Episode 75: JTR30 v2.2 - The Overlooked Prospects June Update - Join The Ranks: dynasty fantasy baseball advice

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's time for Join the Ranks, a prospect focused podcast
of the Dynasty Grew Network, helping Dynasty managers win your
league's one player at the time. So settle in for
an hour of conversation and insightful analysis with your hosts,
Dynasty Grew senior writers Drew Klein and Chris Knock.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome to JTR thirty version two point two. In case
you're new to this, that JTR thirty is what we
call our most overlooked prospect in each organization. Chris and
I set the list at the end of each preseason,
then we do our monthly updates throughout the summer quickly.
Our definition of an overlook prospect is a prospect rostered
by fewer than twenty percent of teams and fan tracks

(00:39):
who we think should be rostered more than that free
chapter eight. Throughout the season, will move anyone who crosses
the twenty percent threshold to the we see You list,
and if a prospect is not panning out the way
we thought he would, we'll move him to the nothing.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
To see here. List.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Last month, Chris introduced the concept of the hot seat,
which is fine, we won't see it on the website,
and that can add to the chart, but it's a
nice feature that we reserve for you are loyal listeners.
Speaking of the full list and loyal listeners, as we
move forward, our list will include players that we moved
off the JTR thirty for either reason. You can go
to the Dynastyguru dot com and see that. We'll link
it to the article for each of the podcast up.

(01:15):
There there will be a table for the full JTR
thirty listed again that will have our current JT thirty,
plus columns for people we've moved off for one reason
or the other. Any comments, arguments, suggestions you can make
them there in the comment section, or find either of
us on Blue Sky. As we've talked a couple of times,
our friends Brian and Daniel Laboude at the Dynasty Guru
are taking a lead in our prospect rankings and our

(01:37):
team by team top twenty prospect lists have started being
posted again. You can go to the website and see
the Diamonds Backs list now with a write up in
each article, or if you want to see the list
as we're developed, were publishing them on our discord for
the low price of a twenty dollars dollars donation, you
can join the Discord and get early access to our
list of the top twenty prospects per organization throughout the summer, Chris,

(02:01):
surprisingly nobody entered our Sandyton contest to win the free
Discord membership. The answer was, after Drew talked about to
CooA Robi and if you got a minute, I got
a fun what I think is a fun quick story
to share before we get started. The other day, I
was on my phone, sit in the living room. I
was posting something on Blue Sky about the Fangrass fan

(02:22):
exchange program that Michael Bowman wrote about. And there's a
fun concept where for a week, if you've signed up,
you've filled out a questionnaire and you're signed a different
team to be a fan of for a week. And
I guess there was going to be a questionnaire in
the back end. So Tiger standsmen assigned to the Cardinals.
So I bought myself a Cardinal's hat. And I was
posting something and my wife made a comment about I

(02:42):
don't know the futility of it or something. It wasn't
she's not a huge fan. Wasn't awful, But like I say,
she's not a big fan. Of the social media and thing.
But so I defended a bit, saying, it's just in
a great way to find people who like baseball. We
can talk about it and it doesn't have to be
limited to people who live near you. And she said,
so like an online book love, but about baseball. I said,
actually yes, and she said, oh okay. Then I walked away.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
So welcome to our online book club about prospects.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
I guess where we also teach you about books exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Uh So, with that out of the way, Chris, are
you ready to jump in with the NL East and
start talking about the most overlooked prospects.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I am ready and rearing.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
All right, let's go.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Am I kicking it off?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oh yeah, I'll let you kick it off.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Okay, Okay, then I will start in the NL East
with our friends in Atlanta and prospect last week, our
last month was d d or fwent is Uh. He
was ten percent rostered and he still remains to be
ten percent rostered. But if any if our loyal listeners

(03:51):
do remember he had at the time in May been
promoted to Double A, had mediocre results, but it was
almost a surprise promotion to Double A and let's just
say everything is starting to come up Millhouse for him there,
and that's a good thing, I guess for those who
aren't Simpsons fans deep cuts, everything's coming up Milhouse for him.

(04:15):
So he's had five starts now in Double A. His
era looks a little shabby there at four point nine eight,
just under five, but his independent pitching, fielding independent pitching
is almost two whole runs less at three point zero one,
so that's a pretty big discrepancy. Keeping the ball on
the ground well, I think the biggest issue for him

(04:39):
he's getting the strikeouts. His walks are within normal expectations.
He's just basically kind of getting He's not leaving guys
on base. I didn't know how to word his left
on left on base rate is pretty poor. It's around
fifty percent right now, so he's kind of they're getting on.

(05:01):
If they're getting on base on him currently in Double
A as a twenty year old, they're probably coming around
to score unfortunately, so he's trying to strike him out.
He's getting twenty eight percent of the batters down by
K's eight percent are walking, so that's a K minus
walk of twenty percent, which is my threshold internally, Again,
he is a double or. He has a twenty year

(05:21):
old pitching in Double A, so I'm not too concerned
that it's not amazing numbers for him right now overall,
but did Or Flentez is I would say, still exceeding expectations.
He Actually I'm in a draft right now with put
together by Bob Dole over at the upside prospect and

(05:45):
it's kind of like the School of Hard Knocks, but
more ridiculous in that we're not drafting any We're drafting
prospects we haven't played yet. We're not going to score
this until five years down the road, and we're drafting
like sixteen hundred guys all in all, So it's it's
large and Ddier flent has went one hundred and eleventh

(06:08):
in the fifth round in that draft, so the fact
that he's only ten percent rostered shows that he's deep.
But there's some high expectations outside of just me, and
maybe it was a loyal listener who drafted it, but
I was surprised and very proud of that drafter.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Excellent five years.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
That's nice, Like not too many book clubs spend five
years talking about one book, so exactly, I got them.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
There, unless you're talking about the Song of Ice and.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Fire, unless oh, the new theme.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
So a similar profile. For my next player in the
Baltimore system, it's mister Hermand, who was a carryover and
last month was seven percent rostered and since then, actually
shortly after that, he was promoted to double A right
after we host start last update, which has actually been

(07:01):
a bit of a trend for us, which is fun
to see. And in his four starts in double A
he's had two outings giving up zero runs and two
outings giving up five runs. But a note that in
one of those poor games, he pitched five innings, gave
up five hits and two walks, strikeout seven and six runs,
five of which were earned. Did take a quick look

(07:22):
at depth box score, and there are a couple of
doubles in one inning followed by a sacrifice fly, an
air and a bunt and set up another inning a
sacrifice squeeze and then he actually walked to before exiting
in the sixth and they came around to score, which
I know happens a lot in the minors. I think
you were talking about that as well. It's a long
way saying that everyone has a bad outing. But the
takeaway for me in that game is that pitching into

(07:44):
the sixth with seven strikeouts and no walks until the
sixth not really a bad outing at all. He's had
a twenty percent strikeout rate in Double A so far,
and he had a thirty five percent in HIA before
the promotion. I do expect some rash when somebody moves up,
but there's also an adjustment period. I think the krad
will even kind of bounce back up its first time

(08:06):
in his career. It's been over thirty percent. Under thirty
percent rather, and that's only only after four games. I
think eight percent is way too low for this guy.
He did not receive a bump in rostership after getting promoted,
unlike a couple of other people talk about on the list,
so he's flying under the radar. I don't know whether
people really aren't looking at the Baltimore system or not,

(08:28):
but nestor Herman in Baltimore at eight percent is my
GTR thirty member for the Orioles excellent.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
And he's also was taken in probably top one fifty
of that draft too, So I believe it. I believe
it all right. I'm going to talk about Luis Cova
once again out of Miami. He just turned eighteen in February.
And if we think back to our last episode, I
was asking where is Louis Cova because he was a

(09:00):
DSL performer last year. That's what put him on my radar.
And he said, well, maybe he's repeating DSL and I
refuse to believe it, but you were, in fact correct.
So hats off to you on reading those two leaves.
But I also preach patients, right, he had debuted, Let's
be patient, let's see what's happening. And in the seven
games so far in the DSL of twenty twenty five season,

(09:24):
Luiskova has a WRC plus of two eighteen, So I
think that's reasonably good. It is for those who are unaware,
it's twice as good as the average DSL baseball player.
He's walking eighteen percent. I don't look too de let's
real quick. Actually, as an I said, you can't look

(09:45):
too closely or hold the DSL or even complex like
strikeout numbers too accurately because of how they get registered
on these APIs and these stat compiling algorithms, so the
walks are pretty much legit. And also you have to
take an account some of the pitching that they're facing.

(10:06):
So these aren't like, oh, he's going to be a
huge walk guy going forward, but the fact that he's
walking in almost a fifth of his at bats is
impressive even against lesser pitching. He's got three home runs,
three doubles, two stolen bases. Let's just say I hope

(10:28):
that his stay in DSL will not be all summer,
that he'll get to the state side ball and then
we'll really start getting a more accurate picture of him
as a baseball player. But Luis Kova, he's only three
percent ray rostered. Part of me, let's bump those numbers
up because now's the time to get in here before

(10:48):
he becomes stateside.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
And stay ready.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Because I don't have much to say about this next
player other than in Boston, it's a Jenisons who is
six percent rostered. He is a pitcher who has been
on the injured list since late April with a strained
calf muscle. We always struggle what to do with injuries,
particularly pitching injuries. But it's not his arm, shoulder, back,

(11:17):
or anything like that which is important to pitching. But
I don't think it's going to be something. It's something
he's going to be able to recover from and be
who he was before and who he was before. It's
an extremely talented picture with excellent control. I don't have
any stats to update, but I'm going to keep him
on the list right now. I think, you know, if
for an arm injury, it probably look elsewhere. But I
have him rostered in deep leagues and watch list in others,

(11:39):
and if he does come back strong, he might go quickly.
A lot of eyes on the Boston system right now,
a lot of people moving up, so as let's get
adjusted and people you know, kind of move up the list.
I think pie is his name, who when he's healthy,
is going to catch the eye. So right now I
think six percent rostered is probably right. I'm thinking of
moving quickly. If we're hearing month and he has a

(12:01):
strong couple of starts, you may want to jump on
him before other people do. And again that's Jennickson Piez
with Boston.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
I have another injury guy, although he's come back, and
that's in the New York Mets system. Eli Serrano, the
third he missed about two weeks. I think it was
a shoulder or something that it wasn't anything substantial, although
he has only played two games since returning this past
series block, so they're slow rolling him back into it.

(12:35):
The numbers post our last episode or just are still outstanding.
He's still doing good work at high a as a
college bat. I like to see that walking in at
above average clip. His k's are below twenty overall for
the season, dynamic five homers for stolen bases, so I

(13:01):
think he was getting some hype. He got injured to
the tail end of part of me tail end of
may Elis Rano is now just now coming back, not
playing every day, could be a good window to a
choir here before he starts popping up and he's still
had three percent roster ship. Again, I don't think he's

(13:24):
going to be a long I don't think I think
he could be a quick mover in that in that
met system and then ultimately perhaps even a trade candidate.
So before you start to see his name more often,
now is a good chance to start thinking about the
space getting him on your roster, making space all.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right, love it and staying in New York and staying
on my list is Pitcher Cam Schlittler. Since our last update,
Cam has thrown twenty five innings with thirty six strikeouts,
ten walks, with thirty five k rate, nine percent walk rate,
and that since May eighth, and he was promoted to

(14:04):
Triple A just this week, where he's already had one start,
five innings to hits and eight strikeouts in those five innings. Now,
Fangress only has the pitch data for Triple A, but
I can tell you that in that one start his
fastball was sitting at ninety six. Cam Sliller is six
foot six inches and he's bringing it at ninety six
miles an hour. That's going to play. That's going to

(14:27):
get on pictures on batters rather very quickly. So far,
his for both Double A and Triple A. His KR
eighth this season has been thirty one percent and walk
rate at eight point six. And you want to see
that come down, but it's under ten. It's not not
horrible for the kind of pitchure that he is. And
his whip is one point one nine. So even with

(14:49):
a few more walks than you'd love to see, he's
keeping batters off base and uh therefore keeping the EER
and the other stats down. So h Schlitler is in
triple A for the Yankees. You know, it's it's hard,
almost harder to predict what a contending thing is going
to do. They're going to bring in new talent, it's
a trade deadline, or they're going to call up somebody

(15:09):
like Sliler. If they do is he's going to be
you know, e earlyer for a year and then stretching
back out again as a starter next year, and all
those questions linger. But long run, he projects to be
a pretty fantasy relevant starter in a system that's going
to win some games and have some support for him
as well. So I think, you know, Slitler is definitely

(15:31):
worth a pickup. And he's sitting at eight percent rostered
right now, which again given the given the Yankees and
the Yankee that the boost that prospects seem to get
with that system strikes me as low. And that's why
he's on the list, because he truly is an overlooked
prospect right now.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
I like that one. What's his roster ship?

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Sorry? Eight?

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Oh yeah? And it is somewhat surprising because they've done
a good job as an org to churn it out
major league arms. Not all of them have been lights
out by any means, but recently they've been putting some
good product out there.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, and he was at six percent last time we talked,
so it's been a slight boost, which is probably pretty good.
A lot of people aren't necessarily picking up prospects right now,
but but yeah, it's still on the low side.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, all right, Well, I'm gonna go to Philadelphia and
Carson D. Martini as my rostered or as my JTR
thirty members still And if you remember the last month
I was, I had him on the hot seat. I
think he was. They are the og hot seed, and

(16:44):
let's just say that seat is hot, but for good
reasons because he's failing, although his roster ship did go
from five to four percent month to month. But anyway,
he was. He was at High A ended up he
had one home run a month ago when he got
promoted to Double A. This week, Uh, he had eight

(17:06):
home runs at Hi A, so he went on a
nice seven home run tear. Eighteen stolen bases is what
he ended up with there at High A. Two eighty four,
four oh two, four seventy four triple slash line. Those
are those numbers will keep you on the JTR thirty
for sure, his contact numbers were a little concerning, especially

(17:28):
for being known as a contact first or hit first
corner infielder. Sixty six percent contact right there at HIA
and it's sixteen percent swinging strike. Great, that's worth watching
to see how that continues. But two games at Double

(17:48):
A he's been successful. Carson D. Martini, Let's here's to
more home runs and keep that coming here, buddy.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's like you got the memo, and another player who
got the memo is down in Tampa and old friend
Ty Johnson who just won't let me stop talking about him.
He is roster at nine percent. He's a pitcher in
the Tampa organization, and since the last update, he's thrown

(18:19):
twenty five innings, thirty five strikeouts, twelve walks, thirty five
percent strike out rate, twelve percent walk rate. And if it
sounds familiar, it's because it's almost identical to the numbers
I just read about Cam Slitler soon remember, inning one
fewer strikeout than a slightly higher walk rate. But no
promotion for Tie yet. He's still at Double A. But

(18:40):
that doesn't mean it's not coming. I think Tampa handles
their prospects a little bit differently, and they're successful at it,
so I'm not criticizing. I'm saying they're more likely to
kind of let the marinate at a lower level and
move him up later. But the guy is he's dealing.
His swinging strike rate is sixteen point seven percent, which
if you're not intimately familiar with some of these stats,

(19:04):
I did a quick run for all minor league pitchers
who have thrown at least thirty innings pitch this year,
and sixteen point seven is the twentieth highest for all
minor league pitchers. So when we talked about somebody in
the high teens with a swinging strike.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Rate, that's very, very good.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
And so he's missing bats, which is what you really
like to see. Last month, I had him on the
hot seat, and Ty Johnson, you are off the hot seat.
So nine percent. I can see why because it's probably
going to be a little bit longer before he makes
his major league debut. But once he moves up to
Triple A, I think he's going to be flying off

(19:41):
of watch lists and onto rosters. So I think you
want to be part of that.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
All right.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
My last team in the NL East is the Washington Nationals,
and my name there will remain the same with Angel fellies.
He's actually a player that I've been. He caught my
end of last year and he's living up to it.
Although it's he's a sneaky one, he's a sneaky deep
to go to that harken back to that phrase. So

(20:12):
his counting stats do not look pretty. He's got zero
home runs so far at the complex. You know, he's
played twenty four games, like many of them. Zero home
runs at the complex and only two stolen bases. But
he still has a WRC plus a one thirty two
because he's got eight extra base hits all in all

(20:35):
in the month's worth of games, three weeks worth of games.
Basically his triple slashes three nineteen, four oh six, four forty.
He's a tall or room he's got. He's got room
to add muscle to that frame. He's six foot three
and he does not look much heavier than the one
eighty five if even one eighty five is what his

(20:55):
listed weight is, so we're still projecting that power to come.
His ground ball rate is fifty percent, so that can
definitely improve a bit. He's not hitting the ball into
the air a lot, and I think that with you
know has ages. As he gained some strength, that power
is going to come. He's making great contact seventy five

(21:15):
percent less than twelve percents. We need strike rate. This
guy is what I want out of my long term
shortstop prospects. He is only two percent rostered. He is
not yet drafted in the at the time of recording
in the Sea Vault, I will be changing that when
I pick and a dozen or so picks here. He's

(21:38):
the top one hundred prospect in my eyes, and I
think you can get him for much less than that
in your leagues and angel fellies, Washington Nationals scoop him.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
If your draft slows down and you need me to
hold off on posting this so people don't hear the name.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Let me know that's fine, It's fine. You know that
means we got means we got loyal listeners. Go and
site me please.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
I think we do.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
And in Toronto, I have my first change. I had
Charles McAdoo on the list and Nope. Since our last update,
he has hit two three with only two home runs.
And I don't know if I called him a hot
seater or not last time, but he definitely was. But
we're going to move him to the nothing to see
here list for now. I made that mistake before, but

(22:28):
I don't no need to go and get him now.
And if he eats up later, you know, good for
him and good if you have him. But I'm going
to move on to somebody who's actually a little more
ranked or roster than mcado. McAdoo is ranked at five percent.
Cal Stephen, who's eight percent ranked. Cal is a picture.

(22:49):
His first name is spelled k h A L, and
then Steven is ste p h e N. Here's Toronto's
second round pick the Mississippi State last year. Quick aside,
I like three or four names I was looking at
getting ready for this of second rounders who are not

(23:09):
rostered very much. I think that there was a feeling
last year, the strong feeling that last year's draft wasn't
as top heavy and as exciting as the year before
and maybe the year before that. But there's a lot
of second rounders who are getting off to really good starts.
And Cal's not the first one we're going to talk about.
But back to Cal. He was out of Mississippi State,
transferred there from Perdue. He was promoted to single A

(23:32):
from single A to High A after just eight games,
and he's pitched four games in High A with no
dropoff in his statistics. Overall, his strikeout rate is over
thirty percent, walk rate at five percent, with a whip
under one, and he's only started a two home runs
so far this year. So everybody's watching you, Savage for
very good reason and tie them in. But while they're

(23:54):
doing that, I encourage everybody to keep an eye on
Cal Stephen in the Toronto system. I think he's another
live arm and somebody well worth keeping a close eye
on as he moves up.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
You know.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
And just as an aside, you mentioned the perceptions of
an FYPD, and it's funny to me that it often
seems that there are stigmas as we enter the next
cycle and leaving the old cycle, and it's hard not
to compare everyone does, but like it always seems like

(24:27):
the nostalgia factor always is, oh yeah, last year's class
was so much better. This year's class of stinks. And
then as we all individually dive into them, our opinions change.
We're like, what do you know? These guys are also
very good at baseball, And there always seems to be
diamonds in the rough and value throughout, and it might

(24:47):
not be. You know, I think a lot of times
the comparisons are on the top names, and that could
be accurate that this year's top names might not match
last year's top names. But I'm sure we'll still find
plenty of players to fawn over in a few months.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yep, we will.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
We will any whom I'll move to the Chicago Cubs
my first I know central team Jackson Wiggins. Uh sticking
strong with him as he is performing strong still. He
was promoted to double a shortly after our last recording.

(25:23):
If we remember, he was striking out guys. I was
a little concerned about his walk rates, or at least
historically his walk rates haven't been too good. And he's
keeping those minimized striking out over thirty percent of the batters,
walking around seven percent of the batters. That's a twenty
three percent K minus walk, which is glorious. That is

(25:45):
a that is wonderful to see. That's what I love
to see. His ground ball rate is holding at thirty
nine percent, which is not great, and he's leaving a
lot of guys on base, which is also good. So
he's probably pitching a little bit above his performance right
now with that left on base rate of eighty percent,

(26:06):
but his last start last week, I mean, I'm waiting
for him to get this his start this week. I
was hoping he was pitching last night, but he wasn't,
which would have been Thursday night. He damn pitched. But
on the eighth of June. I think this start put
a lot of people's eyeballs on him. Five innings, eight k,
zero walks, and four hits. So I it's just that's

(26:29):
that's the kind of line that you love, especially at
an advanced level. His roster ship went from five percent
last month to eight percent. I think I've seen some
rumblings about him being a top one hundred prospect. I
would put him up there for certain. I took him
as a top one hundred in that seed draft. I
think in the fourth round. Nope, fifth, so just over

(26:52):
one hundredth pick. So yeah, it's Jackson Wiggins. He is.
He's doing what we want to do, is avoiding the
the RP concerns so far that we had post draft
with him. Jackson Wagan's Chicago Cubs.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, I think between you're talking about him last time
in that in that start, I saw a lot of
transition transaction notes on leagues that I'm in that he
was getting picked up in the past couple of weeks,
and I didn't go back and look at the start,
so I didn't know what trigger did. But I was thinking, wow,
Chris is really onto something there, like and I think, uh,
I think I may have slept on that one.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Maybe he's on.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
My watch last, but I thought, okay, I'll get him later.
But he's been getting snapped up in a lot of
leagues I'm in too, so.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
And he could be a trade candidate if the Cubs
are gonna go for major league pitching, assumably based off
of what's happening there at the deadline, I could see
him switching teams. Unfortunately for my JTR thirty purposes.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, it's always a fun uh A bittersweet time when
they're like, oh good they were they were wanted somebody.
I was right, and now I've got to find somebody
else to fill last lot. Staying in Chicago, I'm staying
with Javier Mogelon and mog O ll O n. Javier
is a nineteen year old in single A and.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
He started out okay.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
So we're gonna keep with him, but he is going
to be my first hot seat of the month. He's
sitting two sixty five then on basis percentage of four
oh five and a slug of four ninety two. He's
got twenty three percent strikeout rate, but a really high
walk rate that goes with that of fifteen percent, and
he has still on fifteen bases. I think he's somebody
who just needs to keep an eye on the hit

(28:37):
tool once he starts swinging the bat more. I'm still
sorry a moving off Jirel pere Perez too soon in
this organization, so I'd like to see more from a
goaling before I lock you in or move him off
one way or the other. So I'm going to keep
him on the hot seat. You know, not a whole
lot to add at this point. There's not a lot
of statistics behind it. But he's a second base shortstop,

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nineteen years old in the in the single A in
the White Sox, and looks to be somebody's going to
be a solid middle infielder, but very very early to tell.
And I'm just going to leave it at that and
see what else percolates, either in his game or in
the White Sox system. Oh and by the way, he's
a four percent rostered on fan tracks very good.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
From your hot seedar to my hot seedar. That I'm
adding is Adam sir Winsk Sermanowski of the Cincinnati Reds pitcher.
And it's not really any fault of his that I'm
hot seating him, other than just ready to find someone
a little bit more dynamic. Perhaps I don't know. He's
still in High A. He's he's a twenty one year

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old and pitching in High A. He's striking out fifteen.
He's got fifty nine k's and forty just under forty
three innings and walking less than a better per innion
obviously is a good or every other inning twenty two walks.
He's he's performing while his era is on par with
his He's got a kind of elevated babbit. But the

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thing is that makes me really kind of hesitant long
term for him is that he still has a ground
ball rate less than forty percent, and again with Great
American small park up looming ahead unless he gets moved
for some reason, that's concerning for me. So to boot

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on that or to add on to that as well.
The Reds do have a decent stable of young arms,
so it might be hard for him to break on
through because his numbers are good, but they're not exceptional.
So it's kind of going to be this opportunity versus
yield sign in the front. So, Adam Sarwanowski, you're a

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three percent rostered, you're hot seated. I probably will be
looking to find something a little bit more popping, more standout.
If he continues to just be solid over the next month.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Hopefully you're hot sea magical work and he'll take off.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
In Cleveland. I'm keeping on my list at Alfonsin Rosario,
who is four percent rostered.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
In fan tracks.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Rosario was a twenty year old outfielder in High A
and I've got faith in Cleveland in terms of their development.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
I know they're.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Better track record with pitchers, but they're not not bad
with hitters either, So I like the system that he's in.
They traded last year, they traded Eli Morgan to get him,
which is kind of an interesting trade. Eli Morgan is
a solid reliever, he's a good bullpen piece, and the
Cubs are glad to have them in Cleveland received Rosario

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one for one which I think we talked before with
gosh can remember the guy somebody who was named traded
for Tommy Famers so a year or so ago. But
when a minor league player gets traded one up for
an established major leaguer, you know, even a kind of
middle reliever, it's it's eye catching. And I think with
Rosario there's there's a good reason for it. He has

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a Grade fifty five game power and sixty for the
raw power, which is tasty. I said, ten home runs
so far in eight stolen bases. I don't love the
twenty percent strikeout rate, but it is lower than last year.
It's going in the right direction, so the hit tools
are risk but I still think you should be rostered
at over four percent. So alfonse for Rosario moving up

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through the Cleveland system, somebody you know, as with all
those guys, but somebody else really to keep an eye on,
and if the power takes off, the kind of profile
that can move through a system pretty quickly.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
It was Jeremy Rodriguez, the Nuts and the Diamondbacks swap
for fam.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Thank you, yeank you.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
I had to use the internet, but yes, and we
did talk about that when it happened yeah, all right,
I'm going to go to my first swap here Milwaukee Brewers.
I had josh Adam Showski. Adam, I see, I'm slaughtering
his name again even though I know how to say

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at this time. But he's he's I feel bad because
he was performing, but he also hasn't played since our
last recording because of back discomfort. So and also he's
a middle infielder who's look to be fine. He was successful,
but I'm looking for a little bit more heat, a

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little more spice in my JTR thirty these days, and
I don't know if he was necessarily going to be that.
So I'm going to switch to another low A baseball
player for the Brewers, and that's Jose Anderson, who's only
nine percent ranked. So I feel like he was almost
cheating because he's definitely getting more spice about him. And

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that's because at the beginning of the year. So first
of all, Jose Anderson, he's an outfielder. He's built, he's thick,
he's two hundred pounds, six foot two, he's got above
average raw power, his hit tools.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
The question.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
He's now at single A, but he started at complex
and he lit up the complex to start the year.
That's when he started getting a lot of digital ink
smelled about him. And then he got promoted to low
Way to join that grouping of the high Octa and
prospects at Lowe. And he's not doing as well at

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now that he's been promoted, which you know shouldn't be
that surprising. He's an eighteen year old at Lowa. He's
not super far advanced for his age, but he's dynamic.
This could start clicking, you know, there's always an I
shouldn't say always, but there's often an adjustment period for
these raw people with not strong hit tools. But Hose
Anderson nine percent raided joining the parade of the pennyas

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in the Mades and the Adam Schefski's there at Carolina.
Jose Anderson, the walking Brewers outfielder, all.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Right, totally off my radar, So I just called him
up real quick. He is only eighteen years old, so
there's going to be that development as well. Of course,
his walk rate cut in half when you move from
the complex to single, from like eighteen percent to nine percent,
and the k rate went from twenty to twenty nine.
So either the pitching's better, I'm sure it is, and

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he may be a little impatient right now with the
move up or could be coaching with it, getting them
to swing more.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
So I can see some.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Things there that are probably going to even out over time,
and I wouldn't and you're not panic. I'm not saying
you're panicking, but I wouldn't panic over the slow start
at that level for an eighteen year old.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah, and you know, that could be a great opportunity
as a fantasy manager, because a player gets hype while
performing at a lower level and but far enough away
where it's like putting on radars. Maybe someone's got them
in the churn and burn spot on their team and
then he struggles at the next level. Could present a

(36:20):
good opportunity, you know, at each level when this sort
of thing happens, as an opportunity to get your clause
in them yourself, so to speak to someone else rostered
him first and put them in your churn and burn
and hold on to him because I think ultimately the
tools will prevail here and he could be a fun

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guy that they will watch them develop in their system.
And so now's the you know, another window of opportunity
for you.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
I love looking at leagues where he is rostered or not,
and then seeing which fantasy managers have I'm like, oh,
of course that guy does. Yeah, you learn pretty quickly
who the other sharks are in the waters, right yep,
all right, So moving on to I would be in Detroit.

(37:13):
Jade and Ham picture in the Detroit system rostered at
thirteen percent. To be fair, he's leveling off a little bit.
Still a high quality pitcher in the Detroit system. They're
becoming a bit of a pitching factory in terms of
how they're approaching the development top to bottom, you know.
And to be fair, I'm not saying that he's SP
one material, but definitely SP three potential SP four floor

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within a few years. He still striking up more than
one per inning. The walks have been coming down lately,
not blowing me away with the statue last month, and
I'm not going to spend a lot of time going
over that, I'll admit, but I'm still riding the Jade
and Ham train right now, and I'm unfortunately it's the
twenty percent.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
I think that in a game we.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Play where pitch is so valuable, and all of you
know this, because I'm sure all of you have injury
lists that look like mine, where there's like one hitter
and the rest of the allotment his pictures like three
Timmy Johns announced in the past two weeks. I'm trying
to think of the name real quick.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
At any rate.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Unfortunately, here we're turning through them at the major league level,
and so prospects are going to be bumped up. So
stop sleeping on on Jade and Ham Again, not a
not a diamond in the rough in terms of the
future ace, but he's going to be a solid fantasy contributor.
And I don't think that's too far away given the way.
Uh yeah, they've got to move some people with Jackson

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job and others finding themselves on the.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
I l there you go. I was I thought you
were just having self induced amnesia there about one of
those names.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Now, that's one came to mind, and there were a
couple others. But yeah, it's it's sad news, so I
kind of block it away in that part of my brain.
This is my happy place.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
I was actually somewhat surprised nically that it took two months,
three months for these names to start happening this year.
It seemed like previously recently it was one month and
for a lot of them. Anyway, I'll moved to Pittsburgh
and we got Javier Revas. Uh still one percent injured

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or one percent injuries, one percent rostered. And he's still
in High A. He's still striking out only about twenty
just you know, twenty twenty three percent of the time
his contact right, he is still just below seventy percent.

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He's not changing. Uh, he's got eleven homers, you know,
not quite as prolific power month as April was for him,
but he's up to eleven homers at HYA as a
twenty two year old or so, yeah, twenty two years old.
He's having a successful season at High A. I'm I

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want him to be promoted to Double A. I want
to see what happens when he moves him when he
moves up the development ladder. Here for those who don't
remember Haviy or Revs, because he's only one percent roster,
I doubt a lot of people are as familiar. But
he's had horrendous contact rates up until this year, and
this year it started to click, so I understand the

(40:23):
pirates are slow rolling him. I'll keep him on here
until either he struggles at hia or I'm gonna stick
with him here for a while, but he's I have
him hot seat demarcated. But that's more of just making
sure I'm staying honest with my evaluation of him here.

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And he's not striking out worse, he's not reverting, and
he's still hitting Homer's. I just I want to see
him perform at double A, and we'll keep an eye
on Javier Rivas Pittsburgh Pirates third Basement excellent.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
And in Kansas City here I come in Aspell Gonzales.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
There you go, my friend.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
As Bell Gonzalez is on my list last time at
six percent rostered, and he's managed a one to eighty
six batting average since then, which, if you're not familiar
with batting averages, that's not good. So I'm going to
look at another second round pick from last year's draft,
a picture by the name of David Shields.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
He was a second round pick out of high school
eighteen years old. How do you spell risk? However, and
although I'm often hesitant on players, particularly pictures this young,
he's off to a bit of a special start. He
had one game in the complex before they moved him
into single A. Where he's had five starts, three of

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them he's given up no runs allowed and a thirty
percent strikeout rate, four point five percent walk rate, and
a whip under one. So we the swinging strike rate
is actually on the lower side. It's about ten point
five percent in the single a. So you know he's
getting the strikeouts by you know, fooling them, you know.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Pretty high called strike ratio.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
And when you know when the ball is going into play,
it's uh fifty ground ball rate, So he's keeping the
ball in the park, letting his fielders.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Do what they do. You know.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Really like what I've seen. He is a left handed pitcher.
I don't think I said that. There's always kind of
a little bit of a value there. The slider and
change are his best pitches. The fastball is something he's
going to need to develop, and I think at that
age in development will probably come along. I don't think
he's had his t J yet, and that's the last
time I'm going to mention that. But the scouts love

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his command. His command grade coming out of high school
was a future grade of sixty, which always catches my eye.
So David Shields in the Kansas City system a left
handed pitcher to keep an eye on young Risky. Only
seven percent rostered in fan tracks, but my Royal JTR
thirty entry.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
Yeah, he's been catching my eye on some of my
shallower leagues at this point, just crossing that Missouri River
in a state I guess is Saint Louis and Jimmy
Crooks has been my JTR thirty. He is seven percent
ranked this year this month, which is where he was

(43:37):
last year last month. Wow, twice in a row. You
know he's turning himself around. If we remember early our
last meeting, he wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire.
Is actually performing relatively poorly below average, And I said
he was boring, and he continues to be mostly boring.

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He's a cat He's not a dynamic catcher. He's a
glove first catcher who had a great year last year
at Double A. He's now still at Triple A. He's
now league average bat at Triple A, which is good,
especially for a twenty three year old catcher. But it's
not super flashy. So stay the course if you roster him,

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that offense is taken a bit to progress. He's not
gonna be He's not looking to be fantasy impactful in
the near future unfortunately, so I'll probably be unless he
has a hot month, I'll probably be cashing him out.
There's you know, Joshua Bayez is getting a lot of

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press in Saint Louis. There are some interesting fantasy prospects
down there, So we'll see what happens is next month.
But Jimmy Cooks is hot seeded, I think because he's
stable as a table but not knocking my socks off.
Platitudes I guess.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Keep them coming because I always need a father for
the notes. So I'm going to move up river, up
the Mississippi River, this time to Minnesota from San Louis,
where I'm going to make a change. I had Brandon
Winnaker on there thirteen percent rostered. Winnaker does have six

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home runs and thirteen stolen bases, and I think in
a lot of organizations I would be keeping him on
the list, But Minnesota's got a few names, and so
since Winker is kind of cooling off and up blowing
me away, and there's just somebody else I really want
to talk about it, I'm going to move Winnaker to
the nothing to see here list, even though in all honesty,
there's a little something to see there. Don't completely write

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him off, but I do want to talk about Kayln Culpeper,
who was a first round pick in last year's drafted.
He's only fourteen percent roster. You've probably heard the name.
I see his name a lot, but I'm really surprised
at the at the roster ship level there. He moved
from single to High A last year after being drafted,

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so in a short time as a pro, they actually
moved him there, and he's been playing in High A
all year. This year, Culpepper is hitting two ninety nine
with a three eighty eight OBP in four ninety seven slugging,
which is so temptingly close to the three four five
year old so much Chris, I think, really one more
home run might put him over on all three of

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those categories. And speaking of a home runs, he's hit
eight of them and stolen fourteen bases. He has a
seventy nine percent overall contact rate and only a ten
percent swinging strike rate. So I love the back to
ball skills, all the ball control. He's a shortstop. He's
been playing shortstop, playing it pretty well from everything that

(46:54):
I can see, so I definitely expect him to stick there.
There's been like one game at third base and everything
else been a short stops, so uh, you know that's
where he's going to be for the next while. I'm
not going to get called up this year, I don't.
I'd be amazed if that happened. However, I do think
he's going to move up quickly. I wouldn't be at
all surprised to see. I mean, your promotion could be

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the kind of prospect they move, you know, if they
are buyers at the deadline, but I don't think so.
I think they're pretty high on him. I think it
would take a lot for a team to to get
him out there. So Klan which is spelled k A
E l e n on the first name, Culpepper of
Minnesota fourteen percent rosters. So he's not one of the
deeper guys we're going to talk about today, but still

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that good. That fourteen percent strikes me as kind of
shockingly low for him.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Yeah, he the Twins. They have a type in the
first round, right that that ready college bat, you know,
kind of vanilla fantasy purposes college bat. But Culpepper we
thought fit that mold and is looking a little bit
more dynamic and fantasy relevant than some other more choices. Yeah,

(48:03):
I like that. So headed to my NL West team,
we go from a Finnish college ball product to someone
who I recently described as nageary raw and that's Titus Sissel,
who if we remember to me last for what I

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was saying last time, I'm pulling that back up. But basically,
he had a combo meal an opening day and then
struck out a whole bunch. And let's just say his
performance has not deviated much from the remainder of that.
He's got thirty six percent k rate and at the
complex he's batting two fourteen. OBP is two seventy blah

(48:49):
blah blah. I don't need to go too much more
in detail to show you that those numbers are not pretty.
But when I described him as nagery Rods because he's
a switch hitting uh high school recent high school draftee.
Last year he was paid overslought by the Diamondbacks. They
I think they do a good job of identifying talent.

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It's more of just if they're able to operationalize that talent.
So he's gonna he's hot seeded for me cutt into
the cutting to the chase here, Titus Sissel, I want
to stay the course. He's raw, let's see him developed,
but he does need to get better here at the
complex of fifty two WRC plus as as a nineteen

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year old and is not going to cut it. So
stay patient, don't start moving him yet necessarily, but.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
We got to.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
Once we get to that all start our next meeting.
We'll we'll see where he's at, and he might be
he might be off the list.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
A critical month. And by the way, how many book
clubs have sushi? So thank you for alchie. I'm going
to move to the athletics wherever they are. And boy,
we were striking while the iron was hot. I was
talking about Gage Jump a month ago and he was
eleven percent rostered at the time, and in a recent
discussion I kind of referred to him as one of

(50:13):
my favorite overlook guys right now, and people are jumping
all over and be like, what are you talking about overlooked?
Everybody's on him, everybody's moving him up lists, and I thought, okay, well,
maybe I'm a month late with his comment, but he
was at the time. Gage has moved up to twenty
three percent, rostered from eleven percent a month ago, so
and that's all due to him. But I'm just kind

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of glad that he's getting the notice that he deserves.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
So, like Nester.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Hrman, he was promoted the week after we posted, which
probably had a lot to do with that. People kind
of saw the promotion there and the roster ship took off.
So I'm going to welcome Henry. And I don't know
if it's Bolter boltay, but.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
I like the idea.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
I think it's just Bolt.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Well.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
I like the idea that it's bold because he wrote
almost like a baseball version of Hussein Bolt. Henry Bolton
is eighty grade speed and unlike other speedsters who have
broken our fantasy hearts over the time, it looks like
Bolt can put the bat on the ball enough to
get on base. Right now, he is hitting two eighty

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eight three ninety eight four fifty eight in the uh About.
He's an outfielder in the Double A for Oakland. Sorry
to in write it down, So hitting two eighty with
a three ninety eight OBP at Double A is encouraging.
We've seen some profiles like that not carried on up.
So there's a little bit of risk there, but he's

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at six home runs in twenty three stolen bases. And
the part that gives me the concern is there is
some swing and missing this game, and he's got an
extremely high BABUP, which is likely due to his speed
beating out on some base hits. So his BABUB is
three ninety six this year. Don't know if that's sustainable

(51:59):
because it's not based on line drives. When we see
some guys who keep a really high BABU carry out
through their career tend to be hard line drive hitters.
You know, Bolt is still hitting a lot of ground balls,
so I'm not quite sure if Major league and Triple
A defenses are going to catch up to that as
he progresses. Something to keep an eye on, but right
now in the athletic system, which is kind of top heavy,

(52:22):
but if you're looking deeper in there, you know, I
think he's a good player to keep an eye on.
He's twelve percent rostered, so you know, it's not like
he's you know, very deep on the list, but he's
still probably available in most of your leagues and definitely
somebody I would have watch list. And then shallow ware leagues.
If he's out there, we want to put him in
that that kind of turn and burn spot you have
on your list, and see what happens in the next

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couple of months, and then if there's a promotion, and
keep a close eye on what he does in Triple
A and if the if you're still getting on base
and putting the ball in play, he could be could
fill a couple of categories that are helpful on the
roster around. He's not going to project to be a
huge power guy, but you can get on base and
steal some basis for you good a good roster development

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kind of players. That's Henry Bolt with the Athletics with
an E on the end of Bolt.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Yeah, and he's got a good line drive right mid twenties.
He hits the ball onto the ground a decent amount,
So it's not a great launch angle, but or at
least what I interpret to be his launch angle. But
he's able to usele If he's you know, gap power
with that kind of speed, that's that's awesome. So yeah,

(53:30):
Henry Bolt, I dig him. Yep, speaking of gap power,
look at that segue brings us to Colorado and sticking
with Kyle Carros out of their certain basement. Yeah, I know,
he's up to ten doubles on the year with a

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sixteen plus percent walk rate. You know, I'm I'm he's
a doubles machine. He's if you're in a total bases
or like an OPS league, I think he's going to
be undervalued, and he doesn't. He strikes out less than
once per game and he's just gonna he might not

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have that over the fence power, but with how huge
that outfield is, it could be really fun to see
what he's like as a fantasy value when he's in
the majors. Of course, it's also Colorado, so who knows
when that road to the majors will be. It could
be tomorrow or it could be in five years. So
Kyle Carros sticking on the list. He's still eight percent rostered,

(54:37):
but I think he's a big bump if you're a
total base league and not a home run legue. I
just want to emphasize that because I know that those.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Exist and a following a number of Colorado fans on
on Blue Sky and they are clamoring for his call up.
You know, they fans of the Rockies know who he
is and can't to see him there, and I don't
think that's going to carry any weight with the ownership
and uh administration there, but you know, they love him

(55:07):
and I think, uh, I think there will be like
you said, some some fantasy relevance there. So I'm excited
and I wouldn't mind seeing him move to another organization.
If people are trying to pick up prospects and that
they're not going to be they probably want to hold
on to their their prospects and see what you can
get for them. But uh, you know, somebody's looking at
to fill fill a gap. He's a nice Uh, he's
a nice piece to have agreed, So moving on to Houston,

(55:33):
just walk away, remee.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Remy Rodriguez has uh well this month, he's had more
walks than strikeouts. But he's a pitcher. So if he's
a hitter, i'd love it. As a pitcher, I don't,
So I'm gonna move Remy Rodriguez off the list and
going back to the f I B D F I
PD pool. Although much later picked on a second round pick,

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I'm looking at Joseph Sullivan, an outfielder who is currently
playing high A five percent rushed on fan tracks. He
caught my eye when we're doing the FIPD rankings and
a draft because of his power stroke in the added
speed and the backstory which I haven't heard. He's the
grandson of a Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan at Auburn,

(56:19):
and soon nice articles came out about kind of what
he learned from his grandfather about humility, and I just
still like reading for guys like that. But humility, although honorable,
is not a fantasy category, so I'll talk about the
ones that are. The power is real. The young man's
hit twelve home runs already, The speed is real, he

(56:39):
has twenty two stolen bases. The twenty one percent walk
rate is excellent, The twenty eight percent strikeout rate is concerning.
So the results put all together, you get a two
twenty eight batting average but an oba over four hundred.
The funny thing about it is his swinging strike is low.

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It's only nine point four percent, so he's just watching
too many pitches. So I don't know if he's being
fooled by pitches or if he's just overly selective. But
if he does, if and when he does start swinging more,
if the contact rate keeps up, he'll moved through the
system pretty quickly, so I think he's somebody who kind
of people know. I do see his name bandied around

(57:22):
a bit. He's you said, he's five percent rosters, who's
not a complete unknown, but he's the kind of profile
that with a few tweaks since the development could take off.
I mean, it could crash and burn if if he
just doesn't swing because he knows he can't hit pitches
and the strike out rate stays where it is. But
I think from seeing the contact rate when he does
swing the bat as high as he is, I've got

(57:44):
high hopes for him, and I think he's uh definitely
being overlooked and there should be some more eyes on
what Joseph Sullivan is doing in the Houston system.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
Yeah. I do like Sullivan as well. And speaking of
dynamic young outfielders, that brings me to Brandon Tunic again
of the LA Dodgers. He was my addition to the
JTR last time, and he had just started a complex

(58:16):
season and was looking pretty good in two games to
five games deep. Well we're now twenty eight games deep.
He's got three homers, but also he has ten doubles
and four triples. That'll play. He's nine for eleven on
the base paths. In short, he is raking in the
complex right now, because obviously that's what the Dodgers need,

(58:39):
is more prospects to line their coffers via trade or
slow promotions. He's playing in center field. It seems to
be a solid game at centerfield. His frame, his room
for power, so he could end up moving to a
corner outfield spot. And he also has thirty four strike

(59:00):
in twenty eight games, so we'll see as long as
that hit tool can stick. But I'll be honest, the
Dodgers don't move there. They have a lot of prospects,
so it's hard for them to promote aggressively. He might
very well play the entire year a complex. He might
be trade bait. He should be rostered more than three

(59:23):
percent Brandon Tunic outfielder for the Dodgers. He's looking in
every bit of a dynamic outfielder. I kind of want
to say, like like perhaps Ti Oscar kind of lines
when all of a sudden done, That's kind of what
I see here. He's even got the similar what I

(59:44):
think to be similar frame at least when he's ten
years younger. But Brandon Tunic Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
And now I'm at the because we have to have
one organization, the Angels, and I had Rowdy Rodriguez on
my list and he had a meh month of May
and total so far three home runs. He does steal
some bases, but he's not getting on base at a
high enough rate to balance everything out. So I like

(01:00:12):
to freshwater fish when we're having a bad day fishing,
I just kind of go deep in the tackle box
and throw out different lures and see if anything works.
And I think that's what we do with the Angels,
is just throw out names and see if they work
and go from there. So this month, I welcome in
Jorge Marchako to the JTR thirty. Marcheko is a right
handed pitcher and he's thrown forty nine innings so far

(01:00:34):
in High A this year, and in those forty nine innings,
he's got a twenty seven percent k rate and a
five percent walk rate. His swinging strike rate is relatively
low at ten percent, the called strike rate is up
to nineteen percent. Admittedly, fooling batters at High A will
be easier than in the majors or higher levels of
the minors. So the development needs to come along. But

(01:00:56):
for right now, those numbers and a zero point ninety
five whip are are good. That's going to play at
any level, and I'm not going to say that he
won't develop.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
I don't know much about him.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
I don't love the organization for him, but but I
do like what I see there. I'm kind of all
hitting aside so one percent roster, which is understandable. He's
not on you know, anybody's radar, and he's not in
an organization we're watching closely. But Jorge Marchico of the
Angels might just be somebody who's going to stick on
the list for a while. So I'm gonna watch him

(01:01:26):
closely and encourage you to do so as well.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
All Right, yep, that brings me. That's a poor segue,
but we'll roll with it. To San Diego. Umberto Cruz
is my name there and he remains to be my name.
Even though his rostership has dropped from four percent last
month to three percent. He's if we hark back to

(01:01:51):
what I had previously said, he wasn't He did not
have a lengthy career, even in the minors, and he's
up to eleven innings now, total pitch to almost twelve
as of yesterday. I didn't look to see if he
pitched last night, but he's got eleven strikeouts but four walks.
I mean the kid. Unfortunately he did not pitch last night.

(01:02:15):
He's young enough. He's actually only eighteen. He would probably
be this would probably be his draftyar if he wasn't
an international signee two years ago. So you know he's
pitching in the complex. He can't expect too much from
someone on that age deviation, so he's a big scouting

(01:02:35):
heart throb. I guess fastball, slider change. He's not huge either,
so he could end up being a relief guy. It's
going to be a long trail for him, but San
Diego has done well in developing, or at least I
should say san Diego can scout the hell out of
a lot of players. It's and obviously their park plays

(01:02:57):
more towards pitchers in the long run, but there's a
lot of steps between complex ball for a picture or
for even a batter and making it to the major leagues.
So we'll keep keep an eye out. He'll be a
slow role. I'm going to watch him. Hopefully we get
some improvement on some of his peripheral numbers. But I'll
have a longer leash with Humberto Cruz and we'll see

(01:03:19):
what happens with him here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
And then I've got a mystery going on in Seattle,
and that is ready tomorrow and Navarro talk about the
you know where are you ready? I had thought he
was going to be in the complex system this year.
He still hasn't pitched in the system. I cannot find
an injury report on him, so I don't have much

(01:03:45):
to say, and I hate to disappointment. I'm just going
to keep him on the list right now until he
does something one way or another. So if you're coming
in for your deep Mariner's content, I apologize, And if
if he stays in mystery, I'll just kind of move
them off the list and do something different next time.
But again, you know, last year, as a beau as

(01:04:05):
eighteen year old in the DSL, and I put us
some really tantelizing numbers, and I saw on the Seattle
beat writers his name popped up a lot in the spring.
Is a prospect to keep an eye on, so it's
not as random as it sounds as I talk about him. Here,
but I really can't wait to see what he does
when he gets there, so I'm goin to keep him there.

(01:04:27):
And again, the Seattle system, I think is not as
desolate as the Angels.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
I think it's kind of top heavy and people pick
it over.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
So there's really not a lot of other players out
there who I think, well, I really want to talk
about this guy because those players are already rostrated at
pretty high level. So I'm going to keep reading Navorrow
on the list, and I promise either better content when
we update a month from now. So how's that, Chris?

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Good?

Speaker 4 (01:04:51):
And we can we can pin it for next time. Yeah,
all right, And I hope you don't get upset with
who I'm going with here in San Francisco. So I
had saving Seballos on the hot seat about his His
lack of power was my concern. I continue to be concerned.
I won't go into it. He just doesn't have the

(01:05:12):
thump I was looking for as a third base prospect.
So I am dipping into your ink or you're well
and Bo Davidson, Oh yeah, yeah, he's he's only eight
percent rostered. He's old for the level twenty two and
a high a. But he is a man amongst children,

(01:05:35):
man amongst boys there in high A. And she asked me.
Seven home runs so far this year, ten stolen bases.
It's a WRC plus A one fifty seven. He you know,
he makes good contact at about seventy six percent. He
doesn't swing and miss too often, well below average there.

(01:05:56):
He's he's looking like he's going to be a major
League baseball player, and no one's really giving him much attention.
And you know, he got a flurry of news with
his his backstory as he was hot to end last
year and he's just continuing that. So Bo Davidson needs
more attention. And eight percent rostered currently in fan tracks

(01:06:19):
and the dems of rookie numbers, let's bring those up.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Yeah, and you know I agree with with that obviously.
And his strike out rate is going in the right
direction too. You know, he's just a tick over twenty
one percent now. It was almost twenty five percent last year.
So love to see that development. So hey, thanks for
bringing them on board.

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Yeah, of course, hey, thank you, you bet.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
And then to wrap it up in Texas, uh, Alejandro Osuna,
we see you, and I think we wrapped up last
time by saying kind of wonder if you'll get called
up if Texas needs a boost, and both they had
an injury and boost, and so Alejandro Soona got the call,
which moves him off of our list, and I'm going

(01:07:06):
to add on David w Leo.

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
I had him highlighted and his name came up in
an email weekly report from our friends at the Upside Report,
So people in and out of the industry are noticing
what w Leo is doing lately. He is a twenty
two year old right handed pitcher in Hia with Texas
right now and in forty nine innings, sixty eight strikeouts

(01:07:34):
and only eleven walks, pretty sweet, resulting in a whip
of zero point seventy five. And when batters do hit
the ball, it's on the ground. He's got a fifty
five percent ground ball rate. So really excited what David
dea Leo can do in Double A. Gotta believe promotion
is coming. Texas, if you don't know, has got a

(01:07:58):
pretty good stable of pictures in their minor league system,
so they again they know what they're doing in terms
of their scouting and who they pick up, and they
also know what they're doing in terms of development. So
I like what w has to offer, and the past
few days have been pretty aggressive trying to get him
onto rosters. Yeah, you know, he's somebody who particularly with

(01:08:20):
the I think I said last time, I like to
stockpile the pitching. You know, I don't want to risk
keeping him on a watch list right now, I'm trying
to grab him where I can.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
So David W.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Leo wraps up our list for today. Chris, any final
thoughts before we sign off?

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
No? When can we do this again?

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Uh, all were together in a couple of weeks talk
about our rankings and then we'll bring the GT threety out.
So I do to This's been a lot of fun. Uh,
It's just it's seeming fun just getting ready for this episode.
It's it's just I hope the listeners have as much fun,
you know, listening to this as we do putting this together,
both in terms of the preparation and then more importantly,

(01:09:02):
I've just been able to get to chat about these
guys with you. So Chris, thank you very much. Have
a great weekend and a great couple of weeks, and
I know we'll be chatting in the meanwhile. But we're
recording again in a couple weeks as we review our
our prospect rankings, and to all our listeners out there,
I'll say it again because I mean it. I know

(01:09:23):
how valuable your time is. Thank you for spending some
of it with us.

Speaker 4 (01:09:27):
And Happy Father's Day to you, Drew and any fathers listening.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
And to you, Chris, thank you very much, Happy father to.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Take care, everyone.

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