Speaker 1: Episode three eighty three.
Speaker 2: We are recapping the Pirates twenty twenty six MLB Draft class.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of Bucko Bander. This is
Speaker 2: an exclusive special episode if you will, because this is
Speaker 2: not on the normal schedule. But there's some things happening
Speaker 2: this past week. Jay and I went ham on the
Speaker 2: draft coverage and we're gonna talk about it today.
Speaker 1: But first, Jay, how are you doing? Dude?
Speaker 4: I'm great because Derek Curle is I fits through pirate
Speaker 4: or are you getting here? In a second, I've really
Speaker 4: started to cover around on that pick.
Speaker 1: Scott.
Speaker 4: I'm excited to talk about this with you today. We
Speaker 4: spent we spent a lot of time prepping for this
Speaker 4: and then covering the draft itself. So let's talk about man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my, I think my fingers have finally recovered. We
Speaker 2: were on phone yesterday for like hours, like just tweeting
Speaker 2: out every pick, like pulling up the scouting reports, like
Speaker 2: putting out our thoughts, thoughts that we already had written
Speaker 2: out in our on our boards on some of these picks.
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I You're a god to get
Speaker 2: that draft coverage anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: I think this was This was pretty extensive and I
Speaker 2: had a lot of fun doing. I'm already looking forward
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty seven class, which we're already going to
Speaker 2: start talking about here, probably in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: But I want to talk about the overall theme of
Speaker 2: this draft, Jay, because this is the first draft that
Speaker 2: Kevin Graves led after the couple of years of Justin
Speaker 2: Horowitz saw some of the best draft classes in Pirate's
Speaker 2: recent history.
Speaker 1: I could even remove the word recent.
Speaker 2: I think brought back Seth Hernandez, he brought back Connor Griffin.
Speaker 2: Franchise corner stones is what they're looking like at this point. Right,
Speaker 2: Connor Griffin already secured the long term bag. But this
Speaker 2: was a college heavy draft, a college pitcher heavy draft.
Speaker 2: Out of the twenty one picks, fourteen of them were pictures.
Speaker 2: Twelve of them were college pitchers, and not just any
Speaker 2: college pitcher, A lot of them were college aces from
Speaker 2: premier college programs. Right, we had Tyler Faye from Alabama.
Speaker 2: We had Liam O'Leary from Saint John's. They went against
Speaker 2: each other in a super regional. This year, we had
Speaker 2: Jason DeCaro from UNC. We're gonna get into him, lots
Speaker 2: to like about him, Grant Govell from USC. We also
Speaker 2: had Rowan Leto from San Diego States.
Speaker 1: A lot of very interesting names here, especially on the
Speaker 1: college front.
Speaker 2: Is that what like, obviously that's what you saw too,
Speaker 2: but like, what are your thoughts on the whole approach
Speaker 2: to going college pitcher heavy.
Speaker 4: So I'll be honest with you, I used to hate
Speaker 4: this approach, Like in twenty twenty three, whenever they went
Speaker 4: all in on pictures. Basically except for like Mitch Jeb
Speaker 4: we don't have to talk about that part of the draft,
Speaker 4: but whenever they went all in on on pictures, it
Speaker 4: scared me a little bit, just because you know, you
Speaker 4: started and you saw this issue with the Pirates in
Speaker 4: the off season where that you start to look at
Speaker 4: the depth start in the organization. It's like, Okay, you
Speaker 4: got all these arms, but you have no bats coming
Speaker 4: to help you, like at all, like none, And that's
Speaker 4: something that can get scary quickly. But at the same time, Scott,
Speaker 4: this is what the Pirates have done so well at
Speaker 4: developing within the last few years. If you go back
Speaker 4: and look at that twenty twenty three class, it was
Speaker 4: Christian Curtis, it was Paul Skins, it was all kinds
Speaker 4: of other people that are a lot more interesting as well.
Speaker 4: And I was just talking to you about this before
Speaker 4: we started recording. I feel like that team is, especially
Speaker 4: the Pirates view starting pictures is less of a question mark,
Speaker 4: especially out of college, just because like you kind of
Speaker 4: know what the transition looks like. They're the stuff is
Speaker 4: what you're searching for, and the stuff is what you
Speaker 4: could fall back and bet on as opposed to a
Speaker 4: hitter that's playing in a weaker conference or somebody like
Speaker 4: and Lebron who struggles against sec sec hitting. The transition
Speaker 4: give you a little bit harder and a lot more
Speaker 4: question marks in that it's just a lot more quantifiable
Speaker 4: to go for college pitching.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, absolutely, Like you said, you know what
Speaker 2: you're getting, right, And these are guys that have competed
Speaker 2: at the highest level at the college ranks, Guys that
Speaker 2: could probably go pitch in Greensboro right now and feel
Speaker 2: pretty comfortable. We've talked to some of these guys like,
Speaker 2: what's the what's the adjustment, Like, it's like a It's
Speaker 2: wasn't much different for playing in the SEC.
Speaker 1: Right, it's a launching pad. Yeah, yeah, except for it's
Speaker 1: a launching pad. Right.
Speaker 2: So another topic I want to cover here too, before
Speaker 2: we get into each pick. There's two guys that I
Speaker 2: think as of right now, are probably not going to sign,
Speaker 2: one being the eighteenth round pick, Malachi Washington, which was
Speaker 2: one of the best high school bats in the class.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of these guys who went in
Speaker 1: the eighteenth round.
Speaker 2: Dominic Santarelli went to the Mariors in the eighteenth as
Speaker 2: well at a park few high school decorated high school
Speaker 2: program in Georgia.
Speaker 1: He's committed to L s Elis.
Speaker 2: He's going to have a crazy class and we know
Speaker 2: that they have just a huge pool of nil money,
Speaker 2: more than most college baseball programs, so pulling him away
Speaker 2: will be difficult.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 2: There was an example brought up today and we mentioned
Speaker 2: it discussing this.
Speaker 1: Prep for the draft.
Speaker 2: Britain Bishop was eleventh round pick a few years back
Speaker 2: who posted he was going to Arkansas, who made it
Speaker 2: very clear he was going there. In the last minute
Speaker 2: signed due to the deal that they gave him. So
Speaker 2: there's still a possibility that you could pull a guy
Speaker 2: like this away. I'm a betting man. I would bet
Speaker 2: all my money that it does not happen. And then
Speaker 2: there's Andrew Duncan, nineteenth round pick the next round, a
Speaker 2: guy that is probably one of the better bath theball
Speaker 2: skills in college baseball the past year. Has you know,
Speaker 2: elite center field or plus speed from Wright State out
Speaker 2: of the Horizon League. Is committed to play at Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Is a fiance that went to Tennessee. I think he's
Speaker 2: very much so looking to go there. I think he
Speaker 2: was even announced today that he is playing attending Tennessee.
Speaker 2: So I think that's even a more for sure thing
Speaker 2: than Malachi Washington.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, which is a huge bummer. Honest. I mean,
Speaker 1: Washington was always a long shot, but you never know.
Speaker 4: There are some later round guys who do sign most
Speaker 4: notably wasn't as late, but Cooper Pratt was originally supposed
Speaker 4: to be like a second rounder and he fell. Milwaukee
Speaker 4: Brewers took a shot there and threw some money at
Speaker 4: him and landed him in the same class. George Walco too,
Speaker 4: who some people listening to this one and I'll be
Speaker 4: super familiar with. But it is a lanky, big time
Speaker 4: power guy that Scott. You've got some friends that are
Speaker 4: very familiar with He's working with them. Yeah, with George Walco.
Speaker 4: So there always is the chance, for sure. But if
Speaker 4: you're if you're a Pirates fan, I just wouldn't get
Speaker 4: my hopes up here. Maybe actually I would get my
Speaker 4: hopes up that maybe this is kind of a we
Speaker 4: just want to get our name in your ear when
Speaker 4: whenever we have a chance to select you again in
Speaker 4: the future.
Speaker 2: So yeah, absolutely, get familiarity with the organization the people
Speaker 2: running it.
Speaker 1: But let's let's start off here, Jay, because.
Speaker 2: One the pick five of the draft first round is
Speaker 2: the last time we'll be picking the top ten or
Speaker 2: in the lottery. We got Derek Curiele from LSU outfielder,
Speaker 2: elite bat the ball skills, doesn't swing and miss, super
Speaker 2: advanced field for the barrel. A plays a really good
Speaker 2: center field, high average, high OBP hitter. I feel like
Speaker 2: the floor is super high. Here brings back shades of
Speaker 2: Andrew ben and Tendee at Arkansas, maybe a six' three
Speaker 2: version Of Stephen kwan at his best, right and a
Speaker 2: guy that when we're looking at the, data the swing,
Speaker 2: data maybe there's more juice in. THERE i don't know
Speaker 2: If i'm going to say twenty five plus homers, obviously
Speaker 2: but maybe there's double digit homers in there while staying
Speaker 2: up the middle and hitting for high.
Speaker 4: Average there's absolutely double digit homers in the, TANK i.
Speaker 4: Think and this is somebody who quickly became like a,
Speaker 4: oh that kind of seems like a little bit of
Speaker 4: a reach to.
Speaker 1: Me be this is a money saver.
Speaker 4: Too this is one of the highest probability big leaders
Speaker 4: you're going to find in the. DRAFT i think that
Speaker 4: whenever comes to Drafting, scott that's what you're looking, for.
Speaker 4: Right one of my, Friends, shandanahue texted me this earlier.
Speaker 4: Today he, said you're not looking for you're not looking
Speaker 4: for The All star as you're looking for the high
Speaker 4: probability big. Leaders and if you're going to project out
Speaker 4: a guy like, That curiel is probably the best best
Speaker 4: chance you. Have AND i do want to go through
Speaker 4: the data here as long as you're, Willing, scott we're
Speaker 4: going to compare him to a couple of the couple
Speaker 4: of the other guys in the class that we liked a,
Speaker 4: lot or fifty three point six percent hard hit rate
Speaker 4: from a guy who's not really a big slugger as
Speaker 4: huge average exit velocity of ninety point five miles an,
Speaker 4: hour zone contact rate ninety four point two. Percent there's
Speaker 4: a the, elite there's are the elite contact stuff starts
Speaker 4: to start to shine. Through, also his max exit velocity
Speaker 4: of one fourteen point eight is very notable for somebody
Speaker 4: who's not supposed to be a big time power thread
Speaker 4: only with thirteen percent of the time in, zone by the,
Speaker 4: way under six percent he whiffed last. Year and just
Speaker 4: comparing that to a couple of other couple of our
Speaker 4: other favorite college hitters this season BETWEEN A. J, Garcia Chris,
Speaker 4: Occopian Andrew, burris who we thought was going to be
Speaker 4: the pick very late there after The giants Took Jackson.
Speaker 4: Flora this is where he ranks in these. Areas out of,
Speaker 4: these out of this group of, hitters zone, contact he ranks.
Speaker 4: One hard hit rate he ranks. Second AVERAGE ev is,
Speaker 4: third AND ev ninety is, third max ex and philosophy is.
Speaker 4: Two he's first in with rate and first and.
Speaker 1: In zone with.
Speaker 4: Rate so for somebody who's hailed as this guy that
Speaker 4: might not have crazy, power which is, TRUE i think
Speaker 4: that there's a lot more in the tank, there especially
Speaker 4: whenever you start to compare him to a couple of
Speaker 4: those other people and you see that he's second in
Speaker 4: MAX ev with these elite contact. Skills Oh andy plays
Speaker 4: a seventy great defense, too with good. Speed, like this
Speaker 4: is a very very very, good high probability big leaguer
Speaker 4: who could be A Stephen kwan but better in the
Speaker 4: big league some.
Speaker 1: Day, YEAH i.
Speaker 2: DO i think there might even be a higher ceiling
Speaker 2: than A Stephen, kwan, Right, like, yeah it's just given
Speaker 2: his frame and just the projectability there. Left but, Yeah
Speaker 2: i'm really excited about this pick, man especially given that
Speaker 2: he's about a chance to stick in center field long,
Speaker 2: term or really good. Chance you, KNOW i Thought burris
Speaker 2: was kind of your high upside play there and a
Speaker 2: guy that a type of guy THAT i think the
Speaker 2: last regime would have taken over a curial because they
Speaker 2: took a lot of high upside swings and they hit.
Speaker 1: Right Kyle griffin was a high upside.
Speaker 2: Swing there was questions on the swing right, definitely and
Speaker 2: it worked, out and it worked out really. Well but,
Speaker 2: Yeah i'm really happy with this, pick AND i think
Speaker 2: you've got to for sure big leaguer with the fifth pick.
Speaker 4: Overall now here's where the next question comes. In it
Speaker 4: is do you think they could save any money with this?
Speaker 4: Pick because at first that was our initial, reaction and
Speaker 4: the last NIGHT i was looking into a little bit
Speaker 4: further and found out that he's A Scott boris, guy
Speaker 4: which really started to turn me off a little bit
Speaker 4: more to that, idea especially seeing how the rest of
Speaker 4: the draft unfolded that we're going to see here in a.
Speaker 4: SECOND i don't know that there's as many savings there
Speaker 4: as we, think BUT i think there's gonna be enough
Speaker 4: to lock down a couple other intriguing players we're gonna
Speaker 4: see here in a.
Speaker 1: Second, SCOTT i.
Speaker 2: Think they could get a slight underslot. HERE i don't
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be anything, significant BUT i do foresee
Speaker 2: that being a, factor AND i think that to, them
Speaker 2: to some other. Picks but it comes into question like
Speaker 2: they didn't really make splashes on the prep scene right,
Speaker 2: Now like they, didn't so like maybe it's.
Speaker 1: Not maybe it's. Not that's WHY i say it's maybe
Speaker 1: a slight. Underslot but we'll. See but the next pick
Speaker 1: is going to Be Aiden ruiz.
Speaker 2: Second roup pick pick forty, four a guy that we
Speaker 2: talked about in a lot of our breakdowns here for the.
Speaker 2: DRAFT a guy that sounded like a, pirate like he
Speaker 2: sounded like a guy that they'd be interested. In Wyatt
Speaker 2: stanford type. Pick this is a lightning fast hands in
Speaker 2: the info with a quick, exchange above average arm strength at.
Speaker 2: Centerfield possibly a seventy grade, glove possibly one of the
Speaker 2: best gloves in the, draft if not the. Best he's
Speaker 2: committed To vanderbilt next. Year prep guy From New. YORK
Speaker 2: i think you know the hands right. Now it's more of.
Speaker 1: A back to ball.
Speaker 2: Guy hit over, power, obviously AND i think it's probably
Speaker 2: gonna remain that. Way he's got a lot of physical
Speaker 2: traits and athletic tools that could result in A Nick
Speaker 2: allen type of.
Speaker 1: PROFILE i think at the, floor but you.
Speaker 2: KNOW i think there's there's some potential here with the,
Speaker 2: bat that's some untapped. Potential what are your thoughts initial
Speaker 2: thoughts on En ruiz at pick forty.
Speaker 4: Four, Well i'll start off by saying that he was
Speaker 4: one of the first guys The pirates draft that was
Speaker 4: on our draft. Board he was a second round, target
Speaker 4: a picked fifty, one so we just barely missed that, One.
Speaker 4: Scott but there's a lot to like in this. Profile for.
Speaker 4: Sure it's definitely somebody who's going to be a glove
Speaker 4: OVERHIT i think you could say at this, point and
Speaker 4: then especially a hit overpower. Guy but if you read
Speaker 4: any of the scouting reports on, him for people that
Speaker 4: have seen him and played against, him it's the teams
Speaker 4: love him and opponents hate playing. Him that's really the
Speaker 4: one thing that comes down to between the speed and
Speaker 4: the hit, Profile he's just somebody that's gonna be an
Speaker 4: annoying at bat and when he gets on, base he's
Speaker 4: going to be a pest to keep it at first
Speaker 4: base or second base wherever he ends.
Speaker 1: Up and then in the field.
Speaker 4: Too he's going to make a couple all star caliber
Speaker 4: plays for, you AND i want to quickly mention this.
Speaker 4: Too you AND i have talked in the lead up
Speaker 4: to the draft a lot about the idea of getting
Speaker 4: to two war and what that looks like for. Guys
Speaker 4: we're projecting these guys to be average big, leaders. RIGHT
Speaker 4: i feel like you have a good idea where that
Speaker 4: two war is coming from With, ruiz because even if
Speaker 4: he doesn't hit in the big league s, CARD i
Speaker 4: think he can he can get Some he can get
Speaker 4: two war and his sleep by just being A google of.
Speaker 1: Defender.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ABSOLUTELY i think he gets sleep or sleepwalk into
Speaker 2: that too.
Speaker 1: War.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah the question is going to be around the
Speaker 2: bat and he's he's a little bit older for the.
Speaker 2: Class he's nineteen years old at the time of the,
Speaker 2: draft so he's a guy that could spend a little
Speaker 2: bit of time on the.
Speaker 1: Complex But i'm sure they're going to try to challenge.
Speaker 1: Him and.
Speaker 2: You know this IS i think this is the guy
Speaker 2: That i'm not off based off of Anything i've. HEARD
Speaker 2: i think this is the Guy i'm most worried about
Speaker 2: in terms of, signability just because of maybe SOME i don't.
Speaker 2: Know we're getting back to the last draft With servante's
Speaker 2: a guy that was a highly touted prep pitcher who
Speaker 2: elected to go TO ucla instead of signing with The
Speaker 2: pirates in the second. Round maybe there's some just like paranoia,
Speaker 2: there but he's committed A, vanderbilt a really solid program
Speaker 2: and something they'll. Watch BUT i think this is a
Speaker 2: guy that they could end up signing based on their other.
Speaker 1: Picks IT'S ptsd for.
Speaker 4: Sure back To, servantes we don't have to hide, that,
Speaker 4: Yeah BUT i will say the one thing that makes
Speaker 4: me feel pretty confident IS i feel like if anybody
Speaker 4: in the draft is going to get the over or
Speaker 4: like the savings that they have and be, overslotted it's
Speaker 4: probably gonna Be. Ruiz AND i think that you even
Speaker 4: saw that that attitude for them afterwards, too like they
Speaker 4: kind of left themselves even a little bit of a
Speaker 4: cushion with how many college arms that they, took because
Speaker 4: you never know with a guy like, that especially After,
Speaker 4: servantes he might cost you more than you. Think and
Speaker 4: he really felt like they're one and only big time
Speaker 4: splash aside from like one, Mediumish we're going to get
Speaker 4: to you in a little.
Speaker 1: Bit let's go to pick fifty.
Speaker 2: One it was another second round, Pick Chris rembert out Of,
Speaker 2: auburn a college. Bat this guy is a college performer
Speaker 2: at THE. Sec his dad is an area scout for The,
Speaker 2: pirates which was a cool. Story this is the guy's
Speaker 2: a second basement through and. Through he has a chance
Speaker 2: to play in left field if you in a, pinch
Speaker 2: if you need him. To BUT i think that. Beat
Speaker 2: the ball skills here are above, average and that was
Speaker 2: the theme with the college bats.
Speaker 1: HERE i think the CLASS i.
Speaker 2: Think he has a chance to grow into slightly above average,
Speaker 2: power potentially as a second. Baseman you, know he's flashed
Speaker 2: thumb exit velo's exceeding one to. Eleven it's nothing to sneeze, at,
Speaker 2: obviously BUT i think this is another high floor pick
Speaker 2: out of the college.
Speaker 4: SCENE i think the first thing that stands out to
Speaker 4: me is how quick the hand speed. Is, yes that
Speaker 4: was one thing THAT i pointed out to you right,
Speaker 4: away was just that the bat speed is ridiculous on this.
Speaker 4: Kid and we have a, source honestly, too inside Of.
Speaker 4: Auburn And i'll read you the text THAT i was
Speaker 4: sent after this, says good player needs to clean up
Speaker 4: his swing and get some. Lift but he's a contact
Speaker 4: over power, profile fine defender will stick at second. Base
Speaker 4: AND i feel like if you're looking for a high
Speaker 4: probability big, layer once, again those are types of things
Speaker 4: that you're looking. For if he cleans up that, Swing Pat,
Speaker 4: scott that bat speed is going to PRODUCE i could
Speaker 4: produce double digit homers if he just gets the right
Speaker 4: blonde angle in the. Swing and he's somebody that LIKE
Speaker 4: i think he was probably a little bit of an
Speaker 4: underslot guy, there or at least an attempt at. That
Speaker 4: AND i feel like that if that's the guy you're
Speaker 4: going to take a shot, ON i feel like that's
Speaker 4: pretty a pretty safe way to do that for.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ABSOLUTELY i MEAN i think it's again like this
Speaker 2: is not a Draft i'm used to with the parents
Speaker 2: taking like college performers at THE sec. Level i'm using
Speaker 2: them taking high upside high school guys in this. Range so,
Speaker 2: yeah a different, look a guy that could potentially move.
Speaker 2: Quickly let's go on to the third, round pick. Eighty
Speaker 2: we're gonna start moving through these a little bit. Quicker
Speaker 2: Jason DeCaro out OF. Unc this is a guy who
Speaker 2: was young for the. Class he's only twenty years old
Speaker 2: hitting the. Draft you, know acc, arm six foot five,
Speaker 2: frame works up the ninety seven features some impressive arms
Speaker 2: time run with a well above average spin. Rates we'll
Speaker 2: casually hold some vertical carry as. Well he's effective generating ground.
Speaker 2: BALLS i think that the curve ball is his bread
Speaker 2: and butter with huge spin.
Speaker 1: Working off the.
Speaker 2: FASTBALL i think just refining the secondaries is a huge
Speaker 2: pinpoint for a pitcher like this out OF Unc BUT
Speaker 2: i think he's a you, know there's a lot left
Speaker 2: in the tank.
Speaker 1: Here he's a master of his.
Speaker 2: Craft he keeps hitters, up, bounced with a ton of, offerings, throws.
Speaker 2: Strikes this is a guy THAT i think will just
Speaker 2: succeed right away in The pirates development, system.
Speaker 4: Definitely and this is a guy that you don't have
Speaker 4: to wait around in with a stint in braidenton. EITHER i,
Speaker 4: think AND i said this is my quote, tweet BUT
Speaker 4: i think that this is probably one of my favorite
Speaker 4: picks The pirates have had in the draft because he's
Speaker 4: a definition of untapped potential with a strong foundation to
Speaker 4: work off. Of AND i want to talk about that
Speaker 4: strong foundation real quick basketball right. Now the shape is
Speaker 4: eighteen point seven and fourteen point. Nine for those of
Speaker 4: you who don't, know that just means the ball is
Speaker 4: carrying and running into his arm side like. Crazy almost
Speaker 4: fifteen inches of armside run is. Nuts he's gonna lose
Speaker 4: some of that vertical break, there but there's other stuff
Speaker 4: to fall back. On the slider's a gyro. Slider really
Speaker 4: good change, up by the, Way scott seventeen point three
Speaker 4: inches of horizonal break on that curveball has some steep as.
Speaker 4: Well tons tons tons to like in this uh in
Speaker 4: this profile for. Sure by the, way change up had
Speaker 4: a forty two point four percent with rate last, year
Speaker 4: and uh at UNC i.
Speaker 2: Love fastball change up, guys just BECAUSE i feel, like
Speaker 2: just my personal, EXPERIENCE i fastba is you could teach.
Speaker 2: SPIN i feel like you, can't like you either have
Speaker 2: a change up where you don't like it's such a field.
Speaker 2: Pitch SO i always gravitate towards those.
Speaker 1: Guys AND i also.
Speaker 2: Think they have a floor of being a solid reliever
Speaker 2: if they can't, develop if they don't have a feel for.
Speaker 2: Spin but let's go on to the fourth round pick here,
Speaker 2: again a lot of guys that are going to impact
Speaker 2: the upper levels of the system sooner rather than. Later
Speaker 2: but we're gonna go to a high school guy here
Speaker 2: out of The nevada prep.
Speaker 1: Scene Andrew.
Speaker 2: Giles, Okay andrews spelled Like Andrew jones And giles spelled
Speaker 2: Like Brent Brian.
Speaker 1: Giles, no it's like a good mix right. There.
Speaker 2: Exactly one of the most famous names around the country
Speaker 2: in this twenty twenty six prep, class has a sweet
Speaker 2: left handed. Swing maybe some holes in, it but this
Speaker 2: is a guy that HAS i think some impressive raw
Speaker 2: power projection in the.
Speaker 4: Tank, definitely AND i mean he was one of the
Speaker 4: buzzier names in this prep, cycle exciting raw. Power the
Speaker 4: swing is built for line drives all over the. Field
Speaker 4: with improvements made on the wift front this year, too
Speaker 4: he's even more. Intriguing this is definitely a pick that reminds, me,
Speaker 4: THOUGH i will, say of the old regime that we
Speaker 4: had doing the, drafts because he was a little bit
Speaker 4: of a reach there with the high school, selection and
Speaker 4: that little bit of a reach was kind of Justin
Speaker 4: horwitz's bread and. Butter that's how you got guys Like
Speaker 4: Eddie reiners and Even. Safe but we keep bringing up that,
Speaker 4: name but he's such a good example for this was
Speaker 4: just a little bit of a reach and he JUST i.
Speaker 4: COULDN'T i couldn't help fight off those comparisons right there
Speaker 4: in my.
Speaker 2: Head, yeah above our average arm, strength you. KNOW i
Speaker 2: think he's got a verage foot speed as. WELL i
Speaker 2: think this is an interesting. Bat he was committed To
Speaker 2: oregon for ball that's. Year BUT i am pretty. Confident
Speaker 2: i'm actually more confidence in signing this pick THAN i
Speaker 2: Am Aiden. Ruiz And i'm not like saying that we're
Speaker 2: not going to Sign Aid, ruiz but it sounds pretty
Speaker 2: it sounds like a for sure thing that he's gonna
Speaker 2: sign here with The. Pirates it's going to pick five
Speaker 2: because this is an arm THAT i want to talk
Speaker 2: about left date and Pitcher Ryan, morone fifth round pick
Speaker 2: out OF Nc, state WAS.
Speaker 1: Nc state's ace this.
Speaker 2: Year this gives, me Like Connor wigriff vibes right your, pitchability,
Speaker 2: Lefty and this is a guy THAT i, Know tyler
Speaker 2: From Just. Baseball Tyler jennings does a lot over draft
Speaker 2: coverage highlighted a. Lot is one of the Better friday
Speaker 2: night starters in college baseball this. Year not an overpowering
Speaker 2: guy the fastball live in the low, nineties but his
Speaker 2: other weapons are what Draw rave reviews as low d,
Speaker 2: slider has big, depth especially is tough on lefty bats
Speaker 2: the mid. Eighties change is also a bat. Misser he's
Speaker 2: just pounds the strike. Zone he's got a very high
Speaker 2: floor with polish on the. MOUND i just think this
Speaker 2: is a guy that's going to move. Quickly allah Of
Speaker 2: connor Wickriff.
Speaker 4: The shapes are exciting, too AND i won't dive too
Speaker 4: deeply into, them but he creates a ton of, deception
Speaker 4: especially against. Lefties, scott this is a tough Left he
Speaker 4: left you on bat, which again going back to your
Speaker 4: original point As connor Wickriff, man he's a tough lefty
Speaker 4: lefty at. Bat heterre features plenty of ride to go
Speaker 4: off of the or, sorry plenty of ride to go
Speaker 4: off of and, control and he has a curve ball as.
Speaker 1: Well in the arsenal AND i want to touch on this.
Speaker 4: Too Peyton, sawyer who's another one of my good friends
Speaker 4: At Just baseball who does a lot of the college
Speaker 4: writing and is a big pitching. Guru he highlighted. Uh
Speaker 4: he Highlighted moron earlier this year as one of the
Speaker 4: for his safeness in the profile and the, strength throwing
Speaker 4: abilities and deception and. Consistency so a lot to like
Speaker 4: here in this. Guy if he's being highlighted by multiple
Speaker 4: of Our Just baseball correspondents right, There.
Speaker 1: Scott, yeah, again another high floor.
Speaker 2: Pick a guy that REALLY i think is going to move,
Speaker 2: quickly As i've stated, before But i'm excited For ryan Or.
Speaker 1: MORON i feel like this is a guy that we're
Speaker 1: not talking about.
Speaker 2: Enough let's go a six round Pick pick, one six,
Speaker 2: Nine Tyler fayel In. ALABAMA i mentioned earlier that he
Speaker 2: dueled With later Pick liam O'Leary out.
Speaker 1: Of Saint john's and The Super.
Speaker 2: Regional this is a low three quarter slot rightty with
Speaker 2: fastball that warp up the ninety seven since more mid,
Speaker 2: nineties ninety, three ninety, four some sink and.
Speaker 1: Armside run on the.
Speaker 2: Heater he's a groundball, specialist spins a low eighties slider
Speaker 2: with some sweeping. CHARACTERISTICS i think this is one of
Speaker 2: the better arms in THE sec this. YEAR A friday
Speaker 2: night starter For, alabama a guy, again A friday night,
Speaker 2: starter an ace for a premier program that is gonna
Speaker 2: be more mature than other.
Speaker 1: Arms in the system and is probably gonna move quickly as.
Speaker 4: Well, Definitely, man it's. Exciting it's exciting command and upside breaking.
Speaker 4: Stuff that's that's for. SURE i also want to note this.
Speaker 4: Too he Through alabama's ninth no hitter this, season not this,
Speaker 4: season but, sorry their ninth no hitter in franchise in
Speaker 4: franchise history this. Season so a guy that's gonna get
Speaker 4: you soft contact and do so early inccounts, too which
Speaker 4: is what you ask for with starting pitchers, nowadays just
Speaker 4: to get a little bit deeper into, games especially in
Speaker 4: The pirates organization where you have a bullpen that can
Speaker 4: use every extra inning coboard for, them as you, can
Speaker 4: just put it that.
Speaker 2: Way, yeah really excited About Tyler fay AS i am
Speaker 2: with a lot of these, arms and the next two
Speaker 2: ARMS i think have sort of similar similar. Characteristics we're
Speaker 2: gonna start with the seventh round. Pick, obviously we're going
Speaker 2: to Order bryce And moore out Of Florida. State he
Speaker 2: transfer FROM uva To Florida state After brian O'Connor left
Speaker 2: a program For Mississippi. State this is an imposing writer
Speaker 2: who can rush it up to ninety six.
Speaker 1: Above he's got average.
Speaker 2: Fastball the breaker can exceed three thousand, RPMs so he
Speaker 2: has phil for spin. There he can throw it hard.
Speaker 2: Too if he's got above average, breaker a press of
Speaker 2: whiff and chase, rates there's a mid eighties change there as.
Speaker 2: Well this guy kind of gives me reliever, vibes but
Speaker 2: they may stretch him out here early on in his.
Speaker 4: Career, totally and it seems like he's improved the strike
Speaker 4: throwing abilities over the last couple of, years WHICH i
Speaker 4: feel like for college, arms that tends to be like
Speaker 4: the last real test that you have to go with the.
Speaker 4: Stuff so knowing that it's pretty easy to get excited.
Speaker 2: About a guy like This scott and then moving on
Speaker 2: to pick round Eight alex Over bay out Of Arizona,
Speaker 2: state son OF mlb standout in former Pirate lyle Over.
Speaker 2: Bay the play talk about a player development success story.
Speaker 2: Man after two years AT, unlv he made some big
Speaker 2: time gains in the weight. Room he hit the transfer,
Speaker 2: portal the stuff started to tick. Up he'll sit ninety
Speaker 2: five to ninety seven high over the top delivery with
Speaker 2: above average lift in the. ZONE i feel like he's
Speaker 2: a lot of deception there generating with And chase spins the.
Speaker 1: Ball, well.
Speaker 2: The highest upside secondary is that change it dives and
Speaker 2: fades off the, fastball cutting over ten miles an hour.
Speaker 1: Up there's a lot of villa separation.
Speaker 2: THERE i feel like there's a lot left from the
Speaker 2: tank here, too AND i view him more as a
Speaker 2: reliever prospect to going.
Speaker 4: Forward i'm gonna throw out a comp, here AND i
Speaker 4: promise you it's not just because It's Arizona, state BUT
Speaker 4: i Get Christian curtis vives from him the more and
Speaker 4: MORE i keep looking at the profile.
Speaker 1: Characteristics, yeah, yeah not.
Speaker 4: Just the not just the fastball, characteristics but also like
Speaker 4: the the just fuel for spin on some of the breakers,
Speaker 4: too and the fact that he's a player development success
Speaker 4: story kind of comes to the issues That Christian curtis
Speaker 4: faced a little bit in his earlier early parts of his.
Speaker 4: Career and then of course you have The Arizona state
Speaker 4: connection there, too as they both went there at one
Speaker 4: point in their collegiate. Careers but somebody that's not hard
Speaker 4: to get excited, about especially with the with the baseball
Speaker 4: and his.
Speaker 1: Blood so, yeah a late. Bloomer definitely ninth round. Pick Trey.
Speaker 2: PHELPS i tweeted out and we talked about this earlier
Speaker 2: that last year's ninth round pick was a success. Story
Speaker 2: Jared jones, adels you decorated college bat out of THE.
Speaker 1: Sec could they go the same?
Speaker 2: ROUTE a couple of minutes, later they Took Trey phelps
Speaker 2: out Of, georgia who had a lot of draft hype last,
Speaker 2: year had As monty sophomore, season went back To, georgia
Speaker 2: hit nineteen home, runs hit over three point. FIFTY i,
Speaker 2: think but this is a bat first profile with juice
Speaker 2: to all, fields close to a complete. Hitter the question
Speaker 2: is where he ends up? Defensively is that third base
Speaker 2: is at a quarner outfold? Spot BUT i think this
Speaker 2: is this guy is gonna hit and move pretty quickly
Speaker 2: through the. SYSTEM i could see him going To greensborough right.
Speaker 1: Away.
Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely want we throw out a camp for this guy.
Speaker 4: Too anom asraelind Vaude. Is somebody mentioned that they have
Speaker 4: a little bit of a bat wiggle that's, similar AND
Speaker 4: i couldn't agree. More, man, this, this this gives me
Speaker 4: crazy throwbacks to That Jared jones, pick AND i feel
Speaker 4: like it going forward To. Scott we know how to
Speaker 4: nail their ninth round pick, now which just could be
Speaker 4: whichever whichever the, biggest big time power guys are left
Speaker 4: on the board in round. Nine but he's consistently been
Speaker 4: one of the best hitters in the country with an
Speaker 4: absurd fuel for the. Barrel it doesn't really it doesn't
Speaker 4: really sacrifice contact despite, that Azraelnd vaude is like set
Speaker 4: up where he's got his hands a little bit lower.
Speaker 4: That you, know sometimes it gets guys blown up depending
Speaker 4: on where they're where they're.
Speaker 2: Playing but, yeah, YEAH i couldn't agree. MORE i think
Speaker 2: this is a guy that parks fans really. Like he's
Speaker 2: very animated on the, field and he.
Speaker 4: Got tossed from a game this year for like just
Speaker 4: watching a homer or something like.
Speaker 1: That he plays with some. Fire he love. IT i
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 2: Already tenth round pick is right handed Picture Michael gibson
Speaker 2: out of The. Citadel this was a two way start
Speaker 2: at The, citadel by the, WAY i think he started At.
Speaker 2: Liberty he had a couple of stops at other, schools
Speaker 2: but he hit four oh eight with six homers this.
Speaker 2: Season the drafted him as a starter as a, pitcher
Speaker 2: though he's worked mostly out of the relief in the
Speaker 2: citadel sitting ninety one.
Speaker 1: Ninety four with a mid eighties.
Speaker 2: Slider sounds like your classic relief prospect that's probably going
Speaker 2: to be a little not a, project but a guy
Speaker 2: that is going to settle into pitching full time here
Speaker 2: in pro. Ball you kind of hit the nail on
Speaker 2: the head right, there AND i just want to mention
Speaker 2: too that it's exciting athleticism too to see a hitter
Speaker 2: at such a high level start to transition to a picture.
Speaker 2: Only SO i feel like you could fall back on
Speaker 2: some of that and maybe dream went a little bit
Speaker 2: more vlo there because of that. Athleticism jay eleventh round
Speaker 2: Pick Spencer. Evans this is a guy THAT i think
Speaker 2: we're both excited about AND i underrated pick here in his,
Speaker 2: class lefty pitcher out of The florida prep. Scene he's very, projectable,
Speaker 2: fastball has bat missing, shape been up to ninety six
Speaker 2: dem staring the ability to rip through a seventy eight
Speaker 2: to eighty one min hour slider at twenty six hundred.
Speaker 2: RPMs it's a true outpitch when landed and, commanded there's
Speaker 2: a change in the. Tank it just feels like there's
Speaker 2: A this is a big ball of, clay a guy
Speaker 2: that could really, excel and you made a comp to
Speaker 2: him when we were talking yesterday during the. Draft can
Speaker 2: you talk through that real quick BECAUSE i think that'll
Speaker 2: get Part fins really.
Speaker 4: Excited It's Michael kennedy with better stuff and a more
Speaker 4: refined skill, SET i think. Already like the one thing
Speaker 4: THAT i want to mention real quickly, too is it's.
Speaker 4: Clean mccasy hides the ball exceptionally.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: Scott if you guys have seen the video THAT i
Speaker 4: quote tweeted On twitter last night after he was, drafted
Speaker 4: it was it was really tough to see the ball
Speaker 4: out of his. HAND i know that he was mixing
Speaker 4: some breaking balls there with, heaters and just from the
Speaker 4: arms slot and from how well he hides the, ball
Speaker 4: they all look the same out of the, hand WHICH
Speaker 4: i think is gonna be a key kind or a
Speaker 4: key characteristic movie down the. Line AND i do want
Speaker 4: to say To, scott this is probably where they're going
Speaker 4: to go over. Slot this is where the, savings the
Speaker 4: rest of the savings whatever they have left for from
Speaker 4: Curiel O ruiz and Even Trey phelps are probably gonna
Speaker 4: go To Spencer.
Speaker 1: Evans here it's. Exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah these picks eleven through twenty are one hundred and
Speaker 2: FIFTY k slot, value AND i THINK i could see
Speaker 2: them going like three hundred day.
Speaker 1: Like, slightly it's not, more if not.
Speaker 2: MORE i think he's a guy who's committed TO, lsu,
Speaker 2: right So god pay up, Essentially, yeah you got to
Speaker 2: pay up to land, him AND i think he could
Speaker 2: be an exciting.
Speaker 1: Arm next arm Twelfth round is a college drum out
Speaker 1: Of San Diego. State he was their their ace Rowan.
Speaker 2: Leto he's a true five pitch artist who relies on
Speaker 2: sequencing and pitch ability to generate. Whiffs the fastball will
Speaker 2: get up to ninety four solid carry and tell through
Speaker 2: the zone of average strike throwing with the fastball spins
Speaker 2: the ball. Well the pitch mix includes a, cutter, sweeper curve. Change,
Speaker 2: again a pitchability, guy a guy who's, mature who is
Speaker 2: a pitcher over a, thrower.
Speaker 1: A guy that could maybe move quickly.
Speaker 2: Through the system as a middle reliever when all is
Speaker 2: said and done to get to the big. Leagues but
Speaker 2: someone who is really. Impressive this year Into Mount. WEST
Speaker 2: i think it was his first Team All Mount west
Speaker 2: as a.
Speaker 4: Pitcher he said one thing there THAT i feel like
Speaker 4: we've said numerous times when talking about these, pictures and
Speaker 4: so he spins the ball, exceptionally exceptionally, well AND i
Speaker 4: think that if you're looking for what the pirates are looking,
Speaker 4: for that's it right, there because that's the one trait
Speaker 4: that they feel like they can kind of build off
Speaker 4: of and start to refine stuff beyond. That but the
Speaker 4: fact that he spins the ball really well is important
Speaker 4: because it's going to help The it's gonna help the
Speaker 4: floor of those pitches come up just a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, next pick another arm out of the acc right
Speaker 2: at a. Pitcher Griffin stych out Of Virginia tech was
Speaker 2: a thirteenth round. Pick he was previously drafted by The
Speaker 2: marriages in the eighteenth round and twenty twenty. Five this
Speaker 2: is a guy that had a big year for. Them
Speaker 2: he was the sinker is his bread and. Butter it's
Speaker 2: a heat seeking. Missile as described By Joe doyle of
Speaker 2: overslought dot, com you know he's going to. Work he's
Speaker 2: been up to ninety seven and since ninety two ninety.
Speaker 2: Five it DOESN'T i don't think the fast is going
Speaker 2: to miss much bats below the belt it's more of
Speaker 2: like a weak contact ground ball. Generator but you, know
Speaker 2: he's got an above average change up with diving.
Speaker 1: Action he's got a sweeping.
Speaker 2: SLIDER i think the three pitch arsenal and strike throwing
Speaker 2: ability gives him a shot to move. Quickly and he
Speaker 2: could be you, know he could be a guy that
Speaker 2: is in a multi ending reliever when all of a
Speaker 2: sudden done to get to the big, leagues LIKE i
Speaker 2: See leto as.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, Definitely and he's a guy that even though
Speaker 4: the fastball might not be super super, notable it's going
Speaker 4: to play up because of the velo separation there between
Speaker 4: that and his, changeup which something THAT i noted in
Speaker 4: my tweet from this last. Night tons of yellow separation
Speaker 4: between the changeup with a heater and, sorry and a
Speaker 4: heater with a sweeper that works well to. Match it's
Speaker 4: a really fun. Mix gives me shades of Key shock
Speaker 4: here as. Well, yeah the tract last year.
Speaker 2: Out of the twelfth, ROUND i think, right it was
Speaker 2: right in this range out Of. Sanford and the guy
Speaker 2: that is a sinker baller but has got the ability
Speaker 2: to miss bats, too not just generate week. Contact he's
Speaker 2: been a success story too In greensboro despite the hit
Speaker 2: or friendly. Environment let's go to to pick fourteen because
Speaker 2: this was an interesting. One right hand a picture out
Speaker 2: of The canadian prep scene out Of. Ontario DeMarcus right Out.
Speaker 2: CARTER i don't think he's.
Speaker 1: Committed to a.
Speaker 2: COLLEGE i couldn't find anything that he was committed to a.
Speaker 2: COLLEGE i think he's going to, sign but he's very,
Speaker 2: raw good athlete on the mound with room to, grow
Speaker 2: and his, lean wiry six to three like one sixty
Speaker 2: frame fastball is currently in the low nineties complimented complimented
Speaker 2: by a tight.
Speaker 1: Slider this is a guy that's just a projectable ball of.
Speaker 2: Clay, right he's got the picture body six, three one
Speaker 2: sixty one seventy's there's probably more velo in the, tank
Speaker 2: kind Of tristan mackenzie ish if you.
Speaker 4: Will, yeah, definitely projection is the thing here for. Sure
Speaker 4: AND i think if there's one trait here, that even
Speaker 4: though we can't can necessarily confirm this with, DATA i
Speaker 4: think he's probably a big extension, guy which will help
Speaker 4: that fastball in the low nineties play up a little.
Speaker 4: Bit but, definitely this is probably the guy that we
Speaker 4: know the least about just because he's coming out of
Speaker 4: The canadian prep, scene but still something to be excited.
Speaker 4: About if The pirates are taking a chance on a picture,
Speaker 4: Man i'm all in on him for. SURE i think
Speaker 4: they have given us enough reasons to be confident in
Speaker 4: them to develop these.
Speaker 2: Guys round Fifteen Saint John's Friday night. Starter liam O'Leary
Speaker 2: was a workhorse college arm going deep into. Games four pitch, mix,
Speaker 2: moves the extends well down the, mound clear phil for.
Speaker 2: Spin he LIKE i said, before many times he Battled
Speaker 2: Tyler fay in The Super. Regional not a guy that's
Speaker 2: going to overpower. You but he's a pitcher, again another
Speaker 2: pitcher over a, thrower and he's got a deep mix
Speaker 2: that allows him to work deep into. Games LIKE i,
Speaker 2: said so a Guy i'm excited to see pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: HERE i think he's going to move pretty fast through the.
Speaker 4: System big time workhorse. TOO i think that was one
Speaker 4: of the things that stood out to you AND i the.
Speaker 4: Most whenever the pick came through last, night we were looking
Speaker 4: around just to see what we could figure out about,
Speaker 4: him and it seemed like EVERYWHERE i was looking at
Speaker 4: it was. Complete game eight. Innings he tied an innings
Speaker 4: record At Saint. John's i'm pretty sure. Too so just
Speaker 4: the way who's going to pitch you deep into games
Speaker 4: and be that guy who's going to do soft, contact
Speaker 4: which is all you can ask for for an arm
Speaker 4: in this.
Speaker 1: Range let's go to pick sixteen out OF Usc Grant.
Speaker 2: Novelle this is one of their top starting, pitchers primarily
Speaker 2: A North south. Skuy he's got an uptempo delivery over
Speaker 2: the top. Finish we'll sit ninety, one ninety, three touch ninety.
Speaker 2: Five induces a ton of vertical lift on the, fastball
Speaker 2: has a big.
Speaker 1: BREAKER i think the change.
Speaker 2: Up Anthony murphy tweeted Of bucks on deck that he's
Speaker 2: the Fast the changeup has some interesting characteristics to, it
Speaker 2: someone that he was really interested. In, again just another
Speaker 2: mature arm out of the college. Ranks played at A power.
Speaker 2: Five it played in A power five conference that could move.
Speaker 4: Quickly this was a guy, too who was ranked in
Speaker 4: the borderline two hundreds with some outlets that they were
Speaker 4: able to scoop up at pick four sixty eight, overall
Speaker 4: so definitely a nice value, play especially if you can
Speaker 4: start to build out some of those other traits that
Speaker 4: they seem to like a lot.
Speaker 2: Exactly and that takes us in the pick seventeen where
Speaker 2: we Got Nate hellman out Of Kenesaw. State this is
Speaker 2: a right handed reliever who misses bats at a high
Speaker 2: rate with the. Fastball, again a guy that they could
Speaker 2: move quickly as a reliever through the. System they've done
Speaker 2: really well with guys, Recently Angeline, Kelly Wilbert, Hotel Michael.
Speaker 2: WALSH i, mean the list goes on and on with
Speaker 2: these guys that they've taken out of the college ranks
Speaker 2: that are or out of The dominican For Wilburt hotel
Speaker 2: And Antoine kelly out of cure us.
Speaker 1: Out but.
Speaker 2: You know these guys that have taken out of the
Speaker 2: taken into the draft or in the international, market that
Speaker 2: they run out there at starters and then also as
Speaker 2: relievers that move quickly because they've got a deep pool
Speaker 2: of pitching prospects in this. SYSTEM i can't all. Start
Speaker 2: you got five spots In, pittsburgh, Right AND i think
Speaker 2: they've done a really good job of finding these characteristics
Speaker 2: with the pictures that they that they love and going
Speaker 2: all for.
Speaker 1: Them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ABSOLUTELY i feel like if this is kind of
Speaker 4: a floor of what your bullpen in the future could look,
Speaker 4: like or at least your bullpen in the minor leagues
Speaker 4: could look. Like you're in a good spot for, Sure.
Speaker 4: Scott you mentioned pretty much everything THAT i was going
Speaker 4: to say in that, breakdown but something that it's all
Speaker 4: hard to get excited, about especially in this late in the.
Speaker 4: DRAFT i feel like usually we are kind of just
Speaker 4: walking through these picks being, like, oh, yeah this guy's pretty.
Speaker 4: Interesting but LIKE i can say confidently that this entire,
Speaker 4: class we haven't really run into somebody Where i'm, like,
Speaker 4: yeah he's not really that that, interesting but just kind
Speaker 4: of like a later round.
Speaker 1: Pick and this stands true With Nathan.
Speaker 4: HELLMAN a lot to like here for, sure especially at
Speaker 4: this what seventeenth round we're.
Speaker 2: On right, now exactly exactly we got three more, picks
Speaker 2: let to. Go we talked a little bit about the
Speaker 2: next two picks earlier On Malachi washington out Of Park,
Speaker 2: view one of the more distinguished hit toles in the,
Speaker 2: class some of the fastest hands in the class in
Speaker 2: the rep, scene committed TO lsu post the picture yesterday
Speaker 2: about going TO. Lsu probably not gonna, sign but you,
Speaker 2: know there's still that possibility, interesting you know flyer here
Speaker 2: in round, eighteen especially with how the draft went this
Speaker 2: year where it was very college, heavy AND i feel
Speaker 2: like nil played a huge, factor.
Speaker 1: Especially when it comes TO. Lsu. Man that's the one.
Speaker 4: Theme ls you pretty much landed almost all of their,
Speaker 4: recruits and it's probably gonna be the same With Malacob
Speaker 4: washington when truly sucks because he's somebody that you AND
Speaker 4: i liked a lot even earlier in the draft that
Speaker 4: they wanted to take a shot shot at him at
Speaker 4: like the what second or thirty and fourth?
Speaker 1: Round so, yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely And Andrew duncan was a nineteenth round pick out
Speaker 2: Of Right.
Speaker 1: State he's committed To.
Speaker 2: Tennessee as we, mentioned you, know plus defender in center,
Speaker 2: field up the, middle has plus, speed above average bats
Speaker 2: bat the ball. Skills performed really well At Right state
Speaker 2: at The Horizon league last year average. Wise and you
Speaker 2: know a guy THAT i think could be interesting Like
Speaker 2: duce course and esque in the minor, leagues but it
Speaker 2: looks like he's going To tennessee at this.
Speaker 1: Juncture let's go to pick.
Speaker 2: Twenty Dakota stone is a GUY i think he's gonna
Speaker 2: sign out Of North. Florida he's he's played AT Ucf
Speaker 2: jacksonville And North. Florida he's he's played at all the
Speaker 2: MAJOR d one schools up In Northeastern. Florida low three
Speaker 2: quarter slot. Lefty that is difficult look for left left handed.
Speaker 2: Hitters mid ninety. Sinker this guy was a top performer
Speaker 2: In Atlantic. SUN i think it was first Team All
Speaker 2: Atlantic sun this past.
Speaker 1: Year as a.
Speaker 2: Pitcher just a different look as a, LEFTY a guy
Speaker 2: that could be an interesting flyer in round.
Speaker 1: TWENTY i think the.
Speaker 2: SIGNABILITY i don't think there's much question about the signability.
Speaker 1: Here, yeah definitely.
Speaker 4: Not AND i think that you nailed it there with
Speaker 4: the different look for a, lefty especially lefty and. Lefty
Speaker 4: whenever that ball looks like it's coming behind, you it's
Speaker 4: gonna be a lot more difficult to hit than it
Speaker 4: is if it's over the top of. Us, well you're
Speaker 4: going to see here with this pick In Dakota stone
Speaker 4: who who seems pretty fired up to being, hired by the,
Speaker 4: way don't if you've seen any of a social Media.
Speaker 1: Oh, Yeah i've seen. It he followed The Bucco better.
Speaker 4: Page seems really excited to be part of the part
Speaker 4: of the. Organization we're excited to have.
Speaker 2: Him, Well, jaye we're at the end here round. Twenty
Speaker 2: we've got been going here for forty.
Speaker 1: Minutes you what is your overall grade for this?
Speaker 2: Class BECAUSE i you, know we were texting back and
Speaker 2: forth yesterday about the draft we were. On we were covering,
Speaker 2: it doing, everything BUT i feel like we were a
Speaker 2: little bit confused at first about the college heavy, approach
Speaker 2: especially on the pitching.
Speaker 1: Side you've taken a day for two to think about.
Speaker 1: It what are your? Thoughts what is? It what is
Speaker 1: the ending rate here for this?
Speaker 4: CLASS i THINK i would give it a COMFORTABLE bee
Speaker 4: to LIKE b, PLUS i could, BE i could go
Speaker 4: upper down just BE b MINUS b PLUS, b or
Speaker 4: even just to BE i Think i'm okay with any
Speaker 4: of those lots of guys you can dream.
Speaker 1: On we talked about so many solid.
Speaker 4: Arms we've seen their success in the past with guys like,
Speaker 4: this and then you look at guys Like curiol, who
Speaker 4: after having some time to sit with, IT i think
Speaker 4: THAT i like the batt of all profile a lot
Speaker 4: more THAN i did. Initially and there's a lot to
Speaker 4: like in the especially like the first ten ish rounds.
Speaker 4: Here this feels like a Very pirates, class if that
Speaker 4: makes any sense at.
Speaker 1: All, yeah it.
Speaker 2: Does it does in a different manner, though right like
Speaker 2: if you're used to the last two years Of Justin.
Speaker 1: Horowitz but it's.
Speaker 2: Interesting i'm you, know we'll see how the next couple
Speaker 2: of weeks play out in terms of who signs and who.
Speaker 2: DOESN'T i would bet that they signed all but, two
Speaker 2: but we'll. See we'll see. That that's always up for.
Speaker 2: Question you.
Speaker 1: KNOW i want to mention too, two just just to jump.
Speaker 4: In there's a lot of high schoolers THAT i thought
Speaker 4: we were gonna maybe take a swing. ON i was
Speaker 4: waiting for still one big. Splash don't really feel like
Speaker 4: we got, that which kind of worries me a little
Speaker 4: bit in terms of signability for a couple of these.
Speaker 4: Guys but this was a really fun class to cover with.
Speaker 4: You there's a lot of high schoolers that we didn't
Speaker 4: end up getting that we had on our. Boards, SAINTS,
Speaker 4: Relli skelton, two a lot of guys that we're gonna
Speaker 4: be excited to see in three years when they're back
Speaker 4: and potentially in black and gold yet.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Absolutely and you know that college game is just
Speaker 2: getting better and, better which is you, know mix that
Speaker 2: coverage even more. Fun but at the same, time we're
Speaker 2: going to continue our draft coverage On. Patreon this is
Speaker 2: going to be released on the normal, outlets this is
Speaker 2: gonna be episode three eighty, three but on The patron
Speaker 2: we're going to continue our draft coverage going into twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Seven we're gonna start, Early, Jay we're gonna start real,
Speaker 2: early and we're gonna really hound into the prep and
Speaker 2: college scene going into this, winter especially with the known
Speaker 2: of next year when it comes to THE mlb you know.
Speaker 1: Lockout so.
Speaker 2: This Is i'll give this A b. Two this, class you,
Speaker 2: know very college, heavy Which i'm not used. To But
Speaker 2: i'm excited to see some of these guys that move
Speaker 2: quickly and see what they can do out of the.
Speaker 2: Gate next coming weeks we're going to see some of
Speaker 2: these guys sign and maybe be assigned to a specific
Speaker 2: affiliate and we can continue tracking them on the down
Speaker 2: on the farm. Segments this is, fun, Man i'm kind
Speaker 2: of sad that this draft is. Over any closing remarks
Speaker 2: on the twenty twenty six, raft this was.
Speaker 4: A super fun class to, cover especially with You. SCOTTIE
Speaker 4: i will, say it's kind of crazy to go from
Speaker 4: looking at a spreadsheet and drive myself crazy for like
Speaker 4: eight hours a day to go and look at like
Speaker 4: nothing and just look at social media and guys. Signing
Speaker 4: so excited to dive into the twenty twenty seven class
Speaker 4: with you and see some of these guys start to
Speaker 4: rise up the system because there's a lot to like.
Speaker 1: Here and next year.
Speaker 4: Too we were talking before we started recording that next
Speaker 4: year is a super super super strong and deep, class
Speaker 4: so exciting.
Speaker 1: Stuff absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Class i'm interested to hear from the from THE Uh
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Speaker 1: Again you know the.
Speaker 2: Drill but until next, Time, jay this was, fun but
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Speaker 3: Base, yeah my time is like my money BECAUSE i
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