Speaker 1: Episode three nine. We're going down on the farm. What's
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Speaker 1: That is snake. Welcome back to another episode of Down
Speaker 1: on the Farm, our minor League segment. Here at Bucco Banter,
Speaker 1: it's Jay and I again on the beat. If you will, Jay,
Speaker 1: how you doing man, Grey dude?
Speaker 3: We had an absolutely awesome day today with the trade deadline,
Speaker 3: got ourselves a nice little closer by the way, your
Speaker 3: birthday too, so also, Vie, it's a great day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's only once that you turned thirty two, right,
Speaker 1: So I enjoyed it. And when you say we had
Speaker 1: a good day, I'd say we'd had a good last
Speaker 1: hour of the day. Yeah, until six o'clock deadline. It
Speaker 1: was very stressful. Until that I was like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have an episode recapping absolutely nothing. That's great. But no,
Speaker 1: we added to the bullpen, and we really didn't dig
Speaker 1: into the farm system. Jay like, we did not get
Speaker 1: rid of any of the top names that we talked
Speaker 1: about parting with to add to this team in a
Speaker 1: meaningful way. Right, that's a Murph Gray and Edward Florentino
Speaker 1: is Seth Fernandez, all those guys stay. The biggest name
Speaker 1: we parted with was Sammy Safira and and credit where
Speaker 1: credits do. Sammy Sefira has had a tremendous year, especially
Speaker 1: the past month. Since the end of June, he's been
Speaker 1: on an absolute theater. Has changed the course of his
Speaker 1: season big time. This guy's hitting over three hundred. He
Speaker 1: has seventeen home runs in Greensboro. Yeah, probably some of
Speaker 1: that is a product of the environment in Greensboro. But
Speaker 1: a guy that is already a plus defender up the
Speaker 1: middle and has plus speed. If he's able to tap
Speaker 1: into his offensive game and at least an average way
Speaker 1: have an average hit tool, average power, I think that rises.
Speaker 1: That increases his prospect pedigree by a ton and he
Speaker 1: is the only piece going back to the Mets for
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver. Probably one of the best believers in baseball,
Speaker 1: which again is astonishing to me. Shout out to Ben.
Speaker 1: I'll give credit where credit is due here, But overall
Speaker 1: thoughts on that package and losing Sammy Sefira.
Speaker 3: I think it's okay, right because whenever you first asked
Speaker 3: you if I do down on the farm with you tonight,
Speaker 3: I was thinking we were going to be eulogizing the
Speaker 3: farm system a little bit, just because we were going
Speaker 3: to have to part with some significant pieces, like as
Speaker 3: we talked about on episodes before this. But to be
Speaker 3: able to escape this with only giving up a guy
Speaker 3: that was I would say, pretty expendable. Looking at the
Speaker 3: pharm system right now is a good place to be.
Speaker 3: And again, credit where credits do for Stuffer. I was
Speaker 3: writing up the little trade recap of that deal for
Speaker 3: Just Baseball, and I think his WRC plus in July
Speaker 3: was like close to two hundred it was like one
Speaker 3: ninety seven or something like that. It's just ridiculous, ridiculous
Speaker 3: stuff there. But as you mentioned, we got contact concerns there,
Speaker 3: so to be able to use him to get a
Speaker 3: nice big league piece for us is a good deal.
Speaker 3: I'm really happy with it.
Speaker 1: And I also think we have a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: up the middle or up the middle players in the infield,
Speaker 1: or just infillads in general that we really believe in.
Speaker 1: White Stanford is a guy that to name one, right, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can deal from that depth. And this is why
Speaker 1: you draft well, this is why you developed, right, these
Speaker 1: are the good problems to have in an organization, to
Speaker 1: have too many guys and to have the ability to
Speaker 1: dip into that asset class and part from it to
Speaker 1: improve your team. Now, like that's the goal, right, That's
Speaker 1: the absolute goal for this team. And obviously I think
Speaker 1: they wish they were in a better PASII right now
Speaker 1: in August the third, not a game under five hundred
Speaker 1: going into Milwaukee, but you know, they're still in a
Speaker 1: position in a wild card race to go for it.
Speaker 1: And you know, they definitely improved the most glaring hole
Speaker 1: on the team, which is the bullpen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, man. I mean you look at guys like
Speaker 3: Omar Alfonso too, right. The catching def in this system
Speaker 3: right now between axial applause, Eastern Carmichael, who we're going
Speaker 3: to talk about in a little bit, and further down
Speaker 3: the system even is pretty ridiculous. So to be able
Speaker 3: to deal from areas like that where you have people
Speaker 3: is a super nice place to be. And also it
Speaker 3: does kind of suck for Omar to get dealt after
Speaker 3: all that he went through recently. But to be able
Speaker 3: to deal from your depth in positions like that where
Speaker 3: it's still meaningful guys that you're trading like you're obviously
Speaker 3: still giving to get, of course, but to be able
Speaker 3: to like be okay with that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: and just be able to sit back and be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we can survive. We're not You're not just totally gambling
Speaker 3: your future on like a couple the second half of
Speaker 3: the season, right, and still be able to keep guys
Speaker 3: like Sandford and your other meaningful players in the system
Speaker 3: is going to be huge for this team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean absolutely right. They were able to add
Speaker 1: another arm very late here that we didn't get to
Speaker 1: talk about on the trade deadline episode. Andrew Moore required
Speaker 1: him from the Padres using triple A and al passo.
Speaker 1: Hunter Stratton was claimed by the Padres. We've got Andrew
Speaker 1: Moore in return since ninety ninety seven with the fastball
Speaker 1: touches ninety eight taxi the upper part of his own
Speaker 1: with above average ride. The sliders his best pitch. There
Speaker 1: is primary put away weapon. He also has a change
Speaker 1: up to since eighty sixty eighty eight. An interesting flyer
Speaker 1: here that'll probably go right to triple A and be
Speaker 1: an arm that you can look at as depth going
Speaker 1: down the stretch here.
Speaker 3: So strikeout rate from Andrew, what's that thirty four point
Speaker 3: strikeout right by the way this season for Andrew Moore,
Speaker 3: didn't look at the walk right though not relevant.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna look at the walk right the k
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at the positives and that, you know,
Speaker 1: high spin fastball slider combination. I'll bet on those guys
Speaker 1: just got to hone in the command and see what
Speaker 1: you can do with him. But Jay, let's get into
Speaker 1: what's going on down the farms. Picking of arms. We're
Speaker 1: not like thirty plus arms on the il right now
Speaker 1: in this system, it's kind of crazy any guy that
Speaker 1: is a guy is on the IL. Seth Hernandez, Christian Curtis,
Speaker 1: Ryan Harbin, Alessandro Orclani, Anthony Salimado, Carlos Castillo, Cameron Key, Shock,
Speaker 1: Haseus Treviso, ran On Navarro, and much much more. Those
Speaker 1: are some of the notable names, but a lot of
Speaker 1: guys on the IL. Nothing like overly serious like Tommy
Speaker 1: John related season ending that I know of at this point,
Speaker 1: but still, you've got a need for arms in this system.
Speaker 1: Trade deadline or not, you might see some new names
Speaker 1: pop up here as minor league free agents just to
Speaker 1: eat innings, if anything.
Speaker 3: That's definitely something I didn't expect us to have to
Speaker 3: say this season, right, even any season in recent memory,
Speaker 3: just because this has been such a strength for them lately.
Speaker 3: But I mean, that's what happens whenever you have thirty
Speaker 3: plus just go down with injury all at one time.
Speaker 3: It just sucks to see some guys that could have
Speaker 3: been meaningful death, especially for the big league club and
Speaker 3: guys like Christian Curtis or I thought Ryan Harbin would
Speaker 3: be a pretty key piece for them in a setup
Speaker 3: role this year. But yeah, just we're wishing the best
Speaker 3: for all these guys, obviously, just hoping they can all
Speaker 3: get back and get back to what they're good at.
Speaker 1: Ryan Harbin's the name I'm circling whenever the next season starts,
Speaker 1: because he's He's a guy that I'm sure there's gonna
Speaker 1: be on the top of their list, a guy that
Speaker 1: they really like. We know, we like them, they like him,
Speaker 1: so could be a meaningful contributor in the future. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about another reliever that was recently assigned to Triple
Speaker 1: A Indie Landon Tompkins. You've got to see him a
Speaker 1: little bit in Altuna. Do you have anything specific on
Speaker 1: Landon Tompkins. I can't say that I've I've dived into
Speaker 1: the Tompkins baseball data anytimes recently.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think that this is kind of a force move.
Speaker 3: He's been hit pretty hard this year in Altuna, so
Speaker 3: nothing super super crazy to take away from it. If
Speaker 3: I remember correctly, he's a strike thrower at the very least,
Speaker 3: so a guy's going to fill his own and you
Speaker 3: just kind of rely on the defense and then did
Speaker 3: not hit it super hard.
Speaker 1: Honestly, exactly like I said, this is a system that
Speaker 1: needs arms at almost every level due to the injury,
Speaker 1: So that makes sense. Some good news and bad news
Speaker 1: before we get into the affiliates in breaking down what
Speaker 1: happened this week. Good news why at Sandford began to
Speaker 1: rehabsite the assignment in Bradenton on Friday. Bad news Sunday
Speaker 1: or King Shawn Ross was claimed off waivers by the Mets.
Speaker 3: Streeze will never forget the legacy run.
Speaker 1: A move that was forced by the Pirates due to
Speaker 1: roster constrictions and stuff like that. So I had to
Speaker 1: let him go, and he was claiming good for him.
Speaker 1: I hope he makes something of it and can be great.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of catchers in this system, so
Speaker 1: you know, while it's not a big miss that you
Speaker 1: were happy for him and happy to see him make
Speaker 1: it to the big leagues and also hit his first
Speaker 1: home run in Pittsburgh, which was awesome to see. So
Speaker 1: good luck to Sewn Ross. Let's go into Indianapolis, Jay,
Speaker 1: what is going on in Indianapolis? I believe they're in
Speaker 1: Louisville this week playing the Triple A affiliate of the Rets.
Speaker 1: Hopefully did it better than against them than we did
Speaker 1: against their big league affiliate. Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Man, I feel like one of the key things
Speaker 3: we're gonna focus in on here is Tamar Johnson going
Speaker 3: for six for twenty last week. Hey, don't look now,
Speaker 3: he's starting to heat up again. I just pulled the
Speaker 3: numbers since July first. Scott a one twenty one WRC
Speaker 3: plus with a three seventy six on base percentage. Strikeout
Speaker 3: rate is following once again, that was something that we
Speaker 3: were starting to see Tramar struggle with for honestly, like
Speaker 3: the first time in his career earlier on this season,
Speaker 3: as he was striking out quite a bit. It's under
Speaker 3: twenty percent right now again ops is up to up
Speaker 3: to eight hundred in that span, or a little bit
Speaker 3: over eight hundred, I should say. But looking pretty good
Speaker 3: there for Jamar Johnson Scott.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I know he's still young for the level,
Speaker 1: and we hear that a lot with him, right He's
Speaker 1: been young for the level every step of the way.
Speaker 1: But it's a guy that has definitely had a disappointing season,
Speaker 1: and one thing that you could hope to see from
Speaker 1: him is a strong finish right heading into next year.
Speaker 1: I believe he's Role five eligible too, so that matters.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure he'll be protected. Also, someone who's been hot,
Speaker 1: uh Jay is Connor Whickgriff, a guy that we've talked
Speaker 1: about already on the pod who've had on the pod,
Speaker 1: had another strong outing this week on Friday, six and
Speaker 1: two thirds, five hits, one earned, two walks, four k's.
Speaker 1: He even said them the pod, it's not a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna throw chairs right like, he's going to pitch
Speaker 1: the contact, pitch deep into game and use his arsenal
Speaker 1: the best to the best of his ability, you know,
Speaker 1: hit the corners, dank and dunk, and he did that.
Speaker 1: He's continued to do that two seventy six ERA and
Speaker 1: triple A. This is a guy that I think is
Speaker 1: a prime candidate for at the least a September Calu.
Speaker 3: Dare I say he's an X man up right now?
Speaker 3: Is that crazy?
Speaker 1: No? Not at all. I mean I like Antoine Kelly,
Speaker 1: I like what we saw. Remember, but if you're looking
Speaker 1: for a starter, a guy that can go deep, I
Speaker 1: think you're calling Chris or Connor Whitworth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, two seven sixty e RA. Through his first forty
Speaker 3: two innings at the level, he's only walking one point
Speaker 3: nine to one batter is per nine. I think that's
Speaker 3: something that we were starting to see a little bit
Speaker 3: less of from Wick Griff and Double A. He was
Speaker 3: walking more guys. He was also gonna be more strikeouts.
Speaker 3: Now he's kind of settled back into that place where
Speaker 3: we could were that model of what we can expect
Speaker 3: from a guy like Connor Wickgriff, where he's not going
Speaker 3: to strike out a ton of dudes, but he's also
Speaker 3: just not gonna walk anybody.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be what his bread and butter are with
Speaker 3: somebody you should definitely get familiar with, because we've talked
Speaker 3: about him numerous times. I think we did. We talked
Speaker 3: about him last time you and I talked on the show.
Speaker 3: He's something that's really interesting and somebody that could end
Speaker 3: up impacting this team in the big leagues as soon
Speaker 3: as this year.
Speaker 1: A couple more things I want to mentioned. Evan Sis
Speaker 1: is on his way back as we're recording this on
Speaker 1: Monday night, August the third. I think he's due back
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow in Milwaukee, So that's good to see. He's
Speaker 1: gonna point nine three E r A and Triple A.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Rodriguez who was just claimed was it from Baltimore?
Speaker 1: For it. So who was that we lost to Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I'm drying a blank here, Jay, was it Cam Sanders?
Speaker 1: Maybe Cam Sanders? That's exactly so. Anthon Rodriguez, who has
Speaker 1: had a little bit of big league time, it was
Speaker 1: on terror when he got to Indianapolis. Two home runs
Speaker 1: this week, I believe, yeah, just got off You might
Speaker 1: be your He got off hot since he got there
Speaker 1: in Louisville. And this is a guy that maybe is
Speaker 1: your right handed power bad if you're not kidding, but
Speaker 1: maybe he could be an option if you really need somebody.
Speaker 1: He's got a big league experience. So that was good
Speaker 1: to see. I know they have guys that they've brought
Speaker 1: in a barstad as a catcher. I know you've seen
Speaker 1: some guys like McCarty in Double A that have filled
Speaker 1: roster spots because they need to. But I think he's
Speaker 1: a guy that's a little bit more intriguing than others.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Altuna. They were home this week against
Speaker 1: the Chesapeake bass Sox double A affiliate to the Orioles.
Speaker 1: Guy I'm gonna highlight real quick as Lonnie White Junior
Speaker 1: because he's been on an absolute terror. As you told
Speaker 1: me before, the show, and as I've seen going through
Speaker 1: the box, scores nine for twenty one this week, a double,
Speaker 1: a triple, three homers, five RBIs, four walks. He's hitting
Speaker 1: two eighty two j What has it been like seeing
Speaker 1: him just red hot at the plate this week?
Speaker 3: I think seeing Lonnie White Junior turn the corner this
Speaker 3: season has honestly been one of the best stories, and
Speaker 3: a few one of the stories has not really been
Speaker 3: talked about enough in the Pirate minor leagues this season.
Speaker 3: Right now, he is currently twenty for his last fifty
Speaker 3: three and now too. That's dating back till when they
Speaker 3: first came back from the All Star Break. Scott in
Speaker 3: this span hitting three seventy seven, four fifty two, eight
Speaker 3: eleven with a two fourteen WRC plus he's also hit
Speaker 3: six home runs in this time eleven extra base hits
Speaker 3: there as well. Scott, somebody that's just on an absolute
Speaker 3: tear right now, similarly can't be stopped. And the one
Speaker 3: thing that I really want to hone in here with
Speaker 3: Lonnie White Junior is that the strikeouts are coming back
Speaker 3: to earth, right. This is a guy that was striking
Speaker 3: out almost thirty percent of the time this year and
Speaker 3: that's kind of been the one drawback for him in
Speaker 3: terms of really breaking out and in his in this
Speaker 3: span that I'm talking about right now, twenty four point
Speaker 3: two percent strikeout right as opposed to the strikeout right
Speaker 3: of almost thirty percent this year, walk right is up
Speaker 3: to almost thirty teen percent. Scott, the plate discipline is improving.
Speaker 3: He's starting to get his pitch and drive it, and
Speaker 3: I think you're starting to see that in some of
Speaker 3: these results as he's just crushing right now.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love that. Like you said, one of the
Speaker 1: better stories in minor league baseball this year, not just
Speaker 1: in the Pirates system. I mean it was the guy
Speaker 1: that we had a lot of hope for coming out
Speaker 1: of high school, guy that was coming to play football
Speaker 1: Penn State. We were able to sign him away and
Speaker 1: was not healthy for the beginning of his career, and
Speaker 1: now he is and he is taking advantage of it.
Speaker 1: And everything I've heard about him comes from a great family,
Speaker 1: is a great dude. I'm really happy for him, and
Speaker 1: I'm happy that we were able to hold on to
Speaker 1: him today as well. Speaking of the trade deadline, another
Speaker 1: guy I want to talk about is Eastern Carmichael because
Speaker 1: Eastern Carmichael recently got the call up to Double A
Speaker 1: and the question was going to be is the power
Speaker 1: kind of an anomaly given that he was playing in Greensboro,
Speaker 1: And I don't think it was two him runs this
Speaker 1: week his first double a home run in Altoona. I
Speaker 1: think the power is legit. I think this is the
Speaker 1: guy that's going to hit as a catcher. What did
Speaker 1: did you see from him? And do you believe in
Speaker 1: his ability behind the dish?
Speaker 3: Super tough at bats? First off, he is the on
Speaker 3: a guy that just gives things away, and he's the
Speaker 3: only guy that's able to just kind of wait till
Speaker 3: he gets his pitch and really start to pay for
Speaker 3: or make pictures pay for it behind the dish. This
Speaker 3: isn't a super interesting part, right. I was talking to
Speaker 3: John Moses today that I was credential this week. Also
Speaker 3: interviewed Easton Carmichael this week and Double Altuna was a
Speaker 3: super nice guy. But the one thing I want to
Speaker 3: hone in on here is that I heard rumblings that
Speaker 3: he had a crazy glove. So I was talking to
Speaker 3: John Moses, the Curve broadcaster about it, like has he
Speaker 3: really been tested on the road? What have you seen.
Speaker 3: One thing he was telling me is that he hasn't
Speaker 3: really been tested yet, and he wasn't tested in Double
Speaker 3: Altuna either, So I'm starting to wonder if the glove
Speaker 3: and the arm are good enough. The word is getting
Speaker 3: around that, like, hey, you don't run on this guy
Speaker 3: just because he's been such so sound back there defensively
Speaker 3: and by the way, Scott, he wears a black a
Speaker 3: black catcher's like protector chess guard and it is just
Speaker 3: peppered with like white spots from him blocking baseballs. So
Speaker 3: it really just goes to show you that he's a
Speaker 3: he's a true gamer behind the plate and somebody that
Speaker 3: you can get excited about defensively and off sim absolutely
Speaker 3: dirt bag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, seriously love that. Love that Matt Ager had a
Speaker 1: good week two Friday, went six innings, one or no walks,
Speaker 1: five k's. He's like pretty solid this year. Do you
Speaker 1: see Santa Robert product who has risen quickly this year
Speaker 1: after starting in Bradingdon last year. Let's go to Greensboro
Speaker 1: real quick, Scott, real quick, really quick. We got to
Speaker 1: talk about Callen Moss real quick. Please.
Speaker 3: This is this is somebody who this is one of
Speaker 3: the funniest storylines, but one of the more accurate storylines.
Speaker 3: Callen Moss huge Knicks fan. Knicks win, he was hit
Speaker 3: off to a slower start this year, Knicks win the Finals,
Speaker 3: and he's just been on an absolute heater since then.
Speaker 3: You can see it's just like Scott over there, big
Speaker 3: Nix homer, but Callen Moss since the Knicks have won
Speaker 3: the Finals has been unbelievable. He's slashing three eleven, three
Speaker 3: seventy four oh four since Game five of the NBA
Speaker 3: Finals with the one to eight w r C plus.
Speaker 3: I think the power starting to come around to By
Speaker 3: the way, Scott was watching him take some VP and
Speaker 3: he was I think ball is a dead center in Altoona,
Speaker 3: which is not a cheap shot. It's a big time
Speaker 3: wall and it's like four and five or four hundred
Speaker 3: and ten feet from home plate. It's a bigger it's
Speaker 3: a bigger field than PNC Park to dead center. So
Speaker 3: it's nice to see him start to really come into
Speaker 3: his own and he's looked really good as of late,
Speaker 3: and I think it's because of the next. To be
Speaker 3: honest with you, it absolutely is.
Speaker 1: You don't have to tell me on that at all.
Speaker 1: And you're a sick of for knowing these stats that
Speaker 1: what he's hit since Game whatever of the finals. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it absolutely is. I'll never disagree with that. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Greensboro. They're home against the Bowling Green Hot Rods,
Speaker 1: who already have like seventy two wins in the high
Speaker 1: as absolutely ridiculous. I thought the Greensborough was off to
Speaker 1: a hitter at being sixty one and forty one, but
Speaker 1: the bowl Green Hot Rods are unbelievable. The Rays I
Speaker 1: a affiliate and someone I want to I want to
Speaker 1: highlight this week in Greensboro is Jared Joes, the ninth
Speaker 1: round pick out of LSU last year, a guy that
Speaker 1: was a decorated college hitter, and getting him in the
Speaker 1: ninth round me and you were psyched about that. And
Speaker 1: then the same thing happened this year, getting another SEC bat,
Speaker 1: Trey Phelps out of University of Georgia, a guy that
Speaker 1: would hit nineteen home runs in the SEC this year
Speaker 1: and it was a decorated college bat. Well, he follow
Speaker 1: the same path. We'll see, but let's focus on Jared.
Speaker 1: Four home runs this week nine Rbis's hit three twenty five.
Speaker 1: I think he's going I'd be shocked if he doesn't
Speaker 1: see some time in I'll tune this year because he's
Speaker 1: like it seems like he's not being challenged in Greensboro
Speaker 1: this year. That's say he's he's just too good for
Speaker 1: the level in terms of back to ball scals and
Speaker 1: overall power, and obviously the environment there plays a plays
Speaker 1: a role. But I do think he's above the level
Speaker 1: in terms of skill, someone that I expect to see
Speaker 1: in Altune and very soon. His home run on Tuesday
Speaker 1: was one hundred and thirteen off the bat elite power
Speaker 1: here potential.
Speaker 3: It's such an easy swing too, Like I feel like
Speaker 3: one of the homers was like a pitch out in
Speaker 3: a way. He just kind of tossed his hands at,
Speaker 3: you know, flick the wrists at, and it just goes
Speaker 3: over the right center field wall. He's a He's a
Speaker 3: ridiculous hitter man and something that's gonna keep slugging as
Speaker 3: he goes up to the system. And I just want
Speaker 3: to point this out to you. By the way, I
Speaker 3: went to Fangrafts to pull his stats from the last week.
Speaker 3: He's hitting three eighteen last week, like you said, with
Speaker 3: an eight sixty four slugging percentage. Also, Fangrass has the
Speaker 3: other Jared Jones as his profile picture on Fangrass to
Speaker 3: way just for the throat out there, but.
Speaker 1: It'd be better some other guys to highlight offensively. Johnny
Speaker 1: Sabrino has twenty seven hum run ridiculous. I put on
Speaker 1: a tweet about him earlier eight fifty one ops. I
Speaker 1: think something like that, and I a Greensboro. The breakout
Speaker 1: is definitely for real, and moving him to an outfield
Speaker 1: corner gives him more ability to be I don't know
Speaker 1: valued as a prospect. I don't think he was ever
Speaker 1: going to be a short stop, if anything, third base,
Speaker 1: but it gives him more flexibility. Positionally, twenty seven home
Speaker 1: runs has nothing to see that sneeze out. I don't
Speaker 1: care what where you play. And then also Tony Bloco Junior,
Speaker 1: just recent returned from the rehab stint, had three home
Speaker 1: runs this week. He is seventeen on the season in Greensboro,
Speaker 1: a guy that we know has some of the most
Speaker 1: insane power in minor league baseball.
Speaker 3: I feel like we said it so casually when it
Speaker 3: comes to Tony Blanco, like, oh yeah, he came back
Speaker 3: this week. Hit three home runs, No big deal, that's
Speaker 3: just what you expect from Frenny Blanco. Yeah, yeah, something
Speaker 3: that is going to be all or nothing power guy.
Speaker 3: But if he's going to hit like that, man, I
Speaker 3: think that's okay. I think you can kind of just,
Speaker 3: you know, deal with the deal with the strikeouts for
Speaker 3: a guy with that much power, especially from such an
Speaker 3: easy swing too. I've ever seen him take a take
Speaker 3: a hack.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then we got to Bradenton. They were in
Speaker 1: Daytona against the Tortuga's reds Low, a affiliate down in Florida,
Speaker 1: and they literally lost every game of this series. So
Speaker 1: there's that. But one name I want to highlight is
Speaker 1: Leevi Sterling because I think he continues to look better
Speaker 1: even though the walks rup this game. Five innings, five hits,
Speaker 1: one earned, four walks, four k It's got a four
Speaker 1: to thirty five ERA on the season. A guy that
Speaker 1: I think is we know was generating traded a buzz
Speaker 1: in the for the deadline today, a guy that other
Speaker 1: teams value, and I think he's he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: guy that you circle next year as someone that is
Speaker 1: going to take a big leap in terms of prospect pedigree.
Speaker 1: We're sitting here Jay as we're talking about the Brandenton Marauders.
Speaker 1: The Pirates are a basis letter with two outs. Milwaukee
Speaker 1: Spencer Horwitz is up against Brandon's bruk. I like our chances.
Speaker 1: What else do you have on the Bradenton Marauders this week?
Speaker 1: Anything to note here? Well?
Speaker 3: First off, I just want to talk about Levi Stirling
Speaker 3: real quick, right. I think the stuff is really starting
Speaker 3: to come around for him since July first, He's starting
Speaker 3: twenty four point one innings and he's struck out thirty
Speaker 3: two guys in this span. Like you said, walks her
Speaker 3: up just a little bit, But I feel like he's
Speaker 3: pitched so much better as of late. And honestly, he
Speaker 3: would have been a nice pickup for somebody if they
Speaker 3: had been able to take away from us. I feel
Speaker 3: like Scott.
Speaker 1: Absolutely Carlos Mateo's another arm. Him and rain On Nabarro
Speaker 1: together in the same staff is ridiculous because rain On
Speaker 1: Nabarrow is stupid basketball character and six and Carlos Mateo
Speaker 1: is that next guy that does Carlos Mateo were wanting
Speaker 1: no hits, two k's on Thursday and relief right on
Speaker 1: Navarro left the game early on Sunday, was like running,
Speaker 1: like leaping off the field and hurt. I have not
Speaker 1: heard any indication of what happened. I think it was
Speaker 1: lower body injury. So football as well with him despite
Speaker 1: the walks two thirty four e RA this year, a
Speaker 1: ton of K's has that crazy induced vertical break at
Speaker 1: the top of the zone. Another name for to note
Speaker 1: is it Irwin Erwin Ramirez I think is a lower
Speaker 1: level arm for the Pirates, getting a lot of comps
Speaker 1: to wilburd Hotel as an arm and a guy that
Speaker 1: they think has better stuff than Wilberd did at this age.
Speaker 1: So a name to watch. I think he had a
Speaker 1: rough out of Spencer Horwitz just has hit it. Hit
Speaker 1: a ball down the right Folt line with basic floating.
Speaker 1: Two outs were in Milwaukee. Are so high right now, dude,
Speaker 1: fives are so high. Guys three to ninhing Pirates. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: this game is on a mute in front of me
Speaker 1: and I can't help but get it decided. Let's go.
Speaker 1: But Erwin Ramirez is the name I would circle as
Speaker 1: another arm along with Rayna Nabarro and Pros Matteo. Really
Speaker 1: fun International signees that I think are due to take
Speaker 1: a big giant step forward in terms of the prospect rankings.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the DSL now that we're on that topic.
Speaker 1: A lot happening down in the DSL. DSL Gold is
Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty five and DSL Black is twenty two
Speaker 1: and nineteen. Wilton Garrow Junior this week four for fourteen
Speaker 1: with three RBIs, two stole and base hit three twenty
Speaker 1: eight on the year. It's got I think is going
Speaker 1: to be stateside next year. Ashton Kennedy made his debut
Speaker 1: as a two way guy that signing out of Australia.
Speaker 1: Really fun fun signing there. Went one for four this
Speaker 1: week at the plate, but also pitch two innings three
Speaker 1: hits to earn two k's. Johndris Santos went five for
Speaker 1: fifteen with two doubles on RBI and four stolen basis
Speaker 1: hit two fifteen as a sixteen year old in the DSL.
Speaker 1: That's all that we have. DSL a lot of fun
Speaker 1: names though, as we've seen with some of these international
Speaker 1: signings in the last couple of years, the Pirates have
Speaker 1: done really well in that market and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of names that are emerging here late. Carlos de harrit As,
Speaker 1: Merlin Valdez was not a big money signing. We're talking
Speaker 1: about some of these arms like right on the Varro,
Speaker 1: Carlos Matteo and Irwin Ramirez. Keep an eye on some
Speaker 1: of these names. Er Old Roumerez was a higher dollar signing.
Speaker 1: But this international market market has been really really exciting.
Speaker 3: Wooton Carrero Junior to me, feels like he's the next
Speaker 3: Johan Deelos Santos. I was gonna mention with Bradenton that
Speaker 3: he's he's looked really good in just the sense that
Speaker 3: he's able to hold his own at seventeen years old
Speaker 3: in low way, because I don't think I could have
Speaker 3: done that at seventeen, Scott. That's pretty insane to think about.
Speaker 3: And I think that Wilson Guerrero Junior is the next
Speaker 3: player that can kind of take that leap and start
Speaker 3: to hold his own state side. And I mean we've
Speaker 3: talked about him on episodes that I've done of this
Speaker 3: with you and Shore before the tools are loud, and
Speaker 3: he's gonna be something that's gonna hit for a lot
Speaker 3: of power and whenever the Pirates signed him, you and
Speaker 3: I were very fired up about that that move, and
Speaker 3: I had to see what the future holds for him
Speaker 3: and also Ashton Kennedy as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, let's let's finish this off Jay with the
Speaker 1: hitter and picture of the week. I'll get to start
Speaker 1: it with the pitcher. It's gonna be at first time
Speaker 1: Minor league Bucko banter picture of the week, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to announce this one. It's gonna be Matt Ager,
Speaker 1: the UC Santa Barbara product in Altuna right now, six
Speaker 1: innings want to earn run, no walks, five k's in
Speaker 1: Altuna this week flippering a four to one win on Friday.
Speaker 1: Shut up, Matt Ager.
Speaker 3: Yeah seriously, man, am I hearing that the Altoona Curve,
Speaker 3: the second half Altoon Curve might be a wagon. Don't
Speaker 3: look at it. They don't look at the record they
Speaker 3: like be a wagon.
Speaker 1: And that brings us to our head of the week
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna let you let you announce who is
Speaker 1: that Jay and what a phill it is he? At?
Speaker 3: By chance Lonnie White Junior in Alton, Pennsylvania nine for
Speaker 3: twenty one last week nine runs, a double, a triple,
Speaker 3: three homers, five RBI, four walks, five strikeouts. By the way,
Speaker 3: two of those home runs, I'm pretty sure we're in
Speaker 3: the same game, and just absolutely demolished. So super pumped
Speaker 3: from Lonnie White especially. I mean, I talked to him
Speaker 3: about the swing changes he's made this season, and I
Speaker 3: feel like the swing's only gotten better and cleaner in
Speaker 3: the time that I've seen him. I think that might
Speaker 3: be a huge reason for the cutback on strikeouts. So
Speaker 3: definitely a lot to be excited about there. The breakouts,
Speaker 3: legit man, buy in.
Speaker 1: Love it man, love it. Shout out to the curve,
Speaker 1: big week in out Tuna Jay. A lot of good
Speaker 1: things happening. We didn't completely eliminate the farm today, even
Speaker 1: though I've been willing to do so in the rake circumstances.
Speaker 1: So a lot to look forward to. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: some draft guys debuting here very soon, right, I'm just
Speaker 1: excited to see some of those guys get some live
Speaker 1: abs and see them in the box scores. A lot
Speaker 1: to look forward to. Any closing notes in terms of
Speaker 1: you know, what to look forward to here in the
Speaker 1: last month of minor league baseball.
Speaker 3: Just as vibes are high, and especially as you especially
Speaker 3: as you start to see draft guys come back and
Speaker 3: also players start to advance levels as some other some
Speaker 3: other ones finished. We're just really looking for guys to
Speaker 3: just show minor improvements, right like in terms of like
Speaker 3: guys like Johann del Santis, you're just looking for them
Speaker 3: to have better at bats, start to hold their own
Speaker 3: and see see where the future takes them, right And
Speaker 3: I think that we're gonna start to see that with
Speaker 3: a bunch of these guys, because there's so many guys
Speaker 3: that are hot right now in our minor league system
Speaker 3: and guys that could impact us in the near future. Man.
Speaker 1: Love that. Well. Listen, we've got some exciting announcements coming
Speaker 1: up here for Bucco Banter.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The season is far from over. The Pirates are returning
Speaker 1: home next weekend. It gets the Mets, I believe. But
Speaker 1: first we got this four game series against the Brewers.
Speaker 1: Minor League Baseball continues through early September, so we'll have
Speaker 1: you covered on Matt front as well. Some more exciting
Speaker 1: interviews coming out, especially on down the Farm. But until
Speaker 1: next time, Jay, let's hoist it, hoist it, and the
Speaker 1: Pirates can't let me run the base?
Speaker 2: Yeah, My time is like my money because I can't
Speaker 2: afford to waste. Oh why fee is alloyan my date?
Speaker 2: To my dates? Or to stick by the plate Synic