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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to another episode of Earning Their Stripes.

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Speaker 1: My name is Danny Martinez, and as always I am

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Speaker 1: joined by Ethan Bodowski and Ian Smith. No longer introduction today,

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Speaker 1: I promise, because really there's only one place I want

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Speaker 1: to start. And Fellas, I actually even prep you for this,

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Speaker 1: but it's a question for both of you. How big

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Speaker 1: were your smiles last week after that interview with Will Stewart.

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Speaker 2: Oh, man, I couldn't ask for a better interview. I mean,

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Speaker 2: he was honest, he was polite, he was down to

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Speaker 2: talk about whatever we had for him.

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Speaker 3: It was great. I mean, we couldn't ask for a

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Speaker 3: better first interview.

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Speaker 4: My smile wasn't as big as Ian's.

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Speaker 3: I've been waiting for this man since the train.

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Speaker 2: Man, I was like waiting for this day, and I

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Speaker 2: was like, man, I don't think it was gonna happen,

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Speaker 2: and then the whole week started crazy.

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Speaker 3: But I mean we made it happen.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell I'll tell you that much.

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Speaker 5: I was really excited, but Ian was way more excited

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Speaker 5: than I was.

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Speaker 4: But no, he was great. That was so awesome, you guys.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I'm looking forward to doing more of that stuff

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Speaker 5: in the future man.

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Speaker 4: That was that was a great time. He was awesome.

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Speaker 5: And then he and then he dealt the next nighter

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Speaker 5: to the nighter or yeah we might be we might

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Speaker 5: be hearing about that later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And that's the thing I mean, for a

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Speaker 1: first interview, the guy was. The guy was great, Like

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Speaker 1: we want have asked for a better prospect, a better personality.

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Speaker 1: He was open like you guys obviously made him feel comfortable.

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Speaker 1: I texted you, guys while I was driving to work

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Speaker 1: that following day, and I told you, I have like

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Speaker 1: the biggest smile on my face right now about to

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Speaker 1: go see clients, and I just I couldn't stop smiling.

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Speaker 6: I couldn't stop.

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Speaker 1: And like in between clients, I hopefully, like the licensing

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Speaker 1: board doesn't hear this, I would crack up the rady

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Speaker 1: like the thing again to see the podcast, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was just it was. It was phenomenal. So hats

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Speaker 1: off to both of you. Appreciate that man kicked that few.

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Speaker 6: And he was fantastic. He was fantastic. All right, So

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Speaker 6: we're gonna jump in.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start off with a quick segment that we

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Speaker 1: wanted to put into this podcast. A few weeks in

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Speaker 1: a row now, but with with Will coming on and

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Speaker 1: with just a lot of content to talk, we didn't

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Speaker 1: get to it. So Baseball America releases their best tools

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Speaker 1: for all minor league prospects. So this is not just

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Speaker 1: for the Marlins, this is across all organizations, across all

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Speaker 1: levels of affiliates. They release five players that they indicate

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Speaker 1: as the best tool for X, and for Y and

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Speaker 1: for Z. Right, the Marlins, for the first time in

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Speaker 1: a while, obviously have their name like laundry list all

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Speaker 1: across these tools, whether they were selected as one of

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Speaker 1: the five or whether they were honorable mentioned. So we

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Speaker 1: want to dive into that really quickly, see which ones

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Speaker 1: we agree with, which ones we don't agree with, which

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Speaker 1: go right into it, all right, And the first one

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Speaker 1: is best defensive infielder. Okay, which player in the Marlin system?

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Speaker 1: Ian do you think that obviously goes to?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I agree with the Devers pick, but my

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Speaker 2: ultimate pick would be Bryson Brigman. He's got the potential

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Speaker 2: to play the probably the best infield from second and

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Speaker 2: shortstop currently, He's got experience, playing both. His arm isn't

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Speaker 2: that I probably think he's the best defensive infielder and

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Speaker 1: Right because that's actually the selection they got was Devers.

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Speaker 1: But as soon as as soon as I read that,

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Speaker 1: that's also who I thought of, and I actually thought

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Speaker 1: of the twenty eighteen rep that they selected for the

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Speaker 1: Markins as well, which was Chris Torres, strong infielder, upside,

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Speaker 1: even though we've seen some ups and downs with that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my question, full time at shortstop this year, which

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Speaker 6: Right right? What about you, Ethan?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I love the Devers pick.

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Speaker 5: You know, I definitely think he's the most solid position,

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Speaker 5: you know, middle infield guy that we have there. But

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Speaker 5: it just goes to show how many guys there are,

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Speaker 5: because none of us have even mentioned Asan, and he

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Speaker 5: I think that's what's really exciting is all these athletic

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Speaker 5: he can probably play both middle infield positions, and there's

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Speaker 4: And I think they got it right there.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot stronger than I expected to be out

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Speaker 3: I'm saying one forty max.

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Speaker 2: I mean I'm about buck fifty five myself, and he's

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Speaker 4: So he's only nineteen. He's only nineteen.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna get bigger, that arm is gonna get stronger,

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Speaker 5: and absolutely, and.

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Speaker 1: You guys answered really the follow up there, because what

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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask was, if we see that his frame,

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Speaker 6: Some people have an issue with his frame.

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Speaker 1: Some people think he won't have enough of a strong arm,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's just got to do it. We've been waiting

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Speaker 5: But I mean we're still talking about him being one

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Speaker 1: You know, he's got it has to happen, has to happen,

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Speaker 1: all right, So this next one will be a surprise.

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Speaker 6: Best fastball? Who you got Ethan?

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Speaker 5: I mean I would have picked Okay, personally, I would

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Speaker 5: And I guess that's why Baseball America went with the

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Speaker 5: But I'm interested to see what you guys have to say.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is tough for me.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know the amount of flamethrowers we have

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Speaker 2: Joorge as well. I mean, excuse me, George, as I've

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Speaker 2: Like the oarm actions are very simple, and he's a

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Speaker 3: He's got. It's just too much.

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Speaker 5: It's all gonna be. It's all gonna be about in

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Speaker 5: it's Guzman's fastball can light up the radar coming out

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Speaker 4: Uh, you know for six or seven innings at night, and.

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Speaker 4: About or Sandy.

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Speaker 5: Sandy's still throwing. Everybody's forgetting that. Sandy's throwing ninety eight

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Speaker 5: ninety nine every night, and he's looks like he's controlling

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Speaker 5: it a little better this year or so. You know,

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Speaker 5: if he keeps controlling that more and more, he can

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Speaker 5: end up having the best basketball. But there's a lot

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Speaker 5: got to work on the control. Which is the next one, right, Danny, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: the next one? Control?

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Speaker 1: All right, So here's we were talking about it before

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Speaker 1: and that makes sense just that face value. Nick Knighter's

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Speaker 1: so Nick Knighter get gets best control. Is there anyone

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Speaker 5: But neither start the other night is really kind of concerning.

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Speaker 5: that we've seen a really really good starts from him.

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Speaker 5: So it's nothing to absolutely freak out about. But like

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Speaker 5: you mentioned, Danny, I mean, very very uncharacteristic from him

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Speaker 5: a he got ruffed.

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Speaker 5: there's a very good argument for to be made that

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Speaker 7: Definitely, Man, it's exciting stuff at the prospects since I've

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Speaker 5: do it, along with third base or shortstop. I think

438
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Speaker 5: one of the polaces we're gonna do it is definitely

439
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Speaker 5: at first base. And Abray is not a bad option

440
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 5: at all. And Rizzo would be a great option if

441
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Speaker 5: he weren't a Cub lifer. I mean, I just think

442
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,679
Speaker 5: he's just gonna end up being with the Cubs forever.

443
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,680
Speaker 5: And it's not anything the Marlins have to do with it.

444
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Speaker 5: And I would love to make for them to make

445
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Speaker 5: a play with Rizzo.

446
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Speaker 4: It's just I don't know how. I hope, I.

447
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Speaker 3: Hope, yeah.

448
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Speaker 5: I mean, I think the one that they're less likely

449
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,639
Speaker 5: to lose. And we're getting a little off topic, but

450
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,080
Speaker 5: is Rizzo because he's just he just means so much

451
00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:53,720
Speaker 5: to that team, and I think they'll do a lot

452
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,359
Speaker 5: to lock him up. But yeah, if we get the chance,

453
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Speaker 5: there's no reason not to go after Rizzo. I totally

454
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Speaker 5: agree with you, because he's what, he's twenty eight or

455
00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 5: twenty nine right now, and and you know, in two

456
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:10,119
Speaker 5: or three years he'll be in the middle of his

457
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Speaker 5: prime or towards the back end of it. There's no

458
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Speaker 5: reason not to go after him if we can. If

459
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:18,439
Speaker 5: but it's not gonna happen anyway.

460
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Speaker 4: This is great, it's greats.

461
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Speaker 5: Just tearing my heart strings spreads because it's is Rizzo

462
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,040
Speaker 5: gonna leave the Cubs and come to the Marlins or

463
00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,560
Speaker 5: we you know, it's tearing me in both directions.

464
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,360
Speaker 4: So I mean, you can't pay like.

465
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Speaker 6: A win win, you know, either way you're good exactly.

466
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Speaker 4: It's a great option, don't get me wrong. It's a

467
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,360
Speaker 4: great option for the Marlins.

468
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Speaker 5: But a bray you, you know, talking about realistic options,

469
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,440
Speaker 5: a bray you is definitely one of them. I would

470
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Speaker 5: definitely love to see us go get Jose Abrayw because

471
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Speaker 5: I think he's a very going to be a very

472
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Speaker 5: valuable bat in a few years still, and he's great,

473
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 5: he's a good player, and he fills a position to need.

474
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 5: And yeah, I think Operation big Fish at first base

475
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:00,879
Speaker 5: is a great idea, you know, for a long term solution,

476
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 5: but there's right now, I don't know how many long

477
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 5: term solutions there are within the organization. So turning the

478
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 5: free agency might be what we have to do.

479
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then quite frankly, I'm just messing with you.

480
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: I think I'd be a cup forever. I think Rizzo

481
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 1: is going to be a cup forever. But but I

482
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Speaker 1: do think I'll Brail can make his way here.

483
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Speaker 3: You know.

484
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: I think it's always risky, and I we'll get right

485
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 1: back to prospects in a second. It's always risky to

486
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,679
Speaker 1: spend free agency money on older players. But if you're

487
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 1: going to spend on something, it's going to be a

488
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 1: first baseman with a bat, you know. I mean, that's

489
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Speaker 1: that's what you're going to spend on older free agents.

490
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Speaker 1: So we'll see how the market. We'll see how the

491
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Speaker 1: market plans have. All right, So we have we have

492
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Speaker 1: three segments because today I'm gonna be rolling in my

493
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Speaker 1: segment as well. All Right, we have Ian segment, then

494
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Speaker 1: Ethan's Things we Love to See, and my new segment,

495
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Speaker 1: which I'll give a title to in a second, and

496
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about. But with the understanding that we have

497
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Speaker 1: those three to wrap up the show, let's talk really

498
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Speaker 1: quickly about any updates to prospects that you guys might

499
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 1: feel like pointing out right. We have a good five

500
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Speaker 1: minutes to give to that. Is there anyone that you

501
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: want to say, this is what I needed to see

502
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: without spoiling any of our other segments. You know, this

503
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 1: is this is the the development that we're looking for.

504
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,359
Speaker 1: This is the change, whatever the case may be. And

505
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: I'll let I'll let Ian take it first.

506
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 3: I mean the change.

507
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm still super enjoying what I'm seeing on

508
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 2: Magnara Sierra. He's still tearing the cover off the ball.

509
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 2: He's walking more, he's not striking out that often. He's

510
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 2: playing good baseball right now in Jacksonville. Another one in

511
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 2: Jacksonville's playing great ball as Jordan Millbrath. I talked about

512
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 2: him a little bit last week, but he came out

513
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 2: through another appearance this week, two and a third innings,

514
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 2: struck out five. He's still yet to walk anybody this year.

515
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 2: He's still yet to give up a run this year.

516
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 2: He was acquired the last offseason and Nicki nick wickran

517
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 2: trade and he's looking like a talented arm out of

518
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,719
Speaker 2: the pen as an older prospect and hopefully we can

519
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 2: see this continued upward trend from him. And yeah, that's

520
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 2: about it for me. I mean on prospect updates. Will

521
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 2: Stewart throwing the best k rate of his career so

522
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 2: far as let's keep that up.

523
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 3: And I know Ethan's got some good.

524
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Speaker 4: Ones, Mike, my guy. This from this week specifically is mesa. Uh.

525
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 5: Just you know, the average is still low and the

526
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 5: obi you know, this last line isn't great still, uh,

527
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 5: but we're seeing him slowly work back into you know,

528
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 5: getting back into his timing and seeing pitching and seeing

529
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 5: the ball well, because uh, he's getting on base and

530
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 5: and he's hitting the ball.

531
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Speaker 4: He's making a lot more contact.

532
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 5: And he finally had an extra base hit this week,

533
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 5: and that's what we had. That's the one thing we've

534
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 5: been looking for so far, was all right, he's getting

535
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,880
Speaker 5: the ball back back on the ball, he's making contact.

536
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 5: Now we just need to see him, uh get the

537
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 5: ball in the gaps and get some show some power.

538
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 5: And he did that this week. He had a double

539
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 5: the other night. Uh, And I think that's just the

540
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 5: start for him. I think we're gonna start seeing him

541
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Speaker 5: drive the ball a little more, get some more doubles

542
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 5: and use his speed maybe even to to get.

543
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:01,680
Speaker 4: Some three baggers.

544
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,439
Speaker 5: And eventually, I mean he's gonna have to drive one

545
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:09,160
Speaker 5: over the fenced eventually, So I think masis really I love.

546
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 4: What I'm seeing from him.

547
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 5: You know, the numbers don't really pop off the page

548
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 5: at you so far, but you can tell he's going

549
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 5: to be a really, really solid player. And the Marlins

550
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,920
Speaker 5: so far, that investment that they made in him, uh,

551
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 5: it looks like it's really going to pay off, because

552
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 5: I really love what we're seeing from him so far.

553
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 1: With me, I won't go too much into his numbers

554
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: because they're still ridiculous, but hit id in Carnascio and

555
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: keeps hitting the ball. And what I actually want to

556
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 1: bring up is that you had an interesting comp for him, Ethan,

557
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you want to talk a

558
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: little bit about that now.

559
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm, I don't. I don't recall you got it?

560
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 6: I okay, go for it, go for it.

561
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

562
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 2: I love Domingo Santana. I mean younger, earlier in his career.

563
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 2: He was injured a good a good bit of the time,

564
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: so he got a kind of a slow start to

565
00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 2: his career.

566
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Speaker 3: So he's kind of hitting his stry right now as

567
00:25:59,480 --> 00:25:59,959
Speaker 3: an older guy.

568
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 2: I at twenty six, twenty seven in the majors, and

569
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 2: that's the type of guy as he is Hara and

570
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 2: Carlossion has. I mean the numbers in the early years

571
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 2: of the prospect, I mean early years and the miners

572
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 2: are similar. They have the same type of body, they

573
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: have the same type of game, and I think Herr

574
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 2: is going to unlock some serious power if this continues,

575
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 2: this development this way, he's controlling the plate that Santana

576
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 2: is going to be a nice ceiling for him if

577
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 2: he can find that kind of level.

578
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, with you on that. That's why I wanted to

579
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 6: bring it into the show real quick.

580
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, because yeah, I thought it was an interesting It

581
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: was an interesting comp not one that I think I've

582
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: seen many people have, even though, come on, really, who's

583
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: talking about her on anyway?

584
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I really looked at when you brought it up. Absolutely, Yeah.

585
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 2: I mean you look at the even the k numbers

586
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 2: from back in the early days, Like he's striking out

587
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 2: forty percent of the time, I mean, and he's turned

588
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 2: into a every day MLB player now, I mean, like

589
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,360
Speaker 2: you can be somebody with development. Harar is twenty one

590
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,400
Speaker 2: years old and he's starting to find what he can do,

591
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 2: and then he spent about this mountain time last year

592
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 2: in Greensboro and I are in fully and looked horrendous

593
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 2: and for what he's looked like right now and Plinn,

594
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 2: it's just it's making me extremely excited to see what

595
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 2: he can do if he continues on this upward trend.

596
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 5: And you talked about that, k rate Ian. I just

597
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 5: looked it up right now. Twenty six point one percent,

598
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 5: which you know is still a little high, but I'll

599
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 5: take me.

600
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 4: Man.

601
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 5: It was thirty nine percent in sixteen days in green

602
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 5: games in Greensboro last year, or that might have been Jupiter,

603
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 5: I don't know, but thirty nine percent and then thirty

604
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,199
Speaker 5: thirty percent oh this okay, that was Greensboro and this

605
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 5: is in Batavia was thirty percent.

606
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: Uh.

607
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 5: And he was hitting two eighty four and now with

608
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 5: two sixty one, he's hitting four h three. So or

609
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 5: twenty six point one.

610
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you give me twenty six percent from him.

611
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: I'll take that from a lot of guys in this

612
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: And that's the thing, Like twenty six and a pinch

613
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: here is like above average for the Marlins, right, So I.

614
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm I'm good with that. I'm good that you

615
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 6: think I'm gonna give you man.

616
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we could always talk about that too,

617
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: but no, yeah, for another day. I'll give you my

618
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: guy real quick. Easonda is right. I'm going to keep

619
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: talking about him. The first day I told you he's

620
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: my prospect crush. He he didn't give me a lot

621
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: to flirt over until recently.

622
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 3: Right.

623
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 1: I love what they're actually doing with him at Monte Monte.

624
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: I believe he's hitting off Ison's hitting second I or

625
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 1: it might be the oposite way. I'm not sure, but

626
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: they're hitting at the top of the orders, you're and

627
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: and he's up to two twenty. I understand no one's

628
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: going to marvel over that, but he was always going

629
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: to be that low average. But hiobp guy right over

630
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: three hundred, uh you know six, he's bringing in runs.

631
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: He's hitting for some power to home runs. I love

632
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: the fact that I really do believe and I'm buying

633
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: into the fact that I'm going to see Esan Dias

634
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: at Marlins Park sooner rather than later. And I know

635
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: that'll do with Castro, but I love what I'm seeing

636
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: from him.

637
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 4: And how about this Danny uh nineteen point one k percent.

638
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 5: Absolutely talking about case Man really getting it down. Let's

639
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 5: see in Triple A last year thirty six games, twenty

640
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 5: nine percent. He was at twenty six point seven in

641
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 5: his eighty three games with Jacksonville last year, and now

642
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 5: he's down under twenty percent and his BAVIP is still

643
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 5: really low, which means he might just be getting unlucky

644
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,479
Speaker 5: a lot oh wah on the ball. But you know,

645
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 5: he'll come back to the mean. He'll he'll kind of

646
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 5: regress back up towards the mean. And you know, with

647
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 5: that walk rate over ten percent and the strikeout percent

648
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 5: is the lowest it's ever been. It's the first time

649
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 5: it's under twenty percent in his career. It's only been

650
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 5: sixteen games, but still, you know, and if his walk

651
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 5: rate goes up a little more, back to like that

652
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 5: mid teens where we've seen him earlier in his career,

653
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 5: his numbers are going to be fine.

654
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 4: And he'll be up in September.

655
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 5: Honestly if he if he keeps continuing at this rate,

656
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 5: thinks the ball is going to start landing eventually.

657
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 6: So yeah, it will.

658
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: Definitely be there, definitely be there to see him. Man say,

659
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: for sure, I need that call up. I need that

660
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: call up, all right, So which we had like a

661
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: drum roll transition to get to our segments, but you

662
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,239
Speaker 1: know we don't. You can just imagine that that's the

663
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: case for we're I'm gonna go on to Ian's segment,

664
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: all right, and just as a reminder, Ian chooses a

665
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: pitcher and a positioned prospect has to give us his

666
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: best case for why that is the guy for the

667
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: week right has to make me a good lawyer about it,

668
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: and then we get to see if we agree we disagree,

669
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: So Ian take it away, good sir.

670
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 3: Well pitcher of the week.

671
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 2: Guys, I think I'm gonna give you somebody that nobody's

672
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 2: really talking about until I think we posted yesterday on

673
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 2: the page on Twitter. But Dustin Beggs, he just recently

674
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 2: got promoted to New Orleans this week. He's and he

675
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 2: threw a gem this weekend through seven endings, no runs,

676
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 2: no walks in seven CA's. It's probably the best outing

677
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 2: of his career at the highest level. He's kind of

678
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 2: an older prospect, but he's looked great so far the

679
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 2: start this year. He earned a surprising called up, I

680
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 2: mean surprising promotion to New Orleans this week, and he's

681
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 2: looking he looked for a fullip phenomenalist on Easter Sunday,

682
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 2: and if he continues like this, I can possibly see

683
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 2: him as a long reliever on the big league club

684
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 2: by the end of this year. He's twenty five years old,

685
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 2: he's got nasty stuff, a slider that puts people all away,

686
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 2: and he's not Collfee Pitcher of the Week. It's a

687
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 2: tough one over a few other guys, but I'm gonna

688
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 2: go with Begs.

689
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: There's one guy I wish I had his name on

690
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: my mind right now who always comments on anything prospect

691
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: wise on any Fish Stripes article right and he always

692
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: brings up Begs as an example for prospects that deserve

693
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: the hype and deserve the respect, but they don't get

694
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: it because they never made a top thirty list from

695
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: Pipeline or a Top one hundred from Baseball America or

696
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: whatever the case is. Like, there's nothing sexy about Dustin

697
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: Beggs except he produces. You know, he produces, and it

698
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: isn't just like it's this year. He's produced for a

699
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: while and there's a lot of validity to like that

700
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: comment or I wish I remembered his name that says,

701
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: why don't we talk about a guy like this more often,

702
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: so I know that at least myself and that gentleman

703
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: whatever his name is, will be happy with the in.

704
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 5: Selection and by his standard, Scallon start was a little

705
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 5: down from what we respect. Still very solid. Yeah, he

706
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 5: only went five and two thirds, but six ks, two hits,

707
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 5: no runs, one walk. I mean, he just keeps, he

708
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 5: keeps on pitching, he keeps.

709
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 3: On walk to start the year. Stupid.

710
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really nice. Stupid, stupid what we're seeing from

711
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 4: Gallon so far.

712
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 5: It's pretty stupid, man, it's really exciting.

713
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 6: You just have to describe it like what it is. Man,

714
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 6: That's exactly what it is. Yeah, exactly alright. I in position.

715
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 3: Position player.

716
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 2: Another guy not getting talked about, probably won't get talked about,

717
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 2: but that's Bubba Hollands.

718
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 3: He's the third basement up in Clinton. He's had a great.

719
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 2: Week last week he got it for twelve hit, three doubles,

720
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 2: two homers, score six runs. He plays type of like

721
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 2: a type of Brian Inoson type game there. He was

722
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 2: undrafted in twenty seventeen and he's just producedin's coming up here.

723
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 2: He had a rough year last year across two levels,

724
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 2: but this year He's gotten three thirty three to start

725
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: the year.

726
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 3: He's hitting the ball well.

727
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 2: He's got MLB bloodlines as the son of former Phillies

728
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: player Dave Dave Hollins. He's I like it. I mean,

729
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 2: for what I was seeing him, I like what. I

730
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 2: like what I was seeing. He's got slugging I think

731
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 2: five to ninety to start the year. His BAVIP is

732
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 2: decently high, but it's not abnormal. He's striking out of

733
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 2: only seventeen walking at nine percent. He's having a great

734
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 2: start of the year in Clinton, and I could possibly

735
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 2: see him in Jupiter here soon. He's definitely my pick

736
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: of the week before a hitter. I know you want

737
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 2: me to pick Mesa here or or definitely you know,

738
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 2: I know who he didn't want me to pick next, But.

739
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 3: Bubba Hollinds is definitely my pick.

740
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: He's he deserves to love and he had a great

741
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 2: week and I'm excited to see if he can keep breaking.

742
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 5: The only reason I didn't want you to pick Monte

743
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 5: is because I wanted to get to talked about Everybody

744
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 5: wants to talk about him. Let's have Let's have a

745
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 5: big discussion right now about Monte. As we move into

746
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,479
Speaker 5: my segment because God, what a week from him, man,

747
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 5: I mean, God, what a week. All right, So let's

748
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 5: let's Danny. I'm gonna take over for a sec. If

749
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 5: you don't want to take over, man, we're gonna move

750
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 5: into things we love to see, which is I'm gonna

751
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,879
Speaker 5: bring you, you know, just little tidbits from each guy

752
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 5: that we really love to see. But let's talk about

753
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 5: Monte because what a week. I mean, he this past

754
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 5: week in his past seven days, five hundred batting average,

755
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 5: five seventy seven OBP eighteen slugging percentage, a home run,

756
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 5: two doubles, a triple, four walks, and only five strikeouts

757
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 5: this past week. And he's got the k rate. He's

758
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 5: in the mid twenties, right, And for him, that's what

759
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 5: we wanted to see, you know, we wanted to see

760
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 5: him under thirty down in the mid twenty somewhere, and

761
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 5: so to see that from him off to a great start,

762
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 5: and he's I mean, he's my guy.

763
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 4: That's my guy.

764
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 5: You know, he's got all the swag in the world,

765
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 5: and he just plays the game the way I love

766
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 5: to see it played. And man, it's exciting to see,

767
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 5: you know, because we were worried all off season Ian,

768
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 5: we were talking about how and and Danny, I think

769
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 5: we mentioned this in the first you mentioned this in

770
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 5: the first episode.

771
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 4: We were talking about.

772
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 5: How with that new approach, we were worried if the

773
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 5: power was going to be there because we saw him,

774
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 5: you know, making contact and the average was good in

775
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 5: in Arizona, but yeah, he had only a few if any.

776
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 5: So to see him have a week where he hits

777
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 5: a home or two doubles, three triples and he doesn't

778
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,919
Speaker 5: sorry a triple and he doesn't strike out a ton, man,

779
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 5: it's that exciting.

780
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 4: We really really love to see that.

781
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 5: So I want to get I want you guys to

782
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 5: get in here before we move on. And you know what,

783
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 5: what do you guys like specifically that I may not

784
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 5: have covered about Monte that you're seeing from him so far.

785
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I really think you covered it all.

786
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: I'll just say this because I really think it's important

787
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna be that guy that brings this

788
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: part of it. Monte's a freaking great person. And when

789
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: you see that from a person and when you meet

790
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: them and when you talk to them, there's just this

791
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: added part of you that wants that person to succeed,

792
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: because you know the difference he'll make. Now, listen, there's

793
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: a bunch of optics with Monte too. You know, he's

794
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: in the yell At trade. If he kind of saves

795
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,240
Speaker 1: that trade a little bit, if he becomes the person

796
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: we need to be, the gold the gold chain, swag,

797
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: the kindness, there's a bunch of extra things with this

798
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: guy that you're gonna root for anyway. And then you know,

799
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: he just decides to hit five hundred this week, and

800
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: then he just decides to walk four times, and his

801
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: numbers across the season. I mean, again, it's still in

802
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: an early season, and if we remember he didn't start

803
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: the first few games because he kind of had some

804
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 1: things that were bothering him.

805
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 6: Are still beautiful on.

806
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: Precisely right, and doing it with elite like outfield defense

807
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, it's it's it's someone who you

808
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: can see why they got all the designations of top

809
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: one hundred prospects. You could see why he was targeted

810
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: by the Marlins. You could see what excited them. And

811
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: I mean, Ethan, yeah, you're right. I brought that up

812
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: in the first in the first episode because it was

813
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: it was worrisome. You know, we were seeing a lot

814
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: of slap hits and we didn't we didn't expect him

815
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: to be when the Marlins targeted him, they did not

816
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: target him to be a slap hitter, right. They target

817
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: him because of these immense tools and because.

818
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 3: Of the exactly that guy thinks. Slap hitter.

819
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: You know, it's right, and it's nice to see it

820
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: come into play and him him just shutting people up,

821
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: if we're being honest, right, Like, he's just shutting people up,

822
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: and it's a beautiful thing.

823
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 5: And you can tell he just grinded this offseason because

824
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 5: he you know, he came into Arizona and he had

825
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 5: that new approach and he hit for more contact. And

826
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 5: then he showed up in in you know, in New Orleans,

827
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 5: which everybody was saying, you know, why is he going

828
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 5: to New Orleans? You should probably be going to Jacksonville,

829
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 5: you know, me included to get that k raid down

830
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 5: from from last year and work on things. And then

831
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 5: he comes into New Orleans and he's tearing the cover

832
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 5: off the ball and like getting on base. Moore is

833
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 5: walk rat is fourteen point three percent right now, which

834
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 5: is really nice and really really exciting.

835
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 4: Start.

836
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 5: I mean I could talk you know, I could talk

837
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 5: about Monte all day, and I'm sure we all could,

838
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,759
Speaker 5: but i mean, man, what an exciting start.

839
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 4: Ian from a from a really in depth.

840
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 5: Baseball baseball perspective, before we move on here, one thing

841
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 5: you really like from Monte so far, but.

842
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 2: Now talking about baseball perspective, but another thing about him

843
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 2: starting in New Orleans. They said he was starting in

844
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 2: New Orleans in early February, so he went about this

845
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 2: whole spring knowing he was going to start there. So

846
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 2: I think that put a different mindset in his mind

847
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 2: about how he wanted to go about this. And he's

848
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 2: coming out on fire, and I think that drove him

849
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 2: to be the better player, and knowing they had the

850
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 2: confidence in him to start the year triblea after struggling

851
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 2: my league sometimes last year. But from a preer baseball aspect,

852
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 2: I mean, you cover a lot of but him him

853
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 2: striking out twenty six percent off leadoff is making me

854
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,240
Speaker 2: extremely happy. He can see a world win of pitches

855
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 2: coming that leadoff position. He's walking, he's driving the ball,

856
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,879
Speaker 2: and he's not striking out that much, And from pure

857
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,760
Speaker 2: baseball perspective, I'm just extremely happy to see extra base hits.

858
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 3: The singles in.

859
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 2: The Fall League were worrisome, we heard people, we heard

860
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 2: scouts talking about it was more worrisome seeing that than

861
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 2: him striking out almost and that's frustrating to know that.

862
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 2: So to see him come out this year and completely

863
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 2: shut people up, like Danny said, is exciting for sure.

864
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 4: For sure, that was great man.

865
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 5: I mean I've been waiting to you know, we've mentioned

866
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 5: him and everything, but I've been really waiting a fan

867
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 5: boy over Yeah.

868
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, wet. So he needed this today.

869
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, he earned it. He earned it with a

870
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 4: great week.

871
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 5: And all right, so next thing we love to see

872
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 5: from this past week is our boy Will Stewart coming

873
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 5: on the podcast, showing out, having a great interview and

874
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 5: then going out and dealing the next night and backing

875
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 5: it up. Five inches, pitch, six hits, one run, it

876
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 5: was only his only run was on a homer. One walk,

877
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 5: in seven strikeouts and just another really nice performance from him.

878
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 5: Good strikeout, you know, good strikeout numbers in five innings,

879
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 5: and like I said, you know, backing up the talk

880
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 5: and showing that all that he talked about with his game.

881
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 5: You know, he talked about the change up in its

882
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 5: effectiveness and how he really feels good where he's at

883
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 5: right now.

884
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 4: He showed that the other night and with a great performance.

885
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 5: And then the third thing we love to see, and

886
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 5: this is a guy that we haven't talked about for

887
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 5: all the wrong reasons, is Will Banfield, even though we

888
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 5: should be talking about him because he's one of the

889
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 5: more important prospects in the Marlins system right now.

890
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 4: But is Banfield and a thing.

891
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 5: He's gotten off to a really really slow start this season,

892
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 5: which has been really concerning for me. But hopefully he's

893
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 5: snapping out of it this week, because he showed some

894
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 5: power this week, boys, and that was really something we

895
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 5: love to see double and then he walked off the

896
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 5: game with a three run homer this week. And if

897
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 5: we can see some power from him, man, and you know,

898
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 5: what's your typical catcher's not gonna hit three ten. You

899
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 5: know they're not going to have the greatest numbers that

900
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 5: pop off the page at you, especially these type of

901
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 5: defensive catchers. But if we can see Banfield hitting two fifty, two,

902
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 5: sixty and putting in some work with the power numbers,

903
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 5: you know that that would be really exciting, and that

904
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 5: would be something that could be really important to his developments.

905
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 5: So seeing him have some nice power during the week

906
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 5: was really exciting. But has that start. Those numbers are ah, Man,

907
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 5: they're frustrating but good to see. And I really hope

908
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 5: he snaps out of it because he seems like a

909
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 5: really good guy and a guy that's easy to root for.

910
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,320
Speaker 4: And I hope he can snap.

911
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 5: Out of it here because, like I said, man, he's

912
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 5: really important to the process, and.

913
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 6: He has all the defense in the world. Right, we

914
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 6: already all understand that.

915
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: And then the other element of that, and this will

916
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: actually transition into my next segment is is the age

917
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: of course, right, kid's nineteen. I mean he's he was

918
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: drafted as a we know he's young, we know he

919
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: has to start hitting, we know he has to get

920
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: out of this funk. And it's just it's nice to

921
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: see the power like you brought into play. The reason

922
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: that that's gonna transition into my segment. My segment is

923
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: going to be a weekly under the radar candidate. I

924
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: like looking at the guys that don't get their names,

925
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 1: you know, put on the prospect list. I like looking

926
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 1: at the guys that aren't tweeted about aren't spoken about,

927
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: but produced, right, and all of these all of these

928
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: prospects that I bring into play will have some varial

929
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: variable about them which has led them not to be

930
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: on a prospect list or led them not to be

931
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: Twitter famous necessarily. And my guy is with age, all right.

932
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: This is a twenty three year old shortstop prospect. Now,

933
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: we spoke about a lot of shortstop prospects on today's episode.

934
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: In the beginning we're talking about defending. We didn't bring

935
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: up this guy, Demetrius Sims. If the last name is

936
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: familiar for you, it's because he is the brother of

937
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 1: ex Dolphins tight end Dion's Sims. All right, Demetrius was

938
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: drafted in the fourteenth round, four hundred and nineteen overall

939
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: on twenty seventeen. He's currently with Clinton and he's producing now. Again,

940
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: the age is why he doesn't get spoken about. He's

941
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: a twenty three year old prospect in low A. I

942
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: understand that he's going to have to promote, and he's

943
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 1: going to have to be able to develop rather quickly.

944
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: I understand that he would be a late blossoming, late

945
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: blossoming prospect. He was a two sport athlete. He played football,

946
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 1: he eventually chose baseball, he said, because it was his passion.

947
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: This is a guy who was very talented on the

948
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: grid iron, but decided that he was going to go

949
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: for the diamond because that was the love that he

950
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: really had. And he's producing all right so far, fifty

951
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: three at bats his slash two eighty three, three thirty nine,

952
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: so he's getting on base four seventy two, he's at

953
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: two homers. He knows how to work the base path,

954
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: the base paths nine runs, six RBIs, he's fast. He

955
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: has already three stolen bases. And the reality is is

956
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: that at that age he has to be producing like this,

957
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: right because if he doesn't, he's just gonna end up

958
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: being a career minor league He's and end up being

959
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: someone that doesn't even get to double a, get to

960
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: triple A. But he's doing it thus far, so for

961
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: someone to keep an eye on, add them to the

962
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: tracker that MLB dot Com allows you to add players on.

963
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: My guy for the week is Demetrius Sims. What do

964
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: you guys think like that?

965
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 5: I like that and I really like that slash line.

966
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 5: That slash line, you know, if that's over a year

967
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 5: long sample, Uh, that's a really really solid player at

968
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 5: the major league level, uh, getting on base and showing

969
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 5: a lot of power and hitting for a pretty good

970
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 5: average too. So yeah, I really like that that projection

971
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 5: so far, I mean, off to a really nice start.

972
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

973
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 2: Absolutely of guys in that Clinton team right now that

974
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:44,879
Speaker 2: just are going on the air. That's a pretty good

975
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,919
Speaker 2: roster if you really look at it with a bunch

976
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 2: of different guys.

977
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 3: Man, But I agree with Simms right here.

978
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 6: Nicely.

979
00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: You guys are just going nice on me, see because

980
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:59,439
Speaker 1: it was my interaction. That's what it was, all right, guys.

981
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: So we're gonna wrap this up some news for you,

982
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: just to let you know. Joe Farsarrow, awesome MLB writer

983
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: for the Marlins, released some footage on Twitter of six

984
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: Dough Sanchez on the mound. I believe he's still I

985
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: believe he's still in Jupiter, right. He's an extended spring

986
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: and there, yeah there, you know he was able. He

987
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: looked flawless. I mean, you don't see you didn't see

988
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: a hitch from him. You didn't see any kind of

989
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: protection with his elbow or anything to that extent. He

990
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,879
Speaker 1: didn't look like he was compensating for anything. I don't

991
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: know if you guys saw the footage, but it looked clean.

992
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: He looks healthy, he looks on on track for that

993
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: call up coming. When was it in a few weeks? No,

994
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: I believe there you go.

995
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was supposed to be.

996
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 5: I had heard April twenty six, which was you know,

997
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 5: this week, but then I think it got pushed back

998
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 5: a little bit.

999
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 4: And yeah, I think Ian said May second was the day.

1000
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 6: Ten days, I think perfect.

1001
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: And then we already hit on Dustin Beggs earlier getting promoted.

1002
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 1: Dylan Lee also got promoted to Trip a A. We're

1003
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,959
Speaker 1: also going to be talking next week, probably a little

1004
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 1: bit about promotions and who he might see getting promoted.

1005
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: One of the listeners actually gave us that feedback and

1006
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: something that we could add almost as a as a

1007
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,280
Speaker 1: podcast segment to see who our choices are for promotion

1008
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: across different levels. But with the last two minutes that

1009
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: we have, fellows, anything that we want to add.

1010
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 5: Well, I just want to say in that six sto

1011
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 5: you know talk talking about him, did you guys watch

1012
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 5: the video because he looked really sharp. I mean, his

1013
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 5: pitches were you know, it's a nice movement on the fastball.

1014
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 5: The fastball looked good, getting guys swinging miss and being

1015
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 5: it was just exciting to see him pitching. You know,

1016
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 5: it was exciting to see footage of him because, honestly,

1017
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 5: to be honest with you guys, I really haven't seen

1018
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 5: a ton of footage of him, or I didn't really

1019
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 5: know anything about him at all before he got into

1020
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 5: the system. So it was nice to just see footage

1021
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 5: of him and looking good, like you said, Danny, you know,

1022
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 5: looking healthy, and the pitches were working, and you know,

1023
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 5: it's just extended springs, so it's not really the greatest competition,

1024
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 5: but it's just good to see him back on the

1025
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 5: mount and throwing.

1026
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 2: And absolutely his footage last year in the Forest State

1027
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 2: League was pretty disgusting. I mean, the kid he works

1028
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 2: the mound like a bulldog, and for his size and

1029
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 2: the way he attacks hitters with the stuff he has,

1030
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 2: it's just super surprising to see. And like when I'm

1031
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 2: just seeing him throw on the mound the other day,

1032
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 2: just it makes me extremely excited to see what kind

1033
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 2: of kid this can be. Like you don't see one

1034
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour or the kid his size, especially

1035
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 2: with that arm talent like it's freakish, so I'm excited

1036
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 2: to see what he can do if he's healthy.

1037
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 3: He's going in this year in double A.

1038
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and when we take away Anthony Rizzio from Ethan's cubs,

1039
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna even be more beautiful situation.

1040
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 6: Absolutely, all right, gotta watch yourself, dam you gotta watch.

1041
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: And you have a long drive to get to me,

1042
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: so I think I have some time.

1043
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,280
Speaker 6: All right, everyone, we appreciate you. I hope you enjoyed

1044
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 6: the episode.

1045
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: And this is Danny Martinez, always, Ian Smith, Ethan Bodowski.

1046
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,959
Speaker 1: Please make sure it a like of course, of course,

1047
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: and subscribe really anywhere you could find a podcast, Google iTunes, Apple, Spotify.

1048
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: We will be there, absolutely and we can't wait to

1049
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: have y'all back next week.

1050
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 6: You have a good one, are y'all