Speaker 1: And he swings high, understand deep, just senter feel, and
Speaker 1: it's gone, Wow.
Speaker 2: His first big league swing is gonna be.
Speaker 1: A grand slam, a home line swing.
Speaker 3: Good time to look to them soup Part two of
Speaker 3: the MLB Draft recap. Here on the call up, you
Speaker 3: got rum lighton Tyler Jennings. We've got fifteen more teams
Speaker 3: to break down and just kind of highlight the draft classes.
Speaker 3: But before we get into that, we have a little
Speaker 3: bit of a surprise. I wish it came through before
Speaker 3: we recap the Guardian's draft class, because this does alter
Speaker 3: their draft class quite a bit. But at least we
Speaker 3: have you God, we made this a two partner. Now,
Speaker 3: now we can follow up and talk about it before
Speaker 3: we jump into the Miami Marlins and the subsequent fourteen
Speaker 3: other teams. Tyler kind of surprising, Logan Schmidt ends up,
Speaker 3: then I'm not gonna sign. I'm most likely going to LSU,
Speaker 3: maybe Duco. We'll talk about that. But forty fifth overall
Speaker 3: selection was prepared to probably get a pretty big overslat
Speaker 3: you know, bonus there for the Guardians to then get
Speaker 3: another high impact arm left hander out of California prep ranks.
Speaker 3: How surprised are you that Schmidt didn't sign, and you know,
Speaker 3: how much does this alter the class?
Speaker 2: It definitely alters Cleveland's class in general a little bit,
Speaker 2: because obviously they were really banking on getting this type
Speaker 2: of arm into their system and it was a great
Speaker 2: fit personally, Like kind of just looking at how Cleveland's
Speaker 2: been able to turn some of these like softer tossing
Speaker 2: lefties into like legitimate big league talents like Parker Messik
Speaker 2: for example, give you like more of a recent example
Speaker 2: like he's he's turned into an absolute stud for the Guardians.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's interesting. I think Schmidt, from
Speaker 2: what I've seen or what I've heard, is like there
Speaker 2: wasn't necessarily an agreement beforehand, and it just seems like
Speaker 2: Schmid's number was a bit too high, and Cleveland doesn't
Speaker 2: necessarily have an insurance you know, policy in place later
Speaker 2: in the draft. Most of their you know, back end
Speaker 2: draft picks after date, like the stereotypical day three. You know,
Speaker 2: they're all college guys. They've all signed, so there's not
Speaker 2: really anywhere this money can go right now. But you know,
Speaker 2: with Schmidt, it's either LSU or maybe you go JUCO route,
Speaker 2: you know, there's a I believe it's Golden West College
Speaker 2: out there in Huntington Beach. Is a is a close
Speaker 2: option for him if he wants to go back in
Speaker 2: and try and like keep his stock up for next
Speaker 2: year's draft class. Obviously, but it's it's definitely an interesting
Speaker 2: scenario to kind of look at it from from both perspectives.
Speaker 2: You know, team obviously losing their chance to sign this
Speaker 2: kid who they took in second round and obviously viewed
Speaker 2: them highly enough to do so, and also just from
Speaker 2: you know, logan standpoint of like, hey, I can go
Speaker 2: to to LSU, get a bad and with an IL
Speaker 2: and also you know, carve out my role for Jay
Speaker 2: Johnson's club on a team that looks, you know, arguably
Speaker 2: better than what it was a year ago for LSU,
Speaker 2: or go to Juco and try your best to up
Speaker 2: that stock for next year's drafts. You still be really young,
Speaker 2: and he just turned eighteen a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be very interesting to see what happens
Speaker 2: with Schmid's route. And you know, I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 2: here and make fun of the kid. I genuinely hope
Speaker 2: that he chooses what's best for him, and then he
Speaker 2: succeeds at every stop at the next level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Schmid's far from the first, won't be the last,
Speaker 3: most likely either, and hopefully it all works out for him.
Speaker 3: But for the Guardian's draft class, it was a gamble
Speaker 3: when he didn't have the agreement in place, and a
Speaker 3: lot of times it still works out you figure it out.
Speaker 3: In this case, it just doesn't for the guard Still
Speaker 3: a lot of talent in the draft class, I think,
Speaker 3: even more now reason that you're looking at, like saveing
Speaker 3: on Simms and hoping he can reach his upside there
Speaker 3: and some of the you know, higher upside prep arms
Speaker 3: that they brought into the fold here. But we're gonna
Speaker 3: go into the next fifteen teams now, which starts with
Speaker 3: the Miami Marlins. They had a local kid that was
Speaker 3: expected to go a good bit higher, and Jacob Lombard
Speaker 3: kind of fall into their lap there, made it a
Speaker 3: no brainer selection for them, despite you know, some of
Speaker 3: the concerns that might come with the hit tool and
Speaker 3: why he maybe fell. So we'll talk about that and
Speaker 3: then some other interesting picks behind him, you know, the Marlins.
Speaker 3: I think the last couple of drafts I don't think
Speaker 3: there's been a clear cut identity in terms of the
Speaker 3: way that they like to approach these drafts yet since
Speaker 3: Frankie Hilari's taken over. I think it's just the best
Speaker 3: player available that they feel like they see. But last
Speaker 3: year they did go very college heavy. The year before
Speaker 3: they didn't, so he I asked the Marlins about it.
Speaker 3: Last year, they were just kind of like, this is
Speaker 3: just how the board fell to us, but it was
Speaker 3: a crazy amount of college. This year they go high
Speaker 3: school off the top, and then you know, I think
Speaker 3: it was still college heavy ish, but they still mixed
Speaker 3: in more high school than last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even think they had a high schooler
Speaker 2: in last year's class, Like could be mistaken on that.
Speaker 2: I think they just went all all college. But you know,
Speaker 2: you get Lombard. You know, he was view as a
Speaker 2: to some as a top five talent. I had him
Speaker 2: just outside the top five personally, just because the hit
Speaker 2: tool was just so shaky and I couldn't get a
Speaker 2: good read on it. But the tools are outstanding. So
Speaker 2: to get him at that range and also to sign
Speaker 2: them underslot too, is pretty impressive. So I think if
Speaker 2: you're Miami, you take that as a win, and you
Speaker 2: definitely look at ways to try and fix the swing,
Speaker 2: fix the batpath, and get the most out of the
Speaker 2: hit tool. You know, their butt lines are there. His
Speaker 2: dad's a major league coach, obviously big leaguer, and then
Speaker 2: obviously his brother with the Yankees now in Triple A
Speaker 2: and could be on his way to a big league
Speaker 2: call up here soon. So there's a lot to like
Speaker 2: here with Lombard. But obviously just got to work on
Speaker 2: that hit tool. But even after that, they went after
Speaker 2: some pretty, you know, intriguing college arms and some college
Speaker 2: bats like Ethan Kleinschmidt and Ryan Peterson in the second round.
Speaker 2: You know, both of them have really good heaters. Peterson
Speaker 2: gets like seven feet of extension with a good hammer
Speaker 2: curveball with high spin, and Kleinschmid's your stereotypical like pitchability
Speaker 2: left by who there's a lot to really work in.
Speaker 2: His favorite He came from the Juco route, like we
Speaker 2: had talked about before, went to Lynn Benton, went to
Speaker 2: Oregon State, pitched in the College World Series, and had
Speaker 2: a good year this year for the Beavers. So there's
Speaker 2: there's a good amount of outside I loved him when
Speaker 2: he pitched at USA collegiate national team a year ago
Speaker 2: during training camp. I think it was for shoutout innings
Speaker 2: and just put everything wherever you want, So I think
Speaker 2: it might be a plus command guy at the end
Speaker 2: of the day. But you know, going past that, you've
Speaker 2: got guys like Trey Beard, Kim Kolzel, Eric Guavara from Auburn,
Speaker 2: who I think is a really solid bat. You also
Speaker 2: get into some other guys like Nick Tolbert, Zach Peters,
Speaker 2: Colt selvic all these guys that could be I would
Speaker 2: say Peters and Selvig are more reliever type, but they
Speaker 2: have some upside and field spin and also some intriguing
Speaker 2: fastball traits. But they did They did acquire some more
Speaker 2: high school talent here, like Wesley Robertson in the fourth
Speaker 2: round as a really really solid at the order guy
Speaker 2: with good speed, good center field traits, signed over slot. Obviously,
Speaker 2: cannot forget about Rentaro Sasaki as well. That's another big
Speaker 2: storyline in this draft class, where he signed with the Marlins.
Speaker 2: He's not going back to Japan, you know, where he
Speaker 2: was a first round pick. He gets selected in the
Speaker 2: eighth round, gets two hundred and ten thousand and maybe
Speaker 2: some extra change outside of that. But again, Nick Tolbert,
Speaker 2: you look at Baine Barker and there's some intriguing guys
Speaker 2: even probably down the board like Joey lost in their
Speaker 2: twenty eight rounders signed. So it's an intriguing class. Definitely
Speaker 2: has a going after some traits with some pitchers you
Speaker 2: know obviously, like for example, Tyler Kappa for Virginia has
Speaker 2: a really really good fastball that sits in the mid
Speaker 2: nineties and nobody was able to touch it this year.
Speaker 2: So he's a guy that really, you know, gets my
Speaker 2: attention to, like Colin Linder Porter Bursmas. So it's an
Speaker 2: intriguing class with some good traits and I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: shot there. There's some fast risers in this in this
Speaker 2: class for the.
Speaker 3: Marlins, going back to Lumbar quickly is just you know,
Speaker 3: it's one thing from the fall. Sometimes when you see
Speaker 3: guys fall like this, typically you got to go overslot
Speaker 3: a little bit right, and there's still a price tag
Speaker 3: to meet. How do you think the Marlins were able
Speaker 3: to sign him for four hundred and forty thousand dollars
Speaker 3: underslot when he was expected to go maybe anywhere from
Speaker 3: seven to nine picks earlier, and I just I like,
Speaker 3: was he slipping that much? Like if the Marlins didn't
Speaker 3: pick him, was there concern that he could slip to
Speaker 3: the back end of the first round? Like that's what
Speaker 3: the bonus implies to me. I'm just trying to understand it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it feels like. I don't have like
Speaker 2: a solidified answer on this, but it just feels like
Speaker 2: that there was a way that there was a larger
Speaker 2: slide than what he had. And I think another thing
Speaker 2: that plays a role in this too is obviously he's
Speaker 2: a Miami kid. You know, go Over prep schools is
Speaker 2: in the Miami metro. I wouldn't be shocked to just
Speaker 2: like a little bit of a discount here. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's a role of Beth
Speaker 2: where the slide was occurring. Maybe they were prepared for
Speaker 2: that scenario, considering the fact that all these teams were
Speaker 2: looking for for hit tool first guys, and then also
Speaker 2: just the fact that this is this is his area
Speaker 2: and this is a he's I'm pretty sure he's born
Speaker 2: and raised here. I could be mistaken, but yeah, know
Speaker 2: this this is his home, and.
Speaker 3: I wonder if it's just a state tax coming to
Speaker 3: effect with the signing bonuses. I don't know, but that
Speaker 3: they could it could start to make up a little
Speaker 3: bit of the gap there. But regardless, makes a lot
Speaker 3: of sense. And you know, why why haggle over a
Speaker 3: couple hundred thousand dollars in risk falling further when you could,
Speaker 3: you know, stay home and you have a pretty good
Speaker 3: opportunity here in a system where if he's playing the
Speaker 3: way that he's capable of playing, and I don't think
Speaker 3: there's gonna be too too many guys in his way.
Speaker 3: And I think the fun idea for the Marlins is
Speaker 3: potentially being able to have, you know, at that a
Speaker 3: certain point r Quette and Lombard on the left side
Speaker 3: of the infield in years to come. So it'll be
Speaker 3: fun to see how that all shakes out. You go
Speaker 3: to one of the best drafting organizations in in baseball
Speaker 3: and we go to the Milwaukee Brewers. They take another
Speaker 3: evil with their first pick, and I mean the first
Speaker 3: one that they took a couple of year last year.
Speaker 3: And Brady Eagle's going well now, he's really starting to
Speaker 3: settle in at the big league level. Trey now and
Speaker 3: exciting got to bring the fold. They saved a million
Speaker 3: bucks with that pick as well, almost and then you know,
Speaker 3: one of the maybe steals of the draft potentially with
Speaker 3: their second pick. And s stro Snyder, who I know
Speaker 3: you had as a first round talent. For me, thought like,
Speaker 3: no doubt when you watch the guy play that eagle
Speaker 3: took a first round talent somehow slips to the second round.
Speaker 3: I'll start with him, and then you know, I'll let
Speaker 3: you highlight the rest of the class. Did they buy
Speaker 3: stro Snyder down once he started to slip because he
Speaker 3: gets two point one million dollars. The slot value for
Speaker 3: his selection of sixty six overall was one point three
Speaker 3: to five.
Speaker 2: Was there a.
Speaker 3: Situation where he slips a little bit they pick up
Speaker 3: the phone and say, hey, you're willing to slip a
Speaker 3: little bit more and we'll pay you for where you
Speaker 3: probably should have got picked.
Speaker 2: Yeah. In like, I'll even put it out there, like
Speaker 2: I had stras Schnyder as a fringe top ten prospect
Speaker 2: in this class. Like I truly believed in the power
Speaker 2: and the ability to play center field. So to see
Speaker 2: him follow this far, I kind of did her a
Speaker 2: little bit. But the same token, Like, like you said,
Speaker 2: he probably just got a call. I know, for example,
Speaker 2: like we'll go to last year the Phillies, I believe
Speaker 2: had an arm that I had viewed hide in like
Speaker 2: the second round and basically took him in the seventh
Speaker 2: and like, hey, he wants to pitch for you guys,
Speaker 2: and we'll do that. I don't know if that's the
Speaker 2: ZAC scenario here, but with straw Snider, like you're getting
Speaker 2: this a guy that has some questionable swing decisions. Uh,
Speaker 2: the contact schools are not great, but the same token,
Speaker 2: it's ridiculous power from the left side. Great athlete can
Speaker 2: play center field if you really project him as much.
Speaker 2: So I think for for Milwaukee, getting that kind of
Speaker 2: talent at that slot is you know, pretty impressive. And
Speaker 2: you know, the only signing for two point one mil
Speaker 2: is like it saves money for the rest of the draft.
Speaker 2: When you look at guys like Julian Garcia, obviously they
Speaker 2: didn't get in and cannot designed today, which is a
Speaker 2: bit of a surprise, you know, being taken the fifth,
Speaker 2: but he's going back to Clemson for a senior year.
Speaker 2: But then you get guys like they went after a
Speaker 2: few intriguing like high school guys outside of that too,
Speaker 2: like Grant Hill killing Tom and look at farther down
Speaker 2: as well, like Carson Hart Dante Bell. So this is
Speaker 2: something that the Brewers do year in and year out,
Speaker 2: is kind of stock up on these guys later in
Speaker 2: the draft and if they can't sign someone, they'll pivot
Speaker 2: to those arms like later in the draft. I think
Speaker 2: Chase Bentley was an example from a couple years ago,
Speaker 2: if not last year. So it's something that the Brewers
Speaker 2: do year in and year out, and it's it's unique
Speaker 2: and they just seem to hit every single time.
Speaker 3: And with with Ebel, you know, Pipeline, I think had
Speaker 3: him at one oh seven. You had him at seventy two,
Speaker 3: so a lot closer to you know, the pick that
Speaker 3: he ends up going, obviously being a first rounder, but
Speaker 3: he gets two point eight million dollars, which was roughly
Speaker 3: gonna be about the thirty fifth pick value with straw Snyder,
Speaker 3: I believe it was roughly like the forty sixth pick value,
Speaker 3: forty seventh pick value. So it's interesting how they navigated
Speaker 3: those top two guys. Easy to like that, especially within
Speaker 3: the bloodlines and just the Evil family, like the baseball
Speaker 3: family to a t I imagine they got a fair
Speaker 3: amount of looks at Trey and feel good about what
Speaker 3: they've got there. It probably hurts a little bit to
Speaker 3: not land that fifth round arm and kannact, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure there's a lot of things that they liked about him.
Speaker 3: Acknowledging that, you know, they get the one point five
Speaker 3: million dollar signing there with Julian Garcia out of Saint
Speaker 3: John Bosco High School in California, triple the slot value
Speaker 3: almost there is that kind of the big ticket grab
Speaker 3: outside of the first two picks in this class. Is
Speaker 3: there anybody else that really stands out to you that's
Speaker 3: going to be that classic like the Brewers did it
Speaker 3: again in this class.
Speaker 2: It's really just going to be Julie Garcia. And you know,
Speaker 2: Garcia had TJ. I think he came back from TJ
Speaker 2: last summer, so his first real look was area coach
Speaker 2: a year ago, and he performed well. I thought it
Speaker 2: was a pretty solid arm. But then he came out
Speaker 2: the spring, was throwing harder, obviously, had a really good
Speaker 2: curve ball in a good change with go with it,
Speaker 2: and he performed well. When you pitch it inag aside
Speaker 2: this year. So to be able to see that kind
Speaker 2: of arm kind of like turn into what he is
Speaker 2: now was pretty impressive. So I see why the Brewers
Speaker 2: love him. This is a guy that, you know, if
Speaker 2: he doesn't start at minimum, he's a really solid relief arm.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens with Garcia. But that's the
Speaker 2: big ticket here, the remainder of the class. And if
Speaker 2: they get guys like uh, Brandon Havard, Carson Hart, Dante
Speaker 2: Bell to sign, I think that's another big win for
Speaker 2: the Brewers and getting these like talented under the radar
Speaker 2: high school guys to sign, and then they kind of
Speaker 2: craft him into these I don't want to say, like
Speaker 2: big time prospects, but they turned into respectable ones like
Speaker 2: Bishop Letson a couple of years ago exactly you know,
Speaker 2: Levin Frownder And now he's you know, he's carving up.
Speaker 2: I believe he's in HYA now or he wasn't low
Speaker 2: A but easy to higher up.
Speaker 3: Now he's making his way up. He's in the upper
Speaker 3: levels now, so he is. Yeah, he's on the ie out,
Speaker 3: which is the biggest question with Let's and always but
Speaker 3: Letson's up to double A now and it is. It
Speaker 3: was looking really sharp up until Hitt in the IL. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like that's a perfect example. They find guys at Phil
Speaker 3: Roles at the very least like when you when you
Speaker 3: when when I'm writing up a report on them a
Speaker 3: year or two from being drafted, I'm like, well, this
Speaker 3: guy could at least be a solid setup guy, or
Speaker 3: this guy could be a good utility guy. And those
Speaker 3: are the guys that they're taking in the seventh, eighth,
Speaker 3: ninth round or later than that, which is so impressive.
Speaker 3: We go to the next class, which is the twins
Speaker 3: fourth biggest bonus pool to work with. Third overall pick,
Speaker 3: you go get von Lackey. Hard That might have been
Speaker 3: the easiest pick of the draft. If you're picking third
Speaker 3: in this class, it must have been the easiest because
Speaker 3: it's just you just wait to see who lands in
Speaker 3: your lap of the I think very obvious top three
Speaker 3: guys there, and as expected, you know, they get Lackey.
Speaker 3: Easy to love Lackey. We've talked a lot about him obviously,
Speaker 3: what he's done. The athleticism is a catcher. The the
Speaker 3: improvements offensively, it really is kind of this well routed game.
Speaker 3: The makeup you could just dream on a franchise Cornerstone
Speaker 3: Catcher here. But the fun part with this class is
Speaker 3: that the subsequent three picks all got well north of
Speaker 3: a million dollars. Carson Tenny gets one point nine Brett
Speaker 3: Renfro gets one point one four and Ethan Washman gets
Speaker 3: two point twenty five million dollars. And then they spray
Speaker 3: the board still later too, I mean some non you know,
Speaker 3: negligible signing bonuses being delved out. That's what you can
Speaker 3: do when you've got you know, roughly seventeen million dollars
Speaker 3: to work with. What stands out the most to you
Speaker 3: about this Twins class.
Speaker 2: Very pitching heavy. I think that's the really the mo here.
Speaker 2: Like after taking Lackey and Tenny, you go after you
Speaker 2: mentioned Renfri and Watson, but also Tommy Lapour, Steel Murdoch,
Speaker 2: Ethan Leigh Bayless, Thomas Burns, jt. Rad. Here's a lot
Speaker 2: of arms in this class that have some upside to him,
Speaker 2: but they're also like, okay, you look at the poor
Speaker 2: had an injury this year, didn't pitch all that well,
Speaker 2: but still, you know, three quarters of a million dollars essentially.
Speaker 2: But then they started going after these guys that they
Speaker 2: have upside, but they're definitive relievers at the next level
Speaker 2: like Steve Murdoch, Bayle's and burns Are. You know, these
Speaker 2: these are guys that are two pitch guys, don't really
Speaker 2: have a ton of starting up sides. Then you have
Speaker 2: a guy like Ethan Leigh from Sacramento State who has
Speaker 2: a really really good slider, also a senior, saves him
Speaker 2: a ton of money in the sixth round. So they
Speaker 2: they went after these guys that have these these traits
Speaker 2: that they really do go after so to get them,
Speaker 2: it's pretty impressive and to save money and also get
Speaker 2: a guy like Watsman who you know watching him at
Speaker 2: Area Codes a year ago ninety ninety four at the
Speaker 2: fastball actually played, but the the command wasn't really there.
Speaker 2: He kind of had struggles with the secondary feel a
Speaker 2: little bit, so it wasn't his greatest outing. But then
Speaker 2: he comes out and starts throwing you know, ninety six
Speaker 2: ninety nine hits a hondo and yes it's Colorado, but
Speaker 2: like you're hitting one hundred as a high schooler, Like
Speaker 2: that's gonna grab your attention no matter what as a scout.
Speaker 2: So and he continued doing that, going to the combine
Speaker 2: had a great combine. I know people kind of made
Speaker 2: fun of the fact that he threw a ball at
Speaker 2: like one hundred, but also like scouts have seen this
Speaker 2: guy throw strikes all spring. I don't think that necessarily matters.
Speaker 2: But you know, this is again just like a very solid,
Speaker 2: very Twins draft class. And I think when you look
Speaker 2: at like as well taking two catchers that I was
Speaker 2: going to ask round that was two.
Speaker 3: College catchers, what do you make of falling up like,
Speaker 3: you know, the blue chip Lackey with another college catcher.
Speaker 2: My thing with Tenny is I'm not sure he is
Speaker 2: going to be a catcher at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: which I think that's what they they understood when they
Speaker 2: took him, is this is obviously a Tenny has a
Speaker 2: fantastic arm. He's a it's a seventy great arm from
Speaker 2: the backstop. The only problem is he's six four two forty.
Speaker 2: He's pretty big for a backstop. He's not very mobile.
Speaker 2: Does he stick there long term? I don't know. At
Speaker 2: this point. Do I think he's a first baseman. Probably so,
Speaker 2: I think that's where he ends up. But it's it's
Speaker 2: a ton of power. Some Hitte questions. I think they
Speaker 2: took him understanding that he's not going to be a
Speaker 2: catcher long term, and I think if you're a Twins fan,
Speaker 2: you're kind of fine with that because they win after
Speaker 2: a big, powerful kid with upside who is not going
Speaker 2: to block Von Lackey whatsoever. The next level. Now, I
Speaker 2: could be very wrong on that. There's a non zero
Speaker 2: chance that Tenny stays as a backstop and maybe Von
Speaker 2: Lackey moves elsewhere because he's so afflick he can play
Speaker 2: multiple positions. If that happens, you know, hey, that's just
Speaker 2: the Twins getting creative and understanding what's going on. So
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. But as of right now, I
Speaker 2: think the Tenny does move off of the backstop, it
Speaker 2: can becomes like a first basement.
Speaker 3: Well when we see the value in today's game a
Speaker 3: lot too guys that can just go back there one
Speaker 3: two days a week, get Lackey out of the crouch,
Speaker 3: and then Tenny's a If he's a first base master,
Speaker 3: I think they're happy with that. And it's also if
Speaker 3: it's a power bat they believe in. They saved four
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars with that selection as well. Afford them
Speaker 3: to go, you know, one point two million over for Washman,
Speaker 3: you know, over for a couple other guys as well.
Speaker 3: So again, really interesting draft class here with the twins
Speaker 3: and a lot of talent, very pitching heavy as you
Speaker 3: alluded to. We're gonna go to the Mets, which are
Speaker 3: an interesting class that I know you'll have some thoughts on.
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Speaker 3: They go Carson Wiggins and number one brother of Jackson Wiggins,
Speaker 3: Lively Arm also for product of Arkansas, and then some
Speaker 3: other interesting picks Aiden Robbins and outfielder, and then a
Speaker 3: lot more pictures of a runoff after that. What do
Speaker 3: you make of the Mets class? I think you've had
Speaker 3: more time to digest it and also have been able
Speaker 3: to see, like who gets signed, the bonuses, all those
Speaker 3: different things, because as of now, it looks like they
Speaker 3: signed everybody except for the insurance pick, which was Marcus
Speaker 3: Ward in the eighteenth round. What are your thoughts now
Speaker 3: that you've had some more time to digest this Mets class?
Speaker 2: Yeah, at first, I really struggled with the idea of
Speaker 2: making Carson Wiggins your headliner in this class with such
Speaker 2: a small bonus pool, because the Mets, you know, they
Speaker 2: went over to luxury tax. They've dropped ten spots, the.
Speaker 3: Smallest by the way, at six point seven million, ahead
Speaker 3: of only the Jays and the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it at first I struggled with the idea of, like, hey,
Speaker 2: Carson Wiggins, he's thrown fourteen innings in college. Had I
Speaker 2: think it was internal brace could have came back at
Speaker 2: the end of the year this year, but they played
Speaker 2: it safe. He didn't pitch, but he showed out the
Speaker 2: combine and you look at you obviously mentioned he's Jackson
Speaker 2: Wiggins brother the Wiggins has turned himself into a quality
Speaker 2: arm in the CUB system. I think there's definitely more
Speaker 2: to unlock here with Carson Wiggins. Obviously. I think he's
Speaker 2: more of like a potential closer than he is a starter.
Speaker 2: He's never had the command even as a as a
Speaker 2: high schooler. Like watching him at the delivery was sound,
Speaker 2: very easy, v low, but he was kind of spraying everything.
Speaker 2: I remember watching at PDP a couple of times where
Speaker 2: you know, one inning he was dotting everything. He was
Speaker 2: up to ninety eight, looked fantastic, had a good splitter,
Speaker 2: good slider, and then the next outing he just couldn't
Speaker 2: find his own. But you know, again, this is a
Speaker 2: lot of projecting out what he could be. And I
Speaker 2: think the Mets are making this pick knowing they're comfortable
Speaker 2: with taking the risk, and that's something they kind of
Speaker 2: look for. They're they're fine with taking up the middle
Speaker 2: guys as well, which is something that they kind of
Speaker 2: went after later on, Like Aidian Robins play center field
Speaker 2: for Texas this year. Khio Lloyd could be a corner
Speaker 2: guy obviously. Jacob Madrid, who was the thirteenth rounder, got
Speaker 2: signed for one ninety seven five, and you know that's
Speaker 2: a catcher you kind of taken run with Ryan Taman
Speaker 2: as well. But you know, looking outside of that, like
Speaker 2: this is a lot of pitching, and the Mets know
Speaker 2: what they're they're looking for with pitching. They have a
Speaker 2: they go for these low slot guys that have some
Speaker 2: some approach angle trace that they do enjoy. So like
Speaker 2: Shane Sedeo is kind of a low thought left heat
Speaker 2: obviously we ignore the seven point o era he had
Speaker 2: in college this year, like we've we've seen guys like
Speaker 2: Brian wu for example, which is like the biggest one
Speaker 2: of like he has this terrible aray in college and
Speaker 2: now he could be an All star or he is
Speaker 2: an All Star rather does today will become that, I'm
Speaker 2: not certain, but it's a guy with field to spin,
Speaker 2: has a good cutter, has a good fastball. Look commediately
Speaker 2: the same way. Alec Petrovich pretty solid Auburn arm. Honestly,
Speaker 2: he took the Sunday roll and did a very good
Speaker 2: job in that role. Found more Velo has a really
Speaker 2: really good change up in Keenan Logan Koenig could be
Speaker 2: a starter. Nate Eisler from Dart Lift is an intriguing
Speaker 2: one in the tenth round. Then you go far down
Speaker 2: the board like a j cradles that crops felt Gavin Gidrey,
Speaker 2: Cooper Dawcet like this is this is usually what the
Speaker 2: Mets do is they go after these arms that that
Speaker 2: had these traits and they know how to really find
Speaker 2: to him and work with them. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Do I still think that Wiggins as the number one
Speaker 2: guy is like, you know, this is something I would do, know,
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I'm here, I'm not in
Speaker 2: the front and I'm not in the front office right now,
Speaker 2: so you know, I can't really say much to that,
Speaker 2: but you know, Wiggins the arm town is definitely there.
Speaker 2: I think getting Robinson the third rounds fantastic value. Signing
Speaker 2: for a mill as well is very solid too. In
Speaker 2: the bat's goin to play, it's just a matter of
Speaker 2: how much can you hit we'll find out well.
Speaker 3: And that's the interesting thing with the Mets Classic. At
Speaker 3: the end of the day, hands are pretty tied. When
Speaker 3: you've got you're one of three teams sub seven million
Speaker 3: to work with, and it seems like they went for
Speaker 3: after the top of the draft. They went for just
Speaker 3: a lot of six figure arms and like you said,
Speaker 3: unique traits, and if you can turn a handful of
Speaker 3: those guys into big league relievers when your bonus pool
Speaker 3: is this limited, you're probably gonna be happy with that.
Speaker 3: You're always hoping, you know, you have a breakout that
Speaker 3: you get a little bit more than that from, and
Speaker 3: they've got a lot of different guys that they can
Speaker 3: hope with that on top of the fact that they've
Speaker 3: got a really talented arm at the top and Wiggins
Speaker 3: and as you mentioned, Sanal, a guy that is obviously
Speaker 3: much more talented than the numbers would imply. We head
Speaker 3: over to the next team, which is still in New
Speaker 3: York's we're going alphabetical by city. We go to the Yankees,
Speaker 3: who didn't have a whole lot more to spend. They
Speaker 3: were the fourth lowest slot our bonus pool at seven
Speaker 3: point three million. To their fortune, they actually got to pick,
Speaker 3: you know, didn't have to wait an entire another round,
Speaker 3: so they were able to pick in the second round
Speaker 3: and so made it a little bit easier for them,
Speaker 3: but still very limited in terms of the bonus pool.
Speaker 3: And I mean the Yankees didn't really look to save
Speaker 3: too much money with their first two picks either. They
Speaker 3: go almost about three hundred thousand shive of the full
Speaker 3: slot with their first perk with hundred Deats, and then
Speaker 3: they go a million overslot with their second pick in
Speaker 3: Sean Duncan, So they really tied their hands kind of
Speaker 3: the rest of the way. But I think it says
Speaker 3: a lot about how much they like their you know,
Speaker 3: one in two guys here out of the draft in
Speaker 3: Deats and Duncan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to even touch on Ducan too, I think
Speaker 2: that's a great fit for the Yankees. Didn't have the
Speaker 2: necessarily the grades feel for spin, but this is a
Speaker 2: guy that again low slot, good extension, very athletic and
Speaker 2: talking to him too. We interviewed him just before he
Speaker 2: had the injury back in May, and as nice as
Speaker 2: can be. I had a lot of fun doing an
Speaker 2: interview with him. So Sean Duckcan's definitely from a favorite
Speaker 2: of mine. I thought he was a potential first rounder
Speaker 2: had the injury not occurred, So to get him in
Speaker 2: the second's great value and then looking at it too,
Speaker 2: like hundred deeps depending on who you talk to, had
Speaker 2: him in the first round as a as a back
Speaker 2: end guy. He has some of the best breaking balls
Speaker 2: in the class, but obviously again track record, he never
Speaker 2: really pitched before this year. But at the same token,
Speaker 2: he was healthy this year. He before him very well
Speaker 2: and the field of spin it is just fantastic, having
Speaker 2: mid nineties fastball to go with it too, So there's
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff to work on with Deets. But
Speaker 2: this is a guy I've liked for a couple of years,
Speaker 2: even with the injuries, but even after that. Like Brendan
Speaker 2: Brock in the third rounds of very solid get. He's
Speaker 2: a guy that he was drafted by the Brewers year
Speaker 2: ago out of Juco Ghost, Oklahoma, is part of that
Speaker 2: team that wins the World Series. Very typical catcher. He's
Speaker 2: very quick and I think he might be a corner outfielder,
Speaker 2: but like seventy great speed, knows how to use it.
Speaker 2: There's power in the stick. There's a lot to like
Speaker 2: with that that kind of profile. And then even after that,
Speaker 2: like you go for Paul Gudier's Contrarius from cal State Fullerton,
Speaker 2: Bayar Harrison from a and m Michael Harpster, who was
Speaker 2: an analytical darling from East Tennessee State, you get Andy
Speaker 2: Pettitt's son and Luke as a two way player out
Speaker 2: of that. Out of that was about this and I
Speaker 2: think the more intriguing signing beyond you know, those guys
Speaker 2: Andrew Gonzalez in the six. He was kind of like
Speaker 2: a sleeper pick that didn't really show up until after
Speaker 2: the combine, but big powerful third basement from from Texas
Speaker 2: High School ranks didn't sign for really a ton overslot,
Speaker 2: but a lot of bad speed, a lot of power potential.
Speaker 2: I think there's a there's something to like there with Gonzales,
Speaker 2: and we'll see what happens with that. But you know,
Speaker 2: I think that the Yankees did very good with what
Speaker 2: they had to get. Again, Sean Duncan Hunter Deep's two
Speaker 2: premium lefties with your first two picks and then kind
Speaker 2: of sprinkle in these powerful guys that that have upside.
Speaker 2: You know, this is this is a pretty solid crew
Speaker 2: for for Damon Oppenheimer. In the Yankees.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, I've kind of learned to I
Speaker 3: know they haven't hit on all of them, but when
Speaker 3: it comes to the Yankees top five round arms, for
Speaker 3: the most part, they put them in that pitching program,
Speaker 3: like they don't debut as quickly as a lot of
Speaker 3: these other arms, even collegiate guys. They kind of put
Speaker 3: them behind the scenes, plug them into the lab, make
Speaker 3: some adjustments, and these guys almost always come out, if
Speaker 3: not thrown harder with sharper stuff. I think we've we've
Speaker 3: pretty consistently seen that over the last few years with
Speaker 3: some of these Yankees arms, and Sean Duncan's one. I'm
Speaker 3: just excited to see more of them. Also all in
Speaker 3: on the Canadians over the last couple of years here
Speaker 3: now to the draft. It seems like that used to
Speaker 3: be like an under scouted area where you could find
Speaker 3: some value and now it's like everyone's tapping into the
Speaker 3: Canada pipeline. And I don't blame them with a lot
Speaker 3: of the players that we've seen coming out of there
Speaker 3: of late, one other like who's the one guy you
Speaker 3: circle out to get at Deets and Duncan pretty straightforward
Speaker 3: that those are the two top dogs in this class
Speaker 3: by a good bit. Who's the next guy that could
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, define this draft class?
Speaker 2: Hmm, I would say probably Brock If not, you look
Speaker 2: at a guy like Bear Harrison. They didn't really go
Speaker 2: after a ton of like high school guys, So you
Speaker 2: look at guys like Lee Harris in the thirteenth, William
Speaker 2: Kutcha on the fifteenth, who I wasn't necessarily high and
Speaker 2: higher them, but there's upside there. Like cuch Will has
Speaker 2: some good power. I mean, Garis has some drinking trace
Speaker 2: as an outfielder. He's six foot two hundred, has some
Speaker 2: physicality to him. Signed for one hundred and fifty over
Speaker 2: in the thirteenth. But you're looking at some of these
Speaker 2: college guys in the middle rounds that are going to
Speaker 2: give them some value. You know, does does Luke Pettit
Speaker 2: come out and does he continue to match? Obviously, but
Speaker 2: does he come back on the mountain too? Like he
Speaker 2: had TJ this year and he had a lot of promise,
Speaker 2: you know before he got injured. So we intriguing and
Speaker 2: see how they operate with him. I think he's the
Speaker 2: biggest like quote unquote wild card in his class, but
Speaker 2: he's done very well on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 2: so we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 3: We head over more inching our way up in terms
Speaker 3: of bonus pool values, and this remember this is this
Speaker 3: is alphabetical by city, so this is by coincidence. Another
Speaker 3: the fifth lowest bonus pool here is the Phillies. The
Speaker 3: onily had seven point seven million to work with and
Speaker 3: they use almost half of that on their first round
Speaker 3: pick and Tyler Spangler three point two five million dollars
Speaker 3: there for Spangler at the thirty sixth overall pick, which
Speaker 3: I found. I know the high school guys are going
Speaker 3: to be expensive to sign, but Spangler is a guy
Speaker 3: that I think consensus was outside of the top fifty
Speaker 3: draft prospects, and no, you.
Speaker 2: Out them at sixty six.
Speaker 3: I was just very surprised by this one. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about that. And then one point four million on Cayden
Speaker 3: Bergen Pole Poll Caden Bergen Bogan Pole, Bogan Pole. Yep, hope,
Speaker 3: I got that right. I'm intrigued by Ruger Riojas. He's
Speaker 3: trying like the two different armslot things whatever. I just
Speaker 3: think he's gonna as a great chance to just land
Speaker 3: as a reliever at least and has some intrigued there.
Speaker 3: And then you go through the rest of the cloud,
Speaker 3: fair amount of arms, some bats sprinkled in there. What
Speaker 3: stands out to you about this Phillies costs because again
Speaker 3: hands were tied, they still go big money with their
Speaker 3: thirty sixth pick go you know, five hundred thousand oversat
Speaker 3: for Spangler, and then the rest of the way feels
Speaker 3: like they didn't have much room to really oversolt anybody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely don't hate the Phillies taking risk here
Speaker 2: because obviously he was Spangler. He didn't really play all
Speaker 2: that much this spring with a back injury, and the
Speaker 2: biggest thing obviously is like he's gonna hit and seeing
Speaker 2: him last year, Like the zone control is great, the
Speaker 2: barrel control is exquisite. There's a lot to like in
Speaker 2: terms of a pure hitter here. The power we're waiting
Speaker 2: and see what happens. You know, he's pretty projectable six
Speaker 2: three one ninety five, but hasn't necessarily sold out for power.
Speaker 2: He doesn't necessarily you know, separate his hips and shoulders
Speaker 2: to kind of generate torque in his body, So there's
Speaker 2: not really a ton of like pulse. I power yet
Speaker 2: and maybe he grows into it. But I definitely thought that,
Speaker 2: Like if we're talking about Stanford commits who would be
Speaker 2: taking this draft class, I would have definitely put a
Speaker 2: lot of money on Arthur Horn being the guy here
Speaker 2: and not Spangler. And like Stanford commits are obviously gonna
Speaker 2: get more money because they value education. This is a
Speaker 2: very tough school to get kissed to be commit from, essentially,
Speaker 2: so to get Spangler here, as much as not, everything
Speaker 2: really worked out in his way the spring, getting that
Speaker 2: kind of payday is impressive, and I think there's a
Speaker 2: chance he turns into a pretty solid like bat the
Speaker 2: ball guy at the next level. Uh Bogan Pool has
Speaker 2: a ton of power. He's kind of like Jas lobbya
Speaker 2: lett in a way. Probably not a centerfielder, but he's
Speaker 2: moves pretty well for his size. You touched on Rioas,
Speaker 2: but even farther than like Devin Shearing, could be a
Speaker 2: fast moving reliever in its class. Jackson Jelkin. You know
Speaker 2: another guy that could move pretty quickly. He's he's been
Speaker 2: drafted multiple times at this point. But then you start
Speaker 2: looking at some bats too, like will Gasprino making Winslow.
Speaker 2: Those two guys in particular are intriguing because Gasprino, you know,
Speaker 2: if we remember it to be of the year, he
Speaker 2: was just torching the ball. He had like five home
Speaker 2: runs in the week. And I saw him at in Texas, uh,
Speaker 2: and they were on pitch, they were like good pitches away.
Speaker 2: Like I think it was teaming. Koons left him a
Speaker 2: slider and we'll talk about Coons later, but like he
Speaker 2: left him slider on the outer half or on the
Speaker 2: black rather and he took it one ten, four thirty
Speaker 2: to to right center field. It was really impressive. But
Speaker 2: I think guys started to realize that, like you can
Speaker 2: pitch him inside more because he doesn't necessarily have the
Speaker 2: ability to shorten his levers to make it easy to
Speaker 2: turn on the ball and kind of really shot off
Speaker 2: the power. So there's a lot to really like MOLDI
Speaker 2: with Gasprino. But the fact is you're looking at the
Speaker 2: guy that's six six to twenty projection, there's there's plus
Speaker 2: raw power and he can play center field. That there's
Speaker 2: a lot to like there. Uh for Gasprino. Then making
Speaker 2: Winslow transformed at UNC this year, cut his with rates
Speaker 2: in half, turned into a more complete hitter, has good power,
Speaker 2: probably not a catcher. Admittedly, like watching him, there were
Speaker 2: sometimes where it was a little rough. He kind of
Speaker 2: got you surfed in the defensive pecking order. For Colin Heinek,
Speaker 2: he got to catch a little bit in Charlotte, but
Speaker 2: didn't really do well. But the same token, you're kind
Speaker 2: of buying the bat there. And the bat really improved
Speaker 2: in ways that I never expected it to this year,
Speaker 2: and that's a testament to what you and see has
Speaker 2: been able to really build on the past couple of years.
Speaker 2: So you know, they get guys like Kane kep Lee,
Speaker 2: they get Owen Hole this year to turn him into
Speaker 2: these guys that just perform at the college level but
Speaker 2: also do a lot of stuff behind the scenes that
Speaker 2: just turn it into a completer or more complete profile
Speaker 2: in a way. And that's what they did with Winslow.
Speaker 2: He looks a lot better than what he did at Duke,
Speaker 2: so got to give him a shout out there. And
Speaker 2: there's some guys beyond that too. They're intriguing Patrick Clemy,
Speaker 2: who's Alice Clemy's brother. He signed for two hundred k
Speaker 2: in the fourteenth round. That's a high octane left handed arm.
Speaker 2: You get a guy, like a hometown kid Christian Coppola
Speaker 2: in the third or in the twelfth, rather who you know,
Speaker 2: goes to Rutgers, stays home, looks like a stutish freshman year,
Speaker 2: has some issue. Sophomore year it goes to Arizona, comes
Speaker 2: back to Saint Joseph's, and was one of the best
Speaker 2: streckout guys in college landscape this year. So they have
Speaker 2: some some stuff to work on here. Obviously, with with
Speaker 2: these guys, it took some risk here, but the upside
Speaker 2: is pretty enticing and I'm intrigued to see what they do.
Speaker 2: Even with the the the hands tied h makes it
Speaker 2: with this class. You know, they didn't have a ton
Speaker 2: of money in this one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fun because I think you see some of
Speaker 3: the like higher floor type of arms, but then you
Speaker 3: also see these you know, big whiff potential.
Speaker 2: But high ceiling bats.
Speaker 3: You get two six six, you know, two sixty six
Speaker 3: bats in this class. It's pretty crazy and you think
Speaker 3: about the power that could be there, but all headlined
Speaker 3: by a pretty pure hitter in Spangler. So it's it's
Speaker 3: fun and I'm looking forward to seeing how this class
Speaker 3: shakes out. I think it was pretty creative overall given
Speaker 3: their limitations as you alluded to, we get to Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: and speaking creative, I mean they go under slot at five,
Speaker 3: and I mean got two point one four million under
Speaker 3: slot with Derek Curriel. Guy that really easy to like
Speaker 3: because of how good the bats of ball is, the
Speaker 3: just ability to i think patrol a solid center field.
Speaker 3: But that also set up the rest of the Pirates
Speaker 3: draft to get a little bit more creative because the
Speaker 3: Pirates slot value wise were closer to the top right,
Speaker 3: so they were about one, two, three, four, five, there
Speaker 3: were six and slot in bonus pool at about sixteen
Speaker 3: point two million dollars, so that allowed them to really
Speaker 3: spray the board the rest of the way. Thoughts on,
Speaker 3: of course, just the Curiel savings pick, even though I
Speaker 3: think for them is probably a guy that they had
Speaker 3: closer to five on their board than you know, the
Speaker 3: middle of the first round, I assume that a lot
Speaker 3: of people had him at and then how did they
Speaker 3: allocate those savings?
Speaker 2: In your eyes, yeah, go off the curryel Like I
Speaker 2: had him as eleventh on the on my board and
Speaker 2: it's not atlandis to see him taken in top five,
Speaker 2: like you said, like this is a guy that has
Speaker 2: hit for multiple years, going back to high school, had
Speaker 2: a bit of a power surge late in the year,
Speaker 2: which I think is what really turned a lot of
Speaker 2: people in on him was we've been waiting so long
Speaker 2: for the power to show up and he started to.
Speaker 2: And that's, uh, you know, he's never going to be
Speaker 2: a big power there. Obviously, he's sixty one ninety two
Speaker 2: and it's going to prioritize a hit tool. But if
Speaker 2: you got the power to like tring javerts like, that's
Speaker 2: a that's a legitimate, you know, five tool player with
Speaker 2: what he's able to do in the field and on
Speaker 2: the basis so you know, for Curry l at the slot,
Speaker 2: I think it makes perfect sense for the for the
Speaker 2: pirates and they love dipping their toes into the LSU pipeline.
Speaker 2: You know, Paul Skeins a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 2: then obviously going back with Derrick Curry Hill, I think
Speaker 2: they had one more in there as well in between
Speaker 2: those years. I can't remember exactly who it was, kind
Speaker 2: of blinking on it, but I'll probably figure it out
Speaker 2: at some point. But like to get the high school guys,
Speaker 2: he got after Aidan Ruiz Andrew Giles. You look at
Speaker 2: another guy like Spencer Evans and the eleventh round that's
Speaker 2: where sit savings went to UH and Rue is getting
Speaker 2: three and a half million. You look at a guy
Speaker 2: like Giles who signed for a mill and then Spencer
Speaker 2: Evans in three hundred k. You know, they got some
Speaker 2: intriguing high school guys who upside and then also like
Speaker 2: Chris Rembert getting him in the supplemental second with the
Speaker 2: pick that they got last year for not signing Servantes.
Speaker 2: He signed for overslot. He's a really contact minded second
Speaker 2: baseman who he has some intriguing power. He hit a
Speaker 2: ball like one oh seven four forty four last year
Speaker 2: at the USA Complex and nearly hit the building in
Speaker 2: left field on the burns. So there's something there to
Speaker 2: kind of work on with Rembert. I really like him
Speaker 2: as a sophomore. And then you get guys like Jason Nacara,
Speaker 2: Ryan Morond, Tyler, fay Rice and Moore who they fit
Speaker 2: what the Pirates do with pitching. They've they've understood that
Speaker 2: pitching is their their strong student development the past couple
Speaker 2: of years, and these guys just fit their what they
Speaker 2: look for in a Tee, so to get those guys
Speaker 2: as impressive and then you look farer down like Grant
Speaker 2: Goalvil Malachi Washington, who I don't think either of them assigned,
Speaker 2: but the great Insurance picks to have Royan and Lataux
Speaker 2: from San Diego State. You get a guy like DeMarcus
Speaker 2: right out Carter from Canada, who we talked about, you
Speaker 2: know before, with the Canadian guys getting so much leeway
Speaker 2: now in terms of how how impressive that pipeline has
Speaker 2: been the past couple of years. So there's a lot
Speaker 2: to like with this Pirates draft, you know. I think
Speaker 2: there's a pretty fine line of they went for upside
Speaker 2: on the on the prep side and also went for
Speaker 2: performers that haven't treating traits that fit their development mold,
Speaker 2: and I think that's perfectly fine with what the the
Speaker 2: money that they had to especially after trading away picked
Speaker 2: thirty four to the White Sox.
Speaker 3: Were you surprised for to see them be able to
Speaker 3: snag Trey Phelps at you know, two fifty eight, the
Speaker 3: two hundred fifty eighth pick for slightly underslot, given just
Speaker 3: the way that he performed at Georgia.
Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing with Phelps, and this is
Speaker 2: probably like going back to at least to his high
Speaker 2: school days, he never really had a defensive position. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I think that played a big role in a
Speaker 2: his his thought kind of falling a little bit because
Speaker 2: last year he didn't necessarily perform well, he didn't really
Speaker 2: hit at all. It kind of straight away from what
Speaker 2: he had as a freshman, where he was really hitting
Speaker 2: everything and had the power to boot. But this year
Speaker 2: he went back to those roots and the hit tool
Speaker 2: got better, but the defense never really did. Like he
Speaker 2: was playing third base, but it was pretty choppy, But
Speaker 2: then you move him to second base and he looks
Speaker 2: like a viable defender there. So he's probably a second
Speaker 2: basement the next level, which kind of limits what he
Speaker 2: is like value wise. I don't You're not necessarily going
Speaker 2: to find a lot of like strong defenders at that
Speaker 2: position at the prep level or even amateur level rather,
Speaker 2: but the basket to play, and I think if the
Speaker 2: bat continues to be what it is, you know, I
Speaker 2: think this could end up being a steel But to
Speaker 2: sign him of that at that slot, it kind of
Speaker 2: shows that there's not a ton of ideas of like
Speaker 2: where he fitsts defensively, and I think that's something that's
Speaker 2: just been haunting him for the past few years in
Speaker 2: terms of in and out of drafts he's been. This
Speaker 2: is a third time being eligible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense. It makes sense. There we we
Speaker 3: head over to the Padres, who I think went with
Speaker 3: a little I guess not that much of a surprise.
Speaker 3: You don't really know what the Padres are gonna do,
Speaker 3: but they go with a big power arm and Coleman
Speaker 3: Borthwick sixty six and forty five pounds with their twenty
Speaker 3: with the twenty first overall pick saves them about four
Speaker 3: hundred or so thousand dollars uh. And then they go
Speaker 3: overslot with a couple consecutive picks there with Elliott Sells
Speaker 3: las sell Us Sells, another Canadian prepster, and then you
Speaker 3: got Ryan Lynch from North Carolina who they go slightly
Speaker 3: overslot with as well. What stands out to you with
Speaker 3: the class obviously Borthwick, big body dude projection to Florida kid,
Speaker 3: that that I think they're they're hoping that they can
Speaker 3: continue to unlock more of they that we've seen a
Speaker 3: little bit more of a bias towards these these prep arms.
Speaker 3: It feels like a bit over the last couple of years,
Speaker 3: several years from from AJ Prower and co. But they
Speaker 3: balanced that out with I think a fair amount of
Speaker 3: bats obviously, and then the subsequent five or six picks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is again like I don't think J
Speaker 2: Peller has ever taken a college guy in the first
Speaker 2: round while he's been a padre essentially, Like I think
Speaker 2: the last time they took a college guy was in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen with Quantrill and Eric Lawer, and it's been
Speaker 2: high school ever since for them. So they like we
Speaker 2: thought at one point, like maybe this is the year
Speaker 2: to go college. We were holding Connor hostage behind us,
Speaker 2: like he's he's been in my closet for about a
Speaker 2: month or so. We let him out because they didn't
Speaker 2: go college. But bar Fook's very good. You know, I
Speaker 2: think there's a legitimate chance he could have been a
Speaker 2: two way. You know, he's a big athletic kid with
Speaker 2: some power to him. But he was a lot better
Speaker 2: on the mound for me where he's been up to
Speaker 2: ninety eight. And he found a new, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of way to pitch with a slider which really allowed
Speaker 2: to play off. It was fantastic when I saw him
Speaker 2: last year and he he he was a big piece
Speaker 2: of them winning the eighteen U national or international title.
Speaker 2: Actually they won the gold medal against Japan last year
Speaker 2: behind his complete game. So it was a this is
Speaker 2: a very very solid arm. They go for another big,
Speaker 2: you know, bulky prep pitcher, but then getting the sales
Speaker 2: in the second round. This is a kid that's going
Speaker 2: to hit at the next level. You know, how much impact,
Speaker 2: how much power do you have? We don't know quite yet,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't miss the ball. And also to like
Speaker 2: talk about these Canadian kids they're playing against, you know,
Speaker 2: they play with what all the time. They go to
Speaker 2: extended spring training, they go to the DSL, a c L,
Speaker 2: they go to all these places where they're facing you know,
Speaker 2: minor league guys at the rookie level. As much as
Speaker 2: rookie level, you're still facing these guys that are you know,
Speaker 2: a level up from them. And I think that's where
Speaker 2: teams are kind of looking at this and going, hey,
Speaker 2: you're doing very well against these guys who are in
Speaker 2: our organizations. We're gonna take chances on you. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: And and they even build on that, like next year's
Speaker 2: class and twenty twenty seven there might be the first
Speaker 2: ever Canadian one one pick. I'll be writing about that
Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks with Brennan Lawson. But you know,
Speaker 2: Canada's really turned into a pipeline and I was very
Speaker 2: excited to see where this kind of goes with them,
Speaker 2: and like speaking to some of the others, they were
Speaker 2: really excited as well. But outside of that, like Ryan
Speaker 2: Lynch being a sophomore getting a mill that makes sense,
Speaker 2: he had leverage to go back to U and See
Speaker 2: didn't have the greatest year, but low slots sinker up
Speaker 2: to ninety eight phills to strike zone. Slider kind of
Speaker 2: took a step back this year, but it's still very
Speaker 2: very good. He was ripping Austin really good ones to
Speaker 2: end the year and he finished the year very well
Speaker 2: for U and See was a big piece as to
Speaker 2: why they went back to the College World Series for
Speaker 2: a second time in three years. And you know, Lynch's
Speaker 2: He's definitely a workhorse guy has to build for it.
Speaker 2: Could be a reliever, but I think he has a
Speaker 2: chance to be a starter. But going outside that, like
Speaker 2: a lot of college performers as well, Yet Robbie Lavy
Speaker 2: who was in the portal from George Washington, Alex Connover,
Speaker 2: James Guyet, Nw Cotrades, Joe Tarol Lead. That's a really
Speaker 2: solid group of college guys right there. I believe I
Speaker 2: had all of them on my board in some capacity.
Speaker 2: So that's you know, I guess the Padres really like
Speaker 2: looking at our boards this year. But even outside of that,
Speaker 2: like Sawn Pitchpatrick could be a very solid left handed reliever,
Speaker 2: Benjamin Stubbs as well. Even farther down the board, you
Speaker 2: get Ryan Kucherak, who we were highlighting a lot a
Speaker 2: year ago before. We had a kind of a sub
Speaker 2: par year, so the Padres went after a lot of
Speaker 2: college guys that saved some money, but also some college
Speaker 2: guys who really performed, and I think they did a
Speaker 2: very good job of going after those profiles and getting
Speaker 2: the mistake.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, the Padres are one of the
Speaker 3: classes where I will have kind of this like early
Speaker 3: intrigue anytime they take bats too like their their second
Speaker 3: to even like eighth ninth round bats. They just find guys.
Speaker 3: They just always seem to find guys. And I think
Speaker 3: about like Victor Figueroa, who'd end up packaging and trading
Speaker 3: to the orders. It was like their nineteenth round pick
Speaker 3: ors something Florida Southwest Junior College or whatever.
Speaker 2: The guy is just raked immediately.
Speaker 3: You can just there's so many examples of the padres
Speaker 3: have a really good feel to find hitters, and I like, so,
Speaker 3: I'm really interested to see you show me a Canadian
Speaker 3: shortstop batten from the left side that they took in
Speaker 3: the second round and gave a million one point three overslot,
Speaker 3: and Wassella's like, I'm I'm intrigued, right, But you know,
Speaker 3: Alex Connover, like, I'm excited to see even just some
Speaker 3: of these college bats. Seems like they always get even
Speaker 3: underrated college bats that end up performing. So very excited
Speaker 3: to see what this class shakes out to be. We
Speaker 3: get the Giants next up, which headlined by perfect fit
Speaker 3: Jackson Flora, pretty much a local kid, the best arm
Speaker 3: in the class. Giants needed a more pitching badly in
Speaker 3: that system. He immediately, I think becomes their closest proximity
Speaker 3: right handed pitching prospect in their top fifteen of their system.
Speaker 3: So like that that, I think that shows you kind
Speaker 3: of how much of a gap they had. I really
Speaker 3: liked Martinez Guy's far off as a talented right hander
Speaker 3: in that system. And then they go with another fun
Speaker 3: arm and Carson Bowman, uh because they had that compe
Speaker 3: pick at twenty ninth. Overall, I mean, we talked about
Speaker 3: bonus pool to work with here. This is the third
Speaker 3: largest pool that the Giants had here, and then it
Speaker 3: feels like they leveraged that with their first three picks
Speaker 3: eight million, three point three eight million, three point two
Speaker 3: five million with Kidd and Walktour as well out of
Speaker 3: South Florida. What do you make of this class? Obviously
Speaker 3: can't overlook Peyton Bonds, uh, the nephew of Barry Bonds
Speaker 3: going with their fourth pick and in the third round,
Speaker 3: But what do you make of the class overall? Feels
Speaker 3: like a really fun three headed monster of pitching to headline.
Speaker 2: It is, and to get all three of them two
Speaker 2: is pretty impressive. Like, I know, Bolman's number was pretty
Speaker 2: high and he only just signed a couple of days ago,
Speaker 2: but he came down a lot from what he originally
Speaker 2: asked for. But looking at what they were doing, you
Speaker 2: nailed nailed it on the head with with Flora, Like
Speaker 2: the Giants don't have a ton of high end pitching
Speaker 2: in their farm system. He's local, you grew up on
Speaker 2: the other side of the Bay, you know, going to
Speaker 2: him was kind of like a no brainer at the
Speaker 2: end of the day. And they get Carson Bowman and
Speaker 2: at twenty nine is really impressive too. You know, this
Speaker 2: is a guy that I personally thought was one of
Speaker 2: the best, you know, Southpaws in this class going into
Speaker 2: the winner, and he didn't necessarily perform all that well
Speaker 2: in the spring, but he got better as it came along.
Speaker 2: And the biggest thing for him is, you've been in
Speaker 2: the low nineties. You hide the ball well, deceptives throw strikes.
Speaker 2: We have two plus breaking balls to go after with
Speaker 2: what he has is the curve ball on the side
Speaker 2: are really really good. He has feel for a change up,
Speaker 2: so it's very polished, very again deceptive, and there's a
Speaker 2: lot to like with a high starter profile there. Wector
Speaker 2: is the same way, not to mention, like you kind
Speaker 2: of look at this draftcrafts in general, like the Wector Bonds.
Speaker 2: You look at Josiah Josiah in the twelve round. They
Speaker 2: went after a lot of guys who have big league
Speaker 2: blood lines. You know, obviously Doug Wector pitched a few
Speaker 2: seasons in Big Leans. Obviously we all know about Barry Bonds.
Speaker 2: And then also you got Matt Ken's nephew in the
Speaker 2: twelfth round, so they went after a lot of these
Speaker 2: guys that have blood lines and have upside to him.
Speaker 2: Then you also get guys like Carlos Martinez in the
Speaker 2: fourth round, who didn't pitch a year ago, had t
Speaker 2: J but he comes out this year looks like a
Speaker 2: really really good reliever. At the next level, you get
Speaker 2: Bob Bryant, who's another guy who's like a low slot
Speaker 2: lefty with a lot of whiff to his release, a
Speaker 2: lot of crossfire. Are gonna be a tough at back.
Speaker 2: Cody Brash is a really intriguing reliever to starter guy
Speaker 2: from from Louisiana, but he gets some intriguing bats to
Speaker 2: another you know, bloodline guy, Luke Nixon that's strot next
Speaker 2: Seuson's son from Nancy State. Then you also go for
Speaker 2: some more bats like Mike Massini in the knife round,
Speaker 2: who I'm not sure if anybody remembers, but Little League
Speaker 2: World Series legend. You get guys like Drew Smith at Oregon,
Speaker 2: who he had a very good junior senior year, so
Speaker 2: you know, getting these guys kind of works out. You
Speaker 2: get Tanner Madley, who led the NCAA in batting average
Speaker 2: this year too, in the seventeenth round, so Dalton Wentz
Speaker 2: also getting really really good over pay in the sixteenth round. Like,
Speaker 2: that's a really really solid get at that range. So
Speaker 2: there's a lot to leg with this Giants class, getting
Speaker 2: that three headed monster and also filling in some needs
Speaker 2: in the farm system and also getting some intriguing trait
Speaker 2: guys who could make their way through the farm pretty
Speaker 2: quickly and also help the big league roster in some
Speaker 2: capacity moving forward, and also just going for these again
Speaker 2: bloodline guys that have upside to him, Like all four
Speaker 2: of the guys mentioned all have intriguing upside to him,
Speaker 2: and I'm excited to see what the Giants can do
Speaker 2: moving forward in terms of development.
Speaker 3: I was gonna mention Wentz just because that's a guy
Speaker 3: that you had at two hundred and sixteen in your
Speaker 3: draft rankings and Giant snag him at four seventy eight.
Speaker 3: Obviously had to fork up some cash, but they had
Speaker 3: a lot of money to work with there, so that
Speaker 3: nice get there later in the draft. Given you know
Speaker 3: how much talent they were able to snag at the
Speaker 3: top end of it. So, I mean, you look at
Speaker 3: the arms at the top. It's just where I'm going
Speaker 3: to keep gravitating towards saying this could be, you know,
Speaker 3: what really defines this class and makes it exciting. And
Speaker 3: then yeah, it seems like Buster playing the bloodlines game
Speaker 3: a little bit too, which I can understand from him.
Speaker 3: We're going to go to the final stretch handful of
Speaker 3: teams here, but before that, one more break. Another team
Speaker 3: that just tends to be the gold standard of drafting
Speaker 3: is the Seattle Mariners. And the Mariners they get Ace
Speaker 3: Reese with their first pick. I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people would have viewed that as a great snag. He's
Speaker 3: got to kind of slip to them a little bit
Speaker 3: with the twenty fourth pick, but they were still able
Speaker 3: to sign him for about three hundred thousand undersquad. I
Speaker 3: think this is another guy where maybe public versus private
Speaker 3: hit tool concerns a little bit more loud privately with Reese, though,
Speaker 3: this is something that you had echoed a ton, you know,
Speaker 3: through your right ups and just through our draft conversations.
Speaker 3: But they go get another bat in Jake Brown out
Speaker 3: of LSU, and then they go get an arm and
Speaker 3: Nathan Taylor with their third round pick, and then it's
Speaker 3: just kind of a mixed bag. The throught the way
Speaker 3: I would say, honestly pretty hit or heavy, I should say.
Speaker 3: And so they go, you know, about four or five
Speaker 3: straight pitchers, but it's not until the eleventh round where
Speaker 3: they go more picture heavy. I would say, Yeah, you'll
Speaker 3: get one, two, three, four, five, six. Seven of their
Speaker 3: first eight picks are bats, which I thought was interesting
Speaker 3: for the Mariners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like a especially at the top
Speaker 2: of the draft, a different philosophy change. Like last year
Speaker 2: they went after obviously Kat Anderson at third round or
Speaker 2: third round, but third overall, but also they went on
Speaker 2: a huge run of pictures from like the sixth round
Speaker 2: to the othern rown. This year a little bit of
Speaker 2: a different story to kind of prioritize these bats more
Speaker 2: in like like you had mentioned with Acereez, like I
Speaker 2: think the bat the ball skills kind of regressed a
Speaker 2: little bit this year, but the power is still very
Speaker 2: much there. He's probably not a third basement like he
Speaker 2: was drafted as might be a first baseman, but to
Speaker 2: get that kind of power upside with him and Jake Brown,
Speaker 2: it's pretty impressive. Like Jake Brown was tearing to cover
Speaker 2: off the baseball before he had a handmate injury, so
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens there. Those are two very good bats.
Speaker 2: But then you get Nathan Taylor in the third round,
Speaker 2: who three year befomer in Cincinnati, huge kid at six five,
Speaker 2: two thirty, big extension, good slide piece. It's a pretty
Speaker 2: high floor. But there's some upside that's happened too if
Speaker 2: you fix the fastball a little bit. There as like
Speaker 2: a back end, you know, rotation guy. Trevor Lucas Hayden
Speaker 2: Yost are two guys that I probably should have valued
Speaker 2: a little higher. Trevor Lucas was a great performer at
Speaker 2: UNC Wilmington this year. Henry Ford, you know, goes from Virginia,
Speaker 2: was a draft oliple year ago. Goes to Tennessee has
Speaker 2: a pretty really like similar year to he had a
Speaker 2: year ago. But taking the sixth round. That's another big
Speaker 2: power guy. But then you start looking at some of
Speaker 2: these other guys, like you get Misson Eckleman, who his
Speaker 2: dad's the VP of hitting in the Guardians organization. He
Speaker 2: was a late Bloomer in this class, but they didn't
Speaker 2: getting some some arms later on, like whyat Queen Connor, Marshburn,
Speaker 2: Anthony Tredo, Chris Diaz, those are some intriguing arms to
Speaker 2: get late into. Like the Day three territory, Marshburn has
Speaker 2: a really really intriguing fastball or like a sinker slider Combo.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be something to watch in
Speaker 2: that system. You know, sixty six to forty, big kid,
Speaker 2: but he does a very good job of getting ground
Speaker 2: balls at a high clip and also just limiting damage.
Speaker 2: But then after that, like they tried to get Donic
Speaker 2: Santarelli in the eighteenth round, didn't necessarily work out in
Speaker 2: their favor. Connor shouts as well. But you get Michael
Speaker 2: Battit in the nineteenth round two who VCU was able
Speaker 2: to grab him from Miami Dade Community College last year.
Speaker 2: He goes to VCU and he does a very good
Speaker 2: job job and center field for them, and did when
Speaker 2: he was at the Chapel Hill Regional. He just hit
Speaker 2: and that was something that really stood out to me,
Speaker 2: and I thought I was gonna be putting him on
Speaker 2: the board in some capacity. It was very close for him,
Speaker 2: but they found some intriguing bats in this class. I
Speaker 2: really do, you know, it grabs my interest, it pulls
Speaker 2: me in, which again is something they haven't really done recently.
Speaker 2: They they've really gone pitching heavy in these classes. So
Speaker 2: it's like a oh, welcome philosophy change a little bit
Speaker 2: from Scott Huntering Company. But they did a very good
Speaker 2: job regardless of what changed. I think they brought in
Speaker 2: a lot of good talent and there's some intriguing pictures
Speaker 2: in there as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you always go back to like the Emerson, Young
Speaker 3: and Pete draft and it's like, oh, like that, it
Speaker 3: was so much fun with all the early picks they
Speaker 3: had to go so bad heavy, and it's just it's
Speaker 3: interesting to see them go back heavy again. This is
Speaker 3: another draft where like I'm it's going to be eager
Speaker 3: to follow and see how a lot of these bats performed,
Speaker 3: because I just have a lot of confidence in the
Speaker 3: Mariner's ability to scout but also develop and and and
Speaker 3: the communication that teams to work between those two parties
Speaker 3: in the organization. I think, well, one set a guy
Speaker 3: like Ace Rees up for success with some of the
Speaker 3: questions that he has, but also, you know, has me
Speaker 3: interested in some of the other picks, you know, some
Speaker 3: of the other guys that they have here in this
Speaker 3: draft class. Overall, we go to the Cardinals, speaking of
Speaker 3: ty Pete, that's the organization he's in now. But they
Speaker 3: go with uber athletic prep outfielder and Trevor Condon with
Speaker 3: the thirteenth overall pick. But then they go to Takankuns
Speaker 3: who U teased earlier right hander with their comp A
Speaker 3: pick thirty second overall. Third pick for them second round
Speaker 3: pick fiftieth overall was rock them and a Scalgo who
Speaker 3: turned a lot of heads at the combine with just
Speaker 3: all the things that he was putting up from like speed, arm, strength,
Speaker 3: whatever it may be. Yeah, Alabama prep kid that got
Speaker 3: one point two two million overslot there, and I think
Speaker 3: I would love to think that the combine played a
Speaker 3: part in that. But this is just an uber talented
Speaker 3: class because they had two comp B picks camp A
Speaker 3: pick like how many picks within the first five rounds one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 3: eight picks within the first five rounds. Uh, the opportunity
Speaker 3: to have a lot of fun for him bloom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and fun was had for sure, Like you had mentioned,
Speaker 2: obviously getting Content in a SCALCO. Condon can definitely be
Speaker 2: a centerfielder. He's a is a high energy player that
Speaker 2: you know, scouts are going to gravitate towards those guys
Speaker 2: that have they played with their hair on fire, essentially,
Speaker 2: and Condon is just that guy. He did change his
Speaker 2: swing and add some more powers this year. It's a
Speaker 2: very old school swing where he kind of just waits.
Speaker 2: It's very methodical, but he hit everything that came his
Speaker 2: way last year, and again the swing changes kind of
Speaker 2: helped him tap into more power alleviate some concerns about
Speaker 2: does he catch up the high v low and everything
Speaker 2: like that. So it's a very good change and Content
Speaker 2: is just again just one of those guys that you're
Speaker 2: going to gravitate towards as a scout and as a
Speaker 2: as a fan himself. Getting in a scalc in the
Speaker 2: second round. This is a kid that reclass He's one
Speaker 2: of the youngest youngest guys drafted seventeen and two months.
Speaker 2: But the gloves the calling point here it is you know,
Speaker 2: buttery smooth. I would say double plus defender. We're talking
Speaker 2: like the best defender in this draft class in my opinion,
Speaker 2: rivaling Rob CHELASKI like that there's a lot to like
Speaker 2: with this kid, and we're hoping the bat does come around.
Speaker 2: He had a very good combine if I remember correctly
Speaker 2: through ninety seven and wild scouts on that. But the
Speaker 2: bat really showed out in BP and that was something
Speaker 2: we've all been kind of looking for this year from
Speaker 2: this from him. So to have that happen is fantastic
Speaker 2: for him. You know, getting three point two million is
Speaker 2: a you know, it definitely shows how much they gravitated
Speaker 2: towards him and found out that there's a lot more
Speaker 2: to like underneath the hood than just you know, the glove.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic, But he's got a floor and we're just
Speaker 2: waiting and see what kind of offense lives like he
Speaker 2: can get into. But outside of those guys, you get
Speaker 2: like Teken Kuns in the second round, who very intriguing
Speaker 2: fastball traits, low release, high extension, so it's a very flat,
Speaker 2: vertical or protangle. You can work on the breaking balls
Speaker 2: and the splitter a little bit. Andrew Williamson, you know,
Speaker 2: the swing again, guys are gonna be is a very
Speaker 2: polarizing swing. Guys are gonna be concerned because there's a
Speaker 2: essentially a hitch, but the hands are so whippy and
Speaker 2: there's so much batspeed that there's a lot of power
Speaker 2: there and he can play. He's played all three outfield
Speaker 2: spots at Central Florida, so we'll see how he develops.
Speaker 2: But I liked him a lot as a power first
Speaker 2: kind of guy in the outfield. Get Dawson Montesa just
Speaker 2: a couple picks later. Kaden Ferraro was, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: one of the most underrated bats in his class because
Speaker 2: he did so much damage to every quadrant in the field.
Speaker 2: I think Texas tit just really finds these hitters and
Speaker 2: knows how to develop them and does a good job
Speaker 2: of finding so much impact in these guys despite the
Speaker 2: fact that you look at them the past couple years,
Speaker 2: they haven't performed great in college, but they know how
Speaker 2: to get these guys a hit, and I think, for hours,
Speaker 2: just another one of those guys who he just fantastic
Speaker 2: hitter both average and power, but the defensive questions kind
Speaker 2: of still remain a little bit. But then you get
Speaker 2: the Kennedy who had a fantastic here at Kansas State,
Speaker 2: came in from Texas very pole power or sorry, very
Speaker 2: pole power oriented approach, can play some short stop. And
Speaker 2: then you get Kyl Rendall, who probably had the best
Speaker 2: fastball in this class up to one hundred flat approach angle,
Speaker 2: very very good spin races. There's a lot to like there.
Speaker 2: They get a D two guy and Owen Henny who
Speaker 2: performed very well in the Draft League this year. Then
Speaker 2: you kind of look farther down the board too. You
Speaker 2: get guys like Matthew Thomas in the thirteenth round who
Speaker 2: signed for only twenty five k overslot. Clinton fresh Corn
Speaker 2: and Colin Ritchie were insurance guys, so to mention those
Speaker 2: guys that are going back to college and going to
Speaker 2: see what happens. But they were both highly regarded going
Speaker 2: into the draft. But then again like Jacob Haaley, eleven
Speaker 2: rownd are out of South Alabama, Drew Horn as well,
Speaker 2: So they've gone after some guys who have trades farer
Speaker 2: down the board. But what they did in the first
Speaker 2: five rounds is just it's really really good and have
Speaker 2: that kind of draft prospects surplus to go into your
Speaker 2: farm system is fantastic. They did a very very good
Speaker 2: job with the the the resources that they had and
Speaker 2: turned it into a very very good draft class is
Speaker 2: one of my favorites in the in the entire league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the Randall wrinkle is fun too because
Speaker 3: with the fastball that he has, like, do they try
Speaker 3: to do something similar like we saw with with Tanner Franklin,
Speaker 3: stretch him out and and just really see what kind
Speaker 3: of run why you can give them as this as
Speaker 3: a starter. I mean, the fact that there's the amount
Speaker 3: of like forty plus future value guys that they're just
Speaker 3: adding the system that you can of course push north
Speaker 3: of that with development is so fun. And that's why
Speaker 3: this class, like I mean, the amount of guys that
Speaker 3: are signed for five hundred thousand dollars or more, you know,
Speaker 3: it just just makes it really exciting to see, you know,
Speaker 3: what could happen here. And yet very very much I
Speaker 3: think to the joy of him Bloom to be able
Speaker 3: to have a draft like this, you know, and as
Speaker 3: you say and over and this farm system is gonna
Speaker 3: have a lot of talent working its way in Condon's
Speaker 3: one guy, Like I want to see that barrel tips
Speaker 3: still clean up a little bit more. But you look
Speaker 3: at the tools and skill set and everything and it's like,
Speaker 3: holy crap. What could be with him. We go to
Speaker 3: the Rays and they had the number two overall pick.
Speaker 3: They had an absolute boatload of money to work with
Speaker 3: the second largest bonus pool at nineteen million dollars Grady
Speaker 3: Emerson's their first selection, number two overall. You can make
Speaker 3: a case it's you know, one, A, one B in
Speaker 3: the draft class ridiculous What the upside is for a
Speaker 3: guy that could just be one of the most well rounded,
Speaker 3: you know, prospects that we have in the game. Pretty
Speaker 3: quickly here, but key sense for nine point seventy five million,
Speaker 3: which is ridiculous. That would have been a record had
Speaker 3: you know, not been for Rock, right, but still because
Speaker 3: of how big these bonus numbers were for the slot
Speaker 3: value that still is seven hundred and fifty thousand underslots.
Speaker 3: So have your fun raise and this is another org
Speaker 3: like you give them this.
Speaker 2: Kind of money to work with.
Speaker 3: The Rays aren't picking at number two very often and
Speaker 3: they may never pick at number two ever again. So
Speaker 3: I think they made the most of this opportunity here, right,
Speaker 3: And I mean they allocated money in a lot of
Speaker 3: different areas and brought in a ton of talent and
Speaker 3: as we're doing this right now, though they didn't. I
Speaker 3: think unless something hasn't been updated. It's what three guys
Speaker 3: left unsigned in this class, the last being like an
Speaker 3: insurance pick kid in my backyard and West Brown High School.
Speaker 3: I haven't a batter, but two other selections here you
Speaker 3: have Gavin Geez Geese Geez in their thirty third round
Speaker 3: pick and Tate and Sorry, and then Logan George's in
Speaker 3: their eleventh round selection that as of now have not signed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think I think it's pronounced geys. I
Speaker 2: could mean, it could be mistaken. I haven't had like
Speaker 2: a somebody to tell me like, hey, this is how
Speaker 2: to pronounced guys names. But yeah, like we're we're still
Speaker 2: waiting to see if Guyston George is signed. George's committed CCU,
Speaker 2: Big Bulky Kid had TJ but came back last year,
Speaker 2: did very very good on the summer circuit. And then
Speaker 2: Geist is a I don't want to say a pop
Speaker 2: up guy, but before very well in the during the
Speaker 2: WWBA down in Jupiter last year, had a great offseason,
Speaker 2: came out, was throwing strikes up to ninety four ninety
Speaker 2: five good ve loo and also has good breaking balls
Speaker 2: to go with it. And he's also I can't remember
Speaker 2: his dad's name, but he was with the Yankees as
Speaker 2: their scouting director for a while. So there's another pick
Speaker 2: with like bloodlines there. But he's committed San Diego. We'll
Speaker 2: see if he signs today. By the yes, we got.
Speaker 3: We're recording at two thirty Eastern. He's got about two
Speaker 3: and a half hours to figure that out. Yeah, let's
Speaker 3: assume he doesn't sign, and I got to operate under
Speaker 3: the assumption he doesn't. With this class, obviously, they still
Speaker 3: allocated a lot. I mean, if four different players signed
Speaker 3: for over a million dollars, they had two more for
Speaker 3: north of eight hundred thousand dollars, and then several others
Speaker 3: for you know, varying six figured you know, numbers there,
Speaker 3: what what where?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: What do you make of the class? Even if they
Speaker 3: don't land guys.
Speaker 2: Still think it's very solid. You know, obviously you get
Speaker 2: Emerson at number two sign in for three quarters of
Speaker 2: mill underslot, but also still get a premium talent at
Speaker 2: that position is fantastic taj marshand Uh. Very Again, this
Speaker 2: is another one that's like a polarizing swing where some
Speaker 2: guys can be concerned, like how it plays at the
Speaker 2: double A level, but you know he's he did a
Speaker 2: fantastic job this year. Had a big summer circuit a
Speaker 2: year ago, very stretchy swing, but on time there's power there.
Speaker 2: You let it work until it doesn't. Ben Blair from
Speaker 2: Liberty I thought was one of the best mid major
Speaker 2: arms in this class. If you know Jackson Flora wasn't here,
Speaker 2: he might have been the best. Sinker heavy or sorry,
Speaker 2: not sinker heavy, but like sinker fastball gets a cutter,
Speaker 2: gets a sweeper to go with it, you know, very
Speaker 2: intriguing arm to get in the second round for them,
Speaker 2: get Colum Bland, who has a power in the fourth
Speaker 2: who signed foreverslot Owen. Kramkowski kind of fits like the TJ.
Speaker 2: Nichols mold a little bit, and it's not because he
Speaker 2: went to Arizona like Nichols did. It's more of the
Speaker 2: way they move the body types and then also the
Speaker 2: arsenal's well, you know, Kramkowski doesn't necessarily have a change up,
Speaker 2: but he has this field spin, good fastball, sits in
Speaker 2: the load of mid nineties. You will find a way
Speaker 2: to kind of develop him. He's a good mold to
Speaker 2: kind of work with. Kyle Johnson gets drafted as a pitcher,
Speaker 2: and then they go after two intriguing you know, high
Speaker 2: school arms and aj Rice and Griffin Long, who they
Speaker 2: signed for the same slot bonus eight hundred and twenty two
Speaker 2: point five. And aj Rice you know, smaller kid, he's
Speaker 2: five eleven, one seventy five, but field spins outstanding. Griffin Long,
Speaker 2: fantastic change up, gotten more extension, got more velocity. He
Speaker 2: looks very very good. Ty Jones is another solid outfield
Speaker 2: prep guy who tons of power, can play center field.
Speaker 2: And then obviously, you know, going after some more college
Speaker 2: arms to kind of save some more money. Alex phil
Speaker 2: Pott got I would say like seventy five k overslot
Speaker 2: in the sixteenth round. But they the Rays do a
Speaker 2: fantastic job of bringing in talent year in and year out,
Speaker 2: and even if they don't get George's and guys to sign,
Speaker 2: it's still a very good crop of arms. And obviously
Speaker 2: getting two very very good short stop talents and Emerson
Speaker 2: and marshandon the first two picks to bring them in.
Speaker 2: Fantastic get as always for the rais. So we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens in the next two and a half hours.
Speaker 2: But as of right now if if one signs and
Speaker 2: the other doesn't, cool If not, then you know kind
Speaker 2: of start talking about this class falling a little bit
Speaker 2: for me, but still a top ten class in my
Speaker 2: opinion for the race.
Speaker 3: I mean, when you get headline it with two such
Speaker 3: exciting high school shortstops and then you have been true
Speaker 3: race fashion. There's a lot of unique arms to add
Speaker 3: to the full odds are things should age pretty well
Speaker 3: for you. Speaking of arms, we go to the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 3: They get the top prep arm in the class and
Speaker 3: Geo Rojas who slips to them at sixteen, and they
Speaker 3: were a wile to still save money with Rojas as well,
Speaker 3: So another maybe divide between what we thought the board
Speaker 3: would look like and then you know what teams actually
Speaker 3: kind of thought it would shake out as because falls
Speaker 3: to sixteen and they still save money there at four
Speaker 3: point six million dollars signing bonus that pick value was
Speaker 3: just over five. They go get a high school shortstop
Speaker 3: as well, but then also snag one of the more
Speaker 3: intriguing arms given the situation, Brody Bumilla, who was a
Speaker 3: first round talent another elbow issue after already undergoing you
Speaker 3: know an Elbert procedure not too long ago, kind of
Speaker 3: clouds things a little bit, but it's a lefty that
Speaker 3: can throw one hundred, so you get that guy in
Speaker 3: the third round. Generally it feels like a little bit
Speaker 3: pitching heavy at the top, but they balance it out
Speaker 3: with some more bats in the middle rounds. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm just overall curious what you think of the class
Speaker 3: because clearly too hard throwing prep lefties really risky. Christiano
Speaker 3: doesn't seem to care, but then balance out with some
Speaker 3: bats as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is another one where I really like the
Speaker 2: shots that they took in the first couple of rounds.
Speaker 2: Getting Gio Rojas again, this is, in my opinion, was
Speaker 2: the top lefty in his class from the prep side
Speaker 2: where been up to ninety seven. Has a really good
Speaker 2: breaking ball. Change up is developing, but he's shown flashes
Speaker 2: of it being really good. It's just the command gets
Speaker 2: a little scattered. Shot kind of rushes its delivery a
Speaker 2: little bit, so there's times where he kind of loses it.
Speaker 2: But the upside is fantastic with him. If you can
Speaker 2: get the projection to kind of if you get his
Speaker 2: body to fill out, the projective is fantastic. Connor Como,
Speaker 2: another projection guy who he began pulling the baseball after
Speaker 2: Airy coaches last year. Ghost of Jupiter has a fantastic
Speaker 2: showing down there and he carried it into the spring.
Speaker 2: This is a guy that is going to grow into
Speaker 2: more power from the left side, has fuel to hit
Speaker 2: as well. So it's another one of those like you're
Speaker 2: projecting on it. But six four can play shortstop. You
Speaker 2: maybe be able to put him in like a corner outfolds,
Speaker 2: but if he doesn't look you know, great there moving forward,
Speaker 2: but you're buying the bat there and then buma getting
Speaker 2: him at the third round, paying him a first round bonus. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of risk, you know, taking a guy
Speaker 2: who now has two elbow surgeries on his stocket now
Speaker 2: at such a young age, Like this is a guy
Speaker 2: who I believe just turned he will turn eighteen or sorry,
Speaker 2: he'll turn nineteen in January, so it's still pretty young.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a it's a lot of risk to
Speaker 2: take with those picks. And I again, this is a
Speaker 2: draft class of hinges on those guys. But going outside
Speaker 2: of that, Hudson Calhoun could be a starter candidate. The
Speaker 2: Rangers like finding these guys who are relievers in college
Speaker 2: and turning him to the starters. Dalton Pence fantastic example
Speaker 2: of that. Owen proached last year too, So there's a
Speaker 2: very solid chance at Calhoun does that this year. But
Speaker 2: even Michael Anderson junior from Penn State, very very good
Speaker 2: bat with power this year also, it's been up to
Speaker 2: ninety nine on the mound. Could be a two way guy.
Speaker 2: Then they found just a lot of guys that will
Speaker 2: save him money and brainerd Aoki, Kobe Branch, King Carpenter,
Speaker 2: Evan Morrison. They all signed for two hundred or not
Speaker 2: two hundred, but two point five k, you know.
Speaker 3: Five hundred dollars, which I still think should be against
Speaker 3: the rules. You should have to give these guys at
Speaker 3: least five thousand dollars, maybe even more than that. Ten
Speaker 3: I just I think it's crazy. But yeah, they they
Speaker 3: stacked one, two, three, Four of those four guys signed
Speaker 3: for two thousand, five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Kobe Branch Captain America going and go play.
Speaker 2: He actually played for the USA Collegiate team, which normally
Speaker 2: doesn't take twenty three year olds, but hey, they they
Speaker 2: nearly won the whole tournament. This year and they'll be
Speaker 2: playing next year and carry, which I'm excited about. But
Speaker 2: going outside of that, like Evan, I.
Speaker 3: Would say that earned a seven five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Absolutely, you get an extra five K bonus for
Speaker 2: going to the USA team. But uh, outside of that,
Speaker 2: like Jordan Hawkins, Jackson Nash shining for overslot in the
Speaker 2: eleventh and twelve round or two stllar gets Landon Brewer,
Speaker 2: you know, this is a projectable arm. So again, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of risk to take in this draft class,
Speaker 2: and I feel like it really hinges on how real Rojas,
Speaker 2: Como and Bumia kind of a form. But you know, hey,
Speaker 2: I kind of like this a bit more because obviously
Speaker 2: they had more pool money to kind of work with
Speaker 2: in the Rangers. Dude, they know how to work with
Speaker 2: these kind of types. So I'm intrigued to see what
Speaker 2: they can do and we'll see what it goes from there.
Speaker 2: But they got some really solid depth in this class
Speaker 2: and we'll just see how it pans out in about
Speaker 2: two to three years. Maybe if they're all performing in
Speaker 2: the way that I expect them to, then this is
Speaker 2: just an outrageous get for the Rangers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the upside is quite immense with risk,
Speaker 3: but the reward is definitely there when you're weighing both.
Speaker 3: We go to the final two classes. Toronto Blue Jays
Speaker 3: up next. Mind you, this was a second small bonus pool.
Speaker 3: They grab Cole Carlin, left hander, who does a great
Speaker 3: chance for at least Land is like a leverage reliever
Speaker 3: at the big league level with the wipeout slaughter that
Speaker 3: he has in a fastball that averages about ninety six,
Speaker 3: can get up to triple digits. Then they go. They
Speaker 3: don't pick again until one hundred and third selection. Right,
Speaker 3: their first pick was thirty ninth overall for Carlin, and
Speaker 3: they get Ryan Cooney shorts out out of Oregon, and
Speaker 3: then I think their big spend, right, the deal that
Speaker 3: they're probably really excited to be able to pull off
Speaker 3: was Will Brick in the fourth round where they signed
Speaker 3: him for two point five million dollars when it was
Speaker 3: a five hundred and eighty thousand slot value there. I know,
Speaker 3: Brick is a guy that you were pretty high on
Speaker 3: as well, eighty eighth on your board. They I think
Speaker 3: that was the big get for them, given how limited
Speaker 3: their their bonus pool was.
Speaker 2: For sure, and like to talk on a little brick too.
Speaker 2: This is a kid that he reclassed last summer. He
Speaker 2: played on the eighteen U national team as well, if
Speaker 2: I remember correctly, or he's at tryout and I remember.
Speaker 2: The biggest thing that stick out to me was the
Speaker 2: fact that they tried running on him in three straight
Speaker 2: innings and each time the throw is just got progressively better.
Speaker 2: And there was one throw he made from his knees
Speaker 2: like perfect, perfect to the second basement and got him
Speaker 2: with time, So like the kid can defend it behind
Speaker 2: the backstoff. He's one of the few guys where, like
Speaker 2: prep catchers are pretty volatile, you don't expect him to
Speaker 2: really stick back there, but he's one of the guys
Speaker 2: where you're like, Okay, yeah, he's gonna stick it at
Speaker 2: the catching position for a long time, and the bats intriguing,
Speaker 2: Like he kind of doesn't sell out for power as much,
Speaker 2: but he's this big kid who definitely has the raw
Speaker 2: power to really turn into a legitimate extra bas threat
Speaker 2: and also does feel to hit too, So like there's
Speaker 2: a lot to like with this kid also in an
Speaker 2: absolute goofball, He's another guy that he's only my personal
Speaker 2: favorites the interview this year because he was just such
Speaker 2: a knowledgeable kid but also kind of an open book.
Speaker 2: And he's he's definitely a very. He attracts a lot
Speaker 2: of guys essentially, it's a very. He definitely a leader.
Speaker 2: He's definitely a guy that is gonna be fun to
Speaker 2: be teammates with in my opinion, So for him, it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: And then obviously you know Carloone getting him in the
Speaker 2: thirty ninth. Overall, it's a guy I thought it could
Speaker 2: go in the back end of the first round, you know,
Speaker 2: definite relief risk. He might be a closer at the
Speaker 2: end of the day. But the slider's legitimate had more
Speaker 2: velocity this year to command got better. Can you expend
Speaker 2: the arsenal more. We'll see what the Blues can do,
Speaker 2: but they've done a good job with developing arms recently.
Speaker 2: Ryan Cooney is a great get in the third round.
Speaker 2: Played better than his teammate Match Maloney, who went to
Speaker 2: the Tigers. We talked about in the last episode. Very
Speaker 2: good hit tool had some more power this year. He
Speaker 2: can defend it short stop. If Maloney wasn't at Oregon,
Speaker 2: he would have been a short stop this year. So
Speaker 2: Cooney's gonna slide over to his right. But then you
Speaker 2: get some guys who again this is another case of
Speaker 2: going after guys who you're gonna save you some money
Speaker 2: in Noland Higgins, Gable, Mitchell, Jake Bennett, Joey Urban, Bryce
Speaker 2: Chance all signed for cine filonder slot. You get Dean
Speaker 2: West who could be a pretty solid table setter for
Speaker 2: you at the top of the lineup. Braden Martin had
Speaker 2: some of the best bat the ball skills in this
Speaker 2: draft class. Gets him in the eleventh round and sign
Speaker 2: him for like fifty k over but he missed like
Speaker 2: two fastballs all year. The bat the ball steals are ridiculous.
Speaker 2: You can play in at third base in the outfield,
Speaker 2: there's some utility there. Then to go farther down, you
Speaker 2: get some guys like Santiago Garcia, Matthias nay Roll from
Speaker 2: Kansas who he's French. Actually he's not the only European
Speaker 2: national disclass. I think the Marlins actually had a sweet.
Speaker 3: I saw he's from Switzerland, right, yes, serious.
Speaker 2: With that's crazy. And then even outside of that, like
Speaker 2: you get all of your data Torri, which the col
Speaker 2: Arms are underappreciated this year because they were wark courses.
Speaker 2: To get him in the fifteenth round is pretty solid.
Speaker 2: I think he has a decent career, big kid, really
Speaker 2: good change up fastball, is only going to play so much,
Speaker 2: but again, gonna eat you a ton of innings if
Speaker 2: you get to his full ceiling. Landon Waters is gonna
Speaker 2: have some intrigue trades. They didn't get Jake mccoyny eighteen round,
Speaker 2: which is I guess fine because most of the money
Speaker 2: did go to Will Brick and deservedly. So this is
Speaker 2: a kid that they really think can can do a
Speaker 2: lot for them behind the plate in offensively. So I'm
Speaker 2: intrigued to see what the blue Jays can do outside
Speaker 2: of this. But I'd say a pretty solid haul for
Speaker 2: the blue Jays all things considered, with the second lowest
Speaker 2: pool on this class. I agree.
Speaker 3: I think they get a first round arm and then
Speaker 3: get you know, the the top prep catcher in the
Speaker 3: class comfortably and Will Brick. Yeah, that's a lot of upside,
Speaker 3: I think ultimately, when and it's not like you fully
Speaker 3: punted your your second selection in Ryan Cooney in the
Speaker 3: third round pick, they're like, I thought they were pretty
Speaker 3: creative given you know how limited they were bonus pool wise,
Speaker 3: we go to the Nats and this is the final team. Here,
Speaker 3: they grab Chris Acopian eleventh overall. Then they go with
Speaker 3: Chase Brunson with their second round pick. He was a
Speaker 3: bit of a savings pick there, but then some of
Speaker 3: the most of that, all of that is funneled to
Speaker 3: Luke Williams, prepster out of Pennsylvania with their third round pick,
Speaker 3: who signed for one point four to three million overslat
Speaker 3: And they followed that up with another overslaught pick with
Speaker 3: Cooper Harris, another prepster, this time a right hander out
Speaker 3: of Texas. So curious what you think of this Nationals class.
Speaker 3: They headline it with I think one of the safer
Speaker 3: bats just purely on the bat side, and Kopian in
Speaker 3: the draft, but then you know, balance things around with
Speaker 3: some high school upside with the third and fourth picks,
Speaker 3: and then some other intriguing names I think throughout the
Speaker 3: rest of the you know, the class for them, and
Speaker 3: they signed everybody except for their sixteenth and seventeenth selections,
Speaker 3: which both kind of looked like insurance picks.
Speaker 2: Anyways, Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Anthony Murphy
Speaker 2: goes from LSU to Miami Gallaston's going to go to
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech, where you know he's going to fit into
Speaker 2: a lineup where they lost Carson Curse. I believe, I
Speaker 2: believe he is the as draft pick, but you know
Speaker 2: he's gonna kind of slot into that shorts op row
Speaker 2: now for the for the yel Jackets, and they've got
Speaker 2: a lot of retooling to do. But Gallison can hit
Speaker 2: and there's some power there. I liked what he can
Speaker 2: do there. But Jacopian, you know, we talked a bit
Speaker 2: about this in Philly where the injury bug plagued him
Speaker 2: a lot this year. He had a nagging back issue,
Speaker 2: and there are also reports that he played through a
Speaker 2: Brooklyn leg. I don't think that was necessarily true, but
Speaker 2: I know it's been reported. But when he's healthy, this
Speaker 2: is some of the best batketball steels in the class.
Speaker 2: Does not miss the fastball. I believe he only missed
Speaker 2: two all year in the zone. And then also there's
Speaker 2: some underlying power traits like here. I think he hit
Speaker 2: VP the other day with the big league team, and
Speaker 2: there was raw power in the bat, you know, with
Speaker 2: Wood hitting one O nine, one ten, I think he
Speaker 2: bought the one thirteen in BP, so I think there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot to like with a coop and
Speaker 2: you get him fully healthy, I think he's gonna go
Speaker 2: through the minus pretty quickly. Just a second baseman, though
Speaker 2: probably is not going to be on the left side
Speaker 2: of the dirt. Chase Brunson, I liked them a lot.
Speaker 2: He played in center field this year. He's gonna stick there.
Speaker 2: And also there's intriguing power in the bat. I thought
Speaker 2: last year he needed short to swinging a little bit,
Speaker 2: and he didn't necessarily do that this year, but he
Speaker 2: did perform a lot better in my opinion this year
Speaker 2: and saves them a lot of money. Luke Williams high athleticism,
Speaker 2: high power. You know, this is a kid that you're
Speaker 2: really banking on the ability to hit, and we'll see
Speaker 2: if it really develops. But you draft the athlete and
Speaker 2: you take that gamble. This is definitely one of those
Speaker 2: cases where they do it, you know, kind of like
Speaker 2: a Koy James archetype a little bit but a lot
Speaker 2: more powerful. In my opinion. You get Cooper Harris in
Speaker 2: the fourth round, who is going to be throwing probably
Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour in a couple of years,
Speaker 2: like big projection, really easy delivery too, and the arnspeed
Speaker 2: just really pops on the film when you watch him.
Speaker 2: That's a key indicator for me with a guy that's
Speaker 2: gonna be throwing really really hard in a couple of years,
Speaker 2: also has a really good breaking ball, spends the ball
Speaker 2: very well. You know, there's some downhill plane to it.
Speaker 2: But I think at the end of the day you
Speaker 2: grow into that more philosophy and find ways to kind
Speaker 2: of turn them into a decent command kid on the mound.
Speaker 2: You'd like the upside and you go for I think
Speaker 2: this is something that they really look for, and I
Speaker 2: trust Paul at Debonian Company to really turn him into something.
Speaker 2: Get Kouve, who was injured this year, had a backstretch
Speaker 2: fractured late in the season. But then also he transformed himself.
Speaker 2: He really turned away from this guy that was kind
Speaker 2: of swing happy, didn't really stay in his zone, had
Speaker 2: like a chase rate of forty percent. He stayed more
Speaker 2: in his zone this year. He was doing more damage
Speaker 2: and is obviously seventy great power. So playing at third base,
Speaker 2: maybe he moves to first base, but the basket going
Speaker 2: to play there get some intriguing arms and Cooper, Allen,
Speaker 2: Gage Peterson, and Max Hansman in the sixth, seventh, and eighth.
Speaker 2: And then also you get some more intriguing arms later
Speaker 2: on the Weston Moss Matthew Dallas, Anson Stebert, who was
Speaker 2: a Tennessee commit went the campus, didn't get much run,
Speaker 2: but then goes to the community college and finds find
Speaker 2: the twenty front pick and sign. And so the Nationals,
Speaker 2: I think their driver is going to hange on how
Speaker 2: Luke Williams and Cooper Harris really turned into what we
Speaker 2: think they can but the same token getting Brunston and
Speaker 2: getting a copy and is fantastic. Those are two guys
Speaker 2: that could really fly through a system when they're fully healthy.
Speaker 2: Brunston obviously this year had a scare where we thought
Speaker 2: he tore his achilles, but came back and performed well.
Speaker 2: So we'll see how this draft fast turns out. But
Speaker 2: I really liked the upside they targeted here in this
Speaker 2: class in the Nationals, I do fully believe that they'll
Speaker 2: find a way to develop these guys. This is a
Speaker 2: newer gime and with tabony and what they've been able
Speaker 2: to do, I think there's a solid git for these guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love I love the floor ceiling combination with
Speaker 3: the college bats and then high school bat and high
Speaker 3: school arm and just dropping that into the improved player
Speaker 3: development infrastructure that you have in the nationals ORG. I
Speaker 3: think put them in a fun spot and then, like
Speaker 3: you said, still a lot of interesting value you in
Speaker 3: the later rounds to make this class really strong, and
Speaker 3: I think the national will say, you got to feel
Speaker 3: really good if you're an ADS fan about how they
Speaker 3: came out of this class. Already an hour twenty five
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Speaker 3: A lot more fun things ahead, and I hope you
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Speaker 3: Clark tomorrow, so very much looking forward to putting that
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