WEBVTT - 531 | Notable Prospect Call Ups and Promotions 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:19.560 A switch high, understand deep to shutter field, and it's gone, Wow. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.200 His first big league swing is gonna be a grand 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.480 Slam home run swing. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.159 Good time to. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:34.159 Look to the soup. Welcome back to The Call Up, 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.519 your go to podcast on the future stars of Major 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.960 League Baseball. You got arm Layton, Jack McMullen, and we're 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.600 talking promotions today. We got a couple of call ups 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.559 as well, which is always a lot of fun. I 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:46.720 think we're gonna have a lot more call ups coming soon. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.120 But it's promotion season. We always see it right at 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.520 the end of like right out the tail of the 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.840 All Star Week, and then also just after that you 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.600 get the end of the Complex League and that's when 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.440 we get some the top performers there are getting bumped up. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:02.800 So we're going to talk about some of those guys 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:04.760 as well, and then just get kind of get to 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.720 this point of the year and it's time to get 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.160 guy guys up to double A, get them up to 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:09.880 the upper levels or maybe even triple A if they 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.679 could maybe help a big league team down the stretch. 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.720 A bunch of different players to talk about in that regard, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:16.840 and I'm excited because we're going literally all the way 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.520 from those complex guys moving their way up to some 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.560 under the radar big leaguers that made their debuts. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.039 Yeah, man, we're gonna do a big league call ups 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.200 and kind of work down sequentially, so we'll end with 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.479 some of the big ticket guys that are getting off 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.400 the Complex and going to low A. But yeah, two 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.240 notable big league call ups, and there have been some 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:35.880 other big league call ups mixed in here over the 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.800 last few weeks, but as of late, James Trianto's with 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.280 the Cubs and Christian Curtis with the Pirates, and we'll 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.560 start with those and then trickle down to the promotions. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.920 We'll go big league, triple A, Double A. I don't 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.640 think there's any load of high A, so we'll go 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.240 Complex to Lowe after that to wrap up the program. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.040 But I want to start with James Treanto's the Cubs here. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.480 James Treanto's officially a major leaguer, by the way, congratulations 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.960 to him getting a base hit in his first major 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.640 league get bat. James Treanto's has been in the Cub 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:06.280 system for a while and has been a theorized trade 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.840 chip for a while. Twenty three year old can kind 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.919 of do it all. So far in the minor leagues 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.320 this year with Triple A Iowa for the most part, 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.880 and for the most part played second base and third base. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.600 But he's got nine starts in center, he's got five 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.880 starts in left, and he made a start in right 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.640 as well. But James Treanto's what didn't stop was hitting. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.440 In eighty eight games with Triple A Iowa, hit three 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.040 zero six twenty four doubles, seven homers, also swiped eighteen bags. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.800 K rate very very low in the ops set at 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.959 seven to eighty four. So James Treanto's it seems like 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.880 long overdue, but a major league debut for. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.440 Him, Yeah, He's always just been in a tough situation 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.840 there with the way that this Cubs infield is set 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.200 up and just in general, and then you've got like 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.400 Matt Shaw ahead of you, who is basically you with 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.080 the sliders turned up slightly, just slightly, Because I think 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.200 the most important thing about a player of this archetype 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.560 is going to be the defensive value. And while Triontos 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.919 has done a great job to make himself more versatile, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.680 I think there's the challenge of not really being great 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.960 at a specific spot, whereas when you look at you 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.079 know what you get from Matt Shaw. He's developed into 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.080 a really solid defender at the hot corner and the 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:15.720 value you didn't even get from him if he was 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.239 playing second base and not really needed obviously with Nico Horner. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.720 But I think the big thing with Treantos this year 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.239 is that you look at last season, I think there 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.119 was some frustration offensively, and I know he's a little 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.280 bit banged up, but it was a down year from 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.000 in a lot of ways. He just wasn't hitting for average, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:33.480 and this is a guy that has to hit for average. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.760 He's never gonna walk a ton. He's aggressive, but he's 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.880 that hit tool driven aggressive guy that can get to 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.480 a lot of different pitches, make a lot of impressive 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.320 swings on pitches and tough spots, but sometimes just gets 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.520 a little bit expensive. So he's been more selective this year. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.600 But if you're a hit tool driven guy, if you 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.320 can add him out per hour in the average exus 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.000 velocity department, it's gonna help the batting average on balls 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.840 and play because those ground balls and those line drives 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.440 and even maybe the gappers they're just going to have 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.680 a little bit more life. You're gonna be able to beat. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:02.960 He split the defenders, whether it's on the ground in 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.520 the infield or in the air in the outfield just 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.920 a little bit more frequently, and I think that's been 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.840 the difference here. You have a mile per hour uptick 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.440 for Treantos in the eggs of velocity department, and from 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.520 eighty six and a half, which is starting to get 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.440 towards the lower end of qualifying to eighty seven and 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.640 a half, which is, you know, more than fine. He's 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.000 also improved the launch angle this year on average about 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.880 five degrees better, so just more line drives less on 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.560 the ground. You pair that with some better swing decisions, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.599 and it just seems like he took a bad year 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.080 and fixed it, you know, and really improved on things. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.200 He was twenty two years old in Triple A last year, 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.440 so to come back this year make those adjustments, it's 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.680 been a much improved season. It is funny that in 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.440 Triple A Jack the A three to zero six three 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.400 forty four four forty slash line is a ninety six 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.600 WRC plus there go. But I think you just look 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.280 more at the player himself and where he went from 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.080 being a two fifty eight three fifteen three sixty nine 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.680 slash line and say this guy is much better. He 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.640 cut the strikeout right even lower. I still think the 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.320 swing decisions are going to be an important thing from 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.360 especially at the big league level. But I think you 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.640 very clearly here have a solid utility piece that still 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.080 has the upside. I think a lot of teams are 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.920 going to see him as this as like a second 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.520 division regular, and I still think he's a trade ship. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:15.840 The reason why he's up the big league team is 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.120 he was already in the forty so you didn't have 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:18.919 to make it right a forty man move, and he 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.440 could plug in for you. And you know, I think 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.800 swim relative to most guys just needing to plug in 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.359 and make their debut. But I still think Triantos is 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:28.680 a trade chip for this team. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.279 It seems like it. They have plenty of guys that 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.599 could be trade chips in Treonto is just the most 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.520 recent example of that guy. Another guy, and it's unfortunate 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.200 because to this point he's already been optioned back to 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.680 Triple A and placed on the injured list, which sucks. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.440 But Christian Curtis made his debut about ten days ago 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.000 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and it went really well. He 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.680 threw five scoreless innings. He cared four in his major 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.200 league debut. Curtis was a guy that I think not 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.000 many were anticipating getting up to the major leagues this year. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.880 Fifty three innings at a four to seventy LRA with 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.279 al Tuna, goes up to Indianapolis by an era output 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.080 struggled and also walked more guys there in twenty four 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.000 and two thirds he walked seventeen. But Pittsburgh was running 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.560 into a situation where they had innings to fill, and 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.720 he comes up and goes five innings, a two hit 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.960 shutout baseball in a long relief out. But he goes 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.359 back to tripa A. He's placed on the injured list. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.240 Unfortunate for Christian Curtis. But this is a guy that 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.919 seems like he is part of the Pittsburgh pitching plans 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:26.560 moving forward. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:31.120 Yeah, and they said side discomfort, that's like a hockey 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.120 injury to descripture there, I would. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:35.920 Assume side his code word for obleakue. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.320 Right, Yeah, I would assume so as well, and as 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.560 long as it's not the arm, right, Because Curtis, I 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.000 would say that if there's one person that did really 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.000 bank on Curtis debuting this year. It's our guy Ja 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.360 staff It does a great job on the call up socials, 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.799 but specifically with the Pirate system. He made his debut 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.280 obviously on our Pirates Stop Prospect List episode on here 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:59.239 and crushed it. And I love Curtis, but Jay loves 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.640 Curtis even more. And it's easy to understand why the 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:06.359 fastball is lively. I mean, he's getting nineteen and changed 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.880 vert from above average extension and it's just high spin 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.800 gets on you quick your pair of that with the 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.880 assortment of secondaries that he has, and I think this 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.840 is a guy that at worst is going to be 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.520 a really useful kind of Swiss Army knife for a 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.760 big league team. I look at I know Tyler Phillips 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.280 for the Marlins has had to end up becoming more 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:25.520 of a starter, but I look at a guy in 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.040 that role where it's like you could throw him in 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.160 the seventh in the stuffle ward, you could stretch him 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:30.920 out as a starter, and like this is what he 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.440 ended up doing as the extra man in a double 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.400 header and gave you five innings. I think I'm piggyback, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.880 but I think the command is the big thing to 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.160 monitor here, and I think that's where it could be 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.520 holding him back from his upside of being like a 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.920 strong number four starter, which is really what I think 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.320 Curtis can be. But if he's walking you know, nearly 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.840 five per nine, which he's done, you know, roughly this year, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.200 it might be more of a hey, we're gonna have 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.160 to deploy him in these you know, piggyback, maybe your 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.280 multi ending relief or still I think that stuff can 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.520 play at leverage, so it it's a Swiss army knife, 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:02.960 but also kind of at the same part you're trying 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.280 to figure out what's best for him. But at the 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.400 end of the day, this is a big league role. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.600 And I always mentioned Curtis because he's one of the 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.880 more unique medical situations ever. This is why I reached 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.920 out to your fiance because I'm like, I've never heard 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.280 of this before. She's gonna be an orthopedic surgeon. I'm like, 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.800 how does this happen? We talked about this in the past, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:26.200 but like he has Tommy John surgery, keeps having weird 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.920 sensations and almost like a burning feeling when he's throwing, 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.240 to the point where it was debilitating. They take they 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.560 look at it turns out there's still stitches in his 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.880 arm from the surgery that were pushing up against the nerve. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:38.959 There was nerve damage. They were concerned that he may 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.120 never be able to throw a baseball again. He comes back, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.920 he's able to throw, he still gets drafted. He has 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.160 the success that he has you know, had and has 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.079 just gotten better and better the further he's been removed 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:54.000 from that surgery. And it's just it's incredible. So I've 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.480 never heard of that. Apparently it's not as absurdly uncommon 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.280 like it's it's it's a mistake, but like sometimes it 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.160 just happens. Apparently the information I received, but I just 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.000 feel like for a picture, it's like that can't happen. Regardless, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.360 it's a really amazing story and he's got a root 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.880 for and just I don't want to do it again. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.160 But like also could be trade bait because they have 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.079 so many freaking arms. But I think this is a 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:18.760 guy that they should be looking at once he's healthy 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.760 as a guy that can actually help their bullpen, which 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.160 isn't great. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.000 Know their bullpen is not good at all, And obviously 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.560 you have to look at external additions for them coming 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:27.960 up in the next week or so, and you have 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.040 to think the Pirates are going to be active on 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.880 the reliever market at the deadline. But if they can 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.559 have an internal ad and a guy like Christian Curtis, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.160 that can be a heck of an ad. And they've 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.560 got some guys sitting down there in Indianapolis that are 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.920 throwing a hundred like Antoine Kelly was a guy that 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.679 was came up pumping one hundred and one miles an hour, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.880 went down to Indianapolis and was just hanging out there 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.880 for a while. So they've got plenty of guys internally 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.920 that could be a jolt, but what they have right 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.040 now at the major league level in the bullpen is 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.000 probably just not good enough. But those are the two 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.000 major league call ups that we wanted to hit on here, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.079 and now we get to the minor league promotions, and 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.960 none bigger than franklin Arius, the top five prospect in 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.040 baseball according to you at just baseball dot com, franklin 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.480 Arius gets the bump up to triple A WORCESTA. Franklin 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.480 Arius has been one of the best players in all 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.040 of minor league baseball this year. He is absolutely a 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.040 candidate fort Minor League Player of the Year and just 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.719 baseball at season's end. But he's twenty years old. He's 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.840 twenty years old for the rest of the season. And 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.360 Arius has already played two games in Worcester. Hasn't gone well. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.040 He's zero for eight, has driven in a rundown. But 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.080 in seventy five games with Double A Portland A nine 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.760 to ninety three ops, he had nineteen homers, hit three 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.840 eighteen with an OVP over four hundred. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.400 Yeah, this is an interesting one where it's like you're 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.319 gonna be looking at when could this guy potentially get 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.320 caught up here? Because by the way, do you know 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.600 who started at shortstop for the Boston Red Sox over 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.839 the last five games Monasterio? 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.360 Yeah, yeah, it was Sung chey Chang For a minute, 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:00.120 I think now you. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.679 Know what happened, A Sun chan Chang. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.880 They optioned him when Mead got acquired the option Chang. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.600 This saw enough. I thought he was playing all right. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:08.920 He was playing all right. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.160 Mance Area has actually been playing alright too, But I 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.959 don't know. This is one where everyone was kind of wondering, 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.440 why is it taken so long to get him up 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.880 to Triple A? Also Arius. So this is a fascinating 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.720 conversation because Arius has clearly added a ton of thump 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.240 this year, and we've talked about that ad nauseum on 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.880 the show, right, I mean, we're talking about a guy 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.440 that had never hit more than nine home runs in 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.720 a minor league season and has nineteen already this year 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.760 and then reached that number, you know, the the nine 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.920 plateau like it. I think it felt like a month 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.000 into the season. So clearly there's an uptick in power. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.320 But the interesting thing is that the ball was flying 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.360 in the minor leagues more than ever. So I've noticed, 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.120 like when I put that out, some people like went 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.480 straight to Arius and were like, well, no, no, Like, 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.720 does this mean we take Arius his power uptick with 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.480 the grain AsSalt, Like, No, I don't think so, because 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.320 he's clearly made improvements. He's a little bit more physical. Uh, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.319 there's some swing adjustments that have allowed him to get 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.680 into a little bit more thump and uses over half better. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.839 And I think he's just not nineteen now, he's twenty, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.640 and like that makes a big difference for you physically, 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.199 as will probably twenty one and twenty two. So he's 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.040 going to keep growing but I do think there's something 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.320 to be said, like maybe that power breakout would have 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.320 looked like fourteen home runs at this point in stead 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.400 in nineteen. What I am interested to see is like, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.960 what will the batted ball data look like for him 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.640 at Triple A, because just to like put it into context, 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.480 as of the twenty first I tweeted this a week ago, 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.240 but Hi A slug was three point fifty eight last year, 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.000 it's four fourteen this year. Double A slug three sixty 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.199 last year, four twelve this year, and then Triple A 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:42.840 is the same because they use the big league ball 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.199 four twenty one to four twenty four. I have to 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.320 like compare these minor league balls. I would love to 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.520 like hire a fyssystem and have them look at it. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.280 My guess is that the seams are just we're way 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.440 too high on these Double A and High A balls. 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.200 And I think teams were saying, like, this is ridiculous. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.760 Our pitchers are getting up to Triple A and throwing 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.920 with a pool queue instead of you know, the official 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.120 league balls basically that they were using in Double A. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:09.680 You remember the old ones in the Little League, And 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.679 so I'm guessing that they tried to maybe bridge that 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.200 gap a little bit, but in doing so and flattening 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.360 those seams, I think we have a huge different That's 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.960 my theory. I got to compare the balls, but regardless 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.000 that's going to contribute some I still think Arius is clearly, clearly, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:29.520 clearly generated this uptick in power. What I'm just curious 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.600 on is why did the Red Sox wait so long 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.600 to bring this guy up to triple A? Is did 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.480 they feel like you really needed to continue to just 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.800 dominate and be one of the best hitters in the 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.040 minor leagues double A. I understand he's twenty years old, 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.840 but they've been so aggressive pushing him the last few years. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.240 He got a taste of double A at the end 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.040 of the season last year for ten games. I thought 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.520 that was interesting. But I'm excited to see just what 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.320 the bad of ball data looks like. I think there's 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:58.679 a clear uptick and power that is tangible and will translate. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.280 But does it translate one hundred percent in triple A 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.080 or is it, you know, eighty eight percent of what 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.040 we've seen so far. That's why I'm curious. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:11.720 Yeah, So what I will say is, like Roman, I'm 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.000 looking at other top prospects for the Red Sox in 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.440 recent memory, and like Roman played what ninety four games 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.720 in Portland and then played ninety three games in Worcester, 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.000 so it was pretty even. And those were over the 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.840 course of two years. With a guy like Marcelo Meyer, 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.880 I'm curious how he did it as well. I'm pulling 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.760 him up at the moment. Meyer in twenty four played 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.280 the whole year in Portland, so that was seventy seven games. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.360 Meyer played one hundred and twenty games in Portland in 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.920 forty three games in Worcester. Now, obviously this is like 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.960 injury dependent and situationally dependent, but I wonder if they 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.280 kind of like their top prospects hanging out in Double 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.320 A just because of the competition and the level of 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.720 competition there. Double A like. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.600 It's stuff you're pitching. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.240 It's yeah, the stuff is just better in Double A 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.200 than in Triple A. But in Triple A guys know 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:57.800 how to pitch and they throw eighty nine. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.120 It's a good point. And when you're ris in you 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.200 have such good bats to ball. He could almost like 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.080 his eyes could almost get like a little bit laster on. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.160 I know he's over for right to start, but it 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:07.880 is a good point there, and I think it's something 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.360 worth noting. Regardless they make the move to get him 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.720 up to triple A. You know, here at the end 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.120 of July and you look at this Red Sox team 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.160 that is very much in it now five games over 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:22.640 five hundred, which is just ridiculous, and they acquire Curtis 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.840 Meade huge, so glad he dodged the bullet. They're getting 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.040 hit on the hand or on the wrist. But you 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.720 look at Arius and say, this is a pretty clear 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:36.520 easy way to potentially upgrade your shortstop position if Monasterio 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.240 is struggling or whoever you plug in is struggling. And 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.160 I'm not even saying, you know, you expect this guy 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.320 to be Arius to be a one twenty WRC plus 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.200 out of the gate. But he's gonna give you some thump. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.600 He's going to defend, and he's gonna give you, I think, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.720 pretty good at bats. You put all that you can 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.800 be in the nine hole, and he's gonna be valuable 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.480 to you. So I'm looking at Arius as a guy 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.000 that if this team's competitive, could really help them down 0:15:59.000 --> 0:15:59.440 the stretch. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.400 I think there's going to be an external addition here 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.400 that might mitigate that. So yeah, stay tuned to the 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.760 Just Baseball Show on a Tuesday afternoon to maybe get 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.600 in the way of Franklin Arius getting up and playing 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.400 shortstop for the Boston Wells this year. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:14.120 Last thing I'll say on that, because I know what 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:18.160 we'll talk about on the JB Show is how untouchable 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.960 is Franklin Arius to this front office to where like, 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.560 if you're able to get a zach Netto or it's 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.120 a good question, then all of a sudden, are you 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.520 willing to do it? I know this prospect show, so 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.520 people are probably like, oh, no, no, no, no, but 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.680 right or right, I could see Craig Breswell, a guy 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.480 who really wants to prove the I mean, a playoff 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.600 run gives him so much job security. Oh for what 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.680 turbulent year this has been setting himself up with a shortstop. 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.960 The thing is is Arius is a better defender than 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.640 Netto right now by a good bit. So it's a 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.920 fun conversation I'm looking forward to having on the JB Show. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.160 But if I told you that you got three and 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.160 a half years of zach Netto and he could roll 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.200 out of bed and go thirty thirty at Fenway par 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.080 you're thinking, you're thinking two, three, four times over about this. 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.960 So again, it's a JB Show conversation that we will 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:11.520 have shortly. Jonathan Santucci pitcher in the New York Mets organization. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.960 He is up from Double A to Triple A. Santucci 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.600 has been a bright spot in an underwhelming season at 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.359 the major league. In minor league level for the New 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.680 York Mets. Twenty three year old lefty at A Duke 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.760 Santucci this year ninety and two thirds innings with Double 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.960 A Binghamton at A three five seven ERA. He's punching 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.119 out twelve hitters per nine innings, one hundred and twenty 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.159 k's in ninety and two thirds innings he has faced 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.320 three hundred and seventy five batters and four have taken 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.600 him deep. That's hard to wrap your brain around. But 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.200 Santucci deserved call up to Triple A Syracuse. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:48.840 Yeah, this is the big test because seems like all 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.399 of these Mets pitching prospects gets the Triple aqs and 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.920 just just can't throw the way that they were thrown before. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.720 And that's the Triple A ball thing in general that 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.000 we've talked about. But I don't know, it's just been 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.359 on a different level when you get to Syracuse, for 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.159 like Tong and Whenninger and Sproute, you remember how shaky 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.359