1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: There might be guys who could be as fast as 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Treidler Simpson in a sixty, but baseball speed's a little 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: more important is how quickly you accelerate, and no one 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: accelerates faster than Chandler Simpson. 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 2: There we go, JJ Cooper back on vowel territory. You 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 2: can catch him all over Baseball America. Get yourself a 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 2: subscription at Baseball America dot com, but also the star 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: of Hot Sheet. But JJ, we felt like we needed 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 2: you back on the show today to chat. So let's 10 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 2: start with Nick Kurtz coming to the show. Are you excited? 11 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 2: He just got drafted obviously last year, maybe higher than 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: some expected, but he tore through the minor leagues? And 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 2: how is this going to shake out with the major 14 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 2: league roster? 15 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 1: That's the thing I'm most fascinated by here. I can't 16 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: really find a scout. I can't find a coach who's 17 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: seen Nick Kurts play who doesn't think he's going to hit. 18 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: But where are how is this kind of this rule's cube? 19 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: How this puzzle is going to work out for the 20 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: A's Because I mean, we got Rooker. 21 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 3: I don't do you really want to play Brent Rooker? 22 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 3: In the outfield regularly. 23 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: Solderstrm has been hitting enough that you've pretty much got 24 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: to play Solderstrum. You've got him at first base, You've 25 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: got Nick Kurtz, You've got Brent Rooker. It does feel 26 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: like it's gonna be kind of an interesting comma to 27 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: figure out how to get all three of those getting 28 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: in the lineup on a regular basis. But at the 29 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: same time, I get it, Like, I mean, Kurt's as 30 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: fast as he's moved to the big leagues, I don't 31 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: think there was a lot being you know, he's really 32 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: being challenged in Las Vegas very much lean the miners 33 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: and home runs at the time of his call up. 34 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: And again, this guy who's got power, but he's would say, 35 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 1: really more of a pure hitter who has power than 36 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 1: a guy who's a slugger who you hope can hit 37 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: a little bit. 38 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 3: It's a pretty polished approach. 39 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 4: I don't care about his approach. JJ. 40 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 5: Have you seen the thing going around with the A's 41 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 5: announcers were told they have to pause between Nick and 42 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 5: Kurts so when they say his name because they're afraid 43 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 5: something people might misconstrue it for another something. So I 44 00:01:58,120 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 5: don't know what that could be. But I'm just saying 45 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 5: there was a whole thing going around with the A's 46 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 5: announcers now that he's being called up. 47 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 3: Did you see this, Scott, No, I have no idea. 48 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, so there's this big thing going around on X 49 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 5: where they're saying that the A's announcers have been told 50 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 5: not to say his name fast and to pause in 51 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 5: between because they don't want him to be confused for 52 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 5: something else. I'm serious. So it's like Nick, Kurt, Kurt. 53 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 5: They want to make sure there is a pause in between, 54 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 5: which is crazy to me because you're just saying the 55 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 5: guy's name. 56 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 3: Yes, but it's a thing. I never worried about that 57 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 3: till you just said that. 58 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 4: Now I had neither right. 59 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 5: I had never thought of it. I had never thought 60 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 5: of it either, And then I was reading about this 61 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 5: guy this morning and that was one of the things 62 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 5: they were saying. 63 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 2: I mean, you you probably know this. Maybe I know 64 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 2: more because I used to work for the league. You 65 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 2: do get a lot of directives on Yeah, that's a 66 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,679 Speaker 2: crazy careful valute. I didn't even think about that. 67 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 3: Now it's just gonna be in my. 68 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 4: Head right now. 69 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 5: You got to make sure, you pause longer than you're 70 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 5: now You're just gonna make an awkward pause. 71 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 2: And now I'm just going to give him a nickname, 72 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 2: which we should do. But I mean, this guy could 73 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 2: be a hitting star right from the jump too, right. 74 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 2: I mean I think we were were you a little 75 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: surprised to see that he went that high in the 76 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: draft last year or no, because of the way that 77 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 2: the A's picked. 78 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: I think if it hadn't been for the injury he 79 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: had mid season last year, he may have, you know, 80 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: like been even maybe a little higher, like he could 81 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: have been in that Charlie Condon mix of like the 82 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: best pure college bat. But he did he'd kind of 83 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: been a couple of injuries. That's the one thing we 84 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: want to see this year is kind of a full 85 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: healthy year. To his credit, he came back from it 86 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: was a shoulder injury that when he had it, you know, 87 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:28,959 Speaker 1: there was a question like, Okay, is he gonna be 88 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: able to come back this season. 89 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 3: He made it back pretty quickly from it. 90 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: But I do think like the time that it happened 91 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: right kind of in the middle of the season where 92 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: teams are all kind of you know, kind of lining 93 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: up their boards and all I do think it may 94 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: have affect him a little bit, Like looking at this 95 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: a year later, you know, we. 96 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 3: Want to see Charlie Condon be healthy. 97 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: But when you look at, say, who's the best just 98 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: pure bat out of that draft, you look at what 99 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: Kurtz is doing, You look at what Cam Smith is doing. 100 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: Charlie Condon, obviously we want to get him back from 101 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: a he had a wrist in suffered in spring training. 102 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: But it's gonna He's got a lot of work to 103 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: do to kind of catch up to these guys who 104 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: both are already in the big leagues, and I think 105 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: Condon kind of is probably still probably months away. So 106 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: I do think that this is shaping up to be 107 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: a fascinating AL Rookie of the Year race we talked 108 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: about on the Hot Sheet Show. I don't even know 109 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: who's going to win on the NL side, But on 110 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: the AL side, man, there's a lot of good candidates. 111 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 4: Is this just another example that Major League Baseball loves 112 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 4: the fact that they can They're going to be able 113 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 4: to get rid of the minor leagues even sooner because 114 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 4: there are these draft picks, all of the all of 115 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 4: the Angels draft picks, are just going to the big 116 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 4: leagues and now a number fourth overall pick. Teams are like, WHOA, 117 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 4: we can just wait and let these kids develop and 118 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 4: their nil nil deals in college and we'll just call 119 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 4: them up to the big leagues in a year and 120 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 4: then we can get rid of more minor league teams. 121 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: I will point out with that, like if this ever happened, 122 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: that we pushed it more to the college side. There 123 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: is y'all mentioned about Vlad Junior earlier. You're talking about 124 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: first base free agent contracts and you said, you all 125 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: not most guys aren't free agents at twenty six. 126 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 3: When we talk about like. 127 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: What we see with a Bobby Wit junior, and we 128 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: see the guys who are those premium high school draftees 129 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: at the top of the draft, you know they're going 130 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: to take a little bit longer. But those are also 131 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: like those are the guys those of the international signings. 132 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: Are the guys who signed the massive free agent contracts. 133 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: Why because when a Bobby Wit junior makes it to 134 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: the big leagues at nineteen or twenty, when I know 135 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: Jackson Holliday hasn't had a great start to his big 136 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: league career, but he's twenty one. When guys like that 137 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: hit free agency at twenty six twenty seven, that's when 138 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 1: you see the SODO type deals. If it gets pushed 139 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: more and more to the college side. 140 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:46,799 Speaker 3: Even when those. 141 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 1: Guys move quickly, you're still talking about usually you're talking 142 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 1: about free agent at twenty eight twenty nine, And that's 143 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: not it doesn't feel like a massive difference. But you 144 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: guys know better than I do. 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I don't know if it's going to be 173 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: a brief stay for the Brewers pen or kind of 174 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: like where they bring them up and then they send 175 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: them back down and then they bring him up, or 176 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: maybe he's there to stay, but he's kind of an 177 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: interesting reliever to watch. The one I'm and I want 178 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: to ask, I've got I'm getting to talk to, you know, 179 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: catchers here. Augustin Ramirez just came up for the Marlins 180 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: and the knock on him has always been his defense. 181 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: I know y'all talked about it before. Also, the Marlin 182 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: is doing things a little differently here now in the 183 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: minor leagues with their catchers, But I'm going to be 184 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: interested to see how his defensive development continues in the 185 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: big leagues. He's got to do it pretty quick because 186 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: Joe Mack, who's a top hundred prospect for US, is 187 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: coming up behind him. But as I'm watching, I feel 188 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: like that catcher development and improvements in the minors are 189 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: such a you see so much more there than you 190 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: do an amateur baseball that I feel like it really 191 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: makes it kind of tough to evaluate catchers. Like when 192 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: I'm watching now and you say okay on a low pitch. Now, 193 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: it seems like every team is teaching show a target, 194 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: drop the glove and then kind of catch it in 195 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: an upward motion. 196 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 3: Never saw that three four years ago. 197 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: You know, we're seeing things change so much on the 198 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 1: catcher side that I do feel like when I'm saying 199 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: a guy can hit, but I'm worried that we're hearing 200 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: worry some reports about his defense of a minor league catcher. 201 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: Some of those guys end up being Austin Well, so, like, 202 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: I think that's a really tough thing to evaluate. So 203 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how Agustin Ramirez develops, how much 204 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: he catches for the Marlins, because while I've heard a 205 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: lot of concerns about his defense, I do feel like 206 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: that catching defense is something that proper instruction, the tools 207 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: to do it, and a lot of want to and 208 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: kind of intelligence can kind of help guys exceed what 209 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 1: may be is the expectations for those guys in the 210 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: minors or are coming out of the draft or being 211 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: signed as. 212 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 3: A international amateur. 213 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: But for you guys like how I mean again, as 214 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: two guys who've done it, like it feels like that, 215 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:17,199 Speaker 1: how do. 216 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 3: You kind of look at it as far as how 217 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 3: a guy can develop? 218 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: Is it fair to say that a guy can probably 219 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: make more improvement defensively as a catcher than you could 220 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: if you're talking about shortstops, you talk about center fielders 221 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: or or a lot of other positions. 222 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 4: I think shortstops, you're you're gifted as a shortstop as 223 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 4: a sixteen year old. Can you work on mechanics, yes, 224 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 4: but there's so many things in the catching game, and 225 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 4: a ghosting he's in the Marlin system. So clearly he 226 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 4: hasn't called any pitches, you know, on his own, since 227 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,839 Speaker 4: the Marlins are calling them all for them. But that's 228 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 4: the biggest thing behind the dish. You're not gonna move. 229 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 4: You're not gonna move a ton. Differently, yes, guys can 230 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 4: change their receiving and all that stuff. ABS kind of 231 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 4: squash a little bit of that, But defensively, you got 232 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 4: to learn to call a game. You got to learn 233 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:06,719 Speaker 4: to call a game, and you have to learn to 234 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 4: be able to deal with that loco pitcher on the 235 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 4: mound who may or may not be the same guy 236 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 4: from one start to the next, from one relief appearance 237 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 4: to the next. 238 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: That's the part when I look at what we're talking 239 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: about with what the Marlins are doing, you know, right now, 240 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: I kind of think of this you mentioned ABS right 241 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: like one of the reasons I think that we'll see 242 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: eventually a challenge system that I don't think we'll go 243 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: to full ABS ever, where you know, the robots are 244 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 1: calling every pitch beyond it's a bigger change than you 245 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: probably need to have. Once you go down that road, 246 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: it's really hard to ever come back because in the minors, 247 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: the umpires who are developing. If they're just doing roboumps, 248 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: how are they ever going to learn to call balls 249 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 1: and strikes the same thing here? I mean, obviously it's 250 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: a little bit different because in college, the number of 251 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: catchers who actually call their own game in college is 252 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: a small numbers, So it's something that catchers are having 253 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: to develop as pros. But like you said, like if 254 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: you don't do it in the minors, I don't know 255 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: how Even if you don't do it until late in 256 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: your minor league career, it's going to be really hard 257 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: to kind of develop that skill when everything else is 258 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: getting tougher too. 259 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 3: Like that, it does. 260 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 1: Seem like to me that amall is where you want 261 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: to learn that, because yes, you're one hundred percent as 262 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: a catcher going to make mistakes. You're going to do 263 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: that in a little bit of a smaller stage where 264 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 1: a lot less people are going to notice, and where 265 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: the pitcher also can't get nearly as mad at you 266 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 1: because yeah, you called the wrong pitch there, but at 267 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: the same time, he also missed the target the next 268 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: seven times, and you know that was his fault too, 269 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: So everyone's kind of learning at that level. It seems 270 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: like you kind of want to figure those things out 271 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: on a much smaller stage than you would at Triple 272 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 1: A or the majors. 273 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 4: I would agree, JJ, how fast is How fast is 274 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 4: Taylor Simpson? 275 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 3: Oh? Man? 276 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: I love watching Taylor Simpson play? You know that playing Sunday, 277 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: the controversial one where it's like, oh is this you. 278 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 3: Know a hit or an error? 279 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 1: Well, the thing about it is is he's exceptionally fast. 280 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: That's the fastest home to first time. I love with 281 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 1: the video you are show in here, but that was 282 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: the fastest home the first time we've seen this year 283 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: on a swing three to nine, which is basically eighty 284 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 1: and a stack cast three nine is really more like 285 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: probably a three to eight. The funny thing about this 286 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: is is I don't think he'll lead the majors. When 287 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: we talk about stackcast stats, we talk about sprint speed. 288 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: Sprint speed is your top speed? I would say that there. 289 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: I've talked to Ray's officials who say, if you said 290 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: there was a sixty, right, there might be guys who 291 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: could be as fast as Treandler Simpson in a sixty. 292 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: But baseball speed's a little more important. Is how quickly 293 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: you accelerate and no one accelerates faster than Chandler Simpson, 294 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: and that's that's what's going to be the difference for him. 295 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: That's why he steals all those bases, that's why he's 296 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: going to be the fastest guy in the majors. Because yeah, okay, 297 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: if they're said, if you tell me that someone can 298 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: be faster going first home on that rare play, that's 299 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: less useful than if Chandler Simpson is the fastest from 300 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: home to first, the fastest from first to second, the fastest. 301 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: And again, this is the thing we're gonna be interested 302 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 1: to watch is defensively, we're starting to see more times 303 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: where he kind of just is not having to think 304 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: about it and just sees the ball in the gap 305 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: and just takes off at it and basically outruns the baseball. 306 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: Those are the ways he's going to impact the game. 307 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: And as I love to keep saying, I think he's 308 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: a better hitter than a lot of people are giving 309 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: him credit for. I think of as a hitter, think 310 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: of him that there's no power there, but there are 311 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: some real back to ball skills. And the thing that 312 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 1: I just keep watching him do that impresses me is 313 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,320 Speaker 1: when he gets velo in, he can get that bat 314 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:44,839 Speaker 1: head out. And that's the thing to me that usually 315 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 1: when you talk about these, you know, these eighty grade 316 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: runners who you question like that have no power. Usually 317 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: they can't handle velocity like that. Taydler Simpson has shown 318 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: not every time, but he's shown pretty consistently he can. 319 00:13:57,559 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: And once he shows that he can handle the inside pitch, 320 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: then you go away. And then he just whacks it 321 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: to third base or shortstopper in between the hole. And 322 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: if he gets it, if the shortstopper or the third 323 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: basement has to take a step or two one way 324 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: or the other, yeah, he's not being thrown out. 325 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 4: We know the potentials there. So it's a yes or no. 326 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 4: Will he steal one hundred bases in the big leagues 327 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 4: in one season? 328 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: No, because I just don't think that the game's going 329 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: to let him right, like, even if he hits three hundred. 330 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: We're now in the world. I know that they've loosened 331 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: up the stolen base rules and all that, but at 332 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: the same time, we're in a risk averse era when 333 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: it comes to steals. When Vince Coleman was doing that, 334 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: if he got thrown out twice on Tuesday. They wanted 335 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: him to try three times on Wednesday. Right now, it's 336 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: something where it's going to be something where if you 337 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: don't have an eighty five percent success rate on it, 338 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: he's going to get some red lights. Right There are 339 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: gonna be times they give him the green, but it's 340 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: never going to be like it was when Vince Coleman 341 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: or Ricky Henderson was doing it, where those guys had 342 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: the green light every time they reach base. Now I 343 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: feel like it's like, Okay, sometimes it's green, sometimes it's yellow, 344 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: and sometimes it's red. 345 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 4: Yoho, how good is this the Do we have a 346 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 4: different name for the Airbender? 347 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: Like? 348 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 4: Is this the air Slicer? 349 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: So I'm working on this because Yoho, there's gotta be 350 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: something here. I'm not creative enough, but there's got to 351 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: be something with the yoho yo yo maybe or something 352 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: like that, because that kind of works, you know, maybe, 353 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: but it is. 354 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 3: It is such a fun change up to watch. 355 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: I know that, you know, change ups aren't the sexiest pitch, 356 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: but man, is fun to watch when a guy goes 357 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: back to back to back to a hitter with a 358 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: change up and get some you know where the hitter 359 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: knows the change up's coming, and it just doesn't matter 360 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: because it's just such an effective pitch. 361 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 3: And by the way we saw it last night, he 362 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 3: throws ninety five. 363 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to make it sound like this is 364 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: Doug Jones out of here, you know, who's like, Okay, 365 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: it's eighty four, But check out the change up. This 366 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: is a guy who's going to have enough other stuff. 367 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: He's a well rounded reliever who just happens to have 368 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: this absolute, filthy weapon of a change up. 369 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 2: You got anything, krats? 370 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 3: Nothing? 371 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 4: Why I don't have a nicknames. 372 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 2: For him, like an even a dad joke kind of thing. 373 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 4: Nothing. Nothing. I mean, I've been thinking about it since 374 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 4: I saw him in spring training. I mean he was 375 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 4: he was, he hands to me lead out he's in 376 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 4: spring It's just like the name is so easy, Like 377 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 4: you got to come up with an easy nickname. I 378 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 4: like the yo yo. But it's not a bad st. 379 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, guys, because I did want to. 380 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: I didn't want to ask you because I've been watching 381 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: a lot of catchers. We got thirteen catchers in our 382 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: top one hundred right now, right and damn when you're 383 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: working obviously, the left hand. Nowadays you know, left hand's 384 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: more important than the right hand. Right how you receive? 385 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: What do you when you see a catcher, what tells 386 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: you that this is the guy who who is going 387 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: to work for him in the major leagues? You know, 388 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: versus a guy who it seems like it's a lot 389 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: of times he's small margins. Obviously you hit on the intelligence. 390 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 1: The ability to work with pictures is a key aspect 391 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: of it. But as a receiver, what are the things 392 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: that tell you that a guy, this guy's special. 393 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 4: Strength, guys who can control If you're talking about just receiving, 394 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 4: it's the strong guys like aj was never considered like 395 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 4: the prototypical like great receiving numbers catcher, but his strength 396 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 4: helped him control the ball, especially with the way the 397 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 4: dudes throw now, you have to be able to beat 398 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 4: the ball to the spot wherever it is, no matter 399 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 4: where you start up here to go down to come 400 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 4: up all that stuff, you have to beat the ball 401 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 4: to the spot. And so if a guy has fast, 402 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,679 Speaker 4: strong hands, that those would be those would be the 403 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 4: like intangible out of game things that I would look 404 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 4: at and be like, Okay, he has a he has 405 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 4: a better chance of being a good receiver. 406 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,640 Speaker 1: Ethan Sallas's stands out to me that way what you're 407 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: talking about right now, as far as a minor leaguer, 408 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: like where he beats it to the he beats it 409 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 1: to the spot, and then when he catches it, it 410 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: really stands out that like it's a soft, strong hand 411 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: where he never seems. 412 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 3: To have to kind of work at it. Right. 413 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: It's something where like when you see guys go up 414 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the zone. One of the things 415 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 1: I'm trying to watch was kind of the fluidity of it, 416 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: and you see those guys who they're trying to do it, 417 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: but they don't trust their hands enough so they kind 418 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: of stop, and so. 419 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 3: Then they go down a little bit and then they 420 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 3: go back up. 421 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: And those guys don't seem to to It doesn't seem 422 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 1: to pay off as well for that as the guys 423 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: who can, like you said, who can beat it to 424 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 1: the spot and then are comfortable, confident off their hands 425 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: to do it in one motion. 426 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 5: So for me, I look for something different. I look 427 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,080 Speaker 5: for the way they catch the ball. Do they catch 428 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 5: it cleanly? That's that to me is the biggest indicator 429 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 5: of a guy that knows what he's doing and has 430 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 5: good hands. When you watch a catcher and people ask me, 431 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 5: like in the high school and colleguo, what do you 432 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 5: look for. I look for a guy to catch it cleanly. Right, 433 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,119 Speaker 5: They don't clank a lot of balls. They just catch it. 434 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 5: They just catch the ball, right. Oh, they catch it, 435 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 5: they catch it, they catch it, they catch it's over here, 436 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 5: it's over here. Oh, they're not chasing balls, they're not 437 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 5: missing balls or not. And it just looks easy. The 438 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 5: easier it looks jj, the better they'll be able to receive. 439 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 4: It. 440 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 5: Should just be easy. You're like, boom, caught another one. Oh, 441 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 5: I caught it. And you don't even notice them. That's 442 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 5: the thing, like if you notice a catcher, something's not right. 443 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 5: If the catcher goes to a game and you never 444 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 5: notice them other than maybe if they get a hit 445 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 5: or they throw a guy out, they've had a great game. 446 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 5: You just want to catch the ball, make it easy, 447 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 5: and go on to the next one. 448 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: The one that when you said that that made me 449 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: think of it is when I'm watching a guy who 450 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:54,919 Speaker 1: wear a slider kind of backs up on him so 451 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: he's expecting it out and it comes back yet on him. 452 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: The guys who can do that and kind to make 453 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 1: that kind of that backhand look easy. That kind of 454 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: tells me, okay that you know that. That's where you 455 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: mentioned it, Krats. You mentioned about how shortstops you can 456 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: improve some things, but like I kind of I kind 457 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: of think of it as almost like that's where you 458 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: kind of show those hands, almost those shortstop type hands 459 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 1: behind the plate. When is that fair that when a 460 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: pitch doesn't do what you expected to do and you 461 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: have that ability, that confidence to kind of handle it 462 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: without like it seeming to be a big deal at all, 463 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: that to me kind of stands out as, Okay, that 464 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: guy's probably got a little bit better hands than the 465 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: average catch it. 466 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 4: You can tell, just like AJ said, you can tell, 467 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 4: you can you can see it right away. 468 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 1: It's funny when you said that, Aj, because Eduardo Tait 469 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: is considered one of the better defensive young defensive catchers 470 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: in the miners. But one of the things trying to 471 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: watch some video of him this week, you see more 472 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 1: of the ball at the end of it, like it 473 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: seems to kind of it stays in the mid but 474 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't just it's a center of the minute rattles 475 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: around a little bit where you're telling me, it's like, okay, 476 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: you know that's it's a little bit different than that 477 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: guy who just when Salas. 478 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 3: It just hits the mitt and it disappears. It's like 479 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 3: a pillow. 480 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: There you go. 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