WEBVTT - 523 | Checking in on Our Breakout Picks for Each Team: National League 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.600 A swags. 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:19.280 Hi understand that deep just center field and it's gone, Wow. 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.799 His first big league swing is gonna be a grand slam, 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:29.840 the home line swing. Good time to look to the show. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.360 Welcome back to the Call Up, your go to podcast 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.480 on the future stars in Major League Baseball. You got 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.160 arm Light and Elijah Evans and we're doing part two 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.600 of our check in on our preseason breakout picks for 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.600 all thirty teams. This time it's the National League side 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.400 of things. The link to this article is in the 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.080 episode description. If you want to check that out, or 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:52.879 if you're watching us on BALI, you can find that 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.320 on Just Baseball dot com. But I'm excited we did 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.000 the American League side. We went through the good, the bad, 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.480 the in between, and on the National League side it's 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:01.720 kind of the same thing. We get the good, the 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.360 bat and in between. We're going to check in on 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.959 what's going right with those guys that are proving me 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.400 right maybe with the preseason pick, what went wrong with 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.240 those that maybe aren't aging as well, and then of course, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.800 who are the right picks then or other options for 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.720 each of these teams to be the breakout. So far 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.160 as we're just on the other side of the halfway 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.240 point of this season. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:22.600 Yeah, it's a fun one. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.160 It's always cool to look back at your initial predictions. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.440 Some of them have been absolute bangers. You got to 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.720 give yourself some credit, and then there's some that probably 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.160 haven't gone the way you were hoping they do. It's 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:32.800 always a good time to get to bash on you 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.600 a little bit, but also celebrate the victories. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.559 That's the fun part. We get kind of everything here, 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.160 which makes it fun. We do start with a pretty 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.680 solid pick, but just not the right pick because there's 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.720 a couple guys, one in particular, that is dominating the 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.960 Brave system. But John Heel was not a bad pick 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.240 for the Braves, who's having a nice season, actually quite 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.920 a good one. Unfortunately, he also shares an organization with 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.480 the best minor league performer this year in Eric Hartman, 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.360 and that obviously had to be the pick. And he's 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.679 like a breakout by all accounts as a late round pick. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.520 All this different stuff, but just to check in on 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.080 John Heel very quickly, one zero six WRC plus so 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.480 far this season. He's been a menace on the base 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.680 paths continues to be. He's been even more efficient this year. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.360 He was like fifty for sixty four last year, this 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.720 year thirty five for forty already the season. What I 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.080 like with him is you get this power upside speed combination. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.520 The hit tool just continues to shine through. Is a 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.760 guy that is not going to punch out very much. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.000 And you know, after hitting seven homers in one hundred 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.800 and seven games last year, hell has eleven and seventy six. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.240 That said, there are. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.959 Some baseball aspects that are making it can be like 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.560 literal baseball, the ball itself, that make it hard for 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.200 me to you know, discern whether I think this is 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.639 like a power uptick or not. But there's some underlying 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.240 batted ballmarkers that I think point towards you know, healtt 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.280 just a newly turned twenty years old growing into more pop. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:02:59.840 I was going to say that it might not be 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:01.880 the right breakout pick, but I'd still say he's one 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.760 of the three to five best performers in the system 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.359 all things considered. This season started the year at nineteen 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.480 years old in high a recently turned twenty eleven homers 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.680 thirty five bags of the first seventy six games of 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.680 the year for Heel. It hasn't been like Eric Hartman obviously, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.720 as we've talked about or even Tates South to see 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.480 and I was gonna mention as kind of a secondary 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.720 breakout behind Hartman. Heel's probably third on that list, but still, 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.520 all things considered, very solid. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:24.680 Pick by you. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.160 Yeah, Hartman sad to seeing the Braves have they have 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:30.720 pieces here and this is gonna be the fun part 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.560 at the deadline, right, I mean, even John Heel at 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.880 twenty years old is a guy that he's going to 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.120 be twenty years old again until almost halfway through next season, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.560 a guy that plenty of teams are gonna have interest in. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.200 The glove is going to be the fun part. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.160 So to a monitor just to see how that continues 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.840 to come along and if he's able to stick at shortstop. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.160 I know he's been starting to see some more action 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.720 at second base here and there too, but that's typical anyway. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.680 With the short stop, we'll see. I don't love the. 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.720 Glove, but it looks like he could have the ingredients 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.120 to be able to at least be average defender there 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.760 as he just continues to mature. He'll also average x 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.960 velocity up three miles per hour from last year, so 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.320 that is going to back. You know, some more impacts 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.160 being added here, hard hit rate up ten percent, elevating 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.000 more consistently. This is a guy that when the Braves 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.000 are buyers here, I think plenty of teams are going 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:18.880 to have you know, circled as one of the prospects 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.200 they'll be asking for in a return. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:22.120 Yeah, I would think so. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.640 I would think he's a guy who're gonna look at him, 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.839 and even south the scene, I would think Hartman's probably 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.000 in the borderline untouchable category. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:29.560 Yeah, it would be really interesting. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.719 I don't know who out there I would trade, Like 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.120 I'm not trading. It's as crazy as it sounds. I'd 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.760 really struggle to trade Hartman for a rental school. And 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.919 I know there's a prospects show and I am, but 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.640 I will say I tend to not be a prospect Hugert. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.840 That one would be really hard with how much of 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.960 a star he looks like he could be. But that's 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.440 the tough part with the Brave system is they have 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.440 these emergent guys, but like, how would you go get 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.320 a guy like Scooble. I don't know, I don't know 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:53.800 who else would be on the trade market. Have to 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.120 be a really impactful player with control for me to 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.000 be dangling Hartman, but you never know. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.320 Yeah, it's always possible for sure. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.080 Next up is the Miami Marlins, and we get into 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.920 your pick, which initially was Luis Cova, speinster outfielder who 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.600 was in the DSL last year. And then obviously I 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.479 think another pretty layup of a pick here, and in 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.960 terms of who it probably should be here is is 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.159 Carson Milbrand. It's impossible to look at Carson milburan season 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.000 so far and not just get fired up about what 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.000 he's done this season. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.760 Yeah, and Cova probably not the right pick. Was good 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.919 at the Complex for nineteen games, but like you should 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.240 be good at the complex, you repeated the DSL. I 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.560 still think Cove is an interesting player and very much 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.240 could be somebody that puts it together at age twenty 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:38.960 twenty one. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:40.040 And he hasn't been. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:45.159 Bad by I would say, the standards of getting overblown, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.400 like getting blown away, overwhelmed with with low pitching, but 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.760 he just has not been able to have any quality 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.080 of contact there, which was the exciting part of what 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.400 I saw last year and his repeated the dsls. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:56.880 You saw that improvement. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.800 Quality of contact wise and it's interesting because now you 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:00.760 have two guys, and I talked about it in the 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:01.520 last episode. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.040 I think guys that repeat the DSL it. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.039 Can often be fools gold right, because you're playing the 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.560 same level, and in the DSL the pitching can be 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.479 so weak at points where you can get to a 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.839 point where you're not necessarily better that much better of 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.760 a hitter. You might have just gotten better at hitting 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.920 DSL pitching, and sometimes those things are a little bit different. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.719 And we'll see with COVID a lot of the battball 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.880 data was better, but that could have been a guy 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.480 that just got more comfortable and being able to hit 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.719 DSL pitching, but still didn't close some of the gaps 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.160 that he needed as a professional hitter to be able 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.560 to make the leap state sign. I saw him live 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.680 the other day again, didn't look like he was overwhelmed, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.599 didn't look totally out of sorts. But the guys slug 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.560 in two sixty five right now. So it's not too 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.800 good at the low A level one twenty two WRC 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.280 plus in the nineteen games of the complex, eighty seven 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.920 WRC plus so far in twenty four games at low way, 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:50.920 but it's his first taste of low A, so I. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:51.840 Think he's going to settle in. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.279 He's nineteen years old until February, and Covid is the 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.120 guy that I know that the Marlins do like. But 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.719 without a doubt it's recent guest of the podcast cars 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.520 and Brent, who's you know, solidified himself as one of 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.200 the more electrifying right handers in the upper Miners. It's 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.640 still getting aclimated to Triple A now, but was decimating 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.280 Double A and looks like a big piece for the Marlins. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.120 Yeah, and then you know, obviously he's someone that I 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.240 think you're you're getting on a track here where you 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:19.880 want to start to think about when he can get 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:20.280 his chance. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:21.239 It's probably still. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.680 Next year, but man nol Brant is just its just 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.280 exciting and such a flamethrower and someone that I think 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:27.400 is going to be a real piece. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:28.880 And the Marlins are probably. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.920 Looking at you know, they're they're already good rotation in 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.240 him being a huge part of it in twenty twenty 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:33.920 seven and beyond. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.000 It's just the command of Triple A. That'll be the 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:37.160 interesting thing to monitor. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.280 One other shout is and probably the the ma end 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.160 up taking the cake if he continues going this way. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:45.240 Is cam Canderella, Yeah, Cam Canerella the Marlin's second round pick. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.480 I guess campe pick last year forty fifth. Overall, what 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.640 he's done this year so far has been amazing. I 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.680 mean at High A he in nineteen games torched it 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.160 there three ninety four, three homers. And then at Double 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:59.600 A in the Southern League, and I think he has 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.400 been the crazy he's part for a guy that was 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.160 kind of viewed as more contact and speed and defense. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:06.640 Though the defense has not been. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.840 As good as I would have expected, and from what 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.400 we saw in college. That's that's for another time when 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.680 we break down you know, Candarella and talk about him 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.920 in a heat sheet probably coming up next week. But 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.080 eight homers in twenty eight games in Double A. Now 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.040 he's up to a one to seventy five WRC plus. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:21.520 There he's walking as much as he's struck out. So 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.640 now you have a forty seven game sample where he 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.200 is eleven homers Canarella, he'shitting three sixty with a one 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.720 to sixty nine WRC plus and walking almost as much 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.560 as he's struck out. Yeah, that's going to be really impressive. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:32.960 I'd like to see the speed be a bigger part 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.000 of his game. But he had an injury laying out 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.480 for ball, colliding with somebody that I think affected his 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.120 one of his knees like something like that, So I'm 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.240 sure that played a factor. And also like he's slugging 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.320 right now and that's been the exciting part. So Cantarella 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.480 is definitely a name to watch and if he can 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.520 keep this thing rolling, I mean, this is a really 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.719 impressive player. Probably would be a slam dunk for the 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.079 top one hundred if the defense wasn't actually shockingly shaky, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.040 which was supposed to be. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:57.760 His calling cards. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.680 So regardless though, you see the back to ball, you 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.760 see the quality of contact, and this is a guy 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.400 that I think is a straight up era on the 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.040 Marlins org. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.079 Yeah, going over to the New York Mets organization, your 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.559 pick at the beginning of the season was Jonathan Santucci. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.760 We had an awesome interview with him about a month back. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.600 Definitely go check that out to hear more about him. 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:17.360 He's had some ups and downs this year. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.439 It's been a good year overall for Santucci, but hasn't 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.400 been necessarily a huge season for him. The Mets org 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.400 is a little tough man, I don't know. We were 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.079 looking through and like I'm scrolling through it now even 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:27.840 like I don't know if there's really a clear breakout 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.480 pick in that organization. I think you look at guys 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.640 like Lenninger in Santucci that you expected to be good, 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.160 and they've been solid, They've been you know, good overall, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.600 but like I mean, you got to really go into 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.559 the levels of of some you know, older players at 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.760 a lower level to find guys that really pop out 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.040 as a true breakout. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.280 Yeah, and Santucci has been great of Late two four 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.400 five era over his last I think it was seven starts. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.080 The reason I knew that off the top of my 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.040 head is we just put out a social video on 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.000 all the call up channels. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:57.679 Check that out. We're going to be doing this every week, 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:58.640 hopefully going out. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.119 On Monday Night's a Tuesday morning, just recapping the top performers, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.120 highlighting some data. Two to three minute video I think 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.120 this one was three and a half, just kind of 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.160 catching you up with all the top performers in the 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.360 minor leagues across every level and just guys that stood 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.520 out to us. And Santucci of Late was a guy 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.920 that made that video so check that out again on 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.960 x Instagram, our TikTok as well. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.200 We're putting that out everywhere. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.600 But Santucci better of late not a breakout because you 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.439 could argus better last year. A breakout for him, given 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.440 that he already was pretty damn good in the second 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.840 half last year, would be him dominating again through Double 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.600 A and probably having success in Triple A. Mitch Voitte 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.560 of late has been really good for them. But you know, 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.240 he's a first round pick in twenty twenty five. But 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:42.760 I think when you will get void compared to where 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.679 he was last year, where he's been especially over the 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.920 last month and a half, that could be a shout 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.360 for you. But there's no one that really jumps out 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:50.400 in the that system right now. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.719 Yeah, nothing super appalling and you know jumped out at 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.880 you right there, Santucci. I think if he finishes the 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.440 season strong, I think that ends up being kind of 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.280 a win pick for you, even though that was a 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:00.880 little bit more of it. You know, he was good 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.880 last year and you were just expecting it to continue 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:03.560 more than anything. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:04.880 Yeah, that's the thing too. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.360 I'll lean on you here, like you can give it 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.160 a thumbs up thumbs down that's what Jack. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.640 Was going to for the ones that weren't. I think 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:12.079 this is. 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.679 I think it's I think it's a seventy five percent up. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.679 This next one, this is like Lobb from Way James 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.120 slams it down. I'll shout out here Miami guys for that, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.360 because the Nationals organization at Devin Fitzgerald. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.800 There's no other pick that's even at the table here. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.160 This was just a slam dug from you all around. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:30.920 Yeah. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.040 The only pushback I guess people would give is is that, hey, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.199 since he's got to double a in twenty one games, 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.480 he's been horrible. But my argument would be, as we've 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:43.400 talked about on the podcast, Fitzgerald started twenty twenty five 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.800 at the Complex and played forty one total games, so 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.680 he had only played ten games at Low Way before 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.240 getting hurt, and the national said in spring training, this 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.079 kid is so good, you're gonna skip Low Way. Essentially 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.400 those ten games weren't off, We don't care. You're going 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.559 straight to hie hi A's where he was one of 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.480 the best hitters in the minor leagues. You know, after 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.360 settling in a little bit, just went crazy. As we 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.920 saw in that incredible stretch the twelve homers and fifty 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.439 one games, but so many of those came in the 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.840 final two weeks of him playing at the level, and 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.040 then he gets promoted to Double A and that's where 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.840 he's really struggled. He's sitting one forty five. I believe 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:21.199 that comes out to what we got there twelve for 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:26.760 eighty three. My thing with him is the fact that 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:27.640 he's gotten. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.520 The Double A this year I think is a breakout. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.760 In a lot of ways, and the fact that this 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.320 is a player that is on top one hundred lists 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.240 across the board that wasn't at the start of the season. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.080 And also is I didn't get to settle in as 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.480 we get deeper into the season at the Double A level, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.120 like to enter this year having barely played above the 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.120 complex and then in that same year be playing at 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.200 the upper levels. Of course, it's going to be a 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.880 huge test for fitzjail at at twenty years old. So 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.600 I still think this is a breakout by you know, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.559 every way. And I'm trying to think of another national 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.320 that would fit that bill. I'm not sure if there 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.719 is an obvious one other than than Fitzgerald. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.160 Yeah, I think Fitzgerald's the answer. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.160 I think there's a couple other talented players, but I 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.280 think this guy, like you said, I'm not putting too 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.080 much stock in twenty double A games for a guy 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.920 who had basically skipped low A and dominated hy A, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.959 like this is a breakout. He looks really good and is, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.800 you know, all the makings of He's already well into 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.640 our top one hundred and I think if he once 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.400 he settles into double A, you're going to see him 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:27.600 start to take back up and. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.160 Maybe not quite the numbers he was doing hig A, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:29.520 but I. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.839 Fully expected to finish the season stronger in double A 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:32.679 than it's been so far. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.840 One hundred percent. He's going to settle on. Yeah. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.040 Jumping over to the Phillies organization, this is an interesting 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.360 one that there's not a clear takeaway. You went with 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.280 Matthew Fisher at the beginning of the season, right handed 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.959 guy who had a pretty decent signing bonus out of 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:51.240 their twenty twenty five class last year. Hasn't been necessarily 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.920 the breakout there. We looked at some of their guys 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.120 up and down. There's not like a standout name, but 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:58.640 there's a couple names. You had one and I have 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.840 another I pulled up, but I think at least interesting 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:01.640 in the Phillies Org. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:03.680 Yeah, Fisher's been okay. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.440 You know, it hasn't been anything special so far this year, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.600 and they could easily be a late bloomer. Just very talented. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.120 I liked him out of the draft and that was 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.280 a big reason why I picked him. Is one of 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.360 the breakout guys, but I don't think anything's really jumped 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.680 off the page with him, and the stuff's been kind 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.480 of fine. Slider looks like a plus pitch, but that's 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.400 kind of been about it for him. And the fastball has, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.760 you know, mostly been in the low nineties. And you know, 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.680 as a result, Fisher has generated a decent amount of 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.000 strikeouts when he was getting his feet wet in the complex, 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.080 but then you know, in the eleven innings he's thrown 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.160 at low A so far, you know, it just hasn't 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.560 been quite as sharp. But I think it's been all right. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.320 They've been very careful with him a few innings at 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:45.680 a time. I think was a little bit banged up 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.320 at the start of the season, so I think that's 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.320 been part of it too. So it's hard to break 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.280 out when you're being managed so carefully, but again the 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.240 breaking ball does look quite good, and you know can 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.480 fort with three thousand rpm and you're seeing that and 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.440 the cutter in between is interesting. I still think this 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:00.920 is a guy that could be a pretty solid arm 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.200 for them, But as it pertains, still like the actual 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:08.280 pick and who the breakout should be here, I guess 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.760 it's gonna be Ramon Marquez. I'm curious who you have 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.240 and then and I'll then I'll give them Marquez breakdown. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.880 I think Brian Rincone deserves a little bit of a shout. 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.000 I mean, it was popular, but he was a decently 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.400 hyped up name from the you know, he had made 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.600 some noise early in his pro career and then last year. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.680 The last two years really it's been pretty lackluster all 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.680 things considered. He was in High A all of twenty 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.040 twenty five and it was an eighty nine WRC plus 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.840 this year, going to Double A after struggling in hig A 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.400 at twenty two years old. In Double A he's got 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.680 a one twenty eight WRC plus. He's walking at you know, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.560 over fifteen percent clips. Striking out rate is strick outreads 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.760 down ten percent from last year. Almost you're seeing a 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.920 little bit of a significant uptick in power. It's up 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.000 to twelve homers already this season after putting out only 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:50.960 six last year. So when I started to look at 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.480 their roster a little bit more in their prospects, I 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:53.960 think Rincon is the one that stands out to me 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.320 even more than Marquez made. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:56.640 Yeah, that's a good shout. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.280 Somebody actually just asked about n count and the discord 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.000 a few days ago and just. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.000 Asking like does the bat ball data back it up? 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:05.720 Like is it just seems like he's flying under the 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.080 radar Raanconzaga that a lot of people like for the glove, 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:09.600 and I remember seeing him on the airson a Fall 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.320 League where he struggled but and it had been banged up, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.120 and I think injuries have limited him some a little 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.680 bit too, but the fact that you could see just 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.040 the athleticism and the ingredients at least be a really 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.720 solid defender and a utility piece. But now at twenty two, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.960 he's really getting into pop and and he popped a 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:29.920 one twelve. There's one hundred and twelve min hour Homer. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.080 I sent the open side video of in the discord 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:34.600