WEBVTT - 2026 Miami Marlins MLB Draft Countdown & Jacob Lombard Instant Analysis 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.639 Hey, this is Kyle Stowers and you're listening to Fish 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:09.160 on First. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.280 Fish on first live Draft reaction stream. I guess we 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.120 call this I don't even know you. I guess it's 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:43.960 something like that. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.279 Count down in instant analysis. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.240 There you go, of course on val Territory Network prejected 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.480 by Jeth he Retles in South Florida. It's been interesting 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.080 already through the first ten rounds that we have so far. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.760 I guess the first four we're pretty expected, and then 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:02.160 Curry out going five. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.560 I think that that has to be a surprise to 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:05.240 many of us. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:06.840 I mean, has a name that we were looking at 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.440 the Marlins possibly getting when they pick at fourteen. Just 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.039 seeing Pacopean go now to the Nationals is another name 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.319 that the Marlins could have gotten. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.680 So some names that the Marlins have been linked to 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:18.920 are coming off. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.480 The board just before their pick, with some others surprisingly 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:22.120 still there. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:23.480 So we're going to Hector. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.240 I'll go to you first, man, this is your your 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.360 wheelhouse and Sean, but Hector, you your. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.880 Thoughts so far on what's gone on leading up to 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:32.959 fourteen for Miami. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:35.400 I would say, for the most part of the draft 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.440 has gone just about what you expected. Curry out went 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.360 a lower early, but I still thought he was a 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.120 top ten pick. Zion Rose is obviously the biggest surprise. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.880 He's a guy that probably could have gone late first, 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.000 maybe even a competition pick, but he ended up going 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.600 six overall. The rest has been pretty much what you 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.920 expect from my top list. A. J. Garcia has already 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.840 come off the board. That was by number three prospect. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.840 He went ninth overall to the Atlanta Braves. I think 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.520 that's really a nice pick for them. Surprised they didn't 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.440 go with the guy who is still on the clock 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.280 and the guy that I didn't include on my list 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:13.320 simply because I didn't think it was a possibility. Jacob Lombard, 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.320 the an infielder from Gulliver Prep. He is still available. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.040 The hometown kid, the lefty Geo Rojas, also still available. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.600 My number one prospect, Chris Hacopian has yet to be picked. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.760 So that you know, there's just a lot going on 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.680 right now. There's still a lot of really good options. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.920 Ace Rees obviously from Mississippi State. It's going to be 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.160 really interesting to see what happens. You know, the Martins 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.800 have a lot of opportunities to possibly give one of 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:37.959 their top guys. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.160 See Kevin at the draft of course behind you. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:43.680 I know we're going to go to you sparingly because 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.520 the internet's not cooperating too well with you. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.120 But talk about the vibes. What's going on in the building. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.359 It's maybe the lowest the music has been. So you 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:54.240 actually got me at. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:54.560 A good time. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.079 Oh, there's gonna be a pick. Nationals are about to 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:57.880 make their selection. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:02.960 Gus get here. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:11.280 Yeah, Chriscope in a second basement from Texas. They announced 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.520 him as a second basement too, which I guess already 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.840 means something there. And I know Hector was talking about 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.880 him as a boss moving from shortstop. But no, this 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.120 is great. This is You could just saw some a 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.959 ton of fans. Unfortunately I did not see a single 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.919 Marlins fan. But Billy, the Marlins you're representing. He was food, 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.840 which was surprising, knowing you know how little people care. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.280 About this team sometimes. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.440 But you know, the vibes are good and uh yeah no, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.520 so I guess now the Angels are on the clock. 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:47.480 So good Vitcher in Philly, Yeah, I could jump in. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:49.920 I think a great way to I didn't realize that 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.480 Kevin was gonna be so well suited to get like 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.800 the mic right in Manfred's face essentially, so we'll have 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.320 him kind of deliver the actual news itself when when 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.280 Manfred's ready to announce a few picks from now. So 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.240 that's that's Joe Doyle's tweets. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.160 Don't want to look at Joe Doyle's tweets. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.800 No, no, no, we'll hear it straight from Manfred's mouth 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.760 when the Marlins pick. So go ahead, can I. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.800 Can I kep point out something I just realized on 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.760 the on MLB On MLB TV, they showed the top 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.640 five available prospects. All top the top three are all 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:26.480 from South Florida. Lombard from Gulliver, Jacobean from Stowman Douglas, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:31.159 and and Justin Lebron who played collegeball at Alabama. However, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.800 he's from archibisa McCarthy in Southwest Ranches. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.440 So yeah, some baseball hotbeds down here for sure, especially 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.039 Archbishop as you mentioned there, Gulliver too. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.560 Isaac's Douglas the last couple of years on here. 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.080 It's not even on here in the Marlins could get 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:48.440 somebody from his high school. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.440 All of the matter anyways, Uh, Sean. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.400 We can start reviewing this you know, there's always a 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.600 question drafting for need versus drafting best player available. The Marlins, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.720 i think, in many years, have gone what they thought 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.200 was the best player available. I mean, you're looking at 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.719 Lombard here possibly falling. The Marlins don't really need shortstops. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.520 I mean, you have many guys in the miners that 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.120 could stick at shortstop, IVR Cat. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.920 Being one, and many others. But if he's there, can 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.719 you go with somebody else? I mean, you definitely can. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.440 It's also dependent on bonus, right, the Marlins don't necessarily 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.039 have as big as a bonus as they've had in 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.400 past years, So maybe Lombard is looking for an overslought 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.320 deal that the Marlins may not want to make with him. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.880 I do think that if there's ever a year, we're 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.120 perhaps the best player available, and it's probably this year 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.240 concerning that their their next pick is, I mean, they 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.440 have two second rounders technically with the comp B pick, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.200 so they don't pick for a while. It's not like 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.599 past years where they've had two first round picks or 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:57.040 one one comp A pick. So it's possible Jacob Lombard 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.000 goes if he falls to Miami. But looking at it now, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.200 no picture has been selected, at least as of right now, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.560 so the Marlins could have any picture in the draft, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.360 which maybe they weren't expecting. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:17.719 So Jackson Floorer from UC Santa Barbara went. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:22.040 For he did, Yes, he did fourth. Yeah, but everyone else, 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.320 I mean, GIOE. Rojas is still available, Logan Retamen's available, 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.240 Liam Peterson is still available. Uh, even Cam Fluki, which 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.560 some are some are lower on than others, but some 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:36.320 really like. He's like six foot six, big stuff. If 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.800 the college bats continue to fall, the Marlins may be 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.040 forced to select them that way. But as of right now, 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.200 I mean, you still have Ace Reese on the board 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.359 and Jacob Lumbard also a college kid high school kids. Sorry, 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.000 so we'll see what happens. But I think the board's 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.159 falling pretty nice for Miami right now. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.159 Yeah, I mean definitely. This is kind of the area 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.360 where it gets jumbled up. You know, they got the 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.760 favorites at the top, some of the bigger names went already. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.160 What's gonna happen when the Marlins are on the clock here? 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:15.280 What one pick? Two picks? Jeez, you know, I go ahead, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:15.760 what are you think? 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.200 I just want to kind of echo what Sean brought 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.080 up a pretty important point that it is a while 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.880 until they pick again after they make this fourteenth overall pick, 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.520 even though, like you could look historically, the odds of 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.080 this type of player turning into a star are pretty low. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.800 But in this year, they're a victim of their own 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.000 success somewhat, and they're also a victim of just the 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.880 alternating year tough luck in this case where for those unfamiliar, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.880 every year the Marlins alternate between a competitive balance rounds 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.360 A pick and round B, and round to A comes 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.680 immediately after the first rounds and then round B is 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.320 immediately after the second. So in this particular year, that 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.760 affects not only their draft position, but their total bonus 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.720 pull money as well in terms of what they can 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.200 get creative and doing. Like even if a really talented 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.520 player falls well, they have enough money to sign Lombard 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.720 if you available, they have enough to for a guy 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.160 that was expecting to go a lot higher. That's it's 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.120 kind of like a Khalil Watson situation from five years ago. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:08.760 That's the closest comp I could think of it. If 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.920 it winds up that way, where the Marvels were able 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.920 to barely get that deal across the finish line, and 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.440 then that relationship didn't go particularly well at any point 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.360 for a guy that was expecting to go a lot higher. 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.120 So that's just one of the variables to keep in 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.600 mind here with that particular player. If he does fall 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:28.480 to them. 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:32.480 I think the Angels are picking right now, Angels select. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.600 We're gonna whenever we're going to get these picks, it's 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.640 going to come straight from Manfred to Kevin to us. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:45.000 Angels made a pick. I couldn't even tell you the guys, it's. 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:59.679 Very yeah, yeah, because so Marls right off. Uh, so 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.480 we'll see Longmard's still there. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.559 I think you gotta feel like that best case and 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.240 they do choose out it seems like the work around 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:08.280 is that that could be the case. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:09.480 So we'll see. 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.920 But everyone that could be the right choice is still 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.440 there for at least Old Hacker, Sean and everyone else 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.160 has said so far, do not choose Justin Lebron. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:25.280 Mhmm, yeah, Justin Lebron. I think that was the very 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.800 last profile that Hector put together. I think we should 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.959 just briefly in case that is the pick. Uh Hector, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:32.719 if he could just lay out quickly wide is that 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.800 some of us are kind of fearful of that as 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.480 a worst case scenario with Lebrony. That just the quick 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.160 summary about where he was as a prospect entering the 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:42.280 cycle where he is now. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.480 So to begin the draft cycle there he was a possibility. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.000 He was probably like a top three or top five 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.440 prospect going into this upcoming year and a guy that 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.640 probably could have that was one of the favorite to 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.360 be the number one overall pick. However, he just struggled 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.960 at the plate, and also his defense really started to suffer, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.040 even though I think he's an excellent defensive shorts up 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.480 and it's got incredible hands. It's kind of a wizard 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.439 out there, just a tremendous athlete. His his errors doubled 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.400 from twenty twenty five to twenty twenty six, and his 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.640 that really struggled. Like he's obviously has a lot of power. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.880 He's not a big kid, but he's got quick twitch 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.360 and that's where he gets his power from. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.600 But he's a guy that batt at two. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.200 Twenty nine in the SEC with a metal bat like 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.120 that's gonna be that could be an issue for that 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:27.880 could be an issue you know at the next level 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.640 where you're hitting with the wood back, and he's already 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.680 playing against elite competition in the SEC. You know, every 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.960 Friday night you're facing the guy that's probably gonna get 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.480 drafted either later on today or tomorrow. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.280 So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:44.320 With the Marlins if they take Lebron, but if they 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.400 fix the hit tool. Oh he's a five tool player, 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.400 but obviously you know, it is such an important tool 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.240 I have for sure. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:54.959 I think what we'll do here is Kevin as soon 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.480 as Manfred calls the Cardinals pick unnute yourself so that 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.000 we hear from Manfred himself. Then we'll go to break. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.280 Then we'll go around for prediction instant prediction time in 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:05.960 terms of who we think it's going to be, and 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.400 then we'll go back to Kevin for the actual announcement itself. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.600 I think we have a couple of minutes to spare 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:13.360 until then, though. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.840 Yeah, I mean, if if they do go top heavy, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.640 which is what I mean, they have the capacity to 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.880 do that. You know, high school picks, they usually get 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.000 overslot deals to pay out an overslot deal to a 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.400 to a high school player with the first pick, that's 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.240 gonna cost them money. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:33.439 If that is the route that they go. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.160 But I think, like you were saying, Eli and Sean, 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.120 with not another pick for a little while, they probably 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:40.840 have the capacity to do it, but they have to 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.560 spend a lot of their pool early if they do 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.000 go high school first card. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.280 Here we go, with the thirteen of the twenty twenty 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:55.440 six MLB Draft, the Saint Louis Cartons select Trevor Condon, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.600 an outfielder from Nawa High School. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:05.920 It would stock so lombarda is available to spoorteen overall 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.360 if they go that way. Again, we were just saying, 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.840 what the money, which is a lot, Like you were saying, 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.120 it does remind of the Khalil Watson situation where we're 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.760 gonna have to shell out a lot of your pool, 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.080 but with not another pick to comb I think you 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.360 can do it. It's gonna cost the most of their pool, 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.760 so they're probably if they do go Lombard here will 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.839 not get some I have to get creative with the 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.680 rest of their draft, we'll say. But but yeah, I 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.760 think best player available, this is the year to do it. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:39.640 I think, all right, I've been ignoring, ignoring the spoilers. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.960 I know that somewhere like trying to bleed into my 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.240 brain right now. 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I 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.960 think they go pitcher and yeah. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:15.400 That's my prediction. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:19.040 Nate, go ahead. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:21.440 Yeah. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:22.600 It seems like every draft. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.440 I'm a big fan of the local guys, and I 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.240 think the Orleans have a great pick right here, no 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.000 matter who they know, with obviously Lombard down in Miami. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.560 But I think the guy who I've been on this 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.040 entire drafts, just like Jeremiah said, he's been the ace 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.080 of Thestilman that have been pitching staff the best program 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.680 in the country since his sophomore year. Wipe out, fastball, 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.920 amazing slider. I think the moments have to go with 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:41.520 a roster. 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:43.680 Factor. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.040 I didn't think he'd be available, but he is. Jacob Lembard. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.520 I mean that makes the most sense. 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.720 You know, you still got Joe Rojas, who he's another 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.000 hometown kid also pick. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.120 He'd be an Nelson pick, and you also obviously have 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:58.880 a sees. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.240 I think the morn if they don't get one of 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:02.720 those three guys, they kind of messes up. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:03.520 So we'll see. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:10.760 Sean. A lot of solid options still on the board. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.400 But I do think Marlin's go best player available, and 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.480 he is also my best player available, and Jacob Lombard. 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.960 I will briefly go and echo what you just said, 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.520 Sean and what Hector has said. I mean, they don't 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.360 really need shortstops, but this is the year to go 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.640 best player available, and he is the best player available. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.960 It's Jacob B. Lombard's. That's if they got him, that 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.240 is a slam dunk pick for the Marlins. You I 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:34.880 go ahead. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.320 Important factor here is that none of Jacob Berry's siblings 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.600 or relatives are draft eligible this year, so they're not 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.520 going to fall into that trap. And I think instead 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.040 they'll go Jacob Lombard. That's my best guess here, and 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:49.920 I think one that would make a lot of people 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.920 happy considering the value proposition of what we thought entering 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.200 this draft. But we're about to find. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:01.040 Out, Kevin, to go ahead before the your favorite. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.000 Clock is still running, still on the clock, with just 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:05.280 under a minute remaining. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.280 I think the Marlins go with with Lombard. You have to. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.080 That is by far the best player available in this draft. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.640 And if Frankie player's strategy is best player available, that's 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.440 what he will take. And Frank Lombard becomes a top 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:19.680 ten prospect in the system. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:20.240 He's that good. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:27.320 Yeah, absolutely so, Marn's taking their time, I guess here. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:31.920 But to me, it's the money. To me, it's the money. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.360 We were talking about it. But I think they can 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.240 get it done. But the rest of this draft I 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.080 don't think will be too exciting if they do go 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.040 with Lombard, So they'll have to get creative. I mean, 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.040 there is obviously talent to be found all over the draft, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.240 but the things you get creative with who they scouted 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.280 and who they spent time with. Prediction Mason Edwards, that's 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.480 the name we ever heard. Yeah, so just to wait 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:54.520 in the clock here. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.720 Mm hmm. Once a look at the picks. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.720 The pick is not it yet six seconds, five seconds 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:07.439 more three two one, and they just expired. All right, 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.560 the pick is in, so we should be hearing from 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:12.879 Manfred any second. 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.760 And I'm gonna get a video of this too. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:20.439 Gotta work two things at the same time. So all right, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:21.560 I'll let you guys when it comes out. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.159 Thank you everybody that's tuning in live for this. I 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.280 think the reactions are going to be our best part. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.320 But then the second best part is actually analyzing who 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.240 this pick is going to be, because that's where the 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.120 It was very difficult, of course to pin down who's 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.959 gonna be available at this range, YadA, YadA, YadA entering this, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.199 so we cast a very wide net in previewing it. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.520 But ultimately the most important thing is getting you familiar 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.360 as quickly as possible and as much as possible with. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.760 Here we go, here going the rest of the twenty 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.200 twenty sixth MLB Draft the Miami Marlins. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.720 So like Jacob lumbarg a shortstop from. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.240 Gulliver Rap School, Miami Florida. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.520 The arison over, then the next pick that is the 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:14.639 right thing to do. Awesome, last player available, Hector, go ahead, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:15.720 snap reaction. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:17.560 Act to shock it be shocked. 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.639 Oh, hector, he's so shocked you forgot the im mute himself, can. 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:26.080 You guys hear me? 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:26.359 Now? 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:32.800 Yes, So, I mean Lombard, but I wasn't expecting him 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:33.960 to be taking this early. 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.800 I thought he'd be a top five to seven pick. 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.560 Marlins grabbed the best hit player in the draft, number 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.520 five prospect of corn that would be pipeline and just 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.400 an absolute monster get for the Marlins. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.760 This is a guy that is a five tool player. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.199 He can you know, he does have a little bit 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.239 swinging miss to his game, but to be honest with you, 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.760 that was really only like at the circuit. 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.520 Level where everyone's throwing the mid nineties. 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.119 So everyone at the high school level, you know, especially 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.239 at those summer circuits, they're gonna be there's gonna some 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.560 swing and miss. But he does everything well. He's an 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.840 incredible athlete. He's a little bit more power over hit tool, 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.000 but I mean there's just so much alike there. He's 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.280 a short step at the next level and if needed 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:13.960 to move to third base because if he out grows 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.480 a position, he's a goal glove Candida at third. 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.640 Yeah, Sean, go ahead me. In the scouting grades. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.560 This is just looking briefly, fifty five grade hits, sixty 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.240 grade power, sixty five runs, so you're fast as well. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.680 I mean, you got tools on tools here, local guy. 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:31.200 This is easy to root for, but. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.359 Go ahead, yeah, yeah, it's extreme tools, maybe some of 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.440 the most tools out of all the high school players 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.639 in the first round that we're available. He's number seven 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.520 on my board with big tools the high school players, 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.840 especially of his size six foot three. Of course, the 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.479 range of outcomes are large. I had the floor at 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.000 a forty with the ceiling at a sixty. I only 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.199 gave five players in this draft a ceiling of a 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.240 sixty future value, which just kind of shows that if 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:03.040 everything hits, which goes with his hit tool, which I 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:07.000 guess is the biggest question that's going to really determine 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:08.960 his range of outcomes. But like Hector said that he 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.040