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Speaker 1: Now, speaking of great tools, Welsh and I are going
Speaker 1: to talk some prospects. Now. That's right, because we're the
Speaker 1: two biggest tools around these parts. So let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the obvious guys, the guys that we
Speaker 1: already kind of touched on the last show. So if
Speaker 1: you miss that, I go back and watch and listen
Speaker 1: to it. Wyatt Langford obviously a big one too. You know,
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers right now kind of an embarrassment of riches.
Speaker 1: They win the World Series. You know, a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, they're overpaying for some guys, some contracts a
Speaker 1: lot of us were rolling our eyes about, but turned
Speaker 1: out to be the right situation. And clearly things are
Speaker 1: going well and they've already got a good young pipeline
Speaker 1: of players. Jackson Churio, the young infielder for the Milwaukee Brewers,
Speaker 1: who is very exciting. They've already extended him in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: We touched on him too. We expect him to break
Speaker 1: with the club. I want to say he's going to
Speaker 1: still be less than twenty by the time that would
Speaker 1: happen in spring. I believe I gotta check the birthday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think actually I think I just looked at
Speaker 2: the other day. I actually think it's March eleventh that
Speaker 2: he knew it was a round there. I feel like
Speaker 2: he wouldn't he'll turn twenty for the season.
Speaker 1: Still can't drink, but we won't tell if Jackson has
Speaker 1: a you know, a champagne to celebrate that contract, because
Speaker 1: goodness knows, Welsh and I would have at least a
Speaker 1: bottle or two. Evan Carter also another piece for that
Speaker 1: Rangers team that's very exciting, and Junior Camenaro a piece
Speaker 1: that you know, we think is going to get a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity this year in Tampa. Now, Kemonaro is
Speaker 1: my guy. I think he's the guy they can step in.
Speaker 1: The need is going to be there. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to come in right away be very productive. I
Speaker 1: don't want to think there's gonna be too much pressure
Speaker 1: on Turio is spectacular, but again, he is very young,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of pressure when you're that guy
Speaker 1: and you come up at that age. It's going back
Speaker 1: to the days of Alex Rodriguez right in Seattle where
Speaker 1: he comes up and he's twenty years old, and you
Speaker 1: know the pressure that was on him, and he had
Speaker 1: a lot of star power around him. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's got that same kind of situation in Milwaukee
Speaker 1: that a Rod had in Seattle. We can talk about that.
Speaker 1: But of these four, which is the guy that you
Speaker 1: can see yourself having the most shares of, depending upon
Speaker 1: ADP or depending upon what you think really is worth
Speaker 1: the premium, or maybe the guy that has the best
Speaker 1: path to playing the most time.
Speaker 2: So this elite tier, and you kind of mentioned at
Speaker 2: the top, I just want to point out again this
Speaker 2: is not really even in our group of the prospects
Speaker 2: you have to have, because you should already have these guys.
Speaker 2: So these are the most obvious of targets. Now I'll
Speaker 2: tell you this. I have Wyatt Langford higher than anybody here,
Speaker 2: but I would say Langford is in the bottom two
Speaker 2: of sustain of like feeling comfortable that you're going to
Speaker 2: have him on opening day at this moment. Evan Carter's
Speaker 2: the safest we know. He has a spot. Guy was
Speaker 2: hitting three in the World Series. He's locked into a
Speaker 2: roster spot. You can draft him and know Churio with
Speaker 2: the contract, leads us to believe he's going to be
Speaker 2: able to play the whole season. What you love about
Speaker 2: those two, by the way, are the stolen bases. I
Speaker 2: have questions about Carter's power. I'm probably actually least interested
Speaker 2: in Carter even though he's safe.
Speaker 1: That's you know, it's funny. I'm least interested in him too.
Speaker 1: Why are you least interested just out of curiousity?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I don't love the lefty bat. I
Speaker 2: know a lot of people are making a big thing
Speaker 2: about it, but I believe between the miners and the majors,
Speaker 2: he had one extra base hit against lefties the entire year.
Speaker 2: Struggled even in the majors against lefties, So if you
Speaker 2: get into splits, that's a question. Plus, he is the
Speaker 2: lowest power projection of any of these players, so he's
Speaker 2: at the bottom. Churio is the most electric of all
Speaker 2: those and he has this contract to get him in there.
Speaker 2: He's actually going number one of all these players in
Speaker 2: current redraft NFBC leagues, But Wyatt Langford is my guy.
Speaker 2: We'll also saying Camonaro. Cannaro is the best value of
Speaker 2: every single player that's two hundred. Yeah, well, but he
Speaker 2: has the least. He has the least probability at this moment,
Speaker 2: even though there's kind of open spots, this team has
Speaker 2: to move Estock Parides. If they move estoc Parides jump
Speaker 2: quickly on Junior Camenero. But right now there's no path.
Speaker 1: So we'll go back to why that's happening, which is
Speaker 1: why I want to be ahead of the curve and
Speaker 1: take him in the early drafts or were the best
Speaker 1: ball drafts were talking to. And you know, Cherio is
Speaker 1: going to be probably the most expensive of these guys,
Speaker 1: obviously and rightfully, so I think we can all agree
Speaker 1: on that. But it's funny because you mentioned that Carter's
Speaker 1: the guy for you that you also struggle with. To me,
Speaker 1: it's the frame. I'm just concerned that he golds up
Speaker 1: over a long season. I think he's got a long
Speaker 1: way to go in terms of growing into the size
Speaker 1: and the body type.
Speaker 2: But what's so tough about that is two of these
Speaker 2: obvious guys play on the same team then, so you've
Speaker 2: got Carter and Wyatt Langford. So for all intentsive purposes,
Speaker 2: I've talked about this Wyatt length. They're going to give
Speaker 2: why at Langford the opportunity he got all the way
Speaker 2: up to Triple A. He was in legit discussions for
Speaker 2: a playoff run. There was legit discussions when I was
Speaker 2: actually at that game at the World Cherias when Adully
Speaker 2: Scarcia got hurt, there was discussions about putting him on
Speaker 2: the active roster when it happened. They're going to give
Speaker 2: him a shot. This team could do some if there's
Speaker 2: a weird split issue, there could be a platoon and
Speaker 2: these guys could maybe hurt each other. But I think
Speaker 2: that DH spot is open for Langford. They can put
Speaker 2: him in the outfield. He's got a good ADP. I
Speaker 2: want to be invested in him. I have him higher
Speaker 2: than any guy on my redraft ranks this year, So
Speaker 2: Langford I want to be in the most business of
Speaker 2: Camonaro is the best value. So both of those guys
Speaker 2: are gonna end up on a lot of teams. I
Speaker 2: have not been able to pull the trigger on Surreio
Speaker 2: just yet or Evan Carter.
Speaker 1: All right, let's jump to the list. Now the other
Speaker 1: guys that you're gonna have to have at some point
Speaker 1: or maybe even draft, depending on the depth of your league,
Speaker 1: and we're an start with Baltimore Orioles, who are going
Speaker 1: to be embarrassment of riches when it comes to young players.
Speaker 1: Jackson Holliday yet another one. Now Welsh I described him,
Speaker 1: you know, in my opinion, he's a left handed version
Speaker 1: of Craig Bigio. Spreads the ball, round, makes good contact
Speaker 1: all over the place. We'll see if the power you
Speaker 1: know develops. Last year, this is a guy who went
Speaker 1: from A to High A to Double A all the
Speaker 1: way Triple A. Only played eighteen games in Triple A.
Speaker 1: Hitch just two sixty seven, but he's still that three
Speaker 1: ninety six obps. So the on base skills are still there.
Speaker 1: The guy takes a ton of walks. He's got really
Speaker 1: good pitch recognition skills. Obviously, you know the pedigree of
Speaker 1: being the son of a may form major leaguer. So
Speaker 1: Jackson Holliday, your thoughts and how aggressive people should be
Speaker 1: on him in twenty four So this.
Speaker 2: Is the one I want to be hyper aggressive on,
Speaker 2: but I'm I'm playing it a little bit cautious right now.
Speaker 2: If you go to roster resource as we are doing
Speaker 2: this video, he is currently set up as their shortstop,
Speaker 2: but we don't have any confirmation. If Jackson Holiday is
Speaker 2: confirmed that he is the starting shortstop for the season,
Speaker 2: I think he's a top one hundred guid to draft
Speaker 2: in redraft leagues because, like, this is one of the
Speaker 2: things I like about Langford. Of all those guys we
Speaker 2: talked about, you know, kemn Arrow doesn't have the stolen bases,
Speaker 2: but big power Churio. I worry there might be some
Speaker 2: off speed struggles as far as like maybe getting going
Speaker 2: through some ups and downs. Langford has got this floor
Speaker 2: with his OBP. That's what Jackson Holiday does. Jackson Hollidy
Speaker 2: had over one hundred walks in the minor leagues this
Speaker 2: past year. Absolutely hits the ball hard, he can run.
Speaker 2: I think he could be closer to like an Oh
Speaker 2: Bobby Witt type of guy. Like I think he is
Speaker 2: a twenty homer is not even in question for me.
Speaker 2: I think the guy can steal thirty to forty bases.
Speaker 2: He walks a decent amount, doesn't strike out a lot,
Speaker 2: makes great contact. If he is anointed the guy, he
Speaker 2: will be drafted inside the top one hundred. I guarantee
Speaker 2: it come draft time. Right now, you can get him
Speaker 2: late because there's a little bit of a question mark.
Speaker 2: He's around that Camonaro range, but people feel more comfortable
Speaker 2: that camon Aro is going to be able to start sooner.
Speaker 2: So that's why I think the prospects that you have
Speaker 2: to have the true top ten list here. Jackson Holiday
Speaker 2: is one that you should be drafting in your league's
Speaker 2: post two hundred every single time, just off of the
Speaker 2: shoot that he does do it. If he doesn't right
Speaker 2: off the gates, it still might be within the first month.
Speaker 2: And I think he presents such a good floor. This
Speaker 2: is exactly the type of prospect that you want to
Speaker 2: invest in in in redraft league, you know. I mean
Speaker 2: I love him in Dynasty as well, that's not even question.
Speaker 2: He's my number one prospect. But redraft this is the guy,
Speaker 2: great young player. You're a little more bullish on the
Speaker 2: power than I am. I don't know if it's gonna
Speaker 2: translate right away. I think it's gonna take a little
Speaker 2: bit more time.
Speaker 1: Next guy on our list is nuelve Marte, who is
Speaker 1: a player that you know if you've been following or
Speaker 1: eve been playing Dynacay baseball for a while. I miss
Speaker 1: the guy that I drafted. I think four years ago
Speaker 1: when he was probably still a teenager when he was
Speaker 1: with Seattle. And what I love most about Marte at
Speaker 1: this juncture too, when you watch the tape on him,
Speaker 1: is he's really done a good job of staying balanced,
Speaker 1: staying back, he waits on that ball, and he really
Speaker 1: is using you know, that leverage that he gets with
Speaker 1: his legs and that balance that he's had in his swing.
Speaker 1: He's got a little bit of a leg kick now too,
Speaker 1: which is something that he's added. You didn't quite have
Speaker 1: that when he was younger, twite to the extent that
Speaker 1: he's got it now. So you're seeing a little bit
Speaker 1: more power and I think that's why you're seeing some
Speaker 1: of these balls jump up there with Marte. But I
Speaker 1: guess the big question with Marte is where does he
Speaker 1: play at this point too? Right? It's such a logjam there.
Speaker 1: What is your answer to that question? Because I think
Speaker 1: that's something we all look at and we're all trying
Speaker 1: to figure out the answer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think the question is third base. So okay,
Speaker 2: I think some people could probably be like, hey, this
Speaker 2: guy belongs in that little elite tier.
Speaker 1: You talk, where does na Strando if he goes to third.
Speaker 1: I guess that's the big question, right.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think in karnassion Strand is a third
Speaker 2: base option for this team. I think that is out.
Speaker 2: I don't think defensively they've liked him there. He is
Speaker 2: a first base guy, so I think you know you
Speaker 2: getting and they've already moved Steer to the outfield. So
Speaker 2: I think the roster construction at this time is Ellie
Speaker 2: at short, McClain is at second, and Noelvie is at third,
Speaker 2: with Strand at first, Steers in the outfield, and it
Speaker 2: could move around. Here's the problem and why we put
Speaker 2: him in this tier and I have Jackson Holiday above him.
Speaker 2: Is there still is a question mark because this team
Speaker 2: is so talented. They could have McClain be short. Ellie,
Speaker 2: they've talked about playing some third, and they still have
Speaker 2: Jonathan India. Jonathan India could be playing some second base,
Speaker 2: so there's a possibility that Noelvie starts in the minors.
Speaker 2: I also think the upside in my mind is bigger
Speaker 2: with Jackson Holiday, and that's why I have him as
Speaker 2: the number one guy to own. There's some question marks here,
Speaker 2: but Listen is fantastic in his pro debut, hit the
Speaker 2: ball hard, six dolen bases in a little over one
Speaker 2: hundred at bats, he had three homers, he hit over
Speaker 2: three hundred. I don't think they're gonna push him off,
Speaker 2: but he costs a lot more than guys like Camonaro
Speaker 2: and Jackson Holiday. But he's still prospect eligible. There still
Speaker 2: is a very viable path for him to break camp
Speaker 2: with the team. And categorically, if he does what he
Speaker 2: did last year and it translates back over, Okay, I'll
Speaker 2: be wrong. He should have been the number one guy
Speaker 2: that he's probably a twenty thirty guy.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll be honest, I don't care if he breaks
Speaker 1: or not. He's playing more than one hundred games for
Speaker 1: the Reds this year. There's no way I think they
Speaker 1: can keep that. So if anything, you might get a discount.
Speaker 1: In April or March, I should say on this guy,
Speaker 1: if they say, well, we're gonna give a little bit
Speaker 1: more time, maybe we're gonna try some other things. First
Speaker 1: teams love to do that, and then may first rolls around.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, the guy's back, So take advantage
Speaker 1: if that should happen with Marte, because I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: watching the evolution of this kid who really came on
Speaker 1: strong in this Seattle organization and then got traded there
Speaker 1: and then watching what he did this year and again
Speaker 1: when you watch the tape on him, very impressive. The
Speaker 1: balance in that guy as a hitter is really impressive,
Speaker 1: and he's the power is legit. I want to get
Speaker 1: him in that ballpark as soon as possible. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the manchild, Kyle Manzardo, who was once a Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay prospect now with the Cleveland Guardians. Manzardo is interesting
Speaker 1: because he's got what I call the coil swing Welsh,
Speaker 1: which is something that you know, there's different versions of this.
Speaker 1: You see these guys with that front side where they'll
Speaker 1: turn that front heel inward kind of you know, trying
Speaker 1: to stay back, trying to stay back as much. Again,
Speaker 1: it's something the Pooholes used to do. But then you
Speaker 1: have some other guys that really coil and the left
Speaker 1: handed guy that he reminds me of when he really coils.
Speaker 1: The coil guy of all time is Don Mattingley, who
Speaker 1: was a smaller guy who used to get so much
Speaker 1: out of his swing with that coil that he used
Speaker 1: to do. He used to turn his whole body in
Speaker 1: and all that power come from that explosiveness of that coil.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what Manzardo does now. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: we have a difference in terms of size potentially, you know,
Speaker 1: Manzardo six feet tall, not so much with don Mattingley.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his official measurements might be, but
Speaker 1: I don't think Donny Baseball was six tall last time
Speaker 1: I joined. So, but Manzardo interesting guy because Cleveland is
Speaker 1: I think a team that desperately could use some help
Speaker 1: here on the offensive side. He's coming off a pretty
Speaker 1: good Fall League two seventy two, three forty five, sixty
Speaker 1: five slash with a nine oh five ops. So what's
Speaker 1: the future look like in twenty four for Manzarto.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I talked with Manzardo in the ouseeason. I
Speaker 2: have an interview posted out people can find. I spent
Speaker 2: a lot of time talking with him, and he's a
Speaker 2: really fascinating.
Speaker 1: Where can everybody find that interview?
Speaker 2: Well, if you want, you can go to my Prospect
Speaker 2: one podcast and you can see I did some AFL
Speaker 2: player interviews and Cole Manzardo was one of those, and
Speaker 2: you know I talked about he had one of the
Speaker 2: farthest balls I've ever seen hit in the AFL. It
Speaker 2: was like, I think it was measured around like four
Speaker 2: to eighty or just some absurd number. He almost one
Speaker 2: bounced out of the stadium, and I was talking about
Speaker 2: just how locked in he is and his approach. I
Speaker 2: had noticed guys want to pitch him low. He's absolutely
Speaker 2: destroying it, but everybody was pitching at him high. And
Speaker 2: he had said that he's completely comfortable with the lower
Speaker 2: half of the zone, which some power hitters struggle. It's
Speaker 2: actually something I noted with Spencer Torkelsen some years ago,
Speaker 2: is you would see guys going off speed low, not
Speaker 2: Cole Manzardo. It was high stuff. So he was getting
Speaker 2: attacked higher in the zone in the AFL, and he
Speaker 2: had said in the miners that the coaches said, don't
Speaker 2: worry about it, because he wasn't getting pitched in the
Speaker 2: upper half of the zone. What does this all mean
Speaker 2: to me? What this means is the expansion of learning
Speaker 2: to be an even better hitter. He's already got that
Speaker 2: bottom half of the zone which a lot of power
Speaker 2: hitters can struggle with. So now if you can come
Speaker 2: in and you can attack with incredible bats, speed, the
Speaker 2: upper parts of the zone, you can succeed. Nolan Gorman
Speaker 2: is one of those guys. I think you can see
Speaker 2: another Nolan Gorman like season out of Manzardo. But I
Speaker 2: think the main question is are they going to let
Speaker 2: him go from the shoot. He missed time last year
Speaker 2: hit two thirty six in a struggle, but he still
Speaker 2: had seventeen homers over twenty if you count the AFL
Speaker 2: the extra at bats. I think he's ready. I think
Speaker 2: this team should consider because they would have prospect eligibility
Speaker 2: for the extra pick. If they do it, can go
Speaker 2: play DH. You're putting a little bit of risk in.
Speaker 2: But my point here is I think Cole Manzardo is
Speaker 2: a huge power hitter that can put twenty five plus
Speaker 2: up if he's up within the first month. And that's
Speaker 2: why I put him up there so high because I
Speaker 2: think defensively they like him. I think he's an advanced hitter,
Speaker 2: he understands this process. He's actually pretty athletic as well.
Speaker 2: And they sent two of their big prospects to the
Speaker 2: AFL that I think both guys are going to be
Speaker 2: potentially up this season, Manzardo and Chase a Lotter, who
Speaker 2: did not make this list, but I'm very bullish on
Speaker 2: Manzarto and do want to draft him if I miss
Speaker 2: any of those big early core guys.
Speaker 1: Next guy on the list is Mason Miller from the Oakland.
Speaker 1: A's a guy that I know has a lot of
Speaker 1: strikeout potential. Everybody loves the arm. Question is the durability,
Speaker 1: and I think that's my big concern it comes to
Speaker 1: Mason Miller. I think a lot of people will be
Speaker 1: on him, but he could be a guy who ends
Speaker 1: up in the bullpen. He would be end up a closer,
Speaker 1: and that would significantly change his value depending on what
Speaker 1: fantasy format you're playing in. I think that's probably more
Speaker 1: likely for that, and I think that's more like when
Speaker 1: I watch him again, you could take this comp or
Speaker 1: whatever he is trying to comp these guys for those
Speaker 1: people who are you know still maybe you don't play
Speaker 1: a lot of Dynasty, play a lot of Redraft and
Speaker 1: don't know these guys. When I watch him pitch, I
Speaker 1: see what could be the next Joe Nathan. Like Joe
Speaker 1: Nathan was a guy who ended up being one of
Speaker 1: the best closers in baseball for ten years. People weren't
Speaker 1: sure at first what to do with him, And you
Speaker 1: know what, he found his way into the bullpen and
Speaker 1: he ended up saving what thirty plus games nine out
Speaker 1: of ten seasons in a row. That's pretty good. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Miller's gonna have that kind of
Speaker 1: a career, but watching him pitch, a's who he reminds
Speaker 1: me of if he ends up taking that role, And
Speaker 1: I honestly think he is more likely to be in
Speaker 1: the bullpen than making starts this year. We your thoughts.
Speaker 2: It's already been announced that is happening. He is going
Speaker 2: to be done with bullpeny Yeah, yeah, No. They what
Speaker 2: they said is they aren't. They will not move him
Speaker 2: back into a rotation until they have gotten a season
Speaker 2: out of him because injuries have been his problem. One
Speaker 2: of the wackiest things was he was in the AFL
Speaker 2: two years ago. He like no innings, came in, played
Speaker 2: a couple of games, was hitting like one oh one.
Speaker 2: He was a talk of the AFL two years ago.
Speaker 2: Then with like thirty pro career innings, he's up in
Speaker 2: the majors with this team and he's pitching, and then
Speaker 2: they brought him back down injury. Blah blah blah, so
Speaker 2: what they've decided with this guy, and this is why
Speaker 2: he's on this list. I'm not the biggest Mason Miller
Speaker 2: fan on the planet.
Speaker 1: Because as of the Winter meetings, that hadn't been decided yet.
Speaker 1: In December, it was just as MS. Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: heard all the gms talking about the winter meetings. They
Speaker 1: have the oclad A's GM and they were talking about
Speaker 1: what to do with him and uh and they were
Speaker 1: still kind of debating that topic and going through there.
Speaker 1: So that is recent news that's happening.
Speaker 2: The expectation is he will not be a starter at
Speaker 2: all this year. He will be in the bullpen. And
Speaker 2: if he's in the bullpen, he's a closer. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's not from day one, but the guy hits
Speaker 2: a hundred, he's got a power breaking ball with a
Speaker 2: huge fastball, and they've had like Trevor may being the
Speaker 2: so but reasonly.
Speaker 1: You're too Welsh because you don't want to do that
Speaker 1: same thing where you where you have a guy get
Speaker 1: up and down a million times who's got army issues.
Speaker 1: You want to have him go out there, get his routine,
Speaker 1: get a clean three outs, get a clean inning, and
Speaker 1: then get ready for tomorrow if you need him and
Speaker 1: then be able to say, Okay, he's not available after
Speaker 1: two days or three days in a row, you can
Speaker 1: manage the concerns about the health of that arm. If
Speaker 1: he is the closer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the only reason to not put him in
Speaker 2: a closer role is if you don't want to build
Speaker 2: him up in that spot where you're gonna then take
Speaker 2: him out into the following year. So that's a possibility.
Speaker 2: So why he's high on this list and we're talking
Speaker 2: about twenty twenty four prospects that you have to have
Speaker 2: is because he might be a closer out the gates
Speaker 2: or at least three fourths of the season. It's the
Speaker 2: A's they stink, how many opportunities. But this is a
Speaker 2: guy that you can get cheap, cheap saves while people
Speaker 2: are not necessarily projecting or him being projected as a closer.
Speaker 2: I think he will be the entire year. He's locked
Speaker 2: into the bullpen. That's why are we usually chasing this. No,
Speaker 2: but this is the best option of a young prospect
Speaker 2: that could be closing the entire season. So he makes
Speaker 2: this list. You should own him. Get some cheap saves
Speaker 2: when you can.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this too. Like in Dynasty Leagues, I
Speaker 1: think this is just going to be his future. I
Speaker 1: did too. I don't think he's going to be a
Speaker 1: starting pitcher. I just don't see that in his future. Again,
Speaker 1: Electric the velocity is real. We all know that. But
Speaker 1: you know he is only valuable if you can get
Speaker 1: innings out of him. And it's better to get the
Speaker 1: sixty five innings out of the closer role than it
Speaker 1: is to try to push him to one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty and end up getting zero at the end of
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 2: Anybody, the only argument will be like, you don't want
Speaker 2: to You don't want to monopolize all of your really
Speaker 2: great talented pitchers immediately into that. But I think there's
Speaker 2: a longer track over. The Diamondbacks did this with Archie Bradley.
Speaker 2: They just kept fighting and fighting and then it was like,
Speaker 2: can't stay healthy, he can't go multiple innings. And I
Speaker 2: think that that might be what we're coming to terms with.
Speaker 2: This team is coming to terms with is get this
Speaker 2: big future closer, but just be weary that The last
Speaker 2: resort many many times for teams is to make that
Speaker 2: transition so they can't be like you want these guys
Speaker 2: to be starters. The best value is that they are
Speaker 2: a starter. But if they making this move, in my mind,
Speaker 2: this tells me like, oh, they don't believe that he
Speaker 2: can hold up over one hundred innings based on his
Speaker 2: arm and what he does, and that's why we want
Speaker 2: to invest, and that's why I think he can be
Speaker 2: a closer for the majority of the year.
Speaker 1: Next on our list, number five Kyle Harrison, starting pitcher
Speaker 1: of the San Francisco Giants. Now, Harrison got thirty four
Speaker 1: innings last year at the age of twenty one. Struck
Speaker 1: out thirty five guys just eleven walks in thirty four innings.
Speaker 1: He had the FIP of five point five to three
Speaker 1: and a whip of one point one five So obviously
Speaker 1: some wacky things going on there. Era was about four
Speaker 1: in change, But again it's first thirty four innings. Which
Speaker 1: you like about Harrison, you know, is he is kind
Speaker 1: of like an old school drop and drive pitcher, you know,
Speaker 1: really using the legs. You see a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys with these big arm actions and things like that.
Speaker 1: This is not Kyle Harrison. Kyle Harrison to me, when
Speaker 1: you watch him, it's really strong in the lower half,
Speaker 1: and I think this is the kind of guy that
Speaker 1: long term is going to have a lot of good
Speaker 1: durability because that is an old style of pitching that
Speaker 1: you saw more in the sixties and seventies even in
Speaker 1: through the eighties of that drop and drive Nolan Ryan
Speaker 1: style kind of thing where they're using that lower half,
Speaker 1: and I think that is a great thing to see
Speaker 1: here out of this young man, and I think that
Speaker 1: bodes well for him making more starts than you might realize,
Speaker 1: not just in twenty four but also beyond. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Harrison and the contributions he can make
Speaker 1: not only to the Giants but the fantasy rotations this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the big key here is that, like
Speaker 2: the you have, you have the ability to be a
Speaker 2: starter and maybe for the majority of the year, because
Speaker 2: you know, they also they made trades for like Robbie Ray,
Speaker 2: who's gonna probably not come into like the back half
Speaker 2: of the season. There's a lot of injuries that are
Speaker 2: going to go on there, and Kyle Harrison was a
Speaker 2: guy that they kind of thrust into that role on
Speaker 2: the back half of last year. The results weren't incredible,
Speaker 2: but he still had an almost twenty four percent K percentage.
Speaker 2: I've never been the biggest, biggest fan because you know,
Speaker 2: he had similarities to Brandon Fought in the miners when
Speaker 2: they were both there. They were both like really really
Speaker 2: high K guys, and Fought has a sweeper where it's
Speaker 2: designated as like a slurve type of slider for Kyle Harrison,
Speaker 2: and Fots was a lot better. Kyle Harrison had massive
Speaker 2: walk issues, but huge stuff plus numbers because the fastball
Speaker 2: plays even though it didn't absolutely fly here. It was
Speaker 2: right around ninety four miles poor, but had a really
Speaker 2: good wifth percentage around twenty five percent, which is very
Speaker 2: high for a fastball. It's going to be the secondaries
Speaker 2: and really just the command locking in. But here's the
Speaker 2: key high strikeout pitcher on a team that is going
Speaker 2: to give him the innings to be a starter. So
Speaker 2: if you want to chase some strikeouts, this is why
Speaker 2: you do that move. You can have that translation of
Speaker 2: you know, logan web kind of rubbing off. Giants have
Speaker 2: always done really well with getting the most out of
Speaker 2: their pitchers, So I think this is a strikeout chase play.
Speaker 2: We're moving down the list, but this is a prospect
Speaker 2: that you should have in your rotation, especially if you've
Speaker 2: missed out on strikeouts. Hell, if you went safe and
Speaker 2: you got the George Kirby's and Logan web Let's say,
Speaker 2: and you've got this huge floor of pitchers that lack strikeouts,
Speaker 2: you should chase some strikeouts. He's one of the better
Speaker 2: strikeout chasers to go for in the lower lower rounds.
Speaker 2: And this is a prospect that you should, you know,
Speaker 2: probably get just to He might end up being a
Speaker 2: streamer at the end of the day, but if they
Speaker 2: are giving him the full bore, you might have a
Speaker 2: ten you know, a ten K per nine high K
Speaker 2: percentage type of player out of him. That can help you, know,
Speaker 2: some of your ratios.
Speaker 1: I'll say this too. You know some of those lefties,
Speaker 1: they take a little bit longer in the cooker, you
Speaker 1: know that just that's just the nature of the beast,
Speaker 1: sometimes just the mechanics of it. But I just really
Speaker 1: like his style of pitching. I like Harrison a lot.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be one of those guys.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned you the Giants have a good track
Speaker 1: record with these guys and good positive ballpark factor for
Speaker 1: him as well. So a lot of things I think
Speaker 1: to like there, especially those deeper leagues where you're desert
Speaker 1: for pitching.
Speaker 2: And you know what great point talking about the ballpark factor,
Speaker 2: because it is it is a friendly environment. And the
Speaker 2: thing to remember about a lot of his minor league
Speaker 2: stats was that he was pitching in the PCL and
Speaker 2: the PCL is a known disaster, and that was actually
Speaker 2: one of the reasons to love Brandon Fought was because
Speaker 2: he was so dominant in the PCL. Kyle Harrison got
Speaker 2: beat around. But you're now going in and you're now
Speaker 2: going into a great pitcher environment. Which one other thing
Speaker 2: I want to point out, he's the only lefty currently
Speaker 2: locked into the rotation according to roster resource, so he's
Speaker 2: not going anywhere. The only thing that's going to hold
Speaker 2: him back is maybe some type of innings cap. But
Speaker 2: you're going to get one hundred and thirty hundred and
Speaker 2: forty plus out of Harrison with really good strikeout. So yeah,
Speaker 2: this is a good chase. And there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of great prospect pitchers to chase in redraft leagues. He
Speaker 2: is one of them, though.
Speaker 1: All Right, if you like players that play with their
Speaker 1: hair on fire, then I give you Pete Crow Armstrong.
Speaker 1: That's that's that guy. He's a very excitable guy. I
Speaker 1: like that about him. A lot of energy, gives you
Speaker 1: some power, gives you some speed, gives you too many
Speaker 1: strikeouts for my liking. Personally, I think that's something he's
Speaker 1: got to work on. But he's just gonna be twenty
Speaker 1: two years old. Chicago Cubs have certainly an energetic player.
Speaker 1: I think this is a player that would be extremely
Speaker 1: popular as the Chicago Cub fan base gets a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a taste of him. Like I said,
Speaker 1: plays hard, that's what you love. Still very young, I think,
Speaker 1: still a little rough around the edges for me. But
Speaker 1: the Cubs are a team that proved last year. They
Speaker 1: are starting to get back into relevance. So how much
Speaker 1: of a role is Crow Armstrong going to play in
Speaker 1: the cubs twenty twenty four season.
Speaker 2: Well see that Okay here, that's a big question, and
Speaker 2: that's why we have I think a little bit more
Speaker 2: of a marker in him. In the minors, Pete Crow
Speaker 2: was fantastic. Twenty homers, almost forty stolen bases, attempted forty seven.
Speaker 2: He ended up taking down thirty seven hit two eighty
Speaker 2: three in Double A, he hit two eighty nine. In
Speaker 2: Triple A he hit two seventy one. Pretty good OBP
Speaker 2: as well, not quite one hundred points, but around seventy
Speaker 2: to ninety.
Speaker 1: Great defenders a plus defender too, So that's something I
Speaker 1: think that helps you get more opportunities.
Speaker 2: Should I say plus defender? Right now? This team has
Speaker 2: Mike Takman locked in on roster resource as their center fielder. Nope,
Speaker 2: not going to happen. Bigger question is if Cody Bellinger
Speaker 2: signs back, where do they put him. I think they
Speaker 2: put him at first, which moves Michael Bush and Christopher
Speaker 2: Morel if he doesn't get moved into a split rotational
Speaker 2: DH spot and it puts Piekrow Armstrong in center field.
Speaker 2: I think the contact skills are there. He clearly can run,
Speaker 2: he can hit a bit. Even if things come back down,
Speaker 2: I would not be shocked if you're looking at a
Speaker 2: fifth teen twenty season out of him. Maybe it's ten
Speaker 2: twenty five or something like that. If he's hitting lower
Speaker 2: in the order, it's not the best thing in the world,
Speaker 2: but he's a power speed combo going near the back
Speaker 2: end of drafts, and one of the things holding him
Speaker 2: back is just people are a little bit unsure. But again,
Speaker 2: Mike Takman is the guy. And I also don't think
Speaker 2: if Bellinger were to resign and they put Bellinger in centerfield,
Speaker 2: which is a possibility, that Michael Bush is going to
Speaker 2: be the reason that Pete Crow Armstrong isn't up. Michael
Speaker 2: Bush is a good bat, but the play here Bellinger
Speaker 2: at first, Bush at DH, Pete Crow Armstrong in center field.
Speaker 2: That's how you play it. And that is a cheap, outfield,
Speaker 2: stolen based semi power option that you can get in
Speaker 2: drafts this year. And I think people just kind of
Speaker 2: sleep on Pete Crow and I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't either, And it is gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: I can't believe we're still here. We don't have Cody
Speaker 1: Bellinger stuff yet. It's the sixteenth of January, folks, What
Speaker 1: are we doing here?
Speaker 2: Again? Maybe and maybe he's signed by the time you
Speaker 2: guys are listening to this, you guys know the answer
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 1: We say this and then we'll have more clarity. But regardless,
Speaker 1: I think you're assessment is correct. And I think Morell
Speaker 1: has a lot of value to other teams because of
Speaker 1: his versatility. So I think some other team will be
Speaker 1: happy to take him off the Cub's hands, and I
Speaker 1: think that all works out for everybody involved, including Morel,
Speaker 1: the Cubs Bellinger, which again it just makes sense for
Speaker 1: him to go back there. Let's go to Jordan Lawler,
Speaker 1: another one of your guys here, well, Arizona diamondback last
Speaker 1: year got fourteen games with the big club, hitches the
Speaker 1: buck twenty nine, So you gotta go a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1: Last year he did play one hundred and five games
Speaker 1: between double and triple A, twenty homer, sixty seven ribby's,
Speaker 1: he had to say, seventy eight batting average, eight seventy
Speaker 1: four ops. So what's your assessment of Lawler? And do
Speaker 1: you believe that this guy is ready to take a
Speaker 1: step here and after getting a little cup of coffee
Speaker 1: with the big club last year, starting to look like
Speaker 1: maybe he belongs in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I believe in deeper dynasty prospects because we're talking,
Speaker 2: you know, like this year prospects you guys want to
Speaker 2: own for twenty twenty four, re draft leagues and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, Deeper leagues buying Jordan Lawler. Prospect fatigue is
Speaker 2: in he made his debut, didn't do anything, didn't really
Speaker 2: get an opportunity. Even though he was on the playoff roster.
Speaker 2: We never saw anything out of him. And people are like, Oh,
Speaker 2: he's just not that good and he hit like nothing,
Speaker 2: he's struck. Blah blah blah. You're forgetting like the total
Speaker 2: package and also just the bounce back that these guys have.
Speaker 2: It means nothing to me. Thirty one at bats in
Speaker 2: the majors means absolutely nothing to me. He had twenty
Speaker 2: homers with thirty six stolen bases in the miners. Two
Speaker 2: seventy batting average this past year is very similar to
Speaker 2: Pete crow Armstrong. He hit two sixty three in double
Speaker 2: A PCL. Things get inflated, he hit three p fifty eight.
Speaker 2: I believe there is more power potential with Jordan Lawler.
Speaker 2: I believe there is more stolen base potential with Jordan
Speaker 2: Lawler versus Pete crow Armstrong. By the way, I wasn't
Speaker 2: making that clear power speed better combo with Jordan Lawler.
Speaker 2: The question is do the Diamondbacks unleash him. They signed
Speaker 2: Johenio Suarez, and that creates a wrinkle because some people
Speaker 2: thought he might be the third Baseman Lawler. They've got Perdomo,
Speaker 2: who was an All Star last year. Hitting metrics absolutely stink.
Speaker 2: Expected numbers look like they're gonna go like that, but
Speaker 2: he was still an All Star, so he looks blocked.
Speaker 2: Think people are gonna get this wrong this year. And
Speaker 2: the only reason I have him behind Pete Crow Armstrong
Speaker 2: is I think the path is harder for him to
Speaker 2: produce this year, but I think it is very much
Speaker 2: in the realm of possibility that they get him four
Speaker 2: hundred plus at bats. They could move Suarez to DH
Speaker 2: at times, they can let him play short and third.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to get those at bats for
Speaker 2: Lawa this year, and I think we're going to see
Speaker 2: a bounce back. He's a super smart hitter, crazy aggressive.
Speaker 2: He can be aggressive as far as like strikeouts go,
Speaker 2: but he's aggressive on the base paths. He's got twenty
Speaker 2: plus power, and I think you can get four hundred
Speaker 2: plus at bats and he is dirt cheap because no
Speaker 2: one sees a job for him, so Redraft, I'm not
Speaker 2: going nuts, but I do think he's gonna get more
Speaker 2: at bats than you think. And in Dynasty, I am
Speaker 2: buying on Jordan Lawler because prospect fatigue is the realest
Speaker 2: thing ever in dynasty leagues. And people don't care about
Speaker 2: Lawla right now. They don't care about Pete Crow Armstrong
Speaker 2: because they didn't produce. Everyone loves Noelvie Welvy is the
Speaker 2: new biggest thing ever. But watch Jordan Lawler out produced
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: So young still, I mean they're both. I mean we're
Speaker 1: talking about early twenties here. I mean, have we learned
Speaker 1: nothing of looking at some of these guys that it's
Speaker 1: taken just a little bit longer for and they end
Speaker 1: up having really good careers. It happens all the time.
Speaker 1: The patience is lacking because, as you said, the hype
Speaker 1: is just so much on these guys so early that
Speaker 1: we feel like, look, we've been talking I even mentioned
Speaker 1: about Marte. Well that's a guy I've been talking about
Speaker 1: for four or five years now. Well you know, like
Speaker 1: you know, it's he's still a kid. He's still just
Speaker 1: a kid. So keep that in mind with some of
Speaker 1: these guys. Patience pays off. A lot of people had
Speaker 1: patients with Spencer Torkelsen paid off last year. There's a
Speaker 1: perfect example of a guy.
Speaker 2: Who I think another one of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, next guy, Colt Keith of the Detroit Tigers infielder here. Now,
Speaker 1: Keith is an interesting guy too, left handed batu The
Speaker 1: swing reminds me of Jim Edmonds a little bit. The
Speaker 1: follow through just if you kind of did like a
Speaker 1: little copy and paste there, a little job there in
Speaker 1: the sillo. I think it reminds you a lot about him.
Speaker 1: Keith obviously last year played at Double A, Triple A.
Speaker 1: They combined one hundred and twenty six games, hit three
Speaker 1: zero six a, three eighty OBP of five fifty two,
Speaker 1: slugging everything you're looking for, had twenty seven homers, drove
Speaker 1: in one hundred and one runs. Really solid there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he strikes out, you know, one hundred and twenty one
Speaker 1: k's and one hundred and twenty six games. That's you know,
Speaker 1: about what you're looking at most of these sluggers nowadays.
Speaker 1: But this is a bat that I feel like the
Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers could desperately need. They need more help in
Speaker 1: that offense, and they need it now. It can't just
Speaker 1: be Torklesen. There's opportunity there, and they've got a couple
Speaker 1: of these guys there. Riley Green, like all these guys
Speaker 1: were waiting on here. Torklesen finally delivered. Now it's time
Speaker 1: for the rest of these guys to come through. Is
Speaker 1: Keith the next guy to come through?
Speaker 2: He was one of those guys that a lot of
Speaker 2: us that paid attention to prospects were kind of screaming
Speaker 2: about last year. Why wasn't he up? Why did they
Speaker 2: not let him have a little bit of a run.
Speaker 2: I'll say I saw him a couple of years in
Speaker 2: the AFL a couple of years ago. There's some video
Speaker 2: if you guys want to search my Twitter at as
Speaker 2: it the Wels, you can watch a couple homers and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. It's a beautiful swing, it's a beautiful approach.
Speaker 2: There's power. It was kind of breakout campaign. And then
Speaker 2: this past year obviously two straight years now of hitting
Speaker 2: over three hundred. He almost hit thirty homers this year,
Speaker 2: but defensively he struggled. When he was out here in
Speaker 2: the AFL, they had him playing third base and that
Speaker 2: could be a home for him, though I thought he
Speaker 2: kind of stunk there. They bought him play first base.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna play there with Torkosen, but second base
Speaker 2: is another thing. Currently, roster resource has Matt Vierling as
Speaker 2: the third baseman and Zach McKinstry as the second baseman.
Speaker 2: I don't think either one of those necessarily are going
Speaker 2: to block Colt Keith. Now, if they want it to
Speaker 2: and they want to manipulate service time and stuff like that, sure,
Speaker 2: okay they could. But there's a path on both sides
Speaker 2: of those. And here's the other thing. Colt Keith does
Speaker 2: have versatility. His arm isn't great, but he could play third,
Speaker 2: he could play second, he could play first. That's what
Speaker 2: mckinstrey does, that's what Virlin can do. So if the
Speaker 2: team wants to make the commitment, maybe take a shot
Speaker 2: at that player pool extra player pool money. If he
Speaker 2: were to win Rookie of the Year. I think so.
Speaker 2: And he's a big power bat that has good batting average.
Speaker 2: He's a big force to this lineup, and I think
Speaker 2: they want to try to win. If they want to
Speaker 2: commit to winning, I think they give Colt Keith a shot.
Speaker 2: So pay attention to him in spring, take him at
Speaker 2: the end of drafts because it's a good power bet
Speaker 2: with solid batting average. And imagine if he's hitting like
Speaker 2: five or six behind Torque and Rightley Green. I mean
Speaker 2: that's a pretty good front end that this team is
Speaker 2: put together. So I'm interested in Colt Keith, and I
Speaker 2: think you should be too.
Speaker 1: I'm very interested in our next guy. I can't believe
Speaker 1: he's number nine on this list. This is absurd. He's
Speaker 1: my one hestin Kirstad of the Baltimore Orioles. I love
Speaker 1: this guy. I love this swing. It is beautiful, it
Speaker 1: is easy, the power is easy. There's times where it
Speaker 1: almost has a Will Clark sort of vibe about it
Speaker 1: because he's kind of got that little front side that
Speaker 1: he does a little bit where the elbow's really relaxed
Speaker 1: in the front, and then the contact is so easy.
Speaker 1: The lift is so easy, the power so easy. It's
Speaker 1: all there for this guy. Last year, in one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty two games, be being double and triple A,
Speaker 1: he had a three to zero three batting average, a
Speaker 1: three seventy six OEP and a five twenty eight slugging
Speaker 1: That's a lead stuff, folks. Nine oh four ops just
Speaker 1: twenty one homers there. Look to me, this is the guy.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, as much as everybody is really excited
Speaker 1: about Jackson Holiday, and they should be, I think kirs
Speaker 1: Dad's the guy that can help you in fantasy now,
Speaker 1: and I think that the Orioles are going to just
Speaker 1: be a really fun team to watch for the next
Speaker 1: few years. But it starts year in twenty four. I
Speaker 1: know he got a cup of coffee with the big
Speaker 1: club last year, but this is my guy, Welsh. So
Speaker 1: I'm curious what your thoughts are because I'm going to
Speaker 1: be aggressive on Kiers Dad. Should I be Should I
Speaker 1: pump the brakes? What do you think?
Speaker 2: I love Heston Kurstad again, I'll just throw out there's
Speaker 2: another one of those. I know I do this a lot,
Speaker 2: but I saw him in AFL two years ago. He
Speaker 2: was hearing that cult Keith run and he's actually surprisingly
Speaker 2: good athlete. He had inside the park home run that
Speaker 2: was out here. Him and cal Conley actually hit them
Speaker 2: in the same game, and it was like the only
Speaker 2: second time in the history of miners in baseball whatever
Speaker 2: that's ever happened. He's got just huge, huge power, big
Speaker 2: hard hit numbers. His swing can get a little bit loopy,
Speaker 2: and that's something he's had to work on.
Speaker 1: Yet he's like three Clark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it can get like up loopy, but that's also
Speaker 2: why he absolutely destroys baseball twenty one homers while hitting
Speaker 2: over three hundred is great. Here's the deal though, breaking news.
Speaker 2: The next guy's are An Oriole. There's three Orioles on
Speaker 2: this top ten list. The Orioles are a team to
Speaker 2: watch because we just they got to make a move.
Speaker 2: When they make that pitching move, I think it's going
Speaker 2: to create a lot more clarity. We're currently looking at
Speaker 2: a situation where Jackson Holiday, Heshton Kurstad and the next
Speaker 2: guy don't have space to play. Because Ryan O'Hearn, as
Speaker 2: much as it's Ryan O'Hearn, played pretty well last year.
Speaker 2: If they like him, they got Ryan Mountcastle Jordan Westburg,
Speaker 2: so they've got to consolidate. If Kurstad were to be moved,
Speaker 2: or they were to move like a west maybe not Westburg,
Speaker 2: but like a right mount Castle, and he had playing time.
Speaker 2: I think that's good. My worries about Kurstod is he
Speaker 2: gets into bad months and bad streaks of striking out
Speaker 2: and whipping through, and he almost becomes like Colton Kowser,
Speaker 2: another one of those guys where they just move him
Speaker 2: in and out. But the skill set is there for
Speaker 2: huge power. He could lead this team in home run.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If he were given six hundred plus at bats and
Speaker 2: he was on his thing, he could lead this team
Speaker 2: in homers. So that's why you get excited. Maybe he
Speaker 2: is a little bit too low on this list, but
Speaker 2: I do think there's just so many questions at this
Speaker 2: moment about the Baltimore Orioles and what they're going to do.
Speaker 2: But the point of all of these guys are these
Speaker 2: are the guys that should be on your radar prospect
Speaker 2: wise because there is up and down movement, sure, especially
Speaker 2: with this team. If they start they start consolidating some
Speaker 2: of these players.
Speaker 1: And you talked about, you know, having Harrison as a
Speaker 1: stash earlier on the show about strike outs, Well, herst
Speaker 1: chirstads that guy to stash for power like this guy's.
Speaker 1: I mean, I said, I'm very excited to see the
Speaker 1: evolution of that player. Kobe Mayo, the last guy we're
Speaker 1: talking about again as well, said the Orioles kind of
Speaker 1: loaded right now, so it's kind of tough to figure
Speaker 1: out where he lands. My thing about Mayo when I
Speaker 1: watch the tape on him, it's, look, you throw him
Speaker 1: low and inside, he's going to hit it. If you
Speaker 1: there's ways to pitch to him that I've seen so far.
Speaker 1: There's ways to not pitch to him, and it's low
Speaker 1: and inside. He's going to eat you alive if you
Speaker 1: throw the ball anywhere there and you know, good on him.
Speaker 1: That's a strong suit. Likes to pull a lot of
Speaker 1: balls too. So he is my least impressive guys on
Speaker 1: this list, I think in terms of twenty twenty four capability.
Speaker 1: But I think, as you mentioned, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: if he gets trained to another team, that could change
Speaker 1: the dynamic very quickly for his twenty four season.
Speaker 2: So there were so many players that could have gone
Speaker 2: on this part. Chased a lotter who I mentioned with
Speaker 2: the Guardians, fantastic AFL, incredibly patient, good hitter, totally like
Speaker 2: the Guardians, type of player they love. He could have
Speaker 2: done Victor Scott. I think he's so blocked. But Victor
Speaker 2: Scott has such an immense stolen based potential with really
Speaker 2: good average. Those two guys jump out to me as
Speaker 2: like you could have put them there. Here's the reason
Speaker 2: I put Kobe Mayom. He's one of the younger guys
Speaker 2: on this list, twenty one years old. I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: just hit twenty two led them all of miners last
Speaker 2: year in doubles, forty five doubles with big power numbers
Speaker 2: in triple A. We have some stat cast out of
Speaker 2: from triple A. He had a one to twelve max,
Speaker 2: which we're looking for above one ten and average ninety
Speaker 2: one point six miles per hour average exit velocity. On hits,
Speaker 2: he had a fifty one and a half percent hard
Speaker 2: hit rate and an almost ten percent barrel rate. I'm
Speaker 2: looking for double digit barrel rates. I'm looking for big
Speaker 2: hard hit numbers. That is what he does. And he
Speaker 2: hit triple A, which means we're on the clock. I
Speaker 2: think there's a possibility when the Orioles start making moves,
Speaker 2: Kobe Mayo's not one of the guys that gets moved,
Speaker 2: and if they make a move, they're getting pictures that
Speaker 2: might vault him into his situation to play if he
Speaker 2: is the core piece, which I would imagine if a team,
Speaker 2: let's just hypothetically say the Orioles go and get Dylan Cees,
Speaker 2: I would think they would want Kobe Mayo, And if
Speaker 2: he were put into a spot where he's starting right off,
Speaker 2: I think this is easy thirty plus homer power. I
Speaker 2: personally love Kobe Mayo and triple A makes me think
Speaker 2: he's gonna get playing time. But you might be having
Speaker 2: some better bets on guys like Chase De Lauder Victor
Speaker 2: Scott who are going much higher in NFBC drafts. But
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put Kobe Mayo in your guys's head while
Speaker 2: we see what the Orioles do. Because he is one
Speaker 2: of the elite power hitters in the minor leagues.
Speaker 1: He's got elite power. I don't think he's ready to
Speaker 1: hit for thirty home runs on the big league level,
Speaker 1: even if he got one hundred and fifty games this year.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that's going to translate quite yet.
Speaker 1: I think there's some holes there in terms of what
Speaker 1: he does well and what he doesn't. And again, they
Speaker 1: find you out real quick, and they see what your
Speaker 1: weaknesses are. And you watch a table on him, it's
Speaker 1: the same thing, low and inside. Boom Ball goes out,
Speaker 1: pitch them away, pitch them is on the spots all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, a little bit more of a struggle
Speaker 1: bus there from what I've seen, at least in the
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