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As you listen 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.240 to this, why not crack open the top one hundred 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:27.040 prospects that arm Lighton had yet another masterclass experience on 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.960 and really good. It's as detailed a top one hundred 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.840 as you're gonna find. And can you give me a 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.360 guestimation of the hours you spent on the update? Dude? 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.720 I remember when we talk about this every time and 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.160 then I forget, you know, to like actually try to 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.080 track it. I feel no matter what number I throw out, 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:52.079 I'm gonna sound like an asshole way too much. I 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.240 don't know, we'd have to break down that it's gross. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.880 I can promise you it's gross because it's any free 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.000 time I have, not free time. We went on a 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.320 road trip, my girlfriend Ellie and I, and you know, 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.000 it was several different like drives through the Midwest, got 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.639 to do some minor league stops, got to do some 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.880 other things. And I mean anytime I wasn't driving, you know, 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.400 I was hot spotting and doing more write ups and 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.600 stuff like that. So like, there's been no escaping it. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:20.840 I love it. I obviously take a lot of pride 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.280 in it. It's definitely I don't think there's anything else 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.000 I do maybe in this world that I am more 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:28.839 proud of at this point. And I don't have kids, 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.120 I don't have anything, though, like this is it. So No, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:33.560 I put a lot of time into it, and I 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.880 appreciate it, man, and I'm excited to hear what everybody thinks. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.480 Yeah that's deep, man. I don't I don't know how 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.360 I'm supposed to like respond to that. And it's like, wow, 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.280 this is your pride and joy in your life right now? 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.920 Yeah, Like I don't know. It kind of boils back 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.280 to like the Walker conversation, right It's like, what's the 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.080 thing that you're good at? And do you obsess over 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:55.920 the thing that you're good at? Like I really do 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.920 feel like this is my this is my thing, and 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:03.760 so I unhealthily obsess over it. Thank goodness. There's a 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.240 way that we can, you know, make it worth our 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.040 while here by recording an episode on it, by you know, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.320 putting it out online and continuing to use it, you know, 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.920 for so many different things. But yeah, I say that 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.400 like half joking, but it really is something I enjoy 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.479 and and it's it's it's a lot of fun. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.240 You know. There are a lot of people that are 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.120 going to say that you're not good at it, right, Like, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.800 there are gonna be a lot of comments like. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.960 This list sucks, you know, it's funny. I always expect more, 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:36.080 but I'm sure the bigger it gets, the more hate. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.559 I'm sure we'll come in and you know, you ranked 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.520 one guy twoh so all of the work is now nullified. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.520 So looking forward to that, of course. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.920 Yes, love it all right, So we're gonna we're gonna 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.640 kind of go through the top one hundred guys that 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.840 stick out in the back fifty, and then guys that 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.080 stick out in the top fifty, and then we jump 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.360 into the top ten. The top ten is is the 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.480 top ten, So we're going to walk through each of 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.280 those guys ten to one. But before all that, we 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.600 do have to address the Wander Franco thing, because this 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.800 is now impacted baseball, like what's happening on the field. 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.680 You know. It's one of those things that like I 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.200 don't have a take on I don't think there's room 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:16.960 to have a take on this kind of thing, Like 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:22.560 if it's true, it's just fucking gross and and terrible, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.320 and like I don't know, there's no room to like 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.240 have a take. And it's like, here's why I think 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.600 Wander Franco is like not that shitty. It's like, yeah, obviously, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.840 no fucking sucks if this is the case, so uh, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:39.440 it's a really unfortunate situation that a young marketable player 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.680 in Major League Baseball has done this to themselves on 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.120 the baseball field. The Rays get more and more screwed, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.000 Like this is as cursed a team in the second 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:51.880 half as you'll find. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.000 Oh my gosh. Yeah, Well, I want to get to 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.240 that in a second, because like this is I want 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.480 to almost just kind of like open it up and 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.480 be honest with like you listening and you Jack, because 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.920 like we had a conversation before we recorded, like you know, 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.400 you know, how do we really want to go about this? 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.880 Like you don't need me or Jack to sit here 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.000 and tell you that what Wander Franco was, you know, 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.400 what is alleged is absolutely reprehensible, terrible, and you know, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.480 his grounds to never play Major League Baseball again, the 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.640 grats to go to jail. That's not why we're here. 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.480 I just told you that the thing I'm best at 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.880 in life is writing about prospects. Like I'm not gonna 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.560 be able to provide some sort of special perspective. It's 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.840 common sense. Where I struggle is, you know, the one 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.080 thing we can talk about is the baseball side but 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.000 I also struggle to talk about the baseball side when 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.080 a young woman's life may be permanently affected, when you 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.240 know there might be a you know, families affected that 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.960 it's there's so much more to it than this. But 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.400 I struggle back and forth with this because part of 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.800 me wants to just focus on the baseball side, like 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.440 that's what I do, but it almost makes me feel 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.960 like I'm being sensitive to the issue. But then again, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.080 on the other side, what the hell else can I 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.839 say about the issue. It's reprehensible, it's terrible. If any 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.880 of that you know that is alleged is true, it's 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.040 all horrible. So I really struggle if that makes sense. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.800 I'm kind of just like it's kind of just verbal vobiting, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.840 just like kind of just putting it all out there. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.640 I want to talk about the baseball side. I don't 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.320 really want to talk about the other side, but I 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.840 feel insensitive just talking about the baseball side, Like this 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.880 shit sucks. I hate when we have the crossover of 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.560 like criminal activity, horrible things and then baseball, because there 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.040 is still a business side to it, and there is 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.440 like that's our job is to talk about baseball. So 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.600 it's just so It puts me in always a very 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.800 uncomfortable spot because I never really know how to go 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.480 about it, if that makes sense. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.720 Right, And we don't like talking about it. I know 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.960 that there are some people that enjoy like getting on 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.760 a moral high horse and just striking down the twenty 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.200 two year old that made a really, really big mistake, 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.120 and I think it indefensible a stake in wander Franco. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.760 And I don't even know if you can call him 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.760 a stake man, Like it justs sinister, yeah, like he's 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.800 scum of the earth type shit. Like that's the thing. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.480 We hate talking about this because we would so much 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.400 rather be talking about the four and a half wind 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.760 player that you know is wander Franco. But that's just 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.080 not the case, so it's not fun. I think we 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.320 were waiting for another reputable individual to talk about it, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:26.960 and as soon as the race placed him on the 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.800 restricted list and Passing came out and said something about it, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.880 it was like, Okay, now we got to talk about 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.000 it because it affects baseball, so he's not he's not 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.719 on the West coast road trip. Tampa is in San Francisco, 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.079 and again, like, if this is all true and wander 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.240 Franco was dating this fourteen year old girl, Like that's 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:52.280 so fucked and he should see prison time. It it 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.880 throws Tampa in a very weird spot where they need 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.240 to rely on a slavist Basab who just got called 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.360 up for his big league debut, Curtis Mead who just 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.120 got called up for his big league debut a couple 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.800 you know, days ago, a week ago. Like they're relying 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.000 on a lot of young guys to try and weather 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.839 the storm for the most decimated pitching rotation that you 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.199 will find in all of baseball. I mean their I 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.760 l on the hill right now is Shane Boz, Shane McClanahan, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.680 Drew Rasmussen, Jeffrey Springs. That's the best four man rotation 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:26.280 in baseball. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.320 No, one hundred percent. That's that's one of the most 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.360 dominant rotations we we'll see. I mean, that's that's gross. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.440 It's it's really crazy. I it sucks because the Rays 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.120 are one of those organizations for veteran for worse, it 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.760 has to be so perfect to win a World Series. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.199 That's why we haven't really seen it happen. Because you know, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.079 there's a direct correlation to spending and winning like that's 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.400 always gonna happen. Doesn't mean that you just spend and win, 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.000 as we see with the Mets, but you know, those 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:55.400 are the kind of things that put you over the top. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.079 So the Rays have been trying to put themselves over 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.079 the top, whether that was locking up a Wanderfront to 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.360 ironic use of term, actually, whether it was securing a 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:08.240 long term deal with Wander Franco and or you know, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.760 going to get a zach Afflin like they we saw 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.560 them spending a little bit more here and there. They were, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.760 you know, reportedly and one of the best, if not 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.200 the second best offer for Freddie Freeman. Like they were 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:19.800 kind of trying to pick these spots now because I 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.160 think they finally felt like they had this really good 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.599 core that wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. And now like 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.600 a couple of their really young arms go down, even 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.679 some of the slightly older arms that you felt like 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.520 were could be a you know, a piece for the 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.280 next several years, those guys go down. We're talking about 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.199 second TJ type stuff where you don't even know what 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.599 you're going to get back, you know. And then of 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.880 course what's happening with Wander, the Rays aren't a really, really, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.640 really tough spot because you got to look at this season. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.720 You're still in the playoffs by a good margin. You're 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:54.319 still talented, but you're decimated from what you were and 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.599 you almost have to start thinking about what are the 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.839 next couple of years even look like, because how do 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.599 the Rais approach this. They want from a team that 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.839 was like purposely or perfectly put together to win now 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.240 and in the future, similar to the Orioles. And I 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.480 think they're still in a fantastic spot overall if you 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.520 look at the entire roster. But you know, as we 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.640 get more clarity on the Wander situation, you look at 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.839 the pitching. This is gonna be a real test of 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:23.840 the cleverness of the Tampa Bay Rays. Obviously we got 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.600 to wait to find out what the deal is with Wander, 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.600 but even besides that, their pitching is so beat up. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.920 They got a lot of things to sort through, which 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.400 is really unfortunate given the way this season started for 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:36.200 them in the first half. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.520 Yeah, and I think what people what's so hard to 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.320 realize in real time now is we're thinking about Wander 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.920 Franco not being with the Tampa Bay Rays this year, 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.679 Like this is career ending stuff, Wander Franco. If this 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.840 is true, I mean he could be facing prison time 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.280 and not play Major League baseball again. So it's that 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.760 level of severe. What do you do when that contract, 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:04.079 that extension it would almost definitely be voided. But what 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.679 do you do for you know that, like, what do 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.560 you do at the future of the shortstop position? Because 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.880 Tampa perennially has one of the better farm systems, if 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.280 not the best farm system in baseball. I think if 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.760 you looked over the last ten years, Tampa may have 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.679 the aggregate best farm system in the game. Carson Williams 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.880 is in Hia right now. Carson Williams is probably a 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.320 twenty twenty five guy. Is bisab the guy in twenty 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.400 twenty three and twenty twenty four. I think they're fine. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.960 They're obviously nowhere close to where there would be if 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.599 they had a top five shortstop in the game, And 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.480 that's what that guy was trending towards becoming, maybe already was. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.680 So I would say waiting game, especially when it comes 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.640 to the starting rotation, Like I think you just play 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.080 the winning game. You wait to get everybody healthy. You've 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.720 got glass noow on that mini extension where Glass now 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.880 is going to be you know there next year. Shane 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.679 bos will be healthy next year. Hopefully Rasmusten's healthy next year, 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.480 but you might not have McClanahan. I just don't know 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.319 if we're ever going to see the perfect product of 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.199 the Tampa Bay Rays. And this is turning into a 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.040 what if team which sucks. Do they have the sustainability 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.800 to compete beyond that? Yes, they do, but if we 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.079 have to look back and say, damn, those teams were stacked, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.319 but they ran into so many issues, one of which 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.200 a legit prison issue and the other so many injury issues. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.439 Like it's just a really hard pill to swallow for 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:25.400 the Tampa Bay Rays. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.800 Yeah, and you know that's again, like that's why you 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.760 hope that for whatever reason this, you know, they can 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.320 kind of try to figure things out. And I mean, 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.080 it's just one of those spots where again they can't 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.960 just spend their way out of it. So it's gonna 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.720 be interesting to see what they do. I will say, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.760 when you have one of the best players and most 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.559 valuable assets in baseball potentially disappearing off your roster, like 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:50.959 you don't even get to trade him, right, you don't 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.640 even get to cash that in for more prospects. It's 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.959 just he just vanishes off your roster. That is really 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.079 hard to come back from. So I'm sure they're and 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:04.000 for many reasons, mostly most importantly that this never happened. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.199 So no woman's life, young woman's life was negatively affected. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.959 But then on their side, it's just like, where do 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.000 we go from here if our franchise player has now 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.280 just been wiped off our roster? So a lot to 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.360 figure out in Tampa And uh man, I don't even 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.000 know how the team plays right now. I mean I 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.840 think about a lot of the teammates there like to 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.200 wrap up, just like you've watched your some of your 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.640 main guys go down, which is demoralizing in itself. You 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.840 watch your ace go down, and then you have this 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.000 entire turmoil and this whole situation going on. How do 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.480 they focus on baseball? How do they play baseball right 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.240 now and focus on a you know, a pennant race. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.600 I feel I feel for a lot of those Tampa 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:47.360 Bay Rays players. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.640 I can tell you that dude miserable. I mean, Tampa, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.840 You've got Tyler Glassnat throwing in San Francisco tonight so 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:58.080 last night, they're in San fran through this week and 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.240 then where they they're in LA playing the Angels too. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.280 So I mean, this is a West Coast road trip where, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.600 like I feel like nobody's mind is on baseball, but 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:06.880 it is. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:08.040 It's such a. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.720 Hard thing to kind of wrap your head around because 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.240 it doesn't happen often, and I don't know if we've 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.640 ever seen it to a player of this magnitude, a 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.320 player of this magnitude, like I guess Trevor Bauer is 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.000 the other example of that, Like guy that is bona 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.960 fide shithead should not throw another inning in Major League baseball. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.840 You know, Like, I don't know's it's just such a 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.760 hard topic to dive into, and I think that's why 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.200 we didn't want to touch it until we knew for 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.240 sure that this was something that had serious gravity and 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:42.280 possibly you know, career ending gravity. Yep, Yeah, all right, 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.640 let's talk future, let's talk top one hundred. This is 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.760 there's no way to transition out of that, but like 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.920 we're going to transition to something that's really fun, and 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.560 it is like Christmas morning for a lot of prospect 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.520 heads because again, you do more in depth work on 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.600 these guys than I think anybody else in the industry. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.320 And it's really fun to get that, you know, up 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.560 close and personal. Look on how you do this. And 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.920 I'm going to kind of walk you through the top 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.440 one hundred and increments of ten and point out a 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:09.480 couple of guys that jump out. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.280 Cool. Yeah, sounds good to me. And of course the 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.520 link to the article is in the episode description, and yeah, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.080 check it out. I'm excited to hear what everybody thinks. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:23.240 Yeah, there is a shocking slider in the top or 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.680 in the ninety to one hundred range. Kyle Harrison is 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.920 in the nineties left handed pitching prospect for the San 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.000 Francisco Giants, and coming into the year, we were talking 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.920 about Kyle Harrison as the top left handed pitching prospect 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.240 in all of baseball. It was him and Teetaman. Now, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.640 not only have you made your case that Tietaman is 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.760 well beyond Kyle Harrison, but Kyle Harrison's not even considered 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.600 a top ninety prospect in the game. I would say 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.680 what gives, but I feel like I know what gives. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.880 He's walking seven and a half guys per nine. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.200 See, that was just one part of it. If it 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.240 was just the walks. He's probably middle of the pack. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.240 The thing that really put me over the top here. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.359 And you know, I'm seeing a lot of other lists 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.920 I think so far that they haven't really dropped him yet. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.000 The stuff is diminished, and I don't know what's up 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.920 with it. The velocity is still kind of, you know, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.119 roughly there, but this guy's lost several injuries of horizontal 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:20.879 on his fastball. And that's a guy that it's a 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.760 three quarters release point. He needs that horizontal on his fastball. 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.920 It's part of what makes it really good. His slider, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.119 his breaking ball is totally different than what it was. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.240 He's throwing it harder with less movement and it's resulting 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.840 in less with and then his change up, which was 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.480 an asset last year, has been unusable. He's thrown more 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.399 balls than strikes with his change up this year. So 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.879 you have command taking a step back, you have stuff 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.840 taking a step back, and then some little nagging injuries 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.280 and you know, like he's young, he's got time on 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:52.639 his side, and that's why he's still on the top 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.080 one hundred list, And just about any other pitcher that 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.560 would have this kind of downturn with command issues walking 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.640 seven per nine and diminished stuff, they'd be off the list. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.720 But that just shows you how talent at Kyle Harrison is. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.119 But if you're losing you know, movement on all of 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.920 your pitches and losing command of all of them, it's 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:15.280 kind of hard to to not be incredibly alarmed. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.520 Yeah. Well, and note DL Hall isn't on this top 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.679 one hundred list, Like, I mean, Kyle Harrison's a lot 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.040 closer to DL Hall than he is Ricky Tiedeman at 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.800 this point, which is pretty brutal to say. And I 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.320 think a lot of people are still holding out a 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:32.159 lot of hope for Kyle Harrison, understandably, so it feels 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.399 very Cavali esque, where Kid Cavally, you're just you're waiting for, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.920 you know, things to get back to what you fell 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.200 in love with. I guess Kyle Harrison, like, there's a 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.280 good chance that things could fall back to what you 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.240 fell in love with, but it's going to take some 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.080 serious offseason work very late. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:49.440 Ad. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.800 I know at ninety Dylan Head of the San Diego Padres, 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.040 Dylan Head was end of the first round pick. And 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.280 this was a guy that I really liked, like his 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.760 pre draft, but I had a bunch of bias because 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.399 he's the Chicago Land area guy that I mean can 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.520 absolutely freaking fly. But you were really impressed with the swing. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.080 Yeah, finally had access to some video. I mean, it's 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.239 hard to get much video on Chicago Land guys if 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.320 you're not out there in person and seeing them. So 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:20.960 you know, we knew about the tools. You know, he's 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.000 definitely a guy that you know. Of course, when when 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:24.840 when the Padres take somebody like that in the first 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.640 round two, you kind of turn your head because they 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.200 do such a good job in scouting. But I mean, dude, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.920 the swing is really impressive. I was expecting him to 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.639 be way more like you know, speed over overfield to 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.560 hit and you know, more of a project swing already 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.600 plays and he's he's been really comfortable in his at bats. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.560 He's walked more than he struck out. And those are 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.960 popping some some sneaky evs. Right, he's not the biggest 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.320 dude in the world. He's five nine, buck eighty five. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.359 He's already popping one O three's, one O four's, and 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.320 then we know what he can do, you know with 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:56.240 those legs. This is a dynamic prospect that can play 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.359 a high level of center field. And if the Bats 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:00.720 looking like it is right now, this is going to 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.000 be the next kind of you know, big quick riser 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.240 in the Padre system, which we seem to see every 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:06.520