WEBVTT - Mets Top 10 Prospect Ranking | 600 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:13.760 It is time for us to give our Mets prospect rankings. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.640 After the trade deadline, we got a bunch of new 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:18.880 names in and we got to rank them. It's been 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.599 a while. We haven't talked about this farm system really 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.520 since the MLB Draft. Almost none of the draft guys 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.560 coming to my top ten, but we do have a 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.760 bunch of new guys from the trades cracking at least 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.200 inside my top ten I'm assuming inside of yours, James. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:32.760 Before we get going into it, makes sure you guys 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.120 are subscribed to Met stuff over here on YouTube and 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.320 if you're listening to us Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Drop 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.120 a Parting, Drops Review, Download, Subscribe. 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I mean, the Mets prospects are weird. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:56.760 I think, to say the least, it feels like there's 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.000 a clear at least one to two in my eyes, 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:00.920 and then everything else you can kind of go anywhere. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.400 I think there's a clear like top tier, second tier. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:06.640 I think the Mets top five prospects are probably a 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.199 little bit more muddled than maybe some of the public 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.520 outlets would like to admit, maybe the top seven guys. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.959 And I still think this is not as bad as 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:15.720 the top ten. As what's going around right now in 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:17.480 the baseball world. People were saying the Mets had won 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.319 the worst systems in baseball before the deadline. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.160 That may have been true. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.600 I have three new prospects inside my top ten since 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.480 the deadline, and I'm still I still think there could 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.000 be like five or six guys from this list their 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.919 top hundred prospects by early next season. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:29.199 Yeah. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.480 I wouldn't be surprised at all. I think we'll just 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:36.000 get it started with number ten. Yeah, I have Sammy 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:36.479 ste four. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.520 At number ten. I'm hiring staffur than you. 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.160 Okay, there you go. Listen now, Sammy, I love what 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.000 I saw off of him. To me, a lot of 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.080 times when I do this prospect stuff, I do look 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.480 at what they've done at levels. I look at age. 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.360 I think in terms of raw talent, Sammy might be 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.680 one of the higher guys in this system just because 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.280 of that swing change with the power. I could see 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:58.040 him by the end of this season being easily top 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.240 five in the Mets system. Like, not even a bait, 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.040 whether or not he is. I just want to see 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.240 what those swing changers look like now in the Mets organization, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:05.320 playing in Brooklyn. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:06.160 Yeah, I'm with that. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.080 Mine number ten, I had Jack Wendinger, who's had a 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.760 disappointing season at TRIPAA so far. I'll get you guys 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.440 the stats on Wenninger in a second. But I still 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.840 don't have him dropping as much as I think maybe 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.680 his surface stats will indicate, which is having a four 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.760 and a half VRA, having a thirteen percent walk right 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.600 in only twenty two percent strack out rap because I 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.160 still look at Wenninger's stuff. He still has two legitimate 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.320 secondary pitches. I think we'll get major league hiters out 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.000 in his slyther and his splither, and the slyer will 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:33.359 be good against right he split it will be good 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.120 against lefties. Right there, you have the makings of a star. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.520 His fastball and the sinker are both fine pitches, not great, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.200 they're fine. I think they could ascend to being good 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.800 if he could one consistently locate them, which has been 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.360 a big problem this season, or two fine. The last 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:49.760 tick of velocity the Mets have been hopelessly so checked 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.000 four with him too, So we can go from ninety 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.360 three to ninety five to ninety four to ninety six. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.000 I think that'd become a big deal for Wendinger. He 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:57.120 did that better last season. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.560 I think this season maybe physically, just hasn't had the 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.679 same success. But there's still to me a fine back 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.960 end starting pitcher in Jack Wenninger. Yes, I had him 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:06.440 just a little bit higher, because again I do think 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:07.960 the floor, like you said, is going to be just 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.080 a back end starting pitcher. He has enough pitches to 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.120 be successful enough at the major league level. I think 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.640 the rocket ship helium has ended on him right now 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.360 until something changes. Like you said, maybe there's a velo 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.359 step that eventually happens for him. But guys like Jack 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:27.320 Wendinger are winning Wenninger. Wenninger, sorry, is very, very valuable 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.480 to a roster like the New York Mets in the future. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.359 Anytime you have young, controllable pitching, it's valuable. You see, 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.040 teams are always looking for young controllable pitching, especially at 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.640 the deadline. What we saw, whether he makes an impact 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.640 for this team where he makes an impact in another organization, 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.640 whatever it is. I do think that this is a 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.280 major league baseball pitcher, and I think it's probably next season. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.280 I think even you could see a spot star for 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:48.840 him at the end of this season. It can just 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.520 to see, yeah, just see, we're gonna see a lot 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.400 of the rookie debuts across the league and probably with 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.080 the Mets too, over the next few weeks. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:55.720 But who's your number nine? 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:56.480 Jack Brimer? 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.480 For me at number nine, okay, had Rymer a little 0:03:58.480 --> 0:03:59.920 bit higher. Mine was a Milion p. Treck. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.000 Okay, I had Petray a little bit higher on mine. Actually, wow, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.280 a little again, probably a little bit of box score 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.320 scouting here. I know Rhymer big thing this year has 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.160 been the injuries have really hurt his progression through the 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.400 minor leagues this season. Got to double A. Is hitting 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.000 okay so far, but again just the inconsistent with the 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.680 playing time because of the injuries. The raw stuff is 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.560 really good with him, like he makes legit loud contact consistently. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.960 I don't think he's a third baseman, which is also 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:26.720 why I bumped him down a little bit. I think 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.560 he's ultimately a right handed hitting first basement, which is 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.240 not necessarily the most desirable if we're coming up with 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.680 the perfect prospect. It's so funny. I'm starting off with 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.280 the draftnick Mark followers over here, rhymers for a ten, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:39.960 nine to ten, you went a little bit higher on them. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.200 It is nothing about changing my theory of what kind 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.279 of prospect he can be. It's just it's slowed down 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:46.960 a little bit for me. I'm giving it more to 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.120 the guys with helium right now. Yeah, And I think 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.160 it's it's odd that's happened this year, but a lot 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.600 of the Mets prospects that they're expecting a lot of 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.360 heading into the season just I've had injury riddled seasons 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.960 and just had taken steps back physically, but injuries specifically, 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.120 I've hurt Rhymer, They've hurt Will Watson, who is in 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.400 my honorable mentions. They hurt Mitch Voight a lot. At 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.040 the beginning of the season. We're going to talk about 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.480 him way closer to the top. Like, it's just unfortunate 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.000 that a lot of these Mets guys that were pushing 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.839 or even Brimer's case, inside top hundred list heading into 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.480 the season have just had poor seasons. And that's fine 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.200 to happen, but you can't really take away from Jacob 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:18.599 Brimer as a twenty one year old. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:19.279 Double a last year. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.560 The guy had like an almost nine hundred ops and 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.320 run sixty games. He was someone that actually broke through 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.279 the power ceiling in Brooklyn, which you always talk about 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.440 how difficult that is for Mets prospects and how that 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.760 is a big indication for us of when an offensive 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.760 prospect is really really on a different level compared to 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.840 other guys who could be in the system. Yeah, definitely. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:39.600 I just want to see how we adjust the rest 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.880 of the year. I feel like where I'm at right 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.000 now with my Mets prospect rankings is one of the 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.000 least stable that I've ever felt over the last few years. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.960 Where by the end of the season, when we do 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.440 this again after the minor league season ends, I wouldn't 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.159 be shocked how different our lists both look, and especially mine. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.400 I think my entire top ten almost can be in 0:05:58.440 --> 0:05:59.680 completely different spots. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.920 We do this two months from now, Yeah, without a doubt, 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.159 I wouldn't be shocked. Yeah, and then just to talk about, well, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.640 where'd you have Petray? Had Petra at number five? 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:07.200 Okay? 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.159 Well, so okay, My number eight was Rhymers. We covered 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:10.720 him so we could wait to talk about My number 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:11.960 eight was Winninger. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:12.880 So there we go. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.760 We've got some guys covered there. Seven, Ryan Clifford. Hi 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.720 Clifford off my top ten this time. My seven was 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.400 tongue interesting, Okay, I had tong a little bit higher 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.839 with Clifford being at number seven. For me, I just 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.960 know that the raw power is there. This year has 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.240 been there's no way to describe it a disaster for 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.000 Ryan Clifford at Triple A. The Mets have been desperately 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.040 looking for anybody to play first base. It's now Jared Young, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.280 who's having a nice season. But the fact that there's 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.320 been such a flux at that position in terms of stability, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.240 and this was a year where if Clifford had any 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.680 sort of juice at Triple A, definitely gets a look 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.200 and could have even possibly won that position. It's a 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.440 real shame that has taken such a step back. He's 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.039 still incredibly young, he still has ridiculous power. I'm just 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:55.760 I'm going to chalk it up as a lost season. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.040 We'll figure it out next year. Yeah, I think that's 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.120 totally fair. Again, Young Clifford is till twenty two years old. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:05.120 I even think a career trajectory of like a Jared 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.080 Young should give some hope for the future of Ryan 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.960 Clifford being a strong side platoon first baseman. And while 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.840 he can't touch the ball like a nearly forty percent 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.320 straker race is untenable. A seventy four percent zone contact 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.520 rate is like worse than Spencer Jones, just to give 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.400 a comparison. But the fact that he's still popping out 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.720 one tense, one eleven's one twelve, one thirteen to one 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.840 to fifteen in Binghamton last year, anytime his back goes on, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.000 the balls hit very hard. And again, if he has 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.520 to repeat Triple A and he turns twenty three years old, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.200 I'm not I don't think that completely takes him off 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.960 being a major league player one day, but we will 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.000 learn a lot at the end of the season because 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.760 the Mets have to put him on the forty men. Yes, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.440 So that indication is that if he's on the forty man, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.400 he's already played the full season at Triple A. You 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.440 should be ready to play major league baseball next year. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.160 So if they think this is not salvageable, he might 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.320 be Rule five eligible. But I do still think that 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.240 he makes their forty man roster by the end of this. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.600 But he was off my top ten after weigh seasons. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.680 I think it's fair. I just there was nobody that 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:03.160 was like my honorable mention, and I think you're probably 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.240 gonna mention him at some point. Wandy Austin Yen was 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:06.760 one of my honorable mentions. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:07.680 He's really high for me. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.680 Oh, I know, he's number eleven for me. I just 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.560 it's he's sixteen years old. I just I can't. I 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.920 cannot tell you with certainty that because of what he's 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.000 done as a sixteen year old that he's gonna be 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.480 good even at age seventeen. I just I don't for sure. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.920 I think it's so insane. But I do love him 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.880 as a prospect, and I love what I've seen this far. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.880 But he was my he was my honorable mention. Where 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.360 like I wanted to be crazy with him, I can't 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.920 in my own heart, I can't do it. He I 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.400 think this offseason you'll start to see him actually sneak 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.760 into certain top hundreds, and I'll just he's my number six, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.079 So I'll start talking about him right now. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.440 We'll wait to talk more about Tong. Who'd you have 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:44.800 at seven? 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:49.199 Tong Tong per BK fan O nine Mets Prospect group. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.960 He's a great person on Twitter to get DSL lower 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.520 minds information on the Mets. He had Wanda ascien as 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.720 a one eleven max exit of flat at sixteen. Okay, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.400 I did not see that. I saw six, So that 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.800 would change things for me. This one was hit directly 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.439 into the ground. But if any sixteen year old the 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.720 United States of America had the one eleven max exit philosoity, No, totally, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.760 they would be talking about for two years at playing 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.520 slick shortstop at Wandassian size, which is already I think over. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.720 He's six feet tall, already one hundred eighty pounds. He's 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.840 probably gonna grow sixteen years old, and he's turning seventeen 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.800 quite in a few weeks. Again, we'll get to seventeen, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.679 but we're gonna have we have physical projection. We have 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.559 someone with legit speed, who already has insane raw power, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.920 who looks like not only can stick a short stop again, 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.719 he's going to turn seventeen in two weeks. Heart to 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.160 say these things, but looks like one day he'll be 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.520 a really good defensive shortstop. He doesn't have to be 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.160 in the forty Mantle twenty third least. We've got a 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:38.760 lot of time on want the Ossi in here, but 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.000 just seeing those bones are before, just seeing those bones 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.360 have a player who went to the DSL again, did 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.439 the whole thing at sixteen and rocked it. He's I 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.040 it's hard to get more excited about the Mets prospect, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.800 even though he's a child. Yeah, no, I will say 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.559 did not know one eleven because of course Twitter has 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.960 the worst search functions. Is the worst thing they've done 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.559 to in the history of so it's the worst search ever. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.840 There's never been a worse search. Truthfully, I don't know why. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.320 But when I searched the wandi Ossian exit velocity to 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.800 try and get anything I want, the first thing that 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.040 came up was who It was a bunch of pirates 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.080 tweets from Platinum Key. Somehow, that's so funny. The first 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.840 tweet Wanda Assi and exit velosities to search. The tweet 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.719 is Henry Davis. Leaves no doubt about this one. A 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.560 spring training home run seems like wand right, Yeah right, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.760 Henry Davis wandi Assian same thing, Yeah, same thing. If 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.360 I had known one eleven top five prospect in the system. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:29.720 It's me six. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.160 He almost got to five. He almost did. My number 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.640 six is the other youngster, Ellien Payneyeah. I put him 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.800 at number six. Again, I see people being very very 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.320 aggressive with him as a hitter. I am wondering because 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.760 I still think the exit villows haven't been there yet 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.400 to like really be an eye opening, which again I 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.240 think is super important. But does seem like he's going 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.559 to be able to play shortstop better than we thought, 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.280 which is really good for his floor. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.800 Yes, at least well enough. He was my five. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.800 Okay, that's fair, and just the bottom line is that 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.040 Elli and Payne, with all the peedigree and everything he 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.200 came with being an above average bat in low a 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.400 as an eighteen year old with big slump's, big hot 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.120 streaks trying to find his consistency. That's that's enough to 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.360 me to make me think he's very clearly a fringe 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.000 top one hundred prospect and as a lefty bat who 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.080 should be, like you said, possibly an adequate shortstop, certainly 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:19.320 someone who could play the other infield positions, probably quite well. Yes, again, 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.120 there's enough traits here, enough of a hitterish profile and 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.040 enough room for projection. Even though he does look he 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.720 looks like his size is kind of there. I'd be 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.720 curious if he ever got to like a one to twelve, 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.560 one to thirteen max ex of philosophy. I'd be very surprised, honestly, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:33.920 if you had a thirty home run future as a 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.439 major League killer. Yeah, I see like an eighteen to 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.679 twenty two home run guy who could run a high 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.880 batting average in a decent on base percentage. Yeah, there's 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.959 a bunch of different ways to be a very very 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.320 productive major league baseball player. I don't think it's going 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.400 to be in the superstar form of Eli and Payana. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.599 Like his international signing pool money would have possibly indicated 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.320 that's gonna Ossien. Ossien might be that guy, specially at 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.640 the ball What eleven at sixteen, that's absolutely insane. There's 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.280 you can't put him in pitching machines that go one 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.400 to eleven. If a high schooler did that, there would 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.160 be scats from all over the country watching his games. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.040 He would be the number one pick and they would 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.079 be like talking about should he continue to play high 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.360 school baseball just because he might get hurt? So what 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.120 I'm saying, you'd have like the Bryce Harper thing where 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:14.640 it's like should he go to Juco? Should he get 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.160 his ged go to Juco so we can get drafted early, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.160 and like the fact that he was such a big 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.760 international money guy, like he's just it looks like there's 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.200 could be something really nice here. Yeah, no, super talented. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.760 My number five was amilion p tre where I can't 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.840 I can't shake the aj Ewing thing that I'm that 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.600 we said earlier on where it's like very very similar 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.520 Ish like hitter ish puts the ball and play a ton. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.640 Left, different twing, different twitch, different twitch. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.520 Ewing's got more of the athleticism I see more of, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:42.319 like the bat to ball with a million p tray 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.120 and the numbers I think would support that as well. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.079 But like, give me the in between of those two guys, 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.480 and I really like that kind of player. And it 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.960 seems like he's a capable second basement even corner outfielder, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.480 which I like a lot. It's probably also a relatively 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.240 capable third basement depending on his arm. But just simply 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.000 and we said this at the trade deadlines, why we're 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.760 so excited about him as again, the centerpiece of the 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.880 Freddie Peralta trade, a ninety percent in zone contact, one 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.439 hundred eleven mile prior max exit phlosoity, and nearly two 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:09.400 times as many walks to. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:10.319 Strikeouts at double A. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.880 While he's older again, he's twenty three years old, turned 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.400 twenty four soon or just maybe had just turned twenty four. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.439 It's it looks like some of the next season should 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.320 be contributing to the big Ley roster, which is really exciting. Yeah, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.400 as a likely functional player, his floor is awesome, Like 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.160 I like him very much, learning more about him, all right, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.520 So that means we're in the top four now, right, Yes, 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.440 number four. I went Jonathan Santucci, okay with you as 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.880 Toalng much higher still, I have tongue at three, okay, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.199 and I listen, you're gonna have the pitch stuff a 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.439 little bit better than me here. I just I can't, 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.480 So I went Santucci for tongue three. I can't shake 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.360 what I've seen with tongue in the past. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.280 This year is bizarre, Like what. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.120 The fuck happened? Did he have an out of body 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.280 experience where it's no longer jonah tong? Did he have 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:54.040 the uh willow wishing willow thing where he like wished 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.960 for something and it actually caused a demon to take 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.800 over his body, because it's like he is completely a 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.040 shell of himself. And I do wonder what that could 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.720 be and what that means moving forward. But the stuff 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.800 has been so good that I just I'm gonna believe 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.280 in it until I physically can't anymore. I think that's 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.480 totally fair. And my whole thing with Tongue is that. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.400 And I had them at seven on my list, but again, 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.720 I don't have that big of a difference between now 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.880 four and nine on my list. I think that's fair. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.120 And yet before get to my four in a second, 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.240 but these are all guys who would consider not kind 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:26.920 of closest to the top one hundred, but more guys 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.640 would between like the one hundred and twenty to one 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:29.960 hundred and fiftieth best prospects. 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.920 Totally, But at the end of the. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.080 Day, with tong if he can't get a pitch to 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.040 move left, he will not be able to be a 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.000 major league starting pitcher, unless as he continues to physically mature. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:41.880 We're still very possible with Joe and Tongue still as 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.840 a twenty three year old still is a pretty I 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.360 think he's still eve in a shade of below the 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.120 average age at Triple A, like he could still possibly 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.000 even find another sick because he's still filling out. He 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.640 still looks very young and slight, and he's now sustaining 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.480 ninety five. But that was like still blow where he 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:55.480 was wanted to be last year. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:56.080 But still whatever. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.400 Less the color has been so inconsistent at Triple A 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.360 this year. There is some games where it moves left 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.560 and is great, and it'll sit eighty nine, touch ninety. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.360 Sometimes it'll go over ninety, but then it won't be 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:06.640 able to go left as much. Sometimes I'll have a 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.080 little more depth on it. Makes me think sometimes he's 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.720 experimenting still with two different color shapes, which it's just 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.000 been this entire season of trying to figure this out. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.520 And I do fear that sometimes messing with that color 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.720 has altered his fastball in the way that's a little 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.600 bit unfortunate, losing some of the great shape on that. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.560 But the change up still looks good. And he's adjusted 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:25.880 his curve ball to be a little bit more of 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:27.520 a power curve this year, which is something we called 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:28.040 out last year. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.360 The pitch was just simply too slow. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.920 We've seen some starts where he's had average curve ball 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.280 velocities around eighty two to eighty three recently. So there's 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.760 still plenty here to work with. And I'm not even 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.440 close to quitting on Joe and Tong in any way, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.120 shape or form. But it is just like you've done 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.040 a year of trying to get this thing together. You 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.720 have to get this thing together at some point. Hot take. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.520 I think, throw away the cutter, throw away a slider. 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.960 I think you just lean into being fastball, change up, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.920 and you've got to get a wicked hammer. I think 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.160 with the way that his armslot is just keep trying 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.280 both no fuck it, stop it, and the way that 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.400 he throws, I don't think it's ever gonna work. There's 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.040 a reason that we don't see those guys throwing cutters 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.280 because it just doesn't really work. There's not many guys 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.280 that throw like there's not many guys that throw like 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.920 Jonah Tong to begin with, which like Y Savage is 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.240 like the closest comp but he's a different freak and 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.760