Speaker 1: Any trip to Hi. Understand that jem to center field
Speaker 1: and it's gone, Wow.
Speaker 2: His first big league swing is gonna be a grand slam,
Speaker 2: the home line swing.
Speaker 1: Good time to look to the shop. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: The Call Up, your go to podcast on the future
Speaker 1: stars of Major League Baseball. You got arm Late and
Speaker 1: Jack McMullen today, and this is actually the final Top
Speaker 1: one hundred themed episode here on the Call Up. Of course,
Speaker 1: you can follow along with the link to the article
Speaker 1: in the description here, and we're probably a month and
Speaker 1: change away from updating it again, so I'm excited to
Speaker 1: do that, and that'll include all the new draftees. But
Speaker 1: today's episode, we are taught talking about the top one
Speaker 1: hundred prospects by team, and we'll expand a little bit
Speaker 1: with each of these teams about just the overall state
Speaker 1: of their farm system a bit, but the big focus
Speaker 1: here is which teams have the most Top one hundred
Speaker 1: prospects and you know how this kind of happened, the
Speaker 1: trends for those farm systems, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: fun to dive into because some of the farm systems
Speaker 1: are the same that you expect to continue to have
Speaker 1: a ton of top one hundred guys. But there's some
Speaker 1: other farm systems that I think are up and coming
Speaker 1: here and I think are jump starting right now, and
Speaker 1: it's exemplified through this Top one hundred update.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a good example of which to bony ball right,
Speaker 2: Like the Washington Nationals all of a sudden have five
Speaker 2: top one hundred prospects. We'll talk about Washington, and we're
Speaker 2: going to kind of go team by team and just
Speaker 2: talk about state and health of the farm system and
Speaker 2: state and health of the organization.
Speaker 3: So it'll be a.
Speaker 2: Good kind of team wide focused conversation instead of, oh,
Speaker 2: this guy's ground ball rate is up on the hill,
Speaker 2: which is a sign of good things to come. It's
Speaker 2: more overall organizational health. These organizations are in a good
Speaker 2: position moving forward because of what they have in the
Speaker 2: farm system. I want to like rinse the bad right away.
Speaker 2: There is one team with zero top one hundred prospects
Speaker 2: on the update, and then we'll get to the team
Speaker 2: with seven, and then we'll get to the team with six.
Speaker 2: But the only team in baseball with zero prospects on
Speaker 2: Just Baseball's Top one hundred update is the Houston Astros.
Speaker 2: They don't have a top one hundred prospect. There are
Speaker 2: some guys in that organization that could flirt with the
Speaker 2: top one hundred at some point soon. But if that
Speaker 2: tells you that Houston needs to be selling at the deadline,
Speaker 2: I think I agree with you. They need to bolster
Speaker 2: this farm system in some form or fashion. Jordan Alvarez
Speaker 2: can do that, Jeremy Panya can do that. There are
Speaker 2: a couple other guys that could possibly do that. But
Speaker 2: having a big fat zero on the top one hundred
Speaker 2: list is really tough.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting because they apparently aren't going to trade Jordon.
Speaker 1: We just broke out. Jeff Patt broke down Jeff Passen
Speaker 1: and Kylie McDaniel's article on ESPN giving you kind of
Speaker 1: a primer probabilities for the trade deadline, and Jeremy Pania
Speaker 1: was at about thirty percent as well. Maybe that changes,
Speaker 1: you know, as the Astros maybe fade a little bit more,
Speaker 1: or the al wild card picture becomes a little bit
Speaker 1: less crappy and they get kind of squeezed out. But
Speaker 1: I thought that was surprising because Panya, with a year
Speaker 1: and a half in control as a shortstop, could really
Speaker 1: bring in a hall here for the Astros. And a
Speaker 1: franchise altering or like at least pharm system altering Hall
Speaker 1: here that could help them. I'm sure they'll still try
Speaker 1: to sell off some other rental pieces where they can,
Speaker 1: but that's something that I really think they need to
Speaker 1: kind of look back at and say, I understand that
Speaker 1: we have an expiring exec and Dana Brown and some
Speaker 1: other moving parts, and we always are in the mode
Speaker 1: of competing. But I think you can, okay, keep yourd
Speaker 1: on that makes sense. Maybe move the shortstop there in
Speaker 1: Pania if you're not going to extend him who's now
Speaker 1: repped by Boris, and get a haul. It is better
Speaker 1: than it was last year, right. Xavier Nians looks like
Speaker 1: a solid pick. He's gonna need to, you know, prove
Speaker 1: that he's not going to swing and miss too much.
Speaker 1: But that's a guy that we liked out of the draft.
Speaker 1: Super patient, huge raw power, and he's doing pretty well
Speaker 1: through his pro debut. Kevin Alvarez looks like he can
Speaker 1: be an exciting player. I think he's you know, blossoming
Speaker 1: a little bit more in low way. And Walker Yanick
Speaker 1: like he's not having a great year offensively at all,
Speaker 1: but he was hurt to start the year. This is
Speaker 1: still a guy that I'd bet a lot of money,
Speaker 1: you know, carving out a pretty decent big league career
Speaker 1: as a catcher with the glove alone. There's just not
Speaker 1: there's not a ton of depth, there's not a ton
Speaker 1: of pitching, and ultimately they just need more talent just
Speaker 1: to be injected into this system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they can take just ten percent of what
Speaker 2: Milwaukee has going right now in the farm system, that
Speaker 2: would be awesome. And that takes us too, the most
Speaker 2: well represented organization in baseball. On Just Baseball's Top one
Speaker 2: hundred update, the Milwaukee Brewers have seven top one hundred
Speaker 2: prospects on the update. Heyzus Miday is the top prospect
Speaker 2: in all of baseball. Luis Panna, another middle infielder in
Speaker 2: Hia right now, is number sixteen, and Logan Henderson the
Speaker 2: big leaguer, he is number twenty nine. He's on the
Speaker 2: shelf right now. Jet Williams, acquired from the Mets this
Speaker 2: past offseason, is thirty seven. Luis Laura recently extended, He's
Speaker 2: number forty two. Jefferson Carol been hurt for a long while,
Speaker 2: but he's still on it. Eighty one, and then Cooper Pratt.
Speaker 2: The extended and recently debuted short stup sits at number ninety.
Speaker 2: For you, we were talking about the Brewers. It felt
Speaker 2: like every episode through the first month and a half
Speaker 2: of the minor league season this year. But I'll stand
Speaker 2: by this. This is as loaded a system as Baltimore
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago when Holiday and it seemed
Speaker 2: like Gunner and Westburg all still had eligibility. This is
Speaker 2: the best system in baseball by a country mile.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, we're not including Andrew Fisher, who
Speaker 1: just might mash his way into the next update. He
Speaker 1: was a guy that just missed because we had concerns
Speaker 1: about the contact rate as a college bat at HIGA.
Speaker 1: You know, if that contact rates at sixty one sixty
Speaker 1: two percent as a college bat at HIA, and if
Speaker 1: you are slugging as much as anybody in minor league baseball,
Speaker 1: it's tough to get you into the top one hundred.
Speaker 1: It's still at sixty one percent. But he's already homewred
Speaker 1: in his first game at Double A, So I mean,
Speaker 1: Fisher still looks like a guy that could absolutely, you know,
Speaker 1: be a top one hundred type of prospects. Marco dingis
Speaker 1: as an eight hundred OPS. They're catching prospects at high A,
Speaker 1: and this is another just huge upside guy. He moves
Speaker 1: the bad as quickly as anybody in the farm system.
Speaker 1: Luke Adams has really been performing. We just talked about
Speaker 1: him on the heat sheet. Braylan Pain was another just
Speaker 1: miss guy because he has maybe as electrifying of a
Speaker 1: power speed ceiling as any player in minor league baseball
Speaker 1: at seventy speed and he's sitting home runs or hitting
Speaker 1: balls already a hundred fifteen miles per hour. Tyson Harden
Speaker 1: has been one of the more dominant pitchers over the
Speaker 1: last month and change. He looks like and I've seen
Speaker 1: some other outlets have him as a top one hundred
Speaker 1: prospects like this is nuts. And I'm notn't even mentioned
Speaker 1: Bishop Letson, who's starting to settle in and looks like
Speaker 1: a solid arm for them as well. I mean, and
Speaker 1: also josh Adam Schaffski, who has in one thousand ops
Speaker 1: this year and just got promoted up to Double A.
Speaker 1: This is insanity. I don't think we've ever really seen
Speaker 1: a system this good. Also, Brady Ebel, by the way,
Speaker 1: their first round pick is settling in he looks like
Speaker 1: a really solid player. He's still just eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: And I could go on and on. This is far
Speaker 1: and away the best farm system in baseball. We said
Speaker 1: it two years ago, and I think there was some
Speaker 1: pushback then, and now it's just there's no denying it,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be good for a long time. They've
Speaker 1: got the layers of talent or they're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: And depending on how things time up, there's a world
Speaker 1: where in the next update they could have ten that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Like if one team reminder there are thirty covers ten
Speaker 2: percent of the top one hundred, that would be absolutely
Speaker 2: freaking insane. The only system that comes close in terms
Speaker 2: of sheer number at top one hundred prospects is the
Speaker 2: LA Dodgers. You've got the Dodgers at six top one
Speaker 2: hundred prospects on the top one hundred update. Highest rank
Speaker 2: Guy Mike Serota at number fourteen, host Way Topolo. The
Speaker 2: other outfielder at number eighteen, Eduardo Kintaro, another outfielder at
Speaker 2: thirty six. Another outfielders I your hope is at forty
Speaker 2: River Ryan long been hurt twenty seven years old. Definitely
Speaker 2: the oldest top one hunderd prospect you've ever ranked. He's
Speaker 2: at forty one. And then Charles Davilan, a guy that
Speaker 2: was a recent draftee. He's at number sixty seven. So
Speaker 2: not only are there six top one hundred guys, there
Speaker 2: are six guys in the top seventy for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to just vent out a little bit here,
Speaker 1: because maybe the most exhausting thing when it comes to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers discourse is that, oh like the of course
Speaker 1: another outlet that's just you know, propping up all these
Speaker 1: Dodgers prospects, Like it's there's so much just like confirmation
Speaker 1: bias there, whatever you want to call it. First of all,
Speaker 1: could not care less if they're a Dodgers prospect or not.
Speaker 1: I can't make that clear enough. The second thing is
Speaker 1: what would we gain by pumping Dodgers prospects more? We
Speaker 1: don't get more clicks for it. I think Dodgers fans
Speaker 1: at this point like they're pretty happy with the big
Speaker 1: league team. I don't think they care if we pump
Speaker 1: twenty seven year old River Ryan, which the other and
Speaker 1: I've already made the River Ryan case. He would be
Speaker 1: in the rotation on almost any other team in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball, and he's at worst a Major League four.
Speaker 1: His stuff is crazy. I think the big reason why
Speaker 1: we're not seeing him consistently rolled out there is that
Speaker 1: there's a plan and they want him available later in
Speaker 1: the year because this is a guy that I really
Speaker 1: do think they believe can make an impact for them.
Speaker 1: It's two comfortably plus pitches and it's four above average
Speaker 1: big league offerings with command that has continued to come along.
Speaker 1: And I always say this back to when people say, oh,
Speaker 1: look the Dodgers are getting a pump, which was in
Speaker 1: the response, is you know when we put out this graphic,
Speaker 1: who would you leave off post way to Paula has
Speaker 1: been one of the best hitters in Minor league baseball
Speaker 1: this year in Double A as what a twenty one
Speaker 1: year old A young twenty one year old, he is
Speaker 1: a nine to ninety four oh ps Zayre Hope has
Speaker 1: really started to hit his stride and also just has
Speaker 1: some of the best batspeed in the minor leagues. He's
Speaker 1: at an eight eighteen ops as a twenty one year
Speaker 1: old in Double A. Eduardo Kintaro is a plus defensive
Speaker 1: center fielder who is twenty years old and really starting
Speaker 1: to hit his stride now at a HIGA and put
Speaker 1: up a nine to twenty three ops last year between
Speaker 1: Low A and Hi A. Mike Serota has gotten on
Speaker 1: base in fifty three fifty four consecutive games, can stick
Speaker 1: in center field, and has some of the best exit
Speaker 1: velocities in minor league baseball. By the way, he has
Speaker 1: in one thousand and forty three ops between Hya and
Speaker 1: Double A. Just talked about River Ryan, who's a guaranteed
Speaker 1: big league starter, and then Charles Davilon. This has been
Speaker 1: one of the more solid solid bats in the minor leagues.
Speaker 1: Ninety one percent zone contact rate, eighty three percent overall
Speaker 1: contact rate, a twenty percent chase and an eighty nine
Speaker 1: mile per hour average EGX of velocity with strong airpool
Speaker 1: numbers and a fifteen degree average launch angle. So you
Speaker 1: have a plus bat to ball guy who actually is
Speaker 1: given you average exit velocities and ideal angles. That's to
Speaker 1: be a guy that's going to play quite well at
Speaker 1: the highest level. I just I will bet on that
Speaker 1: any day of the week. And then he does all
Speaker 1: the little things really really well, and we didn't even
Speaker 1: like other outlets have Christians Asueta, who just tossed five
Speaker 1: perfect the other day in their top one hundred. Others
Speaker 1: have Emeil Morales in there as well, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: blame them, but I think it's absolutely insane that the
Speaker 1: narrative that gets pushed at like Dodger's prospects get pumped
Speaker 1: up here, because again, you go through each of these players,
Speaker 1: they are all performing at an extremely high level or
Speaker 1: have extremely high upside, and I think for all of
Speaker 1: them it's it's kind of both. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also wouldn't blame an outlet for having James Tibbs
Speaker 2: or pushing him into the top one hundred right now.
Speaker 2: He's hitting three hundred to the ten to fifteen ops
Speaker 2: and twenty homers in sixty nine games in Triple A.
Speaker 3: Mind you, it's just that route.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe it's just amazing what they have. And frankly,
Speaker 2: like you're looking at an outfield surplus, I'm sitting here
Speaker 2: scratching my head. Why the hell did they pay Kyle Tucker?
Speaker 2: Did they give Kyle Tucker this? It's because they want
Speaker 2: to win three in a row. I totally understand that,
Speaker 2: but they're on the hook for three more years after this,
Speaker 2: and it's weird to say you're on the hook for
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker, who is one of the better outfielders in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, but you are running out of space.
Speaker 2: Andy Pahes is a franchise centerpiece for you moving forward.
Speaker 2: He might be the best outfielder in the National League.
Speaker 2: At least he is the top vote yet or in
Speaker 2: terms of All Star voting. So it's like we're sitting
Speaker 2: here talking about Pahes, you know, being that guy that'll
Speaker 2: be here for the next ten years. We're sitting here
Speaker 2: talking about Tucker getting four years at sixty million dollars
Speaker 2: a year. Yet you've got like five or six upper
Speaker 2: miners outfielders in their early twenties that would be knocking
Speaker 2: on the door of literally any other major league situation.
Speaker 2: Imagine dropping three of these guys into the pirate situation.
Speaker 2: They'd all be starting Like Bosway, Topola would probably be
Speaker 2: in the big leagues right now, Hope would probably be
Speaker 2: in the big leagues right now. But like that is
Speaker 2: the Dodger Burton. These guys are going to ops one thousand.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be trapped in Oklahoma City for a little
Speaker 2: bit and they won't get out. Maybe a couple of
Speaker 2: them will get traded, But then I guarantee you when
Speaker 2: one or two come up, they're gonna look really darn good.
Speaker 2: If they don't, they're gonna be Miguel Vargas or Michael
Speaker 2: Bush and turn into amazing players on other teams. Like
Speaker 2: it's just incredible what they do to churn out talent
Speaker 2: like this every single freaking year.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And just a couple other shouts too,
Speaker 1: like Chase Harlan is a guy that could play his
Speaker 1: way in the top one under consideration. He's got an
Speaker 1: ops over one thousand. I've already seen him put up
Speaker 1: EV's of one sixteen. And you bring up the outfield
Speaker 1: like logjam. It really kind of is. If Kenell George
Speaker 1: didn't get hurt, I don't even know how they'd be
Speaker 1: getting everybody reps consistently in double A right now in
Speaker 1: the outfield. I do think there's a world where, like die,
Speaker 1: your hope could be dangled. You know, Cantaro could be dangled.
Speaker 1: I think you gotta hold on to Sarota, but Charles
Speaker 1: Davilon could be dangled. They've got a lot of trade
Speaker 1: capital here for sure, And what the Dodgers always seem
Speaker 1: to have.
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's push the teams with five top one
Speaker 2: hundred prospects right now, and the first one that we
Speaker 2: are going to talk about is the Cleveland Guardians. Guardians
Speaker 2: check in with five top one hundred prospects. Their top guy,
Speaker 2: ralphie Velasquez, number seventeen, TRIPAA first baseman Travis Bizana really
Speaker 2: settling into the big leagues, close to graduating, obviously, he's
Speaker 2: at number twenty two. On hell Hanau is number forty three.
Speaker 2: Jenaker Casras, the teenage outfielder in Low A, is number
Speaker 2: forty four, and then Braylan Doti snuck in at ninety six,
Speaker 2: the twenty year old right hander in Hia. This Guardian
Speaker 2: system looks a little bit different than it did four
Speaker 2: years ago. When you first started discussing the Guardian system,
Speaker 2: it was all like kind of Spider Man memes, switchitting
Speaker 2: shortstop or center fielder. Now not so much like there's
Speaker 2: a little bit more diversity in terms of on field
Speaker 2: performance of the Guardian system.
Speaker 1: It's funny, man, I don't know if I can remember
Speaker 1: a more tangible shift in organizational approach than what we've
Speaker 1: seen from the Guardians. In the last couple of years
Speaker 1: where it has they went so so deep into the
Speaker 1: switch hitting back to ball guys and then now I've
Speaker 1: almost gone too far the other way where it that's
Speaker 1: huge whiff and power guys like jas Laviolette. I mean,
Speaker 1: the last couple of draft classes, it feels like they've
Speaker 1: just been pursuing that extra extra hard outside of you know,
Speaker 1: of course what you had with Bizana, but especially this
Speaker 1: past draft, it felt like they were pursuing it quite aggressively.
Speaker 1: Aaron Walton kind of the same thing, and then even
Speaker 1: some of the trades that they make like it was
Speaker 1: a total shift. But I think it's fun now because
Speaker 1: it's balanced them out here to where you have a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything and you know, you know they're
Speaker 1: going to do a great job with arms and Braylen
Speaker 1: Doty just continues to come along and looks like a
Speaker 1: fun project. By the way, sixty seven strikeouts to eleven
Speaker 1: walks this year, and I still think there's more in there.
Speaker 1: Stuff wise, cal Steven is continuing to just be a
Speaker 1: solid get outs armed that I think projects is it
Speaker 1: back into the rotation guy. And what's funny is like
Speaker 1: Cooper Engle was previously on our top one hundred, didn't
Speaker 1: make it this time. Around three homer day the other day.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that could easily be back on the
Speaker 1: list one thousand oh ps and triple A. He should
Speaker 1: be in the big league sooner rather than later as well.
Speaker 1: This is still a really really good system and Junik
Speaker 1: Er Cassras, I think is kind of that rising star potentially.
Speaker 1: We know ralphie Velaskaz I've talked about a ton is
Speaker 1: one of the best power bats, and I think the
Speaker 1: tandem of now in Velasquez is one of the more
Speaker 1: solid duos in minor league baseball in terms of some
Speaker 1: of the position player prospect duos that we can go
Speaker 1: through here, assuming Bizon has graduated right, but Casarras has
Speaker 1: a chance to join that and make it one of
Speaker 1: the more exciting trios. And what he's already done at
Speaker 1: the lower levels at eighteen years old, the upside that
Speaker 1: he has is really exciting. And then Elijah and I
Speaker 1: just talked about Jason Chorio, who's not on the list,
Speaker 1: but he has had a fantastic season. It looks like
Speaker 1: he's really putting things together. So this is still a
Speaker 1: really good farm system with another you know, if you graduate,
Speaker 1: a few guys easily could sneak in a sixth or seventh. Yes,
Speaker 1: they would lose Bizana, But this is one of one
Speaker 1: of the better farm systems in baseball, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, another one with five right now, I mean Marlins
Speaker 2: and a couple of guys are on the shelf. Another
Speaker 2: guy's close to graduating. Thomas White, who's on the shelf
Speaker 2: right now dealing with a shoulder thing. He is your
Speaker 2: number twelve prospect in baseball. Robbie Snelling, who's out and
Speaker 2: he underwent the internal braze. He's at number twenty five.
Speaker 2: Joe Mack the catcher you had at thirty one at
Speaker 2: time of update, Iva Arquette, who's raking in Double A
Speaker 2: right now, he's at number thirty three. And then Carson
Speaker 2: Milbrand recently got the bump to Triple A Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: He's at forty eight. So not only do the.
Speaker 2: Marlins have five top one hundred prospects, but they have
Speaker 2: five top fifty prospects in your eyes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the injuries. That's sometimes the tough part when
Speaker 1: your top pitching prospects or your top prospects are pitchers,
Speaker 1: is there's some liability there and unfortunately, you know, the
Speaker 1: moments are gonna have to It looks like for both
Speaker 1: White and Snelling it's gonna come next year to really
Speaker 1: see that opportunity from them at the big league level,
Speaker 1: and we might see White a little bit at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, but I think overall, when you'll
Speaker 1: get the arms, the emergence and the breakout of mill Brand,
Speaker 1: who recently was on the show and check out that
Speaker 1: episode that was a lot of fun talking to him,
Speaker 1: has been huge for the organization. You look at like
Speaker 1: they really needed a righty in the upper miners that
Speaker 1: kind of projects to help them sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: And that helps too. Kevin to Frank's injury, that's a
Speaker 1: guy that you know easily could have been in the
Speaker 1: top one hundred consideration before going down with a byseet issue.
Speaker 1: So that was tough. But I think when you look
Speaker 1: at what they were able to do with with our
Speaker 1: cat landing to them and then I think help him
Speaker 1: kind of tap into even more power and you're seeing
Speaker 1: that this year is super exciting. And then Joe Mack, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's going to graduate, but this is a key piece
Speaker 1: of their future. We talked about it all the time
Speaker 1: why he was should have been ranked higher, I felt
Speaker 1: like by the contensus and just buy the industry because
Speaker 1: of how good he is with the glove and because
Speaker 1: of the ability to run into balls with the bat.
Speaker 1: And then you also have cam Canerella, who's playing at
Speaker 1: a really high level, could be in the top one
Speaker 1: hundred consideration with the glove. The value he gives you there. Really,
Speaker 1: if he projects as a league average hitter with the bat,
Speaker 1: you could you could justify getting him into the top
Speaker 1: one hundred. And then Dylan Lewis Man, like, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that you know is always kind of going
Speaker 1: to be anticipated to make his debut a little bit
Speaker 1: later as a late bloomer in college and as a
Speaker 1: guy with some swinging misconcerns. But he has held his
Speaker 1: own in double A and I think that's underselling it.
Speaker 1: And in terms of the swing and miss, has kept
Speaker 1: it in checked decently well. He's seventy percent contact rate.
Speaker 1: He's demolishing the baseball the way that you want him
Speaker 1: to from an egg of velosities perspective, and like, that's
Speaker 1: a guy that if the strikeout rates within check and
Speaker 1: he's slug in and looks like he can continue to
Speaker 1: develop and you know in the outfield, I think that's
Speaker 1: that's a point that you could expect on top one
Speaker 1: hundred list as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he totally seems like it. I think he leads
Speaker 2: the organization home runs still at this point. So really
Speaker 2: fun to look at the organizational health of the Miami
Speaker 2: Marlins just in terms of like bolstering the offensive pieces.
Speaker 2: They have a ton of offensive prospects. Yeah, right now,
Speaker 2: next team that we want to talk about here is
Speaker 2: the Minnesota Twins, and the Twins are boasting quite a
Speaker 2: few top one hundred prospects. They've got five of them.
Speaker 2: Walker Jenkins is back in the top ten at number eight.
Speaker 2: Emanuel Rodriguez heard again, but he's at number thirty nine.
Speaker 2: Lynn Culpepper is at sixty one. Ed or to Tye
Speaker 2: Eduardo tayit pardon the young catcher in Hya he's a
Speaker 2: number eighty six, and then Charlie Soto on the shelf
Speaker 2: with the twenty year old right hander got up to
Speaker 2: high a seater rapids he is at number eighty seven.
Speaker 2: For you, Twin system has some depth as well, which
Speaker 2: is fun to look at. But I mean these top.
Speaker 3: Five are obviously carrying a lot of weight for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a good balance though, as you
Speaker 1: allude to of like that top top guys and then
Speaker 1: and then the depth as well. Charlie Soto is a
Speaker 1: guy that could slip off. He we finally saw him,
Speaker 1: you know it, start to work his way back and
Speaker 1: made a couple of you know, short appearances. So hopefully
Speaker 1: he can get back on the mound and like sustainably
Speaker 1: and build back up, because he looked like he was
Speaker 1: on the cusp of really breaking out. But Walker Jenkins
Speaker 1: really adding that power before the injury. But he's back
Speaker 1: and he's already homeward. A couple of times in his
Speaker 1: rehab games has really solidified him back, you know, up
Speaker 1: towards being you know, a blue chip prospect. Colepepper's performance
Speaker 1: this year has been fantastic and and just seeing him
Speaker 1: continue to blossom has been fun. Tyt started a little
Speaker 1: bit slow, He's got three homers in his last hand
Speaker 1: full of games. He's been I still think is one
Speaker 1: of the more exciting power hitting catching prospects that we've
Speaker 1: seen in the Emmanuel Rodriguez is just about the health.
Speaker 1: What's fun about the twins. As you mentioned, the depth
Speaker 1: like Design Hill is a guy that easily could be
Speaker 1: a top one hundred prospect if he could just cut
Speaker 1: down on the free passes. And that's the biggest issue
Speaker 1: right now. But the stuff is outrageous. Marrik Houston is
Speaker 1: such a high floor piece with the glove that he
Speaker 1: brings to the table, but he's actually putting up an
Speaker 1: eight sixty four oh ps and high A if he's
Speaker 1: sitting in double A. I think that's the guy you
Speaker 1: start to see climb into the top one hundred list
Speaker 1: as well. This is a solid, solid system, but they're
Speaker 1: guys at the top are as talented as just about any.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Emmanuel Rodriguez, I guess you're just waiting for
Speaker 2: him to graduate at this point, Jenkions, I'm kind of
Speaker 2: just waiting for him to graduate at this point. Jenkins
Speaker 2: should get up at least post deadline, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, once he's back, like he's already working back from
Speaker 1: that ac issue from colliding in the wall. I don't
Speaker 1: see why you waste any much more time in triple A.
Speaker 1: Just have him up in the show and if he's
Speaker 1: feeling any little ailments and things like that with this history,
Speaker 1: I'd rather have a big league staff working with him anyways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. All right.
Speaker 2: Next team that we're going to talk about here, the
Speaker 2: San Francisco Giants bets hitter in baseball over the last
Speaker 2: thirty days, has been Bryce Eldridge, the twenty one year
Speaker 2: old first baseman. He is the number twenty four. He
Speaker 2: has graduated at this point or close to graduating. Joss
Speaker 2: war Gonzalez, the eighteen year old shortstop, is number forty five.
Speaker 2: Got a seventeen year old here, Luis Hernandez, He's sixty two.
Speaker 2: Johnny Level, another nineteen year old, another shortstop, he's at
Speaker 2: sixty four. And then Bo Davidson continues to sneak onto
Speaker 2: the top one hundred and twenty three year old outfielder
Speaker 2: in DOUBLEA sits at number ninety nine. Got a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of young shortstops here. If you want to wax
Speaker 2: about Bryce Eldridge, go ahead, But I feel like that's
Speaker 2: a just baseball conversation at this point right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm excited to talk about him a little
Speaker 1: bit more on the JB Show and hopefully actually talk
Speaker 1: to him a little bit while they come down here
Speaker 1: to Miami for a series, because I was looking at
Speaker 1: the video trying to figure out what the difference was.
Speaker 1: Where how do you go from s treking out in
Speaker 1: hear with thirty percent of the time Ina to over
Speaker 1: the last month, Eldridge is walking as much as he's
Speaker 1: striking out in the show, And there's some subtle adjustments.
Speaker 1: He was very upright, and with such a tall, long
Speaker 1: leg guy, he would crouch down in his move and
Speaker 1: his head would just move so much. And I think
Speaker 1: now he's kind of found a middle ground. He starts
Speaker 1: a little bit more crouch and then just gets a
Speaker 1: little bit more into his legs without moving his head
Speaker 1: as much. It might be something as subtle as that.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to ask him what the difference is.
Speaker 1: But I mean, this guy, oh my gosh, as he
Speaker 1: just put it all together over the last month. And
Speaker 1: Eldridge is one example, but I also think the farm
Speaker 1: system as a whole, this has been one of the
Speaker 1: more improved farm systems over the last couple of years
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball, and mostly through the international side
Speaker 1: of things, which I think is really cool, and then
Speaker 1: also just through the incredible scouting side of things, which
Speaker 1: is ironic given you know the way that the league
Speaker 1: proposal has come along, and we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: that other just Baseball show, Like a lot of scouts
Speaker 1: are going to lose jobs and Bo Davidson's probably not
Speaker 1: going to be found in the Coastal Plains League. Who
Speaker 1: knows though, because again I know they're trying to ramp
Speaker 1: up the amateur side of things. With that point being,
Speaker 1: Bo Davidson has developed and he has become a huge
Speaker 1: asset for them, especially with the way he's played of late,
Speaker 1: in the way that he could stick in centerfield. We
Speaker 1: just talked about him on the last episode in the
Speaker 1: heat Sheet, the ability to go get a Johnny level
Speaker 1: and immediately develop him into a guy that looks like
Speaker 1: he can stick it short and being above average regular
Speaker 1: there they go get their blue chip guy and Louis
Speaker 1: Hernandez and he's been as advertised in the early going,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think they were just thrilled to
Speaker 1: land him, and then Josh war Gonzalez is still also
Speaker 1: kind of a blue chip guy as well. But those
Speaker 1: guys don't always We can list out a million names
Speaker 1: of guys that the blue chips don't always immediately look
Speaker 1: like blue chips, and they have so far for the Giants. Now,
Speaker 1: these guys have to clear some other hurdles, but Gonzales
Speaker 1: looks the part, Hernandez looks the part level, looks the
Speaker 1: part at higher levels. And Bo Davidson to me, looks
Speaker 1: like somebody that could debut this year. So I also
Speaker 1: love the Gavin Kylin pick as a guy that is
Speaker 1: playing well, not out of this world well, but well.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think the depth Bevan is a
Speaker 1: little bit better than it was in years prior.
Speaker 3: Got you all right.
Speaker 2: Next team that we want to talk about here the
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays have a very good system
Speaker 2: as it pertains to their sixth through twenty fifth ranked prospects,
Speaker 2: but they've got some guys in the top one hundred
Speaker 2: as well. So the Rays that sit on just Baseball's
Speaker 2: top one hundred update, there are five of them.
Speaker 3: THEO Gillen is at number nineteen.
Speaker 2: Brody Hopkins, the triple A right hand or, is at
Speaker 2: number forty nine, Nathan Fluelling, nineteen year old catcher in
Speaker 2: high A, is number fifty four. Cooper Fleming, low a
Speaker 2: shortstop and a teenager, is number sixty eight, and then
Speaker 2: you've got tayt and Gray at seventy five. They have
Speaker 2: so many pieces in the system, but you've got five
Speaker 2: favorites here that are inside the top one hundred five favorites.
Speaker 1: This is as deep of a system as he got
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball too, the outside of the maybe
Speaker 1: the Brewers, but I mean, this is just crazy, crazy talent.
Speaker 1: Tat and Gray is the one that just I think
Speaker 1: is exciting because barely on I wouldn't say barely in
Speaker 1: the radars a third round pick, but definitely not a
Speaker 1: guy that we were considering in the preseason to if
Speaker 1: you ask me like who in the race system could
Speaker 1: could burst onto the scene and be a top one
Speaker 1: hundred guy. I don't know how many names I would
Speaker 1: have given you before Tat and Gray, but there would
Speaker 1: have been a few that the Shane Boz deal, the
Speaker 1: amount of depth that they added there too, to go
Speaker 1: get bow Dye and who's been great so far, and
Speaker 1: Furrett who's starting to settle in and Triple A has
Speaker 1: been has been impressive. But the guys at the top,
Speaker 1: Brody Hopkins has been the frustrating one because it's the
Speaker 1: ceiling is so so high. He could be so special,
Speaker 1: and he has a couple of great starts and then
Speaker 1: just a clunker, and then a couple great starts and
Speaker 1: then two clunkers, and it's been tough to see. Ye
Speaker 1: theil Gillen as just the headliner of this system now,
Speaker 1: which looks like this is a guy that in our
Speaker 1: next updates probably going to be in the top ten
Speaker 1: and legitimately, depending on timing, has number one prospect in baseball.
Speaker 1: Upside like that's the headline of this system here. Then
Speaker 1: you have Nathan Fluelling, who I know we're higher on,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of the Joe Mack conversation where I
Speaker 1: see the same ingredients power, patience, which I think he
Speaker 1: has even more of that, a plus arm, and all
Speaker 1: the ingredients to be a really good defensive catcher. Does
Speaker 1: that mean he's going to be the thrower that Joe
Speaker 1: Mack is? Maybe not. That's a really high bar. But
Speaker 1: when you have a prep kid in an archetype that
Speaker 1: generally people hate, which is because of the history is
Speaker 1: these prep catchers, he's younger than most of it in
Speaker 1: his class. He's still nineteen years old and he's performing
Speaker 1: now at Hi A. I love the upside of Fluelling
Speaker 1: as well. So there's just so much to like here,
Speaker 1: but I think Tat and Gray is the other piece
Speaker 1: that just really makes me excited because you have a
Speaker 1: switch hitter with plus or better power that looks like
Speaker 1: he's just continuing to settle in with a great approach
Speaker 1: as well, also young for the class at eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: Their key guys I think, are going to keep being
Speaker 1: an arrow pointed upwards. And then they've got all this
Speaker 1: depth as well. To compliment.
Speaker 2: Last team with five that we want to talk about
Speaker 2: here is the Washington Nationals again to bony Ball. They
Speaker 2: are making their presence felt right now, not only the
Speaker 2: big leagues but in the minor leagues. Their top prospect,
Speaker 2: Eli Willitts is number twenty three on Just Baseball's Top
Speaker 2: one hundred. Travis Sikora is injured, but he's at number
Speaker 2: fifty two. Harlen and Susana is injured. He's at number
Speaker 2: fifty six or fifty eight. Pardon Devin Fitzgerald, the son
Speaker 2: of the head coach Todd Fitzgerald. Is it top at
Speaker 2: Stoneman Douglas, Yeah, Todd Fitzgerald. Devon is at number sixty six,
Speaker 2: and then sever King snuck On who's in TRIPLEA. He
Speaker 2: is at number ninety seven on Just Baseball's Top one hundred.
Speaker 1: Well, and talk about another guy that has maybe number
Speaker 1: one overall prospect upside, it's Eli Willitts too, so to
Speaker 1: have him headlining your system, and it just looks like
Speaker 1: such a fantastic pick by them. Already four homers in
Speaker 1: eight games at high A since going there. For this kid,
Speaker 1: that's a contact, speed and defense archetype. To have, you know,
Speaker 1: a five thirty two slug this year. He's still eighteen
Speaker 1: years old, by the way, for the entirety of this
Speaker 1: freaking season, it is just crazy. So him as your headliner.
Speaker 1: Sikora and Susana you're waiting on health here, but I
Speaker 1: don't need to sell you on the upside of both
Speaker 1: of those twenty two year olds. And then what Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: has been able to do. I know he's like five
Speaker 1: for his last fifty five. I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be quite fine. And even with this stretch,
Speaker 1: he still has an eight nineteen ops on the season.
Speaker 1: The development of sever King is just so huge, and
Speaker 1: I think it's a testament two new times in the system.
Speaker 1: And then how about some other guys that have the
Speaker 1: talent to be top one hundred prospects very very soon.
Speaker 1: I know people love Ronnie Cruz. I'm concerned about some
Speaker 1: of the peripherals and we brought that up and he
Speaker 1: has struggled at Hi A, but he's still ridiculous batspeed.
Speaker 1: Gavin Fien was hurt to start the year, but he's
Speaker 1: starting to pick up now that he's healthy and absolutely
Speaker 1: has the potentially be a top one hundred guy. I
Speaker 1: still think he's Perraus. The further he's removed him from
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery can be an electrifying arm for them
Speaker 1: as well. Ethan Petrie has a nine hundred ops this year.
Speaker 1: Alejandro Rosario finally got the TJ. He's going to come
Speaker 1: back and I think he's going to remind a lot
Speaker 1: of people just how damn good he is. Miguel Sime
Speaker 1: Junior is so talented, Like this is a very fun system,
Speaker 1: and I just it's one of another one where you
Speaker 1: can talk about, like compared to the Giants, this might
Speaker 1: be the number one shift in Major League Baseball in
Speaker 1: terms of which farm systems haven't proved. I didn't even
Speaker 1: mention Harry Ford, who's had a horrible year, but He's
Speaker 1: still Harry Ford, and I still think has you know,
Speaker 1: potential to give you plenty of value.
Speaker 3: System that got really good really quick.
Speaker 2: That's kind of the name of the game with Washington
Speaker 2: right now is a big league team that got really good,
Speaker 2: really quick, and a farm system that got really good
Speaker 2: really quick. We will wrap with the five teams that
Speaker 2: have four top one hundred prospects here and we go
Speaker 2: to the Athletics. The Athletics right now are sitting at
Speaker 2: four top one hundred prospects. Leo DeVries is your number
Speaker 2: four prospect in baseball. Gage Jump just turned in what
Speaker 2: seven scoreless last night for the Athletics. He's at number thirty.
Speaker 2: Henry Bolty is at number fifty or Boltay sorry, and
Speaker 2: then way In Lynn, the twenty year old leftander in
Speaker 2: double currently sits number seventy eight for you, Boltay. The
Speaker 2: more I watch at the major league level, the more I'm.
Speaker 3: Like enticed by him.
Speaker 2: He's a big man dude, and he's like he's letting
Speaker 2: that athleticism eat really at every single turn, whether it's
Speaker 2: defensively on the base paths in the box. I've been
Speaker 2: super impressed with Boltay and Jump at the major league level,
Speaker 2: and then in the minor league level.
Speaker 3: Obviously the Headliners Defreese.
Speaker 1: And you know, to a lot of people, and I
Speaker 1: understand why they felt like Jamie Arnold was a top
Speaker 1: one hundred snub, and I can understand that. So if
Speaker 1: you think Jamie Arnold's the top one hundred, gud, he
Speaker 1: was also a just miss guy for us. Anyways, that's
Speaker 1: another very valuable piece to add to the fold year
Speaker 1: who probably will put pitch his way, you hope, into
Speaker 1: the top one hundred as well. Opponents are unfortunate hitting
Speaker 1: three hundred agains him, but I still think he's gonna
Speaker 1: put things together there to make it happen. Bolt A
Speaker 1: we just talked about in the last episode. It's eighty
Speaker 1: eighty great speed and seventy raw power. That's stupid stuff.
Speaker 1: And he's developed into a great defender in centerfield. It's
Speaker 1: just he's a mechanical adjustment away from being able to
Speaker 1: elevate the ball more consistently. And oh my gosh, who
Speaker 1: knows what the ceiling could be there. Brandon Net's been
Speaker 1: hurt this year. I still really like him as an
Speaker 1: arm outside of the top one hundred as well. And
Speaker 1: then they got one of the highest profile you know,
Speaker 1: top or IFA guys and jo hen C Colummey, who
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are excited about, eager
Speaker 1: to see his pro debut, but Way and When looks
Speaker 1: like a guarantee to be a back end of the
Speaker 1: rotation starter and of course a't twenty years old. With
Speaker 1: his frame, there's still so much room for more to
Speaker 1: maybe reach towards middle rotation. Upside, you mentioned Gage Jump,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a middle rotation piece for you now,
Speaker 1: and that's what's so exciting about Himlea Dvrees is one
Speaker 1: of the best prospects in baseball period and starting to
Speaker 1: really pick it up. Just got that ops over eight hundred,
Speaker 1: and I just I think from this system it's always solid,
Speaker 1: but it's in a really strong place right now because
Speaker 1: you also have some depth to Josh Carota Grower all
Speaker 1: of a sudden add some power and he looks like
Speaker 1: a nice piece for them. Devin Taylor is having a
Speaker 1: nice year like they're rounding out the system as well,
Speaker 1: and I think that's it's in a really good spot overall.
Speaker 2: There is a system with four guys that seems to
Speaker 2: be on the downswing right now. And yes, some graduations
Speaker 2: certainly have to play with that. It's the New York Mets, like, Okay,
Speaker 2: Carson Bench is graduated at this point, aj Ewing is
Speaker 2: graduated at this point. But they have four top one
Speaker 2: hundred prospects right now. Ewing is at number twenty six,
Speaker 2: but then you got Jack Wenninger Weninger at fifty six,
Speaker 2: You've got Jonah Tong at seventy seven, and then Jacob
Speaker 2: Rimer at ninety eight. I'm not souring on Tong, but
Speaker 2: watching that guy throw in the big leagues, I was like,
Speaker 2: there's serious stuff that he needs to work out. The
Speaker 2: walk number was astronomically high with Triple A Syracuse. He's
Speaker 2: back in Triple A trying to figure stuff out. They've
Speaker 2: got other interesting pieces. But is it fair to say
Speaker 2: this system is sliding just a little bit right now?
Speaker 1: Yes it is, and yes part of it is you
Speaker 1: graduate a guy in aj Ewing who you know, we've
Speaker 1: been as high as anybody on and he's in same
Speaker 1: with Ben. So those have been two of my favorite prospects.
Speaker 1: I feel like in a while, especially in the outfield,
Speaker 1: those guys are are really really good players for a
Speaker 1: really long time we're already seeing that impact at the
Speaker 1: big league level. But if you just ignored that part
Speaker 1: and and just focus on the players that are still prospects,
Speaker 1: almost all of them have had a down year. Like
Speaker 1: Tong It's it's been a down year ultimately two. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been brutal at Triple A and he's clearly working
Speaker 1: through some things. Ryan Clifford has has a seven to
Speaker 1: twenty ops in Triple A Syracuse. I know he's picking
Speaker 1: it up a little bit, but that's kind of disappointing
Speaker 1: after just destroying, destroying Double A after the promotion last year.
Speaker 1: Jacob Riimer has a seven to twenty three ops in
Speaker 1: Double A. Jack Weninger's walk rate has completely balloomed this
Speaker 1: year in Triple A and that was one of my
Speaker 1: favorite arms. Yeah, it's even Jonathan Santucci, he's been he's
Speaker 1: been good. His command is backed up a little bit.
Speaker 1: In Double A. It's been weird. Like the team at
Speaker 1: the big league level has really struggled, and it feels
Speaker 1: like it's just seeped down into the minor leagues as well,
Speaker 1: where it's hard to find a guy that is really
Speaker 1: taking a step forward from where they were last year.
Speaker 1: It feels like, at best it's it's maintaining. And I
Speaker 1: even think that's generous with some of these guys. I'd
Speaker 1: say most of them, it's a half step or full
Speaker 1: step backwards.
Speaker 2: And you hope this is just a full twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six calendar year thing for the Mets, Like, oh, this
Speaker 2: is just the year from hell. You know, you can
Speaker 2: chalk this up to being a bad year at the
Speaker 2: big league level and a bad year in the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, like, you can't
Speaker 2: really survive like that when you are a major, major
Speaker 2: market with the highest payroll in Major League Baseball. You
Speaker 2: can't take the lump of a bad twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Something needs to be going right. And nothing is going
Speaker 2: right for the New York Mets right now outside of Soto,
Speaker 2: and that kind of stinks for them.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and I guess like the I was talking
Speaker 1: to Ryan Finkle sign about it. He's like, by the
Speaker 1: saving grace, I get to watch aj Ewing and Carson
Speaker 1: bench play every day. Yeah, give you that. I'll give you.
Speaker 2: You know what, that's a good positive spin on this.
Speaker 2: So you got the outfield of the president future in Soto, Ewing,
Speaker 2: and Bene And it's fun to watch other teams in
Speaker 2: New York that has four top one hundred prospects the Yankees.
Speaker 2: George Lombard Junior checks in at twenty, Carlos lagronhe at
Speaker 2: number fifty three, Dax Kilby, the nineteen year old shortstop,
Speaker 2: is at seventy two, and then Elmer Rodriguez, who got
Speaker 2: his first taste of big league ball, checks in at
Speaker 2: ninety three.
Speaker 3: They always have.
Speaker 2: Pitching, it seems, and the Yankees just continue to churn
Speaker 2: out some guys. It is fun to check in on
Speaker 2: Lombard and Kilby constantly, especially with the rhetoric around of
Speaker 2: the shortstop position at the big league level.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Kilby is the one too where it's
Speaker 1: just I would love to see that hamstring get better
Speaker 1: because when he's on the field, man, it's so much
Speaker 1: fun to watch him play, but it's just seems to
Speaker 1: be nagging him all year long. Lombard, I mean, at
Speaker 1: this point, I feel like he's getting closer and closer
Speaker 1: to a big league debut. He's already doing that thing
Speaker 1: where he gets the taste, struggles and then settles in
Speaker 1: at the level and he's doing it at trip away now,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I think there's a there's a world where
Speaker 1: he could help them in third base, even potentially sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later, and just just such a high probability
Speaker 1: big league piece. I love that they're gonna give Legron
Speaker 1: Hay some looks out of the bullpen to potentially help
Speaker 1: the team this year, because that's how he gets to
Speaker 1: the big leagues, and I think he could be fantastic
Speaker 1: there and then of course you try to work him
Speaker 1: back into a starter's role as well. But this is
Speaker 1: still a solid system, you know. I think it's better
Speaker 1: than it's been in in years past. Like Elma Rodriguez too,
Speaker 1: Like he's just continued to just be effective and maybe
Speaker 1: outpitch the stuff a little bit more and that's what
Speaker 1: pitched got him into you know, the top one hundred
Speaker 1: for us. So, I mean, the Yankees are always going
Speaker 1: to be buyers, right, and I think in seasons past
Speaker 1: there's been some times where it's like, man, I don't
Speaker 1: know what pieces they have. It's a little bit better
Speaker 1: this year, especially at the top. And you know, I know,
Speaker 1: a getting Kilby's injury this year kind of hurts some
Speaker 1: of the momentum there with the system, because that's a
Speaker 1: guy that I think had the helium to be, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the better young shortstop prospects in baseball. But
Speaker 1: still with the way Legron, Hay and Rodriguez are throwing
Speaker 1: the consistent and you know, just development of Lombard and
Speaker 1: then even like Spencer Jones holding his own right now
Speaker 1: in the big leagues and it's been really encouraging overall.
Speaker 2: So the comp is thrown around a lot for a
Speaker 2: starting pitcher in the minor leagues to debut as a
Speaker 2: reliever and then work his way back into his starting
Speaker 2: pitching role. But like I think Legronhey and Crochet, there
Speaker 2: are a lot of similarities there where you've got just
Speaker 2: utterly electric stuff with some flaws as a starting pitcher,
Speaker 2: like Crochet was never going to be good enough to
Speaker 2: be a starting pitcher out of the gates for the
Speaker 2: White Sox, but when he got up, it was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, just let one hundred and to eat
Speaker 2: and see what happens. And then slowly but surely, and
Speaker 2: it took three years for Crochet to get back into
Speaker 2: the rotation, but slowly but surely he made his way back,
Speaker 2: and that sheer ability and talent turned into a durable workhorse.
Speaker 2: So I kind of love that parallel with Legron Hay
Speaker 2: and it is funny that it's a Yankee Red Sox deal.
Speaker 2: A couple more teams that we got to talk about here.
Speaker 2: Your second to last one is the Seattle Mariners. The Mariners,
Speaker 2: of course have Colt Emerson on this list, and Colt
Speaker 2: Emerson is one of the top prospects in all of
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. The other guys that are Seattle Mariners
Speaker 2: on the top one hundred update Cold Emberson at number two,
Speaker 2: Ryan Sloan at number five, Kate Anderson at number ten,
Speaker 2: and then lazarro mont Is at number eighty four, three
Speaker 2: top ten prospects in baseball.
Speaker 3: Life is good in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1: I mean that's some rare stuff, right, I mean that's
Speaker 1: where it's crazy. And then you got Las Mantes of
Speaker 1: course still in the fold. They're hitting his homers, and
Speaker 1: it's just he's another one where's just I just want
Speaker 1: to see it at Big League LOB we'll se if
Speaker 1: he's gonna hit enough. Like I'm tired of watching, and
Speaker 1: I know he's young. I'm not even saying he's been
Speaker 1: like held up or anything like that. It's just you
Speaker 1: know he's gonna slog and double Let's just see what
Speaker 1: he could do in the show. Johnny Farmelo has really
Speaker 1: been heating up folding Sellison was a guy who just
Speaker 1: missed our top one hundred. I'm more concerned about the
Speaker 1: underlying data, but on the surface he has been really good.
Speaker 1: But when is the last time we've had three I
Speaker 1: guess it would be the Orioles. But was it three?
Speaker 1: I think it was three. Do we have Gunner, Adleie,
Speaker 1: and Grayson all on the same list. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: remember it.
Speaker 2: That sounds right, But Gunner might not have been that
Speaker 2: high when Adleye was still a prospect.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to Yeah, I don't know. I don't think
Speaker 1: so either. Regardless, like this is this might be one
Speaker 1: of the best three headed monsters prospect wise that we've
Speaker 1: really seen, because we have Cold at number two, and
Speaker 1: then Solon's the number one pitching prospect in baseball, and
Speaker 1: then Kate Anderson is the top left handed pitching prospect
Speaker 1: in baseball. So that's the fun part with this Mariner
Speaker 1: system is I mean, you've got some special, special, special
Speaker 1: talent at the top, but there's still some solid depth,
Speaker 1: as we alluded to with with Fromelo and Sealaston and
Speaker 1: Arroyo is a guy that we've always skewed weller on
Speaker 1: and we've heard it, you know, I heard it from
Speaker 1: people fours. He's having an okay year with a seven
Speaker 1: to fifty oh ps and double A. Luke Stevenson looks
Speaker 1: like he could be an interesting piece for them as
Speaker 1: well with with the defense and some power projection there
Speaker 1: as well. They're always going to have some some arms
Speaker 1: that kind of come out of nowhere as well. And
Speaker 1: so overall, I mean, this is always a good farm system,
Speaker 1: whether it's a little bit top heavy or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, last team that we get to talk about here
Speaker 2: the Saint Louis Cardinals. The Heim Bloom renaissance has been
Speaker 2: awesome to watch and Rainel Rodriguez is at number fifteen,
Speaker 2: nineteen year old catcher in double A has been one
Speaker 2: of the more impressive bets in minor league baseball this year.
Speaker 2: You got Jimmy Crooks at eighty five, Tarangelo sainta at
Speaker 2: eighty eight, and then Liam Doyle at ninety four, so
Speaker 2: it is certainly backloaded. You've got three guys in the
Speaker 2: back fifteen on the Top one hundred list. But Rainel
Speaker 2: Rodriguez is doing a ton of heavy lifting here. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't have the one by one top one hundred.
Speaker 2: Is he the top catching prospect in baseball?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Salis at nine, Duno at eleven, and then Rayel Rodriguez
Speaker 2: is number three.
Speaker 1: But there's a case, I mean, you could put him,
Speaker 1: you can make him number like. I think these guys
Speaker 1: are semi interchangeable. I think Salas is slightly off to
Speaker 1: his own but Rodriguez and Duno, I think are really
Speaker 1: they're going to kind of be in tandem for me forever,
Speaker 1: I feel like, and it's just going to kind of
Speaker 1: be what have you done for me lately? And try
Speaker 1: not to do that and try to look at it
Speaker 1: at a macro scale. But it's gonna be hard with
Speaker 1: these two and the fact that Rodriguez is already in
Speaker 1: double A and starting to settle in there. There's a
Speaker 1: world where Rodriguez might start to separate himself a bit too.
Speaker 1: It's hard because the differentiator between those two is going
Speaker 1: to be defense, and that's the hardest thing to try
Speaker 1: to identify uh with with teenage or twenty year old
Speaker 1: catchers in the minor leagues. The other part too, is
Speaker 1: like I still think Saint just just scraping the surface
Speaker 1: of what he can be. I mean, the strikeouts have
Speaker 1: been there ridiculously and then also like all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he's doing the left handed thing. I still think
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of unnecessary thing, but he's starting
Speaker 1: to do it better, so it is worth following. Joshua
Speaker 1: Buye is the top one hundred prospect for like everybody else,
Speaker 1: and I get it, so like if we're wrong about him,
Speaker 1: even if we're even if we're not, like he was
Speaker 1: a just miss guy anyways, that's a huge, you know,
Speaker 1: solid piece for you as well. But there's a world
Speaker 1: where he is a guy that absolutely should have been
Speaker 1: a top one hundred guy. And then I like some
Speaker 1: of the depth that they have too, with some of
Speaker 1: the trades that they've made. I think ty Pete is
Speaker 1: starting to settle in a little bit, and he looks
Speaker 1: he looks solid. Uh, the arms are interesting, like tank
Speaker 1: Hences is on the downswing. Fajardo has been good, but
Speaker 1: you know he's kind of limited seeing wise, Quinn Matthews
Speaker 1: just continues to kind of battle some inconsistencies command wise.
Speaker 1: I think the big one for them will be Brandon
Speaker 1: Clark when he comes back from injury. What does he
Speaker 1: look like? Who they got in the trade with the
Speaker 1: Red Sox. But this is still a really, really solid system.
Speaker 1: It is tough though with the struggles of Liam Doyle
Speaker 1: maybe holding it back some. But still good system on
Speaker 1: the upswing overall, as you mentioned, and that's something that
Speaker 1: heim Bloom is always going to do a good job of.
Speaker 1: But that might not be what he's tasked with doing
Speaker 1: this deadline, which is you know, I think has signed
Speaker 1: of great things right now.
Speaker 3: On the big league side, Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Those are our groups of teams. Obviously, the Brewers led
Speaker 2: the way with seven top one hundred prospects, but you
Speaker 2: had the Dodgers with six. He had a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of teams with five, and then we just wrapped up
Speaker 2: the teams with four from Wader. We talked about the
Speaker 2: Houston Astros who had zero. They were the only team
Speaker 2: with zero top one hundred prospects.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just quickly taken through the rest of the teams,
Speaker 1: the Braves had three. That's a system though, that is
Speaker 1: an up arrow with some of the guys that have
Speaker 1: they have performing Eric Hartman and just what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do. The Chicago Cubs, it's three right now,
Speaker 1: but they have and we just talked about it on
Speaker 1: the heat sheet, like Jefferson Rojas looks like a guy
Speaker 1: that's starting to play his way back into top one
Speaker 1: hundred consideration. Josiah hart Schoran is probably going to be
Speaker 1: a top thirty or forty prospect in our next update.
Speaker 1: Kane Kepley was a guy who just missed. Owen Ayers
Speaker 1: is probably going to be a top one hundred prospect
Speaker 1: in our next update. So that's a system that I
Speaker 1: think is on the upswing. The White Sox are the
Speaker 1: epitome of a team with three top one hundred guys.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a pretty average system. The Tigers
Speaker 1: have graduated guys and have had some injuries, but still
Speaker 1: I think a solid system overall. And then the Pirates
Speaker 1: also check in with three, and the Blue Jays as well,
Speaker 1: who also have some guys emerging. Juan Sanchez I like,
Speaker 1: but also with the Pirates, Murph Gray is another name
Speaker 1: to watch that could end up entering the fold as well.
Speaker 1: And then the teams with two diamondbacks Orioles, Red Sox, Rockies, Royals, Angels,
Speaker 1: Philly and Rangers there as well. And then of course
Speaker 1: with one it's the Padres and the Reds have two
Speaker 1: as well. I should have mentioned we actually left them
Speaker 1: out of the graphic by a mistake, but I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of the teams with two left. I think
Speaker 1: the Orioles have some talent with variants that could get
Speaker 1: them up, you know, pretty quickly here. The Red Sox
Speaker 1: always have some guys that I think are emerging. They
Speaker 1: have a few that have been impressive at the lower
Speaker 1: levels that I'm eager to see more from. The Rockies
Speaker 1: have more talent than I think to top one hundred
Speaker 1: spots would imply. And even the Royals with some of
Speaker 1: the recent pickups that they've had have been good. And
Speaker 1: then the Padres. There's always gonna be some guys that
Speaker 1: are emerging, and we've seen that already. But that's just
Speaker 1: a quick synopsis on the rest of the teams.
Speaker 3: Cool I dig it. That's our program.
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