WEBVTT - Leading Off July 17th, 2024 (Ep. 865) 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.160 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Bros MLB. This is Leading Off, 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:10.960 brought to you by Bet three sixty five. Bet five 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.159 bucks get one hundred and fifty bonus bets when use 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.680 the promo code leading Off only at Bet three six five. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:18.560 It is me Joey p That of course is the 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.680 Welsh and we are going to look ahead to the 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.680 future of Major League Baseball. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:24.480 That's right. The Futures Game was this weekend. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.560 The MLB Draft was this weekend, and for all the 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.200 people who love prospects, like the Welsh, this is pretty 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.239 much Christmas time. So we're going to open up the 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.920 presence that each organization seems to have under their own 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.680 respective Christmas trees, and we are going to see where 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.559 these guys fit, how long it's going to take for 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.000 them to make an impact in the big leagues. And Welsh, 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.680 I think we have to start here with the MLB Draft. 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:49.760 The number one pick, I think was kind of a 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.640 foregone conclusion we talked about on Leading Off Live last week. 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.480 I know there was a little bit of buzz. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.240 That it might change, but I feel like that happens 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.360 every year and then we come back to normal. So 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.400 let's walk through the first here, and no, the guy 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.679 at the top was indeed Travis Bozana, who is the 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.240 guy that we thought should have been the number one 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:06.959 overall pick two. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.200 Yeah, and there was thought that he was not going 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.360 to be the number one pick going on. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:13.440 So, Joe, if you want to put. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.319 Up that board here, we've got the first ten picks here. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:22.119 The betting odds changed hours before the draft, and JJ 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.959 Weatherhold was the minus money place. You actually got plus 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.679 money on Travis Bazana because the thought was Cleveland might not. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.080 Want to do the price tag. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.920 But our first round ended up Travis Bazana at one, 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.039 Chase Burns at two, Charlie Condon fell to three, Nick 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.920 Kurtz at four, Hagen Smith goes to the White Sox 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.639 at five, Kansas City got Jack kagleon JJ Weatherhold at seven, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.800 Christian Moore went to the Angels, Connor Griffin the High 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.040 School Bat went nine to Pittsburgh, and sever King went 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.440 to Washington at ten. And our storylines out of this 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.000 a JJ Weatherhold maybe going over Bazana, but Cleveland did 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.600 the right thing. Charlie Condon falling to Colorad is like 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.400 a dream come true for fantasy. We'll talk about that. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.920 Later the big power bat fell a little bit. Oakland 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.560 shocked us by taking Nick kirk We also found out 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.600 Oakland said after the fact Joe that Nick Kirks was 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.960 the number one player on their board in the spring 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.760 and still was, so they got their number one overall player. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.360 And I'd say the other really interesting one besides Weatherhold 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.760 falling was Jack cagleone fell to six to Kansas City, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.880 which no one expected him going out to the top five, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.160 but he was announced as a two way player. Was 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.639 probably not probably not gonna mean too much. I don't 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.800 think he's I don't know if it really pitched. But 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.520 I had said this on the CBS broadcast. The Giants 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.360 did this, and a lot of people in the baseball 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.760 realm will go, it's just cute, you know. They'll let 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.080 him do it and then they'll pick a position. And 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.800 I used the Giants's reference when I was on because 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.160 the Giants took Ridgid Crawford and Bryce Eldridge, both two 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.720 way players, both players they let or in theory, were 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.680 gonna let pitch and then they cut it and they say, Reggie, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.680 you're now a pitcher, Bryce you're now a hitter. The 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:06.800 difference is Kaglion is a college player, maybe a little 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:07.480 bit more polished. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:08.240 Maybe they'll feel it. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.200 But there actually were quite a few surprises in that 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:11.880 first round. 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:12.880 But the best thing. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.280 About it was it was just good that Travis Bozana 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.760 did end up the best player ended up going one. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.440 There was no haircuts and money shaving and anything like that. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.560 He went number one, And we're going to talk about 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.520 him here in a little bit on my first year 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.440 player board and how a lot of these first rounders 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.840 who will end up in obviously the top ten. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.960 Of first year player drafts where they slot. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.120 Christian Moore went at eight to the Angels than the 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.360 Pirates took Connor Griffin at nine and sever King at 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.480 ten to Washington. I think Kaglion was a steal for 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.160 Kansas City, and we were just having this discussion. I 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.600 feel like welsh Avelt Kansas City. You know, you look 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.800 at the pitching staff, you look at Bobby wit Junior, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.240 and you say, okay, they're kind of like one big 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.280 middle of the order guy away. Oh my god, they 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.280 got that guy, Like I think he's gonna be in 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.360 the major leagues in a year and a half. I 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.040 really do I think he's going to zoom through. He 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.680 made some incredible adjustments with the strikeouts year over year. 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.200 I've watched a lot of his at bats. He's he 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.280 looks like a guy who's a very Polish hitter. He's 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.720 a big kid's got big time power. I just love 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.400 him and I think it's an actual seat to me. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.279 He was the number two player on my board of 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.440 everybody that I saw and of all the tape that 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.560 I watched, and Bizano was the one clearly for me, 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.159 but Kaglion was number two. And the fact that they 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.719 got it where they got him, the Royals have a 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:28.479 steal here. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:29.279 The the You know. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.320 The interesting thing too, is there's a part of me 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.400 that might have even been more comfortable with cagleone over 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.400 Condon if you're looking at the big they both have. 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.560 So they both have big power bats, but they both 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:41.520 have chasing issues. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.880 But when you look at Caglione, his negatives thirty eight 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.360 percent chase rate, which it was the worst by far 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.200 of any of the first round college bats. He also 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.600 had a pretty big ground ball rate, but almost ninety 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.480 two percent in zone contact percentage, which was best among 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.240 all of the college bats in the first round one 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.200 max EV and a one to eleven point seven ninetieth 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.840 percentile exit velocity, which was the best among those college bats. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.599 So all this is to say he has a men's 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.080 power plus an eight percent strikeout rate. So he chased 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.720 a lot but did not strike out. We'll see how 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.960 that kind of fares. It's just a great destination. He's 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.440 a power bat that's going to be hitting behind Bobby 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:21.240 Witt for a long time. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.880 It really is like a really good spot. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:23.320 All right. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.040 Next up we have the second round, picks eleven through twenty, 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:28.679 So Welsh walk us through here. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:29.040 All right. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.960 Detroit took Bryce Rayner at eleven. Boston they got a 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.800 huge value in Braden Montgomery. James Tibbs went to San Francisco, 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:42.719 Keim Smith fourteen to Chicago. Jerangelo his last name always 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:47.320 kills me. He's an ambidextrous pitcher Seattle, it's Sinjata. I'm 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:54.560 gonna totally screw it up. But Jerangelo, we're gonna get 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:55.440 confused about that. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.240 But I have watched the ambidextrous pitcher. I saw the 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.640 correct I'm sorry I can't say the name either. We'll 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.320 work on that. We got a lot going on here, 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.240 this week. But it is fun to think of you know, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.559 we have showay O Tommy, you know two way player. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.479 We have another guy just got drafted as a two 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.400 way player. It's fun to think of an ambidextrous pitcher. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.239 It's fun to see the evolution of Major League Baseball, 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.240 and especially a guy with that kind of talent being 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.000 selected at fifteen overall by Seattle. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.720 Well also that they will let him do this, like 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.680 that's the thought is they're going to let him do that. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.279 Finishing up sixteen PJ Moorlando Braylan Payne went seventeen to Milwaukee, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.880 Theo Gillen eighteen, Carson Binge to the Mets at nineteen, 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.719 and trey Ya Savage at twenty. And there are some 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.200 names in here I love, specifically the top two in 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.440 this round. I love Bryce Rayner, high school bat who 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.400 I thought could have gone ahead at Connor Griffin. I 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.880 while watching my stuff, you always love these confirmations. I'm 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.000 watching and I'm going, boy, this has Corey Seeger feels 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.400 to me. And then you read after the fact. That's 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.080 kind of my process. You read after the fact and 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.760 you see people literally saying Corey Seeger. It's because he'll 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.560 sit back on the ball explode on it. He's like 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:05.400 a big six foot four shortstop. So I love Bryce Rayner. 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:10.440 The other one, Brandon Montgomery falling to twelve, was really 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.760 a shock because this is another one of those huge, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.920 big power bats. He had the best average exvelocity of 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.320 all the college bats in the first round, ninety eight 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.760 point seven average x velocity that was number one. He 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.200 had a great thirty four percent barrel rate in college, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.160 but contact issues seventy four percent contact rate was well 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.400 below average and only forty nine percent out of the 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.200 zone contact rate. So I tell you all that to 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.760 say maybe those were reasons why he fell a little bit. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.240 So that was a storyline. And the other storyline was 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.200 that middle part where Miami and then the Brewers both 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.000 took high school kids that no one expected. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:45.840 I love PJ. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.640 Moorlando, but PJ Moorlando I did not think he'd be 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.400 in near the top fifteen, and Braylan Pain wasn't even 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.360 on a radar for that, and then they didn't make 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.120 up for it later, So I actually really hated what 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:00.360 Milwaukee did. But those were the shocks. While a few 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.720 players dropping Brad Montgomery, Trey Ya Savage. No one expected 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.360 those guys to kind of fall out of that round. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.120 So those are a few of the storylines. And there's 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.360 a guy or too that will make my top ten 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.280 first year player that was in this eleven to twenty range. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:13.840 If you want to know why the Marlins are always 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.480 the Marlins because they keep drafting high school kids. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.320 I don't know when they're going to figure this out. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.880 It's just I understand they come a little cheaper, but 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.960 at the end of the day, it's like why they continue. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.640 You have to wait for the development longer. There's so 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.280 many negative things that could happen in there. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:27.040 I hate it. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:31.080 It's been a Marlins thing for ages now and they 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.079 keep on doing it. Let's look at twenty They did 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.680 well in their last bit, all right, but like it's 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.000 still philosophically it's a problem. Let's go to twenty one 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:42.080 through thirty. Here start with Culpeper. Here for the Minnesota 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:42.920 Twins at twenty. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:47.079 One, Yeah, twenty one, Kaln Culpepper College shortstop Vance Honeycutt 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.640 went twenty two to Baltimore, Kellen Lindsay twenty three to 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:50.760 the Dodgers. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.000 Cam Cam and Nitty. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.839 Yes, guys, everyone mentions cousins of the late Ken Kamanitty 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.560 went twenty four to Atlanta, Cash Mayfield to the Padres 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.960 at twenty Sive ben Hess to the Yankees at twenty six. Right, 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.920 so Cash was twenty five, ben Hes twenty six, Dante 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.800 Nori goes to Affiliate twenty seven, Walker Janic twenty eight 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.520 to Houston, Slave Caledwell to my Diamondbacks at twenty nine, 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.680 and Malcolm Moore the catcher goes to Texas to round 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.960 out the first round. The storylines here there were a 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.800 couple like Ben Hess was not a good pick. I 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.400 didn't like that. I don't really care about the catchers here. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.480 What I will tell you is cam Keimminitty is maybe 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.880 the steal of the draft, falling down to twenty four. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.120 I was shocked that he did. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.240 I pinpointed that as maybe the best pick in the 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.640 draft in the first round. The big winners were them 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.920 because Cam Kimminitty nine to zero in high school, they 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.440 won a state championships out here locally, but had a 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.640 point nine ERA and over one hundred strikeouts in college. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.160 And he's got mid nineties fastball, which is a huge 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.640 graded pitch. Three other pitches high school pitching in fantasy 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.360 is kind of tough, but I think he's polished enough 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.480 and Atlanta not only a develops them well, but moves them. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.120 This is a great pick and he's going to end 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:01.000 up being a sneaky one. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:02.680 And I will tell you a guy that did not 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.080 make my top ten, but I am higher on than everybody. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.920 And this was before the Diamondbacks took him. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.079 Slade called well was. I couldn't have been more ecstatic 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.280 about that. I think he's going to be a fantasy play. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.640 Kind of has a Corbyn Carrol feel, a little bit 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.720 smaller in stature type of guy, but he could run, defensively, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.439 play well. There is pop in that bat. There's a 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.040 lot of good contact, Like this is a five tool player. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.440 I had him top like twelve or fourteen going into 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.200 this draft, and he fell down to twenty nine to 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:31.840 the Diamondbacks. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.760 All right, So landing spot matters, Talent matters, A lot 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:36.119 of things matter in terms. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.000 Of your fantasy productivity from these guys. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.560 But we're gonna get in dynasty leagues and keeper leagues 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.839 and even in our redraft leagues because we see these 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.760 guys rocket through systems At Paul Skeins it's gonna happen 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.920 fast for some of these kids. So Welsh, let's look 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.439 at the top ten. Here, Bizana ed one, Charlie Conna 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.680 goes to Colorado. You and I can find about this one. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.760 I don't see it. I understand the stats are there. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:58.680 I get it. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.160 Caglione is my two, and Connon to me is farther 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.880 down for sure. You have Chase Burns going to the 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.880 Reds here at four is your favorite than weatherhol two. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.480 He does have a bit of a Chase utterly with 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.560 maybe a little bit more explosiveness in terms of what 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.560 he brings. Like Chase Otley was a great player, Hall 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.200 of Fame player probably in my opinion, but Weatherhilt has 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.560 a little bit more athleticism, that raw athleticism that I 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.240 really like. I think he is going to be a 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.800 great fantasy player. And the Cardinals are a great organization. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.200 Bradon Montgomery you have at six from the Boston Red Sox, 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.120 then Rayner at seven with Detroit. You have Nick Kurtz 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.559 at Oakland eight, Christian Moore who goes to the Angels. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.160 Christian Moore to me reminds me just a little bit 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.680 of a little bit of Justin Upton in him in 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.560 terms of the swing, in terms of the path there, 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.440 Connor Griffin, the shortstop goes to the Pittsburgh Pirates. There Again, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.160 I think Griffin is a bit of a project. But 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.720 I want to talk to you about these guys. I 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.280 know sever King did not make this list. He was 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.000 top ten in Washington. He reminds me of Byron Buxton. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.000 I'm surprised he didn't make your list because I know 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:05.959 how much I love Buxton. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:07.720 When I watch King. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.960 Play, that's a guy that I say, Okay, he's got 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.480 a lot of that raw athleticism, the baseball stuff. I 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.480 always thought with Buckston would come a little later because 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.840 he was such a raw athletic talent. But I watched 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:19.880 stever King a lot, and I was surprised he didn't 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.520 make your top ten. But let's talk about these guys 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.960 in the top ten, because you have very clear feelings. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.360 About all of them. So let's go through the breakdown here. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.600 Yeah, and just on sever King, like he's pretty close 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.880 in there. But I think it's really there's a really 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.240 difficult space for power projection, and I don't see that 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.680 that's coming because also it's like a more advanced college body. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.920 So I don't know how much more physical projection there 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:41.760 is for him to grow. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.160 But see, that's why I liked him, because I saw 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.160 Buxton in him. But Buckston, if you recall very thin, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.480 you were waiting for him to project physically, and we 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.720 can argue about that ever really did, whereas this kid 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.720 looked a little bit more like a little bit fully 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.199 formed manchild, not like Jack Kaglione manchild. Of course that 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.600 is a big dude. That's a dude that's going to hit. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.280 But look, Travis Bozana, I mean, doesn't get much better 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.640 than this Golden Spikes Award winner four oh seven, five 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.240 sixty eight nine to eleven twenty at Homers sixteen steals in. 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.040 His junior year. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.280 So we could talk more there and take us through 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.199 the rest of these guys. Well we'll take them through 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:15.600 real quick. 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.840 So the actual big conversation, I know you're not as 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.920 big as content, it is going to be Condon versus 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.080 Bazanna in the Dynasty world. And Condon is there through 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.480 all of some of the negatives because he's now in Colorado, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:27.920 and I think actually a lot of people are going 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.320 to put him at number one because of the Colorado 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.480 side of it. But in going and really digging deep, 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.000 I was able to get like a lot of like 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.280 college data information, and those are things I'm going. 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:38.800 To talk about. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.920 It's just hard to not go on. Travis Bazana, I 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.400 would say the one thing that could hold you back 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.280 is the explosion. I think I mentioned this before. Twenty 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.160 eight homers this year. That's more than every single homer 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.640 combined of the rest of his college career, the Cape 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.000 cod lead and league, and three years of playing in Australia. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.360 He didn't have twenty eight homers with all of those 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.400 combined to what he did last year, So it was such. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:06.200 As big output. But his profiles ridiculous. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.000 Forty one point one percent barrel rate in college wide margin, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.640 better than any of the other top end college bats. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.720 Ninety six average exit velocity. That's an elite number. Only 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.000 a few other bats ended up beating that. Also, thirteen 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.000 percent chase rate does not chase, and this is a 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:27.400 cool piece of information. I have misrate on sliders thirteen percent, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.680 So he didn't get eat up by breaking pitches. He 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.840 didn't chase anything bad. Had a four hundred batting average. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:37.480 All the homers stole bases, barrels, the ball listen also 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:39.360 go put him in Cleveland? 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:40.280 Where what did they just do? 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.080 They opened I was gonna say, well, I shou're talking 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.160 about Colorado for Condent? 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.720 What about Cleveland for Bizana? The balls jumping out of there? 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:46.080 This shear. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.840 They just opened up that right field wall which now 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.360 is creating this air pocket for left handed hitters that 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.280 are pulling right side. Donna, it's a great spot for Bazana. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.240 Where are you going to Condon? And you go, okay? 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.040 Colorado is an. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.000 Elite, elite spot. It is literally the best destination. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.040 For him because there is you know, some some swinging 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.560 with issues that are going on overall, but he has 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:08.440 like elite power. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.160 He the best college bat versus high. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.120 Velocity was him eighty eight point seven percent contact percentage 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.800 above against ninety two plus mile prower velocity Colorado. That's 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.560 a great place to be, but absolutely destroyed by Slider's 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.960 thirty three percent slider misrate. It's hard to hit that 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:27.960 swing and miss and that's going to be his thing. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.640 But he might have forty plus homer and power in Colorado. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.080 So that's what's so canalyzing about it. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.480 I guess here's the thing though, I see the same thing, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.520 which is I'm concerned about. The thing that I took 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.480 away from the bats that I watched of his was sure, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.960 he's got power. He's obviously a good player. I'm not 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.480 trying to knock the player. He went number two in 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.840 the MLB draft, but we see this every year. Will 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.800 Oh the number three. Excuse me, but he was number 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.720 two or one on some people's boards. Oh yeah, I 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.080 thought that he would struggle with some of the better 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.920 pitching in the major leagues. Colorado not the greatest in 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.320 terms of developing talent. We've seen that. We've seen a 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.240 lot of like talent go there, and we always have 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:01.920 to look back on the draft and we go, oh boy, 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.240 there was a big swing and miss there in the 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:07.320 top ten. It happens every single year. I think Chris 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.480 Bryant at his best is the upside for him. I 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.920 think Richie Sexon is kind of at his worst is 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.200 where he might end up, and that is a wide 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.280 range of outcomes. Whereas Bizanna, I think the truly special 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.120 players are the ones that I have a hard time 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:24.680 finding comps for, and. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.600 Bizan is one of those guys. When I watch him. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.480 Play He's just he's very unique, and I think though 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.360 that's what those special guys come around. When I watched 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.120 Mike Trout, I remember going, I don't have a comp 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.240 with this guy like because he is just his own thing. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.560 And I've never seen anything like him. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.760 That is when a number one player to me overall, 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.760 let's go through the rest of these guys. To Caglione, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.960 Weirredy kind of you know, touched on a bit there, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.200 but it certainly stands to reason that you know, a 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.160 guy that could be a two way player, will see 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.040 the power is incredibly impressive, the size is impressive. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.200 Do you agree with me that Weatherholts. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:01.720 Could be a guy that would potentially be explosive fantasy player? 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.960 I want to say Bobby Wit junior type. I think 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:05.680 a little bit more utly type. But do you see 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:06.960 that same thing in his game that I saw? 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:08.840 Yeah, I think some people are gonna have him higher. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.960 You know something, when I was going through and putting 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.879 everything together and really really watching his swing, you know, 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.200 it actually came across reminds me of Corbyn Carroll. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.680 He actually reminds me in his. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.959 Exactly approach where there is this front body load and 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.160 he and he gets the bat across the skoodwe Ross's own, 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.520 just like Corbyn Carroll, and he also hits it like 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.919 him in that it can be an all fields contact 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.080 where sometimes Corbyn doesn't lock into that power. But in 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.639 the same respect though, I actually think like Corbyn Carroll, 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.560 there is power to be unlocked. He had a ninety 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.520 five point four average exit velocity that was higher than 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:42.719 Jack cagleion in college. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:43.640 That's really impressive. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.640