WEBVTT - 529 | MLB Draft Recap Part 2 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:17.120 And he swings high, understand deep, just senter feel, and 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.560 it's gone, Wow. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.520 His first big league swing is gonna be. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.439 A grand slam, a home line swing. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:34.720 Good time to look to them soup Part two of 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.560 the MLB Draft recap. Here on the call up, you 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:42.199 got rum lighton Tyler Jennings. We've got fifteen more teams 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.519 to break down and just kind of highlight the draft classes. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.120 But before we get into that, we have a little 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.880 bit of a surprise. I wish it came through before 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.320 we recap the Guardian's draft class, because this does alter 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.240 their draft class quite a bit. But at least we 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.040 have you God, we made this a two partner. Now, 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.600 now we can follow up and talk about it before 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.640 we jump into the Miami Marlins and the subsequent fourteen 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:08.399 other teams. Tyler kind of surprising, Logan Schmidt ends up, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.600 then I'm not gonna sign. I'm most likely going to LSU, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.600 maybe Duco. We'll talk about that. But forty fifth overall 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.400 selection was prepared to probably get a pretty big overslat 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.560 you know, bonus there for the Guardians to then get 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.240 another high impact arm left hander out of California prep ranks. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.320 How surprised are you that Schmidt didn't sign, and you know, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.160 how much does this alter the class? 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.720 It definitely alters Cleveland's class in general a little bit, 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.040 because obviously they were really banking on getting this type 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.400 of arm into their system and it was a great 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.640 fit personally, Like kind of just looking at how Cleveland's 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.440 been able to turn some of these like softer tossing 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.720 lefties into like legitimate big league talents like Parker Messik 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.120 for example, give you like more of a recent example 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.440 like he's he's turned into an absolute stud for the Guardians. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.800 But you know, it's it's interesting. I think Schmidt, from 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:02.360 what I've seen or what I've heard, is like there 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.240 wasn't necessarily an agreement beforehand, and it just seems like 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.720 Schmid's number was a bit too high, and Cleveland doesn't 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.160 necessarily have an insurance you know, policy in place later 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.480 in the draft. Most of their you know, back end 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:21.040 draft picks after date, like the stereotypical day three. You know, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.920 they're all college guys. They've all signed, so there's not 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.720 really anywhere this money can go right now. But you know, 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.760 with Schmidt, it's either LSU or maybe you go JUCO route, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.320 you know, there's a I believe it's Golden West College 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.600 out there in Huntington Beach. Is a is a close 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.800 option for him if he wants to go back in 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.040 and try and like keep his stock up for next 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.720 year's draft class. Obviously, but it's it's definitely an interesting 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.720 scenario to kind of look at it from from both perspectives. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.440 You know, team obviously losing their chance to sign this 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.520 kid who they took in second round and obviously viewed 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.440 them highly enough to do so, and also just from 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.760 you know, logan standpoint of like, hey, I can go 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.519 to to LSU, get a bad and with an IL 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.000 and also you know, carve out my role for Jay 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.080 Johnson's club on a team that looks, you know, arguably 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:08.960 better than what it was a year ago for LSU, 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.440 or go to Juco and try your best to up 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.959 that stock for next year's drafts. You still be really young, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.000 and he just turned eighteen a couple of weeks ago, 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.079 So it's gonna be very interesting to see what happens 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.880 with Schmid's route. And you know, I'm not gonna sit 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.160 here and make fun of the kid. I genuinely hope 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.760 that he chooses what's best for him, and then he 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.520 succeeds at every stop at the next level. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.160 Yeah, Schmid's far from the first, won't be the last, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.160 most likely either, and hopefully it all works out for him. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.480 But for the Guardian's draft class, it was a gamble 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.120 when he didn't have the agreement in place, and a 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.000 lot of times it still works out you figure it out. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.680 In this case, it just doesn't for the guard Still 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.720 a lot of talent in the draft class, I think, 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.920 even more now reason that you're looking at, like saveing 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.160 on Simms and hoping he can reach his upside there 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.120 and some of the you know, higher upside prep arms 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.640 that they brought into the fold here. But we're gonna 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:04.200 go into the next fifteen teams now, which starts with 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.080 the Miami Marlins. They had a local kid that was 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.640 expected to go a good bit higher, and Jacob Lombard 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.560 kind of fall into their lap there, made it a 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.600 no brainer selection for them, despite you know, some of 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.400 the concerns that might come with the hit tool and 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.839 why he maybe fell. So we'll talk about that and 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.680 then some other interesting picks behind him, you know, the Marlins. 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.480 I think the last couple of drafts I don't think 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.080 there's been a clear cut identity in terms of the 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.840 way that they like to approach these drafts yet since 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.760 Frankie Hilari's taken over. I think it's just the best 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.920 player available that they feel like they see. But last 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.520 year they did go very college heavy. The year before 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.920 they didn't, so he I asked the Marlins about it. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.120 Last year, they were just kind of like, this is 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.400 just how the board fell to us, but it was 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.520 a crazy amount of college. This year they go high 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.640 school off the top, and then you know, I think 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.120 it was still college heavy ish, but they still mixed 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:55.440 in more high school than last year. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.040 Yeah, I don't even think they had a high schooler 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.039 in last year's class, Like could be mistaken on that. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.880 I think they just went all all college. But you know, 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.039 you get Lombard. You know, he was view as a 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.760 to some as a top five talent. I had him 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.120 just outside the top five personally, just because the hit 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.479 tool was just so shaky and I couldn't get a 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.360 good read on it. But the tools are outstanding. So 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.000 to get him at that range and also to sign 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.480 them underslot too, is pretty impressive. So I think if 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.960 you're Miami, you take that as a win, and you 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.119 definitely look at ways to try and fix the swing, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.840 fix the batpath, and get the most out of the 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.839 hit tool. You know, their butt lines are there. His 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.600 dad's a major league coach, obviously big leaguer, and then 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.760 obviously his brother with the Yankees now in Triple A 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.920 and could be on his way to a big league 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.360 call up here soon. So there's a lot to like 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.240 here with Lombard. But obviously just got to work on 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.520 that hit tool. But even after that, they went after 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.280 some pretty, you know, intriguing college arms and some college 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.240 bats like Ethan Kleinschmidt and Ryan Peterson in the second round. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.680 You know, both of them have really good heaters. Peterson 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.640 gets like seven feet of extension with a good hammer 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.680 curveball with high spin, and Kleinschmid's your stereotypical like pitchability 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.320 left by who there's a lot to really work in. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.200 His favorite He came from the Juco route, like we 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.560 had talked about before, went to Lynn Benton, went to 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.080 Oregon State, pitched in the College World Series, and had 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.240 a good year this year for the Beavers. So there's 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.840 there's a good amount of outside I loved him when 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.200 he pitched at USA collegiate national team a year ago 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.599 during training camp. I think it was for shoutout innings 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.320 and just put everything wherever you want, So I think 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:27.800 it might be a plus command guy at the end 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.479 of the day. But you know, going past that, you've 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:34.719 got guys like Trey Beard, Kim Kolzel, Eric Guavara from Auburn, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.240 who I think is a really solid bat. You also 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.240 get into some other guys like Nick Tolbert, Zach Peters, 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.800 Colt selvic all these guys that could be I would 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.040 say Peters and Selvig are more reliever type, but they 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.560 have some upside and field spin and also some intriguing 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.880 fastball traits. But they did They did acquire some more 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.560 high school talent here, like Wesley Robertson in the fourth 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.920 round as a really really solid at the order guy 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:05.520 with good speed, good center field traits, signed over slot. Obviously, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.479 cannot forget about Rentaro Sasaki as well. That's another big 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.560 storyline in this draft class, where he signed with the Marlins. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.920 He's not going back to Japan, you know, where he 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:15.840 was a first round pick. He gets selected in the 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.480 eighth round, gets two hundred and ten thousand and maybe 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.840 some extra change outside of that. But again, Nick Tolbert, 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.040 you look at Baine Barker and there's some intriguing guys 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.880 even probably down the board like Joey lost in their 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:32.440 twenty eight rounders signed. So it's an intriguing class. Definitely 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.720 has a going after some traits with some pitchers you 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.560 know obviously, like for example, Tyler Kappa for Virginia has 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.120 a really really good fastball that sits in the mid 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.440 nineties and nobody was able to touch it this year. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.080 So he's a guy that really, you know, gets my 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.120 attention to, like Colin Linder Porter Bursmas. So it's an 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.080 intriguing class with some good traits and I wouldn't be 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.320 shot there. There's some fast risers in this in this 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:57.960 class for the. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.560 Marlins, going back to Lumbar quickly is just you know, 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.040 it's one thing from the fall. Sometimes when you see 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.240 guys fall like this, typically you got to go overslot 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.960 a little bit right, and there's still a price tag 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.800 to meet. How do you think the Marlins were able 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.920 to sign him for four hundred and forty thousand dollars 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.520 underslot when he was expected to go maybe anywhere from 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:26.240 seven to nine picks earlier, and I just I like, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.840 was he slipping that much? Like if the Marlins didn't 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.760 pick him, was there concern that he could slip to 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.680 the back end of the first round? Like that's what 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.720 the bonus implies to me. I'm just trying to understand it. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.280 Yeah, that's what it feels like. I don't have like 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.720 a solidified answer on this, but it just feels like 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.080 that there was a way that there was a larger 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.480 slide than what he had. And I think another thing 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.200 that plays a role in this too is obviously he's 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.599 a Miami kid. You know, go Over prep schools is 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.000 in the Miami metro. I wouldn't be shocked to just 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.640 like a little bit of a discount here. Yeah, but yeah, 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.120 I think it's I think it's a role of Beth 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.880 where the slide was occurring. Maybe they were prepared for 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.520 that scenario, considering the fact that all these teams were 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:09.720 looking for for hit tool first guys, and then also 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.600 just the fact that this is this is his area 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.120 and this is a he's I'm pretty sure he's born 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.400 and raised here. I could be mistaken, but yeah, know 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.480 this this is his home, and. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.240 I wonder if it's just a state tax coming to 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.319 effect with the signing bonuses. I don't know, but that 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.320 they could it could start to make up a little 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.040 bit of the gap there. But regardless, makes a lot 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.840 of sense. And you know, why why haggle over a 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.520 couple hundred thousand dollars in risk falling further when you could, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.480 you know, stay home and you have a pretty good 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.640 opportunity here in a system where if he's playing the 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.320 way that he's capable of playing, and I don't think 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:40.840 there's gonna be too too many guys in his way. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.880 And I think the fun idea for the Marlins is 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.120 potentially being able to have, you know, at that a 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.800 certain point r Quette and Lombard on the left side 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.800 of the infield in years to come. So it'll be 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.720 fun to see how that all shakes out. You go 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:57.640 to one of the best drafting organizations in in baseball 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.080 and we go to the Milwaukee Brewers. They take another 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.360 evil with their first pick, and I mean the first 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.280 one that they took a couple of year last year. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.599 And Brady Eagle's going well now, he's really starting to 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.160 settle in at the big league level. Trey now and 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.160 exciting got to bring the fold. They saved a million 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.160 bucks with that pick as well, almost and then you know, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.320 one of the maybe steals of the draft potentially with 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.120 their second pick. And s stro Snyder, who I know 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.240 you had as a first round talent. For me, thought like, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.439 no doubt when you watch the guy play that eagle 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.400 took a first round talent somehow slips to the second round. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:30.800 I'll start with him, and then you know, I'll let 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.360 you highlight the rest of the class. Did they buy 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.400 stro Snyder down once he started to slip because he 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.160 gets two point one million dollars. The slot value for 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.679 his selection of sixty six overall was one point three 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:43.040 to five. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:43.640 Was there a. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.720 Situation where he slips a little bit they pick up 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.679 the phone and say, hey, you're willing to slip a 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.160 little bit more and we'll pay you for where you 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.280 probably should have got picked. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.280 Yeah. In like, I'll even put it out there, like 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.560 I had stras Schnyder as a fringe top ten prospect 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.280 in this class. Like I truly believed in the power 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.360 and the ability to play center field. So to see 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.319 him follow this far, I kind of did her a 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.760 little bit. But the same token, Like, like you said, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.520 he probably just got a call. I know, for example, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.760 like we'll go to last year the Phillies, I believe 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:16.680 had an arm that I had viewed hide in like 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.600 the second round and basically took him in the seventh 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.920 and like, hey, he wants to pitch for you guys, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.920 and we'll do that. I don't know if that's the 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:28.240 ZAC scenario here, but with straw Snider, like you're getting 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.120 this a guy that has some questionable swing decisions. Uh, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.480 the contact schools are not great, but the same token, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.199 it's ridiculous power from the left side. Great athlete can 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.199 play center field if you really project him as much. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.560 So I think for for Milwaukee, getting that kind of 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.520 talent at that slot is you know, pretty impressive. And 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.080 you know, the only signing for two point one mil 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.040 is like it saves money for the rest of the draft. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.200 When you look at guys like Julian Garcia, obviously they 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.880 didn't get in and cannot designed today, which is a 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.000 bit of a surprise, you know, being taken the fifth, 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.880 but he's going back to Clemson for a senior year. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.840 But then you get guys like they went after a 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.480 few intriguing like high school guys outside of that too, 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.800 like Grant Hill killing Tom and look at farther down 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.800 as well, like Carson Hart Dante Bell. So this is 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.040 something that the Brewers do year in and year out, 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:19.720 is kind of stock up on these guys later in 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.720 the draft and if they can't sign someone, they'll pivot 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.199 to those arms like later in the draft. I think 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.400 Chase Bentley was an example from a couple years ago, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.040 if not last year. So it's something that the Brewers 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.920 do year in and year out, and it's it's unique 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.040 and they just seem to hit every single time. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.600 And with with Ebel, you know, Pipeline, I think had 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.680 him at one oh seven. You had him at seventy two, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.560 so a lot closer to you know, the pick that 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.840 he ends up going, obviously being a first rounder, but 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.840 he gets two point eight million dollars, which was roughly 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.880 gonna be about the thirty fifth pick value with straw Snyder, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.120 I believe it was roughly like the forty sixth pick value, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.880 forty seventh pick value. So it's interesting how they navigated 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.400 those top two guys. Easy to like that, especially within 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.240 the bloodlines and just the Evil family, like the baseball 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.760 family to a t I imagine they got a fair 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.160 amount of looks at Trey and feel good about what 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.520 they've got there. It probably hurts a little bit to 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.199 not land that fifth round arm and kannact, and I'm 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:21.920 sure there's a lot of things that they liked about him. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.679 Acknowledging that, you know, they get the one point five 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.719 million dollar signing there with Julian Garcia out of Saint 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.520 John Bosco High School in California, triple the slot value 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.959 almost there is that kind of the big ticket grab 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.720 outside of the first two picks in this class. Is 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.120 there anybody else that really stands out to you that's 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.760 going to be that classic like the Brewers did it 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.479 again in this class. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.560 It's really just going to be Julie Garcia. And you know, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.400 Garcia had TJ. I think he came back from TJ 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.040 last summer, so his first real look was area coach 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.960 a year ago, and he performed well. I thought it 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.679 was a pretty solid arm. But then he came out 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.840 the spring, was throwing harder, obviously, had a really good 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.520 curve ball in a good change with go with it, 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.520 and he performed well. When you pitch it inag aside 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.160 this year. So to be able to see that kind 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.120 of arm kind of like turn into what he is 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.240 now was pretty impressive. So I see why the Brewers 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.240 love him. This is a guy that, you know, if 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.400 he doesn't start at minimum, he's a really solid relief arm. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.040 So we'll see what happens with Garcia. But that's the 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.080 big ticket here, the remainder of the class. And if 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.560 they get guys like uh, Brandon Havard, Carson Hart, Dante 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.720 Bell to sign, I think that's another big win for 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.160 the Brewers and getting these like talented under the radar 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.160 high school guys to sign, and then they kind of 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.880 craft him into these I don't want to say, like 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.880 big time prospects, but they turned into respectable ones like 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.920 Bishop Letson a couple of years ago exactly you know, 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.680 Levin Frownder And now he's you know, he's carving up. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.360 I believe he's in HYA now or he wasn't low 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.080 A but easy to higher up. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.920 Now he's making his way up. He's in the upper 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.760 levels now, so he is. Yeah, he's on the ie out, 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.560 which is the biggest question with Let's and always but 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.080 Letson's up to double A now and it is. It 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.400 was looking really sharp up until Hitt in the IL. Yeah, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.880 like that's a perfect example. They find guys at Phil 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.960 Roles at the very least like when you when you 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.080 when when I'm writing up a report on them a 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.080 year or two from being drafted, I'm like, well, this 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.000 guy could at least be a solid setup guy, or 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.640 this guy could be a good utility guy. And those 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.840 are the guys that they're taking in the seventh, eighth, 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.120 ninth round or later than that, which is so impressive. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.040 We go to the next class, which is the twins 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:29.480 fourth biggest bonus pool to work with. Third overall pick, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.840 you go get von Lackey. Hard That might have been 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.480 the easiest pick of the draft. If you're picking third 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.640 in this class, it must have been the easiest because 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.080 it's just you just wait to see who lands in 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.200 your lap of the I think very obvious top three 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.160 guys there, and as expected, you know, they get Lackey. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.760 Easy to love Lackey. We've talked a lot about him obviously, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.120 what he's done. The athleticism is a catcher. The the 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:01.640 improvements offensively, it really is kind of this well routed game. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.280 The makeup you could just dream on a franchise Cornerstone 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.520 Catcher here. But the fun part with this class is 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.320 that the subsequent three picks all got well north of 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.080 a million dollars. Carson Tenny gets one point nine Brett 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:19.040 Renfro gets one point one four and Ethan Washman gets 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.880 two point twenty five million dollars. And then they spray 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.080 the board still later too, I mean some non you know, 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.640 negligible signing bonuses being delved out. That's what you can 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.400 do when you've got you know, roughly seventeen million dollars 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.120 to work with. What stands out the most to you 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.040 about this Twins class. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.440 Very pitching heavy. I think that's the really the mo here. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.160 Like after taking Lackey and Tenny, you go after you 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.200 mentioned Renfri and Watson, but also Tommy Lapour, Steel Murdoch, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:52.000 Ethan Leigh Bayless, Thomas Burns, jt. Rad. Here's a lot 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.520 of arms in this class that have some upside to him, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.560 but they're also like, okay, you look at the poor 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.560 had an injury this year, didn't pitch all that well, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.160 but still, you know, three quarters of a million dollars essentially. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.960 But then they started going after these guys that they 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.360 have upside, but they're definitive relievers at the next level 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.680 like Steve Murdoch, Bayle's and burns Are. You know, these 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.160 these are guys that are two pitch guys, don't really 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:18.800 have a ton of starting up sides. Then you have 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.000 a guy like Ethan Leigh from Sacramento State who has 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.679 a really really good slider, also a senior, saves him 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.080 a ton of money in the sixth round. So they 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.600 they went after these guys that have these these traits 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.560 that they really do go after so to get them, 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.920 it's pretty impressive and to save money and also get 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.879 a guy like Watsman who you know watching him at 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.840 Area Codes a year ago ninety ninety four at the 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.720 fastball actually played, but the the command wasn't really there. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.119 He kind of had struggles with the secondary feel a 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.160 little bit, so it wasn't his greatest outing. But then 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.320 he comes out and starts throwing you know, ninety six 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.480 ninety nine hits a hondo and yes it's Colorado, but 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.639 like you're hitting one hundred as a high schooler, Like 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.959 that's gonna grab your attention no matter what as a scout. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.719 So and he continued doing that, going to the combine 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.760 had a great combine. I know people kind of made 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.920 fun of the fact that he threw a ball at 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.919 like one hundred, but also like scouts have seen this 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.360 guy throw strikes all spring. I don't think that necessarily matters. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:19.200 But you know, this is again just like a very solid, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.800 very Twins draft class. And I think when you look 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.040 at like as well taking two catchers that I was 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.360 going to ask round that was two. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.959 College catchers, what do you make of falling up like, 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.600 you know, the blue chip Lackey with another college catcher. 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.760 My thing with Tenny is I'm not sure he is 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.800 going to be a catcher at the end of the day, 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.080 which I think that's what they they understood when they 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.600 took him, is this is obviously a Tenny has a 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.360 fantastic arm. He's a it's a seventy great arm from 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.040 the backstop. The only problem is he's six four two forty. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.480 He's pretty big for a backstop. He's not very mobile. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.160 Does he stick there long term? I don't know. At 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.560 this point. Do I think he's a first baseman. Probably so, 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:04.560 I think that's where he ends up. But it's it's 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.160 a ton of power. Some Hitte questions. I think they 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.000 took him understanding that he's not going to be a 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.560 catcher long term, and I think if you're a Twins fan, 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.320 you're kind of fine with that because they win after 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:19.199 a big, powerful kid with upside who is not going 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.639 to block Von Lackey whatsoever. The next level. Now, I 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.000 could be very wrong on that. There's a non zero 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.320 chance that Tenny stays as a backstop and maybe Von 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.680 Lackey moves elsewhere because he's so afflick he can play 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.879 multiple positions. If that happens, you know, hey, that's just 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.679 the Twins getting creative and understanding what's going on. So 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:38.840 we'll see what happens. But as of right now, I 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.800 think the Tenny does move off of the backstop, it 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:42.080 can becomes like a first basement. 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:44.200 Well when we see the value in today's game a 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.040 lot too guys that can just go back there one 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.320 two days a week, get Lackey out of the crouch, 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.760 and then Tenny's a If he's a first base master, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.360 I think they're happy with that. And it's also if 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.800 it's a power bat they believe in. They saved four 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.639 hundred thousand dollars with that selection as well. Afford them 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.240 to go, you know, one point two million over for Washman, 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.760 you know, over for a couple other guys as well. 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.719 So again, really interesting draft class here with the twins 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.000 and a lot of talent, very pitching heavy as you 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.440 alluded to. We're gonna go to the Mets, which are 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.440 an interesting class that I know you'll have some thoughts on. 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:27.240 But before that, our first break before we jump back in, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.320 just a reminder we are ripping tops, Chrome on whatnot. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.320 It's been really fun through the first week on. 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We're every weeknight 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.960 we're ripping right now, and some weekends I think either 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.600 Sunday Orday nights, but every Friday or every weeknight, so 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.240 be sure to follow our store in the link description 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:10.000 with the link in the episode description, Mets are next. 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.040 They go Carson Wiggins and number one brother of Jackson Wiggins, 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:19.160 Lively Arm also for product of Arkansas, and then some 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.919 other interesting picks Aiden Robbins and outfielder, and then a 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.080 lot more pictures of a runoff after that. What do 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.000 you make of the Mets class? I think you've had 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:29.840 more time to digest it and also have been able 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.720 to see, like who gets signed, the bonuses, all those 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:34.680 different things, because as of now, it looks like they 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:39.560 signed everybody except for the insurance pick, which was Marcus 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.359 Ward in the eighteenth round. What are your thoughts now 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.879 that you've had some more time to digest this Mets class? 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.399 Yeah, at first, I really struggled with the idea of 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.760 making Carson Wiggins your headliner in this class with such 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.160 a small bonus pool, because the Mets, you know, they 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.879 went over to luxury tax. They've dropped ten spots, the. 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.200 Smallest by the way, at six point seven million, ahead 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:03.959 of only the Jays and the Dodgers. 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:08.120 Yeah, so it at first I struggled with the idea of, like, hey, 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.879 Carson Wiggins, he's thrown fourteen innings in college. Had I 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:13.719 think it was internal brace could have came back at 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:15.400 the end of the year this year, but they played 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.040 it safe. He didn't pitch, but he showed out the 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.520 combine and you look at you obviously mentioned he's Jackson 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.200 Wiggins brother the Wiggins has turned himself into a quality 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:28.360 arm in the CUB system. I think there's definitely more 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:30.680 to unlock here with Carson Wiggins. Obviously. I think he's 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:34.000 more of like a potential closer than he is a starter. 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.719 He's never had the command even as a as a 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:40.399 high schooler. Like watching him at the delivery was sound, 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.840 very easy, v low, but he was kind of spraying everything. 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:48.200 I remember watching at PDP a couple of times where 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.359 you know, one inning he was dotting everything. He was 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:53.880 up to ninety eight, looked fantastic, had a good splitter, 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.000 good slider, and then the next outing he just couldn't 0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:00.679 find his own. But you know, again, this is a 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.399 lot of projecting out what he could be. And I 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:06.320 think the Mets are making this pick knowing they're comfortable 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:08.040 with taking the risk, and that's something they kind of 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.480 look for. They're they're fine with taking up the middle 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:13.520 guys as well, which is something that they kind of 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:16.160 went after later on, Like Aidian Robins play center field 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:19.520 for Texas this year. Khio Lloyd could be a corner 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.520 guy obviously. Jacob Madrid, who was the thirteenth rounder, got 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:26.120 signed for one ninety seven five, and you know that's 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:28.439 a catcher you kind of taken run with Ryan Taman 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:30.879 as well. But you know, looking outside of that, like 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:33.800 this is a lot of pitching, and the Mets know 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:36.119 what they're they're looking for with pitching. They have a 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:38.719 they go for these low slot guys that have some 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:41.679 some approach angle trace that they do enjoy. So like 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:44.160 Shane Sedeo is kind of a low thought left heat 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:47.040 obviously we ignore the seven point o era he had 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:51.000 in college this year, like we've we've seen guys like 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:53.960 Brian wu for example, which is like the biggest one 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:56.080 of like he has this terrible aray in college and 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:57.600 now he could be an All star or he is 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:00.560 an All Star rather does today will become that, I'm 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:03.880 not certain, but it's a guy with field to spin, 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:06.360 has a good cutter, has a good fastball. Look commediately 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:10.840 the same way. Alec Petrovich pretty solid Auburn arm. Honestly, 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:12.360 he took the Sunday roll and did a very good 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:14.280 job in that role. Found more Velo has a really 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:17.600 really good change up in Keenan Logan Koenig could be 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.400 a starter. Nate Eisler from Dart Lift is an intriguing 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:22.960 one in the tenth round. Then you go far down 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:25.720 the board like a j cradles that crops felt Gavin Gidrey, 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:29.720 Cooper Dawcet like this is this is usually what the 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:31.920 Mets do is they go after these arms that that 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:34.280 had these traits and they know how to really find 0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:36.840 to him and work with them. So we'll see what happens. 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:40.520 Do I still think that Wiggins as the number one 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:43.720 guy is like, you know, this is something I would do, know, 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:48.399 But at the same time, I'm here, I'm not in 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:50.160 the front and I'm not in the front office right now, 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:51.879 so you know, I can't really say much to that, 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:54.920 but you know, Wiggins the arm town is definitely there. 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:58.639 I think getting Robinson the third rounds fantastic value. Signing 0:24:58.760 --> 0:25:02.200 for a mill as well is very solid too. In 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:03.960 the bat's goin to play, it's just a matter of 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:06.320 how much can you hit we'll find out well. 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:08.280 And that's the interesting thing with the Mets Classic. At 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:10.600 the end of the day, hands are pretty tied. When 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:13.560 you've got you're one of three teams sub seven million 0:25:13.800 --> 0:25:15.840 to work with, and it seems like they went for 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:18.720 after the top of the draft. They went for just 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:20.840 a lot of six figure arms and like you said, 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:23.840 unique traits, and if you can turn a handful of 0:25:23.840 --> 0:25:26.120 those guys into big league relievers when your bonus pool 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:28.840 is this limited, you're probably gonna be happy with that. 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:30.679 You're always hoping, you know, you have a breakout that 0:25:30.720 --> 0:25:32.320 you get a little bit more than that from, and 0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:34.080 they've got a lot of different guys that they can 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:36.520 hope with that on top of the fact that they've 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:39.200 got a really talented arm at the top and Wiggins 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:41.439 and as you mentioned, Sanal, a guy that is obviously 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:46.080 much more talented than the numbers would imply. We head 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:48.840 over to the next team, which is still in New 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:51.840 York's we're going alphabetical by city. We go to the Yankees, 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:54.600 who didn't have a whole lot more to spend. They 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:58.720 were the fourth lowest slot our bonus pool at seven 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:03.200 point three million. To their fortune, they actually got to pick, 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:04.960 you know, didn't have to wait an entire another round, 0:26:05.040 --> 0:26:06.600 so they were able to pick in the second round 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:09.440 and so made it a little bit easier for them, 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:12.000 but still very limited in terms of the bonus pool. 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:14.920 And I mean the Yankees didn't really look to save 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:17.480 too much money with their first two picks either. They 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:20.560 go almost about three hundred thousand shive of the full 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:22.879 slot with their first perk with hundred Deats, and then 0:26:23.160 --> 0:26:26.520 they go a million overslot with their second pick in 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:29.240 Sean Duncan, So they really tied their hands kind of 0:26:29.240 --> 0:26:30.880 the rest of the way. But I think it says 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:33.000 a lot about how much they like their you know, 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:35.440 one in two guys here out of the draft in 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:36.240 Deats and Duncan. 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:40.320 Yeah, and to even touch on Ducan too, I think 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:43.439 that's a great fit for the Yankees. Didn't have the 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:45.480 necessarily the grades feel for spin, but this is a 0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:49.960 guy that again low slot, good extension, very athletic and 0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:52.399 talking to him too. We interviewed him just before he 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:55.920 had the injury back in May, and as nice as 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:58.000 can be. I had a lot of fun doing an 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:00.600 interview with him. So Sean Duckcan's definitely from a favorite 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:02.600 of mine. I thought he was a potential first rounder 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:05.639 had the injury not occurred, So to get him in 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:07.760 the second's great value and then looking at it too, 0:27:07.760 --> 0:27:10.840 like hundred deeps depending on who you talk to, had 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:12.560 him in the first round as a as a back 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:15.720 end guy. He has some of the best breaking balls 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:18.240 in the class, but obviously again track record, he never 0:27:18.320 --> 0:27:21.320 really pitched before this year. But at the same token, 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:24.080 he was healthy this year. He before him very well 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:27.680 and the field of spin it is just fantastic, having 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:30.280 mid nineties fastball to go with it too, So there's 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:32.159 a lot of stuff to work on with Deets. But 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:33.720 this is a guy I've liked for a couple of years, 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:36.880 even with the injuries, but even after that. Like Brendan 0:27:36.920 --> 0:27:39.280 Brock in the third rounds of very solid get. He's 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:42.240 a guy that he was drafted by the Brewers year 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:45.359 ago out of Juco Ghost, Oklahoma, is part of that 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:49.960 team that wins the World Series. Very typical catcher. He's 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:52.879 very quick and I think he might be a corner outfielder, 0:27:52.920 --> 0:27:55.679 but like seventy great speed, knows how to use it. 0:27:55.720 --> 0:27:58.480 There's power in the stick. There's a lot to like 0:27:58.520 --> 0:28:01.960 with that that kind of profile. And then even after that, 0:28:02.000 --> 0:28:05.160 like you go for Paul Gudier's Contrarius from cal State Fullerton, 0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:08.879 Bayar Harrison from a and m Michael Harpster, who was 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:12.639 an analytical darling from East Tennessee State, you get Andy 0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:15.320 Pettitt's son and Luke as a two way player out 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:17.720 of that. Out of that was about this and I 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:22.200 think the more intriguing signing beyond you know, those guys 0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:24.359 Andrew Gonzalez in the six. He was kind of like 0:28:24.400 --> 0:28:28.800 a sleeper pick that didn't really show up until after 0:28:28.800 --> 0:28:33.080 the combine, but big powerful third basement from from Texas 0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:37.080 High School ranks didn't sign for really a ton overslot, 0:28:37.160 --> 0:28:40.120 but a lot of bad speed, a lot of power potential. 0:28:40.160 --> 0:28:42.280 I think there's a there's something to like there with Gonzales, 0:28:42.320 --> 0:28:45.360 and we'll see what happens with that. But you know, 0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:47.560 I think that the Yankees did very good with what 0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:51.000 they had to get. Again, Sean Duncan Hunter Deep's two 0:28:51.000 --> 0:28:53.800 premium lefties with your first two picks and then kind 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:57.040 of sprinkle in these powerful guys that that have upside. 0:28:57.160 --> 0:28:59.560 You know, this is this is a pretty solid crew 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:02.000 for for Damon Oppenheimer. In the Yankees. 0:29:03.080 --> 0:29:06.120 Yeah, and you know, I've kind of learned to I 0:29:06.120 --> 0:29:07.840 know they haven't hit on all of them, but when 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:11.800 it comes to the Yankees top five round arms, for 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:14.840 the most part, they put them in that pitching program, 0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:16.440 like they don't debut as quickly as a lot of 0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:19.360 these other arms, even collegiate guys. They kind of put 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:21.960 them behind the scenes, plug them into the lab, make 0:29:22.040 --> 0:29:25.200 some adjustments, and these guys almost always come out, if 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:27.680 not thrown harder with sharper stuff. I think we've we've 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:30.160 pretty consistently seen that over the last few years with 0:29:30.160 --> 0:29:32.760 some of these Yankees arms, and Sean Duncan's one. I'm 0:29:32.760 --> 0:29:34.360 just excited to see more of them. Also all in 0:29:34.440 --> 0:29:36.280 on the Canadians over the last couple of years here 0:29:36.320 --> 0:29:38.200 now to the draft. It seems like that used to 0:29:38.200 --> 0:29:40.760 be like an under scouted area where you could find 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:43.440 some value and now it's like everyone's tapping into the 0:29:43.680 --> 0:29:46.680 Canada pipeline. And I don't blame them with a lot 0:29:46.720 --> 0:29:48.360 of the players that we've seen coming out of there 0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:51.920 of late, one other like who's the one guy you 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:55.000 circle out to get at Deets and Duncan pretty straightforward 0:29:55.320 --> 0:29:57.560 that those are the two top dogs in this class 0:29:57.560 --> 0:29:59.680 by a good bit. Who's the next guy that could 0:29:59.720 --> 0:30:01.960 kind of, you know, define this draft class? 0:30:04.000 --> 0:30:07.120 Hmm, I would say probably Brock If not, you look 0:30:07.120 --> 0:30:09.680 at a guy like Bear Harrison. They didn't really go 0:30:09.800 --> 0:30:11.480 after a ton of like high school guys, So you 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:14.920 look at guys like Lee Harris in the thirteenth, William 0:30:14.960 --> 0:30:18.520 Kutcha on the fifteenth, who I wasn't necessarily high and 0:30:18.600 --> 0:30:20.440 higher them, but there's upside there. Like cuch Will has 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:23.400 some good power. I mean, Garis has some drinking trace 0:30:23.400 --> 0:30:25.400 as an outfielder. He's six foot two hundred, has some 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:27.720 physicality to him. Signed for one hundred and fifty over 0:30:27.760 --> 0:30:30.640 in the thirteenth. But you're looking at some of these 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:32.560 college guys in the middle rounds that are going to 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:35.920 give them some value. You know, does does Luke Pettit 0:30:36.040 --> 0:30:39.560 come out and does he continue to match? Obviously, but 0:30:39.600 --> 0:30:41.840 does he come back on the mountain too? Like he 0:30:41.960 --> 0:30:44.240 had TJ this year and he had a lot of promise, 0:30:44.480 --> 0:30:46.760 you know before he got injured. So we intriguing and 0:30:46.800 --> 0:30:48.320 see how they operate with him. I think he's the 0:30:48.320 --> 0:30:51.600 biggest like quote unquote wild card in his class, but 0:30:52.560 --> 0:30:54.640 he's done very well on both sides of the ball, 0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:55.800 so we'll see what happens there. 0:30:56.720 --> 0:30:58.960 We head over more inching our way up in terms 0:30:58.960 --> 0:31:01.400 of bonus pool values, and this remember this is this 0:31:01.440 --> 0:31:04.480 is alphabetical by city, so this is by coincidence. Another 0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:08.920 the fifth lowest bonus pool here is the Phillies. The 0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:11.000 onily had seven point seven million to work with and 0:31:11.040 --> 0:31:14.000 they use almost half of that on their first round 0:31:14.040 --> 0:31:17.280 pick and Tyler Spangler three point two five million dollars 0:31:17.320 --> 0:31:22.080 there for Spangler at the thirty sixth overall pick, which 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:24.200 I found. I know the high school guys are going 0:31:24.240 --> 0:31:27.680 to be expensive to sign, but Spangler is a guy 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:29.760 that I think consensus was outside of the top fifty 0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:31.520 draft prospects, and no, you. 0:31:31.480 --> 0:31:32.720 Out them at sixty six. 0:31:33.040 --> 0:31:35.320 I was just very surprised by this one. We'll talk 0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:40.720 about that. And then one point four million on Cayden 0:31:40.800 --> 0:31:45.920 Bergen Pole Poll Caden Bergen Bogan Pole, Bogan Pole. Yep, hope, 0:31:45.920 --> 0:31:50.120 I got that right. I'm intrigued by Ruger Riojas. He's 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:53.080 trying like the two different armslot things whatever. I just 0:31:53.080 --> 0:31:55.040 think he's gonna as a great chance to just land 0:31:55.080 --> 0:31:57.480 as a reliever at least and has some intrigued there. 0:31:58.160 --> 0:31:59.960 And then you go through the rest of the cloud, 0:32:00.240 --> 0:32:03.280 fair amount of arms, some bats sprinkled in there. What 0:32:03.680 --> 0:32:06.080 stands out to you about this Phillies costs because again 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:08.920 hands were tied, they still go big money with their 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:12.760 thirty sixth pick go you know, five hundred thousand oversat 0:32:13.720 --> 0:32:16.880 for Spangler, and then the rest of the way feels 0:32:16.920 --> 0:32:20.280 like they didn't have much room to really oversolt anybody else. 0:32:21.840 --> 0:32:25.080 Yeah, I definitely don't hate the Phillies taking risk here 0:32:25.120 --> 0:32:27.280 because obviously he was Spangler. He didn't really play all 0:32:27.320 --> 0:32:31.800 that much this spring with a back injury, and the 0:32:31.840 --> 0:32:35.080 biggest thing obviously is like he's gonna hit and seeing 0:32:35.160 --> 0:32:37.960 him last year, Like the zone control is great, the 0:32:38.320 --> 0:32:41.080 barrel control is exquisite. There's a lot to like in 0:32:41.200 --> 0:32:43.400 terms of a pure hitter here. The power we're waiting 0:32:43.400 --> 0:32:45.480 and see what happens. You know, he's pretty projectable six 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:49.360 three one ninety five, but hasn't necessarily sold out for power. 0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:52.680 He doesn't necessarily you know, separate his hips and shoulders 0:32:52.680 --> 0:32:54.640 to kind of generate torque in his body, So there's 0:32:54.680 --> 0:32:57.040 not really a ton of like pulse. I power yet 0:32:57.560 --> 0:32:59.880 and maybe he grows into it. But I definitely thought that, 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:03.000 Like if we're talking about Stanford commits who would be 0:33:03.040 --> 0:33:05.120 taking this draft class, I would have definitely put a 0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:07.080 lot of money on Arthur Horn being the guy here 0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:12.040 and not Spangler. And like Stanford commits are obviously gonna 0:33:12.280 --> 0:33:14.760 get more money because they value education. This is a 0:33:14.880 --> 0:33:18.160 very tough school to get kissed to be commit from, essentially, 0:33:19.200 --> 0:33:23.320 so to get Spangler here, as much as not, everything 0:33:23.360 --> 0:33:25.720 really worked out in his way the spring, getting that 0:33:25.800 --> 0:33:27.840 kind of payday is impressive, and I think there's a 0:33:27.880 --> 0:33:30.000 chance he turns into a pretty solid like bat the 0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:32.840 ball guy at the next level. Uh Bogan Pool has 0:33:32.880 --> 0:33:34.600 a ton of power. He's kind of like Jas lobbya 0:33:34.680 --> 0:33:37.600 lett in a way. Probably not a centerfielder, but he's 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:40.880 moves pretty well for his size. You touched on Rioas, 0:33:40.920 --> 0:33:43.520 but even farther than like Devin Shearing, could be a 0:33:43.520 --> 0:33:46.360 fast moving reliever in its class. Jackson Jelkin. You know 0:33:46.400 --> 0:33:48.640 another guy that could move pretty quickly. He's he's been 0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:51.440 drafted multiple times at this point. But then you start 0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:54.440 looking at some bats too, like will Gasprino making Winslow. 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:59.080 Those two guys in particular are intriguing because Gasprino, you know, 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:00.600 if we remember it to be of the year, he 0:34:00.680 --> 0:34:02.920 was just torching the ball. He had like five home 0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:06.000 runs in the week. And I saw him at in Texas, uh, 0:34:06.040 --> 0:34:07.960 and they were on pitch, they were like good pitches away. 0:34:08.200 --> 0:34:10.840 Like I think it was teaming. Koons left him a 0:34:10.840 --> 0:34:12.680 slider and we'll talk about Coons later, but like he 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:15.080 left him slider on the outer half or on the 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:17.680 black rather and he took it one ten, four thirty 0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:21.600 to to right center field. It was really impressive. But 0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:23.520 I think guys started to realize that, like you can 0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:26.239 pitch him inside more because he doesn't necessarily have the 0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:29.520 ability to shorten his levers to make it easy to 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:31.920 turn on the ball and kind of really shot off 0:34:31.960 --> 0:34:34.440 the power. So there's a lot to really like MOLDI 0:34:34.480 --> 0:34:38.480 with Gasprino. But the fact is you're looking at the 0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:41.800 guy that's six six to twenty projection, there's there's plus 0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:44.200 raw power and he can play center field. That there's 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:46.960 a lot to like there. Uh for Gasprino. Then making 0:34:46.960 --> 0:34:50.680 Winslow transformed at UNC this year, cut his with rates 0:34:50.680 --> 0:34:53.920 in half, turned into a more complete hitter, has good power, 0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:58.520 probably not a catcher. Admittedly, like watching him, there were 0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:00.160 sometimes where it was a little rough. He kind of 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:04.160 got you surfed in the defensive pecking order. For Colin Heinek, 0:35:04.719 --> 0:35:06.520 he got to catch a little bit in Charlotte, but 0:35:06.520 --> 0:35:09.319 didn't really do well. But the same token, you're kind 0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:11.160 of buying the bat there. And the bat really improved 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:13.279 in ways that I never expected it to this year, 0:35:13.760 --> 0:35:15.440 and that's a testament to what you and see has 0:35:15.440 --> 0:35:18.160 been able to really build on the past couple of years. 0:35:18.160 --> 0:35:20.719 So you know, they get guys like Kane kep Lee, 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:23.879 they get Owen Hole this year to turn him into 0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:27.279 these guys that just perform at the college level but 0:35:27.320 --> 0:35:29.560 also do a lot of stuff behind the scenes that 0:35:30.360 --> 0:35:33.800 just turn it into a completer or more complete profile 0:35:33.840 --> 0:35:35.640 in a way. And that's what they did with Winslow. 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:37.800 He looks a lot better than what he did at Duke, 0:35:38.000 --> 0:35:40.120 so got to give him a shout out there. And 0:35:40.160 --> 0:35:43.000 there's some guys beyond that too. They're intriguing Patrick Clemy, 0:35:43.000 --> 0:35:46.360 who's Alice Clemy's brother. He signed for two hundred k 0:35:46.520 --> 0:35:49.680 in the fourteenth round. That's a high octane left handed arm. 0:35:50.520 --> 0:35:53.719 You get a guy, like a hometown kid Christian Coppola 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:57.239 in the third or in the twelfth, rather who you know, 0:35:57.680 --> 0:36:02.399 goes to Rutgers, stays home, looks like a stutish freshman year, 0:36:02.960 --> 0:36:05.200 has some issue. Sophomore year it goes to Arizona, comes 0:36:05.239 --> 0:36:08.040 back to Saint Joseph's, and was one of the best 0:36:08.080 --> 0:36:11.520 streckout guys in college landscape this year. So they have 0:36:11.600 --> 0:36:14.080 some some stuff to work on here. Obviously, with with 0:36:14.120 --> 0:36:17.280 these guys, it took some risk here, but the upside 0:36:17.360 --> 0:36:20.040 is pretty enticing and I'm intrigued to see what they do. 0:36:20.120 --> 0:36:24.920 Even with the the the hands tied h makes it 0:36:24.960 --> 0:36:26.480 with this class. You know, they didn't have a ton 0:36:26.560 --> 0:36:27.520 of money in this one. 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:30.040 Yeah, it's fun because I think you see some of 0:36:30.080 --> 0:36:32.880 the like higher floor type of arms, but then you 0:36:32.920 --> 0:36:36.360 also see these you know, big whiff potential. 0:36:36.040 --> 0:36:37.040 But high ceiling bats. 0:36:37.080 --> 0:36:40.560 You get two six six, you know, two sixty six 0:36:40.600 --> 0:36:43.279 bats in this class. It's pretty crazy and you think 0:36:43.280 --> 0:36:45.160 about the power that could be there, but all headlined 0:36:45.200 --> 0:36:48.080 by a pretty pure hitter in Spangler. So it's it's 0:36:48.120 --> 0:36:50.600 fun and I'm looking forward to seeing how this class 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:52.919 shakes out. I think it was pretty creative overall given 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:56.760 their limitations as you alluded to, we get to Pittsburgh 0:36:56.800 --> 0:36:59.800 and speaking creative, I mean they go under slot at five, 0:37:00.400 --> 0:37:05.000 and I mean got two point one four million under 0:37:05.040 --> 0:37:08.880 slot with Derek Curriel. Guy that really easy to like 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:11.880 because of how good the bats of ball is, the 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:14.880 just ability to i think patrol a solid center field. 0:37:15.440 --> 0:37:18.240 But that also set up the rest of the Pirates 0:37:18.320 --> 0:37:20.600 draft to get a little bit more creative because the 0:37:20.600 --> 0:37:23.600 Pirates slot value wise were closer to the top right, 0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:25.839 so they were about one, two, three, four, five, there 0:37:25.840 --> 0:37:30.120 were six and slot in bonus pool at about sixteen 0:37:30.239 --> 0:37:33.680 point two million dollars, so that allowed them to really 0:37:33.719 --> 0:37:37.320 spray the board the rest of the way. Thoughts on, 0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:39.880 of course, just the Curiel savings pick, even though I 0:37:39.880 --> 0:37:41.319 think for them is probably a guy that they had 0:37:41.360 --> 0:37:43.640 closer to five on their board than you know, the 0:37:43.680 --> 0:37:45.719 middle of the first round, I assume that a lot 0:37:45.760 --> 0:37:48.200 of people had him at and then how did they 0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:49.480 allocate those savings? 0:37:49.480 --> 0:37:53.279 In your eyes, yeah, go off the curryel Like I 0:37:53.280 --> 0:37:55.640 had him as eleventh on the on my board and 0:37:56.040 --> 0:37:58.120 it's not atlandis to see him taken in top five, 0:37:58.360 --> 0:38:01.040 like you said, like this is a guy that has 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:04.359 hit for multiple years, going back to high school, had 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:06.040 a bit of a power surge late in the year, 0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:07.759 which I think is what really turned a lot of 0:38:07.760 --> 0:38:10.719 people in on him was we've been waiting so long 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:12.279 for the power to show up and he started to. 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:14.840 And that's, uh, you know, he's never going to be 0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:17.719 a big power there. Obviously, he's sixty one ninety two 0:38:19.200 --> 0:38:20.960 and it's going to prioritize a hit tool. But if 0:38:20.960 --> 0:38:23.879 you got the power to like tring javerts like, that's 0:38:23.840 --> 0:38:26.520 a that's a legitimate, you know, five tool player with 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:28.160 what he's able to do in the field and on 0:38:28.200 --> 0:38:31.160 the basis so you know, for Curry l at the slot, 0:38:31.160 --> 0:38:33.120 I think it makes perfect sense for the for the 0:38:33.160 --> 0:38:36.719 pirates and they love dipping their toes into the LSU pipeline. 0:38:36.760 --> 0:38:39.840 You know, Paul Skeins a couple of years ago, and 0:38:39.880 --> 0:38:41.680 then obviously going back with Derrick Curry Hill, I think 0:38:41.680 --> 0:38:43.720 they had one more in there as well in between 0:38:43.760 --> 0:38:48.520 those years. I can't remember exactly who it was, kind 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:50.600 of blinking on it, but I'll probably figure it out 0:38:50.600 --> 0:38:54.000 at some point. But like to get the high school guys, 0:38:54.000 --> 0:38:57.040 he got after Aidan Ruiz Andrew Giles. You look at 0:38:57.040 --> 0:38:59.600 another guy like Spencer Evans and the eleventh round that's 0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:02.799 where sit savings went to UH and Rue is getting 0:39:02.800 --> 0:39:04.480 three and a half million. You look at a guy 0:39:04.480 --> 0:39:07.080 like Giles who signed for a mill and then Spencer 0:39:07.080 --> 0:39:10.839 Evans in three hundred k. You know, they got some 0:39:10.960 --> 0:39:15.239 intriguing high school guys who upside and then also like 0:39:15.320 --> 0:39:17.960 Chris Rembert getting him in the supplemental second with the 0:39:17.960 --> 0:39:20.200 pick that they got last year for not signing Servantes. 0:39:20.280 --> 0:39:24.359 He signed for overslot. He's a really contact minded second 0:39:24.400 --> 0:39:27.600 baseman who he has some intriguing power. He hit a 0:39:27.600 --> 0:39:30.040 ball like one oh seven four forty four last year 0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:32.000 at the USA Complex and nearly hit the building in 0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:35.480 left field on the burns. So there's something there to 0:39:35.560 --> 0:39:37.160 kind of work on with Rembert. I really like him 0:39:37.160 --> 0:39:39.400 as a sophomore. And then you get guys like Jason Nacara, 0:39:39.520 --> 0:39:42.799 Ryan Morond, Tyler, fay Rice and Moore who they fit 0:39:43.640 --> 0:39:46.239 what the Pirates do with pitching. They've they've understood that 0:39:46.280 --> 0:39:48.719 pitching is their their strong student development the past couple 0:39:48.719 --> 0:39:51.200 of years, and these guys just fit their what they 0:39:51.200 --> 0:39:53.480 look for in a Tee, so to get those guys 0:39:53.480 --> 0:39:56.360 as impressive and then you look farer down like Grant 0:39:56.400 --> 0:39:59.760 Goalvil Malachi Washington, who I don't think either of them assigned, 0:39:59.800 --> 0:40:02.720 but the great Insurance picks to have Royan and Lataux 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:05.000 from San Diego State. You get a guy like DeMarcus 0:40:05.080 --> 0:40:07.759 right out Carter from Canada, who we talked about, you 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:10.400 know before, with the Canadian guys getting so much leeway 0:40:10.480 --> 0:40:14.279 now in terms of how how impressive that pipeline has 0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:16.520 been the past couple of years. So there's a lot 0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:18.520 to like with this Pirates draft, you know. I think 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:21.560 there's a pretty fine line of they went for upside 0:40:21.560 --> 0:40:23.400 on the on the prep side and also went for 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:26.600 performers that haven't treating traits that fit their development mold, 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:28.839 and I think that's perfectly fine with what the the 0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:31.640 money that they had to especially after trading away picked 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:33.240 thirty four to the White Sox. 0:40:33.800 --> 0:40:35.799 Were you surprised for to see them be able to 0:40:35.840 --> 0:40:38.960 snag Trey Phelps at you know, two fifty eight, the 0:40:38.960 --> 0:40:43.400 two hundred fifty eighth pick for slightly underslot, given just 0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:44.720 the way that he performed at Georgia. 0:40:46.320 --> 0:40:49.719 I think the biggest thing with Phelps, and this is 0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:53.399 probably like going back to at least to his high 0:40:53.400 --> 0:40:56.520 school days, he never really had a defensive position. Yeah, 0:40:56.600 --> 0:40:58.120 so I think that played a big role in a 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:01.839 his his thought kind of falling a little bit because 0:41:01.920 --> 0:41:04.200 last year he didn't necessarily perform well, he didn't really 0:41:04.280 --> 0:41:07.880 hit at all. It kind of straight away from what 0:41:07.920 --> 0:41:09.759 he had as a freshman, where he was really hitting 0:41:09.840 --> 0:41:12.399 everything and had the power to boot. But this year 0:41:12.440 --> 0:41:15.319 he went back to those roots and the hit tool 0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:18.239 got better, but the defense never really did. Like he 0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:21.360 was playing third base, but it was pretty choppy, But 0:41:21.400 --> 0:41:23.160 then you move him to second base and he looks 0:41:23.200 --> 0:41:26.760 like a viable defender there. So he's probably a second 0:41:26.760 --> 0:41:30.160 basement the next level, which kind of limits what he 0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:32.839 is like value wise. I don't You're not necessarily going 0:41:32.880 --> 0:41:35.480 to find a lot of like strong defenders at that 0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:38.120 position at the prep level or even amateur level rather, 0:41:38.960 --> 0:41:40.520 but the basket to play, and I think if the 0:41:40.560 --> 0:41:43.719 bat continues to be what it is, you know, I 0:41:43.760 --> 0:41:45.400 think this could end up being a steel But to 0:41:45.440 --> 0:41:47.160 sign him of that at that slot, it kind of 0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:51.040 shows that there's not a ton of ideas of like 0:41:51.120 --> 0:41:53.359 where he fitsts defensively, and I think that's something that's 0:41:53.400 --> 0:41:55.319 just been haunting him for the past few years in 0:41:55.400 --> 0:41:58.600 terms of in and out of drafts he's been. This 0:41:58.640 --> 0:41:59.880 is a third time being eligible. 0:42:00.480 --> 0:42:03.360 Yeah, that makes sense. It makes sense. There we we 0:42:03.440 --> 0:42:07.360 head over to the Padres, who I think went with 0:42:07.480 --> 0:42:09.200 a little I guess not that much of a surprise. 0:42:09.200 --> 0:42:10.719 You don't really know what the Padres are gonna do, 0:42:10.960 --> 0:42:13.800 but they go with a big power arm and Coleman 0:42:13.840 --> 0:42:16.520 Borthwick sixty six and forty five pounds with their twenty 0:42:16.760 --> 0:42:20.200 with the twenty first overall pick saves them about four 0:42:20.280 --> 0:42:24.439 hundred or so thousand dollars uh. And then they go 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:29.240 overslot with a couple consecutive picks there with Elliott Sells 0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:34.840 las sell Us Sells, another Canadian prepster, and then you 0:42:34.920 --> 0:42:38.040 got Ryan Lynch from North Carolina who they go slightly 0:42:38.080 --> 0:42:40.960 overslot with as well. What stands out to you with 0:42:41.000 --> 0:42:46.640 the class obviously Borthwick, big body dude projection to Florida kid, 0:42:46.719 --> 0:42:49.000 that that I think they're they're hoping that they can 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:51.080 continue to unlock more of they that we've seen a 0:42:51.080 --> 0:42:54.839 little bit more of a bias towards these these prep arms. 0:42:54.840 --> 0:42:56.799 It feels like a bit over the last couple of years, 0:42:56.840 --> 0:43:00.319 several years from from AJ Prower and co. But they 0:43:00.360 --> 0:43:03.040 balanced that out with I think a fair amount of 0:43:03.040 --> 0:43:06.280 bats obviously, and then the subsequent five or six picks. 0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:10.440 Yeah, and this is again like I don't think J 0:43:10.560 --> 0:43:12.680 Peller has ever taken a college guy in the first 0:43:12.760 --> 0:43:17.160 round while he's been a padre essentially, Like I think 0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:20.279 the last time they took a college guy was in 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:23.880 twenty sixteen with Quantrill and Eric Lawer, and it's been 0:43:23.920 --> 0:43:26.960 high school ever since for them. So they like we 0:43:27.040 --> 0:43:28.920 thought at one point, like maybe this is the year 0:43:28.920 --> 0:43:31.600 to go college. We were holding Connor hostage behind us, 0:43:31.719 --> 0:43:33.840 like he's he's been in my closet for about a 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:36.879 month or so. We let him out because they didn't 0:43:36.920 --> 0:43:41.239 go college. But bar Fook's very good. You know, I 0:43:41.280 --> 0:43:42.960 think there's a legitimate chance he could have been a 0:43:43.000 --> 0:43:46.360 two way. You know, he's a big athletic kid with 0:43:46.600 --> 0:43:48.600 some power to him. But he was a lot better 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:50.239 on the mound for me where he's been up to 0:43:50.320 --> 0:43:52.879 ninety eight. And he found a new, you know, kind 0:43:52.920 --> 0:43:54.839 of way to pitch with a slider which really allowed 0:43:54.920 --> 0:43:56.759 to play off. It was fantastic when I saw him 0:43:56.800 --> 0:43:59.240 last year and he he he was a big piece 0:43:59.239 --> 0:44:03.920 of them winning the eighteen U national or international title. 0:44:03.920 --> 0:44:06.239 Actually they won the gold medal against Japan last year 0:44:06.239 --> 0:44:09.719 behind his complete game. So it was a this is 0:44:09.719 --> 0:44:11.920 a very very solid arm. They go for another big, 0:44:12.480 --> 0:44:16.120 you know, bulky prep pitcher, but then getting the sales 0:44:16.200 --> 0:44:17.879 in the second round. This is a kid that's going 0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:20.480 to hit at the next level. You know, how much impact, 0:44:20.520 --> 0:44:22.640 how much power do you have? We don't know quite yet, 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:25.560 but he doesn't miss the ball. And also to like 0:44:25.680 --> 0:44:29.279 talk about these Canadian kids they're playing against, you know, 0:44:29.320 --> 0:44:31.480 they play with what all the time. They go to 0:44:31.520 --> 0:44:34.960 extended spring training, they go to the DSL, a c L, 0:44:35.360 --> 0:44:37.880 they go to all these places where they're facing you know, 0:44:38.040 --> 0:44:41.160 minor league guys at the rookie level. As much as 0:44:41.239 --> 0:44:43.880 rookie level, you're still facing these guys that are you know, 0:44:44.040 --> 0:44:46.640 a level up from them. And I think that's where 0:44:46.680 --> 0:44:48.759 teams are kind of looking at this and going, hey, 0:44:48.920 --> 0:44:52.239 you're doing very well against these guys who are in 0:44:52.280 --> 0:44:56.440 our organizations. We're gonna take chances on you. Yeah, you know, 0:44:56.640 --> 0:44:59.560 And and they even build on that, like next year's 0:44:59.560 --> 0:45:01.880 class and twenty twenty seven there might be the first 0:45:01.880 --> 0:45:04.520 ever Canadian one one pick. I'll be writing about that 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:07.239 in a couple of weeks with Brennan Lawson. But you know, 0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:10.120 Canada's really turned into a pipeline and I was very 0:45:10.120 --> 0:45:12.000 excited to see where this kind of goes with them, 0:45:12.719 --> 0:45:14.480 and like speaking to some of the others, they were 0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:17.399 really excited as well. But outside of that, like Ryan 0:45:17.480 --> 0:45:19.680 Lynch being a sophomore getting a mill that makes sense, 0:45:19.719 --> 0:45:21.279 he had leverage to go back to U and See 0:45:21.800 --> 0:45:24.719 didn't have the greatest year, but low slots sinker up 0:45:24.719 --> 0:45:27.600 to ninety eight phills to strike zone. Slider kind of 0:45:27.640 --> 0:45:30.920 took a step back this year, but it's still very 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:32.880 very good. He was ripping Austin really good ones to 0:45:32.960 --> 0:45:34.759 end the year and he finished the year very well 0:45:34.800 --> 0:45:36.799 for U and See was a big piece as to 0:45:36.840 --> 0:45:39.200 why they went back to the College World Series for 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:42.960 a second time in three years. And you know, Lynch's 0:45:43.520 --> 0:45:46.359 He's definitely a workhorse guy has to build for it. 0:45:46.400 --> 0:45:48.000 Could be a reliever, but I think he has a 0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:50.560 chance to be a starter. But going outside that, like 0:45:50.600 --> 0:45:54.759 a lot of college performers as well, Yet Robbie Lavy 0:45:54.800 --> 0:45:57.160 who was in the portal from George Washington, Alex Connover, 0:45:57.280 --> 0:46:00.839 James Guyet, Nw Cotrades, Joe Tarol Lead. That's a really 0:46:00.920 --> 0:46:04.160 solid group of college guys right there. I believe I 0:46:04.160 --> 0:46:06.279 had all of them on my board in some capacity. 0:46:06.360 --> 0:46:08.719 So that's you know, I guess the Padres really like 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:11.520 looking at our boards this year. But even outside of that, 0:46:11.560 --> 0:46:14.400 like Sawn Pitchpatrick could be a very solid left handed reliever, 0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:17.520 Benjamin Stubbs as well. Even farther down the board, you 0:46:17.520 --> 0:46:20.480 get Ryan Kucherak, who we were highlighting a lot a 0:46:20.560 --> 0:46:22.920 year ago before. We had a kind of a sub 0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:25.960 par year, so the Padres went after a lot of 0:46:26.000 --> 0:46:28.080 college guys that saved some money, but also some college 0:46:28.080 --> 0:46:30.920 guys who really performed, and I think they did a 0:46:31.000 --> 0:46:33.040 very good job of going after those profiles and getting 0:46:33.080 --> 0:46:33.520 the mistake. 0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:36.480 Yeah, and you know, the Padres are one of the 0:46:36.520 --> 0:46:39.560 classes where I will have kind of this like early 0:46:39.640 --> 0:46:43.440 intrigue anytime they take bats too like their their second 0:46:43.800 --> 0:46:47.360 to even like eighth ninth round bats. They just find guys. 0:46:47.440 --> 0:46:50.799 They just always seem to find guys. And I think 0:46:50.840 --> 0:46:54.280 about like Victor Figueroa, who'd end up packaging and trading 0:46:55.000 --> 0:46:57.319 to the orders. It was like their nineteenth round pick 0:46:57.360 --> 0:47:00.520 ors something Florida Southwest Junior College or whatever. 0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:02.400 The guy is just raked immediately. 0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:06.280 You can just there's so many examples of the padres 0:47:06.320 --> 0:47:10.120 have a really good feel to find hitters, and I like, so, 0:47:10.200 --> 0:47:13.680 I'm really interested to see you show me a Canadian 0:47:14.000 --> 0:47:16.759 shortstop batten from the left side that they took in 0:47:16.760 --> 0:47:19.920 the second round and gave a million one point three overslot, 0:47:20.200 --> 0:47:23.440 and Wassella's like, I'm I'm intrigued, right, But you know, 0:47:23.480 --> 0:47:26.759 Alex Connover, like, I'm excited to see even just some 0:47:26.800 --> 0:47:28.680 of these college bats. Seems like they always get even 0:47:28.760 --> 0:47:31.480 underrated college bats that end up performing. So very excited 0:47:31.480 --> 0:47:34.640 to see what this class shakes out to be. We 0:47:34.719 --> 0:47:39.040 get the Giants next up, which headlined by perfect fit 0:47:39.160 --> 0:47:42.160 Jackson Flora, pretty much a local kid, the best arm 0:47:42.200 --> 0:47:46.120 in the class. Giants needed a more pitching badly in 0:47:46.160 --> 0:47:50.399 that system. He immediately, I think becomes their closest proximity 0:47:50.719 --> 0:47:55.600 right handed pitching prospect in their top fifteen of their system. 0:47:55.719 --> 0:47:57.960 So like that that, I think that shows you kind 0:47:57.960 --> 0:47:59.759 of how much of a gap they had. I really 0:47:59.800 --> 0:48:03.160 liked Martinez Guy's far off as a talented right hander 0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:06.000 in that system. And then they go with another fun 0:48:06.120 --> 0:48:09.480 arm and Carson Bowman, uh because they had that compe 0:48:09.640 --> 0:48:11.719 pick at twenty ninth. Overall, I mean, we talked about 0:48:11.719 --> 0:48:14.439 bonus pool to work with here. This is the third 0:48:14.600 --> 0:48:17.520 largest pool that the Giants had here, and then it 0:48:17.560 --> 0:48:19.800 feels like they leveraged that with their first three picks 0:48:19.800 --> 0:48:22.359 eight million, three point three eight million, three point two 0:48:22.480 --> 0:48:25.520 five million with Kidd and Walktour as well out of 0:48:25.719 --> 0:48:29.440 South Florida. What do you make of this class? Obviously 0:48:29.560 --> 0:48:33.320 can't overlook Peyton Bonds, uh, the nephew of Barry Bonds 0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:36.560 going with their fourth pick and in the third round, 0:48:36.800 --> 0:48:38.800 But what do you make of the class overall? Feels 0:48:38.840 --> 0:48:42.240 like a really fun three headed monster of pitching to headline. 0:48:43.280 --> 0:48:45.160 It is, and to get all three of them two 0:48:45.320 --> 0:48:48.200 is pretty impressive. Like, I know, Bolman's number was pretty 0:48:48.239 --> 0:48:50.759 high and he only just signed a couple of days ago, 0:48:50.760 --> 0:48:52.560 but he came down a lot from what he originally 0:48:52.560 --> 0:48:55.360 asked for. But looking at what they were doing, you 0:48:55.560 --> 0:48:58.600 nailed nailed it on the head with with Flora, Like 0:48:59.800 --> 0:49:02.360 the Giants don't have a ton of high end pitching 0:49:02.400 --> 0:49:04.880 in their farm system. He's local, you grew up on 0:49:04.920 --> 0:49:07.759 the other side of the Bay, you know, going to 0:49:07.840 --> 0:49:09.800 him was kind of like a no brainer at the 0:49:09.880 --> 0:49:12.000 end of the day. And they get Carson Bowman and 0:49:12.760 --> 0:49:15.040 at twenty nine is really impressive too. You know, this 0:49:15.120 --> 0:49:18.960 is a guy that I personally thought was one of 0:49:18.960 --> 0:49:22.360 the best, you know, Southpaws in this class going into 0:49:22.440 --> 0:49:26.399 the winner, and he didn't necessarily perform all that well 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:29.080 in the spring, but he got better as it came along. 0:49:29.640 --> 0:49:32.319 And the biggest thing for him is, you've been in 0:49:32.320 --> 0:49:35.759 the low nineties. You hide the ball well, deceptives throw strikes. 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:38.840 We have two plus breaking balls to go after with 0:49:39.000 --> 0:49:41.000 what he has is the curve ball on the side 0:49:41.000 --> 0:49:42.879 are really really good. He has feel for a change up, 0:49:42.960 --> 0:49:48.040 so it's very polished, very again deceptive, and there's a 0:49:48.040 --> 0:49:51.200 lot to like with a high starter profile there. Wector 0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:54.160 is the same way, not to mention, like you kind 0:49:54.160 --> 0:49:57.800 of look at this draftcrafts in general, like the Wector Bonds. 0:49:57.840 --> 0:50:01.000 You look at Josiah Josiah in the twelve round. They 0:50:01.000 --> 0:50:04.239 went after a lot of guys who have big league 0:50:04.480 --> 0:50:08.279 blood lines. You know, obviously Doug Wector pitched a few 0:50:08.320 --> 0:50:10.800 seasons in Big Leans. Obviously we all know about Barry Bonds. 0:50:10.800 --> 0:50:13.040 And then also you got Matt Ken's nephew in the 0:50:13.080 --> 0:50:15.279 twelfth round, so they went after a lot of these 0:50:15.280 --> 0:50:17.400 guys that have blood lines and have upside to him. 0:50:18.000 --> 0:50:20.880 Then you also get guys like Carlos Martinez in the 0:50:20.880 --> 0:50:23.920 fourth round, who didn't pitch a year ago, had t 0:50:24.120 --> 0:50:25.719 J but he comes out this year looks like a 0:50:25.719 --> 0:50:28.919 really really good reliever. At the next level, you get 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:31.319 Bob Bryant, who's another guy who's like a low slot 0:50:31.400 --> 0:50:33.880 lefty with a lot of whiff to his release, a 0:50:33.880 --> 0:50:35.600 lot of crossfire. Are gonna be a tough at back. 0:50:35.640 --> 0:50:38.879 Cody Brash is a really intriguing reliever to starter guy 0:50:39.000 --> 0:50:42.080 from from Louisiana, but he gets some intriguing bats to 0:50:42.520 --> 0:50:45.319 another you know, bloodline guy, Luke Nixon that's strot next 0:50:45.320 --> 0:50:49.279 Seuson's son from Nancy State. Then you also go for 0:50:49.360 --> 0:50:51.640 some more bats like Mike Massini in the knife round, 0:50:51.719 --> 0:50:55.319 who I'm not sure if anybody remembers, but Little League 0:50:55.320 --> 0:50:59.320 World Series legend. You get guys like Drew Smith at Oregon, 0:50:59.360 --> 0:51:02.319 who he had a very good junior senior year, so 0:51:02.760 --> 0:51:04.920 you know, getting these guys kind of works out. You 0:51:04.920 --> 0:51:07.920 get Tanner Madley, who led the NCAA in batting average 0:51:07.960 --> 0:51:11.000 this year too, in the seventeenth round, so Dalton Wentz 0:51:11.080 --> 0:51:15.799 also getting really really good over pay in the sixteenth round. Like, 0:51:15.840 --> 0:51:18.759 that's a really really solid get at that range. So 0:51:19.360 --> 0:51:21.239 there's a lot to leg with this Giants class, getting 0:51:21.239 --> 0:51:24.280 that three headed monster and also filling in some needs 0:51:24.280 --> 0:51:27.520 in the farm system and also getting some intriguing trait 0:51:27.680 --> 0:51:30.719 guys who could make their way through the farm pretty 0:51:30.800 --> 0:51:32.839 quickly and also help the big league roster in some 0:51:32.880 --> 0:51:36.439 capacity moving forward, and also just going for these again 0:51:36.480 --> 0:51:40.319 bloodline guys that have upside to him, Like all four 0:51:40.360 --> 0:51:44.160 of the guys mentioned all have intriguing upside to him, 0:51:44.200 --> 0:51:45.840 and I'm excited to see what the Giants can do 0:51:45.920 --> 0:51:47.640 moving forward in terms of development. 0:51:48.680 --> 0:51:50.719 I was gonna mention Wentz just because that's a guy 0:51:50.760 --> 0:51:53.560 that you had at two hundred and sixteen in your 0:51:53.640 --> 0:51:56.719 draft rankings and Giant snag him at four seventy eight. 0:51:56.760 --> 0:51:59.000 Obviously had to fork up some cash, but they had 0:51:59.000 --> 0:52:01.400 a lot of money to work with there, so that 0:52:01.680 --> 0:52:03.840 nice get there later in the draft. Given you know 0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:05.759 how much talent they were able to snag at the 0:52:05.800 --> 0:52:07.840 top end of it. So, I mean, you look at 0:52:07.880 --> 0:52:09.480 the arms at the top. It's just where I'm going 0:52:09.520 --> 0:52:11.799 to keep gravitating towards saying this could be, you know, 0:52:11.840 --> 0:52:14.600 what really defines this class and makes it exciting. And 0:52:14.600 --> 0:52:17.000 then yeah, it seems like Buster playing the bloodlines game 0:52:17.040 --> 0:52:19.960 a little bit too, which I can understand from him. 0:52:20.280 --> 0:52:22.120 We're going to go to the final stretch handful of 0:52:22.160 --> 0:52:30.360 teams here, but before that, one more break. Another team 0:52:30.400 --> 0:52:33.239 that just tends to be the gold standard of drafting 0:52:33.520 --> 0:52:38.040 is the Seattle Mariners. And the Mariners they get Ace 0:52:38.120 --> 0:52:40.320 Reese with their first pick. I think a lot of 0:52:40.360 --> 0:52:43.359 people would have viewed that as a great snag. He's 0:52:43.400 --> 0:52:45.440 got to kind of slip to them a little bit 0:52:45.440 --> 0:52:48.200 with the twenty fourth pick, but they were still able 0:52:48.239 --> 0:52:50.360 to sign him for about three hundred thousand undersquad. I 0:52:50.400 --> 0:52:53.960 think this is another guy where maybe public versus private 0:52:54.560 --> 0:52:59.359 hit tool concerns a little bit more loud privately with Reese, though, 0:52:59.360 --> 0:53:02.400 this is something that you had echoed a ton, you know, 0:53:02.440 --> 0:53:06.160 through your right ups and just through our draft conversations. 0:53:06.719 --> 0:53:09.879 But they go get another bat in Jake Brown out 0:53:09.880 --> 0:53:12.440 of LSU, and then they go get an arm and 0:53:12.520 --> 0:53:15.120 Nathan Taylor with their third round pick, and then it's 0:53:15.160 --> 0:53:16.680 just kind of a mixed bag. The throught the way 0:53:16.680 --> 0:53:19.960 I would say, honestly pretty hit or heavy, I should say. 0:53:20.120 --> 0:53:22.520 And so they go, you know, about four or five 0:53:22.520 --> 0:53:24.440 straight pitchers, but it's not until the eleventh round where 0:53:24.440 --> 0:53:27.239 they go more picture heavy. I would say, Yeah, you'll 0:53:27.239 --> 0:53:31.239 get one, two, three, four, five, six. Seven of their 0:53:31.280 --> 0:53:36.080 first eight picks are bats, which I thought was interesting 0:53:36.080 --> 0:53:37.160 for the Mariners. 0:53:38.040 --> 0:53:41.200 Yeah, it's kind of like a especially at the top 0:53:41.239 --> 0:53:43.600 of the draft, a different philosophy change. Like last year 0:53:43.640 --> 0:53:46.800 they went after obviously Kat Anderson at third round or 0:53:47.200 --> 0:53:50.080 third round, but third overall, but also they went on 0:53:50.320 --> 0:53:53.160 a huge run of pictures from like the sixth round 0:53:53.239 --> 0:53:56.239 to the othern rown. This year a little bit of 0:53:56.280 --> 0:53:58.919 a different story to kind of prioritize these bats more 0:53:59.560 --> 0:54:02.000 in like like you had mentioned with Acereez, like I 0:54:02.000 --> 0:54:04.600 think the bat the ball skills kind of regressed a 0:54:04.600 --> 0:54:07.000 little bit this year, but the power is still very 0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:09.160 much there. He's probably not a third basement like he 0:54:09.239 --> 0:54:12.239 was drafted as might be a first baseman, but to 0:54:12.280 --> 0:54:15.080 get that kind of power upside with him and Jake Brown, 0:54:15.600 --> 0:54:17.680 it's pretty impressive. Like Jake Brown was tearing to cover 0:54:17.719 --> 0:54:19.960 off the baseball before he had a handmate injury, so 0:54:20.640 --> 0:54:23.000 we'll see what happens there. Those are two very good bats. 0:54:23.000 --> 0:54:25.439 But then you get Nathan Taylor in the third round, 0:54:25.520 --> 0:54:29.839 who three year befomer in Cincinnati, huge kid at six five, 0:54:29.880 --> 0:54:34.920 two thirty, big extension, good slide piece. It's a pretty 0:54:35.480 --> 0:54:37.799 high floor. But there's some upside that's happened too if 0:54:37.800 --> 0:54:40.040 you fix the fastball a little bit. There as like 0:54:40.080 --> 0:54:43.640 a back end, you know, rotation guy. Trevor Lucas Hayden 0:54:43.680 --> 0:54:45.879 Yost are two guys that I probably should have valued 0:54:45.880 --> 0:54:48.880 a little higher. Trevor Lucas was a great performer at 0:54:48.960 --> 0:54:53.719 UNC Wilmington this year. Henry Ford, you know, goes from Virginia, 0:54:54.200 --> 0:54:56.759 was a draft oliple year ago. Goes to Tennessee has 0:54:56.800 --> 0:55:00.480 a pretty really like similar year to he had a 0:55:00.520 --> 0:55:03.200 year ago. But taking the sixth round. That's another big 0:55:03.239 --> 0:55:05.600 power guy. But then you start looking at some of 0:55:05.640 --> 0:55:08.160 these other guys, like you get Misson Eckleman, who his 0:55:08.239 --> 0:55:12.080 dad's the VP of hitting in the Guardians organization. He 0:55:12.120 --> 0:55:14.359 was a late Bloomer in this class, but they didn't 0:55:14.400 --> 0:55:17.600 getting some some arms later on, like whyat Queen Connor, Marshburn, 0:55:18.160 --> 0:55:21.000 Anthony Tredo, Chris Diaz, those are some intriguing arms to 0:55:21.040 --> 0:55:25.080 get late into. Like the Day three territory, Marshburn has 0:55:26.160 --> 0:55:30.320 a really really intriguing fastball or like a sinker slider Combo. 0:55:31.239 --> 0:55:33.440 I think it's going to be something to watch in 0:55:33.480 --> 0:55:36.160 that system. You know, sixty six to forty, big kid, 0:55:36.239 --> 0:55:39.520 but he does a very good job of getting ground 0:55:39.600 --> 0:55:42.120 balls at a high clip and also just limiting damage. 0:55:42.280 --> 0:55:44.240 But then after that, like they tried to get Donic 0:55:44.320 --> 0:55:46.759 Santarelli in the eighteenth round, didn't necessarily work out in 0:55:46.800 --> 0:55:49.960 their favor. Connor shouts as well. But you get Michael 0:55:49.960 --> 0:55:54.399 Battit in the nineteenth round two who VCU was able 0:55:54.400 --> 0:55:57.200 to grab him from Miami Dade Community College last year. 0:55:57.640 --> 0:55:59.759 He goes to VCU and he does a very good 0:55:59.840 --> 0:56:02.759 job job and center field for them, and did when 0:56:02.800 --> 0:56:06.279 he was at the Chapel Hill Regional. He just hit 0:56:06.600 --> 0:56:08.319 and that was something that really stood out to me, 0:56:08.400 --> 0:56:11.080 and I thought I was gonna be putting him on 0:56:11.120 --> 0:56:13.960 the board in some capacity. It was very close for him, 0:56:14.040 --> 0:56:16.960 but they found some intriguing bats in this class. I 0:56:17.080 --> 0:56:20.280 really do, you know, it grabs my interest, it pulls 0:56:20.360 --> 0:56:23.760 me in, which again is something they haven't really done recently. 0:56:23.800 --> 0:56:26.200 They they've really gone pitching heavy in these classes. So 0:56:26.239 --> 0:56:29.400 it's like a oh, welcome philosophy change a little bit 0:56:29.440 --> 0:56:31.239 from Scott Huntering Company. But they did a very good 0:56:31.320 --> 0:56:35.319 job regardless of what changed. I think they brought in 0:56:35.360 --> 0:56:37.280 a lot of good talent and there's some intriguing pictures 0:56:37.320 --> 0:56:37.879 in there as well. 0:56:38.280 --> 0:56:40.520 Yeah, you always go back to like the Emerson, Young 0:56:40.560 --> 0:56:42.799 and Pete draft and it's like, oh, like that, it 0:56:42.920 --> 0:56:45.400 was so much fun with all the early picks they 0:56:45.400 --> 0:56:48.359 had to go so bad heavy, and it's just it's 0:56:48.440 --> 0:56:50.279 interesting to see them go back heavy again. This is 0:56:50.320 --> 0:56:53.080 another draft where like I'm it's going to be eager 0:56:53.120 --> 0:56:55.440 to follow and see how a lot of these bats performed, 0:56:55.440 --> 0:56:57.239 because I just have a lot of confidence in the 0:56:57.239 --> 0:56:59.880 Mariner's ability to scout but also develop and and and 0:57:00.040 --> 0:57:02.760 the communication that teams to work between those two parties 0:57:02.800 --> 0:57:05.520 in the organization. I think, well, one set a guy 0:57:05.560 --> 0:57:08.800 like Ace Rees up for success with some of the 0:57:08.880 --> 0:57:10.759 questions that he has, but also, you know, has me 0:57:10.840 --> 0:57:12.920 interested in some of the other picks, you know, some 0:57:12.960 --> 0:57:15.879 of the other guys that they have here in this 0:57:15.960 --> 0:57:19.440 draft class. Overall, we go to the Cardinals, speaking of 0:57:19.480 --> 0:57:22.640 ty Pete, that's the organization he's in now. But they 0:57:22.720 --> 0:57:27.520 go with uber athletic prep outfielder and Trevor Condon with 0:57:27.600 --> 0:57:29.600 the thirteenth overall pick. But then they go to Takankuns 0:57:29.600 --> 0:57:33.680 who U teased earlier right hander with their comp A 0:57:33.840 --> 0:57:37.880 pick thirty second overall. Third pick for them second round 0:57:37.920 --> 0:57:40.360 pick fiftieth overall was rock them and a Scalgo who 0:57:40.360 --> 0:57:42.200 turned a lot of heads at the combine with just 0:57:42.640 --> 0:57:44.960 all the things that he was putting up from like speed, arm, strength, 0:57:45.000 --> 0:57:48.680 whatever it may be. Yeah, Alabama prep kid that got 0:57:49.000 --> 0:57:52.400 one point two two million overslot there, and I think 0:57:52.400 --> 0:57:54.760 I would love to think that the combine played a 0:57:54.800 --> 0:57:58.080 part in that. But this is just an uber talented 0:57:58.120 --> 0:58:00.320 class because they had two comp B picks camp A 0:58:00.480 --> 0:58:06.680 pick like how many picks within the first five rounds one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 0:58:06.880 --> 0:58:10.040 eight picks within the first five rounds. Uh, the opportunity 0:58:10.040 --> 0:58:12.280 to have a lot of fun for him bloom. 0:58:12.720 --> 0:58:15.600 Yeah, and fun was had for sure, Like you had mentioned, 0:58:15.640 --> 0:58:19.240 obviously getting Content in a SCALCO. Condon can definitely be 0:58:19.280 --> 0:58:22.000 a centerfielder. He's a is a high energy player that 0:58:22.200 --> 0:58:24.280 you know, scouts are going to gravitate towards those guys 0:58:24.280 --> 0:58:26.880 that have they played with their hair on fire, essentially, 0:58:27.760 --> 0:58:29.880 and Condon is just that guy. He did change his 0:58:29.880 --> 0:58:32.080 swing and add some more powers this year. It's a 0:58:32.240 --> 0:58:34.680 very old school swing where he kind of just waits. 0:58:34.880 --> 0:58:38.120 It's very methodical, but he hit everything that came his 0:58:38.200 --> 0:58:40.840 way last year, and again the swing changes kind of 0:58:40.840 --> 0:58:44.200 helped him tap into more power alleviate some concerns about 0:58:44.600 --> 0:58:46.280 does he catch up the high v low and everything 0:58:46.280 --> 0:58:49.080 like that. So it's a very good change and Content 0:58:49.200 --> 0:58:50.760 is just again just one of those guys that you're 0:58:50.760 --> 0:58:52.920 going to gravitate towards as a scout and as a 0:58:53.120 --> 0:58:56.320 as a fan himself. Getting in a scalc in the 0:58:56.320 --> 0:58:58.560 second round. This is a kid that reclass He's one 0:58:58.560 --> 0:59:01.720 of the youngest youngest guys drafted seventeen and two months. 0:59:02.320 --> 0:59:06.120 But the gloves the calling point here it is you know, 0:59:06.200 --> 0:59:09.320 buttery smooth. I would say double plus defender. We're talking 0:59:09.360 --> 0:59:12.040 like the best defender in this draft class in my opinion, 0:59:12.640 --> 0:59:15.040 rivaling Rob CHELASKI like that there's a lot to like 0:59:15.080 --> 0:59:18.040 with this kid, and we're hoping the bat does come around. 0:59:18.080 --> 0:59:21.040 He had a very good combine if I remember correctly 0:59:21.160 --> 0:59:24.000 through ninety seven and wild scouts on that. But the 0:59:24.120 --> 0:59:27.040 bat really showed out in BP and that was something 0:59:27.080 --> 0:59:28.760 we've all been kind of looking for this year from 0:59:28.800 --> 0:59:32.200 this from him. So to have that happen is fantastic 0:59:32.200 --> 0:59:34.720 for him. You know, getting three point two million is 0:59:35.080 --> 0:59:39.200 a you know, it definitely shows how much they gravitated 0:59:39.240 --> 0:59:41.800 towards him and found out that there's a lot more 0:59:41.800 --> 0:59:45.600 to like underneath the hood than just you know, the glove. 0:59:45.600 --> 0:59:48.720 It's fantastic, But he's got a floor and we're just 0:59:48.760 --> 0:59:50.560 waiting and see what kind of offense lives like he 0:59:50.560 --> 0:59:54.480 can get into. But outside of those guys, you get 0:59:54.520 --> 0:59:57.680 like Teken Kuns in the second round, who very intriguing 0:59:57.680 --> 1:00:01.560 fastball traits, low release, high extension, so it's a very flat, 1:00:01.640 --> 1:00:04.480 vertical or protangle. You can work on the breaking balls 1:00:04.480 --> 1:00:07.360 and the splitter a little bit. Andrew Williamson, you know, 1:00:07.440 --> 1:00:10.640 the swing again, guys are gonna be is a very 1:00:10.640 --> 1:00:14.000 polarizing swing. Guys are gonna be concerned because there's a 1:00:14.440 --> 1:00:16.440 essentially a hitch, but the hands are so whippy and 1:00:16.440 --> 1:00:18.360 there's so much batspeed that there's a lot of power 1:00:18.400 --> 1:00:21.800 there and he can play. He's played all three outfield 1:00:21.800 --> 1:00:24.120 spots at Central Florida, so we'll see how he develops. 1:00:24.160 --> 1:00:26.919 But I liked him a lot as a power first 1:00:27.000 --> 1:00:30.400 kind of guy in the outfield. Get Dawson Montesa just 1:00:30.440 --> 1:00:33.640 a couple picks later. Kaden Ferraro was, in my opinion, 1:00:33.680 --> 1:00:35.680 one of the most underrated bats in his class because 1:00:35.680 --> 1:00:39.320 he did so much damage to every quadrant in the field. 1:00:39.360 --> 1:00:42.280 I think Texas tit just really finds these hitters and 1:00:42.320 --> 1:00:45.000 knows how to develop them and does a good job 1:00:45.040 --> 1:00:47.680 of finding so much impact in these guys despite the 1:00:47.720 --> 1:00:50.919 fact that you look at them the past couple years, 1:00:50.920 --> 1:00:54.120 they haven't performed great in college, but they know how 1:00:54.120 --> 1:00:55.919 to get these guys a hit, and I think, for hours, 1:00:56.000 --> 1:00:59.400 just another one of those guys who he just fantastic 1:00:59.480 --> 1:01:03.880 hitter both average and power, but the defensive questions kind 1:01:03.880 --> 1:01:06.120 of still remain a little bit. But then you get 1:01:06.160 --> 1:01:08.919 the Kennedy who had a fantastic here at Kansas State, 1:01:08.960 --> 1:01:14.000 came in from Texas very pole power or sorry, very 1:01:14.080 --> 1:01:18.600 pole power oriented approach, can play some short stop. And 1:01:18.640 --> 1:01:20.280 then you get Kyl Rendall, who probably had the best 1:01:20.320 --> 1:01:24.480 fastball in this class up to one hundred flat approach angle, 1:01:25.280 --> 1:01:27.479 very very good spin races. There's a lot to like there. 1:01:27.880 --> 1:01:31.160 They get a D two guy and Owen Henny who 1:01:31.400 --> 1:01:34.160 performed very well in the Draft League this year. Then 1:01:34.200 --> 1:01:35.840 you kind of look farther down the board too. You 1:01:35.880 --> 1:01:38.080 get guys like Matthew Thomas in the thirteenth round who 1:01:38.120 --> 1:01:41.440 signed for only twenty five k overslot. Clinton fresh Corn 1:01:41.480 --> 1:01:44.400 and Colin Ritchie were insurance guys, so to mention those 1:01:44.400 --> 1:01:46.440 guys that are going back to college and going to 1:01:46.480 --> 1:01:49.240 see what happens. But they were both highly regarded going 1:01:49.240 --> 1:01:52.600 into the draft. But then again like Jacob Haaley, eleven 1:01:52.720 --> 1:01:55.760 rownd are out of South Alabama, Drew Horn as well, 1:01:55.840 --> 1:01:59.280 So they've gone after some guys who have trades farer 1:01:59.280 --> 1:02:01.040 down the board. But what they did in the first 1:02:01.080 --> 1:02:05.080 five rounds is just it's really really good and have 1:02:05.160 --> 1:02:08.560 that kind of draft prospects surplus to go into your 1:02:08.600 --> 1:02:11.320 farm system is fantastic. They did a very very good 1:02:11.400 --> 1:02:15.240 job with the the the resources that they had and 1:02:15.520 --> 1:02:17.720 turned it into a very very good draft class is 1:02:17.800 --> 1:02:19.960 one of my favorites in the in the entire league. 1:02:20.600 --> 1:02:23.040 Yeah, I think the Randall wrinkle is fun too because 1:02:23.480 --> 1:02:25.720 with the fastball that he has, like, do they try 1:02:25.720 --> 1:02:28.760 to do something similar like we saw with with Tanner Franklin, 1:02:29.040 --> 1:02:31.200 stretch him out and and just really see what kind 1:02:31.200 --> 1:02:33.160 of run why you can give them as this as 1:02:33.160 --> 1:02:35.680 a starter. I mean, the fact that there's the amount 1:02:35.680 --> 1:02:38.680 of like forty plus future value guys that they're just 1:02:38.720 --> 1:02:40.880 adding the system that you can of course push north 1:02:40.920 --> 1:02:43.440 of that with development is so fun. And that's why 1:02:43.480 --> 1:02:45.800 this class, like I mean, the amount of guys that 1:02:45.840 --> 1:02:48.560 are signed for five hundred thousand dollars or more, you know, 1:02:48.600 --> 1:02:50.760 it just just makes it really exciting to see, you know, 1:02:50.800 --> 1:02:53.880 what could happen here. And yet very very much I 1:02:53.960 --> 1:02:57.400 think to the joy of him Bloom to be able 1:02:57.400 --> 1:02:59.480 to have a draft like this, you know, and as 1:02:59.720 --> 1:03:01.600 you say and over and this farm system is gonna 1:03:01.600 --> 1:03:03.680 have a lot of talent working its way in Condon's 1:03:03.720 --> 1:03:05.160 one guy, Like I want to see that barrel tips 1:03:05.160 --> 1:03:06.800 still clean up a little bit more. But you look 1:03:06.800 --> 1:03:09.000 at the tools and skill set and everything and it's like, 1:03:09.040 --> 1:03:12.920 holy crap. What could be with him. We go to 1:03:13.480 --> 1:03:16.720 the Rays and they had the number two overall pick. 1:03:17.040 --> 1:03:20.400 They had an absolute boatload of money to work with 1:03:20.440 --> 1:03:25.600 the second largest bonus pool at nineteen million dollars Grady 1:03:25.600 --> 1:03:29.720 Emerson's their first selection, number two overall. You can make 1:03:29.760 --> 1:03:33.040 a case it's you know, one, A, one B in 1:03:33.080 --> 1:03:36.520 the draft class ridiculous What the upside is for a 1:03:36.560 --> 1:03:38.600 guy that could just be one of the most well rounded, 1:03:38.800 --> 1:03:40.520 you know, prospects that we have in the game. Pretty 1:03:40.560 --> 1:03:44.000 quickly here, but key sense for nine point seventy five million, 1:03:44.120 --> 1:03:46.600 which is ridiculous. That would have been a record had 1:03:46.680 --> 1:03:49.920 you know, not been for Rock, right, but still because 1:03:49.960 --> 1:03:52.800 of how big these bonus numbers were for the slot 1:03:52.880 --> 1:03:56.200 value that still is seven hundred and fifty thousand underslots. 1:03:56.200 --> 1:03:59.040 So have your fun raise and this is another org 1:03:59.160 --> 1:03:59.800 like you give them this. 1:03:59.840 --> 1:04:00.760 Kind of money to work with. 1:04:00.800 --> 1:04:03.200 The Rays aren't picking at number two very often and 1:04:03.240 --> 1:04:05.800 they may never pick at number two ever again. So 1:04:06.560 --> 1:04:09.200 I think they made the most of this opportunity here, right, 1:04:09.240 --> 1:04:12.080 And I mean they allocated money in a lot of 1:04:12.120 --> 1:04:15.760 different areas and brought in a ton of talent and 1:04:15.840 --> 1:04:19.560 as we're doing this right now, though they didn't. I 1:04:19.600 --> 1:04:22.160 think unless something hasn't been updated. It's what three guys 1:04:22.280 --> 1:04:25.800 left unsigned in this class, the last being like an 1:04:26.040 --> 1:04:28.880 insurance pick kid in my backyard and West Brown High School. 1:04:28.880 --> 1:04:31.960 I haven't a batter, but two other selections here you 1:04:32.000 --> 1:04:36.400 have Gavin Geez Geese Geez in their thirty third round 1:04:36.440 --> 1:04:40.880 pick and Tate and Sorry, and then Logan George's in 1:04:40.920 --> 1:04:44.080 their eleventh round selection that as of now have not signed. 1:04:45.440 --> 1:04:49.240 Yeah, and I think I think it's pronounced geys. I 1:04:49.280 --> 1:04:51.240 could mean, it could be mistaken. I haven't had like 1:04:51.280 --> 1:04:53.360 a somebody to tell me like, hey, this is how 1:04:53.440 --> 1:04:58.120 to pronounced guys names. But yeah, like we're we're still 1:04:58.120 --> 1:05:02.080 waiting to see if Guyston George is signed. George's committed CCU, 1:05:02.640 --> 1:05:04.960 Big Bulky Kid had TJ but came back last year, 1:05:05.040 --> 1:05:06.600 did very very good on the summer circuit. And then 1:05:06.640 --> 1:05:08.680 Geist is a I don't want to say a pop 1:05:08.760 --> 1:05:11.920 up guy, but before very well in the during the 1:05:12.040 --> 1:05:15.640 WWBA down in Jupiter last year, had a great offseason, 1:05:15.680 --> 1:05:19.200 came out, was throwing strikes up to ninety four ninety 1:05:19.240 --> 1:05:22.680 five good ve loo and also has good breaking balls 1:05:22.680 --> 1:05:25.880 to go with it. And he's also I can't remember 1:05:25.880 --> 1:05:27.680 his dad's name, but he was with the Yankees as 1:05:27.720 --> 1:05:31.480 their scouting director for a while. So there's another pick 1:05:31.520 --> 1:05:35.040 with like bloodlines there. But he's committed San Diego. We'll 1:05:35.080 --> 1:05:37.480 see if he signs today. By the yes, we got. 1:05:37.280 --> 1:05:39.840 We're recording at two thirty Eastern. He's got about two 1:05:39.880 --> 1:05:41.720 and a half hours to figure that out. Yeah, let's 1:05:41.720 --> 1:05:45.560 assume he doesn't sign, and I got to operate under 1:05:45.560 --> 1:05:49.920 the assumption he doesn't. With this class, obviously, they still 1:05:50.840 --> 1:05:53.440 allocated a lot. I mean, if four different players signed 1:05:53.440 --> 1:05:56.320 for over a million dollars, they had two more for 1:05:56.440 --> 1:05:59.960 north of eight hundred thousand dollars, and then several others 1:06:00.640 --> 1:06:04.760 for you know, varying six figured you know, numbers there, 1:06:05.480 --> 1:06:06.200 what what where? 1:06:06.320 --> 1:06:06.440 Like? 1:06:06.440 --> 1:06:08.160 What do you make of the class? Even if they 1:06:08.160 --> 1:06:09.440 don't land guys. 1:06:10.840 --> 1:06:12.920 Still think it's very solid. You know, obviously you get 1:06:12.960 --> 1:06:16.160 Emerson at number two sign in for three quarters of 1:06:16.200 --> 1:06:19.600 mill underslot, but also still get a premium talent at 1:06:19.600 --> 1:06:23.760 that position is fantastic taj marshand Uh. Very Again, this 1:06:23.800 --> 1:06:26.680 is another one that's like a polarizing swing where some 1:06:26.720 --> 1:06:28.960 guys can be concerned, like how it plays at the 1:06:29.080 --> 1:06:31.840 double A level, but you know he's he did a 1:06:31.840 --> 1:06:34.880 fantastic job this year. Had a big summer circuit a 1:06:34.960 --> 1:06:39.120 year ago, very stretchy swing, but on time there's power there. 1:06:39.400 --> 1:06:42.320 You let it work until it doesn't. Ben Blair from 1:06:42.360 --> 1:06:44.200 Liberty I thought was one of the best mid major 1:06:44.280 --> 1:06:47.680 arms in this class. If you know Jackson Flora wasn't here, 1:06:47.720 --> 1:06:50.960 he might have been the best. Sinker heavy or sorry, 1:06:51.000 --> 1:06:53.320 not sinker heavy, but like sinker fastball gets a cutter, 1:06:53.400 --> 1:06:56.120 gets a sweeper to go with it, you know, very 1:06:56.440 --> 1:06:58.880 intriguing arm to get in the second round for them, 1:06:58.960 --> 1:07:00.919 get Colum Bland, who has a power in the fourth 1:07:00.960 --> 1:07:04.680 who signed foreverslot Owen. Kramkowski kind of fits like the TJ. 1:07:04.800 --> 1:07:07.760 Nichols mold a little bit, and it's not because he 1:07:07.800 --> 1:07:10.280 went to Arizona like Nichols did. It's more of the 1:07:10.280 --> 1:07:13.160 way they move the body types and then also the 1:07:13.400 --> 1:07:17.240 arsenal's well, you know, Kramkowski doesn't necessarily have a change up, 1:07:17.240 --> 1:07:19.760 but he has this field spin, good fastball, sits in 1:07:19.800 --> 1:07:23.600 the load of mid nineties. You will find a way 1:07:23.680 --> 1:07:25.360 to kind of develop him. He's a good mold to 1:07:25.400 --> 1:07:28.400 kind of work with. Kyle Johnson gets drafted as a pitcher, 1:07:28.440 --> 1:07:31.400 and then they go after two intriguing you know, high 1:07:31.440 --> 1:07:34.240 school arms and aj Rice and Griffin Long, who they 1:07:34.280 --> 1:07:37.320 signed for the same slot bonus eight hundred and twenty two 1:07:37.360 --> 1:07:41.200 point five. And aj Rice you know, smaller kid, he's 1:07:41.240 --> 1:07:45.400 five eleven, one seventy five, but field spins outstanding. Griffin Long, 1:07:45.920 --> 1:07:49.720 fantastic change up, gotten more extension, got more velocity. He 1:07:49.760 --> 1:07:53.400 looks very very good. Ty Jones is another solid outfield 1:07:53.480 --> 1:07:56.520 prep guy who tons of power, can play center field. 1:07:56.920 --> 1:08:00.400 And then obviously, you know, going after some more college 1:08:00.600 --> 1:08:03.800 arms to kind of save some more money. Alex phil 1:08:03.840 --> 1:08:06.960 Pott got I would say like seventy five k overslot 1:08:08.000 --> 1:08:11.320 in the sixteenth round. But they the Rays do a 1:08:11.320 --> 1:08:13.920 fantastic job of bringing in talent year in and year out, 1:08:13.920 --> 1:08:17.120 and even if they don't get George's and guys to sign, 1:08:17.200 --> 1:08:19.960 it's still a very good crop of arms. And obviously 1:08:20.000 --> 1:08:22.679 getting two very very good short stop talents and Emerson 1:08:22.720 --> 1:08:25.639 and marshandon the first two picks to bring them in. 1:08:27.000 --> 1:08:29.679 Fantastic get as always for the rais. So we'll see 1:08:29.880 --> 1:08:31.439 what happens in the next two and a half hours. 1:08:31.479 --> 1:08:35.120 But as of right now if if one signs and 1:08:35.160 --> 1:08:38.080 the other doesn't, cool If not, then you know kind 1:08:38.120 --> 1:08:40.080 of start talking about this class falling a little bit 1:08:40.120 --> 1:08:42.840 for me, but still a top ten class in my 1:08:42.880 --> 1:08:43.720 opinion for the race. 1:08:44.240 --> 1:08:46.200 I mean, when you get headline it with two such 1:08:46.240 --> 1:08:49.360 exciting high school shortstops and then you have been true 1:08:49.439 --> 1:08:51.679 race fashion. There's a lot of unique arms to add 1:08:51.720 --> 1:08:54.840 to the full odds are things should age pretty well 1:08:55.040 --> 1:08:59.280 for you. Speaking of arms, we go to the Texas Rangers. 1:08:59.320 --> 1:09:01.640 They get the top prep arm in the class and 1:09:01.720 --> 1:09:04.720 Geo Rojas who slips to them at sixteen, and they 1:09:04.720 --> 1:09:07.120 were a wile to still save money with Rojas as well, 1:09:07.120 --> 1:09:10.840 So another maybe divide between what we thought the board 1:09:10.880 --> 1:09:13.200 would look like and then you know what teams actually 1:09:13.280 --> 1:09:16.320 kind of thought it would shake out as because falls 1:09:16.320 --> 1:09:18.639 to sixteen and they still save money there at four 1:09:18.680 --> 1:09:21.240 point six million dollars signing bonus that pick value was 1:09:21.439 --> 1:09:26.200 just over five. They go get a high school shortstop 1:09:26.240 --> 1:09:29.880 as well, but then also snag one of the more 1:09:29.880 --> 1:09:33.200 intriguing arms given the situation, Brody Bumilla, who was a 1:09:33.240 --> 1:09:37.040 first round talent another elbow issue after already undergoing you 1:09:37.040 --> 1:09:40.840 know an Elbert procedure not too long ago, kind of 1:09:40.920 --> 1:09:43.000 clouds things a little bit, but it's a lefty that 1:09:43.000 --> 1:09:44.800 can throw one hundred, so you get that guy in 1:09:44.840 --> 1:09:48.280 the third round. Generally it feels like a little bit 1:09:48.280 --> 1:09:50.000 pitching heavy at the top, but they balance it out 1:09:50.000 --> 1:09:52.559 with some more bats in the middle rounds. And yeah, 1:09:52.680 --> 1:09:55.120 I'm just overall curious what you think of the class 1:09:55.160 --> 1:10:01.000 because clearly too hard throwing prep lefties really risky. Christiano 1:10:01.000 --> 1:10:03.040 doesn't seem to care, but then balance out with some 1:10:03.360 --> 1:10:04.000 bats as well. 1:10:05.240 --> 1:10:07.320 Yeah, this is another one where I really like the 1:10:07.320 --> 1:10:09.360 shots that they took in the first couple of rounds. 1:10:10.200 --> 1:10:12.720 Getting Gio Rojas again, this is, in my opinion, was 1:10:12.760 --> 1:10:15.080 the top lefty in his class from the prep side 1:10:15.080 --> 1:10:17.439 where been up to ninety seven. Has a really good 1:10:17.439 --> 1:10:20.799 breaking ball. Change up is developing, but he's shown flashes 1:10:20.800 --> 1:10:23.040 of it being really good. It's just the command gets 1:10:23.040 --> 1:10:25.600 a little scattered. Shot kind of rushes its delivery a 1:10:25.640 --> 1:10:28.479 little bit, so there's times where he kind of loses it. 1:10:28.560 --> 1:10:31.160 But the upside is fantastic with him. If you can 1:10:31.160 --> 1:10:33.760 get the projection to kind of if you get his 1:10:33.800 --> 1:10:37.120 body to fill out, the projective is fantastic. Connor Como, 1:10:37.240 --> 1:10:41.040 another projection guy who he began pulling the baseball after 1:10:41.120 --> 1:10:44.120 Airy coaches last year. Ghost of Jupiter has a fantastic 1:10:44.320 --> 1:10:47.080 showing down there and he carried it into the spring. 1:10:47.320 --> 1:10:48.960 This is a guy that is going to grow into 1:10:49.000 --> 1:10:51.320 more power from the left side, has fuel to hit 1:10:51.360 --> 1:10:54.000 as well. So it's another one of those like you're 1:10:54.040 --> 1:10:57.800 projecting on it. But six four can play shortstop. You 1:10:57.920 --> 1:11:00.000 maybe be able to put him in like a corner outfolds, 1:11:00.000 --> 1:11:02.839 but if he doesn't look you know, great there moving forward, 1:11:03.520 --> 1:11:07.439 but you're buying the bat there and then buma getting 1:11:07.560 --> 1:11:12.680 him at the third round, paying him a first round bonus. Uh, 1:11:13.800 --> 1:11:16.120 it's a lot of risk, you know, taking a guy 1:11:16.120 --> 1:11:18.800 who now has two elbow surgeries on his stocket now 1:11:19.200 --> 1:11:20.920 at such a young age, Like this is a guy 1:11:20.960 --> 1:11:26.240 who I believe just turned he will turn eighteen or sorry, 1:11:26.280 --> 1:11:29.559 he'll turn nineteen in January, so it's still pretty young. 1:11:30.160 --> 1:11:32.760 But yeah, it's a it's a lot of risk to 1:11:32.760 --> 1:11:35.000 take with those picks. And I again, this is a 1:11:35.080 --> 1:11:38.360 draft class of hinges on those guys. But going outside 1:11:38.360 --> 1:11:40.880 of that, Hudson Calhoun could be a starter candidate. The 1:11:41.000 --> 1:11:43.200 Rangers like finding these guys who are relievers in college 1:11:43.200 --> 1:11:47.679 and turning him to the starters. Dalton Pence fantastic example 1:11:47.760 --> 1:11:51.479 of that. Owen proached last year too, So there's a 1:11:52.000 --> 1:11:53.960 very solid chance at Calhoun does that this year. But 1:11:54.000 --> 1:11:57.479 even Michael Anderson junior from Penn State, very very good 1:11:57.520 --> 1:12:00.000 bat with power this year also, it's been up to 1:12:00.040 --> 1:12:01.840 ninety nine on the mound. Could be a two way guy. 1:12:02.320 --> 1:12:04.559 Then they found just a lot of guys that will 1:12:04.600 --> 1:12:08.040 save him money and brainerd Aoki, Kobe Branch, King Carpenter, 1:12:08.080 --> 1:12:11.120 Evan Morrison. They all signed for two hundred or not 1:12:11.160 --> 1:12:14.040 two hundred, but two point five k, you know. 1:12:15.000 --> 1:12:17.519 Five hundred dollars, which I still think should be against 1:12:17.560 --> 1:12:19.160 the rules. You should have to give these guys at 1:12:19.280 --> 1:12:23.519 least five thousand dollars, maybe even more than that. Ten 1:12:24.360 --> 1:12:26.639 I just I think it's crazy. But yeah, they they 1:12:26.680 --> 1:12:29.920 stacked one, two, three, Four of those four guys signed 1:12:29.920 --> 1:12:31.400 for two thousand, five hundred dollars. 1:12:31.960 --> 1:12:34.679 Yeah, and Kobe Branch Captain America going and go play. 1:12:34.760 --> 1:12:37.839 He actually played for the USA Collegiate team, which normally 1:12:37.880 --> 1:12:41.439 doesn't take twenty three year olds, but hey, they they 1:12:41.600 --> 1:12:43.760 nearly won the whole tournament. This year and they'll be 1:12:43.760 --> 1:12:46.800 playing next year and carry, which I'm excited about. But 1:12:46.880 --> 1:12:48.680 going outside of that, like Evan, I. 1:12:48.680 --> 1:12:51.960 Would say that earned a seven five hundred dollars. 1:12:52.520 --> 1:12:56.519 Absolutely, Absolutely, you get an extra five K bonus for 1:12:56.560 --> 1:13:00.360 going to the USA team. But uh, outside of that, 1:13:00.400 --> 1:13:02.960 like Jordan Hawkins, Jackson Nash shining for overslot in the 1:13:02.960 --> 1:13:05.840 eleventh and twelve round or two stllar gets Landon Brewer, 1:13:06.200 --> 1:13:09.400 you know, this is a projectable arm. So again, there's 1:13:09.400 --> 1:13:11.160 a lot of risk to take in this draft class, 1:13:11.160 --> 1:13:13.960 and I feel like it really hinges on how real Rojas, 1:13:14.720 --> 1:13:18.840 Como and Bumia kind of a form. But you know, hey, 1:13:19.439 --> 1:13:21.479 I kind of like this a bit more because obviously 1:13:21.479 --> 1:13:23.639 they had more pool money to kind of work with 1:13:25.280 --> 1:13:28.200 in the Rangers. Dude, they know how to work with 1:13:28.240 --> 1:13:30.640 these kind of types. So I'm intrigued to see what 1:13:30.640 --> 1:13:33.720 they can do and we'll see what it goes from there. 1:13:33.720 --> 1:13:35.960 But they got some really solid depth in this class 1:13:36.000 --> 1:13:38.360 and we'll just see how it pans out in about 1:13:39.240 --> 1:13:42.680 two to three years. Maybe if they're all performing in 1:13:42.720 --> 1:13:44.400 the way that I expect them to, then this is 1:13:44.520 --> 1:13:46.479 just an outrageous get for the Rangers. 1:13:46.920 --> 1:13:50.679 Yeah, I mean, the upside is quite immense with risk, 1:13:50.760 --> 1:13:54.040 but the reward is definitely there when you're weighing both. 1:13:54.600 --> 1:13:57.479 We go to the final two classes. Toronto Blue Jays 1:13:57.720 --> 1:14:00.960 up next. Mind you, this was a second small bonus pool. 1:14:01.400 --> 1:14:05.080 They grab Cole Carlin, left hander, who does a great 1:14:05.120 --> 1:14:07.040 chance for at least Land is like a leverage reliever 1:14:07.080 --> 1:14:09.240 at the big league level with the wipeout slaughter that 1:14:09.320 --> 1:14:12.120 he has in a fastball that averages about ninety six, 1:14:12.120 --> 1:14:15.040 can get up to triple digits. Then they go. They 1:14:15.160 --> 1:14:17.640 don't pick again until one hundred and third selection. Right, 1:14:17.680 --> 1:14:19.920 their first pick was thirty ninth overall for Carlin, and 1:14:20.040 --> 1:14:22.360 they get Ryan Cooney shorts out out of Oregon, and 1:14:22.400 --> 1:14:25.519 then I think their big spend, right, the deal that 1:14:25.520 --> 1:14:27.320 they're probably really excited to be able to pull off 1:14:27.720 --> 1:14:31.120 was Will Brick in the fourth round where they signed 1:14:31.200 --> 1:14:34.000 him for two point five million dollars when it was 1:14:34.000 --> 1:14:38.080 a five hundred and eighty thousand slot value there. I know, 1:14:38.120 --> 1:14:40.559 Brick is a guy that you were pretty high on 1:14:40.600 --> 1:14:45.040 as well, eighty eighth on your board. They I think 1:14:45.080 --> 1:14:47.400 that was the big get for them, given how limited 1:14:47.560 --> 1:14:48.800 their their bonus pool was. 1:14:50.240 --> 1:14:52.840 For sure, and like to talk on a little brick too. 1:14:52.880 --> 1:14:55.280 This is a kid that he reclassed last summer. He 1:14:55.800 --> 1:14:58.400 played on the eighteen U national team as well, if 1:14:58.439 --> 1:15:00.879 I remember correctly, or he's at tryout and I remember. 1:15:01.520 --> 1:15:03.080 The biggest thing that stick out to me was the 1:15:03.120 --> 1:15:06.040 fact that they tried running on him in three straight 1:15:06.040 --> 1:15:08.719 innings and each time the throw is just got progressively better. 1:15:09.040 --> 1:15:11.719 And there was one throw he made from his knees 1:15:12.280 --> 1:15:14.960 like perfect, perfect to the second basement and got him 1:15:14.960 --> 1:15:18.240 with time, So like the kid can defend it behind 1:15:18.240 --> 1:15:20.479 the backstoff. He's one of the few guys where, like 1:15:21.000 --> 1:15:23.600 prep catchers are pretty volatile, you don't expect him to 1:15:23.640 --> 1:15:25.240 really stick back there, but he's one of the guys 1:15:25.280 --> 1:15:27.880 where you're like, Okay, yeah, he's gonna stick it at 1:15:27.920 --> 1:15:31.040 the catching position for a long time, and the bats intriguing, 1:15:31.120 --> 1:15:34.000 Like he kind of doesn't sell out for power as much, 1:15:34.040 --> 1:15:36.160 but he's this big kid who definitely has the raw 1:15:36.200 --> 1:15:39.799 power to really turn into a legitimate extra bas threat 1:15:40.439 --> 1:15:42.320 and also does feel to hit too, So like there's 1:15:42.320 --> 1:15:45.360 a lot to like with this kid also in an 1:15:45.360 --> 1:15:47.880 absolute goofball, He's another guy that he's only my personal 1:15:47.960 --> 1:15:50.240 favorites the interview this year because he was just such 1:15:50.240 --> 1:15:53.479 a knowledgeable kid but also kind of an open book. 1:15:53.479 --> 1:15:57.960 And he's he's definitely a very. He attracts a lot 1:15:57.960 --> 1:16:01.400 of guys essentially, it's a very. He definitely a leader. 1:16:01.600 --> 1:16:03.720 He's definitely a guy that is gonna be fun to 1:16:04.000 --> 1:16:07.760 be teammates with in my opinion, So for him, it's fantastic. 1:16:07.800 --> 1:16:10.439 And then obviously you know Carloone getting him in the 1:16:10.479 --> 1:16:12.519 thirty ninth. Overall, it's a guy I thought it could 1:16:12.560 --> 1:16:14.479 go in the back end of the first round, you know, 1:16:14.680 --> 1:16:17.200 definite relief risk. He might be a closer at the 1:16:17.240 --> 1:16:19.920 end of the day. But the slider's legitimate had more 1:16:20.040 --> 1:16:22.679 velocity this year to command got better. Can you expend 1:16:22.680 --> 1:16:24.439 the arsenal more. We'll see what the Blues can do, 1:16:24.520 --> 1:16:26.879 but they've done a good job with developing arms recently. 1:16:27.320 --> 1:16:29.320 Ryan Cooney is a great get in the third round. 1:16:30.040 --> 1:16:32.680 Played better than his teammate Match Maloney, who went to 1:16:32.680 --> 1:16:35.479 the Tigers. We talked about in the last episode. Very 1:16:35.479 --> 1:16:37.760 good hit tool had some more power this year. He 1:16:37.760 --> 1:16:40.880 can defend it short stop. If Maloney wasn't at Oregon, 1:16:40.880 --> 1:16:42.439 he would have been a short stop this year. So 1:16:42.880 --> 1:16:45.680 Cooney's gonna slide over to his right. But then you 1:16:45.720 --> 1:16:48.280 get some guys who again this is another case of 1:16:48.479 --> 1:16:51.000 going after guys who you're gonna save you some money 1:16:51.040 --> 1:16:55.280 in Noland Higgins, Gable, Mitchell, Jake Bennett, Joey Urban, Bryce 1:16:55.439 --> 1:16:57.920 Chance all signed for cine filonder slot. You get Dean 1:16:57.960 --> 1:17:00.120 West who could be a pretty solid table setter for 1:17:00.160 --> 1:17:02.960 you at the top of the lineup. Braden Martin had 1:17:02.960 --> 1:17:04.519 some of the best bat the ball skills in this 1:17:04.600 --> 1:17:06.599 draft class. Gets him in the eleventh round and sign 1:17:06.640 --> 1:17:09.920 him for like fifty k over but he missed like 1:17:09.960 --> 1:17:13.200 two fastballs all year. The bat the ball steals are ridiculous. 1:17:13.240 --> 1:17:14.799 You can play in at third base in the outfield, 1:17:14.840 --> 1:17:17.439 there's some utility there. Then to go farther down, you 1:17:17.439 --> 1:17:20.760 get some guys like Santiago Garcia, Matthias nay Roll from 1:17:20.840 --> 1:17:27.519 Kansas who he's French. Actually he's not the only European 1:17:27.600 --> 1:17:30.880 national disclass. I think the Marlins actually had a sweet. 1:17:30.640 --> 1:17:35.640 I saw he's from Switzerland, right, yes, serious. 1:17:35.320 --> 1:17:39.559 With that's crazy. And then even outside of that, like 1:17:39.600 --> 1:17:41.599 you get all of your data Torri, which the col 1:17:41.680 --> 1:17:44.559 Arms are underappreciated this year because they were wark courses. 1:17:45.400 --> 1:17:47.360 To get him in the fifteenth round is pretty solid. 1:17:47.400 --> 1:17:50.000 I think he has a decent career, big kid, really 1:17:50.000 --> 1:17:53.240 good change up fastball, is only going to play so much, 1:17:53.320 --> 1:17:56.240 but again, gonna eat you a ton of innings if 1:17:56.280 --> 1:17:59.080 you get to his full ceiling. Landon Waters is gonna 1:17:59.120 --> 1:18:02.479 have some intrigue trades. They didn't get Jake mccoyny eighteen round, 1:18:02.520 --> 1:18:05.160 which is I guess fine because most of the money 1:18:05.200 --> 1:18:08.760 did go to Will Brick and deservedly. So this is 1:18:08.800 --> 1:18:11.760 a kid that they really think can can do a 1:18:11.800 --> 1:18:13.760 lot for them behind the plate in offensively. So I'm 1:18:13.800 --> 1:18:15.719 intrigued to see what the blue Jays can do outside 1:18:15.720 --> 1:18:18.400 of this. But I'd say a pretty solid haul for 1:18:18.479 --> 1:18:20.599 the blue Jays all things considered, with the second lowest 1:18:20.640 --> 1:18:22.280 pool on this class. I agree. 1:18:22.280 --> 1:18:23.840 I think they get a first round arm and then 1:18:23.920 --> 1:18:28.000 get you know, the the top prep catcher in the 1:18:28.000 --> 1:18:32.240 class comfortably and Will Brick. Yeah, that's a lot of upside, 1:18:32.280 --> 1:18:35.080 I think ultimately, when and it's not like you fully 1:18:35.080 --> 1:18:38.080 punted your your second selection in Ryan Cooney in the 1:18:38.120 --> 1:18:41.360 third round pick, they're like, I thought they were pretty 1:18:41.400 --> 1:18:44.559 creative given you know how limited they were bonus pool wise, 1:18:45.800 --> 1:18:48.360 we go to the Nats and this is the final team. Here, 1:18:49.040 --> 1:18:53.240 they grab Chris Acopian eleventh overall. Then they go with 1:18:53.520 --> 1:18:57.040 Chase Brunson with their second round pick. He was a 1:18:57.040 --> 1:18:59.880 bit of a savings pick there, but then some of 1:18:59.920 --> 1:19:02.200 the most of that, all of that is funneled to 1:19:02.400 --> 1:19:06.639 Luke Williams, prepster out of Pennsylvania with their third round pick, 1:19:06.840 --> 1:19:09.960 who signed for one point four to three million overslat 1:19:10.120 --> 1:19:12.519 And they followed that up with another overslaught pick with 1:19:12.680 --> 1:19:16.559 Cooper Harris, another prepster, this time a right hander out 1:19:16.640 --> 1:19:20.759 of Texas. So curious what you think of this Nationals class. 1:19:20.800 --> 1:19:22.799 They headline it with I think one of the safer 1:19:22.880 --> 1:19:25.320 bats just purely on the bat side, and Kopian in 1:19:25.360 --> 1:19:28.280 the draft, but then you know, balance things around with 1:19:28.560 --> 1:19:31.080 some high school upside with the third and fourth picks, 1:19:31.800 --> 1:19:34.360 and then some other intriguing names I think throughout the 1:19:34.760 --> 1:19:36.960 rest of the you know, the class for them, and 1:19:37.160 --> 1:19:41.640 they signed everybody except for their sixteenth and seventeenth selections, 1:19:41.680 --> 1:19:43.639 which both kind of looked like insurance picks. 1:19:43.640 --> 1:19:47.759 Anyways, Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Anthony Murphy 1:19:48.479 --> 1:19:51.040 goes from LSU to Miami Gallaston's going to go to 1:19:51.080 --> 1:19:53.400 Georgia Tech, where you know he's going to fit into 1:19:53.680 --> 1:19:58.880 a lineup where they lost Carson Curse. I believe, I 1:19:58.920 --> 1:20:02.320 believe he is the as draft pick, but you know 1:20:02.360 --> 1:20:04.280 he's gonna kind of slot into that shorts op row 1:20:04.320 --> 1:20:06.200 now for the for the yel Jackets, and they've got 1:20:06.200 --> 1:20:08.360 a lot of retooling to do. But Gallison can hit 1:20:08.479 --> 1:20:10.760 and there's some power there. I liked what he can 1:20:10.800 --> 1:20:14.760 do there. But Jacopian, you know, we talked a bit 1:20:14.800 --> 1:20:18.479 about this in Philly where the injury bug plagued him 1:20:18.479 --> 1:20:20.600 a lot this year. He had a nagging back issue, 1:20:21.360 --> 1:20:23.400 and there are also reports that he played through a 1:20:23.439 --> 1:20:26.960 Brooklyn leg. I don't think that was necessarily true, but 1:20:27.040 --> 1:20:30.080 I know it's been reported. But when he's healthy, this 1:20:30.160 --> 1:20:31.960 is some of the best batketball steels in the class. 1:20:32.000 --> 1:20:33.960 Does not miss the fastball. I believe he only missed 1:20:33.960 --> 1:20:36.920 two all year in the zone. And then also there's 1:20:36.960 --> 1:20:39.200 some underlying power traits like here. I think he hit 1:20:39.280 --> 1:20:41.600 VP the other day with the big league team, and 1:20:41.640 --> 1:20:43.479 there was raw power in the bat, you know, with 1:20:43.520 --> 1:20:45.400 Wood hitting one O nine, one ten, I think he 1:20:45.439 --> 1:20:48.920 bought the one thirteen in BP, so I think there's 1:20:48.960 --> 1:20:50.120 gonna be a lot to like with a coop and 1:20:50.120 --> 1:20:52.280 you get him fully healthy, I think he's gonna go 1:20:52.360 --> 1:20:55.599 through the minus pretty quickly. Just a second baseman, though 1:20:56.000 --> 1:20:57.559 probably is not going to be on the left side 1:20:57.560 --> 1:21:00.000 of the dirt. Chase Brunson, I liked them a lot. 1:21:00.120 --> 1:21:02.320 He played in center field this year. He's gonna stick there. 1:21:02.760 --> 1:21:05.000 And also there's intriguing power in the bat. I thought 1:21:05.040 --> 1:21:06.760 last year he needed short to swinging a little bit, 1:21:06.760 --> 1:21:09.680 and he didn't necessarily do that this year, but he 1:21:09.720 --> 1:21:12.080 did perform a lot better in my opinion this year 1:21:12.080 --> 1:21:16.160 and saves them a lot of money. Luke Williams high athleticism, 1:21:16.320 --> 1:21:19.120 high power. You know, this is a kid that you're 1:21:19.160 --> 1:21:21.400 really banking on the ability to hit, and we'll see 1:21:21.400 --> 1:21:25.000 if it really develops. But you draft the athlete and 1:21:25.040 --> 1:21:26.800 you take that gamble. This is definitely one of those 1:21:26.800 --> 1:21:28.640 cases where they do it, you know, kind of like 1:21:28.680 --> 1:21:31.240 a Koy James archetype a little bit but a lot 1:21:31.320 --> 1:21:34.920 more powerful. In my opinion. You get Cooper Harris in 1:21:34.960 --> 1:21:37.320 the fourth round, who is going to be throwing probably 1:21:37.360 --> 1:21:39.080 one hundred miles an hour in a couple of years, 1:21:39.120 --> 1:21:44.519 like big projection, really easy delivery too, and the arnspeed 1:21:44.840 --> 1:21:47.760 just really pops on the film when you watch him. 1:21:48.720 --> 1:21:50.320 That's a key indicator for me with a guy that's 1:21:50.320 --> 1:21:52.200 gonna be throwing really really hard in a couple of years, 1:21:52.760 --> 1:21:54.599 also has a really good breaking ball, spends the ball 1:21:54.720 --> 1:21:57.080 very well. You know, there's some downhill plane to it. 1:21:57.200 --> 1:21:59.360 But I think at the end of the day you 1:21:59.360 --> 1:22:02.080 grow into that more philosophy and find ways to kind 1:22:02.080 --> 1:22:05.679 of turn them into a decent command kid on the mound. 1:22:06.160 --> 1:22:07.680 You'd like the upside and you go for I think 1:22:07.720 --> 1:22:10.360 this is something that they really look for, and I 1:22:10.400 --> 1:22:13.160 trust Paul at Debonian Company to really turn him into something. 1:22:13.800 --> 1:22:16.840 Get Kouve, who was injured this year, had a backstretch 1:22:16.840 --> 1:22:20.799 fractured late in the season. But then also he transformed himself. 1:22:20.840 --> 1:22:23.639 He really turned away from this guy that was kind 1:22:23.640 --> 1:22:27.720 of swing happy, didn't really stay in his zone, had 1:22:27.760 --> 1:22:29.920 like a chase rate of forty percent. He stayed more 1:22:29.960 --> 1:22:31.960 in his zone this year. He was doing more damage 1:22:32.640 --> 1:22:36.400 and is obviously seventy great power. So playing at third base, 1:22:36.400 --> 1:22:38.640 maybe he moves to first base, but the basket going 1:22:38.720 --> 1:22:41.320 to play there get some intriguing arms and Cooper, Allen, 1:22:41.439 --> 1:22:45.439 Gage Peterson, and Max Hansman in the sixth, seventh, and eighth. 1:22:45.920 --> 1:22:48.599 And then also you get some more intriguing arms later 1:22:48.640 --> 1:22:52.439 on the Weston Moss Matthew Dallas, Anson Stebert, who was 1:22:52.479 --> 1:22:55.519 a Tennessee commit went the campus, didn't get much run, 1:22:56.120 --> 1:22:58.760 but then goes to the community college and finds find 1:22:58.800 --> 1:23:01.880 the twenty front pick and sign. And so the Nationals, 1:23:02.840 --> 1:23:04.920 I think their driver is going to hange on how 1:23:05.080 --> 1:23:09.120 Luke Williams and Cooper Harris really turned into what we 1:23:09.200 --> 1:23:12.960 think they can but the same token getting Brunston and 1:23:13.000 --> 1:23:15.840 getting a copy and is fantastic. Those are two guys 1:23:15.840 --> 1:23:18.080 that could really fly through a system when they're fully healthy. 1:23:19.000 --> 1:23:22.320 Brunston obviously this year had a scare where we thought 1:23:22.360 --> 1:23:24.800 he tore his achilles, but came back and performed well. 1:23:24.920 --> 1:23:28.040 So we'll see how this draft fast turns out. But 1:23:28.080 --> 1:23:30.040 I really liked the upside they targeted here in this 1:23:30.080 --> 1:23:33.960 class in the Nationals, I do fully believe that they'll 1:23:34.120 --> 1:23:36.000 find a way to develop these guys. This is a 1:23:36.040 --> 1:23:40.400 newer gime and with tabony and what they've been able 1:23:40.439 --> 1:23:43.599 to do, I think there's a solid git for these guys. 1:23:44.200 --> 1:23:46.840 Yeah, I love I love the floor ceiling combination with 1:23:46.880 --> 1:23:49.920 the college bats and then high school bat and high 1:23:49.960 --> 1:23:53.880 school arm and just dropping that into the improved player 1:23:53.880 --> 1:23:56.439 development infrastructure that you have in the nationals ORG. I 1:23:56.479 --> 1:23:58.439 think put them in a fun spot and then, like 1:23:58.439 --> 1:24:00.280 you said, still a lot of interesting value you in 1:24:00.320 --> 1:24:03.760 the later rounds to make this class really strong, and 1:24:03.800 --> 1:24:05.479 I think the national will say, you got to feel 1:24:05.479 --> 1:24:08.000 really good if you're an ADS fan about how they 1:24:08.000 --> 1:24:11.880 came out of this class. Already an hour twenty five 1:24:11.960 --> 1:24:15.240 in so Tyler, two and a half hours roughly of 1:24:15.720 --> 1:24:18.840 draft talk. You're breaking it all down. Nobody better to 1:24:18.880 --> 1:24:21.320 do it. Thank you so much, dude for breaking this 1:24:21.360 --> 1:24:23.280 all down. It was so much fun doing the draft 1:24:23.320 --> 1:24:26.320 stream with you, talking draft through with you before, after, 1:24:26.520 --> 1:24:28.719 and of course finally as we have all these picks 1:24:28.760 --> 1:24:32.599 coming through here, plug everything you gotta plug here because again, 1:24:32.720 --> 1:24:35.120 like we said, twenty twenty seven is just beginning now. 1:24:36.360 --> 1:24:39.840 Yeah. Absolutely, and you got some more twenty twenty seven 1:24:39.840 --> 1:24:41.360 pieces coming up. I was just going to write about 1:24:41.360 --> 1:24:43.559 Brennan laston and how he could be the first one 1:24:43.560 --> 1:24:47.240 to one Canadian ever in the draft era. I'm also 1:24:47.280 --> 1:24:49.400 going to be doing some more boards and some recaps 1:24:49.439 --> 1:24:51.840 what I've seen out in the field, So go and 1:24:51.880 --> 1:24:54.320 follow at Tyler Jenny's twenty four on Twitter. Also followed 1:24:54.360 --> 1:24:58.920 the at College Baseball Show Jared Mark. All these guys 1:24:58.960 --> 1:25:01.400 that we have behind the scenes a fantastic job and 1:25:01.439 --> 1:25:03.080 they deserve all the credit in the world for what 1:25:03.120 --> 1:25:05.280 they do behind the scenes and everything they've put out, 1:25:05.360 --> 1:25:08.200 So give them a follow at College Baseball and then 1:25:08.200 --> 1:25:12.760 you can follow everybody from there, and obviously got area 1:25:12.800 --> 1:25:15.320 coaches coming up, more eighteen U stuff. I'm going to 1:25:15.360 --> 1:25:17.240 be doing a lot of college boards and college and 1:25:17.760 --> 1:25:21.679 high school ranks moving forward. So excited for clean slate 1:25:21.720 --> 1:25:24.920 on on the new cycle, and we'll see what happens 1:25:24.920 --> 1:25:26.680 in the offseason to see if we actually have a 1:25:26.720 --> 1:25:29.880 draft next year. But hey, at the end of the day, 1:25:30.000 --> 1:25:34.160 this is again just been a fantastic opportunity to work 1:25:34.160 --> 1:25:37.000 with you guys, and I am very much thankful that 1:25:37.080 --> 1:25:38.920 you guys took a chance on us and we've been 1:25:39.000 --> 1:25:41.519 able to turn into something special. So thank you guys. 1:25:41.720 --> 1:25:43.880 It's been a blast. I think this is obviously thanks 1:25:43.880 --> 1:25:46.160 to you and again the College Baseball Show guys, the 1:25:46.160 --> 1:25:50.280 most informed our audience has ever been on the draft 1:25:50.320 --> 1:25:53.320 and college baseball in general, and just amateur baseball in 1:25:53.360 --> 1:25:54.000 general as well. 1:25:54.080 --> 1:25:55.479 So just the beginning. 1:25:55.479 --> 1:25:57.760 A lot more fun things ahead, and I hope you 1:25:57.800 --> 1:26:02.160 guys enjoyed this breakdown. We've got an episode with Max 1:26:02.360 --> 1:26:05.600 Clark tomorrow, so very much looking forward to putting that 1:26:05.600 --> 1:26:07.320 out with you. He's one of the most one of 1:26:07.320 --> 1:26:08.720 the hottes hitters in the minor leagues right now, and 1:26:08.720 --> 1:26:10.920 we're gonna break it down as he knocks in the door, 1:26:11.040 --> 1:26:11.759 big big debut. 1:26:12.080 --> 1:26:12.960 We'll talk to you then