Speaker 1: He's gonna have starts where you say, I'm really glad
Speaker 1: that I watched that. I'm really glad he's going to
Speaker 1: be must CTV.
Speaker 2: We're hitting the top prospect in the Dodgers organization. You
Speaker 2: almost definitely know the name, and you've got the right
Speaker 2: people to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Here's our prospect profile. Roki Sasaki is the name.
Speaker 2: The sweepstakes, of course, is over Scott Brown along with
Speaker 2: Baseball Americas, JJ Cooper and Ben Badler. Ben, you've been
Speaker 2: covering Roki Sasaki for some time. I have to imagine
Speaker 2: that once he officially signed with the Dodgers, you were like, cool,
Speaker 2: there's their top prospect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that one was not much of a debate, right,
Speaker 4: not much of a long conversation there. You're getting a
Speaker 4: frontline starter and somebody who should be a front line
Speaker 4: starter from day one. Right, this is a guy who's
Speaker 4: got an upper tank fastball. You can say the velocity
Speaker 4: backed up last year if you want to poke holes
Speaker 4: in his game and say that's maybe a red flag.
Speaker 4: What's going on still in upper nineties fastball? And then
Speaker 4: here's it with this just unhittable splitter. I mean when
Speaker 4: he throws it right, It's just an absolutely devastating pitch.
Speaker 4: The bottom falls out of it. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 4: you're lefty, righty, how good of a hitter you are.
Speaker 4: It's a wipeout pitch. And then the slider is like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, that's kind of a plus pitch two for him,
Speaker 4: so throws a lot of strikes. It's a pretty easy
Speaker 4: athletic delivery. Pretty Much every box you want checked in
Speaker 4: a young starting pitcher he has, with the exception of durability. Right,
Speaker 4: We'll see how that goes. I think the Dodgers will
Speaker 4: be able to keep him on that six man rotation,
Speaker 4: ease him in that way. They're not obviously counting on
Speaker 4: him to be like the savior of their rotation by
Speaker 4: any means, so they can manage his workload very carefully
Speaker 4: if they need to. So I imagine they will do that.
Speaker 4: But I got to think too, he's going to be
Speaker 4: everybody's favorite to be Rookie of the Year this year.
Speaker 1: It's kind of almost it's both impressive and sad at
Speaker 1: the same time that the team that already had everything
Speaker 1: adds the best prospect in baseball because, like in for
Speaker 1: a lot of places, Roki Sasaki would immediately be the
Speaker 1: star of the team, or could be. We could see
Speaker 1: I would say we'll probably see it in a little
Speaker 1: bit less consistency, but we could see at times Roki
Speaker 1: be like what we saw Paul Skimes last year, where
Speaker 1: he's just outings where it's like no one's hitting him.
Speaker 1: He's just shutting you down, sit down onto the next day.
Speaker 1: And he has that ability because he has been laid out.
Speaker 1: He has two top tier pitches, especially when his fastball's on,
Speaker 1: and the third pitch is very you already. But I
Speaker 1: also think that the Dodgers are probably going to help
Speaker 1: him unlock another gear as far as his pitch mix,
Speaker 1: as far as his assortment, because there are probably some
Speaker 1: different things he could do to kind of give hitters
Speaker 1: another way to kind of have to defend against him,
Speaker 1: because everything's pretty hard, and it's kind of when he's on,
Speaker 1: is that fastball splitter back and forth, back and forth,
Speaker 1: you kind of maybe he starts to put something else,
Speaker 1: maybe a sweeper or something that eventually becomes something that
Speaker 1: a cutter, something that just puts a little different idea
Speaker 1: a hitter's head. There's kind of some more potential for refinement,
Speaker 1: more potential for development here. But what he is right
Speaker 1: now is already really really good. And like Ben said,
Speaker 1: the durability is probably the biggest question, But the Dodgers
Speaker 1: don't need him to be especially durable, especially in year one.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't shock me at all if they were extra cautious,
Speaker 1: and if there's ever a moment where there's a you know,
Speaker 1: a twinge or anything like that, they just shut him
Speaker 1: down for a month and say, Okay, don't worry, We've
Speaker 1: got plenty of pitching to get us through the regular season.
Speaker 1: Don't worry. We're gonna make the postseason. We can promise
Speaker 1: you that. And then the real question is is you know,
Speaker 1: where is he pitching in that rotation come the postseason?
Speaker 1: Because this is gonna be the one of the greatest
Speaker 1: battles of all time if ever stays healthy. Because you
Speaker 1: would think that Blake Snell has to start games in
Speaker 1: the postseason. You'd think that Tyler Glasnow has to start
Speaker 1: games in the postseason. You would think that Yoshinobo Yamamoto
Speaker 1: should start games in the postseason. Oh yeah, by the way,
Speaker 1: we think that showey Otani should probably start games in
Speaker 1: the postseason. And then Roki Sazaki I'm guessing if we
Speaker 1: see recent Dodgers history, not off of those five, we'll
Speaker 1: be ready to go come October. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: if they all are, that's the embarrassment of riches, of
Speaker 1: all embarrassment of riches. But you look at Sazaki and
Speaker 1: if Roki Sasaki is playing and pitching at his best
Speaker 1: of his ability, he actually does start games in the
Speaker 1: postseason over some of those names I just mentioned, and
Speaker 1: that just tells you how exceptional his talent.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. I just thought about this JJ.
Speaker 2: We don't know how Otani's going to bounce back, and
Speaker 2: I know we're talking about Roki here, but let's say
Speaker 2: Otani doesn't bounce back from surgery, and remember there was
Speaker 2: also a shoulder issue, and a surgery in the offseason
Speaker 2: might not be good enough pitching wise to crack the
Speaker 2: starting rotation in the playoffs. That's the picture you painted.
Speaker 2: Most people assume they're not going to have all of
Speaker 2: those arms intact for October based on last year's results.
Speaker 3: That might not necessarily.
Speaker 2: Be the case, because this is a team that knows
Speaker 2: they're going to get into the playoffs, so they're going
Speaker 2: to do everything they can to treat this whole case
Speaker 2: like a marathon. Roki is the perfect example, so to
Speaker 2: tie it right back to him. If you are a
Speaker 2: fantasy baseball player and you're watching this show, this might
Speaker 2: not be the pick for you, or don't overvalue this
Speaker 2: pick because of what you said. They might have absolute
Speaker 2: kid gloves on, give him breaks if there's any sort
Speaker 2: of issue right and still even give him extra extra
Speaker 2: rest and have a lot of other arms to mix
Speaker 2: in as far as his big league impact. Tell us
Speaker 2: what we can expect from him this year if some
Speaker 2: of what you're talking about and some of what he
Speaker 2: adds to the arsenal at least learns from within the
Speaker 2: Dodger system actually pans out in year one. Just one
Speaker 2: other example I'll point out before we get your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Showed it in Minaga last year was highly.
Speaker 3: Debated in the offseason.
Speaker 2: I think we talked about him a little bit on
Speaker 2: this show, among other shows, including The One Behind Me
Speaker 2: File Territory. There were some people that we spoke to
Speaker 2: that said this could be a one or two. There
Speaker 2: were just as many people that said this could be
Speaker 2: a five. He looked definitely more like a one, two
Speaker 2: three than a four.
Speaker 3: Or five. So I know they're not the same pitcher
Speaker 3: by any.
Speaker 2: Means, but sometimes it's hard to completely take what you
Speaker 2: see in Japan and convert it to what it's going
Speaker 2: to look like in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts on year one?
Speaker 1: The way I would put it is Paul Skins last year.
Speaker 1: If you're a fan of baseball, right you don't have
Speaker 1: to be a Pirates fan. I knew when Paul Skins pitched,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it.
Speaker 1: That's what Roki Sasaki I think has a chance to
Speaker 1: be pretty much right away. It doesn't mean that every
Speaker 1: start will be perfect. If you told me that he
Speaker 1: has somewhere, oh, he's not really locating the splitter tonight,
Speaker 1: and so he doesn't have a plan B to get
Speaker 1: hitters out and he's struggling a little bit, Okay, that
Speaker 1: might happen. But what I would also say is he's
Speaker 1: going to have starts where you say, I'm really glad
Speaker 1: that I watched that. I'm really glad He's going to
Speaker 1: be must see TV multiple times this year. I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, as long as he's healthy, there are going
Speaker 1: to be starts where you just say I'm really excited
Speaker 1: I got to watch that. And the thing I've been
Speaker 1: saying about this for years, when you have a young
Speaker 1: pitcher like this, right, they may get better because as
Speaker 1: pitchers age, they get craftier, they understand what they're doing
Speaker 1: more and more. But at the same time, there's something
Speaker 1: about seeing that fireballing twenty three, twenty four year old,
Speaker 1: twenty two year old that just has a level of
Speaker 1: excitement to it that you don't see from a twenty
Speaker 1: seven year old. I will never forget watching Carrie Wood,
Speaker 1: you know, when he was a young rookie. I will
Speaker 1: never forget Steven Strasburg's big league debut. There was so
Speaker 1: much hype surrounding it, and he was ever bit as
Speaker 1: good as that. He was, like, this is exactly what
Speaker 1: you're looking to see. Paul Skemes did that last year.
Speaker 1: That's what Roki Sasaki could be. Is a guy who
Speaker 1: just has those outings where you go, wow, that was magical,
Speaker 1: and has outings where you say, I mean he's already
Speaker 1: thrown one of the best games in professional baseball history.
Speaker 1: You know, a perfect game with eighteen strikeouts. That doesn't happen?
Speaker 1: Was it nineteen? Like it's you know, absurd, and then
Speaker 1: he followed it up the next start by throwing eight
Speaker 1: perfect innings when he's on, no one hits them, and
Speaker 1: those are the kind of starts. So when you say impact,
Speaker 1: I would say his impact is is he should have
Speaker 1: some of the best pitch games in the major leagues
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, not in twenty twenty seven or
Speaker 1: eight in twenty twenty five. Now the question is just
Speaker 1: how consistently can he do it?
Speaker 2: There you go, that's ace upside from the jump, and
Speaker 2: that was nineteen ks in that one. So get ready
Speaker 2: Dodger fans, and really just get ready baseball fans if
Speaker 2: you want to see what Roki Sasaki can bring to
Speaker 2: the table. And also he's pitching for you know what
Speaker 2: we call now the evil Empire in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: The team that already looked stack heading into the season
Speaker 2: obviously gets the best prospect available the softseason, and they
Speaker 2: didn't have to waste a draft pick, and he's not
Speaker 2: getting paid a lot in the grand scheme of baseball talk.
Speaker 2: So that's the top prospect in the Dodgers system right now.
Speaker 2: That's your prospect profile. We have prospect profiles for every
Speaker 2: single team to make sure you look back and check
Speaker 2: those out. And if we're missing one, it means it's
Speaker 2: coming out because we release them on a day by
Speaker 2: day basis during spring training, so we'll see on another one.
Speaker 1: His power is such that, yes, I do think he
Speaker 1: can be that thumper, that masher that the Giants have
Speaker 1: long lacked.
Speaker 2: Let's at the top prospect in the San Francisco Giants
Speaker 2: organization according to Baseball America with this prospect profile. The
Speaker 2: name is Bryce Eldridge and he could be coming to
Speaker 2: the San Francisco Giants soon. That's how we want to
Speaker 2: start this out. Scott run along with JJ Cooper and
Speaker 2: Ben Badler from Baseball America. Ben for Big Bryce, what
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 4: I mean, Jesus, the guy who was just drafted out
Speaker 4: of high school last year or twenty twenty three, I
Speaker 4: should say he's got one year under his belt and
Speaker 4: it might be this year, which is kind of crazy.
Speaker 4: I mean that I would not have thought that when
Speaker 4: he was drafted. As much as I love Bryce Eldridge,
Speaker 4: but he has, He's flown through the system. It's I mean,
Speaker 4: it's gigantic raw power. I mean, he's from a gigantic
Speaker 4: human being. Sixt' seven six', Eight and this is also
Speaker 4: probably the least amount of power That Bryce eldridge will
Speaker 4: ever have because he has more room to continue to
Speaker 4: fill out and get. Stronger he's still a pretty lean athletic,
Speaker 4: body so by the time he's done filling out packs
Speaker 4: on more. WEIGHT i think we're talking about a guy
Speaker 4: who could be a thirty five potential forty plus home run.
Speaker 4: Hitter there is swing and missing there right when you're
Speaker 4: six foot seven and your arms are that long and
Speaker 4: your strike zone is that. Big, yeah there's gonna be
Speaker 4: some swing and miss pretty much no matter. What BUT
Speaker 4: i think he's going to be able to keep that under,
Speaker 4: control especially for a guy who was pushed as fast
Speaker 4: as he was this. Year like if they had kept
Speaker 4: him in say LOW a all, year even just LOW a,
Speaker 4: high it wouldn't have been quite as the strike numbers
Speaker 4: wouldn't have been quite as high as they. Were but
Speaker 4: even if that's always part of his, GAME i think
Speaker 4: he's going to be able to keep that to a
Speaker 4: manageable level and tap into the just incredible power that he.
Speaker 1: Has the thing that kind of jumps out to, me
Speaker 1: Like ben, said the way that The giants moved him
Speaker 1: last year tells you both what they think about him
Speaker 1: and how quick this timetable, is because like where a
Speaker 1: lot of his contemporaries spent last year in a ball this, Was,
Speaker 1: Hey i'm going to start in LOW, a go To HIGH,
Speaker 1: a go To DOUBLE, a and finish the year In TRIPLE.
Speaker 1: A not many guys do the four stops in one.
Speaker 1: Year check every box off your your full season minor
Speaker 1: league baseball card in one. Season that doesn't mean he's
Speaker 1: not going to go Back TRIPLE a start the, year
Speaker 1: but you don't have to look too far out here
Speaker 1: to think that there's a chance That Bryce eldridge could
Speaker 1: be The giant's best pure, offensive biggest bat in the.
Speaker 1: LINEUP i should say by the end of twenty, five
Speaker 1: and really by twenty, six because if you look at
Speaker 1: This giants lineup, now Obviously williadamas is a very nice.
Speaker 1: Addition they have guys who are well Rounded Patrick bailey At,
Speaker 1: Chapman Willia. Damas but if you said a pure thumper
Speaker 1: who's just going to be one of the better hitters
Speaker 1: in the, league they don't have one of those. Guys
Speaker 1: they really haven't had one of those guys all that,
Speaker 1: often and that's What eldridge could. Be now he better
Speaker 1: be because has been laid. Out this is a guy
Speaker 1: who's a pretty massive a, HUMAN i, mean and by the,
Speaker 1: way he was a two way guy in high. School
Speaker 1: Like i'll kick it back to you for a, Minute,
Speaker 1: ben which is when you saw him kind of coming
Speaker 1: up as an. Amateur where did you think that this
Speaker 1: was that all the way or did you think that
Speaker 1: this was the guy who had a chance to be a.
Speaker 4: Pitcher the first TIME i Saw Bryce, ELDRIDGE i was
Speaker 4: at a field going to, watch mainly to watch a
Speaker 4: player from The. Bahamas SO i look over another field
Speaker 4: and there's this six foot, six fourteen year old throwing
Speaker 4: like eighty eight ninety miles an hour or whatever it
Speaker 4: was at the, time and that Was Bryce, eldridge AND
Speaker 4: i was, like, wow that was. Impressive just watching him
Speaker 4: more and more over the, Years, yeah leading up until
Speaker 4: his draft. Year HE'S i, mean a six foot, seven
Speaker 4: very athletic right handed pitcher who was up to the mid,
Speaker 4: nineties showed feel for spinning a breaking, ball could repeat
Speaker 4: his pretty sound mechanics for a guy that. SIZE i
Speaker 4: think if The giants had let, him he could be
Speaker 4: a legitimate two way. Guy, OBVIOUSLY i don't think that's
Speaker 4: going to go back and happened, Now but, yeah this,
Speaker 4: guy for as big as he, is and as much
Speaker 4: as we're talking up his, power there's other two there.
Speaker 1: Too.
Speaker 4: YEAH i mean it's limited, defensively but there's obviously arm
Speaker 4: strength and in a pretty impressive athlete too for somebody
Speaker 4: who's as big as he.
Speaker 2: Is so a little trivia question one of my, favorites
Speaker 2: and THEN jj hoppend but do you know actually the
Speaker 2: last player to hit thirty home runs for The, giants.
Speaker 1: We have to go back To.
Speaker 2: Bonds we have to go back To Barry. Bonds you,
Speaker 2: know people are dying for. This you guys are, Mentioning,
Speaker 2: hey we need like a lumberjack in the, lineup and everyrun's, like,
Speaker 2: well he looks the. Part so can he be the
Speaker 2: guy to actually crack the code In San? FRANCISCO i
Speaker 2: know it's not an easy park to, defeat but come,
Speaker 2: on it's been like decades.
Speaker 1: That that's the THING i would say is is he
Speaker 1: is one of those guys where like to just use the,
Speaker 1: cliche you, Know yellowstone's not holding him. IN i mean
Speaker 1: he can hit it out of any, park and yes he.
Speaker 1: Is now anyone's going to be affected, by you, know
Speaker 1: by playing. There it's not gonna doesn't mean you know
Speaker 1: that he's not going to lose some home, runs but
Speaker 1: his power is such, that, YES i do think he
Speaker 1: can be that that, thumper that masher that The giants
Speaker 1: have long. Lacked AND i just look at it and, say, like,
Speaker 1: again maybe maybe last year was a little. Fast if
Speaker 1: you told, ME i would not freak out IF i
Speaker 1: was A giants fan and we get To, may you,
Speaker 1: know Early, june it's, like, Oh Bryce eldrew's struggle a
Speaker 1: little bit In TRIPLE. A it's, like that's, okay you,
Speaker 1: know he's. Twenty give him some. TIME i know, though
Speaker 1: That giants fans, understandably if they see that a little,
Speaker 1: bit they're a little scarred right, now maybe because it's,
Speaker 1: like oh, wait is This Marco luciano, Again oh wait
Speaker 1: is This Luis montos who struggle a little? Bit oh
Speaker 1: wait is This Joey BART i would, say Give elders
Speaker 1: a little, Time but he just does have A i would,
Speaker 1: say a more well rounded, bat a more well rounded
Speaker 1: hitting approach than some of the guys And, hey the
Speaker 1: good news if you're A giants fan Is Elliot ramos
Speaker 1: did bounce back last, year was a guy who was
Speaker 1: a top hundred prospect and it seemed like his career
Speaker 1: is kind of. Installed and then last year he found
Speaker 1: another gear and now fits very much in their. Lineup
Speaker 1: but so it's not like they've been all. Missus Patrick
Speaker 1: bailey's been a hit as, well but The giants do
Speaker 1: Need Bryce eldris to really kind of make an impact
Speaker 1: because this is a team that has kind of struggled
Speaker 1: to produce those kind of everyday regular.
Speaker 4: Hitters, yeah and you and you look at what's coming
Speaker 4: up behind him. TOO i think there is a lot
Speaker 4: of weight on his shoulders, too because it's LOOK i
Speaker 4: like what they've done maybe the last couple of years
Speaker 4: with their international signing, classes but those guys are years
Speaker 4: and years away from being Big league. Ready the rest
Speaker 4: of the farm system right, now outside Of, eldridge like
Speaker 4: you'll get their top, five top, ten it falls off pretty.
Speaker 4: QUICK i mean a guy Like Dakota, jordan who they
Speaker 4: drafted this, year, who's you, know number five prospect in their,
Speaker 4: system obviously has a lot of, tools but huge swing
Speaker 4: and mis risk him with him that you know that
Speaker 4: we saw in College James, tibbs you, know a good,
Speaker 4: hitter but not Not these guys are not to the
Speaker 4: level obviously Of Bryce. ELLERGANT i think the talent really falls,
Speaker 4: off you, know in The giants farm system after the
Speaker 4: top top three to five. Players so, YEAH i think
Speaker 4: there's a lot of weight on his shoulders for things to.
Speaker 3: Click why do you think this has happened so?
Speaker 2: FREQUENTLY i know it's not easy to, pinpoint BUT, JJ
Speaker 2: i mean the development has been a problem recently For San,
Speaker 2: francisco and ALSO i mean for the position player side of,
Speaker 2: things it is still one of the premier pitchers parks
Speaker 2: in the. Sport so you come up to the, show
Speaker 2: you face tougher. Pitching you look at that park and
Speaker 2: it's holding in a lot of baseballs that you used
Speaker 2: to smash over a, wall and that can be defeating
Speaker 2: for a young player's. CONFIDENCE i think that could.
Speaker 1: Be and also the reality is is this is the,
Speaker 1: team even though they've kind of had their ups and
Speaker 1: downs at the big league, level this is the team
Speaker 1: that kind of has been trying to, contend has been
Speaker 1: trying to contend with The dodgers and The padres year after,
Speaker 1: year and SO i think that there's also been kind
Speaker 1: of a short window with a lot of these. GUYS
Speaker 1: i don't know If Joey bart was ever going to,
Speaker 1: work you, know In San, francisco but it was a
Speaker 1: pretty pretty short period of time before they went from
Speaker 1: this is Not Buster posey's replacement to, ah you're In pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: NOW i See Marco luciano has been up a couple of,
Speaker 1: times but they really have never figured, out, hey this
Speaker 1: is your. Spot we're going to give you some time
Speaker 1: to really. Develop it's something where they're kind of the
Speaker 1: curse of the big market team that wants to contend
Speaker 1: you don't have the same amount of, patience you don't
Speaker 1: have the same amount of here's two hundred and, fifty
Speaker 1: here's three hundred and fifty at bats to figure it
Speaker 1: out and don't worry if you struggle at. Start it's
Speaker 1: been a little bit quicker in a lot of cases than.
Speaker 1: That and again we see even a guy Like Elliott,
Speaker 1: ramos he kind of had that hot streak where finally
Speaker 1: he kind of grabbed hold to. It BUT i don't
Speaker 1: know if he might not have found himself elsewhere if
Speaker 1: it hadn't been for, that because again it's just you
Speaker 1: got to, produce and there have been guys who haven't
Speaker 1: produced right away who've kind of been moved on from pretty.
Speaker 3: Quickly So, bryce no.
Speaker 2: Pressure maybe don't watch this, video but this could be
Speaker 2: a big deal power threat finally coming through to The
Speaker 2: San Francisco giants, lineup and he's on the fast.
Speaker 3: Track even though he's super.
Speaker 2: Young he is the top prospect right now In San
Speaker 2: Francisco giants organization according To Baseball. America we do this
Speaker 2: on every single, team so make sure you check out
Speaker 2: our other videos or look out for more on the
Speaker 2: way and we'll see on the next prospect. Profile but If.
Speaker 1: Jordan lawler comes out in twenty twenty, five has a
Speaker 1: really great start to the, season well this is a
Speaker 1: big league ready.
Speaker 2: Shortstop let's talk about The Arizona diamondbacks and their top
Speaker 2: prospect in the. Organization it's a name that's been around
Speaker 2: for a. Minute It's Jordan, lawler and it's your prospect
Speaker 2: profile and it Is scott brun along With Baseball america
Speaker 2: IS Jj cooper And Jeff. Ponce so where we, at
Speaker 2: we've Heard Jordan lawler's name for a. Minute we haven't
Speaker 2: seen him blossom in the big leagues. Yet, jeff do
Speaker 2: you think it's going to.
Speaker 5: Happen, YEAH i think if it's going to, happen it's
Speaker 5: probably going to be you, know this, year possibly, NEXT
Speaker 5: i would, imagine you, know the big question has been
Speaker 5: with him has really been health over the last year or.
Speaker 5: So you, know he did have shoulder surgery right after,
Speaker 5: signing but did put together a couple of decent. Years of,
Speaker 5: course got up to the major leagues in twenty twenty,
Speaker 5: three and then this year dealt with a hamstring injury
Speaker 5: as well as a thumb, injury which, really you, know
Speaker 5: more or less cooked him for almost the entirety of the.
Speaker 5: SEASON i think when you look at the, player he
Speaker 5: can play in multiple spots in the, infield probably most
Speaker 5: at home at. Shortstop he's got a good arm, there fairly,
Speaker 5: rangy you. KNOW i don't think he's somebody that's going
Speaker 5: to be like a seventy defender or a plus defender at,
Speaker 5: shortstop but could be an above average every day defensive.
Speaker 5: Shortstop gets on. BASE i think the power at times
Speaker 5: was probably a little bit. Overbuild he can hit for,
Speaker 5: power but it's probably more like high teens power than
Speaker 5: it is like the twenty plus to even thirty that
Speaker 5: you might have heard at draft.
Speaker 3: Time he's a good.
Speaker 5: Runner straight line speed isn't, crazy but you know enough
Speaker 5: that he can see probably twenty twenty five, bags especially
Speaker 5: in that, lineup and you, know as aggressive as The
Speaker 5: diamondbacks can be in terms of base. Stealing SO i
Speaker 5: think he's a really good all around. Player you, know
Speaker 5: the top prospects certainly in that. System it's just a matter,
Speaker 5: of you, know do they move on From, perdomo do
Speaker 5: they you, know Potentially suarez for a third base and
Speaker 5: he ends up at third. Base there's multiple ways that
Speaker 5: he could sort of fit into The diamondbacks this. Season
Speaker 5: but the big question with him has been, health and
Speaker 5: he's dealt, with you, know a litany of injuries throughout
Speaker 5: his professional.
Speaker 1: Career his opportunity coming into twenty twenty four might have
Speaker 1: been a little bit better than it sits right. Now
Speaker 1: jeff Mentioned. Perdomo predomo had a pretty solid year and
Speaker 1: did enough to where If Jordan lawler kind of came
Speaker 1: out of twenty, three he was up with the big
Speaker 1: league club at the end of the, year and you're
Speaker 1: kind of, Thinking, okay twenty twenty four will be the
Speaker 1: year that the first round, pick the top prospect in
Speaker 1: the in the, organization pick that step forward kind of
Speaker 1: nails down the shortstop job and kind of holds that
Speaker 1: for the next for the rest of the. Decade, really
Speaker 1: and here we are a year, later And lawler's coming
Speaker 1: off of his second significant injury as a, pro had
Speaker 1: missed basically the whole. Year did get to play in
Speaker 1: The Dominican Winner league a little. Bit didn't set the
Speaker 1: world on fire, there but to get to, play which is,
Speaker 1: good kind of gives some shakes, off some rust before spring.
Speaker 1: Training but we are sitting here going into the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five season saying he fits in the mix where
Speaker 1: a year ago kind of thought he was going to
Speaker 1: be the. Guy SO i do think that the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five season is going to be very important For
Speaker 1: Jordan lawler to one just show he can stay healthy
Speaker 1: because that's been a problem so, far and to kind
Speaker 1: of hopefully kind of get the opportunity and taking claimant
Speaker 1: to say, like, Hey i'm the shortstop In. Arizona i'm
Speaker 1: the shortstop for this team for the rest of the
Speaker 1: decade still looks like long term that's his job to.
Speaker 1: Hold but it is a little bit of a tougher
Speaker 1: task maybe now than it was even coming out of last.
Speaker 1: Year and the thing that just kind of really does
Speaker 1: jump out oft the is you don't want to forget
Speaker 1: that he's really young. Still he will turn twenty three
Speaker 1: right around The All star, Break SO i don't want
Speaker 1: to make this sound like this is a twenty six year,
Speaker 1: old twenty seven year old who hasn't gotten established in
Speaker 1: the big leagues and time is running. Out this guy's
Speaker 1: not really much older than some of the college draftees
Speaker 1: we'll see in the upcoming, draft so there's still time
Speaker 1: on his. Side Jordan lawler could still be a very,
Speaker 1: impactful very well rounded big. Leaguer it just does mean, that,
Speaker 1: man you just want to see him be healthy for
Speaker 1: a full. Year and it hasn't been like one. Injury
Speaker 1: it's been kind of a variety of injuries that have
Speaker 1: really derailed him so.
Speaker 2: Far it's, funny you, know it gets me, Thinking jeff
Speaker 2: about how much or how quickly we move on these.
Speaker 3: Days.
Speaker 2: Right Jordan lawler was really really heavily discussed for you,
Speaker 2: know a year or, two and then you see these
Speaker 2: struggles in these, injuries and he becomes an afterthought in terms,
Speaker 2: of you, know the national conversation of. Specs in, Fairness
Speaker 2: Jackson curio wasn't talked about, much you, know After, may
Speaker 2: when he was struggling in the first, month and then
Speaker 2: people had to circle back around and be, like oh,
Speaker 2: wait hold.
Speaker 3: On he's a, baby and now he looks like a star.
Speaker 2: Already but, anyway to get to my next, point do
Speaker 2: you think that The Arizona diamondbacks are in an okay spot.
Speaker 3: From an organizational?
Speaker 2: Standpoint or should we be concerned that this is still
Speaker 2: the guy that's kind of leading the pack here among
Speaker 2: their best.
Speaker 5: Prospects, YEAH i, MEAN i think it is a good
Speaker 5: major league, roster you.
Speaker 3: Know you, know obviously they went in a little bit
Speaker 3: of a late run last.
Speaker 5: Year they do have some kind of a pair of
Speaker 5: interesting prospects at the, top And lawler and Then Dimitrio,
Speaker 5: cissantes you know who's in the midst of Chasing Mookie
Speaker 5: bets minor league on bass streak record that will continue
Speaker 5: into twenty twenty five if he continues to get on
Speaker 5: base over the first whatever ten or twelve. GAMES i
Speaker 5: think there's some interesting players they added to the system this,
Speaker 5: year and guys Like Slave caldwell And ryan walshmid It
Speaker 5: adrian Del castillo certainly had sort of a breakout last
Speaker 5: year AND i think kind of re established, himself particularly
Speaker 5: as a. Hitter but there's some other players in this
Speaker 5: system that really haven't taken big steps. Forward Drew jones
Speaker 5: is obviously kind of the prime, suspect you, know among those.
Speaker 5: Players Tommy troy a highly, touted you, know positional player
Speaker 5: out Of, stanford you, know. INFIELDER i don't want to
Speaker 5: say necessarily middle infielder because we'll see where he ends up.
Speaker 5: Landing but in a lot of, ways you, Know troy
Speaker 5: a couple a couple of years, ago is getting compared
Speaker 5: To Matt, shaw's like when he was in The Cape Cod.
Speaker 3: League which player is?
Speaker 5: Better AND i, think you, Know shaw has certainly established
Speaker 5: himself as a professional And troy sort of done the.
Speaker 5: Opposite so there's kind of been a lot of underperforming picks.
Speaker 5: HERE i thought they had a pretty good draft in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty, four so we'll see where that takes. Them
Speaker 5: and they haven't had any huge hits in the international
Speaker 5: market of plade.
Speaker 1: Either the THING i will say, though this also does
Speaker 1: provide an opportunity for The diamondbacks now to give kind
Speaker 1: of the the rose colored glasses version of. This Jordan
Speaker 1: lawler is still one of the better prospects in the.
Speaker 1: Game he's still near the top of our top one,
Speaker 1: hundred and he's kind, of As scott, said he kind,
Speaker 1: of you, know he's kind of faded from the conversation
Speaker 1: because he's really missed the whole, year kind of disappeared
Speaker 1: from you, know from from kind of view as he
Speaker 1: rehabbed and tried to get back on the. Field but
Speaker 1: If Jordan lawler comes out in twenty twenty, five let's
Speaker 1: say he starts off in TRIPLE a and has a
Speaker 1: really great start to the, season, well this is a
Speaker 1: big league ready, shortstop which gives The dbacks at that
Speaker 1: point they can really, say, hey we've got the depth
Speaker 1: that this provides because we have now we have five
Speaker 1: guys really for four spots in the. Infield or they
Speaker 1: can also look at it and, say, hey whether it's Per,
Speaker 1: domo you, know whether It's, lawler whether it's you, know
Speaker 1: whether It's Keto, marte who's you, know been great for.
Speaker 1: Them there could be a potential move down the road
Speaker 1: here where you, say, okay there's a lot of depth,
Speaker 1: here there's a lot of. Opportunity and for a team
Speaker 1: that was in The World series two years, ago that's
Speaker 1: not a terrible thing that this is kind of a
Speaker 1: potential opportunity where they may have two guys who could
Speaker 1: handle the. Job where two years ago it's like the
Speaker 1: question was do they have? One so that to me
Speaker 1: is kind of something to be interesting to watch in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Five is Does lawler's potential re emergence kind
Speaker 1: of create both a challenge for The diamondbacks but also
Speaker 1: an opportunity because he already has hit In TRIPLE, a
Speaker 1: it's not something he needs to shake off some. Rust
Speaker 1: it's no problem for him to spend a little bit
Speaker 1: of time down, there but he probably doesn't need a
Speaker 1: full season In TRIPLE a just to get an additional.
Speaker 1: Seasoning and if that's the, case at some point they're
Speaker 1: going to have some decisions to.
Speaker 2: MAKE i, MEAN i remember now two years ago or
Speaker 2: two seasons, ago chatting With Jordan lawler during media day
Speaker 2: heading into The World. Series wasn't a factor a guy
Speaker 2: For arizona at that, time but we were, like, damn
Speaker 2: this team's in The World series And Jordan lawler is
Speaker 2: one of the best prospects at the time in. Baseball
Speaker 2: and just imagine if he blossoms and becomes a star
Speaker 2: for this team next, season which was this past, season
Speaker 2: which obviously had the, injuries but it is a good
Speaker 2: sign For. Arizona, plus they did damage in the offseason
Speaker 2: by adding someone Like Corbyn burns to the big league,
Speaker 2: roster so we'll see If lawler can be above average
Speaker 2: performer for this team and caused some good. Problems like
Speaker 2: JJ's talking, about we're going over every single top prospect
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Speaker 1: These he's the kind of guy who's gonna fit and
Speaker 1: should fit in The San diego lineup late twenty six
Speaker 1: or twenty, seven which is a crazy projection for a
Speaker 1: guy who will play this entire season as an eighteen year.
Speaker 2: Old, hey The San Diego padres loved to swing, trades
Speaker 2: but they also find some high ceiling. Prospects Leo davrees
Speaker 2: is next in. Line let's talk about. Him that's right
Speaker 2: at Your Baseball America prospect Profile Scott run WITH Jj
Speaker 2: cooper And Jeff. PONCE, jj is this superstar potential for The.
Speaker 2: PADRES i know it's going to take a little. Time he's,
Speaker 2: young but what are we?
Speaker 1: Seeing the WAY i would describe how The padres approached
Speaker 1: the international, market this this fits WITH Aj priller if
Speaker 1: you wanted to use a poker. Analogy they're going all
Speaker 1: in and they're not spreading their. Wrists they're not diversifying
Speaker 1: into a well rounded. Portfolio they're not, saying we're going
Speaker 1: to put some money on this picture and this shortstop
Speaker 1: and this. Catcher what The padres like to do is
Speaker 1: identify someone that they see as a, star and they
Speaker 1: like to make that star kind of the center point
Speaker 1: of their international. Class they did it With Ethan, sallas
Speaker 1: and here they've done it With Leo. DeVries and by the,
Speaker 1: way once they, do they then want to send that
Speaker 1: guy on a rocket ship through the. Miners we saw
Speaker 1: that last year with two years ago With, sallas and
Speaker 1: last year again we saw that with Leader, vrees, who
Speaker 1: while most of his contemporaries were trying to get out
Speaker 1: of The Dominican Summer, League derives was in full season,
Speaker 1: ball and not, surprisingly considering how much The padres are
Speaker 1: impressed with, him and how the reason that they were
Speaker 1: willing to send him to The California, league he really
Speaker 1: more than held his. Own he kind of took a
Speaker 1: little bit of time to kind of get comfortable, there
Speaker 1: and this was one of the better players in the.
Speaker 1: League this is a player who's approach to the, game his,
Speaker 1: physicality it all seems more advanced Than you look at
Speaker 1: him and you, say, wait this is a. Teenager this
Speaker 1: is a guy who is still probably, seven, eight, nine
Speaker 1: ten years away from his. Prime you see a lot
Speaker 1: of things already with When i've seen him play in,
Speaker 1: person you would not if you were asking who's the
Speaker 1: youngest player on this, field and he always is the
Speaker 1: youngest player on any field he plays, on you wouldn't
Speaker 1: pick him out that way because he carries. Himself he
Speaker 1: looks like a guy who has some, savvy who has some,
Speaker 1: experience and he has a lot of tools to go with.
Speaker 5: That, Jeff, YEAH i think one hundred. Percent and you,
Speaker 5: know you brought up a good point. There you, know
Speaker 5: was a little bit of a slow starter this. Year
Speaker 5: really started to get going In july and then you,
Speaker 5: know over the last few months of his season really showed.
Speaker 5: Something hit two eighty, four four oh, seven five eighty
Speaker 5: nine over his final thirty five. Games, uh you, know
Speaker 5: season ended with a with an injury in Mid. August
Speaker 5: he was shut down for a little bit and then
Speaker 5: sort of RETURNED i think maybe the.
Speaker 3: End of the first week OF.
Speaker 5: Afl prior to, that his first forty games and as we,
Speaker 5: said you, know he was playing at a full season
Speaker 5: level as you, know a seventeen year old you, know
Speaker 5: hit one ninety, six, three nineteen, three. Ten but once
Speaker 5: it sort of clicked In, july where he actually had
Speaker 5: eight homers in that, month you, know he really took.
Speaker 5: Off AND i think if he had maybe had you,
Speaker 5: know another three weeks at the end of tail end
Speaker 5: of that In august and beginning Of september as the
Speaker 5: season fully, ended we might have seen those numbers climb
Speaker 5: even a little bit. More super, twitchy you, KNOW i
Speaker 5: don't know if he stays at shortstop long, term but
Speaker 5: kind of a compact, build really good bat, speed you,
Speaker 5: know switch, hitter strong, already but there's room to potentially
Speaker 5: add more. Power not a not a double plus runner
Speaker 5: or something like, that but you, know it's probably going
Speaker 5: to be above average to at least average at peak
Speaker 5: with some power with the hit tool and as a matchup,
Speaker 5: issue and you have a switch hitter with all the
Speaker 5: tools and do all the things That devrees can.
Speaker 3: Do so really really exciting.
Speaker 5: Player AND i, think you, know when we're talking about
Speaker 5: the players that came from that twenty four international, class
Speaker 5: we're going to look back and sort of Compare DeVries
Speaker 5: and Then Haesus, made who's going to make his state
Speaker 5: side debut this. Year just kind of shows, you you,
Speaker 5: know how much further Along defrise is than a lot
Speaker 5: of these guys that sign internationally and typically spend a
Speaker 5: year in The Dominican Summer league at the very least
Speaker 5: end up in The Complex League. Domestically he skipped both
Speaker 5: of those and went right to full season, ball so
Speaker 5: it kind of makes sense why he might have struggled
Speaker 5: over those first couple of months as he settled.
Speaker 1: In the thing that jumps out to me just to
Speaker 1: talk about how young he. Is he'll be eighteen for
Speaker 1: the entirety of the twenty twenty Five minor league. Season
Speaker 1: he'll turn nineteen in THE mlv. Postseason he will not
Speaker 1: turn twenty until after his twenty twenty sixth season is
Speaker 1: basically fully in the bag unless he's playing in the
Speaker 1: postseason with the big League. Padres so you're talking about
Speaker 1: a guy who is a year, two, three four years
Speaker 1: younger than the guys he's playing. With he may go
Speaker 1: back to The collleague to start the, season just to
Speaker 1: let it warm up a little bit in The Midwest,
Speaker 1: league but he's going to likely spend the majority of his,
Speaker 1: season or at least the start of the of his,
Speaker 1: season the majority of the, season and in The Midwest
Speaker 1: league in HIGH a as the youngest player in that,
Speaker 1: league it wouldn't be crazy to think that he might
Speaker 1: reach DOUBLE a by the end of the. Year like
Speaker 1: this is the kind of timetables that you just don't see. Normally.
Speaker 1: Now The padres are more aggressive than pretty much anyone
Speaker 1: else with players like, This but when you throw in
Speaker 1: the Fact jeff mentioned he's a switch, hitter often switch
Speaker 1: hitters take a little bit longer because you've got two
Speaker 1: swings to work. On not a problem With devrez so,
Speaker 1: Far and to, me like you just put it all
Speaker 1: together and you, SAY i don't know if it's going
Speaker 1: to be for The padres or you, know, again The
Speaker 1: padres are aggressive in every. Way if they can make
Speaker 1: a move and they need to make a, move he
Speaker 1: also could be a top trade. Chip but he is
Speaker 1: the kind of guy they love their short. Stops he's
Speaker 1: the kind of guy who's going to fit and should
Speaker 1: fit in The San diego lineup late twenty six or twenty,
Speaker 1: seven which again is a crazy is a crazy projection
Speaker 1: for a guy who will play this entire season as
Speaker 1: an eighteen year.
Speaker 5: Old, yeah AND i think one of the most impressive things,
Speaker 5: too is you start to look at some of the
Speaker 5: underlying power. NUMBERS a one oh two point one mile
Speaker 5: per hour ninety eighth percentile exit velocity that's on par
Speaker 5: with you, know older domestic prospects with more experience that
Speaker 5: we rank very. Highly it's actually the exact number That
Speaker 5: Walker jenkins has for ninetieth percents out a few years
Speaker 5: younger Than. Jenkins but on top of, that being a
Speaker 5: switch hitter with a little bit of, power he consistently
Speaker 5: puts the ball in the. Air he a sixty percent
Speaker 5: fly ball plus line drive rate this, year nearly a
Speaker 5: forty percent air, pull so he consistently gets the ball
Speaker 5: in the air and knows how to hit the ball
Speaker 5: in the air to his pull side and that's, split you,
Speaker 5: know between both sides of the. Plate so there aren't
Speaker 5: a lot of switch hitters that can do. That there's
Speaker 5: not a lot of young players that already sort of
Speaker 5: have you, know pretty clean backspin and barrel control and
Speaker 5: accuracy at that. Age AND i think that the skills
Speaker 5: which were already sort of average ish for the level
Speaker 5: at least when you put all that, together this is
Speaker 5: somebody that is he starts to catch up to the
Speaker 5: age plus level stuff could really take a humongous, jump
Speaker 5: whether it's this year or next, year and we really
Speaker 5: see him take off in terms of like a slash,
Speaker 5: line you, know production.
Speaker 3: Standpoint AND i.
Speaker 2: Just want to kind of confirm this from both of.
Speaker 2: You The padres do love to wheel and. DEAL Aj
Speaker 2: preller IS i would, say what top three in terms
Speaker 2: of front office leaders that make. Trades he would do
Speaker 2: this if he got the call Right debrees putting the phone,
Speaker 2: DOWN i, mean that's is that the One, no you
Speaker 2: think you Think debrees even would be in.
Speaker 1: PLACE i don't Think aj hangs up the phone on
Speaker 1: anyone like this is a guy who Traded james Wood,
Speaker 1: away who you know was a little further, away but
Speaker 1: he Traded. James would you, know this is a guy
Speaker 1: who Traded Mackenzie, Gore this is a guy who traded
Speaker 1: four to One. SODO i would say that he is
Speaker 1: not going to make a. Move it'd have to be something.
Speaker 1: Massive but it's The. Padres like, AGAIN i don't think
Speaker 1: that there's anyone ever that he hasn't at least will,
Speaker 1: entertain like a take the.
Speaker 5: Call, YEAH i, MEAN i think it would have to
Speaker 5: be an absolutely elite young major league player for him
Speaker 5: to consider moving an asset like. This The, padres AS jj,
Speaker 5: said they do trade good. Prospects they're probably one of
Speaker 5: the organizations that the least scared of sort of that
Speaker 5: coming back to bite.
Speaker 3: Them BUT i don't think that's whatever.
Speaker 5: Happened but like if we're talking Like Gunnar henderson Or
Speaker 5: Corbyn carroll or you, Know Paul, skeens like it was
Speaker 5: a player like that that was available maybe a year from,
Speaker 5: now you, Know livy wants to.
Speaker 3: Move To San.
Speaker 5: Diego that's probably the situation WHERE i Think DeVries would become.
Speaker 5: Available BUT i just think there's very few players they
Speaker 5: would probably make devrees available for. You probably wouldn't hang
Speaker 5: up the phone because he would try to negotiate down,
Speaker 5: to you, know another prospect in the.
Speaker 3: System.
Speaker 2: Mmm, actually you know what if The padres have a
Speaker 2: great first, half but they really are starter short a
Speaker 2: phone call to you, Know. Seattle let's say they're having
Speaker 2: a bad start to the year and they've got a young.
Speaker 2: Pitcher The padres want a controllable young. Pitcher it's not
Speaker 2: going to cost a. Lot that's where you can wheel
Speaker 2: and deal a little. Bit, okay, okay so we're hold,
Speaker 2: on hold, on we're picking them.
Speaker 3: Back did you hang? Up you're? Okay, okay never mind
Speaker 3: that Was Scott. Brown that wasn't. ME i would never
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 2: Anyway if you like, this we go over every single
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Speaker 2: bit more durability Than sasaki, has you, know over the
Speaker 2: last handful of.
Speaker 3: Years The rockies sort of needs something.
Speaker 5: Here and this could be the beginning of sort of
Speaker 5: pushing this this group of pitchers up to the major.
Speaker 2: Leagues, okay The Colorado rockies have work to do with
Speaker 2: their major league. Club let's see if they can find
Speaker 2: themselves an. Ace the name Is Chase. Dolander he is
Speaker 2: the top prospect according To Baseball. America let's dive. In
Speaker 2: it's be a prospect. Profile Scott, RON Jj, Cooper Jeff,
Speaker 2: Ponce Jeff Chase dolander best arm in the organization right,
Speaker 2: now And i'm including big.
Speaker 3: Leaguers would you?
Speaker 5: AGREE i think you can probably argue that this is
Speaker 5: one of the most talented pitchers The rockies have.
Speaker 1: Ever had in the.
Speaker 5: Organization kind of going, back you, know looking at some
Speaker 5: of the names that have been you, know top. Prospects John,
Speaker 5: gray you, KNOW jj AND i talked about this sort
Speaker 5: of off. Airs we were kind of writing up our
Speaker 5: reports during the, offseason getting things ready for the. Handbook
Speaker 5: and you, know maybe There's Jeff, francis you Have Ubaldo Hi.
Speaker 5: Meanez He meanez probably had the most, success Certainly John,
Speaker 5: gray but he's somebody that you, know almost immediately upon
Speaker 5: coming into pro.
Speaker 3: Ball you, know the report started to be a little.
Speaker 5: Bit less optimistic than what we had seen when he,
Speaker 5: was you, know a draftee or you, know coming into
Speaker 5: his draft. YEAR i think when we look At, dolander,
Speaker 5: yeah he had slid back a little bit and felt
Speaker 5: fallen Behind Paul, skens who wouldn't among college pitchers in
Speaker 5: that twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Class he had a really good.
Speaker 5: Year you, know handled HIGH a very very, well went
Speaker 5: up to DOUBLE. A i think one of the things
Speaker 5: that was most encouraging About dolander is they really let
Speaker 5: him go ninety to one hundred pitches plus multiple, times
Speaker 5: particularly in DOUBLE. A he was really working some of
Speaker 5: those you, know Better Eastern league lineups which are pretty
Speaker 5: talented toward the end of the season and showed an
Speaker 5: ability to. Pitch now we get into the. Stuff it
Speaker 5: is electric. Stuff it might be some of the best
Speaker 5: stuff that we've seen from Any rockies, pitcher including he
Speaker 5: meant as you, know who threw very. Hard Do lander
Speaker 5: this year sat ninety six to ninety seven miles per,
Speaker 5: hour was up to one hundred miles per. Hour you,
Speaker 5: know traditionally just looking at the flat, numbers he doesn't
Speaker 5: get a ton of ride on. It but based on
Speaker 5: his release, height which is really really, low he gets
Speaker 5: a lot of ride for his release, height which creates
Speaker 5: a really sort of, flat difficult. Plane it's kind of
Speaker 5: similar and in that sense to like A Jacob deGrom
Speaker 5: fastball or A Garrett cole, fastball where it has that
Speaker 5: flat plane of. Approach it's harder for pitchers to excuse,
Speaker 5: me hitters to sort of get.
Speaker 3: On plane with.
Speaker 5: That in terms of the barrel mixes in a few
Speaker 5: different breaking ball. Shapes he's got a hard cutter that
Speaker 5: sits in the upper eighties that you know will touch
Speaker 5: ninety ninety one ninety, two you, know a little bit
Speaker 5: of ride and some cut got a more traditional curve.
Speaker 5: Ball he'll show a change up as, Well but really
Speaker 5: everything works off of that, fastball and you, know it's
Speaker 5: sort of a what we would call a low launch.
Speaker 5: Fastball so when you have a fastball like, that it's
Speaker 5: much harder to sort of get on plane because it
Speaker 5: doesn't have that sort of same downhill movement that you
Speaker 5: see on most. Fastballs so he might be a guy
Speaker 5: AND i wrote an article about this in the. Offseason
Speaker 5: he could be a guy this year that potentially cracks
Speaker 5: That core's. Code there's only been One rockies PICTURE i
Speaker 5: think in history that has a career era under, four
Speaker 5: and That's Oobaldo. JIMENEZ i Think dolander might be next in,
Speaker 5: line and we could be looking back five or six
Speaker 5: years from now and, saying all, right maybe this is
Speaker 5: sort of what you need to Hack. Coors you, need you,
Speaker 5: know this sort of weird fastball shape with a lot of,
Speaker 5: velocity and that might buy you a you, know a
Speaker 5: little bit more leeway than the typical arsenal.
Speaker 1: Will so good, News. Rockies if this, works you can
Speaker 1: replicate this by drafting one of the best pictures in
Speaker 1: college baseball with these kind of unique. Characteristics, NOW i
Speaker 1: Think dolinder's actually a really good story as. Well when
Speaker 1: we talked to him on Our Hot sheet, show he
Speaker 1: made the point he had two. Offers he had two
Speaker 1: scholarship offers basically coming out of high school and went
Speaker 1: To Georgia southern kind of dominated transferre To. Tennessee the
Speaker 1: key thing And jeff touched on. This when you're talking
Speaker 1: about how much of an impact can he make in
Speaker 1: the big leagues in twenty twenty, five one of the
Speaker 1: key things going for him is this isn't a guy
Speaker 1: who hasn't worked deep in. Games this isn't a guy
Speaker 1: who hasn't thrown. Innings he threw one hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 1: Innings AND i know you may hear one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighteen innings in minor league baseball and go, wow is that? No,
Speaker 1: nowadays that's actually a pretty good. Workload he also though
Speaker 1: before that he had pretty heavy, workloads reasonable, workloads but
Speaker 1: he worked you, know pretty full workloads At tennessee before
Speaker 1: that as, Well Georgia southern as. Well so this is
Speaker 1: a guy who the best WAY i can put it
Speaker 1: is is if you put him in the rotation early this,
Speaker 1: season and you're not going to come To july and, say,
Speaker 1: oops he's already out of. Innings, now you might get To,
Speaker 1: august you might get To, september and you're skipping a
Speaker 1: start every now and. Then but at the same, time
Speaker 1: we are talking about a guy who has shown that
Speaker 1: he can kind of hold, up has shown that he
Speaker 1: can handle a pro workload of some. Sorts so you
Speaker 1: put the stuff combined with the fact that this is
Speaker 1: the guy who has shown some tendencies maybe to be a,
Speaker 1: horse and this is actually something For rockies fans to
Speaker 1: get excited.
Speaker 5: About, yeah AND i think it's very realistic that he
Speaker 5: could be somebody that potentially even breaks camp with the.
Speaker 5: Team you, know he's obviously going to be up against
Speaker 5: it in terms OF Nl rookie of The, year you,
Speaker 5: know even in his own. Division obviously with Rookie sasaki
Speaker 5: in that. Division you, know it could be an uphill.
Speaker 5: Battle but he's probably shown maybe a little bit more
Speaker 5: durability Than sasaki, has you, know over the last handful of.
Speaker 5: Years of, course we're comparing college, baseball minor league, baseball you,
Speaker 5: know to the highest level Of japanese, baseball which is
Speaker 5: not an even. Comparison but The rockies sort of needs
Speaker 5: something here and this could be the beginning of sort
Speaker 5: of pushing this this group of pitchers up to the major.
Speaker 5: Leagues they have a few other guys sort of in
Speaker 5: the system that are more back end, guys but kind
Speaker 5: of interesting. Traits they seem like they've been going after
Speaker 5: actually a lot of these low, release hight fastball. GUYS
Speaker 5: i bring that up again because there's one pitcher who's
Speaker 5: never given up a run in his first two career
Speaker 5: starts at Coors field and That's Kyle, harrison who is
Speaker 5: also a low release height.
Speaker 3: Pitcher so when you.
Speaker 5: Start to factor that sort of stuff, IN i think
Speaker 5: there might be some secret. Sauce maybe The rockies are
Speaker 5: potentially cracking something. Here it's, interesting AND i think for
Speaker 5: sure it's unusual that we would rank A rockies pitcher
Speaker 5: as highly as we do in the top one, hundred
Speaker 5: or even have him number one in a pretty good.
Speaker 5: System BUT i Think dolander is just that talented and
Speaker 5: has traits that you, know could potentially lead to success
Speaker 5: no matter where HE i.
Speaker 2: Think it's always worth mentioning THIS. Jj if you're A rockies,
Speaker 2: fan you're watching this right, now you're super.
Speaker 3: Excited.
Speaker 2: GREAT i might have a number one, starter one of
Speaker 2: the best talents armwise in the organization that they've ever.
Speaker 2: Had but is there enough around him for this team
Speaker 2: to eventually be. COMPETITIVE i don't even know if we're
Speaker 2: keeping track of a year of a rebuild for, them
Speaker 2: but it doesn't look like they want to really dance
Speaker 2: in the free agent. Market how even really crazy with,
Speaker 2: trades with dealing away some of their guys once they're
Speaker 2: in their. Prime you, Know ryan McMahon was the prime
Speaker 2: example seemed like a couple of years ago they could
Speaker 2: have gotten themselves a nice prospect or. Two so are
Speaker 2: they going to be able to build somewhat of a
Speaker 2: prospects capital powerhouse to be able to compete in THE
Speaker 2: Nl west or are they just In abyss.
Speaker 1: Forever the thing that you just, mentioned like you can
Speaker 1: go back To trevor's, story is another example of that
Speaker 1: where it's just hard to see what is the, year
Speaker 1: what is the goal that The rockies are pushing for?
Speaker 1: Now If dolander, really you, know comes in and pitches
Speaker 1: the way we expect and hope you, will that would
Speaker 1: be a big impact for. Them they do have some
Speaker 1: young talent, here you, know up the, middle the. Outfield
Speaker 1: if everyone if everyone in the outfield plays to the
Speaker 1: level they have in their best, year they could have
Speaker 1: a pretty solid outfield out. There you, Know doyle's had
Speaker 1: a good, Year Nolan jones had a good year two years.
Speaker 1: Ago but you put it all together and you, say
Speaker 1: is this team going to? Win is this team going
Speaker 1: to contend in THE Nl? WEST i would struggle to,
Speaker 1: say you, know anytime in the rest of this, decade
Speaker 1: because if you look at, it we know The dodgers
Speaker 1: are going to be. Good The padres are way better
Speaker 1: than right. Now The diamondbacks went to The World series
Speaker 1: two years, ago have more young, talent and then we
Speaker 1: throw The giants, in who kind of are regrouping a little.
Speaker 1: Bit but when The giants, regroup they signed free agents
Speaker 1: Like Willia. Thomas that's not something that is really something
Speaker 1: that The rockies are. Doing, SO i, mean it can get,
Speaker 1: better but. Better right, now the goal seems to, be you,
Speaker 1: know let's get to see this team could get to
Speaker 1: eighty one or eighty two, wins and that may be
Speaker 1: a pretty uphill, climb much less getting to ninety plus
Speaker 1: to conte and in this.
Speaker 2: Division, yeah it's a tough. Division so we feel for
Speaker 2: You rockies, fans but there are worse, situations not, many
Speaker 2: maybe one or two at this, point so at least
Speaker 2: they've got some talent in the. Pipeline we are talking
Speaker 2: about every single organization in their top prospect and then
Speaker 2: spilling the conversation and some others that you should be
Speaker 2: paying attention. To so make sure you check out all
Speaker 2: of the videos team by team here we're releasing one
Speaker 2: per day during spring.
Speaker 3: Training