Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB.
Speaker 2: It is me Joey b Joe Pi's Appia that of
Speaker 2: course is the Welsh.
Speaker 1: And today we've got.
Speaker 2: A special audio only version of the MLB podcast over
Speaker 2: at Fantasy Pros. We're going to be talking about the
Speaker 2: MLB Draft that happened this weekend. And of course who
Speaker 2: better at talk about this than the Welsh because he
Speaker 2: is the host of Prospect One. He has gotten thrown
Speaker 2: out of more Arizona Fall League bars then I don't
Speaker 2: know some prospects that have had maybe Brett Laurie and
Speaker 2: the Welsh. Those are the two guys who have been
Speaker 2: thrown out of the most AFL bars in their life.
Speaker 3: And we're Josh Hamilton maybe too lightly bring up Josh
Speaker 3: Hamilton also too. Of course I was actually thrown out.
Speaker 3: I was thrown out of an AFL stadium during COVID year. Well,
Speaker 3: I was like a team threw me out while the
Speaker 3: other team let me in. That's a fun restrictions and whatever.
Speaker 3: This guy was like who are you and I was
Speaker 3: like I'm the.
Speaker 1: Welsh and he's like, get at it.
Speaker 3: Here almost verbatim on how it happened. But yes, I'm
Speaker 3: very excited. I have done tons of coverage talk with
Speaker 3: James Anderson on my Prospect one show I was doing
Speaker 3: draft coverage for CBS. These guys are imprinted in my
Speaker 3: brain and I have already stayed up multiple nights Joe
Speaker 3: almost past two am making sure I have over seventy
Speaker 3: five of these guys' rank for Fantasy so I am
Speaker 3: more and well prepared. But there's a lot of good
Speaker 3: and fun stuff to talk about with these dudes.
Speaker 2: If you're a Dynasty player, you should be following the
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Speaker 1: It is at the Welsh.
Speaker 2: You should have absolutely be checking our Dynasty rankings over
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Speaker 2: that is a heck of a show here and Welsh
Speaker 2: does a great job. Let's talk about the Pirates with
Speaker 2: the number one pick, Paul Skeens, your boy from LSU,
Speaker 2: dominant college pitcher.
Speaker 1: There isn't too much.
Speaker 2: To say here except that, look, I mean, if you're
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Pirates and you want to take a shot
Speaker 2: on who could be the guy who makes it to
Speaker 2: the big leagues very quickly. We've seen these college pitchers
Speaker 2: have a quicker path he was brilliant at LSU, brilliant
Speaker 2: the College World Series, striking out everybody, and he has
Speaker 2: got certainly big, giant upside at the major league level.
Speaker 2: So schemes, your evaluation, where he landed, What do you
Speaker 2: think about him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we almost didn't think it was gonna happen. There
Speaker 3: were lots of rumors that he was locked to Washington,
Speaker 3: the Pirates might cut a deal. At the end of
Speaker 3: the day, kind of everybody did right. The best top
Speaker 3: five players went in the top five, maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit of a different order. You know, for fantasy. I'm
Speaker 3: really a very big dealing cruise guy, but you can't
Speaker 3: go wrong with Paul Skeins, and I think in different
Speaker 3: formats you could justify him being the number one first
Speaker 3: year player guy points league A points pitchers makes sense,
Speaker 3: doesn't walk big strikeouts. Even in maybe deeper leagues where
Speaker 3: pitching is really held tightly, you could look at it.
Speaker 3: The problem is pitching in fantasy is kind of a problem.
Speaker 3: But you're looking at a guy fifteen point three k
Speaker 3: per nine last year, struck out two hundred and nine
Speaker 3: with a sub to era we had Lance Brosdowski. I
Speaker 3: mentioned this in some other places. But he did an
Speaker 3: awesome breakdown where he was able to give us some
Speaker 3: underlying things we can't get in other places. Drive line
Speaker 3: stuff plus numbers had a one thirty two on his fastball.
Speaker 3: Stuff plus one hundred is the median average, so one
Speaker 3: thirty two means thirty two percent better than average. One
Speaker 3: thirty two stuff plus on his fastball, one twenty two
Speaker 3: on his slider. His fastball touches one hundred and two.
Speaker 3: He sits around ninety ninety nine and commands it better
Speaker 3: than any other guy. Also attacks the zone. His slider
Speaker 3: had a sixty six percent swinging with miss rate last
Speaker 3: year in college, and fifty six percent on his change up,
Speaker 3: which hits around eighty eight, probably because at fastball is
Speaker 3: so dominant. Here's the deal. One of the best pitchers
Speaker 3: we've seen in college and in the prospect world. He's
Speaker 3: immediately going into my number one pitching prospect on my
Speaker 3: fantasy board. He can come up sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3: But he has a pitching prospect which makes him dangerous.
Speaker 3: But he's a top three first year player guy in
Speaker 3: any regard in fantasy, regardless of him being a pitcher.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, the college pitchers usually I feel much better about
Speaker 2: They tend to be a little bit more.
Speaker 1: It's just the end of all.
Speaker 3: He pitched a lot in games. That's what people were
Speaker 3: worried about Joe one hundred and twenty. Every single outing
Speaker 3: that has worried about the usage on his arm. But
Speaker 3: I'm not going to focus on that.
Speaker 1: Understand me.
Speaker 2: So the thing when I watch Skeen's pitch is, you know,
Speaker 2: big legged guy, you know, good, powerful leg driven sort
Speaker 2: of situation there where you look at the delivery and
Speaker 2: watching him pitch, the delivery is very easy. It's not
Speaker 2: a guy like I'm you see, some guys like Michael
Speaker 2: Kopek always looked like he was giving everything he had
Speaker 2: to get the.
Speaker 1: Ball up to one hundred and one miles an hour.
Speaker 1: Skeen doesn't look like that.
Speaker 2: Skeens just kind of roars back and he's just firing
Speaker 2: balls at you. And it's a very simple delivery that
Speaker 2: he's got, which I also think is really interesting too.
Speaker 2: There's not a lot of extra movement here, very simple
Speaker 2: to home plate.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the control has been very good.
Speaker 2: But to me, I look at that and I don't
Speaker 2: see a lot of issues where I'm looking at him mechanically,
Speaker 2: and I'm worried about him breaking down early in his career.
Speaker 2: And some pitchers you do, you do look at them,
Speaker 2: and you look at the track record of the usage
Speaker 2: and you get concerned.
Speaker 3: One of the things that's interesting about what you're saying
Speaker 3: just really quickly on him is he has an kind
Speaker 3: of abnormal extension on how he throws. And that extension
Speaker 3: it looks more similar to Bruce dark gaderol Hazu's Lozardo.
Speaker 3: But what happened is this change when he went from
Speaker 3: Air Force to LSU and in that change he added
Speaker 3: velo a ton. He added over five miles per hour
Speaker 3: on his slider in this new way that he's throwing.
Speaker 3: So this is, though it's not a baseball optimized extension
Speaker 3: of how he throws, it has optimized him. He does
Speaker 3: make it look easy. It is repeatable, and he's a
Speaker 3: guy to bet on and that's what, like you said,
Speaker 3: everything works in a way that is optimized to the fullest,
Speaker 3: and to see those big changes, he just kind of
Speaker 3: want to bet on it. And you also know this
Speaker 3: arm is going to be in the major sooner rather
Speaker 3: than later.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about the number two pick. Here
Speaker 2: to the Washington Nationals outfielder Dylan Cruz. Some people thought
Speaker 2: he might go number one overall ended up being Schiens instead.
Speaker 2: People said that Cruz might not want to sign with
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh or may want to make them pay way over slot.
Speaker 2: He slash four oh five, five forty five, six eighty
Speaker 2: five with more walks than K's and that is a
Speaker 2: tough thing to do for any young hitter. But another
Speaker 2: ls you gem here that team was absolutely loaded. So
Speaker 2: let's talk about Dylan Cruz. The upside clearly a very
Speaker 2: high level grade he gets on a lot of things,
Speaker 2: especially that hit grade looking at seventy along with the
Speaker 2: power tools.
Speaker 1: So what's your evaluation of Cruz?
Speaker 3: You know, funny enough, there's not going to be an agreement.
Speaker 3: I don't think on the first year player in a
Speaker 3: good way. There are three incredibly top heavy guys that
Speaker 3: people are going to value, but people are going to
Speaker 3: do it differently. I know some people have talked to
Speaker 3: James Anderson at REALUIR. He likes White Langford because the
Speaker 3: hit tool is viewed around sixty much bigger. Power had
Speaker 3: a better slugging percentage than Cruise and runs a little
Speaker 3: bit Cruise didn't really run a little a ton in college,
Speaker 3: which you kind of wish he would a little bit
Speaker 3: more because he only still six bases. He could steal more.
Speaker 3: But I'm Dylan Cruse. Some will have Sciens, some will
Speaker 3: have Langford. I'm Dylan Cruz. Nobody barrows up the ball
Speaker 3: like him. He had a fascinating ninety five point seven
Speaker 3: average exit velocity. That's the average on the ball major League.
Speaker 3: That's usually around ninety or so. He barrels up the
Speaker 3: ball better than anybody makes consistent contact. Is hitting opposite
Speaker 3: field stuff one hundred and seven miles per hour more so,
Speaker 3: it is optimized swing, pitch recognition, barreling. He doesn't strike out,
Speaker 3: he walks. This is a complete package. I think the
Speaker 3: floor is high. He could just be a twenty five
Speaker 3: homer hitter, maybe ten to fifteen stolen bases while hitting
Speaker 3: three hundred or I think he could go even higher
Speaker 3: and he could be a guy that hits thirty homers,
Speaker 3: steals twenty bases, hits over three hundred, one hundred and
Speaker 3: hundred type of guy, second first round talent. I'm betting
Speaker 3: on Dylan Cruiz because I think the floor is immense.
Speaker 3: So he's my number one first year player.
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Speaker 2: the action. Yeah, I don't I don't blame you for
Speaker 2: thinking that too. It's funny when you look at his
Speaker 2: swing too. I would say a smaller version of Paul
Speaker 2: Goldschmidt in the sense that he's sort of get he
Speaker 2: does get lower, right, He's a little bit yeah, but
Speaker 2: you know he's not He's not as big as Goldschmid,
Speaker 2: you know, standing there at the play in terms of
Speaker 2: a timidation factor, but in terms of the way he
Speaker 2: follows through with the two hands of the bat.
Speaker 1: Some of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that long center field power that he seems
Speaker 2: to have to when you watch him, you see him
Speaker 2: hit some of these balls where it's going out there,
Speaker 2: you know, and that's one of those rare things. You
Speaker 2: don't see a lot of guys who have that middle
Speaker 2: of the field power, and usually it comes from a
Speaker 2: guy who's that really you know, strong contact skills, but
Speaker 2: strong legs and is able to really drive the ball
Speaker 2: out there to dead center field.
Speaker 1: That's a very.
Speaker 3: Astute catch on your part, because I haven't heard people
Speaker 3: talk about it I have.
Speaker 1: I put the.
Speaker 3: Comp in before Enosarus and I did a look and
Speaker 3: actually this comp came up and I had said I
Speaker 3: kind of like him to Brian Reynolds. Brian Reynolds has
Speaker 3: similar max evs of one twelve. He had an almost
Speaker 3: ninety two average exit velocity on the lead year this year.
Speaker 3: You know, Homer's da da da, but Dylan Cruz is not.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to mash the ball, which is just like
Speaker 3: Paul Goldschmith. Paul Goldschmid is a doubles all all fields
Speaker 3: contact type of guy and where.
Speaker 1: You pitch it.
Speaker 2: And that was one of the things I always loved
Speaker 2: when I watched Goldschmidt early in his career. He was
Speaker 2: one of those things like you throw down the middle,
Speaker 2: he's going to hit it right back up the middle
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: And he's not trying to hit homers. He's not trying
Speaker 3: to pull the ball and cruises the exact same way.
Speaker 3: So that's in a stute catch on your part because
Speaker 3: he is willing and trust his barreling to put the
Speaker 3: ball anywhere it's And that's kind of where the question
Speaker 3: is like what will that power end up looking like?
Speaker 3: But I'm willing to make the bet and take the
Speaker 3: safety and cruise where I understand some might want Langford
Speaker 3: for the power.
Speaker 2: Well, when you're looking at the rest of the top ten,
Speaker 2: who stands out to you from this draft here?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean White Langford obviously is going to be
Speaker 3: one of the bigger safer tools. He's going to be
Speaker 3: in the top three when you're looking at the top
Speaker 3: ten of what was drafted. It's actually gonna be really
Speaker 3: weird because the number six overall pick, Jacob Wilson from GCU,
Speaker 3: people are gonna want to push him up. I have
Speaker 3: him down near the twenties of my first year player.
Speaker 3: He's a sixty to sixty five hit tool grade, but
Speaker 3: he has absolutely no power, eighty three average exit velocity,
Speaker 3: his max was one oh two in college. He just
Speaker 3: doesn't He actually wanted a funny little comp It's kind
Speaker 3: of like Luisa Rise high batting average, doesn't steal bases,
Speaker 3: doesn't hit for power, can score runs, and he's with
Speaker 3: the A's. So that's gonna be one of those guys
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put down of the players that we're taking
Speaker 3: on the top ten. Though, high school pitching is dangerous,
Speaker 3: but I love Noble Meyer, six foot five high school
Speaker 3: pitcher taken by the Marlins. Huge fastball, can hit triple digits,
Speaker 3: power slider. They took the best high school righty and
Speaker 3: the high school lefty and Thomas White later, and they're
Speaker 3: a great organization to develop pitching. It's very dangerous to
Speaker 3: make bets, especially in fantasy, on high school pitchers. But
Speaker 3: if he falls, especially like out of a first round,
Speaker 3: I really like noble Meyer. I think he could be phenomenal.
Speaker 3: But there's a lot actually more interesting talent Joe in
Speaker 3: players that weren't taken in the top ten for fantasy.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, the second half of my
Speaker 3: top ten fantasy ranks did not go inside the top
Speaker 3: ten of the actual MLB draft.
Speaker 1: Well, that's always the thing too.
Speaker 2: You know, whenever we see high school players go, you know,
Speaker 2: the path to the major leagues is longer.
Speaker 1: It's more.
Speaker 2: Downside ridden as well, because not only the injuries, but development,
Speaker 2: the maturity level. There's so many things can go wrong
Speaker 2: with an eighteen year old kid as opposed to a
Speaker 2: twenty one or twenty two year old kid who's going
Speaker 2: into professional baseball. And it's if you chart it, you
Speaker 2: look at the success level, especially for pitchers, it's far less.
Speaker 2: But you know, sometimes these organizations still want to go
Speaker 2: down that well. You know, when I was looking at
Speaker 2: White Langford, to me, the first guy here reminded me
Speaker 2: right away it's a cop from the older days when
Speaker 2: the nineties. But Tim Salmon is the guy that stood
Speaker 2: out to me. Outfielder for the old California Angels and
Speaker 2: then Los Angeles Angels. If Tim Salmon understood launch angle,
Speaker 2: I think you would be White Langford.
Speaker 1: That's what I see. Yeah, Wilangford bulked up.
Speaker 3: He's I think a little bit smart.
Speaker 1: Funny fun fact was.
Speaker 2: A big guy like Salmon was one of these bigger
Speaker 2: guys too. But watching them, as soon as he comes
Speaker 2: to the play, the first thing I thought was, man,
Speaker 2: he reminds me of Tim Salmon.
Speaker 1: And look, Tim Salmon.
Speaker 2: Had a really good major league career and he was
Speaker 2: he was an All Star player. He was an important
Speaker 2: piece of those good Angel teams around that, you know,
Speaker 2: early two thousands when they had their run to the
Speaker 2: World Series and they beat the San Francisco Giants. But
Speaker 2: to me, if you're gonna put a comp on a kid,
Speaker 2: that's the one that makes sense.
Speaker 3: For the The fun fact is actually worked with Tim Samon.
Speaker 3: I did a voiceover session with him, had his email
Speaker 3: and stuff, and he was a great guy. You know,
Speaker 3: White Langford six foot one, he's a big, bulky guy.
Speaker 3: Also was able to cut his strikeouts down. Rangers are
Speaker 3: ecstatic about it, and that's why he's kind of in
Speaker 3: the top ten. But like I was saying before, you
Speaker 3: know out, I love Noble Meyer of the top ten
Speaker 3: picks that was taken, also like reht Louder command pitcher
Speaker 3: for the Reds. But there are three guys that were
Speaker 3: outside the top ten that are inside my top ten
Speaker 3: and first year player and those three players are Chase Davis,
Speaker 3: who went to the Saint Louis Cardinals, Matt Shaw, who
Speaker 3: went to the Chicago Cubs, and Tommy Troy, who went
Speaker 3: to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Chase Davis might have one of
Speaker 3: the most beautiful swings in this draft, one of the
Speaker 3: most projectable hit tools. Doesn't run quite enough, but hits
Speaker 3: the ball really, really hard, and he's like my number six.
Speaker 3: Matt Shaw is a big match on Tommy Troy. Actually
Speaker 3: very similar. They both steal bases. Tommy Troy was seventeen
Speaker 3: seventeen homer stolen base. They both hit the ball really hard,
Speaker 3: they both don't strike out a bunch of middle infielders,
Speaker 3: and they're going to the Cubs and Diamondbacks, which I
Speaker 3: really love. Those guys are inside my top eight and
Speaker 3: those guys went respectively, twelve and thirteen. Tommy Troy went
Speaker 3: to the Diamondbacks at twelve and Matt Shaw at thirteen.
Speaker 3: Fun fact, Tommy Troy was actually listed as a short
Speaker 3: stop as well as Matt Shaw, where they both played
Speaker 3: some second base and third base. Those are gonna be
Speaker 3: great fantasy assets because there's big floor stolen base five
Speaker 3: tool potential. Yet people might overlook them because they didn't
Speaker 3: go in the top ten of the actual draft.
Speaker 2: Let's run through those top ten of yours right now
Speaker 2: that you've got. So if you're heading into you know,
Speaker 2: the offseason here in the dynasty leagues and you're looking
Speaker 2: at the rookie draft, what does this class in terms
Speaker 2: of the top ten Welsh prospects look like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we're trying to decipher this for fantasy and
Speaker 3: not just like what you know happen right.
Speaker 2: We want guys who are going to make an impact
Speaker 2: the next two to three years, not the next five
Speaker 2: to six years, because that is a long time to
Speaker 2: wait sometimes for a lot of places. And granted, we
Speaker 2: are getting these guys who get up to the big
Speaker 2: leagues now in two years, who are you know, eighteen
Speaker 2: nineteen years old, And we're seeing these guys jump from
Speaker 2: A ball to Double A in the same year and
Speaker 2: their rookies in their first season in professional baseball. So
Speaker 2: it's it's incredible the pace these guys are at. And
Speaker 2: it's because they're getting better instruction, they're playing year round.
Speaker 1: They're also you know, going.
Speaker 2: Through these development, especially at the college level, such a
Speaker 2: more competitive game than it was even ten fifteen years
Speaker 2: ago with some of these prospects that are coming through there.
Speaker 2: So I think there's every reason to be excited about
Speaker 2: some of these younger prospects, the guys who are straight
Speaker 2: out of high school. But at the same time, we're
Speaker 2: talking fantasy. We want guys that can help our teams
Speaker 2: win sooner than later. But what does that top ten
Speaker 2: board look like for you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'll tell you my fantasy lists are built
Speaker 3: around three years, but I also look at it from
Speaker 3: full dynasty, so I value I will value younger guys
Speaker 3: still very high. But I'm going to give you a
Speaker 3: cave about the end. I'll throw a couple of players
Speaker 3: if you want to excuse the high school players. So
Speaker 3: here's my top ten in first year player Dylan Cruz,
Speaker 3: White Langford, Paul Skins. That's the top three that is
Speaker 3: a tier in itself. The next tier of value is
Speaker 3: Max Clark, who is a true five tool player, huge speed,
Speaker 3: good contact, Quadzilla call him hardest working guy in this draft,
Speaker 3: optimized player high school to the Tigers. He's number four.
Speaker 3: Walker Jenkins with big powers number five. But even though
Speaker 3: I put them in a tier, you could justify for
Speaker 3: just what you said, proximity wise, you might want to
Speaker 3: take the college guys over high school because number six, seven,
Speaker 3: and eight on my list are Chase Davis, Matt Shaw,
Speaker 3: and Tommy Troy. I wouldn't argue if you wanted them
Speaker 3: over the high school players. Number nine and ten, against
Speaker 3: my better judgment, are pitchers Noble Meyer at the high
Speaker 3: school guy and Rhet Lauder out of Wake Forest, who's phenomenal,
Speaker 3: incredible change up, big command. But I will give you
Speaker 3: these last little tidbits. If you didn't want to mess
Speaker 3: around with noble Meyer, you want guys to help you now,
Speaker 3: you should look at Enrique Bradfield, fastest player in the
Speaker 3: draft at a Vanderbilt going to Baltimore, who absolutely does
Speaker 3: an incredible job with these players. He just needs to
Speaker 3: add power to be elite. Brock Wilkin went to Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: He's my number thirteen prospect, huge power, walks, doesn't strike out,
Speaker 3: maybe the biggest power in this draft. That's a guy
Speaker 3: that you could take a look at. And Braden Taylor,
Speaker 3: who was a shortstop to Tampa Bay. Those are three
Speaker 3: college guys that you could look at that could be
Speaker 3: top ten. If you're not going to value either a
Speaker 3: pitching or some of those high school But I will
Speaker 3: tell you there is crazy good value in the second
Speaker 3: and third round of first year player. So pay attention
Speaker 3: because there is a lot of production to be had
Speaker 3: because we saw a college uptick in value in the
Speaker 3: draft where more college guys were going than ever before
Speaker 3: over some of thesehigh school players, which means proximity, and
Speaker 3: that's kind of what we're looking at with fantasy outside
Speaker 3: of just the long term value.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought up Max Clark because I like
Speaker 2: him a lot. He has incredible batspeed. He again Harper esque.
Speaker 2: You know when you look at the way Bryce Harper swings,
Speaker 2: the way way Bryce Harper comes down on the baseball,
Speaker 2: follows through the power and balance of the legs in
Speaker 2: the lower half too.
Speaker 1: When you watch Max Clark hit, he's got that same thing.
Speaker 2: You could tell this kid grew up watching a lot
Speaker 2: of Bryce Harper, Like there's just no way he didn't.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's a carbon copy. He's a little
Speaker 2: smaller than Harper, but physically speaking, very strong, especially for
Speaker 2: his age. I mean, this is a kid who goes
Speaker 2: to the gym. As you said, like you could tell
Speaker 2: there's power, their strength there. But to me it's also
Speaker 2: you know, he keeps the hands back, he comes through
Speaker 2: the ball, and then you know, watching highlights, if he
Speaker 2: gets fooled, he's got such good balance.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of times I'm watching some.
Speaker 2: Of the highlights of him, you'll see him get full
Speaker 2: of the pitch and he'll end up hitting a single
Speaker 2: to left field.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna interrupt him. I think it's so incredible for
Speaker 1: him because, look, young hitter.
Speaker 3: You are doing a very good job. Because something I
Speaker 3: noted on CBS, I noted everywhere is just what you
Speaker 3: said that I find interesting about him is he's a
Speaker 3: smart enough player. And I don't know what it is
Speaker 3: because you're you're watching highlighted video. Sometimes if it is
Speaker 3: adjustment live to the pitch or pre pitch approach, but
Speaker 3: exactly what you said is so smart that I have
Speaker 3: seen him do a bunch. Is he can spray the
Speaker 3: ball to the opposite field, he can come across his body.
Speaker 3: Sometimes he can go heavy pull where his swing gets
Speaker 3: more uppity and he's pulling, or he can shorten his
Speaker 3: swing for more doubles power down left center. So those
Speaker 3: are that's kind of a Corbyn Carroll esque thing. I
Speaker 3: don't think he's anything like Corby Carroll, but I think
Speaker 3: he's just start enough hitter that he more likes those adjustments.
Speaker 2: He's more like Harper physically speaking in terms of his approach. Oh,
Speaker 2: he's got a little at swag too, like which I
Speaker 2: really like. I like it a lot. He's got a
Speaker 2: lot of splag, a lot of bravado when you watch
Speaker 2: him play. But also so like I said, that's a
Speaker 2: key thing for young player. It's like, you know, don't
Speaker 2: always watch the balls that he hits out of the ballpark.
Speaker 2: Show me the app bats where he gets full and
Speaker 2: still you know, hits a double in the left field
Speaker 2: gap opo. That impresses me about a young hitter. But
Speaker 2: in terms of physically speaking to eventually, this guy as
Speaker 2: he grows into frame could be a really good player
Speaker 2: because he's because he's got good speed too obviously as well,
Speaker 2: but there's power, there's balance in the swing, good hands,
Speaker 2: incredible bat speed. I'm glad you brought up Clark because that,
Speaker 2: to me is the guy that as I'm watching more
Speaker 2: and more of him, the more I like And look,
Speaker 2: we try to just give you a little taste of
Speaker 2: what this first round was here for the minor league
Speaker 2: prospects that are now going to hopefully sign with all
Speaker 2: these major league teams.
Speaker 1: We shall see what happens here.
Speaker 2: But to stay on top of all that, make sure
Speaker 2: you follow the Welsh on Twitter, a is at the Welsh.
Speaker 2: Checkout our Dynasty prospect rankings that are gonna be up
Speaker 2: there on fantasypros dot com. But also, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: telling you a subscribe to the Prospect One podcast because
Speaker 2: that is a great way to stay on top of
Speaker 2: these guys. Some you'll see in the Arizona Fall League
Speaker 2: this year. Welsh will have video of them, will have
Speaker 2: interviews a little of them as well, So it's a
Speaker 2: great opportunity to get to know these prospects better and
Speaker 2: how they're going to eventually make their way into your
Speaker 2: fantasy lineup.
Speaker 1: So great stuff.
Speaker 2: As always, we'll be back again on Friday, Bogman and
Speaker 2: I will be doing leading off while Welsh takes a
Speaker 2: little vak with the kiddos, and we'll be back again
Speaker 2: Monday as usual and leading off.
Speaker 1: So thanks for joining us. That'll do it for us.
Speaker 1: But the story of the game goes on for the Welsh.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 2: Kids.
Speaker 3: My friendos