Episode 36: Hitters' Suck

Nate and The Rook embark on a system by system look at their offseason B-Side hitter selections and where they went right or wrong, which leads to a bigger conversation over where all the ascending bats have gone.

Episode Transcript

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up in stole second face with greatstbe he wasn't born, he had yes.

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Welcome to episode thirty six of TheProspect. Besides podcast I Am Nate,
Handy and I Am Super Pumped,they have rook A russ Iszaki back.
Matt. How are you, myfriend? I've missed you. I've
missed you too. My name Rookierow Suzuki is evocative of a better time,
back in the early two thousands,when the Mariners were exciting first place

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led by young phenom Echiro Suzuki.Do you know that the Mariners are in
first place by more games now thanthey have been since two thousand and two.
Two thousand and two was so longago, Nate, so long ago,
it was, it was, Iwas, I was twenty two.
That's a lifetime ago. I mean, I can't believe that this mediocre team,

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whose hitters admittedly suck, which Ithink is your theme for this podcast
today, there is the first placeby a lot in the al West.
And I'm amazed, I'm astounded,I'm astonished. I'm here for the fun
differential. I think we're gonna throwa lot of the stats out the window
and it's all vibes today, buddy, It's all vibes. Before we started

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recording, I was just telling youhow I'm having a hard time getting excited
about some hitters man prospects that.Yeah, I know. Every year last
four years, there's always been somebodythat wasn't on my radar that I became
like hitting wise, that kind ofbecame a little addiction for me, and
someone that i'd tune into and watchat least two, three, four times

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a week. And I've been lookingthat and I've been on the problem with
this, don't really have anybody thisyear. Last week I did about a
dozen pictures that I felt really improved. Maybe they're getting interesting dynasty wise,
And I did the same sort ofcomparative study on hitters compared to all those
numbers from last year to this year, and that gets a lot hairer,

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I think, than than doing itfor pictures. I don't know, man,
I'm trying to find some b sidehere hitters that are ascending within systems
to get excited about it. I'mjust struggling to do so, Matt,
Well, that just tells me you'reyou're not watching all the under the radar
guys that I picked for my Bsides, because my B side under the
radar guys are like full on topone hundred prospects. Now for some people.

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Sure, people talking up Charles McAdoo, people talking up CJ. Cathis
like the next al Manzarto. Imean, these are these are my tabs
in the dark. Where's your Bside guys? Sure well, Matt,
I was saying, aside to thoseguys, we already know about those guys.
Man, We've been talking to thoseguys since October. And this isn't

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until like to our own horns here, Oh, it totally is. I've
done the B side stuff, youknow, for several years, and there's
always guys that come about pop up, so to speak, that weren't on
weren't a B side pick, weren'ton the short list for me for that
exercise. And I'm just saying,this year, that's just not really happening.
And so I got really curious andI was looking at all of our

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B side bats selections this year andjust kind of looking at like Okay,
where could we have done better?Who did we miss and why did we
miss and that sort of thing,and saying that we kind of did pretty
good. I think a lot ofthese systems organizations, there aren't bats that
have clearly become more exciting than thenames that we threw out there this year.

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I think, now this I'm talkingfull season guys. So of course
there's some guys that have come fromrookie ball to able and stuff like that
that are exciting. But you know, our look was guys were in full
season last year who we think mightascend? Right, So I don't know,
man, I think your hitters suckedthis year. Man, I mean,
this is the golden age of pitching, my friend. Yeah, And

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let's dive in on that a bit, because one thing that has been true
at the major league level so farthis year is pitchers are ascendant across the
league and it seems like MLB mighthave changed the ball again. That is
one hypothesis that has been floated there. You know, some data about how
many barrels are leaving the yard,the ball flight of balls that ostensibly have

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the exact same exit velo and launchangle as balls from the same time period
last year and they aren't flying asfar, like something like ten feet shorter
then similar balls from last year,and offense across the league is down from
last year. And I don't knowif that is true in the minor leagues.
I haven't dived at kind of aleague wide level yet. I don't

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know if you looked into that,but I do wonder if this might be
this this relative improvement for pictures andthe relative lack of performance out of the
hitters. I wonder if that's relatedto ball changes in the minor leagues too.
I have no idea. I haveno idea if that happened. It's
not something that I've been researching orlooking into or asking questions about or anything
like that. Why but you youlove a good conspiracy theory. You know

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this is a beautiful conspiracy theory.Is not it's not provable. We're never
gonna know. There's a there's adifference between conspiracy theory and just hitters make
an excuses why they suck, right, I don't know, Matt, Maybe
there is something through that not beenon my radar. Yeah, Well,
I'm interested in kind of this exerciseof kind of like who did we miss

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On or what guys, you know, because I'm definitely one of those guys
that it's fun to look at theguys that you're like, oh, look
at this guy succeeding. But theguys that I've kind of looked closer at
are the ones that aren't doing whatI thought or or are sort of underperforming.
And like, you know, aguy that we both really like,
Trevor Warner, I'm about to cuthim in every league because his strikeout rates

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above forty percent. He's an oldcollege bat and the power isn't showing up.
It's just miserable. And like,I keep going back to that one
as one that I was so excitedby his sample last year. I liked
him in college, and then hiswas great in spring training and then he
just freaking forgets how to hit.That's one that I just keep coming back
to and like, yeah, youknow, Kfus is great, Mcat he's

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great. Mcgonagall's great. Like abunch of these like short sample picks that
we were like, no, thislooks like a real dude, have seen
to hit, And then I can'tget over Trevor Warner or Yorner Fajardo,
who was terrible to start the year. He's turned it around a bit lately
because he got demoted down to DoubleA, But yeah, man, it
sticks in my craw those ones thatwe got wrong, or even even my

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guys at Triple A, like BlaineKrim and Troy Johnson, who I think
are professional hitters, neither of themare doing well at Triple A this year.
And I think it's a little bitof you know, bad at ball,
misfortune and all of that. Butit still sucks when the guys you're
like, this is a major leaguequality hitter not succeeding at the at the
a much worse level. So Itend to focus on the ones I got

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wrong and like obsess over those.So it'll be interesting to look at who
who should we have gone with?You know, there's some stuff here that
I think is pretty interesting in thatlet's just start angels. I went with
the first year player, beat JoeRedfield. You went with Gustavo Campero Gustavo.
Now are either of those picks gaininga bunch of popularity in dynasty leagues?

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No, but looking at their organization. Cole Fontinelli, who was a
guy we talked about first year player. He looked like a guy who was
jumping up, but then he hada horrific what ankle, broken ankle or
whatever, So he's like done forthe year. Outside of that, like
Joe Redfield might pick, who wasa college guy who's still in a ball
with like one twenty WRC plus,which isn't great, but it's still like

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you still having one of the betterseasons out of any hitters that system.
Gustavo has been really good. Butyeah, he's been good. Yeah,
moved him to the outfield. Idon't think it's really played in any catcher
really this year. But he's inDouble A and he's hitting. He's old,
and you know, a lot offun seems to be he's fun.
But he's a ton of fun,a ton of fun. The only bat
in that system that you know,particularly interested in came from the DSL last

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year to aball and that's young.Kevin Castillo is kind of interesting. Catcher
has kind of been playing all overthe place a ball nineteen year old.
I think he's mostly been playing outfield, right. Yeah, he was doing
some catching though too. He's gotlike a one eighteen WRC plus. It's
not top one hundred. Type ofguy for me, But a guy that's
firmly you know, on my radarnow. But yeah, I don't know,

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man, you've got anybody else fromthe Angels that has ascended this year,
I don't think so. Another guythat I've caught a bit in Inlan
Empire Anthony Skull. He's been anoutfielder. He's kind of more York type
of guy than mine, and thathe's pretty aggressive, like he doesn't really
walk, but he doesn't strike outvery much. He's I think he's got
solid kind of speed power mix,Like he might not be the prettiest line,

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but he's one that I've I've caughta couple of games of his that
popped a double that looked pretty nice. So he's got five homers and eight
stolen bases in third of a seasonor whatever. So it's it's a little
bit of a power speed one,but honestly not really like that's that's the
only other guy that is kind ofinteresting for them. Looking at the Astros,
I went with young ketcher Miguel Palma. You went with Jackson Lofton Palma,

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who was twenty two years old indouble A. He was doing all
right and then but he's we're talkingseventy eight played appearances before you got hurt.
Loton's probably been disappointing, yep.But I don't know who's ascended in
their in their system that wise.I know Mystery Irrelevant the last pick in
the draft, Pascanio ferraris hm.He looks like he might be a legit

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hitting prospect. We didn't see thatcoming. No one was picking Mystery Irrelevant.
No, and all the rest oftheir guys that are doing well are
kind of these old for the level, kind of like up in Triple A
and doing pretty well, you know, like Chay Whitcomb, pager leone,
Will Wagner, like all those guysare twenty five or twenty six and doing

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something interesting. He's just Bestidas Again. He's sort of a B side type,
a little bit of like some decentpower, some speed, and honestly,
you look at what is happening withthe Astros, you might want to
look at some of those guys ina deeper league and see if you want
to roster them, because they're allplaying multiple positions. They all might come

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up if one of their guys getshurt. Because this team doesn't seem that
competitive, and I think they wantto maybe they want to give some guys
some more run. So yeah,like as far as a B side guy
coming into the year, I don'tknow, nothing really jumping out to me.
Yeah, the athletics, Now here'san org that is kind of interesting
in this context. I think they'vehad a good handful of bats get really

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interested in this year. I wentwith Cooper Bowman, you went with Brendan
Malone. I think they're both havingreally nice years in Double A. I
think those were both pretty solid choices. I don't know how popular they have
gotten yet with dynasty owners. Butthen you look Henry Bolte, I think
has really really ascended this year.First year player guy that I liked that
we talked about some. Will Simpson'shad a nice year, Kolby Thomas has

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done some things, and then ofcourse Jacob Wilson probably has done a lot
better than anyone anticipated. But thatwasn't a B side and that was a
first round pick, top what wasthe top ten pick, So yeah,
one that people crapped all over.But you know, still he's, uh,
he's been awesome to start that year. So I think there was there
was a handful of guys that wouldhave been pretty good B side calls.

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I think, at least in thatsystem, I think all those guys are
fairly Henry Bolte, he's cut downthe strikeouts quite a bit, and that's
that's interesting a bit. I mean, I still think it's like above thirty
percent for the year. Oh isit really that? I still I think
so. I mean, he's hittinga bunch of homers, swiping bags.
It's it's a really exciting battle lineoverall. But the fact that he's still

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just at high A and the strikeoutrate remains above thirty percent, I think
that's some cause for concern down theline. An exciting season. I want
to see he and Simpson in doubleA, and then how serious we might
be able to get with those twoBlue Jays. You know, I hated
the Blue Jays bats B said possibilities. I just piggybacked you and went with

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Raphael Antigua. Did he get all? Did he get the call at all?
He might have called gotten the calland rode the bench, But I
don't think he's gotten to to playokay and whatever. He's been a little
bit below average for boy, butnot that great. I still don't think
that there was anyone that would havebeen a real great call. They've had

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some guys move up, get thecall up to the majors, but they
were I don't know if they werereally b side asked zero to two percenters
in the off season. I meansomeone like Alan Rodin is one that I
liked, but I think he mighthave been just a little high for ownership
when we looked at this last year. Dasam Brown is someone that we talked
about, I think when we weregoing through their system, and I said,

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was someone who might put it together. And he's he's having a pretty
nice season. He's he's somebody tokeep an eye on because he's cut his
strikeout rate quite a bit, iswalking more and still swiping bag. So
he's someone he's a little old,you know, not old, but like
age appropriate for Hia at twenty two, hitting pretty well. I think Gene
Joseph is a little is a littleinteresting, but I'm not even sure if
there was any full season ball ofhim last year or not. It would

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have been tough for us to SamBrown, Is that the most exciting throw
of the guy for you? Yeah? Or Devonte Brown. I mean he's
someone I mentioned too, and he'shaving a good year, but again it's
striking out way too much, solike your mileage may vary. You know,
he's crushing in double A, butit comes with like a thirty five
percent strikeout rate or something, SoI don't know if you should be that

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interested. I was curious what youmight think about the braves here, Matt.
We both picked Drake Baldwin. Ithink that that's been a fine choice.
He hasn't been totally lighting the worldon fire, but he's been solid,
and he got promoted to Triple A, so I'll quibble with that a
bit. I think he's actually beenawesome. And this was one of the
things that I had said when lookingand when making this pick was he had

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played in Chit Parks to start hiscareer for power, and he was still
showing some power. He's played mostof this year in Mississippi, and that's
an awful, awful park for power, and he hasn't showed much power.
But what he has showed is thathis batter ball profile has changed. He's
not hitting the ball on the groundquite as much and still maintaining good strikeout

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rates and walking a decent amount.I thought Eric Longenhagen had a really interesting
nugget in his right up on Baldwinin his Braves prospect list that came out
last week, I think, wherehe said that before two strikes, Baldwin
had a really love so chase rate, but with two strikes his chase rate
went way up, saying that maybehe's approaching a little bit passively, so

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sort of predetermined takes before he getstwo strikes and then trying to battle with
two strikes leading to a little bitmore chase. And it was such a
big split that it's worth noting somethinglike a seventeen percent or fifteen percent split,
which is huge that doesn't normally happenif it's not something to do with
the approach. Now, I stillthink that that is a valuable approach,

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and I think that some teams maybeare going to come around on this as
things go. So I don't thinkit's necessarily a ding, but it might
be something that gets exploited a bitmore as he as he goes up.
And he's off to a nice startat Triple A. He just got promoted
last week too, and so I'mstill huge on Drake Baldwin. I think
he's going to be a major leaguecatcher, and I think he's got a
chance to be a major league regular, like a like a starting catcher.

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Now, who else would we pick? I think the only other guy that
you'd look at and be like,maybe this would have been a good dart
is EJ. Xposito and I hadwritten down. And he's twenty three in
High A and is like doing well, you know, swiping bags, hitting
some homers. Strikeout rate is likeyou know, league averagish and league averagish
walk rate, but for an olderbat in HIA like, I'm still taking

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Baldwin ten times out of ten personally, Yeah, yeah, I was just
curious you'd being a Braves guy ifthere were any other Yeah. Saban Sebios
is another one that he's He's lookedgood. You know, he's sort of
a defense first utility type, nota lot of pop in the bat,
but is pretty interesting. Luke Wadel, who I mentioned as like a he
would be someone I'd be interested inas a B side if I didn't pick

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Baldwin. But he's been really badthis year. He's i think been exposed.
His sort of light hitting approach hasbeen exposed. At Triple A.
I think he's very much on theon the downswing. Looking at the Brewers,
I went with young Wan Baias andyou went with Isaac Collins. Now
both of them are having pretty goodseasons. I think Juan Bayez is lacking

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some home runs and slugging down ina ball. He's still quite young.
As the Collins has been great.He's he's still sitting in that quad a
sort of his own and hasn't gottena chance yet. They have some bats
that I think have improved, haveup their stock, but I wasn't quite
remembering or sure what their ownership rateswere this offseason. Do you recall him

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that was was Luke Adams the guybefore? I think he was a guy
like I think he was rated fairlyhigh by other people because that's my favorite
bat. I think in their mindsystem, like I really really like what
he does and genuinely think that heis like high level, like very quality
major like he's going to be ahitter in the major leagues. And I'm

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pretty sure he was way too ownedour experience, That's what I thought.
But yeah, I don't know yougot anybody else from the Brewers that they
got a lot of guys and I'mlike, eh, okay, young Luis
Lor. I'm like, Okay,he's nice, but I don't think he's
I'm not buddy star that. Yeah, I'm not on l But the guy
we did, we did talk abouthim a bit jetter our arian. He's

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got the most hilarious batwaggle in allthe minor league baseball. But he changed
it. He toned it down.He did. He toned it down.
I loved it last year. Ithought it was so funny. But I
think he's been really good. Youknow, he's young for the level he's
at high A, and I thinkhe's been with the steels like and showing
some power, Like it's he's nevergoing to be an elite power guy.

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The swing and the speed that hebrings to the table, like that's someone
in your rot leagues who I couldsee if he keeps this up. He's
like a really interesting kind of speedy, uh, middle and field prospect type,
you know. So he's he's theother one. But again we talked
about him, and I was justlike, you know, I liked Collins
more. I thought it was amuch safer that and I still think that
that's true. But yeah, heof the wonderful batwaggle. He's been.

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He's been pretty good so far thisyear. The Cardinals matt Man kind of
rough. You went with Mike andTico. I went with still one of
my favorite players just from a fanperspective, Alexia Decernia. Neither have really
had great seasons, and Tico gotup to the Triple A, right,
so that's nice. Yeah, andI think he was really not good to

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start the year, but maybe hasturned it around a bit. I forget.
I looked at him recently because Iwas annoyed at how bad he was
doing, and then I was like, oh, maybe there's something here still.
I had Tonia is weird. Itune in and watch a decent amount
of him, and like, there'snever like the eyeball test is still like
good to me. It's just he'sthe numbers aren't coming and some loud outs
and things. So I haven't givenup all all of my hope. But

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he's gonna need to have a prettysmoking hot second half here. Yeah,
and Tika's still swiping some bags andthat's that's nice, But the rest of
it has been kind of sort ofleague average production for an older guys.
Yeah, that exciting. I kindof feel like a lot of their bats
have been just pretty you know,Oh, okay, Jeremy Reeves has been
nice because he's not like negative offensively, but that's not getting our Dynasty juices

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really gone. I know Dakota Harrisis having a nice season. He was
on my radar at all coming intothe year. Maybe we talked about I
think we talked about Nathan Church earlierin the year because he'd been really impressive
with the contact skills. He'd hada really really low strikeout rate, and
I still think he does. Ithink it's ticked up a bit. You

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know. He's somebody that like wasas a twenty two year old in High
A last year, turned things upa little bit in Double A as A
as a twenty three year old,but still not like that exciting. But
I think we talked about him briefly, but not someone I would really say
is like someone we should have beenon. The guy that I'm really excited
about, And I don't remember whyhe wasn't on my radar. I'm looking

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at my notes before and he didn'tmake my short list. When I was
looking at Jose Fermen, I kindof think he should be playing for the
Cardinals, like the Saint Louis Cardinalsevery day. He's a twenty five year
old kind of smallish second base thirdbaseman, and he's been bad in his
small you know, thirty four playedappearance sample in the BIGS, buts done.

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I wasn't sure if he was stillYeah, and he got like a
cup of coffee last year or too, but he's still rochy eligible. But
he looks like that, you know, not to overuse the comp but like
the Louis Arias school of hitting,Like his contact skills are incredible. Three
point nine percent strikeout rate in TRIPAA. It's been higher both times he's been

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in the BIGS, but still inthe low teens, and I actually expect
that to come down, Like Iwouldn't be surprised if he's a more of
a like ten or eleven percent strikeoutrate in the BIGS. But it's come
with like really nice shape of production, like low grab ball rates, higher
line drive rates, and decent walkrates. Like I think he just makes
good swing decisions. So and hewas kind of a similar guy last year.

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Yeah, I'm not sure. Ithink he must have been hurt a
good personal last year and that's whyhe fell through some some of the cracks,
and he still hasn't gotten a longlook at any level. But what
he showed at Triple A this year, I'm as excited about him as kind
of like any pop up guy thatI've seen so far this year. So
that's a good older and older guy. I think he could be a guy

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who has a really long career andif he gets a shot to play regularly.
I mean, I think he's decenton defense too, so I wonder
if if he can put it together, maybe they'll give him some some run.
Yeah that's a good shout, Isupposely for me. Yea, I
know, we got to keep sayingeverybody's name. That's good to do the
Cubs that those dirty, disgusting.I think we made some pretty solid calls.

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Pedro Ramirez has been twenty in highA one twenty eight double w RC
plus. Yep, that was agood shot. I don't think he's getting
super popular. I think there isfair questions about his offensive game and how
exciting he might ever get. Butyou know he's ascending. You went with
Luis Vasquez, who got the callto the biggs. I don't know how

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much run he got but not verymuch. And then I don't know who
from that system would have been maybea better choice. I mean, we
had a bit of a Pinango renaissanceand he finally got to Double A.
He's struggled there a little bit,but I think he's coming around the last
couple of series. But I gotJonathan Long. He's you know, we
talked about Jonathan Long and he's beenhe's been al right, you know,

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there's some stuff to like there.Yeah, but I don't know who else
really like has jumped for the Cubsfirst quick tangent into more of a pretty
boy, but he counts for usbecause he's a beefy boy. Moises by
SROs like that dude just absolutely rakes. And he's twenty and they just promoted
him to Triple A. Like,I still don't think he's getting the love

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that he deserves. Like everybody lovesBisao and Bias Steros is like the same
fricking guy. Like you line theirstaff up this year, you could make
a strong argument to prefer Bias Sterosto the SEO. So love that beefy
boy and hope he crushes it inthe bigs because people hate on him because
he's different looking. And I'm notabout that nonsense, Nate, I'm not

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about it. We don't just spendother guys. No, in fact,
we love we love those that areodd looking. He hit for the cycle
the other day, he did,he did it was just super cool.
Yeah, I love to see thatin retrospect. Like you know, I
went with Vasquez, but I hadtalked about Piger Ramirez. I wish I
would have stuck with Pager Ramirez.I think, I mean, I still
like Vasquez, especially because he's apretty slick glove man and is still holding

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his own, you know, slightlybelow average at Triple A and got to
look in the bigs and I thinkhe's another one that he might have a
long career as more of a utilityman with a chance for more if you
know, an injury opens things up. But the only other guys that are
kind of interesting to me that Iweren't really on my radar. Where with
Brett Bateman. I don't know ifyou've watched him much this year, but
he's done some interesting things. Again, more of a speed profile, but

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I like that he's more of anOBP guy, kind of reminds you of
Matt Atzel a bit, you know, like OBP. Maybe not a ton
of pop, but seals a lotof bases. But yeah, not a
lot other than they are pretty boys, of which they have quite a few.
But so yeah, nothing else therefor the Cubs. For me the
Diamondbacks, I went with Gavin Kntocello. You went with Christian Certa cont soloan

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he's having a good year. Thepower has not the home runs and that
come like we were hoping thought theymight be how they started off at the
beginning of the year. But he'sstill he's hitting the ball Aserta's offensively not
been the hottest now no power,I mean, I don't know what happened
to him. He's like, Idon't think he has a home run still
and his triple slash has really beenbuoyed by a fourteen percent walk right,

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and like nothing else. So yeah, yeah, that's that's one that I
wish I had back. Adrian delCastillo probably would have been a good call.
Yep, we both, we bothand maybe maybe even Andrew Pintar,
who was still Yeah, and Ithink we talked about Pintar, didn't we
like as an interesting dude that weliked a bit, and I think I
saw him in the draft and orafter the draft, I mean out there

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in Hillsboro and good game one ofthe days that I was there and I
was like, that's someone to watch. The Dbacks have had a couple of
bats stick a jump. I thinkthat weren't super popular. Yeah, I
saw Spencer Geisting got promoted to doubleA. I wondered if they if they
promoted anybody else. I don't know, I haven't seen, but I would
imagine that Pintar might be the nextguy from Hillsboro to get at least hitting

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wise, to get called up doubleA. Yeah, and I'm still excited
for a bunch of their low Aguys to get up to high A.
Not that any of them have reallybeen lighting the world on fire like tore
In. After our super hot starthas cooled a bit. Hansel Luis hasn't
been great. He's looked better againafter a miserable start. He's still a

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bad The eyeball test is nice,though, I like it's still very much
like to look at him at thepoint. Yeah, and he has looked
a lot better. Really, hewas terrible I think in April and since
April it's been it's been better,but it's still the power has been showed
up as much as I was Iwas hoping, and it's still he's got
a long way to go. DrewJones too, he's looked a little bit

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better of late, and in mylast couple of looks at them, and
I still am pretty barish on himlong term, but he definitely has become
acceptable at at low A, andI kind of want to see him in
person up here in Hillsboro. Sohopefully those guys get promoted and we get
it couldn't have been It could havebeen much worse. He could not have
been much worse. So maybe that'sdamning with faint praise, but hopefully he

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turns it around a bit. TheDodgers, Matt, I definitely could have
done better. But you know,when we did the Doadgers, I was
kind of at a loss. Itwasn't sure who to go with. I
went with Junior Garcia, who's Idon't even know if he plays anymore.
He sits the bench, he's didnothing. You went with Austin Gothier,
who has been very good. Ithink we're still just kind of waiting for
his opportunity. Right, So thatwas a good call. Yeah, happy

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with goth here. Yeah, Ithink Alex Freelan would have been a great
call. I think he's definitely ascendedin the system. Someone that we briefly
talked about, Uryl Perez, hashad a really nice season as well.
But and another way, guys thatyou brought up, Andre lipschis like he's
he's had a really solid year andwe talked about him again falls into that

(28:36):
kind of quad a bucket with someof the guys who talked about Troy Johnston
and Blaine Krim and Sandro Fabian andtso Ornella's that's just his old news though.
Man, he's been b side forfor years. Oh is that right?
He's he's been been one of yourguys for a long time. Well,
I mean it makes sense, likeI think that that's he's got that
kind of profile of a quality hitter, maybe doesn't have a position, and

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so there's a lot of pressure onthe thus far this year in particulars he's
lived up to it. But Inever would have thought that he'd hit as
many home runs as he is thesedays. Yeah, A Lipstious has looked
really good, you know, seventeenhomers, six bags and the strikeout rates
at twenty two percent. Like,that's solid. That's a solid across the
board. Anybody else from from theDodgers for you, Uh, the only

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other one to maybe keep your eyeon is Tray Sweeney. You know,
we talked about Noah Miller two likeas somebody who can really pick it and
had a pretty nice start to theyear. Tray Sweeney hasn't had a great
start to the year. He's strikingout a bit too much, but he's
showing that power speed blend, andI think he can play middle infield like
he's playing shortstop in Triple A forOklahoma City, so playing short while Gothier

(29:41):
is moving around, so they clearlyvalue his glove a bit more. And
you know, I I don't knowyou can, especially in rodo you might
prefer Trey Sweeney to Gothier, eventhough I think Gothier is going to be
a more valuable hitter long term.But if Sweeney can stick it short with
the glove and feel the bags atthe rate to he does and hit with
as much power, like, youmight look at him and say that that's

(30:03):
one better. And I think hegot a little bit more love than Gothier
coming into the year, so thatmight be why we avoided him. But
that's another one that Tray Sweeney.He's one, especially in your rot league,
say keep an eye out for Yeah, he was definitely rostered more than
a higher than our window there,Matt Giants. I went with young Diego

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Velasquez, who I think has hada really nice transition to Hya one thirty
one nice one. Yeah, he'sa nice little prospect. He went with
Trenton Brooks, who was an olderguy, but he got the is he
still up with them or did heget sent back down? But I think
he is still up with them.But I think that that was a good
call on your part and then lookingat the rest of their org. I

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don't know if anyone has really jumpedfor me. I didn't come up with
anybody. Yeah, I agree,maybe Justin Wishkowski. Yeah, we talked
about him a little bit. Ithink I know, but but yeah,
it's pretty It's it's a college batat high doing decently, you know.
I like the strikeout rate at sixteenpoint six percent and swiping a few bags.

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But I don't know, it's notWe talked about putting daniel A little
bit. Yeah, but he's kindof just like, where's the where's the
slug? I don't know. Yeah, another system that's just kind of not
a whole lot jumping up on thebat side. Yeah. The only only
other one to note in San Jose. Jonah Cox is a college outfielder I
think. And he's swiped thirty eightbags so far this year, and that's

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it's a lot I think he.I think he's leading the California League in
steels and it's come with an acceptablestrikeout rate too, So not a lot
of power there, but just someoneto keep in mind too for the leagues
where steels are rewarded, like thatmight be a kind of a sleeper guy
that did I wasn't on. Ididn't know him. The Guardians, now
this this is an exciting one,Matt. I think they've had a handful

(31:55):
of bats get a lot more interesting. Daniel Schneman higher level on Hell.
Janeo Janeow. I think on HellJanelle Now, I couldn't remember how popular
he was coming into the season,Matt, but he's been very impressive.
Nate, Yeah, he's been reallygood. Nate Furman's been impressive. Alex
Mooney has been impressive. My guythat I went with, Dian Frees,

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not super impressive moving up to doubleA. He's still quite young. The
glove is fantastic, though, andI really think that he's been trying to
hit for more power when I've beenwatching him, and he's just not good
at that, So maybe there's sometransition there. He's not dead to me,
but hasn't you know, ascended likewe had helped and then to me,
Matt, the guy that has jumpedthe most, the hitter that has

(32:42):
jumped the most this year was yourpick. Cjkaphisop. He's been awesome,
man Like, he's so good.How good is he? Where? I
haven't looked at anybody's ranks, Idon't think all year, maybe the first
month or something. I have noidea where people might be ranking him right
now, but wherever they are higherwould be my opinion. Yeah, he's

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good. I liked the under theradar skills right like that. I thought
he was going to play above hisraw power, which I think reportedly remains
pretty middling. Like it's not eliteevs, but he does have some stuff
in common with Kyle Manzardo, who'salready in the bigs and you know he's
scuffling to start his big league career. But yeah, there's another one.
Doesn't that kind of I guess Ican see it. But like to me,

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Caifus is just like way more athleticthan Menzardo. Yes, no,
probably, I think the thing thatCafus does better than Menzarto. Manzarto hits
a lot of line drives like itcomes in that like line drive fly ball
band, but Cafus pulls his likeCafus gets out in front and gets those
balls in the air better than Menzartodoes, I think. But otherwise I

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think they're like plate skills are kindof similar. They're not going to strike
out a ton, they walk agood amount, I think they do.
They do damage on those balls andmake the most of their eggsyveilas like they're
not quite Isaac Esak Predes level,but they're in that mold, you know,
lefties that as opposed to to Paridie'srighty. But like they pull their

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ball and Capus, it's been awesometo see him hit this. Well,
I'm skeptical that this is who heis, Like, you know, he's
got a one eighty seven WRC plusa third of the way through the year,
almost halfway through the minor league season. That's better than I thought he
would have. Like, I'm notsaying I saw this kind of run coming.
And he is still a first basemaybe left fielder. Like that,

(34:37):
the bar, the offensive bar toclear there is it remains pretty high.
And while he's definitely cleared up tothis point, and I think is getting
talked about for some like for Clegg, I think he might be in the
top one fifty prospects at this point, and I don't even know if he
had him in the top five hundredcoming into this coming into this year.
So that's like a pretty substantial jumpfrom somebody who does this. Professor,

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like really really gets that value ranking. Had you stolen any basis? What's
this? What's the stolen basis?He's got four? He's got four?
How many did he steal last yearin his short stint? I felt like
he stole a decent amount, butyou know, it's hard to steal bases
when you ended up on second baseor home plate. Yeah, he's still
five in the in the short samplelast year, which is quite a lot.

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But yeah, that was a thatwas a great call you. You
said, shove him up your firstyear player draft boards, and I wish
I would have listened to you more. Yeah, the Guardians kind of showing
out for you coming up. Well, I did mention him, and he's
a bit more of a pretty boy. But Jason Churio, I think still
is. I think doing awesome stuffat low A. I want to see

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him bumped to high A asap becauseI think he's better as a nineteen year
old than pretty much everybody else inthe league. So I want to see
him challenged a bit more. ButI've been really impressed with him. And
then Alex Mooney. We talked aboutAlex Mooney too, a bit more for
your guy than than me, buthe's stealing a lot of bad two and
I think Mooney has been really excitingtoo. Yeah, your Mariners, Matt

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Picking a B side bat for theMariners was tricky because they're so popular.
I went with Josh Hood wasn't superpumped about its still not super pumped about
it. He's a pretty average twentythree year old and high A. You
went with Leo Revs, who gotthe call. Got some major LEA debates,
yep, which was I think kindof basically exactly how you said it
would go. I don't know whatBen how popular Ben Williamson was. I

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definitely didn't have him high enough inthe first year player, but he has
really impressed me this year. Andyou know, the bat, I don't
know what the numbers are sitting atright now. They might not be super
outstanding, but he's a guy thatdefensively is I think is going to give
himself a chance to be a bigleader. The bat hasn't been awful either.
He's done some things and he's nowup in Double A and I think

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he's I think he's hitting out rightthere in Arkansas, isn't he. Yeah.
I mean his season line on theyear is solid. The one thing
that you'd like to see is maybesome more of those doubles turn into homers,
because he's quite a few doubles thisyear. I think he's got sixteen
or something, but only two homers, just one at Everett and just one
in Arkansas. There's some more powercoming there, Like, I don't think

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it's the lack of homers is alack of power. I think maybe it's
just a little bit of homer toflyball noise, like he's got a really
low homer to flyball rate so farthis year, and he has some juice,
so I don't think that I thinkthat that's going to revert to him
hitting some homers. And I likethe plate skills too, and like you
said, he really can pick ita third. And I know you cut
up some of his spectacular defensive highlightsa little while back and looked really good.

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So Williamson is one that's really fun. Yeah, was there anybody else
for you that jumped down? Iknow they've got a lot of good prospects
in the lowers, but they're allpretty popular. Arroyo has been awesome.
I think BA noted that in oneof their recent write ups that he's basically
been as good as Lazara Montes likeChase contact strikeout rate ninetieth percent of exit

(38:01):
exile, Vilo like all is basicallyas good as Lazara, Montes and Montes.
People are pumping as like a toptwenty five, top ten overall prospect
maybe at the end of the yearbecause with the way that he's cut his
strikeout rate, so huge props toMichael o'royo. I have also heard from
evaluators that his defense is pretty bad. I think that that's sort of true.

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I think he and TYPEE both aren'tvery good on defense. But the
bat is absolutely playing for Michael Arroyo. But the other guy that made my
short list that was zero percent,but it's probably because he was a recent
drafty FYPD guy. But brock Roddendon't sleep on him. He's got an
elite approach at the plate and thatcontinues to be the case. He's up

(38:44):
in every at high A. Now. He was on that Modesta Nuts championship
team last year, but he's atEverett this year. He's older, you
know, he's in his age twentyfour season college bat. But he's swiping
bags, he's walking a ton,he's got a one to fifty seven WRC
plus on the air like it's he'scrushing it. And I wouldn't be surprised
if he gets bumped to double Ain relatively short order to play with Williamson

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and Cole Young, some Moore andHarry Ford. So Rock Rodnon, he's
another one that's playing kind of allaround the dian second base, third base,
shortstop, a bit. Yeah,he's he's another one that was zero
person owned low down a lot ofpeople's fypds, but I think Chris Klegg
had noted that he's someone who's collegedata really popped in terms of like the
chase and contact and decent exit velostoo, and it's showed out he's having

(39:34):
a great start to his pro careertoo. Matt, the Marlins, we
both went with Troy Johnston. Idon't think. I don't think we expected
him to have a you know,seventy seven WRC plus. No not doing
what he did last year, that'sfor sure, So that's been a bit
of a disappointment. But looking therest of the Marlins, Org, I

(39:54):
mean, Joe Mack, I thinkhas improved proved his stock. That would
have been a nice choice. Butthen other than that, the only other
bat and I wanted to ask youabout him last week former B side pick
how your Snoia, what did youmake of him? Man? Because we
both were fans, Yeah, questionif he was really a big leaguer,

(40:15):
but just loved the way he playedand optimize his skill and all that stuff.
And now we're talking about a twentyone year old in triple A who
was holding his own Man, whatdo you think now I saw you were
mentioning him in the dugout a coupleof days ago, maybe sometime last week,
and I was swamped with work andso I couldn't weigh in. But
I need to watch him this yearbecause when I watched a lot of him

(40:37):
last year, I really liked him. He was my runner up. I
think when I was looking at theMiami system, he's really fast. We
know that he swipes bags, he'sgood at it, and he had a
solid contact approach, but he's reallyupped that, and I think some of
this is like maybe, okay,so here's here's One of my hypotheses is

(40:58):
that he's doing better at triple becausethe ABS system is helping with the way
he approaches each at bat. AndI say this because while he's dropped his
strike his swinging strike rate a littlebit, he's almost doubled his walk rate
from double A this year and almosthad his strikeout rate as he's jumped up

(41:19):
to triple A. That doesn't reallyhappen, especially in year, and so
I just I'm curious how that's happening. And you know, the craziest thing
is that he's got three homers already, Like he has no power, you
know, and the fact that hehas two homers in the International League already
is like wild up to me.He hits everything on the ground. He

(41:40):
has very little top end power.I've watched a good amount of him this
year, Matt, and he's maybeone guy that has like kind of gotten
me, you know, or Itune in a couple times a week at
least. But yes, he hitsthe ball on the ground more than you
probably would like to see. Thepower stuff is definitely there's a limit to
that. I've been impressed with sortof his gap to gap line drive improvements.

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He you know, it's kind ofyou know, slap dicky contact sort
of guy. You know, he'sup his game a little bit more.
I think I think he's a littlebit more of a dangerous hitter than that.
I'm more dangerous than I think Iever gave him credit for forgetting to
Yeah, don't know, and itmay be to me, you know,
and I know, and for aguy that is as small as he is

(42:27):
and kind of limited in sort ofthe physical physicality that he brings to it,
I'm impressed with how he gets toit. And I don't know,
he's he's a fun one. Ihope he makes the majors. And you
know, he's sort of that classicsecond basement that they're playing all over the
diamond that Miami seems to cove itand play everywhere. But yeah, he's
he's a fun one. And thefact that he's twenty one and doing this

(42:50):
at Triple A is you can't knockthat too much. Like it's it's impressive
stuff. Yeah, I agree,man, the Mets, we both went
with young Will we'll freight. Laura, who was an a ball last year,
has been at Brooklyn all season,not statistically lighting the world on fire
ninety one w RC plus. Butand I didn't I don't think we discussed

(43:12):
this, or maybe I just didn'trealize this. I think Maddy Backpack mentioned
this. But he was coming offof a hamlet bone thing, and we
know that that can sort of sapa guy for a while. And I
was kind of like h Man,kind of bumming on Laura here the first
couple of months of the season.But he's been much better of late.
I think he's kind of kind ofgetting his mojo back here a little bit

(43:32):
at the plate doing Yeah, we'restill not seeing a lot of power,
which was one of the things weliked about him that for someone so young,
he had showed some pretty decent evsin the Florest State League. But
he has been a little bit betterof late, although I think his last
week or so it's been not great, you know, kind of since mid
May, I think there's been somesigns of life. He's another one,

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along with Treuvor Werner, who I'vebeen looking at in a couple of deep
leagues from like, man, isit almost time to cut wilfreidl Laura.
I think it's The answer is notquite yet, but well maybe it may
be coming. I asked you thisand now. Don't get me wrong,
there's been some some hitting prospects theMets org that I think have really ascended
Hayzus baias young Ewing, but Idon't think those guys were in full season

(44:17):
last year at all, so lookingat sort of the rest of their system,
I don't know. I don't knowif there would have been a better
call or someone who really pops outis as sort of like a good B
side ascension here this season so far, I'm not not really I mean,
maybe a j Ewing, but again, I don't know where I don't know

(44:37):
if he I don't think he waswe had any full season in last year.
Yeah, you might be right onthat. Yeah, and I don't
think. I don't think we didwith Jesus Baias either. If we did,
it was we definite. We definitelydidn't with Bias, and he's been
he's been great. And the onlyother one that pops in one of my
leader boards is Nick Morribido, andhe wasn't on my list last year,

(44:59):
even though he had a decent littlerun at low A at the end of
last year. But he's, youknow, a super speedster. I don't
think there's going to be an impactbat here, but a lot of steels
and has thus far been pretty goodas a relatively young guy in Brooklyn.
Yeah, so I don't know.Even though Laura has been underwhelming, I

(45:21):
think i'd still take Laura over alot of their bats as a B side
hopeful. All Right, the Nationals, ye old gnats. I went with
petcher Max Romero Junior, who's nothad a very good season at all.
You went with Johandy Morales, whoI think, I mean, he's in

(45:42):
double as first pro season. Ithink there's still things to be excited about,
but probably not the season we werehoping for. But I know that
the homers still haven't showed up.That's the bummer. With Yo Handy,
I'm like, the power is there. He hit like, what we say,
fifty homers in college and he's gottentwo in Pro Bowl. Wild to

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me. Yeah, But looking atthe rest of their system, Matt,
I don't know who would have beena good call. Some first year player,
a ball glasser who's doing well gotpromoted. But I've watched him some.
I don't know if I'm that's realexciting. But I don't know what
other bat that wasn't already pretty boyhas ascended or had a real nice season

(46:22):
for them. I don't know ifI mentioned him when we talked about the
nets, but Darren Baker was onethat I liked last year, just kind
of like, yeah, just likea speedy guy. I'm never going to
be a lot of pop and youknow, round down on the plate skills,
but he was one that I thought, you know, he could hit
some singles, walk a little bit, and steal some bases. He's kind

(46:43):
of doing that. He's now upin Triple A. He's twenty five,
but it's not. This isn't bigleague level production. It's more maybe he's
a bench bat in your thirty teamersthat gets a little bit of run.
So, you know, I stilldon't think he's a good B side pick,
but he's doing kind of what weexpected. The Orioles Matt I went
with Matthew Etzell. I think thatwas a pretty good call. You went

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with Billy Cook, who I thinkthat was a good call too. He's
up in Triple A now, he'shaving a good season. I think he's
just yep, he's just stuck behinda lot of good players yep, which
we kind of said, you know, like Billy Cook is sort of more
of that, you know, alittle bit of power, a little bit
of speed, decent plate skills,doesn't strike out much, walk some and
it's just going to be a solidkind of corner. I think he's played

(47:28):
some center field, a little bitof second bas this year. That's good.
But Billy Cook is just behind abunch of way bigger names and even
though he's been you know, aboutas good as a lot of them.
And Etzel was a good call foryou. That's one that we both liked
and I sort of co signed onthat one where he's really showing his stolen
based prowess, making a lot ofcontact and walking a decent amount with a

(47:50):
little bit of pop too. Soand he's up in double A now,
which is which is good, andhe's still doing pretty well. He's going
to have the same issue that Cookhas. So yeah, at least they're
outfielders, I guess, and theOrioles big league outfielders are older, like
Mullins isn't going to be around forvery long, and so you're talking about
like Santander, Kerestad, who elseusand somebody else that oh beavers, but

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he's at double A. Yeah,and they're gonna have a bunch of mouths
to feed, for sure. Iknow there's a couple of young bats down
in a ball that I think putthemselves on the map a little bit and
like Sosa and whatnot. But uh, I don't know if there was if
there was anybody else that would havebeen a good call for us. Matt
Now, I think we nailed thisone. The only other guys that are
as good as the two guys thatwe picked are their pretty boys, you

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know, Jackson Holliday, Hessen Karstad, Kobe Mayo, Billy Cook and Matthew
Etzel are like by my list herethe top performers so far, and then
the next one's the Sao Beavers NorbyLike then you get down and Creed Williams.
You know your boy, Creed.He's he's looked pretty good for long
stretches this year. Matt Horvath startedthe year pretty badly, but has really

(49:00):
turned it on the last couple monthsand is now performing kind of like the
guy that we had talked about.You know, Pop Walks steals a bunch
of bags, super athletic, playinga bunch of different positions. So Horvath,
I think it is playing better oflate. And then Enrique Bradfield Junior
too, he's striking out a lotmore than I thought he was going to.
I thought his contact rates were goingto be better. But he's got

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twenty nine bags and has hit twohomers, three steel or three triples an
a doubles, So he's at leastgetting to a little bit of power for
someone who some people gave like atwenty on his power grade. He's he's
got a little bit of juice.But yeah, I'm a little surprised that
Bradfield strikeout rate. I thought thatwas going to be down in the like
ten percent range, twelve percent range. Yeah, agreed, Padres Matt.

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I went with young Rossman Verdugo,who has had some stretches where he's hit
some home runs, is still nineteenyear old, pretty league average, has
had some moments. You went withUrso Ornellis, who still has gotten his
big league shot, been doing okay, I guess, and TRIPLEA. But

(50:05):
looking at their system, there wasonly one other name that that kind of
popped to me, and that's RomeoSanta Bria. They're young catcher at a
ball looked pretty good, but otherthan that, I don't know if they
have any bats that have really poppedthis year. Yeah, and Santa Bria,
I don't think he was at fullseason ball last year. I don't
know if we got to look athim. Oh he wasn't. Okay,

(50:27):
Yeah, well I don't think so. I mean he's he's still at a
ball this year. Let me letme double check that. But I don't
think we got to look at himlast year. Oh, it looks like
we did sixteen games at low Aat the end of last year, but
he did crap all like I meanit was a small sample. No Homer's
okay line but nothing really exciting.So he's a guy that's been teetering on
the on the top of my pickup list and a couple of my deep

(50:51):
leagues, but hasn't quite made ityet. Yeah, I mean, one
thing to note is he's seems tobe a first baseman. He's now twenty
two, and yeah, he's doingwell at Low A, but it's Low
A as a twenty two year old, and he's played a bunch of teenagers
like That's his performance has been really, really good and it's definitely a pop
up guy. But yeah, somesome flags there. Yeah, I don't

(51:12):
know if there's anybody else here thatI would take over tier. So even
with this three months of additional data, yeah, Philly's I went with young
Brian Rincone, who I think what'she's in High A now, but he's
been pretty average. But the gloveglove is the is the big appeal there.
But even with that, I andthe offense that he showed last year,
I was I was hoping for somemore offense this year. And then

(51:34):
you went with an older tripa Aplayer, Matt Cruhn, who I think
he's having a decent season but stillhasn't gotten his shot right. Yeah.
The only other bat though, inthat system is a former B side call,
Leonardo Pineda, who's kind of onetwenty eight WRC plus and Hia He's
had some nice stretches. Other thanthat, don't know who would be It

(51:55):
would have been a good B sidecall, Matt. What do you if
you watch any of William Bergoya thisyear? He's in Jersey Shore, but
he strikes me as a little bitmore of your kind of guy, Like
he has a league average walk rateor maybe slightly below, but really below
average strikeout rate, Like he's swinginga lot. I think, not a
ton of pop, but swipe somebags. But he's I had seen some

(52:19):
stuff about him last year and hadn'twatched him very much, but I think
he's doing okay so far this year. I just wondered if he'd watched him.
But point being no one that's reallypopped off the page or off the
video that's gotten a lot more excitedabout. Yeah, I'm really excited to
see Starlinkaba in clear Water. Iwant to see him. I mean,
our little look at him and thespring breakout game was super exciting, and

(52:42):
all the reports continue to back thatup. He seems like a real,
really exciting young in field prospect.Yeah, I agree. Well, Matt
the Pirates, we both went withCharles McAdoo. McAdoo maybe just behind Capus
that that is probably ascended the mostfor me. Yeah, I don't really
know what to pick at with himat the plate. I know there's defensive

(53:02):
questions, literally nothing, I mean, like, no, put the man
in double A and see what hecan do, because this is ridiculous.
At this point, he is absolutelyraking, like I love it. I
mean he's stealing bags to showing hisathleticism on the bases, like let's go.
Yeah, I was hoping this week, hoping two weeks ago, but
yeah, I want to see himin double A. Put the man in

(53:24):
Altuna already. Matt the Rangers,I went with young reluctantly went with young
Marcos Torres, who hasn't really doneanything in Abel He's nineteen years old,
but I'm not interesting. He wentwith Blayne Krim, who has been underwhelming
the Triple A. Surprisingly underwhelming,but all that being said, someone who

(53:45):
wasn't already popular, I don't knowwho's like popped in their system. I
know young glider Figureo's had a niceseason, but I mean this is his
second a ball run. I kindof want to see him get to Hya,
but he's a guy that's it's gottenmore interesting to me. But other
than that, wasn't really anyone intheir system. Well, the only other
guy is the other guy that Iwas coin flipping when I talked about Texas,

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which is Sandro Fabian. And Ithink he's he's the best guy in
the system, you know, likewhen you look at how he's done relative
to level, and you know he'sstill not striking out at all. Thirteen
percent and triple A is super impressive. I don't care if you're twenty six
years old walking slightly below average amount, but pop seven homers. And with
Blaine Krim, I think, again, the skills are still there. He's

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walking eleven percent of the time.I think it's been a bit of babup
misfortune for him. I think he'sstill a good a good hitter, like
somebody who could be a major leagueaverage hitter right now. So you know,
slow starts the year, and thenthe only other guys in their system
other than Fabian and Krim for me, you know, Walcott obviously was super
exciting. It's been nice to seehim drop that strikeout rate, Like I've

(54:53):
been critical of him and kind ofhis line, but seemingly it's down a
season line to twenty eight percent,which it was like, what thirty six
percent last year or something like itwas. It was way up there last
year. And the fact that he'sgoing up levels and still continuing to drop
his strikeout rate is impressive. Andthe only other guy that for me is

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one that I wasn't on but Iwould like to see more of is Cody
Freeman. I don't know if you'vewatched much of him this year a little
bit. He's, you know,twenty three year old at double A,
So like that's a solid challenge fora twenty three year old slightly above average
one or nine worc plus the strikeoutsare in check. He's swiped some bags,
eight bags and six homers across twohundred and twenty eight play appearances.

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Like that's solid production and I'm curiousto see if he can make that play.
They still list him as a catcher. I don't know if he's caught
at all this year. Looks likemaybe he hasn't caught it at all this
year, but they played him mostlyat third base. I think so as
somebody who I wasn't familiar with hiswork, but I think he's been interesting

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enough to put that on a watchlist, so Couldy. Freeman's the only
guy in TEXASSM that like, Ididn't know about that. I was like,
oh, maybe there's something here.Yeah, it's a good shout the
Rays. My number one pick inour hit or draft was Ryan Sturmac felt
like just injuries have delayed him andpeople had moved off him too quickly,

(56:20):
and then he goes and gets hurtand just came back I think, what
a week and a half ago orsomething like that. So I think he's
I think he has done some damagewith the bat, but got to stay
on the field, But hoping wonderingif since he's missed so much time,
they might jump him up double A. We'll see a guy that I still
think is talented and want to seeboth defensively and offensively, just want to

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see him play. Then you wentwith Chandler Simpson, who I think has
done exactly what we thought right youngcounter backs. He finally just got promoted
up to double a forty eight bagson the air. So far, like
he's I think comfortably in first placefor the miners currently. You know,
as we talked about, that's that'slike his whole game, right, Yeah,

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yeah, he does have a homerthis year, which is exciting.
But was it inside the park?I don't know, but it would be
surprised if it wasn't. Since thepark exactly, but I will say Trey
Morgan from LSU has been really good, way way better that than I had
thought that. I agreed that.No, I agreed, that's that is
was exactly what I was going tosay too. I thought, kind of

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that corner profile, low power,good athlete skill set, it's like super
hard to make that work. Butthus far he's kind of saying like,
yeah, I can I can dothat. I don't know if you remember
he had that three homer game inthe regionals or super regionals for LSU,
which was super exciting. I waslike, Oh, this might this might
be a dude. But then youwatch him and you're like, oh,

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there's just not a lot of powerthere. But he's got a strike out
rate under ten percent. He's athigh A, he's young ish, you
know, considering he was a collegedraftees only twenty one. We'll see if
he can make it work. ButI don't know it's he's He's been an
arrow up guy for me too.Yeah, definitely Red Sox Matt We both
went with Alan Castro, who Ithink it's safe to say we were hoping

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expecting a more offensive, productive season. He's been very vanilla. And then
I don't know. I guess maybein their system, Mat Matthew Lugo,
Campbell, Cavadis might have been better, better calls, but we did not
We did not select them. Yeah, Christian Campbell, I think is the
arrow up guy in the system.And while strikeouts continue to be a part

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of his game, as Chris Cleggnoted, I think pretty early in the
season his exit velos are way higherthan they were last year. I think
he was a drive line guy ora triad athletics guy, and Christian Campbell
upped his exit velo average and ninetiethpercent out by a lot. It came
with a bit more swing and miss, but you know, he's popped ten
homers. He's up to double A. Playing all around the diamonds, second

(58:59):
short left field, there's he's he'smoved pretty firmly into like real prospect territory,
especially for fantasy, And I didn'thave that on my red art all
coming into the year, so hewould have been a great pick. Yeah,
the Reds, Matt, I wasmore excited about Ethan o'donald than I
was Charles McAdoo, and he hasjust been very vanilla in Hia. It's

(59:20):
not popped like I had hoped.You went with Jacob Hurdabies, who's in
the big leagues right now. Ithink maybe he's still love right yep.
Actually, like I saw him.I saw him take some at bats.
What last week went to the RedsRockies game. Nice were there two strikes
away from a win and ended uplosing by five. Yeah, I think
that was a good call because Idon't know if there's really anyone else in

(59:43):
their system that would have been DominicPatelli. Yeah, who's kind of ascended.
Maybe that would have been a goodcall. I know you've talked about
Ariel Almonte before and his massive powerpotential down at a ball. He's repeating
a ball, right, so wewould have had a chance to see him.
But yeah, and the strikeout ratefor him is obviously off the charts

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still like which it was when wetalked about him before, but still the
power is intriguing for a twenty yearold. He's I think leading the Reds
minor leaguers in homers so far thisyear as a twenty year old. To
enable other than Patelli, I don'tthink there's really anyone that wasn't very popular
that has kind of kind of poppedthis year. Yeah. The only other
one that's Blake Dunn got a littlecup of coffee too, and I think

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he was an under owned guy.I still like her to Bees more.
I think the Herdabes's profile of likewalking a lot, stealing bases, and
hitting kind of line drives is morelikely to play than Blake Dunn, who
sells out a bit more for powerbut still brings some speed to play.
Yeah, Herdibees is still probably whoI would have gone with the Rockies.
Matt my guy. Ryan Ritter hasbeen a lot better than even I expected.

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The strikeouts been cut quite a bitat double A. He hasn't hit
for as many home runs, buthe's still playing stellar defense, hitting forever
more, stealing some bases. He'sbeen pretty good I think your pick Jimmy
Harron has been all right. Ithink he's hurt now, isn't he or
did he just come back? Ithink so. Yeah, he's missed a
good amount of time, but hewas solid before then. I just don't

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know. I just don't know ifhe's gonna get a chance. Yeah.
And he's another of these older guysthat I thought, maybe he gets a
chance. But again, the Rockieshave stockpiled quite a few of these.
So it's not Bouchard Doyle, youlike, a lot of these guys were
older and then finally got It's kindof a lot of outfielders. Even with
them all with several of them bangedup right now, there's still other outfielders

(01:01:36):
ahead of them. Yeah, andeven a guy like Braiden Ward who's a
level below but like he was abouthe might he might get a shot instead.
Yeah, that would have been goodcalls for braiden Ward. And then
Caros has been a lot better thanI expected that he would be too.
Kyle Carris, Yeah, beatty braidenWard, man, he's he's a fun
one. He is a fun one, and like that man. We've talked

(01:01:59):
a little bit about stolen bases asa skill and how you can see that
a bit in some minor leaguers andWard has that. Ward is one of
those guys that he isn't just fastand isn't just taking advantage of bad defenses.
He's got the stolen based skill inthere. He's a fun one.
Oh well, I was going toask, like on the older level,
guys like Coco Montes, like he'sbeen one that has popped up for me

(01:02:22):
as like maybe if he gets alittle bit of run if Rogers or or
I guess when Brendon Rogers went down, I wondered if they were going to
give Coco Montes run and instead they'repromoted amador. But has have you watched
much of Montes? Yeah, yeah, I've seen, and he was up
with them last year a little bit. I think he's a really good Triple

(01:02:43):
A ballplayer. I don't think he'she gives them anything that Alan Trejo doesn't
give them, you know what Imean. Yeah, Treo is better defensively,
So yeah, he's nice. Iwas kind of hoping my guy Hunter
Stoleall might actually get a big leaguechance because I love him, but that
didn't happen. The Royals man,I know Trevor. Trevor Warner has been
a big disappointment for both of us. We were pretty excited about that,

(01:03:07):
but that has has not gone well. But I don't know who would have
been a better call on that.I've liked this, uh, some of
these looks of this Jared Dickey guy, but he's still like putting up pretty
pedestrian numbers. That ball shape isnice, But I don't know. I
don't know who would have been agood call. I don't know who's popping
for the Royals that wasn't popular.I think Javier of Oz, who I'm

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pretty sure I mentioned when we weretalking about this. It is like I
really liked him coming into the yearwith exactly what he's shown this year,
which is high contact, decent plateapproach, a little bit of speed,
and maybe he'll look into a fewhomers here and there. So I do
really like Javier Vaz and I didkind of coming into the year. I

(01:03:51):
think he has a chance to belike, was he still like B side
range popularity though, because I knowhe was. He was super you know,
like it sort of fringy for us, but still two percent I thought
was such a safe territory, andhe had made it up to Double A
last year and spent most of DoubleA most of this year in Double A
two. But Oz, I thinkcontinues to be a guy who looks like

(01:04:12):
either a platoon guy or a utilityguy with a chance for a bit more,
especially if he gets to a bitmore power, which I wouldn't not
expect it to happen. But Ozis still a still guy. I like
here the Tigers, Matt, Iwent with Luke Gold who has hit some
home runs in hye been okay,I guess, And then you went with

(01:04:34):
Brady Allen, who's nothing been underwhelmingin Double A. Yep, I don't
remember how popular was how you leebefore the season had to have been over
our threshold limit because he's been awesome. Yeah, yeah, he's probably he's
probably the clear cut to me,sort of like B side ascending guy.
Yeah, I think that's right.I mean McGonagall obviously hat tipped to you

(01:04:58):
for iding that one. I Ithink mcgonagall's been phenomenal since he came back
from his injury, like better thanMax Clark, who was obviously a top
five pick. And yeah, McGonagall, Mcgonagall's freaking sweet, So I'm pumped
for you on that one. TheTwins, Matt, we both screwed the
pooch here. My guy Ben Rosshas been probably the most disappointing guy for

(01:05:19):
me this season, maybe other thanmaybe Werner not been good at all.
Good defensively still, but yeah,the bat's been awful. Your guy,
Joiner Fajardo was released picked up byPittsburgh. I think he's in Triple A
for Pittsburgh now right. I thinkthey might have signed him to Double A.
Like that's what I was saying.I think they I think they had
signed him to Double A. TheTwins probably had. There were probably some

(01:05:41):
better calls now. We talked aboutKeishchel and liking him coming into season.
We also talked about Kursey junior DeshaunKirsty junior, who I really liked from
back his days in college, andlike I was like, you know,
Fajardo is kind of him, buta little bit younger. Maybe he gets
a shot first. But Cursey hasbeen really good, has finally dropped his
strikeout rate down into an acceptable rangeand it's still showing a power speed blend.

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Like I hope Deshan Krazy gets acall this year because he seemed to
have earned it after a really longstint in the minor leagues. This is
I think his seventh year in theminor leagues now, and part of the
reason why I was attracted to Rosswas because I thought the Twins would would
help him hit some better home runshapes. Right. They didn't do it
with Ross, but man Kell Keischell'shitting the home runs, yeah, pace,

(01:06:29):
at a pace he was not asa as an amateur. I think
that I think that played. Therea couple other guys that have been good
that kind of you know, quotepopped up, came out of nowhere.
Nowhere is Ricardo Olivar and Rubel Saspads. Those would have been some good calls
too, but we did not makethem. That we did not the White
Sox. We both went with BrooksBaldwin. I think that's been a Yeah,

(01:06:53):
that was pretty good. I don'tknow, do you think I'm hoping
that he gets the double A tothe majors treatment like what they've done with
a handful of their of their guys. Of wait, moving them from Birmingham.
We see trade Luis Robert and thenpromote Baldwin to play center field.
I don't know. I don't knowwhat those as clowns are doing. Uh

(01:07:14):
yeah, Wilfred various. That that'sI think that's been a decent call too.
Like we've talked about, he's slimmeddown and stuff. The strike cuts
are still kind of high, butthat was a good runner up call,
I think. I don't know ifthere's any other bats. I know they
got some dude, some old collegeguy crushing it at a ball, but
I don't know who else has kindof jumped for them offensively. Well.
The only other guy that I don'tthink is really relevant for dynasty leagues or

(01:07:38):
anything. But it's just a funinteresting profiles Riku Nishida. I don't know
if you've watched him before, Yeah, I've seen them. Yeah. I
mean it's just like super high contact, zero power zero. I pulled up
I pulled up his spray chart andClegg's thing, and I do legit,
there wasn't a ball hit past likemedium depth outfield. Yeah. Yeah,

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he's just a fun profile and Ilike watching him, you know, just
because he's got a different approach upthere. And then lastly, Matt the
Yankees. I went with young Josekolmanis who got hurt before the season started.
He's done for the year. Youwent with Caleb Durban. It was
a great call. He's been hurtfor a while now, Man, when
does he come back. I don'tknow. I don't know, but he's
been crushing it like he you know, But I think they drop in and

(01:08:24):
it's been awesome. I love Ilove Durban, But the Yankees, I
think there was a handful of guysRafael Flores, Haesus Rodriguez, Jared Serna,
Benjamin Cowels would have been great Bside calls as well too, I
think. Yeah. And then myguy Augustin Ramirez, who might really have
qualified as B side. I meanmaybe not. He might not have qualified

(01:08:44):
this offseason, but I know forme, he was like top of my
draft board for a bunch of leagues, and I managed to snag him in
quite a few places, and hehas been awesome to start the year.
He's great. Now, this wasa very long way going about me asking
you, Matt, where where areall the pop up bats man? Where
what am I supposed to be doingwith all my roster spots and my deep

(01:09:08):
leagues? Yeah, I mean itis interesting going through it kind of team
by team like this and seeing whocould we have been on or who maybe
has like surpassed the guys that weidentified. I don't know, not scientific
at all, but like I'd saytwo thirds of our guys are like either
the guy or a top guy fromtheir from their systems. You know,

(01:09:31):
that wasn't like a very very topprospect, right And to me, the
point isn't like, hey, lookat us, we're so smart. The
point is it is not like thisin other years. In other years this
short list. Because I've done thisevery June, looked at my picks,
who should I pick? Who werebetter? Every order will have a guy
that I could argue was just asgood a call or had five guys that

(01:09:54):
would have been just good caller better. That is just not the case this
year at all. M Well,that's interesting. The historically that's the case.
I'm going to chalk that up toone. You picked twice as many
b side guys this year, right, Like I picked a bunch so so,
and we also talked a handful.We doubled up on a couple,
but for the most part we pickeddifferent guys. Even even when we agreed,

(01:10:15):
we usually were like, oh,but this is another guy that you
should keep an eye on. Butso that's part of it, Like you,
we picked more guys. I dowonder if there's something about the offensive
environment overall that like maybe hasn't showingup in some of the surf surface line
stats that you know, like itactually turns out that a one oh five
WRC plus at double A is actuallyphenomenal and looks way closer to a really

(01:10:41):
good line historically speaking, so thatthat kind of stuff is harder to know.
I mean, it's also interesting hearingyour perspective about that. Usually there's
a lot more at this point inthe season, because I think for me,
this is the point in the seasonwhen shit starts to feel real,
like you know what I mean,Like lots of guys kind of started hot.
I'm like, man, I'm kindof skeptical of that. Like hoost

(01:11:02):
Way de Paula had one week wherehe hit five homers and how many homers
does he have in all of theweeks combined? One? And like,
I mean, okay, yeah,maybe he's that guy like everyone else said
he was, or maybe he's theguy that I saw all year last year
and have seen most of this year, Like I don't know, and so
looking at somebody in June or earlyJuly to mean that starts to look like,

(01:11:24):
Okay, this is the vagaries ofthe up and down of a season
have started to smooth out a littlebit. You can start to buy who
a guy is more at this point, and that's on the good and the
bad side. So like, maybewe're just starting to see some of these
guys who've like maybe started out prettyhot, poked through and we should start
believing them. Yeah, I don'tknow, does that make sense like that?

(01:11:45):
Maybe maybe it's just that it tooka little bit to get here and
now now we should start to seesome of the players kind of separate or
be a little bit better. Well, you've bring up some good points,
but you didn't answer the question right. The correct answer was filled them with
pitchers. Yeah, the pitching.The pitching has been fun. You know,
this is something that you know,since I wasn't on last week and

(01:12:08):
you talked about a bunch of thepop up arms or arms that are like
these are guys we should have beenon, or that are that were really
interesting. I always feel like there'sa couple of arms in those first couple
of weeks that they turn out tobe really, really good, and maybe
there were a few more of themthis year, and we'd identified a few
of them coming into this season,like you with jayde Hamm, Like,

(01:12:30):
I think that was a great pick. Hat tipped to me a little bit.
Quinn Matthews, I talked about himin January, is like, this
is a guy to me that lookslike somebody who could really put it together
in pro ball, and he's beennothing short of awesome. And certainly I
didn't think he was going to bethis good, but that's somebody that we
were we were on. But doesit feel like there were more of those
pop up guys to you this yearthat like maybe we thought this was interesting,

(01:12:50):
but they've showed out as like thisis a stud pitcher. Does it
does it seem like that's the case. It's a good question for the last,
you know, three four years i'vebeen I don't know if it feels
any different. I feel like everyyou know, what I was doing,
like that pictureless review stuff was likeevery week there was at least one guy
that I was like, Ooh,I could see how this could go.

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And I don't think that has changed. I think pretty much every week there's
a picture that I catch. Itmight be his best outing of the year,
but you get the glimpse, youget to see, like it goes
like this, this is gonna bepretty good, right. A lot of
it's just how consistently are you goingto be that good? You know?
So I don't know that's a goodquestion, I will say, though you're
talking about earlier in the year Jonahthan for one, I think classing those

(01:13:33):
were two guys right right away thefirst week of the season I got excited
about. I was like, oh, ye've they've lost a little bit of
their appeal to me moving up.I think there's been more guys this year
who were kind of like repeated alevel or maybe they maybe they finally just
got promoted or something of that.But I feel like there's been more guys
that were just pretty vanilla and kindof lost my interests that have become more

(01:13:53):
interesting than the year's past, ifthat makes sense. Interesting. I feel
like the list of guys that maybestarted out at low A or high A
and then really like jumped off thepage, you know, like tug Bot
Wilkinson, Quinn Matthews, Zebbie Matthews, Caden Dana, even Austin Peterson,
Winston Santo's Like, there's a lotof those guys that it was like two

(01:14:15):
or three starts in, and Ifeel like it was pretty clear these are
some talented arms that are doing someinteresting stuff, and they've mostly held that.
While I agree with you a coupleof them as they've gone up,
it's trailed off a little bit,as you would expect it to a bit,
obviously, but it does feel tome like there was more of that
crop at that level that we hadn'tseen a lot of, Like because the

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thing that's common about pretty much allof those guys is we hadn't seen much
of them prior to this year.And Key Sting was another one all the
Gary Is and other of your picksthat I think he's really he showed out
really well. Erku Lani even Ithink he showed some things too. But
a lot of those guys that wehadn't seen very much of, they've kind
of kept up that performance more thanI expected. And when I look at

(01:15:01):
how how things have gone this year, it seems like those early flashes have
sustained for the most part, andthose early like pitcher pickups have been pretty
good ones, and I wish Ihad more of them. I mean I
grabbed a few, I think insome of our leagues, but here I
wish it would have gone with memore of these guys. When we did
our B side arms, there wasa lot of small sample guys that I

(01:15:23):
picked, right, Yeah, butis say, hello, Gary gill Hill,
guys like that, right, somethat haven't been good, Jackson Humphries,
but Logan Evans, you know alot lots of guys that have been
good, right. I think withthe condensing of the miners, I think
maybe there's some better arms down atthe complex level, at rookie ball level
than maybe you know, half adecade ago or something like that. I

(01:15:45):
think when we're when we're sort ofB siding or whatever. I think the
second half of the year is goingto be really interesting for arms. When
we see these guys, they getto move complex to full season, even
though we might just see a littlebit of them, Like, you can
glean a lot from seeing a littleYou can glean a guy throwing high nineties
or wicked slider or something like that. You know, and there's reasons why

(01:16:05):
those are the guys. Those arethe young guys getting promoted. So I'm
excited for that part of the season. I'm excited for the last month or
so month and a half of whoare these arms that are going to come
up and get a few starts?You know, we're not going to have
a large enough sample size and who'sgoing to be next year's crop of B
side arms, because that's a lotmore exciting than hitters. Well, I'm

(01:16:27):
not going to go that far,but it has been interesting to see how
many of these guys really did,you know, show out like that they
really were quality early and then itwas apparent that they were a cut above
either even what we thought they wereor what they had been kind of rated
by the larger dynasty community. AndI just think that's an interesting thing to
note. You know, I don'tknow if there's a larger takeaway to be

(01:16:49):
gleaned from that just yet, butit has been interesting just how many of
these guys like continue to populate thetop of the K minus BBE leader boards,
for example, in in the minorleagues and whatnot. And yeah,
you found a lot of those smallsample guys that like even even Hayden Mullins
like he hasn't put it all togetheryet, but he's had a few starts
that like there's that slider that isjust wiping everybody out, and when he

(01:17:12):
tightens up the command a bit,I mean, I still think there's there's
an arm in there that it's worthfollowing, especially in that pitching development organization,
the way they've turned around a bunchof those arms like he's, he's
another one that has it hasn't quitecome together yet, but yeah, there's
there's some real, real potential there. I don't know if I find it
interesting. Man, I got afew teams good. You know, I'm
trying to get better. My teamsaren't very good. Trying to make deals

(01:17:34):
and you know who are the popup hitters and who should that is tough,
man. They're just saying a lotto go after right now, and
it's making me a little nervous.But as I think we said before the
season started, if you're rebuilding likeI am, or trying to get good
like I am, a few teams, you that young MLB hitter demographic,

(01:17:56):
I think is where I got tobe spending my time and trying to treat
I think we identified some some decenthitters that way. But I'd be really
nervous if I was like a totalstrip down thirty team or large even small
league. It was like, allright, I just got all these hitting
prospects and in a few years,I don't know, man, I think
there's also maybe a little bit ofa log jam after the condensing of the

(01:18:18):
minor leagues and all this stuff.Like there's a lot of young bats,
young talented bats, I think inthe majors right now. It's like they're
vying for time and probably deserve it. You know, Like I'll just look
at like the path of like BrettWisely, who's doing all right now?
You know, you got one hundredand twenty at bats one season, had
waited half a season to get anothershot. You know. Just a lot

(01:18:40):
of dynasty owners can't can't be patientlike that, and the rebuilders. I
think you should try and collect thosekinds of guys. It's different. It
feels like a very different environment,very favor of mud right now. Man.
I took a look at the trendingprospects this week, and any good
ones not really, we're hitting thatlull. Yeah, nothing super remarkable that
I know. I think CJ.Hunt is that right? CJ. Hunt?

(01:19:02):
The picture of the Brewer system,I think, oh, I'm sorry,
you're right, Casey Hunt. Thankyou. He was like one and
a half or two percent increase.And then Cutter Coffee with the Red Sox,
who I don't know, what doyou do, like hit six home
runs in a row or something likethat. Yeah, he's like, I
think home run seven games something likethat. Yeah, he's on fire,

(01:19:26):
and you know I remember, Imean he was what a second round prep
pick, signed for like one pointeight million or something like that. But
I don't really I feel like I'venever not really heard a lot of compliments
about Cutter Coffee. I can't saythat I watched him once I picked him
up, though, Like no ideas, man, I didn't look at the
schedule upcoming this week, but Ido know that I want to watch Amarillo

(01:19:50):
when Spencer Geisting makes his double Adebut, hoping to get a decent angle
too. I don't know who's gotthe best angle in the Texas League,
but that's been my angle. Isn'tbad. I mean, they it's a
little bit off center, but it'slike nice and close up. I think
that's that's been my biggest, uhmy biggest hang up with geisting at how
much do I like them is I'venever's never been a good angle to see

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a lefty in the Northwest League forthe last two years. You know,
mm hmmm. This Vancouver is okay, but it's still not the greatest.
But yeah, so I don't know, Matt, I think that'll do it
for episode thirty six, Hitters suckof the Prospect. Besides podcasts a conspiracy,
this will be fun budding times thoughthere's there's stuff out there. We
just we gotta we gotta dig deeper, Matt, we gotta find something here.

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The second well, and as younoted, it's it's definitely getting to
be promotion season where we see alot more movement between the leagues and some
of the guys that have been reallycrushing it, let's see how they do
as they get promoted up into HighA or Double A. I think that's
like where a lot of the interestingpromotions happen. Yeah, obviously the Complex

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ball is up to a A ball. I think we're going to start to
see some of those guys fairly soon. And there's some really exciting guys in
the Complex too. Yeah, Idon't allocate a lot of my roster spots
to rookie ball guys. But Ihave been backscore watching and keeping Demetrio Crisantis
on some of my rosters, andI'm curious and anxious to see him.

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I'm hoping that's fairly soon. Dbex So. I think he's playing second
base roadstap But I don't know ifyou've if you've peeped his complex numbers,
but they're they're pretty interesting. Hehas popped up a couple of times when
I've looked, and definitely really interestingbox score so far. You know,
you always like to see the stolenbased numbers and the strikeout a lot of

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triple Yeah, five of them.That's impressive. Yeah, so we'll see
he's but he's no collades though,or triples, five homers for steals.
Yeah, he's gonna be so freakinggood, do you think so? I'm
worried about the strikeouts, man,strikeouts are going to be a thing.
I just I think for him,he's going to be one of those guys
where the strikeouts are are there.But I think it's been better as he's

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gone, Like he started out witha lot of strikeouts that I think they
noted this maybe in one of theBaseball America right ups recently, where his
contact rate started out as abysmal andnow it's more below average. And for
a guy that hits as hard ashe does, like it's I think that's
going to matter a little bit less. You know, you wanted to keep
getting better. But I'm still superin on Colase. Well, of course,

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I'm hoping we'll let Chicago Farmer takeus out and we'll talk to you
next time. See you. Milesan hour ratting two is him. He
hopped down first with the lumpbonius face, and on the very next pitch he
up and stole second face with gretestspeed. He wasn't born, he had

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yes, beautiful