Speaker 1: Any swags to high.
Speaker 2: Stand deep just set her feel and it's gone, Wow.
Speaker 3: His first big league swing is gonna be a grand slam.
Speaker 3: The home line.
Speaker 2: Swag, Good time to walk to the show.
Speaker 4: Part three of the three episode trade deadline breakdown series.
Speaker 1: Here on the call up, you got arm Late and
Speaker 1: Jack mcmowen.
Speaker 4: This time for the finale, a lot more trades to
Speaker 4: talk about.
Speaker 1: What's crazy.
Speaker 4: Elijah pointed this out Jack on the last episode. From
Speaker 4: the start of last episode, which we got into an
Speaker 4: hour's worth of trades. Those all came in on the
Speaker 4: last day, and we still have another huge batch of deal.
Speaker 1: Maybe one or two didn't, but I think almost all
Speaker 1: of them did.
Speaker 4: Now we still have a full slate of deals to
Speaker 4: go over that all still came in on the last day.
Speaker 4: Procrastination is rampant among MLB front offices. We're also gonna
Speaker 4: see it with the CBA, but it's rampant with the deadline.
Speaker 1: It seems like more than.
Speaker 3: Ever, procrastination is running rampant. But it's also strategic. I
Speaker 3: think procrastination is like the way to go, and it's
Speaker 3: the way to operate at the trade deadline because the
Speaker 3: closer you get to that six pm Eastern heart stop.
Speaker 3: The more frantic the buyers become, and it's like, you
Speaker 3: know what, screw it, let me give you this guy.
Speaker 3: So it's almost like a necessary evil, the procrastination here,
Speaker 3: and that's why you see so many come through. But
Speaker 3: what I love about the trade deadline now is with
Speaker 3: the expanded playoff, the number of buyers is greater. It
Speaker 3: seems like teams are I think, more committed to giving
Speaker 3: it a shot this year than in recent years. So
Speaker 3: like we have more deadline transactions going. Some of them
Speaker 3: are like marginal, you know, like Lane Thomas and Bailey Falter.
Speaker 3: That's that's, you know, an interesting enough deal.
Speaker 4: And for the team that should have been going for
Speaker 4: it harder than the ones, they don't fit. The braves
Speaker 4: don't fit, give it a try, braves fit the go
Speaker 4: all in and they did.
Speaker 1: They give it a try.
Speaker 3: Moves right, So it's like, you know, you've got maybe
Speaker 3: instead of some big fish moving, you had like instead
Speaker 3: of one big deal, you had three smaller deals. And
Speaker 3: frankly for the sheer quantity and for our prospect, lens,
Speaker 3: I kind of dig it. There were a lot of
Speaker 3: deals on deadline day.
Speaker 4: I love it I absolutely love it, and we're going
Speaker 4: to talk about one of my favorite deals. Of course,
Speaker 4: we'll lead off with that with Dustin May Jojo Romero
Speaker 4: going to the Brewers for a pair of really fun prospects.
Speaker 4: We're also going to bounce around to some of the
Speaker 4: smaller deals. Michael Farrett back to where he started.
Speaker 1: We get.
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you bounce around because works don't want you.
Speaker 4: I think it's different with Farrett. It's I think both
Speaker 4: wanted him, really didn't want to give him up, and
Speaker 4: now they get a chance to bring.
Speaker 1: Him back to Baltimore. We'll talk about that deal.
Speaker 4: There's several others that I think are really fun, and
Speaker 4: even some players getting swapped to opportunity, like areas where
Speaker 4: they're gonna have more opportunity, about Jonathan Long going to
Speaker 4: the Marlins where he's not as directly blocked and you
Speaker 4: could see a path to him having more opportunity. So
Speaker 4: several more trades in between, but we'll start with my
Speaker 4: favorite one, and it's Jojo Romero, Dustin May going to
Speaker 4: the Brewers for Alexander Frias and Josiah Ragsdale.
Speaker 1: Now this is a wild one to me. We've talked
Speaker 1: about on the.
Speaker 4: Just Baseball Show, the place where my mind immediately goes
Speaker 4: and I think it's it's it, you can't do this,
Speaker 4: this is this is actually I think hinders of objectivity.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm sticking with I love. I think
Speaker 1: this is one of the best returns is you you
Speaker 1: go to what's the catch with free us men? Like
Speaker 1: what are they are?
Speaker 3: They do?
Speaker 4: They do they see something that's going to hold him
Speaker 4: back from reaching a ceiling. You know, we saw a
Speaker 4: report from Ken Rosenthal that Frios was also one of
Speaker 4: the players that was potentially available in a school deal.
Speaker 1: Of course he was.
Speaker 4: He was traded in another deal, so of course Frios
Speaker 4: was gonna be a won a Schoogle deal.
Speaker 3: But what was the package? It was Pania, Jet and Frieus.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those were the players that they offered up, which
Speaker 4: I mean not even close to what if everyone wants
Speaker 4: to complain about the Dodgers package, that ain't close and
Speaker 4: Logan Henderson sounds like it was a non starter for
Speaker 4: the Bruce, which I can very much understand, but also
Speaker 4: like the Brewers have a lot of other prospects. Between
Speaker 4: Luis Pania and Alexander Frias that are really exciting, So
Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, of course you're never gonna.
Speaker 1: Fully get everything that was going on in the war
Speaker 1: room there.
Speaker 4: I still think that the Brewers would have been willing,
Speaker 4: like you think they're gonna, let, you know, a minor
Speaker 4: leaguer at that point stop them from being able to
Speaker 4: get school if they were that all in, I don't
Speaker 4: think so. I think Henderson was the guy that ends
Speaker 4: up drawing the line there. But regardless, Frias, as Time
Speaker 4: Bloom put it, he's all the upside in the world.
Speaker 4: And of course every GM, every president based operation is
Speaker 4: gonna sell the hell out of the prospects that they acquired.
Speaker 1: In a deal. But that's just objectively true. Alexander Frias
Speaker 1: is all of the upside in the world.
Speaker 4: Just if you see one video of this kid swinging
Speaker 4: the bat, you see a lanky, athletic, twitchy athlete that
Speaker 4: has already a really good swing for his age, and
Speaker 4: you say, oh, man, yeah, that guy can absolutely be
Speaker 4: someone to dream on. And you know, you think about
Speaker 4: the Brewers organization, and you know what they've been able
Speaker 4: to do with these types of guys. It's kind of
Speaker 4: surprising that they part with him for you know, a
Speaker 4: pair of rentals here, and on top of that that
Speaker 4: they had to part with another guy that's made a
Speaker 4: huge leap this season in Josiah Ragsdill. I'll get into
Speaker 4: Ragsdale in a moment, but just a little bit more
Speaker 4: context on Frius, Like when you look at what he's
Speaker 4: done this year. So the Brewers like to have their
Speaker 4: guys skip the complex, like the top dogs, right, Louise
Speaker 4: pana Haes's mindy, they're gonna skip the complex league.
Speaker 1: Fris didn't skip the complex.
Speaker 4: So you know, maybe they they had him a little
Speaker 4: bit lower in the pecking order. Do you have his
Speaker 4: complex numbers in front of you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, at the complex this year and he was in
Speaker 3: the DSL. Last year he hit three fifteen with a
Speaker 3: four to ten OBP. But this year, in thirty two
Speaker 3: games of the complex, he hit four forty one. And
Speaker 3: in thirty two games, this guy had what eighteen extra
Speaker 3: base hits he drove in thirty four he had a
Speaker 3: five eighteen on base percentage and in eleven ninety six
Speaker 3: ops in thirty two games at the complex.
Speaker 1: You probably should have skipped it, huh, I think so?
Speaker 3: And then he goes to low a Carolina right or Wilson.
Speaker 3: What is it now, the Wilson war Birds instead of
Speaker 3: the Carolina Mudcats.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that one I slipped mind is the Wilson
Speaker 1: war Birds.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know. But in twenty eight games there, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he hit two thirty six, but he got into some
Speaker 3: pop and it was a seven to fifty ops. Big
Speaker 3: number for him. Twenty bags in sixty one games, but
Speaker 3: also in sixty one games so far this year, this
Speaker 3: guy's driven in sixty two.
Speaker 4: That's pretty crazy for a lot of traffic in the
Speaker 4: Complex League. You're hitting four forty one, you're gonna get
Speaker 4: an opportunity to drive a lot of guys in.
Speaker 1: But it's awesome.
Speaker 4: I'm really excited to go see him play because now
Speaker 4: he's a Palm Beach cardinal, so that's gonna be really fun.
Speaker 1: The last thing I'll mention on him is.
Speaker 4: You've get a six two, one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 4: pound newly turned eighteen year old with all of the
Speaker 4: production that we saw and morder dreamont average eggs velosity
Speaker 4: of the eighty nine miles per hour average air eggs
Speaker 4: abosity of ninety two straus when he's getting it off
Speaker 4: in the air too. There's even more in there. I
Speaker 4: am really excited to see what can happen. Of course,
Speaker 4: there's still hurdles to clear, but when you've got a
Speaker 4: kid like this pop in one eleven's with the production
Speaker 4: that we've seen with the just again eye test wise
Speaker 4: from the left side, there's so much to love. Clearly,
Speaker 4: the Brewers have some sort of thought that there's some
Speaker 4: sort of limiting component to him, and maybe just the
Speaker 4: fact that the hands are a little bit loud, or
Speaker 4: you know that he doesn't elevate as much as he should.
Speaker 4: But I just think for two rentals for the Cardinals
Speaker 4: to be able to add free us.
Speaker 1: He's just so exciting into this system.
Speaker 4: And then on top of that you add Josiah Ragsdale,
Speaker 4: which for the Brewers I understand cashing in here on Ragsdale, right,
Speaker 4: Ragsdale's seventh round pick, a guy that was a little
Speaker 4: bit more of an afterthought in your system before the
Speaker 4: season that you take from a slash and dash player,
Speaker 4: You move, you push his contact point out further forward,
Speaker 4: and now all of a sudden he's slug in and
Speaker 4: he cuts his ground ball right and from a brief
Speaker 4: pro samp last year, but cuts the ball rate by
Speaker 4: twenty percent, and he is now this really dynamic blend
Speaker 4: of power.
Speaker 1: Speed and defense.
Speaker 4: Ragsdale is like a top one hundred type of talent.
Speaker 4: It's just you know, he's patient, sometimes borders on passive
Speaker 4: with fringe hit that can result in a higher strikeout rate,
Speaker 4: but he hedges that with the walks. He's again to
Speaker 4: be able to play a high level center field, I
Speaker 4: at least be able to play a solid center field.
Speaker 4: And then you have the speed and raw power combination
Speaker 4: that he brings to the table. Even if the hit
Speaker 4: tool stalls and it's below average, the skill set's going
Speaker 4: to give you a big league role player here. So
Speaker 4: you have a kind of high floor guy just because
Speaker 4: of the tools, the carrying tools. And then you have
Speaker 4: this amazing I think Lotto tickets like under selling for this,
Speaker 4: but this amazing project to take on again for a
Speaker 4: pair of rentals. It's a second straight year where Dustin
Speaker 4: May it brings in a return where.
Speaker 1: You're like, wow, he did that.
Speaker 4: Obviously, Jojo Romero no swatch to throw on top, and
Speaker 4: he's really gonna help this Brewers bullpen.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: I thought it was a lot, especially for a Brewers
Speaker 4: team that's typically apprehensive. You figure you give up a
Speaker 4: little bit more. On top of this, you probably could
Speaker 4: have got a controllable guys.
Speaker 1: How much would you have to give up for re denvers?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. But what I keep falling back on,
Speaker 3: to be honest with you, is what I mentioned to
Speaker 3: you on the Just Baseball Show earlier this week, and
Speaker 3: that's Dustin May has some of the loudest stuff that
Speaker 3: we have from starting pitchers in Major League Baseball, and
Speaker 3: it's just a matter of harnessing that and getting it
Speaker 3: in the zone and getting into a proper place in
Speaker 3: the strike zone consistently. And I think the Brewers have
Speaker 3: supreme confidence that they can do that with two months
Speaker 3: of Dustin May. And honestly, I think a lot of
Speaker 3: the debuts from a lot of these traded starting pitchers
Speaker 3: compared to Dustin May will tell you that they might
Speaker 3: feel like they made out like bandits here. Like Foster
Speaker 3: Griffin struggled in his Guardian debut, Luis Castillo struggled in
Speaker 3: his White Sox debut. There were a couple other guys
Speaker 3: Casey May struggled in his Padre debut. Meanwhile, May turns
Speaker 3: in six innings a two run ball in his Brewer debut.
Speaker 3: So again, I wonder if they identified a quick tweak
Speaker 3: and that might have drove the price up. And honestly,
Speaker 3: the sheer stuff of the guys that I just named,
Speaker 3: May has the best stuff.
Speaker 1: Of all of them.
Speaker 3: He just does point plank. Period. But one quick note
Speaker 3: on Josiah Ragsdale's seventh round pick out of BC last year.
Speaker 3: The list of players that have twenty homers and thirty
Speaker 3: stolen bases this year in minor league baseball, Josiah Ragsdale
Speaker 3: has twenty homers and thirty one stolen bases. Theo Gillen
Speaker 3: has twenty homers and thirty seven stolen bases. I want
Speaker 3: to mention host Way Depaola because he has twenty one
Speaker 3: homers in twenty eight bags. Eric Hartman Hartman with the
Speaker 3: Atlanta Braves twenty four homers and forty two stolen bases,
Speaker 3: and then that's it. Honestly, Blake Burke has thirty homers
Speaker 3: in twenty eight bags. Somehow Blake Burke has twenty eight bags.
Speaker 3: But if you want to talk twenty homer thirty bag
Speaker 3: it's Josiah Ragsdale, Theo Gillen, and Eric Hartman, and that's it.
Speaker 1: That is pretty exciting.
Speaker 4: And last thing I'll mention on this too is like,
Speaker 4: sometimes I think it's lazy to be like, oh, you know,
Speaker 4: they can just spawn more of these guys, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: They can, they can.
Speaker 4: Josiah ractill this isn't even like a long project, like
Speaker 4: you said, he was drafted out of BC last year,
Speaker 4: last year as a mid and he's transferring from a
Speaker 4: smaller school. It was one year at BC and immediately
Speaker 4: just one off season, one spring training, just one full
Speaker 4: regular season, and he's transformed as a hitter. They're going
Speaker 4: to identify guys like that. I'm excited to see who
Speaker 4: the twenty six draft class guys are going to be.
Speaker 1: That fit that that mold.
Speaker 4: Sawyer strosnider, who our guy Tyler Jennings had is a
Speaker 4: top ten player in this draft falls to them, you know,
Speaker 4: with their second or third pick, and I can't wait
Speaker 4: to see what they can do with him. So like,
Speaker 4: obviously they feel confident that they have a lot of
Speaker 4: other candidates that can be Josiah Ragsdale type. And yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe in a vacuum. It's a quote unquote overpay, but
Speaker 4: I think it's another one of those where it's like, hey,
Speaker 4: the other deals didn't line up for us. We get
Speaker 4: two players that can very much help us now and
Speaker 4: free us as further off, we have all these other
Speaker 4: DSL and complex kids that were really excited about We're
Speaker 4: okay doing this, And at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: I am going to applaud the Brewers for quote unquote
Speaker 4: overpaying for once and ignoring the model.
Speaker 1: And I think this is one of those examples of
Speaker 1: them doing.
Speaker 3: That, no doubt about that. I'll take you to the
Speaker 3: Foster Griffin deal. You're ready for that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you need someone?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I figured that was like obviously your favorite trade,
Speaker 3: and those are probably two of the better prospects that
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about. So we'll kind of talk
Speaker 3: package as a whole and you can identify individuals moving forward.
Speaker 3: But four players came back for Foster Griffin, who went
Speaker 3: from Washington to Cleveland again. Griffin struggled in his Guardian debut,
Speaker 3: but Josh Hartle, who's been throwing the ball really as
Speaker 3: well as anybody in minor league baseball post All Star Break,
Speaker 3: Hartle comes back, Will Dion, who's been an Upper N
Speaker 3: Upper Miners guy for a long time, Ken Deglies Verguez,
Speaker 3: and Nick Mitchell. That's the four player return to Washington.
Speaker 3: Were you surprised Foster Griffin on a one year deal
Speaker 3: from Japan, albeit he's an All Star, got four players back, Yes.
Speaker 4: Because at least of like who the four players are like,
Speaker 4: and not in a negative way. It's just like it's
Speaker 4: another to bony volume like acquisition where we saw the
Speaker 4: same thing with WUIs Garcia. And I like the approach, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, they've got their their core of offensive players
Speaker 4: that they really like. And you know, pitching is so
Speaker 4: risky by nature anyways, if you go and make a
Speaker 4: swap for one more like higher, more highly regarded pitching prospect,
Speaker 4: that guy could get hurt, he could struggle, whatever it
Speaker 4: may be. And also they need they need to fill
Speaker 4: a lot of roles, right, They need to fill some
Speaker 4: starter roles, but they need to fill an entire bullpen
Speaker 4: as well as soon as next season.
Speaker 1: And so what I like too with these moves is
Speaker 1: some of them I.
Speaker 4: Think point towards Hey, we're not fully giving up on
Speaker 4: this season either, like we want our guys to hang
Speaker 4: in there, and and both the Garcia deal and and
Speaker 4: in this one, like will Deon's gonna immediately go help
Speaker 4: them in the bullpen, right, and and with the deal
Speaker 4: Thatyvanni Cruz immediately go helps them in the bullpen. Two
Speaker 4: of the guys that they acquired in stead on it
Speaker 4: probably two of their best relievers.
Speaker 3: How about Bird Jake, Bird's gonna go help him too.
Speaker 1: I's better than a lot of what they've got.
Speaker 4: But they seem to balance each of the deals out
Speaker 4: with like this pitch ability, higher floor, back end of
Speaker 4: the rotation. Like Siebert was that in the Garcia deal,
Speaker 4: Hardle is that in this deal where I love that
Speaker 4: you point out how well he's been throwing the ball lately,
Speaker 4: because I think this upward trajectory is really encouraging when
Speaker 4: you're a pitch ability left you if it's at high A,
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, let's see you do it and
Speaker 4: double A and there's a little bit of a snag
Speaker 4: in double and then it seems like he's.
Speaker 1: Really hit his stride.
Speaker 4: Because with those those types of guys, man like you
Speaker 4: see it all the time too, and especially even guys
Speaker 4: trying to figure out the bigger level. You just watched
Speaker 4: Martin Perez in a different form of what he was
Speaker 4: when you pointed this out on the broadcast, like of
Speaker 4: who he used to be still be able to go
Speaker 4: out and have success at eighty nine miles per hour roughly.
Speaker 4: I think when you're a pitchability lefty, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 4: what sequences there going to work better for me? Which
Speaker 4: pitches do I need to maybe wean off of a
Speaker 4: little bit or use more arriety lefty whatever?
Speaker 1: And I think Hartle's really finding that.
Speaker 4: And it's last thirty nine and two thirds innings, forty
Speaker 4: k's seventeen.
Speaker 3: Walks and a two five year o ra at double A,
Speaker 3: and we are naturally going to skew towards the guys
Speaker 3: that have more natural ability at twenty five and then
Speaker 3: adapt that way at thirty five, like Martin Perez. But Hartle, like,
Speaker 3: if he does figure it out at twenty five, that's
Speaker 3: a guy that can survive in the major leagues. And
Speaker 3: you know, Hardle being in the same organization as Parker
Speaker 3: Messik for a couple of years it really helps. Like
Speaker 3: Mesick is kind of the gold standard of a guy
Speaker 3: not having two to two loud of stuff, but does
Speaker 3: have a carrying fastball, like it is a fastball that
Speaker 3: you know grades out out decently well, but it's not
Speaker 3: overwhelmingly hard. So Parker Messik is a matchup nightmare, and
Speaker 3: Foster Griffin this year proved to be a matchup nightmare.
Speaker 3: The pitcher is coming back, especially with the way that
Speaker 3: I think hitting is kind of built now where it's
Speaker 3: like you get ready for verty heater, verty heater, verty heater, slider, slider, slider,
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, you see this guy
Speaker 3: with a five pitch bag and he can go to
Speaker 3: all five in any count and it's below your typical
Speaker 3: hitting speed, Like the average right handed starter is throwing
Speaker 3: their four seam fastball ninety five point three miles an hour.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, But that's one guy to prep for, because
Speaker 3: a lot of righties are like, yeah, you know for
Speaker 3: Seemer good ride sits at ninety six, Like you're prepping
Speaker 3: for the same guy more often than not, and he's
Speaker 3: just a taste breaker. At this point, Hartle is at
Speaker 3: twenty four years.
Speaker 4: Old, and again with him just seeming to learn himself
Speaker 4: and execute better and mask the fastball, it seems like
Speaker 4: he's a high probability back into the rotation starter, that
Speaker 4: Enning Zeter, that can get your ground balls. And that's
Speaker 4: just another good guy to add to the fold when
Speaker 4: you have Shussan On Sikora and whatever, like these high ceiling,
Speaker 4: high risk type of guys.
Speaker 1: And then you add in Kendegley's Virguez.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wish I did like a query before this,
Speaker 4: but it's I don't even know if I'm capable of
Speaker 4: finding this. There's definitely not a lot of fastballs averaging
Speaker 4: north of ninety seven miles per hour below a five
Speaker 4: foot release height. I can guarantee you that, And that's
Speaker 4: what Verguaz does, ninety seven and a half mile per
Speaker 4: hour average fastball velocity topping at one oh one from
Speaker 4: a four point nine to five release height.
Speaker 1: So you take this twenty two.
Speaker 4: Year old and you you have this outlier type of
Speaker 4: release and velocity, and you think about, okay, well, here's
Speaker 4: another guy that could be in our bullpen as soon
Speaker 4: as next year.
Speaker 1: You know, by the end of next season, the Briguez
Speaker 1: just got up to double A.
Speaker 4: And I know the surface level numbers aren't as good
Speaker 4: as you know you would expect, but I think it's
Speaker 4: gonna work out. And I also think there's another guy
Speaker 4: that's going to just be a really effective reliever. So
Speaker 4: you have all of these really exciting, high ceiling relief prospects,
Speaker 4: and I think it's a really interesting approach by Paul Tiboni.
Speaker 4: I love seeing these new gms take over and try
Speaker 4: to kind of carve their own path of just trying
Speaker 4: to create asset value.
Speaker 1: You're trading rentals.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna get top end guys, but you're gonna
Speaker 4: be able to get some high upside relief pieces stockpile those.
Speaker 4: You got Grable, you've got Verguez, You've got Cruise. Like,
Speaker 4: I'm really interested to see what happens when you've got
Speaker 4: all of these flame throwing, unique.
Speaker 1: Outlier arm angle type of prospects.
Speaker 4: And it's like you could have a murderer's row of
Speaker 4: controllable relievers and they could have a guardian thing going
Speaker 4: on very soon with the best offense in Major League
Speaker 4: Baseball by run score.
Speaker 3: And I know they're sputtering right now, and there are
Speaker 3: a couple games below five hundred at this point, and
Speaker 3: they traded Luis Garcia Junior, but they held onto Wood
Speaker 3: and they held on to Abrams, and Lyle's still there
Speaker 3: and they have other offensive pieces, and Nasie Nuniaz is
Speaker 3: still leading the world in stolen bases. He's a game
Speaker 3: wrecker whenever he does get on base. They don't have pitching,
Speaker 3: but if they have a bullpen, like that's been their
Speaker 3: achilles heal. They've blown more saves than any team in baseball.
Speaker 3: So you know, I'm not putting them to bed on
Speaker 3: August seventh in twenty twenty six, like they could be
Speaker 3: one of those teams that's spunky in August and spunky
Speaker 3: in September. And some of these guys that we're sitting
Speaker 3: here talking about are like eating the eighth and maybe
Speaker 3: even the ninth inning for them, And it's like, oh damn,
Speaker 3: the Nats were in this until the final week.
Speaker 1: YEP, one hundred percent, and that's why.
Speaker 4: And even if it doesn't happen this year, like you
Speaker 4: could see the vision with Tiboni, and I think that
Speaker 4: it's all coming together, it's gonna be a very useful
Speaker 4: forty names on that forty men roster, Like I think
Speaker 4: you're gonna have a lot of different guys that are
Speaker 4: doing exactly what you want, but also you know, with
Speaker 4: a high ceiling to fill their roles at a really
Speaker 4: exciting clip.
Speaker 3: Tell me about Sammy Stefora, who is going home. He
Speaker 3: was doing backflips when he was traded to the New
Speaker 3: York Mets. Is his team growing up at Stefora for
Speaker 3: Luke Weaver ineffectively a one for one swap. The Mets
Speaker 3: actually paid down Weaver a little bit, which is crazy
Speaker 3: to go and get Sammy Stephora.
Speaker 1: Really interesting, So two schools of thought here.
Speaker 4: Is was was Luke Weaver not worth as much as
Speaker 4: we thought? Or is Sam Stefora's breakout this year just
Speaker 4: enough to where he's being valued as kind of a
Speaker 4: top one hundred caliber prospect. I don't know, I have
Speaker 4: the beholder right. What's really fascinating is if you go
Speaker 4: right from when Stefora returned because he was in High
Speaker 4: A and then he was banged up so had like
Speaker 4: a handful of Low A rehab games, and then back
Speaker 4: to High A. On June ninth, Stefora hits has hit
Speaker 4: seventeen homers in thirty six games. Geez now, power speed
Speaker 4: like explosiveness was never the question with Sam Stefora. I
Speaker 4: remember his swing when he first broke into pro Bawl
Speaker 4: and I was like, this is going to be a project.
Speaker 4: And even like you know, you see him moved in
Speaker 4: the Brian Hayes deal from the Reds and it was like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 4: you know, I like, there's a lot that needs to
Speaker 4: be ironed out. The hit tools, you know, work in progress.
Speaker 4: It still is. It's a sixty four percent contact rate
Speaker 4: this year. But the fascinating thing with Stephora is like,
Speaker 4: if he's getting to this power like this, and I
Speaker 4: know the balls flying and especially in Hi A it
Speaker 4: is flying, but still one WRC plus, he's gonna steal bags.
Speaker 4: He has all of the ingredients to stick its shortstop,
Speaker 4: you know, as he just gets more, I would say,
Speaker 4: just consistent, refined with the routine, and he's a plus runner.
Speaker 4: If he's a forty hit tool, it's gonna have a
Speaker 4: long career, and I think.
Speaker 1: He could be a regular shortstop.
Speaker 4: Still there's still an uphill battle to get to that
Speaker 4: forty hit and I think that's where the pressure is on,
Speaker 4: like the swing decisions and whatever it may be, and
Speaker 4: being able to just maintain his posture against breaking balls
Speaker 4: ninety four miles per hour average velocity against fastballs this year,
Speaker 4: which is outrageous, outrageous, you know that that is like
Speaker 4: among some of the best in Major League Baseball. But
Speaker 4: of course they're doing that against all pitch types and
Speaker 4: it's major league you know pitches. But eighty six miles
Speaker 4: per hour against breaking balls not bad. But when you
Speaker 4: compare it to the fastballs, it's like, Okay, you're you're
Speaker 4: really losing you know, some some violence in some of
Speaker 4: your posture to have an eight mile per hour you know,
Speaker 4: dip there hard hit rate drops by twenty six percent,
Speaker 4: So he's gonna have to improve drastically against spin. But
Speaker 4: you get a really good athlete, you get a local kid,
Speaker 4: a fun story. I just thought Luk Lever, who's been
Speaker 4: one of the best relievers in baseball and now has
Speaker 4: been good for a couple of years, had the blip
Speaker 4: the year before, but then it was good the year
Speaker 4: before that, Like even his blip was like still a
Speaker 4: good serviceable reliever.
Speaker 1: I thought you would be worth a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I didn't think the money was that much of a hindrance,
Speaker 1: but it seems like it was a bit. But that said,
Speaker 1: like so far, is still a fun, high upside piece
Speaker 1: to add you know to this Mets system.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got a couple other like marquee ish prospects
Speaker 3: that were moved, and then some of the smaller deals
Speaker 3: as the deadline dwindled down. To get to in a moment,
Speaker 3: but before that, we'll take our first break. All right,
Speaker 3: let's talk Michael Farrett here, who is making his way
Speaker 3: back to Baltimore, Tyler Wells and a one for one swap.
Speaker 3: Tyler Wells goes to the Tampa Bay Rays, and Wells
Speaker 3: is a guy that like to save the big league
Speaker 3: analysis for you. Shout out Peyton Genis to save the
Speaker 3: big league analysis for you. I think Tyler Wells in
Speaker 3: that raise bullpen is absolutely diabolical. I thought that was
Speaker 3: a massive gut for Eric Neander one for one swap
Speaker 3: for Forarrett, who this offseason was acquired as one of
Speaker 3: five assets for Shane Boss. So it's just a little
Speaker 3: fliparou and here Tyler Wells goes to Tampa and Farrett
Speaker 3: goes back to Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now you got all of those prospects and Tyler
Speaker 4: Wells for Boss is pretty pretty good for Neander and
Speaker 4: I think Elias had a great deadline overall. But again,
Speaker 4: easy to have a great deadline when you're when you're
Speaker 4: moving some you know, somebody like Adalie Rochman maybe greats extreme.
Speaker 1: But I just think that was such a great haul
Speaker 1: that it just kind of pushes you, you know, up
Speaker 1: to another level. But at the same time, like it
Speaker 1: does kind of feel like there's levels to this ship, right,
Speaker 1: Like you see Neander kind of running laps around, lives
Speaker 1: a little bit here, and yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, I don't think this was a bad deal. Like
Speaker 4: I think this was a good deal for the Orioles.
Speaker 4: But it's just like the hand puyed exactly into how
Speaker 4: Neander Watson he gets another big league controllable arm that
Speaker 4: he probably wanted initially in the other deal anyways, and
Speaker 4: he gives back one of the prospects well while Bodine
Speaker 4: is you know, on another level and several other the
Speaker 4: guys are are are exciting.
Speaker 1: The Brun's been hurt and it just came back.
Speaker 4: But still I think it's, uh, you know, it's worked
Speaker 4: out quite nicely for the race that said, to get
Speaker 4: Fret back for for Wells and Wells, you got to
Speaker 4: give credit to the Orioles.
Speaker 1: They do a really.
Speaker 4: Good job at finding these more under the radar arms
Speaker 4: and and you know, developing them and and really like
Speaker 4: if you look at a lot of the top pitching
Speaker 4: prospects in the Oriole system over the last few years,
Speaker 4: a lot of them are like later round guys that
Speaker 4: they identified and maximized. And Wells was a fifteenth round
Speaker 4: pick a long time ago, I know, by the Twins,
Speaker 4: but again a guy that had bounced around a little
Speaker 4: bit and they found a way to kind of maximize
Speaker 4: and get more out of.
Speaker 3: You know, kind of a hodgepodge. And another guy that's
Speaker 3: in that bullpen in Tampa with Wells, Brian Baker, like
Speaker 3: he started to break out with the Baltimore Orioles. There
Speaker 3: are plenty of examples as of late earlier this year,
Speaker 3: we were talking about Rico Garcia, a ton Rico Garcia
Speaker 3: was kind of a nothing burger before this year. Anthony
Speaker 3: Nuniez was a hitter at the university.
Speaker 1: Gosh, yeah, they like they've got something going there.
Speaker 4: And I think it was good on them, the cash
Speaker 4: in at least on some of these arms, because like
Speaker 4: we said, they should. But Forrett to get him back,
Speaker 4: you know, he had to, like everybody has had.
Speaker 1: The adjustment period to triple A.
Speaker 4: But what I think stands out to me the most
Speaker 4: is like, you're gonna see the walk rates creep up
Speaker 4: as guys just get used to the slicker baseball, the
Speaker 4: tighter zone, scipline hitters, challenge system, all of those things. Yeah,
Speaker 4: But what I've noticed, which is interesting, and it's obviously
Speaker 4: because just the seams are tighter and your stuff's not
Speaker 4: biting the same way as a lot of these arms.
Speaker 1: Gets a triple A and the strikeout rate drops too.
Speaker 1: And when you have the walk.
Speaker 4: Rate climb and the strikeout rate drop, not a good recipe, right.
Speaker 4: Forret's walk rate climbed, but the strikeout rate did as well.
Speaker 4: Like he was nine point three k's per nine in
Speaker 4: double A with the Rays and then in thirty and
Speaker 4: two thirds inning two is up to ten point seven
Speaker 4: k's per nine. So to see that, I think is
Speaker 4: super encouraging. The surface of the era, I think is
Speaker 4: a little bit misleading. He looks the part. Some have
Speaker 4: him as a top one hundred prospect. I don't blame them.
Speaker 4: To me, He's more of a just on the outside
Speaker 4: type of guy. And I think this trade is more
Speaker 4: emblematic of even how the Oreoles May Valume is not
Speaker 4: a you know, not a top one hundred guy, more
Speaker 4: of like a tweener. It's just outside but better than
Speaker 4: you know, most of your other forty five future value prospects.
Speaker 4: That's why it's kind of like a forty five plus
Speaker 4: guy for me. But this is a really solid arm
Speaker 4: that could project as a number four starter and a
Speaker 4: quality one at that and worst case scenario, I think
Speaker 4: is a really unique swingman type of piece because of
Speaker 4: the pitch mix he has. There's some deception built in there,
Speaker 4: you know, and you know when he's on he's he
Speaker 4: has a good feel for the entire arsenal where you've
Speaker 4: got the four seemer with a little bit of ride,
Speaker 4: the two seamer, the cutter, the change up in the sweeper.
Speaker 4: It's a really good pitch mix I think should make
Speaker 4: him a solid for.
Speaker 3: I love that. Let's pivot to a catcher here who
Speaker 3: goes to the Angels for Joe Adell from Cleveland, Jacob Cozart,
Speaker 3: an ole miss catcher. Cozart a one for one swap
Speaker 3: for Joe Adell. Adele was having an underwhelming year ops wise,
Speaker 3: but again the big note that I keep on falling
Speaker 3: back on with Adele. He immediately became Cleveland's team leader
Speaker 3: with sixteen homers. Like they needed thump, and they got
Speaker 3: some thump with a Dell. And it could be frustrating
Speaker 3: at points, but I think Cleveland is ready to stomach
Speaker 3: some frustration because they have enough paper cuts in that
Speaker 3: lineup here. They need a gash and Adele ken that yash,
Speaker 3: and they pay a decent price in Cozart, who looks
Speaker 3: like a decent catching prospect.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, Cozart.
Speaker 4: I think the thing with Cozart is just it's a
Speaker 4: high floor, right, like you're gonna you're at least getting uh,
Speaker 4: you know, a second division kind of catcher here, a
Speaker 4: backup catcher, I think at least. But you got a
Speaker 4: good shot at a second division catcher because of the
Speaker 4: defense that he brings.
Speaker 1: To the table.
Speaker 4: And you know, the bat has come along enough to
Speaker 4: where as we know, you don't have to swing it
Speaker 4: very well as a catcher if you're gonna be, you know,
Speaker 4: in a net positive behind the dish, and he looks
Speaker 4: like a net positive behind the dish, and offensively after
Speaker 4: a little bit of a rough start like has settled
Speaker 4: in finished the year strong last year and then this
Speaker 4: year at double A, it's been about in a ninety
Speaker 4: six WRC plus, which is.
Speaker 1: Fine, but the strikeout rates been palatable.
Speaker 4: The approach has gotten better, and the power I think
Speaker 4: is a big thing for him. Like if it can
Speaker 4: be average power, if you can sneak out fifteen to
Speaker 4: twenty homers, that's gonna help his case a lot. Ultimately,
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be more of a you know,
Speaker 4: eighty five to ninety wr C plus guy at the
Speaker 4: big league level. But if he's that with above average
Speaker 4: to potentially plus defense, and I mean, people love the
Speaker 4: way he goes about his business, Like this is somebody
Speaker 4: that when you're in a rebuild mode, like the Angels
Speaker 4: have needed to be for a while, and you move
Speaker 4: Logan Ohppy because they needed to and he was a
Speaker 4: net negative on both sides of things, and you go
Speaker 4: get Moisess by Sterius. He's probably not going to catch
Speaker 4: very much right Like this is immediately I think one
Speaker 4: of their safer guys to projects as a big league catcher.
Speaker 4: I think they've got Juan Flores as well, but you
Speaker 4: could have a you can envision kind of a platoon
Speaker 4: situation there where you've got two solid defenders and you
Speaker 4: ride the hot hand of the hottest hitter and go
Speaker 4: from there. But I think just being able to add
Speaker 4: somebody like him to the fold really helps. And you know,
Speaker 4: now you have two guys and coz Art and Flora's
Speaker 4: at the double a level that could potentially help your
Speaker 4: catching situation as soon as next season, and.
Speaker 3: They might need it. With Biastero's catching, I think he's
Speaker 3: catching again on Friday here, So bias Teros is catching
Speaker 3: all the time. At some point he's gonna dh and
Speaker 3: Cozark can probably catch for the yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, which I'm like, you know what, who cares?
Speaker 4: If you're the Angels, like, go for it with with Biasteros,
Speaker 4: might as well take the shot and and see if
Speaker 4: you can develop him into a forty grade catcher. If not,
Speaker 4: I don't know if Ron Washington works catching magic, but
Speaker 4: uh yeah, I think you know you can at least
Speaker 4: just kind of rest on the idea that he can
Speaker 4: if he can get hot hit and wise.
Speaker 1: It's a nice piece for you.
Speaker 3: Watch is also in San Francisco. Now it's Kurt Zuzuki's
Speaker 3: era in Anaheim.
Speaker 4: Oh well, well, yeah, I always I always forget where
Speaker 4: Ron is.
Speaker 3: Kurt Zuzuki, who signed a one year deal as a
Speaker 3: first year manager.
Speaker 1: That stanks well, at least at least they got a catcher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. But there are three catchers
Speaker 3: on the major league roster right now. I think Bias Steros,
Speaker 3: Travis Darnow, and Tyler Heideman. Stand up, Halo fans. Okay,
Speaker 3: next three that we got to go over here. Three
Speaker 3: players go back to Toronto for Jeff Hoffman who made
Speaker 3: his way to Minnesota. And the most interesting one, no
Speaker 3: doubt about it, is Desan Hill Hill, John Klein and
Speaker 3: de Murray Paigna go from Minnesota to Toronto. Hill has
Speaker 3: been someone that isn't a top one hundred prospect but
Speaker 3: has caught your eye for a couple of years. It
Speaker 3: seems like at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 4: Him and Johnny King were kind of in the same
Speaker 4: bucket for me, and now you have design Hill in
Speaker 4: the same system. But King has just made more progress
Speaker 4: in the strike throwing department and that's what separated him.
Speaker 1: Like, King's going to be on our top one hundred update.
Speaker 4: There are two lefties, but with a long lanky you know,
Speaker 4: I think just electrifying arm. The levers allow them to
Speaker 4: just I THNK create a tough look and plenty of
Speaker 4: e low, but at the same time it can make
Speaker 4: it hard to time up, repeat and throw strikes.
Speaker 1: And King has found it more Hill has not.
Speaker 4: And I think for the Twins, they they just feel
Speaker 4: like they can cash in on the volatility here. You know,
Speaker 4: Hill's going to be twenty one years old in the
Speaker 4: offseason and and I think they're just assuming it might
Speaker 4: be too hard for him to throw strikes and he
Speaker 4: may end up in the bullpen. But for the Blue Jays,
Speaker 4: who have done a really good job over the last
Speaker 4: couple of years now of developing arms, have the concept
Speaker 4: there with King, who they've helped throw more strikes. And
Speaker 4: you bring in a lefty here that has loud stuff
Speaker 4: that you hope you can just get to trim that
Speaker 4: walk rate down. I mean, it's been a step backwards
Speaker 4: this year in the strike throwing department. Forty five innings,
Speaker 4: he struck out seventy seven, but he's walked thirty seven.
Speaker 4: It's a fastball in ninety six and a half. You
Speaker 4: know you're getting a nasty slider in the upper eighties,
Speaker 4: a hard curveball, at about seventy nine to eighty one
Speaker 4: miles per hour a sweeper as well. I mean, the
Speaker 4: pitch mix is ridiculous from the left side, but it's
Speaker 4: like can he throw enough strikes?
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the question.
Speaker 4: Even mixes in a changeup that flashes as well, So
Speaker 4: it's a really exciting pitch mix. Ton of reliever risk
Speaker 4: obviously with the walk rates, but you figure if he
Speaker 4: hones in on two or three pitches out of the bullpen,
Speaker 4: strike rate will probably improve.
Speaker 1: That's the fallback.
Speaker 4: I think it's a good arm to add to the
Speaker 4: fold for a team that was just super strategic. I
Speaker 4: really like what the Jays did this deadline, Like, you know,
Speaker 4: they weren't in our winners or losers because they were
Speaker 4: just kind of in this unique limbo spot. They cash
Speaker 4: in on some assets, but they also, yeah, and gave
Speaker 4: up some prospects to do it, but they also brought
Speaker 4: in some upside and solid prospects into the fold. And
Speaker 4: I think Hill is one of those good examples of that,
Speaker 4: and I think it's an exciting piece to just be.
Speaker 1: Able to add.
Speaker 3: The one that confused me was then moving Argent to
Speaker 3: the ages, but that's a good pick up for John
Speaker 3: rose Lock and Anaheim to go get Argentamala, so you know,
Speaker 3: shout out to them. Yeah. Two quick notes on Dassan
Speaker 3: Hill here. I think minor league pitcher record, especially for starters,
Speaker 3: is hilarious because, like you could see some of the
Speaker 3: better starters just because they're on a short leash, never
Speaker 3: really get to five innings with an advantage. So like,
Speaker 3: there are some guys that come up and they have
Speaker 3: a career record that's just awful in the minor leagues.
Speaker 3: Dassan Hill is one in twelve and thirty five minor
Speaker 3: league starts, which is pretty funny. The other one, and
Speaker 3: this is actually a real note as opposed to starting
Speaker 3: pitcher record, is this guy in his minor league career
Speaker 3: has frown one hundred and seven innings and faced four
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty two hitters. He has allowed four home runs.
Speaker 3: He keeps the ball on the ballpark, so like, even
Speaker 3: while he's walking guys and the eras a bit inflated,
Speaker 3: he's not getting beat by the long ball, which like
Speaker 3: is a carrying trait that takes you until you're thirty
Speaker 3: two years old. Like, if you don't have a home
Speaker 3: run problem, in the minor leagues, he probably won't have one.
Speaker 1: Of the big leagues, especially this year. And yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's the thing too.
Speaker 4: The fallback with the relief side of things is like
Speaker 4: he can go heavy fastball and you're still not gonna
Speaker 4: take them deep. Quick shout to Demari pena really good
Speaker 4: bat to ball, and you know, anytime you can bring
Speaker 4: in this super HITTERUS ninety two percent zone contact, eighty
Speaker 4: six percent overall.
Speaker 1: Now it's super light bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 4: EV's right, it's it's it's an eighty four mile per
Speaker 4: hour average eggs of velocity. But if they can find
Speaker 4: a way to squeeze out a little bit more juice
Speaker 4: from Pania, it is fantastic bat to ball. Where he's
Speaker 4: gonna play all these different things are gonna be a question.
Speaker 4: But this is a secondary piece for a reliever that
Speaker 4: you know had some money attached to him as well.
Speaker 4: I didn't think that was a bad second piece of Again,
Speaker 4: the big the big get I think was obviously hill
Speaker 4: Uh And I think just be able to get a
Speaker 4: bat to ball guy like that is going to be interesting.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was a unique treade.
Speaker 4: I love seeing the twins go for it as well,
Speaker 4: Like I thought that was fun just to like add
Speaker 4: a high upside type of guy that can really jolt
Speaker 4: this bullpend. Now they haven't won, i think since they've
Speaker 4: added him, but I think it was interesting. And then
Speaker 4: John Klein like better than the era would would suggest
Speaker 4: it's like a five to ninety ra but I mean,
Speaker 4: this is a guy that's striking out plenty fastballs in
Speaker 4: the mid nineties with some run and ride. I think
Speaker 4: most likely more of a middle reliever. But he's six five,
Speaker 4: two thirty, and you know, it's always interesting. It'll be
Speaker 4: it'll be fun to see kind of how how things
Speaker 4: shake out for him.
Speaker 3: Let's put it to the large neut Bar deal. Herenutbar
Speaker 3: goes from Saint Louis to Arizona to prospects. In return,
Speaker 3: Daniel Egan and Sandro Santana go from the Diamondbacks to
Speaker 3: the Cardinals. You got anything on either of these guys?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Egan, I think it was like I think
Speaker 4: a big problem for the Diamondbacks. This deadline was just
Speaker 4: I don't know if people really want their prospects like
Speaker 4: that's and I think it was kind of tipped. I
Speaker 4: don't think my case's gonna say people don't want our prospects.
Speaker 4: But like said, people kept asking for our big league guys,
Speaker 4: and I can't trade our big league guys, right, I
Speaker 4: can't trade.
Speaker 1: He can't trade wall Wlishman.
Speaker 4: He can't trade, you know, even like some of the
Speaker 4: key pieces, young pieces they have, who.
Speaker 1: Did they want?
Speaker 3: So like Walschmidt, I understand, But like, is Tommy Troy
Speaker 3: someone that like teams wanted.
Speaker 4: I think so that's where it's like, I wouldn't draw
Speaker 4: the line at Tommy Troy. I'd be fine moving Tommy Troy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 3: Like I'm just I'm trying to identify kind of the
Speaker 3: young guys that exist on this roster here.
Speaker 1: Like he didn't say Walshman was.
Speaker 4: The most asked about player for them by a mile,
Speaker 4: and everyone was asking walsh.
Speaker 3: And I get not wanting to move Ryan Walshmid and
Speaker 3: honestly I get not wanting to move Locklier as well.
Speaker 4: And I think it was bullpen arms they were being
Speaker 4: asked about too, And that's bullpens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so was that they're bullpens. Gross, Like you're not
Speaker 3: moving Brandy Garcia, You're not moving Marios. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're going to contend, you're doing it
Speaker 3: with Garcia and real stomaching the eighth and ninth for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's like it's a lateral move.
Speaker 4: Then you're gonna go get a bat that helps a
Speaker 4: little bit, and then you finally have some bullpen pieces
Speaker 4: that you did a good job of acquiring when you
Speaker 4: sold last deadline.
Speaker 3: And like the ton of control.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it can't do it so and that was the
Speaker 4: point with him, I think it is. I think the
Speaker 4: reason why everyone's asking for their big league pieces, even
Speaker 4: controllable relievers, is because no one wanted their prospects right
Speaker 4: and looking at the Diamondback system because they were one
Speaker 4: that I was in the process of updating leading into
Speaker 4: the deadline, Egan is like, you know, you have the
Speaker 4: top tier one guys, which were you know, the I
Speaker 4: think the two bats and Chris Aantis is far and
Speaker 4: away their best hitter, and you have Cunningham, Like, you're
Speaker 4: not necessarily eager to move those guys for rentals. I
Speaker 4: think Forbes Patrick Forbes, our first round pick is like
Speaker 4: their most exciting arm, and you're not gonna want to
Speaker 4: move him for rental. But also it's one of those
Speaker 4: guys I think more valuable to you than somebody else.
Speaker 4: Hageman is another guy like he's in that tier one
Speaker 4: for me, for them of their pitching prospects, Like it's
Speaker 4: Hageman and Forbes of the I think there's a gap.
Speaker 4: And then the tier two. Egan's probably one of my favorite,
Speaker 4: and tier two. I know some people prefer curly I like.
Speaker 4: I like Egan because the fastball is a little bit
Speaker 4: of a standard heater and that's something that he's gonna
Speaker 4: have to work around. Right, it's ninety three miles an
Speaker 4: hour in stock, but everything else is average or better,
Speaker 4: and I think that's where it's interesting. Like he's a
Speaker 4: phenomenal feel for you know, a cutter, a gyro slider,
Speaker 4: a curve ball, and he'll even mixing a change up.
Speaker 4: He's just kind of your classic superinnater that it causes
Speaker 4: the fastball to flatten out, but it also is why
Speaker 4: he's so good at throwing everything else. I think Egan's
Speaker 4: gonna be a good back end of the rotation starter.
Speaker 4: So I thought that was a pretty good get for
Speaker 4: the Cardinals. And then Sandro Santana really fun heater, Lefty
Speaker 4: low release like electrifying arm like.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a he's kind of got the Jeffrey.
Speaker 4: Yon build, you know, yeah, where he's just super skinny
Speaker 4: and just lively arm like it just you look at
Speaker 4: this skinny dude and you watch him throw from this
Speaker 4: kind of low three coorders and the ball just explodes.
Speaker 4: Another guy nine a four to nine to five release
Speaker 4: height from the left side fastball averaging ninety five point five.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot of fastballs from the left side
Speaker 4: sub five release height above ninety five miles per hour.
Speaker 4: Santana's going to be a big league believer, So I
Speaker 4: thought they did pretty well for a hour's newbar.
Speaker 3: Nothing beats the comments section every time Jeffrey On goes viral,
Speaker 3: so his major league debut in Cleveland, nothing beats the
Speaker 3: comments on MLB's Instagram post of Jeffreyon doing his case
Speaker 3: strut for the first time, because you have people that
Speaker 3: say this is the greatest thing ever, I wish everybody
Speaker 3: did this every single pitch, and then you have other
Speaker 3: people saying this is an abomination, disgrace to the sport
Speaker 3: and he should be banished, banished, and there's nothing in between. Nope,
Speaker 3: there's no, like, no, yeah, this is kind of fun
Speaker 3: that one guy does that for the Mets.
Speaker 4: No, there's no one that's like, oh, you know, that's cool.
Speaker 4: But I wish he jumped like three inches less high
Speaker 4: and then I'd be.
Speaker 3: Able to yeah with it. Yeah. No, there's no gray
Speaker 3: area for this. It's either I absolutely love this. He's
Speaker 3: saving baseball, or this is absolutely awful. He's ruining baseball.
Speaker 4: I feel like I was like, sorry, I goes in
Speaker 4: the know early there, just like yes, seeing him in
Speaker 4: double A by accident and I'll never forget It's visiting
Speaker 4: Griffin kna By, one of my best buddies, and.
Speaker 1: Just like, what's the deal with that guy?
Speaker 3: He's amazing wall Yeah, I mean the caffeine intake, right,
Speaker 3: isn't the caffeine intake insane?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like he slams several Sea four in the
Speaker 4: bullpen before it just goes nuts.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely insane. And what's interesting is the humidity in
Speaker 3: Pensacola actually cuts down the leap by three inches, so
Speaker 3: he's just got to throw in more humid environments. I
Speaker 3: think he's built for like a Kansas City or Saint
Speaker 3: Louis in the summertime.
Speaker 1: So he's got to be able to dunk. He's got
Speaker 1: to be able to.
Speaker 3: Dunk, has to, especially when you just pop like three
Speaker 3: scoops of Sea four directly into your face. We've got
Speaker 3: a couple more deals that we want to go over here.
Speaker 3: We'll go to Taylor Ward, who goes from Baltimore to Seattle.
Speaker 3: Interesting pickup for the Seattle Mariners. Here Taylor Ward three
Speaker 3: players back, one of which is a big league believer
Speaker 3: in Alex Hoppy, the other Harrison Cryling, and then brock
Speaker 3: More as well. Going to Baltimore. You mentioned you liked
Speaker 3: what michae Elias did in terms of prospect acquisition at
Speaker 3: the deadline. Who jumps out here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think Hoppy is just a fun
Speaker 4: arm to be able to add immediately and just kind
Speaker 4: of rebolster when you're when you're subtracting a little bit.
Speaker 4: But Harrison Cryling is another interesting arm as well. I mean,
Speaker 4: you look at mid nineties Heater another low release, five
Speaker 4: to three release, and he's averaging, you know, seventeen inches avert.
Speaker 4: So from that release, that's that's plus carry again an
Speaker 4: above average velocity there, and I think that the difference
Speaker 4: is going to be kind of finding a more consistent
Speaker 4: feel for everything else.
Speaker 1: He's also hasn't thrown a ton this year, was banged up,
Speaker 1: but you get the cutter and the sweeper off of that.
Speaker 4: I think it's a unique look that he can kind
Speaker 4: of create and could be a fun pitcher to work
Speaker 4: with you. He's a little bit older, obviously, it's twenty
Speaker 4: four years old, but I think it's a reminder that
Speaker 4: you weren't going to get.
Speaker 1: A ton for for Taylor Ward.
Speaker 4: As good as the surface level numbers look, he is
Speaker 4: slugging at all, and he's a rental and there's probably
Speaker 4: some questions there. But I think for a player that
Speaker 4: was kind of a late bloomer and there's another team
Speaker 4: organization that does a fantastic job with the late round picks,
Speaker 4: I think it was very clear that Criling was a
Speaker 4: great pick up in the seventeenth round and so low
Speaker 4: cost investment for Seattle. But a guy that immediately after
Speaker 4: the late start here has flashed really good stuff in
Speaker 4: the handful of nings we've been able to see this
Speaker 4: could be a decent snipe here by the Orioles on
Speaker 4: an upside player that's going to be old obviously when
Speaker 4: he makes his big league debut, but looks like he's
Speaker 4: got big league stuff.
Speaker 3: Very cool. All right, we're I think, going rapid fire
Speaker 3: through the rest of these.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 3: Brenton Doyle goes from the color of A Rockies to
Speaker 3: the Chicago White Sox here and two players in return
Speaker 3: go to Colorado, Mason Adams, who is an upper minors
Speaker 3: starting pitcher, and then Carlos Villoma as well. They go
Speaker 3: from the White Sox to the Rockies.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I also forgot to shout out brock More another twenty
Speaker 4: six year old fuzz, absolute fuzz fastball averages ninety seven
Speaker 4: what'll such triple digits?
Speaker 1: But another older guy, see how it goes the Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Mason Adams acquisition for Colorado, I think is solid. Now.
Speaker 1: I do wonder how kind.
Speaker 4: Of the pitch ability, like heavy sinker type of guys
Speaker 4: are going to play in Colorado. But I think with
Speaker 4: the infrastructure they have now, like these guys have a
Speaker 4: little bit more of a chance to succeed. And what
Speaker 4: I do think works in Colorado is that I think
Speaker 4: the theme of this episode is low releases, but five
Speaker 4: foot release here.
Speaker 1: From Mason Adams. When you get a five foot release and.
Speaker 4: A heavy a heavy heater, you know, low nineties, but
Speaker 4: a ton of arm side and not a lot of vert.
Speaker 1: He's going to get a lot of ground balls.
Speaker 4: I think still even add altitude from that release point,
Speaker 4: so I also think from that release being able to
Speaker 4: buzz up a four seamer even without having a ton
Speaker 4: of vert, I still think it's going to create a
Speaker 4: little bit more of the deceptive vert look without getting
Speaker 4: a ton. And then he's a guy that works east
Speaker 4: west well, and I don't think that's going to be
Speaker 4: affected as much by the altitude. Right He's a pretty
Speaker 4: good sweeper and then a sweeping curve ball as well.
Speaker 4: I think this is a high more arm that the
Speaker 4: Rockies identified and said like, hey, you know, we need
Speaker 4: some guys just be able to go out there and
Speaker 4: get innings for us, even if it's at a five
Speaker 4: VRA at altitude. I thought Adams was a guy that
Speaker 4: could be a big league five for you know, any team,
Speaker 4: But I think for the Rockies, you know, to be
Speaker 4: able to just go out there, compete, get some ground
Speaker 4: balls and eating innings for them, I think Adams can
Speaker 4: can easily do that.
Speaker 3: In early Congratulations Carlos Viioma next week will be able
Speaker 3: to go see a rat at R movie without parental supervision.
Speaker 3: He's sixteen years old and he's the other piece in this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean one of those was just I think
Speaker 4: they looked at they were like, you can have one
Speaker 4: of these guys in the DSL. They looked at the
Speaker 4: numbers and said, oh, he has a nine to sixty
Speaker 4: five ops or whatever it is, Like, so that's good
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 3: So let's get the five hundred opp guy. It's sixteen
Speaker 3: years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like all right, that We'll see what happens with him.
Speaker 1: There's not much else to add. Compact dude. Pretty sweet
Speaker 1: swing from the left side for a sixteen year old.
Speaker 3: Better package than you were expecting for Braxton Garrett going
Speaker 3: from the Marlins to the Cubs. Braxton Garrett is now
Speaker 3: a Cub. He got recalled. So Garrett is going to
Speaker 3: make his third major league start this year. And the
Speaker 3: two players that come back are Jonathan Long, who has
Speaker 3: been an upper miners masher, and then Jay Speck as well,
Speaker 3: who has been a very successful upper miners pitcher at
Speaker 3: this point as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's funny, I have some like bias
Speaker 4: towards Braxton Garrett, just because I think I think he's
Speaker 4: undervalued in general. Like I just think people forget, like
Speaker 4: how how effective he was as a guy that when
Speaker 4: he first came up, I'm like, it's gonna be bombs away,
Speaker 4: and I just watched him be surgical and for these
Speaker 4: surgical arms, when you're coming off with Tommy John and
Speaker 4: you're not locating quite as much and he lose just
Speaker 4: a little bit of the bite, it's going to affect you.
Speaker 4: And I think that's why he's had a little bit
Speaker 4: of a slow return back. But we've seen really good
Speaker 4: overall numbers in trip AA with the years of control.
Speaker 4: I thought, I thought they did really well the Marlins
Speaker 4: on this return here. But you know, I think I
Speaker 4: think he was one of those sneaky players that probably
Speaker 4: a handful of teams were interested in acquiring. And I
Speaker 4: think for the Marlins too. You know, the two routes
Speaker 4: that you could go, you could have want like DSL
Speaker 4: Lotto or complex Upside Guy or whatever it may be.
Speaker 4: But they get two guys that I think can help
Speaker 4: them very soon and maybe as soon as this year long.
Speaker 1: I'm just glad for Jonathan Long.
Speaker 4: That he's he's kind of just free of a situation
Speaker 4: that he was never really gonna get out of and.
Speaker 1: Even with and what I'm interested to see.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if the Marlins said anything about
Speaker 4: this in the pressures that you had, you know, with Bennix,
Speaker 4: where's he gonna like play defensively? Are they gonna are
Speaker 4: they gonna lock him in at first because he was
Speaker 4: playing some left. I've watched him, like he's not the
Speaker 4: best athlete, but he's a little bit better than you'd think,
Speaker 4: Like you could hide him in a corner outfield here
Speaker 4: and there. I don't think third base is gonna work,
Speaker 4: but if he can even occasionally flash in the corner outfield,
Speaker 4: that does help because I think at least he's a
Speaker 4: short platoon guy.
Speaker 3: Long talked about getting some work in left, and he
Speaker 3: will continue to get work in left. No, you know,
Speaker 3: probably gonna be a first base in corner outfield option
Speaker 3: and right here.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that helps the profile a lot because I
Speaker 1: at at the very least this guy's gonna hammer lefties.
Speaker 1: I was impressed with him in the Fall League.
Speaker 4: It's just a really quick bat, you know, I think
Speaker 4: the path is more designed to kill lefties, but it's
Speaker 4: been consistently a good approach. He's consistently you know, swung
Speaker 4: the bat well in the upper miners, and he has
Speaker 4: a feared a field to pull the ball in the
Speaker 4: air that I'm sure the Marlins identified and more excited about.
Speaker 4: But if he can just be able to play a
Speaker 4: little bit in left field as well, it's a lot
Speaker 4: more ways to get him into the lineup. And like
Speaker 4: I said, he's a little bit more sneaky of an
Speaker 4: athlete than you think. And then Jase Beck, you know,
Speaker 4: six foot nine, two hundred pounds, you bring this this big, tall,
Speaker 4: lanky dude that still works down the mound really well.
Speaker 4: Like that's the fun part with him. He gets north
Speaker 4: a seven feet of extension at ninety five miles per hour.
Speaker 4: I imagine this is one where like Daniel Moscus is
Speaker 4: excited to see, like what kind of tweaks they can
Speaker 4: make with the secondaries because it's sixty five percent fastball usage,
Speaker 4: But like, what can you find with the secondaries with
Speaker 4: a guy that's so tall, works down the mound so
Speaker 4: well to be able to you know, really push him
Speaker 4: across to be that set of a middle reliever like
Speaker 4: he looks like right now, maybe a guy that can
Speaker 4: pitch a little bit later in ball games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, two more deals that we got to go over here.
Speaker 3: Injury hampered for Boobitch, but a one for one swap.
Speaker 3: Chris Boobach goes from Kansas City to the Dodgers. Carlos
Speaker 3: Deran is the guy going back in return. Deran just
Speaker 3: made his Royal Organization debut. He fired a scoreless sitting
Speaker 3: for Triple A Omaha in forty three innings. It was
Speaker 3: a three four era out of the pen for Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3: This guy has one Big League appearance under his belt.
Speaker 3: He came with the A's last year. He got one out,
Speaker 3: he walked three and allowed three runs. Doran's been around
Speaker 3: for a while, man, Yeah, he's.
Speaker 4: He's a big dude, throws hard. I don't think anything
Speaker 4: metrically jumps out. It's it's kind of an erratic delivery,
Speaker 4: you know. I get Boobach was only going to carry
Speaker 4: so much value being presently injured and kind of a
Speaker 4: question mark, and it's the perfect pick up for the
Speaker 4: dog who don't need him, and it's just kind of
Speaker 4: a house money play. But at the end of the
Speaker 4: day for the Royals, like, you get a guy that
Speaker 4: could end up still blossoming and its newly turned twenty
Speaker 4: five years old into a solid reliever for you and
Speaker 4: if everything goes right, maybe you can pitch late in
Speaker 4: ball games. But you know, to me, I think he's
Speaker 4: still kind of more of that sixth Enning guy. Uh
Speaker 4: maybe seventh.
Speaker 3: Two players that come back for Antonio Senzateela last deal
Speaker 3: we got to go over here, Sencetel goes from the
Speaker 3: Rockies to the Milwaukee Brewers. One. Martinez and Mark Minfreddie
Speaker 3: are the two that are going from the Brewers to
Speaker 3: the Rockies.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about sense of telegoing the other way because
Speaker 1: I think this is another one you get amount of altitude
Speaker 1: you put him, you get him with the Brewers, Like
Speaker 1: what's this going to look like? Here?
Speaker 4: I am excited about that. But you know, I think
Speaker 4: for for the Rockies, they've been loving these switch hitting
Speaker 4: complex guys. They're like switch hitting younger players. And Martinez
Speaker 4: is another one of those, like switch hitter, pretty good
Speaker 4: feel to hit from both sides of the play. He's
Speaker 4: put together, you know, a nice season so far. So
Speaker 4: it's gonna be interesting to see. But it's It's kind
Speaker 4: of a dart throw there, well below average eggs of velocities,
Speaker 4: but pretty good feel for the zone, really good ability
Speaker 4: to identify spin. And I think the full season ball
Speaker 4: will be consistently good challenge for him. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: think it's one of those still kind of further off
Speaker 4: dart throws when we're talking about a reliever here, Man
Speaker 4: Freddy's no slouch though six four to two ten left
Speaker 4: he as he's on the older side, but you know,
Speaker 4: fastball is averaging in the mid nineties. Another kind of
Speaker 4: below average release sights kind of this low three quarters
Speaker 4: create some deception there, and the fastball slider combination I
Speaker 4: think can play. He'll sprinkle in a sweeper and again
Speaker 4: anytime the Rockies can get some funky arms that should
Speaker 4: play at altitude. And it's another one because of how
Speaker 4: he works for azontally and the low release should help.
Speaker 4: I think these will It's a fun lotto ticket and
Speaker 4: then a good depth arm. And at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, for Senstello, who they turned into somebody that
Speaker 4: we thought might be like a DFA candidate at one point,
Speaker 4: into a good reliever and someone that they can cash
Speaker 4: in and get an upside prospect and some pitching depth.
Speaker 4: Is I think a win for them in this new regime.
Speaker 1: That's where we.
Speaker 3: Got, folks. That's every single deadline deal and you just
Speaker 3: got a week's worth the call up content.
Speaker 4: Yep, it's exciting. It was a lot of fun going
Speaker 4: through all the deals. I hope you all enjoyed it.
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