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Speaker 3: His first big league swing is gonna be a grand slam,
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Call Up, your go to podcast
Speaker 3: on the future stars in Major League Baseball. You got
Speaker 3: arm Light and Elijah Evans and we're doing part two
Speaker 3: of our check in on our preseason breakout picks for
Speaker 3: all thirty teams. This time it's the National League side
Speaker 3: of things. The link to this article is in the
Speaker 3: episode description. If you want to check that out, or
Speaker 3: if you're watching us on BALI, you can find that
Speaker 3: on Just Baseball dot com. But I'm excited we did
Speaker 3: the American League side. We went through the good, the bad,
Speaker 3: the in between, and on the National League side it's
Speaker 3: kind of the same thing. We get the good, the
Speaker 3: bat and in between. We're going to check in on
Speaker 3: what's going right with those guys that are proving me
Speaker 3: right maybe with the preseason pick, what went wrong with
Speaker 3: those that maybe aren't aging as well, and then of course,
Speaker 3: who are the right picks then or other options for
Speaker 3: each of these teams to be the breakout. So far
Speaker 3: as we're just on the other side of the halfway
Speaker 3: point of this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fun one.
Speaker 4: It's always cool to look back at your initial predictions.
Speaker 4: Some of them have been absolute bangers. You got to
Speaker 4: give yourself some credit, and then there's some that probably
Speaker 4: haven't gone the way you were hoping they do. It's
Speaker 4: always a good time to get to bash on you
Speaker 4: a little bit, but also celebrate the victories.
Speaker 3: That's the fun part. We get kind of everything here,
Speaker 3: which makes it fun. We do start with a pretty
Speaker 3: solid pick, but just not the right pick because there's
Speaker 3: a couple guys, one in particular, that is dominating the
Speaker 3: Brave system. But John Heel was not a bad pick
Speaker 3: for the Braves, who's having a nice season, actually quite
Speaker 3: a good one. Unfortunately, he also shares an organization with
Speaker 3: the best minor league performer this year in Eric Hartman,
Speaker 3: and that obviously had to be the pick. And he's
Speaker 3: like a breakout by all accounts as a late round pick.
Speaker 3: All this different stuff, but just to check in on
Speaker 3: John Heel very quickly, one zero six WRC plus so
Speaker 3: far this season. He's been a menace on the base
Speaker 3: paths continues to be. He's been even more efficient this year.
Speaker 3: He was like fifty for sixty four last year, this
Speaker 3: year thirty five for forty already the season. What I
Speaker 3: like with him is you get this power upside speed combination.
Speaker 3: The hit tool just continues to shine through. Is a
Speaker 3: guy that is not going to punch out very much.
Speaker 3: And you know, after hitting seven homers in one hundred
Speaker 3: and seven games last year, hell has eleven and seventy six.
Speaker 2: That said, there are.
Speaker 3: Some baseball aspects that are making it can be like
Speaker 3: literal baseball, the ball itself, that make it hard for
Speaker 3: me to you know, discern whether I think this is
Speaker 3: like a power uptick or not. But there's some underlying
Speaker 3: batted ballmarkers that I think point towards you know, healtt
Speaker 3: just a newly turned twenty years old growing into more pop.
Speaker 4: I was going to say that it might not be
Speaker 4: the right breakout pick, but I'd still say he's one
Speaker 4: of the three to five best performers in the system
Speaker 4: all things considered. This season started the year at nineteen
Speaker 4: years old in high a recently turned twenty eleven homers
Speaker 4: thirty five bags of the first seventy six games of
Speaker 4: the year for Heel. It hasn't been like Eric Hartman obviously,
Speaker 4: as we've talked about or even Tates South to see
Speaker 4: and I was gonna mention as kind of a secondary
Speaker 4: breakout behind Hartman. Heel's probably third on that list, but still,
Speaker 4: all things considered, very solid.
Speaker 1: Pick by you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hartman sad to seeing the Braves have they have
Speaker 3: pieces here and this is gonna be the fun part
Speaker 3: at the deadline, right, I mean, even John Heel at
Speaker 3: twenty years old is a guy that he's going to
Speaker 3: be twenty years old again until almost halfway through next season,
Speaker 3: a guy that plenty of teams are gonna have interest in.
Speaker 2: The glove is going to be the fun part.
Speaker 3: So to a monitor just to see how that continues
Speaker 3: to come along and if he's able to stick at shortstop.
Speaker 3: I know he's been starting to see some more action
Speaker 3: at second base here and there too, but that's typical anyway.
Speaker 2: With the short stop, we'll see. I don't love the.
Speaker 3: Glove, but it looks like he could have the ingredients
Speaker 3: to be able to at least be average defender there
Speaker 3: as he just continues to mature. He'll also average x
Speaker 3: velocity up three miles per hour from last year, so
Speaker 3: that is going to back. You know, some more impacts
Speaker 3: being added here, hard hit rate up ten percent, elevating
Speaker 3: more consistently. This is a guy that when the Braves
Speaker 3: are buyers here, I think plenty of teams are going
Speaker 3: to have you know, circled as one of the prospects
Speaker 3: they'll be asking for in a return.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think so.
Speaker 4: I would think he's a guy who're gonna look at him,
Speaker 4: and even south the scene, I would think Hartman's probably
Speaker 4: in the borderline untouchable category.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be really interesting.
Speaker 3: I don't know who out there I would trade, Like
Speaker 3: I'm not trading. It's as crazy as it sounds. I'd
Speaker 3: really struggle to trade Hartman for a rental school. And
Speaker 3: I know there's a prospects show and I am, but
Speaker 3: I will say I tend to not be a prospect Hugert.
Speaker 3: That one would be really hard with how much of
Speaker 3: a star he looks like he could be. But that's
Speaker 3: the tough part with the Brave system is they have
Speaker 3: these emergent guys, but like, how would you go get
Speaker 3: a guy like Scooble. I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 3: who else would be on the trade market. Have to
Speaker 3: be a really impactful player with control for me to
Speaker 3: be dangling Hartman, but you never know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always possible for sure.
Speaker 4: Next up is the Miami Marlins, and we get into
Speaker 4: your pick, which initially was Luis Cova, speinster outfielder who
Speaker 4: was in the DSL last year. And then obviously I
Speaker 4: think another pretty layup of a pick here, and in
Speaker 4: terms of who it probably should be here is is
Speaker 4: Carson Milbrand. It's impossible to look at Carson milburan season
Speaker 4: so far and not just get fired up about what
Speaker 4: he's done this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Cova probably not the right pick. Was good
Speaker 3: at the Complex for nineteen games, but like you should
Speaker 3: be good at the complex, you repeated the DSL. I
Speaker 3: still think Cove is an interesting player and very much
Speaker 3: could be somebody that puts it together at age twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one.
Speaker 2: And he hasn't been.
Speaker 3: Bad by I would say, the standards of getting overblown,
Speaker 3: like getting blown away, overwhelmed with with low pitching, but
Speaker 3: he just has not been able to have any quality
Speaker 3: of contact there, which was the exciting part of what
Speaker 3: I saw last year and his repeated the dsls.
Speaker 2: You saw that improvement.
Speaker 3: Quality of contact wise and it's interesting because now you
Speaker 3: have two guys, and I talked about it in the
Speaker 3: last episode.
Speaker 2: I think guys that repeat the DSL it.
Speaker 3: Can often be fools gold right, because you're playing the
Speaker 3: same level, and in the DSL the pitching can be
Speaker 3: so weak at points where you can get to a
Speaker 3: point where you're not necessarily better that much better of
Speaker 3: a hitter. You might have just gotten better at hitting
Speaker 3: DSL pitching, and sometimes those things are a little bit different.
Speaker 3: And we'll see with COVID a lot of the battball
Speaker 3: data was better, but that could have been a guy
Speaker 3: that just got more comfortable and being able to hit
Speaker 3: DSL pitching, but still didn't close some of the gaps
Speaker 3: that he needed as a professional hitter to be able
Speaker 3: to make the leap state sign. I saw him live
Speaker 3: the other day again, didn't look like he was overwhelmed,
Speaker 3: didn't look totally out of sorts. But the guys slug
Speaker 3: in two sixty five right now. So it's not too
Speaker 3: good at the low A level one twenty two WRC
Speaker 3: plus in the nineteen games of the complex, eighty seven
Speaker 3: WRC plus so far in twenty four games at low way,
Speaker 3: but it's his first taste of low A, so I.
Speaker 2: Think he's going to settle in.
Speaker 3: He's nineteen years old until February, and Covid is the
Speaker 3: guy that I know that the Marlins do like. But
Speaker 3: without a doubt it's recent guest of the podcast cars
Speaker 3: and Brent, who's you know, solidified himself as one of
Speaker 3: the more electrifying right handers in the upper Miners. It's
Speaker 3: still getting aclimated to Triple A now, but was decimating
Speaker 3: Double A and looks like a big piece for the Marlins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then you know, obviously he's someone that I
Speaker 4: think you're you're getting on a track here where you
Speaker 4: want to start to think about when he can get
Speaker 4: his chance.
Speaker 1: It's probably still.
Speaker 4: Next year, but man nol Brant is just its just
Speaker 4: exciting and such a flamethrower and someone that I think
Speaker 4: is going to be a real piece.
Speaker 1: And the Marlins are probably.
Speaker 4: Looking at you know, they're they're already good rotation in
Speaker 4: him being a huge part of it in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: seven and beyond.
Speaker 2: It's just the command of Triple A. That'll be the
Speaker 2: interesting thing to monitor.
Speaker 3: One other shout is and probably the the ma end
Speaker 3: up taking the cake if he continues going this way.
Speaker 3: Is cam Canderella, Yeah, Cam Canerella the Marlin's second round pick.
Speaker 3: I guess campe pick last year forty fifth. Overall, what
Speaker 3: he's done this year so far has been amazing. I
Speaker 3: mean at High A he in nineteen games torched it
Speaker 3: there three ninety four, three homers. And then at Double
Speaker 3: A in the Southern League, and I think he has
Speaker 3: been the crazy he's part for a guy that was
Speaker 3: kind of viewed as more contact and speed and defense.
Speaker 2: Though the defense has not been.
Speaker 3: As good as I would have expected, and from what
Speaker 3: we saw in college. That's that's for another time when
Speaker 3: we break down you know, Candarella and talk about him
Speaker 3: in a heat sheet probably coming up next week. But
Speaker 3: eight homers in twenty eight games in Double A. Now
Speaker 3: he's up to a one to seventy five WRC plus.
Speaker 3: There he's walking as much as he's struck out. So
Speaker 3: now you have a forty seven game sample where he
Speaker 3: is eleven homers Canarella, he'shitting three sixty with a one
Speaker 3: to sixty nine WRC plus and walking almost as much
Speaker 3: as he's struck out. Yeah, that's going to be really impressive.
Speaker 3: I'd like to see the speed be a bigger part
Speaker 3: of his game. But he had an injury laying out
Speaker 3: for ball, colliding with somebody that I think affected his
Speaker 3: one of his knees like something like that, So I'm
Speaker 3: sure that played a factor. And also like he's slugging
Speaker 3: right now and that's been the exciting part. So Cantarella
Speaker 3: is definitely a name to watch and if he can
Speaker 3: keep this thing rolling, I mean, this is a really
Speaker 3: impressive player. Probably would be a slam dunk for the
Speaker 3: top one hundred if the defense wasn't actually shockingly shaky,
Speaker 3: which was supposed to be.
Speaker 2: His calling cards.
Speaker 3: So regardless though, you see the back to ball, you
Speaker 3: see the quality of contact, and this is a guy
Speaker 3: that I think is a straight up era on the
Speaker 3: Marlins org.
Speaker 4: Yeah, going over to the New York Mets organization, your
Speaker 4: pick at the beginning of the season was Jonathan Santucci.
Speaker 4: We had an awesome interview with him about a month back.
Speaker 4: Definitely go check that out to hear more about him.
Speaker 1: He's had some ups and downs this year.
Speaker 4: It's been a good year overall for Santucci, but hasn't
Speaker 4: been necessarily a huge season for him. The Mets org
Speaker 4: is a little tough man, I don't know. We were
Speaker 4: looking through and like I'm scrolling through it now even
Speaker 4: like I don't know if there's really a clear breakout
Speaker 4: pick in that organization. I think you look at guys
Speaker 4: like Lenninger in Santucci that you expected to be good,
Speaker 4: and they've been solid, They've been you know, good overall,
Speaker 4: but like I mean, you got to really go into
Speaker 4: the levels of of some you know, older players at
Speaker 4: a lower level to find guys that really pop out
Speaker 4: as a true breakout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Santucci has been great of Late two four
Speaker 3: five era over his last I think it was seven starts.
Speaker 3: The reason I knew that off the top of my
Speaker 3: head is we just put out a social video on
Speaker 3: all the call up channels.
Speaker 2: Check that out. We're going to be doing this every week,
Speaker 2: hopefully going out.
Speaker 3: On Monday Night's a Tuesday morning, just recapping the top performers,
Speaker 3: highlighting some data. Two to three minute video I think
Speaker 3: this one was three and a half, just kind of
Speaker 3: catching you up with all the top performers in the
Speaker 3: minor leagues across every level and just guys that stood
Speaker 3: out to us. And Santucci of Late was a guy
Speaker 3: that made that video so check that out again on
Speaker 3: x Instagram, our TikTok as well.
Speaker 2: We're putting that out everywhere.
Speaker 3: But Santucci better of late not a breakout because you
Speaker 3: could argus better last year. A breakout for him, given
Speaker 3: that he already was pretty damn good in the second
Speaker 3: half last year, would be him dominating again through Double
Speaker 3: A and probably having success in Triple A. Mitch Voitte
Speaker 3: of late has been really good for them. But you know,
Speaker 3: he's a first round pick in twenty twenty five. But
Speaker 3: I think when you will get void compared to where
Speaker 3: he was last year, where he's been especially over the
Speaker 3: last month and a half, that could be a shout
Speaker 3: for you. But there's no one that really jumps out
Speaker 3: in the that system right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nothing super appalling and you know jumped out at
Speaker 4: you right there, Santucci. I think if he finishes the
Speaker 4: season strong, I think that ends up being kind of
Speaker 4: a win pick for you, even though that was a
Speaker 4: little bit more of it. You know, he was good
Speaker 4: last year and you were just expecting it to continue
Speaker 4: more than anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing too.
Speaker 3: I'll lean on you here, like you can give it
Speaker 3: a thumbs up thumbs down that's what Jack.
Speaker 2: Was going to for the ones that weren't. I think
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 4: I think it's I think it's a seventy five percent up.
Speaker 4: This next one, this is like Lobb from Way James
Speaker 4: slams it down. I'll shout out here Miami guys for that,
Speaker 4: because the Nationals organization at Devin Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: There's no other pick that's even at the table here.
Speaker 1: This was just a slam dug from you all around.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The only pushback I guess people would give is is that, hey,
Speaker 3: since he's got to double a in twenty one games,
Speaker 3: he's been horrible. But my argument would be, as we've
Speaker 3: talked about on the podcast, Fitzgerald started twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: at the Complex and played forty one total games, so
Speaker 3: he had only played ten games at Low Way before
Speaker 3: getting hurt, and the national said in spring training, this
Speaker 3: kid is so good, you're gonna skip Low Way. Essentially
Speaker 3: those ten games weren't off, We don't care. You're going
Speaker 3: straight to hie hi A's where he was one of
Speaker 3: the best hitters in the minor leagues. You know, after
Speaker 3: settling in a little bit, just went crazy. As we
Speaker 3: saw in that incredible stretch the twelve homers and fifty
Speaker 3: one games, but so many of those came in the
Speaker 3: final two weeks of him playing at the level, and
Speaker 3: then he gets promoted to Double A and that's where
Speaker 3: he's really struggled. He's sitting one forty five. I believe
Speaker 3: that comes out to what we got there twelve for
Speaker 3: eighty three. My thing with him is the fact that
Speaker 3: he's gotten.
Speaker 2: The Double A this year I think is a breakout.
Speaker 3: In a lot of ways, and the fact that this
Speaker 3: is a player that is on top one hundred lists
Speaker 3: across the board that wasn't at the start of the season.
Speaker 3: And also is I didn't get to settle in as
Speaker 3: we get deeper into the season at the Double A level,
Speaker 3: like to enter this year having barely played above the
Speaker 3: complex and then in that same year be playing at
Speaker 3: the upper levels. Of course, it's going to be a
Speaker 3: huge test for fitzjail at at twenty years old. So
Speaker 3: I still think this is a breakout by you know,
Speaker 3: every way. And I'm trying to think of another national
Speaker 3: that would fit that bill. I'm not sure if there
Speaker 3: is an obvious one other than than Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Fitzgerald's the answer.
Speaker 4: I think there's a couple other talented players, but I
Speaker 4: think this guy, like you said, I'm not putting too
Speaker 4: much stock in twenty double A games for a guy
Speaker 4: who had basically skipped low A and dominated hy A,
Speaker 4: like this is a breakout. He looks really good and is,
Speaker 4: you know, all the makings of He's already well into
Speaker 4: our top one hundred and I think if he once
Speaker 4: he settles into double A, you're going to see him
Speaker 4: start to take back up and.
Speaker 1: Maybe not quite the numbers he was doing hig A,
Speaker 1: but I.
Speaker 4: Fully expected to finish the season stronger in double A
Speaker 4: than it's been so far.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. He's going to settle on. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Jumping over to the Phillies organization, this is an interesting
Speaker 4: one that there's not a clear takeaway. You went with
Speaker 4: Matthew Fisher at the beginning of the season, right handed
Speaker 4: guy who had a pretty decent signing bonus out of
Speaker 4: their twenty twenty five class last year. Hasn't been necessarily
Speaker 4: the breakout there. We looked at some of their guys
Speaker 4: up and down. There's not like a standout name, but
Speaker 4: there's a couple names. You had one and I have
Speaker 4: another I pulled up, but I think at least interesting
Speaker 4: in the Phillies Org.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Fisher's been okay.
Speaker 3: You know, it hasn't been anything special so far this year,
Speaker 3: and they could easily be a late bloomer. Just very talented.
Speaker 3: I liked him out of the draft and that was
Speaker 3: a big reason why I picked him. Is one of
Speaker 3: the breakout guys, but I don't think anything's really jumped
Speaker 3: off the page with him, and the stuff's been kind
Speaker 3: of fine. Slider looks like a plus pitch, but that's
Speaker 3: kind of been about it for him. And the fastball has,
Speaker 3: you know, mostly been in the low nineties. And you know,
Speaker 3: as a result, Fisher has generated a decent amount of
Speaker 3: strikeouts when he was getting his feet wet in the complex,
Speaker 3: but then you know, in the eleven innings he's thrown
Speaker 3: at low A so far, you know, it just hasn't
Speaker 3: been quite as sharp. But I think it's been all right.
Speaker 3: They've been very careful with him a few innings at
Speaker 3: a time. I think was a little bit banged up
Speaker 3: at the start of the season, so I think that's
Speaker 3: been part of it too. So it's hard to break
Speaker 3: out when you're being managed so carefully, but again the
Speaker 3: breaking ball does look quite good, and you know can
Speaker 3: fort with three thousand rpm and you're seeing that and
Speaker 3: the cutter in between is interesting. I still think this
Speaker 3: is a guy that could be a pretty solid arm
Speaker 3: for them, But as it pertains, still like the actual
Speaker 3: pick and who the breakout should be here, I guess
Speaker 3: it's gonna be Ramon Marquez. I'm curious who you have
Speaker 3: and then and I'll then I'll give them Marquez breakdown.
Speaker 1: I think Brian Rincone deserves a little bit of a shout.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was popular, but he was a decently
Speaker 4: hyped up name from the you know, he had made
Speaker 4: some noise early in his pro career and then last year.
Speaker 4: The last two years really it's been pretty lackluster all
Speaker 4: things considered. He was in High A all of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five and it was an eighty nine WRC plus
Speaker 4: this year, going to Double A after struggling in hig A
Speaker 4: at twenty two years old. In Double A he's got
Speaker 4: a one twenty eight WRC plus. He's walking at you know,
Speaker 4: over fifteen percent clips. Striking out rate is strick outreads
Speaker 4: down ten percent from last year. Almost you're seeing a
Speaker 4: little bit of a significant uptick in power. It's up
Speaker 4: to twelve homers already this season after putting out only
Speaker 4: six last year. So when I started to look at
Speaker 4: their roster a little bit more in their prospects, I
Speaker 4: think Rincon is the one that stands out to me
Speaker 4: even more than Marquez made.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good shout.
Speaker 3: Somebody actually just asked about n count and the discord
Speaker 3: a few days ago and just.
Speaker 2: Asking like does the bat ball data back it up?
Speaker 3: Like is it just seems like he's flying under the
Speaker 3: radar Raanconzaga that a lot of people like for the glove,
Speaker 3: and I remember seeing him on the airson a Fall
Speaker 3: League where he struggled but and it had been banged up,
Speaker 3: and I think injuries have limited him some a little
Speaker 3: bit too, but the fact that you could see just
Speaker 3: the athleticism and the ingredients at least be a really
Speaker 3: solid defender and a utility piece. But now at twenty two,
Speaker 3: he's really getting into pop and and he popped a
Speaker 3: one twelve. There's one hundred and twelve min hour Homer.
Speaker 3: I sent the open side video of in the discord
Speaker 3: off of Gage Stana Firm.
Speaker 2: I'm like whoa that was not in there before. So
Speaker 2: when the.
Speaker 3: Evs are up and way up against better velocity in
Speaker 3: terms of just the way he's performing, he struggled against
Speaker 3: some upper echelon of velocity in the past. I think
Speaker 3: that may have been a little bit of a bad
Speaker 3: speed thing, a little bit of a mechanical thing.
Speaker 2: Now he looks more physical.
Speaker 3: The EV's being up, he's way quicker to velocity, and
Speaker 3: then you know, just holding his backside better, looking more adjustable,
Speaker 3: you're hitting Homer's a one twelve after never really you know,
Speaker 3: exceeding one ten plus off of arms like Gage Stana
Speaker 3: for a Lot's probably going right for you there, and
Speaker 3: I think with the glove to pair, this is a
Speaker 3: guy that has a lot of your prospect intrigue. I
Speaker 3: think to keep adding to the fold there. And then
Speaker 3: just a quick shout on Marquez though that's been really
Speaker 3: good for them. It's a fun kind of two seam
Speaker 3: run and ride type of pitch and then a change
Speaker 3: up off of that also has this gyro slider that
Speaker 3: whole throw at like eighty nine miles per hour to
Speaker 3: a three pitch mix. It's allowed him to have a
Speaker 3: lot of success this year. And I do think that
Speaker 3: that Marquez all of a sudden looks like we're talking
Speaker 3: about trade candidates too. I went on a Phillies podcast
Speaker 3: recently and like who can we trade? And I was
Speaker 3: looking around, and I thought Marquez was one of those
Speaker 3: candidates that, you know, maybe on the public lists, doesn't
Speaker 3: get as much shine, but I think a lot of
Speaker 3: teams that are calling and doing their due diligence are
Speaker 3: going to be intrigued in an arm like Marquez, even
Speaker 3: though he's you know, maybe not the highest most popular
Speaker 3: arm in the world. You'll oft the stuff and also
Speaker 3: like a decent field to command it and repeat. I
Speaker 3: think it's a pretty fascinating free pitch mix there that
Speaker 3: I think could have a lot of teams interested.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think for that matter, Rinkolne could
Speaker 4: be another name that I think teams could be interested in.
Speaker 4: Deadline wise, so Philly's system isn't loaded by any means,
Speaker 4: and obviously Aiden Miller has been hurt. You know, there's
Speaker 4: a little bit of a lacklustered, you know, juice in
Speaker 4: that system. But there are some guys in both those
Speaker 4: names and handful of others who I think they're going
Speaker 4: to try to dangle for the sake of you know,
Speaker 4: making your run this year.
Speaker 2: Yep, and we can go with Fisher on a thumbs down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one's thumbs down.
Speaker 4: For now, Let's take a quick break before we get
Speaker 4: into the NL Central as we review breakouts for every
Speaker 4: team in the National League. Jumping right back in here
Speaker 4: on the call up to our National League breakouts review,
Speaker 4: we made it to the NL Central.
Speaker 1: Now starting with the Brewers.
Speaker 4: This was self admittedly your deepest cut in your ear
Speaker 4: predictions here brailin into nez intoez.
Speaker 1: In Tunias. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4: Was a DSL guy in the Brewers system and had
Speaker 4: been He played last year in the DSL. There was
Speaker 4: some intriguing stuff. Actually, has had a solid year in
Speaker 4: the complex. He's put up eleven nine homers, eleven bags,
Speaker 4: a one twelve WRC plus so far at the Arizona Complex.
Speaker 1: Is striking out at a thirty three percent clip.
Speaker 4: Though, this probably isn't the pick, but tell me a
Speaker 4: little more about him before I give you the likely
Speaker 4: pick here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not the correct pick, but I'm still giving
Speaker 3: myself some credit on this one because I picked the
Speaker 3: guy that in the DSL last year, had a two
Speaker 3: fifteen batting average and slugged two eighty two.
Speaker 2: And he didn't repeat the DSL.
Speaker 3: He went to They sent him to the Complex, Like
Speaker 3: this is a classic repeat the DSL guy. Nope, goes
Speaker 3: to the complex. Obviously, he's going to need to figure
Speaker 3: out the swinging mess. He's going to need to improve
Speaker 3: that in the Arizona Complex. But he's eighteen years old
Speaker 3: and a one twelve WRC plus. He had one homer
Speaker 3: in the DSL last year. He's got nine this year
Speaker 3: in the Arizona Complex League. He was really impressive on
Speaker 3: the back fields in spring training and there's some buzz
Speaker 3: being generated with him there. The thing that's fascinating with
Speaker 3: him is he hits the living crap out of the
Speaker 3: baseball and there's huge, huge upside. I mean, he's sent
Speaker 3: homers upwards of one hundred and fourteen miles per hour already.
Speaker 3: So if you've got a guy that's hitting the ball
Speaker 3: that hard at eighteen years old, there's a lot to
Speaker 3: like there.
Speaker 2: It's just going to be a matter of cutting down
Speaker 2: on the whiff.
Speaker 3: And he got out of the gate a little bit
Speaker 3: slow and since then has been a lot better. So
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that, you know, you'll see the numbers be
Speaker 3: better at overall at the end of the year. But
Speaker 3: when you've got an eighteen year old pop in one
Speaker 3: thirteen's one, fourteens, I think there may even be a
Speaker 3: one to fifteen in there. Average ices of vossitia ninety
Speaker 3: one miles per hour. It's it's a relative breakout compared
Speaker 3: to what he was last year, which was not even
Speaker 3: a non prospect.
Speaker 2: Like you do that twice in the DSL, you might
Speaker 2: not have a.
Speaker 3: Job in baseball after that as a player, So it
Speaker 3: is it is a much better year from him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think that's I think it's like almost
Speaker 4: a thumbs middle. I don't think that's a crazy that's
Speaker 4: not some like terrible pick. I think he's still a
Speaker 4: name to keep an eye on there. But I do
Speaker 4: think Alexander Freos in the Brewers or is the pick here?
Speaker 4: This is another Similarly, you know, a DSL guy last
Speaker 4: year made us to the Complex. This year just destroyed
Speaker 4: his way through the Complex this season. He had four
Speaker 4: forty one in his thirty two Complex games this year,
Speaker 4: handful of homers, just impressive stuff all around. Just got
Speaker 4: to single a recently and has had a bit of
Speaker 4: a slow start, but all things considered, you're looking at
Speaker 4: a guy in Freos who like is one of those
Speaker 4: Brewers guys.
Speaker 1: We were like, oh, he was good in the DSL
Speaker 1: last year and then just lit up the complex right
Speaker 1: upon arrival this spring.
Speaker 3: This is why, And I hate that I'm like trade
Speaker 3: pilled this episode, but this is what the Brewers need
Speaker 3: to make a freaking trade because this kid is really
Speaker 3: good and maybe it doesn't have to be him, like
Speaker 3: he doesn't have to be the one that you trade.
Speaker 3: But you have already the most ridiculous farm system in
Speaker 3: baseball and you're just spawning dudes. And we just had
Speaker 3: Andrew Fisher on and he's been amazing and he's averaging
Speaker 3: a home run every like eight point six at bats.
Speaker 3: Also that was from the social video, so go check
Speaker 3: that out. But free us man, like you spawn this
Speaker 3: guy on top of it. And it's like, I love
Speaker 3: Blake Burke, who cares. A lot of teams would like
Speaker 3: a Blake trade Blake Burke trade trade Bovied And I
Speaker 3: know those guys aren't going to bring in a hall,
Speaker 3: but like that's even uncharacteristic trade. Some of these other guys,
Speaker 3: my gosh, because you look at what what freest could
Speaker 3: be now too.
Speaker 2: He just turned eighteen.
Speaker 3: He just turned eighteen years old, and you've got a
Speaker 3: kid that I mean sweet swing from the left side.
Speaker 3: You see like the projection physically too, where he's still wiry,
Speaker 3: like there's he's skinny. There's room to add strength in
Speaker 3: that six two, one hundred and seventy five pound frame.
Speaker 2: But he's already popping exs. The velocity's north to one ten.
Speaker 3: Now he needs to get the ball in the air
Speaker 3: a little bit more consistently and some of these other things.
Speaker 3: But the average batspeed in games where it was able
Speaker 3: to be measured is like almost seventy four miles per hour.
Speaker 3: To be already there at his age, you put this
Speaker 3: guy in the brewer's hands to be able to find
Speaker 3: a little bit more consistent loft, like find the ground,
Speaker 3: use the ground a little bit more consistently. How much
Speaker 3: more power could be in there. I think he's going
Speaker 3: to be a pretty solid outfielder, even if it's not
Speaker 3: for sure for sure center field, which I still think
Speaker 3: you look at the ability to go play in a corner.
Speaker 2: I think he'll be fine out there and covering off
Speaker 2: ground with a good arm. This is a very fun player.
Speaker 3: That the fact that he is already in full season
Speaker 3: ball at eighteen, like, I think the Brewers are tipping
Speaker 3: their hand of how they feel about him.
Speaker 2: This is what they do with their special guys. They
Speaker 2: like to be more aggressive in general, but.
Speaker 3: They're they're really exciting guys, the guys that they feel
Speaker 3: a little bit differently about. This is what they do
Speaker 3: to them. They throw them in full season ball at
Speaker 3: eighteen years old. And when you watch Free his play,
Speaker 3: it's easy to understand why. I'm excited to see how
Speaker 3: he handles like the professional breaking or the professional the
Speaker 3: full season breaking stuff. But this year, dude four forty
Speaker 3: six against fastballs, and this includes the lowe sample, which
Speaker 3: is a twelve sixty one ops, then three seventy five
Speaker 3: against breaking ball. It's good for a nine ninety eight
Speaker 3: ops as well.
Speaker 2: I know that that was.
Speaker 3: Complex stuff and whatever, but it's a little bit of
Speaker 3: the low way too. That's still video game numbers. And
Speaker 3: it does include the eleven game sample, and I know
Speaker 3: it's a small sample overall too, it's only forty three
Speaker 3: total games. But he's hammering everything right, now and even
Speaker 3: as he's getting his feet wet in low A not
Speaker 3: striking out a ton, this kid could be a monster.
Speaker 3: And when I look at that, I'm like, all right,
Speaker 3: all those other guys in the middle, I know they
Speaker 3: love Adam Szevski. If it's a special like trade where
Speaker 3: you can get an impact player, I know he's been amazing.
Speaker 2: I'd even be okay with that.
Speaker 3: So that's other guy that could probably fit the breakout
Speaker 3: side of things too. There's so much talent in this system.
Speaker 3: Teams would love Marco Dings like you could trade a
Speaker 3: few guys and not feel it even if you didn't
Speaker 3: want to trade in Adam Szewski, because you've got all
Speaker 3: of these different high upside young players. Luis Laura just
Speaker 3: got caught up to the show, like it is crazy.
Speaker 3: Please for once Brewers make it big trade.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this is the guy.
Speaker 4: Frea's disgusting system and Frias is definitely the breakout. I'm
Speaker 4: still giving you like a middle thumb though on Brilin,
Speaker 4: because I do think that's like, it's not a bad
Speaker 4: shout for like you said, you picked a guy that
Speaker 4: was didn't perform well in the DSL and he's performing
Speaker 4: well in the complex.
Speaker 1: Not a negative.
Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, it's not the correct pick, but
Speaker 3: it's it's not I have worst picks.
Speaker 1: We've already covered getting into the Cubs.
Speaker 4: This was a good one. Kan Kepley of the Cubs organization.
Speaker 4: He was a second round pick last year. He's been great.
Speaker 4: I don't think he is the pick again, but still
Speaker 4: a good pick. So tell me about Kan and then
Speaker 4: we'll go over to the guy that I think is
Speaker 4: probably the pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, the only reason he's not v pick is
Speaker 3: the Cubs might have separate from the break Hartman. If
Speaker 3: it's not for Hartman, the Cubs may have two of
Speaker 3: the other like breakouts and relative breakout, like they may
Speaker 3: have the second best story in that regard. We're talking
Speaker 3: about noan airs. But Kepley, I love it because this
Speaker 3: just felt like a safe pick. Yes, he got a
Speaker 3: dose of twenty eight games at Loway where he was
Speaker 3: just put up stupid numbers because he was walking and
Speaker 3: never striking out. But the reason why I liked Kepley
Speaker 3: is the quality of contact is better than you'd expect
Speaker 3: for a five eight eighty pound speedster. And I think
Speaker 3: we've seen a little bit of that this year, not
Speaker 3: just through the five homers, And I mean, if he
Speaker 3: hits ten homers in a season, your thrill because he's
Speaker 3: gonna walk with the best of them.
Speaker 2: He leverages his really small strike zone very very well.
Speaker 3: He's going to be a menace on the base pats,
Speaker 3: He's a great defender in center field.
Speaker 2: I just felt like there was so I almost balance
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 3: And Tuniez was like the riskiest pick humanly possible because
Speaker 3: he could have immediately been brutal. Kepley was the safest
Speaker 3: pick and he'd have to really just go nuts to
Speaker 3: be a crazy like how did you know? How did
Speaker 3: you pick Kepley? But I felt like there's no way
Speaker 3: it was going to be like how did you pick Kepley?
Speaker 2: So for me, that was the big part of it.
Speaker 3: But ninety one percent in zone contact rate, a chase
Speaker 3: rate of sixteen percent. You pair those two things together,
Speaker 3: your odds are you're gonna have a good season, especially
Speaker 3: when you got speed. The other part that I think
Speaker 3: is the most underrated aspect with Kepley eighty nine percent
Speaker 3: average EGGXI velocity for a player with those specs, with
Speaker 3: his measurables, tou a forty three percent hard hit rate.
Speaker 3: He's got all the ingredients that the fact that he
Speaker 3: can he can hit the ball hard like that too.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a good player for a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about it on a sheet.
Speaker 4: There's just there's a lot of the floor stabilizers and
Speaker 4: then there's still some extra juice and injury there for
Speaker 4: a guy who you're looking at as like, oh, he's
Speaker 4: going to be a quality center.
Speaker 1: Fielder outfielder in general, but there is.
Speaker 4: Some juice there that you didn't necessarily expect right away,
Speaker 4: and you've seen it kind of out of the gate
Speaker 4: in his first season.
Speaker 2: Yep. And he's forty for forty two on stolen basis.
Speaker 1: That's nasty.
Speaker 4: But with that ohen Ares I was about to say,
Speaker 4: Owen Ares has been the craziest like nineteenth round twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four draft pick who has just burst onto the
Speaker 4: seam and went from a guy that last year was
Speaker 4: solid in single A as a twenty four year old,
Speaker 4: but now has absolutely dominated double A at twenty five
Speaker 4: years old while catching the majority of the time.
Speaker 2: This is such a cool story.
Speaker 3: I mean, signed for like fifty thousand dollars on a
Speaker 3: market day as that nineteenth round, but like.
Speaker 2: It's just stupid stuff. He's been like Barry Bonds in
Speaker 2: double A.
Speaker 3: It's fifteen homers and fifty nine aims a one seventy
Speaker 3: three WRC plus but with a RS. He also think
Speaker 3: he can stick behind the dish. So yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 2: People were doing the whole River Ryan thing and it's like,
Speaker 2: who's going to be the next?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Would there ever be a top one hundred project that's old?
Speaker 3: And I was like no, and Aer's will debut before that.
Speaker 3: But Owen Ayers could be like close to twenty six
Speaker 3: ers old and be on the top one hundred list.
Speaker 3: There's some whiff and that'll be the thing. Like if
Speaker 3: there is something to do him in, it'll be that.
Speaker 3: But I think he hedges that by simply being a
Speaker 3: switch hitter and it's not egregious as seventy two percent
Speaker 3: contact right, and it's something I think that it could continue.
Speaker 2: To get better.
Speaker 3: People are going to look at the age and be
Speaker 3: like he's twenty five, But I don't care about the
Speaker 3: age With Owen a Ers. He debuted really at twenty four.
Speaker 3: He got a taste of professional baseball at twenty three.
Speaker 2: Years old.
Speaker 3: He played eighteen games, so he really made his his
Speaker 3: his full season debut at twenty four years old. It's
Speaker 3: all relative like this is his first he played mid
Speaker 3: major baseball, so I don't really care about his age
Speaker 3: like I care about it from the lens of he's
Speaker 3: a catcher in the years control, and maybe at the
Speaker 3: end of the six years of control he might be
Speaker 3: getting already on the other side of thirty. We're mapping
Speaker 3: out though the war that we think he can accumulate
Speaker 3: in his years of control. I think he's gonna be
Speaker 3: really good within those years, and I think that's why
Speaker 3: he's gonna be a top bunch of prospect. You get
Speaker 3: that power with at least average defense behind the dish.
Speaker 3: I think there's a chance it could be even a
Speaker 3: little bit better than that. And yes, he's gonna wif
Speaker 3: more against breaking balls, but he's destroying hangers, change ups,
Speaker 3: left up, he's destroying him as well. Nine hundred ops
Speaker 3: against breaking balls, nine hundred ops against spin and fastballs.
Speaker 3: He's sitting three seventy seven with a twelve thirty ohps.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's just crazy stuff. And when you
Speaker 3: look at the splits from each side. He has in
Speaker 3: one thousand ops from both sides of the plate. This
Speaker 3: is an incredible player. I don't care about his age,
Speaker 3: so stop mentioning it to me, because it's all relative.
Speaker 2: And he debuted at twenty four.
Speaker 3: This is the late bloomer of late bloomers, and the
Speaker 3: fact that he's getting thrown right into the fire from
Speaker 3: mid major Baseball to Okay, he got a little bit
Speaker 3: of time at the lower levels, but now it's Double
Speaker 3: A and you're playing. This is going to be a
Speaker 3: piece for the Cubs, and I'm very interested to see
Speaker 3: how they navigate the deadline because they don't really like Biasteros.
Speaker 3: I don't think they look at as a catcher so
Speaker 3: which we have been saying forever, and that's why he's
Speaker 3: in the minors, you know, and not consistently.
Speaker 2: Getting reps the big league bubble.
Speaker 3: You have, Kelly, I know, but you would find ways
Speaker 3: to get him involved a little bit more if you
Speaker 3: could catch air. Is a guy that could really catch
Speaker 3: I think they're holding onto this guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm giving you a still an eighty percent thumbs
Speaker 4: up though, because I think kep Lee's probably would be
Speaker 4: the second or third guy.
Speaker 2: But it is the other one would be Josiah hards Cars.
Speaker 1: Yes, of god, well that's a gosh almost forgot. That's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's that you can make a case for too.
Speaker 3: It's just crazy what they've got with these two guys,
Speaker 3: like with Heartshorn and Airs doing what they're doing. Like
Speaker 3: I know, Go Cubs fans are like, man, I wish,
Speaker 3: I wish a couple of our arms could have broken
Speaker 3: out like this, Like they don't need these bats as
Speaker 3: much as we need the arm RADI tradum and I look,
Speaker 3: Heart one's probably gonna be close untouchable for them too
Speaker 3: because how crazy he's been. But harts Ones come down
Speaker 3: to after literally just being I mean, he was outperforming Hartman.
Speaker 3: It was like they were going back and forth. I
Speaker 3: felt like Maguire Sosa for a stretch there, but he
Speaker 3: slowed down a little bit after like just the home
Speaker 3: run barrage and think it was like eight and like
Speaker 3: twelve games right when he got up to hi A,
Speaker 3: which was crazy. But Hardshorn just he looks like another
Speaker 3: switch hitter with a good feel to hit, with good power,
Speaker 3: with just all of the ingredients to be a high
Speaker 3: probability above average regular it's just another really good piece
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Going over to the Saint Louis Cardinals organization, your pick
Speaker 4: here was Ryan Mitchell, who was a young prep guy
Speaker 4: from their second rounder from their twenty twenty five class.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say this one was a bad pick. I
Speaker 1: think this is a decent pick.
Speaker 4: He's been solid, it's his first taste of professional ball
Speaker 4: at nineteen years old, it's got a one eleven WRC
Speaker 4: plus through his first sixty four single A games.
Speaker 1: There's not like a clear pick beyond that.
Speaker 4: The two that I had written down was Mason Molina,
Speaker 4: who we talked about on a heat sheet recently actually
Speaker 4: and has been a really impressive arm for them.
Speaker 1: And then, funny enough, plays Jordan.
Speaker 4: Who actually end up making his debut and you know,
Speaker 4: is a well known name by a lot of people
Speaker 4: who might not even follow baseball that closely.
Speaker 1: But actually, is that a really good year?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know Mitchell, I think a lot of reasons to
Speaker 3: think he's a nice prospect and could be a solid
Speaker 3: player for them. But you know, as he's to try
Speaker 3: to get acclimated to pro ball, he's passive, and that
Speaker 3: passivity I think is putting him in spots where he
Speaker 3: does get when he gets deep in counts, he's just
Speaker 3: he's putting himself in and in spots where he's often
Speaker 3: trying to hit the best breaking balls and I think
Speaker 3: sometimes laying off the hangars, and so he's usually in
Speaker 3: defense mode when he's trying to hit breaking balls and
Speaker 3: as a results, he's hitting a buck thirty eight against him.
Speaker 3: And just secondaries in general have killed him nine to
Speaker 3: fifty ops against fastballs, but four hundred ops against secondaries.
Speaker 3: It's not uncommon for a guy making his pro debut
Speaker 3: out of high school straight into full season ball, but
Speaker 3: that's obviously going to be something that needs to get
Speaker 3: better for Mitchell.
Speaker 2: So think he's a good athlete.
Speaker 3: Still think there's some adjustability in the box and a
Speaker 3: lot of ingredients to a point towards him being a
Speaker 3: good player.
Speaker 2: But yeah, good season ish but not not great. I
Speaker 2: think it's Molina.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Molina, just because he's been like kind of always
Speaker 3: kind of afterthought and deals whatever it may be. And
Speaker 3: beyond the fact that Mason Molina has been as good
Speaker 3: as you mentioned, and we talked about him in the
Speaker 3: heat sheets, as you mentioned, like the.
Speaker 2: Stuff I'm like buying it now too.
Speaker 3: I really think this is a guy that's gonna end
Speaker 3: up being a back end of the rotation piece for them.
Speaker 2: When you've got the four seamer.
Speaker 3: With Ryde, you've got the shorter slider, the sweep or
Speaker 3: the curveball, and he commands it all pretty well. Like,
Speaker 3: I think he's been a breakout, both by the sense
Speaker 3: of his statistics but also that I think it's going
Speaker 3: to translate, like in terms of his prospect just just
Speaker 3: shine and value.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: I think he deserves the attention as the guy here.
Speaker 4: I think we talked to him before. Think the stuff
Speaker 4: just looks good, it looks exciting.
Speaker 2: I watched a.
Speaker 4: Couple of innings of his the other day, Like, he
Speaker 4: looked really good, and he just made his triple A debut.
Speaker 1: So he got hit a little bit in his triple
Speaker 1: A debut, but so.
Speaker 4: Be it the big task. Yeah, of course this will
Speaker 4: be the jobs. It's still a guy that's twenty two
Speaker 4: right now. He's about to be twenty three, so he's
Speaker 4: still young. He's going to spend the rest of the
Speaker 4: year in trips probably and going to next year with
Speaker 4: a chance to make an impact in Saint louis absolutely
Speaker 4: going over to our next team in the NL Central,
Speaker 4: the Reds organization. I can't say I was too familiar
Speaker 4: with the name you picked for the Reds, and I'm
Speaker 4: gonna let you pronounce it because I'm not even gonna
Speaker 4: try to be honest. But then there's one or two
Speaker 4: guys I think that are probably the correct pick here
Speaker 4: for the Reds.
Speaker 3: Yes, Sarlene Torres is not going to be the correct pick.
Speaker 3: He has a six to six' three era at LOW
Speaker 3: a in fifty four and the thirds, innings he has
Speaker 3: struck out forty one batters in fifty four.
Speaker 2: Innings and, YEAH i mean that that kind of says it.
Speaker 3: Itself what's funny is the fastball specs is kind of
Speaker 3: is WHAT i liked in THE dsl in THE. Acl
Speaker 3: this is also one of the teams where this is
Speaker 3: the first time we did it for all thirty. TEAMS
Speaker 3: i was really struggling to find a breakout prospect for The,
Speaker 3: reds really. Struggling and the fastball specs are. GOOD i
Speaker 3: JUST i don't. Know the secondary command is not very.
Speaker 3: Good he's not ex secuting much at. All he falls
Speaker 3: behind all the time and as a, result it's it's
Speaker 3: just not been a very good year For Starlinge.
Speaker 4: Torres, Yeah i'm man have a new a thumbs down
Speaker 4: on this, one BUT i do think the reds of
Speaker 4: a couple of. Names Jose akunya is one we talked
Speaker 4: about on the on the call up about a month.
Speaker 4: Ago maybe it'sd a pretty solid year and just an
Speaker 4: impressive step forward for, him and then Well edwin And
Speaker 4: royo isn't quite a breakout because he was a former top.
Speaker 4: Prospect he re emerged as a high end guy rather
Speaker 4: than maybe breaking, out BUT i still think he kind
Speaker 4: of qualifies as a.
Speaker 3: Breakout, YEAH i like both those. SHOUTS i think those
Speaker 3: are probably the best. Picks it's anyone But torres. Unfortunately but,
Speaker 3: yeah the red system was tough going in and it's
Speaker 3: still kind of tough.
Speaker 2: NOW i think from that, Lens, yeah it.
Speaker 4: Was a tricky, one BUT i do Think akunya is
Speaker 4: a good. PICK i think he's become at least an
Speaker 4: intriguing arm for, them and he just got off the
Speaker 4: trips as. Well another guy who you know was In
Speaker 4: DOUBLE a all last year and was, solid but then
Speaker 4: this year looked a little better In DOUBLE a and
Speaker 4: now is up In TRIPLE, a and you, KNOW i
Speaker 4: think he's someone that whether it's out of, bullpit you,
Speaker 4: know in a kind of A swiss army, role like
Speaker 4: twenty three year old In TRIPLE a who's had a
Speaker 4: really good year all around for that organization and.
Speaker 2: Ten anding's off his career high while putting up these.
Speaker 3: NUMBERS i think he's really encouraging as well as somebody
Speaker 3: that you want to see be able to handle that
Speaker 3: starter's work.
Speaker 2: QUOTE i Think acunya is the shot.
Speaker 1: Too, YEAH i think.
Speaker 4: So last one in THE Nl central The pirates, ORGANIZATION
Speaker 4: i think this one's kind of a slam dunk for
Speaker 4: for who it will. Be you went With Christian, curtis,
Speaker 4: though which isn't a bad pick at. All this was
Speaker 4: our our. Grad Jay staff Loves Christian curtis and was
Speaker 4: telling him about, it telling us about him last.
Speaker 1: Year he's been really good this.
Speaker 4: Year SO i want to Give curtis And john before
Speaker 4: we go into the guy WHO i think is probably
Speaker 4: the pick.
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah curtis is.
Speaker 3: GREAT i Think curtis is going to have a great
Speaker 3: big league. Career and we've talked about this story a
Speaker 3: little bit when we did the, pirates stop prospects is
Speaker 3: Botched Tommy john surgery or THE i don't know if
Speaker 3: the stitches didn't dissolve or they left him in or
Speaker 3: whatever it, was and then it pushed on a nerve
Speaker 3: and he had to have an emergency like surgery to fix,
Speaker 3: that and there was almost permanent damage to where he
Speaker 3: would forget pitch and be able to use his arm. Properly, ever,
Speaker 3: again thank, goodness he was took some time to get
Speaker 3: back from, that and ironically like he can spin the
Speaker 3: living crap out of the baseball and he still is
Speaker 3: fastball average twenty five hundred, rpm crazy ride to, it
Speaker 3: explodes through the, zone and the secondaries have always been.
Speaker 3: Exciting it's just, like, okay which is going to stand
Speaker 3: out and which is he gonna have the most consistent
Speaker 3: command Of and it seems like he's got a little
Speaker 3: bit of a better feel for. Everything the cutter off
Speaker 3: of the four SEAMER i, love the more gyro slider
Speaker 3: below that is. Great then straight below that you've got
Speaker 3: the curveball that will flip in with huge depth to
Speaker 3: it that can be hard to land, consistently as those
Speaker 3: curveballs typically, are and the change up has really come,
Speaker 3: along and you could be argued is his most reliable
Speaker 3: secondary maybe after the, Cutter BUT i love the, cutter
Speaker 3: change up slider combination and the taste breaking. Curveball you
Speaker 3: got a really good pitch mix that would be a
Speaker 3: good pitch mix to mask an iffy. Fastball that pitch
Speaker 3: micks to work. With a good fastball is, exciting AND
Speaker 3: i think that's why we've seen to have the success
Speaker 3: he's had this.
Speaker 2: Year it was a big part of it was just.
Speaker 4: Execution, yeah and he hasn't been the best in terms
Speaker 4: ofcounting stats this. YEAR i think you look at the
Speaker 4: numbers on the surface and you say he's been. Okay
Speaker 4: BUT i do, think like you, said the stuff is
Speaker 4: better than the numbers on the. Surface probably look For
Speaker 4: curtis numbers on the surface, Though Murph gray and an
Speaker 4: underlying and on the surface all the. Above Murf gray
Speaker 4: is the slam dunk pick here for The pirates organization
Speaker 4: of small school mid Major Fresno, state guy last coming
Speaker 4: out of college in last year's.
Speaker 1: Draft this, season Between.
Speaker 4: SINGLE a And HIGH a combined seventy five games of
Speaker 4: one SIXTY wrc, plus he's hitting three thirty four he's
Speaker 4: walking at a good, clip he's striking out at a reasonable.
Speaker 1: Rate Murf gray has been.
Speaker 4: Exceptional you wanted to see it translate from you, know
Speaker 4: SINGLE a obviously as a college, guy but it's carried
Speaker 4: it over pretty much completely Into. Hya.
Speaker 3: Now, YEAH i really want to see the double AND
Speaker 3: i feel like an a hole saying, That but you,
Speaker 3: know at the same, time he's done enough.
Speaker 2: To just absolutely solidify himself as as the. Breakout.
Speaker 3: Yeah another note On, Curtis HE'S i think just gonna
Speaker 3: be one of those guy that the el is never
Speaker 3: going to look great until he's in the, show and
Speaker 3: THEN i think we'll end up proving that this stuff
Speaker 3: is going to translate.
Speaker 2: There but it is. Funny it seems like the underlying
Speaker 2: is always better than the surface.
Speaker 3: With, gray like the fact that the strikeout rate and,
Speaker 3: increased but it also came with an almost proportionate increase
Speaker 3: in walk rate when he went from Low way to HIG.
Speaker 3: A all of the underlying stuff looks really. Strong the
Speaker 3: contact rates is, better honestly than the strikeout rate would imply,
Speaker 3: anyways and it's seventy six percent contact rate and being
Speaker 3: able to handle DOUBLE, A i would say it's, actually excuse,
Speaker 3: me relative to what the strikeout rate at the high
Speaker 3: level would, imply but the fact that he's elevating. Consistently
Speaker 3: it's an average launch and go of like eighteen, degrees
Speaker 3: and he just seems to have easy carry to all.
Speaker 3: Fields it's plus bat, speed and he seems to control
Speaker 3: his at bats pretty.
Speaker 2: Well it s at times he's At higa's got a
Speaker 2: little bit more expansive against the, spin so that'll just
Speaker 2: be something to.
Speaker 3: Monitor but he's just getting his a swing off consistently
Speaker 3: and generating carry to all. Fields AND i think the
Speaker 3: only bike hurdle that's keeping him back from, being you,
Speaker 3: know top one hundred guys just seeing how he would
Speaker 3: handle maybe double a spin as you can see sometimes
Speaker 3: against better, stuff breaking, stuff you know you could slow,
Speaker 3: down but it's eleven hundred oh, ps almost twlve hundred
Speaker 3: ops against, fastballs he's sitting four h, five hasn't seen
Speaker 3: a ton of, them but four h five against change
Speaker 3: ups and then even breaking. Balls he's handled hangers well,
Speaker 3: enough eight eighteen. Ops but that's where you can start
Speaker 3: to see some of the whiff creep, up and at
Speaker 3: high a those numbers have come down a little, bit
Speaker 3: But gray is their breakout without a, doubt and he's
Speaker 3: been awesome this.
Speaker 1: Year, yeah he's been.
Speaker 4: Exceptional let's take a break here before we get back
Speaker 4: into THE Nl. West jumping back in here on THE
Speaker 4: Nl west of OUR Nl breakouts, episode going through your breakout,
Speaker 4: predictions comparing them to who it probably should or could
Speaker 4: be at this point of the. Season The diamondbacks organization
Speaker 4: the ending of the, year you Picked Ashton izy of The.
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks or right hander who was acquired at the?
Speaker 4: Deadline is he's been, Solid BUT i think it was
Speaker 4: actually a different player acquired via trade THAT i ended
Speaker 4: up picking out here from THAT dbx. Organization i'm curious
Speaker 4: if you had the same one in. Mind tell me
Speaker 4: a little About izzy and Then i'll tell you the
Speaker 4: name THAT i went.
Speaker 3: Too, yeah So, Isy, yeah that was a guy THAT
Speaker 3: i was also just loved that they had gotten in the.
Speaker 3: Trade and when the rare time you got to see
Speaker 3: The dbacks as, sellers they're clearly prioritizing arms there and you,
Speaker 3: know coming over from The mariners. Work but With, IZZY
Speaker 3: i JUST i like the balance of the pitch mix
Speaker 3: and when you look at, him this. YEAR i think
Speaker 3: a lot of solid, things but you, know it's also
Speaker 3: really important to note the environment that he's thrown in
Speaker 3: and in DOUBLE a That amarillo is a launch. Pad
Speaker 3: want to see a little bit better swing and miss numbers,
Speaker 3: there but still attacking the. Zone been good enough, overall
Speaker 3: but not a breakout by any.
Speaker 2: Means tough to break.
Speaker 3: Out AND i probably should have considered this when you're
Speaker 3: throwing your home games At amarillo and also just The
Speaker 3: Texas league this. Year oh my, gosh Like DIYer hope's
Speaker 3: eight sixty eight ohps is a one twenty FOUR wrc, Plus,
Speaker 3: like how is THAT i? WANT i want To i'm
Speaker 3: going to be doing once we get to the other
Speaker 3: side of The All Star, Break i'm going to be
Speaker 3: doing a dive into like how the ball is flying
Speaker 3: differently in these levels and just how different though the
Speaker 3: numbers are this year relative to other.
Speaker 2: Levels but is he IS a is a really well
Speaker 2: rounded pitch.
Speaker 3: MIX i think has this stuff to be a solid
Speaker 3: back into the rotation, starter four, seamers, sinker change, up, cutter,
Speaker 3: sweeper and more of a sweeping curve off of that
Speaker 3: he's got to execute to have.
Speaker 2: Success BUT i think we're seeing in a lot of
Speaker 2: ways that he can do. That, YEAH i.
Speaker 1: Picked Mitch brat.
Speaker 4: Here, actually it was just funny BECAUSE i know he's
Speaker 4: he's been in the big leagues a little bit this,
Speaker 4: year But brad just took a step. Forward he was
Speaker 4: he was acquired by it From texas last year and
Speaker 4: we saw it last.
Speaker 1: Year but this, year prior to.
Speaker 4: Getting up to the he made one big leak, out
Speaker 4: so he really has barely been in the big. Leagues
Speaker 4: but like In TRIPLE a this, season in a tough
Speaker 4: to pitch IN pcl, Two Bratt brat's throwing a two
Speaker 4: four R a on the.
Speaker 1: Year it's not the.
Speaker 4: Flashiest the strikeout numbers are a little down from last,
Speaker 4: year but he just commands the such a high clip
Speaker 4: and it's been really productive AND i think.
Speaker 1: We'll find a way to be a big league, piece
Speaker 1: even if it's kind of a swingman type of.
Speaker 2: Role, Yeah i've always Liked.
Speaker 3: Pratt it's just a guy that's going to find a
Speaker 3: way to get out and the deception seems to work
Speaker 3: for him and can you can spin a breaking ball,
Speaker 3: Too and he's just kind of that throwback lefty that
Speaker 3: makes it all. Work and another guy that has to
Speaker 3: just sees the pitching reno and THE pcl and it's really.
Speaker 3: Tough but even with the fastball being in the low,
Speaker 3: NINETIES i think with the way that he can work
Speaker 3: the curveball and the slider and the change up and
Speaker 3: just get weak contact where he needs, to like he's.
Speaker 2: Avoided he's only a lot of.
Speaker 3: Thirty three percent hard hit rate this, year thirty seven
Speaker 3: percent week contact, rate so he's getting more weak contact
Speaker 3: than hard, contact and it's it's harder to do than you,
Speaker 3: think AND i think it says.
Speaker 2: A lot about his pitch ability and just the feel
Speaker 2: that he has.
Speaker 3: Overall AND i think that's enough to potentially be a
Speaker 3: back into the rotation starters as long as he's consistently.
Speaker 3: Executing but as you, mentioned he at least a swingman
Speaker 3: kind of up and down, guy AND i think with
Speaker 3: the way that he's thrown this, year he's earned, himself you,
Speaker 3: know a look at the end of the season to
Speaker 3: have a two four.
Speaker 2: ONE era and reno.
Speaker 3: And that is, like that's, pitchability final boss, there because
Speaker 3: you the only way to do that is by getting
Speaker 3: more weak contact than hard. Contact AND i think it
Speaker 3: says a lot about the Way bratt can, throw and
Speaker 3: those guys are like when you're a pitch ability guy
Speaker 3: in the, minors is really hard to project how that's
Speaker 3: going to translate to the big. Leagues it's still hard
Speaker 3: to project how that's going to translate to the big
Speaker 3: leagusse big league hitters are, different, however trip away hitters
Speaker 3: playing on The moon can be close to big league,
Speaker 3: hitters and he's kept them At, Bay SO i do
Speaker 3: think that's something that can be work in his.
Speaker 2: Favor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, NO i think he can always be a big
Speaker 4: leak piece and that's you'll take. That and that's WHY
Speaker 4: i put it as a breakout because it. Is you,
Speaker 4: KNOW i don't know if that was he. Was he
Speaker 4: was a traded, prospect BUT i don't know if it
Speaker 4: was really projecting as as that much last.
Speaker 1: Year and now you see what he did this, year
Speaker 1: and he put him on the radar a little bit.
Speaker 2: MORE i think if we had like E a, plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's got to be pretty igh, right got to
Speaker 1: be off the. Charge, yeah it's got.
Speaker 4: To be super High dodgers, organization and you got a
Speaker 4: few more. Here you went With Landon, vedorik who was
Speaker 4: their third round pick last.
Speaker 1: Year it's been rough for a college guy that was
Speaker 1: a college guy in SINGLE.
Speaker 4: A he's rocking an eighty FOUR wrc plus so far
Speaker 4: this season with a strikeout rate pushing. Forty so this
Speaker 4: ONE i think is an Early hedge thumbs. Down and
Speaker 4: there is two NAMES i have THAT i think are
Speaker 4: the pretty clear picks here for The Doctor.
Speaker 3: Show this was definitely WHAT i was worried, about BUT
Speaker 3: i was, like if it, works he could be crazy
Speaker 3: because he hits the living crap out of the, baseball
Speaker 3: like we're talking, one, sixteen, one. Seventeens but, yeah just
Speaker 3: way way too much with and too Stiff.
Speaker 2: Christians his way.
Speaker 3: To, yeah also shout at him out in the video
Speaker 3: and just put out because he has been dynamite since
Speaker 3: getting promoted TO hia and it's his way To this
Speaker 3: is unique or excuse me to DOUBLE. A he's been
Speaker 3: dynamites since being promoted DOUBLE a as a twenty one year.
Speaker 3: Old it's, unique kind of almost unicorn type of fastball
Speaker 3: specs where he's releasing from a five to three release,
Speaker 3: height but he's getting seventeen inches avert and fourteen inches of,
Speaker 3: horizontal so it's just ridiculous run and, ride but also
Speaker 3: a seventeen excuse, me a seventy one percent strike rate from,
Speaker 3: there twenty five hundred our pm from this five through
Speaker 3: release height with crazy running.
Speaker 2: Rod it's just stupid.
Speaker 3: Stuff at ninety five miles per, hour you just don't
Speaker 3: find that very.
Speaker 2: Often so he's overwhelming hitters with.
Speaker 3: That but then With, zezueta you've got the cutter right
Speaker 3: in between there that he just commands the heck out.
Speaker 3: Of the changeup is probably the best pitch because you
Speaker 3: just can't tell the difference with the run and ride
Speaker 3: of the fastball from the low release to have the
Speaker 3: feel for the change up he has from that low
Speaker 3: release and it just parachutes off the. Fastball the whift
Speaker 3: rates on that pitch are. Ridiculous and then we'll have
Speaker 3: the sweeper that whole mix in as. Well but forty
Speaker 3: four percent whift rate on the change up with the.
Speaker 3: Fastball that sets the.
Speaker 2: Tone, Yeah zezuela is.
Speaker 3: Going to be a guy that you're hearing a lot
Speaker 3: about moving, forward AND i mean the numbers this year
Speaker 3: back it. UP i, mean some of the better strikeouts
Speaker 3: to walk you're gonna, find you, know in the minor.
Speaker 1: Leagues, yeah, uh he's been. Gross and THEN i also
Speaker 1: Think Chase harland deserves a shout.
Speaker 4: Here, yeah the guy who was a high school pick
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty, four who had eighteen years old, played
Speaker 4: spent a lot of the year in the complex last.
Speaker 4: Year this year between And HI a or in SINGLE,
Speaker 4: a destroyed the, ball and then has got to HIGH
Speaker 4: a in the past two weeks and is doing exactly
Speaker 4: what he was doing in SINGLE. A so nineteen year
Speaker 4: old still infielder from that twenty twenty four draft. Class
Speaker 4: SO i think he was drafted. It, yeah drafted at
Speaker 4: like a basically seventeen run on the border of, eighteen
Speaker 4: and he's been incredible this year in his second pro.
Speaker 3: Season people are gonna hate, it but these are two
Speaker 3: guys that are like top hundred prospects to. Me, yeah
Speaker 3: we've already Seen harlan pop one up an egg of
Speaker 3: olousy of one sixteen and he's succeeded one fifteen four different.
Speaker 2: Times he's nineteen years.
Speaker 3: Old you pair that with the fact That harlan's running
Speaker 3: a seventy three percent contact, right which is not bad
Speaker 3: at all for a guy with legitimately like eighty raw
Speaker 3: for his.
Speaker 2: Age, yeah it.
Speaker 3: Looks like a top one hundred guy for, mean as you,
Speaker 3: mentioned has not slowed down at high a. Either definitely
Speaker 3: a candidate as well the fact that he's only striking
Speaker 3: out the last and nineteen percent of the time this.
Speaker 3: Year with those kind of power, numbers this could be
Speaker 3: a really special player.
Speaker 2: Too In Harlan.
Speaker 4: Giants, organization you want with another recent draft pick here
Speaker 4: In Trevor cohen with your pick, here WHO i don't
Speaker 4: THINK i had two names written? Down The giants organ
Speaker 4: is a tough. One there's not really a true standout name,
Speaker 4: here And cohen's actually had a good, year.
Speaker 1: SO i don't think that's a bad pick.
Speaker 4: Necessarily one twenty THREE wrc plus in his first pro,
Speaker 4: season first full pro season at the high, level as
Speaker 4: as small as a college.
Speaker 1: Guy From, Rutgers so it's been a decent year For.
Speaker 4: Cohen the other two NAMES i wrote down shouting Was,
Speaker 4: whitman who we've talked about a little bit. Before he's
Speaker 4: taken a huge step forward from having what was not
Speaker 4: a good twenty twenty five. Season and Then Drew cavanaugh
Speaker 4: is a funny one because he's now in the big
Speaker 4: leagues but it's an interesting shout there from a guy
Speaker 4: who was In LOW a at the start of last
Speaker 4: year as a catcher and is now a big league
Speaker 4: catcher for The, giants which is a pretty crazy trajectory. There.
Speaker 3: YEAH i think both those guys are great shots because
Speaker 3: both were kind of forgotten about and almost trending towards
Speaker 3: non Prospect.
Speaker 2: Really witmen just kind of looked.
Speaker 3: Like an up and down guy at, best And cavanage
Speaker 3: you just did not figure would be up at the
Speaker 3: big league level catching. Games this was seventeenth round pick
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three out of four To Southern kavanaugh
Speaker 3: looks like you could be a solid piece at, worst
Speaker 3: a big leak backup catcherp but has really developed nicely
Speaker 3: and tore Through DOUBLE a and then THE, pcl but
Speaker 3: even relatively, speaking like was phenomenal for that level, too
Speaker 3: just one sixty SIX wrc plus.
Speaker 2: At The TRIPLE a, Level So kavanaugh for.
Speaker 3: SURE i Think whitman is my pick, though because when
Speaker 3: we just put out The giants top prospects at Put
Speaker 3: whitman comfortably inside the top. Ten and this is actually
Speaker 3: a pretty good system that has gotten a lot better
Speaker 3: Because witman looks like a number four starter to me
Speaker 3: and at worst like a solid, five kind of ending seating.
Speaker 2: Five and there's a guy that last YEAR i would.
Speaker 3: Have been like and kind of a six starter for,
Speaker 3: you you, know maybe in a second division rotation could
Speaker 3: could maybe eat some innnings for. You now he looks
Speaker 3: like a legitimate has the upside to be a strong.
Speaker 3: Four the stuff is just better across the. Board he's
Speaker 3: striking out now ten per nine after streaking out what
Speaker 3: was it last year nine and a, half but to
Speaker 3: a five two nine era just JUST i think it's
Speaker 3: night and day in terms of the quality of. Stuff
Speaker 3: the command is, Better like everything just looks better to
Speaker 3: be in the, zone more dominating within the zone, more
Speaker 3: the stuff is, sharper the fastball specs are, better the
Speaker 3: feel for the breaking balls is. Better this is a
Speaker 3: big league starter to me and a guy THAT i
Speaker 3: would have just kind of been doubtful about that in the.
Speaker 3: Past and for that, REASON i THINK i Think whitman
Speaker 3: is the. Breakout Trevor cohen's been good and to me
Speaker 3: he looks like at least a worse a fourth. Outfielder
Speaker 3: BUT i also, like what's the best thing in the
Speaker 3: best scenario look like to probably not that different from,
Speaker 3: That so it's kind of a four ceiling thing and
Speaker 3: he just doesn't have the exciting pace to compliment that
Speaker 3: like A Kane kepley.
Speaker 2: Has So cohen's good looks like a guy that's a
Speaker 2: high probability big.
Speaker 3: Leaguer but and it's been a nice season for him
Speaker 3: at HIGH. A if he was maybe duplicating it in DOUBLE,
Speaker 3: a it'd be a similar store, like it'd be a
Speaker 3: little bit easier to sell. Him but ninety percent zone contact,
Speaker 3: right eighty three. Percent, overall he's clearly got a great
Speaker 3: field to. Hit it's just such a singles oriented.
Speaker 4: Approach, Yeah Rocky's. Org you went with another a little
Speaker 4: bit of a deep cut here another. One Wilder dallas
Speaker 4: was A dsl guy who last year was up to
Speaker 4: the complex and even up TO hiak or SINGLE a
Speaker 4: actually last year and had a really good. Season this
Speaker 4: year it's, been i'd say similar to the year. Before
Speaker 4: he's been mostly in SINGLE. A hasn't been necessarily a step,
Speaker 4: forward but has also been continually solid this. Season she's some,
Speaker 4: power she's some. Speed struck out where it's a bit,
Speaker 4: high but overall decent. Season For dallas so.
Speaker 3: Far, YEAH i would say it's more status quote for,
Speaker 3: him not quite a. BREAKOUT i just thought you saw
Speaker 3: some of the, tools you saw the bad, speed AND
Speaker 3: i think this is one where the breakout could come
Speaker 3: a year. Later And i'd just be like the not,
Speaker 3: wrong just early, thing because as you, mentioned nothing looks.
Speaker 2: Bad he's still just nineteen years.
Speaker 3: Old he's a switch hitter with again good batspeet from
Speaker 3: both sides of the, play pretty good field.
Speaker 2: To, hit solid underlying bad ball.
Speaker 3: Data just kind of waiting for it to all come
Speaker 3: together as he, matures and it's still another solid prospect
Speaker 3: in The rocky.
Speaker 2: System who did you have is like the correct.
Speaker 4: PICK i had a hard time with this. ONE i
Speaker 4: went With Eberson, casiano even though he's a little bit.
Speaker 4: Older it's the guy who came more from The, phillies
Speaker 4: twenty five year old pitcher who came over in the
Speaker 4: trade last year and last year was completely after. THAT
Speaker 4: i mean a six FOURY ra last season and this
Speaker 4: year between double and now triple actually in seventy, innings
Speaker 4: he's up to a two NINETY ra as a twenty
Speaker 4: five year, old so a little bit of a deeper cut,
Speaker 4: THERE i wasn't didn't have a clear. Guy Roaldie brito
Speaker 4: is a popular, name but he's been, good not, great
Speaker 4: and compared to last, Season cassiano was just someone that
Speaker 4: was kind of a nothing and now is something that
Speaker 4: could be In.
Speaker 3: Colorado, YEAH i think that's a pretty good shot BECAUSE
Speaker 3: i actually liked him way back in The rule, five
Speaker 3: which is. Funny, YEAH i remember that this guy that got,
Speaker 3: returned so relatively, speaking good good option there.
Speaker 2: Too AND i think Like Cole, krrick he's kind of
Speaker 2: mash at every.
Speaker 3: Spot but when you look at what he's, done what
Speaker 3: he did in THE, pcl and then what he's done
Speaker 3: at the big league level now this year, Too carrick's
Speaker 3: probably a good option, too just because he's making it
Speaker 3: happen at the highest.
Speaker 2: Level did everything you'd want to see in trip. Away,
Speaker 2: yeah you.
Speaker 4: Are going to get a thumb a thumbs mostly down
Speaker 4: On dallas notill still.
Speaker 1: Early but a seventy five percent. DOWN i would, say.
Speaker 2: Here's a thumbs down for, sure.
Speaker 1: Last one of The padres.
Speaker 4: Organization this is a little bit of a of a
Speaker 4: dunk on you one for, Sure But Jorge kintana was
Speaker 4: your pick not to be confused with the veteran left
Speaker 4: hand to Pitcher Jorge, kintana but nineteen year old Shortstop
Speaker 4: Hory King tana of The padres. Organization last year at
Speaker 4: the complex was, solid got up to SINGLE a at
Speaker 4: the end of the.
Speaker 1: Year so far in SINGLE a this, year it has
Speaker 1: been a really.
Speaker 2: Rough year For.
Speaker 4: Kantana sixty seven W r plus he's hitting two twenty
Speaker 4: eight in his first full season of affiliated.
Speaker 2: Goal, yeah not.
Speaker 3: Great this was a tough system, too like to find the.
Speaker 3: Answer jore another guy that it was intriguing at the
Speaker 3: lower levels with with The brewers and had some intriguing
Speaker 3: like aspects to his. Game there's some, tools some flash
Speaker 3: THAT i think generated some buzz ahead of of him
Speaker 3: joining The padre system and just hasn't quite happened for him.
Speaker 3: There it's got a stink for him to get traded
Speaker 3: from The brewers. There it's BECAUSE i think that The
Speaker 3: brewers had a very specific plan with him, developmentally but
Speaker 3: it's a lot of that still is on. Him the
Speaker 3: quality of contact isn't, There like the swing decisions haven't
Speaker 3: been very. Good there's just not really anything that has
Speaker 3: stood out on a positive side For King tom SO
Speaker 3: i CAN'T i can't really add much other than just
Speaker 3: not a good. Pick who would you have? Had this
Speaker 3: is a tough.
Speaker 4: One even, then we've talked About Ryan Ryan wideman a
Speaker 4: little bit so far on the. SHOW i Think Jake
Speaker 4: cunningham kind of a deep shout, here but a twenty
Speaker 4: twenty three draft pick In cunningham THAT i ended up
Speaker 4: putting as my name here because he was someone that
Speaker 4: last year was not good With. Baltimore came over as
Speaker 4: a free agent signing as a minor league free agent
Speaker 4: signing From baltimore this offseason With San diego and actually
Speaker 4: has put together a good. Year he put up a
Speaker 4: one thirty ONE wrc plus And hya has now gotten
Speaker 4: promoted to DOUBLE a a super deep.
Speaker 1: Cut Probably widemann is a little bit better of a.
Speaker 1: Pick Cunningham white a. Man there's not a ton of
Speaker 1: great picks in This padres system.
Speaker 3: Here, YEAH i, mean very rare to have a min
Speaker 3: and The padres are so good on the scouting, side
Speaker 3: and very rare to have a minor league free agent.
Speaker 3: Signing a lower level minor league free agent sign right
Speaker 3: give you a one thirty ONE wrc plus right after
Speaker 3: you sign. Him, so and that's what it's been at
Speaker 3: HIGH a and then you getting up to double so
Speaker 3: a lot of swing and, miss but there's some tools
Speaker 3: there and seventeen.
Speaker 1: Homers, yeah his career high was four before this.
Speaker 3: Year, yeah like it's what The padres do. Something that's
Speaker 3: why pro is cool making all the. Trades AND i
Speaker 3: Think wideman's still a good. Shout he's gonna steal like
Speaker 3: eighty bags this year and has hit his way up
Speaker 3: To HI a as a guy that at the end
Speaker 3: of the day you probably want to see a little
Speaker 3: bit more offensively to be a full fledged, breakout but
Speaker 3: he was really good at Low way was his second
Speaker 3: taste to the. Level but there's not really a clear
Speaker 3: cut one here in the. System and unless we're missing,
Speaker 3: one let us know in the comments and we'll be
Speaker 3: sure to try to give it a shout next.
Speaker 2: Episode but it's always tough with The padre. System.
Speaker 1: Yeah Carrington cross is another. One he's, older BUT i
Speaker 1: know he has mashed this.
Speaker 4: Year so interesting, name but there's just a lot of
Speaker 4: lesser known names in the system and some that have been.
Speaker 4: Good just nobody that like jumps out at you as
Speaker 4: like the breakout.
Speaker 3: Guy one hundred. Percent that'll do it for this. Episode
Speaker 3: we've Got Futures game roster check. In we're going to
Speaker 3: go on The American league And National league side later this,
Speaker 3: week and then we will do a big heat, sheet
Speaker 3: maybe two of. Them who knows to catch up on
Speaker 3: draft last. Week so because we're overdue for a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks here. Now but as, always thank you for.
Speaker 3: Listening keep an eye. Out we're going to be doing
Speaker 3: some fun stuff All star. Week of course in person
Speaker 3: coverage from The future's, game plenty of interviews out. There
Speaker 3: the other thing That i'm excited about is if you're
Speaker 3: in The philly, area we're gonna be An Other Half
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Speaker 3: during the. Game we would love to see you. There
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Speaker 2: Called but keep an eye. Out we're gonna have some
Speaker 2: really fun coverage All All star a week. Long as,
Speaker 2: always thank you for. Listening let's talk prospects with you
Speaker 2: later this.
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