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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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(00:32):
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(01:14):
out every single night of the guys that you know
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would appreciate you and welcome in to this episode. On
opening day for the entire minor league season, triple as
already started up. But today, as I'm recording this, we

(01:34):
have got the debuts of Double A, High A, and
Single A. It is all kicking off and next week
actually starts up extended spring training for any players that
are clearly going to go to rookie ball. Sometimes you
will have guys that stick around for extended and then
push over to the A seasons. I believe Ethan Solace

(01:57):
did that like a year or two ago. He kind
of hung around owned a little bit and then moved forward.
So that it's not a super uncommon thing that happens.
But today the minor league season is kicking off, so
it's kind of interesting doing an episode when the minor
league season is about to go through. But I wanted
to give you just a couple previewy things, So we're
going to talk about clearly some of the early Triple

(02:20):
A and the Major League some really early season standouts.
We've got a lot of that type of stuff, guys
that have already been working and we've seen some games
in We talked about Bubba Chandler's debut. We have a
call up that happened two minutes ago that we're going
to talk about. But I also want to just throw
out a few of the really interesting assignments and just

(02:41):
powerhouse minor league teams. I'm singularly doing this, so I
would completely acknowledge that, like, there's other big ones, but
these were a couple of the standouts. There's some big
Double A assignments on players that were drafted last year
that could be major league ready soon. There are some
fascinating lower ones. The Diamondbacks did a couple things. There's

(03:01):
a picture that stood out. I've got a short stuff
that I've liked for a really long time that I
thought got an aggressive DOUAA assignment. But also some powerhouse
minor league groups. One of the most ridiculous rotations we've
seen in a long time, one of the sickest infields
in the minor leagues, and just an absolutely two, absolutely

(03:21):
loaded rosters. I think there's a Triple A club that
is just like monster after monster, and I think there's
a really big powerhouse offense in High A as well. Clearly
there's gonna be other ones. These are just some that
stood out to me. There's going to be you know,
we're gonna look back and we're like, wow, man, this
was a big one. Da da da, But just highlighting
a couple of the assignments and you know, peeking around

(03:45):
at maybe some of the debuts. There's a really great
debut going on Chase Burns. It's going to be going
up against Kevin McGonagall and Max Clark today, which is huge.
You know, that's going to be like, what a great
matchup because Chase Burns I think be on the Reht
Louder track where it's like, you know, you pitch a
couple of games in High A, maybe they push you

(04:06):
up to Double A. I don't know if we see
him this year, but I also wouldn't be surprised if
it happened at the back half of this season. They're
gonna want to see a little bit more command. That
was the thing that I think differentiates like, well, there's
multiple things, but between louder and Burns like Burns is
stuff is way louder, no pun intended louder l o

(04:28):
u d er then rhet louder stuff, but rehet louder.
The command is like A that's his bread and butter.
That's what he knows. So like you could maybe get
away with that from a major league perspective, so maybe
it pushes back. But for him to be down in
hi A, I wonder if you're going to just see
complete domination, but you're going up against two very good

(04:49):
hitters in McGonagall and Max Clark. So minor league season
super exciting. Doing this episode on this day is fun,
but it's going to track into next week. And one
of the I mean to tell you with the prospect
list wondering when the updates happening, it is April update
is coming. I want to get a first week in
of the minor league season. I don't want to obviously overreact,

(05:10):
but we are gonna do it. Not this coming week,
but that Monday I'll be posting the next updates. So
we've got a nice full week of the minor league
season under us, and I think that's going to really,
you know, help stabilize maybe some early standouts. We're also
seeing some movement that's happening, and that's some of the
latest news that we're going to be talking about. And

(05:32):
actually we can we got a couple newsy things to mention,
but just happened like minutes before we started up, Chase
Dolander being called up to the majors. He's going to
make his major league debut on Saturday in Colorado. Funny enough,
I think there's some weather going on in today's games,
so that's going to be crazy to see. But I

(05:53):
am a super pro Chase Dolander guy. Obviously him being
in Colorado arm makes everything kind of worrisome. But I
love this kid. I love the makeup, I love the slider,
I love all the stuff. What you're just really hoping is, like,

(06:14):
is it going to be good enough for him to
overcome the obvious loss and like some spin that you're
gonna have there, And I don't know, I don't know
how it's going to go. But it's a big, power fastball,
it's a power slider. Dude throws the curve. It's a
good change up, it's solid command. Like I think all
of it. I mean, you know, pitching at Tennessee and
didn't pitch like a ton over the last two years,

(06:37):
just with you know, sitting in. He sat in extended
spring training or rookie ball the entire year he was drafted,
and then he got into last year. I'm very optimistic.
And as far as what I would be willing to
do is streaming, that's that's a tough question here, one
hundred and eighteen innings. Last year he got in the
full season, so he didn't pitch much when he was drafted.
As more of what I meant this year, he already

(06:59):
got one start at four innings. I think I talked
I don't know if I talked about it here, maybe
on one of the streams, but four innings, five strikeouts,
two walks in that first start, and they just said,
screw it, let's get him up in the rotation. Trying
to keep pace a little bit. Divisionally, I'm optimistic. I
would say for the traders out there, you probably know

(07:20):
I think he's unique. Though I'm gonna change my thought.
I was about to say the best time to trade
a prospect is the minute they get called up. I
think he's the exception to the rule because he's a
Colorado pitcher. Every person is holding their breath. Regardless of
what you feel about Chase Dolander. There's no chance someone's like,
I gotta go get him right now, this is it. No.

(07:44):
I think people are like cautiously optimistic, but everyone is
terrified because he's also making his debut in Colorado. So
I don't think this is the best time to trade him.
If he goes out, if you are scared and worried
about him, the best thing you could ask for is
you could go and get a good start on Saturday
in Colorado in a debut against an A's team. A's

(08:05):
have definitely played well, don't want to deny that. You know,
they're getting on base and early parts of the back
half of the lineup. Jacob Wilson has started solid. Laura's
Butler struggling a little bit, but like Brent Rooker has
been good, Tyler Soderstrom has been good. But let's say
dol Lander gets to them early on. It's not you know,
it's not the Yankees offense. Then I think you're talking

(08:26):
about something different. You're talking about a guy that just
conquered Colorado and a major league lineup. Let's say he
goes five strikes out five walks to gives up one
ear and run or something like that. Now I think
the value is out of peak. Am I still wanting
to trade him? Probably not, but I'm hoping up that's
probably the better opportunity for you, So might be a

(08:48):
little bit better to do it after the start. He
is the exception to the rules, so lots of fun stuff.
So that's what I'm saying, Like anything can happen right now,
even in this minor league season that's starting up with
double high and low. The guy could be there for
a week and move up that. You know a lot
of these teams will be like, oh, this is too much.
So there's a possibility that we see some big changes

(09:12):
already coming. I just don't think that's a crazy thing
to think. And we're already seeing players you know, from TRIPA.
A move up Double A is going to happen as well.
So we're going to talk about assignments. We're going to
break down the Bubba Chandler, Thomas Harrington debut, and a
couple other early standout prospects that is on the doc.
One other prospect called up. Same thing happened today Thomas

(09:32):
to jay Z. So we've already gotten Thomas Harrington, who
we're going to look at. We've got Chase Dolander, and
we got Thomas A. Jay Z in the first week
in baseball coming up. So to jay Z, I didn't
see the corresponding move. So that's the one thing I
should see here. Let me look and see if they
have it. What was the corresponding move. Let's see. I

(09:55):
still don't see it because the idea is like he
would play third, and we've had some struggles. I still
don't even say, oh, Gorman to the eye out there
we go, so Gorman out. So jay Z will most likely,
I guess, move over, probably play third like he did
and he's going to make a bunch of contacts, so
that should actually be pretty fun. So so jay Z up,
Dolander up. We are watching those debuts. Why n't you

(10:19):
guys know about my friend Dennis Sidler over at sids grafs.
You can check out sids Grafs today just did a signing.
I didn't even think he's talked about it with Michael King. Yes,
the King of Michaels with the San Diego Padres signing
with a bunch of great stuff. I don't think Michael
King is one that you see. A whole lot of
that is out there, plus some of the game's best

(10:40):
prospects I any you care about the prospect side of this.
Most recently, Kendall George with the Los Angeles Dodgers is
one that's floating out there. He obviously has had some
of the biggest names in the prospect game, from Trio
graduating to Jackson Merrill. So go and check it out today.
All of his amazing in personautographs from cards to baseball

(11:00):
bats to gloves, the hats, unique stuff you never thought
you could find, and you really don't find anywhere else.
Go to sidsgraphs dot com and check out sids graphs
on the social media today if you want to check
out some awesome, cool stuff. You know, I love in
person autographs and we've had some cool stuff that has
been involved in my live streams. Make sure you check
those out. I'm doing them Mondays. I think it's two

(11:21):
or three pm Eastern for a couple hours and Thursdays
and those are on our twitch Twitch dot tv slash
in this league, but it's also posted on Patreon. But
here's the unique thing. I'm looking to do more prospect
centric things on Thursday, so it's an opportunity for you
guys to come in extend what I do on Prospect one,
ask questions. I might move those into the podcast. We

(11:42):
didn't do a ton on this Thursday. We got to
get people going with it. But I did break down
Nick Kurtz, who're going to talk about and we live
broke down Bubba Chandler. So go and check that out
Twitch dot tv slash in this league. But I've got
you know, I intertwined some cool in person autograph stuff
into that. If that's you're back, so I have to
you admit something. I have made a change, a relatively

(12:05):
big change on Big Impact. I have made a change
on my top one hundred with my top overall pick.
I have a new number one prospect. They won't be
there for long because they're going to graduate soon. Speaking
of graduations, Dylan Cruz gone not because he says a

(12:27):
fifty percent strikeout rate, because he graduated, so he is
off the prospect list. Thank god. I just want to
point out nightmare Fuel for me, a guy that I
have a high ish evaluation of, a guy that has
one of the worst starts. You can remember fifty two

(12:48):
k percentages. I'm recording this. He doesn't have a damn hit,
But then on the underlying aspect, he's still barreling the ball.
He's hitting it kind of hard ish like XBA. Like
it's not bad, Like it's not horrific. Things are not
horrific if you just looked at the underlying stuff. Get

(13:09):
him off my list. Those are the guys where I sit,
and it's like, wherever I rank him, it's going to
make me sick to my stomach. I'm going to be like,
oh do I have to keep like those are just
super super tough for me. So he's off the list.
So he wasn't my number one overall prospect, but I
made the move, and I've kind of insinuated this for

(13:30):
a little bit. I've openly mentioned that I bought more
behind the eight ball than some others that really went
nuts with it. I think this player I did the
trajectory move as the season went on, but some very
insightful to want to put him super high and get him.

(13:50):
I think one or two people might have been him
as the number one overall prospect. But I made this
move because I think what we have seen in this
early major league run completely justifies Christian Campbell as being
the number one prospect in baseball. I know people will
still love Roman Anthony. That's fine. I had moved Christian
Campbell above Roman Anthony quite a bit before the season,

(14:13):
I think, but Christian Campbell has been beyond consistent and good,
and I'm open to things obviously changing in the wrong direction.
I've had Jason Dimingez there, and Dimingez is, you know,
kind of diminga's he like he did get his first
homer and had a nice opposite field hit against the
Diamondbacks yesterday. Like I don't think, like let me, let

(14:35):
me pull him up to give you more exact like,
I don't think anything for me is setting off that
like Dimingas is not deserved. Still, I know lots of
people don't like him, but he's sitting two fifty, his
barrel rate is up year over year, his launch angle
is double, his hard hit rate is at fifty percent.
He's cut his k percentage. I mean, what more can

(14:55):
you want? Like, he's lining up in a pretty decent
spot right now. Is gonna have to learn to hit lefty,
So I think that's good. But more of this point,
it is about Christian Campbell, who is clearly going ballistic
right now. He's hitting over four hundred. We've already seen
two homers, ten percent barrel rate, absolutely love it. Hard

(15:16):
hit rate is not absolutely flowing or anything like that.
But he's put up already a one twelve max EV
so you can see where you know, some of that
potential long term power is. But strikeout rate seven to
eighteen percent, let's round up eighteen percent with a fourteen
percent walk rate. Clearly understanding of course that this is

(15:37):
a very small sample size. All of this is a
small sample size. But for his ability to make contact,
his inability to strike out for a very good reason,
I think he was putting him in like a really
really good position. It's a fast batic major league it's
about two miles per hour, faster than major league average.
It's also a shorter swing, so it's quite a bit

(15:58):
under from the feet length seven point three is major
league average six point eight, So it's a shorter approach,
a faster approach. He's already getting on that contact side
of it, and I think I think this is lining
up there. I mean, there's a reason that a Rookie
of the Year odds moved to like less than two
to one now in Christian Campbell's favor a month ago.

(16:20):
I got him at seven and a half to one.
Now are there things? Yeah, there's things. He's not getting
in the ball. He's not getting the ball in the air,
which is a pretty common, like prospecty thing. If you
look at launch angle, sweet spot, he's not hitting the
ball in a way that is going to generate really
good launch angle. So he has a two degree launch angle,
so both of those are kind of working against each other.

(16:40):
He's not hitting the ball like particularly hard on average,
so you know why that's only important is he has
a one to twelve max EV but eighty six average EV.
So that's really low. That's very old school kutel Marte.
That's like what kaateel Marte would do. He also doesn't

(17:00):
hit lefties, so he's only had like one series against
So we're gonna have to see how that goes, and
he's gonna regress. I mean, you're not gonna have like
he's got like a four hundred average obviously, it's a
four hundred and four to seventeen average that is only
against Righty's and Babib is up. All of those things
considered positive, positive and negatively. I'm just really encouraged that

(17:25):
he's going to start running a bit. They've been comfortable
moving him up in the lineup a little bit more.
He's showing a really really good ability to hit consistently,
and this is the guy. This is the guy. I
think Domingos is still number two for me, so that
didn't change. It's just Campbell and Dominguez and then I
have Roki at three, and I know some people like
Roki there, but I think what we've seen in the

(17:47):
very early onset has shown it's not about just one
twelve evy or whatever it's like. No, he is showing
really good patience early on. He's making solid when he's
making contact, it's really solid attack. He's gonna have to
just consistently make more. He's walking some, he's just doing
a little bit of everything. We'll see if he starts
dealing some basses. But that is my number one guy,

(18:08):
So just throwing that out there for the update that
you're gonna see. He will have not graduated in the
April update, but he will be the number one player
on my board. I do believe since we're gonna wait
a week, I do believe Jason Dimingez will be off
the list. So that's gonna be interesting. So you're gonna
have Dimingas and Cruise off the list, which will have

(18:29):
created two new people jumping into the top ten. And
then just throwing this out here, I'm just trying to
take a look. I don't know. I don't think we're
gonna have any other graduations quite yet. I'm just kind
of going through this list here to see who could be.
I don't think so. So the list after that, the

(18:50):
May list will probably look kind of funky because as
I'm looking here, we will have upwards of maybe five
guys that could off the list in May, and that's
going to create the chaos. But I have come to
the determination that I'm very comfortable with Christian Campbell is
the number one fantasy prospect. It is for only so long,

(19:12):
and that does I will tell you, it will default
Roman Anthony to being my number one once some of
the graduations are off, so for better for worse, everybody
feels about that. That was kind of the big thing
that I wanted to throw out, was I'm comfortable with it.
I really really do love everything that I am seeing
out of him. One other note before we talk about
the assignments, speaking of a prospect that I love that

(19:36):
I feeling nobody does love anymore. I know there's like
a person or two, there's camps, you hate him, you
see some of the upside, and then me that player
is Spencer Jones. And this is what I wanted to
bring up. Spencer Jones has struggled with contact issues. Why
I have loved him, and maybe it's just a fault

(19:59):
of mine in general. If you've listened to me over
many years, is you give me a player that has
all the skills in the world like him, big dude,
big power, great speed, and then you show me like
some maybe poor contact skills. All I want to focus
on is how can we figure out how this player

(20:22):
who has got he hasn't even gotten close to tapping
into his big power and he's six foot seven, two
hundred and forty pounds, he's stealing twenty five bases a season.
How can we get this guy to be better? All right?
You got to cut his strikeouts down, clearly, two hundred
strikeouts last year, and you got you've got to find
a way that he's going to hit the ball a
little bit more consistent, rightfully, So people are that want

(20:43):
to avoid him, Like, I get it. There's clearly that
issue right there that you know, never tap and plenty
of guys like that never tap into. They're not all
going to become judge. There's plenty of guys that never
work out. These big dudes that you know, that have
these big skill even if it's just not just power,
you know, but like he's got the power in speed commas,
it just don't work out, Okay. Going around that really

(21:04):
trying to justify my thing that then I thought was
super interesting and has taken baseball by storm, is the
torpedo bat. Also throwing this out here that everybody feels
it's very new. I saw this really interesting interview by
George Lombard who was talking about how he was using
it last year, how guys were using them last year.
Drake Baldwin said he used and or at least got
his hands on a torpedo bat during the AFL. I

(21:27):
didn't even know anything about it. It's all the rage.
I don't think it means everything to everybody, but there
are some players that is very interesting look at Anthony Volpi,
it's changing. You know, he was a very handle ish
side hitter. The barrel moves, it goes into the spot,

(21:48):
he makes a lot of contact on which is unfortunately
him getting jammed and you're seeing better results. How about
Spencer Jones talking about some torpedo bats.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, those bats they got me. They got me one
in spring. I'm pretty excited about it.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
I mean they showed me that my my barrel diameter
or like where my barrel was is like it's like
twentieth percentile of barrel size of bats. So it's like,
why am I using about the tiny barrel and I
can maximize it. So it's like it's obvious for me
to start using a bigger barrel. I got one right
at the end of spring. So I started using this
bit about like a week now me using it. So

(22:25):
I'm excited to see a little bit. I mean there
was some balls I felt like I got jammed and
it was a lot of barrel so like, I mean
that's a good feeling to the ones where it doesn't
hurt the hands as much.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
You know, it's actually off the barrel and flying so
uh to the moon. So here is the one obvious problem.
I will acknowledge, Oh you got to not strike out
two hundred times. If the barrel doesn't matter where the
hell the barrel is. The barrels on the handle at
the top, if it's on your face, it doesn't matter
if you strike out two hundred times Spencer Jones. So
I'm open to that. But poor guy that you know

(22:57):
does struggle with that has a lot of plate coverage,
big bodied guy's got a lot of plate coverage and
big batspeed like this could be a theoretical game changer.
He could be one of those guys that really takes
a boost. So I don't know where the hell everybody
has him. I have him right around the thirties. I
used to have him into the twenties. This is the
type of thing that gets me very excited. He could

(23:18):
move back up. I have to still be the highest
on him. Just let's take a look and see what
if any of the early season results do anything for him.
For a guy that does get jammed who has insane power,
you put a guy that has got, you know, dig
six seven, two hundred and forty pound guy with that
type of swing. You if you put a higher power

(23:41):
barrel contact rate. If you start telling me that he
is going to be able to tap into maybe even
a third more barrel percentage, that could equate to quite
a bit more homers. So give me all of the
Spencer Jones early on. I loved hearing him say this,
and we'll see. You know, like A said, thirty eight

(24:01):
percent strikeout rates not going to do much for you
wherever the hell the barrel is. So I acknowledge that
it could be a nothing burger, but I still do.
Just love me, love me some Spencer Jones. All right,
let's take a quick break. When we come back, we
are going to take a look at some of the
really interesting early season assignments, and we're going to break
down Bubba Chandler in Thomas Harrington's debut, and then just

(24:24):
talk about a few other really early season standouts that
are high up on the list for from a redraft
perspective and that are worth monitoring for upticks on overall ranks.
Higher level prospects. We've had Triple A only so much
we can do on the higher level stuff. Next week
we're really going to get to break into it. So
let's take a quick break and we'll be back right

(24:45):
here on Prospect one say I like you. I like
you so much, I'm going to make you my partner.
All he has to do is find the golden and
I'll share it with you. Fifty to fifty Prospect. Oh yes,
these assignments. I will tell you this. I feel like

(25:05):
I'm conditioned, maybe that there were crazier ones in the past.
Maybe nothing is really that crazy. It's like hi A,
the guy repeats hi A or goes to double A
or whatever. But I don't know, I feel like there's
some where it was like this guy was going to
be at low A and then he goes to double A.
I don't feel like there were a ton of those,
but it doesn't mean there weren't like aggressive assignments. Very

(25:26):
happy to see and I think it really speaks to
these players. And if you think of the trajectory, it
is quite interesting that all three of these drafted players
from last season going to double A, Jack Hagleon, Travis Bazana,
and Christian More. Jack had a super dicey start obviously

(25:47):
in Bridge League. When I saw him blah debut blah afl.
It turned really good. Spring turned insane even to some thoughts,
maybe he would make the majors and he's going to
start a double That is telling the reason. It is
most telling for these guys, and it puts them on
the radar for this year clearly. As you guys know,

(26:07):
double A, you can skip triple A. There are plenty
of organizations that are comfortable if a guy is ready.
If if you can tackle double A, you're on the
clock at any point. You don't really have to go
to triple I mean, some organizations are gonna want it,
but you're on the clock where they could make that jump.
We have seen year after year we see handfuls of

(26:29):
players that jumped straight from double A up to the majors.
And I'm not saying that specific specifically a guy like
Jack Caglion would do that, but I'm also not saying
it's not a possibility. We've already seen some little injury
ish things with Pasquentino. Let's just say in a month,
something happens. Jack is down at double A. He's rolling,

(26:50):
he's striking out, you know, strikeout rates gone lower, he's
making lots of that contact still, he's doing all that stuff.
He's at a month at first base, and Vinnie goes down.
This team is trying to win. I do not think
it's out of pocket that they would call him up
from Double A so aggressive assignment on Jack. They easily
could have probably even thrown him down one spot. But
I love it. Travis Bazana the only reason I do

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this one in here. Well, just as like the grouping,
Bazana is interesting because he was working with the High
A team. Let me make sure because I I did
do this a little bit ago, did they send him
down there because in extended not extended minor league spring training. Yeah,
so he is going to Akron. He was working with
the High A team. So how it works in minor

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league spring training, you're assigned, they assign you, and sometimes
there's no rhyme or reason. Emil Morales is going to
play in a rookie ball this year, but he was
assigned to the A the Low A Dodgers. So you
have Low A, High A, Double A, and Triple A,
and then usually like the double and triple they group
together and then they either stay at home or they

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travel somewhere, and then the high and low A same thing.
So like you know, so if the low AT, low
and High A Dodgers are at home. Maybe the guardians
Low and High would travel and play and you'd have
multiple games. This is during spring training, minor league spring training,
and that is exactly actually just late gave it to you.
That's exactly what happened at a game I was at
Travis Bozana traveled with the High A team and came

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to camel Back Ranch for the Dodgers and played with them.
So I kind of thought, oh, maybe there's this possibility
they lay him a little bit low because of that
debut wasn't super fantastic, Not like he lit up spring training.
He hit two thirty eight in his debut, three homers,
five stolen bases, good obp a great player, But they
decided to push him to double A, and that puts

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him on the clock. You know, that definitely puts him
on the clock, especially with kind of the openness of
what this team could still do at second base. I
think if he dominates, there's a definite mid season possibility
we could see Bizana. I think I've already laid out
the cag leone. The other one is like the most obvious.
We won't even bother playing you in triple A. It
is Christian Moore so Christian Moore also going. He didn't

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make the major league roster, and that's like the big thing.
He almost made the major leagues, they sent him down
to Double A. He will just like clearly go from
Double A to the majors and that could happen at
any time. So both of those guys belong on the
Are all three of these guys belong on this list
because I do think there's the possibility that all three
of them could actually jump from Double A to the majors.

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I don't think it will happen. I think Christian Moore
it will happen. I don't think the other two. But
it just puts them on the clock. We're gonna want
to monitor because early season's success is going to probably
play an important role in a moving to Triple A
or being a major league option. We just don't know.
The last caveat specifically with Jack and Bizana is those

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are both two teams that are very competitive, and it's
like if they are injuries or those guys are doing awesome, Like,
I don't think it's out of pocket that they would
go up. So I thought it was really interesting that
we had that. You know, I guess the third one.
We're gonna talk about him in a little bit, but
you know, Nick Kurtz got the most aggressive assignment going
to Triple A, and he has dominated. And we'll just

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kind of look at his debut in the early season
standouts here in just a tiny bit, but very very
aggressive freakin' assignments. If you again, I just come back
to it. You look at the first year player class
and it's like, dude, cam Smith majors. At least three
of those guys up Double A, Nick Kurtz at Triple A.
I mean, it is a very very interesting class. All right.

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Next up here, let's look at some of these crazy
groupings that we've got. This has got to be one
of the better rotations we've seen in quite some time.
Now the Triple this wasn't the one, but now that
I'm thinking about it, they got kind of pushed aside.
But the Triple A Pirates, when you had Bubba Chandler,

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Thomas Harrington Ashcraft, that might be like one like let
me look here, because Triple A Pirates roster, I don't
remember if Hunter Barco was there too. Let's see that's
the Indians they have Ashkrab. I mean, now they got
Bednar there, Bubba Chandler, you had Thomas Harrington and then yeah,

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it kind of stops there. What's funny about this is
I think that is in line with this rotation that
I was gonna bring, But Harrington's not there right now.
The White Sox double A rotation is berserk. Noah Schultz,
Hagen Smith and Grant Taylor is a crazy rotation. I
kind of don't believe that Grant Taylor is a major

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league option, but again, coming back to double A, Schultz
and hagen Smith in theory could be. But that one
two three punch is one of the better minor league
rotations I remember in some time, and I would love
to hear from you guys what you think. Well, is
there a better one in the last five years? At
least one two three? There's probably some fives that are strong,
But to go that strong, maybe you're not quite in

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on Grant Taylor as much as everybody else. But like
Noah Schultze, Hagen Smith is absolutely absurd. I think this
rotation of A one two three is near the tippy
top and it is gonna be a It's gonna be
like a must watch whenever you get these guys out there,
and it is I always forget here double A roster.

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I forget the names of them. It is the Barons.
So okay, so yeah, this is the Double A Barons
team is what you're gonna want to end up looking
for the Birmingham Barons, So go out and check whenever
they're kind of floating around. Also, Wilcom and Gonzalez is
he also on that one? Yeah that's crazy. Now see

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I am seeing that Grant Taylor isn't currently on this one,
which he should be, and it might be an injury designation.
But I'm gonna throw out one other thing. They've also
got Peyton Pladi and they've got Wickholman Gonzalez who they
acquired from the Red Sox, so that also makes it ridiculous.
So if Taylor is there, maybe Taylor got put down
to let's take a look. Maybe it was Hia. That

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also wouldn't surprise me due to the injuries and stuff.
Grant Taylor they are listing, Yeah, they're listing him at
at a ball, so I guess that kind of takes
him out, but I still hold see that. That's the
weird thing. As I did this, you have these like
readjustments of rotations. I'll still hold to this though, because
Hagen and Noah Schultz now with Gonzalez and Peyton Plady,

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that four is pretty ridiculous. And you also got a
dol Quiz that's sitting on that team, Mason Adams. That
is actually and I'm even looking at the roster're gonna
throw this out too. Got Oscar Colas, Jacob Burke and
Terrell Tatum in the outfield. The infield has got Wilfrid Veris,
Riku Nishida, Jacob Gonzalez, DJ Gladley and William Bergola and

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Michael Turner at catcher. This is a loaded double a roster.
So check check out Birmingham Barons when they're when they're live,
because you've got a good chance of getting an awesome
arm that's throwing, and that offense just kind of top
to bottom has got and not superstars. You know, you
guys kind of know Cole lost, but Burke is interesting.

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Tatum was an AFL guy. Jacob Gonzalez I think is
someone on the rise. He looked really good in spring.
Gladdening was AFL ber Gold. I mean, this is a
pretty impressive lineup, so I think that is good, so
maybe the rotation kind of adjusted a little bit as
these minor league rosters have kind of moved around. There

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is a triple A total roster that I think is nuts,
and it is the Cubs Triple A roster, not just
like what we talked about with the White Sox. The
White Sox have got like a bunch of dudes. This
roster has got dude after dude. So from this is

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a full roster perspective. At catcher, you have Moises Balisteros.
On the infield, You've got James Treanto's Jonathan Long who
is a sneaky prospect, Ben Cows and Chase Strump. That's
a good infield outfield. How about Christian Franklin, Owen Casey
and Kevin Alcontra top to bottom. Probably one of the
best offensive teams that's out there. And from the big

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prospect perspective, Toronto, Silcontra, Moisis and Cassi. That's four top
one hundred prospects that are on that offense at Triple A.
So all offensively like could be up in the majors
if there's some big injury. But I think that is
probably one of the most loaded high end rosters the rotation.

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It's got guys. You've got Killian, You've got who else
do you have on here? I mean a bunch of
former Major leaguer Almonte Bickford of Chris Flexen is on.
There would be a great team to go see if
I actually I'm being honest, Ethan Roberts, Jordan Wicks. There's
some dudes, but the Iowa Cubs are one that you're
gonna want to check out. The sneakiest of sneaky, though,

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is the Carolina Mudcats. Carolina Mudcats have I don't want
to say the best infield, but one of the most
fun infields you are going to see this season. And
you want to talk about aggressive assignments. We talked about
this a bunch, but it became official. Jesus Made is
not playing in rookie ball. Jesus Made was sent to

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Low A and he's going with some studs. So currently
I think this might be the best infield in the
minor leagues. Could be wrong. Again, I'm not looking at
every single roster. This one was put out a little
bit early. If not, this is probably one of the
best infields in the lower Class A areas. Jesus Made

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Luis Payana, Filipo de Turi and Eric Batanti. That's your
infield you have. Those are studs Jesus made. Obviously, I
got to see him in camp. He can play. I've
seen him play second, short and third, so he can
move around. For argument's sake, here, I think what they
probably do. Maybe you see Made at third, you could

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see maybe Payna at second, Felipo or maybe Painia is
the shortstop and to Tore's the second basement. But Tanti's
your first basement, big six foot four, two hundred and
twenty pound first basement. He's a monster. Also throwing out
they got Braylan Pain on there. Braylan Pain, you know,
top one hundred prospect eligible type of guy. That's a crazy,

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crazy infield. I don't know. Sometimes with the low a
class of like the camera work and stuff, if you're
gonna be able to see a bunch, but the Carolina
Mudcats is going to definitely be one you're gonna want
to pay attention to, obviously, because Made is there. But
Luis Pana is super sneaky. You've heard some really good things.
I've seen Deturre a bunch, I've seen Batanti a bunch.
There's just there's some firepower in that lineup and what

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you have as well. I don't know if they would
do this, but like Braylan Pain leads off, Jesus or
Luis Pania hitting two, Jesus made three Batanti four, give
me a break. That's one of the best lower level
one through fours. If they put that out there, the
Carolina Mudcats might be one of the most fun teams

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to take a look at. The final team that I
want to take a look at. And I had saw
some conflicting reports. This is not going to be a
shock because these guys have kind of followed each other.
But one thing I had seen was maybe one of
these guys we're going to move up to double A,
and it was Michael Arroyo. And we're talking about the
Seattle Mariners, but we are going back to the Everett

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Aqua Socks. This is the High A affiliate for the Seattle Mariners.
I saw a report that we might see Michael Arroyo
at double A, but it currently does not look like it.
We're looking at another kind of full team perspective because
I think their infield has two stars, their outfield has
two breaking stars. And they have probably the most fun

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pitcher in the minor leagues with them. So this team catcher,
you also have Josh Karen who was just drafted, super
cool infield Colt Emerson back at High A. I also,
I had originally wrote him down because I thought maybe
after going in the Arizona Fall League and stuff, maybe
you press them a little bit harder and put to
double A. That doesn't seem to be the case. Injuries

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have really hurt him. So you've got Colt Emerson and
Michael Arroyo. They are back together again. What as I
look at this, like what the setup is, I'm not
one hundred percent sure. Maybe a royal place second, Emerson
play short. They've also got Axel Sanchez, Luis c Spell.
Maybe Sea Spell can end up playing some third. They

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got Milk or Perez. But this is about Michael Arroyo
and Colt Emerson playing together. The outfield. Lazaramantes of course,
but also Type Pete. I've been mentioning Type Pete is
like my breakout prospect for the year. He is in
the outfield, that is a killer two piece on the outfield,
killer two piece on the infield, good catcher, and then

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Jerangelo sgente Is is going to be in that assume rotation.
You know, there's alway possibility maybe they put them in
like a long relief role, but I would assume it's
going to be some form of the rotation. Not a
ton of other guys. Charlie Bielinson, who was just drafted recently,
I think it was just drafted. He's into that rotation

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as well. Yeah, yeah, he was fifth round pick in
twenty twenty four. So they're kind of they're kind of interesting.
But that team as a whole is absolutely must watch
because there's four stars on it and then there are
other guys Axel Sanchez, ce Spell. Those guys are both interesting.
Carson Jones in the outfield is another piece that they
have out there. So I really really like this setup.

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And those are three teams Carolina mud Mudhins, Mudcats, Mudhins,
the mud Cats, the Aqua Socks. Those are a couple
of great teams. The Triple A Cubs, the Iowa Cubs,
and that Birmingham Barons. Those would be four big targets
a couple of they're really interesting assignments. Cooper Pratt looks

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like he is pushed to double A let me confirm
it because, like I said, everything literally change like today
on some of the assignments that I saw, Yeah, double A,
the bi Biloxi Shuckers. I think it is a positively
great aggressive assignment. You see a lot of guys that

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you know, let's say, go to like a Hi A,
maybe even touch double A and then go back to
Hi A. He went a high A and then he's
pushing up to double A. He was with the Major
league camp. You know, I love Cooper Pratt, great average,
eight homers, twenty seven stolen bases last year. They're going
to push him aggressive. It's kind of interesting because like,

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you know, what are they going to do right now?
You know, on the infield, you've got Terrain, You've got
Joey Ortiz, You've got Doran, you got a lot of
a Durban, you got a lot of guys that you
kind of like. But Cooper Pratt to me, is the
type of player when he's up, he takes over short stop.
He's a bigger body, six foot three, two hundred pounds shortstop.
But I think he will be their shortstop. And that's

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where it'll be like, all right, you know, Terraining your
second and Joy rtiz your third and you know like
he will take that gig that will be his when
he's up. But the double A designation makes him a
guy that's on the table relatively soon. I will tell
you I don't think they will. I think he will
play almost a full season at double A. But I'm

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just not taking anything off the table. The double A
thing is great. He's only twenty years old, though I
bet he plays all double A, maybe triple A. Maybe
we see him in the AFL or something like that.
I'm not sure, but I thought that was one of
the better assignments the Diamondbacks. I only put this in
because I really thought Slade Calledwell was going to and

(42:50):
let me confirm this again, single A d Back's roster.
It looks like they've assigned Slade called Well to low
A and I thought there was to see single A
minor league U. It look like, is this gonna tell
me we'll go on to the pipeline affiliate here that

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he's going to go to A ball And I thought
he was going to go to rookie ball. That's literally
all I was trying to say. I could not get
that out. But he looks like he is going to Vicelia,
and I thought he might spend a season in rookie
ball because he came and just played in the Bridge League.
But it looks like they were going to be kind
of a I think it's a little bit more aggressive
for the eighteen year old who I know, does he

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have a I don't even it doesn't even have a
pro a bat technically, so they're just pushing him to
a ball. Maybe I was also just selfish because rookie
ball starts in a month, so maybe they were gonna
hold him back. But it looks like he is going
to Vicelia while the inverse they're sending Ryan Waldschmidt to
hi A. So I again, I thought maybe Waldschmidt would
go low and then high and then maybe even touch

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double this year. They're going right to a ball or Hia,
which means you could see him at double and triple
this season and puts him on the clock for next year.
So I know, you know, James really really loves him.
I love him as well. He had a really good
showing out in spring, but I don't want to be
like James is definitely like the Waldschmitt guy. I'm more

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the Caldwell guy. But you know, he's on the He's
not going to be a major league or anything like that,
but he's on the table. And I'll tell you that
is an interesting roster as well. How it's currently looking
the Hillsboro Hops, which I need to get a new
hat of. He is going to have Demetrio Crossantis, Ryan Waldschmidt,
Drew Jones, and Jansel Luise right now and Christopher Torren.

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So that's like a pretty interesting infield of Crysantis, Torren,
and Luis and an outfield that's got Drew Jones and
Ryan Waldschmith. So the Hillsboro Hops definitely one of those
teams are gonna watch. They got I don't know about
the pitching side of it, Daniel Egans over there, but
I don't think they sent out any of the other
any the fun guys. But they've got a really good roster.

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And I thought that was a nice aggressive assignment. And
Yarln Susana, Yarln Susana. With Washington looking like he's going
to be starting at Harrisburg, that is somebody that is
moving way up rankless. Let's see how the command works
and the strikeouts, and if he just starts dealing, he
has a real opportunity to fly up some lists this year.
Who are your favorite assignments? You guys can let me know.

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It won't really matter in a couple of days, as
we are going to only care about the production. But
you know we're gonna have to see was anybody too
aggressively assigned? Was anybody too under aggressively assigned? There are
some spots where it's like, you know, push them up.
We talked about that all the time, push them out.
Why the hell is Spencer I mean, I know, I
guess I know why Spencer Jones has been down for
so long with the contact and strikeout issues. But we

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want to see more. We want to see these guys
get pushed. And there's some pretty crazy ones that are
attached by the way to you know, Jase Dolander just
making it to the majors. Teams are just not afraid
to be a little bit more aggressive. Speaking of being aggressive,
we got the major league debut of Thomas Harrington, not

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Bubba Chandler. We did not get the Bubba of Chandlers unfortunately,
in what we did get his minor league debut, But
Thomas Harrington was called up and it was a It
was an inch I mean he got hit up, so like,
let's not beat around the bush. It was an interesting
debut from that perspective, but more so than anything else,
they kind of had him listed as like a sixth starter.

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So what was that really going to end up doing
for his ability to stick around? Well, let's take a
look at the pro debut. Uh split finger fastball I
think lacks some separation, especially when you're looking at the
chart and like how it's dropping. He went forty seven
percent four seam, twenty nine percent splitter, and twenty percent sweeper.

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Only a couple cut fastballs put in there, which maybe
you could up. He averaged ninety one point eight on
the fastball, eighty three on this splitter in eighty one
on the sweeper. Didn't give up insane contact, but he
was way too walky. He was not throwing strikes. The

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fastball zone rate just kind of sucked in general, which
when you don't have that, I think it was I'm
not looking at the I'm looking at his overall chart.
If I remember correctly, it wasn't like the twenty thirty
percent out range of him throwing his fastball in the zone,
and that just doesn't set up your other pitches, so like,

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why are they going to swing and miss? And also
I think it was the split or no, you know,
I'm sorry, it was the opposite. I think I screwed
that up. It was too much fastball in the zone
because you're a ninety one ninety two mile an hour thrower,
and it was the secondaries that had just no zone rate,
and they they didn't get whiffs. Twenty five percent wiff
rate on a split finger, twenty five on the sweeper.

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It was not missing enough bats zero percent k percentage
on the split finger and sweeper fifteen percent on the fastball.
Those are problems. And you know, he was getting hard
at anything he was leaving in the zone. He was
getting hit, and he was getting hit hard with any
of the stuff that he was leaving in the zone.
So it wasn't really a great favorable match up. He

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got some ground balls. The overall hard hit rate, I
guess wasn't bad, but it was just obliterated. You know,
expect a batting average against was like three point thirty.
Some big hard hit stuff. We'll have to see. I'm
not I think you need to see, Like I think
you need to see another starter or two to determine,
like how much we're gonna buy into him for this season.
That split finger has a chance to do some really

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good stuff, but it is just a low level fastball
right now. I know a lot of people like really
really like him, but we're just gonna have that split
finger died too. Like spin rate around nine hundred's just ridiculous,
Like that has a chance to be a disgusting pitch,
but he's gonna have to set up a little bit more.
And I'm not completely discouraged by it, I guess, is

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what I'm getting at. I don't think it was an
epic disaster. It's just something to kind of monitor. It
really wasn't where he wanted to be. Eight percent K
percentage and a seventeen percent walk rate. So let's see
how start. Number two is what I am excited more
to talk about is actually Bubba Chandler. Because Bubba Chandler,
he struggled with getting the ball in the zone. He

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was primary fastball, slider, very very What was it, Jerry
Jonesy is what I likened it too, because it was
nothing but fastball and splitter. He ended up going only
two and two thirds of an inning. He only gave
up one hit, but he walked three, struck out four,
and I had a couple of people that had watched
it live. We're kind of commenting in the chat section
of like, man, Bubba Chandler does not look good. But

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when you kind of come back to it, I think
you can get away with some of this stuff. He
gave up only one hard hit one hit overall, still
struck out four, and he had an under thirty nine
percent zone percentage between both of his pitches. His fastball
was only in the zone twenty eight percent of the time,

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his slider was in the zone only thirty eight percent
of the time. Yet he still had a thirty three
percent CSW percentage and a forty six percent withf rate
forty four percent withf rate on his fastball. I guess
he didn't get a ton of swings and a fifty
percent on the slider, so he had a good wiff
rate in general, even though he wasn't hitting the zone.
CSW was there, but he just wasn't hitting the zone,

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so that's where the walks were. I think this stuff
was great. Ninety nine on the fastball, still slider essentially
hit ninety big spin on both sides. But the fastball
was just moving around too much. It wasn't you know,
it wasn't working in his favor. And that's why his
outside of the zone swing percentage was so fricking low.
Be interesting if he throws a little bit more change

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up and curve in next matchups. But it was heavy
fastball slider. He just didn't have command. But those elite
crazy pitchers that when their command is not even off
but the stuff is so good still get strikeouts. And
that's what he did. So I where some people where
I'm not discouraged by Bubba Chandler's start. I think he's
an incredible buy. Right now, Someone's like, oh crap, here

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we go. I will say this, though, I believe we
got a tipped hand to the timeline of Bubba Chandler.
You know, we speculated, maybe Bubba Chandler makes a rotation
out of the season, they went with Harrington. Harrington ended
up having like high seventies or something in the pitches.

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Bubba Chandler only had fifty two pitches, so they said
he took him out in two two thirds because he
hit a pitching limit cap. So that tells us exactly
where we need to go Bubba Chandler, fifty two pitches
in this start. Next start, I'm going to speculate at
sixty the start after that, I'm going to go sixty

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five to seventy. Let's just push it, push it to seventy.
So that's two starts from right now. That means maybe
the third start out could be a major League ready
one or more of the fourth, because if we're going
sixty one more start, seventy another start, maybe he could
go seventy five to eighty in the third start, which

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would line up right around the twenties of April. Or
they push him to seventy five ish in a third
start in the minors, and that's late late April early May.
That I believe is the Bubba Chandler timeline, and I'm
going to go with the latter half of it, because
this wasn't a great command start. I think they'll push
him close to sixty. Then it'll be seventy, and I

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think he'll get one more start after that that'll go
between seventy five and eighty somewhere in there, and then
I think the clock ticks where they bring him up
to the majors late April or early May. So that
is my prediction on Bubba Chandler. For anybody that was
holding on to him, we'll see, you know, you might
have to hold on a little bit longer. I'm open
to that not being right by the way, like Harrington

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could get blown up in the next one and they
want to just kind of move on. We already seen
Dolander up early, but if your cap was fifty pitches,
there's just no chance you're up in two weeks. They're
gonna have to build that up a little bit more.
So I think we have a little bit more information there. Finally,
you want to talk about just big early season productions,
I would say probably nobody has been more impressive than

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Nick Kurtz. We're gonna talk about Romanthony a little bit.
Kyle Teel has been real great, but Nick kurtz aggressive
assignment early on has been absolutely ridiculous. You are playing
in like the PCL. He's are the Las Vegas Aviators
put up to triple A. He is hitting four to
seven six with three homers, nine RBI, strikeout rates low,

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He's walked a couple times. He's got a five hundred OBP.
He has been berserk five extra base hits. Fifty percent
of his hits have been of the extra base variety.
Nick Kurtz is on a thing right now. The ball
flies a little bit more. One of those homers you
saw was like this off the end of the bat
opposite field. But it also shows his pure ridiculous raw power,
really great contact skills, keeps inside the a'ser winning games.

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The only problem is is like, where the hell can
they put him? Where could you even put him right now?
Because you've got Tyler Schoderstrom hitting, you don't have a
DH spot. I love Nick Kurtz. I think he is
answering a super super early aggressive call that I think
says more than anything else we'd all talked about, like
how high we were moving him up boards. I know

(54:25):
a lot of people had him below JJ Weatherhold. I
have Kurts above Weatherhold right now. I love seeing this
bat there. I guess there's no stolen base ability, but
just high OBP, good contact, crazy thirty five plus raw
insane power. And it's only so long they're going to
keep him down. The're gonna have to figure out something. He

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just doesn't have a lot of roster flexibility. To me,
he's a first basement. True and true. So you got
to figure out something with Soderstrom or Rooker, but Rooker
back in the outfield. Put him back in left field
if you can. I don't know what the issue is,
but I would love to see that, to see Nick
Kurtz up soon. Kind of think he just will be soon.
The number one question is Roman Anthony. When does Roman

(55:07):
Anthony get up? Can he get up? This is coming
off of the Red Sox also re sign or signing,
not resigning, but signing Christian Campbell to a contract extension,
so there's no worries of like arbitrational stuff like he
is there eight years, sixty million dollars. Wouldn't be surprised
if they start to have that conversation with Roman Anthony.
But Roman Anthony having a little bit of struggle. Second

(55:31):
game in dropped two homers. Those are his only two
homers so far. But he has got I'm trying to
do the math. It's like an over forty percent strikeout rate.
So it's very early. By the way, just everything I'm
saying to you understand it is like small, small sample
sizes things. I mean, two days ago, Roman Anthony was
doing awesome. But he's striking out a bunch seven strikeouts

(55:53):
and sixteen at bats. You don't love to see that.
He is walking a ton though. So he's got a
four hundred OBP. He's doing fine, but his batting average
is under two hundred right now. With high strikeouts, a
great ross skill set, but he is blocked at the
major league level. I think there's a legitimate chance Nick
Kurtz is up before Roman Anthony, and I know they

(56:14):
love the rookie, but I wouldn't be shocked if Roman
Anthony stays down for a little bit, because how many
rookies are you going to have up at the major
league level. Hell, Marcella Mayer might be justifying coming up
right now. I mean he has been hidden and obviously
defensively he might fit a better role. And also, if
Trevor Story goes down, Mayor Meyer is up, he's there

(56:39):
if one of the outfielders go down. It's not a
guarantee that Roman Anthony comes up. You got Willier, You've
got Yoshida that's working through it. But Marcello better defender.
He's got two homers, a stolen base. His average is
lagging a little bit, but both the Red Sox early
season stuff. It's pretty fascinating. I was going to talk
to you about Chase Dolander, but he's already up, so

(57:01):
we don't really need to do it. I will tell
you the former Red Sox Kyle Teel is one of
those fascinating ones that I also think could be on
a shorter timeline. He's hitting three hundred right now. He's
with the Charlotte Knights, Triple A affiliate for the White Sox.
Two homers, stolen base, three hundred average right now, strikeouts,
he's striking out a tiny bit, it's around thirty percent,

(57:24):
but he is still walking extra base hits are there,
making really good contact. And I also just think the
White Sox might be like, we don't need Matt this
and Kyle TiAl can. I don't think there it doesn't
benefit them to bring up rookies like really aggressive to
start timelines. But also like you might be close to
the timeline because you've got Colson Montgomery, because you have

(57:44):
Kyle Teal, because you have Hagen and Noah. You could
start checking into this and the negative Coulson is stinking.
I don't know what to think. I want a little
bit more sample size, but Coulson's strikeout issue is back
full throttle and it is very worrisome. So I think
Chase Me Drop would be back up before then. But

(58:05):
Kyle Teel is someone I think that is going to
be up pretty soon. I think his offensive profile is
moving up a little bit and definitely checking off some boxes.
And that's just very early season looks. You know, Si
jay Z and Doland are up, so I kind of
think that takes them off the board a little bit.
But with the full season production going, we are next
week going to be able to take take a look

(58:26):
at the first week of the minor league season with
breakout some standouts. That is what we will be doing.
Make sure you guys also follow me. Even if you
don't follow like the Patreon you don't want to sign up,
that's okay, but try to follow on socials and I
might do a free post about this on Patreon every week.
But on Thursdays the live stream, I think I'm going

(58:47):
to keep doing it Thursdays, maybe move to Fridays. I'm
gauging with people, but the second half live stream, I
want to do prospects and I will try to start
pinging people. I'd love you to come in, start putting
some questions in, and I might start dropping some posts
on Patreon to start getting some questions set. But we
are going to do the live stream on that as
well as the weekly prospect one. So next week I

(59:10):
am live streaming. We can talk about prospects anytime in
Dynasty Monday, it's probably going to be again it's two
or three pm Eastern for a couple hours. We do
some cool raffles. We've done a Bobby Witt autograph jersey.
We are on bat we did a trio jersey. I
had these really great in person autograph mystery packs. If

(59:31):
you're in the autograph some prospect stuff. We can do
things there, but come and hang out in the stream
Mondays and Thursdays. Love to have you there. Go don
this league dot com on the Patreon if you want
to support. We are a little over a week out
from the next prospect update, which I'm super excited about.
Dynasty Prospects P and ADP stuff is going to be
out there, and then probably the update after that, we

(59:52):
will start putting some draft information, so we'll be doing
some breakdowns and I will be out and I'm going
to try to get to a couple extended bring training
games as well. To see what prospects you're looming around.
Give you guys some info, follow me on Twitter at
is it the While, You guys know the drill with
everything else. We will be back next week breaking down
that first week. Super excited. Thank you guys for hanging
out as always, and we'll talk to you next time

(01:00:15):
right here on Prospect one
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