1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: You may maybe question the first round pick a little bit, 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: but then you look at what they. 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 2: Did long from this, like, okay, it starts all that up. 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 3: A special hot sheet from Atlanta. 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 4: We're in the battery at Trust Humidity Corner in front 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 4: of a live studio audience. Here it's Scottie Brown along 7 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 4: with Baseball America's JJ Cooper and Peter Flaherty. Very excited 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 4: to recap the draft and everything else that's going on 9 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 4: down here in Atlanta. Before we even hit the specifics 10 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 4: of the draft, team and player wise, JJ, I do 11 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 4: want to take a global look at the sport because 12 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 4: we delivered the goods on the Foul Territory network in 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 4: Baseball America, whether it's good or bad, and we're gonna 14 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 4: hype players and teams coming up in a moment. But 15 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 4: your picture on Twitter showing the crowd at the Futures 16 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 4: game went pretty viral. 17 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 3: That's not good. 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 4: It was quite empty and there were how many players, 19 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 4: zero players that showed up for the MLB Draft. And 20 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 4: I know it's complicated, but ze Zo, we have to 21 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 4: take a step back as a sport and say what 22 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 4: are we doing and what should we do to change it? 23 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 2: Okay, let's take the draft for a second. First. Okay, 24 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 2: so with the draft. 25 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: The tricky part with the draft that I don't have 26 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 1: a good answer for other than maybe pay the players 27 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: to come is unlike these other drafts. Right in the 28 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: NFL draft, if you show up, you don't know where 29 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: you're going to be drafted, but you know that you're 30 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 1: going to sign. 31 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 2: Right. 32 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: If you get drafted, you're going to sign. You're already 33 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: done with your eligibility. NBA Draft, if you get drafted, 34 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: you're going to sign. You could have backed out earlier, 35 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: but at that point you're going to sign. The baseball 36 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: draft's not that way. The baseball draft is something where 37 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: if you're in high school, you can sign, or you 38 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: could go to college. If you're in college, you can sign, 39 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: or you can go back to school. And so a 40 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: lot of agents have the fear that by showing up right, 41 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: you're indicating in some way that you are going to sign. Now, 42 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: obviously most of the guys or top first round picks 43 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: are going to sign, but the agent has to kind 44 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 1: of drive that bargain where it's like, look, if you 45 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: don't give you the money I want, we'll just go 46 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: to school or we'll stay at school or whatever, and 47 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: if you're there, that kind of exerts a little bit 48 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: of pressure on the agent because it's kind of embarrassing 49 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: if your player a who's sitting there the whole night 50 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 1: and you never hear a name called because the agent 51 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: wanted six point two million and no one was willing 52 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: to give you more than four point eight and so 53 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, we're going to school. That's the situation 54 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: that doesn't exist the other ones. I don't know how 55 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: to Like, we've obviously had players year after year who 56 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: do show up, but I don't know how to solve 57 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: that in the long term because the baseball draft is 58 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: different than the other ones. 59 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 4: Okay, so let me ask you about this, because it's 60 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 4: generally going to have just first round picks and even 61 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 4: potentially ten, top ten, fifteen, twenty ish tops. 62 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 3: Is who is going to show up? 63 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 4: Because you also don't want to show up there and 64 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 4: then not even fall in the first round, even regardless 65 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 4: of money. 66 00:02:58,320 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 3: But based on talent, that's one thing. 67 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: We've had examples where it's like you're a guy in 68 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: minded and he's gonna show up and you're like, huh, okay. 69 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 4: Is he gonna get picked. But here's my question. The 70 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 4: draft nowadays essentially has a cap to it. You're alloted 71 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 4: at a certain amount of money. 72 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 3: Should we make it more. 73 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 4: Of a structure where this pick has this designation for 74 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 4: how much money, and you go down the line and 75 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 4: it becomes really a talent A all the way down 76 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 4: to talent Z kind of situation. 77 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: I would say no, because like that, I will say, 78 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: for one thing that's kind of almost like the things 79 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: that the PA has always fought against, that's a salary 80 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: cap in someone. 81 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 3: They already have that in the draft. 82 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 2: No, but they don't some ways. They have in some ways. 83 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: But at the same time, if your Paul schemes, you're 84 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: gonna make more money whatever that pick is than if 85 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: you're the number one pick in a year where there's 86 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: no clear number one, there is a negotiation very much going. 87 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 4: Sure, But it's like, and I know this is a 88 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 4: big deal for individual players, but it's like we're not 89 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 4: talking about tens of millions of dollars. 90 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 3: We're saying, like, oh, Paul might get eight and a 91 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 3: half for ten. 92 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 4: Like my thing is, we are ruining pieces of the 93 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 4: draft and our sport by embarrassing ourselves and having no 94 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 4: one there. Because of the way it's structured, it's already 95 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 4: a cap the team has to we should say, the 96 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 4: team has to spend their whole a lotment. It's going 97 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 4: to be laid out this way. That's my that's my 98 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 4: argument forget otherwise, what's the fix again, That's what I 99 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 4: don't This is an unusual year. In most years we've 100 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 4: had multiple guys there, right, This is like, maybe this 101 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 4: is a new trend. Maybe this is a year that 102 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 4: a certain agencies who generally are not going to send 103 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 4: their players to the draft had many of the top 104 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 4: you know, players who were going to go top ten. 105 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 2: So maybe it's an unusual year. 106 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: We don't know on that, But that's again, it is 107 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: something where yeah, I wish that's the problem with this 108 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: in the futures game too. The same thing when we 109 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: talk about the futures game. I don't have an answer 110 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: an easy answer for that either. 111 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 3: I do, Okay, go ahead, and I said it last week. 112 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 4: I said it's going to be completely buried from a 113 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 4: team and from an attention perspective, because you're putting it 114 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 4: on a Saturday, in the thick of games. They have 115 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 4: this place held down for a week. Tuesday is the 116 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 4: All Star game. Everyone's all hyped up. You just saw 117 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 4: the best players on the planet. Want to see the 118 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 4: next wave of best players on the planet Wednesday. I 119 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 4: don't care about your minor league schedule. If a guy 120 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 4: misses a game or. 121 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 2: Two, yeah, but they don't play on Wednesday either. They're 122 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 2: off too. 123 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 4: Who doesn't minor leagues? So here's my point, futures game Wednesday. 124 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 4: You have the ballpark, good to go. Don't tell me 125 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 4: we want to get everyone now. We can't pay for 126 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 4: an extra day or whatever. You're putting it on Saturday 127 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 4: where it's buried. 128 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 2: I would love to try that. 129 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: My suspicion is we'll see less than that game in 130 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: the that situation, less what, less attendance, lesson you see 131 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: them more, a little better TV ratings, but less attendance. 132 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 3: Better TV ratings I think is important. I think. But 133 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: on the wind much hard than the other day. But 134 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 3: on see, That's what I was. 135 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: Gonna say, though this one's been an unusual one, like Okay, 136 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 1: as much as it pains me to say, part of 137 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 1: it is you gotta get the right people for the 138 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: celebrity softball. 139 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 2: Now that hurts me, but La was packed. Why was 140 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 2: La packed? 141 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 3: It's La though they're packed for everything. 142 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: No, they were packed. They have bad Bunny, do you 143 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 2: think so? 144 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I tell you. When I was walking in, 145 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: I would ask the people, what are you here for? 146 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 2: And they were like, bad bunny. 147 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 3: So La does show up and not that Atlanta doesn't, but. 148 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: No, But I would say, also, we are timed here, 149 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: like I've had Braise fans reach out to me after 150 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 1: that tweet and make the points like this is terrible timing. 151 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 1: In some ways, Braise fans are very upset, very disheartened 152 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: with their team right now. 153 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 2: Right they're having the worst. 154 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: Year they've had in years, and so they didn't It 155 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: wasn't something Jr. Richie started the game. Peyden Harris was 156 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 1: in the game. But it's not something where they have 157 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: a Ronald Lacunya like they've had in the past years. 158 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: They didn't have an Aussie Albi's in the game. They 159 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: didn't have you know, going back to Freddy Freeman and Jason. 160 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 3: That's why they didn't show up to the Futures game. 161 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: In some in some way, yeah, like if you said, 162 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: like when I talk to the Royals, because the Royals 163 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: Kansas City was the gold standard of this and the 164 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: Royals fancy. We didn't have anything else, but we had 165 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: you want to see Ordano Venturo. We wanted to see 166 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: Will Myers. They had great prospects, and so yeah, they're 167 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: gonna come see that. 168 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 4: Well, let me ask Peter here. So we've been hogging 169 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 4: and dominating. As you can tell, we're a little passionate 170 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 4: about this one. But Peter, what do you think about 171 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 4: my two ideas with the draft and with the Wednesday 172 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 4: Futures game? Yay or nay with either of those, and 173 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 4: if you have any other ideas. I'm all ears. I 174 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 4: know it's complicated. 175 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 5: No, I was gonna kind of just let you guys 176 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 5: duke it out. 177 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 2: I was. 178 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 5: I was an excited kind of bystander for it. But 179 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 5: I don't hate the idea of trying it on a Wednesday. Obviously, 180 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 5: you want the most amount of eyes you can on 181 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 5: the game and the future of the sport. I think 182 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 5: that's really really important. So I mean, if you try 183 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 5: it out on a Wednesday's sort of a trial run 184 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 5: and see how that goes. I mean, I don't hate it. 185 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,239 Speaker 5: I'm just all for getting as many eyes as possible. 186 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 5: On the sport as we all are, so that idea 187 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 5: seems to promote it, so I'm about it. 188 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 4: There are a lot of baseball fans that will look 189 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 4: for anything baseball, and there's no games on Wednesday. 190 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 2: It is the other does no games. There's basically like 191 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: no sports. 192 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 3: There's nothing. 193 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 4: We are wasting a time period there when it is 194 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 4: our time to shine. We should not have blank nights 195 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,239 Speaker 4: because there are so few in sports, and the Future's 196 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 4: game could be really cool for people to check out. 197 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 2: You've told me that I would love to try it, 198 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 2: and if it doesn't work, we can always. 199 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 4: That's my point. What's the worst that happens? You do 200 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 4: it on a Wednesday night, it doesn't do as well 201 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 4: and it's not worth it. Okay, but I haven't heard 202 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 4: a good reason. I know the other ones complicated. I 203 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 4: haven't heard a good reason why we wouldn't put it 204 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 4: on its own platform on one night to see what happens. 205 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 4: So until I'm getting told otherwise. Besides, oh, it's logistically annoying. 206 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 4: We'd have to rebudget. Okay, do you want to sell 207 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 4: the future of the sport, This is the way to 208 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 4: do it. 209 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 3: This is the premier showcase and it is a cool event. 210 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 3: I've been part of it. 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Make sure to use our URL so that 238 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 6: they know we sent you. 239 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 3: Let's hit the first move. 240 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 4: Fun night watching the draft for me to follow the storylines, 241 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 4: especially at the top, but let's start with team teak takeaways. 242 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 4: Peter your thoughts on some teams that stood out one 243 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 4: way or another. 244 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean starting with a draft that I really liked. 245 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 5: I loved what the Baltimore Orioles did, especially with their 246 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 5: first five picks. They got Ike Irish at nineteen, and 247 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 5: then they went back to back with Keaton Bodine and 248 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 5: Behavior Loy at thirty and thirty one respectively, Slater Debrun 249 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 5: and Joseph Jurwa with their CBA pick and their second 250 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 5: round pick, and then they rounded out the night with J. T. 251 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 5: Quinn and R. J Asin. But particularly focusing on those 252 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 5: first five guys. Ike Irish is one of the better 253 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 5: hit power combos of any college hitter in this year's class. 254 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 5: He's got a comfortably plus arm. The question with him 255 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 5: is where does he fit defensively? Even if he does 256 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 5: move off of the catcher position, it seems perhaps more 257 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:08,719 Speaker 5: likely than not that he ends up in a court 258 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 5: downd field spot. The bat is enough and the arm 259 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 5: is enough where that's still a really, really enticing profile. 260 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 5: Especially with the bat. I mean it's fifty five's on 261 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:21,439 Speaker 5: both the hit and power, and then with Bodine he's 262 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 5: one of the best defensive catchers and one of the 263 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 5: best catchers in general in this year's draft. He's one 264 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,959 Speaker 5: of only two players that we have Baseball America stuck 265 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 5: a plus hit two on him in Kyson Cunningham. Pasing 266 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 5: Cunningham rather high school shortstop out of Texas, but outstanding 267 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 5: feel for the barrel, double plus contact skills, smooth and 268 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 5: sound defender behind the plate with an above average accurate 269 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 5: arm behavior Lloyd Golden Spike's Award winner plus batspeed plus 270 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 5: power not only rob but most importantly in game I've 271 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 5: become increasingly more confident in his ability to stick a shortstop. Slater. 272 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 5: Debron kind of fits that bouncy, prototypical leadoff hitter. He's 273 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 5: in the mold of someone that fits that archetype. He's 274 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 5: a plus defender in center field. The instincts with him 275 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 5: are outstanding. And then Joseph Jerwa a little bit of 276 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 5: a unicorny type guy and that he's a six foot eight, 277 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 5: two hundred pound left hander. Attacks from this really low 278 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 5: three quarter slot borderline slight arm slot, plus change up 279 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 5: fastball has some run and ride through the zone. It'll 280 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 5: be interesting to see how his off speed offerings, particularly 281 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 5: is kind of slurvey breaking ball is developed. But I 282 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 5: really love those first five picks there. I really like 283 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 5: the Phillies trio of arms, particularly with gauge Wood, Kate 284 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 5: ober Mueller, and Cody Balker. Particularly gauge Wood it picked 285 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 5: twenty six, I think it was. I think that's tremendous 286 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 5: value for someone like gauge Wood, who is one of 287 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 5: the best fastballs in this year's draft, pairs it with 288 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 5: an above average breaking ball, and Kate ober Mueller is 289 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 5: a really, really tough ab for both left handers and 290 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 5: right handers to get. A plus slider fastball has been 291 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 5: up to ninety from a really really low release height. 292 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 5: It's just a tough and unique look. So those two 293 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 5: classes stood out to me just off the bat. 294 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have to go I'm gonna go to 295 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: the very top of the draft just to kind of 296 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 1: let's talk through the Nationals draft. I do think it 297 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,319 Speaker 1: was very interesting for a lot of people. I do 298 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: think that they look at that and say, wow, that 299 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: was a shocker that they win Eli Willets the high 300 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,719 Speaker 1: school shortstop one to one. You know a lot of 301 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:24,719 Speaker 1: thought that maybe it'll be Kate Anderson, maybe it'll be 302 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: Ethan Holiday. 303 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 2: But Willarts has always kind of been in that mix. 304 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: He's definitely more of a shortstop long term than Ethan Holiday. 305 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: The question is is okay, is the power going to develop? 306 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: But he's also the youngest player literally ever drafted with 307 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: the first pick, so there's room for him to develop. 308 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 2: There's time for him to develop. 309 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: But the other thing I would say with that is 310 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: we saw in day two, we saw today kind of 311 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,239 Speaker 1: the after effects of that. I can say pretty confidently 312 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: by the way that they drafted on Day two. Eli 313 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: Willets is not going to get full bonus uh, you know, 314 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: full bonus pool. 315 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 2: We knew that, but. 316 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: They were able to get guys like Miguel c May 317 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: who throws one hundred, who was a guy who was 318 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: considered very likely a second round pick. They got Koy James, 319 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: who could have easily bit a secondround pick, high school 320 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: shortstop in the uh, you know, in the fifth round. 321 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: So these are the kind of guys where you're I 322 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: wouldn't even say you're spreading it around because Eli Willis 323 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: was considered one of the top guys in the draft. 324 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: But by doing that and by making a deal, I 325 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: would say that they've got like four or five you 326 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: know swings. You know, they they basically gave themselves more 327 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: chances in addition to getting a really top talent. 328 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 3: Okay, do you think that's right? 329 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 5: Go ahead, Peter, No, I was gonna say I didn't 330 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 5: even really think Eli Willitts was all that surprising. Like 331 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 5: I guess, the two leaders in the clubhouse and the 332 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 5: lead up to the draft seemed to have been Kate 333 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 5: Anderson and Ethan Holiday. But Willitts was always right there. 334 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 5: I mean, in our staff draft in late April, I 335 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 5: took Willitts one pint one with my hypothetical pick is 336 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 5: the Nationals. I mean, he was always a contender. I 337 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 5: would say the pick would have fit the bill of 338 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 5: shocking if it wasn't any of that trio of Anderson 339 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 5: Holiday or Willits and Willitts is a really, really good player, 340 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 5: and I think that in the aftermath of last night, 341 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 5: he's kind of gone a little bit underrated. I think 342 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 5: people don't really realize how good of a player he is. 343 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 5: I mean, it's a really enticing offensive profile. The hit 344 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 5: ability is advanced. He's got a quick and compact swing 345 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 5: from both sides of the plate with an advanced feel 346 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 5: for the barrel. I mean it's a fifty five borderline 347 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 5: six hit and just naturally JJ you cited it in 348 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 5: the open, but I mean he's seventeen years old. He's 349 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 5: the youngest number one overall pick in MLB draft history, 350 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 5: just a byproduct of him naturally getting older. He's going 351 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 5: to add physicality and strength and potentially get to MLB 352 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 5: average power, and that creates a really appealing offensive profile 353 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 5: to go along with his already above average defense shortstop, 354 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 5: He's a plus runner. His baseball sense is outstanding. Comes 355 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 5: from a baseball family. His dad, coach Reggie Willitts, was 356 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 5: an outfieler with the Angels for seven years. He's now 357 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 5: the associate head coach at Oklahoma. His brother Jackson's been 358 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 5: the starting shortstop at Oklahoma for two years. I mean, 359 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 5: he's been around the game since the second he was 360 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 5: he was brought into this world. So I mean, I 361 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 5: like people calling the you know, Nationals cheap or whatever 362 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 5: for saying they're deal hunting, like not at all, Like 363 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 5: make my mistake about it. This dude was the top 364 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 5: guy on their board one thousand percent, and they wouldn't 365 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 5: have taken anyone else. And you also see the byproduct 366 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 5: of that with who they got in the you know, 367 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 5: in the following rounds as Jju also alluded to that 368 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 5: trio of high schoolers they got in rounds three through 369 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 5: five with Lannon Harmon, Miguel Siema, and Koy James, Like 370 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 5: that is a really vaunted trio of high upside guys, 371 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 5: especially Lannon Harmon and the third six foot five projectable 372 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 5: right hander with tremendous arm speed, fastball is a seventy 373 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 5: grade pitch. I mean, he's got arguably as much upside 374 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 5: as any high school pitcher in the draft or close 375 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 5: to it. And Miguel Sime's long been known for his 376 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 5: heater and cooy James had a great swing. I had 377 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 5: a great spring rather, but I really like what the 378 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 5: Nationals did. 379 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 4: First off, Peter should have been flaunting that last night. 380 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 4: I hope you put that out there. Hey, I took 381 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 4: him one one in my way? Did you tweet that 382 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 4: out for the world, because most people were looking like, 383 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 4: who had this guy going number one? 384 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 2: I can't wider the Dodgers in the last staff draft, 385 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 2: but I got in the wrong round because we only 386 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 2: went to forty and it was sixty three. But you 387 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 2: know it was a good fit. 388 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,719 Speaker 4: Still impressive, Yes, And my second question and seriousness is 389 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 4: what do you think of the way that teams are 390 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 4: plugging in ages into their models. Do you think obviously 391 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 4: it's a big factor, right, Do you think that they're 392 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 4: over hyping by doing that or do you think they 393 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 4: should you doing that? And just for clarification for our crowd, Yes, 394 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 4: youngest player, so they're saying he's got this much more 395 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 4: growth based on how we evaluate players at that age. 396 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: What I would say is it's a piece and it 397 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: should be a factor, right, you should put it in there. 398 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: Bobbywit Junior was one of the old guys in his class. 399 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: So if you said we put our model here and 400 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: it spits out that you can't draft bobbywit junior because 401 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: he's too old for the class, didn't rework your model, right, 402 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 1: If you want to say, again, the thing with all 403 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: these models that are that all these teams have now 404 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: is not it should not be to say here's our pick. 405 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: It should be to say we're lining up a board 406 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: and it's trying to take all these I mean literally 407 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: probably thousands of inputs now, wait them all and then 408 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: spit out something. But then at the end of the day, 409 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: the human should still be like, Okay, I know what 410 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: this says. But now, for instance, if you did a 411 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: model the year that Mike Trout was a first rounder, 412 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: which they didn't have many really models back then, but 413 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: if you did Mike Trout's model, it had been like, uh, now, 414 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: Jersey high school guy, competition's not good enough. Let's you know, 415 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: move on. And obviously you don't do that. Yeah, you 416 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: have to be careful, that's all. But it is a factor, 417 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: for sure. I just want to make sure people are 418 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: aware of that. 419 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 3: That's enticing. 420 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 4: But I think there was a point in our game 421 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 4: where you would look at a seventeen year. 422 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 3: Old macro kidding me. 423 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 4: I'm not putting my freaking job on the line for 424 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 4: this kind of wild card. And now it's like, oh, well, 425 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 4: first off, we have many years on the five year 426 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 4: plan to make sure that this goes right. It buys 427 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 4: you time for whoever's making those decisions, and there is 428 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 4: growth potential that you, generally on the average curve do 429 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 4: not see from a nineteen year old or a twenty 430 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 4: two year old. 431 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 2: Right that. 432 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 3: Obviously, you grow into your body and things change. 433 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: Exactly, and so you are trying to again you're factoring 434 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,880 Speaker 1: it in there. You don't take Eli Willets one one 435 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: because he's young. 436 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 2: You take him because you like the talent. 437 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,199 Speaker 1: You think that this is the guy who could be 438 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 1: your shortstop in the long term for years to come. 439 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: But then it's a nice bonus for him that he's 440 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 1: also so young. 441 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 4: Yes, all right, we want to hit other points of 442 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 4: the top of the draft coming up next, so quickie 443 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 4: break and our last break. Then we'll get into some 444 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 4: other parts of the top. 445 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 7: Ah, Summer, we almost forgot what it feels like to play, 446 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 7: just because but even Summer needs back up, a little 447 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 7: partner in the good kind of chaos. Someone to bring 448 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 7: the Kung Fu kicks. Oh yeah, to train some dragons, fly, 449 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 7: young dragon writer fly. The kind of fun that keeps 450 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 7: the days going, that turns living rooms into playgrounds and 451 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 7: reminds us what our body is and our hearts were 452 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 7: made for. Play that moves you. 453 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 4: I said, quickie, break, we are back and let's get 454 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 4: in some other portions of the draft. Tyler Bremner number two, 455 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,479 Speaker 4: I joked on foul Territory earlier today, Angels called him 456 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 4: and said, we need at you Friday. 457 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 3: You're starting. I'm kidding. 458 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 2: I'm sure that a million times in the pen. You know, 459 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 2: sign them on Thursday their second rounder and then put 460 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 2: the LSU reliever and put them in the pen on 461 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 2: You know. 462 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 4: That's right, Hey, they're making they're trying to make a 463 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 4: little wild card run. 464 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 3: Don't be surprised. 465 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 4: AJ Prazinski and Airocrats sitting on bou Territory earlier with 466 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 4: me said by far number one team that they'd want 467 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 4: to get a phone call from these days. If they're 468 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 4: a college player, is the Angels because of your chance 469 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 4: to make it and they've gone through their issues from 470 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 4: a performance standpoint, but they're a worse place to be 471 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 4: than Anaheim playing with Mike Trout with a chance to 472 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 4: win or the chance to get the seam back into 473 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 4: playoff contention. 474 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 1: Like Peter with Rebner, he's one of the top college 475 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: pitchers in this class, but he also is kind of 476 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: one of the guys who could be the fastest movie. 477 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 5: Right. Yeah, so we knew the Angels would kind of 478 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 5: make some noise or potentially make a splash it too. 479 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 5: They did just that with getting Tyler Bremner presumably on 480 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 5: a decent haircut, but a little bit like will It's 481 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 5: people kind of get how good Tyler Bremner is. I mean, 482 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,360 Speaker 5: the fastball is a plus pitch up to ninety eight. 483 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 5: The traits about it, or the under the hood traits 484 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 5: are really exciting. His change ups a legitimate wipeout double 485 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 5: plus pitch that's one of the best of its kind 486 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 5: and one of the best individual pitches in this year's draft. 487 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 5: The slider has above average potential, and he's a plus 488 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 5: stripe thrower with an outstanding mound presence and a slam 489 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 5: dunk starter. So, I mean, when you start to bucket 490 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 5: these guys and you know see where they fit, he 491 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 5: fits into a whole lot of positive buckets and also 492 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 5: is kind of you mentioned to be a potentially efficient mover. 493 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 5: There isn't really an obvious wart with Bremner that you 494 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 5: can point to and circle and be like, Okay, you 495 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 5: know we really got to dive in here and fix 496 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,479 Speaker 5: this or this area really needs work. Yes, the slider 497 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,199 Speaker 5: needs were finding it got hit around a little bit 498 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 5: this year. There are other things you know, you can 499 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 5: tinker with, but he's a really polished arm. 500 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: The other thing I'll just add with that is that 501 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: when you look at a guy like Bremner, there was 502 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: a lot of like, oh, but he didn't perform this year. 503 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: He just performed poorly at the wrong time, which is 504 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: the start of the season, and then he was back 505 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: to being Tyler Bremner. But if you just focused on 506 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: it in you know, March, you're like, oh. 507 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 2: He's not what he's supposed to be. By the end 508 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 2: of the year, he was what he's supposed to be. 509 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 4: Anyone else that you want to run through that really 510 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 4: stood out one way or another, Oh it looks like 511 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 4: we have a question took more of a comment but 512 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 4: still worth bringing up from Dylan who follows the show, 513 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 4: and we appreciate that, Dylan. I'm intrigued by Kyson Witherspoon 514 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 4: at fifteen overall to the Red Sox. His skipper in 515 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 4: college was phenomenal in developing him. 516 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: I gotta say the Red Sox pitching, you know, you 517 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: caroll about Witherspoon, but Witherspoon, Marcus Phillips, Anthony Ayinsen, who 518 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: we expected to go a little. 519 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 2: Bit higher than that. 520 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 1: This is a number of starters who all could end 521 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 1: up being you know, I mean a number of pitchers 522 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: who can all make an impact for the Red Sox 523 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: and could all be reasonably fast movers. Don't expect them 524 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,120 Speaker 1: there this year, don't maybe expect them their next year. 525 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: But okay, twenty seven, Yeah, I Thinksop Praisy. 526 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a really fun trio, especially just given the 527 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 5: prowess of the Red Sox player development department, particularly on 528 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 5: the pitching side. But focusing solely on the comment about Kayson, 529 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 5: I mean, he's another one that was one of the 530 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,959 Speaker 5: premier arms in this year's draft. Plus fastball, slider, combo, 531 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 5: above average strike thrower, change up will Flash holds his 532 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 5: velocity really impressively throughout the entirety of his outing I mean, 533 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 5: he'll live in the mid nineties and bump a ninety 534 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 5: seven to ninety eight for the entirety of his start. Like, 535 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 5: he's a starter all the way for me. And he's 536 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,919 Speaker 5: another one that I think is a fun developmental pairing 537 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 5: with the Red Sox. Same with Phillips and Ianson. From 538 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 5: a stuff standpoint, Phillips, especially with the fastball slider combo 539 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 5: he has. He's this big, physical right hander. This stuff 540 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 5: is really loud. I think there's a ton of upside there. 541 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 3: All right, let's get one more comment in there. 542 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 4: Will Di Bartolow even be the GM for the Nash 543 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 4: Knows or in the front office by the time will 544 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 4: it gets to the show? 545 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 2: Great question. 546 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: We do have past precedent here because when Mike Rizzo 547 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: made the pick in two thousand and nine certain Steven Strasburg, 548 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: he was the introm GM because Jim Bowden had been. 549 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 3: Let you know, I had resigned in March yep. 550 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 1: So it doesn't guarantee that that will happen, but it 551 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 1: is absolutely a possibility. But I will also say with this, 552 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: this is something where by doing what they did it 553 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: may have altered how they did the draft, but at 554 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: the same time, the same general people were making these decisions, 555 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: you know, the same you still have the same scouting department, 556 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: the analytics department, the you know, sports performance department, all 557 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: those places are still involved in this. And so I 558 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: would say, yeah, we don't know the answer to that question. 559 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: They did not right away make him the permanent GM, 560 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,880 Speaker 1: but it is they the Nationals do have a precedent 561 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: of promoting someone to that role in this situation. 562 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 4: And hey, the Rockies had Bill Schmid as the interim 563 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 4: quite a bit of go and he's still running. I mean, 564 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 4: maybe not for much longer, but he's been running for 565 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,120 Speaker 4: a long time in that role. 566 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 3: So it is possible. 567 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 4: But you could also make that case for any GM 568 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 4: that drafts a seventeen year old, and if that seventeen 569 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 4: year old does take time, like let's say they don't 570 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 4: get up to the show till they're two or twenty three, 571 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 4: any GM could be under fire over a five to 572 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 4: six year period. 573 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: But that's what it'll be interesting to see because the 574 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 1: great ones don't take that long. Now, he might, but 575 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,119 Speaker 1: Bobby Witt Junior beat a lot of the college guys 576 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 1: from his draft class to the matrix. You know, the 577 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: great ones CJ. Abrams from that class moved really quick. 578 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 1: The great ones at the top of the draft don't 579 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: take a whole lot of time. 580 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 4: Right, that's true. Yeah, Hey, you're seeing those very young 581 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 4: call ups. Roman Anthony was Roman Anthon's what twenty two? 582 00:26:58,400 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 3: That? Oh he's twenty three? 583 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 2: Now no, I'm right, I thought you were on draft class. 584 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 3: Oh, draft class. I'm saying, how old is Roman Anthony? 585 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 2: Twenty one? Twenty one? Yeah? 586 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, so when it's so yeah, twenty one, when you're 587 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 4: seeing someone like that, he's not twenty two until next May. 588 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah. 589 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 4: If there's a special melt right the way fast exactly cool? 590 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 4: All right, last, not on your way out? Give me 591 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 4: one more guy you really liked one way or another. 592 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,479 Speaker 4: Both of you have one ready on our way out. 593 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,439 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to say that the Braves, I know 594 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 1: a lot of people complained about their first pick. Then 595 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: they went out and they took Alix Lodiso, I really 596 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: like is their second round pick. 597 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 2: And then they got Rix McKenzie. 598 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: Who was probably gonna be a second round pick, I 599 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: would say, on talent, and they got him I think 600 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 1: fourth round and you'll get a lot of money. 601 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 2: I kind of liked. 602 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: You may maybe question the first round pick a little bit, 603 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 1: but then you look at what they did long term 604 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, it starts to all that up. 605 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 5: I'll go with the last pick of the night of 606 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 5: Night one rather with the Dodgers taking Landon vitorick outfeeler 607 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 5: in a Cincinnati really loud tool set, with him fresh 608 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 5: off a career year, real bat speed consistently generates quality 609 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 5: contact to all fields. The batted ball data is really 610 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 5: really impressive with Vitoric Chase. It just a seventeen percent 611 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 5: clip with advanced swing decisions, and he gets even more 612 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 5: aggressive against pitches, you know, kind of in his gozone. 613 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 5: You could call it. That would serve him well. 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