Speaker 1: This is a.
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Speaker 2: February sixteenth on the Just Baseball Show. And it's a
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Speaker 2: just me today, No jack, no arm. You have an
Speaker 2: hour of me talking about my bets. Just kidding. Hopefully
Speaker 2: you didn't turn off the podcast because this is the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three College Baseball Preview with my guy, Peter Flaherty,
Speaker 2: Draft analyst, College baseball analyst for Baseball America and is
Speaker 2: my secret source for all of my college baseball betting picks.
Speaker 2: He just tells me what he likes and then I
Speaker 2: do the betting. Peter, I'm so excited. We're gonna spend
Speaker 2: the next hour. We could spend about three hours talking
Speaker 2: about college baseball, but we're gonna try and be concise.
Speaker 2: We have our top ten teams, top ten players, as
Speaker 2: well as some sleeper players and sleeper teams that could
Speaker 2: make a run to Omaha. How are you doing? Opening
Speaker 2: Day is on Friday. It's a great time to talk
Speaker 2: some college baseball, right.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say first, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: I'm super fired up. And also the one thing you
Speaker 1: left out of my title, I was a former former
Speaker 1: JB and honorary I guess now JB team member. So
Speaker 1: wouldn't be where I am without the Just Baseball crew.
Speaker 1: But I'm so amped to talk about college baseball with you.
Speaker 1: Just like every year, there's you know, a ton of
Speaker 1: great teams, a lot of great players, and you know,
Speaker 1: I could go on and on about it, but I'm
Speaker 1: excited to dive into it with you.
Speaker 2: I don't like Kanye Honore, I don't like Kanye former.
Speaker 2: I like Kanye's secret Weapon.
Speaker 1: Great, I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm down awesome. Let's get straight into it and not
Speaker 2: waste anybody's time because we have so much to go over.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go top ten teams, top ten players, a
Speaker 2: sleeper player that you should be on the watch for,
Speaker 2: as well as the sleeper team that could make a
Speaker 2: run for the College World Series in Omaha. So we'll
Speaker 2: go ten to one and let's start with Vandy. And
Speaker 2: Vanderbilt is always that team that's in the mix, right,
Speaker 2: the jack Liders, the Kumar Rockers. It seems that every
Speaker 2: player you look up on Baseball Reference, most of them
Speaker 2: have been to Vanderbilt, most notably Dansby Swanson was the
Speaker 2: number one overall pick, and we often see them take
Speaker 2: the They have the best players, they have one of
Speaker 2: the best coaches in the country. They're just a really
Speaker 2: well rounded team. But they have a lower rank this
Speaker 2: year then I think at previous Sometimes they're the number
Speaker 2: one team, sometimes they're within the top five. But from
Speaker 2: my knowledge of looking at past years, because I'm a
Speaker 2: college baseball guy, I almost like to call myself an analyst,
Speaker 2: even though you know I've been writing on just Baseball
Speaker 2: dot com, but you're the college baseball expert. Why is
Speaker 2: Vanderbilt maybe ten when in previous years they might be
Speaker 2: one or two.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an indictment on Vanderbilt so much
Speaker 1: as just it is an endorsement of the talent ahead
Speaker 1: of them. You look at teams and some outlets like
Speaker 1: Wake Forest, Florida, Stanford, Tennessee, LSU, and I mean, those
Speaker 1: are stacked teams. And that's not to say Vanderbilt isn't
Speaker 1: a great club and their own right. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's ever been, or ever will be a bad coach
Speaker 1: Corbyn led team. I think it's just a testament to
Speaker 1: how deep college baseball is as a whole.
Speaker 2: I remember last year when we were at the College
Speaker 2: World Series, vany was just such a fun team to watch,
Speaker 2: and they still have a loaded roster. Like, who are
Speaker 2: some of the best players that we got to watch
Speaker 2: out for.
Speaker 1: I think it starts with and not to jump into
Speaker 1: our next segment of top ten players, I think it
Speaker 1: starts within Rik Bradfield in centerfield. We'll talk about him
Speaker 1: more in depth when we go through the top ten,
Speaker 1: but it's like game breaking eighty grade speed. He sets
Speaker 1: the standard for eighty grade speed. Like for all the
Speaker 1: people at home listening when they're like, well there's a
Speaker 1: twenty eighty scale, what's the eighty grade? All out here
Speaker 1: is sixties and seventies. No one ever throws out in
Speaker 1: eighty because it's so rare. And Enrique Bradfield is one
Speaker 1: of the few guys that has an eighty grade tool.
Speaker 1: And he's not just a speed star. He's got great
Speaker 1: baseball IQ, which enhances I think his base stealing ability.
Speaker 1: I'm going on about him already, but he's a great defender,
Speaker 1: great hand eye starts with him on the dirt. One
Speaker 1: guy that I think is gonna break out this year
Speaker 1: is Jonathan Vastein. He's a shortstop, left handed hitter, had
Speaker 1: a great summer in the north Woods, was an All Star,
Speaker 1: and their starting rotation is really really good. It'll be
Speaker 1: headlined by Carter Holton and Andrew Ducanich. Dukanich was a
Speaker 1: blue chip freshman who is a projected first second round
Speaker 1: draft pick by a lot of outlets, and he made
Speaker 1: it to campus. So I think him and Holton, along
Speaker 1: with Devin Futrell make for a really good starting rotation.
Speaker 1: And they've got just a bunch of solid players all around.
Speaker 1: And also you know Patrick Riley will be used in
Speaker 1: a variety of ways. So I think those are the
Speaker 1: headliners to watch out for. But in looking up and
Speaker 1: down this roster, there are a lot of players that
Speaker 1: have big time upside and could easily propel Vanderbilt just
Speaker 1: like any other year, to a national championship.
Speaker 2: Barker Nolan, I'm glad to see back at first base.
Speaker 2: He's a guy I remember who just hits mega tanks
Speaker 2: and he's definitely a fun guy to watch. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about number nine Oklahoma State. So I just wrote up
Speaker 2: my top ten second basement article, and Rock Raggio was
Speaker 2: the number one guy at the second base position. Because
Speaker 2: there's some guys, you know, Tommy Troy who second basement shortstop.
Speaker 2: He's mostly gonna play shortstop, probably for Stanford. That's Stanford infield.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about them in a bit. There's
Speaker 2: some other guys, but he's kind of the main second
Speaker 2: baseman and I know he's one of the key players
Speaker 2: because Oklahoma State, oh turns in an incredible product and
Speaker 2: that's why they're at number nine again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I again. I love the Pokes and I always
Speaker 1: seem to fall in love with them every you know,
Speaker 1: tournament time. I think that coach Holly does a great job.
Speaker 1: They've always got just a bunch of dudes on their team. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Rock Riggio is a great second baseman, but one of
Speaker 1: my favorite players, maybe my favorite player on the team,
Speaker 1: is their shortstop Marcus Brown. He can really pick it
Speaker 1: on the left side of the endfield. He's a true shortstop.
Speaker 1: That's where he'll be professionally. Super competitive kid, loves to win,
Speaker 1: really came into his own with a full sample size
Speaker 1: of hitting last year. He actually won the Appy League
Speaker 1: MVP in twenty twenty one hit like four to ten
Speaker 1: with just gaudy numbers, and last year with a full
Speaker 1: season at Oklahoma State, he hit three seventeen. He'll shoot
Speaker 1: a gap put the ball over the fence every now
Speaker 1: and again. But him and Reggio make for one of
Speaker 1: the best middle infield duos in the country. You know,
Speaker 1: they're great players. And then obviously getting Nolan McClain back
Speaker 1: after getting drafted and not signing is huge. He might
Speaker 1: have the biggest rop power of anyone in the country.
Speaker 1: And then also on the mound, he's great in the
Speaker 1: late inning role. And then they've got a really really
Speaker 1: good freshman class and the headliner in there is outfielder
Speaker 1: Nolan Schubert. I know this fall that the staff was
Speaker 1: just absolutely glowing of him and his ability, and he
Speaker 1: got some pretty lofty player comps, and he kind of
Speaker 1: looks to be next in line to be a first
Speaker 1: round pick out of still Water. So they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a really good team. They're gonna hit, they're always gonna hit.
Speaker 1: The key for them will just be pitching and sustaining
Speaker 1: consistency in the pitching staff. So I'm fired up about him.
Speaker 1: Another transfer arm to watch for him is from BYU. Actually,
Speaker 1: Jansen Kiesel throws from a really low slot, uncomfortable at
Speaker 1: bat for everybody. He's got kind of a sweeper slider
Speaker 1: that's flashes plus when it's on, and he's a big
Speaker 1: VLO guy up to he's up to one hundred this fall.
Speaker 1: So they're really excited team. And I kind of have
Speaker 1: a few teams circle to always watch them, and I
Speaker 1: know Oklahoma State this year will be one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're always that kind of team, right, just loaded
Speaker 2: with talent. I think, like you said, the only question
Speaker 2: mark might be the pitching staff, but this team could
Speaker 2: win a lot of ten eight games right. Their offense
Speaker 2: is just incredible.
Speaker 1: I agree there, like you said, and that's a good point.
Speaker 1: They're a team that's gonna have no problem getting into
Speaker 1: a shootout with another team. They'll they're absolutely down with
Speaker 1: like a twelve to ten kind of game, thirteen to nine,
Speaker 1: like you were saying, they have no problem going punch
Speaker 1: for punch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're the team kind of on this list. I mean,
Speaker 2: all these teams are incredible, but they're one of those
Speaker 2: teams where you can expect seven runs and it's just
Speaker 2: about allowing less. And then if they allow seven, they're
Speaker 2: probably going to score ten and that's why you'll see
Speaker 2: them most likely be in the top ten for the
Speaker 2: rest of the season. Eight is Arkansas and Arkansas. I
Speaker 2: remember last year when we did this podcast, they were
Speaker 2: one of our favorite teams and they kind of let
Speaker 2: us down a little bit in the playoffs two in
Speaker 2: the regionals, and they I'm a little bit I guess
Speaker 2: more down on them, and maybe it's just a sour
Speaker 2: taste from last year because we were so freaking high
Speaker 2: on them. They should probably be at eight. Am I
Speaker 2: missing anything with Arkansas well rounded team. They got a
Speaker 2: good lineup, they got a good pitching staff, don't seem
Speaker 2: like a lot of weaknesses, But at the same time,
Speaker 2: they don't seem to have the mega star power maybe
Speaker 2: like last year, or that we're used to a team
Speaker 2: with Arkansas.
Speaker 1: My off there, No I was gonna say. I think
Speaker 1: that people will look at this year's Arkansas team and
Speaker 1: kind of be like, Okay, where's the guy or guys
Speaker 1: that warrant them being so high. But I think what
Speaker 1: they might lack in a loud, household name, they make
Speaker 1: up for just some sheer talent similar to Vanderbilt, coach
Speaker 1: Van Horne and his staff are unbelievable and get the
Speaker 1: most out of their guys. And they've also got a
Speaker 1: bunch of freshmen who didn't play that much last year
Speaker 1: who had outstanding summers and falls that they'll come out
Speaker 1: of to some people, not to the Arkansas staff, but
Speaker 1: they'll come out of nowhere to some people this year
Speaker 1: and be like where did this guy come from? And
Speaker 1: like how is he hitting three ten with with twelve jacks?
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the team they've got. And they've
Speaker 1: got two absolutely electric arms on the mount and Hagen
Speaker 1: Smith and Brady Tiger. Tiger his breaking ball kind of
Speaker 1: went viral last year when he first started coming to
Speaker 1: close games. It's just an absolute demon curveball it spin
Speaker 1: rate pushing like three thousand RPMs, a little bit of
Speaker 1: deception in there. And then their Friday night guy is
Speaker 1: gonna be Hagen Smith the left hand or he was
Speaker 1: really good as a freshman, was a freshman All American starter,
Speaker 1: a profile. He's a really good guy that you're gonna
Speaker 1: have taking the ball on Friday nights. They're dealt a
Speaker 1: tough hand this past week with Jackson Wiggins going down
Speaker 1: to Tommy John because you know he's he's an outstanding
Speaker 1: arm talent obviously, but if you throw him and then
Speaker 1: Juco transfer Hunter Holland in there to round out the rotation,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a pretty darn good rotation. And they're
Speaker 1: still gonna be a good team. They'll be competitive all year.
Speaker 1: But obviously, if any team loses someone like Jackson Wiggins,
Speaker 1: that's gonna that's gonna hurt. But on the position player side,
Speaker 1: Peyton Solvall is a guy that I think is going
Speaker 1: to really, really really announce his presence. He was a
Speaker 1: super highly touted freshman last year, making it on a
Speaker 1: campus similar to Dukanich. He got first and second round
Speaker 1: grades going into the draft, but decided to go to school.
Speaker 1: And he's just a really pure hitter. His numbers were
Speaker 1: respectable last year, but he's a guy that he could
Speaker 1: end up hitting three thirty three forty with ten plus
Speaker 1: bombs and I wouldn't be surprised. Kennel Diggs is another
Speaker 1: You look at his stats from last year, they weren't
Speaker 1: they're not going to jump off the page at you,
Speaker 1: but he's another really good baseball player, can really hit,
Speaker 1: can really play the can really feel the ball. And
Speaker 1: then they brought in a couple of transfers from the
Speaker 1: JUCO ranks. Hunter Holland was one of them, and then
Speaker 1: shortstop Harold Calls another And he is really really good
Speaker 1: on the dirt and is going to be the guy
Speaker 1: to fill the void left by Jalen Battles his departure.
Speaker 1: And two guys that are kind of under the raidar
Speaker 1: on their roster, maybe that I like our Brady Slaven's
Speaker 1: and Jace Borfin. Borfin had a great freshman year at Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: had a up and down last couple of years, but
Speaker 1: the talent that he's got is undeniable. Same with Slaven.
Speaker 1: Slaven start off at a junior college. He had like
Speaker 1: five ten at his junior college, and he's just gonna
Speaker 1: be a great veteran guy to have around over at
Speaker 1: first base, in achor the infield. So while they might
Speaker 1: not have that kind of star power, they're going to
Speaker 1: be a really competitive team all year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I had two quick questions for you. You don't need
Speaker 2: to dive into it a ton because we have so
Speaker 2: much to cover. But Tiger was one guy who I
Speaker 2: remember in the bullpen, but he is making the transition
Speaker 2: to the starting rotation, right, he should be their Saturday guy.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to still use him out of
Speaker 1: the bullpen, okay. I think he's going to be their
Speaker 1: lights out closer.
Speaker 2: Okay. And then Peyton Stovall was a guy who I
Speaker 2: left off my second base. He was probably number eleven.
Speaker 2: And that's not really a detriment to Stoveall. That's more
Speaker 2: of a testament to the rest of the list. How
Speaker 2: many good second basement there in a country? Did I
Speaker 2: make a mistake there? Are you expecting a huge year
Speaker 2: for a guy like Peyton Stoveall.
Speaker 1: I think you might look back and be like, I
Speaker 1: should have stuck Stoveall on there. But I think given
Speaker 1: the talent across college baseball, because like you said, you
Speaker 1: can only rank ten of them, I think just looking
Speaker 1: across the town of college baseball, he just there's always
Speaker 1: going to be an odd man out and he might
Speaker 1: be that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and at number seven, this is a team that
Speaker 2: I think you and I are really really high on.
Speaker 2: And you look at their roster, and you look at
Speaker 2: LSU's roster, and while LSU, of course so the number
Speaker 2: one team, we'll talk about them in a second and
Speaker 2: they're so loaded it's actually hilarious. How funny, they're hilarious.
Speaker 2: How funny, that's a good word to describe it, because
Speaker 2: it is comical how good their lineup rotation is. But
Speaker 2: Florida there, Dylan cruizes why at Langford who might go
Speaker 2: number one? They have Hurston walderp that transferred from Southern
Speaker 2: miss So I highly recommend going checking out not gambling
Speaker 2: device my betting podcast. Florida is one of the teams
Speaker 2: that I picked and you really like to potentially win
Speaker 2: the College World Series. But they come in at number seven.
Speaker 2: What is keeping Florida from maybe being the first, second,
Speaker 2: or third best team because that's where I think I
Speaker 2: see them, and I think you're up there too with them.
Speaker 1: Florida is awesome. This is uh, it's they're They're gonna
Speaker 1: be really, really good. This is one of the best,
Speaker 1: maybe the best team that O'Sullivan's had in his time there,
Speaker 1: and they're just loaded on both sides of the baseball.
Speaker 1: They have been to Omaha since twenty eighteen, but I
Speaker 1: think that they're in a really good spot to make
Speaker 1: it back. Obviously Langford. Langford is the highlight there. He's
Speaker 1: got one one type upside, he's gonna be playing center field,
Speaker 1: which is just silly. And then obviously the rotation with
Speaker 1: Sproton Waldrip at the top, wildri Bro is so good.
Speaker 1: He's again Sprot's gonna get overshadowed maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: with the staff they've got, but he's another kind of
Speaker 1: top three round arm talent who's just really, really, really good.
Speaker 1: In Waldrop, he might not be the first pitcher taken
Speaker 1: off the board in the draft, but maybe third. My money,
Speaker 1: he might have. He might have the best pure stuff
Speaker 1: in the country. If you just watch some of the
Speaker 1: film of him pitching, He's balls bras ball.
Speaker 2: Curveball is nasty, dude.
Speaker 1: It's hellish. It's just so, it's just so sharp. He
Speaker 1: gets so many ugly swings with it. He's super athletic
Speaker 1: on the mound. This summery quieted down his delivery a
Speaker 1: little bit, which will be great. And then two sophomores
Speaker 1: that I think are going to be really good for
Speaker 1: them this year who were limited last year because of
Speaker 1: injuries are Jack kaglian On and Pierce Copola. Copola six' eight,
Speaker 1: lefty who will be in their weekend. ROTATION i don't
Speaker 1: know if he's going to be ready On, sunday but
Speaker 1: within a few weeks he'll be Their sunday guy or
Speaker 1: however they want to shuffle. Him and then Kaglian on
Speaker 1: will play first and then also. Close he was up
Speaker 1: to ninety nine on the mound and he's got just
Speaker 1: silly rob. Power the exit velos he was posting this
Speaker 1: fall were just. ABSURD i THINK i saw one that
Speaker 1: was like one thirteen or one, fourteen AND i might
Speaker 1: be selling him, short but they're just gonna be really
Speaker 1: good to. Watch and then the, Infield Colby halter is
Speaker 1: a guy THAT i think is going to be THE
Speaker 1: x factor for. Them they've got a lot of star,
Speaker 1: power But halter was one of the better GUYS i
Speaker 1: saw this summer on The. Cape HE i think was
Speaker 1: tied for the league league in home runs with seven or.
Speaker 1: Eight really saw it on the, Dirt Josh rivera getting
Speaker 1: him back as a, win and THEN Bt ryapal behind the.
Speaker 1: Plate they're they're just stacked in all. Facets so THE
Speaker 1: sec is going to be loaded this. Year they're loaded every.
Speaker 1: Year but the the talent that some of these teams
Speaker 1: had is just.
Speaker 2: Stupid BT's a transfer. RIGHT i think that was a
Speaker 2: yeah get for.
Speaker 1: Him, yeah so he was he was From coastal and
Speaker 1: he transferred in last. Year so last year was his
Speaker 1: first year AT uf and he was really good and, then,
Speaker 1: uh he's got one more year. Left he said he
Speaker 1: absolutely had offers to go pro but opted to return TO.
Speaker 1: Uf so they they kind of had a few wins
Speaker 1: in the draft too with guys coming.
Speaker 2: Back so we're going to talk About waldrop And langford
Speaker 2: when we get back into our top ten overall. Players
Speaker 2: but let's talk about maybe our favorite team in all
Speaker 2: of college baseball this. Year my pick to win The
Speaker 2: College World. SERIES i know you love them to win
Speaker 2: The College World, series and if you listen to that,
Speaker 2: PODCAST i got him at nineteen hundred plus nineteen. Hundred
Speaker 2: now they're plus fourteen. Hundred so we're seeing some line movement.
Speaker 2: There interesting and we're also seeing some preseason polls come
Speaker 2: out now where Wake forest is getting even higher and
Speaker 2: now they're at number. SIX i think that obviously we're
Speaker 2: going to talk About Reet louder a little bit later
Speaker 2: when we talk about our top ten, players so we
Speaker 2: don't have to get into him a. Lot but a
Speaker 2: guy WHO i almost put as my most underrated player
Speaker 2: or biggest SLEEPER i guess Is teddy. McGraw and it's
Speaker 2: not because he's a sleeper because he might go in
Speaker 2: the first. Round it's just it's hard to find a
Speaker 2: Better saturday starter in all of college baseball than that.
Speaker 2: Guy he. Does he's Not Jack, LYDER i, mean that's,
Speaker 2: stupid but he's the undersized righty who's up to ninety,
Speaker 2: five who has a couple of good, secondaries he has good,
Speaker 2: command and he's just a really good. Pitcher Nick, KURTZ i,
Speaker 2: mean is he the best hitter in THE? Acc you
Speaker 2: look at his swing and he was a freshman last.
Speaker 2: YEAR i think with an eleven hundred ops or something.
Speaker 2: Nuts This Wake forest, team THE, acc you, know THE
Speaker 2: sec is that is the conference that gets a lot
Speaker 2: of the love right in football. BASKETBALL i Think alabama's
Speaker 2: the number one team in college basketball right. Now like
Speaker 2: they are just a conference that flowers these amazing. Teams
Speaker 2: but THE acc might be the best conference in college
Speaker 2: baseball this, year And Wake forest should win. It we're
Speaker 2: so excited for Wake, forest aren't.
Speaker 1: WE i was gonna say we could do a show
Speaker 1: On Wake forest only and spend like an hour plus
Speaker 1: talking about. THEM i think that's how much you AND
Speaker 1: i love. Them but you hit on. It they Are
Speaker 1: they are maybe like as a completed, team and this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a lofty, comparison but there may be
Speaker 1: as complete a team up and down AS lsu. Is
Speaker 1: if you look around the diamond and up and down the,
Speaker 1: ROTATION i would love to see someone try and find
Speaker 1: a hole or kind of any area of weakness for,
Speaker 1: him because if you look at their, rotation like you,
Speaker 1: said they've got a definite first rounder and maybe a
Speaker 1: top ten pick in.
Speaker 2: Rounding SO i think he's gonna be the second pitcher
Speaker 2: off the.
Speaker 1: Board it wouldn't shock me, McGraw like you, said who
Speaker 1: for my money's worth is also the Best saturday starter
Speaker 1: and a top probably fifty. Pick and then Sophomore Josh,
Speaker 1: hartle who could very well be a first round pick
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Four his stuff took a step up this.
Speaker 1: Fall they've got their pitching, lab which is just a
Speaker 1: really cool operation as a. Whole that's a whole other
Speaker 1: wormhole to go. Down but his stuff took a step
Speaker 1: forward this, fall and then their, lineup like you, said Kurtz.
Speaker 1: IS i think he's one of the best pure hitters
Speaker 1: in all of college baseball if you just kind of
Speaker 1: you look at the swing, decisions the approach he's. Got
Speaker 1: he just sprays balls all over the yard with, authority
Speaker 1: and he's a good mover at first. Base he's athletic
Speaker 1: enough where if they would need an outfielder and a,
Speaker 1: pinch he could hold his own and right or. Left
Speaker 1: he's that. GOOD i had the pleasure of coaching, him
Speaker 1: or you, know evaluating him at The area coache tryouts
Speaker 1: a couple of years, ago and he was always really,
Speaker 1: athletic a good, player but he took his game to
Speaker 1: the next. Level and then on the other, corner you've
Speaker 1: Got Brock, wilkin who seventy great, power Absolute zuoka arm
Speaker 1: like he'll be one of the first college hitters taking
Speaker 1: off the. Board and then they've got a few guys
Speaker 1: who are like just. Dynamos one of them Is Tommy
Speaker 1: hockey in center. Field he's a little five six five
Speaker 1: seven absolute, fireball but he just plays with his hair on.
Speaker 1: Fire he's Got he's a perfect lead off hitter for,
Speaker 1: them great bats to ball, skills really good, defender kind
Speaker 1: of game changing, speed and he's going to be great
Speaker 1: to kind of have at the top of the lineup With, Kurtz,
Speaker 1: Wilkin Bennett lee's a great Transfer. Brendan. Yeah they're just
Speaker 1: so deep up and.
Speaker 2: Down, yeah and you just keep listing names because they're
Speaker 2: just like their whole roster is. Incredible like it's like
Speaker 2: when we get to THE lsu portion of this, podcast
Speaker 2: it's like you can just list all the names and be,
Speaker 2: like this guy will be a first round in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: four this guy will be a first rounder in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Three and if they're not, first they'll be. Second they're
Speaker 2: just such a loaded. Team that's Why i'm so excited for.
Speaker 2: This and you mentioned the leadoff. HITTER i kind of compare.
Speaker 2: Him he doesn't obviously a eighty grade speed like Enri
Speaker 2: K bradfield, junior but he's the definition of the spark
Speaker 2: plug for, them, Right because you have the great. Pitchers,
Speaker 2: yeah you have The Red ladders of the. World you
Speaker 2: have The teddy, McGraw's you have The Brock, wilkins you
Speaker 2: have the you have The Nick. Kurtz but the guy
Speaker 2: who starts everything is that leadoff hit or, Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely And Hackey hawk's that. Guy and then the
Speaker 1: THE x factor on the, mound kind of like How
Speaker 1: hawk will be in the, lineup Is Sean. Sullivan he's
Speaker 1: a guy That i'm personally really excited. About he's got
Speaker 1: an uncomfortable, delivery a really low, slot similar to again
Speaker 1: a lofty, comparison but kind of like A carson Palm
Speaker 1: quist or even like A Chris sale in terms of
Speaker 1: the low slot and the herky jerkiness to. It but
Speaker 1: he's got two sweeping breaking balls that he'll land for.
Speaker 1: Strikes the fastball plays up and just kind of explodes
Speaker 1: out of his hand even at ninety to ninety. Two
Speaker 1: and he'll be used in a ton of, ways whether
Speaker 1: it's a long reliever, role a laidening guy like coming
Speaker 1: in the sixth or seventh and give you a couple
Speaker 1: of scoreless, frames or even in the rotation when a
Speaker 1: guy needs a start off in the, weekend or if
Speaker 1: they just want to shuffle. Things So sullivan's a guy
Speaker 1: you'll see with saves to his, name with win as a,
Speaker 1: starter he'll do it all for them on the. Mound so,
Speaker 1: AGAIN i think they're a super complete team and They're
Speaker 1: they're one of My they're one of the teams on
Speaker 1: my short list to win the national.
Speaker 2: Championship number Five TEXAS a AND. M and this is
Speaker 2: WHERE i need your expert, opinion because WHEN i look
Speaker 2: at all these rosters AND i look at the teams
Speaker 2: THAT i really, like And i'm also looking at value
Speaker 2: of course for betting, Perspective TEXAS a AND m feels
Speaker 2: like the most overrated team in this top. Ten and
Speaker 2: it's not THAT i Say TEXAS a AND m shouldn't
Speaker 2: be in the top twenty five or should it be
Speaker 2: in the top, fifteen like they. Should they earned. It
Speaker 2: they have a great, lineup they have a good starting,
Speaker 2: staff they have a good. Bullpen they have a good
Speaker 2: team and deserve to be amongst one of the best
Speaker 2: teams in college. Baseball but there's something That i'm. Missing
Speaker 2: maybe it's the. Firepower maybe what AM i missing? Here
Speaker 2: AM i off calling them one of the more overrated
Speaker 2: teams in this top? Ten?
Speaker 1: YEAH i think that They're they're just a really good
Speaker 1: team year in and. Year Jim schlasnigl is a great,
Speaker 1: coach and he's gonna have them playing competitive baseball for
Speaker 1: a full fifty six. Games, slate it might not. Be,
Speaker 1: YEAH i, MEAN i think they're that, good at least
Speaker 1: in some. EYES i. DON'T i think At Baseball america
Speaker 1: we've got them slightly lower than. Five but they're gonna
Speaker 1: be a really good team and they're going to remain
Speaker 1: competitive in AN. Sec that's the best THE sec has
Speaker 1: looked in maybe some time top to. Bottom but they've
Speaker 1: got two headliners in terms of star, power both on
Speaker 1: the mound and then in their. Lineup they're leading. Hitters Jack,
Speaker 1: Moss he's a first, baseman just a really really advanced hit.
Speaker 1: Year he just, Rakes he's consistently finds the, barrel puts
Speaker 1: them all over the. Yard he's got some thump in.
Speaker 1: There and Then, denmer Just denmer was great last, year
Speaker 1: but his stuff took a, huge huge jump this, fall
Speaker 1: which is crazy to say stuff took a huge, jump
Speaker 1: but he was up to ninety nine with his. Fastball
Speaker 1: slider's best. Pitch it's it's he'll throw it to. Right
Speaker 1: he's at, lefties manipulate the, shape get a lot of
Speaker 1: swing and. Miss and they brought in also a lot
Speaker 1: of pitchers from the transfer. Portal Josh stewart From texas
Speaker 1: was really good this past. Summer Troy wantson actually From
Speaker 1: purdue is a key transfer to. Keep to keep your
Speaker 1: eye on left handed. Pitcher he'll be in their weekend
Speaker 1: rotation who was. Great and then they've got a freshman
Speaker 1: dude who will explode this. Year i'm betting on, Them Jace.
Speaker 1: Laviolette he's an, outfielder huge raw. Power he hit three
Speaker 1: home runs in his scrimmage this past. Fall he'll be
Speaker 1: in their lineup from day. One SO i think that
Speaker 1: they're they're right in that top ten mix and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be really good.
Speaker 2: Team that's why you're the expert and i'm the, fan
Speaker 2: because you did convince me that they're not. Overrated they
Speaker 2: might just be eight and not five right fifteen WHERE
Speaker 2: i might place. Them and we decided to USE d
Speaker 2: One baseball's rankings because of, course, Uh Pete, flaherty he's
Speaker 2: over there At Baseball, America so we tried to do
Speaker 2: just kind of an unbiased. RANKING d One. Baseball they
Speaker 2: do an amazing job over, there tons of, rankings tons
Speaker 2: of great. Content But, Pizza Baseball, America i'm just. Baseball
Speaker 2: pizza our secret weapon over, here just. Baseball so we
Speaker 2: wanted to USE d. One baseball now moving into the top,
Speaker 2: four And i'm patting myself on the back of this
Speaker 2: one BECAUSE i remember we talked about this AND i
Speaker 2: went down and Saw Ole miss Against, hawaii AND i
Speaker 2: came away from that series even, though of Course hawaii
Speaker 2: isn't that great of a, program but they just had
Speaker 2: so much thump and every single pitcher that not only
Speaker 2: was in their rotation but out of their, pen it
Speaker 2: was just like there was no. Breaks. Right they Have
Speaker 2: Jacob gonzalez, still they Had Tim elcho last. Year the
Speaker 2: whole lineup was so. Good AND i came away with that, Saying,
Speaker 2: PETE i think this team is gonna win The College World.
Speaker 2: Series and it's not like you said. No you were just,
Speaker 2: like let's maybe pump the brakes a little, bit and
Speaker 2: then they went on the incredible run and ended up
Speaker 2: winning the entire. Thing they're rat number four this, year
Speaker 2: and we both know it's frankly impossible to. Repeat we
Speaker 2: almost never see repeat. Teams we've seen it a few
Speaker 2: times in college baseball, history but it's just so hard
Speaker 2: to do. It they deserve to be number. Four they're
Speaker 2: an incredible ball. Club BUT i think neither of us
Speaker 2: are picking them just because history kind of repeats. Itself,
Speaker 2: right they could make a deep. Run they have a great,
Speaker 2: team but it's just so hard for them to. Repeat
Speaker 2: BUT i love Them at number.
Speaker 1: FOUR i was gonna, say you. Can't it's hard to
Speaker 1: drop the defending national champs too. Far AND i think
Speaker 1: they're right where they're supposed to. Be last year they
Speaker 1: had that, incredible incredible run and one of the great great,
Speaker 1: stories you, know last in last. Out Coach bianco is
Speaker 1: an outstanding. Coach and like you, Said Jacob gonzalez is
Speaker 1: he could be the first college hitter. Taken he's again
Speaker 1: on that short list to go one to. One might
Speaker 1: be on the outside looking in right, now but he's.
Speaker 2: HEDNES i was.
Speaker 1: Gonna, say the, bloodlines left, handed hitting shortstop with, impact
Speaker 1: it could be tough to pass up. On but outside of,
Speaker 1: Him Calvin harris is really good behind the plate for.
Speaker 1: Them Was hayden dune hers back up last, year so
Speaker 1: now he'll be there catcher full. Time he's a really good.
Speaker 1: Hitter he's From. Iowa just kind of a Classic midwestern
Speaker 1: like corn lifting strong. Guy Kemp alderman in the outfield
Speaker 1: and d H roll just has as much pop and
Speaker 1: as bad as. Anybody what he might lack in a
Speaker 1: pure hit, tool he makes up for literally just any
Speaker 1: time he makes, contact it's gonna just.
Speaker 2: Fly T.
Speaker 1: J McCants is a great center, Fielder peyton shot And
Speaker 1: ye is a Key vette and kind of like what's
Speaker 1: becoming The Norman college. Baseball they loaded up in the transfer.
Speaker 1: Portal they went and Got Xavier revs From Indianapolis, university
Speaker 1: a SMALL d two, school but don't let the lack
Speaker 1: of kind of school name fool. You he is going
Speaker 1: to be a really really good picture for them in
Speaker 1: factor and right away into their into their weekend, rotation
Speaker 1: which will be headlined By Hunter, elliott, who Like Hagen
Speaker 1: smith Left inded pitcher really good freshman year for in THE,
Speaker 1: sec was a Freshman All. American he kind of profiles
Speaker 1: as That day one type draft pick in twenty. Four
Speaker 1: and then in the, Outfield Ethan groff From tulane is
Speaker 1: a is a is a key transfer they. Got he
Speaker 1: he had a really good season For. Tulane he'll start for,
Speaker 1: them so again sort of like everyone was rinning Off
Speaker 1: Ole miss last year and they learned that you can't
Speaker 1: ever really write off The. ReBs for the people that
Speaker 1: are kind of skeptical of them at four or top,
Speaker 1: five top ten, ranking they'll they'll likely prove them wrong.
Speaker 1: Again So i'm definitely not, gonna definitely not gonna go
Speaker 1: against like Coach bianco and what he can do with his.
Speaker 1: Talent SO i like them there and they're gonna come
Speaker 1: out with a huge chip on their. Shoulder they're not
Speaker 1: gonna they're not gonna kind of spend time lulling and
Speaker 1: lingering on that national championship from last.
Speaker 2: Year, yeah if there's any team that can, REPEAT i
Speaker 2: think it's all miss number Three. Stanford we Love, stanford
Speaker 2: we love but it's Been but the thing is With,
Speaker 2: stanford like they just like they get there and that
Speaker 2: they don't close it, out and that's always Been stanford's.
Speaker 2: Problem but you look at their team and it's why
Speaker 2: can't they? WIN i, think for my, money he's not
Speaker 2: the best player in the. COUNTRY i don't even think
Speaker 2: he's the best two way player in the. Country But
Speaker 2: Braydon montgomery IS i think the most exciting player in
Speaker 2: the country because he can throw a hundred off the.
Speaker 2: Mound he has huge power and huge. SPEED i think
Speaker 2: he might be the toolesiest player in college. BASEBALL i,
Speaker 2: mean there's of course other names that you have to
Speaker 2: throw in, there but just the guy that maybe people
Speaker 2: aren't thinking about for all the, TOOLS i Think Brad
Speaker 2: montgomery should be in the. CONVERSATION i also think That
Speaker 2: stanford has the best infield in. Baseball for my, Money Tommy,
Speaker 2: Troy Drew, bowser you could continue to name. Names This
Speaker 2: stanford team has as good as a roster as long
Speaker 2: as as well as a great head coach. Too this
Speaker 2: team is primed to make a run At. Omaha it's
Speaker 2: just can they get over the, hump which they've failed
Speaker 2: to do so in previous.
Speaker 1: Years, yeah and that's they haven't won a national title
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty, eight but it seems like every, year
Speaker 1: especially the last two, years they've made. It two years
Speaker 1: straight they've been In. Omaha they're absolutely in a spot
Speaker 1: to make it for the third time in as many.
Speaker 1: Years but kind of looking up and down the. Roster
Speaker 1: you mentioned the, talent but they returned two thirds of
Speaker 1: that lineup from twenty twenty. Two and they think they
Speaker 1: Lose Brock jones ugh tough, loss but they led the
Speaker 1: pack IN RBIs they led the pack and home, runs
Speaker 1: the second highest team batting average with the three or
Speaker 1: nine average and the best. Pattern Carter graham is. Back
Speaker 1: second leading, Hitter Tommy troy in first round draft pick is.
Speaker 1: Back you Mentioned Braden. MONTGOMERY i think his future is
Speaker 1: likely as a, hitter but on the, mound the stuff
Speaker 1: he has now is more than enough to be effective
Speaker 1: at the college. Level he's up he's ninety eight With
Speaker 1: carrie and then from rightfield he's got a seventy arm
Speaker 1: so and then the rotation is also great With Quinn
Speaker 1: matthews up at the. Top, uh he's a pitchability, guy
Speaker 1: but he. Throws he's got great, stuff his change ups
Speaker 1: his best. Pitch Drew dowd's another lefty who will be
Speaker 1: up there at the top of the, rotation who's again
Speaker 1: kind of just a strike thrower tax. Hitters they might
Speaker 1: have the best reliever in the country outside Of Andrew,
Speaker 1: walters maybe even up there With Andrew. Walters With Ryan
Speaker 1: bruno again up to one hundred hiss change up had
Speaker 1: a ridiculous whiff rate OF i think like fifty six
Speaker 1: percent last. Year, yeah and his he's got just stupid loud.
Speaker 1: Stuff and also in their, lineup they've got a they've
Speaker 1: got a, Catcher Malcolm, moore and he's definitely candidate For
Speaker 1: pack Twelve freshman of The. Year it would not shock
Speaker 1: me if he Wins National freshman of The. Year. Wow
Speaker 1: he's maybe the best pure hitter to make it to
Speaker 1: campus of the twenty twenty two draft. Class and all
Speaker 1: he did this fall was hit and he picked up
Speaker 1: kind of you, know he didn't miss a, beat and
Speaker 1: he also hit what went. Unnoticed he went out to
Speaker 1: The West Coast league because you can play there as
Speaker 1: a rising. Freshman he played for The Bellingham bells and
Speaker 1: he HIT i forget his exact BAD i, arge but
Speaker 1: he hit over. Yeah and Then Eddie park Brought jones
Speaker 1: is obviously tough to place his impact in the, lineup
Speaker 1: But Eddie park is a really good hitter, guse he
Speaker 1: consistent at, bats plays great. Defense he'll play center field for.
Speaker 1: Them so they're in great hands between the returning, talent
Speaker 1: a few freshmen they've, got they're right there and this
Speaker 1: is probably the best spot they've been in to kind
Speaker 1: of break that national championship.
Speaker 2: Drought number two The university Of tennessee fifty seven and
Speaker 2: nine record last. Year they were easily the best team
Speaker 2: in college baseball during the regular, season but Kame omaha didn't.
Speaker 2: Happen Chase, dolander DO i need to say? MORE i,
Speaker 2: mean we're gonna get to our top ten, players SO
Speaker 2: i don't even really want to talk about. Him but
Speaker 2: he's the best pitcher in the. Country HAS i don't
Speaker 2: want to talk about him because we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about him in. Second but down the line probably the
Speaker 2: best pitching in the, country and they have a great.
Speaker 2: Lineup of course they deserve to be number. Two BUT
Speaker 2: i remember when we were talking about teams that can
Speaker 2: win The College World. Series and remember that if you
Speaker 2: listen to that other episode on Not Gimily, advice it's
Speaker 2: a betting. Preview it is teams that we're trying to
Speaker 2: find the best. Value and when we were in our
Speaker 2: group chats and we're just cooking up all this kind of,
Speaker 2: Stuff tennessee was a team that we didn't really talk.
Speaker 2: About AND i understand. Why but tell, me tell me
Speaker 2: and tell the listeners Why tennessee maybe didn't make your
Speaker 2: teams of they have the best value because you look
Speaker 2: at the roster man AND i, mean it's.
Speaker 1: Incredible, YEAH i was gonna say up and. Down, obviously
Speaker 1: last year they have that historic fifty seven win. Season
Speaker 1: they lose In game three in The Super, regional which,
Speaker 1: again for really any team making it to a Super,
Speaker 1: regional twenty seven outs From omaha's largely in looking at
Speaker 1: the big, picture considered a successful. Season BUT i know
Speaker 1: that they it left a really really sour taste In tennessee's.
Speaker 1: Mouth and they're gonna come out firing on all cylinders
Speaker 1: without you, know sleepwalking through any series during the. Year
Speaker 1: kind of you saw them maybe do that against Like
Speaker 1: kentucky last, year but they're just gonna be firing on
Speaker 1: all cylinders all. Year they've got perhaps the best starting
Speaker 1: rotation With dolander who was probably the best pure pitcher
Speaker 1: in college, Baseball Chase burns as a freshman really, impressed
Speaker 1: who's a top five overall candidate next. Year and then
Speaker 1: also Sophomore Drew beam who was really impressive last. Year
Speaker 1: and then they lost some to the. Draft they lose
Speaker 1: guys Like Jordan beck And Drew, Gilbert Durello, ortega but
Speaker 1: again common theme they hit the. Portal they bring In
Speaker 1: maliahuna From kansas who he can really, hit but he's
Speaker 1: he can really really pick it on the dirt and
Speaker 1: he's got a plus, arm moves really, well projectable. BODY i,
Speaker 1: know he's a guy that they're really excited. About Christian
Speaker 1: moore will play second. Base he had a big role
Speaker 1: as a. FRESHMAN i think he hit three ten with
Speaker 1: or three h five with ten home.
Speaker 2: Runs Christian moore he made that second base list for.
Speaker 2: Me this dude is so. Good he's a. Freak he's
Speaker 2: just so good at, everything and he's got crazy. Speed
Speaker 2: it didn't show, UP i guess in the stolen base
Speaker 2: department because he was always on second or he was
Speaker 2: rounding the bases for a home. Run like he is
Speaker 2: a freak of. Nature and he's one of the best
Speaker 2: second basemen in base in college. BASEBALL i.
Speaker 1: Agree and he's a psycho competitor too in the best.
Speaker 1: Way he's he's always talking in the, dugout encouraging his,
Speaker 1: teammates always up at the top. Step Blake burke is
Speaker 1: a guy again might have the most rough power in
Speaker 1: college baseball twenty five home run. Upside and Then Jared.
Speaker 1: Dickey he kind of dealt with the injury bug a
Speaker 1: little bit last. Year but he'll catch and play the
Speaker 1: outfield for. Them and he hit three eighty last year
Speaker 1: with a handful of chok full of extra base. Hits so,
Speaker 1: again kind of naming going up and down This tennessee,
Speaker 1: roster you're kind of looking for holes and they're tough
Speaker 1: to find. Him so they're gonna be right in not
Speaker 1: only THE sec championship mix, again they'll be in the
Speaker 1: national championship. Mix AND i would not be shocked if
Speaker 1: they get To. Omaha it actually be a little surprised
Speaker 1: if they Didn't number.
Speaker 2: ONE lsu, man, DUDE i, mean this team is. Crazy
Speaker 2: is this the best roster that you've ever seen in college?
Speaker 2: Baseball with the transfer Of Tommy tanks twenty seven bombs
Speaker 2: in his freshman year From Medz, state Get Paul skids
Speaker 2: and Air, force who is the best two way player
Speaker 2: in the. Country for my, money this team is crazy
Speaker 2: and they made our list in terms of teams that
Speaker 2: we think we could they can make the you, know
Speaker 2: College war, season win. It but just from a value,
Speaker 2: perspective it's, LIKE i, mean it's terrible value because they
Speaker 2: are by all, accounts the number one team in college,
Speaker 2: baseball and it's not really that. CLOSE i mean it's
Speaker 2: kind of, close because you See, florida you See. TENNESSEE
Speaker 2: a lot of these teams, have you, know close to
Speaker 2: the amount of. Talent but it's just you go down
Speaker 2: the roster AND i think to, myself, man they might
Speaker 2: have a top ten player at every, position and they
Speaker 2: are about as loaded as any Team i've ever seen
Speaker 2: in college.
Speaker 1: Baseball, YEAH i, Know I'm I'm i'm super, YOUNG i
Speaker 1: guess in the grand scheme of. Things so in my
Speaker 1: time falling college, baseball this is certainly the most stacked
Speaker 1: Team i've seen on. PAPER i think if you go
Speaker 1: kind of back in history a little, bit THAT usc
Speaker 1: team With Randy johnson And mark maguire on the same
Speaker 1: roster is tough to. Beat but it certainly in my
Speaker 1: time following baseball and certainly in recent, memory this is
Speaker 1: the most stacked team on. PAPER i could, again we
Speaker 1: could just talk about their whole, team but headliners Obviously
Speaker 1: Dylan cruz the odds on favorite right now to probably
Speaker 1: go one. ONE i, Know Wyat langford is right there with,
Speaker 1: him almost neck and. Neck Trey morgan is just a
Speaker 1: super freaky athletic first, baseman can really, hit great hand eye,
Speaker 1: coordination such a good.
Speaker 2: Fielder that's what goes on underrated about. Him unbelievable glove
Speaker 2: you AND i love following you On twitter and you
Speaker 2: definitely everyone listening should go check Out pete On. Twitter PETER. G,
Speaker 2: flaherty he put out this thread About Trey morgan AND
Speaker 2: i was looking at lists on the first, baseman AND
Speaker 2: i thought to, myself why is he so low in these?
Speaker 2: Things like what does he do? Wrong he's, quick he
Speaker 2: has a great, glove he's got, power he's got back to,
Speaker 2: ball he's got the whole package as a first, baseman
Speaker 2: and he's got the flag like he's fun to watch,
Speaker 2: Too like what AM i missing?
Speaker 1: THERE i think it just hurts him that he's a first.
Speaker 1: Baseman you see kind of looking at the draft value,
Speaker 1: nowadays and it's just kind of you see first. Basement
Speaker 1: you're just kind of, like oh, Man but he's got
Speaker 1: the speed and athleticism to in my, mind play an outfield.
Speaker 1: Spot AND i would not be. Shocked this is a
Speaker 1: whole other, conversation BUT i wouldn't be shocked if whoever
Speaker 1: selects him in the, draft if they end up using
Speaker 1: him in the outfield or at least trying him out
Speaker 1: there because he is that. Good but, again like you
Speaker 1: Mentioned Tommy, WHITE i don't they're not much to. Say
Speaker 1: he Hits Tommy. White he's twenty seven twenty seven jacks last,
Speaker 1: year one of the best pure hitters in college. Baseball
Speaker 1: it's seventy raw. Power but he's not just a power.
Speaker 1: Guy he can actually. Hit he's got a great, approach
Speaker 1: he's almost impossible to pitch. To and then they're not
Speaker 1: just an offensive heavy, team they're also pitching. Heavy they've
Speaker 1: Got Paul, skeins who's the best two way player in the.
Speaker 1: Country for my money's, worth thatcher heard, there it's it's
Speaker 1: almost just. Unfair and then of course the cherry on.
Speaker 1: Top they had a ton of wins in the draft last,
Speaker 1: year with guys Like pax And kling And Chase shores
Speaker 1: making it to, campus and of course their entire freshman
Speaker 1: class has just been outstanding this. FALL a couple of
Speaker 1: guys to keep your eye on Is Chase, shores who's
Speaker 1: reportedly been up to one on one with his, fastball
Speaker 1: who projects to be part of the. Rotation Brady neil
Speaker 1: is a great catcher both with the bat and with
Speaker 1: the glove And pax And kling is going to take
Speaker 1: over For Dylan cruz probably after his. Departure just given
Speaker 1: his athleticism and speed and, centerfield he'll probably play an
Speaker 1: outfield spot this year in factor in day. One so
Speaker 1: they're going to be a, really, really really tough. Team
Speaker 1: kind of looking at That Omaha regional Super regional, format
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a really tough team to be two
Speaker 1: out of three. Times and anything happened in baseball we
Speaker 1: saw last year With Notre dame taking Down. Tennessee but
Speaker 1: IT'S i am really really interested to see how they
Speaker 1: do BECAUSE i don't remember the last time there was
Speaker 1: this much hype surrounding a team heading into the.
Speaker 2: Season and not to mention you mentioned all the, players
Speaker 2: but how about the fact that they grabbed The Minnesota
Speaker 2: twins pitching coach and we're just, like, hey do you
Speaker 2: want to coach in college baseball instead of the? Bigs
Speaker 2: like that's how good this team. Is LIKE i want
Speaker 2: us to cover that he left The Minnesota twins to
Speaker 2: be the pitching coach FOR. LSU i assume the paycheck
Speaker 2: was pretty, even but, STILL i, mean that's how good
Speaker 2: THIS lsu team is let's go into our top ten
Speaker 2: players and we'll go through it a little bit quicker
Speaker 2: because we kind of touched on these. Guys, now if
Speaker 2: you've been listening to the top ten, teams you kind
Speaker 2: of understand and a lot of these guys are on those.
Speaker 2: Teams so at number, Ten Hurston, waldrup like you, Said
Speaker 2: southern miss transfer up to he lives in the upper,
Speaker 2: nineties and he just has this curve ball that looks
Speaker 2: like he grabbed it for the depths Of, hell like
Speaker 2: it is just so. Disgusting Hirston. WALDROP i HE'S i
Speaker 2: think the third best pitcher in the. Country do you
Speaker 2: agree with him at number?
Speaker 1: Ten, YEAH i think that's a good spot for, him
Speaker 1: like you, said and we talked about him a bit
Speaker 1: talking About. Florida but the stuff is. Electric the, DELIVERY
Speaker 1: i think PRE usa even, now especially in the lower,
Speaker 1: half is really similar To Jack lighter From. Vanderbilt the
Speaker 1: stuff is like you, said he'll pitch in the in
Speaker 1: the upper. Nineties he'll pitch like ninety six to ninety,
Speaker 1: nine and he will he will, bomb you, know one
Speaker 1: hundred hundred and, one even one hundred and two each,
Speaker 1: start maybe not one o two each, start but he
Speaker 1: will touch triple digits and it's two plus breaking balls
Speaker 1: that gets swing a. Miss he's a real competitor on the.
Speaker 1: Mound he's gonna he's gonna be a top probably thirty draft,
Speaker 1: pick top twenty draft. Pick so top ten player in college. Baseball.
Speaker 2: Absolutely number Nine Red, louder best change up in college.
Speaker 2: BASEBALL i think it's so, nasty it's So nicey's. Great,
Speaker 2: yeah he's. Great number, Nine Red. Ladder what do you
Speaker 2: think about? Him it's pretty, quick really really good, pitcher right.
Speaker 1: Yeah great pitcher, again one of the best in college.
Speaker 1: Baseball chain ups To colin card will throw it to
Speaker 1: righty's and, lefties which is unique and it just falls
Speaker 1: off at the. End great. Fastball he's going to headline
Speaker 1: the rotation For, wake which could be a national championship.
Speaker 1: Team but, Yeah louder at, nine that's a good spot for.
Speaker 2: Him number Eight Jacob, wilson son Of Jack, wilson talk
Speaker 2: about play. Discipline dude struck out seven times last, year
Speaker 2: seven twenty five. Times he's. Absurd he's probably going to
Speaker 2: be a top ten pick in in next year's, draft.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, absolutely he'll be a top ten pick this year.
Speaker 1: Again kind of if you're looking for a dark horse
Speaker 1: at one, one it's kind of crazy to call him
Speaker 1: a dark horse because he's a six' to.
Speaker 2: Three shortstop kind of reminds Me Of jackson holiday in
Speaker 2: that remember we, you know, of course, YOU know i
Speaker 2: got to give a lot of credit to, Our Guy.
Speaker 2: Pete flaherty maybe the best bet that we had last
Speaker 2: Year Was jackson holligay going number one at plus. Eleven
Speaker 2: hundred this could be Next Year's. Jackson holiday you got the,
Speaker 2: blood lines you have the elite, plate discipline you. Have
Speaker 2: projectability but he Plays At Grand, canyon university so it's
Speaker 2: you don't see him. That Much jackson holiday a little.
Speaker 2: Bit different he was a high, school Guy But Grand,
Speaker 2: canyon university they're not gonna be, you know it's hard
Speaker 2: to find college baseball games ANYWAY, on tv but rarely
Speaker 2: you're gonna be able to. See him but he's gonna
Speaker 2: be a guy that you only really hear about unless
Speaker 2: you're deep in, the weeds and if you're listening this you.
Speaker 2: Probably are but there's so much nice things to say
Speaker 2: about a Guy Like.
Speaker 1: Jacob, wilson, yeah again like, you said play discipline is the.
Speaker 1: Calling CARD through i think four hundred and twenty eight college,
Speaker 1: AT bats i think he's only struck out like six
Speaker 1: percent of, the time which is. Just absurd THAT'S actually
Speaker 1: i did a little stat digging last night or a
Speaker 1: couple of nights Ago And nick madrigal through four one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two, at bats so comparable, sample size
Speaker 1: his k rate was six point. Nine, PERCENT again pac
Speaker 1: twelve pitching is is objectively probably the best pitching in,
Speaker 1: the country. Just consistently, but again it just kind of
Speaker 1: shows you the bat to, ball skills an advanced Approach that,
Speaker 1: wilson has and he'll also impact. THE ball, i mean
Speaker 1: he'll be a probably twelve to fifteen home, run guy,
Speaker 1: High average he's got an above, average. Arnament shortstoff you
Speaker 1: touch on the blood lines a. Little bit he's a
Speaker 1: guy who fits great at number eight on the top ten,
Speaker 1: player list and then also that's probably that could be
Speaker 1: where he goes in, the draft, top eight top. Five
Speaker 1: overall so he's going to be a fun guy. To
Speaker 1: watch he had a great SUMMER at Usa and i'm
Speaker 1: excited to see.
Speaker 2: Him play another guy with bloodlines at, Number Seven jacob
Speaker 2: gonzalez Of OLE miss uh one of the best hit
Speaker 2: tools in, the country no doubt. ABOUT it i REMEMBER
Speaker 2: when i saw HIM when i went down to That ole,
Speaker 2: miss series just looks like a, Big leaguer like HE'S
Speaker 2: just i REMEMBER when i. Saw him he HAD, the
Speaker 2: uh he had the bleached hair in the back and
Speaker 2: he was just fielding ground balls and warm Ups and i'm,
Speaker 2: just like he could go over ted with ted, strikeouts
Speaker 2: HERE like i. Wouldn't care like he just looks like a.
Speaker 2: Big LEAGUER but i think his best tool is that,
Speaker 2: hit tool because he has, good, power like no doubt.
Speaker 2: About it but it's just he could be a guy
Speaker 2: who falls asleep hitting. Three hundred like it's just he's
Speaker 2: gonna hit and he's not gonna. Strike out he's gonna take.
Speaker 2: His walks kind of Similar To jacob wilson in. That
Speaker 2: way not as good of, plate Discipline Because jacob wilson
Speaker 2: is the best plate discipline in. The Country but gonzalez
Speaker 2: is just a.
Speaker 1: Pure, hitter yeah like, you said it's a left hand
Speaker 1: and hitting shortstop who will stick there with an advanced
Speaker 1: hit tool and above, average power and you combine that
Speaker 1: with the BLOOD lines i think that's a really tough
Speaker 1: package to pass up on in, the draft and then
Speaker 1: also in kind of in your rankings ranking the top
Speaker 1: ten college. Baseball PLAYERS so i think he's right where.
Speaker 1: He belongs he's gonna have a great season for All
Speaker 1: miss he's gonna lead that team both on and off.
Speaker 1: The field, and again he's just like everyone on, this
Speaker 1: list and guys be on, This list i'm really really
Speaker 1: excited to watch.
Speaker 2: Them play so there's a. Freshman, here oh he's a freshman.
Speaker 2: Last year he's going to be a sophomore this Year
Speaker 2: that i'm ranking at. Number six his Name Is vance
Speaker 2: Honeycutt At, north carolina and six probably seems a, bit
Speaker 2: High but i'm MOST afraid i ranked him. TOO low,
Speaker 2: i mean he's a twenty five, home run twenty nine
Speaker 2: steal guy, last year and you watch, him play there's
Speaker 2: nothing he. Does poorly there's nothing he even. Does average
Speaker 2: he is an incredible. BASEBALL player i think he's going
Speaker 2: to go number one overall in twenty. Twenty four so.
Speaker 1: You took the words out of. My MOUTH what i
Speaker 1: was gonna, say is for what, it's worth he's my,
Speaker 1: right now he's my guy to go one to one
Speaker 1: in twenty. Twenty four it's an athletic, center fielder. Wiry
Speaker 1: frame he's got big. Time, juice again you mentioned the
Speaker 1: twenty five home runs and twenty nine. Stolen bases, this
Speaker 1: year it's gonna be on the probably the highest. End
Speaker 1: production we could see him kind of, Spit out but
Speaker 1: a thirty THIRTY season i don't think is out of
Speaker 1: the out of the picture. For him he's. That good
Speaker 1: and the one KIND of i guess weak point in
Speaker 1: his game last year was he swung and miss. A
Speaker 1: lot he STRUCK down i think ninety, five times but
Speaker 1: again he's still at two. Ninety six the production, was
Speaker 1: there but this fall he cut down on the swing.
Speaker 1: And miss he's got more of. An approach he's not
Speaker 1: just kind of going up there and free swinging as
Speaker 1: he would at times. Last year so what the numbers
Speaker 1: he could spit out this Year Are golden spikes. Type
Speaker 1: numbers he's. That good you typically see the award go to,
Speaker 1: an upperclassman but With what honeycuts got in, THE tank
Speaker 1: i would not be shocked to see him when the
Speaker 1: When The golden.
Speaker 2: Spikes number five best two way player in. The country
Speaker 2: paul skeins Transfer From. Air force this guy can touch
Speaker 2: ninety nine and had thirteen bombs with a ten to
Speaker 2: forty six ops. Last year that's what we're dealing. With
Speaker 2: here that's another GUY, at lsu and he's not even
Speaker 2: the best player. On ellis this used a Twenty John olerude. Award,
Speaker 2: WINNER correct.
Speaker 1: I Believe so i'd have to, google IT But i
Speaker 1: i'll take your word. For it but like, you said
Speaker 1: he'll do with the bad and on. The mound on
Speaker 1: the mound actually is where he took a huge step forward.
Speaker 1: This fall he was up to one hundred, and one
Speaker 1: which not a, big deal but also right, that's Where Like,
Speaker 1: wes johnson is going to really pay DIVIDENDS for lsu
Speaker 1: both this year and, going forward which IS why i
Speaker 1: think they're set up for a period of sustained success
Speaker 1: for quite. Some time but his slider took a took a.
Speaker 1: Massive jump it's now a legit. Plus pitch his change
Speaker 1: up was probably his best secondary coming into. This year
Speaker 1: but the slider was really good. This fall it's got
Speaker 1: big time, horizontal movement it's kind of got sweeper traits,
Speaker 1: at times and he's really solidifying himself as a starting
Speaker 1: pitcher at the, next level which. Is HUGE and i think,
Speaker 1: five Again Having paul skeins at five is a TESTAMENT
Speaker 1: of i guess how deep college baseball is this year
Speaker 1: because there's just so much talent up and down. The list,
Speaker 1: But Yeah i'm, Skeens Again golden spikes type guy one to.
Speaker 1: One candidate he checks a lot, of boxes so he's
Speaker 1: he's right there at, number five.
Speaker 2: And Maybe paul skeen should be. Number four but at,
Speaker 2: NUMBER four i Put In Reek bradfield JUNIOR and I
Speaker 2: remember i was sitting in the Stands with Arm, with
Speaker 2: colby with Our, guy Chris and i'm Watching In Reek
Speaker 2: bradfield Junior and, i'm like this guy might go one
Speaker 2: one when he. COMES out i think he's the fastest
Speaker 2: player in any, Level Baseball major, league baseball, College baseball
Speaker 2: like when we say eighty. GRADE speed i think he's
Speaker 2: the fastest man who plays baseball currently In The united States.
Speaker 2: Of america and THE reason i said, that too is
Speaker 2: because you see the bat, to ball you see elite
Speaker 2: defensive play in the, center Field and i'm, JUST like
Speaker 2: i see A Young, kenny lofton and that is a
Speaker 2: that's a that's almost tired at this point because now it's.
Speaker 2: Being USED but i swear to you THAT'S what i
Speaker 2: SAW when i first saw him. Last year And maybe
Speaker 2: i'm a little bit higher, On Him Maybe paul skeen
Speaker 2: should be ahead, of HIM but I just i think
Speaker 2: he's a. FREAKING nature i think he is the most
Speaker 2: exciting player to watch when there's maybe outside Of, braidonn
Speaker 2: cup but they're all in the same category because they're.
Speaker 2: All Awesome But enrique browdfield, junior man do you think
Speaker 2: he's the fastest player who's currently? Playing baseball, or my
Speaker 2: my going, overboard.
Speaker 1: Here there's definitely an argument to. Me made and what's
Speaker 1: crazy is his speed almost, plays up which is impossible
Speaker 1: to like fathom just given how quick he is just
Speaker 1: right out of.
Speaker 2: The gate but he's an excellent, bass dealer so he
Speaker 2: uses that speed and he's so smart on the. BASS
Speaker 2: pass i remember he was taking like short leads than.
Speaker 2: Big leads he's, just like he is such, a nuisance such. A,
Speaker 2: nuisance again that's.
Speaker 1: Perfectly said we touched on it and Talking about vanderbilt
Speaker 1: earlier in. The show but he's got UNBELIEVABLE baseball iq
Speaker 1: and feel for. The game he's such a heady and,
Speaker 1: Smart player like he knows any pitcher that's on, the
Speaker 1: mound whether it's the starting pitcher or, bullpen arm he,
Speaker 1: knows them, you know frontwards. AND backwards i spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time around him. THIS summer i was. Fortunate
Speaker 1: too and he picks his spots. To steal. He doesn't
Speaker 1: he doesn't just get on, And, Says Okay I'm. ENRIQUE
Speaker 1: bradfield i. Can steal he's he knows when when not.
Speaker 1: To steal he knows kind of, you know he gets
Speaker 1: a feel for. His lead he'll take different kind. Of
Speaker 1: leads he'll take a, jump lead he'll take a, walking
Speaker 1: lead he'll take kind of a. Shorter lead he's just
Speaker 1: a problem causer and like, you said he's a nuisance
Speaker 1: and just a thorn in. Everyone's side and then the
Speaker 1: defense is. The defense if college baseball Had A, platinum
Speaker 1: glove he'd probably win. It again it kind of just
Speaker 1: goes back to. His BASEBALL, Like q he's got an incredible,
Speaker 1: first step really efficient routes to. The baseball he might
Speaker 1: not have like the bazooka arm that a typical center
Speaker 1: fielder or corner Guy Like braden montgomery still a Good
Speaker 1: odd it's it's, a again it's more, than serviceable and
Speaker 1: he will absolutely stick there and hit and run his
Speaker 1: way to the.
Speaker 2: Big leagues Number Three tommy tanks is not, number Three
Speaker 2: But tommy tanks hit twenty seven home runs last year
Speaker 2: and it felt like he was hitting a home run every.
Speaker 2: Single Day But, wyatt langford who is number Three, at
Speaker 2: florida hit twenty six. Home runs like that's How Good wyatt.
Speaker 2: Langford is AND when I Watch white langford Play, AT
Speaker 2: florida i don't think, power first which is a Testament To.
Speaker 2: Wyat langford you might think, power first because of course
Speaker 2: he had twenty six hour ruds at every single ball
Speaker 2: that comes off his bat seems like it's going one
Speaker 2: hundred and ten miles. An hour but it's just like
Speaker 2: he's so well rounded as. An outfielder, and yeah he
Speaker 2: might move to a corner when he reaches, the majors
Speaker 2: but it's just maybe to keep, him HEALTHY because i
Speaker 2: think he could, play center like he is just such
Speaker 2: a well rounded, baseball player and he's not, the flashiest
Speaker 2: like He's Not dylan cruise with. Ferocious swing but for,
Speaker 2: my money maybe the best all around player in college baseball.
Speaker 1: Right, now yeah there's certainly an argument to. BE made,
Speaker 1: i mean last year three, fifty six twenty, six bombs
Speaker 1: great swing decisions and. CONTACT rates i think a key
Speaker 1: for him will be in terms of going one. TO
Speaker 1: one i think he's a surefire top five to seven
Speaker 1: overall selection no, matter what barring. Anything disastrous but last
Speaker 1: year he played left field for him. Every day, this
Speaker 1: year he'll play center field if he can show he
Speaker 1: played he can play center field at kind of a,
Speaker 1: professional level which by, all indications he did, this fall
Speaker 1: and he puts up kind of. Similar numbers so last
Speaker 1: year it's such a big ass hitting twenty six home
Speaker 1: runs again with AGAINST, the sec but again twenty plus,
Speaker 1: home runs kind of fifteen, plus doubles kind of demonstrates
Speaker 1: that elite contact rate and. Swing, decisions again good runner,
Speaker 1: in centerfield shows he can stick. OUT there i think
Speaker 1: that's a really appealing package and a pack that could
Speaker 1: have him go. First Overall so i'm right there. WITH
Speaker 1: you i think he's probably gonna Win The golden spikes
Speaker 1: to kind of give. Away that but he's he's a
Speaker 1: really really good, baseball PLAYER and i think he fits
Speaker 1: great at number three.
Speaker 2: And number two. Number one we can kind of talk
Speaker 2: about them in the, same breath because do you like
Speaker 2: pitchers or do you? Like Hitters Because chase dolander is at,
Speaker 2: Number Two dylan cruiz is at, Number One chase Dolander,
Speaker 2: At Tennessee dylan CRUZ, at Lsu and dolander has been
Speaker 2: compared to Guys Like steven schrasburg in the sense of
Speaker 2: coming out of, the draft he might be the best
Speaker 2: pitcher since like that kind of level he lives in
Speaker 2: the mid to, upper nineties incredible, breaking ball but also
Speaker 2: something that a lot of college pitchers don't have is
Speaker 2: the elite command which. He has and Then At dylan
Speaker 2: cruz kind of like college Baseball As bryce harper in
Speaker 2: the way just because of the swing and how ferocious
Speaker 2: it is and how he's going to stick in center
Speaker 2: BECAUSE he's i think an elite center fielder. Out, there
Speaker 2: like take, your pick do you? Like pitchers do you?
Speaker 2: Like hitters who would you rank at number One between
Speaker 2: dolan Or And Dylan CRUZ because i couldn't decide It's Just.
Speaker 2: DYLAN cruz i would take the true center fielder who
Speaker 2: rakes at number one instead of the right. Handed pitcher
Speaker 2: but that's just. My choice you Might take Dolaner. OVER
Speaker 2: cruise i wouldn't fault you.
Speaker 1: For, it again it REALLY just i don't think you're
Speaker 1: wrong in taking either. Of them no matter who you,
Speaker 1: talk to if someone says They'd have dolan or if
Speaker 1: someone says They, have cruise someone says they Even have,
Speaker 1: LANGFORD schemes i don't think he'll be wrong in. Saying that, But,
Speaker 1: again dolander like, you said probably the most major league
Speaker 1: ready pitcher in the country. Right now fastball metrics are.
Speaker 1: Just stupid he's up to like. One hundred he'll again Similar,
Speaker 1: to waldrip he'll pitch ninety five ninety eight plus slider plus,
Speaker 1: change up. Starter profile he's a guy that profiles to
Speaker 1: kind of fly through a system and be an impact
Speaker 1: arm in a major. League rotation maybe within three or,
Speaker 1: so years similar.
Speaker 2: Three months, Maybe, again yeah.
Speaker 1: All the pends if he goes to the, PLAYOFF team
Speaker 1: i don't think that anyone kind of us him out of.
Speaker 1: A bullpen but. HE'S ready i have no doubt he
Speaker 1: could get major league hitters out right now and kind
Speaker 1: of navigate his way through a major. League Lineup But
Speaker 1: dylan cruz is kind of the comp on the position
Speaker 1: player side in TERMS of, mlb readiness super advanced, hit
Speaker 1: tool light, tower power, can run got a good arm and.
Speaker 1: Center field he's a. Good defender he's kind of the most,
Speaker 1: COMPLETE player i think in the country with a. Track
Speaker 1: record he's. A guy in twenty twenty DURING The covid
Speaker 1: draft he had a ton, of buzz chose to GO.
Speaker 1: To lsu has absolutely made the most of it and
Speaker 1: has turned himself into the one to one pick and
Speaker 1: might be his pick to lose at. This point, But
Speaker 1: Yeah dylan cruz probably the most impressive, Position player dyland
Speaker 1: theer most, impressive pitcher and it is going to be
Speaker 1: a really fun year IN the sec and in. College
Speaker 1: baseball give.
Speaker 2: Me a comp for both of them before we. Move
Speaker 2: on and this is an, impossible thing but it always
Speaker 2: ttilates ME when i hear. A comp, of course we're
Speaker 2: not going to hold you to it because this iskind
Speaker 2: of an impossible question because, you know you don't see
Speaker 2: these guys come along. That much but just to, excite
Speaker 2: people remember don't don't hold this against My. Guy pete
Speaker 2: but just when You Watch, chase dolander who does he remind?
Speaker 2: You of and then when You Watch, dylan cruz who
Speaker 2: does he remind?
Speaker 1: You Off, With dolander we'll go really lofty here, And
Speaker 1: say Jacob, De, grom yeah. THAT'S awesome i think this
Speaker 1: stuff is that good where he's got kind of Like
Speaker 1: de grom type upside and dominance. In there now that
Speaker 1: he will be. Staying, healthy obviously there are a lot
Speaker 1: of variables, in BASEBALL BUT i i think that the
Speaker 1: the upside is there for him to be kind of
Speaker 1: a cy young Winner And all star pitcher down. The road.
Speaker 2: It's amazing What, About, cruise ooh it's it's. Really hard
Speaker 2: this ONE is i think much Tougher than Dolander because cruise,
Speaker 2: it's like you don't see this type of player come along.
Speaker 1: That, OFTEN yeah, i think, OH gosh i don't want
Speaker 1: to kill too. Much TIME but i think if you
Speaker 1: just just looking at him as a hitter as, A
Speaker 1: hitter i think it's easier to come up with a
Speaker 1: comp for him just looking at him as a hitter
Speaker 1: in terms of kind of that advanced hit tool and.
Speaker 1: Plus power i'll goough with someone in recent memory at the,
Speaker 1: College Level spencer torklsen just from a sheer hitters. Point
Speaker 1: standpoint nothing that has to do, with defense nothing that
Speaker 1: has to do with anything outside. Of hitting but just
Speaker 1: if you kind of take and isolate two of, his
Speaker 1: tools the hit tool and the, power tool.
Speaker 2: And that's why he's. So good and that's why he's,
Speaker 2: so good right Because Imagine spencer torkelsen playing center and sticking,
Speaker 2: in center not. First base so he's got elite first
Speaker 2: baseman hit, and power and then you put him in
Speaker 2: center field with the gun and. The arm that's how
Speaker 2: good these. Players are let's get into our sleepers. TO
Speaker 2: up i have a couple SLEEPERS that i want To
Speaker 2: run byuable to, go team then player my, sleeper team
Speaker 2: and this is teams that are outside the top. Twenty
Speaker 2: five my sleeper Team. Is rutgers Looking at rutgers roster
Speaker 2: like they were one of the best offensive teams in
Speaker 2: college baseball last year and they're Led By, ryan lasco
Speaker 2: who's gonna be a top. Fifty prospect and IT'S funny
Speaker 2: i saw this no returning power five player had more
Speaker 2: doubles than he did last year with. Twenty four, You
Speaker 2: know evan. SLIGHT returns i wrote up my first base
Speaker 2: And second. Base Rankings chris brito was, On There Tony.
Speaker 2: Santa mario we're both top ten guys at. Their POSITION
Speaker 2: but i think the only thing that's probably keeping them
Speaker 2: out out of the top, twenty five and maybe the
Speaker 2: reason people are sleeping on him is the rotation kind
Speaker 2: of a. Question mark They Got, jake marshall They Got
Speaker 2: christian Capolo OR capola i need Someone from rutgers to
Speaker 2: tell me how, to pronounce but he's probably going to
Speaker 2: Be the. Saturday guy and they also lost their closer
Speaker 2: to THE so i understand why the top, twenty FIVE
Speaker 2: but i think they will be by the end of.
Speaker 2: This year what do you Think.
Speaker 1: About rutgers i'm with you. On them, and again if
Speaker 1: you talk about teams that are gonna come out with
Speaker 1: a chip on their shoulder and be, really hungry it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the guys Out In. New Jersey, with
Speaker 1: rutgers THEY were i think wrongfully left out of the tournament.
Speaker 1: Last year they had a great, regular season they were
Speaker 1: In the big twent they were In The big ten.
Speaker 1: CHAMPIONSHIP game i was pretty SURPRISED when i didn't see
Speaker 1: him in the field of. Sixty four again they would
Speaker 1: turn a lot of firepower on. The offense you look
Speaker 1: at that three headed Monster with Lasco. Slighton brito brito
Speaker 1: is a big time thumper, over there fight advanced, Hit
Speaker 1: tool lasco, center fielder, twitchy guy first second round. Draft
Speaker 1: pick and then they've got a, True Freshman, max martin who's.
Speaker 1: Really good he's great on, the dirt really good hands at.
Speaker 1: The plate i'm interested to see how he hits. This
Speaker 1: year and then a catcher they've Got, From Canada, hugh
Speaker 1: pinkney is really. Good too so they're gonna be. Really
Speaker 1: good like, you said they've got a lot to replace in,
Speaker 1: their ROTATION but i think they'll be. Just Fine drew
Speaker 1: conover was a big addition of the bullpen ninety eight bowling, ball, sinkers,
Speaker 1: sweeper slider chance to be one of the better back
Speaker 1: end guys in. The Country so i'm with You on
Speaker 1: rutgers in terms of my. SLEEPER team i tweeted about
Speaker 1: him about a, week Ago but i'm going to roll
Speaker 1: With The. WASHINGTON huskies i think that they're the Kind
Speaker 1: of omaha. Dark horse they bring In Coach, jason kelly
Speaker 1: who's familiar with. The program he was, great there had
Speaker 1: a couple Sints At arizona STATE, and lsu but they've
Speaker 1: got they return almost their entire lineup from. Last year
Speaker 1: they've they've GOT the i think they returned forty five
Speaker 1: of their forty eight. HOME Runs aj guerrero was A Freshman.
Speaker 1: All american he hit three HUNDRED with i think ten
Speaker 1: home runs and. Fourteen Doubles johnny tincher behind the plate is.
Speaker 1: Really good he's a. Solid backstop he at. Three Fourteen
Speaker 1: will simpson at first base has big time rob power eleven.
Speaker 1: Home Runs michael, snyder again he had four hundred IN.
Speaker 1: The nycbl one of the best transfer is actually kind
Speaker 1: of outside OF the sec and in those. Loud names
Speaker 1: maybe the most underrated transfer Is Pitcher. Keefer lord he
Speaker 1: Came From Carlton COLLEGE division iii school and he has,
Speaker 1: electric stuff especially as especially as. His fastball athletic kid
Speaker 1: projectable frame fastball is up to ninety nine in this
Speaker 1: Fall with carrie kind of a shorter slider that that
Speaker 1: looks like a cutter, at times but he's he's going
Speaker 1: to be great and with kind of Pitching Guru jason
Speaker 1: kelly at, the helm he's he's in. Good hands case
Speaker 1: matter is another guy on, the arm who's on the
Speaker 1: mound who's. Really good he's got a great, arm again
Speaker 1: he's he, moves athletically he's got big vlow he averaged
Speaker 1: ninety three to five on his fastball. Last year his
Speaker 1: slider has sixty four percent mystery. Last, year again they're
Speaker 1: a really kind of. Complete team they're going to surprise
Speaker 1: a lot of people both In the pac TWELVE and
Speaker 1: i really really hope selfishly they get into a REGIONAL
Speaker 1: because i think that they're going to, be really really
Speaker 1: tough out and a team that could very well make It.
Speaker 2: To omaha what A pitch washington team. To watch my.
Speaker 2: Sleeper player the first baseman out An Air Force. Sam,
Speaker 2: colisse yeah six two. One ninety he's not eligible to
Speaker 2: be drafted until twenty, twenty four but he just raked
Speaker 2: At air force last year and from both sides of.
Speaker 2: The plate he's a switch hitter who hit four to
Speaker 2: eleven with an eleven seventy ops and twenty Twenty Two
Speaker 2: Mountain west player Of, the year tons, of contact doesn't, strike, out,
Speaker 2: doubles machine, really athletic and he's the guy who, you
Speaker 2: know we Talked About trey morgan maybe he could move
Speaker 2: to the Outfield like sam moved to, The outfield like
Speaker 2: he is that kind. Of ATHLETE and i put him
Speaker 2: at ten in my first base rankings just because the
Speaker 2: Competition At air force In The, mountain west like isn't
Speaker 2: incredible and it's tough. To gauge but he was a
Speaker 2: GUY who i looked kind Of Like peyton stoveall in,
Speaker 2: second base even though he was just outside of HIM
Speaker 2: where i, was, LIKE ugh i want to put, him
Speaker 2: HIGHER but i don't KNOW if i can fully. Prove
Speaker 2: IT but i think he's going to be the one
Speaker 2: to prove it in twenty, twenty three love the. First
Speaker 2: Baseman Can't sam classingham Out Of. AIR force i think
Speaker 2: kind Of Like paul skeenes Went From AIR. FORCE lsu
Speaker 2: i think he's going to be one of those guys
Speaker 2: wherever it WAS like i need him.
Speaker 1: To, TRANSFER yeah i think obviously at any service academy
Speaker 1: or in a unique situation when it comes to being a.
Speaker 1: Pro prospect but like, you said four eleven with twenty
Speaker 1: six doubles and twelve jacks is really really tough. To
Speaker 1: ignore played a little bit of the outfield this Summer
Speaker 1: in newport WITH. The anycbl he can just really. Really
Speaker 1: hit he's a, sound defender and like he's playing In
Speaker 1: The mountain west and a lot of hitter, friendly ballpark
Speaker 1: the numbers are going To, BE yeah i think really
Speaker 1: really loud. This.
Speaker 2: Year yeah and.
Speaker 1: Then in kind of keeping that, same theme my sleeper
Speaker 1: Guy Is spencer Nivens At missouri state centerfielder or chance
Speaker 1: to play center field at the. Next level the batted
Speaker 1: ball data. Is unbelievable he had three forty six, last year,
Speaker 1: twelve doubles, eleven jacks swing decisions and approach are, really
Speaker 1: advanced four to forty three on. Base percentage had a
Speaker 1: great summer in the lesser known. Prospect lea he was
Speaker 1: more just to kind of get him reps and keep.
Speaker 1: Him moving but he's a GUY that i think, that
Speaker 1: model particularly model based teams are going to really fall
Speaker 1: in love with come. Draft TIME and i would not
Speaker 1: be shocked to see him Go on day one of,
Speaker 1: the draft maybe even in the top sixty to sixty.
Speaker 2: Five. Picks wow, Great, Pick Peter, pete, Flaherty amazing thank
Speaker 2: you for coming On The Just. Baseball show we're going
Speaker 2: to be Talking to pete an during the season going
Speaker 2: over college. Baseball stuff. COLLEGE baseball i kind of got
Speaker 2: into it a couple of, years ago and ever since
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Speaker 2: This stuff Arm. And jack they got you for the.
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Speaker 2: up but in terms of just, College baseball i'm not
Speaker 2: the best, at projecting, you know future talent in terms
Speaker 2: Of draft that's why We Have, Pete flaerty that's THAT'S
Speaker 2: why I. Have jack but just watching, COLLEGE baseball i
Speaker 2: know TALENT when i, see it or AT least I
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Speaker 2: This podcast hopefully you guys all. Enjoyed It opening day Is,
Speaker 2: On friday Texas. Versus fandy.
Speaker 1: Who's winning i'll Go With tim Corman. AND fanny i
Speaker 1: think they're gonna have a really. GOOD year I Think
Speaker 1: carter holten's gonna set. The Tone and i'll even. Go deeper,
Speaker 1: I'll Say enrique bradfield three for four with a double and.
Speaker 1: THREE bags i think it has.
Speaker 2: THREE triples i think it was three for four to.
Speaker 2: Three triples you imagine. That unreal that's the kind of
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Speaker 2: The future this is one of my favorite episodes of.
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Speaker 2: i can't wait to do it. Next year but YOU
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