WEBVTT - 528 | MLB Draft Recap (Part 1) 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:08.280 He swings high, don't understand that. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:20.040 Dinger center field and it's gone, Wow. His first big 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:24.200 league swing is gonna be a grand slam, a home 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:25.439 line swing. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:33.559 Good time to do so. Welcome back to The Call Up, 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.040 your go to podcast on the future stars of Major 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.559 League Baseball, and we have the long awaited Draft recap 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.200 here with Tyler Jennings, director of Amateur Scouting here at 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.000 JO Just Baseball. Tyler, you thought the draft was behind you, 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:49.680 but I had to pull you back out here to 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.520 just recap it and talk about it one more time. 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.760 I mean, you worked your absolute butt off. Most successful 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.920 draft stream we've ever had, all of the breakdowns before, 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.040 top college, top high school. The numbers across the board 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.480 were so exciting. Seeing the interest around the draft has 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.560 been really cool. But I also know that you're like 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.520 the Jimmy Butler meme. You know, after the finals were 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.080 just like hanging over like head down on the banister. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.640 But I was like, We've got to get one more 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.480 episode out here for the Call Up folks, and I'm 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.240 really excited to break down all thirty draft classes with you. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:23.520 Yeah, man, I'm excited. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.319 And thank you to everybody also for like tuning into 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.679 the draft stream to watch us, you know, talk about 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.320 the draft and everything. I thought that was amazing to 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:31.920 have so many of you guys join us for that. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.120 So we appreciate everything that you guys have done. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.319 For us, and I really appreciate everything you've done with 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.560 our draft coverage and how much it is overhauled, you know, 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.560 in the last three years, just being able to have 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.319 you know, you just breaking everything down from on such 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.240 a granular level, like we had top three hundred draft 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.800 prospects before you were here. I wrote up like thirty 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:52.400 guys because that's all I had the time to be 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.320 able to do with all the other things that we 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.320 have going on here. So the fact that we could 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.440 ten x that and be able to really break down 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.080 each of these classes to where we can get into 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.840 the nitty gritty. So let's do that, and let's go. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.080 We're gonna go alphabetically. We're going to reference a lot 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.280 of Tyler's pre draft rankings and that's linked in the 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.120 episode description to be able to reference, but also Tyler's 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.480 done draft recaps all of his work. I'll just link 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.400 you to his author page at just baseball dot com 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.520 so that you can see all the draft related content 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.919 that has come out on the recap side as well, 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:24.680 But this is a fun opportunity to just kind of 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.160 dive into it and talk beyond the first rounders and 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.400 how these overall classes came together. But of course we 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.760 got to start with the first rounders, and I'll start 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.520 with the Dbacks. They went with Ryder Helfrick with their 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.200 first round pick, the catcher from Arkansas, and you know 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.880 at fifteenth overall, I think that was the guy that 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.160 I know from what I just heard from some people 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.799 with the d Backs, they were thrilled to be able 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.520 to get Helfrick there at fifteen. We're not really sure 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.120 that he would be there. Kind of surprised that he 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.240 was there. That headlines the class, but there's a lot 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.320 of other arms in the class overall. They do mix in, 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.320 you know, two other college bats in the second and 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.840 third round. What's your Do you have an overall kind 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.320 of theme with this class and how do you think 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:04.480 it came out for the d Backs. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:06.639 I thought it came out well. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:08.519 And when you're kind of looking at like some tracer 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.840 looking at definitely power is something to kind of get 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.880 win after. Obviously hew Frick has plus power. You look 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.280 at a guy like Chris Kats in the ninth round 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.440 has significant power for Mercer, and they did sprinkle with 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.880 some guys that had some contact skills as well. That's 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.160 something they usually go after anyways, the past couple of years, 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.280 when you look at their previous first rounders, Carson Kurs, 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.160 Braden Downer, guys who are pretty safe on the hit tool, 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.840 but then they go for some big power, you know, 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.960 risk with some pitching guys. You know, Blake Bryant, Brian 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.080 is one of my favorite prep guys from the class, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.760 so I'm happy to see him get taken a thirty one. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.000 But then you go past that. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.280 Josh mcda McDevitt from Missouri has a very very good fastball. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:47.880 LJ. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.120 Mccurius was one of the best stoppers in college baseball 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.200 and helped Oklahoma win that national championship this year. He 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.240 has a powerful change up. Michael Whorley at Tonybrook was 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.560 another guy with a very very powerful fast So they 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.480 kind of went after some power guys here on both 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.800 sides of the ball, which is interesting. It is something 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.760 that Arizona doesn't necessarily go after in the past couple 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.440 of years. So I do agree that like Ryder. Helferd 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.560 is a top ten talent. Getting him at fifteen is 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.080 fantastic for Arizona, especially when you like at the whole 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.560 variety of the first round where teams kind of went 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.920 by the wayside on some guys with power and went 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.880 safer hit tools first, which was an interesting kind of 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.000 like mix up. But if you're Arizona, you're happy with 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.159 health rak. I thought he was a top ten talent 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.080 in this class, and to have a guy with that 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.720 kind of power and that kind of defense behind the 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.279 plate is pretty valuable. 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.320 Well when we see that in the game, right, I 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.120 mean so many catchers that have had the power and 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:46.200 the defensive abilities. Those guys maybe taking some time to develop, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.400 but have developed into some of the better catchers. And 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.280 now we've seen the game. I think about Shay Langlers 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.400 and like, that's kind of the skill set that you 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.400 feel like there could be here potentially. Right, Why do 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.279 you think it was that he slipped to fifteen? It 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:58.760 felt like a couple of the guys that maybe have 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.440 some hit tool concern It really fell this year and 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.640 in some years it doesn't seem like that happens as much. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.800 Yeah, it was a very draft turnaround from what you know, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.840 teams kind of looked for they weren't willing to take 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.039 as many risks, and I think draft strategy definitely plays 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.200 a role in that when you look at teams like 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.600 the Red Sox for example, who brought you know, Martin 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.919 Scheller down to the ninth round and gave him overslot 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.960 after taking you know, Jake Schaffner at number twenty and 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.280 o when hole, which we'll talk about later with the 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.760 Red Sox. But I think teams definitely kind of we 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.560 were not really willing to take the risk in this 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.680 draft class, and it was mainly because it kind of 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.240 fell off a little bit after the first round. I 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.200 think I think the class tramp definitely played a role 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.920 on it. But I think when you look at it 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:42.960 at the end of the day, like with health for 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:48.440 specific specifically, his biggest issue was breaking balls away and 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.120 kind of just trying to catch up to that. As 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.280 you get you know, Clyde the ladder as much as 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.880 it was SEC pitching, you get the double A, you're 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.599 starting to see better breaking balls. So I wonder, you know, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.120 this hell turn into a guy that's like a you know, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.240 two twenty hitter but can give you twenty five to 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.279 thirty home runs with I would say gold club defense 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.240 behind the play. I think that's a very valuable player overall. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.200 But that's also kind of like the stereotypical catcher prototype. Now, yeah, 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.280 you know, you're not expecting a catcher to really hit. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.440 Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. And if you can run 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.719 into homers and give you defensive value, the batting average 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.599 becomes decreasingly important, and I think that's the exciting part 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.720 for the d Bacs. One other question on the class, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.640 because a guy that you had at one eighty three 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.800 overall on your big board, h the d Backs snagged 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.560 at three hundred and twenty sixth overall and Cody Boschel. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:43.800 Is it Boschel? Ychelle? Yeah, I believe it is Boschel. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.880 Yeah, we'll go with Boschel first baseman. Uh, they sign 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.560 him for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars obviously, Well, well, well, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.400 oversawt there high school kid. That seems like obviously an 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.640 area where they allocated some of their savings to oversaught 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.800 and grab a kid there and sign them away from 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.120 Was that, you know, the savviest pick in this class 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.520 for you or was there another one that you liked 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:05.200 a little bit more. 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:07.840 Yeah, it's it's definitely up there. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.640 For me, I think I liked the Brian pick more 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.840 and the reason why is because I think Brian's going 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:16.680 to turn into a pretty valuable pitching prospect, incredibly projectable 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.200 at six six point eight, has a really good feel 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.480 for pitchability at this stage, which you don't really find 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.320 in in amateur prospects, especially with high schoolers who would 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.680 just kind of chase after vela a little bit. And 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.480 that was the big thing for me with him was like, 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.720 this is a guy with pitch ability that for me, 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.960 it wins me over because I'd like to see guys 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.040 try and it pitch the contact and trying to sequence 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.360 their pitches more often than not, and to have that 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.480 feel that young is pretty impressive. And with Boschel, he 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.800 just did a really really good job on the Summer 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.000 circuit last year, and the biggest thing for me was 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.160 the field to hit in the field of power that 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.760 really stood out. He's also a pretty mobile athlete, could 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.880 also play a corner outfield spot if you really wanted to. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.160 But I think they select him as a first basement anyway, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.760 so I think that's where he probably ends up. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.080 I love it. I love it, and we'll slide over 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:09.520 to the athletics now. Reminder, going in alphabetical order, and 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.640 this draft class, I mean, headlined by Drew Burris, who 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.960 they grab in the first round, eighth overall guy that 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:17.840 you know, you didn't know if he was necessarily going 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.920 to even be there at eighth overall, and they had 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.720 to pay him half a mill overslot even in grabbing 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.800 him at the eighth spot there, which I thought was 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.600 pretty interesting. So I want some of your thoughts there, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.600 but also the rest of the draft. I remember talking 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.560 about it with you brief like, and I don't mean 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.080 this in a negative way, but just felt kind of jockey, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:35.880 felt like, you know, you just kind of took the 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.559 best college guy available in a lot of the spots, 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.320 and sometimes that works really well for you. I think 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.560 that this draft class is solid overall. First, what did 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.000 you think about Burris getting over a half a million 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.840 overslot at the eighth overall pick? And then second, I'll 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.199 follow up with the overall class conversation. Conversation, it was interesting. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:08:59.719 I would have figured he would be closer to the 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.080 slot value, if not maybe a little less to see 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.280 if like, you know, do they try and sign the 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.240 fourteenth round er who was the first high school guy 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.319 in Cayden Sivrich. But I think at the end of 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.240 the day, like there's not really a ton of you know, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.320 high schoolers you can really allocate that money towards in 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.760 this class. You know, I think there was only one 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.079 other guy that they took in the nineteenth round, Jake 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.920 Sclante from Soqualla High School. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.480 So you know, I think at the end. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:28.160 Of the day, Burris had you know, I had him 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:29.880 as a top five prospect in this class. I think 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.360 I had him fifth, and I thought he was going 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:33.480 to be a hiero at the end of the day. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.840 So to get him at eight is a great value 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.520 and I think that's something that he and his agent 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.080 had in their back pocket to be like, hey, we 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.640 had a chance to be top five. And there's also 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.959 not really like what other guy can you really toss 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.120 his money to, you know, maybe Nathan the sevens in 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.199 the twelfth rounds, So like, I think the age for 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.000 five was taking him a little overslot here, and I 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.719 think that works out perfectly with some of the other 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.440 guys farther down the board that they saved some money 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:57.959 on in like the seventh to tenth round. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.200 Well, Burris, I mean the guy that I just I 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.120 think you're thrilled to get it hit with his power 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.319 potential you've talked about on the draft stream, just the 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.400 way the glove is developed, and I mean, this is 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:08.880 a guy that's built to kind of moved through the 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.920 minors quickly. But also I think gives you a higher 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.040 ceiling than maybe the frame may imply when when you 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.199 look at this guy, you can't judge a book by 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.679 its cover. There, I think this is going to be 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.560 a good player for a long time. But they pair 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.680 that with then a couple of good arms, right like 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.200 Mason Edwards was a guy that wouldn't have been shocking 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.840 if a team. You know, it took him a little 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.960 bit earlier than the forty seventh pick, and they're able 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.959 to get the left hander there from USC then they 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.120 go Gabe Gackle as well. Both those guys get a 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.600 little bit overslot Edwards a little bit more than that. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.120 What do you make of those two arms? And then 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.679 beyond that, what else kind of stands out to you 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.840 with this athletics class. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.400 Yeah, I think getting Edwards at forty seven is a 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.720 great value. Pick as well. You know, there is rumors 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.719 that you get taken into teams. I know at one 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.880 point even the Royals were rolling the idea of taking 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.160 him at six, which would have kind of followed what 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.920 they did anyways. So to get him down at that 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.600 range is fantastic for you. And this is a guy 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.920 that led to NC double A and strikeouts this year. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.120 I think it was like one sixty five hammer curveball 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.000 into the low nineties, maybe even mid nineties at times 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.920 when he really has the higher end velocity and a 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.480 really really good change of I think, you know, looking 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.120 back at some of this energy notes, every single one 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.680 of his secondary pitches had a WIF rate over sixty 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.600 percent this year, which is a testament to how nasty 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.120 his arsenal is even with some I would say like 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.800 a pedestrian fastball, I guess is what some people like 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.640 to call it. But you know, I think him Edwards 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.760 Duden was a fantastic get for me in the third round. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.000 I thought, if he was fully healthy this year, he's 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.400 on at the back end of the fresh round easy 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.000 because he was doing a fantastic job for Nancy State 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.480 this year before he got injured and then looking at 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.160 some of the other guys too, Like obviously they go 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.480 after proofing college guys. Gabe Gacho obviously has been a 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.679 performer for three years, but I have some question marks 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.800 on whether or not he's a reliever or not. Rowan 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.520 Martin I wish would swing the ball more or swinging 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.880 the batmore, but he's very very good at finding fastballs. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:05.280 And demolishing them. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.160 Alex Hernandez Alex Dosa, didn't you kind of get to 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.280 like aid and Weaver. Tanner marsh is a really good 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.520 shortstop himself. There's just a lot of guys here that 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.400 formed across you know, two or three year sample sizes 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.599 that kind of give you a bit more of a 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.240 higher floor than. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:21.720 Some other guys. And I think that's fine. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.120 You know, you put together a consistent class like this, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.320 I think you definitely walk away as a winner in 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.200 this one. I think personally, they just missed my top 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.200 five favorite classes in this that I put on the recap. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.520 I'd say they're like six, maybe seventh or eighth at 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.079 that point. So I think they did a very very 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:40.000 good job of what they did. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.000 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Sometimes the chock you like 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.560 it can be really good, especially when it's top college 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.320 guy available, and it felt like they were taking the 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.600 top college guy available or even bought down a little 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.880 bit a couple of these top college guys that were 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.520 on the board there. So it's funny thing about like 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.440 Bowman Draft as a card collector, here, this is gonna 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.600 be a draft class like I'll probably to be buying 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.120 spots and brakes on because it's just a lot of 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.880 guys that higher floor could move quickly but still have 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.360 some exciting ceilings to them as well. We move over 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.120 to the Atlanta Braves who got really creative with their 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.000 draft class as well, which is typically going to be 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.880 the case when you go pretty significantly underslat with your 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.280 first pick, which that's what the Braves do, right. They 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.280 go aj Grassia and they save two point six eight 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.839 million dollars with that ninth pick there, but a pick 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.040 that I know you loved because I think you had 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.360 him closer to you know, a middle of the first 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.480 round type of guy and ninth pick isn't that far ahead, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.640 and you're saving a lot of money there. Grassia opens 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.880 the door for them to do a lot of other things, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.000 and that's exactly what they did. You can start with Grassia, 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.600 but then what did that afford them to do? And 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.600 how do you think they leveraged the savings there to 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.320 maximize the talent in this draft class? 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.160 Whatever what they did in the first round is allow 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.079 them to open up the wallet later on in the 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.080 class and go after us. So like even with carter 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.920 Back kind of thrown into this, Uh, they both both 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.160 players are are safe contact guys that you know, bag 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.120 Place's hair on fire can be a valuable outfield defender. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.200 Grossi has got this mix of hit tool and power 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.320 that not a lot of guys have, and I understand, like, yeah, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.560 he's probably a left fielder, but the same token, Like 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.440 I think his collegiate contact rate was like eighty five percent, 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.920 you know, across three years with like an eighteen percent chase. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.080 You know, it's it's an really really valuable thing to 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.000 have a bat that can do that. And yes, it's 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.920 it's safe. But like you mentioned, less them save a 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.080 lot of money. They paid just in Hirshcorn nearly four 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.160 million dollars I believe in the third round. Then you 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.040 go farther down, Jack Brenner gets over a million dollars 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.480 I believe in like the seventh round, which is if 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:52.000 I remember correctly, a record in that in that round. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.400 And then you get Ryan Barker in the eleventh round, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.320 who I had as a top two hundred prospects. So 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:01.800 those guys, Kate McCarthy cold Denis as well. Getting these 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.400 high upside high school guys with the savings at the guy, 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.520 it really shows how the Braves were able to maneuver 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.800 that money around and still find valuable talent at the 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.480 same time. So there's a lot to like what the 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.480 Braves did here. In my opinion, I think ron At 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.160 Shad and Company did a fantastic job with finding talent 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.680 that fits the mold that they look for. 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.800 So hirst Corn is interesting because you had him at 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.560 fifty three on your big board, which I mean to 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.160 be able to, you know, buy him down to the 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.800 third round like the Braves did. Like it makes makes 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.040 a lot of sense. But formerly now our price tag, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.440 so that's strong first round money there. First sentence in 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.720 your write up is no Pitchers assented draft boards more 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.560 than Hirscorn did this summer, and that was before knowing 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.280 that he was going to get the kind of money 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.840 that he got. Did that price tag surprise? You and 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.800 what does this tell you just about maybe how high 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.400 his ceiling can be in the eyes of the Braves. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.480 Yeah, I was a little surprised when I saw the 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.000 price tag, but there this is an organization not afraid 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.160 to go after guys in hand them big price tags. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.440 Brigs Mackenzie a year ago got three million dollars from 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.520 the Braves, and I know, I know the scout locally 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.240 here als Garupa, and he was ecstatic to get Briggs 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.640 at that range. So I think this is the Braves 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.040 are definitely valuing Hirschcorn more than I would personally, And 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.880 I think that really just shows the difference between like 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.240 me and a pro organization's you know, draft boards, Like 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.520 we're not always gonna have the same thing, but we're 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.040 trying to emulate what they you know, what they see. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.720 And Hirshcorn last summer, you know, he he performed very 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.760 well at PG National some of these USA events. Goes 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.880 out the area codes at eight am and strikes out 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.880 nine guys, you know, just I think seven swinging. He 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.200 had like ten whists on a slider and nobody could see, 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.200 you know, six, seven, two o five. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:51.400 It's big projectable. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.760 It's just something that I believe the Braves look at 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.120 and go, hey, he moves very well, has projection. There's 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.640 deception here. Guys really couldn't see the ball out of 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.359 his hands. So I think with them, they they obviously 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.199 saw something that they liked a lot more than what 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.280 I did, admittedly, but again at the same token, like 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.440 this is an incredibly talented arm that had admittedly a 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.960 high price tag because of an LSU commitment as well. So 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.119 it makes me kind of look at, like, you know, 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.520 delivers that these high schoolers do have now with nil 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.600 and everything. I think that's another role that plays into 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.160 these high price tags well. 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.439 And especially when you were six foot seven, right, and 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.800 like they clearly think that this ceiling could be so 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.439 so so high. And and Brenner as well, Like, I mean, 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.520 that's a guy that got a nice overslat check there 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.600 that I mean comparing it to it we're using like 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.200 the draft tracker right now, which I don't think Brenner 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.320 was was ranked for MLB pipeline. He had Brenner ninety 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.680 and that's right around the value that he got. Kind 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.800 of pickwise, if I'm remembering correctly, what would that I'm 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:52.920 not going I don't want to put you on the spot. 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:54.640 What would the ninetieth picked you know what that would 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.000 be SWAT value wise? Oh man, because he got Brenner 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:02.160 got one point two five million dollar and I feel 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.200 like that's with SWOT value for where he was selected, 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.600 which was at two oh two was three hundred and 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.879 seven thousand dollars, so he gets you know, four x 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.639 the SWAT value there and a guy that again I 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.440 think when you look at your board, you had him 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.160 as a candidate, so I think kind of signed for 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.000 something around that if he was going to forgo his 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.200 college commitment. Cold weather kid, Uh, kind of under the radar. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:27.520 But I think the Braves have done a good job. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.440 It's identifying some of these guys of late. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.240 Yeah they have and uh, you know, looking at the 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.680 ninetieth pick of values a seven thousand, so to get 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.960 a million, he's still would gotten overslot in the third round. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:44.040 But that's still you know, still very very good. 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:45.760 And the thing that won me over with Brenner is 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.280 looking at the day last year, being able to see 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.720 him at Area coach. He just consistently hits and you 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.280 know there might not be a ton of power there, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:54.520 but this is a kid that's going to hit for 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.200 average at the next level. Has some versatility to whim. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.160 He can play catcher, you can play short stop. He's 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.400 athletic hell, So yeah, there's a lot to like with him. 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.119 And it's nice to see that the Braves thought the 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.480 same as well, so you know, not to toot my 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.760 own horn. No, that's also like a that felt like 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.160 a good thing to kind of look back at. 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.919 It seems like a savvy class there that has a 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.720 lot of upside, and that's the way that they played 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.199 it there with the Braves. You go to the Orioles, 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.480 and I think this is an interesting high upside class 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.000 as well, kind of balanced out by some higher four guys. 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.200 But I would still just say risk in general seems 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.439 to be the namer. I would still such just athleticism 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.040 and upside is probably the better way of putting it. 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.360 They go EJ. Brew Eric Booth with the number one pick. 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.560 I know, one of your favorites in this entire class. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.840 Sky high ceiling. Such a fun skill set. But then 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.440 you pair that with tie Head, who's back to ball 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.800 skills I think far exceed batting average that you saw, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.080 you know, throughout college. I think quality of contact played 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.040 a big part in that because I think it didn't 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:53.760 allow him to maybe find the gaps as much as 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.800 he should. But still great defender, you bring that to 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.160 the table. But then I go to Kevin Roberts Junior, 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.320 who they just signed and a guy that I mean, 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.879 upside wise is probably as high as anybody in the class. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.440 Is that crazy to say, especially outside of the first round, 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:12.000 like the ceiling that this kick can have you with 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.919 the Division one offers and like every single sport, So 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.440 just putting those athletes in there. On the pitching side, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.400 it seemed like he was more higher floor strike throwers. 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.600 But what do you make of this class? Obviously they 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:23.760 won you over with their first pick right way to 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.880 steal your heart there, but beyond that as well, I mean, 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:28.760 for sure a few thoughts on Booth because I know 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:30.919 that's one of your favorites, and then your your overall 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:32.320 thoughts on the Orioles class. 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.399 Yeah, I think you nailed it first off on the class, 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.879 like they went after very athletic guys in the outfield 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.240 in Indian field, and it also just went for like 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.600 higher floor strike throwers who you know have performed at 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.960 the college level, like Zane Adams, Ryan pish Kevin or 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:51.119 not Kevin Robberts Dominic vaguely from from Kansas. But the 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:53.560 things I liked you're talking about Eric Booth. This is 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.840 a guy that, yes, I understand the swings wonky. It's 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:01.040 it doesn't necessarily work at the moment when you project forward, 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:05.760 but he's been able to make contact consistently. There's burgeoning 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.439 power in the bat. He's hit one a weight with 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.720 what already. He can also fly on the base pass 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:12.600 and can handle center field. If not, you put him 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:14.879 in right field with a good arms So you know, 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.919 there's a lot to like with the overall tools set there. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:19.639 And if you fix the swing to where like it 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.760 becomes more not linear per se, but you add some 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:26.480 more loft to it, it looks more like he's getting 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:27.200 more leverage out of it. 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:28.920 Then I think that's fantastic. I think you get a 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:32.280 lot more power upside there. Tie Head. 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.360 Obviously, like you'd mentioned it, the contact rates are superb. 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.360 He's very passive. I would say it's probably the best 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:43.040 way to describe him in terms of uh he racks 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.479 up a lot of walks on strikeouts, but also like 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:48.960 he gets the two strike counts and just absolutely does 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:50.840 not miss the ball. I think that's the most impressive 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:54.280 part he paid. He got more power this year and 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:56.480 has obviously been able to play center field a good 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.040 bit as he stay and does a very good job 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:03.560 of manning that position. I think my favorite pick though, 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:05.199 is we'll plunk it down in the eighth round. I 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.840 think I had him in the one sixty one sixty 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:11.720 five range. And this is a kid that bourg very 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:16.639 well WWBA last year in Florida, comes out into the 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.879 spring and obviously cold water batskit. I would say they 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.480 get some more leeway when you look at how late 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:25.280 they start in the competition they play. But he was 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:28.360 consistently pummeling the baseball. He's got more projection to him, 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:30.320 he can play on the left side of the dirt. 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:32.840 I think there's just a lot of a lot to 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:35.879 like a plunk it and personally, and you know, getting 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:38.480 him in the eighth round is pretty impressive. I do 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:40.960 like what the Orioles did, kind of like the farther 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:43.000 down that they got into this class. 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:45.840 And I think if I mean booth, yeah, I think 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.320 the little refinement with the swing there, but everything else, 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.080 all the carrying tools are amazing. They can get what 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.280 is possible out of Kevin Roberts Junior. That's where I 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:55.960 think this class could really send me. I think you 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:57.840 feel good about the higher probability of a lot of 0:22:57.840 --> 0:22:59.880 these arms, at least feeling some sort of a big 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.280 grow several of them at the top. But I think 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:04.760 you have the Plunket edition where they couldn't get too 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.080 creative because of their their earlier pick signing. Bonus wise, 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:11.119 I think that and having to pay Kevin Roberts as 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:13.720 well being able to pull off that Punket pick is 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.720 exciting as well. We're gonna get to the Boston Red Sox, 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:19.600 which they had one of the most creative drafts as well. 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:28.199 In a moment before that, our first break before we 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:30.760 jump back into it, just want to shout out we 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.600 are live on Whatnot now in the tops Chrome release 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:36.159 has been a ton of fun. If you have not 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:38.600 been on what Not as well, first of all, come 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:40.679 join us on just Baseball breaks. It's a blast. 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We 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:18.239 jump over to the Red Sox who surprised everybody with 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:21.479 their first pick in Jake Schaffner. I think it's one 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:24.240 of those where you just have that shock at on 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:26.880 the onset just because you weren't expecting it, but then 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:30.359 as you digest it, you say, oh, this could start 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:32.199 to make some sense. And then as you start to 0:24:32.200 --> 0:24:34.240 get into the later rounds and you see them go, 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:37.199 you know, pick up a Martin Shalar, and you go 0:24:37.280 --> 0:24:39.600 see them pick up a couple other guys that we're 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:43.720 going to require a solid payday and pull it off 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:45.840 because of the savings two and a half or two 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:50.160 point three seven million, or sorry, two point one seven 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:53.720 million in savings with Shaffner, you can see the creativity 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:56.080 with the class here. What do you make of the 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.119 class overall? Well, one twentieth overall pick going with a 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:00.800 guy in Schaffner that a lot of people had kind 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:03.320 of second third round grades on, and then two with 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:05.280 what they were able to do behind that, Do you 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:06.359 think it justified it? 0:25:07.680 --> 0:25:07.960 Yeah? 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:10.520 I think it did. And like the more I've kind 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:12.320 of slept on this class, the more I kind of 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:15.680 like it. Yes, I understand that the strategy is a 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:19.679 little wonky. I thought Schaffner was more of a second rounder, 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:21.359 but then I kind of started looking back on it. 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:23.840 Even on the draft broadcast, I was like, it probably 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:26.439 could have, you know, rated him a little higher on. 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:26.920 The last board. 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:31.240 Admittedly, it's a bat with a fantastic approach, elite at 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:33.520 the ball skills and with the way the Red Sox 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:35.320 kind of like had been able to work in the 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:37.120 more batspeed on some of these guys, I think there's 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:38.440 some more power to do unlocked there. 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:41.880 Do I think he just towarch up the next level? 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:44.080 We'll see. I think the arms a little light for 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:46.520 the position. Maybe put him at second base, But this 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:50.400 is a high probability Big leaguer for me. Where he's 0:25:50.480 --> 0:25:51.960 just going to find his way on base and be 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:56.440 a Havoc record essentially, and like Owen whole same way, 0:25:56.560 --> 0:25:58.800 This is a guy that I wish would would pull 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:00.720 the ball more, and he kind of did this past year, 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:04.679 which is fascinating, which like I think in Omaha he's 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:06.719 pulling balls at like one to eight, one ten and 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:09.920 he can play a pretty solid center field. Jase Manazinski 0:26:09.920 --> 0:26:12.600 in the third round is another cold weather bat that 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:17.920 like performed well across multiple big tournaments, but obviously getting 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:20.280 Sheller in the ninth round, who I had as a 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:23.760 maybe outside the top one hundred or maybe just inside 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:26.439 that I can't remember. You know, big power bat, have 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:28.880 some vibes of like a Drew Burris type of bat, 0:26:29.000 --> 0:26:33.720 similar size, doesn't play the same kind of center field 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:37.080 that Burris does, but like the mold is kind of 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:39.359 there for Sheller, and then getting capable to Favor in 0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:43.040 the ten round from Iowa, another cold weather guy who 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:46.240 you know, super super projectable, been up to ninety five 0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:49.639 ninety six in like Iowa does like a spring league 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:51.399 because they start so late in the year. I think 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:54.240 they start in like May, but you know, they they 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:58.000 did kind of had to go after some like older 0:26:58.240 --> 0:27:01.560 reliever guys, you know, Lucas having for Brett Landman. They 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:04.480 all have big extension numbers, and that's something I kind 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:06.680 of noticed as they were going through the course. They're 0:27:06.680 --> 0:27:08.160 going after guys with big extension. 0:27:09.560 --> 0:27:12.840 You know, the special It's all about the extension. 0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:14.080 Yep. 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:16.600 So you know the Again, the more I've slept on it, 0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:18.600 the more I like this class. I think Schaffner is 0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:21.119 gonna be really really good. Owen Hole is one of 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:23.320 my favorite bats this year. Having having the ability to 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:26.680 watch both those guys this year was impressive, and maybe 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:28.240 that's what wins me over is the fact that I 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:30.600 saw them performed so well, so much well. 0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:32.840 On the other side too, is like when your savings 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:35.920 picks are archetypes of players that you do a really 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:38.400 good job of maximizing. Like I was scratching my head 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:40.280 when they trade to perau Us for Jake Bennan. Look 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:41.960 at what Jake Bennett's done, you know. And then this 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:44.720 is on the pro side, but like I think that 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:46.840 the same could be said with the amateur side. There's 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:49.320 a reason why they I d Peyton Totley a couple 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:51.720 of years ago, and look at his development and what 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:54.680 they've been able to do since taking over and overhauling 0:27:54.680 --> 0:27:57.760 things with Connolly early and how he's progressed. So those 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:00.440 were like the savings picks right the lefty extension guys, 0:28:00.440 --> 0:28:02.760 and then on top of saving the money with schaff 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:05.000 Ner it then being able to go get the high, 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:07.880 high upside guys later on. It makes a lot of sense. 0:28:07.880 --> 0:28:10.800 And I think there's a lot of volume of talent 0:28:10.880 --> 0:28:13.840 here in this Red Sox class that's easy to get behind. 0:28:14.960 --> 0:28:18.280 Not as creative of a class would be the Cubs, 0:28:18.359 --> 0:28:20.399 but it doesn't necessarily mean bad. I think there's a 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:23.719 clear trend here too, with guys that can spin it 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:28.240 and big power, but swing and misconcern. What do you 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:31.000 make of the Cubs class? I loved Kid Townsend, you know, 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:32.600 and I was a guy I think to grab at 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:35.560 twenty three, think perfect fit for what they want to do. 0:28:36.600 --> 0:28:38.640 But I just thought it was interesting how they kind 0:28:38.680 --> 0:28:41.080 of followed things up there with Currell and Bailey who 0:28:41.160 --> 0:28:43.400 come with plenty of swing and miss, and then the 0:28:43.440 --> 0:28:47.080 other arms as well, big spin, but some command questions 0:28:47.160 --> 0:28:48.840 and maybe some other questions. 0:28:49.920 --> 0:28:52.000 Yeah, there's a lot of risk in this draft class, 0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:55.239 and I think the more like. This is another one 0:28:55.240 --> 0:28:57.080 where I've kind of thought about it more. It's like, Okay, 0:28:57.080 --> 0:28:59.720 it's not as bad as I originally thought. I love 0:28:59.760 --> 0:29:02.000 the pick. I think he's a fantastic guy. We talked 0:29:02.000 --> 0:29:04.440 about him a lot in Philly, where you know Deep Arsenal. 0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:07.160 The fastball you can probably squeak a little bit more 0:29:07.160 --> 0:29:10.760 out of, but the cutter's fantastic. The curve ball is fantastic. 0:29:11.360 --> 0:29:14.280 I think the slider also is another really really good pitch, 0:29:14.360 --> 0:29:17.560 So to have that in his back pocket is pretty impressive. 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:20.920 I think it's it's not Kate Horton like, but the 0:29:21.000 --> 0:29:21.960 spin traits are there. 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:22.400 You know. 0:29:24.000 --> 0:29:28.160 Carson Jiassa from Nebraska is another guy like he's slider dominant. 0:29:28.240 --> 0:29:30.320 He threw a lot of sliders this year and that's 0:29:30.320 --> 0:29:32.000 mainly because the fastball command was never there. 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:32.920 I think he's a reliever. 0:29:34.080 --> 0:29:36.920 Dylan Marina from Northwestern States actually a pretty intriguing arm 0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:39.480 in the fourth round. Dylan Blomker, you know, getting him 0:29:39.480 --> 0:29:42.920 in the fifth is pretty solid value. And there's just 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:45.640 a lot of guys with the they spin the ball 0:29:45.680 --> 0:29:48.000 really well, like Chase Meyer has spin raised at thirty 0:29:48.040 --> 0:29:52.080 two hundred RPMs last year before everything kind of went 0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:55.960 downhill with you know, getting kicked off the team and everything. 0:29:56.520 --> 0:29:59.360 But at the end of the day, like the risk 0:29:59.480 --> 0:30:01.840 is there if you can turn Thurreil and Bailey into 0:30:02.120 --> 0:30:05.920 at least like forty hit tools. In my opinion, I 0:30:05.960 --> 0:30:08.080 think you're going to get be able to maximize a 0:30:08.080 --> 0:30:09.720 lot of the power because they're both guys. I think 0:30:09.760 --> 0:30:14.360 Sorell personally sixty power, Bailey is seventy, maybe even eighty 0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:15.720 if you really want to put it out there, that 0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:18.080 kid can delete Baseball's like anybody else. 0:30:18.800 --> 0:30:22.200 And it's another organization here betting on what they do well. 0:30:22.240 --> 0:30:24.440 I mean, how many different hitters do we need to 0:30:24.480 --> 0:30:27.240 see just make leaps in this cub system. They're really 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:30.040 pushing it now though, where it's like let's grab the 0:30:30.080 --> 0:30:32.680 most powerful guys with the biggest hit tool concerns, and 0:30:32.720 --> 0:30:34.640 let's really see if we could get these guys right, 0:30:34.640 --> 0:30:36.320 because what will be if we can do that. But 0:30:36.400 --> 0:30:38.480 I mean, you look at the development of so many 0:30:38.520 --> 0:30:40.600 of these hitters, and I always just keep going back 0:30:40.640 --> 0:30:42.320 to like jose hartch one in the sixth round was 0:30:42.320 --> 0:30:43.760 one thing. But Owen ay Er is a guy that 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:46.280 had swinging misconcern to switch hitter a nineteenth round guy 0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:48.240 like the way that he has developed. But you can 0:30:48.240 --> 0:30:50.320 go throughout the system. There's been so many different bats 0:30:50.360 --> 0:30:53.959 that have made leaps prospect wise throughout this organization that 0:30:54.440 --> 0:30:56.800 I don't blame them for betting on that kind of 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:59.400 strength there. But still headlining a class with the obvious OVI. 0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:01.360 I know you don't always draft for need, but like 0:31:01.440 --> 0:31:03.240 the Cubs, they needed an arm in the first round, 0:31:03.280 --> 0:31:07.440 and I think they got was likely the best arm available. There. 0:31:07.960 --> 0:31:11.400 We go to the White Sox and I mean, this 0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:13.600 is this was the class, Like you got to have 0:31:13.640 --> 0:31:15.840 as much fun ever. I mean like if if you 0:31:16.480 --> 0:31:19.000 if you got the opportunity to run a draft, and 0:31:19.040 --> 0:31:20.920 I think you will one day, right, but like this 0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:24.160 is what you dream of, right, Like this is the opportunity. 0:31:24.320 --> 0:31:26.480 It feels like you almost can't mess up. Of course 0:31:26.480 --> 0:31:29.680 you always can, but you could spray the board when 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:32.600 you've got twenty plus ms to work with, Like this 0:31:32.640 --> 0:31:34.840 is a dream for you, No, tyler, Like what did 0:31:34.880 --> 0:31:35.040 you go? 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:35.520 Rock Toll? 0:31:35.520 --> 0:31:38.080 Ask you one and then you still have endless money 0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:38.520 to work with. 0:31:39.720 --> 0:31:41.960 Yeah, And in that trade the night before with Jacob 0:31:42.040 --> 0:31:44.560 Gadela is going to the Pirates for number thirty four 0:31:45.160 --> 0:31:47.720 just solidified a lot of things. You know, you get 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:50.040 getting into over to pay, you get like twenty one 0:31:50.480 --> 0:31:54.320 and a half million dollars like that's it's the largest 0:31:54.360 --> 0:31:59.160 bonus pool in in this era essentially, and I think 0:31:59.200 --> 0:32:02.720 they did a very good of allocating it respectively. You know, 0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:06.000 I continue to put Rocket at my number one prospect 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:09.160 in this class. It was just, you know, so tough 0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:10.960 to look back and be like, hey, this is a 0:32:11.000 --> 0:32:14.600 guy with gold gluff defense at shortstop. As much as 0:32:14.840 --> 0:32:17.800 he didn't replicate what he did a year ago, he 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:21.400 didn't do anything to really take himself off that pedestal 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:23.959 for me. And then you look at what they did 0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:26.760 after obviously getting Jim Tomy's son land In Cole pro 0:32:26.920 --> 0:32:29.120 sec and then he also sprinkle in some other high 0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:32.680 upside prep guys with Alex Wein Gartner, Kyle Casteele on. 0:32:32.600 --> 0:32:34.160 The eleventh round. 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:37.960 They they were looking at some middle infielders who rated 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:40.760 so obviously Tomey and Prosek pro sk I thought it 0:32:40.840 --> 0:32:43.080 was a first rounder, So to get him at forty 0:32:43.120 --> 0:32:46.080 one was fantastic. Wine Gartner's a top one hundred guy 0:32:46.080 --> 0:32:49.360 for me and Kyle Casteele, we put in late and 0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:51.440 it came him around two hundred. So to get him 0:32:51.480 --> 0:32:55.880 on you know, what would be stereotypical day three is fantastic. 0:32:56.640 --> 0:32:57.320 And then to get some. 0:32:57.280 --> 0:33:02.360 Guys like volgekow Sagariscalari going out of some proving college arms. 0:33:02.600 --> 0:33:06.680 Clay Burdett was a very good bat Xavier, So they 0:33:06.720 --> 0:33:10.560 took some risk here as well. But it's definitely easier 0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:12.040 to stomach when you look at the class that they 0:33:12.040 --> 0:33:15.400 were able to bring in before that with these again, 0:33:15.480 --> 0:33:18.440 these high upside prep guys who can hit and fit 0:33:18.480 --> 0:33:20.640 in the middle infield and do a job for you. 0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:24.080 So I think they did a fantastic job with what 0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:26.480 they were able to bring in with the amount of 0:33:26.480 --> 0:33:28.360 money that they had. I think there was a plan 0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:31.160 there and they were able to execute it brilliantly. 0:33:32.080 --> 0:33:33.800 That's what I was going to ask you, Like is 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:37.120 the follow up was basically they were supposed to have 0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:39.239 the best draft class in terms of talent, and like, 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:41.080 do you think they came away with the best draft 0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:42.080 class in terms of talent? 0:33:43.280 --> 0:33:43.600 Yeah? 0:33:43.920 --> 0:33:46.240 I think for me it would have been tough to 0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:50.240 look at that money and go if they're not number one, 0:33:50.320 --> 0:33:54.040 then something's gone wrong and they were able to prove 0:33:54.040 --> 0:33:56.360 that they belonged at the top for me at least, 0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:58.640 and maybe you know, if you talk to some oilar people, 0:33:58.680 --> 0:34:01.560 they view it differently just for you know, different opinions 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:04.640 on some players. But for me, like again, you get 0:34:04.640 --> 0:34:06.800 pro Sick at forty one, that's a fantastic value you 0:34:06.800 --> 0:34:09.480 get For me, Win Gartner in the sixth round is 0:34:09.480 --> 0:34:12.840 fantastic as well. So getting these guys in their positions 0:34:12.840 --> 0:34:15.600 that they were drafted in just great value picks. 0:34:16.360 --> 0:34:20.520 We go to the reds Now and this is I 0:34:20.560 --> 0:34:22.399 don't know, I'm interested for your thoughts on this one, 0:34:22.480 --> 0:34:26.160 because they get Justin Lebron at eighteen and this is 0:34:26.160 --> 0:34:29.640 probably the most polarizing player in the class and we 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:32.279 heard you know, could go as well as the end 0:34:32.320 --> 0:34:34.360 of the first round, could go as high as an 0:34:34.440 --> 0:34:37.160 underslat guy in the top ten to twelve, and he 0:34:37.239 --> 0:34:39.480 ends up going eighteen but gets overslapped by three hundred 0:34:39.480 --> 0:34:44.479 grand And then Eric Becker solid well rounded college bats. 0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:47.719 You go from maybe the most volatile to make more 0:34:47.760 --> 0:34:51.560 well rounded, safer guy Moulvii Lavou like I love the swing, 0:34:51.719 --> 0:34:53.720 but you're taking a first Baseman here has got a bang, 0:34:53.719 --> 0:34:56.359 but I think he obviously can. And then you look 0:34:56.360 --> 0:34:57.920 at the arms and I think it's just kind of 0:34:58.800 --> 0:35:02.279 like higher for or I'm just curious what you think 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:05.400 about this class overall, and it just it feels funny 0:35:05.400 --> 0:35:06.919 on a draft because and of course it's always gonna 0:35:06.920 --> 0:35:08.600 be like duh, the first round pick is always going 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:11.680 to you know, set the tone for how we perceive 0:35:11.719 --> 0:35:14.600 the draft cost. But I think as as time has passed, 0:35:14.600 --> 0:35:16.920 like there's just so many talented baseball players and so 0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:19.520 much strategies to the draft that sometimes you can whiff 0:35:19.560 --> 0:35:21.600 on the first round and still have a great draft. 0:35:22.120 --> 0:35:24.239 It really feels like this Rered's coast though, like it 0:35:24.520 --> 0:35:25.640 all hinges on Lebron. 0:35:26.719 --> 0:35:27.520 It does. 0:35:27.960 --> 0:35:32.040 You're taking a big swing on finding that top of 0:35:32.080 --> 0:35:34.520 the class talent that he had about eighteen months ago, 0:35:34.680 --> 0:35:38.080 I feel like, and they feel confident in doing so. 0:35:38.160 --> 0:35:40.120 Obviously it took him in the first round for a reason. 0:35:40.960 --> 0:35:43.120 The biggest thing for me Lebron is obviously the swinging 0:35:43.160 --> 0:35:45.600 mixiganst breaking balls. You know it's going to be something 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:48.120 that follows him for a bit. And then also the 0:35:48.160 --> 0:35:50.160 defense kind of fell back a little bit this year, 0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:53.520 but the pro development in terms of defense has gotten 0:35:53.520 --> 0:35:54.799 so much better in the past few years. 0:35:54.840 --> 0:35:56.520 I think that they're fine with that. 0:35:56.800 --> 0:35:58.440 You know, it's just it's finding a way to get 0:35:58.480 --> 0:36:02.160 him to us and to recognize spin a little bit 0:36:02.160 --> 0:36:05.600 better and also change the batpath a little bit. You know, Uh, 0:36:05.640 --> 0:36:07.880 do you sacrifice some of the high end, you know, 0:36:07.960 --> 0:36:10.680 fastballs that he can hit for getting some breaking balls 0:36:10.719 --> 0:36:12.160 low and away and kind of fix that swing a 0:36:12.200 --> 0:36:12.600 little bit. 0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:15.000 I think you do. So. 0:36:15.120 --> 0:36:18.160 Yeah, it's a lot of risk on Lebron for me. 0:36:18.320 --> 0:36:21.399 But then like Eric Becker, you know, pretty safe pick 0:36:21.520 --> 0:36:25.200 Molevi Levu has just banged for three years. He might 0:36:25.200 --> 0:36:27.200 be tried out third base too. We'll see what happens. 0:36:27.480 --> 0:36:30.279 Then they go for some pretty like I don't want 0:36:30.280 --> 0:36:33.800 to say stereotypical arms, but like they're kind of safer 0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:37.480 floor kind of guys. Ty Horn, you know, performer for 0:36:37.520 --> 0:36:40.239 three years at Nebraska, Eathan Norby, kind of same thing 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:43.120 for Ecu. He might be a reliever though, Dougan Marston, 0:36:43.280 --> 0:36:46.640 Sherman Johnson is a good bat, Calvin Prosky, kinn of 0:36:46.680 --> 0:36:48.480 Griff and Brody Purcell, they get They went after a 0:36:48.480 --> 0:36:50.960 lot of guys that kind of like it helps them 0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:53.040 save a little bit money but also has some some 0:36:53.160 --> 0:36:57.680 trace that they like and it's more safer than what 0:36:57.719 --> 0:37:00.959 you would normally look for. And then getting Dylan Bowen, 0:37:01.000 --> 0:37:03.600 that's another big get in the fifth round. You know, 0:37:03.800 --> 0:37:06.040 order for the class, but very athletic can play, and 0:37:06.040 --> 0:37:08.000 that's kind of another thing they look for is athletic 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:12.600 in fielders. So again, this is I think it's it 0:37:12.719 --> 0:37:15.320 is a good class, but there's obviously going to be 0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:16.920 a lot of talk about who they took it in 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:19.440 the first round and how that progresses for the next 0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:20.320 couple of years. 0:37:20.880 --> 0:37:24.120 Bowen ninety second on your draft board. They grabbed him 0:37:24.160 --> 0:37:27.200 at one fifty four, So yeah, that seems like that's 0:37:27.239 --> 0:37:29.799 like the one higher variance guy outside of the first 0:37:29.840 --> 0:37:32.200 round that could kind of push this draft class up 0:37:32.200 --> 0:37:34.759 a little bit besides Lebron because again, the other guys 0:37:34.760 --> 0:37:38.440 are solid, but their median outcome like solid player. Maybe 0:37:38.560 --> 0:37:40.919 who's the guy that can kind of really exceed where 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:43.400 he was drafted. It seems like to your point, that 0:37:43.560 --> 0:37:45.960 is the guy that could do that. We go to 0:37:46.000 --> 0:37:50.040 the Cleveland Guardians and in recent years, I think there 0:37:50.080 --> 0:37:51.680 was a more obvious theme. So I'm curious to see 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:53.719 if there's one from you in this one, because in 0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:57.680 the past, like they'd been so contact oriented, middle and 0:37:57.719 --> 0:38:01.120 field tip like organizationally that it seems they clearly tried 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:02.680 to buck that trend the last couple of years and 0:38:02.719 --> 0:38:06.480 especially last year just went power with with concern, kind 0:38:06.480 --> 0:38:08.640 of like the Cubs bats and but a little bit 0:38:08.640 --> 0:38:11.400 about auticism and just try to balance out the system 0:38:11.400 --> 0:38:15.120 with Jase Laviolette, Aaron Walton, Nolan Schubart, like it goes 0:38:15.160 --> 0:38:17.839 on and on this class. I don't see it as 0:38:18.000 --> 0:38:21.080 obvious with that they lead it off with two arms, 0:38:21.160 --> 0:38:23.440 and obviously I don't know as much about the two 0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:25.960 bats they get, you know, or the three bats they 0:38:26.000 --> 0:38:28.360 get with the third, fourth and fifth picks. What stands 0:38:28.360 --> 0:38:31.600 out to you with the Guardian's draft. Of course Peterson 0:38:31.640 --> 0:38:34.880 an exciting get at the top, but just overall. 0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:38.839 It's definitely going after some premium arms. Like you look 0:38:38.880 --> 0:38:41.239 at who they got after Peters and Logan Schmid was 0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:43.359 a guy and like I believe I had him around 0:38:43.400 --> 0:38:45.359 thirty five to forty on my board and get him 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:47.480 in the second round. And then you get a guy 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:50.600 like Savion Simms who touches one hundred, is six foot 0:38:50.640 --> 0:38:53.120 eight to ten and has a lot of growing ahead 0:38:53.120 --> 0:38:56.440 of them, you know in the seventh round. And I 0:38:56.440 --> 0:38:57.960 feel like that's what a class kind of leans on 0:38:57.960 --> 0:39:00.440 a little bit, is these power arms like at Scott, 0:39:00.480 --> 0:39:04.160 Mario Peska are other guys that like college reformers. Scott 0:39:04.239 --> 0:39:07.239 has you know, changed himself at Georgia turned into a 0:39:07.239 --> 0:39:10.000 more powerful arm. Pesca is the guy that's got a 0:39:10.000 --> 0:39:14.200 lot of extension, Builka, Jake Bean. So they they have 0:39:14.280 --> 0:39:16.520 a type and they went for it on that regard, 0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:19.840 but they go after these high upside prep guys. Is impressive. 0:39:19.840 --> 0:39:21.640 They did with Chase Mobile a couple of years ago. 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:24.399 I believe Joey Oki was another one that they went 0:39:24.440 --> 0:39:26.879 after on that regard, So they're not afraid to take 0:39:26.920 --> 0:39:30.360 that risk. And you know, conversely, looking at the bats 0:39:30.400 --> 0:39:33.560 like Trey Brossard, you know, one of my favorite spark 0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:36.520 plugs in his class, Kate Lewis was a very solid 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:38.319 bad at wake Forest probably needs to pull the ball 0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:41.400 a little bit more, but he's shown to go oppo 0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:44.200 routine Lee and has some some pretty solid you know, 0:39:44.280 --> 0:39:48.359 hit tool and empower to kind of go into Lucas Moore, 0:39:48.680 --> 0:39:51.279 he was viewed as a first rounder coming into the year, 0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:53.680 tried to do I think he tried to do a 0:39:53.719 --> 0:39:55.880 little too much. He went away from his his play style, 0:39:55.920 --> 0:39:58.399 which is, you know, this slappy, top of the order 0:39:58.480 --> 0:40:02.680 guy who has said speed can be a tear on 0:40:02.880 --> 0:40:05.120 the base paths and can. 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:06.040 Play a good center field. 0:40:06.080 --> 0:40:07.759 But he tried to go for more power this year 0:40:08.320 --> 0:40:11.200 and it just didn't necessarily work out beating the chance, 0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:14.319 big power guy. So there's stuff to like with this 0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:17.640 Guardian's class. I think obviously they know what they're looking 0:40:17.640 --> 0:40:20.000 for with these arms and to maximize them. 0:40:20.080 --> 0:40:21.040 The Guardians are that. 0:40:21.000 --> 0:40:24.400 Team to do it, thinking of like previous guys that 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:28.080 throw hard and have power stuff. Davin Williams, you know, 0:40:28.239 --> 0:40:31.520 he's he's just he's through an immaculate inning today and yeah, 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:31.759 he just. 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:35.759 Struck out eleven for the third straight start. So it 0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:38.279 seems like if you're not on the arm side, kind 0:40:38.280 --> 0:40:41.239 of Guardians going back to what they do well. And 0:40:41.760 --> 0:40:44.680 I think beyond the top arms, you just wonder with 0:40:44.719 --> 0:40:46.680 all the other guys that you mentioned too, like obviously 0:40:46.719 --> 0:40:48.360 not all of them are going to hit, but you 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:50.319 think about just what could be with some of these 0:40:50.320 --> 0:40:53.320 other guys and especially save On Sims. I'm excited to 0:40:53.360 --> 0:40:55.319 see what the Guardians do, but it seems like they're 0:40:55.440 --> 0:40:58.840 really stockpiling the arms again, which has just always been 0:40:58.880 --> 0:41:01.720 an area of strength for them. 0:41:02.000 --> 0:41:07.160 We go to that absolutely Colorado Rockies next, and the 0:41:07.280 --> 0:41:09.360 Rockies like, you know, this is I'll say it a 0:41:09.360 --> 0:41:13.840 million times, this is the new front office that actually 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:14.959 kind of operates now. 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:17.040 So like it's just I was very intrigued to see 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:19.160 how they approached this, and a lot of people out 0:41:19.160 --> 0:41:21.600 there really like Tyler Bell. Of course comes with some 0:41:21.680 --> 0:41:26.279 injury concern with the shoulder, but Bell switch hitter some 0:41:26.400 --> 0:41:30.480 really interesting you know, bat ball data. He's somehow better 0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:33.200 with two strikes, so I think just just refining the 0:41:33.480 --> 0:41:35.719 approach earlier in the count will only help him. I know, 0:41:35.800 --> 0:41:37.960 Daniel Jackson the catcher, was a guy that you really 0:41:38.040 --> 0:41:40.319 liked as well, and that was their second pick. And 0:41:40.320 --> 0:41:42.200 then they go a lot of arms, which they have 0:41:42.280 --> 0:41:45.480 to do, right. You can't get anybody willingly to go 0:41:45.520 --> 0:41:46.880 pitch there, so you got to draft them so they 0:41:46.880 --> 0:41:49.520 don't have a choice. What did you make of the 0:41:49.600 --> 0:41:52.880 Rockies class overall, which was again two bats off the 0:41:52.920 --> 0:41:57.160 top and then one they go pitcher, one more bat 0:41:57.239 --> 0:41:59.200 and then I think it was a run of about 0:41:59.200 --> 0:42:00.000 ten straight pitchers. 0:42:01.320 --> 0:42:03.239 Yep, yeah, that's about what it was. 0:42:03.280 --> 0:42:05.880 But like, I like how they kind of go for 0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:08.640 these power guys because they obviously power plays in corps. 0:42:08.760 --> 0:42:12.240 So Tyler Bell above average power, Daniel Jackson plus power, 0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:15.880 jack and Tilly plus power. So you know, I would 0:42:15.880 --> 0:42:18.399 say a to get Daniel Jackson tense bus below where 0:42:18.400 --> 0:42:22.400 I had him at thirty seven Golden Spikes winner had 0:42:22.400 --> 0:42:25.239 a fantastic year at Georgia, was able to go back 0:42:25.239 --> 0:42:26.880 to what he was as a as a freshman at 0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:29.799 Wafford and really just destroy the baseball. So I was 0:42:29.880 --> 0:42:31.839 very happy that he got him there. Logan read him 0:42:31.840 --> 0:42:35.840 in you kind of tweet some pitch usage and some 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:37.799 pitch shapes to kind of a lot some more there. 0:42:37.800 --> 0:42:40.520 But he's kind of like he's kind of maxed out 0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:42.759 for what he is right now. But you know, he 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:45.560 looked like a legitimately new arm at UCLA this year 0:42:45.560 --> 0:42:49.360 before his arm injury. Ben Davis might be the fastest 0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:53.319 riser in this class. Tyler Putnam is super super projectable 0:42:53.760 --> 0:42:55.960 and also has been able to throw one hundred the 0:42:56.000 --> 0:42:58.720 past couple of months and then going down the board 0:42:58.760 --> 0:43:00.520 like Davin Schwartz and eleven for round is a good 0:43:00.560 --> 0:43:02.680 get for them. Schwartz had a lot of projection and 0:43:02.960 --> 0:43:05.480 some healium tune throughout the year saw him last year. 0:43:05.680 --> 0:43:08.400 It's a good get for them. They tried taking a 0:43:08.400 --> 0:43:10.400 swing with Blake bow and obviously in the eighteenth round, 0:43:10.440 --> 0:43:13.520 but I don't think that's ultimately going to happen. But 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:16.280 I think at the end of the day, like getting 0:43:16.480 --> 0:43:19.279 your strengths into that ballpark and knowing what you are 0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:22.160 able to do with them is fantastic. And I think 0:43:22.200 --> 0:43:24.960 getting three really really powerful bats in the top one 0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:27.040 hundred picks is something that you kind of walk away 0:43:27.040 --> 0:43:27.520 happy with. 0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:30.120 And I just like that you mentioned the arms too, 0:43:30.160 --> 0:43:32.520 Like you get a nearly two million dollar arm in 0:43:32.520 --> 0:43:36.480 Puttnam without going huge underslot with your first pick or 0:43:36.760 --> 0:43:40.239 really your second pick enough to help you combined to 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:42.440 seven hundred thousand dollars. But at the same time, so 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:44.920 guys that at those spots, I think a lot of 0:43:44.920 --> 0:43:47.399 people thought that was a pretty normal spots to draft 0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:50.000 bell in Jackson. So you get Puttnam, you know, with 0:43:50.520 --> 0:43:52.839 big upside on the Mountain and into two million dollars 0:43:52.840 --> 0:43:54.480 pay day nearly and then you met you get Schwartz, 0:43:54.560 --> 0:43:57.120 as you mentioned, a million dollar arm essentially in the 0:43:57.120 --> 0:43:59.760 eleventh round, so you're able to buy down some upside 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:02.560 there when you always need as much pitching as possible. 0:44:02.880 --> 0:44:04.960 I think you got to love that, you know, approach 0:44:05.000 --> 0:44:06.880 there for the Rockies if you're a Rockies fan, and 0:44:06.920 --> 0:44:10.680 a little bit more creativity to their draft this time around. 0:44:10.760 --> 0:44:12.359 We're going to get to the Tigers in a moment 0:44:12.400 --> 0:44:21.279 here before that, one more break time for the Tigers 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:25.360 draft here, and Tiger's kind of deviated. Scott Harris deviated 0:44:25.360 --> 0:44:27.280 a little bit from what we are used to seeing, 0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:30.239 surprising people with the cam Fluchi pick, though that was 0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:32.880 a fun one, and then they didn't pick again until 0:44:32.880 --> 0:44:36.480 pick sixty one, where they go with a short stop 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:39.160 from Kansas, Tyson LeBlanc. What did you think overall from 0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:42.279 the class? Were there any kind of how surprised were 0:44:42.280 --> 0:44:45.000 you by the fluky selection, given how much Harris loves 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:48.560 his you know, prep, left handed hitting high school guys, 0:44:49.200 --> 0:44:51.000 and then in general just just what did you kind 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:51.400 of make of it? 0:44:52.400 --> 0:44:54.680 Yeah, I was kind of a little concerned that he 0:44:54.800 --> 0:44:56.640 was locked up in a room somewhere. Give it the 0:44:56.840 --> 0:45:00.319 lack of left handed infielders on the prep side, he 0:45:00.360 --> 0:45:02.440 was still a going to get Robert Omedi and Will Adams, 0:45:02.480 --> 0:45:05.879 who you know immediate Watching him last year, I thought 0:45:05.920 --> 0:45:07.640 he was a guy that's gonna match no matter what, 0:45:07.760 --> 0:45:10.320 even if his a little position listened and Will Adams 0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:13.319 was a big helium guy. This year grew into more 0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:17.759 power hit tools fantastic. So to get those two and 0:45:17.800 --> 0:45:19.920 I believe the eighth and the eleventh round is fantastic. 0:45:20.360 --> 0:45:22.480 I think Adams was just outside the top one hundred. 0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:25.680 Omedia was like one twenty one thirty for me, and 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:27.560 they took some risk on some guys that kind of 0:45:27.560 --> 0:45:29.920 fell this year. Always in Max Maloney and Brady Ballinger 0:45:30.000 --> 0:45:33.880 did not have great seasons after having really suctacular sophomore years. 0:45:35.280 --> 0:45:37.799 So it's a little they're good value for what they 0:45:37.800 --> 0:45:39.200 are if he can return in the for and I 0:45:39.239 --> 0:45:42.919 think that's fantastic for the Tigers, But fluky at twenty two. 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:46.279 I like the the arm itself. I understand some people 0:45:46.320 --> 0:45:50.120 have their concerns about the lack of like powerful pitches, 0:45:50.160 --> 0:45:54.080 but still a really really good fastball plus curveball command 0:45:54.080 --> 0:45:55.839 and polish has always been there for him. 0:45:56.160 --> 0:45:59.600 I think you can unlock more of him as well. LeBlanc. 0:46:00.640 --> 0:46:04.239 I think he's another guy that comes from either D 0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:07.239 two or Naia, goes to Kansas and has just a 0:46:07.400 --> 0:46:11.920 fantastic here and Evan Depsey gonna pitch. So there's some 0:46:12.000 --> 0:46:13.759 guys to really like in the top ten rounds of 0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:16.160 this class. I think they did a really good job 0:46:16.239 --> 0:46:21.080 of finding not only risk, but also can we return 0:46:21.120 --> 0:46:23.080 these guys to for him and really turn them into 0:46:23.120 --> 0:46:25.840 what they were again, So finding some bast back candidates 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:28.359 was fantastic and I think they've done a good job 0:46:28.360 --> 0:46:28.640 with that. 0:46:29.200 --> 0:46:31.040 Another class where it does feel like a lot is 0:46:31.080 --> 0:46:33.760 on the shoulders of the first round pick overall, though, 0:46:34.160 --> 0:46:36.120 and you never know because guy's always emerge. But I 0:46:36.160 --> 0:46:38.960 just feel like with the wide range of what Fluki 0:46:39.040 --> 0:46:42.040 could be, but also the risk, like that does kind 0:46:42.040 --> 0:46:44.560 of set the tone here in a lot of ways. 0:46:44.640 --> 0:46:47.840 If there's one guy outside of Fluki that could jolt 0:46:47.880 --> 0:46:49.719 this class too, who would it be? 0:46:49.719 --> 0:46:53.360 Of the guys you mentioned, I could see the LeBlanc 0:46:53.400 --> 0:46:57.280 being that player. I know some people had him outside 0:46:57.280 --> 0:46:58.960 the top one hundred. I had him closer to like 0:46:59.000 --> 0:47:03.000 seventy five or maybe even higher than that. The guy 0:47:03.160 --> 0:47:05.120 is going to be able to play short stout for 0:47:05.160 --> 0:47:07.319 a long time. There's some power in there that's not 0:47:07.320 --> 0:47:10.440 been unlocked yet in the hit tools. Pretty sound. So 0:47:10.480 --> 0:47:13.080 this is a guy that took his jump from obviously. 0:47:13.600 --> 0:47:17.319 I think it was like lsu Eunice down in Louisiana 0:47:17.719 --> 0:47:20.520 to go to the Big twelve and help Kansas go 0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:23.879 to their first Super Regional ever. So I think he's 0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:25.279 a guy that's going to make a lot of noise 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:26.440 in this draft class. 0:47:26.840 --> 0:47:29.720 Love it, love it, and in classic call up fashion, 0:47:29.840 --> 0:47:31.160 this is going to have to end up being a 0:47:31.160 --> 0:47:33.960 two parter because it's just wanting to get into each 0:47:34.000 --> 0:47:36.319 of these classes. Like I'm going to be keeping you 0:47:36.360 --> 0:47:38.200 two hours here today, which we can't do. You already 0:47:38.200 --> 0:47:39.880 had a full day of work, so we'll have to 0:47:39.880 --> 0:47:41.279 circle back on the second half. But we got a 0:47:41.320 --> 0:47:42.840 few more to get through here. We'll split it right 0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:44.319 down the middle and I think we'll be perfect. But 0:47:44.360 --> 0:47:47.360 this is just the most classic call up thing ever. 0:47:47.920 --> 0:47:50.359 This is what we always do. But we'll go over 0:47:50.560 --> 0:47:55.640 to the astros here. And this was a fun one too, 0:47:55.800 --> 0:47:59.160 because I like lugging Hughes. I don't know if I 0:47:59.280 --> 0:48:03.080 seventeenth overall pick like Logan Hughes, but can't judge that 0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:05.080 until you see what it opens up for them later. 0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:07.839 And Hughes the left hand of hitting outfielder from Texas Tech, 0:48:08.120 --> 0:48:10.560 great bat speed. I mean, he's going to have to 0:48:10.600 --> 0:48:13.120 really hit, but he's got the ingredients to be able 0:48:13.120 --> 0:48:14.640 to do that. I think there's a hit and power 0:48:14.680 --> 0:48:16.279 blend from the left side. I think you get quite 0:48:16.320 --> 0:48:19.919 excited about They go with Jack Ordell and the second pick, 0:48:19.960 --> 0:48:23.560 and I think that was one that kind of I'm 0:48:23.640 --> 0:48:25.200 very excited to get your thoughts there, because I think 0:48:25.200 --> 0:48:26.560 some could be really high on that arm and I 0:48:26.560 --> 0:48:28.880 could understand why. And then I'm just kind of curious 0:48:29.120 --> 0:48:30.719 what you saw from the rest of their draft to 0:48:30.760 --> 0:48:34.480 maybe justify the Logan Hughes Savings pick at seventeen. 0:48:35.760 --> 0:48:36.000 Yeah. 0:48:36.120 --> 0:48:40.439 I think this is another class that like a bit 0:48:40.440 --> 0:48:43.839 of a philosophy change. The astros are usually you know, 0:48:43.880 --> 0:48:46.640 they go after risk a lot. This is a very 0:48:46.680 --> 0:48:50.680 a polished group of players. Like Logan Hughes is like 0:48:50.719 --> 0:48:53.239 aj Grossi a little bit where the bat's going to 0:48:53.280 --> 0:48:55.279 play no matter what, it doesn't matter where you put 0:48:55.320 --> 0:48:59.160 them defensively, I liked them in like the twenties, so 0:48:59.200 --> 0:49:01.359 this kind of makes sense for the Astros to kind 0:49:01.360 --> 0:49:03.920 of take that and run with it. I think Logan 0:49:04.000 --> 0:49:07.560 Hughes is like a very high upside offensive profile and 0:49:07.680 --> 0:49:10.920 Jack Ordell another guy with like seven feet of extension, 0:49:11.840 --> 0:49:14.680 deep pitch mix, throws strikes. He's been a performer. He 0:49:14.719 --> 0:49:16.560 had a fantastic year at Notre Dame this year. I 0:49:16.560 --> 0:49:18.719 thought he might have been a dark horse for the 0:49:18.719 --> 0:49:22.520 ACC Pitcher of the Year this year, and seeing him 0:49:22.520 --> 0:49:25.279 twice and performing well on both of them, really it 0:49:25.400 --> 0:49:29.200 just solidified feel feel about him where it was this 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:31.880 guy's gonna be a high floor starter at the next level, 0:49:32.200 --> 0:49:34.920 who's gonna throw a lot of strikes, has some upside 0:49:34.960 --> 0:49:37.240 in his breaking balls. He doesn't spend the ball very well, 0:49:37.280 --> 0:49:40.400 but his pitch shapes are fantastic for what he is, 0:49:40.520 --> 0:49:43.640 so they get him. Westman is obviously ac Pitcher of 0:49:43.640 --> 0:49:47.040 the Year, did another great, great job at Florida State 0:49:47.080 --> 0:49:50.479 this year. And then if there's anyone that really helps 0:49:50.480 --> 0:49:52.880 to the savings, it's obviously Keon Johnson and Bo Peterson. 0:49:53.000 --> 0:49:56.560 In the third and the fourth where you can give 0:49:56.600 --> 0:49:58.440 them a little bit more money. Obviously, these high schoolers 0:49:58.440 --> 0:50:00.640 are going to ask for a lot more. But at 0:50:00.640 --> 0:50:03.440 the same token, these are polished guys that have had 0:50:03.480 --> 0:50:07.000 a track record of hitting it in big tournaments. Keon 0:50:07.640 --> 0:50:10.920 saw him last year pretty early and often he performed 0:50:10.920 --> 0:50:11.439 at every stop. 0:50:11.440 --> 0:50:12.799 Bill Peterson did the same thing. 0:50:13.000 --> 0:50:16.960 So to get those guys where they were, it's pretty impressive. 0:50:17.480 --> 0:50:19.200 And I had them roughly in that range anyway, so 0:50:19.239 --> 0:50:22.359 it kind of fits what we were looking at. Cam 0:50:22.440 --> 0:50:25.640 Durnan is a good bad as well. I know they 0:50:25.760 --> 0:50:29.040 drafted James Tronsteen in the fifteenth round. I've heard rumors 0:50:29.080 --> 0:50:31.920 that it's probably not going to happen, but if they 0:50:31.920 --> 0:50:34.600 were able to get that guy to sign, it would 0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:36.840 have put the Jerry On thought to a pretty solid class. 0:50:36.840 --> 0:50:40.279 But without him, it's kind of just like a high 0:50:40.360 --> 0:50:43.120 floor class to where you know you're gonna get a 0:50:43.200 --> 0:50:45.160 couple of good, big leaders out of this, but nothing's 0:50:45.200 --> 0:50:48.400 gonna essentially wow you or like blow you away at 0:50:48.400 --> 0:50:49.040 the next level. 0:50:49.760 --> 0:50:52.200 Well, and that, to your point, is definitely a change. 0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:54.800 There's no Xavier Nines in this class. There's no Bryce 0:50:54.840 --> 0:50:57.360 Matthews or like don I don't know if he's going 0:50:57.400 --> 0:50:59.359 to hit it enough, but if he does, holy crap, right, 0:50:59.400 --> 0:51:02.920 and that doesn't see there's that guy this year, And 0:51:03.080 --> 0:51:05.200 I think sometimes it's good to balance things out, and 0:51:05.200 --> 0:51:06.919 I think we're seeing that more with teams, like even 0:51:07.120 --> 0:51:09.480 the approach that they generally have, they know that to 0:51:09.600 --> 0:51:11.680 just have a more well rounded farm system, you got 0:51:11.680 --> 0:51:13.520 to deviate from it here and there, and it seems 0:51:13.520 --> 0:51:15.440 like that's what the Astros did. But also we could 0:51:15.480 --> 0:51:17.520 see a little bit of a front office change there 0:51:17.719 --> 0:51:21.239 after this season, so that part will be interesting. We 0:51:21.360 --> 0:51:26.319 go to one of the more I think unique draft classes, 0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:29.799 because when you take a player at six that you 0:51:29.920 --> 0:51:33.480 also had a lot of people making to do at thirty, 0:51:33.920 --> 0:51:35.920 you are probably gonna be one of the more surprising drafts. 0:51:35.920 --> 0:51:38.560 And that's the Royals. They go with Zion Rose with 0:51:38.640 --> 0:51:41.600 their first pick, a guy that they obviously adore, but 0:51:41.680 --> 0:51:44.719 that also saved them almost two million dollars to then 0:51:45.160 --> 0:51:49.200 do a lot of other things. So Rose very surprising pick. 0:51:49.600 --> 0:51:51.400 I don't think like shocking in the respect that the 0:51:51.480 --> 0:51:54.120 Royals grabbed him and if anyone was going to do it, 0:51:54.320 --> 0:51:56.960 you know and go this this big underslot in the 0:51:57.000 --> 0:51:59.840 top six picks it was going to be the Royals 0:51:59.880 --> 0:52:02.359 with Zion Rose just what it seems like how tither 0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:05.880 they were to each other. But do you feel like 0:52:05.960 --> 0:52:10.239 with the savings of the Rose pick they maximized, you know, 0:52:10.600 --> 0:52:12.120 the rest of their selections. 0:52:13.239 --> 0:52:13.959 I think they did. 0:52:14.880 --> 0:52:18.240 And talking with Jared too, because obviously he's our Royals 0:52:18.280 --> 0:52:22.520 guy and you know, he's had some some conversations with 0:52:22.560 --> 0:52:25.040 the guys where people were kind of like wondering what 0:52:25.160 --> 0:52:28.560 the main play here was In Taylor rebe at thirty 0:52:28.560 --> 0:52:31.200 and Jack Slideham who had a three million dollar you know, 0:52:31.360 --> 0:52:34.759 bonus in the second round. Those are big, obviously big 0:52:34.840 --> 0:52:36.840 upside guys who had some helium late in the class. 0:52:36.840 --> 0:52:39.680 I don't think the rankings on the public scale really 0:52:39.719 --> 0:52:41.720 do justice to how much helium. 0:52:41.360 --> 0:52:43.560 They had going into the drafts. 0:52:43.600 --> 0:52:46.879 So, you know, doing that, I think that's a very 0:52:46.920 --> 0:52:49.399 solid upse I bet from them getting Max Yelle, who 0:52:49.440 --> 0:52:53.000 had a fantastic year at West Virginia. Dominic Battista had 0:52:53.360 --> 0:52:57.440 a hammett injury, but the power has been there, the 0:52:57.480 --> 0:53:00.720 speed's been there. I think also to look at Camden 0:53:00.760 --> 0:53:03.000 Johnson in the ninth round, who I had as a 0:53:03.000 --> 0:53:06.160 top one hundred guy, you know, that's exceptional value at 0:53:06.200 --> 0:53:09.720 that range. And then obviously the big caveat here Hudson 0:53:09.880 --> 0:53:12.319 von in the nineteenth round, who you know. At first 0:53:12.360 --> 0:53:14.360 you're like, maybe it's an insurance pick, but it sounds 0:53:14.360 --> 0:53:17.080 like the Royals really want to sign him, and we've 0:53:17.080 --> 0:53:18.920 got a couple more days to figure that out. But 0:53:19.520 --> 0:53:21.200 if they get it done, it's fantastic. I think that 0:53:21.200 --> 0:53:24.160 that's another, you know, pieces of a puzzle of what 0:53:24.239 --> 0:53:26.560 I think is a pretty solid draft class in general, 0:53:27.360 --> 0:53:30.160 because they got some pretty intriguing arms outside of that too, 0:53:30.239 --> 0:53:34.800 like Ethan mcilvan, Justin Laguernik, Dylan v Hunter, Poschule, Grant 0:53:34.840 --> 0:53:38.760 fought not from LSU. These are guys that have uniqueness 0:53:38.760 --> 0:53:41.080 to him. I think Macklelvan can start at the next level. 0:53:41.960 --> 0:53:45.359 Vegue has shown the ability to start as well. So 0:53:45.800 --> 0:53:49.200 I think there's a chance that there's some more intriguing 0:53:49.360 --> 0:53:52.600 arms that kind of surprise people in this class than 0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:56.040 some whould expect. But I don't think what the Royals 0:53:56.040 --> 0:53:59.279 did at the top of this draft is you know, 0:53:59.600 --> 0:54:01.760 hampering them in any way. I think they still got 0:54:02.080 --> 0:54:05.080 fantastic value later in the draft that is going to 0:54:05.239 --> 0:54:08.400 play a lot into how this class evolves. 0:54:08.560 --> 0:54:12.080 And Zon Rose, I mean, really good ballplayer, right, He's 0:54:12.120 --> 0:54:16.200 a late first round guy. I think by the consensus there, 0:54:17.040 --> 0:54:20.080 I don't love the swing mechanics as good as he 0:54:20.120 --> 0:54:22.080 his bats of ball wise, I just think it's gonna 0:54:22.080 --> 0:54:23.400 have to get cleaned up a little bit to be 0:54:23.400 --> 0:54:26.279 able to just turn around hard stuff in consistently, and 0:54:26.640 --> 0:54:28.040 I just think be able to do damage to the 0:54:28.040 --> 0:54:32.120 poll side and just be able to maximize his quality 0:54:32.160 --> 0:54:36.720 of contact. Obviously, the Royals feel really really good about 0:54:36.920 --> 0:54:38.480 what he can be, what he can do on the 0:54:38.520 --> 0:54:42.240 pro side. The makeup is by all accounts off the charts, 0:54:42.280 --> 0:54:45.080 and think that's something that'll always just helps, you know, 0:54:45.640 --> 0:54:48.960 when you have that risk or concern to consider and 0:54:49.040 --> 0:54:50.759 getting the bats of ball skills you can't really teach. 0:54:50.760 --> 0:54:53.120 Even with some of the wonkiness, like he's so good 0:54:53.160 --> 0:54:57.560 at getting bats ball. It's a good athlete overall. Obviously, 0:54:57.560 --> 0:55:00.000 he's not a top ten pick talent, so what he 0:55:00.000 --> 0:55:01.440 do you make it that? Obviously we talked about the 0:55:01.760 --> 0:55:04.560 saving side and how they were able to maximize and 0:55:04.600 --> 0:55:06.560 it seems like they spread the board pretty well there. 0:55:06.880 --> 0:55:10.480 But with Rose just at the sixth pick, what do 0:55:10.520 --> 0:55:14.440 you make of him as a player, And I guess 0:55:14.480 --> 0:55:17.560 just tying it down to like, do you see why 0:55:17.600 --> 0:55:19.200 they are so high on him and why they like 0:55:19.280 --> 0:55:19.759 him so much? 0:55:21.080 --> 0:55:22.560 I think the biggest thing it kind of loose at 0:55:22.560 --> 0:55:24.440 the other trends in the first round where some of 0:55:24.440 --> 0:55:26.960 these teams were just really looking at these safer hit tools, 0:55:27.000 --> 0:55:29.279 like Dion Rose has been a tough out in the 0:55:29.280 --> 0:55:33.719 ACC for three years now. Obviously power has never necessarily 0:55:33.800 --> 0:55:35.719 been there. He did show it last year, but this 0:55:35.800 --> 0:55:38.239 year kind of went back to that way of you know, 0:55:38.239 --> 0:55:40.920 I'm going to use the whole field and and sting 0:55:40.960 --> 0:55:43.360 some line drives instead of sell out for this power, 0:55:43.400 --> 0:55:46.440 which is, you know, something I don't necessarily hate whatsoever. 0:55:46.520 --> 0:55:48.440 I think there's more to on Lockdore, like you said, 0:55:48.480 --> 0:55:50.600 with you know, fixing the swing a little bit to 0:55:50.640 --> 0:55:52.520 get some more leverage out of it, maybe get into 0:55:52.560 --> 0:55:56.000 his pull side more. He's again he's shown the power 0:55:56.080 --> 0:55:58.120 trace in the past. I think he's very capable of 0:55:58.160 --> 0:56:00.359 like fifteen plus home runs at the next level. 0:56:01.320 --> 0:56:05.160 But also to have a guy that I yes, like we. 0:56:05.120 --> 0:56:06.720 Had him in the back end of the first round, 0:56:06.840 --> 0:56:08.000 but I think at the end of the day, you 0:56:08.000 --> 0:56:10.160 can make a case to where he could have been 0:56:10.200 --> 0:56:12.920 fifteenth to twentieth in that class with a guy that 0:56:13.040 --> 0:56:15.839 obviously hit four hundred and ye acc this year and 0:56:15.840 --> 0:56:19.000 then also has been able to turn into a quality 0:56:19.000 --> 0:56:22.799 defender and immediately is a cornered outfield spot. But like 0:56:24.080 --> 0:56:26.920 he was a catcher as a prep, never never had 0:56:26.920 --> 0:56:29.160 outfield experience until he got to Louisville, so he's turned 0:56:29.200 --> 0:56:32.480 himself into a decent outfielder as well. So I think 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:38.440 this is another case where like the public public boards 0:56:38.600 --> 0:56:41.400 and the in room boards are going to differ on 0:56:41.440 --> 0:56:44.319 some of these guys. And obviously, you know Royals are 0:56:44.560 --> 0:56:47.120 prime example of that, and there's there's nothing wrong with 0:56:47.160 --> 0:56:47.800 that whatsoever. 0:56:48.480 --> 0:56:50.319 Yeah, I agree, and I think it's gonna be really 0:56:50.360 --> 0:56:51.840 fun to see how it plays out. But again, you 0:56:51.880 --> 0:56:54.280 can even see even if he is if he trends 0:56:54.320 --> 0:56:56.640 more like a guy that looked like a back end 0:56:56.680 --> 0:56:59.799 of the first round talent, you can see why they 0:56:59.840 --> 0:57:03.120 did it with the exciting arms that were able to 0:57:03.160 --> 0:57:05.360 be added there and the upside that the Royals have 0:57:05.400 --> 0:57:08.960 in this overall class, and Rose the person with still 0:57:08.960 --> 0:57:11.600 the talent that he has can understand the Royals betting 0:57:11.760 --> 0:57:15.320 on that go to the Angels now, and the Angels 0:57:15.360 --> 0:57:17.760 at first it was like, oh wow, they are completely 0:57:17.800 --> 0:57:19.280 bucking the trend of what we're used to do. And 0:57:19.280 --> 0:57:21.640 then they went right back to their ways. But they 0:57:21.680 --> 0:57:26.400 go with Jared Grinlinger. I always want to say it's Grinlinger, right, yeah, 0:57:26.880 --> 0:57:28.960 two way player, one of the younger in the class. 0:57:29.400 --> 0:57:31.840 Maybe Arden Moreno called this one in himself and says, 0:57:31.840 --> 0:57:33.720 we need to try the Otani thing again. They're gonna 0:57:33.720 --> 0:57:35.480 give them all the time to potentially do both of 0:57:35.520 --> 0:57:37.920 those things. And then they go right back to college right, 0:57:38.000 --> 0:57:40.280 like in just high floor college. Like I don't even 0:57:40.280 --> 0:57:42.040 know what the ceiling is on these guys, but they 0:57:42.120 --> 0:57:46.840 hit right and Jared evinkuah, what is he? Hits leader 0:57:46.880 --> 0:57:52.440 in college baseball, Graham Goehovic, like they go college college college, college, 0:57:52.440 --> 0:57:55.320 college college, Jackson Willitts as well, really high for switch 0:57:55.360 --> 0:57:58.640 hitter brother of Eli. Start with Grindler because I think 0:57:58.680 --> 0:58:01.840 it's a really fascinating situation with what could be here, 0:58:01.920 --> 0:58:04.000 and you alluded to this in the draft stream of 0:58:04.080 --> 0:58:06.880 like young for the class. They could take their sweet 0:58:06.880 --> 0:58:08.960 time and actually try to develop this kid as a 0:58:08.960 --> 0:58:11.640 two way guy at the complex for a year or 0:58:11.680 --> 0:58:14.240 two before even fully deploying him in a full season 0:58:14.240 --> 0:58:16.720 ball And then what did you see after that pick? 0:58:18.040 --> 0:58:21.120 Yeah, I first off, it was a breakfast, fresh air, 0:58:21.320 --> 0:58:23.400 you know, to have a high schooler for d Angels 0:58:23.400 --> 0:58:26.200 in the first round. Secondly, you know, to your point, yes, 0:58:26.280 --> 0:58:28.560 you kind of let this kid stay at the complex, 0:58:28.600 --> 0:58:30.479 figure out what pathy's going to happen the next level 0:58:30.480 --> 0:58:31.160 and go from there. 0:58:31.600 --> 0:58:33.720 You know, they don't need to rush him whatsoever. 0:58:33.800 --> 0:58:36.640 He's he was seventeen and two on draft day, and 0:58:37.600 --> 0:58:40.000 it's one of the youngest draft picks ever. I think 0:58:40.080 --> 0:58:43.720 the if you're wanted, like a comparison, Ken Grifrey Junior 0:58:43.840 --> 0:58:46.160 was roughly this age when he was drafted first overall 0:58:46.200 --> 0:58:49.880 back in what eighty eighty six, eighty nine. I could 0:58:50.040 --> 0:58:53.400 I could be misinterpreted on the year, but I just 0:58:53.440 --> 0:58:55.880 remember he was first overall in one of the late eighties. 0:58:56.360 --> 0:59:01.640 But you know, I'd say I wasn't even close. Cool. 0:59:03.320 --> 0:59:04.000 But yeah, like with. 0:59:03.960 --> 0:59:06.360 Greenlinger, you you just you just get to have the 0:59:06.440 --> 0:59:08.360 chance to let this kid figure out what he's gonna 0:59:08.400 --> 0:59:09.960 end up being. Is he a bad at the end 0:59:09.960 --> 0:59:13.080 of the day, do you we think he could be 0:59:13.120 --> 0:59:15.200 an arm with you know, been up to ninety six 0:59:15.240 --> 0:59:17.760 with a good breaking ball. You know, I think there's 0:59:17.760 --> 0:59:22.160 a lot of physical physical maturity that's still unlocking this kid. 0:59:22.200 --> 0:59:24.040 You know he's gonna have. He's got a frame where 0:59:24.040 --> 0:59:27.200 you can add another like fifteen twenty pounds to him 0:59:27.240 --> 0:59:30.360 and see does the athleticism take up? Do you see 0:59:30.360 --> 0:59:32.520 more power out of him? He already has fantastic about 0:59:32.560 --> 0:59:36.080 the ball skills. As an outfielder, I mean he essentially glides. 0:59:36.160 --> 0:59:39.520 You know when I say like, you know, this is 0:59:39.560 --> 0:59:43.080 a comfortable above average runner with long strides, like it's 0:59:43.120 --> 0:59:47.200 a gazelle essentially in the outfield to where he could probably. 0:59:46.920 --> 0:59:49.520 Play a center field spot if he holds up. If not, 0:59:49.600 --> 0:59:50.640 he's in right field. 0:59:51.680 --> 0:59:53.800 Conversely, if you like him as an arm lots of 0:59:53.880 --> 0:59:57.040 arm speed, has has more velo to unlocked, and already 0:59:57.040 --> 0:59:59.840 has a pretty solid breaking ball too, come in you 0:59:59.840 --> 1:00:02.400 can work on a little bit. But I think at 1:00:02.440 --> 1:00:04.000 the end of the day, you let this kid two 1:00:04.000 --> 1:00:05.920 way until he approves you that he can't do that. 1:00:06.240 --> 1:00:09.320 Yeah, especially with with what the Angels are probably gonna 1:00:09.320 --> 1:00:10.760 want to do, and the one time they take a 1:00:10.800 --> 1:00:12.920 high school guy're probably going to try to maximize that 1:00:13.080 --> 1:00:15.760 ceiling there as much as they can because they go 1:00:15.840 --> 1:00:17.560 high floor with the rest of the guys. What do 1:00:17.600 --> 1:00:20.720 you make of the college runoff for most of the 1:00:20.760 --> 1:00:25.400 other picks and they do it takes a couple interesting 1:00:25.880 --> 1:00:28.560 I think, like potential overswat guys in the eighth and 1:00:28.680 --> 1:00:30.960 ninth rounds. But I'm just curious what you think of 1:00:31.000 --> 1:00:32.440 the rest of the class with the Angels. 1:00:33.120 --> 1:00:37.320 Yeah, it's just stereotypical angels personally, it is a bit 1:00:37.360 --> 1:00:39.280 of a change. Do you to just go after arms 1:00:39.400 --> 1:00:44.400 after like the second round like Jase Shores, but they 1:00:44.400 --> 1:00:46.360 went after some bats. I kind of like obviously at 1:00:46.400 --> 1:00:49.280 Van Kila being at Georgia Tack. He's hit for three 1:00:49.360 --> 1:00:51.560 years in the ACC, both at Cal and at Georgia Tack. 1:00:52.800 --> 1:00:55.640 Not a ton of power, but like you look at 1:00:55.640 --> 1:00:57.880 this guy as a potential seventy hit tool if you 1:00:57.920 --> 1:00:59.880 look at at the end of the day, Gavin Kerhovic 1:01:00.400 --> 1:01:02.840 had a lot of hype as a freshman, got hurt, 1:01:03.000 --> 1:01:06.280 comes back this year, has a great year. I think 1:01:06.320 --> 1:01:08.160 he's personally a first baseman, but it's a lot of 1:01:08.160 --> 1:01:09.920 power from the right side. I think you take that 1:01:09.960 --> 1:01:13.040 either way. You look at it, Ryan Lujo, Jackson Willis. 1:01:13.040 --> 1:01:16.640 They're going for big conference performers here, even with some 1:01:16.680 --> 1:01:20.040 of the arms as well, like Ryan Hetzler, Justin Byrd 1:01:20.080 --> 1:01:23.840 had fantastic years at Georgia and Auburn. Garrett Wright goes 1:01:23.880 --> 1:01:27.360 from bowling Green, has an injury, goes to Tennessee and 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:28.080 you know. 1:01:28.040 --> 1:01:29.320 He got a late start of the year. 1:01:29.400 --> 1:01:31.000 But it's a guy that can play both behind the 1:01:31.040 --> 1:01:33.880 plate and in the outfield with a good arm, aggressive 1:01:34.240 --> 1:01:36.480 as all get out, but at the same time as 1:01:36.480 --> 1:01:39.720 good bat the ball skills with burging power. Trevor Hanson 1:01:40.000 --> 1:01:42.560 is a guy with you know, he's been a story 1:01:42.560 --> 1:01:46.439 for three years at UC Irvine. Also poppers the strike 1:01:46.560 --> 1:01:48.200 zone been up to ninety four to ninety five with 1:01:48.360 --> 1:01:50.400 a really really good breaking ball and change up. So 1:01:51.120 --> 1:01:53.480 you know, it's not like these arms or these bats 1:01:53.480 --> 1:01:57.880 at the college level don't have upside. These are guys 1:01:57.880 --> 1:02:00.480 that have been able to perform for three years and 1:02:00.560 --> 1:02:02.320 there's still stuff to unlock on some of them. And 1:02:02.360 --> 1:02:05.880 getting a guy like Jackson Willows, who was you know, 1:02:06.000 --> 1:02:08.960 white hot going into the to the College Fool Series 1:02:09.000 --> 1:02:12.520 and helping them win that title, I'd say you let 1:02:12.560 --> 1:02:14.120 that carry over and see what it does for the 1:02:14.160 --> 1:02:17.360 Angels in the minor leagues. I think this is, you know, 1:02:17.840 --> 1:02:20.040 probably one of my more favorite classes from them in 1:02:20.040 --> 1:02:21.000 the past few years. 1:02:21.320 --> 1:02:23.600 Nice, that's good to hear. And again with the headliner 1:02:23.640 --> 1:02:26.040 or the high school guy on top, and then the 1:02:26.120 --> 1:02:28.400 college bats that may make a little bit more sense. 1:02:28.760 --> 1:02:32.360 This time around. We wrap up with the Dodgers, who 1:02:32.400 --> 1:02:34.960 had very little money to work with, but they're able 1:02:35.000 --> 1:02:37.160 to land boler On. So I think it's one of 1:02:37.160 --> 1:02:39.280 the best value picks in the draft to get him 1:02:39.280 --> 1:02:42.520 at forty for a guy that I know you thought 1:02:42.520 --> 1:02:44.040 could easily be in the back end of the first 1:02:44.080 --> 1:02:45.560 I thought could even be a little bit higher than 1:02:45.560 --> 1:02:47.959 that six or five. You know, left hand and hitting 1:02:48.160 --> 1:02:49.880 infielder who looks like you can stay on the left 1:02:49.880 --> 1:02:52.120 side of the infield has just continued to become more 1:02:52.120 --> 1:02:54.840 agile for how big he is, such a smooth swing. 1:02:55.240 --> 1:02:57.040 But I'm also really curious, like, with their hands tied 1:02:57.080 --> 1:03:00.280 behind their back, basically, how do they do with the 1:03:00.200 --> 1:03:02.320 of the class as well behind you know, again, a 1:03:02.760 --> 1:03:05.200 great first round pick when you're not picking until forty. 1:03:06.600 --> 1:03:07.960 Yeah, they didn't. 1:03:08.440 --> 1:03:10.439 I don't want to say they blew me away from 1:03:10.440 --> 1:03:13.160 like round four onward. You know, they didn't have a 1:03:13.240 --> 1:03:16.360 fifth round, sixth round, second or third, so you're missing 1:03:16.400 --> 1:03:19.560 a lot of firepower there, but you go after some 1:03:19.640 --> 1:03:23.440 intriguing arms like Russell Stanley for from from Florida, turned 1:03:23.440 --> 1:03:25.959 into one of the better Sunday starts in the SEC 1:03:26.120 --> 1:03:28.480 this year. Been a big fan of him since his 1:03:28.600 --> 1:03:31.560 days at Saint Leo. He was a D two guy 1:03:31.640 --> 1:03:34.480 with the UCF N the Florida so you know he's 1:03:34.800 --> 1:03:37.640 he's climbed the ladder and performed at every stop. Charlie 1:03:37.640 --> 1:03:41.280 West is in the striking reliever, same for Gostola from Oregon. 1:03:41.880 --> 1:03:43.240 And then you kind of look at some guys like 1:03:43.280 --> 1:03:45.520 Cody Knew and Gavin van and Keeping in the eleventh 1:03:45.600 --> 1:03:48.520 and twelve rounds. Both guys got injured this year. Both 1:03:48.560 --> 1:03:51.160 guys were also in line for for massive years at 1:03:51.160 --> 1:03:54.000 their at their clubs. You know, Cody Knew got hurt 1:03:54.120 --> 1:03:56.320 first week of the year, but had a fantastic sophomore 1:03:56.360 --> 1:03:58.560 year and it was actually looking a lot better before 1:03:58.560 --> 1:04:00.760 you got hurt. And being the camp been went from 1:04:00.840 --> 1:04:05.160 West Virginia to ECU and they added like a bullet 1:04:05.200 --> 1:04:07.160 slider from the release point that he has and like 1:04:08.480 --> 1:04:11.080 it's a tray, a savage release high it's like seven 1:04:11.120 --> 1:04:13.760 feet in the air, super steeps the plate. But also 1:04:13.920 --> 1:04:16.400 the same token, it allows your secondaries to play from 1:04:16.400 --> 1:04:18.480 that angle, and he's got a really good curveball slider 1:04:18.720 --> 1:04:19.680 and splitter. 1:04:20.280 --> 1:04:23.200 That it keeps it down in the zone. Nobody's touching it. 1:04:23.360 --> 1:04:25.960 So I believe like the last start he had, or 1:04:26.040 --> 1:04:28.040 like second last start before the injury, he gets struck 1:04:28.080 --> 1:04:31.040 out fourteen and six, So there's huge. 1:04:30.920 --> 1:04:31.600 Upside with that. 1:04:31.800 --> 1:04:34.280 And to put him into a Dodger system that can 1:04:34.320 --> 1:04:38.640 maximize talent like that, it's just a fantastic fit for me. 1:04:38.760 --> 1:04:41.200 And like if they get guys like eating Something or 1:04:41.280 --> 1:04:44.080 Camden Wimbish in the sixteen to seventeenth round to sign, 1:04:44.800 --> 1:04:47.000 which I don't necessarily know if they have or not. 1:04:47.040 --> 1:04:48.520 Maybe one has, maybe the other hasn't. 1:04:48.520 --> 1:04:49.200 I have to. 1:04:49.200 --> 1:04:51.360 Look at it, but uh, you know, I think they 1:04:51.760 --> 1:04:54.680 did a good job of finding value. Besides, you know 1:04:54.760 --> 1:04:58.320 what they had left because obviously Lawns had seventy five 1:04:58.320 --> 1:05:02.040 percent of their entired just cool, which is deserved. 1:05:02.240 --> 1:05:04.120 Like I thought, he's the top twenty talent. 1:05:04.680 --> 1:05:07.439 Yeah, yeah, and that's so I said it a couple 1:05:07.520 --> 1:05:09.600 other times. This is actually the guy that can make 1:05:09.680 --> 1:05:11.400 or break a draft class because he is the draft 1:05:11.400 --> 1:05:13.280 class for the most part. I don't know have we 1:05:13.320 --> 1:05:18.680 ever seen anything like this. I'd have to for people 1:05:18.680 --> 1:05:20.520 that are wondering. They had to pick one pick in 1:05:20.560 --> 1:05:22.680 the first then they didn't pick till the fourth, and 1:05:22.760 --> 1:05:25.520 also their first pick was the fortieth, so they picked 1:05:25.560 --> 1:05:28.240 fortieth overall, one hundred and thirty second, Then they didn't 1:05:28.240 --> 1:05:30.800 pick again until two hundred and twenty third, and then 1:05:30.840 --> 1:05:33.560 they didn't pick again until two hundred and fifty third, 1:05:33.560 --> 1:05:35.720 two hundred and eighty third. Then it got normal from there, 1:05:35.880 --> 1:05:40.040 but no second, no third rounder, no fifth, no sixth, 1:05:40.160 --> 1:05:42.400 and their first round pick was fortieth overall. 1:05:43.320 --> 1:05:45.600 In that and that pick drop ten spots because. 1:05:45.400 --> 1:05:50.280 Of the the the threshold, yeah, the CBA threshold. 1:05:50.320 --> 1:05:54.720 So yeah, crazy crazy, and they still get a first 1:05:54.760 --> 1:05:56.920 round talent and kind of a guy that I think 1:05:56.920 --> 1:05:59.600 could be better than that. But this is where they 1:05:59.640 --> 1:06:02.040 can fux scouting muscles on some of the different arms 1:06:02.040 --> 1:06:04.520 that you mentioned, and I'm excited just players and gentlemen 1:06:04.560 --> 1:06:07.280 that will probably end up taking a leap with them 1:06:07.320 --> 1:06:11.400 this year regardless. So like they had their hands. It's 1:06:11.440 --> 1:06:14.240 literally like they're fighting everybody with one hand tied behind 1:06:14.280 --> 1:06:16.360 their back, and like, I still think they're gonna end 1:06:16.400 --> 1:06:18.160 up beating up some of these other teams with the 1:06:18.200 --> 1:06:20.400 one hand tied behind their back because they're the Dodgers. 1:06:20.440 --> 1:06:23.640 But it'll be fun to see how it all unfolds. 1:06:23.800 --> 1:06:26.200 It'll also be fun to do part two eventually, so 1:06:26.960 --> 1:06:29.240 we'll try to line that one up. Sorry, Tyler, it 1:06:29.320 --> 1:06:30.840 looks like you're gonna have to talk about the draft 1:06:30.960 --> 1:06:33.960 one more time here for the twenty twenty six class. 1:06:34.000 --> 1:06:38.160 But this was awesome, man. Always appreciate your your breakdowns 1:06:38.240 --> 1:06:40.440 and all of your info on all of these classes. 1:06:40.520 --> 1:06:43.560 And again we got fifteen more to go next time 1:06:43.680 --> 1:06:47.800 around anywhere anything else specifically coming out that you can plug. 1:06:49.480 --> 1:06:52.400 So at the moment, working on some obviously twenty twenty 1:06:52.400 --> 1:06:55.400 seven work has already started. So got the collegiate national 1:06:55.480 --> 1:06:58.080 team a couple weeks ago, did eighteen U trials this 1:06:58.160 --> 1:07:00.840 past weekend, and then go in the area coaching a 1:07:00.880 --> 1:07:02.880 couple of weeks out in California. So still a lot 1:07:02.880 --> 1:07:05.280 of work to be done on the draft front for 1:07:05.720 --> 1:07:08.840 twenty twenty seven. So you know, I don't sleep at 1:07:08.880 --> 1:07:11.640 this point. You can tell by the bags under both eyes, Like, 1:07:12.680 --> 1:07:15.520 at this point, we're just gonna we're gonna sleep in 1:07:15.560 --> 1:07:16.640 October at this point. 1:07:16.680 --> 1:07:18.120 Yeah. 1:07:18.120 --> 1:07:20.640 Well, I mean it is all exciting stuff though, and 1:07:20.680 --> 1:07:23.560 I appreciate everything that you do. Man. Excited for part two, 1:07:23.600 --> 1:07:25.680 we'll try to find that a little window for that, 1:07:25.840 --> 1:07:28.120 and uh, don't worry out there. Well, we're gonna break 1:07:28.120 --> 1:07:31.240 down your teams as well. We'll talk to you one 1:07:31.240 --> 1:07:32.800 more time this week with Jeff