On Deck #29: Grading the 2024 Draft

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, and welcome back to the on Deck podcast
by Prospects Live and a little bit of a different
look today, just me and Drew holding down the flour
with our Prospects Live hats and uh Drew, I want
you to explain to the people back home what we're
doing today, folks.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
In case you couldn't read it on the ten or
you're just clicking in thanks for that. We are grading
the twenty twenty four draft classes, Nate. What that means
is we're looking back with just about a year's worth
of knowledge to see what teams did well and what
teams maybe have some things to hope for in the
future or work on in the future with regards to

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their class from the twenty twenty four MLB First Year
Player Draft.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Stick around until the end of the video because we
will be doing an actual tier list of these teams
for our visual friendly listeners out there, and that's on
YouTube as always. But in the meantime, we're going right
into this thing, So I'm gonna kick it to the
drop teams for our intro and we'll see you on
the other side of that break.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
And by the corner, we're trying to figure out.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
And we're back, Drew, and I'm really excited about this one.
Is something we've talked about quite a bit, and I'm
sure our buddy Reese would would like to be here
doing this with us. But Reese's are broken back. Not actually,
but Reese is slightly injured right now, so he's on
the il for a week right well, we'll probably see
him back on Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I don't know about slightly injured. His exact words were
that his nephew jump kicked him in the back while
they were watching Trek Schooble, So I don't know if
his nephew just got so hyped watching scoobs go that
he just, I mean karate kicked. I pictured in my
brain has Reese got karate kicked in the back. So
shout out rest in power to Reese right now.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
For sure. I don't blame for taking a little bit
of time off as well. This is the dog days
of baseball in a sense, but we're getting into some
really fun stuff. But this is your throwback episodes. So
it's been about a year, so it's hard to put
actually accurate grades on these draft classes, right, Drew. But
there's a bit of projection that goes into some of
these guys are in the MLB already, some of them
are still in the complex. Like, there's a wide array

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of outcomes here and no better team to start off
with than the Arizona Diamondbacks. We're gonna go alphabetical through
this thing, right about a minute per team. We're gonna
keep this episode a little bit shorter minute and a half.
So when you look at the Diamondbacks, what jumps off
the page at you right away?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Right off the jump? I think you go to round three,
pick one, h two overall. Daniel Egan one of this
year's most exciting pitchers, a pop up guy in many regards,
not if you paid attention to last year's draft class, though, Nate,
this is a right handed pitcher who is excelled, if
I'm not mistaken, just promoted to High A after a streak
of very successful games in class at a ball. Really

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excited for what I've seen out of him. Looking at
my FYPD ranks, just to give it a quick fantasy spin,
I had him as high as sixty eighth at times.
Then you look just the guys drafted ahead of it.
Man Slade Caldwell was a very popular prepster kind of
adjacent to the Corbyn Carroll make but Ryan Waldschmidt out
of the University of Kentucky obviously the SEC guy is

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the one that I'm gravitating towards, a dada darling who,
for the first half of this minor league season man
looks like he might be one of the most explosive
players from this draft that wasn't already in the majors.
I should say, what do you think looking at this, like,
who are you drawn to?

Speaker 1 (03:25):
They have two guys who I would put in the
top one hundred of prospect lists, and to do that
a year after is no easy feat. I mean, obviously,
wald Schmidt and Caldwell both went for slot, and both
were very good picks where they were taken, and both
there are crime prospects. Well. The ceiling for Caldwell sometimes
scares me a little bit. There isn't a whole lot
of power in that back. It's like the Corbyn Carroll

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without power kind of thing. But you never know. Waldschmidt
I prefer to Caldwell right now, but I do think
that they're pretty close to each other as far as
prospects go, and having two top hundred prospects. I mean,
you can't complain about that, right.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
No, No, absolutely not. I know that JD. Dix has
his kind of supporters as well, tedas Sissel had a
couple of supporters. I know that a guy like Connor
Foley has still got some way that he can go
upwards through the ranks as well. Arizona is a team
that I think always does fine in the draft, but

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to have made such a such a splash, and such
a great splash with their first two picks, I think
they've got to be at least middle of our tier
list if.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
I would put them hesitantly in a right now, knowing
that we have an S tier above that, Okay, that
is probably reserved for a couple teams. Do you think
it's a hesitant a just because those first two picks.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I do I think a hesitant a Like you said,
two top one hundred picks out of the out of
a twenty round draft. Fabulous work you've done.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Amazing, and we will we'll cross reference at the end
to make sure people are in fact tiers, but let's
put a hesitant a there. Moving ahead to the athletics,
Nick Kurtz, who is set to an ale Rookie of
the Year just a year after he was drafted. Tommy White,
Gauge Jump are some other names that jump off the
screen right away. Drew, I mean, this is a really
fun draft class. I already know where I'm going as

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far as ranking goes for a tier list, but I
want to hear your thoughts of this AG's draft class.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
So let's let's if you're following along at home, I
just want to point out that in the twentieth round,
the Athletics decided they were gonna just put everything on
the table and try their best to get an insane
prepster named Dylan Valantis, who is the closer for the
Texas Longhorns. If you know me, I do not compliment
Texas at all, but Dylan Valantis is that guy. He

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is the truth. Hashtag Paul Pierce going up the list, though, Dude,
You've got Dylan Fiend who is Gavin Fiene's older brother,
so you know there's talent there. Josiah Romeo had some talent.
Rodney Green Junior may have been one of the most
athletic players. Toolsy players with questionable methodology to getting there.

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JKG Joshua Croda Grauer with Rutgers was a solid as
they come, maybe has floundered a bit in his pro career.
Then you get to the big three man, Nick Kurtz.
Absolutely insanity. I mean, you could leave Kurtz off of
this list and I think we'd still be a comfortable
be considering Tommy White has decided he can hit for
more average despite some kind of odd things with his swing.
Gauge jump insane jump up this year, and I hate

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to be that guy to use that joke, But then JKG,
I think this is safely a B. But when you
add Kurtz to the mix, this is an ass This
is one of the best classes we'll see.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Gage Jump might have been the best pick in this draft.
If we're talking about non first round guys. Gage Jump
is a top forty prospect in baseball according to my
top one hundred that might be out tomorrow, might be
out Saturday on for free on X. Gage Jump is
an incredible player. And then Nick Kurtsey have one of
the best young baseball players in the league. Like, I
don't know how what else you can say. This might

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be the best draft class we encounter all day. Let's
put them in the s here and just to Just.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
To further it, Nick Kurtz didn't even sign for slot.
They saved one point five three seven million dollars on
getting arguably the most exciting first basement in baseball. I mean,
if he's not, he's top five, but just absolutely ridonculous.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Great based prospects don't normally get me excited, Nick Kurtz does.
Moving on to the Atlanta Braves, here Cam Cam and
Nitty in the first round four slot. And you look
down the board and there's some fun names that we've
seen pop up in the lower miners this year. Owen
Carry is one that I look at, Titus Demetri who
has now been traded Mason Garrett. Like they had they

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did hit on some later round guys. Eric Cartman is
a guy in twenty twentieth round who has absolutely killed
it so far. Granted they paid up for him in
the twenty they saved a little bit of money, but
like Eric Cartman and Owen Carry are are carrying the
lower minor league hitters for the Braves right now. That's
my analysis though, Drew, what do you think about the
Braves draft class?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
I love that because honestly, with the Braves we struggle
sometimes I say, well, I don't want to speak for you.
I struggle sometimes to find batters in this system the offense.
But Hartman and Carry are two of the guys that
jumped to mind for me, and I love that the
Braves were able to scoop them in that kind of
second half of the draft. Even honestly, we can call
fifteenth the back quarter of the draft essentially. But looking

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back through here, man, I love Harrit Carnandez. This is
a young fellow who came from the ACC from Miami,
has some six stuff, really just needs some development. So
when I saw he was going to Atlanta, who have
been kind of a mecca for pitching development for the
last decade or a half, maybe I felt pretty good
about that. Luke Snard another guy in kind of the
same mold, just a big, big bodied fella that I

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think they could make into a weapon. Carter Holton obviously
a gentleman. I watched quite a bit of as you
would imagine, the lefty Kevinittis looked good this year. I
would say this one probably a safe bee because I
think the splash has come from later in the draft.
But I think they're still upside there. I could be
even convinced maybe to put this out a C. Nate,

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I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I was somewhere between B and C. Should we go
for seat just to think we go see for now?
I don't think camin Nitty is necessarily your dream first
round pick. A year later. I think that's my biggest takeaway,
and the first round pick does matter more than maybe
i'd like it to. Eric Cartman has five home runs
and is hitting two fifty three sixty, one hundred and

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twenty two WRC plus in single A as a twentieth
round prepster from Canada. Pretty cool stuff. Let's move along
to the Baltimore Orioles highlighted by Vance Honeycut, Austin Over
and a couple other players down the board. He got
some fun guys, Nate. George is hanging around over there.
What do we think about this Orioles draft class. I'm

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not the biggest fan.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
I think after the draft I really liked this class
a lot, But I feel like now, with the benefit
of hindsight, it's more difficult to be so glowy about it.
I think that Honeycut has the exact problems we said
he would have. It's a tool shed with a questionable coach,

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Griff o'ferrell boring in the best way. He's he's exciting
in that he's so consistent without much ceiling. Ethan Anderson,
I still think might be okay again Rip Reese, not
just for your back but for Austin over and he
might put stuff together. But it's I don't know really exactly.
Nate George right now is looking like the gem of

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the class, and again such a late round pick. They
did pay up for the preps for four hundred and
fifty five thousand dollars. But I think this is again
about a C. I think a year removed Nate, I
would have said this was probably a B, maybe even
a low tier A, but I think this is a C. Again.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I agree, I would go see. I think that there's
potential for this to be a D if you didn't
have Nate George in this class. I mean, vance Honeycutt
looks like he will not be a major league baseball
player after one year, which is such a crazy statement
to make. He's striking out forty two percent of time
and hitting one seventy. It doesn't matter how good at
defense you are. We saw with Denzel Clark. He had
to hit you know, home runs are for average before

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he could even get the call. And he's a better
defender than Honeycutt ever will be. So it's a flawed profile.
It's a tough first round pick. I think c is
the perfect spot for them. Let's move right along to
the Boston Red Sox. He took Brandon Montgomery and then
traded him away, so we do have to kind of
consider that in this exercise. But Peyton Tole and zach Arhard,
Brandon Clark, this is one of my favorite classes, Drew,

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I right away, I am AARs, but I want to
hear what you think.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I think that we need to weigh. Okay, if if
Montgomery was still in the system, it's ans, especially because
we've seen totally I mean, I don't I don't even
know that rocket ship isn't an appropriate enough term. At
this point.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
The top.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Prospect a top forty prospect, and it's it's such a
rapid assent that it has been truly special to watch.
But then you look again, like we said, further down
the board at guys like Brandon Clark. Uh, you look
at a guy like Brandon Neely that could still you know,
maybe develop into something further down the line. Uh, just
this is a special class. I am gonna say A

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because I think if Montgomery were still with Boston, we
could we could very comfortably put this in an S
and maybe I think the only one we've heard so
far that even rivals it as the Athletics. But without Montgomery,
I think it's a safe A, a comfortable A for
right now.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
I'm gonna move them ahead of the Diamondbacks, is what
I'm gonna do with are. I think it's bordering on
S and maybe we'll we'll take a look at the
end and see see what I think customary like. Let's
go right ahead to the Chicago Cubs. Here Camp Smith
another player who's traded, which makes us a tough one
to think about, but a couple of fun players down
the board here drew a couple of maybe the middle rounds.

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I should say, what are your thoughts in the Cubs
draft and how do you kind of how do you
rate this with with camp Smith no longer on the team.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's odd because the second name that I'm most drawn
to here is Ryan Gallagher out of U see Santa Barbara.
They went back to my U see Santa Barbie. That's
kind of sick. I didn't really think about that until
just now, but Ryan Gallagher traded to the Twins. If
I'm not mistaken. After kind of again having a bit
of an ascendant year, the fact that my favorite two

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guys out of this class have been traded makes me
almost want to put this class at a C or D.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Right. I think for the purpose of exercise, we should
assume that people are still on their team because how
because we should trade the draft class base and the
players they drafted. Okay, right, doesn't that feel right?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
That feels that feels like the most fair way to
assess it. I think that that would bump I think
that would then bump Boston to an S. And I
think that we could put the Cubs. I'm still I'm
still leaning maybe like a low B.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Here, I'm the or C. I think we put them
in B for now, and we we evaluate Cam Smith
has been a very good player, and he's been an MLB,
which makes it even harder to value I.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Think that that. I think that, honestly, I value that
so much more. I think that guys like Smith, Kurtz,
Chris Moore, who will get to in just a minute,
I think that I'll see that as being so much
more valuable because you took a guy who could have
benefited you so much quicker, and in the case of
Smith and especially Kurtz, in such a positive way. I
feel like low b here, because again, looking up and

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down the list, some of these guys will pop off eventually,
but thus far, the two that I do like the
Cubs have traded, which again they are pushing for it
this year, so we can't fault in that, which I guess.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Moving ahead to the Chicago White Sox, there's a big
stain at the top of this draft class, and that
is Hagen Smith, who will not be in our top
one hundred when we do release that coming up here soon.
And it's quite frankly looking like one of the scarier
picks of last year's draft right now, maybe the biggest
bust of all if you were to go a year
after the draft. I don't want to label him yet,
but the command has been a problem. But then you

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go down the board and things start to get fun.
Caleb Bonnamer very very good player. Sam Antonaki, very great
player from Coastal Carolina who felt like was being undervalued
all year, similar to a Coastal Carolina catcher that we
both really like. Jack Young in the ninth round is
one of my favorite relievers in baseball in the minor leagues.

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At least you can see him on the Dynasty Closer
Hierarchy signed him for only seven thousand dollars and then
looking down the board. Lyle Miller Green, Liam Paddock two
names I really like as far as pictures go, Drew,
what are your thoughts in the Chicago draft class.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I want to shout out Lyle Miller Green. I've never
met another fan of him other than myself, Nate, so
it would be that you are the fan of him.
I love Lyyle Miller Green's story. He played at Austin
p University. Let's go pee love that. I don't want
to shout out to other guys that you didn't really mention.
Aaron Colmes, Tennessee, speaking of just a solid reliever, Colmes

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was always a guy you could count on to get
some ounce and just be a real gamer out there.
This is not really deep analytics so much as just
the guy goes out there and impacts the game. And
that's something that we still need to take advantage of
Blake Shepherdson. I thought was a really interesting, really interesting pitcher.
I'm not really sure what he's going to be long term.
And then again, just looking at guys that didn't make
it to the team. Else Bailey a prep guy that

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ended up at Florida State and big power. Excited to
write his report. This is this is a system there
a draft. Excuse me that I think, Nate, we really
have to. It's being buoyed by Antonaki and Bottomer though,
so how much do we value them? I think kind
of out outcomes the grade here and I'm leaning towards

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high Sea.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Unfortunately I was low be er high Sea. I think
high Sea is the right place because they did take
a bit of a swing and a miss at the
top of the draft. So I think we go see
for the White Sox ahead of the Braves and Origin.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
I know that we're trying to move along. I do
think we're like ten teams in, which is pretty good.
But what do you think the odds are? And we'll
just set this in just like a percentage chance? How
about that? Just for a quick game time. What are
the odds? Hagen Smith as a major league reliever, even
at this.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Point, Nate high, very high. It's two very think that
just from the last Yes, yeah, I think he'll get
a chance to start in MLB because there's no one
else keeping him from doing that on the White Sox
right now. But I don't think it's gonna be pretty.
And I think it's good. He needs a lot more time.
He needs a lot more time. But the White Sox
continue to kind of push their pitching prospects a little
higher than maybe they should.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
It's it's an interesting approach they're taking, especially when really
they don't have to rush them. I think that being
patient with a guy like Smith to see what other
control can develop. Like you said, two electrifying pitches from
the left, you don't get that all the time. Just

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make the best of this situation. Let's not make it
a wasted pick. I guess, but sorry, Nate. Let's let's
move on to Cincinnati, shall we.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Cincinnati. Man, this is where I'm starting to realize maybe
I like too many of these draft classes, because this
is a team that I look at, I say s
right away. So maybe we're gonna have to readjust at
the end of this if we're too top heavy, or
maybe we're just getting the best to start. Chase Burns,
Tyson Lewis, Mike Sirooda. That is a big three if
I have ever seen one. Tyson Lewis is one of
Reese's favorite prospects right now. Believe he's going to be

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right around the fifty mark in our top one hundred update.
That's a very good prospect. Mike Saroda is around a
top fifty prospect as well now on the Dodgers. That
trade sucked for the Reds, but we're not gonna hurt
that too much in that exercise. And then Chase Burns
looks like an MLB level SP two or SP one,
which is something that is very rarely found. He obviously
rows very quick, kind of following the schemes route. Chase

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Burns might be the best player in this class when
we look back in two years. Yeah. So I have
nothing else to say other than s for me.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
I'm with you us. I think that let's just look
at it like this, right, Burns was in contention to
go one to one even when this class was still
fresh and before it had all been decided. Burns, you know, again,
such a rapid ascent and the fact that he is
a major leaguer is tremendous in his favor, but if
he were still a prospect, he'd be a top three

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prospect in any self respecting list, he'd be a top
three prospect. So we have to consider again with Burns,
Lewis and Saroda, one of which is a top five
prospects if he were still qualified, the other two top
fifty prospects, and you go down the board a little
further to find some interesting guys, like I'll tell you
a guy that's really bizarre, but you kind of got
me looking at it more and more as Ryan mc

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Crystal Carolina, just odd profile that I don't know, maybe
maybe it works, and just a strange dude to kind
of follow Peyton stoveall is not awful, just interesting class.
I do think that it's maybe the lowest tier s thus.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Far right above the Red Sox, between the Athletics and
the Red Sox.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah right, okay, I can, I can. I can deal
with that.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's fair. Yeah right, I think that's that's a little
bit better. It's it's on pace with the Red Sox.
Cleveland Guardians had won one last year. They took Travis
Bizana after that, not a whole lot of crazy hits.
In my opinion, Bizana, where you at in Bizana right now? Drew,
Because I have mixed opinions.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
I'm I'm struggling not to really crash out on him,
and I think that's the fun. That's the best way
I can say it. It is. It is not what
you want to see. That said, he has dealt with
some injuries. This is his first full season of affiliated ball.

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I think next year's pivotal for Travis Bizana. I'm not
totally out, but I am cautiously just observing from Afar.
I guess I could say, especially from a fantasy take.
From a fantasy perspective, I'm really kind of hands off
right now. I will say though Braylen Dowdy looks phenomenal,
joey Oki could still be something. Was really yeah, there's

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potential there. And then Chase Mobley I thought could be
something as well. A little bit further down, certainly not
as many deep shot like I'll call him like three
pointers from downtown from the team, like you know that
fifteen through twenty range, you don't have as many as
Oh sick, that guy's really good, top ten guy for
the team. But there's potential here. I do think this

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is again going to be maybe a low tiered B
for me, though, just because Bizana has not been the
cannon ball splash you were hoping for.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
I was right there with the AUC or B. I
think we go at the back end of Bee, behind
the Chicago Cubs, and I think we just move on
from it. The design of discussion is an interesting one,
but I'm not sure if I'm ready to have a
fully formed opinion as far as one way or the other.
I think I'm still somewhere in the middle.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
It's so okay to be gray. Nate like to be
in the gray on this guy. He's not a finished We.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Learned it from Reese. We learned it from Reese. Stay
in the middle, never get hurt. Colorado Rockies, what an
interesting class. Charlie Condon has had one of the most
interesting twelve thirteen months out of any prospect. And then
you see Brody Breck at pick thirty eight. You and
me are huge Brodi Breck. Guys, if I remember correctly.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh yeah, filth, filth, I mean absolute filth, and what
you've wanted to see from Brodie breakfast, my brother in Christ.
Can you please command your pitches just a little more.
And what has he done. He's had a little bit
more command. It's fabulous. Looking even further down here at
another picture Labaron Johnson Junior out of Texas. Again. I
said it earlier. I don't tend to compliment Texas, but

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my god, guy could pitch it again. People at home
are going to pitch the same old, tired agenda they
always had. But pitchers at Colorado they just won't work.
They can work, they can work. Will they is a
matter of like any other prospect, will they work? But
it can work. And I think that if anybody I
really like the shot of Birdie Brett to do it,

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it is an sickening slider, a high v low, good
moving fastball. Those are pitches that play well at altitude.
The magtist effect really does not trample those pitches value
and movement as much as it does others. I think
Brutt could be a star and Nate. I'm not as
down on Charlie Condon as you in Resar. I'm not
like tripping over myself to go out and get the

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guy or like put him at the top one hundred.
But I think he's closer to top one hundred than
he is to outside two hundred or whatever.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, I think I would have him somewhere one. I
think we're just mode to see what he develops into,
see if that power comes back.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Okay, here you go. Would you rather right now? Would
you have rather had Charlie Kanda.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Or Travis Bosana, Travis Posana? Okay, that's proximity floor. And
Jared Thomas was in the class too, who is fabulous?
A great baseball player, just a solid baseball player.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Perfect, perfectly cromulent outfielder, particularly for Colorado.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
How do you feel about b for Colorado?

Speaker 2 (23:35):
I like that a lot. I like that a lot. Fair.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I feel like a lot of people would be like see.
I think I think we're a little higher on this
class than others.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I did too.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
All Right, gosh, there's a lot of names on this list.
All right, I'm gonna try and speed it up here.
But knowing us, man, we're just gonna keep talking because
these were just talking balls. This might be the most
names we've thrown out on a non deck podcast ever,
I think it is. We're just going through naming guys
we like Detroit Tigers, Bryce Rayner, own Hall, Michael Massey
down the board. I liked him a lot last year.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yah.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
What stands out as far as this class for you, Drew.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Bro We can start at the comp round b Ethan's
Steiffeleben was a guy that I loved Prepster was one
of my favorites. I forget who it was. I'm gonna
credit Kylie McDaniel. I'm pretty sure it was Kylie that
said Ethan Stifflebyn looked like a lion that was taunting
its prey. Whenever he would he would suddenly like switch

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like the disposition of a pitch mid at bat, just
to tinker with himself because he's it's like an apex
predator going against like something lower down the food chain.
It's just a test for you at this point. And
then even further down, looking at a guy like Lucas
Eisalt in round thirteen, we've already seen the Tigers trade
this guy for value, and I think that that's got

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to be worth something for sure. I think this is
another one of those weight and see classes, though, because
guys like Hall shifle Byn having Bryce Rayner to Yeah
yeah I have, it hasn't been as much visually, so
I think we're in the same boat.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Or a high C. I mean, I really like Rayner,
but the truth is that he hasn't played a whole lot.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
I think if we I think, if we want to
be bold about this and in a year we look
back and feel better. B. But if we're being honest
with ourselves right now, it's probably a SE.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
I think we go top of sea and we maybe
adjust from there.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
I think that we also have some back end b's
that probably need to be with this team, but that's fine,
we'll get to it.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
In the Houston Astros. I'm just gonna let you take
it away here because i did not like this class
at all, and I'm curious to see if you have
any contrasting opinions.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's not gonna be many. I think Joe Sullivan in
the seventh is interesting. Yep, Walker Yannick could maybe be
a defensive second half of majorly.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
D D the worst class.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
This is not great, and I mean again, consider uh,
you know, didn't get to pick again until pick one,
oh one, That first round pick really was not ideal. This,
this class, or excuse me, this this system needed an
exavier nians worse than I think any of us knew
that they needed an Xavier Nins like that. That guy
is gonna look like an absolute super nova next to.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
This here.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
So yeah, I think comfortable. Do you have a tier
lower than d I do not?

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Okay, well I had to ask. I'm just gonna let you.
I'm just gonna let you do this. I'm gonna let
you go ahead. Here, Tennessee guys in there now, now.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Now we're talking. I'm not even gonna start with the
Tennessee guys. Let's go down the list. Kyle de Grue
at fourteen, interesting, interesting pitcher prep guy Northeast. If I'm
not mistaken, Nate Ackenhausen sounds like one of your cousins.
Probably another guy pitcher lsu. Going up the list, Dennis
Collering could be a really interesting arm. I'm pretty sure

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he's gonna be a reliever if he's not already a reliever.
LP Longovon from Lafayette. I believe another sickening, sickening relief
prospect there. David Shields. Nunney kid is a freak show,
absolute cash love him. Maybe one of my favorite twenty
thirty prospects of the game right now, not best favorite.

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Then you get to a guy Jack Caglione at the top.
Who if we're gonna credit major league success, Nate, I
think you got to bump him up. It hasn't been
what we wanted to see out of him, but I mean,
he was raking TRIPLEA over the colds so hard that
at this point it's like we said, probably ten episodes ago,
twenty episodes ago, why is he not in the majors?
He needs to be learning on the job. And then
you get to a like Drew Beem from Tennessee, who

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is as steady eddy as they come. Very little to
pick against, that very little ceiling, if I'm being honest,
but I mean this is I'd be comfortable putting this
guy in my as my major League number five by
May next year. He's just so steady. Aj Causey an
incredible reliever in his own right, but has looked even

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better since kind of developing that cutter. When I spoke
with aj earlier this season, said that the cutter was
such an interesting pitch for him to add, gave him
a new weapon, and with the Royals putting him into
late ending work, it's really shined. Like Causey a lot currious.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
What you think I love David Shields. I really like
David Shields. I would put these guys in an A.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
I I'm glad you said that. I feel like it
would be a little too homery to say A, but
I'll agree with you. I think that not only do
we have the big name at the topic CAGs, you've
got the guys who are performing in like Shields causey
I don't even call him color and some others. But
then you've got guys that could be something down the
road as well, with an uptick hero there. So yeah,

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I think A is good.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Moving right along to the Los Angeles Angels with Christian Moore,
who did get a cup of coffee the big leagues
before injury, Chris Cortes and Ryan Johnson's a guy I
want to hide it a little bit here, started out
as a reliever straight to the big leagues, that a
minor league game. Now he's starting in the lower miners.
Is he still in high adrio?

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Is that correct? I think that's right, sir. I know
that they've done some weird slingshot things with Ryan Johnson
out of DBU, who was so interesting and I think
a lot of people wrote him off as dead to rights,
especially after the Angels did kind of shotgun him to
the majors, if we can use that phrase. But I
love what he's doing and especially now again, Hia, it's
interesting to say for him.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Ryan Nicholson's the guy. I've seen him person. I've seen
quite a few of these guys in person. Ryan Nicholson's
a very good, good player, and they signed him for
a thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Dude, I have to ask because I get so much
pushback on Nicholson. He's ancient, I mean, and I love
the guy. Ancient for the level ancient. I think he's
like twenty four playing in low Ay or was at
some point this year. Wasn't just killing the level like
he was. But the guy can hit and he's I
think he's more something than he's absolutely nothing. Trey Gregory Alfred.

(30:17):
We've heard plenty of reports about there's been some confliction
and kind of what he could be and in the
amount of development he needs. That's another incredible piece that
they signed. They signed Manny Ramirez's kid, which is sick.
I don't really know that he's a prospect, but it's
always worth shotting out Many Ramirez on a podcast. Sixth
rounder Peyton Olennox six eleven to ten. Just from the
sense of this is an odd look that guy has

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got such an opportunity to be a relief piece, if
not something more, I think it's more likely than not
a reliever. Ryan Praeger from A and M a really
interesting lefty as well. Chris Cortes was an absolute freak
show flamethrower, maybe one of my favorite under the radar
picks from this draft, from any any class. Cortes is
actually also getting the opportunity to start, which I think

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is really sick Nate. If he could kind of rein
it in and dial in some of his wildness, he
could be a thing. But then, man, this class kind
of also it has Christian Moore, who I am a
bit of a bit of a Christian whore for, so
I'll let you talk about him.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
I'm not that high on Christian Moore. I wouldn't put
him in a top hundred prospect list if he was
still a prospect, and I think people will disagree with that.
I think you would. Watching him in person, wasn't impressed.
I think the defense is really bad. I think this
holes in the swing, and he showed like the major
league numbers I don't remember them being that incredible, and
I think he started to get exposed. I think, get

(31:34):
a couple of highlight plays, yes, seventy nine WRC plus
with a high strikeout rate. I mean, it'll be better
than that. But I think he's like one hundred WRC
plus bat with good power numbers. That's kind of what
I see from him.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, I agree with you on that for sure. I
think that if he's kind of leak average with some
fluctuation here and there to be you know, one oh one, one.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
O two, he's never going to be like a four
war player. It's a two war player. And and I
just don't think it's that valuable that would lead me
to put these guys the high end of C or
the back end of BE. I'm curious what you think.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I'm thinking back into B, because I do think that
we have to value Christian Moore as a present major leaguer,
and even if he is a two war player, half
of the guys that we're talking about as being potentially
something won't even be that. I think that, plus, of course,
the potential of all the rest. And this might be
me being a Christian Moore homer a bit but I
do think that we have to temper expectations. He's not

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gonna be Jeff Kent by any means, you know, but
could he be. I'm really struggling to come up with
a comp ahead. Danny Espinosa came to mind, but I
don't even think that's a good comp right off the rip.
Have you got one? Just power primary second baseman?

Speaker 1 (32:50):
No, I hate comps. I'm sorry, I'm so. I'm so
burned out on that. I'm bad.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
But if he's if if people at home, he is
just a power optimal Sometimes the glove is clunky. Second Baseman,
who maybe is the first basement at the end of
the day. I don't think that's still is zero as
much as it's just an imperfect player.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
I'd agree with that one. Moving right along to the
Los Angeles Dodgers, who are highlighted by Calyn Lindsey, who's
still in the complex. No, I lied. He made it
up to single A this year, one hundred and twenty
three WRC plus He's doing okay, kind of flying under
the radar with kind of some hit tool concerns there.
And then you go down the board, guys like Elijah

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hainline out of Oregon State. I like quite a bit,
not a whole lot of names from him getting all
too excited about this is kind of in that Houston
tear for me, if I'm being honest, Drew, But I
want to know what you think.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
I do think you're right while I'm while it's on
my mind still, I think, if you don't mind, can
we bump Los Angeles Angels to see I think that
I was being too too late.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
The more the more I think about it, the more
I think about it, I think we're I'm going on
a lot of maybe's. And Christian Moore if he is
a If Christian Moore is a league average regular that
does need to booy the system a bit, but I
don't think it can booy in all the way up
to be right now, that's just me being really really critical.
That said, heindline is a good call, Tunic, I know

(34:18):
a lot of people are really into is kind of
that kind of prep buzzy. This is maybe what you
want a PJ. Moorlando to be. We'll talk about Moorlando
a little bit more in a minute. Chase Harlan again
kind of in that same boat. What could he be
Keller lindsay, what could he be? I don't dislike this
as much as Houston's, but I think that for the
sake of fairness, it needs to be with Houston.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
I would agree with that. I'm throwing them right into
the DS here and we are onto Miami with the
aforementioned PJ Moorlando right there. A couple other fun process
littered throughout here. The Marlins did an interesting thing last year.
They got a lot of guys I like, but not
a lot of guys I love, which puts me in
a weird position with them. Drew. I do want to
hear what you think, though.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
No absolutely agree. One guy that is not talked about
nearly enough is there eighteenth rounder Nate Payne, who has
really really excelled this season, never gets the praise. I
need to tweet about him or something. Nate Payne incredible
and a great first name if you will for the
prepster having a really strong season. Check him out if

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you haven't looked him up. Going up the list a
little bit. Grant Shepherdson. Another picture named Shepherdson that I
liked from this past year's draft. Go figure, Gage Miller.
I think a lot of people really wanted this. Alabama
middle infield got to be kind of Gunner Henderson more
than anything else. I think your closer option to that's

(35:41):
going to be Carter Johnson two picks earlier. Aiden May
could maybe be a thing. Still Orlando. I love the
intangibles with him, and the on field skills aren't awful.
But I just some of the stuff with Moorlando, like
didn't he hurt himself weightlifting or something?

Speaker 1 (35:59):
And he is a highly disputed I think a lot
of people dislike Orlando from the conversations I have. I
am in that bucket. I think that there's a lot
of tools. Will he ever put them together? He looks
like the kind of guy that might not ever put
them together. But you have to keep in mind that
nine ish centile outcome is a very good player. But
that being said, going off what we've seen in a year,

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I'm not seeing anything that would move the Marlins anything
higher than a SEE and I would even consider it D.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
I think that Nate Payne is the only thing keeping
me from putting it in D. But then at the
same time, I think, I think I like this because
pain has done something better than the other two d's,
But I can't say anything more than a D honestly. Man.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
All right, let's do it. We'll put him at the
front end of D for now. Okay, moving right along.
The next team that we're gonna look at is the
Milwaukee Brewers, who always do something fun on Draft Day,
and they did as well last year. In two years,
this might be the best class because one random is
going to pop looking right off the bat, Braylen Pain

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in the first round. Consider a reach by many, but
that's just what the Milwaukee Brewers do, save some money
to get guys like Bryce Meckage down the board. Drew,
what do you think of this class?

Speaker 2 (37:14):
I stop me if you've heard this from before, the
Brewers do something awesome. Uh yeah, Like you said, the
money savings on Brailen Payn. In the moment, you're like,
what is this? This is such a strange pick. This
guy wasn't supposed to go to a round three. What
is this trash? And then two, you know, ten months,
eight months later, we're talking about Brayley Payne like a
possible top one hundred guy. I like, Blake Burke, tell

(37:37):
me if you could have saw that coming Bryce Meckage,
As you said, Chrys Lavonus obviously didn't make it to
the Brewers, but fabulous pick there. Marco Dings is a
great player, great prospect. Mason Molina has already been traded twice,
if I'm not mistaken. Just a very interesting arm out
of Arkansas going down further the prep arm even Dorchy's
just had an amazing year. And then one more guyal

(37:58):
shout out Tyson Harden for mississipp State, another fabulous pitcher
who's really performing. Well, we can't let the Brewers keep
getting away with this, I think at worst and A
maybe maybe maybe high B actually that I was thinking, okay, because.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
There's no carrying player in this class. There is no
current top one hundred player.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
I think Pain is probably the closest to it. But
he still has warts to to comb out, or you
don't comb warts warts to salt, I don't know. He
still has warts to freeze uh and uh do the
gimmick with. But between Harden, Dorchy's, Molina, potentially Marco Dingis,
Bryce Meckage, even Blake Burke. I think there are plenty

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of guys that if pay if Braylen Payne kind of slides,
we could see them kind of take that take that lead.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
So moving on to the Minnesota Twins, who this draft
class is led by Jay thomasin knab checking. Kaylen Culpepper
has been absolutely awesome this year along with U saw
On Hill. What are your thoughts here? Those are the
two guys I look towards right away. Kyle Debars has
been really fun as well. Uh, Kadem Dial, I don't

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one of the pronunciation. There's the guy who's popped a
couple times for me when looking at the numbers. Uh,
were you out the Twins? I quite like Culpepper and Hill.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
I still just feel really bad for Jay Thomas and
catching astray there. Now that's cool. I doubt he's a
listing if you are what up? J? I actually like
you said, Nate Culpeper's great. Cayle Debars could be a thing,
Billy amok. If I'm not mistaken, I think Pipeline has
him as like a top ten third base prospect, which
is really a decision, a decision you could make. Dassaun

(39:41):
Hill fabulous, Kadem Dial does pop. I'm not sure that
dal is gonna be much more than just kind of
empty batting average, But I mean Luisa Rise has made
a pretty good amount of money. Yeah, I think this
is an interesting class. It is very much anchored by
that top five picks. But man, if you're gonna get anchored,
that's a strong way to do it. I you know,
pretty good about a maybe a mid tier B.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, I agree. I think colepepron Hill definitely elevate them.
We'll throw them somewhere in the middle. Be for now,
all right? Moving right along the New York Mets. Carson
Bens one of my favorite prospects in baseball. Top thirty
guy for me, I think I might have had about
nineteen in my top one hundred. Maybe a little aggressive there,
but I like it. Will Watson is a guy at

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a usc who has been become an incredible pitcher. Ryan
Lambert is the kid that throws one hundred and two
in the minor league. Is one of my favorite future
closers in baseball. RJ. Gordon out of Oregon is a
very good player. I really like this class from the Mets.
I really do Santucci. I don't even mention Nate Dome.
You can go through this whole list. This is one

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of my favorite drafts without maybe multiple stars, but a
lot of really good players on the board combined with
that superstar and Bench.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
No, I agree with you completely. A lot of pitching,
a lot of a lot of pitching here. And I
remember the day of the draft thinking like, I wonder
what they're gonna do with Bench because you know he
was two way guy for a moment as well. And
I'm glad they stuck every in the outfield. But man,
just again Sintucci and Dome, you got a guy like,

(41:17):
like you said, Watson Lambert and one O two, a
guy like Tanner Witt even further down the board. Just
just a strong class. I'm leaning a here, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Middle a. It's a very it's it's one of it's
a top ten class. Going over to the other side
of New yak we got the Yankees, who typically don't
draft in a fashion that I always love. But Ben
Hess and Bryce Cunningham are a fun little picture duo
at the top of their draft class. Past that, a

(41:47):
couple other pictures I like, they went very picture having
the first round. I forgot about that. Yeah, first seven rounds.
There's a couple of guys I like, and they're no
stars in my eyes, though, Drew, what are you thinking?

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, they had a had no hitter going into the
seventh round here. I really like Brendan Jones a lot.
That's been a guy that if you've followed me for
any kind of amount of time over last year, you've
heard me talk about him consistently. An outfielder from Kansas State,
solid defense, really exceptional speed, is coming around with the
power too. I think this guy could be a steal
in the twelve round. Not quite the from Downtown three

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that I was talking about a minute ago. Very solid
up the board a little bit with some of those
pitchers there, man power five, big big tom stuff guys,
Griffin Hearing, Grayson, Carter, Gage Zeal, Thatcher Herd, and then
as you said, Bryce Cunningham, and the guy here is
Ben Hass.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
I like that quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
I did too. I like Cass. He could be a
he could be a big, a big deal for the Yankees.
Interesting class, I'm gonna say, be here, maybe low tier B.
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Very interesting? I was gonna go see. So here's my
thing is some of these other classes that we haven't see,
Like even the Angels had a Christian more Detroit had
a Bryce Rayner. Guys who still look very good. I
would say, the White Sox had a better draft than
the Yankees. If I'm looking at it.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
I agree with that, that's true.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
And Santucci than a Hessen Cunningham at this point.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Yeah, without no, that's that's okay. I get what you mean.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah, I think middle we'll compare.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Yeah, well, yeah, I should have been taking notes about
where we're putting these teams.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Philadelphia Phillies now and Drew, I'm just gonna send this
over to you. I did not like this draft. I
still do not like this draft. Carson de Martini is
maybe the only guy who I have a little bit
of hope for. Gryffinberg holders a fun name. Where are
you at with your Phillies draft?

Speaker 2 (43:44):
It's not great, man, It's not It's not great.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Jared Spencer was an interesting name. Didn't sign. Uh. Marcus
Morgan might be a reliever someday. I thought Joel Dragou
was one of the more interesting as it didn't really
get a lot of plug from Presbyterian John Spikerman might
be a utility enfielder someday. Dante Norri is at least

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got upside.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
If Dante Nory can hit, he's a good player. Yeah,
very good fielder. He runs very well.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Yeah, it's a good, good runner, good glove. But I
mean we've got he's got a hit because we can't
have excuse me, I say we like I'm affiliated, the
Phillies have got to have some kind of offense in
the outfield. Eventually, I'm gonna put this in a d though.
I just haven't seen anything to really write home about
with Norri where Berkholder excuse me, draggu has been disappointing.

(44:40):
D Martini might be the one you could point out
and say, but what about that? I'm just not encouraged.
This is a far, far cry from the Phillies strategy
of just draft guys. Drew likes from this.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
The Phillies had a much better draft twenty twenty five.
We can say that they took some notes. Let's go
to the Pittsburgh Pirate, who really have one player to
talk about here? Something interesting down the board. I'm gonna
get to really fast Matt McShane, who's now Boston Red Sox,
really fun reliever. This is just me going through relievers.
I like, it's pretty much what this is down the board.
Connor Griffin, I was taking ninth overall, is now the

(45:16):
number one prospect in baseball that is a great draft pick.
Other than that Levi Sterling, It's okay, Why Sandford's okay.
There's a couple of guys who are like, okay, not bad.
This is all about Connor Griffin and how much you
value that pick at nine, which is probably very high
as Connor Griffin appears to be Paul Skin's running mate

(45:39):
as of as of right now, and how high can
you put them? Sorry, I didn't give you a whole
lot of time for analysis. Are there any guys that
you want to talk about down the board. There's not
a whole.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
No, no, no, I I waited and out. I'm leaning
towards be because again I think if using your using
your Christian more argument, if Moore is a major leaguer
and we put him at C because it's Christian Moore
and the could Bees, this is Connor Griffin and the
what could bees, and Connor Griffin, he himself is still
what could be? While he's the best what could be?
I think you gotta go be just because it's it's

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him and a handful of I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Yeah, so yeah, I would put them towards the top
of Bee is what I I think that's fair. I
think that's I think I think that makes a lot
of sense to me. Going right along to San Diego
Padres who went lefty left to start the draft, Cash
Mayfield and Boston Bateman. Uh, and then we keep looking
at this this Borderer. A lot of these guys are
now Orioles.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, they are, like.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Four of these guys, maybe five of them are now Orioles. Five.
I think that's very interesting to me. In the nineteenthrough
Outhery to your guy, I played against Viccarda Domingo, a
very good player out of the University of British Columbia.
Neighbors was a player I loved. I liked Cobb, Hi Tower,

(46:54):
I liked kle Fountain a little bit. Other than that,
I was sold on Mayfield Boston Bateman.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
No, I think Mayfield's probably got more upside At this point.
Bateman was kind of going on that weird outlier body.
Victor Figueroa and Jack Costello maybe top ten prospects in
this system. Now you can't leave them out. I think
that's really interesting. Costello's signed for ten thousand dollars, but
then going up the board, Kavaris Tears could be a

(47:23):
freak if he could hit the ball. And I love
Tennessee players. As you may have gathered. I think this
is another d though, because the guys that are also
like I need to shout out cal Kay Roberts as well.
He's he's not awful, but just I mean, where's the
star here, Bud? What's the what are we hanging our
hat on?

Speaker 1 (47:42):
I think they have a lot of guys who have
shown at least glimpses. Yeah, okay, this year to where
if we were to put them in du out to
be the top of d In my opinion, I think
that these guys show more glimpses in the Miami guys
maybe bottom of sea then okay, let's put them there
for now. I do think I think that there's still
a lot of potential there. Even though a lot of
these guys have been traded a lot, there's a lot

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to like long term. Going to San Francisco Giants who
headlining their class. A guy in James tibbsho has been
traded twice, is now on the Dodgers Dakota Jordan in
the fourth round. Notably, the Giants did not have a
second or third round pick. But they got a couple
of players are like Jacob Christian's a guy who I've
seen all year long, not all year long, recently in
hi Augene. A lot of power there. Not so sure

(48:26):
it's gonna totally work out. I've seen most of these
guys play, if we're being honest, So, Drew, I want
to hear your thoughts first, and then I'll tell you
how much I dislike this this draft, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
I'd almost honestly rather hear from you. I thought Greg
Faron in the seventh was interesting just because he was
Alabama kind of a big body guy. But I mean,
this class at this point it kind of is what
do you think of James Tibbs, What can Jacob Christian be?
And Dakota Jordan is really awesome and it looks like
you've finally been able to hit the ball with some consistency.
But I mean, I don't know, Bud, I'm thinking again

(48:58):
kind of maybe low C, high D. It's not great,
it's not great.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
I'd be more comfortable putting these guys in D. I'm not.
I do not think James Timms is going to be
anything an MLB starter. I don't even think he's an
MLB starter d cod to Jordan, it's gonna take a
lot of work to get him to an MLB starter level.
And then you go down the board. Jacob Christian's a
flash of the pan kind of guy. Uh Zilinsky, I'm
not the biggest fan of Drake George is a guy
who I want to highlight because I pitched against him

(49:22):
in a playoff game, me and him when I had
to have a guess who won. Nate Rasmussen won that game,
first playoff win in Bushnell School history. Therefore, I should
have been drafted the thirteenth round four, one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Sorry if you if you had gotten one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars being drafted where Drake George was drafted,
would you buy me a steak dinner?

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Yeah, well, I wouldn't even know you because I probably
never would No, I would have worked for Rojsects Loot.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
No.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Well, yeah, I faced Drake George two years ago. Yes,
yes I would have because I would have known you,
but I probably wouldn't worked it for very long. This
is a D. It's a high.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
D we spent more time talking about stake dinner than
the class.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Let's go to your team, Seattle, what a fun class.
Adre j Angelo Sanja and Ryan Sloan are top one
hundred prospects, with Sloan being in the top fifty in
my opinion and Sanja being closer to one hundred. Hunter
Cranton was an awesome reliever who was traded the arizon
A Diamondbacks. Still a very good player. Once you go
a little bit further down the board, though, things start

(50:23):
to get a little weird. I don't love the down
the board picks Matt Tiberia out of Lynn rounder Grand
in the eighteenth round. Is a guy who's gonna sneak
into the top twenty maybe or the top thirty for
Mariner's prospects. When we we're doing top twenty five now,
some somewhere in the middle, Tiberia, I believe is coming
in at twenty fourth on the Mariner's list this year.
I had a little influence there, believe it or not.

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Other than that, Brock Moore is a fun reliever. Grant
Nipp is a fun player. Josh Karen has struggled this
year to put it simply. He's a good Catcher, in
my opinion, has not been able to do it with
the bat. I'm not sure classes buwied.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Yeah very much. So sure what Charlie Bolinson has done
this year, but I liked him a lot as a
reliever out of Duke. I'm not sure it's been great
because I haven't read his name, so I'm gonna assume
it's been med too bad. But I mean, that's just
another guy, I think again, considering we like, I loved
Cranton as well, but I mean Cranton Sloan Sinja. I
feel like, I don't know, two top one hundred guys,

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what is that good for you?

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Like?

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Low end b high?

Speaker 1 (51:21):
See we put the Arizona Diamondbacks with two top one
hunter guys in a Okay?

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Then what that? Thank you? Okay, that sounds good.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
So I think we put them at the back end
of a can we readjust yeah? Okay, that sounds good
because I'm starting to think a team a guy like
Connor Griffin should rise above maybe these teams with two
top one Hunter guys, But we'll figure it out. Saint
Louis Cardinals interesting draft here with JJ Weatherholt. After that,
things got pretty thin for me. I don't know if

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you have a guy down the board you really like,
But I'm having a hard time even picking one name
who I'm over the mood about. Yeah, actually, JJ Weatherholt, I.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Do have some names. Danil Ortiz is a guy that
looks like he might be a guy kind of in
an odd way. Some numbers are popping with him. Just
look him up, look him up at home. A little
bit further up the board, John John Gazdar was kind
of the running mate of our boy, Lyle Miller Green.
I always like Andrew Dukinich, the fourth out of Vanderbilt.

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He was a high, highly regarded prepster. Is Braden Davis
a thing question mark? JJ is a freak though, So
I think kind of whatever we decide for the Pirates
needs to apply at maybe ten percent less for the
Cardinals because JJ is a top ten prospect who's closer

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than Connor Griffins.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
So and the rest of the class wasn't great. I think
we put them at the low end of B and
with the Pirates being the top end of being, we
might have to adjust those. We'll we'll have to consider it.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Yeah, yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Tampa Bay Rays had a really interesting draft Theo Gillen
is a guy who's been popping lately, kind of a
a darling. I feel like in the scouting community right now,
I think everyone kind of likes Theo Gillen. After that,
the race took a bunch of raised players. They got
some tools, they took some chances, they played some money games.
Nathan Fluelling is a fun player, like do you have

(53:17):
anyone that you really like? Ryan Andrade Andred Andrede. I
like him. I like him quite a bit. Other than that, Drew,
what are you seeing here for the rais?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
I thought Nate Knowles maybe kind of interesting. I guess
that could still be a thing. A million petree, uh
second basement out of Kentucky could maybe be a thing.
Tyler Bell was actually my favorite player not named Theo Gillen,
and he ended up with coach Nigeoti in Kentucky. He'll
be a guy we talked about a little bit later
this year in the draft cycle. But yeah, not not great, Bob,

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not great.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
I would put them in the middle of c Yeah,
with THEO Gillen buoying them just a bit, because they
did get a very good player. Texas Rangers Malcolm Moore
Dylan Dryland, Casey Cook, Devin Fitzgerald is a guy who
has absolutely popped this year. Keith Jones the second one
of the most underrated players in the minor leagues right now.
Go look him up, Go pick him up in your

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fantasy leagues, Keith Jones. They took Kate over Muller. I
forgot about that. Boy. Would I love for Kate over
Muller to be in professional baseball already? Because I don't
believe he's pitched yet through a lot of innings at Iowa.
What are your thoughts on this, this Rangers draft, It's
a whole lot of like, Ah, there's pieces here, Drew,
I don't know what you think.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
I'm with you, there are pieces here. I mean, I
think if we how what do we value guys like
Keith Jones, Devin Fitzgerald, Casey Cook, Dylan Dryling, who're all
putting it together, but are low enough down the pecking
order that I don't know. I think if you put
me to my gut, i'd say low, c.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Right as well, let's go low then don't need to
discuss it. Right below the Yankees, above the Braves. I
don't know. We're figuring it out as we go. Looking
at the Toronto Blue Jays. Here Trey Savage, cal Steven,
Johnny King talk about a big three A I have
seen down the board. There's pieces, There's not a whole

(55:16):
lot that I'm over the moon about, but those three
right there, Man, Do I like those three? They're Stephen
now Cleveland Guardian, All.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Right, yeah, But I mean we're, like you said earlier
in an exercise, we're kind of I think Drew's obligatory
shout of a player he really likes nineteenth round bub Terrell, Man,
what couldn't that guy have committed to Tennessee plays at Auburn,
but just good good, good player, good player, sick sick
left fielder. The top three is sick, Nate.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
I'm kind of three top hundred guys, and it's the
top forty guys as well. I think it's above I
think it's right around Mets.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Washington Nationals our last team. And I struggle with this
class because there is some upsides still here. Taking stever
King in the first was certainly a choice, and then
Luke Dickerson was kind of your save me play, right
as if you can call it that save a little
bit of money on King and you you throw that

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over to Luke Dickerson in the second past that I'm
not a huge nationals prospect guy to begin with. I'm
certainly not looking at this class as well, Drew. Is
there any saving graces in here.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Sir Jamison Jones has a great name.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
That's pretty sick.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
But I mean the two college catchers, really, they're they're
big college plays at the top, sever King, Caleb Womavina,
Kevin Bizell. Question Marks littered through those profiles.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
It's not afe. It's not a safe college. Like, why
are you taking no college guys early? Luke Dickerson is
a ninety two w RC plus in single.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
A And that's not great. I mean for Dickerson to
be your kind of savior guy that you point out
and say, this is the guy, this is the one
that's make it all works. But yeah, and I mean
people people love to keep that super unfair Mike Trout,
but he looks like Mike Trout at that age. But oh,
he looks like Mike Trout but he's probably just Luke Dickerson. No,
I mean no offense to Luke, but like, I think

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this is one of the more meh if not bad.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
I'm thinking D here, but I think in D. I
think the middle of D is where I have them.
And how about I screen share now and we go first,
this this little thing right here.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Just a little something or other. You seeing that I'm
seeing it, bro.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Please forgive all my open tabs and the ads that
are popping up. But here we go. All right?

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Does that say how to scam my universe?

Speaker 1 (57:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Okay, I just misada it does.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
So we edited with three steer teams, which were all
kind of at the top half of this exercise. So
we did come away with with three teams at the top.
When the Oakland A's since thattty Reds in the Boston
Red Sox, would you change that order at all? Drew?

Speaker 2 (58:04):
No, No, Kurts is there Burns right behind him, nipping
at his heels. I very much. I'm I'm oh boy, man,
are a classes great too? I think Mariners and Diamondbacks
look good where they're at. I think Pirates need to

(58:26):
be right behind the Mariners.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
In a What do you think about No, I don't
like just down the board for the Pirates, but they
have the number one prospect of baseball.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
But yeah, I was about to say, so what did
the let me look at the Diamondbacks. What did the
Diamondbacks have that I really like more as a collective?
Walt Egan. I think if if you I mean really
right now, if the Diamondbacks or if the Pirates said, okay,
we'll give you Griffin for Caldwell, Walts, Schmidt and Egan,

(58:58):
they take it all day. I mean, I think the
Pirates are above that. The Mets. It gets a little sticky, though.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
I think there's a clear gap between the Mets and
the Pirates. When I look at this the.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Mets have the Mets isn't as splashy at the top,
but I think that they've certainly got I mean, if
Ben is good, Santucci is good, I don't know. I
still think the Pirates maybe over the Mets. Just Griffin
is that kind of guy the the I would put
it there, But I'm not going to fault you for
not for disagreeing. When you get to you Savage, Kyle

(59:33):
Steven and Johnny King, I could say, whoa, whoa. Those
could be like, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
I think the board. I think having more guys that
have the potential does matter. One guy which is why
I will I will put the Pirates over the Mets,
but not over the Blue Jays because of the depth
of that pitching. Three guys who could absolutely be stud
pitchers in the league. And now this brings me to
Kansas City versus Toronto.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
I'm with you. I was just about to say, I'm
I mean, I think you and I are both big
David Shields guys. You have to respect the fact that
Caggs is already in the show. But then you come
back to Okay, who would you rather kind of hang
your hat on. They Savage and Johnny King, and I
mean what Cal Stephen could, because I mean, we have
to still consider him there. I don't know. I might

(01:00:19):
put the Blue Jays. Yeah, I think I like our
s I like our a a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
I agree, I like the noise.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I also like the shape of the bell graph here
I need I need to point out that I'm glad
we have the glott of our teams in the middle.
I think we did good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
I agree. I think I would take the Cardinals over
the Guardians.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Agree, I agree, I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
I start to wonder if we've rated the Cubs too highly.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
I think we did. I like the Rockies more than
the Cubs.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
But I agree, I agree. How much is this?

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
How much is this is? Let's just kind of shaking
our heads, like Brodie Brett could make this work.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
I yeah, it kind of is, but I like it.
And Condon could be a a guy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Jared Thomas could be a guy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
I like Minnesota more than Chicago. I know Cam Smith
is in the big leagues. Minnesota has more shots of
the dark board.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
But I mean the Cubs. What did you like other
than Ryan Gallagher and camp Smith?

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Buddy, I just liked camp Smith. I honestly think the Cubs.
I think I think the car Oh no, this is devastating. No, yes,
we're good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Oh thank god?

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Okay, Okay, I think the Cubs go there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Okay, yes, yes, I'm not going to argue with that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
I would the only team I would be like, maybe
you push Detroit up to be I don't think the
Angels deserve to be.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
In B No, I agree with you there. I think
that if I'm going to be critical, I think Detroit
has to stay where the're aut. Nobody has made a
splash this season. We're all just going I think Detroit
could be better than Los Angeles. This time next year.
But right now we're just holding on to the maybe
when the Angels at least have Christian Moore, who is it?

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Or did the White Sox do so well down the
board that they deserve a bump up.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Let's let me go back to them and I'll just
read through some names. I mean, we've got Smith, who
is a major leaguer, likely Bonhamer. Uh. I kind of
thought Blake Larson may be a thing eventually, Sam and
Sinaci we talked about Aaron Combs as a solid reliever.
I like the White Sox of the pack and be
I backup Bee who man, that's bold? Okay, okay, okay,

(01:02:36):
I can be with that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
Is Hagen Smith, not Christian Moore in a different font.
Both guys fell off top one hundreds, and they're like, yeah,
they're like.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
I like what I like what you're saying. But then
they also have the added benefit of two other top
one hundred guys. You're You're absolutely right, mate, You're right, Okay.
I I love that D looks D looks good. I
think we could argue that order. I'm not above no, okay,
I think Baltimore saw has more upside. San Diego still

(01:03:07):
has more upside than the So I like them there.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
But with them Braves, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Man who braves is all the guys down the board
in Cammanitty Okay? So if let's go Braves versus like
Yankees for a second here, neither of them a top
one hundred guy. Camminate's closer, though Camedity could be a
top on our guy for some.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Would you rather have Cammanitti or ben Hess?

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
I think I'd rather have Kimanitti?

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
And I like the guys down the board more.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
I could flip. I could flip Atlanta over New York.
I would you know what? The more I think about it,
may like Atlanta more than Tampa.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
No Tampa has Tampa is a very good prospect in there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
How good is Gillan to really booy that whole system?

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Though, well he's going against Cammanity Owen carry Like, let's
be honest, like these fifteenth twentieth round guys who had
one hundred and twenty wrs plus and a ball aren't
aren't any more of a sure thing. And I'd rather
take the guy with pedigree ten times out of ten?

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Okay, I can I can respect that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Orioles in San Diego are such an interesting one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
I think I think even grouping Texas there, because you've
got kind of the Devin Fitzgerald's of the world. To say,
maybe griffo' farrell, Vance, Honeycutt, Nate George, maybe one of
them is a guy. Maybe Devin Fitzgerald.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Is a guy I like more than both of them.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I think I disagree. I think Sandy Well tell me why,
I'll hear you out.

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Uh, go look at the first five names and don't
tell me that those all aren't very high potential guys.
With guys like figure out on the board.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
I just I think I'm being very critical of guys
like Bateman, High Tower and Tears. I think you and
I love Tyson neighbors, and I think I'm trying to
be really generous towards Cash Mayfield.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Uh. But then with Mayfield over the Texas guys, though
all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
I don't feel strongly enough to argue with that point.
I could, I'm not I'm not arguing it. I think
Devin Fitzgerald's looked really good, but again at a ball
kind of like you said a minute ago, is he
just Cash Mayfield in a different thought, and that's not
necessarily a bad thing. They're both very young, high upside types.
I I do kind of think that both of those

(01:05:49):
teams should be ahead of Baltimore, though I think Baltimore
needs to be has the bottom of sea.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
I think, and I think, I think that feels right
right there.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Yes, I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
Why are we keeping Baltimore? And see the first round
draft pick is maybe the worst first round draft pick
of last year.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
That can't be, so there's gotta be some worse. Once
Malcolm Moore was picked in the first round last year,
Walker Yannick was picked in the first.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
I think, I I guess the defense of Honeycut, But
Honeycut does not look like he can hit a baseball,
like like quite literally, like cannot hit a baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
So okay, I'm gonna just read names to you and
let's make the call. Honeycutt griff o'ferrell, Ethan Anderson, Austin
over and Nate George or would you rather have Dakota
Jordan Jacob Christian.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
The team? The team?

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
I think I think so. I think so too. I
think that alone puts them a safe step above San
Francisco and this is this is coming from a guy
Nate who said Dakota Jordan had a ten hit tool.
I have been proven wrong. I mean, even if it's
a thirty, even if it's a thirty, it's two steps
above what I said it might be. And so I'm

(01:07:03):
comfortable taking the l on Dakota Jordan.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
How about the date here? Where's the shuffling in there?

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
I think the Astros is the worst. I think the
Phillies is right above it. The Dodgers did not have
a good class. Washington may be worse than Miami, just
depending on where you fall on guys like PJ, Orlando
and Carter Johnson. Let's look at Miami's class one more time,
Orlando Johnson, Gage Miller, potentially, Hey, Nate Payne, actually I

(01:07:31):
would bump Miami over Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
I can go buy that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
Just because Nate pain has been so impressive. I think
this looks solid. I wouldn't argue if somebody's like, put
Kendall George and put them over in Washington. But like,
what is Kendall George the fit? Now the fifth outfielder
and a team with a team fit outfielder and a

(01:07:56):
team with seven outfielders ahead of him like, good luck
getting traded, kiddo. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
I think this is it. I think I'm gonna screenshot
this one and put it on the old Twitter machine
and the people can tear us apart. Drew. I think
that's how we got to do this.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Should we should we smile to go with it? All?

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Right? Well, there you guys have it. That was the Yeah.
I think you're right. I think we're talking.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
About more names than any other episode of that was.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
That was ball nowher territory. And I don't even care
that we went long. This is gonna be an hour
and a half episode, and that's just what it is
because me and Drew came out with the very good list,
in my opinion, and we still we we it's true
to us and that's what I love the most about
about you and me. But uh, let's give these guys
a break with the drop teams and come back with
some PA live news. Welcome back, everybody, and it's time

(01:08:54):
for some Prospects live news. What's going on in the
PE live world? Man, A little bit of us, A
little bit of that. The biggest thing I want to
tell you guys about is our top fifteen hundred plus
Dynasty Rankings update Drew as the Dynasty Guy. What do
we think about this list? Man? Fifteen hundred guys?

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Man, I will give so much credit to Smata. He
has kind of taken this project as his baby this season,
and it's it's not a one man ship. That's something
that I need to say. While it's not a one
man show, smarted as the work of ten men, but
still doesn't say I know best. Ran every single list,

(01:09:34):
positioned by position through our Dynasty chat, got some feedback,
implemented that feedback. But this tool, they informs so many
of our other tools. It informs the trade matchmaker, the
league analyzer, all kinds of things. It's a fabulous tool.
And the fact that it's updated right towards the end
of your trade deadlines, this is a tool you can't

(01:09:55):
afford to miss five dollars about to get you access.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
To go along with that, we had a pot cast
going over that Top fifteen hundred with Greg, Trevor and Reese.
What a little crew that is, man. I might have
to go listen to that right now. Andrew Dahl came
out with another article. He does some great work on
the card side of things. With this Who's up prospect
autos with the largest gains in August Max Arterburn with

(01:10:18):
a hobby plus update number seven. Those guys are so
cool and I could never do what they do and
they deserve all of the flowers in the world. Other
than that, Dining's baseball pickups. Guys, as always, are the
goats of life on Earth. Those guys rock Daily sheets
are coming out, so you guys got some things to
look forward to, and the top one hundred should be

(01:10:40):
out soon. I don't want to put an official DAN
on it because I don't exactly know when it's coming out.
It might be out by the time you're listening to this.
If not, check back Monday and you should see it then,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Something else that was going on at Prospects Live is
an episode of on Deck. We actually talked about that,
so if you're wanting some more content kind of teasing that,
maybe go listen to the last episode if you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
Didn't, dang right, all right, we did not prepare what's
on your mind at all. But I think we should
just wing this thing. Let's just draft. Let's just do
a draft.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Okay, yeah, let's do a draft.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
You and me just draft something.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
Yeah, absolutely, why don't we do like five rounds of.

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Let's see, I don't do Star Wars characters.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
I was gonna say Star Wars characters, but I feel
like Reese is gonna be pissed if we do Star Wars.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Well, recles everything.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
I know. He's the worst. Hey, I tell you what. Uh.
This is so so random, So if you don't feel
like doing it, it's not gonna hurt my feelings. You
remember when I was telling you about the video I
saw on YouTube where you talked about what color folders
you assigned to each class doing to do.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
That, Let's just talk about it. Let's just open for me.
We don't have to go for long. Let's just open
for them.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Let's open for him. This so, guys, essentially, the point
of this is, imagine you as a fresh kiddo with
a backpack full of supplies. You're going to the first
day of school. You got fresh fit, the kicks are
shiny and not being on scuff yet. Your mom gives
you the brand new backpack lunchbox, and you got fresh
new supplies. Go into each class. You're gonna decide though,

(01:12:05):
what color notebook, what color folder do I put with
each class, and it's like assignments. So Nate, uh, Let's
let's say that the color folders you got, you got
a red folder, you got a blue folder, a yellow,
a green, h and a purple. How about that? Okay,
off the top of your dome? What what where do

(01:12:27):
you put English?

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
Can I go by color? Because that's just how this
works in my brain for some reason?

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
Do it? Do it? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Green is science. Green has to be science. That one
makes the most sense in my head. The second one
would be red as math. I After that, I would
normally say, and now this this might be a hot take.
Right here, I would say history is blue. I think

(01:12:55):
people want to put English in that one. I would
go history there, I would go English is yellow. English
is a yellow color. To me, Purple is probably like
some weird elective you're taking in like middle school. It's like,
that's like your ceramics or your drawing and painting, which
I notably failed in high school. Don't ask me how
I fled.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
You failed drawing and painting.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
It's a long story. We don't have to get into
that right now. Maybe Mom Morass will be back on
some other.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
You You know that my degree is focused in art.
I've taken countless hours of art classes over my life.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
You know, Like all I do now is make cover
graphics in videos. So yeah, I'm an artistic guy too,
a bad teacher, et cetera, et cetera. Maybe I was
a bad boy back in the day. I don't know
things were going on.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
Bad boy now, Joey, Well, you're just a bad boy. Okay,
I gotta I've gotta call your bluff here. I think
I think English is blue, Okay, I don't. I don't
Math is red because I was never good at math,
and red as a color of negativity.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
I'd agree. Are you going yellow as history? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
Maybe you see there's no right answer to this.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
You just there's no right answer. I'll switch English in history,
and I agree with you that science feels green. Another
color folder that I always like to have. I like
to have a black folder. And if orange was ever
an option, obviously, tennessee orange like orange. Let's say I
did have an orange I would maybe do history as orange.

(01:14:26):
I always liked history, and then black. I could also
see me doing as like your odd electives, maybe like
a social studies or whatever, maybe like a I'd like
I'm thinking like middle school in my brain is where
I'm going with this. By the way, maybe black would
be like things to carry home, like notes from the

(01:14:47):
office or like yeah, yeah, planner, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Yeah I would agree with that, Yeah, I would.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
I have another question, just kind of stemming off of school,
since we're kind of free all in this excuse me,
thanks saying that. But since we're since since you're free
all in this electeds, I know you played baseball at school.
Were you in any of like clubs or anything that
you have time to do anything else?

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
I did a SB, I was on the student body,
and then other than that it was golf, football, baseball
in the winter. I didn't do Jack Didley. I helped
out with the Booster club because I did the social
media for our high school my senior year, junior year

(01:15:35):
or something like that. A couple of years there, like
playing all the school dances and stuff. But no, there
weren't a whole lot of I mean public school, man,
I don't. There weren't a whole lot of like thrilling clubs,
not a lot of funding. It felt like I wasn't
like a theater guy or anything like that. So no,
I suppose just the ASB which I did a bunch
of random side tasks for how about you? What did

(01:15:58):
you do back?

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
You did side? You did side quests?

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Like I basically my whole life has been a bunch
of side quests.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Hey, that's okay, man, you're getting the XP for the
for the big Dance. I'm gonna say if you can
guess I've I've listed four things here on what else
but a sticky note. I'm gonna see how many you
can get.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
You did the mad Nope? Behave math? Did you guys
have like a trivia club? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Man, I would have I would have loved that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
I know, I freaking love trivia. What even art? Because
I would be like Dungeons and Dragons club? But like
that wasn't a thing back?

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
No, that would have been fun too. I'll tell you,
I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Give me like, okay, yeah, whatever, Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Okay, So I okay, here, here's what we'll do. Here's
what we'll do instead of you guessing grade them on
a like a twenty eighty scale, with twenty being what
hello and eighty being like that's the most dreary thing
I've ever heard. Okay, I was my senior class president. Yes, yeah,

(01:17:03):
I don't like planning the reunions. I've planned one and
another one is coming up and I'm not looking forward
to it. I'll be there, thanks, Okay, that'll be fun.
That'll make it a little bit more worth it. I
was on the yearbook staff.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
Oh really, okay, I forget, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
Yeah, I was the president of the I forget what
it's called, but the marketing like the marketing Society.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
I don't know if we had one of us like
marketing courses.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
I forget what it's called. But myself and a partner
went to the state final in UH sports management marketing
and finished second in the state.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Pretty cool, pretty sick.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
It wasn't bad. And then I was also the president
of the Spanish.

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
National Honor Society.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Let's see you I was. I was accomplished. The thing
now is that, like, you know, I think back and
I'm like, I really wish how to play baseball. Like
I wasn't good, but I would have had. I would
have had so much more fun. I think looking back
and saying like I did it to play with dudes
that are more my.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
Friends and high school sports overrated in my opinion. That's
the hell I'll die on. I thought like being like
enough to play like travel baseball and stuff that was
way better than high school baseball. People everything. High school
sports suck if you go to private school. Sorry, it's
my whole public versus private thing. Public school sports suck, man,
they really suck. No funding, bad coaches, all everything's bad.

(01:18:24):
Everything's bad, athletic directors, it's everything's everything's tough because no
one's making any money. No one's in the game for
the right reasons, you know, they're just they're just there.
And some public schools have the best people ever because
they're there for not the money, right, but generally people
do a better job when they paid more money. Is
what I've noticed in youth sports and in anything. Public
public school suffer because of that. So I didn't I

(01:18:46):
didn't love sports in high school. I met some cool people,
but I would say I've had twenty times more fun
in college obviously, and then recreationally. I always had a
lot more fun playing sports.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
I understand your your school was a private school or a.

Speaker 1 (01:19:02):
Public I went to public school.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Okay, So with travel ball, I know we've talked a
lot about that, but your your opinion of public school
is a very it's a very developed one for you
to be so young. My question, I guess is has
Mama raz influenced this, being that she is if I'm
not mistaken, she's also a public school.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
My mom is a public school teacher. I think there
are definitely struggles with public school teaching, right. I think
the pay is uncompetitive. I think Mama Rads had a
lot of tough like bosses over the years or whatnot.
So I've seen the worst sides of public school, but
you also see the best sides and like the success stories,
and you know, the kids who need the school system

(01:19:44):
to help them and stuff like that. So I don't
want to like absolutely poo poo on public schools because
they are obviously so important. But in a place like Seattle,
I just feel like I saw a lot of the
ugly side of public schools, like a lot of people
I'm sure back home have, And that's not I like
would send my kids to public school because I definitely
grew a lot as a man, matured quick. But I

(01:20:05):
don't know. It's such an interesting debate and it's something
that I don't have a full viewpoint on yet. But
I'm developing one, as you can tell.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
No, I definitely see I dropped something in the chat
for you to look at, just really quickly. While I'm
making this point. I think that I was made better
by going to public school, just because I don't know.
I feel like there's so much of the hard edge.
I don't think that my high school prepared me for college.

(01:20:37):
And when I say that, Nate, I say it to
mean essentially, I think I wasn't taught to study properly.
I think that I could coast through on. I think
that I could coast through on kind of just willy
nilly or winging it essentially in public high school, and

(01:20:58):
then in college they reques wired much more of me,
and I don't know, I wasn't prepared as much for it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
If that makes sense, I think it absolutely does. I
can't see what you sent me, and that's fine, whatever
you want to talk about. Though. We got a couple
more minutes and yeah, but uh.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Well, I mean we're, like you said, we're just kind
of winging it here to make.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
I think we we had an absolutely awesome ball knowing
session earlier. Today, Reees brings these what's on your minds altogether.
I feel like he might be the glue of What's
on your Mind.

Speaker 2 (01:21:36):
Reese has got that kind of that genes quah that
really makes it makes What's on your Mind special bud,
because he's got such odd opinions on everyday life stuff.
Is that fair to say? Anyway? Okay, you've seen what
I've said. Why don't you bring this up? Because this
is a fun tie into a past What's on your Mind?

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
Drew has asked from to talk about a date that
I went on that I believe. I I believe I
said on the podcast I was going on my first
if you Drew and Reese made me a hinge what
a handful of weeks ago, three weeks ago, two weeks
or something like that, got a date a couple of

(01:22:19):
days after that, and Uh, it has gone exceedingly well.
Hinge has now been deleted. So you know the Hinge,
the app that's designed to be deleted, it has been deleted.
I have been going out a lot with this lovely lady,
and uh, says, say, your boy's excited. You know you're

(01:22:40):
not putting too much out into the earth there or whatnot?
Good vibeses? Only what a wonderful woman I have met,
and your boy has not been this excited for anything
in quite a long time. I've boys been single for
a long time. So shout out Reese and Drew. Man,
what's going on here? Just just instantly, You guys just
just did this thing. And I guess it is the
perspective of older people and me not knowing well what

(01:23:02):
is right and wrong most of the time for myself,
but I think that you do, so.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
You you just it's like I told you that night,
I feel like, you, man, this is going to be
the most big brother stuff I've ever said in my life.
But you you aren't aware of what a good guy
you are and how much the ladies would be into you,
and and the kind of person you are, and your
your drive and your ambition and just who you are.

(01:23:29):
And I think that so much of kind of dating
culture now is so geared towards being a highlight reel.
And your highlight reel is great, But the fact that
your lows are still so interesting and appealing and part
of what makes you so special is just great. But
this girl, we got to talk about her in a

(01:23:50):
smage more detail, because I believe your exact words were
she's found the podcast what as you said?

Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
So that my mom was on okay, okay, so okay.
So sometime early when we were whatever the podcast because
she was like, oh, what do you do for work? Whatever?
I'm like And then and then at one point she's
been into my apartment and saw this, I have so
much technology in here that is like, what are you doing?
Like I look like I have enough money in this
technology where I should be a bigger like internet personality

(01:24:21):
than I am, Like I've I've got expensive stuff in here.
You put money into your career. That's what you do, man,
You put money into it. And uh and then that
was she was just like, oh, wow, you really do podcast?
And I was like yes. And then she's like I'm
gonna find it and I'm like, nope, no, I'm not
gonna give you any hints or whatever. On my on
my baseball Instagram account, there is a link to kind

(01:24:43):
of all of my social media stuff, which includes YouTube
and and there's some clips on there. There's a clip
on my TikTok that she found that said the on
Deck podcast on it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:52):
So then she went in there found some stuff and
then she she like sent me a picture for her
being to watch, and I was like, it's like, no, Like,
let me pick the one you're gonna watch. So I think, guy,
she watched The Worst Places to Cheat Drafts. I thought
that was a funny one that we did.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
That was.

Speaker 1 (01:25:07):
The goat Will Thompson on that show, true because I
need the girl to meet Will obviously, like that's important
to me, you know, my three my three guys. And
then she watched the one with my mother. Uh, she
stumbled upon that one.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
And I think that that one does very it does
good bye you because it's three people.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
That really like she said she was about. She said
she was smiling and kicking her feet watching it. Man.
She was like, this is so sweet, Like these people
love you, And I was like, they do love me.
So yeah, So she's seen a couple I would I
would assume she's not gonna watch this one because I
don't think she has the time to. She's very busy.
So if she does watch this, shout out you know.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
She's she's got a lot of very difficult school coming
up for the next three years. But this girl, everything
you've told us about her, she sounds great. Man. So
I wanted to shout her out, especially as you alluded
to she's a listener.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
Yeah, man, maybe maybe some days she'll come on the pot.
You never know. Right, let's let's lock this thing down.
Let's get her on the pot at some point, you know.
Let's uh, let's see what happens there.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
That'll be cool.

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
You guys want to meet her, regardless whether when sometime
when I'm recording, because she wants to meet you guys,
which is like a funny thing in my life.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
It's like, well, yes, if I suppose an hour and
a half into the show is a good enough time
to drop a spoiler, I have solicited our next guest.
Uh and I think we said episode thirty five if
her schedule works out with yours, I think a similar
setup to how we did with Mama raz. I think
it's time we prove that I am actually married.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
The people have been asking, That's what everyone keeps asking me.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
Yes, everybody keeps.

Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Asking, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
Are we sure Nate and Reese are the same guy
or not really married?

Speaker 1 (01:26:48):
Aren't dating? Like that's been a question that's been thrown around.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
And where is is Ree? Secretly just right over here,
I'm nearly done. Just just give me a minute. I'm
sorry your back hurts, but no, uh no, anyway, I
think I think that's a suitable amount of what's on
our mind. Though.

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
Yeah, I think I think this was a great episode
and I'm glad to do it with doing a little
duo role here. Man, I don't even want to shout
anying out. I don't have any apps on my phone
at this point. My name is Nate Rasmussen. You can
find me places I like baseball. That is Drew Wheeler
and they you can find him places too. We're not
hard to find. Come hang out with us more, Come
comment on our stuff, Come subscribe to the Prospects Slaft

(01:27:25):
for five dollars a month. Do whatever you want to do.
But we're glad that you're here. Thank you for making
it this deep into the episode. You are a real
one and we will see you guys back again on
Tuesday with our best buddy Reese good Eye.

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