WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 12th, 2023 (Ep. 708) 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.400 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.960 It is me Joey b Joe Pi's Appia that of 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:11.719 course is the Welsh. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.600 And today we've got. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:17.200 A special audio only version of the MLB podcast over 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.680 at Fantasy Pros. We're going to be talking about the 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.680 MLB Draft that happened this weekend. And of course who 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.040 better at talk about this than the Welsh because he 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.880 is the host of Prospect One. He has gotten thrown 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.360 out of more Arizona Fall League bars then I don't 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.400 know some prospects that have had maybe Brett Laurie and 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:37.159 the Welsh. Those are the two guys who have been 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.120 thrown out of the most AFL bars in their life. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.160 And we're Josh Hamilton maybe too lightly bring up Josh 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.080 Hamilton also too. Of course I was actually thrown out. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.319 I was thrown out of an AFL stadium during COVID year. Well, 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.519 I was like a team threw me out while the 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.840 other team let me in. That's a fun restrictions and whatever. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.280 This guy was like who are you and I was 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:57.840 like I'm the. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.480 Welsh and he's like, get at it. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.440 Here almost verbatim on how it happened. But yes, I'm 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.120 very excited. I have done tons of coverage talk with 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.000 James Anderson on my Prospect one show I was doing 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.959 draft coverage for CBS. These guys are imprinted in my 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.560 brain and I have already stayed up multiple nights Joe 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.039 almost past two am making sure I have over seventy 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.679 five of these guys' rank for Fantasy so I am 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.400 more and well prepared. But there's a lot of good 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.080 and fun stuff to talk about with these dudes. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.200 If you're a Dynasty player, you should be following the 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:27.880 Welsho on Twitter. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:28.559 It is at the Welsh. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.560 You should have absolutely be checking our Dynasty rankings over 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.160 Fantasy pros, and also go subscribe to Prospect one because 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:36.920 that is a heck of a show here and Welsh 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:38.840 does a great job. Let's talk about the Pirates with 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.320 the number one pick, Paul Skeens, your boy from LSU, 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.360 dominant college pitcher. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:44.560 There isn't too much. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.640 To say here except that, look, I mean, if you're 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.240 the Pittsburgh Pirates and you want to take a shot 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.320 on who could be the guy who makes it to 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.840 the big leagues very quickly. We've seen these college pitchers 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.680 have a quicker path he was brilliant at LSU, brilliant 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.960 the College World Series, striking out everybody, and he has 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.960 got certainly big, giant upside at the major league level. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.760 So schemes, your evaluation, where he landed, What do you 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:08.440 think about him? 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.520 Yeah, we almost didn't think it was gonna happen. There 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.840 were lots of rumors that he was locked to Washington, 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:14.799 the Pirates might cut a deal. At the end of 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.240 the day, kind of everybody did right. The best top 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.280 five players went in the top five, maybe a little 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.519 bit of a different order. You know, for fantasy. I'm 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.600 really a very big dealing cruise guy, but you can't 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.800 go wrong with Paul Skeins, and I think in different 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.240 formats you could justify him being the number one first 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.400 year player guy points league A points pitchers makes sense, 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.799 doesn't walk big strikeouts. Even in maybe deeper leagues where 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:40.200 pitching is really held tightly, you could look at it. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.600 The problem is pitching in fantasy is kind of a problem. 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.080 But you're looking at a guy fifteen point three k 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.680 per nine last year, struck out two hundred and nine 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.080 with a sub to era we had Lance Brosdowski. I 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.040 mentioned this in some other places. But he did an 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:54.920 awesome breakdown where he was able to give us some 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.200 underlying things we can't get in other places. Drive line 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.359 stuff plus numbers had a one thirty two on his fastball. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.240 Stuff plus one hundred is the median average, so one 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.640 thirty two means thirty two percent better than average. One 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.440 thirty two stuff plus on his fastball, one twenty two 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.519 on his slider. His fastball touches one hundred and two. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.160 He sits around ninety ninety nine and commands it better 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.760 than any other guy. Also attacks the zone. His slider 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.240 had a sixty six percent swinging with miss rate last 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.640 year in college, and fifty six percent on his change up, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.400 which hits around eighty eight, probably because at fastball is 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.640 so dominant. Here's the deal. One of the best pitchers 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.320 we've seen in college and in the prospect world. He's 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.480 immediately going into my number one pitching prospect on my 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.320 fantasy board. He can come up sooner rather than later. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.880 But he has a pitching prospect which makes him dangerous. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.880 But he's a top three first year player guy in 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.360 any regard in fantasy, regardless of him being a pitcher. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:50.960 Yeah. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:52.920 Well, the college pitchers usually I feel much better about 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:54.119 They tend to be a little bit more. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:55.000 It's just the end of all. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:56.680 He pitched a lot in games. That's what people were 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.240 worried about Joe one hundred and twenty. Every single outing 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.600 that has worried about the usage on his arm. But 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:03.840 I'm not going to focus on that. 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:04.440 Understand me. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.120 So the thing when I watch Skeen's pitch is, you know, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.160 big legged guy, you know, good, powerful leg driven sort 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.680 of situation there where you look at the delivery and 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.960 watching him pitch, the delivery is very easy. It's not 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.520 a guy like I'm you see, some guys like Michael 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.480 Kopek always looked like he was giving everything he had 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:22.839 to get the. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.360 Ball up to one hundred and one miles an hour. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:25.640 Skeen doesn't look like that. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.720 Skeens just kind of roars back and he's just firing 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.200 balls at you. And it's a very simple delivery that 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.160 he's got, which I also think is really interesting too. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.080 There's not a lot of extra movement here, very simple 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:36.760 to home plate. 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:38.440 You mentioned the control has been very good. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.640 But to me, I look at that and I don't 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.719 see a lot of issues where I'm looking at him mechanically, 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.640 and I'm worried about him breaking down early in his career. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.719 And some pitchers you do, you do look at them, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.440 and you look at the track record of the usage 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:50.240 and you get concerned. 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.200 One of the things that's interesting about what you're saying 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.920 just really quickly on him is he has an kind 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.880 of abnormal extension on how he throws. And that extension 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.200 it looks more similar to Bruce dark gaderol Hazu's Lozardo. 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.240 But what happened is this change when he went from 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.279 Air Force to LSU and in that change he added 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.760 velo a ton. He added over five miles per hour 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.400 on his slider in this new way that he's throwing. 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.640 So this is, though it's not a baseball optimized extension 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.000 of how he throws, it has optimized him. He does 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.159 make it look easy. It is repeatable, and he's a 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.200 guy to bet on and that's what, like you said, 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.880 everything works in a way that is optimized to the fullest, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.159 and to see those big changes, he just kind of 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.520 want to bet on it. And you also know this 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.120 arm is going to be in the major sooner rather 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:36.600 than later. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.680 All right, let's talk about the number two pick. Here 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.640 to the Washington Nationals outfielder Dylan Cruz. Some people thought 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.359 he might go number one overall ended up being Schiens instead. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.720 People said that Cruz might not want to sign with 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.000 Pittsburgh or may want to make them pay way over slot. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.960 He slash four oh five, five forty five, six eighty 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.359 five with more walks than K's and that is a 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.599 tough thing to do for any young hitter. But another 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.360 ls you gem here that team was absolutely loaded. So 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:06.560 let's talk about Dylan Cruz. The upside clearly a very 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.480 high level grade he gets on a lot of things, 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.960 especially that hit grade looking at seventy along with the 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:12.599 power tools. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.279 So what's your evaluation of Cruz? 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.560 You know, funny enough, there's not going to be an agreement. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.440 I don't think on the first year player in a 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.560 good way. There are three incredibly top heavy guys that 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.320 people are going to value, but people are going to 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.200 do it differently. I know some people have talked to 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.600 James Anderson at REALUIR. He likes White Langford because the 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.040 hit tool is viewed around sixty much bigger. Power had 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.479 a better slugging percentage than Cruise and runs a little 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.560 bit Cruise didn't really run a little a ton in college, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.240 which you kind of wish he would a little bit 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.680 more because he only still six bases. He could steal more. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.480 But I'm Dylan Cruse. Some will have Sciens, some will 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.360 have Langford. I'm Dylan Cruz. Nobody barrows up the ball 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.720 like him. He had a fascinating ninety five point seven 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.200 average exit velocity. That's the average on the ball major League. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.320 That's usually around ninety or so. He barrels up the 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:04.400 ball better than anybody makes consistent contact. Is hitting opposite 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:08.240 field stuff one hundred and seven miles per hour more so, 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:14.400 it is optimized swing, pitch recognition, barreling. He doesn't strike out, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.680 he walks. This is a complete package. I think the 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.280 floor is high. He could just be a twenty five 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.080 homer hitter, maybe ten to fifteen stolen bases while hitting 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.640 three hundred or I think he could go even higher 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.200 and he could be a guy that hits thirty homers, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.440 steals twenty bases, hits over three hundred, one hundred and 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.080 hundred type of guy, second first round talent. 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I would say a smaller version of Paul 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.599 Goldschmidt in the sense that he's sort of get he 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.040 does get lower, right, He's a little bit yeah, but 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.079 you know he's not He's not as big as Goldschmid, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:28.400 you know, standing there at the play in terms of 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.280 a timidation factor, but in terms of the way he 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.160 follows through with the two hands of the bat. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:33.199 Some of that. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.040 Yeah, that that long center field power that he seems 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.920 to have to when you watch him, you see him 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:39.600 hit some of these balls where it's going out there, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.199 you know, and that's one of those rare things. You 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.760 don't see a lot of guys who have that middle 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.800 of the field power, and usually it comes from a 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.160 guy who's that really you know, strong contact skills, but 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.360 strong legs and is able to really drive the ball 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:52.600 out there to dead center field. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:53.480 That's a very. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.959 Astute catch on your part, because I haven't heard people 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.320 talk about it I have. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:58.080 I put the. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.040 Comp in before Enosarus and I did a look and 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.000 actually this comp came up and I had said I 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.120 kind of like him to Brian Reynolds. Brian Reynolds has 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.240 similar max evs of one twelve. He had an almost 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:13.120 ninety two average exit velocity on the lead year this year. 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:17.040 You know, Homer's da da da, but Dylan Cruz is not. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.320 I'm trying to mash the ball, which is just like 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.400 Paul Goldschmith. Paul Goldschmid is a doubles all all fields 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.600 contact type of guy and where. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:26.000 You pitch it. 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.680 And that was one of the things I always loved 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.400 when I watched Goldschmidt early in his career. He was 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:31.840 one of those things like you throw down the middle, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.320 he's going to hit it right back up the middle 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:33.480 of it. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.520 And he's not trying to hit homers. He's not trying 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.640 to pull the ball and cruises the exact same way. 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.520 So that's in a stute catch on your part because 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.560 he is willing and trust his barreling to put the 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.440 ball anywhere it's And that's kind of where the question 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.679 is like what will that power end up looking like? 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.360 But I'm willing to make the bet and take the 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.920 safety and cruise where I understand some might want Langford 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:52.439 for the power. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.640 Well, when you're looking at the rest of the top ten, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.200 who stands out to you from this draft here? 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.160 Well, I mean White Langford obviously is going to be 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.040 one of the bigger safer tools. He's going to be 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.760 in the top three when you're looking at the top 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.280 ten of what was drafted. It's actually gonna be really 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.959 weird because the number six overall pick, Jacob Wilson from GCU, 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:14.880 people are gonna want to push him up. I have 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.360 him down near the twenties of my first year player. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.280 He's a sixty to sixty five hit tool grade, but 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.079 he has absolutely no power, eighty three average exit velocity, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.240 his max was one oh two in college. He just 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.439 doesn't He actually wanted a funny little comp It's kind 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.679 of like Luisa Rise high batting average, doesn't steal bases, 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.880 doesn't hit for power, can score runs, and he's with 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.760 the A's. So that's gonna be one of those guys 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.120 I'm gonna put down of the players that we're taking 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.000 on the top ten. Though, high school pitching is dangerous, 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.360 but I love Noble Meyer, six foot five high school 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.480 pitcher taken by the Marlins. Huge fastball, can hit triple digits, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.040 power slider. They took the best high school righty and 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.000 the high school lefty and Thomas White later, and they're 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.959 a great organization to develop pitching. It's very dangerous to 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.760 make bets, especially in fantasy, on high school pitchers. But 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.160 if he falls, especially like out of a first round, 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.800 I really like noble Meyer. I think he could be phenomenal. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.959 But there's a lot actually more interesting talent Joe in 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.600 players that weren't taken in the top ten for fantasy. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.880 As a matter of fact, the second half of my 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.200 top ten fantasy ranks did not go inside the top 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.320 ten of the actual MLB draft. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:23.560 Well, that's always the thing too. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.040 You know, whenever we see high school players go, you know, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.079 the path to the major leagues is longer. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:29.560 It's more. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.679 Downside ridden as well, because not only the injuries, but development, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.360 the maturity level. There's so many things can go wrong 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.319 with an eighteen year old kid as opposed to a 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.160 twenty one or twenty two year old kid who's going 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.200 into professional baseball. And it's if you chart it, you 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.679 look at the success level, especially for pitchers, it's far less. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.520 But you know, sometimes these organizations still want to go 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.120 down that well. You know, when I was looking at 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.240 White Langford, to me, the first guy here reminded me 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.000 right away it's a cop from the older days when 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.280 the nineties. But Tim Salmon is the guy that stood 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:03.040 out to me. Outfielder for the old California Angels and 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.760 then Los Angeles Angels. If Tim Salmon understood launch angle, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:08.440 I think you would be White Langford. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.480 That's what I see. Yeah, Wilangford bulked up. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:12.640 He's I think a little bit smart. 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:13.880 Funny fun fact was. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.600 A big guy like Salmon was one of these bigger 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.320 guys too. But watching them, as soon as he comes 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.240 to the play, the first thing I thought was, man, 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.880 he reminds me of Tim Salmon. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:22.960 And look, Tim Salmon. 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.600 Had a really good major league career and he was 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.640 he was an All Star player. He was an important 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.360 piece of those good Angel teams around that, you know, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.440 early two thousands when they had their run to the 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.440 World Series and they beat the San Francisco Giants. But 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.400 to me, if you're gonna put a comp on a kid, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:36.640 that's the one that makes sense. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.240 For the The fun fact is actually worked with Tim Samon. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.320 I did a voiceover session with him, had his email 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.920 and stuff, and he was a great guy. You know, 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.560 White Langford six foot one, he's a big, bulky guy. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.880 Also was able to cut his strikeouts down. Rangers are 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:51.720 ecstatic about it, and that's why he's kind of in 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.600 the top ten. But like I was saying before, you 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.600 know out, I love Noble Meyer of the top ten 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.439 picks that was taken, also like reht Louder command pitcher 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.640 for the Reds. But there are three guys that were 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.040 outside the top ten that are inside my top ten 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.160 and first year player and those three players are Chase Davis, 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.800 who went to the Saint Louis Cardinals, Matt Shaw, who 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.920 went to the Chicago Cubs, and Tommy Troy, who went 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.719 to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Chase Davis might have one of 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.160 the most beautiful swings in this draft, one of the 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.240 most projectable hit tools. Doesn't run quite enough, but hits 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.520 the ball really, really hard, and he's like my number six. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.880 Matt Shaw is a big match on Tommy Troy. Actually 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.800 very similar. They both steal bases. Tommy Troy was seventeen 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.840 seventeen homer stolen base. They both hit the ball really hard, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.200 they both don't strike out a bunch of middle infielders, 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.480 and they're going to the Cubs and Diamondbacks, which I 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.920 really love. Those guys are inside my top eight and 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.920 those guys went respectively, twelve and thirteen. Tommy Troy went 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.200 to the Diamondbacks at twelve and Matt Shaw at thirteen. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.640 Fun fact, Tommy Troy was actually listed as a short 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.600 stop as well as Matt Shaw, where they both played 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.760 some second base and third base. Those are gonna be 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.120 great fantasy assets because there's big floor stolen base five 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.480 tool potential. Yet people might overlook them because they didn't 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.840 go in the top ten of the actual draft. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.280 Let's run through those top ten of yours right now 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.920 that you've got. So if you're heading into you know, 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.840 the offseason here in the dynasty leagues and you're looking 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.400 at the rookie draft, what does this class in terms 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.280 of the top ten Welsh prospects look like? 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.920 Yeah, because we're trying to decipher this for fantasy and 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.400 not just like what you know happen right. 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:23.720 We want guys who are going to make an impact 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.320 the next two to three years, not the next five 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.200 to six years, because that is a long time to 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.680 wait sometimes for a lot of places. And granted, we 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.200 are getting these guys who get up to the big 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.040 leagues now in two years, who are you know, eighteen 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.520 nineteen years old, And we're seeing these guys jump from 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.040 A ball to Double A in the same year and 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.840 their rookies in their first season in professional baseball. So 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.120 it's it's incredible the pace these guys are at. And 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.280 it's because they're getting better instruction, they're playing year round. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:46.960 They're also you know, going. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.400 Through these development, especially at the college level, such a 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.920 more competitive game than it was even ten fifteen years 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.080 ago with some of these prospects that are coming through there. 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.480 So I think there's every reason to be excited about 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.360 some of these younger prospects, the guys who are straight 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.400 out of high school. But at the same time, we're 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.480 talking fantasy. We want guys that can help our teams 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.880 win sooner than later. But what does that top ten 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:06.760 board look like for you? 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.040 Yeah, and I'll tell you my fantasy lists are built 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.040 around three years, but I also look at it from 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.520 full dynasty, so I value I will value younger guys 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.120 still very high. But I'm going to give you a 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:17.720 cave about the end. I'll throw a couple of players 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.720 if you want to excuse the high school players. So 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.520 here's my top ten in first year player Dylan Cruz, 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.000 White Langford, Paul Skins. That's the top three that is 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:29.080 a tier in itself. The next tier of value is 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.680 Max Clark, who is a true five tool player, huge speed, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.240 good contact, Quadzilla call him hardest working guy in this draft, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.600 optimized player high school to the Tigers. He's number four. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.360 Walker Jenkins with big powers number five. But even though 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.680 I put them in a tier, you could justify for 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.080 just what you said, proximity wise, you might want to 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.000 take the college guys over high school because number six, seven, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.000 and eight on my list are Chase Davis, Matt Shaw, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.480 and Tommy Troy. I wouldn't argue if you wanted them 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.920 over the high school players. Number nine and ten, against 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.720 my better judgment, are pitchers Noble Meyer at the high 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.200