WEBVTT - 534 | MLB Trade Deadline Prospect Returns (Part 3) 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.040 Any swags to high. 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:19.560 Stand deep just set her feel and it's gone, Wow. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.840 His first big league swing is gonna be a grand slam. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:25.080 The home line. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.840 Swag, Good time to walk to the show. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:38.000 Part three of the three episode trade deadline breakdown series. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.000 Here on the call up, you got arm Late and 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:40.879 Jack mcmowen. 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.640 This time for the finale, a lot more trades to 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:44.240 talk about. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.080 What's crazy. 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.680 Elijah pointed this out Jack on the last episode. From 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.479 the start of last episode, which we got into an 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.680 hour's worth of trades. Those all came in on the 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.560 last day, and we still have another huge batch of deal. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.480 Maybe one or two didn't, but I think almost all 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:00.880 of them did. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.960 Now we still have a full slate of deals to 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.680 go over that all still came in on the last day. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:11.160 Procrastination is rampant among MLB front offices. We're also gonna 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.720 see it with the CBA, but it's rampant with the deadline. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:14.759 It seems like more than. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:19.320 Ever, procrastination is running rampant. But it's also strategic. I 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.399 think procrastination is like the way to go, and it's 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.399 the way to operate at the trade deadline because the 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.840 closer you get to that six pm Eastern heart stop. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.120 The more frantic the buyers become, and it's like, you 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.080 know what, screw it, let me give you this guy. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.800 So it's almost like a necessary evil, the procrastination here, 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.000 and that's why you see so many come through. But 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.240 what I love about the trade deadline now is with 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.960 the expanded playoff, the number of buyers is greater. It 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:53.960 seems like teams are I think, more committed to giving 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.200 it a shot this year than in recent years. So 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.560 like we have more deadline transactions going. Some of them 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.800 are like marginal, you know, like Lane Thomas and Bailey Falter. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.560 That's that's, you know, an interesting enough deal. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.440 And for the team that should have been going for 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.280 it harder than the ones, they don't fit. The braves 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.880 don't fit, give it a try, braves fit the go 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:14.880 all in and they did. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:15.560 They give it a try. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.680 Moves right, So it's like, you know, you've got maybe 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.520 instead of some big fish moving, you had like instead 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.640 of one big deal, you had three smaller deals. And 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.440 frankly for the sheer quantity and for our prospect, lens, 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.520 I kind of dig it. There were a lot of 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:32.760 deals on deadline day. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:34.640 I love it I absolutely love it, and we're going 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.600 to talk about one of my favorite deals. Of course, 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.560 we'll lead off with that with Dustin May Jojo Romero 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.040 going to the Brewers for a pair of really fun prospects. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.600 We're also going to bounce around to some of the 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.400 smaller deals. Michael Farrett back to where he started. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:50.280 We get. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.720 You know, sometimes you bounce around because works don't want you. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.760 I think it's different with Farrett. It's I think both 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.359 wanted him, really didn't want to give him up, and 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:57.480 now they get a chance to bring. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.680 Him back to Baltimore. We'll talk about that deal. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.200 There's several others that I think are really fun, and 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.720 even some players getting swapped to opportunity, like areas where 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.919 they're gonna have more opportunity, about Jonathan Long going to 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.040 the Marlins where he's not as directly blocked and you 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.200 could see a path to him having more opportunity. So 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.800 several more trades in between, but we'll start with my 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:19.560 favorite one, and it's Jojo Romero, Dustin May going to 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:24.000 the Brewers for Alexander Frias and Josiah Ragsdale. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.320 Now this is a wild one to me. We've talked 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:27.840 about on the. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.480 Just Baseball Show, the place where my mind immediately goes 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.639 and I think it's it's it, you can't do this, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.120 this is this is actually I think hinders of objectivity. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.560 And that's why I'm sticking with I love. I think 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.000 this is one of the best returns is you you 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.440 go to what's the catch with free us men? Like 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:46.520 what are they are? 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:46.840 They do? 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.120 They do they see something that's going to hold him 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.280 back from reaching a ceiling. You know, we saw a 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.280 report from Ken Rosenthal that Frios was also one of 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.680 the players that was potentially available in a school deal. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:57.240 Of course he was. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.600 He was traded in another deal, so of course Frios 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.119 was gonna be a won a Schoogle deal. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.960 But what was the package? It was Pania, Jet and Frieus. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.200 Yeah, those were the players that they offered up, which 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.160 I mean not even close to what if everyone wants 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.080 to complain about the Dodgers package, that ain't close and 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.440 Logan Henderson sounds like it was a non starter for 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.200 the Bruce, which I can very much understand, but also 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.679 like the Brewers have a lot of other prospects. Between 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.839 Luis Pania and Alexander Frias that are really exciting, So 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.000 I don't know, you know, of course you're never gonna. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.520 Fully get everything that was going on in the war 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:30.000 room there. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.320 I still think that the Brewers would have been willing, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.479 like you think they're gonna, let, you know, a minor 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.880 leaguer at that point stop them from being able to 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.839 get school if they were that all in, I don't 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.680 think so. I think Henderson was the guy that ends 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.720 up drawing the line there. But regardless, Frias, as Time 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.679 Bloom put it, he's all the upside in the world. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.359 And of course every GM, every president based operation is 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.159 gonna sell the hell out of the prospects that they acquired. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.280 In a deal. But that's just objectively true. Alexander Frias 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:58.960 is all of the upside in the world. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.320 Just if you see one video of this kid swinging 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:08.039 the bat, you see a lanky, athletic, twitchy athlete that 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.839 has already a really good swing for his age, and 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.960 you say, oh, man, yeah, that guy can absolutely be 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.720 someone to dream on. And you know, you think about 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.000 the Brewers organization, and you know what they've been able 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.560 to do with these types of guys. It's kind of 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.960 surprising that they part with him for you know, a 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.400 pair of rentals here, and on top of that that 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.400 they had to part with another guy that's made a 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.600 huge leap this season in Josiah Ragsdill. I'll get into 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.800 Ragsdale in a moment, but just a little bit more 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.320 context on Frius, Like when you look at what he's 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:42.479 done this year. So the Brewers like to have their 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.839 guys skip the complex, like the top dogs, right, Louise 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.320 pana Haes's mindy, they're gonna skip the complex league. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.719 Fris didn't skip the complex. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:51.760 So you know, maybe they they had him a little 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.800 bit lower in the pecking order. Do you have his 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:56.359 complex numbers in front of you? 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.400 Yeah, at the complex this year and he was in 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.600 the DSL. Last year he hit three fifteen with a 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.400 four to ten OBP. But this year, in thirty two 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.280 games of the complex, he hit four forty one. And 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.400 in thirty two games, this guy had what eighteen extra 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.919 base hits he drove in thirty four he had a 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.800 five eighteen on base percentage and in eleven ninety six 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.280 ops in thirty two games at the complex. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.359 You probably should have skipped it, huh, I think so? 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.640 And then he goes to low a Carolina right or Wilson. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.880 What is it now, the Wilson war Birds instead of 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.080 the Carolina Mudcats. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.039 But yeah, that one I slipped mind is the Wilson 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:37.760 war Birds. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.039 Yes, I don't know. But in twenty eight games there, Yeah, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.760 he hit two thirty six, but he got into some 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.159 pop and it was a seven to fifty ops. Big 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.960 number for him. Twenty bags in sixty one games, but 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.280 also in sixty one games so far this year, this 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.000 guy's driven in sixty two. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:58.279 That's pretty crazy for a lot of traffic in the 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:02.080 Complex League. You're hitting four forty one, you're gonna get 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:03.479 an opportunity to drive a lot of guys in. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:04.159 But it's awesome. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.840 I'm really excited to go see him play because now 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.400 he's a Palm Beach cardinal, so that's gonna be really fun. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:12.920 The last thing I'll mention on him is. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.840 You've get a six two, one hundred and seventy five 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.040 pound newly turned eighteen year old with all of the 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.840 production that we saw and morder dreamont average eggs velosity 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.840 of the eighty nine miles per hour average air eggs 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.720 abosity of ninety two straus when he's getting it off 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.360 in the air too. There's even more in there. I 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.240 am really excited to see what can happen. Of course, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.720 there's still hurdles to clear, but when you've got a 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.000 kid like this pop in one eleven's with the production 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.080 that we've seen with the just again eye test wise 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.520 from the left side, there's so much to love. Clearly, 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.600 the Brewers have some sort of thought that there's some 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.000 sort of limiting component to him, and maybe just the 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:53.800 fact that the hands are a little bit loud, or 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.760 you know that he doesn't elevate as much as he should. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.360 But I just think for two rentals for the Cardinals 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:59.400 to be able to add free us. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.800 He's just so exciting into this system. 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.520 And then on top of that you add Josiah Ragsdale, 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.160 which for the Brewers I understand cashing in here on Ragsdale, right, 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.720 Ragsdale's seventh round pick, a guy that was a little 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.520 bit more of an afterthought in your system before the 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.080 season that you take from a slash and dash player, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.880 You move, you push his contact point out further forward, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.160 and now all of a sudden he's slug in and 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:23.960 he cuts his ground ball right and from a brief 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.920 pro samp last year, but cuts the ball rate by 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:30.320 twenty percent, and he is now this really dynamic blend 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:31.360 of power. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:32.559 Speed and defense. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.800 Ragsdale is like a top one hundred type of talent. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.920 It's just you know, he's patient, sometimes borders on passive 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.640 with fringe hit that can result in a higher strikeout rate, 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.920 but he hedges that with the walks. He's again to 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.199 be able to play a high level center field, I 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.199 at least be able to play a solid center field. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.160 And then you have the speed and raw power combination 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.160 that he brings to the table. Even if the hit 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.920 tool stalls and it's below average, the skill set's going 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.720 to give you a big league role player here. So 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.840 you have a kind of high floor guy just because 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:05.600 of the tools, the carrying tools. And then you have 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.600 this amazing I think Lotto tickets like under selling for this, 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.760 but this amazing project to take on again for a 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.240 pair of rentals. It's a second straight year where Dustin 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.360 May it brings in a return where. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.600 You're like, wow, he did that. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.960 Obviously, Jojo Romero no swatch to throw on top, and 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.559 he's really gonna help this Brewers bullpen. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:22.400 But I don't know. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.120 I thought it was a lot, especially for a Brewers 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.360 team that's typically apprehensive. You figure you give up a 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.199 little bit more. On top of this, you probably could 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:30.240 have got a controllable guys. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:32.680 How much would you have to give up for re denvers? 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:33.120 I don't know. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.160 I'm not sure. But what I keep falling back on, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.040 to be honest with you, is what I mentioned to 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.560 you on the Just Baseball Show earlier this week, and 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.880 that's Dustin May has some of the loudest stuff that 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.600 we have from starting pitchers in Major League Baseball, and 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.400 it's just a matter of harnessing that and getting it 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.560 in the zone and getting into a proper place in 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.520 the strike zone consistently. And I think the Brewers have 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.080 supreme confidence that they can do that with two months 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.000 of Dustin May. And honestly, I think a lot of 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.680 the debuts from a lot of these traded starting pitchers 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.400 compared to Dustin May will tell you that they might 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.840 feel like they made out like bandits here. Like Foster 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.440 Griffin struggled in his Guardian debut, Luis Castillo struggled in 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.319 his White Sox debut. There were a couple other guys 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:21.280 Casey May struggled in his Padre debut. Meanwhile, May turns 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.760 in six innings a two run ball in his Brewer debut. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.120 So again, I wonder if they identified a quick tweak 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.679 and that might have drove the price up. And honestly, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.640 the sheer stuff of the guys that I just named, 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.559 May has the best stuff. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:34.839 Of all of them. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.480 He just does point plank. Period. But one quick note 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.520 on Josiah Ragsdale's seventh round pick out of BC last year. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.320 The list of players that have twenty homers and thirty 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.200 stolen bases this year in minor league baseball, Josiah Ragsdale 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.880 has twenty homers and thirty one stolen bases. Theo Gillen 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.600 has twenty homers and thirty seven stolen bases. I want 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.640 to mention host Way Depaola because he has twenty one 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.920 homers in twenty eight bags. Eric Hartman Hartman with the 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.559 Atlanta Braves twenty four homers and forty two stolen bases, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.559 and then that's it. Honestly, Blake Burke has thirty homers 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.040 in twenty eight bags. Somehow Blake Burke has twenty eight bags. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.480 But if you want to talk twenty homer thirty bag 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:21.480 it's Josiah Ragsdale, Theo Gillen, and Eric Hartman, and that's it. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:23.880 That is pretty exciting. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.760 And last thing I'll mention on this too is like, 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.640 sometimes I think it's lazy to be like, oh, you know, 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.600 they can just spawn more of these guys, blah blah blah. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.719 They can, they can. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.640 Josiah ractill this isn't even like a long project, like 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.160 you said, he was drafted out of BC last year, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.599 last year as a mid and he's transferring from a 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.000 smaller school. It was one year at BC and immediately 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.800 just one off season, one spring training, just one full 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.840 regular season, and he's transformed as a hitter. They're going 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.920 to identify guys like that. I'm excited to see who 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.080 the twenty six draft class guys are going to be. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.199 That fit that that mold. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.000 Sawyer strosnider, who our guy Tyler Jennings had is a 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.560 top ten player in this draft falls to them, you know, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.079 with their second or third pick, and I can't wait 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:12.560 to see what they can do with him. So like, 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.400 obviously they feel confident that they have a lot of 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.040 other candidates that can be Josiah Ragsdale type. And yeah, 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.880 maybe in a vacuum. It's a quote unquote overpay, but 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.720 I think it's another one of those where it's like, hey, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.560 the other deals didn't line up for us. We get 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.559 two players that can very much help us now and 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.000 free us as further off, we have all these other 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.280 DSL and complex kids that were really excited about We're 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:35.600 okay doing this, And at the end of the day, 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.880 I am going to applaud the Brewers for quote unquote 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.240 overpaying for once and ignoring the model. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.000 And I think this is one of those examples of 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:42.600 them doing. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.320 That, no doubt about that. I'll take you to the 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.160 Foster Griffin deal. You're ready for that one. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:48.600 Yeah, you need someone? 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.880 Yeah, And I figured that was like obviously your favorite trade, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.439 and those are probably two of the better prospects that 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.000 we're going to talk about. So we'll kind of talk 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.160 package as a whole and you can identify individuals moving forward. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.199 But four players came back for Foster Griffin, who went 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:05.320 from Washington to Cleveland again. Griffin struggled in his Guardian debut, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.959 but Josh Hartle, who's been throwing the ball really as 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.839 well as anybody in minor league baseball post All Star Break, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.520 Hartle comes back, Will Dion, who's been an Upper N 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.200 Upper Miners guy for a long time, Ken Deglies Verguez, 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.360 and Nick Mitchell. That's the four player return to Washington. 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.120 Were you surprised Foster Griffin on a one year deal 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.720 from Japan, albeit he's an All Star, got four players back, Yes. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.840 Because at least of like who the four players are like, 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.800 and not in a negative way. It's just like it's 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:37.360 another to bony volume like acquisition where we saw the 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.320 same thing with WUIs Garcia. And I like the approach, right, 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.080 I mean, they've got their their core of offensive players 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.160 that they really like. And you know, pitching is so 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.960 risky by nature anyways, if you go and make a 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.440 swap for one more like higher, more highly regarded pitching prospect, 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.560 that guy could get hurt, he could struggle, whatever it 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.800 may be. And also they need they need to fill 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.520 a lot of roles, right, They need to fill some 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.840 starter roles, but they need to fill an entire bullpen 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.600 as well as soon as next season. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.920 And so what I like too with these moves is 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:07.240 some of them I. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.800 Think point towards Hey, we're not fully giving up on 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.600 this season either, like we want our guys to hang 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.920 in there, and and both the Garcia deal and and 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.640 in this one, like will Deon's gonna immediately go help 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.920 them in the bullpen, right, and and with the deal 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.760 Thatyvanni Cruz immediately go helps them in the bullpen. Two 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.680 of the guys that they acquired in stead on it 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.120 probably two of their best relievers. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.760 How about Bird Jake, Bird's gonna go help him too. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:29.960 I's better than a lot of what they've got. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.280 But they seem to balance each of the deals out 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.480 with like this pitch ability, higher floor, back end of 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.160 the rotation. Like Siebert was that in the Garcia deal, 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.120 Hardle is that in this deal where I love that 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:44.880 you point out how well he's been throwing the ball lately, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.520 because I think this upward trajectory is really encouraging when 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.240 you're a pitch ability left you if it's at high A, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.720 I'm like, all right, let's see you do it and 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:55.960 double A and there's a little bit of a snag 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.960 in double and then it seems like he's. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:58.720 Really hit his stride. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.240 Because with those those types of guys, man like you 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.080 see it all the time too, and especially even guys 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:04.640 trying to figure out the bigger level. You just watched 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.520 Martin Perez in a different form of what he was 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.400 when you pointed this out on the broadcast, like of 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.080 who he used to be still be able to go 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.960 out and have success at eighty nine miles per hour roughly. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.040 I think when you're a pitchability lefty, it's like, Okay, 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:20.880 what sequences there going to work better for me? Which 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.720 pitches do I need to maybe wean off of a 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.720 little bit or use more arriety lefty whatever? 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.400 And I think Hartle's really finding that. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.800 And it's last thirty nine and two thirds innings, forty 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.640 k's seventeen. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.320 Walks and a two five year o ra at double A, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.880 and we are naturally going to skew towards the guys 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.000 that have more natural ability at twenty five and then 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.760 adapt that way at thirty five, like Martin Perez. But Hartle, like, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.680 if he does figure it out at twenty five, that's 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.720 a guy that can survive in the major leagues. And 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.400 you know, Hardle being in the same organization as Parker 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.400 Messik for a couple of years it really helps. Like 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.960 Mesick is kind of the gold standard of a guy 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:56.920 not having two to two loud of stuff, but does 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.000 have a carrying fastball, like it is a fastball that 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.720 you know grades out out decently well, but it's not 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:06.520 overwhelmingly hard. So Parker Messik is a matchup nightmare, and 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.560 Foster Griffin this year proved to be a matchup nightmare. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.280 The pitcher is coming back, especially with the way that 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.520 I think hitting is kind of built now where it's 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.680 like you get ready for verty heater, verty heater, verty heater, slider, slider, slider, 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.120 and then all of a sudden, you see this guy 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.240 with a five pitch bag and he can go to 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.440 all five in any count and it's below your typical 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.720 hitting speed, Like the average right handed starter is throwing 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.400 their four seam fastball ninety five point three miles an hour. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.440 That's crazy, But that's one guy to prep for, because 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.400 a lot of righties are like, yeah, you know for 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.200 Seemer good ride sits at ninety six, Like you're prepping 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.800 for the same guy more often than not, and he's 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.640 just a taste breaker. At this point, Hartle is at 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:47.440 twenty four years. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.280 Old, and again with him just seeming to learn himself 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.520 and execute better and mask the fastball, it seems like 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.200 he's a high probability back into the rotation starter, that 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.880 Enning Zeter, that can get your ground balls. And that's 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.440 just another good guy to add to the fold when 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.880 you have Shussan On Sikora and whatever, like these high ceiling, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.439 high risk type of guys. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.240 And then you add in Kendegley's Virguez. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.280 Yeah, I wish I did like a query before this, 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:12.919 but it's I don't even know if I'm capable of 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:17.720 finding this. There's definitely not a lot of fastballs averaging 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.120 north of ninety seven miles per hour below a five 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.560 foot release height. I can guarantee you that, And that's 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.959 what Verguaz does, ninety seven and a half mile per 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.800 hour average fastball velocity topping at one oh one from 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.080 a four point nine to five release height. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.080 So you take this twenty two. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.080 Year old and you you have this outlier type of 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.240 release and velocity, and you think about, okay, well, here's 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.000 another guy that could be in our bullpen as soon 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.240 as next year. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.000 You know, by the end of next season, the Briguez 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:47.000 just got up to double A. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.640 And I know the surface level numbers aren't as good 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.000 as you know you would expect, but I think it's 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:54.879 gonna work out. And I also think there's another guy 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.480 that's going to just be a really effective reliever. So 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.480 you have all of these really exciting, high ceiling relief prospects, 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.600 and I think it's a really interesting approach by Paul Tiboni. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.480 I love seeing these new gms take over and try 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.520