Speaker 1: The New York Mets have finally traded Freddie Peralta. We
Speaker 1: got rid of aj mint Or. Freddie Peralta is the
Speaker 1: next domino to fall, going to the Tampa Bay Rays
Speaker 1: in exchange for three prospects from their system. The Mets
Speaker 1: are getting Aiden Smith, a million p tray, and Gary
Speaker 1: gil Hill. We're going to talk about all the prospects
Speaker 1: coming back to the Mets, as well as briefly what
Speaker 1: this trade means before get going into it. Makes sure
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Speaker 1: hoping for a top one hundred prospect. We did not
Speaker 1: get close to a top one hundred prospect. It feels underwhelming,
Speaker 1: but I guess now, with the context of the Trek
Speaker 1: Schooble trade and just of what we've got from Freddy
Speaker 1: Peralta in general, I think this is actually probably the
Speaker 1: right package back.
Speaker 2: I think this is a totally fine package. We've talked
Speaker 2: about a lot heading into this trade deadline. I talked
Speaker 2: about on a lot of my channel recently too. You
Speaker 2: don't really get many literal top hundred prospects trade at
Speaker 2: the deadline, ever, which you're trying to do is get
Speaker 2: guys who can be top hundred prospects next year. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's kind of the goal of the trade deadline. I
Speaker 2: think the Mets got one and a half prospects who
Speaker 2: have a chance to be top hundred prospects within the
Speaker 2: next twelve months. I think the big one is Emmanuel
Speaker 2: Ptray a double amptre Amelia p.
Speaker 3: Tray, Emilia a million, a million, yeah, French.
Speaker 2: He's born in Montreal, which is unbelievable for a baseball prospect.
Speaker 2: Two cold weather prospects here, which in Mets couch I
Speaker 2: feel like they kind of love right now. But he's
Speaker 2: raking in double A right now, advanced approach from the
Speaker 2: left side, super elite hit tool, and it seems like
Speaker 2: they just probably think they can coax some more pull
Speaker 2: side power out of him, and then you have a
Speaker 2: left handed hitting second basement with plus plus hit and
Speaker 2: hopefully at least average to plus power. Yeah, that's like
Speaker 2: a that's a fine profile.
Speaker 1: I wish that we had some exafilos on these guys,
Speaker 1: just so that we could get a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a sense of like what the raw power could
Speaker 1: look like. But I think the Mets are doing the
Speaker 1: approach that we've talked about before, where they're looking for
Speaker 1: guys with one very very good trait and then hoping
Speaker 1: that they can build around the rest of it. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, with a million p tray, he is
Speaker 1: a contact king. He is striking out like under eleven
Speaker 1: percent of the time right now in Double A. He's
Speaker 1: walking a ton, he gets on base, doesn't chase at all,
Speaker 1: doesn't whiff, is super patient at the plate, hits a
Speaker 1: ton of ground balls, almost never pulls the ball in
Speaker 1: the air. But this is a contact first guy that
Speaker 1: I would assume the Mets are hoping they can coax
Speaker 1: a little bit more power, like you said, pull side power,
Speaker 1: doing stuff in the air a little bit more, and
Speaker 1: can play second base.
Speaker 3: So that's what it felt like for me with Petre.
Speaker 2: Definitely just to give the stats at Double A this year,
Speaker 2: again in a twenty three year old, so average age
Speaker 2: for the level can't really add much. So it's at
Speaker 2: least nice that he's destroying Double A. But thirty seven
Speaker 2: games there, it's a three twenty three average, a four
Speaker 2: point fifty on base and sorry, just I had to
Speaker 2: get my discord off. That beating was pissing me off.
Speaker 2: And a four to ninety two slug for one to
Speaker 2: fifty five WRC plus only three home runs. Like you said,
Speaker 2: very little power, but eighteen percent walks in ten percent strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Is that's a guy that's very much too advanced for
Speaker 2: that level.
Speaker 3: It doesn't.
Speaker 2: It's not the same athleticism, it's not the same defensive value,
Speaker 2: but doesn't strike me that differently. Good, Try and find
Speaker 2: watch some videos right now with him swinging the bat
Speaker 2: of a profile to aj ewing, where again it's like,
Speaker 2: we want to make sure you could have an a
Speaker 2: swing where you could hunt for power when you need it.
Speaker 2: Because your hit tool and your approach are so good,
Speaker 2: we have no concerns with you working deep into accounts
Speaker 2: and being in poor leverage spots in individual at bats.
Speaker 2: So if we can actually get you to make a
Speaker 2: swings with power early accounts when you have the advantage,
Speaker 2: you know you're getting something middle in and you can
Speaker 2: eventually find fifteen home run power with.
Speaker 1: The rest of your tools. Probably a plus player at
Speaker 1: some point. Yeah, if you could just flash middling power.
Speaker 1: This completely changes the ceiling of a player that a
Speaker 1: guy like Ptray could be, which I guess we'll just
Speaker 1: wait and see. I love that you're saying the aj
Speaker 1: ewing thing because I do think you see a lot
Speaker 1: of organizations do this if they've had success with an
Speaker 1: archetype of player before, they look for those players again
Speaker 1: because they.
Speaker 3: Just have the proof that it's worked.
Speaker 2: And at least he's a solid second base defender as well. Okay,
Speaker 2: we have some exit velocity day they shout out of
Speaker 2: TJ stats for this a one hundred three mile per
Speaker 2: hour EV ninety and a forty three percent hard hit
Speaker 2: rate from p Tray at double A, so that is
Speaker 2: a bit below average. There's also not that different from
Speaker 2: Jefferson Rojas as we shouted it out as a prospect
Speaker 2: that was a fringe top hundred guy that we thought
Speaker 2: was like thet case return for Freddie Peralta. But I
Speaker 2: think again it's it's a breakout season from a guy
Speaker 2: who aged level is not great, but growing up in
Speaker 2: Montreal and playing baseball Kentucky, he could baseball.
Speaker 3: Per our game.
Speaker 2: But this is someone that you probably could expect a
Speaker 2: little bit more of a late stage breakout. This isn't sexy.
Speaker 2: And again, this isn't a prospect. Everybody knows he's something
Speaker 2: that we live and breathed.
Speaker 3: This stuff. We learned about HM an hour ago, and.
Speaker 2: It's just like, but doing this research in I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not at all mad about this return whatsoever.
Speaker 1: No, the other two prospects that have heard the names
Speaker 1: of Gary gil Hill I think has flashed at times
Speaker 1: before the last eighty great name, Yeah, eighty great name.
Speaker 1: Absolutely Gary gil Hill. I hope he does well just
Speaker 1: simply on the name. I want to Gil Hill Jersey
Speaker 1: one day. But he's a name that's flashed on top
Speaker 1: one hundreds a couple of years ago. I think he's
Speaker 1: kind of taken a little bit of a step back
Speaker 1: the previous two seasons in twenty five and twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: You mentioned he's a local kid. The thing with Gary
Speaker 1: gil Hill, we talk about traits and having some sort
Speaker 1: of it seems like elite trait that we can then
Speaker 1: build off of. All he does is throw strikes. He
Speaker 1: does not throw balls. He doesn't walk any guys. And
Speaker 1: the other interesting to here is that with the lack
Speaker 1: of walks, he does get a ton of chase, which
Speaker 1: is super interesting for a guy who gets almost no
Speaker 1: whips and no swing and miss.
Speaker 3: Do you know what he's going to be? What's he
Speaker 3: gonna be? An edge lord? Edge lord?
Speaker 2: He's deep pitch mixed. I think he was throwing six
Speaker 2: ish pitches. The Rays have apparently tried to add Velo
Speaker 2: because he came up as a as a skinny kid.
Speaker 2: Another high school draftee from New Rochelle to shout out
Speaker 2: in New York for this one. I think he went
Speaker 2: to JFJAS, JFK Catholic, JFK Catholic. But he's someone that
Speaker 2: again seemingly slots into being a backman end, a mid
Speaker 2: to back end rotation starter where if you can find
Speaker 2: more swing and miss, which probably has come from velocity
Speaker 2: or just slightly manipulating some pitch shapes, but seems like
Speaker 2: he has the ability to do that as a guy
Speaker 2: who's been able to pick up more pitches as he's
Speaker 2: been a minor leaguer. It's probably just again a fine
Speaker 2: back end dude. Like it's let's let's try and do
Speaker 2: the thought exercise of comparing these two guys to Jet
Speaker 2: Williams and Brandon Sprote.
Speaker 3: Was he a dude?
Speaker 1: By the way, did he pitch for Team Great Britain
Speaker 1: and like look nasty like against USA for like two winnings.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that a thing that happened? I think it was
Speaker 1: that happened. I feel like that Gary. This name is
Speaker 1: so funny, Gary gil Hill, Gary gil Hill World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like he had like a really good
Speaker 1: inning and then because of Team Great Britain the left
Speaker 1: him in a little.
Speaker 3: Bit too long. Yeah, he actually did. Okay, we could remembory,
Speaker 3: he could memory right there. Wow.
Speaker 2: Funny enough, Team England, Big England Podcast. But it feels
Speaker 2: like it just it really doesn't feel like that bad
Speaker 2: of a return to me. I'm not I'm not kind
Speaker 2: of kind of happy about this, Like I would.
Speaker 1: Have preferred the returns that we were talking about, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem like it was even remotely on the table.
Speaker 1: So it's like, get that out of our brain. Seeing
Speaker 1: this trade tells me that it wasn't even slightly close
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 3: I called the Rays. I was called the Rays. You
Speaker 3: called the school ol package. He called the Rays. You're
Speaker 3: two for two so far? Do it really good with
Speaker 3: this trade?
Speaker 2: Deadline so far, but also there might have been opportunities
Speaker 2: for the metsic get one better prospect and maybe when
Speaker 2: that when push came to shove David Stearns just like
Speaker 2: I think we actually might need some quantity over maybe
Speaker 2: the high end quality when this quality is quality isn't
Speaker 2: even that bad. Aiden Smith is just a toolsy outfielder.
Speaker 2: He was the other part of the Randy Rose range
Speaker 2: trade along with Brodie Hopkins to the Rays. He run fast,
Speaker 2: hit hard, swing miss.
Speaker 1: Yes, he actually his whiff so far this year I
Speaker 1: don't think has been okay at high A was a
Speaker 1: little bit worse. But he's a super freak athlete. Same thing,
Speaker 1: looking for that elite tool again. I think we now
Speaker 1: know exactly what the Mets are doing this trade deadline.
Speaker 1: You've got one tool, how can we develop the rest?
Speaker 1: Aiden Smith is the freak athlete center fielder. Hope that
Speaker 1: he eventually becomes Tyrone Taylor. Yeah, and I think that's
Speaker 1: that's a fine third piece to look at if you
Speaker 1: were doing this. I also think I think they parlt
Speaker 1: is gonna be good again.
Speaker 3: Probably is, I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean I wish the best for him, go be
Speaker 2: great with the Rays. Whatever, Yeah, go join the playoff
Speaker 2: staff where they need some innings right now. They have
Speaker 2: to figure out how they're gonna weather the storm without mclinahan,
Speaker 2: figure out how they can get Griffin Jackson, eencymore to
Speaker 2: the playoff rotation and Rasmus in like this is this
Speaker 2: was a great matchup for these two teams. It felt
Speaker 2: like this was a good option. It felt like there
Speaker 2: was a pretty robust Freddy Pearl to market. At least
Speaker 2: a bunch of teams were interested. Now, ye, now, considering
Speaker 2: what we heard about the White Sox return Walkow and.
Speaker 3: Who's the other guy it was in Boston Smith?
Speaker 1: Is that Boston Smith? Would you have preferred that? Or
Speaker 1: do you prefer this one?
Speaker 3: I think I prefer this one right Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean again, I think this guy Petray is like
Speaker 2: just big helium, and we have someone moving in the
Speaker 2: right direction who looks like they can be major league
Speaker 2: caliber at something that might be a position of need
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 1: I do also wonder if, like for the Mets, getting
Speaker 1: all these guys who feel like they could eventually just
Speaker 1: be major league players, if that's something that they're considering
Speaker 1: more as a front office because they know that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to spend to go fill in like
Speaker 1: the big boppers.
Speaker 3: I know that didn't work this offseason. We don't need
Speaker 3: to talk about that.
Speaker 1: But the idea is like, if we need, if we
Speaker 1: need big players, we'll go and spend the money on them.
Speaker 1: Where we can actually make a lot of that money
Speaker 1: back is by getting a bunch of major leaguers who
Speaker 1: are gonna be free on the back end of the roster.
Speaker 3: And this is what these guys feel like.
Speaker 2: Yes, and this was the problem with this team going
Speaker 2: into this year, where it's like, oh, let's fill up
Speaker 2: with the whorehe Placos of the world to get out
Speaker 2: of that type of contract. We've been begging the Mets to
Speaker 2: stop signing. I mean two three year deals are fined
Speaker 2: usually always in vacuum. Besides, when it's a player who
Speaker 2: hits worse than the.
Speaker 3: Pictures when they used to be able to hit the
Speaker 3: picture with one arm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think I don't know this is it's
Speaker 2: just a funny conundrum. I think the world right now
Speaker 2: is jumping l Well, Mets, look Hellelo they got for
Speaker 2: Freddie Peralta, but in a situation where he was here
Speaker 2: as a rental, no matter what you made the trade
Speaker 2: for him this offseason on one guy in Jet Williams,
Speaker 2: who's gone straight down in value since he left your organization,
Speaker 2: and Brandon Sprote, who I still think the world's a
Speaker 2: bit divisive on. I still am a fan. But there's
Speaker 2: a world in five years from now that Petray and
Speaker 2: Garrett Gilhill are more valuable than Sprote and Jet Williams.
Speaker 3: I actually I could talk, I could back myself into it.
Speaker 1: I have more faith in Jet, but I know that
Speaker 1: he's struggled mightily this year.
Speaker 3: It just hasn't looked particularly good. But I do.
Speaker 1: I still got the faith in Jet, especially in that org.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of gil Hill and Sprote being
Speaker 1: similar ish value players at some point in their careers,
Speaker 1: even getting to those spots in completely different directions, with
Speaker 1: Sproke being like I'm gonna I'm gonna throw bad shape
Speaker 1: fastballs right at you, but with nasty breakers and gil
Speaker 1: Hill just being an edgelord being an edge lord similar
Speaker 1: edge lord's on this team. We also are expecting to
Speaker 1: hear a Wasascar Browser Bond trade seemingly any moment now,
Speaker 1: because he was on Hug Watch. Given handshakes to everybody
Speaker 1: in the bullpen. Seems like he's on his way out.
Speaker 1: I'm expecting more and more Mets news to come out,
Speaker 1: but you guys will probably not hear from us again
Speaker 1: because I can't imagine that there's a big enough player
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Speaker 1: two tomorrow morning, it'll be covered in tomorrow morning's episode.
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Speaker 2: We're going talk about the Marlin series and then talk
Speaker 2: about everything else that happens. Also, there can be a
Speaker 2: lot more than happens on Monday, so probably do something
Speaker 2: else Monday night for you guys.
Speaker 3: Tuesday morning, Yeah, we're we're gonna figure something out.
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