Speaker 1: What is Up?
Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode of the Mets
Speaker 2: Up Podcast, the twenty twenty six MLB Draft recap. We
Speaker 2: have got all of the picks in for the New
Speaker 2: York Mets this year. The draft was a little interesting.
Speaker 2: They didn't have many picks at the start, but apparently
Speaker 2: they got their guys. We're gonna tell you our thoughts, opinions,
Speaker 2: and everything that we know about them in today's episode.
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Speaker 2: first round pick that people were caring way too much about,
Speaker 2: getting up in arms about it because he only threw
Speaker 2: fourteen college innings. Let's talk about Carson Wiggins right head
Speaker 2: to pitch you out of Arkansas.
Speaker 3: I think that's why this is fair to get relatively
Speaker 3: up in arms because you took a player in Carson
Speaker 3: Wiggins who was a sophomore, so someone that instantly kind
Speaker 3: of has leverage in the draft because very easy to
Speaker 3: go back for your junior year, play another year of SECA,
Speaker 3: especially when you have the stuff of Carson Wiggins when
Speaker 3: he was on the mound as a freshman. There are
Speaker 3: people who are in the college baseball world who thought
Speaker 3: he could have had some of the best raw stuff
Speaker 3: in the country. There are people at the University of Arkansas,
Speaker 3: you guys can hear from in a second, that thought
Speaker 3: if he came back and pitched a full season in
Speaker 3: Arkansas next year, he could have easily worked his way
Speaker 3: into being a top five pick. But kind of got
Speaker 3: stuck in no man's land recovering from injury and then
Speaker 3: came back pitching the combine didn't have his best stuff,
Speaker 3: but when he was healthy, it's probably an.
Speaker 1: Eighty grade fastball.
Speaker 3: He's hit one hundred and two miles narrow average nineteen
Speaker 3: inches of ever, like, it's a really, really, really outrageously
Speaker 3: good fastball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's possibly one of the best fastballs in the class,
Speaker 2: especially if he was fully healthy. So coming back rehabbing
Speaker 2: doing what he has in college, I think we also
Speaker 2: have to make it very well known that rehabbing at
Speaker 2: a college university is very different than rehabbing in a
Speaker 2: major league organization.
Speaker 1: So that's something that's even interesting that he was.
Speaker 2: Able to still get up to like the upper nineties
Speaker 2: with the college rehab work, and then that slider in
Speaker 2: the curveball are both really good. The slider is a
Speaker 2: legit wipeout pitch.
Speaker 3: Looks like it also could be like Flash seventy eighty
Speaker 3: great pitch. I also think this situation is an interesting
Speaker 3: microcosm for a big debate going on right now with
Speaker 3: the CBA of offloading development to the colleges and not
Speaker 3: letting players go from high school to the league. Because
Speaker 3: Carson Wiggins seemed like had a bit of a run
Speaker 3: in with the Arkansas brass and the coaches where his
Speaker 3: head coach, I want to get the name right right here,
Speaker 3: seemed like a weird vibe during the season. It was
Speaker 3: loading Dave van Horn, great SEC coach name Keith's father,
Speaker 3: possibly Keith's father from May fourth of this past year.
Speaker 3: So on the road to Omaha right there on Carson Wiggins.
Speaker 3: He's one hundred percent healthy, but as of right now,
Speaker 3: they're not going to let him pitch.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say. I'm not real happy about.
Speaker 2: It, which just brings up the conversation that will be
Speaker 2: a bigger one that we have about why college development
Speaker 2: offloading is definitely not the right move for baseball if
Speaker 2: you actually care about player development, which we know that
Speaker 2: they don't, that this is all to actually offload costs,
Speaker 2: because if you make players go to college, they have
Speaker 2: to go into the miners and then they become legers
Speaker 2: at an older age, which means they don't get the
Speaker 2: want so to mega contracts.
Speaker 3: No, of course, and that's why it is a weird
Speaker 3: thing here because even when Wiggins apparently was fully healthy
Speaker 3: when he went to the combine, the Draft Combine a
Speaker 3: month later, he didn't have the same stuff to the
Speaker 3: show as a freshman. He was only sitting low nineties,
Speaker 3: the slider, didn't have the same movement, the same philosophy.
Speaker 3: Did feel like it was a very weird player to
Speaker 3: evaluate because of that. Because of that, baseball perspectives to
Speaker 3: even have him on their board, because they were like,
Speaker 3: how we did a very difficult player to evaluate.
Speaker 1: You'd say it was healthy, We'll know I it's healthy.
Speaker 1: He didn't look healthy.
Speaker 3: But then we also know we've heard that there were
Speaker 3: other teams towards the back of the first round that
Speaker 3: were very keen on Carson Wiggins. And when You're a
Speaker 3: Mets team that had the thurther second lowest bonus pool
Speaker 3: in the whole thing. You didn't have the second round
Speaker 3: pick because you forfeited for Boba Schett. At some point
Speaker 3: you probably have to take a swing. There is probably
Speaker 3: the only chance to get something relatively safe, which I
Speaker 3: think was the main criticism of this pick, because this
Speaker 3: is not safe at all. But I mean, if you
Speaker 3: can take a swing, I guess get an Adie great
Speaker 3: fastball to take the swing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also think too, like we saw him at the combine,
Speaker 2: so I am a little bit surprised that perspectives didn't
Speaker 2: know where to rank him.
Speaker 3: Just he was like eight miles an hour off his ABA.
Speaker 3: Now he was like four miles an hour off his
Speaker 3: average from the year before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we could still see stuff.
Speaker 2: And the fact that I feel like all the other
Speaker 2: places were ranking him too, I feel like we shouldn't
Speaker 2: necessarily just see fourteen nings at the college. We know
Speaker 2: what the stuff can be, we know what the stuff
Speaker 2: has been. We know that the Mets have done well
Speaker 2: with pitching development. I know this is a big conversation
Speaker 2: to that Jonah Tong's bust and that the Mets haven't
Speaker 2: done anything recently, but the Mets have done well with
Speaker 2: pitching development, the other big thing that we have to
Speaker 2: talk about with this pick too, along with the fact
Speaker 2: that he's Jackson Wiggins brother Mets. Freddie Peralta to the Cubs,
Speaker 2: Jackson Wiggins to the Mets.
Speaker 1: It's happening.
Speaker 2: But the Mets didn't have another pick until pick number
Speaker 2: ninety two, and Carson Wiggins was a guy that at
Speaker 2: least from the I don't want to say mox because
Speaker 2: you're not seeing Mox, but from the relative idea of
Speaker 2: where he could fall in the draft, people thought that
Speaker 2: it was going to be inside the top ninety or
Speaker 2: then he wasn't going to be drafted and he was
Speaker 2: going to go back to school. So for the Mets,
Speaker 2: they didn't have another opportunity to really go get a
Speaker 2: guy that it seems like they very much wanted. And
Speaker 2: I like some people, we're gonna hate the process. I
Speaker 2: like the process here. I don't like going safe in
Speaker 2: the draft. I like going for the home run. And
Speaker 2: it does feel like while there's a huge range of
Speaker 2: outcomes here with Carson Wiggins, one of the top ones
Speaker 2: is that you could just you can find a guy
Speaker 2: who's got a unbelievable fastball slider combo.
Speaker 1: And I think we're not yet.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about the rest of his class, and
Speaker 3: how I think these first two picks of Wiggins and
Speaker 3: Robbins set the Mets up to maybe take fewer risks
Speaker 3: later on, take more close to ready products, Take guys
Speaker 3: who maybe didn't have as high a feelings but at
Speaker 3: least had generally good floors. But again, the risk on
Speaker 3: Wiggins is something crazy happens. I also felt like the
Speaker 3: Mets did a lot of the pre work with Wiggins.
Speaker 3: Of course, you'd expect that from a team's first round pick,
Speaker 3: but he already signed like he's ready to go player
Speaker 3: that again, once he went in the first round, he
Speaker 3: was getting near his slot, which just kind of makes
Speaker 3: the whole draft more confusing. Anyway, probably knew he was
Speaker 3: signing anyway, but nice to see you lock that up
Speaker 3: so soon with a player who again unbelievably wide range
Speaker 3: of outcomes.
Speaker 2: A couple guys recently have been taken in the first
Speaker 2: few rounds by the Mets, the Braves, other teams that
Speaker 2: haven't thrown that many innings. I wouldn't worry about the
Speaker 2: innings if there's anything to be worried about it as
Speaker 2: the injury. But you're gonna hear more now from our
Speaker 2: friend Andrew Ellis, who covers the Arkansas Razorbacks. We're gonna
Speaker 2: cut him in real quick. He's gonna tell you a
Speaker 2: little bit about Carson Wiggins.
Speaker 1: What's going on.
Speaker 4: Andrew ellis here, host of the Bombastic Podcast, the number
Speaker 4: one podcast for Arkansas Razorback baseball. So while I may
Speaker 4: not be able to tell you much about the rest
Speaker 4: of the Mets draft class, can definitely speak pretty confidently
Speaker 4: on the three former Razorbacks who are set to join
Speaker 4: the Mets organization, and Carson Wiggins, Cahill Aloy and Cooper Dawsett.
Speaker 1: We'll start with Wiggins.
Speaker 4: Of course, he's kind of the big one, the headliner here.
Speaker 4: I guess you could call it one of the bigger
Speaker 4: surprises of the draft. Now, we had been kind of
Speaker 4: hearing over here in Fayetteville that he had a very
Speaker 4: high asking price as a draft eligible sophomore. Arkansas was
Speaker 4: hoping to get him back for a junior season, and
Speaker 4: I will say the Arkansas coaching staff was of the
Speaker 4: belief that he had pitched a full season in the
Speaker 4: SEC next year, he would be a guy that would
Speaker 4: have a chance to go in the top five to
Speaker 4: ten overall picks. Now that's their take on the situation.
Speaker 4: Probably a little bit optimistic, but it kind of tells
Speaker 4: you what type of talent you're looking at here. Freak athlete.
Speaker 4: He was a really good high school basketball player. Has
Speaker 4: a vertical leap of over forty inches. I remember touring
Speaker 4: the Arkansas facilities the weight room a few years ago
Speaker 4: and they had it on the board all the you know,
Speaker 4: the highest broad jump, the highest shuttle time, the highest
Speaker 4: vertical leap. Wiggins was in the top two or three
Speaker 4: of all of them at six six. So it kind
Speaker 4: of tells you what kind of athletic specimen you're talking
Speaker 4: about here. Only fourteen college innings, we only got to
Speaker 4: see him close some games as a freshman, gets heard
Speaker 4: about halfway through the year, has surgery, does not pitch
Speaker 4: it all this past season, which was very much a polarizing,
Speaker 4: controversial thing throughout this season. It was kind of a
Speaker 4: whole will he pitch for Arkansas?
Speaker 5: Will he not?
Speaker 4: Is he going to try and hold out for the draft?
Speaker 4: Could they maybe get him for next year? Obviously it
Speaker 4: doesn't seem like that's going to happen, But many people
Speaker 4: in Fayeville were hoping he get to see that evolved
Speaker 4: version of Carson Wiggins because they feel like if he
Speaker 4: had pitched his junior year at Arkansas, this would be
Speaker 4: one of the top two or three college pitchers taken
Speaker 4: in next year's draft. So while it does, I'm sure
Speaker 4: some fans are probably surprised why the Mets if the
Speaker 4: guy at twenty seven overall who had projections a lot later.
Speaker 4: A lot of those projections took into account his signability,
Speaker 4: So in terms of talent, I don't think this is
Speaker 4: a reach by any stretch of the imagination. I also
Speaker 4: imagine he's gonna wind up signing for below that three
Speaker 4: point five slot value there, but a really special talent.
Speaker 4: His brother, his brother, Jackson, is in the Cubs organization
Speaker 4: right now. He was a second round pick a few
Speaker 4: years ago, a little bit older than Carson. He's in
Speaker 4: Triple A right now, one of the top one hundred
Speaker 4: prospects in all of baseball, who's on a very nice trajectory.
Speaker 4: Now they're not the same exact picture, but you can
Speaker 4: kind of get a glimpse into what that future might
Speaker 4: look like. And by all accounts, all the scouts and
Speaker 4: people who would know feel like Carson is the better prospect,
Speaker 4: the more polished overall pitcher compared to his brother Jackson,
Speaker 4: who is a little bit more a fastball dependent thrower
Speaker 4: more so than a pitcher. Seems like Carson is a
Speaker 4: little bit more ahead in his development and I will
Speaker 4: see how he looks coming off injury. But making no mistake,
Speaker 4: the upside is absolutely there. If you want to use
Speaker 4: him out of the bullpen, he could probably be pitching
Speaker 4: in games in the next one or two years. But
Speaker 4: I think him as a starter as a frontline ace
Speaker 4: is very possible and something that I'd imagine the Mets
Speaker 4: would want to explore.
Speaker 3: So the next pick, the Mets made, like we told
Speaker 3: you before, all the way, pick ninety two because of
Speaker 3: Boba Shed. Athan Robbins, outfielder from Texas. Two things funny
Speaker 3: about Robbins. One is that there were a lot of knocks.
Speaker 3: He was mocked in the Mets of twenty seven, which
Speaker 3: is kind of funny, so it seems like there was
Speaker 3: a lot of communication with him beforehand too. Two he's
Speaker 3: from Bucks County, PA. He went seat in all for
Speaker 3: two years. He's like a relatively local kid, which is
Speaker 3: kind of a funny wrinkle with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out our friend Mike of Stark Graving Sports.
Speaker 2: He wanted a Robin's bast round so badly got him
Speaker 2: in the third round. Best of both worlds for Mike.
Speaker 2: There's obviously some concerns with Robbins, which is why he
Speaker 2: dropped to the third round. There's a lot of swing
Speaker 2: and miss, and something that we saw in the draft
Speaker 2: this year more than ever in the MLB draft, swing
Speaker 2: and miss was punishing people.
Speaker 1: Jacob B.
Speaker 2: Lombard fell in the draft because of the swing and
Speaker 2: misconcerns and a lot of contact. First good athletes were
Speaker 2: taken higher with the idea that you could develop into
Speaker 2: that power will decide whether or not that's the right
Speaker 2: way to go about it. There is no doubt that
Speaker 2: Aiden Robbins has power. I think he hit the most
Speaker 2: home runs in the Cape Cod League in the SEC.
Speaker 1: This highest average I believe too in the cape Cod League.
Speaker 2: Yet like he can hit, he does swing and miss.
Speaker 2: There might be issues with adjusting to the breaking balls
Speaker 2: at the pro level, but he can hit and he
Speaker 2: is a good athlete. He's probably gonna be a corner
Speaker 2: outfielder though, which is another reason why he'd.
Speaker 3: Fall yes a right handed corner outfielder, which means you
Speaker 3: have a lot of hurdles to overcome to be a
Speaker 3: first division regular fifty future value player, especially because if
Speaker 3: you watch Aiden Robbins swing, a lot of the prognosticators
Speaker 3: have gone through this. It's an incredibly unorthodox movement in
Speaker 3: the box.
Speaker 1: Big leg kick.
Speaker 3: He kind of leans back and then he kind of
Speaker 3: just like scoops under the ball consistently. It's the kind
Speaker 3: of thing that again led itself to significantly higher with
Speaker 3: rate once he went from the Big East to the SEC,
Speaker 3: and I likely we will only get higher as Nawie
Speaker 3: transitions from the SEC to pro ball, and it's something
Speaker 3: that for him likely to actually become an everyday player
Speaker 3: at the major league level, it will be on the
Speaker 3: Mets to fully reworking his swing, allow him to keep
Speaker 3: his power and improve his contact rate, because he was
Speaker 3: a guy who had one of the highest barrel rates
Speaker 3: in the entire country. Shout Out Nash Nash talks Texas's
Speaker 3: where her countter is posting a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of Texas Bengal follows him post a lot of Texas, Yeah,
Speaker 3: a lot of Texas advanced data and showed that Robbins
Speaker 3: had in the SEC. I think I think these are
Speaker 3: all for the SEC, because that's all the SEC people
Speaker 3: care about. Ninety six percent barrel rate, ninety percent, ninety
Speaker 3: percent of average exit velocity, ninety percentile regular average exit
Speaker 3: velocity like ninety percent I expected wOBA, but the highest
Speaker 3: track out rate and one of the lowest whift rates
Speaker 3: in zone with rates out of zone, with rates, poor
Speaker 3: chase rate. That's kind of a mess. But when you
Speaker 3: think about a third round pick like, you're not getting
Speaker 3: a fully complete, finished, amazing product either.
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Speaker 2: No in the Mets over the last few years, in
Speaker 2: their second third, fourth round, they've gotten guys that haven't
Speaker 2: been complete products, and the minor league system has turned
Speaker 2: them out in two very good major league players Noel McLain, Ajewing,
Speaker 2: just to name a few. So let's see what happens
Speaker 2: with Aiden Robbins again. I like the the stone that's there,
Speaker 2: which is hit ball hard, hit ball in the air,
Speaker 2: take a big swing like. Those are all things that
Speaker 2: I like. Now we start to talk about some of
Speaker 2: the more interesting picks. Keeping it in the State of Texas.
Speaker 2: Left handed pitcher Shane Sadao. Is that how he pronounced
Speaker 2: his last name?
Speaker 1: I believe so. I thought it was Siddoh. I'll try
Speaker 1: and get a pronunciation for you. When Phil a buster here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but from Texas, A and M another guy who's
Speaker 2: thera was high in college. But what do we not
Speaker 2: care about especially in college baseball?
Speaker 1: James Era.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian was the zra a cal Polly like six
Speaker 2: like ers, Yes, sideo, sideo. Okay, So Shane Sedeo, he's
Speaker 2: being comped to Zach Thornton right now, which is kind
Speaker 2: of funny. I think he's got a little more juice
Speaker 2: though on the fastball than Thornton.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the juice yet.
Speaker 3: He's the kind of thing with thora and Eric Logan
Speaker 3: hanging from Fangress made this comparison where the Mets saw
Speaker 3: a lefty with tremendous command and you think, if you
Speaker 3: can get two or three more miles per hour out
Speaker 3: of him, you get a guy who's a good mid
Speaker 3: rotation star there. And I thought he was, like I
Speaker 3: thought he topped outbout ninety seven. I think he did
Speaker 3: a top doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He was a sit in. That matters.
Speaker 3: He was a sit in ninety ninety one to ninety three.
Speaker 3: Guy that's with this top maybe matters if you're gonna
Speaker 3: wind up in the bullpen. And I think the theme
Speaker 3: for a lot of these Mets pitchers where again guys
Speaker 3: who you kind of have to squint to see their
Speaker 3: potential in the rotation in the future.
Speaker 1: But with why the eyes, you can.
Speaker 3: See all of them being tremendous relievers. A lot of
Speaker 3: people have lamented the fact that Mets still can't develop relievers,
Speaker 3: so hey, maybe that happens. But again, the hope is
Speaker 3: here that he does the Thornton thing where he maintains
Speaker 3: great command as a lefty and develops more so more
Speaker 3: velocity to become a more regular starting pitcher. But even
Speaker 3: low nineties, that fastball has a really nice shape.
Speaker 1: It comes from a low slot.
Speaker 3: A lot of the scouts, Tyler Jennings from Just Baseball
Speaker 3: saying this lot he comes from a wacky angle. It's
Speaker 3: a kind of a low slot relief and he has
Speaker 3: a big extension with a weird horizontal release pointe Shawm
Speaker 3: and I is Zac Thornton, so it's not fully sideum
Speaker 3: though he's much more higher a release angle than Shaan
Speaker 3: and I. But some cool videos from behind Home played
Speaker 3: again from Tyler Jennings, showed that he also really hides
Speaker 3: the ball super well, like he comes around and the
Speaker 3: ball doesn't come from back here until the last seconds.
Speaker 1: It's very difficult to pick up.
Speaker 3: He also has a color which is funny, very similar
Speaker 3: to very similar thorn. And he also has a low
Speaker 3: eighty sweeper. So again, if you can add two more
Speaker 3: Tikes to all of these pitches, I do think you
Speaker 3: have a big time pitcher. He also had elbow surgery
Speaker 3: after twenty four. He missed all of twenty five I
Speaker 3: remember correctly too, So not a lot of mile John
Speaker 3: nolarm either, which is a big trend also for a
Speaker 3: lot of the pictures in this Mets class.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, round five we went with another SEC guy,
Speaker 2: so you see, I think we went SEC for the
Speaker 2: first cross. Five picks, So you got me a lot
Speaker 2: of SEC. It's the best conference in college.
Speaker 1: Six picks, say six rounds, five picks.
Speaker 2: Luke McNeely coming in. Next relief picture out of the
Speaker 2: University of Florida. Wow, where have I heard that before?
Speaker 2: A right handed relief picture of the University of Florida,
Speaker 2: drafted by the Mets.
Speaker 1: The thing that's.
Speaker 3: Crazy is that he also looks just like Christian Scott inexactly,
Speaker 3: like exactly the way that he is as a prospects
Speaker 3: the relief pitcher again from Florida, go and convert them
Speaker 3: back to his starter, classic, high spin fastball from a
Speaker 3: low slot, athletic delivery.
Speaker 1: Bit of the.
Speaker 3: Smaller, slighter guy compared to these other dudes we drafted.
Speaker 3: I have more our sizes on the guys later on
Speaker 3: we drafted hash hosses across the board. But I think
Speaker 3: that McNeely seems like he has a feel for spin.
Speaker 3: They're gonna just give him sweeper and try and do
Speaker 3: the exact Christian Scott playbook.
Speaker 1: Why not. I'm interested. Let's do it. Let's see it.
Speaker 2: He's got a pretty good fastball too, So like those
Speaker 2: are things we talk about all the time. You got
Speaker 2: to have a good fastball if you're gonna be a
Speaker 2: successful pitcher at the major league level, especially nowadays.
Speaker 1: It's got a pretty good one.
Speaker 3: And I think the Mets did have this mindset if
Speaker 3: we have to maybe draft a little bit more power
Speaker 3: just to get some more power pitchers in the system.
Speaker 3: And again if they think they can coax lastly, and
Speaker 3: they've done that successfully with prospects over the years, you
Speaker 3: kind of see teams find their way into the grooves
Speaker 3: that they've succeeded with.
Speaker 1: Whether it be the Christian Scott model.
Speaker 3: If here's a beneficient guy with a good fastball shape,
Speaker 3: Will Watson, let's get sweepers on them.
Speaker 2: How about something as simple as like the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 2: Any big lefty that's a starting pitcher. It seems like
Speaker 2: they're super interested because Chris Sale works so well for them,
Speaker 2: Like they went and got Nella Schultz, they got Higgins
Speaker 2: Tagin's and met Garrett Crochet, big lefty.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a look at you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're gonna see later on the board.
Speaker 3: The Mets did this too, with really big rithies that
Speaker 3: had as balls that had really high slots, so they
Speaker 3: didn't wind up having the best shape, kind of like
Speaker 3: Jack Wendinger, but with good command, they're gonna just teach
Speaker 3: them a billion pitches. I think that's something that we're
Speaker 3: gonna see as we keep moving down. But McNeil's definitely McNeely.
Speaker 3: Mcnel's definitely one of the big guys to watch. And
Speaker 3: Sadaw seems to me like the best floor pick they
Speaker 3: made in this whole thing.
Speaker 2: Interesting, all right, next round six, Alex Petrovitch, you were
Speaker 2: talking about the winninger type guys, right hand and pitcher
Speaker 2: out of Auburn. He's a low nineties command guy through
Speaker 2: a ton of strikes, throws pretty straight.
Speaker 3: This is the Jack Windinger pick if I've ever seen
Speaker 3: what about one hundred percent really felt like that. And
Speaker 3: I want to shout out Sam Jones from the UK
Speaker 3: Kentucky Analytics intern He gave a great, deep, dense player
Speaker 3: profile with dava on Petrovitch.
Speaker 1: Which amazing.
Speaker 3: All great guy, It's awesome, incredible, So again shout out
Speaker 3: Sam Jones. But big command guy was really nice. Track
Speaker 3: got mayas walk right fastball has not that good of
Speaker 3: a shape in the low nineties hard slider. Some people
Speaker 3: have called it the col I think Sam did as
Speaker 3: well by the scout's calling it a Slyther big sweeper.
Speaker 3: But again six' five two for the and ridiculous change,
Speaker 3: up that's the pitch that's going to set him. Apart
Speaker 3: so again similar, hope let's see splither possibly change. Up
Speaker 3: let's see if we can give this guy any kind of,
Speaker 3: spin more fastball, variations and if you can get out,
Speaker 3: lefties he could probably find a way to be a
Speaker 3: major league star hopefully at some, point especially for that
Speaker 3: big all the old heads that are tired of chasing
Speaker 3: v low and not throwing, strikes not worrying about command and.
Speaker 2: Control Alex petrovitch is your, guy.
Speaker 1: Right that's the.
Speaker 3: One he also has stress. FRACTURE i think his elbowed last.
Speaker 3: Year so we only had twenty nine innings first two.
Speaker 1: Years that's all, Man so just think about fracturing your. Elbow, yes.
Speaker 3: Horrible we just kept taking guys that don't have a
Speaker 3: lot of miles on. Them, Again petrovich feels like really
Speaker 3: really win and gersh, which.
Speaker 1: YEAH i, mean we'll take.
Speaker 2: IT i know he's struggled a little bit this, year
Speaker 2: but development's not, linear especially for. Pictures all, Right round,
Speaker 2: Seven pick two Ten aiden keenan right handed pitcher out Of.
Speaker 2: Stanford didn't really another guy who didn't have a lot
Speaker 2: of great numbers out in job For, stanford but he's
Speaker 2: probably gonna be a. Reliever the exciting thing is sits
Speaker 2: ninety six pretty consistently and has a sweeper that missus.
Speaker 1: Bats, YEAH i want to shout it.
Speaker 3: Again las shouts this, one asked a lot of The
Speaker 3: mets up community here for help on this people with
Speaker 3: nice college data draft. Knowledge Mike, dideno friend of the,
Speaker 3: pod did the draft guy for baseball. Perspectives he Had
Speaker 3: keenan as a guy circled beforehand as an interesting middish
Speaker 3: late round.
Speaker 1: Pick another guy who just was bad in.
Speaker 3: College, yeah high walker rate high, era mostly as a,
Speaker 3: reliever but flashed especially like in those shorter stints and
Speaker 3: at the combine with a ninety six ninety seven mile
Speaker 3: an hour fastball that has a legit shape on. It
Speaker 3: raised that he raised the armslot a little bit while
Speaker 3: he was in, school still kind of kept that plus
Speaker 3: ride with it relative to the arm. Slot he's also
Speaker 3: a guy that dramatically changed his delivery from freshman year
Speaker 3: to when he got. Drafted he was like a long
Speaker 3: arm all the way back release guy by the end of.
Speaker 3: It now he's a short arm action slightly higher, slot
Speaker 3: so very different, there big time sweeper that missus bass
Speaker 3: just doesn't know where it's, going but he kind of
Speaker 3: has this change that looks like it's not really an
Speaker 3: efficient pitch at, all like it's in the low. Nineties
Speaker 3: doesn't kill a lot of Vert SO i do think
Speaker 3: at some, pie at some point we do show him
Speaker 3: a kick change or split change or something like that
Speaker 3: just to add to his. Repertoire but another big. DUDE
Speaker 3: i think he was like six, three but a little
Speaker 3: bit skinn. HERE i want to say he was like
Speaker 3: six three one. Ninety it just seems like The mets
Speaker 3: are going for these power pitchers who with forrest case,
Speaker 3: scenario they could be major league believers like in two.
Speaker 2: Years, yeah round eight we go with, ANOTHER i mean
Speaker 2: just absolute unit of, Dude Landen koenig out Of ole
Speaker 2: miss right hand, picture six, six two hundred and fifty, Pounds
Speaker 2: get ready for this guy's, ready ninety six ninety eight
Speaker 2: out of the.
Speaker 1: Pen, yeah absolute.
Speaker 2: Shed it's also cool because he's from a town that's
Speaker 2: got like two thousand people in A North northion. Coach
Speaker 2: that's that's some ball knowledge right. There shout out The koenig.
Speaker 2: Family something THAT i want to talk, about just, briefly
Speaker 2: is The mets going so, hard especially early, on at
Speaker 2: these big school guys that kind of were in these
Speaker 2: secondary ancillary, roles not necessarily the big guys on the.
Speaker 2: CAMPUS a lot of the, times again we talked about
Speaker 2: with player developments not a focus at, college so these
Speaker 2: guys get put into roles because there are so many
Speaker 2: other good.
Speaker 1: PLAYERS i am fascinated to see what these kind.
Speaker 2: Of back rooms guys can do now that people will
Speaker 2: actually focus on their.
Speaker 3: Development it definitely is a big bet on what The
Speaker 3: mets can do. Internally SO i think they should be
Speaker 3: kind of cocky about the way they've developed McClain Sprot
Speaker 3: Scott wehinger over the last three four, years as they've
Speaker 3: got to be played development staff in.
Speaker 2: PLACE i Know tom, struggling but still he was a nothing. Prospect,
Speaker 2: yeah became a top fifty guy at one, point so.
Speaker 3: Flash even higher than. That but that's kind of, yeah
Speaker 3: that's kind of what this. Is and if you asked
Speaker 3: a lot of these same outlets draft prognosticators about what
Speaker 3: they thought of some of those guys coming out of the,
Speaker 3: draft that would have also, said you, know don't see,
Speaker 3: it probably a high leverage reliever for the next. Level
Speaker 3: so The mets need to take. Shots The mets need
Speaker 3: to add depth in the minor league. System and when
Speaker 3: we thought the depth was really good last year and
Speaker 3: all those minor league teams were, cruising they all fucking
Speaker 3: suck this. Year so it is nice to just again
Speaker 3: get these guys that they're not. Like none of these
Speaker 3: guys are anything close to finished products by any, means
Speaker 3: but Like coning sixty six two fifty six ninety seven
Speaker 3: miles an, hour also looked like a guy from watching
Speaker 3: video on. Him similar to what you said about not
Speaker 3: really much player development of college seems like with my,
Speaker 3: eyes not an optimized, delivery not using his, legs not
Speaker 3: a big follow, through not a very athletic in his lower.
Speaker 3: BODY i would love to see him develop as a starting.
Speaker 3: Pitcher head to the weight, room get a really Good
Speaker 3: Mets Mets love nutrition, plan and just see because not
Speaker 3: a good fastball. Shape get me to ninety nine with
Speaker 3: the with them with the empty shape there and then
Speaker 3: also he had a nasty, split good at killing a
Speaker 3: killing spin on that.
Speaker 1: Pitch so, again looks like a high levelge. Reliever worst case.
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Speaker 2: have the least. Amount this could be catch out of Cal,
Speaker 2: Poly Ryan, Taman here's What i've. Seen another big dude
Speaker 2: takes a big. Swing he's going to have major swing
Speaker 2: and miss. Problems that's What i've seen from people around
Speaker 2: the baseball. World that the power output is, exciting the
Speaker 2: swing and miss is.
Speaker 1: Scary he plays okay.
Speaker 3: Catcher it seems like The mets had a bit of
Speaker 3: a uh an interest to add to the catching depth
Speaker 3: in their. System wonder, Why, yeah it seems like we've
Speaker 3: had a couple of swings and miss on catches the
Speaker 3: last few, years whether it be, draft international. TRADES i
Speaker 3: think one of the international, prospects actually one of the
Speaker 3: ones playing, well is it Rod hernanda is still the
Speaker 3: cycle and he was a Trade giovanni.
Speaker 1: SOMETHING i, Want Giovanni. Rodriguez, YES i always want to
Speaker 1: call Him. Guyardo, oh he's nineteen years.
Speaker 3: Old he's still in the. Complex but, catcher. Catcher that's actually,
Speaker 3: okay he's not doing that bad down. There all, right
Speaker 3: we'll take, that but that's still a long way. Away
Speaker 3: you take a guy in, college that's it's kind of
Speaker 3: also the part of the draft where you have to
Speaker 3: squint to try and find interesting.
Speaker 2: Things, yeah we're not gonna have too much on all
Speaker 2: these guys going, forward except The arkansas, guys Because andrew
Speaker 2: Was andrew And Andrew Andrew.
Speaker 3: Ellis Andrew ellis came up because we drafted Three arkansas.
Speaker 3: Guys he's an expert An arkansas. Ball but the next
Speaker 3: pick is someone THAT i think is going to be
Speaker 3: my late round pick WHO i hope it WHO i
Speaker 3: hope does something. Cool Nate eisler From dart kind of
Speaker 3: sometimes hard to Find Ivy league. Ball we did find
Speaker 3: a really Nice Ivy league pitcher last year and he
Speaker 3: was the centerpiece of the trade FOR i want to
Speaker 3: say he was with A kuna For.
Speaker 1: ROBBER i think what was the? NAME i can't remember his, name,
Speaker 1: though you're.
Speaker 2: RIGHT i almost thought that he Was ellasoult for a,
Speaker 2: second but that wasn't.
Speaker 1: Him No elsault Was.
Speaker 3: Cardinals he actually he got. Hurt but he's still one
Speaker 3: who looks like FEAH i.
Speaker 1: Find that right. Now But frank something that Was frank El. Salt,
Speaker 1: okay you guys won't believe this six, six two.
Speaker 3: Forty he's someone that and is kind of a theme
Speaker 3: with some of these guys The Metro draft That sadao's like.
Speaker 3: This he's regarded as a pitcher more so than a.
Speaker 1: Thrower Truman. Paulie Truman.
Speaker 3: Paulie that was a big time fastball. Shape But isler
Speaker 3: has a plus fastball. Shape sits in the low, nineties
Speaker 3: but really good extension from a low, nineties uh low
Speaker 3: nineties velo and also from this huge. DUDE i want
Speaker 3: to shout Out Joe doyle Overslot. Baseball he put out
Speaker 3: a great rive up scouting report On eisler has a
Speaker 3: gyro slide that's just go to secondary and a curveball
Speaker 3: that can get as high as like get to the
Speaker 3: low seventies in high seventies in. Velocity change it that
Speaker 3: he makes in once in a. While apparently this something
Speaker 3: That doyle pointed, out that he's really really good spinning the,
Speaker 3: ball and he's really good at getting downward action on
Speaker 3: those breakers from a really high release, height good extension
Speaker 3: from this big dude makes the fun play off of
Speaker 3: that fastball and that diving gyro. BALL i almost got
Speaker 3: him confused in my head BECAUSE i read a great
Speaker 3: article By Andrew alfarez On Fangrafts today by How alvarez
Speaker 3: throws a curveball In. GYROSLIDER i like the same exact velow,
Speaker 3: tumbled the curve has like seven more inches of depth on.
Speaker 1: It SO i got those guys confused my. Head my
Speaker 1: bad on. That it's been a long.
Speaker 3: Day but, again just drafting big dudes who look like
Speaker 3: they know how to, pitch you're gonna try and winninger.
Speaker 2: Them there's something to squeeze out of them a little,
Speaker 2: bit which is. Good you're not drafted like guys like
Speaker 2: he's gonna top out ninety, two will never be able
Speaker 2: to get bigger or faster because of his.
Speaker 1: SIZE i like. It round.
Speaker 2: Eleven this is my favorite late round. Pick that's not
Speaker 2: going to be the catcher THAT i don't know if
Speaker 2: we signed or, not but kuhi Oh alloy picked number
Speaker 2: three Thirty round. Eleven outfield drive Or arkansas his brother's
Speaker 2: will he? WILL i think that's how we pronounce. It,
Speaker 2: yeah who went To.
Speaker 1: TENNESSEE i Remember. ARKANSAS i think he Was arkissas and
Speaker 1: he was drafted by The. Orioles, yes but he was.
Speaker 2: A first round pick last. Year here's what we've got On.
Speaker 2: Alloyd doesn't have a lot of, production has had some
Speaker 2: injury stuff going. On but when we've seen him, hit
Speaker 2: he has a batted ball that went four hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy feet in the air and he hit it one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventeen miles an. Hour he takes a, violent violent.
Speaker 3: SWING i love it this part of the. Draft, yeah
Speaker 3: he might as well just shoot for something like that
Speaker 3: and we'll Let andrew take more of.
Speaker 5: This.
Speaker 4: Yep Kahill aloya is a personal favorite of mine BECAUSE
Speaker 4: i feel like watching him.
Speaker 1: Hit it's so.
Speaker 4: Relatable you, know this is a guy who does not
Speaker 4: get cheated in the. Box he's swinging for the. Fences
Speaker 4: he's swinging to dude. Damage there's a lot of swinging.
Speaker 4: Miss he will absolutely swing and miss at a slider
Speaker 4: in the other batter's box if you give him a.
Speaker 4: Chance but if you make a mistake over the heart
Speaker 4: of the, Plate Cahill aloy is doing damage with. It his,
Speaker 4: brother by the, way is in The Orioles Organization Golden
Speaker 4: Spikes award winner was a first round draft. Pick definitely
Speaker 4: not you, Know caheo is not on that level as
Speaker 4: an overall. Player his brother plays, shortstop is a little
Speaker 4: bit more of a well rounded overall. Player But, cahillo
Speaker 4: in my, opinion has better raw power than his, brother
Speaker 4: which is saying a lot because, again his brother was
Speaker 4: a first round. Pick cahillo's got a lot of, power
Speaker 4: and his exit velocities reflect that doesn't always make consistent
Speaker 4: contact and he has a little bit of a trouble
Speaker 4: lifting the. BASEBALL a lot of his line his highest
Speaker 4: exit velocities or line drives or ground, Ball so that's
Speaker 4: probably SOMETHING i would imagine a professional organization would want
Speaker 4: to maybe clean up a little bit with, him get
Speaker 4: him to lift the ball a little bit. More of,
Speaker 4: course you also want him to recognize spin a little bit,
Speaker 4: better cut down on the swing and, miss maybe walk
Speaker 4: a little bit. More but this is a guy that
Speaker 4: is a lot of fun to, watch really. Athletic swing
Speaker 4: was also a former. Pitcher when he entered, college he
Speaker 4: was going to Byu is where he spent his freshman.
Speaker 4: Season he was going to college as a, pitcher and
Speaker 4: then quickly they, realized wait a, minute you've got a
Speaker 4: lot more upside with the, bat so he's switched. Over
Speaker 4: has had a little bit of trouble finding a. Position
Speaker 4: arkansas played him at first base a little bit when
Speaker 4: he first got to. Campus he spent a little bit
Speaker 4: of time in right. Field that was a little bit
Speaker 4: of an. Adventure if he can somehow stick in the,
Speaker 4: outfield the throwing arm is well about, average so that
Speaker 4: would definitely help. HIM i think for his, future if
Speaker 4: he's going to play in the big, leagues he probably
Speaker 4: needs to find a, position and that probably needs to
Speaker 4: be in the. Outfield that's a little bit of a
Speaker 4: work in, progress but a fun player there In kahi o.
Speaker 2: Aloy all, right thanks To, Andrew he's gonna be back
Speaker 2: for one, more don't you?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 2: Worry Aj crodell up, next right handed pitcher out OF
Speaker 2: u See Santa barbara and pick number.
Speaker 1: Twelve he's an.
Speaker 2: Interesting guy WHERE i THINK i read something where he
Speaker 2: might not even possibly sign BECAUSE i think he's a
Speaker 2: little bit, younger and he's someone who they Expect vilo to,
Speaker 2: jump which means that he's gonna throw harder because right
Speaker 2: now he's a low velo. Guy but all the underlying
Speaker 2: stuff makes you think that there's a lot more in.
Speaker 3: There, okay he's again six, four two hundred, pounds he
Speaker 3: had only twenty one years, old just turned twenty. One
Speaker 3: from The Santa barbara's the, gauchos, right they could be
Speaker 3: THE i think that's the gout shows he. Was he's
Speaker 3: rely on campus three, years SO i guess then.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not. Him Maybe i'll mix him up with somebody.
Speaker 3: Else, yeah maybe he was that Guy, cohening or maybe
Speaker 3: it was The stanford Guy. KEENAN i don't, know but
Speaker 3: BECAUSE i did see.
Speaker 2: Something about basically how he has crazy spin has great looking.
Speaker 2: Fastball there's just no vlow behind it whatsoever right.
Speaker 3: Now Maybe, PETROVICH i don't, know no, idea but, yeah
Speaker 3: he's a low velo guy with another one good extension.
Speaker 1: Walked everybody gonna just see what you could do.
Speaker 3: There BUT i think the next pick The mets made
Speaker 3: it round, thirteen three ninety is probably the most interesting
Speaker 3: pick that they made after those first four or, five
Speaker 3: and Is Jacob, madrid high school catcher from Notther Dame High, School.
Speaker 1: California school has produced a lot of.
Speaker 3: Pros he he looks like he's the one That while
Speaker 3: The mets spent a ton of their bonus pool on
Speaker 3: the first two guys with both high risk, Picks madrid
Speaker 3: seems like a guy that they circled as someone they
Speaker 3: really really really want it late and hopefully seems like
Speaker 3: they organized their the bonus pool the way they're going
Speaker 3: to retain.
Speaker 1: Him, YEAH i hope they do a lot of these.
Speaker 2: Times there are a lot of times when you take
Speaker 2: a pick here it is a little bit more. Risky
Speaker 2: but like you, said if we're gonna save money on
Speaker 2: these other, spots which it seems like The mets, did maybe.
Speaker 3: That's the thing they. DID i think they were straight
Speaker 3: up by the end of. IT i think That robins
Speaker 3: gets like a second round. Pay i'm saying the middle.
Speaker 3: ROUNDS i don't think they want to overslaid. Anybody they just
Speaker 3: playing a bunch of college sec.
Speaker 1: Dudes, well that's What i'm. SAYING i think that they saved.
Speaker 3: Money, yeah save, money but we're just kind of playing
Speaker 3: it very straight.
Speaker 1: Up women saving. MONEY i don't. KNOW i wouldn't be.
Speaker 2: SURPRISED a lot of these guys don't have any.
Speaker 1: Leverage you can.
Speaker 2: Think we just saw a first round pick sign with
Speaker 2: The braves for three million. Underslot who was who was
Speaker 2: a consensus top ten player in the.
Speaker 3: DRAFT i think to us he was consents top, seven
Speaker 3: but he's looked like probably more top fifteen. TALENT i
Speaker 3: think these players instantly have much more leverage with nil, Now.
Speaker 1: Daniil's not that.
Speaker 2: Much we've had this conversation, before got much mask getting
Speaker 2: not getting that much the top top guys are they
Speaker 2: have the LEVERAGE a few hundred g's for the top. Guys,
Speaker 2: yeah not for you, Know Zach. Crotchfeldt you know WHAT i.
Speaker 2: Mean maybe maybe there's a lot of not For Nate
Speaker 2: eisler at Of, dartmouth.
Speaker 7: So not for.
Speaker 3: Him i'm talking about like THESE sec guys who probably
Speaker 3: have decisions to make even as, juniors which usually doesn't.
Speaker 1: Happen BUT i.
Speaker 2: Don't think relievers are getting nil money that they.
Speaker 3: Care, yeah you're probably right about, That but also the
Speaker 3: team loses a lot of leverage.
Speaker 1: Because you just don't want to lose these. Picks of, Course.
Speaker 2: Jacob, madrid, THOUGH i do think a lot of the
Speaker 2: money that they're gonna be saving on these other picks
Speaker 2: when it eventually comes, out is gonna go hopefully towards.
Speaker 2: Him we don't have any confirmation whether or not he
Speaker 2: is leaning towards signing or. NOT i don't think The
Speaker 2: mets would have taken him here if they didn't think
Speaker 2: they had a shot at drafting him or signing. Him
Speaker 2: the big thing here is big, tools strong, kid good,
Speaker 2: catcher has a cand of an, arm really good behind the.
Speaker 2: Plate there's development there that can come and. Grow and,
Speaker 2: truthfully if people didn't think that they would have to
Speaker 2: pay so much overslot for where they draft, him he's
Speaker 2: probably picked well inside the top six.
Speaker 3: Rounds, yes and again maybe just because he hasn't hit,
Speaker 3: much and again him talking about the high school kid,
Speaker 3: here that's what it's have. Said it's more of a
Speaker 3: defense first. Profile some teams probably don't want to take
Speaker 3: that overslot risk and try to burn a bunch of
Speaker 3: money on. That he's committed To, oregon so, again that's
Speaker 3: a good baseball, team but not like the biggest baseball.
Speaker 3: POWERHOUSE i think you could probably pry him. Away also
Speaker 3: from his high, School Hunter green and Gian Carlos, Stanton.
Speaker 2: Oh Notre dame high school was a. POWERHOUSE i think
Speaker 2: they have the number one high school basketball player going
Speaker 2: to college next year was going to be the number
Speaker 2: one overall pick in THE nba draft most. Likely really
Speaker 2: he was also pitching as recently as last, season hitting
Speaker 2: ninety on the gun.
Speaker 1: Fifteen, like, yeah sign me, kids sign me. Up let's
Speaker 1: do it all.
Speaker 2: Right all these next picks are gonna be a little bit,
Speaker 2: fast a little bit a little bit. Quick round, Fourteen
Speaker 2: zach krotchfelt crazy cast name ever pick four twenty.
Speaker 1: Pick Wow crotchfeldt at four to.
Speaker 2: TWENTY i love give me the jersey hang hang it In,
Speaker 2: syracuse but, Yeah zach krotchfelt From troy left handed, pitcher
Speaker 2: you have anything on?
Speaker 1: HIM i saw seems to an okay.
Speaker 3: Fastball it seems like okay, fastball especially from the left,
Speaker 3: side could play. Up the one guy who caught my
Speaker 3: eye from this group down here Was Dustin hagen's the
Speaker 3: next pick From Missouri Saint. Louis he has a hoppy
Speaker 3: fastball where if they could coax velosophy eye of it
Speaker 3: looks like again he's the guy that profiles hopefully being
Speaker 3: quality reliever in the big leagues one.
Speaker 2: Day and then his skidrey at pick four to eighty
Speaker 2: out OF lsu right handed, pitcher.
Speaker 3: Yep and not super interesting from without drag. There and
Speaker 3: Then Cooper dasset here a pitcher From. Arkansas we got
Speaker 3: a little where From andrew, again just gonna let him
Speaker 3: take it in.
Speaker 4: Terms Of Cooper dawes a similar story To wiggins in
Speaker 4: terms of you haven't seen much out of his college.
Speaker 4: Career Had Tommy john surgery at the tail end of
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty four, season which had him out for
Speaker 4: the entirety of the twenty twenty five, season and in
Speaker 4: this past year he threw about.
Speaker 1: Fifteen innings For.
Speaker 4: Arkansas numbers weren't great had some ups and. Downs the
Speaker 4: command in his year back From Tommy john was just
Speaker 4: not really, there but he did see an increase in
Speaker 4: velocity through his high as ninety nine miles an hour
Speaker 4: behind closed doors At, arkansas he was more ninety five
Speaker 4: than ninety seven in. Games for the most, part the
Speaker 4: stuff is very much. Electric he's got a big swing
Speaker 4: and miss slider as, well so it's not, just you,
Speaker 4: know like he's depending on this, fastball but definitely more
Speaker 4: of a no doubt about it relief, Option like there's
Speaker 4: no question about whether or not you're not gonna try
Speaker 4: to turn this guy into a. Starter this is very
Speaker 4: much a high leverage reliever or. Bust and when you're
Speaker 4: a guy that throws ninety eight with a, legitimate you,
Speaker 4: know swing and miss secondary pitch, there it's not like
Speaker 4: you're gonna need to completely reinvent the wheel to get
Speaker 4: this guy to be. Effective so as a seventeenth round,
Speaker 4: pick he's another one THAT i was kind of hoping
Speaker 4: would secretly sneak on through the draft And arkansas could
Speaker 4: have him as a senior with an older guy with
Speaker 4: some experience and, Velocity BUT i think it's probably best
Speaker 4: for him to go ahead and start his pro. Career
Speaker 4: wishing for the best for all these, Guys but, YEAH
Speaker 4: i Think wiggins is definitely one that gonna be, polarizing
Speaker 4: gonna be you, know some mixed opinions on, this for,
Speaker 4: Sure but at least for me and most people in
Speaker 4: the state Of arkansas and definitely those connected to the
Speaker 4: program At, arkansas they feel like this kid's a freak
Speaker 4: and they feel like his ceiling, is you, know as
Speaker 4: high as any pitcher in this draft. Class so we'll
Speaker 4: see how his pro career plays. Out but that's kind
Speaker 4: of my report on the three. Arc it's all razorbacks
Speaker 4: were taken by The. Mets you, guys have a good one.
Speaker 2: And then pick a round, Eighteen pick five Forty Marcus,
Speaker 2: ward outfielder out Of King's rigg Kings Ridge Christian High.
Speaker 1: School what do you got on?
Speaker 3: Him, james big time, athlete another high school. Guy they're
Speaker 3: going to try the, sign but The mets are actually
Speaker 3: going to apparently offer him a contract.
Speaker 1: To be a.
Speaker 2: Pitcher oh, Interesting so there's a good chance that he doesn't, sign, then.
Speaker 1: Yes very good chance of this.
Speaker 3: SIGN i think The mets tried this also last, year
Speaker 3: very similarly with this exact idea with a high school
Speaker 3: kid laid, round real, twitchy but then they in sign him.
Speaker 2: Round Nineteen John, smith the third outfielder out OF ucf
Speaker 2: and then round Twenty Cooper, schulti shortstop out of The
Speaker 2: university Of. Iowa the reason we don't have much on these.
Speaker 2: Guys if they make it to DOUBLE, a it's a major.
Speaker 2: Win it's, huge it's great for the. Organization we'll find
Speaker 2: out more as we.
Speaker 3: Go, yeah AND i think that as some of these
Speaker 3: guys get into pro, ball we're gonna try and pay
Speaker 3: attention to more of the, draft the guys The mets
Speaker 3: sign that weren't drafted because again with one of his
Speaker 3: lowest bonus pools and all, base they have to be
Speaker 3: more creative on the. Edges and that happens because we
Speaker 3: go over the third level luxury tax and we signed
Speaker 3: the player for the qualifying. Offers so The mets that
Speaker 3: we're at there every single yearly going to this draft
Speaker 3: and the major disadvantage it makes their. Strategy the thing
Speaker 3: THAT i think is interesting to, track and it felt
Speaker 3: like This mets team took big swings THAT i think
Speaker 3: are high risk and in The robins, case seemingly medium reward,
Speaker 3: early and then they tried to get, like you, know makeup,
Speaker 3: guys size, guys sec guys, here like hopefully within two
Speaker 3: years you're at least in our.
Speaker 2: Bullpen can't wait for twenty thirty one When jackson And
Speaker 2: Carson wiggins are in The mets rotation.
Speaker 1: Opening they can't.
Speaker 3: WAIT i can't believe that we had Two aidens in
Speaker 3: the first six picks of this draft and we've taken
Speaker 3: Two carsons in the first, round three differently.
Speaker 1: Too, yeah two differently Spelled. Aiden's it's a, Man we
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