Dynasty Podcast Episode _82 - August Prospect Perfomers - Prospects Live Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to the Process Spot podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome to the Prospects Live Dynasty podcast, episode number eighty two.
It is Wednesday, September third, twenty twenty five. I am
your host, Greg ku Camp. I am the director of
Dynasty content for Prospects Live. I am joined by two
of my Dynasty team members on this podcast. First of
all from New York City, the author of Diamond Diplomas,

(00:33):
Lucas Morell.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
How do Lucas feeling great? Greg, glad to be back.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Nice to have you.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
You've become more of a regular on this podcast, kind
of my regular co host, which I love, and making
his debut on this podcast, a member of the Dynasty
team and the author of Sunday Smoke This Week Monday Smoke,
Darren doc Eisenhower.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Welcome to the podcast.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Man, it's good to be here. I'm gonna talk. I'm
gonna do my intro way longer than Lucas's just was
I guess. But it's gonna be a grateful one. It's
gonna be a thankful one for Greg here. Greg has
just been a hero all year, putting up with me
being completely unpredictable with my Sunday Smokes submission timelines and
so he's just been a boss. I've basically been helping

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with like the MLB or like you know, we say
pro level as prospects, but this was the MLB level.
I tried to stay Dynasty focused, so it's it's a
recent involvement for me to be brought into the Dynasty
team prospect wise. I think that's what we're gonna be
doing this offseason. Off seasons for prospects. Baby. Really excited
to be on this podcast. Really grateful for all the

(01:40):
patients you've had with me because I'm kind of a
rogue dude. I'm kind of a rogue as I appreciate
my handling, my quirks. I hope we have some fun tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're gonna have a lot of fun for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
On this episode, we're gonna discuss the top prospect performers
for the month of August. It's going to be an
interesting discussion. Each time we've done this, we've kind of
unearthed some names we've never really discussed before, as well
as some of the superstar prospects in.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
The minor league, So stay tuned for that.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Before we get there, I wanted to open with a
discussion about head to head dynasty playoffs or fantasy playoffs
because it's a popular format. Some leagues will have combinations
where you play Rotisseri for the regular season and then
you have a dynasty head to head tournament to kind
of cap the league off. Some are head to head

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all the way along and you have a head to
head playoffs based on your seating and ranking, whatever the
case is. All three of us playing in leagues like that.
So I want to talk about first of all, my
situation in my home league this year. So it's a
twelve team, it's a keeper league, it's not full dynasty.
It's the longest running league I've been a part of
twenty plus years. Last year in this league, I had

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a good team. I was kind of contending for the playoffs.
I kind of made the playoffs. In the last week
of the year, I was going in hot. My team
was looking really really good. I ended up playing the
number one overall seed and we played best of three.
So we played three weeks, so we split the first
two and I came down to the third week. It
was really really closed. Sunday Night Baseball au Haaneol Suarez

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hits a home run on Sunday Night Baseball, and it
swung the week and I lost.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
This year, I had the best.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Team in the league. I finished with the number one
overall seed, got a buy into the semi finals, so
my team didn't play for a couple of weeks. I
had a really good roster and made a couple of
big trades to kind of get some All star players
Cal Rawley and Kitl Marte to kind of finish off
my roster. Everyone went cold. I lost in two straight
weeks to the same team I lost to last year.

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Heartbreak both times. I don't know what feels worse, Honestly,
I was. I was very upset on that Sunday night
when Suarez hit that home run, But I still feel
the same way this year with my team getting knocked out.
I wanted to ask you guys about your experiences with
head to head even this year or in previous years.
And I also want to talk about if you can
action anything. Can you kind of set your team up

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to be hot at the end of the year. Can
you make moves? Are the things you can do to
kind of lean your team that way so you're not
experiencing what I'm experiencing this year. So Doc I'll start
with you.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh okay, yeah, man, I just turned to something around.
It's might listen. Nobody's perfect. This was perfection. This was
the best thing I've ever done in the history of
my fantasy sports career. Was two years ago. I took
over a team dead last. It was tragic. I don't
even want to make light of it, really, but there
was literally a dead prospect on the team. His name
was Louis or Ties. He was from the Orioles. Maybe

(04:40):
you remember him. He was nineteen. Really tragic, but like,
this was the state of the team was. There was
literally deceased human being on the team. It's dark. But
I turned this thing around and became the number one
seed this year in a thirty team salary gap league.
This is like grind bro my first salary GP league ever.
So I was number one seed, buy a good amount

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and came in. Had to buy quite like yourself, sir.
Came out and by the way, during the bye, Vinny
p goes off for like ten home runs, you know,
like the whole team's crushing.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
It.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Came out and we still had something left over. The
other guy has had his best season. Sorry week of
the season, right and it's like so tough, so tough.
So what I learned from that was, Okay, well pivot,
did I sell my soul? Do I still have a future?
And it's kind of like it's it's the I love
the deeper the league. It feels like the more similarities

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there are to real baseball franchises you want. I don't
know if I want to go the Padres rout of like,
I don't know what my future holds. I'd like to
be competing every year, but having a plan in case
things aren't quite right or you get some bad luck.
Make it a three year, five year kind of plan.
So odds are you'll probably win if you have a
pretty solid team. That's my That's my standpoint. As for

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your second question, and I'll wrap it up, but of like,
what can you do to mitigate that? Well, I do
believe that, you know, SAW players have a way of
making up their stats, like Wyatt Langford, he's starting to
do that, right. You can't always bank on it. Sometimes
it's just a lost season, But I think there might
be something to be said in a shallower or medium
sized league of okay, like buy in on those Michael

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Harris was doing it for a bit, But do those
guys who struggled in the first half, if you believe
in them, if they're showing signs of life, maybe go
out and get those guys at your trade deadline. Because
you don't, you're you're not paying for any stats that
already happened. You only get what goes on from here, right,
So it seems like common sense, But sometimes we get

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so caught up in the now that we forget what
could be. So that's where I'm at.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Awesome, Lucas, what's your thoughts on this topic.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
Yeah, I like what doctors said about not trading for
past stats because that's so true. I've only made two
like trade deadline moves in my home dynasty league, which
is a twelve teamer, in the past couple of years,
and they've both been for like the hot hand pitching line. Basically,
I traded Hagen Smith for naybe Evaldi this year that
didn't go so well for me a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
And I traded for Patrick Corbyn back when he was.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Actually good at the deadline as well, although he's had
a bit of a bounce back season. But I think
thinking about the second item about how to maybe make
your team create the circumstances for them to get hot
in the playoffs or toward the end of the season.
I think the temptation is in dynasty or keeper leagues
to try to maximize your roster the whole season and
just have the best, like thirty players or twenty two

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players or whatever your active roster is the whole time.
I actually find it more beneficial to have three or
four spots at the bottom on the bench that you're
willing to turn through right, not just for streaming pitchers,
but also for riding the hot hand at the plate
as well. Like I'm thinking of players like Isaac Collins
or Jeremiah Jackson who are coming out of nowhere to
be some of the hottest hitters in baseball over the
stretch of a couple months, right when you need them to.

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A lot of elite dynasty players didn't add Jeremiah Jackson
or Isaac Collins because they felt too loath to part
with maybe somebody who they have long term investment in
who's riding the back of their bench still, So I
think keeping those two or three spots open and being
willing to kind of cycle through players that get hot
over the course of the season. Isn't just a great
way to win the playoffs, but just to say competitive

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year over year. You don't have to have a perfectly
laid out roster that never changes.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
I think you need a little bit of ev inflow.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
No, it's a really good point there, and I'm laughing
because I had Isaac Collins on that team. I picked
him up like three weeks ago to be that hot hand,
and he was one of my better hitters during that series.
But nobody else, Akunya. I had Michael Harris too, all
these guys that just didn't work together, and I played
a really good teams, So I mean got to give

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credit to them as well for building a good roster.
But it's frustrating because, yeah, in one week or two weeks,
your season could just be up in flames. But I
also like what you said too, Darren, about building for
successive seasons, not just for that one season. Yeah, you
want to kind of push your chips in a little
bit and make some moves for this season, but if
it doesn't happen, you need to be able. This is

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dynasties as keeper leagues. This are things that you want
to play year after year. And be competitive every single year.
So building a good farm system, turning those roster spots,
making good decisions for the future and for the present
as well. So good discussion, guys, Thank you for your
input on that, and hopefully it can be something that
teams that are maybe still alive right now or teams

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that have been knocked out like some of us have,
can kind of put into play for years to come.
All Right, guys, what's going on in baseball? Lots of injuries,
that's for sure. If that same roster has accumulated a
bunch of injuries as well, A big one Zach Wheeler,
who's been an ace for a lot of teams, finally

(09:43):
determine what the cause of it was, and it was
a thoracic outlet surgery, which we know in several pitchers
to go through the last several years, and it's not
a great recovery and we haven't seen too many pitchers
come back and be who they were before. Hopeful Zach
Wheeler can kind of buck that trend a little bit.
It sounds like it's going to be about six to

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eight months of recovery. What do you do if you
have Zach Wheeler in a Dynasty League, lucas.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
Well, I'm in the perfect position to answer this question
because I do have Zach Wheeler in the Dynasty League. Thankfully,
it's a league with pretty expansive IL spots. I think
there're seven or eight ile spots. Is a really big roster,
so I don't feel too uncomfortable keeping him there. The
tricky part with Wheeler is earlier in the season, he
already announced that he intends to retire when his contract

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is up after twenty twenty seven. I believe, so he's
already kind of put the finish line in front of
himself for when his career is going to be over,
and this injury is going to basically not only knock
him out for the Ladder portion of this year, but
I would imagine would maybe threaten his status coming out
of opening Day next year at least a little bit.
And so I think for him, he probably has to

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be really re evaluating what exactly he wants to do
and how his body responds is going to play a
huge role in whether he actually does make it through
the end of his contract or whether he chooses to
hang it up, because unlike a Tommy John surgery, this
is a surgery or a medical situation that actually has
a little more like real life consequences beyond baseball. So
I think it's something that he's going to tread really
carefully with. I think, if you're a dynasty manager, if

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there is somebody in your league who's really high on
him and thinks he's going to bounce back and be
his cy young self next year, by all means so high.
But I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I'm probably
just gonna have to wait and see and hope he's
going to be able to contribute at some point for
most of the year next year.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Do you have anything to add Darren on that.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, I mean, it's not good. The guy was talking
about retirement at the end of twenty twenty seven. This
is not a guy like Bryce Harper who says he's
just a maniac, who says I want to play it
in my forties. I'm never giving up. I mean, even
Paul Goldsmith is like, you know, I thought it was
I thought that's one of my bigger l's in the year.
Was like we were a few months in it really

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looked like this was a renaissance and maybe some summer
power would come through, didn't you know. But he tries
to try sticking around Zach Muehler at the top of
his game. It's like, no, I'm thinking about retirement and
for this to happen. Thorascic outlet syndrome. Apparently the surgery
is very painful, is what I've heard. It was Alex

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co So Matt Morris, my dynasy Dinger's co host. He
was talking about Alex Cobb saying how painful it is,
and I didn't like the description, something about feeling like
your BONEU is getting ripped away from the muscle. Something
that didn't sound nice. And so to go through all that,
to have to work your way back when you're already
thinking about walking away, He's probably I don't know much

(12:39):
about Zach Wheeler. I'm sure he's got a family if
he does. You know, this may be this may be it.
We may have seen the last of Zach Wheelers. So
time will tell.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Some other picture injuries to think about. Actually, I'll just
mention the corresponding move by the Phillies. Looks like Walker Buehler,
who was recently released by the The Red Sox, will
be I guess kind of building up a little bit
and then eventually get a start here in September to
see how that goes. Our hope was always an inter
painter would be the guy to kind of step in.
But the Phillies are they just don't seem like they

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want to push him forward. They're being very, very careful
with him, so to me, it looks like they might
just use him as a.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Maybe a multi ending reliever.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Possibly in the playoffs with the way it's going. But
we will see a couple other injuries with arms. We'll
just mention Mackenzie Gore is on the ail with left
shoulder information, Edward Cabrera who was looking lights out right
elbow sprain, he might be done for the season. Carson
Wizenhunt of the backstrain, and Randy Rodriguez a right elbow

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spring and that could be possible TJ, which is bad
news for the Giants.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
A couple of their young arms in trouble.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Any thoughts on these guys, Darren.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Oh, I just think that Ryan Walker season is back
upon us, and I was, you know, I was big
on three guys coming into the season. I was trying
to get my hands on on Robert Suarez, Jeff Hoffman.
I started working out okay, and Ryan Walker not working
out so okay until right now. And so I actually

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in some in my home league twelve team. Yeah, im
in all kinds of leagues. And that's not a flex
stay away, you know. It's like that. It's like that
was at a Billy Madison movie where it's like, don't
you say that? Don't you ever say that when people
say they want to be in all the deepest leagues
and have like ten of them. Wow, you must be
so cool. No, man, keep your leagues, keep your numbers small.

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It's like it's like a peaceful thing. It's hard to
get back to now. But point is, I've been able
to pick up Ryan Walker where I had had dropped
him previously, and evidently nobody picked him up. I like
his stuff, I love his his pitch mix. Rob Freeman
has had a has had a nice, like you know,
overlay of just how hard it can be to read

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his offerings. So that's my positive takeaway. It's not good
for Randy, but it's good for Ryan. And we'll see
what happens going forward with the Giants.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Some bats on the aisle.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Just today, I believe Roman Anthony has been put on
the Aisle with an oblique strain. It looks like four
to six weeks possibly. That's a huge blow for the
Red Sox. He was really starting to look like the
superstar that we think he's going to be. A signed
the big contract obviously. Cory Seger with an appendectomy. Corey Seeger.
I mean, it's just what happens with Corey Seeger. It's

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a it's a different injury every time, and he's out again.
The Rangers are kind of seeing their playoff hopes kind
of flicker away here. Xander Bogart's of the Padres with
a non displaced foot fracture. I'm not sure the timeline
on that one, but that doesn't sound like he will
be back anytime soon. Jonathan India with a left wrist
brain of Lordus Coriel Junior right a c al Taire

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Lucas thoughts on any of these hitters.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Corey Seeger is sitting right next to Zach Wheeler on
My Isle and Dynasty League I mentioned earlier, So it
has been a real fun playoff pushing that one.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
So the name that sticks out here I think is
Roman Anthony. He's the player that I think most people
would if they could redeem a get out of injury
free coupon would use on him right now. I think
that the tricky part with oblique injuries also as they
tend to linger, especially if you rush the return right,
it's real easy to retweak them. So I think the
Red Sox are going to be super slow playing him,
given that he really is kind of the future of

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the franchise for them. So even if maybe it's something
that fans aren't gonna want to hear, is they're going
to want to try to push for a playoffs spout
this year. I would be really surprised if he came
back without, for example, at least a full week of
rehab appearances, even after his time on the sidelines is done.
So I think it's going to be something to monitor.
But I wouldn't bank on having Roman Anthony available at

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least for the final playoff push for fantasy purposes, daring.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Anything to add with this group of hitters.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
It's just so unfortunately with some of these guys like
Corey Seeger, at this point, I just couldn't recommend drafting
him unless you get the discount that has never come
like there's always it's always been a high ticket price
for Corey Seeger, and that's why I've largely avoided him.
And he's not proving this wrong at this point, and
gosh darn it could the Rangers and the Royals are

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just like the Mariners are almost begging them to come
and take their wild card spot, but neither team wants it.
And I think Corey Seger could have been a difference.
So it's too bad.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, I mean, they're players like that. You just kind
of like, you know, you know what's going to happen.
He's going to get hurt at some point with some injury,
so but you can't buy it a discount like you say.
He's he's always.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
People want him because he's one of the better hitters
in the league still.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
So some players on their way back or or all
the way back. I'll just name these guys and you
can maybe call one guy you see as great value
for the rest of the season Jackson, Churio always back,
Tommy Edmund, Ryan Weathers, Robert Gasser, and Tyler Mally and
then activated Chris Sale, Luis Severino, Jackson, Merril, Jack Kagwiom,

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Jake Berger, and Jolie Ortiz. Will start with you, Darren
who's the guy you're hanging your hat.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
On here, stealing them just in case everyone else in
the fantasy community wants him again, Ryan Weathers, We're gonna
make it happen. It's gosh darn it, we all love.
If you didn't love Ryan Weathers, were you in the
Fantasy Dynasty Baseball community, I don't think you were. Man.
I liked him before. He was cool and he was
just like looking like a QS machine last year. Then

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he added on like sorted to hitting like what touched
in one hundred? Like just absolute filth. It was close
to one hundred if not. And so he just has
the arsenal. I guess the question is gonna be with him?
Is that is that extra velo we saw? Is that
overworking of his stuff? Is that what led to the injury?
Right now? And it was weird, Remember you got like

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hit in the head. We're like, oh, he's got a concussion.
That's too bad, Like he'll be back in a couple
of weeks. And then there was he's just he seems
to keep getting these knick knacks. I don't know. Right
we'll have to see if he can healthier. For right now,
my big question is can Ryde Weather stay healthy, and
I'm willing to gamble and say he can stay healthy
for a few weeks. So I think he's a great
buy right now. And you said had a lot of

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great names, but Chris Sale is an easy one, and
I'll I'll just leave the rest for Lucas, all right,
LOOKO three you got.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
I actually wrote up one of these guys for the
Diamond Diplomas series. Robert Gasser.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
I think is kind of an interesting name to watch
because the Brewers have stated that they're going to try
to shift him into long relief as they try to
bring him back from injury. He's coming back from Tommy
John surgery last year, and I don't think they see
him as a long reliever for the future. So for Dynasty,
I wouldn't let that news scare you off of adding him,
especially in deeper leagues, even if he does end up

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getting used in relief down the stretch. For Milwaukee, I
could see him maybe piggybacking Misierowski or something as they
get ready for the playoffs. But I think he's a
name that people have really kind of forgotten as he's
been recovering and the padres not to switch teams completely,
but the Padres are the team that dealt him to
Milwaukee in the first place, and San Diego tends to
trade away pretty solid prospect talent that ends up performing
once they leave. And even beyond the Wan Soto package,

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there have been a lot of names Jacob Marci included,
that used to be members of the Padres organization that
have really thrived when they've gotten a full time look elsewhere.
And I think Gasser could be the latest member of
that club.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
I like Aser a lot. I got to see him
pitch in Nashville a couple of years ago, and he's
not a stuff machine by any means, but he commands well,
really well, and he's got a nasty like slider slurvey
type pitch that missus bats. So yeah, I'm definitely with
you on that one. All right, guys, lots of promotions
for prospects to the major leagues.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Let's go through these ones.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Sal Stewart, the hotly debated prospect of prospects live, Carter Jensen,
Harry Ford, Jimmy Crooks, lots of catchers here, George Valera.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Wow, there's a blast in the past.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Jordan Lawler's backup, Nick York's backup Kevin al Katera replaces
Oa Casey, Brian Ramos, tim Elcho, Peyton Toley, jonahs Hong
and Craig Yoho all up in the Major League. Lucas,
pick a couple of names he you are excited about.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
I really want to be excited about Jordan Lawler for
like the fourth time, Like I really would like to
be a believer, be invested. I do have a share
or two, but I mean he started this season. It
will across two or three stretches in the major leagues.
I think going oh for twenty eight, oh for twenty nine.
Maybe he's starting a little bit of a breakout with
a two hit performance yesterday, but he I think just

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needs confidence more than anything. Thankfully, the Diamondbacks are in
no pressure to send him up and down again this year.
They're in a position where they can basically let him
cook and see what he does for the next month.
But I feel like, for his own sake, he's got
us string together a three or four hit game this
week or something to try to jump start the Engines,
because right now he looks kind of lost at the plate.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Darren, you got a name or two You're interested in
Dynasty or this season whatever.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Yeah, man, the Missouri connection, the Catchers, Jimmy Crooks, no
bad Gloves, classic cardinal of course, of course he's a cardinal.
And Carter Jensen, who's actually a a Kansas City native.
So like Noah Cameron, they like their local guys. It's fun.
It's fun when that happens. And so Carter Jensen was,

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you know, kind of came out of nowhere. And when
Blake Mitchell was selected, it kind of looked like, Okay, well,
I guess you'll be moving off where you'll just be
depth Carter Jensen. And it was around that time, and
maybe I'm off a little bit, but it was around
that time Carter Jensen went from like a interesting maybe
a more of a Royals fan base discussed prospect to
someone who was really showing pop and patience and he's

(22:41):
he's managing to show a blend that. Frankly, if you
look at his Triple A savant numbers, I think he's underrated.
I just got him in a prospect mock. I was
I'm very grateful to be invited to the Welsh's prospect
mock industry mock, and I got Carter Jensen with the
eighty fourth overall pick and of a prospect draft, like what, like,

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this guy's already in the major leagues and he's shown
so much. It just just that doesn't make sense to me.
It's a crazy value. So I think in dynasty leagues,
like that's where the value would be to our listeners
right now, would be like, I think you can still
get Carter Jensen at a good deal. And it's like, well,
who's in front of him? This really old, portly guy,
you know, like he's a stunt. We love Salvi. He's

(23:25):
possibly a Hall of Famer. That's a huge discussion. People
love to debate that one. But he's not gonna last forever.
All he's gotten pretty good with his injuries this year.
Maybe he's doing yoga, but South Perez is not timeless.
Father time comes for all. Carter Jensen will take it
over and really quick. With Jimmy Crooks, it's just like
co look at a savant page. I actually don't. I'm
not as I like Jimmy Crooks better in real life

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than in fantasy, and I like him better in deep
leagues and then shallow leagues. But it's so crazy. He's
got like a he's only got seven a bs, so
it's just funny to go see these savant pages. It's
just all red or all blue, depending on what you're
looking at. I think overall, like you know, he's gonna
be a typical cardinal boring guy, but I think he's
gonna be there, and I don't think Radio Rodriguez. First

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of all, it's gonna take a while. Guys. He may
be the next best, the next big thing Radio Rodriguez,
and I'm probably saying that wrong, but he's probably gonna
be such a good bat if it works out, then
he won't be a catcher Ivan Herrera. They're already like
throwing him in left field for some reason. It's probably
Jimmy Crooks as the catcher of the future in Saint Louis.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
I like the Carda Jensen show. He's got not just
sneaky pop, he's got big time pop, like a lead pop.
He had some of the biggest home runs in batting
practice of the Futures Game. He was launching balls over
the chop house. It was very impressive. My eyes were
open watching that one. For sure, we're gonna move on
to some minor league promotions. Guys, not a ton going

(24:49):
on right now, but some some big names here. Thomas White,
I know, Doc, you're a You're a big fan of his.
He's up the Triple A now. He was way too
good for Double A. I have a feeling it's going
to be way too good for Triple A as well.
Jackson Wagan's one of my favorite pitchers, is up the
Triple A as well. I thought he had been shut down,
but it looks like he's going to throw a little

(25:09):
bit and maybe the Cups have a plan for him,
possibly for their bullpen. Kemp Alderman, Jose Corneal, who's a
sleeper arm that you should be looking out for in
Leeds where you have prospects maybe two hundred and fifty
prospects or less. And Enrique Bradfield all up the Triple
A moving up to Double A, Franklin, Arius and Way

(25:30):
and Lynn the Athletics to hire Alex Lodize, who has
had a really hot start to his My League career,
and to single Aze. Some interesting names here. Liam Doyle
is going to get a start for the Cardinals, Dori
Fernandez of the Guardians, quent And Young and Bruin Baani
at the Twins, moving up to a full season ball here.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
So Lucas will start with you. Who do you'd like
to talk.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
About in this group of prospects.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah, I think I owe Kemp Alderman an apology. A
few years ago.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
I was really really low on Alderman when he was
coming out of the draft, just based on the swing decisions,
the strikeout tendencies. The Marlins kind of noted inability to
develop hitting prospects. But he really has proven me wrong
and might be a good case study for hopefully a
positive trend emerging for Miami hitter development because he's looked
awesome this year. He's running on the base pads. Actually,

(26:22):
I think he has twenty plus steals now and as
he's gotten a triple A, he's really hit the ground running.
He has four home runs in his first four games
at the level. I think it's not out of the
realm of possibility that they give him a cup of
coffee to close out the season, just as kind of
a reward for a really excellent development year. And I
think he's going to be challenging for a roster spot
in the big leads in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Camp Balderman or Davison, Della Santos, Oh, Kem Balderman, Okay, doc,
who are you doing to shout with him in this
group here?

Speaker 4 (26:51):
Honestly I heard camp Alderman. I'm like, there's no way
Lucas is going to take him. So I kind of
tuned out the other guys other than obviously Thomas White.
So I'll say one word on Kemp Alderman is just like, yeah, man,
I was gonna ask is is he gonna make it?
Because I don't I didn't think he was gonna make it.
I don't think anyone thought he was gonna make it.
But he was a fun story. This guy's like a

(27:13):
body builder, absolutely had like the most freakish raw power
coming out of Mississippi's a Mississippi boy. And and the
fact that he's stealing bases now, I mean, it makes
sense with the athleticism, but if you look at the
k rate, it's it's healthy, it's fine. You know, we'll
have to see what he does with triple A. But
double A that profile. Maybe he's never an OBP league
hero but ops and and at batting average only leagues,

(27:36):
which still exists a lot of people. I don't know
how they're doing it, but they're still playing BA only
old school. Uh, you know, this could be a real
guy maybe maybe maybe maybe like a ceiling of a
if he doesn't steal bases, maybe a ceiling of carry Carpenter.
I don't know. He's got a different build, but just
in terms of fantasy purposes. And then Thomas White. I

(27:56):
mean I've said enough on Thomas White, but I just
still it's like I still don't know people get just
how good he's going to be. It's like it's like
the least reported weight game I've ever heard of. And
if we just want to talk about the weight two
ten to two forty. I noticed it on a podcast once.
I was just like looking at his profile, What's what's

(28:17):
he doing lately?

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yo?

Speaker 4 (28:19):
He was two ten five seconds ago. Why is it
say two forty now? Am I crazy? Or And then no,
it's like it says he's two hundred and forty. You
watch him pitch right now. That's the lean muscle. You
put on it, like thirty pounds at some point of muscle,
and he's dominating and there's a little bit of command concerns.
But with these intangibles as a lefty and the pitches
we're talking about here. It's very exciting, and he's got

(28:40):
some scruff now, he's becoming a man.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
That's that's more important than anything else you just said there. Obviously, right,
all righty, shifting gears to what's going on with Prospects Live. Obviously,
last week was the big Top one hundred released. With
the shuffling of our Top one hundred Prospects, the Top
six hundred is going to be released very very soon.
Lucas and myself, I've submitted our lists and we're gonna

(29:04):
be kind of debating some guys here in the coming
week and we're looking for an early next week release
for that, so stay tuned for that one. I wanted
one shout from your articles this week, boys the Monday
Smoke and the Diamond Diplomas the doc who is the
guy you shouted out in your article this week?

Speaker 4 (29:21):
I actually shouted out Thomas White, but I messed it up.
I didn't do the divide properly. Usually like to give
like a public preview just right after the beginning of
the Second Guy. I actually talked a little bit about
Jonah Tong and Peyton totally as well, because they're you know,
they took us by storm last week, and then someone
else will pop off this week and we'll forget about them.
But I can't believe that Peyton is just not one

(29:43):
of my guys. I have no shares anywhere. It hurts
me so much. He looks like he's forty five years
old and smokes Marble, reds or Lucky Strike, you know,
just like he's an old school grinder. I love it, man,
I just I hope the best for that kid. I'm
not even a Red Sox fan. I just love that
vibe and Jonah Tong more concerned about the build opposite
of totally but just like high upside right, Well, that arm,

(30:04):
that arm angle, it's like over the top right, it's
I believe it. Reese White pointed out, it's like it
is the most extreme angle when in his delivery out
of any pitcher in the entire league. So we'll see
if his six one one eighty frame can hold up.
It's gonna be a fun experiment.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Lucas, who did you shout this week?

Speaker 5 (30:27):
I already mentioned Robert Gasser, but I'm gonna throw in
another pitching name into the hat here, which.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Is trey Ya Savage.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
I know, blue Jays fans are disappointed he wasn't added
immediately when the rosters expanded to kick off the month.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
But they've been doing something interesting with him at Triple A.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
They've actually they brought him in relief and long relief,
kind of like how the Pirates are using Bubba Chandler
in Pittsburgh. Now, that's what the Savage's last outing was,
and he looked really really sharp. Command was there, swing
and miss stuff was there. So would not be shopped
at all if they tried to find a way to
get him on the roster for the playoffs, even just
as a relief option.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, the Jays need all they can help it can
get in their vollpen. Right now, it's looking pretty ugly.
They're winning thirteen to nine games at this point and
that's not gonna last very long come playoff time. One
more thing with going on with Prospects Live as an
update on our Prospects Live Dynasty League. We're down to
the final four and the final four is four prospect

(31:20):
Live guys Taylor, Kyle, Matt Thompson and myself somehow managed
to get into the final four some really close matches
right to the very end to Sunday night. So now
I am playing against Kyle, and Taylor is a playing
against Matt. Kyle already has ten home runs in two
and a half days of games. Somehow I have nine.

(31:43):
So we're going head to head right now, which is
pretty awesome. These are two week matchups and then there'll
be a two week final after this. But I wanted
to give some shout outs to our quarter finalists as well,
Roner Greer, Jim Caserta, Matthew Bunn, and Patrick Henson and
who had all had awesome seasons.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
In this league.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
So great job, guys, great job making it all the
way to the quarterfinals. Best of luck to the four
guys in the final four years.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
So I'll just.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Mention on Deck had their episode number thirty two. They
did a Grandpa draft, so they drafted kind of old
school type players, players that put the ball on, play
steel bases, play good defense, and.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
It was a pretty entertaining podcast. So please check out
one out.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
When we have a few minutes, guys, we're going to
be talking about August August top prospect performers on the
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(32:50):
we provide weekly and daily. So, guys, we're going to
take a quick break here. We'll be right back on
either side with the August Top Prospect Performers.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
All right, we are back. I am Greg.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
I am joined by Darren, Doc Eisenhower and Lucas Morell,
and we're talking August Top Prospect Performers. These are fun episodes.
Lucas has been a part of a few of these already.
This is this is like the heat check. We're checking
in on the guys that are hot, and these are
if you have leagues where you're able to pick up
prospects at this time of year, this is a great

(33:22):
opportunity to be able to pick up some of these
guys that are performing well and maybe they're season long
stats don't look quite so good, but they're hot right
now and they're maybe taking a step or making adjustments.
So we're gonna get right into a voice from the
catching position. There were some really, really top performing catchers.
This week I couldn't arrow down to two, or this month,
I couldn't arrow down to two.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
So I've got five.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
I got six names here, so I'll kind of go
through them all and then we can. If you guys
want to talk about a couple of them, that's fine.
So I've already mentioned Carter Jensen, he had six home
runs in the month of August.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
He had three forty nine.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Luis Compassano the Quad A Superstar Lubies. Composano hit four
nineteen in August with eight home runs. Nick Camillo of
the Pittsburgh Pirates in double A had a really good month,
hit two ninety seven four two seven thirty six.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
With eleven home runs. Not a name I'm super familiar with.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Nathan Flewelling, Canadian from in the Tampa Bay organization in
single A had three eleven four eighty five hundred with
three home runs and twenty five.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Walks in the month of August.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
And then a couple of young studs, Alfredo Duno of
the Cincinnati Reds in single A. Rainio Rodriguez already mentioned
on this podcast the same it was Cardinals in single
A huge mammoth, guys, I stood beside Alfredo Duno. That
kid is a monster seven home runs in August and
Rainio Rodriguez also with seven home runs in August. He's

(34:53):
got guys are gonna be amazing hitters as they move along.
So Darren, we'll start with you. Who do you want?
You've already talked about Carter, since you want to pick
another guy you want to talk about?

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah? Man, Also, I just remembered, like, I'm such like
a bad outline guy. It was so funny. I'm like,
I forgot the guys you mentioned before, and I finally
clicked on the outline. So now I can I can
be such a better guest on your show. And Rainiel
Rodriguez is the guy that everyone's talking about, so I
will focus on him. I'll give a shout out to
Fluell and the Canadian boy. He was a guy who

(35:25):
popped off in the MLB Combine. I'm sure if you
remember this, Joseph Sullivan, That's where I first saw him.
I might have seen Daniel Egan do something there, too,
but I know Floyling was crushing baseballs. It's not as
useful as the NFL, but it's like when you're in
a thirty teamer. Ye you grass for straws where you can.
So if I see a guy like Sullivan or someone

(35:46):
who's just like supposed to be speedy and hit first
and he's crushing baseballs, let's do it. Rani al Rodriguez though,
pivoting to him and just taking everyone here. So Lucas
has nobody, but Rainiel Rodriguez is exactly what the Saint
Louis Cardinals need after his hearing so many bad things
and seeing so many bad things from Jordan Walker. You know,

(36:07):
it's like there's rumors now that and they are just
rumors passed on by the actual coaches. But apparently he
is not necessarily he's not necessarily been watching the tape.
Maybe a little bit of Taj Bradley, and so we
need to see a bit more dedication from Jordan Walker

(36:27):
if you're a Cardinals fan. But Raniel Rodriguez just another
success behind the plate for this organization. And again, as
I said earlier, I don't I think he might be
so good based on what we're seeing here that he'll
probably get moved away later on. I will warn you
that please be careful with lower minders. Guys typically like

(36:49):
you know, it's going to be a long haul. He's
only eighteen years old. But the plus side of that
is like what he's doing and the pop we're seeing
as an eighteen year old considering power is often one
of the last developing trade silver prospect. Super exciting, and
you're seeing these outlets popping out now saying maybe this

(37:09):
is the next number one prospect. I'm not sure if
I'm there yet, but he's sure fun to talk about.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, and those guys that play in the floor of
Date league, you see the data on them because they
have the spring training parks there, and his evs are
outstanding for his age. So that's a good shot right there, Lucas,
who do you want to call it? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (37:29):
I actually am going to build on the Flueling jump,
which is helpful. I appreciate Doc with the combine intel.
I completely forgot that that's where he sort of popped
onto the radar, so that was really helpful context.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
I love the wetting. He was one of my guys
coming into the year.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
I pay attention to whoever the raised draft, but I
was really intrigued by them going to Canada getting a
catching prospect as early as they did, getting him the
money they gave him, they took him in the third
round in twenty twenty four. People are going to look
at the stat line the baseball card and they're going
to see the two thirty one average so far this
season and assume that he's been pretty poor. And I
don't think that's true at all. He walked just about

(38:02):
as much as he struck out, not just his path
past month, but pretty much the whole season. Our p
Live Plus projection model has him ranked as the one
hundred and thirty fifth prospect in baseball, and I don't
think he's showing up on rankings lists anywhere near there
right now. So I think his promotion to Hia recently
also shows what the Rayce think of him. They're going
to give him a little run with Bowling Green now
that the Low A season is wrapping up. I think

(38:23):
he's a name that, especially with this kind of mature
played approach, we're going to eventually see the pops start
to play a little more. We're going to see him
adjust to professional pitching, and he could be somebody who
really launches uplists. Early In twenty twenty six, awesome.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Cath move over to first base. I got a couple
of interesting names here. Blake Burke of the Milwaukee Brewers
in Double A three thirteen, three seventy eight, five eighty
six with seven home runs in the month of August.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
And I know this is a Darren guy here. Callen
Moss of.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
The Pittsburgh Pirates in High A had an awesome month
three eighty three, four forty two, six forty nine, six
home runs of nineteen RBIs.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
Really come into his own here.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
So Darren will go right to you, Callen Moss, talk
about him.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
I'm not gonna get into him because obviously there's only two.
But I gotta say, let's not get Blake Broke too
hyped up. I need to target him this offseason where
I don't have him because he's a stud too. But
Kllen Moss. We actually had him on Dynasty Dingers. This guy,
I context him. It's so fun. He's the nicest guy
in the whole world. So cool.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
He actually said the words to me, I'm gonna leak
this on air. He thinks he seems to think Connor
Griffin might be the best player to ever play baseball.
There was something along those lines that he that he
uttered to me over text. I'm not gonna direct quote
him because that's too crazy, But uh, Callen Moss is
just a freakish human being, and I'm not sure anyone's

(39:47):
or everyone are most people. I guys, he's a top
under prospect, Like I can barely even say it, like
it's it's obvious to me he's a top under prospect
because he like what is he doing that you don't like?
Would be my question. He just turned twenty two four
days ago, so he's actually pretty young, younger than you
think he'd be, for he's I got six three two
twenty five pound beast. He's you know, been hitting the ball. Well,

(40:11):
he came out of the Appalachi League and that was
the red flag, right, what was this guy doing twenty?
But he was only twenty and he came in at
a ball and crushed it. It's like, well that's a
pretty young per college bat, right, So like just a
just your thinking forget where he came from. He takes
walks really nice as constantly has above ten percent walk

(40:31):
rate and his k rate has never been above twenty
two percent. The only question was actually, hey, you're a
big guy, where's the power. And now he's showing it.
He's got six home runs in twenty five games with
the Pirates organization. Fun to see. I asked him about
that on the podcast and said, when's that gonna come?
Bick guy, he's kind of playfully right, and he said, listen, man,
I want to crush it every single time, but it's

(40:52):
like I'm gonna hit it, hit it well, and then
I think that the power will will develop naturally, and
that's obviously what you want to hear. I did also
ask him, why are you fast now? Because you're humongous.
Because he's stolen sixteen bases this year. He specifically trained
two steel bases. Now, we'll see if he can do

(41:12):
it efficiently enough with the upper miners at that level.
But my goodness, if you can get a situation here
where this guy's hitting behind Connor Griffin for the foreseeable future,
that's interesting enough for me. If he steals ten bases
or more, it's really interesting.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Okay, Lucas, I guess you're relegated to talk about Blake
Burke here.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Ah yeah, what a shame.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
Now I'm thrilled to talk about Burke, and I'm going
to do my best to not pump his price up
too much for my co host here. I think Burke
is interesting because he really is an ideal case study
for what the Brewers are trying to do. They're trying
to bring in bats that have advanced play discipline, good
bat to ball, with hopes that the raw power translates
into game power as they move through the system. I

(41:55):
think if we look at their recent performers in the
pros that have really turned this on. Examples are both
Isaac Collins and Bryce Terrang. Neither of these are players
that have power as the calling card, but they've really
come into their own hitting home runs this season. Terrang
has seventeen this year. He had thirteen the previous two
seasons combined. So I think the Brewers are very content
to let the power mature as players move through the system,

(42:17):
and maybe even wait till by the time they get
to be actual Brewers themselves, until they really start to
maximize that. When we look at Burke's line this year
two ninety four, three eighty one, eight twenty two on
the season, twelve home runs and fourteen steels, you're thinking, Okay,
this is like fifty grade everything not true at all.
He has seventy great raw power in the tank, and
we're really assuming that it's going to come around at

(42:37):
some point. So I think this is, like do said,
a great buy opportunity on a player who really is
just beginning to tap into that raw power. It could
be putting up Bronck lookinesque power numbers with more like
Cooper Pratt esque contact skills as he continues to move up.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Okay's move on to second base.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
The two guys are going to call out this month?

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Or Zach Galoff, who's back in the major leagues now
but in tripa A six three fifty two, six ninety two,
ten home runs in seven stolen bases, and Nate Furman
of the Giants in high A three forty four, four
ninety six forty nine, six home runs, fifteen walks and
seven strikeouts in the month of August a great play, discipline,

(43:17):
great contact skills.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
Lucas, we'll start with you. Who do you want to
talk about here?

Speaker 1 (43:23):
I'd like to talk about Furman. He's an interesting one.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
He started the season on the sixty day IL, so
he really doesn't have much of a track record in
twenty twenty five. He's just coming in under one hundred
at bats on the season, but seven home runs and
three steals in those ninety four at bats. He's hitting
three seventy two five oh four with an OPS over
eleven hundred.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
This is a guy who even though he's twenty four.

Speaker 5 (43:44):
He came to San Francisco actually in the Alex Cobb
trade to go back to a name we mentioned earlier,
and he's posting elite contact rates in zone elite oh
swing rates. He's not chasing very much, he's not with
hing very much at all, walking more than he's striking out.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Some of this might be aged to level.

Speaker 5 (43:59):
Right twenty four, he is pretty advanced to still be
in that high eight to kind of double a range,
But I think he's a player who, again in the offseason,
people will look back and realize, if he has a
healthy September that they've just completely forgotten about him. And
you can probably get him in most of your leagues
for either free on waiver wire or on the free
agent draft if you do it when in the offseason.
I think Furman is a really interesting deep league target

(44:21):
for San Francisco, especially given how few bats of interest
that system has.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
That's a good point there, Darren, did you want to
have anything on Furman or talk about Zach Geloff.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
I mean, like, that's like a gun to my head,
right so man, Alex Cobbs shout out. Man, that's that's
now three times if you include that one, that he's
been mentioned three times in a baseball podcast this year.
He's back on track, baby, he's feeling good about that.
Zech Gealoff, I'm only looking for him and like the
deepest of the leagues, but hey, I feel like he's
a meme at this point. So here's the thing. They're

(44:55):
human beings. So I feel like a bit of a
jerk saying something like that, But you know, we need
to see more and Zach Galif knows what we need
to see more. He can have a forty percent strikeout rate.
I hope the best for him because he's got a
great tool set and if you can ever figure it out,
like literally be like a Nolan Gorman y kind of guy.

(45:16):
In where the Athletics are playing these days, there could
be some fun. So maybe in thirty teamers, twenty teamers,
maybe I'm I mean maybe twenty five teamers. I'm seeing
how cheap I can get them, because hey, there's a ceiling.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
There is a steling for sure. You mentioned the contact struggles.
He's going to hit like seventh, eighth or ninth in
that lineup because they have they have a pretty deep lineup,
so really there shouldn't be much pressure.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
On him to kind of hit a bunch of home
runs or whatever. He should just.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Look for fastballs and hit fastballs, and that's what he's
good at. So hopefully that turns out for him and
he continues to be a starting player. But yeah, there
is it's a high ceiling on a low floor for
a guy like him, for sure.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
All Right, moving on to third base.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
I got three names here, Sal Stewart, who's now in
the major leagues.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
In Triple A.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
He was on fire in ninety two at bats three fifteen, four, nine, six, nine,
six home runs, fifteen walks, twenty strikeouts.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
He's learned how to.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Elevate the baseball and the home runs are starting to come.
And with his future or current home park, I guess
that's a really good thing.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Jacob Rymer, I think he's a.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Very underrated prospect and probably has top one hundred conversation
warranted for sure. Hit three point fifty eight four forty two,
six sixty seven in August, five home runs, four stolen bases,
and parks Harbor another Giants prospect in Ia in sixty
nine at bats three oh four, four twenty four, six
fifty two with seven home runs.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Darren will go to you first. Who would you like
to talk about? In this group, I'll.

Speaker 4 (46:49):
Talk about the greatest and worst prospect of all time.
Salth Stewart is just like for a guy who I
think is spicy, Alec Burrelson is like, I've never seen
so much division. I see, Lucas is laughing on mute.
We need a studio audience behind me here. But this
is like, it's just so funny, like to have so
many opinions on either side. I'm like, I mean, what

(47:11):
if he's just fine? What if he's just like a
good ballplayer, which I think is the most likely outcome.
I don't know how. He's twenty one years old. His
face is kind of like a Peyton totally vibe. But
now this is a guy who, like in a normal park,
probably fifteen home run power, Like Alec Burson, I say, spicy,

(47:32):
he'd probably take a walk? Is it? Minor league stats
indicate you can take a walk and so that's exciting.
And then playing in Great American Ballpark is a reality.
Of course you can be traded at some point, but
this this reality, it leads to twenty plus home on upside.
So in a position where you look at the top
dynasty third basement. I was talking about this with mattam

(47:54):
on Dynasty Dinger's the other day, like, who are the
top dynasty third basement? I mean, Austin Riley is a
question mark these days. You're looking at Cam and Arrow.
Probably the unanimous number one. I actually think MIKEL. Garcie
is a pretty unanimous number two. I guess it's I
guess if I say is unanimous, does that making unanimous?
I guess I should have said, you know, as obvious
number two probably not unanimous. But then there's like a

(48:17):
huge opening there, right, and so there's like a there's
a window. There's a world where you it's not crazy
to see South Stewart develop into a top five dynasty
third baseman. And I don't think he's there right now,
but but maybe there's that ceiling. It's not a deep
position at the moment.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Yeah, I think if you can stick at third base,
I think that's a valid point for sure. I think
that's the question. Though, is Kenny stick at third base?
He's placed some second base this year. There's talking he's
been only playing first base right now in the Major
League because that's where they have to fit. So we'll
see kind of where he fits on that endfield. But
he definitely has more value obviously at second or third.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
So good points there, Lucas. Who would you like to talk.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
About Spyle Brossiest thing I've heard in a long time.
That was great.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
I'm actually going to talk about Jacob Rimer though I've
been i think pretty high on Rhymer relative to consensus
all season.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Was really impressed with what he did at High A.

Speaker 5 (49:11):
And he has, and I'd say this with no exaggeration,
performed exactly as well as he did at High A
upon being promoted to Double A at just twenty one
years old. His OPS is within zero point zero zero
four points of what it was at eight plus or
at High A ball. He hit eight eighty six there
as an OPS, and he has an ops of eight
ninety in Double A for about the same sample size
on the year. Seventeen home runs fifteen steals, contributing across

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the box score. Really, the really impressive thing with Rymer
to me though, is that under the hood he has
made two really significant improvements in his batted ball data.
His five all percentages up by about nine percent from
high A to double A, and then he is being
maintaining an over fifty one percent poll rate in high
as in double A, I should say as well. So

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I think he's really figuring out how to maximize his
impact at the plate, even though his tool may never
really be a whole lot better than a forty five.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
But I think he's.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
Looking like a bat that is more and more going
to get into big league consideration for them two or
three years.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Down the road.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Awesome and high five to Parks Harbor. All right.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Shortstop Aiden Miller of the Phillies really turning it around
three fifty three, four fifty six, six thirty five in
the month of August with thirteen stolen base. I think
he's up to fifty or over fifty now at this
point for the season.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
With twelve looks good played.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Approach Hazus made is on this list Surprise surprise, three
fifty six, four thirty four, five point fifty two.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
Just a couple of home runs and three stolen bases,
but he is a phenom. Emil Morales at the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
In single A three fifty four, four thirty eight, six
ten with five home runs.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
All right, Lucas, we'll start with you take your pick.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
This is the this is the podcast episode we should
just title the Lucas Morales Apology Tour, because I really
am havnue walk back a couple of predictions or a
couple of takes from earlier in the year, specifically with
Paesus made on this position. He has done exactly what
I think fans of his are going to want to
see upon moving up to high A with Louis Pana,
which is really look like the superior prospect of the two.

(51:15):
And in part that's because he's done a lot similar
to Rhymer and he's kind of inverted his groundball and
fly ball rates. He was grounding out about forty six
percent of the time in low A, really not making
a ton of like hard quality contact in the air,
and he's kind of turned that around.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Now his flyball rates up to thirty six percent.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
That's an increase of about seven percent from high air, sorry,
from Low A to Hi a so I think, especially
as a switch hitter, he's still kind of trying to
get used to what that looks like on both sides
of the plate as he faces more advanced pitching, and
he really is beginning to tap into the tools as
he figures out how to not only pull the ball
but also get the ball in the air. And he
is looking like a consensus top five prospect for me.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Now, what are your thoughts on this trio here, Darren,
I'm going to.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Be one of the biggest Eight and Miller fans by
some prize, apparently because it just feels like there's a
huge underrated Listen, this's gonna happen with a Miller. Here's
my crystal ball. It's it's I think that he went
from kind of like the big name and maybe borderline
overrated to I think right now, in this moment, he

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is underrated. I think Aiden Miller is someone who is
not being appreciated enough. I think by the by the
time spring rolls around, that's not gonna be the case anymore.
So I think right now, if you're in a Dynasty league,
wait as soon as you can start trading again, go field.
Some Aiden Miller offers because I picked him up by accident.
Basically more or less someone offered him to me, and

(52:39):
I was like, in a pretty good deal. Without getting
into the specifics, I mean, we're looking at a guy
who is probably you know, the air apparent to Trey
a turner, and you know, regardless he can play any
position in the infield, he's just gonna be he is,
as you said, stolen forty sorry, fifty bases. It is
fifty bases, Greg, And now we're seeing some of that,

(53:02):
you know, hypothetical power turn into real power. It's kind
of similar in a way to Max Clark, and they're
kind of either buddies or frenemies. I know I've seen
in the past they kind of interp each other. I
think it's pretty playful. They're both similar bills six one,
two oh five sort of deal, and so it's fun
to see he's still really young, and so to see
that again, power is often the last thing to develop.

(53:24):
We're seeing thirteen bombs now from this twenty one year old.
Maybe it's like maybe I don't know if he is
a trade turner profile. The contact rates are high seventies,
which is good, like consistently high seventies but you know,
maybe he's never gonna have a three hundred season or
anything close to that. I don't think so, but maybe
a better VP. It's a fun profile in a franchise

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that's been winning a lot lately. If you can get
up in the next year, which I think he will,
it's like, well, that's a that's a good lineup to
be in. I think Bryce Harper, looking at his contract,
looking at time, I think he's going to be here
for at least the other you know, five years or
something crazy. He'd probably be good every single year, So
we're going to have some fun times to hit for

(54:09):
Aiden Miller. He seems like a surefire prospect for me.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Yeah, he's been one of those guys.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
He was really really hyped up, like maybe a year,
year and a half ago, eighteen months ago, and then
he really struggled this season. He's kind of fallen back
a little bit, but yeah, he can recoup some of
that value, and I think you're right. I think it's
a good, sneaky time to kind of maybe snag him when.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Those values down a little bit.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
All Right, I don't feel Sterling Thompson of the Rockies,
featured in the Dynasty Pickups article this past week, hitting
four oh seven in the PCL with three home runs,
twelve walks, eleven strikeouts. Jack Kaggs back in the majors
Triple A hit five home runs in the month of
August with a three eighty five average and just eleven strikeouts.

(54:54):
Charlie Condon really kind of coming into his own a
little bit here in Double A ninety four four nineteen
six twelve of six home runs. Ryan Walschmidt maybe one
of the best hitters in the minor leagues over the
last couple of months. Three eighty seven five twenty one
six sixty seven six home runs. He has twenty four
walks in August with thirteen strikeouts. Unreal statline. Calai Rosario

(55:20):
little sneak peak, You're going to be in tomorrow's Doynasy
Pickups article three h four four eighteen six ninety six
with ten home runs in August. And Roddy Rodriguez. I
did not know who this was until my friend, who
is an Angels fan, said, who is this guy who's
carrying the single A Inland Empire team. It's Roddy Rodriguez
four forty two five thirty eight six sixty three, with

(55:44):
four home runs and nine stolen bases in the month
of August. Darren'm gonna start with you, of these six outfielders,
who are you most high.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
On, still still going to be Jack Kags And am
I selfish? Is it wrong? Is it wrong to want
him to struggle the rest of this year until the
offseason so I can get him on the cheap? Maybe
it is wrong, but I think that I remember remember
five seconds ago when he was about to, you know,
get the promotion, and this was this was the next greatest,

(56:15):
This was God's gift to us as Baseball fantasy love
watching teks. This guy's got easy power and it hasn't
gone anywhere. He's got hurt at the wrong time, and
it's just it feels like it's a bit of a
tough situation for the Royals right now. But I'm really
excited for him. Just and then I'll give a shout
out and I want to say that Jack is my guy,
and I'll stop it with that, and maybe Lucas wants

(56:38):
to talk about Ryan Waldschmidt, so I'll just say real quick,
extremely underrated. But I feel the hype building and it's
it's insane what he's doing right now. Uh, probably one
of the more safe profiles, best floors in all of
minor league baseball.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Lucas read my mind, Waldschmid's the guy.

Speaker 5 (57:02):
The really impressive thing to me about wals Schmidt, if
if we go over the surface numbers, it looks like
he's putting up five tool production that he is right.
He's hitting two seventy seven four thirteen with an ops
at eight seventy two on the year, sixteen home runs,
twenty seven steals, really doing it all across the board
for the Diamondbacks system.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
He's up to double a now at twenty two.

Speaker 5 (57:21):
His draft stock took a hit a little bit in
his draft year because he got injured I think that
final season at Duke and didn't really get to play
a ton in the meat of the season. So it
kind of took some people by surprise with how aggressive
the Diamondbacks were getting him. But I think he's shown
everybody a really advanced played approach that's going to carry
over to the pros. What really stands out to me
is not actually the walk grate as high as it is.
It's the fact that even though he's currently making subpar

(57:44):
in zone contact, his out of zone contact is elite.
So basically, what he's doing, if I'm interpreting the numbers correctly,
I think, is he's fighting off pitches a lot. He's
really making the most of the pitches in the zone
that he does get hold of, and that has made
him look I think like I think both Doc and
Greg I've alluded to one of the more polished bats
we're seeing in the minor leagues this year. Would not
shock me at all if he was up pretty early

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in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Awesome walshmid was Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Right, I'm sorry, Yes, Duke Kentucky, Not Duke I confuse
my wife.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Yeah, blue and white, Blue and white. All right, guys.
There's a ton of pitchers to talk about here, so
I'm going to kind of break it down into the
by level. So we're gonna start with the three Triple
A pitchers here. Quinn Matthews of the Cardinals in twenty
five innings two sixteen ERA, one sixteen whip and a
thirty two to twelve strikeout to walk, Robbie Snelling amazing

(58:39):
zero point seventy five ERA and twenty four innings with
thirty one to nine kaya walk and Forrest Whitley blast
from the past now with Tampa and Triple A as
a starter, twenty six and two thirds innings, two point
zero three ERA, twenty six strikeouts, and eleven walks. Lucas
will start with you, who would you like the shout

(59:00):
in this group?

Speaker 3 (59:01):
This is an interesting group.

Speaker 5 (59:03):
Probably the most predictable choice of the PODO. I'm going
to talk about four sweetly for like the thirty second time.
I just can't quit the guy. I still have almost
all the shares I had six years ago. Like, I
think he really is among the most talented pitchers in
the world and it's just having a hard time putting
it together. But if you look at the difference between
what he did in Triple A with Houston system this

(59:24):
year before being dfaid and what he's done since coming
to Tampa, it really is night and day. His walk
rate is almost exactly half in the Tampa system of
what it was in Houston. He was walking sixteen percent
of batters before getting dfaid in their Triple A system
for Houston, and now he's walking eight point five percent
for Tampa, which is still not an elite number by

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any stretch of the imagination. But when you have fifty
to fifty five grade pitches, five different versions of them.
That kind of walk rate will certainly play. There's some
questions for me about whether Tampa can actually convert this
to major league production. I think we saw with Joe
Boyle that pretty good getting their minor league guys to
make this approach work. But then as soon as they
try to make that leap, it's a little more difficult

(01:00:05):
for them to get major league hitters out with not
really knowing where their pitches are going. And so I
think we're going to have to see what happens with
both Boil and Whitley going forward.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
But I mean by low window is still open on him.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
I think he's going to be available in a lot
of deep leagues this offseason, and I think there are
far worse flyers for your last roster spot in some
of these really deep leagues.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Like you said, Tampa has done a really good job
bringing those guys in that have had control issues. They're
very much a team that's pitched to the center of
the plate, let your pitches work. They've had several pitchers
that have commented on that and said, this is what
they've done to help.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
Me throw more strikes.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
It just throw to the center of the plate and
they're going to throw more strikes obviously, and it's been
effective for him. So but like you say, will it
move up into the major leagues once he gets the call?

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
There? Doc, who would you like to talk about here?

Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
Oh gosh, let me just do a quick, quick one
two punch here. Quinn Matthews and Robbie sent only want
to I mean, I'll just make it quick on either.
It's like they're two completely opposite sides of the coin, right.
It's like Quinn Matthews, I was, I was so high
on him. He just My favorite stat for pitchers is

(01:01:14):
innings pitched. And I'm a grandpa and I just think
that it's that's what the That's actually a huge thing
for for managers in the major leagues, right, and so
they don't want to exhaust their bullpen. They want guys
to give them quality starts. I'm a big Miles michaelist.
Guy enrages. It infuriates Nate Rasmussen. It's the best thing
that we talk about. And so I love that for

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Quinn Matthews that not only was he logging huge innings
and like what do he do like, I forget the
number now, but it's like one hundred and fifty pitches.
He did in college one game. It was insane, but
you know, he put on natural velo through lifting weights
and it was really excited. Now this year he has
forgotten how to command all of his pitches apparently, and
the velo has been up and down. I guess you

(01:01:58):
might say he's the Matthew Liberto of the minor leagues
right now. We just don't know who he is. You know,
the first half of the season for Liberator was fantastic.
Second half we're like, ow is that the old guy again?
And Matthews again, We're like, is this there's a stud
in there? I can see a stud, but a lot
of inconsistencies. Whereas Robbie Snelling is like super safe floor.
It feels like he's just got such great command, built

(01:02:19):
like a linebacker because he was a linebacker, and that
was referred to me by probably all of you. But
I remember I think Reese White said that a couple
of guys pointed out that he actually has really good
linebacker tape. I think he was like a D one
recruit or something like that. Robbie Snelling and now he's
got a mustache, and I'm a sucker for the mustaches,
so I just like both those guys for completely different reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Awesome. A couple of awesome lefties there. We'll move to
the Double A level. There's quite a few names here,
so I'll just kind of run through them real quick.
Harlan Susanna in Double A in the month of August
and twenty one and a third innings forty one strikeout
the two ninety five bra.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Griff McGarry converted reliever with the.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Phillies twenty three innings with a forty to eleven strikeout
to walk Ratio. Hayden Mullins of the Red Sox three
and oh record with a one point sixty seven ERA
and twenty eight strikeouts. Jonathan Santucci of the Mets.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
You could have.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Thrown four or five Mets names on this list. They
just continue to pump out the arms two eighteen ERA
with twenty seven strikeouts in the month of August. Lucas
Braun had an awesome month of August for the Braves
twenty seven to two thirds ending of two point nine
three ERA thirty eight to nine K to walk Thomas.
Why we've mentioned earned his promotion to Triple A. Jared

(01:03:35):
de Berry. Here's a kind of a shout name from
the lower levels now in Double A two and oh
with a one sixty one era, twenty nine to eight
Kate to Walk, TJ. Nichols of the Marlins twenty five
innings of a one forty four era.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
I had E Sean.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Henderson of the Cardinals twenty five and two thirds innings
of two ten ERA with twenty seven to eight k
to Walk to start with you one or two names
here that you're excited about.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Yeah, I'm actually excited about Ehon Henderson.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
This is a name that came up, I believe in
our May Team of the Month Prospect podcast as well,
and that was kind of the first time that I
had been exposed to what he's been up to.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
But he's really.

Speaker 5 (01:04:16):
Looked excellent, not just in the month of May, in
the month of August, but kind of all season. This
is a Fresno State College arm who the Cardinals took
back in twenty twenty three in the eighth round, so
kind of a deep cut.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
He's a six to two lefty.

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
He's twenty three years old, but he not only has
a two four nine ERA on the year, a three
four to eight FIP or a three eight fIF I
should say these are consistent with his numbers for his
career in the minor leagues. He has a career ERA
of two three eight and a fifth of three four eight,
So I think this is a consistent performance from somebody
that's been under the radar for not only this season,
but his entire professional career. I don't know that he

(01:04:51):
would really command much of a price at all in
deeper dynasty leagues. I think he's somebody that you could
probably get for a back end draft pick at this point,
and similar to I think there are just a lot
worse uses for your last kind of few prospects dash spots.
This is somebody that I've been projecting is hopefully being
kind of an SP four SP five when he makes
the majors, and those will play, especially in the deep
leagues where you want consistent performance, and that's really what

(01:05:13):
he's delivered so far.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Awesome Darren, who catches your eye of this group of
double A pictures.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
The twenty four year old's yarln Susanna who's been around
forever and obviously he's twenty four and I'm gaslighting you.
He's not. He's twenty one. He's It's like, it's not
too old. It's not like twenty I said, twenty eight,
where you're like, there's no way. Some people out there
were like, wait a second, have I been taking crazy fills?
It seems like we should be getting bored of this guy,
And frankly, I still don't know how the story will end.

(01:05:40):
Because I listen, folks, I like to hype up what
I get, right. It's like I got to point out
why you should continue to listen to me, yam or.
But at some point I will not be in Jacob Mazarowski.
So far I thought he was. I was dead set.
This guy's has to be a reliever, right, and so
far it looks like probably not like looks like he
might be a rate starter, and so Yarl and Susanna,

(01:06:02):
he's walking that line right now. And I don't actually
have a take on it. I don't know. It's just
like a fantastic stuff has a has a great build
six six, two thirty five, and we'll see. I don't
think it's a death knell. This is what this is
what I'll say here. I don't think it's a death
knell for Yarl and Susanna if he ends up being
like a Felix Batista, but better you know, I mean

(01:06:24):
that sounds crazy, but he would be one of the
most dominant leaders I think in the league because something
that managers love is that presence on the mountain. And
I'll tell you what, the game on the line, I'd
love to send this monster out there. Uh, but we'll
see what the future holds. It's it's tough right now
with that walk rate.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
That's one thing with those those hard throwers that I mean,
he's he's one oh he averages like one on one,
one o two. Imagine what he could do in a
bullpen roll and uh where he's just let loose and
hitting one o four, one oh five. Possibly that would
be a I mean, that would be the greatest outcome
for him, but would still be a good outcome for

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the Nationals and for fantasy too because he being closers
so awesome. Let's move to Hi A, guys, So we
got a Yankees prospect here. Lucas Xavier Reis of the Yankees.
In twenty four innings at one point five zero ERA,
thirty four strikeouts, Luis de Leona the Orioles fifteen innings,
one point seven two bri zero point seven seven twenty

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nine K's Christian Opera of the White Sox. I moved
him way up my prospect list today, actually, one thirty
five Vira in twenty innings. Adam Serwanowski. Somehow the Dodgers
got this guy, and it's just a criminal that they
got him. Twenty nine innings, thirty seven strikeouts and a
one to fifty five Vira. Carson mill Brandt of the

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Miami Marlins. Another Marlins arm, interesting nineteen names, two point
three three ERA and thirty four strikeouts. And August and
Eliezer dish me another Marlins arm. Twenty innings, one point
eight zero e ra a zero seven strikeouts in August. Doc,
We'll start with you. Who do you like in this list?

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
Yeah, I had never heard. I never heard of a
four by the way, until I went on a White
Sox podcast. They were like, yeah, he's sick, he's so good.
And I'm like, okay, there's a big debate in here
between this him and this other guy you've never heard of,
and I'm like, oh man, this is weird. So I'm
actually not even and I'm actually not gonna talk about him,
So Luke's gonna talk about him. I wanna talk about

(01:08:28):
Carson mill Brandt, who I do know because I play
in this fun league. I recommend anything anyone who comes
up with something cooky like this give it a shot.
My closed minded just says no, but my open nature
says yes. I'm a weird guy. Uh. It's where a
league where it's prospects only and you have to have
a home team. And my home team was given to

(01:08:49):
me to be the Flora It was Miami Marlins. I
called myself the Florida Marlins with permission from the commission.
I think the branding is better. But Carson Millbrandt is
someone I roster through this league, so I've been able
to follow him a little bit, and so it's good
to see they're pretty high on him. The command has
basically not really taken any steps forward that I can tell.

(01:09:10):
The whip this month is the direction you want to
see it go in. So maybe this is the beginning
of something beautiful. Still just twenty one years old. Hey,
sometimes a picture is like Justin Steele, and they blossom
at twenty six, twenty seven years old. A pitcher can
go until almost forty. I feel like they have a
little bit longer of a shelf life out their peak.

(01:09:32):
Maybe that's because they're like just destined to be sitting
down for a year or two with the TJ which
it's unfortunate. But yeah, it's exciting to see to see
something here because you know, if there's any team that
just really needs more pitching talent, it is the It
is the Miami Marlins. And that is dry humor, sarcasm, folks.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
I forgot her name in Hya and the one I
would talk about if I had a chance, it's Gage
Stander for of the Blue Jays in HIA eight and
thirty eight strikeouts. He's been lights out with the one
sixty one era. So Lucas, now I'll pass it over
to you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
I kind of wanted to hear the Greg breakdown of
Gage standffor do you want to do? You want to
do that first?

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
I just well, I just I love what the Bludgers
have done this year with their arms. I mean, they
traded a couple of they built up a couple and
traded a couple away for some major league pieces, and
really it comes down to throwing more strikes all the
way across the whole organization, and he's been a guy
that has learned how to throw more strikes and his
stuff obviously is awesome. And yeah, I just, I just

(01:10:35):
I love what the Bludgers have done and I think
it's going to continue and their Standff is just one
of those guys as well, So I'm big on him.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
So, Lucas your turn.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
That was great.

Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
That was great.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
I love Standffer. I moved him up in my rankings.
A good deal.

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
I believe the name that stands out to me here
is actually Servanowski for the Dodgers. I'm not sure, maybe
this is a hot take, but I'm not sure if
any prospect had their fantasy ceiling elevated higher as result
of the trade deadline than Sarwanowski. Not only does he
get to get out of the great American small park
future of being in the Cincinnati system, but he goes
to LA with the Dodgers, inarguably one of the top

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two or three development organizations for pitching. In particular, he
came over in that weird three way deal they did
with the Raids that involved all those kind of like
backup catcher types like Fiducia and Roarveet. But ever since
moving from Cincinnati's organization to Los Angeles, he's been phenomenal.
He had a four ERA over eighteen appearances at High
A for Cincinnati's affiliate, and then he has a one

(01:11:32):
to five to five in the five starts for the
Los Angeles HIGA affiliate. He's been striking out way more batters,
he's been walking way fewer batters. I think that the
development trends need to continue, obviously beyond a five start
sample size, But this is a player who was pretty
much off I think a lot of radars for even
the deepest of dynasty leagues when he was stuck in
the Cincinnati system in the offseason. I think there's going

(01:11:53):
to be a lot of people kind of waking up
to the fact that he might be the latest in
an assembly line of Dodgers pitching prospects that kind of
come out of nowhere and become bigly relevant two or
three years down the road.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Dodger magic.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
They do it all the time, don't they.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
I'll just say, with this, we've got there's got to
be a way to stop.

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
Can the government do something state federal like we've got
to figure something out here.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
And Darren on Christian Opwa, the reason why the White
Sox fans are so hyped up is when he was drafted,
he was throwing ninety one and now he can touch
over one hundred. So in one season or one plus season,
he has really really increased his blow. And I worried
about that just a little bit because that's where injuries
tend to happen when you're maximaut like that. But he's

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a lefty two by the way, so that's that's pretty
pretty exciting stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Let's move to single a Yoicker Faiardo the Boston Red Sox.
The Red Sox do a lot of good stuff with
pitching as well. In eighteen innings he had a one
fifty twenty eight strikeouts. Brody breckt in twenty innings at
one point eight zero we are with twenty eight strikeouts,
and Cash Mayfield turned around the season a little bit
in nineteen innings in August with twenty six strikeouts.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
Doc, We'll start with.

Speaker 4 (01:13:07):
You, gosh yeah, I uh in Bracton Mayfield are the
two guys you know that draw me in because they
were pretty hyped up before the season. Not focus on
Breck just because uh, he he had this. He had
this vibe of maybe a Pall skeins Ish sort of
feel to his fastballs. What I heard, I heard a

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lot of that, and and he's got this filthy slider.
Now will that play up as much in Colorado? The slider?
That remains to be seen. But we're seeing kind of
what we thought we would get with him, crazy amounts
of strikeouts. I like, I'm a K nine guy, I'm
a grandpa, and so, uh, fourteen point one point five

(01:13:48):
K nine and five point two walks for nine. It's
it's not what you dream of. But you know, for
his first full season and pro ball, I'm perfectly okay
with it. He's keeping the ball in the yard and
so it's just so tough. Man. I don't know how
many of y'all thought that Jase Dolander might be the
exception to the rule, he might be the chosen one.

(01:14:10):
I thought he might be a chosen one. I thought
he could be, And so I don't know, And frankly,
I don't know if he even matters anymore. But Brody
Brekta I used to say, it's like like Susannah, like
I play a thirty team ors. Sometimes getting a really
elite closer is actually not the worst situation. But with
the Rockies now, the more I'm thinking about it, I'm like,
they're just so desperate for starting pitching death they'll probably

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chuck him out there, even if he's walking every other batter.
It's it which for Dynasty purposes, it just might be
a red flag. Just might be. I don't know, man,
but he's got incredible upside. If he was with any
other organization, we'd be so excited right now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Yeah, that's it's a tough one because, yeah, I was
with you. I was I was thinking Orlander could be
a guy that could be like a number two or
three starter on your roster, and just hasn't. I mean,
he's a rookie, so it hasn't been realized yet. He's
looked good on the road. I mean, I own him
in the plot Dynasty League and I'll start him for

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my road starts, but the home starts he's on the bench.
It's just not happening just yet. But hopefully he can
figure it out. And when we talk to him, he's
so easy going. He's just like, yeah, man, I'm just
gonna shoot my shot. Play my game and throw my pitches,
and he's got good stuff, so hopefully he can figure
it out. Lucas closed us out with your thoughts on

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one of these three.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Sure, one quick note on Brect. He's another example of
the former football player.

Speaker 5 (01:15:36):
He played wide receiver at Iowa, so he's got that
same build, which I think gives it hopefully a little
more durability, even if the velocity is one of those
things that leads to some of these injuries down the road.
But the other I think name of note here is
Cash Mayfield, in part because I think he's emblematic of
what the Padres are really gaming for in the draft.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
We just watched them take Cruise Schoolcraft.

Speaker 5 (01:15:55):
He's kind of the same type of guy that's like
lanky prep lefty that can really get up there with
the fastball. We Mayfield's looked really, really solid in his
first full pro season eighteen starts, two point seventy three ERA.
He's only given up two home runs on the year.
Batters are hitting below the mendos a line against him.
I know it's just a ball, but this is kind
of exactly what you want to see a prett pitcher

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do in their first full season, there might be some
kind of soft innings limit. He's only at fifty nine
point one innings fifty nine and a third over his
first eighteen starts, so it doesn't look like they're letting
him go very deep into games, which also makes sense
as they're trying to kind of build him up slowly
into being sort of not just an adult but also
a professional baseball players. He's coming out of high school.
But I think Cash Mayfield is pretty underrated right now.

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I haven't heard much chatter about his name when we
think about like who could be the next top prospect
in terms of pitching a year, two years down the road.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
But I think he's making his case to be in
that conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
And he's one of the only Padres prospects left.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
Oh yeah, he he's probably the best one. Now. Is
there anybody else in that system who's even remotely close
beside Schoolcraft? Do I just mention?

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
I mean, Ethan Sallas is than anything right now, So
I thought he must be.

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
I thought he must have been doing terrible because I
hadn't heard anything about him. He was hyped up before
the draft. He's just like quietly succeeding good for him.

Speaker 5 (01:17:09):
Speaking of the Padre is one quick thing on the
Bret to being a closer with the Susanna to being
a closer conversation that Mason Miller price has to have
some of these other teams thinking that it's worth doing that,
but it's worth developing one of these high octane one
inning types that, like if they're really really good at that,
are going to net you a huge return. Like if
the Rockies choose to do that with Brett, there's there's
no reason he can't be eighty to ninety percent of

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what Mason Miller is.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
That's a good point right there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Yeah, teams might go that route, and the Padres are
a team that do go that route. They have a
ton of relief prospects. I mean, that's pretty much all
I have left after the trade deadline. But good call
on that one. All right, guys, we made it through
our August performers. A lot of prospects talked about there,
from the very very tip top prospects to some really

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deep cuts. So hopefully you gleaned from that conversation there,
close it out with what's going on with you, guys.
Darren will start with you our special guest what's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Where can people follow you?

Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
And yeah, at Doc Eisenhower on the X formerly known
as Twitter, you may remember, well, at what point will
that just die out? And the kids will be saying,
what's a Twitter? I've only ever known? Next, what are
you some kind of boomer? And maybe that'll be a thing.
I don't know, but you can find me there in
Prospects Live, where I like to do this thing called

(01:18:29):
Sunday Smoke, and I'm going to be helping out throughout
the off season. Check it out. Baseball never sleepspokes, Baseball
never sleeps off seasons. For prospects. The off season is
where you build your dynasty championship. And that's not like
just a slogan. That's a guarantee. I'm telling you I
did it. I had the worst team in the league
in two years. I built the best team in the
league who is now to the playoffs, but the best

(01:18:50):
team in the league. And the reason I and the
and the when of when I did it was in
the off season. So please, there's way smarter people than
me that are on this team, then you should be
listening to them and stay in tuned for Prospects Live
all throughout the off season. We will not be sleeping.
I promise you that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
That's a great endorsement for what we do here, Lucas.
Where can people follow you? What are you working on?

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Yeah? That was a fantastic plug that was really really
well done by Doc.

Speaker 5 (01:19:17):
People can find me on Twitter. I am a Boomer.
I'm gonna keep calling on Twitter. I'm sorry, but people
can find me at the prospect off on Twitter. I
do the Diamond Diploma series for Prospects Live, so talking
about the players that are closest to getting a call
up to the majors, trying to project not just the
slam dunk guys like your Bebba Chandlers and your Jonah Thoms,
but also some of the more deep cut sleepers for
deeper league people. So that series is going to be

(01:19:40):
wrapping up, but really really excited for the off season.
We're going to have a lot of fun content for
people to prepare for the twenty twenty six season with.

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
So stay tuned for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Awesome and I am mac Greg Hucamp and I'm kind
of trying to.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
Lead this team through the off season.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
We got lots of big plans for what we're going
to be doing so stay tuned for that. Our Top
six Hunters should be coming out in the coming days.
And again, if you enjoyed this podcast, please rate and review.
We appreciate the support. It's gonna do it. For this
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of Darren and Lucas, I'd like to thank our Hall
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(01:20:16):
Mike Lassiter, Mike Knakagawa, Jason Dyer, Kyle Davison, Chris Chen
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