WEBVTT - 10 Prospect Risers & Fallers (Ep. 627) 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.560 Prospects go up, prospects go down. Let's talk to the pros. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.400 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.720 Baseball Podcast. It is be Joey Pa Joe Pizapia, and 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:13.920 today it's all about the kids. We're giving back to 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.360 the kids. That's right. It's about the prospects, the ones 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.880 that are rising and the ones that might be falling 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:24.159 in your Fantasy Baseball stock rooms. And nobody better to 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.920 talk about that than the host of Prospects One, the 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:28.880 guy who covers all the minor leaguers, the guy who 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.960 writes for the Fantasy Black Book twenty twenty two, and 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.560 our host here along with me on the show on MLB. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.320 It's of course the Welsh, that's right, the Welsh. A 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.559 man of so many talents, so many hats, yet he's 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.159 not wearing one today. And might I say, Welsh, the 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.080 hair is very exceedingly high. I'm very impressed. He gained 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:46.080 a whole full inch here. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.800 Well, we're trying well, you know, every inch counts show, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.199 and we're just trying to move it up a little bit. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.440 And yeah, it's it's been very big hat season. As 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.160 my wife keeps reminding me, So we trimmed up the 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.680 hair and as much as I cannot. Once this show 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.360 starts going into April, will be a lot less hats. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.520 But I'm out at spring training. I'm out at all 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.000 the backfields and stuff, so usually when I come back, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.560 it's just a disaster. So we trimmed it up we 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.480 thought would get good. We got a couple episodes that 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.679 are going to be earlier before I hit camps, which 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.760 I'm actually gonna be hitting a camp later today. And 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.040 it's funny you mentioned the young guys and everything. Today's 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.440 actually the start of minor league spring training, so we've 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.160 had a lot of the prospects that have been jumping 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.400 into games. But minor league spring training action starts up 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.679 really important because guys are going to be playing with 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.120 their relative affiliates, so we're going to kind of know 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.440 where some guys are going to be going, and we're 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.840 just going to get a ton of prospect action and 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:40.720 hopefully I will be their front and center out here 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:41.000 in AZ. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.200 Yeah. And look, the game has changed so much in 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.280 the last five ten years. Where it used to be 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.560 monitoring these guys, to putting them on the watch list, 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.760 to drafting them late and now some of these guys 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.920 are just gonna make enormous impacts on the twenty twenty 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.040 three season. We've seen in the last five years, these rookies, 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.320 they rock it through. You know, teams like the White 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.320 Sox really push their young players. We're can talk about 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.280 five guys who are going on the upswing. Before we 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:06.600 get to those guys, I just want to do a 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.680 shout out to our audience, our watchers on the YouTube channel, 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.400 our listeners, because we see you and we just hit 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:19.160 a milestone this weekend, ten k on the YouTube channel 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.080 in terms of subscribers. 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So if 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.240 you haven't, go join our discord Fantasybros dot Com. Last yet, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.000 it's really cool. Okay, let's talk about some prospects. Enough 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.840 of that, enough of you know, glad handing and saying 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.479 nice things to things. Let's let's let's talk about the prospects. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.000 And the first guy on your list is a guy 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.160 from Cincinnati Christian and Carnassio Strand is a guy from 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.080 Oklahoma State University. Rocketed through a couple levels of the 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.960 minor leagues last year, went from A to double A 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.080 and two different locations. And look, the numbers were really 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.080 strong last year in the minor leagues with those three 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.840 different teams that he played for there in the minor 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.360 League's thirty two homers, one hundred and fourteen rubies. Again, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.120 it's still, you know, not quite triple A baseball yet, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:46.920 but hitting three zero four with a three sixty eight 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.800 OVP and a five eighty seven slugging is pretty darn good. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.280 And this guy's having a great spring as well. He's 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.560 sitting six hundred at one point, got a couple bombs. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.040 So what do you see about Strand's path that might 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.520 be changing? And is his time frame potentially moving up? 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.000 Yeah, so I wasn't like the biggest, biggest in Karnashian 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.880 Strand guy. Early on, he was in Minnesota twin he 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.640 came over with Spencer Steer and the Tyler Moley trade, 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.400 big hard hit numbers, kind of like you said, a 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.920 little bit older, a little bit older. He's twenty three 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.520 years old. I guess he was twenty two years old 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.839 at like a ball. So I don't that's not something 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.520 I like jump out at when a twenty two year 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.440 old is dominating a ball. But still he was on 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.240 the radar, he was moving put up a solid season 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.120 last year with the Reds. He hit seven homers in 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.840 thirty five games while hitting three hundred. He's essentially been 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.719 a two ninety or higher hitter at every single level. 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.640 But then spring training has rolled around and he's being 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.919 given an opportunity to rock with positions like with starters. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.040 So I was at the Reds the other day and 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:50.480 their reserve roster was Ellie d la Cruz, Noelvie Marte, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.640 Matt McClain, Austin Hendrick. I mean, their entire huge, big, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.240 you know, prospect system. Those are the guys that were 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.000 coming in, you know, after the sixth inning when all 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.200 the starters lead except think Carnelian Strand was starting the 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.800 game had been starting, and he'd been starting at first, 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.440 which was really interesting. Joey Vado has been injured. He 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.600 just came back, but they had been giving him that 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.240 spot at first to start. He's obviously also a third 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:18.240 baseman this spring, hitting five seventy seven for homers thirteen RBI. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.000 It's got a seventeen hundred ops in twenty six games. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.680 And in the game I was a rocketed a triple 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.279 down center field, and I was just really really impressed 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.039 with the hard to hit with the patients, with the 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.080 bat speed, his pitch recognition seems to be on because 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.200 right now his bat is the working tool. Defensively, I 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.640 think he's fine, but knowing that the team was working 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.039 him at first base kind of tells me a lot 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.520 Will Myers came to this team and doesn't look like 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.800 he's going to be a first base option like a 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.400 lot of you know sites will have him listed at 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.080 first base. In that same game, he was out in 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.520 right field, so they didn't even have an opportunity to 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.840 push him there. It was Strand, and I really think 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.480 Stran he could break camp with the team. I'm not 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.520 one hundred sure if it's going to happen because Vado 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.800 did return, but them working him at first tells me 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.800 that the timeline has moved way up. He's been one 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.720 of the best offensive prospects or just offensive players in 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.600 spring training, and this is a guy that just beats 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:16.800 up hard hit numbers. He's going to hit one ten 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.320 left and right. He's kind of like a Red's version 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.680 of Brett Batty, and he's getting more of an opportunity. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.560 And I think he's going to produce a decent amount 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.480 this year. So as far as prospects rising, he's actually 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.360 he was the number one in my most recent update 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.920 over on my Patreon in This League dot com. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.760 I'll tell you what's funny. You mentioned Beaty because I 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.840 think that guy is going to get a shot in 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.160 Queens sooner than later. He's looked terrific this spring. He'd 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.000 be on my list. But I'm not doing a list. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.640 You're doing the list. But Batty looks. I mean that 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.520 left handed swing, it's so smooth. My only thing within 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.880 Cornassio Strand and all the video I've watched of him 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.240 is he's got that circular load of his hands. And 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.720 that's something I remember in my youth, my younger days 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.320 when I was a hitting coach, not professionally of course, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.400 actually was pressure. I did get paid, I should say, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.240 for the Major League, you know. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:06.800 Money, but it's true. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.240 I mean, you know, and look the camp that I 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.000 taught at, you know, when I was younger, who was 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.520 in Wallingspoort, Pennsylvania. I mean, that's the elite of the 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.400 leap of those young kids who are coming through, who 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.840 were getting looks in college. And you know, I worked 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.640 with those kids and when they would come through, and 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.320 that circular load of the hands, it slows you up 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.000 on some of the better pitching. So my only thing 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.119 is is he gets and progresses through the major league 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.760 levels there and the Triple A and into the big leagues. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.959 That that circular load, that it holds you up a 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.840 little bit and some of the breaking pitches and some 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.440 of the guys who can really, you know, throw at 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.000 a higher level. That's my only thing with this kid. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.920 And it's funny because you would think at a place like 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.400 OSU they would knock it out of him, and they didn't. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.160 And I understand it's got an easy swing. I understand 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.000 it's got easy power of watched a lot of highlights. 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.320 I keep waiting to see where it catches up him 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.360 and I think it will eventually. But you can't discount 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.240 the results he's getting right now in spring training because 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.520 they've been spectacular. So keep an eye on him. The 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.800 next guy. This is a guy that I really like, 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.520 Oscar Colos. We've talked about him a lot on the show. Again, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.720 explosive hands. This is a dude that we all know 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.080 how the White Sox are super aggressive. So is Coloss 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.800 the next guy that they're going to be super aggressive 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.880 with and see a lot of playing time in twenty 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:15.400 twenty three. 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.679 Well, I think that's the uh I think that's the idea. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.560 I think like right now they've kind of set him 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.319 and lined him up as a guy that's going to 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:24.920 be able to take over the spot, and he's at 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.679 a really really hot Spring. I went away from the numbers. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.719 I'll pull him up in a second. But last year 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.840 he was able to move two levels. If you don't remember, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.320 Oscar Colas was like at the time, hilariously, they called 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.000 him the cuban Otani because he was pitching, and we 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:39.320 all kind of knew that was going to go by 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.120 the wayside. And twenty four years old, twenty three to 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.400 twenty four, the White Sox just said we're going to 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.320 go full time hitting. And he was able to move 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.640 all the levels last year, from High A up to 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:54.000 Triple A and he was dominant hit three hundred across 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.400 all levels. Triple A was a little bit of a 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.640 stink with as far as like strikeout percentage go. It 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.480 went up, but he was around twenty to twenty three percent 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.280 guy at those other levels. He ended up having over 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.600 twenty homers, stole a couple bases. He's made really really 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.920 good decisions out here in Spring and the White SOX 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.600 have left that spot open. They haven't gone and brought 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.040 in a you know, the Royds run in like a 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.080 Jackie Bradley or they just have it. They haven't gone 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.240 and brought in another name that just universally will take over. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:25.400 Plus they've openly said that they are going to have 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.080 Eloy Funny enough, they said they're gonna have Elay Moore 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:29.839 at DH and I think the next day after they 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.760 did that, they put him out in the field before 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:32.840 he went to the WBC. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.600 I hate it so much, Welsh, I hate it. Just 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.880 please stop putting this guy in the field. It's the worst. 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:38.720 But continue. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:43.679 Yeah. So, so with a commitment to him going to DH, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.480 what that does is that just leaves that spot open 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.680 that they're not going to screw around with us. And 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.000 so far this spring I finally got those up four 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.680 hundred with a four nineteen OBP. So he has not 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.200 been walking an over thousand ops. He's got two homers. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.520 He has stolen a base and that's a really unique one. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.439 I was actually with Oscar co Loss a couple of 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.720 weeks ago in an event for a couple hours. And 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.840 he's a big physical guy, like a big upper half 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.200 does not look like a guy that's going to steal bases, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.439 but he's still doing it. I think long term it's 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.360 going to go away, but this is a guy I 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.600 think that could sneak into seven to ten stolen bases 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.599 this year, especially with that little bit of advantage on 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.439 the speed. And I think he's a twenty plus homer guy. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.600 I've kind of been saying it since the early parts 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.439 of spring. I think he's criminally underrated. Where we put 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.000 our focus on George Walker and obviously the other big rookies, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:32.960 this is a guy that this team is all but 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.200 given it a commitment to. He's dominated in spring, which 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.400 was key for them to stick with that commitment. I 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:40.800 think it's going to happen. I think he's going to 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.360 break camp with the team. Oscar colass is someone who 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.319 has been rising. Just hit a homer, like I said 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.960 two days ago, so hitting over four hundred in spring, 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.200 that is answering a lot of those calls. And that's 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.000 one of those guys, especially from a redraft perspective, has 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.040 been moving up lists. But also you know, it's pretty 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.880 high up on my prospect list. If you're looking at 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:58.439 like the long term future. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.360 Look if for in any sort of startup league this 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.640 year with Keepers Dynasty, whatever it might be. Co Los 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:03.520 has a gout to keep an eye on. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:03.880 I'm with you. 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.559 He's a twenty home run guy in the big League's 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:07.880 quick hands again, this is why I keep it. He's 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.360 got easy power, quick hands, get to the baseball. Yeah, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.240 there's gonna be some strikeouts in there, but that's everybody nowadays. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.480 So he just he's a free swinger too, and there's 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.360 nothing wrong with that. That's just the way he's built, 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.400 and I'm okay with that. He's not a you know, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.679 we walked I think thirty eight times last year, so 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.199 it's not a huge amount. So he's gonna go take 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:26.640 his hacks and I'm okay with that as long as 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.280 he keeps making contact at the raid he does. Next 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.760 guy on your list is a Seattle starting pitcher employe. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.839 They've been good the last few years between Kirby and 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.800 Logan Gilbert Bryce Miller. The next guy on this list 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.960 now Miller. Last year another one went from A to 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.320 high A to double A. And you know, certainly an 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.480 opportunity here when you look at the overall numbers in 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.360 those twenty six starts that he made a three sixteen 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.199 era one hundred and thirty three innings, so he showed 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.000 you quite a bit, including a strikeout rate that was 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.080 pretty strong one hundred and sixty three k's and a 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.600 one point zero four whip over those one hundred and 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.559 thirty three innings. The question is, Welsh, what's the time 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.880 frame and is there room at the inn for him? 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.240 Because the Seattle rotation is already really good. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.800 So that's a big question is what is the room 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.760 for him? That I can't answer. I can't answer with Seattle, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.319 but what I can tell you is when there is room, 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.680 he's the top guy. I'm pretty confident over Emerson. Emerson 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.200 Hancock would be the next. There's also Prelander Baroa who 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.480 Preland Burrow is really really interesting, got incredible stuff. I 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:29.760 kind of wonder if he would go to the back 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.520 end of a rotation. But Bryce Miller, when they're ready 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.400 to make a commitment, is the guy. I spoke to 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.080 him in spring, and I've already mentioned this before, but 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.880 one of the most fascinating things there was this big 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.640 change in how pitchers are throwing sliders and it's more 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.320 of a sweeper it's now called So a lot of 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.200 movement over and Bryce Miller, who hit double a last 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.240 year but he's twenty four years old. He had struck 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.400 out their starting catcher, Tom Murphy, and I grabbed him 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.720 after and I was like, I was like, man, what 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.719 was that that you threw? Tom Murphy said it was 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.320 a slight almost couldn't tell. And he's like, well, and 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.400 then he tells me. He's like, well, you know, the 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.160 sweepers are really popular right now. So I actually threw 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.880 a sweeper, but I'm now throwing two sliders. I'm throwing 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.760 a sweeper which he adjusted, and then a gyro slider. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.000 And he's like, but what I haven't done is I 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.480 haven't found quite the confidence. But I have my command 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.720 on the sweeper, which is hilarious because a lot of 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:24.720 people might cite that sweepers are a little bit less commandy. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.000 Yet this guy huge movement across the board, he's got 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.320 a big fastball, he's just got pro command. He reminds 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.320 me of George Kirby. I think it's the same pass. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.680 He's cool, he's calm, he's collected. Last year, you know, 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.120 ten k per nine across the two main levels. We're 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.240 not going to focus. 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