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Speaker 1: It is me Joey p That of course is the
Speaker 1: Welsh and we are going to look ahead to the
Speaker 1: future of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: That's right. The Futures Game was this weekend.
Speaker 1: The MLB Draft was this weekend, and for all the
Speaker 1: people who love prospects, like the Welsh, this is pretty
Speaker 1: much Christmas time. So we're going to open up the
Speaker 1: presence that each organization seems to have under their own
Speaker 1: respective Christmas trees, and we are going to see where
Speaker 1: these guys fit, how long it's going to take for
Speaker 1: them to make an impact in the big leagues. And Welsh,
Speaker 1: I think we have to start here with the MLB Draft.
Speaker 1: The number one pick, I think was kind of a
Speaker 1: foregone conclusion we talked about on Leading Off Live last week.
Speaker 2: I know there was a little bit of buzz.
Speaker 1: That it might change, but I feel like that happens
Speaker 1: every year and then we come back to normal. So
Speaker 1: let's walk through the first here, and no, the guy
Speaker 1: at the top was indeed Travis Bozana, who is the
Speaker 1: guy that we thought should have been the number one
Speaker 1: overall pick two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there was thought that he was not going
Speaker 3: to be the number one pick going on.
Speaker 4: So, Joe, if you want to put.
Speaker 3: Up that board here, we've got the first ten picks here.
Speaker 3: The betting odds changed hours before the draft, and JJ
Speaker 3: Weatherhold was the minus money place. You actually got plus
Speaker 3: money on Travis Bazana because the thought was Cleveland might not.
Speaker 4: Want to do the price tag.
Speaker 3: But our first round ended up Travis Bazana at one,
Speaker 3: Chase Burns at two, Charlie Condon fell to three, Nick
Speaker 3: Kurtz at four, Hagen Smith goes to the White Sox
Speaker 3: at five, Kansas City got Jack kagleon JJ Weatherhold at seven,
Speaker 3: Christian Moore went to the Angels, Connor Griffin the High
Speaker 3: School Bat went nine to Pittsburgh, and sever King went
Speaker 3: to Washington at ten. And our storylines out of this
Speaker 3: a JJ Weatherhold maybe going over Bazana, but Cleveland did
Speaker 3: the right thing. Charlie Condon falling to Colorad is like
Speaker 3: a dream come true for fantasy. We'll talk about that.
Speaker 3: Later the big power bat fell a little bit. Oakland
Speaker 3: shocked us by taking Nick kirk We also found out
Speaker 3: Oakland said after the fact Joe that Nick Kirks was
Speaker 3: the number one player on their board in the spring
Speaker 3: and still was, so they got their number one overall player.
Speaker 3: And I'd say the other really interesting one besides Weatherhold
Speaker 3: falling was Jack cagleone fell to six to Kansas City,
Speaker 3: which no one expected him going out to the top five,
Speaker 3: but he was announced as a two way player. Was
Speaker 3: probably not probably not gonna mean too much. I don't
Speaker 3: think he's I don't know if it really pitched. But
Speaker 3: I had said this on the CBS broadcast. The Giants
Speaker 3: did this, and a lot of people in the baseball
Speaker 3: realm will go, it's just cute, you know. They'll let
Speaker 3: him do it and then they'll pick a position. And
Speaker 3: I used the Giants's reference when I was on because
Speaker 3: the Giants took Ridgid Crawford and Bryce Eldridge, both two
Speaker 3: way players, both players they let or in theory, were
Speaker 3: gonna let pitch and then they cut it and they say, Reggie,
Speaker 3: you're now a pitcher, Bryce you're now a hitter. The
Speaker 3: difference is Kaglion is a college player, maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit more polished.
Speaker 4: Maybe they'll feel it.
Speaker 3: But there actually were quite a few surprises in that
Speaker 3: first round.
Speaker 4: But the best thing.
Speaker 3: About it was it was just good that Travis Bozana
Speaker 3: did end up the best player ended up going one.
Speaker 3: There was no haircuts and money shaving and anything like that.
Speaker 3: He went number one, And we're going to talk about
Speaker 3: him here in a little bit on my first year
Speaker 3: player board and how a lot of these first rounders
Speaker 3: who will end up in obviously the top ten.
Speaker 4: Of first year player drafts where they slot.
Speaker 1: Christian Moore went at eight to the Angels than the
Speaker 1: Pirates took Connor Griffin at nine and sever King at
Speaker 1: ten to Washington. I think Kaglion was a steal for
Speaker 1: Kansas City, and we were just having this discussion. I
Speaker 1: feel like welsh Avelt Kansas City. You know, you look
Speaker 1: at the pitching staff, you look at Bobby wit Junior,
Speaker 1: and you say, okay, they're kind of like one big
Speaker 1: middle of the order guy away. Oh my god, they
Speaker 1: got that guy, Like I think he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the major leagues in a year and a half. I
Speaker 1: really do I think he's going to zoom through. He
Speaker 1: made some incredible adjustments with the strikeouts year over year.
Speaker 1: I've watched a lot of his at bats. He's he
Speaker 1: looks like a guy who's a very Polish hitter. He's
Speaker 1: a big kid's got big time power. I just love
Speaker 1: him and I think it's an actual seat to me.
Speaker 1: He was the number two player on my board of
Speaker 1: everybody that I saw and of all the tape that
Speaker 1: I watched, and Bizano was the one clearly for me,
Speaker 1: but Kaglion was number two. And the fact that they
Speaker 1: got it where they got him, the Royals have a
Speaker 1: steal here.
Speaker 4: The the You know.
Speaker 3: The interesting thing too, is there's a part of me
Speaker 3: that might have even been more comfortable with cagleone over
Speaker 3: Condon if you're looking at the big they both have.
Speaker 4: So they both have big power bats, but they both
Speaker 4: have chasing issues.
Speaker 3: But when you look at Caglione, his negatives thirty eight
Speaker 3: percent chase rate, which it was the worst by far
Speaker 3: of any of the first round college bats. He also
Speaker 3: had a pretty big ground ball rate, but almost ninety
Speaker 3: two percent in zone contact percentage, which was best among
Speaker 3: all of the college bats in the first round one
Speaker 3: max EV and a one to eleven point seven ninetieth
Speaker 3: percentile exit velocity, which was the best among those college bats.
Speaker 3: So all this is to say he has a men's
Speaker 3: power plus an eight percent strikeout rate. So he chased
Speaker 3: a lot but did not strike out. We'll see how
Speaker 3: that kind of fares. It's just a great destination. He's
Speaker 3: a power bat that's going to be hitting behind Bobby
Speaker 3: Witt for a long time.
Speaker 4: It really is like a really good spot.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Next up we have the second round, picks eleven through twenty,
Speaker 1: So Welsh walk us through here.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: Detroit took Bryce Rayner at eleven. Boston they got a
Speaker 3: huge value in Braden Montgomery. James Tibbs went to San Francisco,
Speaker 3: Keim Smith fourteen to Chicago. Jerangelo his last name always
Speaker 3: kills me. He's an ambidextrous pitcher Seattle, it's Sinjata. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna totally screw it up. But Jerangelo, we're gonna get
Speaker 3: confused about that.
Speaker 1: But I have watched the ambidextrous pitcher. I saw the
Speaker 1: correct I'm sorry I can't say the name either. We'll
Speaker 1: work on that. We got a lot going on here,
Speaker 1: this week. But it is fun to think of you know,
Speaker 1: we have showay O Tommy, you know two way player.
Speaker 1: We have another guy just got drafted as a two
Speaker 1: way player. It's fun to think of an ambidextrous pitcher.
Speaker 1: It's fun to see the evolution of Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: and especially a guy with that kind of talent being
Speaker 1: selected at fifteen overall by Seattle.
Speaker 3: Well also that they will let him do this, like
Speaker 3: that's the thought is they're going to let him do that.
Speaker 3: Finishing up sixteen PJ Moorlando Braylan Payne went seventeen to Milwaukee,
Speaker 3: Theo Gillen eighteen, Carson Binge to the Mets at nineteen,
Speaker 3: and trey Ya Savage at twenty. And there are some
Speaker 3: names in here I love, specifically the top two in
Speaker 3: this round. I love Bryce Rayner, high school bat who
Speaker 3: I thought could have gone ahead at Connor Griffin. I
Speaker 3: while watching my stuff, you always love these confirmations. I'm
Speaker 3: watching and I'm going, boy, this has Corey Seeger feels
Speaker 3: to me. And then you read after the fact. That's
Speaker 3: kind of my process. You read after the fact and
Speaker 3: you see people literally saying Corey Seeger. It's because he'll
Speaker 3: sit back on the ball explode on it. He's like
Speaker 3: a big six foot four shortstop. So I love Bryce Rayner.
Speaker 3: The other one, Brandon Montgomery falling to twelve, was really
Speaker 3: a shock because this is another one of those huge,
Speaker 3: big power bats. He had the best average exvelocity of
Speaker 3: all the college bats in the first round, ninety eight
Speaker 3: point seven average x velocity that was number one. He
Speaker 3: had a great thirty four percent barrel rate in college,
Speaker 3: but contact issues seventy four percent contact rate was well
Speaker 3: below average and only forty nine percent out of the
Speaker 3: zone contact rate. So I tell you all that to
Speaker 3: say maybe those were reasons why he fell a little bit.
Speaker 3: So that was a storyline. And the other storyline was
Speaker 3: that middle part where Miami and then the Brewers both
Speaker 3: took high school kids that no one expected.
Speaker 4: I love PJ.
Speaker 3: Moorlando, but PJ Moorlando I did not think he'd be
Speaker 3: in near the top fifteen, and Braylan Pain wasn't even
Speaker 3: on a radar for that, and then they didn't make
Speaker 3: up for it later, So I actually really hated what
Speaker 3: Milwaukee did. But those were the shocks. While a few
Speaker 3: players dropping Brad Montgomery, Trey Ya Savage. No one expected
Speaker 3: those guys to kind of fall out of that round.
Speaker 3: So those are a few of the storylines. And there's
Speaker 3: a guy or too that will make my top ten
Speaker 3: first year player that was in this eleven to twenty range.
Speaker 1: If you want to know why the Marlins are always
Speaker 1: the Marlins because they keep drafting high school kids.
Speaker 2: I don't know when they're going to figure this out.
Speaker 1: It's just I understand they come a little cheaper, but
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's like why they continue.
Speaker 1: You have to wait for the development longer. There's so
Speaker 1: many negative things that could happen in there.
Speaker 2: I hate it.
Speaker 1: It's been a Marlins thing for ages now and they
Speaker 1: keep on doing it. Let's look at twenty They did
Speaker 1: well in their last bit, all right, but like it's
Speaker 1: still philosophically it's a problem. Let's go to twenty one
Speaker 1: through thirty. Here start with Culpeper. Here for the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Twins at twenty.
Speaker 3: One, Yeah, twenty one, Kaln Culpepper College shortstop Vance Honeycutt
Speaker 3: went twenty two to Baltimore, Kellen Lindsay twenty three to
Speaker 3: the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Cam Cam and Nitty.
Speaker 3: Yes, guys, everyone mentions cousins of the late Ken Kamanitty
Speaker 3: went twenty four to Atlanta, Cash Mayfield to the Padres
Speaker 3: at twenty Sive ben Hess to the Yankees at twenty six. Right,
Speaker 3: so Cash was twenty five, ben Hes twenty six, Dante
Speaker 3: Nori goes to Affiliate twenty seven, Walker Janic twenty eight
Speaker 3: to Houston, Slave Caledwell to my Diamondbacks at twenty nine,
Speaker 3: and Malcolm Moore the catcher goes to Texas to round
Speaker 3: out the first round. The storylines here there were a
Speaker 3: couple like Ben Hess was not a good pick. I
Speaker 3: didn't like that. I don't really care about the catchers here.
Speaker 3: What I will tell you is cam Keimminitty is maybe
Speaker 3: the steal of the draft, falling down to twenty four.
Speaker 4: I was shocked that he did.
Speaker 3: I pinpointed that as maybe the best pick in the
Speaker 3: draft in the first round. The big winners were them
Speaker 3: because Cam Kimminitty nine to zero in high school, they
Speaker 3: won a state championships out here locally, but had a
Speaker 3: point nine ERA and over one hundred strikeouts in college.
Speaker 3: And he's got mid nineties fastball, which is a huge
Speaker 3: graded pitch. Three other pitches high school pitching in fantasy
Speaker 3: is kind of tough, but I think he's polished enough
Speaker 3: and Atlanta not only a develops them well, but moves them.
Speaker 4: This is a great pick and he's going to end
Speaker 4: up being a sneaky one.
Speaker 3: And I will tell you a guy that did not
Speaker 3: make my top ten, but I am higher on than everybody.
Speaker 4: And this was before the Diamondbacks took him.
Speaker 3: Slade called well was. I couldn't have been more ecstatic
Speaker 3: about that. I think he's going to be a fantasy play.
Speaker 3: Kind of has a Corbyn Carrol feel, a little bit
Speaker 3: smaller in stature type of guy, but he could run, defensively,
Speaker 3: play well. There is pop in that bat. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of good contact, Like this is a five tool player.
Speaker 3: I had him top like twelve or fourteen going into
Speaker 3: this draft, and he fell down to twenty nine to
Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 1: All right, So landing spot matters, Talent matters, A lot
Speaker 1: of things matter in terms.
Speaker 2: Of your fantasy productivity from these guys.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna get in dynasty leagues and keeper leagues
Speaker 1: and even in our redraft leagues because we see these
Speaker 1: guys rocket through systems At Paul Skeins it's gonna happen
Speaker 1: fast for some of these kids. So Welsh, let's look
Speaker 1: at the top ten. Here, Bizana ed one, Charlie Conna
Speaker 1: goes to Colorado. You and I can find about this one.
Speaker 1: I don't see it. I understand the stats are there.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: Caglione is my two, and Connon to me is farther
Speaker 1: down for sure. You have Chase Burns going to the
Speaker 1: Reds here at four is your favorite than weatherhol two.
Speaker 1: He does have a bit of a Chase utterly with
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more explosiveness in terms of what
Speaker 1: he brings. Like Chase Otley was a great player, Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame player probably in my opinion, but Weatherhilt has
Speaker 1: a little bit more athleticism, that raw athleticism that I
Speaker 1: really like. I think he is going to be a
Speaker 1: great fantasy player. And the Cardinals are a great organization.
Speaker 1: Bradon Montgomery you have at six from the Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 1: then Rayner at seven with Detroit. You have Nick Kurtz
Speaker 1: at Oakland eight, Christian Moore who goes to the Angels.
Speaker 1: Christian Moore to me reminds me just a little bit
Speaker 1: of a little bit of Justin Upton in him in
Speaker 1: terms of the swing, in terms of the path there,
Speaker 1: Connor Griffin, the shortstop goes to the Pittsburgh Pirates. There Again,
Speaker 1: I think Griffin is a bit of a project. But
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about these guys. I
Speaker 1: know sever King did not make this list. He was
Speaker 1: top ten in Washington. He reminds me of Byron Buxton.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he didn't make your list because I know
Speaker 1: how much I love Buxton.
Speaker 2: When I watch King.
Speaker 1: Play, that's a guy that I say, Okay, he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of that raw athleticism, the baseball stuff. I
Speaker 1: always thought with Buckston would come a little later because
Speaker 1: he was such a raw athletic talent. But I watched
Speaker 1: stever King a lot, and I was surprised he didn't
Speaker 1: make your top ten. But let's talk about these guys
Speaker 1: in the top ten, because you have very clear feelings.
Speaker 2: About all of them. So let's go through the breakdown here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just on sever King, like he's pretty close
Speaker 3: in there. But I think it's really there's a really
Speaker 3: difficult space for power projection, and I don't see that
Speaker 3: that's coming because also it's like a more advanced college body.
Speaker 3: So I don't know how much more physical projection there
Speaker 3: is for him to grow.
Speaker 1: But see, that's why I liked him, because I saw
Speaker 1: Buxton in him. But Buckston, if you recall very thin,
Speaker 1: you were waiting for him to project physically, and we
Speaker 1: can argue about that ever really did, whereas this kid
Speaker 1: looked a little bit more like a little bit fully
Speaker 1: formed manchild, not like Jack Kaglione manchild. Of course that
Speaker 1: is a big dude. That's a dude that's going to hit.
Speaker 1: But look, Travis Bozana, I mean, doesn't get much better
Speaker 1: than this Golden Spikes Award winner four oh seven, five
Speaker 1: sixty eight nine to eleven twenty at Homers sixteen steals in.
Speaker 2: His junior year.
Speaker 1: So we could talk more there and take us through
Speaker 1: the rest of these guys. Well we'll take them through
Speaker 1: real quick.
Speaker 3: So the actual big conversation, I know you're not as
Speaker 3: big as content, it is going to be Condon versus
Speaker 3: Bazanna in the Dynasty world. And Condon is there through
Speaker 3: all of some of the negatives because he's now in Colorado,
Speaker 3: and I think actually a lot of people are going
Speaker 3: to put him at number one because of the Colorado
Speaker 3: side of it. But in going and really digging deep,
Speaker 3: I was able to get like a lot of like
Speaker 3: college data information, and those are things I'm going.
Speaker 4: To talk about.
Speaker 3: It's just hard to not go on. Travis Bazana, I
Speaker 3: would say the one thing that could hold you back
Speaker 3: is the explosion. I think I mentioned this before. Twenty
Speaker 3: eight homers this year. That's more than every single homer
Speaker 3: combined of the rest of his college career, the Cape
Speaker 3: cod lead and league, and three years of playing in Australia.
Speaker 3: He didn't have twenty eight homers with all of those
Speaker 3: combined to what he did last year, So it was such.
Speaker 4: As big output. But his profiles ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Forty one point one percent barrel rate in college wide margin,
Speaker 3: better than any of the other top end college bats.
Speaker 3: Ninety six average exit velocity. That's an elite number. Only
Speaker 3: a few other bats ended up beating that. Also, thirteen
Speaker 3: percent chase rate does not chase, and this is a
Speaker 3: cool piece of information. I have misrate on sliders thirteen percent,
Speaker 3: So he didn't get eat up by breaking pitches. He
Speaker 3: didn't chase anything bad. Had a four hundred batting average.
Speaker 3: All the homers stole bases, barrels, the ball listen also
Speaker 3: go put him in Cleveland?
Speaker 4: Where what did they just do?
Speaker 1: They opened I was gonna say, well, I shou're talking
Speaker 1: about Colorado for Condent?
Speaker 2: What about Cleveland for Bizana? The balls jumping out of there?
Speaker 4: This shear.
Speaker 3: They just opened up that right field wall which now
Speaker 3: is creating this air pocket for left handed hitters that
Speaker 3: are pulling right side. Donna, it's a great spot for Bazana.
Speaker 3: Where are you going to Condon? And you go, okay?
Speaker 3: Colorado is an.
Speaker 4: Elite, elite spot. It is literally the best destination.
Speaker 3: For him because there is you know, some some swinging
Speaker 3: with issues that are going on overall, but he has
Speaker 3: like elite power.
Speaker 4: He the best college bat versus high.
Speaker 3: Velocity was him eighty eight point seven percent contact percentage
Speaker 3: above against ninety two plus mile prower velocity Colorado. That's
Speaker 3: a great place to be, but absolutely destroyed by Slider's
Speaker 3: thirty three percent slider misrate. It's hard to hit that
Speaker 3: swing and miss and that's going to be his thing.
Speaker 3: But he might have forty plus homer and power in Colorado.
Speaker 3: So that's what's so canalyzing about it.
Speaker 1: I guess here's the thing though, I see the same thing,
Speaker 1: which is I'm concerned about. The thing that I took
Speaker 1: away from the bats that I watched of his was sure,
Speaker 1: he's got power. He's obviously a good player. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to knock the player. He went number two in
Speaker 1: the MLB draft, but we see this every year. Will
Speaker 1: Oh the number three. Excuse me, but he was number
Speaker 1: two or one on some people's boards. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought that he would struggle with some of the better
Speaker 1: pitching in the major leagues. Colorado not the greatest in
Speaker 1: terms of developing talent. We've seen that. We've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of like talent go there, and we always have
Speaker 1: to look back on the draft and we go, oh boy,
Speaker 1: there was a big swing and miss there in the
Speaker 1: top ten. It happens every single year. I think Chris
Speaker 1: Bryant at his best is the upside for him. I
Speaker 1: think Richie Sexon is kind of at his worst is
Speaker 1: where he might end up, and that is a wide
Speaker 1: range of outcomes. Whereas Bizanna, I think the truly special
Speaker 1: players are the ones that I have a hard time
Speaker 1: finding comps for, and.
Speaker 2: Bizan is one of those guys. When I watch him.
Speaker 1: Play He's just he's very unique, and I think though
Speaker 1: that's what those special guys come around. When I watched
Speaker 1: Mike Trout, I remember going, I don't have a comp
Speaker 1: with this guy like because he is just his own thing.
Speaker 2: And I've never seen anything like him.
Speaker 1: That is when a number one player to me overall,
Speaker 1: let's go through the rest of these guys. To Caglione,
Speaker 1: Weirredy kind of you know, touched on a bit there,
Speaker 1: but it certainly stands to reason that you know, a
Speaker 1: guy that could be a two way player, will see
Speaker 1: the power is incredibly impressive, the size is impressive.
Speaker 2: Do you agree with me that Weatherholts.
Speaker 1: Could be a guy that would potentially be explosive fantasy player?
Speaker 1: I want to say Bobby Wit junior type. I think
Speaker 1: a little bit more utly type. But do you see
Speaker 1: that same thing in his game that I saw?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think some people are gonna have him higher.
Speaker 3: You know something, when I was going through and putting
Speaker 3: everything together and really really watching his swing, you know,
Speaker 3: it actually came across reminds me of Corbyn Carroll.
Speaker 4: He actually reminds me in his.
Speaker 3: Exactly approach where there is this front body load and
Speaker 3: he and he gets the bat across the skoodwe Ross's own,
Speaker 3: just like Corbyn Carroll, and he also hits it like
Speaker 3: him in that it can be an all fields contact
Speaker 3: where sometimes Corbyn doesn't lock into that power. But in
Speaker 3: the same respect though, I actually think like Corbyn Carroll,
Speaker 3: there is power to be unlocked. He had a ninety
Speaker 3: five point four average exit velocity that was higher than
Speaker 3: Jack cagleion in college.
Speaker 4: That's really impressive.
Speaker 3: And he's kind of a mini Bazana fourteen percent chase
Speaker 3: rate only Bosano is better ten percent k percentage. Okay,
Speaker 3: that'll work. And he was just held back by a
Speaker 3: hamstring injury which kind of made the stats look a
Speaker 3: little bit lower. Weather Hold is seen by many as,
Speaker 3: like Bozana, one one of the best offensive contact based players.
Speaker 3: I don't think you'll have the same power projection, But
Speaker 3: at the same time, he could be a twenty twenty
Speaker 3: guy that doesn't strike out, hits for a high order.
Speaker 4: Maybe is a leadoff hitter for the Cardinals. I think
Speaker 4: it's a great spot. I think it's why I got.
Speaker 3: Him at number five, and others might have him higher.
Speaker 3: They might even have him higher.
Speaker 1: He's like Bizana with what more speed less power? Is
Speaker 1: that a good way to kind of trying to simplify
Speaker 1: it for the folks out there that don't watch a
Speaker 1: lot of couch baseball, And that's how I would simplify it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's something like that.
Speaker 3: I think like Bazana's approach is they have like a
Speaker 3: similar kind of like keep your hands in Banzana is
Speaker 3: bat speed attack, ball gets up in the air.
Speaker 4: He's a launch angle guy.
Speaker 3: Where I look at Weatherhold, he's more of an all
Speaker 3: field so like both of these guys will sit back
Speaker 3: a little bit and let the ball travel. That's what
Speaker 3: creates like great low strike up precentage chase rates. But
Speaker 3: Weatherhold is about just getting the ball at the bat
Speaker 3: in the zone to make all fields contact, and that
Speaker 3: may suppress power.
Speaker 4: So I say all of that to say.
Speaker 3: He might be a little bit less impactful on the
Speaker 3: power front, which might hold some of his fantasy value down,
Speaker 3: but maybe he'll be a great Points League player either way.
Speaker 4: He's top five for me.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a great Points League
Speaker 1: player for sure, and I think he could be a
Speaker 1: great rotal player also.
Speaker 2: I really like him all right.
Speaker 1: Six through ten, who stands out to you the most
Speaker 1: on this list. Maybe it's because you think they're gonna
Speaker 1: have a quick path, or because of the landing spot.
Speaker 4: Potentially it's great, just real quick nuggets, you know. Brad Montgomery.
Speaker 3: There are some contact issues as I mentioned, but huge
Speaker 3: power and Boston is a great landing spot. He was
Speaker 3: outside the top ten. I love personally Bryce Rayner. I
Speaker 3: probably will have him higher than a lot. It was
Speaker 3: a pitcher even in high school, and the transition has
Speaker 3: been new, but there's just I think there's so much
Speaker 3: power and upside to unlock. Nick Kurtz is a safe play.
Speaker 3: Twenty eight percent walk percentage in college, which is just
Speaker 3: absolutely absurd, does not strike out, So this is a
Speaker 3: This is a phenomenal border like baseline player, but I
Speaker 3: think the upside is down. I personally freaking love Christian Moore.
Speaker 3: You were talking about that offensive upside. Seeing some of
Speaker 3: the updon in him hit for the cycle thirty plus homers.
Speaker 4: Makes it ton of contact.
Speaker 3: I think he could be super sneaky and Connor Griffin
Speaker 3: by many was seen as the top high school bat.
Speaker 3: There are some questions about how impactful his contact and
Speaker 3: power is going to be, but the kids will eighty
Speaker 3: seven bases in high school this past year, which is
Speaker 3: absolutely absurd. So again, there's a lot of upside, but
Speaker 3: I don't view him in the same vein as the
Speaker 3: last high school guys like Max Clark and Walker Jenkins.
Speaker 3: Would rank well above both Rainer.
Speaker 4: And Connor Griffin.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 3: It's not a bad top ten, and there are some
Speaker 3: names that are just falling out. One people are going
Speaker 3: to know I didn't mention Hagen Smith. Some view him
Speaker 3: in the same vein as Chase Burns. I have them
Speaker 3: a little bit more separated. Slade Caldwell is another one
Speaker 3: of those players. There's quite a few more. I am
Speaker 3: constructing all of it, but this is the very very
Speaker 3: early post draft. That's the top ten for first year
Speaker 3: player drafts for some of you sikos that are drafted
Speaker 3: like this week.
Speaker 4: For your first year player in Dynasty. Yeah, those are
Speaker 4: for the sickos.
Speaker 1: Haigen Smith, to me, I think he's ended up being
Speaker 1: a high end closer. I know people don't want to
Speaker 1: hear that. I just think that's what he's going to do,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. But if I'm the White Sox, like
Speaker 1: that's not where I want to live in my draft
Speaker 1: right now, with the way my roster is constructed at
Speaker 1: the major league level, I want to get more position players.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was a swing and miss for them.
Speaker 1: Even though I like Haigan, I just don't think he
Speaker 1: suits well for them, And I think the pirates with
Speaker 1: the way that these Jones and schemes have come along,
Speaker 1: I think that the fact that they went with the
Speaker 1: high school kid was a mistake. I wanted somebody else
Speaker 1: is going to contribute soon, and to me, he's more
Speaker 1: of a project guy.
Speaker 4: That's just my I might not be wrong about that.
Speaker 3: I mean, Brad Montgomery would have made sense, but they
Speaker 3: got White Sandford a little bit later, who I really like.
Speaker 3: I thought Pittsburgh did a good job on hagen Smith
Speaker 3: real quick. To your point, he's kind of a two
Speaker 3: pitch pitcher. It's fastball slider. He actually looks like he
Speaker 3: throws like Strider. But I don't know if the velos
Speaker 3: will stick quite as much. But Lance Brastowski did a
Speaker 3: really good breakdown too. And one interesting thing is how
Speaker 3: hagen Smith relied on in zone missed contact and how
Speaker 3: that's gonna work at the major league level because you're
Speaker 3: gonna have a lot less guys miss inside the zone,
Speaker 3: and when you're a primary fastball sider guy, we'll see
Speaker 3: how it goes. But the interesting thing to think about
Speaker 3: though on that is that they took Hagen's Smith the
Speaker 3: White Sox did, and maybe that was the move that
Speaker 3: makes him feel that bit more comfortable trading Garrett Crochet
Speaker 3: at the trade deadline now, and maybe they can make
Speaker 3: that a hitting package that they end up getting with
Speaker 3: whatever team, whether it's the Yankees or whoever comes calling,
Speaker 3: that they get a hitting side package built around that
Speaker 3: because Hagen Smith they view as a future number one
Speaker 3: to go with like Drew Thorpe and Hire Ariarity.
Speaker 4: Just something to ruminate on.
Speaker 1: All right, let's ruminate on the futures game too. Welsh
Speaker 1: has some standouts he wanted to touch on. So Welsh walk
Speaker 1: us through these guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if we're talking about prospects and we're talking about
Speaker 3: draft there, let's talk about the futures game. Kind of
Speaker 3: underwhelming overall. Your actual statistical standouts from the game. Cam
Speaker 3: Collier ended up winning MVP. He had a kind of
Speaker 3: majestic home run. His swing is looking more and more
Speaker 3: like Raphael Devers. Just want to put out there, good
Speaker 3: contact guy, lowering his strikeouts. He's kind of a sleeper
Speaker 3: in that realm. Kyle Teel hit two doubles and really
Speaker 3: might have been the sneakiest standout.
Speaker 4: One of them was Drew Jones.
Speaker 3: Kind of dropped one in center field, but he just
Speaker 3: like this guy has power all fields contact again, like
Speaker 3: you gotta love him. And Drake Baldwin ended up hitting
Speaker 3: a homer. Kind of not on a lot of radars,
Speaker 3: especially for fantasy, but it was an opposite field, opposite
Speaker 3: ish field a home run, so he really showed off
Speaker 3: the power. Those were your actual standouts, but Joe, there
Speaker 3: were also some other players who didn't completely show out
Speaker 3: that are worth talking about. And these guys right here,
Speaker 3: these are my guys that you should watch from this game.
Speaker 3: Bryce Eldridge is one of my favorite Dynasty prospects.
Speaker 4: Didn't do anything nuts. He was one for two, he
Speaker 4: ended up scoring a run.
Speaker 3: But we're talking about all these big visitors, the Jack
Speaker 3: Kaglions of the world and stuff. Bryce Eldridge was that
Speaker 3: guy last year, the two way player who's now a hitter.
Speaker 3: I really, I think you're like in the top fifty
Speaker 3: in Dynasty realm for Bryce Eldridge, Roman Anthony. He wasn't
Speaker 3: in the Futures Game. He was in the skills competition
Speaker 3: and just an interesting anecdotal thing about his power. He
Speaker 3: was in like sixth place going into this final round,
Speaker 3: and the skills competition was, you know, bunting and hitting.
Speaker 3: He ended up hitting like six straight homers and up
Speaker 3: winning the skills competition and showed off absolute ridiculous power.
Speaker 3: And that's what he has built around. And then a
Speaker 3: couple of pictures I've been talking about if you listen
Speaker 3: to me in the off season, Emiliano Toeoto pitched two
Speaker 3: perfect frames and I don't think that had happened in
Speaker 3: the Futures Game before. Guy going to and having perfect frames.
Speaker 4: That was ridiculous. He is a guy that hits one
Speaker 4: oh two.
Speaker 3: James Triantos I talked about him with in my interview
Speaker 3: in the off season, and Toyota's been working as a starter,
Speaker 3: and oh my god, if he's a starter, he might
Speaker 3: be crazy. But if he goes to relief, he's one
Speaker 3: o two And you're met Brandon Sprout. He had this
Speaker 3: really good, clean inning where he was touching ninety nine
Speaker 3: in the Futures game and had a foul hit where
Speaker 3: he broke the bat on the ninety nine and got
Speaker 3: to pop out. Just very impressive. Those are all guys
Speaker 3: that you should have maybe on your prospect radar here
Speaker 3: that were in the futures game that weren't the actual
Speaker 3: standouts that are going to be written about, like the
Speaker 3: Cam Colliers and the Kyle Tels.
Speaker 1: Nobody better than the Welsh when it comes to prospects
Speaker 1: in my humble opinion. So luckily you get to you
Speaker 1: here and talk and educate all of us some great conversations. Obviously,
Speaker 1: can hit Welsh up two on exit is at the
Speaker 1: Welsh if we have questions about these guys because he
Speaker 1: gets talked about any of them for as long as
Speaker 1: you need. Of course, continue to check out all of
Speaker 1: his work at Fantasypros dot com as well. That'll do
Speaker 1: it for us, But the story of the game goes
Speaker 1: on for the Welsh.
Speaker 2: I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1: Kids.
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