their one oh one for FYPDS, where Davlon has a
little bit more room to move. So definitely worth tracking
both of those. But we are also tracking a few
players that have moved up to Hya, where Caden Scarborough

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has been promoted, someone I talked about last week and
have been very excited about. Also saw Felman, Celestin promoted,
Mary Houston, Josh Adamschewsky and Boston and Bateman are all
on their way up to Hya. So Taylor who out
of this group, are you most excited for Felon Seliston.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
This is a guy who hasn't really lived up to
expectations at this point. Was the top or one of
the top international signees. I think he was the same
class as Ethan Salas, but he was hurt his entire
rookie year. He was hurt his professional debut last year,
so he skipped the DS all together. Starting complex last year,
was hurt a lot of the year. This year has

(19:29):
underperformed expectations. But I do still think this is a
really talented player. He's just early on in his development,
and he's one that I would be buying low on
this offseason.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, I'm with you there. I'm really curious to see
how he looks moving up a level here. But the
other two I'm looking at are Merrek Houston and josh
Adam Sevsky, a couple of players that I like, but
I'm not crazy about because I'm not sure exactly where
their power output lies. Merrick Houston even more josh Adam
Sheevsky has showed some kind of sneaky power so far

(20:02):
this year in a relatively limited sample. But if Adam
Schevsky and Houston can show a little more pop here
in Hia. I think that is really going to boost
their stock, at least in my eyes.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, I would say so as well.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
All Right, couple of players whose stock really can't go
much higher at this point, Connor Griffin and Leo Dvrees
have both been promoted to Double A. We know all
about your love of Connor Griffin Taylor, so I'm gonna
get you to say a few nice things about Leo
Devrees today.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
LiOD Devre is another really high end international prospect who's
been pushed extremely aggressively. Now just eighteen years old in
Double A. There, I don't know that'll hit the ground running.
I would expect him to struggle with that aggresive assignment,
but it's worth noting it was pretty shocking that he
got traded over to the Athletics at the deadline. He's
actually been a little bit better with the Athletics than
he was with the Padres, so that's really good to

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see that he can adapt to a new organization that quickly.
Already I think top five for me, I believe he's
somewhere around there for you. So this is a high
prospect and if he can perform well at double A,
I think he's going to push his way up even higher.
So really exciting assignment for really both these guys.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Absolutely, very exciting for both of these guys.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
So the question at this point, we've got an eighteen
year old Degrees a nineteen year old Griffin. If they
finish out the year strong in Double A, presumably start
their next year maybe move up to Triple A early.
Is it possible we see either of these guys getting
a cup of coffee in the big leagues to end
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
I think they'll probably get called up at the end
of twenty twenty six, maybe around that mid August mark,
where they can keep their PPI eligibility for the following year,
and then maybe break camp the following year. I wouldn't
be surprised if we see some extensions maybe preseason before
twenty twenty seven, that might accelerate that timeline. But I
would expect both of them to be playing in twenty

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twenty seven in the big leagues.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, I'm with you one hundred percent. There really exciting
things for both of those youngsters. But let's move on
to some really exciting Big league debuts and begin with
the big one that we said we wanted last week,
the one that we've already talked about, this new contract extension.
Samuel Bassio has made his big league debut. He's looked
pretty good so far. I think everybody knows that we

(22:12):
are looking at big time power. There's maybe some questions
around how good the hit tool really is. Not that
it's problematic, but Taylor, what are you expecting from Samuel
Basio to close out the year here? Because I think
we're both pretty confident in him long term.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, it's then open question with any of these guys.
We've seen so many high end prospects struggle when they
come up. So there's what we could see, which is
a lot of power, maybe even decent ratios to go
with that power. But the reality is we don't know
exactly what we're going to get going forward. I think
any rookie at this point in the year is going

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to be a pretty risky to depend on for your
fantasy playoffs there, but you never know, you might get
lighting in a bottle.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Absolutely, I've got a couple shares of him. Both are
in spots where I can maybe ford to take the
shot and put him in my lineup right now. So
I am doing so in part because it's just fun
to play these young prospects that are so exciting.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Oh definitely, yeah, I try to if I have hit
her debuts in the majors, I try to get him
in my lineup because you never know who's gonna pop
off and have a great game or hit a home
run like one of our guys on this list here.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, we will actually move ahead to him because that
was a fantastic segue by you. We'll get onto the
other name right away here. But that player who hit
a home run in his big league debut is Carson Williams,
who debuted for the Rays after Hassung Kim went down
with that injury. Now, Williams is an elite defender at shortstop,
and he put up more than twenty home runs and

(23:44):
stolen bases each this season, but his hit tool still
brings major concerns, even to the point where his WRC
plus in Triple A this year has been below one hundred. So, Taylor,
what kind of fantasy player are we getting out of
Carson Williams with some of these extreme tools.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, it's power, speed with major ratio risk. I think
the one thing that's gonna help Williams is he's a
very good shortstop, so it provides him a playing time floor.
But yeah, he's definitely one where you're gonna want to
be wary of him, particularly in batting average leagues, because
he could sink your ratios there.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
I think he still walks at a good clip north
to ten percent for his career. He's got a I
think twelve and a half ish percent walk right this year,
So I definitely like him more for obp leagues than
average leagues, but you are if you're rostering him, it's
definitely more for the counting stats than those ratios.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, exactly. All right.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Now, let's take a step back on our show sheet
here and get into arguably the top pitching prospect in
the game because Pittsburgh finally called up Bubba Chandler. Now,
he hasn't had the dominant season that we were expecting
out of him in Triple A, but he did have
a very strong MLB debut, firing off four scoreless innings
and touching triple digits with the fact ball. But that

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was out of the bullpen, and that is the role
that he will reportedly have going forward throughout the rest
of this year. So it begs the question, Taylor, are
you interested in rostering Bubba Chandler this year or is
he an arm that you're waiting and diving in on
next year.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
I think at deeper redraft leagues you have to just
for the upside, particularly if he gets converted to the
starter role, But based on the struggles that he had
in the minors this year, based on the role in
the majors and possibly limiting his innings going forward, he's
not one that I'm really expecting a lot out of

(25:36):
for the rest of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, I think I'm with you there. In category leagues,
I'm staying away from him. But the one place I
am interested is points leagues, particularly ones where you have
a starts limit, because if you have a pitcher of
Bubba Chandler's caliber going three to four, maybe five innings
depending on the day and not eating up one of
your starts towards that limit, he could a really valuable

(26:01):
piece and almost like a cheat code in some of
those leagues throughout your fantasy playoffs here, Yeah, definitely. All right,
Now let's get back to the bats. Let's get back
to the Al East and let's look at the password
whose door has opened up thanks to a will your
A Bray you injury in Boston. Now, Yo Stinson Garcia

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makes his big league debut, but A Brew's injury doesn't
sound to be a major one, so he could be
back after just a minimum stay on the injured list.
But Yo Stinson has had really a tremendous year. Some
people are still a little bit weary of the hit
tool here, but with Bray coming back maybe sometime around
the start of September, I'd say Garcia is likely to

(26:44):
remain on the roster. But a couple of questions here
for you, Taylor. First, are you expecting a full time role,
consistent playing time to end this season? And second, are
you concerned about his hit tool?

Speaker 3 (26:58):
I think in terms of the playing time, I'm I'm
pretty worried about it because right now he's played one
out of three games and was in that was against
the lefty, So it looks like he might be short
sighted platoon currently. If Nathaniel low falters, then maybe there's
an opportunity for Yo Sinson to play some first base.

(27:18):
There's been talk about him working out there in the minors,
but he's a guy who was already on the forty
man so he's a pretty easy add to the big
league roster. I think he's gonna have to force his
way into the lineup. In terms of worry about the
hit tol, not really long term. He's shown the ability
in the past to have his pretty strong hit too.
It's every time he gets to a new level we
see a different version of Yostinson Garcia, even within the

(27:41):
same season. So like the contact was really good at
Double A this year, and then it fell off when
he got to triple A. He's also a guy that
seems to get more aggressive and hit for more power
when he gets promoted, So wouldn't be surprised to see
him either go on like a power binge and really
force his way into that lineup. So I guess the
answer to your question is I really don't know, but

(28:03):
I think I'm not really expecting much out of him
for the rest of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, I think I'm with you there. I am more
concerned about the playing time going forward here. I do
have minor concerns about the hit tool and about the approach,
But when we are talking about what was already a
crowded depth chart really across the entire offensive side of
things in Boston. That is where my concerns start to fall.
With the playing time, I think they're going to have
to make a number of moves in the off season

(28:31):
to make all of the pieces fit, in particular all
of the young, exciting pieces. So I'm really curious to
see how the winter shakes out for the Boston Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Definitely all right.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Now we move back to the National League, where Nathan Church,
a player I wrote up earlier this season, has made
his major league debut for the Cardinals.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Church has a plus ish hit tool, double plus speed,
and the ability to be I think at least a
plus defender in center field. He's got a canon of
an arm that he's already shown off, and he already
has a home run through his young big league career here.
But there are some questions about just how much impact
he gets to Taylor. We've both grabbed some shares of

(29:13):
Nathan Church, but what do you think we should expect
from him going forward?

Speaker 2 (29:17):
For me, he's like a deep league flyer.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I don't know that he's gonna perform well enough to
really keep an everyday role there, got off to a
really slow start through his first several games, did have
two hits. I believe yesterday now has his first home
run and steel that there's some skills to like there.
There's speed, there's contact ability, there's a little bit of power.

(29:39):
Maybe a better bat in a batting average league than
OBP league. But I do wonder if this guy's gonna
be fringy going forward. And for me, he's really just
a deep league flyer at this point.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, I am with you there. I do think there's
a little more interest in a points league where that
bat to ball ability can maybe shine a little bit more.
But Taylor, let's look at now. Now one more pitcher
as the Cleveland Guardians have promoted Parker Messick, and he
had a tremendous big league debut, fired off six and
two thirds innings of one run ball, allowing seven hits

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and one walk while striking out six.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Now.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
I don't know about you, Taylor, but to me, Messick
seems like the kind of arm who might do really
well to close out a season here where opposing hitters
only get to see him one game, one time, and
they don't really get a major opportunity to adjust and
get used to him. But long term, I don't know
if he's much more than a four to four and
a half era maybe a kind of fringe streamer sort

(30:35):
of guy back end of your roster. I just don't
see him being a real fantasy stalwart. But what are
your thoughts on Parker Messick this year and going forwards.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, I think I'm a little bit higher on him
than you are.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
I don't think this is like an ace or anything,
but I think he can be a good sort of
back end starter for you. He's got a lot of
strikeouts in the minor leagues. I don't think he's necessarily
just a streamer. I think he's a guy that you
can feel comfortable playing in most matchups in a regular
size league. But again, it's a fairly limited ceiling. It's
a change up first profile. We've seen those sort of

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struggle for the most part in the big leagues. He's
not one that I'm saying is a lock going forward,
but he's one that I think eventually could be a
guy who you're gonna start more often than not.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, I could definitely see that happening. I'm not quite
there on him. But Taylor, that's relatively quickly the news
and notes out of the way. So let's get into
this week's recommendations. Let's start with your first player, and
let's start with the first of two zero percent rostered
arms that we have today.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yeah, this is Jesus Traviso. So he's eighteen year old
starting pitcher in the Red Sox organization at single A,
listed at five eleven one forty, right handed pitcher, zero
percent rostered on fan traps. He was a ten thousand
dollars signing out of Venezuela in the twenty twenty four
JA fifteen class. Start out in the DSL last year
showed some really interesting skills, but lack control. Really similar

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story this year where he struggled again with control. Early
on at the complex level, he had sixteen point nine
percent walk rate through his first eight starts and then
things seem to click in July for him, as from
July first on he had just a six point one
percent walk rate during that stretch. He has a two
point nine three ERA, which is actually a bit unlucky
because it's a two point two five to fip a

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one point one to six whip thirty three point three
percent strikeout rate again to go along with that six
point one percent walk rate. In his five outings since
being promoted to single A, he's posted a five point
seven walk rate, so it's gotten even better. The control
improvements are also backed by a five percent increase in
his strike throwing rate from sixty one percent sixty six percent,

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and overall in the year he has a three point
zero seven ERA, one point three to six whip, thirty
two point eight percent k rate, twelve point twelve percent
walk rate. So again, season long lines numbers, particularly with
the whip in the walk rate, don't look that impressive,
but you got to take into account that he's been
so much better lately. It was difficult to find much

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information on Traviso's arsenal shout out to Socksprospects dot com
that had a pretty detailed scouting report on it. It's
a mid nineties high spin fastball that ranges all the
way to ninety eight miles an hour. I think you
had mentioned when we were talking about this on the
on the recording that didn't happen, that it's you had
seen he got up to ninety nine. That's pretty impressive.

(33:28):
Addition to the fastball, he has a low eiti slider
that gets a lot of whips, and he's got a
developing change up that flashes potential. One thing I'll mention
is you look at the season long line of a
one point three to six whip, his whip at single A,
despite his really strong performance, is one point four to seven,
which is horrendous, and it's worth noting that a lot
of that is due to bad luck. I mentioned the

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big difference between his FIP and his era. It's a
four to fifty one babbit and a sixty five point
two percent strand rate at single A there, so definitely
he's getting a lot of bad luck. A lot of
balls are getting hit into play. But it's worth noting
he's never posted a whip below one point three at
any level, which is really bad.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
There. He is listed at.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Five to eleven in his undersized arm, But you look
at the scouting report that I mentioned earlier, it does
mention that he's taller and heavier than listed listed just
one hundred and forty pounds. He's definitely heavier than that.
You look at the video, he definitely looks bigger than
what the listed measurements are there, and the scouting report
also noted his high effort delivery, so there's definitely reliever

(34:30):
risk between that and the history of control concerns. And
he's obviously a hard throwing teenage arm, so there's a
lot of injury risk there as well. But the Red
Sox have done really well with their pitching development. This
looks to be the latest pop up prospect there, and
while there are some things to be a little wary of,
I think there is definitely upside here, and for an
arm that zero percent roster, I think this is a

(34:51):
great one to go out there and snag in deeper leagues.
So for now, he's a pickup in leagues of four
and or fifty plus prospects for me. But he's definitely
one that I'm going to be wh pretty closely going forward.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Absolutely, there is a lot to like here and Taylor.
Maybe the one good thing to come out of that
first recording not working is I think we're gonna say
his name properly this time. We said probably a handful
of different incorrect versions the first time, but I think
we got a better shot with TRAVISO here. So TRAVISO
very exciting package of pitches, very young ball of clay
in what has quickly become a very well regarded pitching

(35:25):
development system there in Boston. The improved strike throwing this year,
in particular as he's moved up a level, is really
encouraging to see, especially this early in his career, and
it looks like it actually started just before his promotion
to single ad because he walked just two batters combined
over three outings in complex ball. Now being able to

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reach back and grab eight ninety nine miles an hour
is awesome, but as you noted, it's also really scary
for a pitcher as young and as small as he is,
and thank goodness, he is probably a little more filled
out and a little bit taller than the listed five
to eleven to one four, because one forty would be
a big problem. I do still think he's quite skinny.
He still needs to and will still be able to

(36:06):
put on some good weight, but I need to see
that before we can trust that he's going to be
able to hold his stuff deep into outings, because that
has been a bit of a thing so far this year.
While some of that might be Boston maybe guarding his
innings a little bit he's pitched a full five innings,
hasn't gone more than five innings, but pitched a full
five innings just three times in seventeen games this year.

(36:28):
So that is something that is going to be worth
keeping an eye on going forward, especially for such a young,
high octane arm. But overall, I really like the upside here,
and I think he is an excellent upside flyer in
those deeper leagues. Like you said, definitely, all right, my
first player here, before I get into my zero percent

(36:49):
rostered arm, I want to talk about a bat, and
that is John Heel, a nineteen year old shortstop prospect
in the Atlanta Braves system, currently in single A, listed
six foot one one seventy five, two percent rostered on
fan tracks and unranked. In our July update on the year,
He'll is slashing two forty six three point thirty eight
three point fifty four with five home runs, forty six

(37:12):
stolen bases, a fourteen percent carrate, and a twelve percent
walk rate. But that line is a little bit misleading
because he broke his nose back on July tenth, missed
a couple of weeks, and since returning he's actually been
red hot. Over seventeen games where he has slashed three
thirty three four hundred and six eleven, with four of

(37:32):
his five home runs coming in those seventeen games since returning. Now,
going back to those forty six steals, that'll obviously stand out,
and speed is his carrying tool. MLB Pipeline gave it
a seventy grade, so this is a double plus tool,
and he uses it to swipe plenty of bags. He
had twenty steals in less than fifty games in the
DSL back in twenty twenty three, forty in ninety games

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last year, and as I said, so far this year,
forty six steals in sixty attempts. Now, he's obviously known
for that speed, but he's also more known for his
strong shortstop defense than he is for his bat. But
what he has shown from an offensive standpoint with the
bat is good to great contact numbers and a solid
approach throughout his career. So it's more so the power

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that's in question here. And while his ISO on the
year is just over one hundred, and we need to
see that go up quite a bit, it is over
three hundred in this recent hot stretch that he's had,
but on the flip side once again with the overall
power numbers. The five home runs that he has so
far this year have more than doubled his career total,
as he had just four over his first two years.

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Now at his listed six foot one pointe seventy five,
there's room for him to add some good weight and
strength which would help him get to more of that power.
And I've even seen some discussion on x from some
Brave scouts or maybe just people who watch the Braves
prospects a lot, but they seem to think that he's
swinging a lot harder and impacting the ball a lot

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more since his return from injury. It's still a pretty
small sample. It's difficult to fully trust that power output
and that trust factor the pedigree is what makes heal
a bit of an interesting case here, because he had
received some hype coming into the twenty twenty four season.
He had a solid showing in the DSL in twenty
twenty three. He performed well in his state side debut

(39:24):
in Complex ball last year, but his performance really fell
off following a promotion to single A and with that
his hype quieted down too, especially with the slow start
to this year as well. But if he can continue
to perform like he has since coming back from injury,
then I think his hype is going to take off again.
And while he has admittedly slowed down a little bit

(39:47):
over the last few days, so you know, maybe the
train is already starting to stall out a little bit.
I'm still calling him an ad in relatively deeper leagues
of four hundred plus prospects rostered, and I'm curious to
get your thoughts on John Heal here.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Taylor, Yeah, I think you covered it really well.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
This is a guy who has good contact ability. He's
a good defensive player, so that'll give him plenty of opportunities.
He steals a lot of bases. The real question just
comes down to the power. He's struggled to show that
power in the past, and he struggled to show it
this year outside of this recent hot stretch, so it's
really hard to buy too much into it. He's a

(40:24):
guy who's posted really high ground ball rates throughout his career.
It's forty eight point one percent this year, so that
could be limiting the little bit of power.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
That he does have.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
So he's one that is more of a wait and
see for me. I think if it all comes together,
this could be a pretty impactful player, but he's one
where the contact is not at the level it needs
to be a zero power player. So if he can't
continue to show some power gains, he's one that I
just don't think is going to be that interesting long
term despite the stolen based upside there.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah, I'm definitely with you there. But Taylor, let's move
on to another bat and really a very different bat here.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Yeah, that's gonna be Blake Burke. And you mentioned he's
a different bat profile wise, yes, but in terms of
his sort of recent stretch there, it's a similar story.
So he's a twenty two year old first baseman in
the Brewers organization at double A sixty three, two thirty
six right handed hitter, eleven percent rostered on fan track,
so definitely more rostered than the guys we've been talking

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about so far. Overall, in the year of four hundred
and eighty three plate appearances A two ninety three three
eighty one four point thirty slash, nine home runs, twelve
stolen bases, eleven point eight percent walk grate, twenty two
point eight percent k rate, And if you would have
asked me prior to the year like what Blake Burke's
slash line would be. I would have never said anything
like this. I would have never predicted that he was
going to hit near three hundred with more stolen bases

(41:45):
than home runs, because this is a guy coming into
the year who had our scouts graded as having a
fifty hit tool, sixty power, thirty run and forty five field.
So really the plus to double plus power depending on
where you look, is the carrying tool there, and it's
the one tool that he really hasn't shown this year.
He was one of my FYPD sleepers coming into the year.

(42:06):
He was the thirty fourth overall pick in last year's draft,
had some of the best power in the class, but
there were some questions about the hit tool. This led
to him being the late round FIPD pick average draft
position of forty seven, and we had him ranked at
forty eight and our off season FYPD rankings, so right
in line with where the ADP was on him. In FYPDS.

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I picked him up in several leagues thinking that it
was a value ended up cutting him in most of
those leagues because he really wasn't performing to his expectations
early on Like I mentioned, he's a guy who you
wanted to see the power, and through the first ninety
five games at HIGHA this year, Burke had just five
home runs and had a one fourteen ISO, which is
not one you want to see from.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
A power first player.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
It was hard to imagine this performance from a guy
who was supposed to have this level of power. But
on the plus side, the contact was seemingly better than expected,
be in a seventy five point seven percent contact rate
in a two to eighty nine batting.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Average at HIGA.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
There the biggest issue to him getting to that power
was a fifty two point four percent ground ball rate.
But Burke was promoted to double A on August second,
and maybe the new coaching staff noticed something. But the
ground ball rate has dropped over ten percent in his
eighteen games since being promoted. It's down to forty two percent. Consequently,

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the power has improved, so in those eighteen games, Burke
already has a already has four home runs and then
two fifty eight ISO. All four home runs have coming
in his last twelve games, and in that timeframe he
has a three sixty two four hundred and seven h
two slash line he's striking out actually less at the
new level, with a twenty one point three percent strikeout rate,
and despite the thirty grade speed, he has contributed to

(43:49):
twelve stolen bases this year. So I don't know if
that's gonna be a big part of his game going forward.
I doubt it, but at least he won't be potentially
a zero in that department. I will say, on the
negative side, despite him striking out less at high A,
he's given back some of the contact rate improvements. He's
now at seventy two percent contact at the level. His
swinging strike away has really jumped from eleven point nine

(44:10):
percent to fifteen point six percent. He's been more aggressive.
This is the guy who's a defensively limited, first base
only type of prospects, so his bat is really going
to have to play. He's really going to have to
be able to get to that power. So if what
we're seeing recently as a mirage, there's a lot of
risk here. But I will say we knew about Burke's
power coming out of the draft. I think the recent

(44:31):
power performance is what we should have expected, and that's
why I'm believing it. I think I gave up a
little bit too quickly on Burke where I had him.
I think others might have done the same. He's probably
available in a lot of medium sized leagues, and I
think he should be snatched up anywhere with the two
hundred plus prospects at this point.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Yeah, this is a great call out. I think there's
some really solid upside here, but it is all tied
around the bat because, as you said, this is a
below average defensive first baseman, so he's already at the
bottom of the defensive spectrum and there's little to no
speed here. Yes, he has the twelve stolen bases, but
like you said, our scouts gave him a thirty grade
on his speed, and I've seen it as low as

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twenty on some other sites. And while he does have
twelve stolen bases on sixteen attempts, all of those steals
and all of those attempts came in high a where
he might have just been taking advantage of lesser catchers
and pitchers that maybe weren't paying attention double a. Oftentimes
that's quite so easy to do, so maybe that's why

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we are seeing that take a step back already. And honestly,
I think zero steals on zero attempts is a more
realistic expectation for him, but as is probably the power
that we've been seeing as of late, because that bat
and that power are what people can really get excited about.
And I love that power is starting to show up

(45:50):
in games, but I do have some concerns about his
approach and his hit tool. You mentioned the way things
have been trending, but his approach has gotten almost excessively aggressive.
Here in double A, he's stealing or swinging at nearly
eighty percent of his pitches in the zone, which you
know isn't inherently a bad thing, but it probably means

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that he is swinging at a few pitchers pitches around
the edges, and that can start to be a bit
of a problem.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
What is really a.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Problem is the fact that he is swinging at nearly
one third of the pitches out of the zone, and
those are definitely going to be pitchers pitches. So while
his strikeout rate has remained in check all year and
has actually improved in double A, as you said, I
am a little bit worried that's just due to the
aggressive approach and is something that could be maybe exploited

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a little bit more going forward. I do absolutely still
see the upside here. I think it's a really good
call out as someone that, as you said, has probably
been dropped by some people and you might have an
opportunity to get for free. I'm not sure I'm quite
as high on him as you are, but I do
like him in three hundred to three fifty range, and
I think, as you noted, the big thing here is

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just that there's a lot of power potential.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Yeah, exactly, all right.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Now we get into my zero percent rostered pitcher Jorman Gomez,
twenty two year old right handed pitcher in the Cleveland
Guardian system, currently in double A, also listed five to eleven,
so maybe a little bit undersized, but he is more
filled out than Treviso was two hundred pounds and he
was unranked in our latest update. Now he is very

(47:31):
under the radar, zero percent and unranked. But I think
he's a name that people really need to pay attention
to because on the year he has thrown one hundred
and four and two thirds innings between HIA and Double A.
That crosses the one hundred innings mark for the third
year in a row, proving that he can handle a
starter's workload. But he's also got a two point five

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to eight ERA, one point zero nine whip, a twenty
eight percent carrate, and a nine and a half percent
walk rate. And he's actually been even better since being
promoted to double A, because in six games at that
level he has a one point eighty eight ERA, a
k rate a little bit over thirty percent, and an
opponent's batting average of just one seventy six, with his

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whip and his walk rates staying in line with those
season totals I just mentioned. Now, I believe Gomez is
flying under the radar because he's frankly just been an
okay pitcher coming into this year, with an ERA around
four and a strikeout rate around twenty percent for each
of his last two seasons. Things have really taken a
step forward this year, though, and I believe that has

(48:35):
to do with some improved stuff, because coming into the year,
he sat around the low nineties and topped out at
about ninety five, But in twenty twenty five he's been
sitting in the ninety two to ninety five range and
has topped out as high as ninety seven miles per hour.
And in addition to the improved heater which Fangrafts gave
a fifty current sixty future grade, so it's a very

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strong offering already. But he's also shown a pair of
improved breaking balls in a bigger twelve to six curve
and a tighter slider, which both look to be at
least average offerings at this point, and he's also got
a developing change up which has been showing improvement all
year long.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
With the improved stuff, his numbers have followed, and his
opponent's batting average is down more than thirty points to
just one ninety four on the entire year, so as
good as it's been in double A so far, it's
also been very strong for the year as a whole.
His strikeout rate is up six and a half percent
over last year, and this improved bat missing ability has
helped him boost his left on base rate by more

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than ten percent to seventy seven percent on the year,
which is closer to league average. So the fact that
he was down around sixty five percent last year indicates
that he was maybe getting a little bit unlucky where
this year things are going a little bit smoother now.
His overall command numbers haven't changed much compared to last year.
But one thing he's doing a much better job of

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is throwing first pitch strikes, which really helps set the
tone in and at bat and allow Gomez to really
attack hitters with his stuff more That first pitch strike
rate is up nearly ten percent over last year, from
forty six to fifty five percent. Now, there are a
couple smaller red flags in the profile, one of which
being the fact that he is only getting opposing batters

(50:20):
to put the ball on the ground about thirty nine
percent of the time. But what has helped mitigate that
risk is the fact that he's getting more soft contact
in the air this year, with a twenty six percent
into the fly ball rate and just a four percent
home run per flyball rate. There's also the lack of
track record. As I mentioned, this is really the first

(50:40):
year that he's been breaking out. But the other thing
I want to dive more into is somewhat inconsistent command
for Gomez. And I say it's a relatively minor red
flag here because his walk rate is still a little
bit under ten percent and his strike throwing is still
at about a sixty five percent clip, so we're not
looking at major issues here. But what I've noticed in

(51:01):
watching some video on Gomez is the fact that he
doesn't seem to quite finish his delivery the same on
his secondary pitches, at least not on a consistent basis.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Now.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
I'm going to have some video in my article this
week where you can see what I'm talking about, But
to me, it seems like he's almost falling down the
mound sometimes in his follow through with his secondary pitches,
while he drives and finishes his delivery better on his
fastball on a more consistent basis. Now, he's obviously having
a fantastic year, so this isn't necessarily the biggest red flag,

(51:35):
but might be something that needs to be ironed out
before he makes his big league debut in what could
be the next year or two, because while I think
his stock has been very quietly rising to this point,
I think a strong finish in Double A and the
ability to carry that into next year could mean a
fairly quick promotion to Triple A in twenty twenty six,

(51:56):
and then maybe even a late season cup of coffee
in the big leagues in the end of twenty twenty six,
or at least I think an early twenty twenty seven debut. Now,
the lack of track record for Gomez here is holding
me back from getting really aggressive with him. But I
think he's a solid ad in leagues. With three hundred
and fifty plus prospects rostered and at zero percent ownership

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on fan tracks, he's going to be widely available. I
have added a number of shares in the recent days.
I think you all should go take a look at
adding him as well. But Taylor, this is an arm
that I'm really curious to hear what you think about.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Yeah, I like this a lot. I think this is
a great call out. He's a really intriguing arm. And
you mentioned the season long line. He's been particularly good.
Even just since May second. He's got a two point
zero two ERA in that time, so just outstanding performance
all year. You know, you look at what he's done
since coming to Double A. He's been fortunate with the

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two fifty four babbit eighty percent strand rate, but even then,
the phipps really strong. He's looked really good, good that
There's not much else I could say on him that
you didn't already cover. I think this is a very
intriguing arm and one that I think I'll be speculating
a little bit on in some my deeper leaks for sure.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
All right, then Taylor, with that out of the way,
we were a little bit quicker than the first time around.
So let's rank these players that we have discussed today.
In what order would you be looking to add Blake
Burke Jrman Gomez, John Heel and Jesus Treviso.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
For me, it's Blake Burke first, just because he's the
one that's the most widely rostered. He's the most well
known name here. He's the one that if he's on
your wire, he's gonna get snatched up the quickest. So
I think he's the one you got to invest in
first there at number one. After that it becomes a
lot more interesting. I have Gomez at number two. I
just think for all the reasons you said, there's a
lot to be excited about there. He's in DOUBLEA now,

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so we're gonna know what we have with him a
lot quicker than we're gonna know And the teenagers and
heal and and Treviso there Between those two, I think
I'm going Heel first just because maybe there's a higher
floor there with the defense. If the power is real
he becomes a very interesting fantasy prospect. I'm not really
confident that the power is real. And then Traviso, I

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think there's some really interesting stuff there, but still at
zero percent rostered and with a season long whip of
a round one point three to six, I think people
are gonna stay off of him for a while, so
I think you can really afford to wait and see
on him more than these other guys.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Yeah, I'm with you one hundred percent on the order here.
I think Blake Burke being the highest rostered, being the
most highly thought of coming into the year, He's an
easy number one here, relatively easy, because I do think
Gomez is closer to him than anybody else on this list,
So I do have Gomez two. Again, those two being
a little bit higher up through the levels of the
miners makes their stuff a little bit easier to trust.

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And then I've got John Heill three and Treviso four,
and it's just again, as we go down the list,
there are more question marks about each of these players,
and in particular when we're looking at the two teenagers
in Heal and Trevisso it's just a little bit easier
to trust a young bat than it is.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
A young arm definitely all right.

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