Episode 31: Redbirds and Red Hots

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Not five miles an hour riding toohis head. He hopping down first with
the lumpbonius face, and on thevery next pitch he up and stole second
face with gradest speed. He wasn'tborn. He had yes uniform. I

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had Episode thirty one of the Prospectb Sides podcast. I am Nate Handy.
He is the rook and we havebeen mutting around the minor leagues trying
to find trying to see what mightbe interesting out there in the mud for
our dynasty leagues. Now, howare you, my friend? I'm good.
You know. We're got some weirdweather here so far today, a

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lot of rain, a lot ofsun, which doesn't happen that often usually
kind of picks one. Watched alot of minor league baseball, yeah,
last week or so. I reallygot into it this week unintentionally. I
think there's a little theme for methis week. But Cardinal's pitching prospects got
me interested, got me watching it. I mean, like like tink Hens

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and Quinn Matthews right, like thoseare no those guys. I was I
was going to ask you and wonderif you've been well. I don't know
if I think they weren't broadcast thisweek down in Low A, if I
remember correctly, So I don't knowif you could. I don't think I
don't think he was this week.Yeah, but I mean he is clearly
dominating a ball, right, Imean his numbers are pretty definitely, and

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I want to see him promoted yesterday, you know, like I want him.
I want him up to Higa inno time. But I will say
this is something that that I Ithink I had mentioned in the dynasy do.
I got discord this off season,and Beck reminded everybody today of this
that the Florida State League already agreat place for pitchers. You know,
a lot of those parks play waydown and it's notoriously pretty difficult to hit

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there, and that's where they're tryingout this twenty inch wide abs strike zone.
So it's another it's possibly another reasonwhy we're seeing a lot of really
great pop up pitching performances in LowA. I really want those guys out
of there. I want them allto bump up to high to see if
if it's the competition it's at theleague, is at the parks. You

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know, let's see what's actually playinginto this a couple of thoughts. Now,
I was no follower of Stanford baseball, so I don't know what his
velocity was in college. But fromwhat I have been gathering is that his
velocity is up since college. Yeah, so part of part of my just

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wondering, are we talking about aguy who maybe has a little more juice
on the fastball. I noted hiswalk rate is not super pretty if I
remember correctly, when I lost acouple of high walks, starts early,
but it's it's trending in the rightdirection. I like, So what I'm
just kind of zero? So right, So what I'm just kind of wondering

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out loud, and maybe it explainswhy he is still sitting in a ball
is that maybe he's just got alittle bit spicier arsenal spicier fastball and they're
just having him work that out andget more comfortable with that and a ball,
which if that was the case,makes some sense to me. But
I can't imagine he will be downin Palm Beach for very long if she's
pitching like this. Yeah, andthen with the strike zone stuff. You

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know, I've probably watched FSL FloridaState League more than any other league that
in the Midwest League I've been thetwo leagues I found myself watching the most,
but the expanded strike zone stuff.Honestly, the only time I ever
think about it watching is when there'sbeen some challenges the rest of it,
And maybe in part is that theguys I tend to be watching are more

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north south. And I don't thinkthe strike zone is growing horizontally or excuse
me, vertically, right, it'sjust wider. I think that that's right.
Though there is the like the ABSsystem does affect the top part of
the zone, and I think thatthat Again, don't quote me on this
part, but I think that thisis another way that it's slightly different from

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Triple A, where they've got aslightly different definition for for that top part
of the zone. But I can'tremember the specifics. Just as someone watching
a lot of video, I strugglewith some of that stuff, like hey,
maybe we need to, you know, think about this guy's higher strike
percentages and stuff like that because thezone is bigger, and like that makes
a lot of sense. I getthat, but it's not really at the

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forefront of me my thoughts when I'mlike watching these guys I'm just kind of
looking. I don't know, Idon't know, does that make sense now?
Like I'm looking for how they're likeusing their stuff, what they're trying
to do, what their stuff mightbe, and not so much worried about
if they're getting calls or not,or if their numbers are looking the greatest
the Yeah, you know what I'msaying with you, Oh totally, And

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I agree with you. I thinkit's more it's something to keep in mind
because it's one of those small thingsthat you might not notice on two,
three, four watching of the gameas it goes on, and again there's
other stuff that's happening. It's moreimportant from an evaluation perspective, But I
don't know. For me, it'sjust another sort of like it's another question
to answer, and it'll be interestingto see how do some of these guys

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on the hitter side when they graduateup, does that do they see sort
of less of a promotion penalty?And on the picture side, is it
the reverse like it? Do theydoes their stuff seem to not play as
much? And so I think it'sjust something that we don't really know,
right, we don't know how muchthis is going to affect things, and
I have a hypothesis that it mightbe affecting things a little bit, and

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we'll see how that plays out.But yeah, I guess I haven't noticed
it watching it either. To behonest, I guess maybe to summarize the
sentiment I might be trying to getto, is that I feel like that
is more of like an aspect,an element of thinking about THEIRS statistics maybe
than sort of their development, ifthat makes sense. But the Cardinals,
Matt, there's some interesting things percolatingin their system. I think what that

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ends up looking like on the majorleague level, I don't know, but
interesting enough that do some homework,maybe try to find some pieces what might
be coming down the road in themajor leagues. But just kind of looking
at their system. In Triple A, you've got Sam Roberts, Gordon gricefo
Adam Kleefenstein, Michael McGreevy, youngVictor Santos across the board. Their starters

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are pretty young. I mean,those five guys are twenty two to twenty
three years old. In Triple A, DOUBLEA you got Tink hence to Ko
Roby, Ian Bdell, Max Rogic. I think, is that how you
say I know you've talked about himbefore. Down in Hya there's Cooper,
Guerpe, Bryce and Motts Pantagua,and then down in a ball they're guys

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getting some starts. Are really interesting, Quinn Matthews, Eisen Henderson. I
think, is how you say it? An Juan Salas, chen Way Lynn
and a couple others. So Igot sucked into four guys this week,
Matt, I don't know who areI don't know who I want to start
with. I think maybe you noticea young Wan Salas popped. He's thrown

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a couple of fqos fqos or goingsix innings, giving up three earned runs
or less, walking less two orless, not giving up a home run,
having a game whip of under onepoint three. Just kind of a
little marker that I try to lookfor find some guys that maybe I want
to go watch. But I hadto turn Saalace on after a couple of
those types of outings. He's twentyone. He's from Mexico. He's six

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foot one, p eighty nine righthander. His first three starts, seventeen
innings, a point five to threeERA, a point seventy to one whip,
a thirty seven percent K percentage,walking guys a six and a half
percent clip throwing strikes at sixty sixpercent. Fourteen pitches an inning hasn't given
up a home run, has givenup one earned run. I don't know

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how many young Mexican pitchers you've watchedat A ball, but I find them
to be just such a fun littlepitching nerd joy because these guys come out
of the box with like some pitchingacumen and knowledge of how to use their
tools, unlike most young American arms. And I think that's definitely some of

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Salas's case here and the reason forhis A ball success. He throws a
four steam fastball that averages ninety threemiles per hour. He throws a curveball.
Those are his two main pitches.He tosses in a slider a change
up, and they label the cutter. I don't really know about that.
Perhaps I don't know, but I'mnot going to spend too much time on

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Salas other than saying that, like, I think he's an excellent A ball
pitcher, different sort of ability toexecute his arsenal and know how how to
use it for A ball hitters.I don't think there is like any reason
that we need to go out androster. Mister Salas at this point kind
of me in some aspects of whatthe last couple of young Mexican arms that

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I got into were, like VictorHorez of the Rockies and like Victor Lizarraga
of the Padres, who actually justhad a really nice outing and is he
in Double A right now, DoubleA or High? I don't remember where
he is, but kind of twoguys. I don't think they'll ever like
the Dynasty interest will ever skyrocket orget too crazy. But you know,

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when we just talk about the abilityto pitch, like these guys kind of
have it. But it's also Ithink some I don't know, maybe somewhat
of cautionary tale of like, youknow, their offerings might not be as
spicy, and if you're a stuffist, you would point to guys like this
is as they move up, youknow, they can struggle and they might
have to make some adjustments. Iwonder if that's what has been Victor Horrez

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story with the Rockies. He gotbeat up pretty bad last year in Hya.
He was, you know, verymuch kind of a command little walk
guy. The Walks ballooned on him, and I'm kind of wondering I haven't
watched a ton of him if that'sbecause he's trying to get some spicier offerings,
and that's an adjustment there. Butyoung want Salas here, not a
nobody. I think, have youwatched You haven't watched him at all?

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Uh, I haven't no interesting watchto me, you know. And down
in a ball he gets like goodgets wifs on his four steamer and curveball
and a good CSW and all thatstuff. But again, just as he
moves up, I don't know howthose numbers hold up. And I'm trying
to put out some videos on Twitterto kind of supplement some of the guys

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that I talked to talk about here. It's tough to put into words some
things that you might be seeing,or at least for me, So maybe
that can help. But you canfollow me at pitching specs. I don't
think I put up any solace videothat go around with these these next three
guys. I definitely did, andthen Matt. One night I noticed that
Eisen Henderson pitched three point three anda third innings and struck out nine.

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He was a guy I looked intohim. A little bit first year player
player draft research. I had toturn him on heros in Fort Myers.
He's a lefty, not the greatestangle. It's a good idea of a
lefty, but that outing. Hecame in in like the sixth and ended
up finishing the game. He gaveup one hit, one hand roun walked,
one, struck out nine. LikeI said, through strikes at a

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sixty seven percent clip. The mainthing here was his sinker. He threw
it sixty seven percent of the time. You got ten whiffs on fifteen swings
csw fifty six percent. I gotsome video I think all of his strikeout
pitches, and I think they're allbut maybe one. This fastball. But
Matt, he kind of makes methink that you might kind of like him

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because he's a lefty with a differentsort of look, a different fastball.
It's not about the velocity, it'sabout the movement. And I would say
that he didn't even necessarily, youknow, execute it all that well.
He just had to like get thatpitch in the strike zone. These guys
couldn't touch it. He did tossin a change up, a slider,

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got some whiffs, marked a curveball, and a four stem fastball as well.
Kind of a guy that I feellike is up our sort of soft
toss and lefty with maybe some Kpotential. Alley here, Matt, if
you get a chance to check himout, I would recommend it. I'd
love to know what you think abouthim. But guy who has put put
himself on my watch list for sure. I want to see some more outings

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with him, and then Matt.My Cardinals B side arm n Way Lynn
is getting some attention. I knowwe had mentioned him last week. I
think he touched one hundred in hisfirst outing. I see him getting picked
up in my leagues. I thinkhe's been picked up in all my leagues
now. But I watched his lastouting, cut up his k pitchers and

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whatnot and put that out on Twitter. But I want to talk about his
fastball. I wonder if folks mightridden box scores and maybe getting a bit
of a I don't know if Iwant to say wrong idea, but different
idea about this fastball. Let's see, he went seven innings, gave up
three hit, no walk, struckout seven three strikes at a seventy five
seventy three percent clip, and thathe threw seven innings on sixty six pitches.

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That is that's pretty efficient. ButI think the sort of generic story
is going to be that he's atall, lanky flame thrower, you know,
dominating an a ball lineup with abig fastball. But it's not really
what I'm seeing very much, Matt. He does throw a hard, forcing
fastball that sits ninety six. Itouched ninety eight this outing, and like

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I said, we've seen him touchone hundred in his first outing. But
to me, it's way more aboutthe shape from his release that is intriguing.
I don't know how much you haveseen of like Joey Estes, and
it's not a one for one,but I'd love to see some somebody smarter
about pitch shapes talk about and maybecompare Joey Estes to Lin's fastball, because

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they both strike me now. Itmight be different amount of movement and a
different amount of velocity. I thinkLinn gets a lot more velocity and a
lot more movement, but it's aforcing fastball from a ariety that plays seems
to play really well high into thearm side against both righty's and lefties.
It's got a lot of runs soto get in on a righty's hand get

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away from a lefty. And we'veseen Es this in his major League time
and this year in Triple A reallyrely on that on that pitch. But
man, Len's like it can reallyrun. Man, They're up to twenty
inches of run on that pitch,this outing, and he's got the I
don't know how to articulate this allthat well, Matt, but I think
you might know what I'm talking abouthere. But with the Taiwanese guys,

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right, but like Tang, there'ssomething about their arm motion and their release
where I don't know if this wouldscientifically bear out like this, but just
from the eyeballs, it seems likethe release is like kind of way more
out in front of their torso thanmaybe a lot of guys who are more
out outside. Does that? Doesthat make sense? You know what I'm

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talking about? I feel like there'sa there's like a different range of motion
in those two guys, is likeshoulder or something. I don't know.
It just seems like a different adifferent look, a different release point.
You know. Even against this teamhere was the a ball, a lot
of young guys, a lot ofnames. I'm not familiar with. You
know, they don't really have thathard of a time catching up putting the
bat on ninety eight, Like Lynnisn't blowing this fastball by people. There's

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a lot of foul balls. Hethrew this pitch seventy one percent of the
time, So I don't necessarily thinkwas the plan. I think it just
there was a lot of contact,a lot of balls in play early in
counts. That's why the pitch countwas so low. But like he got
uh what three whiffs on twenty eightswings on that four scene fast right,
So not really what you might thinkfrom a guy with this reputation. I

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caught up his seven strikeouts is thatright? Seven of them, eight of
them whatever it was, and uh, you know, two were on the
change up and two were on theslider, and he only threw the change
up seven times and the slider fivetimes. But what I liked, and
you'll see it in the video,is that he wasn't trying away from trying
to throw those pitchers. He wasshaking off the catcher a lot to get

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to those and you know, lastyear there wasn't a whole lot to watch,
but it was his sinker that washis main pitch. He was throwing
that like sixty percent of the time, sixty five percent of the time,
and he swapped that out for thefour seamer. And I think in part
because the sinker, I think,just maybe in a dream world, is
a much nastier fastball. But Idon't think that my man can throw strikes

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with it consistently enough, and that'swhy it's been swapped. Similar velocity,
similar horizontal run. But that thingwe'll just sort of disappear and drop.
And you know, Lynn, Idon't think putting up high strike percentages on
his outings. I think seventy threepercent, sixty eight percent, seventy one,
sixty four. You know, he'svery much a strike thrower, not

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some sort of precision hitting his spotsreally well. Like that. There was
a lot of times this outing,the catcher would set up on his glove
side, call for the fastball,that thing would run way arm side,
but still end up being a reallynice strike on the shadow right. And
like you were talking about the expandedstrike zone thing, in that video too,
you'll see him challenge a couple ofpitches that were on the edges and

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get them, and that feels likeperhaps a byproduct of that bigger strike zone.
The change up is an upper eightiesto ninety change that kind of I
think mimics the fastball really well inits shape. That thing can run way
off arm side two. That lookslike a really hard pitch to square up
this outing, Matt is what hissixth inning I thought was maybe kind of

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a little bit of a microcosm ofthis total outing. But you don't see
this very much. It was afive pitch six which included a hit and
a strikeout, got a double playin there, obviously. I think you
got a couple of double plays,which was nice to see. But you
know, it's folks who like totalk about velocity, right Like I think
when I looked at all of hisforcing fastballs and the ones that were above

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ninety seven miles per hour or aboveninety six point nine and below and it's
harder forcing fastball, there's fifty sevenof them through the sixty seven point seven
percent for strikes, it was athirty one point six percent CSW a twenty
five point nine percent with two hundredbabbit on that pitch. When it was
below that velocity, he threw formuch more strikes seventy seven point three percent,

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but just a twenty three point eightpercent csw at eight point two percent
with and a two seventy two babbit. So does seem at least in these,
you know, just four early starts, velocity might be more important for
when at this juncture and the velocityis trending down. Three of his four
outings we have stat cast for whenwe do not first out he had twenty

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four that were harder, twenty onethat were harder the next start, and
then this last start was just twelve. So I don't know. For folks
who like velocity, I think thatit matters significantly. That might be the
case here. I don't think theslider is a particularly good pitch at this
juncture. You know, he landedit for strikes and got a couple of
strikeouts on and stuff, but likethey were far from from hitting the mark

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where he wanted were. They weregood misses. Just landing that pitch for
strikes with the rest of that arsenalmight might work out well for him.
Yeah, I think his first wekind of talked about how he was probably
just like a project. But Ithink the first step is maybe has been
taken here and he's just throwing strikes. A lot of the writings, he's
just kind of hammering inside, whichmakes a lot of sense. I'd love

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to see what a guy like EastakParadus would do against him. Yeah,
I don't know, man, there'swatching him. There's a lot of stuff,
like a lot of a lot ofguys in a ball. You're like,
man, I think this could reallybe the foundation of his arsenal and
you know, his his ascension.But maybe it's not. Maybe that's not
that good though. I don't know. There's a lot of waffling back and

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forth if I'm liking kind of whatI'm all seeing here. But yeah,
I don't know. That was myhomework, Matt, know you got any
thoughts for me? So Nate andI we usually share ideas about what we're
going to do or we're going totalk about what sorts of things we want
to cover, usually like kind oflate in the week or over the weekend,
and uh, Nate had had said, Hey, how about this idea,

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and and I was like, oh, it's cool. Yeah, like
we can highlight some of these guysthat we're going to talk about. And
then I get on today and Nate'slike, by the way, I didn't
do that. I instead deep doveinto these four cardinals arms and I'm gonna
I'm gonna talk about that. Iwas like, all right, cool,
sounds good. Then he boots meout of the recording software, so I

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can't even respond. I mean,he's just sitting here, like reading it
from his notes and looking at hisstats and talking about these guys, and
he keeps asking me questions and I'mlike, oh, it's a good point,
Nate, but I can't respond.I can't talk about it. So
that was a great little deep dive. I wish I could have contributed something
to it, technical difficulties had hadme booted. Well, did he hear

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anything that I said anything? Iheard the whole thing. I was in
the like lobby room the whole time. I heard the whole thing. It
was great. Like something, that'san interesting note about Lynn if there's more
of a of a picture in there, which I think is what you were
getting at, that it's not justsome velocity, like the velocity is helping,
but that he's got some other bitsand pieces. I think that's a
really a strong mark in his favor. I mean, I know it's the

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velocity is what got his roster percentagesup, and that's what's I think exciting
some dynasty owners. But it soundslike there's more there than just that.
I will say though, Like youknow, just that little look from last
year, it seems a lot.It was kind of like lanky and elbows
and you know, inconsistencies and likehe does. I mean, I think

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my man has put some work inhere. He looks cleaner and interesting that
I getting some popularity. Nonetheless,I like it. I like it.
Well. I have to throw onsome of those other guys as I'm scoping
around and bouncing here and there.But you know, we've talked a lot
about soft toss and lefties, rightmm hmm, but we haven't really talked
about soft toss and righties. Igotta say I'm guilty. Sam Roberts here

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young, what is he? He'sDutch? Right, yeah? Twenty two
in triple A just is thrown backto back fqos. What I think he
went like seven and eight innings orsomething like that. Has just been really
dominant. But I think I'm guiltyof sort of obviously aware of him.
He was in the futures game lastyear and what have you. But I
was like, man, this right, he throws ninety I don't know,

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and I haven't really paid much attentionto him, but I watched him this
week, Matt, and I gotto say, dude, I am kind
of loving it when you talk aboutpitchability, execution, knowing how to maximize
what you're working with, having theability to put your offerings where you want
to at a really high clip likemy man is sexy, dude, like

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he's And the clip that I putup on Twitter, I think was a
good example. It was a fourpitch strikeout, made a nice triangle all
on the edges with three of hispitchers. There was one I think it
was a change up on like twothat he threw into the dirt. That
wasn't a great you know, buthe wasn't going to roll that for in
the strike zone anyway. Is thatwas gonna that was gonna be a waste

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pitch try to get the hitter outhimself, right. But that was the
three strikes in that clip. Ithought, we're mighty pretty. But he
was part of the return the Cardinalsgot for Jordan Hicks, And you know,
I see him what I think Clegghas him at three eighty eight right
now on his new Dynasty prospect list. Now, I get that league size

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and format might matter here, butI'm a guy, especially in a big
league I'm shoving him way up.Oh interesting, I'll try to explain why
here. On the season, twentynine and two thirds innings over five starts,
one point eight five ERA, apoint nine to two whip, the
twenty six K percentage, walking guysat a five percent clip, throwing strikes

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sixty five percent of the time.He's given up one home run in six
urn runs over that. His laststart for twenty six he threw cutter,
change up, slider, four seamfastball. Over the course of the season,
he will mix it a little bit. And as far as which pitch
is, which offerings are getting thrownthe most, I think some of that
might, you know, just kindof play out and there's more righties or

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lefties in a lineup. But overthe season, the slider is throwing twenty
eight point seven percent of the time, the cutter is twenty seven point nine
percent of the time, the forcingfastball is twenty four percent of the time,
the change up is nineteen percent ofthe time, so a pretty even
clip even rate amongst his four pitchesversus righties, he's slider, cutter,

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and now his cutter. I wouldcall it on the spectrum of cutters,
it's more breaking ball than fastball.I think throws the four team or twenty
percent of the time versus righty's andwill on very brief occasion throw right on
right change up versus lefties. Achangeup comes out thirty percent of the time,
the forcing fastball twenty seven percent ofthe time, the cutter twenty six
percent of the time, the sliderseventeen percent of the time. Now he's

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a righty. I don't know ifI mentioned that righties are hitting two thirty
five I have two fifty three pointfifty three against him with a thirty seven
point two with percentage. Lefties arehitting one fifty nine two forty five one
two with a twenty five point fivepercent with percentage. The velocity on the
four steamer is averaging ninety point seven. So you know, Matt, that

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that will probably turn a lot offolks off like it didn't. Now,
Matt, I'm wondering, I don'tknow what perceived velocity is. Do you
know what perceived velocity is on statcast. I don't know what that is.
It's a calculation that takes into accountthe extension. Okay, so it is
perceived velocity is about a half mileper hour harder. I don't think that

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makes too much of a difference.He's spinning that thing about twenty four hundred
RPM's extension of six point four feet, which I think is about average.
Right, hard hit percentage on thatis eighteen point eight percent. Hard hit
percentage in the mL in MLB isthirty nine point one. So even though

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it's soft, it's not getting hithard. Now, he doesn't get a
lot of whiffs on that pitch ninepoint eight percent. I don't know what
MLB network show it was, butthey had Robbers on. He was talking
about his other pitches and how theyare keeping hitters off of his four steinge
fastball, and that I think isthe brilliance in Robbers. Here is the

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way that he can use his fourpitches. The guy's with a maybe not
a good fastball in a vacuum.I'm always curious about first pitch fastballs,
right, Matt, I feel likethat's an important pitch on first pitches against
his what one hundred and twenty eightbatters faced. He's thrown thirty two forteing
fastballs on the first pitch. That'stwenty five percent of the time, which

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is more or less in line withhis overall pitchnicks. Right, he's gotten
a seventy one point nine percent strikepercentage on that Batters are zero for one,
so it's only been put in playonce, and he's got a forty
three point eight percent CSW on firstpitch fastballs, which I think is a
pretty good sign, MA, don'tyou. I think that this kind of

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guy is really fun for a lotof the reasons you've articulated, and you
know me that I'm a believer thatyou can succeed with a well below average
velocity fastball, and it sounds likehe's got some of the tools to do
that. I think Roberts is oneof those guys that he's got such a
fun rest of his repertoire that maybehe can make it work with a ninety

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mile an hour average fastball velocity withnot other plus shapes, other plus traits.
I think the thing that has mademe a little bit less excited about
him than some of the other softtossers that we've seen in the past is
just that there's sort of a historyof like mixed performance, and so it's

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almost like guys have figured him outas they've seen him a couple of times,
like through the league, you know. And so while well, I
think there's something interesting here, andthe fact that he's doing this at Triple
A on the back of being fairlysuccessful at Double A and Triple A last
year is impressive. But he's he'sone of those guys for me that I
want to see a little bit moreof, just because we've got some history

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of people sort of figuring him outand him not putting it all together at
the lower levels. It's and it'srare to see this kind of picture succeed
more at the higher levels like he'sdone up to this point in Triple A.
So it's it's not like I think, I think for me, it's
more of like this is a waitand see kind of guy. And in
your deep leagues, absolutely, Ithink he's going to be big league starter.

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I Mean, the Cardinals rotation isall old and they are not going
to be around for that long alot of them, so they're going to
need guys to fill some of thoseinnings, and I think Roberts could be
that kind of guy. But asfor like a kind of smaller league,
shallower format, I'm still pretty skepticalof his impact. We haven't talked about

(28:57):
his good pictures yet. The slider, which he's thrown more than anything,
forty two point nine percent with ofcourse, this is in triple A,
but that's not too shabby. Hardhit percentage of sixteen point seven percent on
that pitch, what barrel percentage ofI guess it gets barreled about average amount
of time change up. It's gota forty eight point four percent with a

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hard hit of twelve and a halfpercent, hasn't been barreled once, and
that's in the sixty six times thrownthe cutter. The cutter doesn't get as
much with as those twenty five anda half percent, which what MLB average
I think with is thirty percent.Oh, but that doesn't get barreled up
either, hasn't been that's a fivepercent. I don't know. He's a

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you know, Matt some of allparts, right, I mean, I
just think that those kinds of statsat this stage in the season are still
pretty noisy, and he's given uplike what one homer so far this year,
and that is not a trait thathe has showed really in the past.
You know, he gave up oneand a half homers per nine at

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triple A last year, one pointfour at double A, one point four
to six at double A the yearbefore. I just think that homers are
going to be part of his game, just given the velocity and given that
I don't think there's even with thesecondaries, overwhelming amount of with for or
command. You know, I don'tthink it's like pinpoint precision here, and
so we might expect a little bitless. So I expect that home run

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rate is going to go back upto over one. And then now you're
looking at a guy who's like maybelow fours era in triple A, maybe
a tick above that in the bigs. So again, that's good, Like,
that's a right. He's shown alot of things to really really like.
But I'm not counting twenty nine ishinnings in triple A and saying that

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he's kind of figured out this homeragainst problem. And yeah, so I
think for some of these things,I think it's like he's on a nice
start to the year. But Iwant to see more. Okay, fair
enough, I'm just telling you he'spitching clean, man, he is,
he is sharp. Nice, Butyeah, I know those those were four
Cardinals arms that got a lot ofmy attention this week. Matt forty five

(31:08):
minutes on the not the assignment forthis week, it's this is this is
b siding with Nate. Everybody.Hey, sometimes you just go where the
mud leads you. Man, I'mwith you, I'm with you on that.
I definitely had a bit of thatas I was bouncing around leagues and
trying to narrow down because to burythe lead a bit here. One of

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the things that we wanted to dowas we're now almost a month into the
season, a little bit less forobviously the lower miners and obviously complex ball
starts this week, which is fun. We were going to look at each
league and see if we could finda guy that we liked, maybe a
half grade more. You know,as I've tried to preach, as we
talked about guys this early in theseason, you want to change your mind

(31:52):
on guys slowly. Sometimes it cango a little bit faster because it's just
someone that you had no data onand so you're really essentially forming an opinion.
But for guys that we've maybe seenbefore or had overlooked before, is
there anyone that's catching our eye thatwe want to round up a half grade
or a full grade on. Sowe went around each league, I think,

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right like, you got a guyfrom each league night. Yeah.
Yeah, So we went and comethrough all the hot starts and kind of
tried to suss out what's what's realand what's not and what we like and
what we want to see more of. So I don't know if that's a
good segue into talking about the realassignment this week, boring Hitters. Yeah,

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that's why I was so excited aboutit. I like dove in and
I'm looking at all these guys andI did a lot of work for this
one, the guys that were goingto talk about. But first I'm going
to start in the PCL, andtechnically still in the PCL, I think
as of right now, Jordan Beckjust got called up to the BIGS.
And he's a guy that made sometop one hundreds I think, and I

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think rightfully, so one who Ithink there's a real fantasy friendly profile here
in terms of he's gonna steal afew bags he's going to hit I think
a decent number of homers, andif the thing that I'm excited about really
has happened, if he's really improvedhis contact skills and his strikeout rate really

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as down as it is comfortable tosay that this guy's like a top fifty
kind of fantasy prospect if he getsthe time and if he gets the run.
But Nate, you had said thisoffseason that he was the top prospect
in a fairly well regarded Rockies system, ahead of Idel Amador Fan for fantasy,

(33:37):
for fantasy, and I think hetook some heat for that, but
they're early going. You know,it looks really good. I think for
me, the biggest thing is thestrikeout rate is down below twenty percent,
which he hasn't done since low Ain twenty twenty two, So that's pretty
impressive. Doing it in triple A. The swinging strike rate looks better,

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so it's you know, he's probablygoing to strike out more than that at
the big league level, and especiallyout of the gate. You know,
don't be surprised if it's an uppertwenties, slow thirties percent strikeout rate,
because he's run that kind of strikeoutrate before. I think he's maybe focused
more on the contact skills and leteverything else play. There's average or slightly
better power here, and I thinkhe's going to swipe some bags too.

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So I like him. I mean, I think that this is a great
call up. I hope they givehim some run and I hope he makes
the most of it because he's aguy. That is an up arrow for
me from watching him both in spring. Although he's struck out a bit more
in the spring, I think,but the early goings here, the strikeout
rate improvements, if that sticks,this is a guy, you know.
I agree, And that was thatwas my PCL. Nice look at that,

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look at that. Hopefully we don'tagree in all of them. But
let's let's speed through the PCL,speed through the triple A, because these
are not our guys. These arenot muddy enough. Yeah, we've been
watching some backup. Just generically speaking, I think it's it's clear there's some
good maturation that has taken place atthe plate. And but I've seen a

(35:05):
couple of outings where he like walkedlike three times, Like that's not it's
not like typical back So I thinkyou love to see that in the International
League, Matt I went with aguy that I have been skeptical of,
and I think maybe I mentioned before, but I gotta give props. I
think or Elvis Martinez has definitely movedup a grade or after grade or or

(35:29):
something in my fantasy opinion. Now, obviously I don't have any shares and
I ain't going to try to gethim now, but just gotta gotta give
him a shout and some and someprops for improving his game. And you
know, he's been on a prettygood tear and I think they're calling him
up pretty soon from what it soundslike. Yeah, maybe. I mean,
I did see somebody share a reportin the Donasy Dugout that said they

(35:52):
really want him to work on hisdefense, which is definitely can be code
for like he's going to be downthere a while longer. But again,
bit bit a strikeout rate improvement forhim, and everything else looks really good.
Like he's hitting a lot of flyballs, which for someone with the
plus power that he has. Youknow, I'm a fan. I think
he's firmly a top big fat middlepart of the top one hundred guy for

(36:14):
me. But I chose Aurelvis's teammateAddison Barger, who we had also talked
about this offseason when you made adig about the Toronto's minor leagues and I
said, well, you know,Irrelvus is definitely a guy, and I
said, like, I think AddisonBarger is a is a regular too,
And I think I think Addison Bargermight be more than that. Like he's

(36:35):
not as good as Eurelvius, Idon't think, and never have thought.
And he also just got called up. He's got a couple of games under
his belt at the BIGS, butagain the walk and strike up numbers are
going in the right direction as hegets older. He's, you know,
got some power in his bat.I don't think he's like a you know,
double plus kind of power guy,but there's plus power at peak there,

(36:58):
I think. And he's I thinkone of those guys that he's going
to play a couple of positions,got the potential to be a better version
of Kevin Bigio, you know,like actually some power in the bat.
He walks a lot. He's gota pretty good strike strikeout rate and it's
backed by a single digit swinging strikerate, which is also really good.
So He's just one of those guysthat I think he does a lot of

(37:19):
stuff pretty well and that it canbe under rated. So yeah, that
Barger, I think is taking anotherstep forward and definitely earned his promotion.
And I hope he sticks and succeedsright on nat in the Southern League.
You know who. It's interesting andexcuse me, you traded him off in
our in our little trade episode andCarson Williams says, looks like you might

(37:44):
be answering or taking care of thebiggest wart. Yeah, he's one of
the very biggest up arrow guys thisoff season for me, are this early
early going foreshure. That's that isdefinitely a good call out and something I
wasn't sure he could do. Buthe definitely has showed that he can play
the defense and it's maybe that hardwork is paying off in his hitting as

(38:06):
well. Yep. Another guy whoreferred to the minor leagues as practice.
Yep. But he's looked good man. I don't know, I don't have
his strikeout percentage up, but it'smarkedly improved from last year, right it
is. But he's also you know, back down in Double A, and
he's not walking either. I dothink that his strikeout rate improvements were more

(38:30):
notable early on. And I thinkhe's had a few strikeouts lately. Yeah,
this last week, I think hestruck out. Yeah, the last
two weeks, I think he startedout really well, but the last two
weeks he's struck out quite a fewtimes. So twenty one strikeouts to three
walks so far. You know,if he can keep those down. I
mean, there's no doubt he's gotpower. There's no doubt that he can

(38:52):
play defense. It's just that thatstrikeout rate part is can be tricky.
Is he your guy for the SouthernLeague? He's my guy for the Southern
League? Yes, all right,Oh, I'm gonna, you know,
say some more good stuff about Nate. I was pretty skeptical of your pick
for the Angels. Beside, Ihad watched a bit of Cole Foughtinel and

(39:13):
I was like, guy, itseems okay, you know, like I
third base kind of corner guy.Maybe there's some pop here, but I'm
not really sure. He's been reallygood in the early going, more so
than I expected, I guess.And I think that he's you know,
not striking out very much. He'swalking at a decent clip, and unlike

(39:34):
a lot of the guys that arestarting really hot to start the year,
he's not running some absurd babb iteither. You know, it's three p
fifty so that's PI. But withthe amount of line drives that he's hitting,
some of that is earned. Andhe's doing it at double A,
which he's skipped over hi A.He like you know, spent most of
his post draft year at a balland then just skipped totally over Hi A

(39:59):
and now, and that's not unusualfor the Angels. They are definitely ones
to push their prospects and see whosinks or swims. But he's showing surprising
speed, like ten bags already inthe early going. Is honestly, wildly
impressive. And the strikeout walks lookreally good. So good call on Cole
Fought. No, I did notsee this one coming in, especially with

(40:21):
this shape of production either. Yeah, I haven't been. I haven't been
paying too much attention to him,to be honest to them. Yeah,
it's not like a bunch of thingsaren't jumping off the page. But ten
stolen bases is near the minor leaguelead right now. And I've watched a
couple of and he looks athletic outthere, So I don't know. I've
been pretty impressed and early going likethat's he's moved from a follow to like
I've looked at who has him,and I've sort of inquired, like,

(40:44):
hey, maybe that's an interesting oneagain and in rotal leagues, I think
that matters more. But yeah,he's good. Early call by Nate Eastern
League. Who you got Matt EasternLeague was fun. Number one guy is
Agustin Ramirez. Like I ended upwith him in a few spots because I
think I liked the improvements, likethat he's a guy who he doesn't strike

(41:09):
out a lot and had good underlyingdata and so even though he scuffled at
his promotion to Double A, hewas so good at high last year that
he was Like I think I draftedhim in maybe four FYPD leagues because or
off season drafts. Obviously he's notan FYPD guy, but I drafted him
in a bunch of spots because Iwas like, I really buy the hitter

(41:32):
that he is, you know,so he like I mentioned, he scuffled
a bit in thirty one games atDouble A to end the year last year
and is just lighting double a onfire right now. So for Somerset,
he's hit nine homers already, he'sstriking out under twenty percent of the time,
nineteen percent of the time, he'swalking sixteen percent of the time.

(41:52):
His babb it is two hundred.Some of this is he's leaving the yard
a lot, right, like,you know, hitting nine homers, that's
it's like a forty five percent homeand a fly ball rate, and that's
not going to keep happening. He'snot peak Berry Bonds or anything here,
but I think this stick is gonnaplay. And I've watched a little bit
of them on defense, not enoughto get a sense for if it's going

(42:14):
to be a really good backstop.It's interesting with the Yankees. They've got
a lot of guys on their fortyman who are catchers. I'm not convinced
that Ramirez isn't the best of them, you know, just from a whole
package standpoint. So he's he's likeI think, you know, firmly top
one hundred guy, and he wassuper cheap this offseason, So that one

(42:35):
that one feels good. Small paton the back for pat on the back
for me for lucking into him inquite a few places, because he's now
really showing out so far this year, Like he's he's jumped up a grade,
so to speak for you. Yeah, like I I grabbed him.
I know you liked them coming intointo the season. I did, But
I really didn't expect this kind ofpower explosion. I didn't expect the you

(42:55):
know, he's going to strike outa bit more, but it looks like
this is a major league starting qualitycatcher here. Like that's certainly with the
bat, and it remains to beseen with the glove, but to pass
my expectations already, and hopefully hekeeps it up because he looks really good.
Eastern League. I'm gonna go withZach Vine, who seems to be

(43:16):
back being the Zach Vine from theAFL a couple of years ago or whatever
it was. And I know folkshave talked about and he had injury last
year and what have you, butUH just got to give a shout to
him. What he's sixteen games,he's hit two home runs, swiped seven
bags, he's been caught once,he's walking fifteen percent of the time,

(43:37):
he's striking out twenty six percent ofthe time, three twenty seven, four
thirty one five eighty two slash.Now he is running like a four forty
four babbit, but that's good fora one eighty three WRC plus. He's
keeping the ball off the ground ata pretty nice clip, pulling it well.
I know that I've talked about himin the past and I've seen him

(43:58):
shift sort of his approach at theplate, and that I haven't watched a
ton of him this year. Witha little bit that I watched, I'm
kind of wondering if he's found agood, little happy medium for himself.
And I think, if you werebeing hopeful or believer, lots of good
news this year so far. Yeah, like a lot of the guys that
littered the top of the early WRCplus leaderboards, like you mentioned, running

(44:22):
a really high babbeb you know,four forty four, and he's quote unquote
earning it up to this point.He's hitting almost forty percent line drives,
which is unusual for him. Ithink one of the things that I had
knocked him for in the past wasthat for a guy who supposedly had such
good power, he hit the ballin the ground a lot and he's doing
that less. But nobody really hitsforty line drives. So it's going to

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be interesting to see which direction thosebat and balls turn as the year goes
on, because if they eke moreinto the fly ball range, like I
think that's going to be good forhis power. He has the power to
back that up the raw power,that is, if they leak back towards
the veen of old and he's hittingthem on the ground, like, it'll

(45:08):
be interesting to see, but definitelynice to see him hitting the ground running,
agreed. And then in the TexasLeague, Matt, I'm going to
go with someone I'm probably guilty ofdoing the same and not giving enough credit
for maybe his offensive potential this firstyear player draft season, but uh,
Jacob Wilson is off to a prettynice start. Mm hmm. That he

(45:30):
is he slashing or seventeen four thirtyeight six' thirty three. Again,
he's got a four sixty babit andhe's hitting the ball on the ground at
a fifty four percent clip. Buthe's popped a few home runs, stole
a few bases, he's striking outfourteen percent of the time, he's not
walking, which you love that profile. He have mixed opinions on that,

(45:54):
but the whole point is this isa guy who is uh is the defense.
He's gonna be playing shortstop in Oakland, and maybe there was some more
bat here than the first year playerconsensus had it. So he's moved up
half grade or what have you?For me? Yeah, I like it.
I didn't watch either of his homershow they look. Were they squeakers

(46:17):
or they didn't get into him?Did you see him? Saw one?
I think I only saw one.I haven't watched a lot of them.
This is mostly mostly stat stuff,but I saw one that it was like,
it was like a really hard linedrive. Interesting the homer. He's
got two already, which is sortof surprising because, like I remember,
the report on him was that heis like a zero homer, kind of

(46:37):
no real speed threat, like hewas sort of like great glove, good
contact skills, and then kind ofan empty profile. Otherwise, maybe it's
not so empty, like yeah,and calling out a little bit of power
in there, fantasy darling here,but just maybe better than we gave him
credit for it. Well, I'vegot a name for Texas League that I

(47:01):
gotta be honest, I wasn't familiarwith. I think i'd seen him a
bit here and there last year,but wasn't really a guy on my radar.
But he's doing something interesting at DoubleA this year. His name is
Nathan Church. Do you know?Do you know Nathan Church? Sounds like
a country artist? Kind of doeskind of does I know the name,

(47:23):
but I haven't paid much attention.He's a college hid from Irvine, you
see Irvine two years ago, eleventhround pick. Like, not a big
prospect by any means, and partof the reason is he has almost no
power, like very very little power. Six hundred and twenty nine plate appearances.

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Coming into this year, he hadthree home runs, so that's not
that impressive. He already has threethis year. He hit two backed on
back to back days last week andis really hitting the snot out of the
ball now. I say that asin like he's getting a lot of hits.
Is babeb is three forty two,so a little bit higher than average,

(48:07):
but not one of these super unsustainableguys. But the thing that makes
me pretty interested in him, especiallyin points leagues, is he's running a
five point four percent k rate sofar this year in Double A. I
watched quite a few of his atbats because he was just a guy that
I wasn't really familiar with, andI get why. Like he he is

(48:27):
not one of these really strong,really fast bat kind of guys. He's
sort of got that like Caleb Durbanslow bat thing going on. What that
means that when he's fooled by apitch, he's still on time, Like
he gets his barrel to that balland he might not hit it super hard.
But both his homers this past weekwere on looked like curveballs or loopier

(48:50):
sliders that were left up and thathe was out in front of. But
he just extended the barrel like wehad talked about previously with Caleb Durban,
and he found the barrel and youknow, both squad out. Neither neither
was a big jack or anything.But I love this kind of profile,
like the you know he's gonna makecontact, he walks a decent amount,

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you know, like I would say, an average amount, and if he's
finding a little bit more power.This looks like a regular me and from
somebody who I would have looked atthis line and looked at his year last
year and be like, this guyisn't making the major leagues and he's better
than half his strikeout rate and matchedhis homer total from last year in ninety

(49:32):
two played appearances. That's that's something. This is a guy to keep an
eye on. I'm not saying runout and get him, though. If
you're playing in a really strict Kpenalty league, like any guy like this
should be on your radar. Ifhe keeps this up, we might be
going full Durbin on him. SoI'm actually pretty excited about him. It's
not the it's not the not fullDurban alarm, but it's somebody that in

(49:53):
your strikeout penalty leagues were we're halfDurbin here, We're half Durbin. Nice.
I like it. The Sale Leaguewas a little tough for me.
I think the Sale League as awhole is a little tough. Can't say
I'm getting overly excited about anyone knew, so to speak, or jumping up
for me. But I just wantedto note and give a little shout to

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Jalen Vasquez Aberdeen the Orioles. Wehad briefly talked about him during our first
year Player Draft episode. I thinkhe was like the Orioles, I don't
know, twentieth round pick or somethingthat like that out of a small college
or whatever. Right, but I'vebeen catching just a few at that.
It's nothing crazy. You know,he's walking more than he strikes out.

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I know you like that, hittingtwo eighty four thirty eight, slugging four
to twenty. He's popped a homerun, hit a couple doubles in a
triple I saw. I've seen alittle bit of defense him, had shortstop
and looked nice, quick and clean. Again, not a guy to go
out and get, but like youknow, this was just a little bit
of a mentioned interesting guy, firstyear player draft season, and now I'm

(50:59):
like, maybe he's gonna be oneof these next o's that come up and
become kind of like a real prospectfor them. Just a little little shout
there, a little muddy showy.They do find those guys. And I
actually did catch him swipe a couplebags the other day as I was looking
at guys. So yeah, he'sgot n got once, pretty pretty solid.

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Well. The Sound League was actuallypretty fun for me. I watched
quite a few, and I've foundmyself drawn to another Yankees catcher, if
you can believe it. I think, uh, I think Beck might have
shouted him out on his three caphis daily Minor League three cap. But
Omar Martinez for Hudson Valley is somebodyto keep an eye on. He's another

(51:45):
catcher, first base type who isshowing plus played, approach, walking,
striking out, not very much,getting to some power, and he's not
even running an above average BABBB andhe's still rocking a one fifty two WRC
plus so far. He he hita monster homer might have been just yesterday.
It looked really nice, like beautifulleft handed uppercut swing, got all

(52:08):
of this ball and put it out. He's forty man eligible this year,
so this is his forty man evaluationyear because he's been in the minor.
He was signed at sixteen. Youknow, he's one of the international assignees,
and so he has to be protectedat the end of this year.
I don't know if he's gonna belike he's got a. I think got
a lot to prove from low Athat they should protect another catcher. But

(52:30):
there's precedence for this, like thisis kind of what I guess In Ramirez
did last season. He showed outat Hya, got bumped to double A
and wasn't great, but they protectedhim after that season. So it's possible
that this happens for Omar Martinez.So far, I really like I like
what he does. And the otherthing I wanted to note is he's got
that kind of sweet uppercut swing thatmeans he's gonna get to his power.

(52:53):
He's one that was a fun underthe radar find for me. And while
we're in Hudson Valley, watched abunch of Hudson Valley games. And there's
a ton of fun prospects in theSalleague right now. But a guy that
I've been I think we talked abouta while back, Jase Avina. He
was either my Milwaukee B side orsomebody that I mentioned when we were talking

(53:15):
about Milwaukee this offseason, but hegot traded to the Yankees in the offseason.
I forget for who for like areliever or something. Anyway, the
deal with Avina is that he's nota very big guy, but he has
incredible raw power and is getting andlike lifts the ball all the time,
so he's going to get to alot of it. But he had one

(53:36):
of those like totally unacceptable strikeout ratesin the low miners, like above thirty
percent on the complex above thirty percentat low A and so it was always
this question of like, Okay,he's got great power, but how is
that going to show up if he'sgoing to strike out this much? And
he's like probably a left fielder,so it's not like he plays a plus
defensive position. But common theme herein the early going, the strikeout rate

(54:00):
looks really good. He's below twentypercent after really not being below thirty percent
at any level, and he's nothitting in a great park. It's cold
as balls up there in the inthe sal League at the moment, rocking
a one to sixty two WRC plus, so even slightly better than Omar Martinez.
But Jasvin is another guy to keepan eye on. He's only got

(54:20):
one homer so far, and heis hitting the ball on the ground a
bit more than he usually does,but he's gonna revert to type. Like
remember, batted ball statistics are prettysticky and they take a little while to
stabilize, so you should expect thathe's gonna hit a bunch of fly balls
and there a bunch of them aregoing to be homers. So Jasvin is
a guy that like keep an eyeon. He could really start to put

(54:40):
something together. Here, so Ihad a lot of fun watching some Hudson
Valley games. Nice, I'm gladyou have been getting sucked into the Sale
League more than I Midwest League.Matt. This was a I feel like
there's so many guys who have becomemore interesting for me, so many hitters.
Alex Freeland, Will Simpson, Cafisa Collier, Sale Stewart key Shall,

(55:02):
Luke gold Through Rodriga is awesome guys. All guys off to some pretty
good starts in that league. Iwon't do you know who's fourth in that
league right now? In Opsango?Oh yeah, he's. He's honestly of
those names like he's He's one ofthe ones that I looked long and hard
at to see who we want totalk about. But all right, I'm

(55:22):
not talking about him, but okay, I kind of just went with the
guy who's the newest this week tome, that got my attention. That's
Alex Mooney with Blake County mine too. Oh nice, Nice. I don't
know if you saw I cut thisup and put it on Twitter. He
had a five hit day. Yeah? Well man? What he was a
seventh round pick out of Duke forthem last draft. You know, it's

(55:45):
interesting that he's popped five home runsalready, and I think he hit five
all last year in college, ifI remember correctly, when I looked,
and you know, he's just swingingit and he's hitting it to all fields,
popping some home runs he hit mein college last year. But still
like on a rate basis, man, Yeah, it feels like kind of
my guy, you know, seastrike, hit strike, But not that

(56:07):
I've like, you know, goneall crazy like I did with Baldwin and
watched all of his at bats andall that. But from my looks like,
I think his swing decisions look good. He's swinging his strikes, hitting
three thirty nine, three seventy nine, slugging six sixty one, five home
runs, five doubles, but he'sstruck out thirteen times to two walks.
Kind of an athletic looking middle infielder, I don't know, just a good

(56:30):
looking the player in his first proseason, and I picked up a few
share. I had some relievers,you know, arms fall off or something,
just had some spots, and Ipicked him up in a few just
to see what would happen. Yeah, I really like what I saw from
him. I do think that theapproach is going to catch up with him,
especially because he's had so much successand his swing looks really good to

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me, Like he's got that niceright handed, athletic kind of flat finish
to his swing, but it's reallythrough the ball. And I saw him
scorch a double to right center.He hit one of his homers this past
week pretty far out, like overthe four to ten sign, so it
was like probably four thirty four forty, So he's got some juice in there.

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Nice to see that it's showing upso far. I do think he's
going to have some swing and missconcerns, and I if he's going to
continue to not walk, and youknow, he was okay at walking last
year for a college guy, andalbeit young college guy. He was a
draft eligible sophomore and currently only walkingthree percent of the time. Like that's

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something to keep an eye on asthe book gets out, and having on
the back of such a hot weekthat he just had, it'll be interesting
to see how folks approach him thisupcoming week. Like I imagine he's going
to see fewer strikes. I getyour point, Like he was doing sort
of his best Seeger impression right wherehe got strikes and then was just hammering
them. Has definitely worked for himup to this point. And like I

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said, I was pretty excited,Like this guy was really looking like he
had put something together here, andI watched a lot of him. I
watched a lot of Cafus. Likethe Midwest League, like you said,
has a ton of interesting guys goingon right now. And again hat tip
to Cafus, Like Cafus is doingbasically the same thing, except he's walking
more and striking out less. LikeCafus looks really really good too, has

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a couple of steels already, Likemooney Man, what a what a nice
breath of fresh air in the Guardian'ssystem. Doesn't seem very Unguardians like a
bit. I mean, he definitelyhas some swag. I mean he's got
the haircut, the headband that hewears, and like his hat falls,
his helmet falls off after every doublelike like you know, high contact walk

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noodle bat guys in the mud level, you know. And then here's this
aggressive guy slugging. Yeah, it'snice to see. Did you see definitely,
well we're on the Midwest League.This shocked me in a few ways,
But did you see who one hitterof the week this week in the
Midwest League. This was the veryfirst Brewer Visa selection. And to be

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honest with you, Matt, Ididn't even know that he was still playing
professional baseball. But Edwarki Fernandez,who's still only twenty two years old,
center fielder for Wisconsin. He wentfive twenty four, five eighty three,
selugged one thousand this week. Ihit two home runs, stole five no
excuse me, stole two bases,four doubles. Like oh, Like I

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said, I didn't even know hewas still around, and here he is
having a better week than all theseother hot hot thats. So that was
kind of fun to see. Well, that Cleveland High a team there in
Lake County. I had another guythat I was totally unfamiliar with that I
just wanted to highlight his name.I'm not even totally sure how to pronounce
it. Mike Coiato m a Ick cool ad O. He is off

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to a really good start too.Again, this one seems a bit more
babup driven to me. He poppeda couple of times when I was watching
him in the past couple of weeks, hit a couple of really nice singles
a few days ago, hit ahomer, say the week before that looked
really well struck, and he's justsomeone that like no idea about him.

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I've never read about him. Helooked interesting to me. So he's one
that made one of my follow listspartly two because he seems like he's got
a really good eye and is walkinga lot. Northwest League. I'm not
going to talk more about Gavin Contosolo, but he's the guy who's jumped up

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the most for me, what aboutyou for me? I'm not going to
talk too much about him either,But the one in the Northwest League is
Ben Williamson. We've talked a bitabout him before, and I do think
that his swing looks better than itdid in the pre draft video that we
looked at. I think what he'sdoing looks just solid across the board,
like there's not a lot here topoke at, you know, it just

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looks it looks like he's backing itup again slightly high. Bab it four
point nine percent swinging strike rate,Like that's so low. He's walking,
he's barely striking out. He's onlygot one homer, but I think there's
more coming. Like he looks likehe belongs at this level and then some
so I didn't really expect him tohit the ground running quite this much.
I kind of want to see himin double A before too long, playing

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alongside Cole Young. Those two mightmake up make it up to the bigs
relatively soon. And then a ball, Matt, I'm gonna I'm gonna blow
through mine pretty quick here only becauseof my own lameness, but uh,
Carolina League, I had written downGlader figure roa I've seen a little bit.
Didn't really finish my homework, buthe was a guy that wasn't on

(01:01:37):
my radar at all to like,hey, I want to get my eyes
on him, see him. Andthen in the FSL, I'm gonna go
with Ricardo Cabrera kind of the samestory. I want to get more eyes
on him, see what he's about. And then in the Cal League,
I gotta go with Perez as theguy who's jumped up and become the most
interesting to me. Even though JuniorGarcia went three games in a row with

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a whole home run, still stillkind of bummed that didn't go on my
short look Perez for my d sidEr Dodgers. But yeah, I got
sucked in the pitcheon because it's somuch more interesting did in classic forum.
I spent more time watching the Aball guys, so I've got extra A
ball guys to talk about too.Yeah. The one that has jumped up

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just globally the most for me isJason Cheerio. He looks like a slam
dunk top one hunter prospect to me, and there aren't that many of those
at A ball Who are you know, nineteen years old or whatever he is
right now. Everything about what he'sdoing looks sustainable. He looks different than
the guys that are hitting around him, many of whom are like three years

(01:02:42):
older than he is. I wouldn'tbe surprised if he gets moved up to
Lake County before too long, andthat might be one of my most favorite
teams. If Jason Cherio gets upthere, that would be super fun to
watch up in high But I'm notgoing to talk about him too much because
a lot of people know him obviouslyChario brother, and he seems like he
might be the real deal. Solove him, but not the guy that

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I wanted to highlight from Carolina LeagueJesus Lopez. He's an eighteen year old
catcher for the Rangers who has beenaround for a couple of years, but
this is his first state side appearanceand he's in the d catchers tonight.
I am. I didn't plan thatat all, and I think I have
one more coming. Actually I don'tknow. I think this is my last

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one. I think one of hishomers so far this year was on video
and it was a really smooth lefthanded stroke. It just looked so easy
and went way out. Pretty impressedwith that swing. He's not running a
very high babbit either, so itdoesn't look like this is super unsustainable.
He might be swinging and missing abit much, but I do think he
might be a guy who changes hisapproach a bit when he gets to two

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strikes, so you know, theremight be he might be able to sustain
a slightly better than average k rateeven if his swinging strike rate is more
average. He's a catcher. Itdoesn't look like steels are going to be
a part of his game at all. But he doesn't look He's at Moises
Ballistaro's at Bysteros at there like he'sHe's an athletic looking guy, so he's
one to follow. Again, thisisn't a rush out and pick up.

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This is deep league only, butI liked what I saw from him so
far, and I think Longenhagen mighthave written him up and said some nice
things about about him too, Soanyway, he's he's the guy to follow
in the Cal League. I watcheda bunch of guys because I hadn't done
a ton of colleague watching other thana few Modesta Nuts games here and there.

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And I'm not going to pick anyof the Nuts. They're all pretty
well known and pretty I think wellrated. Like none of them have really
changed my opinion, although maybe MichaelArroyo, like he seems to be an
arrow up guy for me, andI think he gets lost in the shuffle
a little bit with that Nuts team. But I'm gonna go with Andy Perez,

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who was not somebody that I hadever watched coming into this year,
or or maybe I had seen hima bit last year because he spent most
of the year at A at lowA in Fresno, and so I definitely
had seen him, but he didn'treally show out to me really looked good
to start the year. I thinkNate he's your kind of guy in that

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he swings all the time, he'sconstantly swinging, and even with that,
he's still got like an almost sixpercent walk rate, so he's walked a
few times at least. But heis really good at getting the bat on
the ball. He fouls off alot of pitches. I do think his
bat to ball skills are comfortably plus. I also don't think he's going to
be in Fresno for all that long, just because he spent most of the

(01:05:35):
year there last year and he's lookedway better than the competition so far.
Hit three homers. He had agame last week where he hit two triples
in the same game. He's swipeda couple of bags, got caught stealing
a couple of times too. ButI think he's pretty aggressive and he's looking
to go. I also thought he'sa pretty slick shortstop. I didn't see

(01:05:57):
a ton of his defense, butI got to see a few play and
they were pretty flashy too, whichis always fun. Like, you know,
it's looked like slick fielding but alsosome fun and he's got some swags,
So he's somebody that I think it'snot a perfect profile, but it
looks pretty compelling. Like I reallyliked what I saw out of Pez so
far nice. And then I gotanother guy in the colleague that stood out

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too. So I watched a fairamount of Visalia last week, you know,
because Jancel Luise has not looked verygood, so I wanted to get
eyes on him. I hadn't watchedmuch Christopher Torren, so I wanted to
watch them. Wanted to check outon Drew Jones see how he was doing.
Drew Jones still looks bad. HancelLuise doesn't look very good either.
He's striking out a lot, hasn'tbeen very impressive. But again it's still

(01:06:44):
early and I think it's starting tolook maybe a little bit better. But
the guy on Visalia that really stoodout was I want to say Ann Derdson
Rojas, but I think it's it'sAnderson. Really. As you say,
you just kind of dropped the secondD. But he's got a weird second
D in Anderson. So Anderdson Rojasis a little outfielder. I think he

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plays actually all around the field.He was on that Viaze team last year.
But thus far in the early going, he looks like he's taken a
big step forward in his bats toball. He's walking a bit more,
has a nice line. So far, he hasn't hit a homer this year,
but he also I think had multipletriples in a game earlier this season.

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Let me see, I think that'sright. Yeah, he had two
triples in the game in the gamelast week. He's looked really good,
like lat of line drive. He'sstill small, he's still young. He's
nineteen, I think turning twenty thisyear. But he's somebody to keep an
eye on because I think there's somespeed. I think there's some potentially positional
flexibility and a really fun kind ofbat to ball, a little dynamo type.

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So Anderson Rojas is one to keepan eye on. Nice I've been
tuning into those guys very much.Now there's a name to watch though,
thank you. Yeah, and thenI think I've got one way to go
in the Florida State League. Aformer Dodgers prospects. So I don't know
if we can talk about former Dodgersprospects too. I'll allow it, you'll

(01:08:11):
allow it, Okay. He's aguy who got a bunch of hype I
think out of the International signing perioda few years ago, and he was
really good on the DSL. ButRain and Don Cone hasn't been very good
the last couple of years. Heis his third year in low A,
and I think last year especially,the Dodgers got sick of him and chipped
him off after just a seventy sixWRC plus at Rancho. And I don't

(01:08:33):
think he was very good. Likeit wasn't there. There wasn't a lot
to like about that performance. ButI do think some of it was a
suppressed babbit, right, Like heran a low babbit both the previous stints
at a ball and now his babbebis about one hundred points higher up at
three point fifty two, and everythingelse looks solid. You know, he's
not striking out that much. Hehit a mammoth homer the other day.

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Fort Myers and Fort Myers their theircamera is terrible. It's nice that they
have one, like because you getto see a few more guys. It
was particularly shaky this day, Ithink, But he hit a big homer,
so he's one that like there's someprospect pedigree there. I think maybe
he wore out as welcome and hadsome bad luck before, but he might
be a quick mover. And thatFort Myers team is pretty fun, Like

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there's a bunch of guys to watchon there. So I think I'm gonna
keep tuning into Forested League, likeWinnakers there forgetting who else. But the
team is fairly fairly interesting in weget to see so much more fso it's
yeah, and like I said that, that team has enough guys that it's
worth watching see they all develop.But dun Cone is one that I just

(01:09:38):
wanted to flag. Is like maybeit's not totally he might not be totally
done, Like there seems like there'ssome still skills there. And again you
look at him and you see whypeople were excited about him coming out of
the DSL cutting up a lot ofFSL pictures this year, I will say
he seems to be getting a disproportionateunfair amount of just nasty ass pictures.

(01:10:00):
He's still doing pretty well, yeah, yeah, yeah, but like I
feel like he's sort of popped upas a guy, Like several of these
arms putting the montage together, likethat might have been the nastiest pitch and
oh it's against him again. Yeah, and when Walker Jenkins comes back,
that's gonna be where he'll be backat LOWA. I expect to so Jenkins
and dunt coone Byron Turio Jose Rodriguezwho looks like a beat standing of himself.

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Yeah, it's a fun crew thereat low A. Well, I
got some other notes from the week. I just wanted to touch on some
other guys here. Tuesday, niceafternoon watch aj blue Ball went against Christian
Mana. Not to be a turdhat here, but I feel like the
blue Ball outing went pretty much exactlyhow we thought it might the night before

(01:10:49):
when we were talking about it.He went three innings, seven hits,
four and runs, two walks fourk's definitely not as nice of a line
as his first triple A outing hadhad people the buzz and made him like
the trendiest pickup of the week,And he actually gave up less hard contact
this go around, but kind ofthe same story, you know. To
his credit, the execution did getbetter through the start. First inting was

(01:11:13):
really rough, but like even thestrikeouts I'd say that like three of the
four strikeout pitches really weren't good pitches. He missed his mark substantially. So
yeah, I still have my myreservations about how excited we should be with
blue Ball. There. I watchedhis outing on Sunday, and Yeah,
had similar concerns, like I didn'tthink he was all that sharp. He
was getting hit hard even when theywere out, and he gave up a

(01:11:36):
few runs in that Sunday outing aswell. So as we talked about,
like, I do think there's valuethere. I think he's going to pitch
in the major leagues. I'm justnot sure it's gonna be all that great.
Like if you got somebody who's youknow, full on on the blue
ball train and it's coming at youfor a trade, I would think hard
about that. Leo Davrees, DvriiseDevrees and McGonagall their debuts Tuesday, tuned

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into some of that kind of all. His first six batted balls were fairly
hard. One O three ninety oneeighty three is not that hard. But
he hit one O six one hundredninety one off to the you know,
the start that we thought he wouldhave. I think I watched some DJ
McCarty, my number one B sidearm draft selection. He went four innings

(01:12:25):
in relief, gave up one hit, three strikeouts, no walks. What
I liked is that he was throwingstrikes and seemed to be commanding. Wednesday,
discovered that Hickory is broadcasting now.Mark another one off the list,
although it's still just like a pressbox view. But as we've seen with
the new places broadcasting, it kindof starts off that way and then then

(01:12:47):
a centerfield camera shows up, sowe'll see how that looks. I watched
thatch just like Ashville and Spokane.No, Spokane's broadcasting now, so it's
just just Ashville and Hya and thenuh yeah, and down East I think
is still not broadcasting. I watchedsome Gary gil Hill. He's got an

(01:13:09):
interesting arsenal. He's throwing a foursteamer, a two steamer. Uh.
They were talking about two different cuttersthat he throws and a slider. I
think that the home run he gaveup was like a slider or a cutter
that backed up on him, andit was just kind of like a wall
scraper. He was pitching really clean, unraveled in the fourth a little bit.
All after. I thought this wasinteresting. All after, he didn't

(01:13:30):
get a call that seemed to botherhim, and I don't think he responded
very well to that. Lots ofsoft contact on the ground, seven groundouts
to just one air out. He'skind of sucking me in a little bit
more and watched and listened to mostof RVs versus Team Hence Matt, which
was maybe the most interesting matchup Mudversus Pretty Boy for us. It's funny

(01:13:53):
how lines can work, right.RVs went five, Hence went three and
a third at like the amount ofhits and runs giving up and walks and
strikes strikeouts the same strike percentage.But Man RBS was pretty dominant and hence
struggled it figures after I give him, perhaps he kind of went back to

(01:14:13):
being what I don't like about him, inefficient, lack in command, RBS
rebound scooter. He went a stretchwhere I think he retired like fourteen out
of fifteen or something like that.The first two batters he walked. I
don't know what the umpire was.I think he was tough for the umpire
to pick up because there were someball, some strikes, some balls getting

(01:14:34):
called that were just right over themiddle. And of course those two guys
came around to score, and thenthe two that he left on when the
reliever came in scored as well.But again no one could square him up.
Man. There was like one hardcontact ball. I think, just
an interesting juxtaposition of a couple ofperformances there in a season high four strikeouts

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for RVs. So that was niceto see. I had mentioned in the
previous setting, which was I thoughta pretty good outing overall. Nice to
see him get a couple more punchouts again. That's still something that I'm
watching over the next couple of starts. He's got a nice matchup on tomorrow
against my San Diego beside arm AustinCrop. I watched a little bit of
Jaden Ham versus Austin Peterson. Iwas watching more of the Ham side,

(01:15:21):
but I gotta check out Austin Petersona little closer. I think here he's
a bit of an older guy inHia, but he put up an f
QO. That outing had some nicelines. So I don't know what the
whole story is with Peterson, butI kind of want to do some home
just on Ham real quick. Didyou see Mooney got Ham for for homer?

(01:15:42):
I did, Yeah, that wasthat was pretty impressive. I thought
like that. They said that thatwas tripled his earned runs that he'd given
up so far in his minor leaguecareer in that one swing. Yeah,
I think that's what kind of gotstarted my Mooney interest. This week,
Emmett Olsen had FQO and I've heardsome chatter and people ask about him.

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I know Vogel was asking me abouthim. But only one of his three
outings had been broadcast so far,and that was Fort Myers from a press
box, so kind of hard toget a look there. But he threw
an FQO. It looks like he'sa he's a lefty, maybe a softer
toss and lefty. I think hisfastball averages like ninety one slider, curve,

(01:16:23):
change up. But he's a sixteeninnings nowhere in runs, a point
seventy five whip, thirty two percentk you know, fourth round. I
think he was a fourth round pick. Yeah, fourth round pick this last
draft for them. I think didhe get promoted too? I think Vogel
might have told me he got promoted. So I think his next start is
in Beloite. See how those MidwestLeague hitters treat him. I saw that

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night too, Bubba chandler Man.He couldn't get out of the first inning.
Two thirds of an inning, twoearned runs, two walk. He
struck out Khalil Watson to lead thingsoff well, tracking he hit Dan frees,
the louder flied out, and thena walk and a walk and he
was done because he was at likethirty four pitches. So Alan Castro had

(01:17:10):
a nice little WPA bump that night, Matt, he had a walk off
double to win the game. NiceThursday, Matt Wilkinson had his fifteen strikeout
performance. Yeah, that it haseveryone a buzz. Now, try to
do some homework on him. There'sbeen really no good views of him.
He's a lefty, and the onlyone from a center field cam was this

(01:17:30):
camera was like this poor, kindof grainy, faraway Salem outing from the
nineteenth. So I did go backand I watched that, and you know
what a fun kind of conundrum herefor us, Matt. We got a
soft toss and lefty who's racking upa bunch of k's and my man's fat.
Oh he's so fat. Yeah,but you know, kind of a
dropping drive gets down that mound prettyfast. It seems like maybe the fastball

(01:17:56):
is what they'd call like heavy orsomething. I don't know, but he's
still like very liable to have picturesgo off. And don't want to discredit
the great fifteen strikeout outing, butI think there's a lot of questions here
still about until we figure out howmuch we want to really value Matt Wilkinson
and I cut this one up andput it on Twitter at pitching Specs.

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But my Phillies B side Aldegari beenpretty good so far this year. Matt,
I know he had a little stinton the list, but he put
up an FQO then he and thenhe had this last five inning ten strikeout
affair. We still don't get likea real great angle on him. We
got to see him in Bradington lastyear, some but interesting lefty arm.

(01:18:38):
I'm still very much intrigued. InFollowing Friday, you see Blaine Kram had
like two home runs and seven RBIsRangers B side Montai Yeah yeah, Bizara
Montas said, walk off home runfor your nuts. Saturday we got a
Trevor Werner finally got on the homerun board, did he? I hadn't

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seen that. That's great. Yeah. Prospects that are trending on fans.
On the top of the board isJoey La Braffito, who's getting the call.
Makes a lot of sense. JuelPerez is up six percent, He's
up to ten percent. Makes sense. Matt Wilkinson is up to six percent.
He's up five point four so thethird most added. Quinn Matthews up
a few percent. Jonah Thong againup a few percent. See Jonathan Bolan

(01:19:25):
is going to get a start forthe Royals here. Man, he was
a guy I know injuries say night, but did he tonight? I didn't.
I didn't say so. But hewas a guy man that I liked
quite a bit before a bunch ofinjuries kind of derailed them. Sam Roberts
is up a few percent, butthose were the big the big gainers this
week. Did you see who wonthe International League Player of the Week?

(01:19:46):
I did not. It was yourBrewers b side that Isaac Collins nice,
who is fourth in the International Leaguein ops at one point zero nine to
five. Nice. Kind of interesting, huh? Coming up this week?
Might have my eye on and youknow, things can change. I wanted
to watch Lynchburg last week, butit was a bad press box view and

(01:20:11):
people get promoted and you just don'tknow. I watched a bunch of Cardinals
that I wasn't planning on. Rightwhat I'm kind of thinking. International League
got Buffalo at Indianapolis. Man,it would be kind of fun to see
or Elvis versus Skiings. Huh,I'll be sweet. Yeah right, and
I haven't watched Skiings, so maybethis is the week in the PCL.
I'll check this out. Now,we got Tacoma your Mariners at Sacramento,

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which is more of a pitcher's parkthan people might realize. Yep, But
like, can we maybe have aPCL kind of pitching duel happening here?
Because these are probably the two beststaffs, at least statistically they have like
six of the of the best startingpitchers in the league in this series?
Can that actually be a thing?Sure, they're both tied for first,

(01:21:00):
and maybe we get to see,uh, your boy Tang start to right
the ship a little bit. Well, my, he's not gonna have to
face my Mariners B side pick who'scurrently on the show. Yeah right,
what did you say? He hada triple like his first triple. Nice,
he's gonna get I think a littlebit around while JP Crawford's out nice

(01:21:23):
Eastern League. I'm thinking maybe Eerieat Booie some fun matchups in that one.
Yeah, my, my Orioles Bside arm Cam Weston got promoted curious
to see what kind of usage they'regoing to have for him there. Is
he gonna get some lengthen starts ornot, I'm not sure. Well,
maybe I can see what the buzzis with Bencosme of course, Basallo and
those guys. I was thinking theywas going yeah, yeah, I was

(01:21:45):
thinking they would maybe have a chanceto go up against Ty Madden at some
point. But it seems he gotpromoted to our mud hens. Matt oh
nice, yeah, those Mudhends man. Maybe see some some exel. Do
you think he's gonna get the cold? Maybe not this week, but maybe
not this week, but I couldsee it soon. You see a Horvath
is starting to starting to turn iton a bit, had a really nice

(01:22:08):
homer last week. Southern League.I'm thinking Racket City at Birmingham at least
where the Caden Dana start. Perhapsthat would be his toughest matchup yet versus
Baldwin and those boys who've been swingingit for Birmingham. Have you have you
watched any Dana yet? Just alittle bit, a few winnings, nothing
in depth. I'm wondering where thestrikeouts have gone. Like the strikeouts every

(01:22:31):
outing seem like they're taking a stepback, and his swinging strike rate is
now under ten percent, so Ithink there might be something going on there.
And yeah, he's walking a fewmore than I expect, like he
had that great first start against theBaldwin led boys. But we'll see,
we'll see that goes. Maybe that'llbe a good a good start to watch
and see what's going on. Yeah, in the Texas League, I'm thinking

(01:22:55):
maybe Midland at Amarillo. Midland isquietly a good team at Jacob Wilson and
we talked about Colby Thomas, ourb Sides Malone and Cooper Bowman. They
have given up the least runs inthe league. They got Selinas there,
Baso Cusick Hog j t Gin.But yeah, they'll be going up against

(01:23:15):
the highest scoring offense with DDLS AJVthe Titanic, So that might be kind
of a fun one fun. Inthe Sale League, I'm thinking maybe I'll
maybe I'll do some Winston Salem atGreensboro. How McAdoo fairs against Schweitzer and
Schultz. Midwest League kind of gotI mean, I love the Midwest League
right now, but Great Lakes atWisconsin two first place teams. I want

(01:23:40):
to see my guy Rosario Ferris Bronzeand the like with a decent angle and
a gun at that Wisconsin Broadcast NorthwestLeague is a no brainer. It's Eugene
at Spokane because the other two seriesare press box and Eugene and Spokane are
the top two teams in that leagueright now. Carolina maybe some down east

(01:24:02):
at Fredericksburg, mostly because I wantto see my guy DJ McCarty and I
want to watch some of that figaroaguy that I mentioned earlier. Florida State
League. Oh, I've been waitingfor this one, Matt. This is
a good one, but it's abattle for first place. Clearwater is at
Lakeland, So you got Aiden Miller, Walton Pouaco, Grego Saltabah the dude,

(01:24:26):
he's an older guy. But theyalso got an outfielder one player of
the week I forget his name,uh in classing versus you know, Max
Clark, McGonagall, Braseno. Sothat's that should be a good one.
In the Call League, I'm goingRancho at Modesto. Kind of a no
brainer. Most most exciting bat prospectsin that league are kind of basically on

(01:24:46):
those two rosters. I think probablywatched some of that late night love those
rundowns. Shoot, we're getting muddy. Yeah, it's getting fun. We've
been talking for a while here.We should probably get out of here.
But uh, yep, Like Isaid, I try to put as much
video out there as I can forsome things I think I might talk about
here and it probably helps. Shelistening to me ramble about some stuff.

(01:25:08):
But you can follow me at pitchingspecs. We'll let Chicago Farmer take us
out. And this cold episode thirtyone a rat Matt and thanks man,
thanks again for shedding some light onsome guys I should maybe pay attention to.
Yeah, maybe you'll do your homeworknext time. Hey, hey,
I just go I go with it, man, you know, I just
go where the signs tell me to. I guess that's what we do.

(01:25:31):
All right, have a good week. We'll talk to you next time.
Bye. Five miles an hour ridingto his head. You hop it down
first with the lump bonius face,and on the very next pitch he up
and stole second face with gretested hewasn't born, he had to heat.

(01:26:00):
Yes, you deform

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