WEBVTT - 536 | Notable MLB Call Ups and Prospect Promotions 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:03.880 Any swags, Hi. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:19.280 Understanding, deep just center field and it's gone Wow. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.840 His first big league swing is gonna be a grand slam, 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:25.439 a home line swing. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.840 Good time, walk to the show. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.240 Welcome back to the Call Up, your go to podcast 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:37.960 in the future stars in Major League Baseball. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:39.839 You got arm Late and Elijah Evans. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.040 We are talking big league debuts, some notable promotions, and 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:47.720 some notable pro debuts as well. Everything from you know, 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.760 I'm excited to talk Grady Emerson making his pro debut 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:52.959 technically if you don't count the Bridge League, but I've 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.520 been seeing some good video out there from Emerson in 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.040 the Bridge League running from the ops or running from 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.560 the ops. Great job, by the way on him covering 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.520 the Bridge League out there in like Central Florida. But 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.319 we also have Joshua Bias his debut. Obviously, we've talked 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.160 a ton about that, but him getting caught up to 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.000 the big leagues for the Cardinals. What that's gonna look like, 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.040 Because we've seen both ends of the spectrum already in 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.600 the early going here and then plenty in between promotions 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:23.280 and the Biloxi Shuckers reloaded looking like one of the 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.720 best teams in the Minor leagues continuously. We've got Jesus 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.320 made and louis paying you back together again. So a 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.919 lot of fun headlines here across the minor leagues. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:33.880 Yeah, we got we got a good collection here. We 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:35.440 got a couple of a number of big, big debuts 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.440 that have been pretty fun. Obviously a crazy, historic big 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.600 league debut to kick it off here, and then many 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.960 others that have been pretty interesting to keep an eye on. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.800 Are just recalls. Some guys coming up. Ricky Tiedeman another 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.360 one that's funny. I'm excited to get to him later 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.000 because it's a name that we probably haven't mentioned in 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.240 a long time, but he's made it parents in Toronto 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.440 and that was cool to see. We'll kick it off 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.600 with Joshua Bias because I feel like we have to 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.560 kick it off there and it's only right to do so, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:03.080 because the three homer big league debut was historic, incredible 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.400 and really one of those moments that makes you realize 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.720 how nuts baseball is. And that's what you had mentioned 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.080 to me after that happened, followed by what has been 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.080 a rough couple games after that. But by this is 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.880 such a polarizing prospect and obviously someone that you've been 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.600 marginally lower on than some others, but super talented. Of course, 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.880 the raw power is incredible and you saw it immediately 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.880 the first three of that's of his career, but also 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.960 going to come with his fair share of coldstreak. So 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.640 where you at with bias? Like, how was that experience? 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.799 Just watching that and now like, yeah, that was five 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.080 games into his big league career. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:31.040 That was real. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:32.720 I mean it was really it was special to do 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.120 it at regularly. I mean just just they had like 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.160 thirty family members there. I mean, there's such an easy 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.880 guy to root for, given the hurdles that he said professionally, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:44.800 I mean we've talked about it to take himself from 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.640 a guy that I mean looks like he was trending 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.400 towards being an ORG guy with the struggles and if 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:51.880 you looked at what the swing looked like when he 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.600 was in the lower level is I mean it was 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.280 really rough, and he was striking out north of thirty 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.520 percent of the time against lower level competition. And to 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.639 rework as Swang and to have the success that he's 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.000 had over the last two seasons, it's just been so 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.320 amazing and play his way into being a player that 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.200 the Cardinals are focused on and saying, hey, we can't 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.359 call him up before X date because we wanted to 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.840 be rookie eligible next year. Now do I think over 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.760 the course of a full season next year he's going 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.720 to be competing for the Rookie of the Year. I would, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.240 I lean know, because I just think the approach and 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.760 the swing is exploitable. But I do think that this 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.320 is still a player that can be useful at the 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:29.880 big league level, and he's not going to be on 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.240 our top point hundred update. I'm bracing for impact on 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:36.720 that next week. We've had, you know, plenty of pushback consistently. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.760 It's just because I think he ultimately lands is you know, 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.280 more of that short platoon guy. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:42.840 We've seen a demolish lefties. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.880 He did three times against Matthew Board when he can 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.560 get those arms out there and extended. 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.400 I mean that the power is crazy. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.680 But I think from the hard throwing righties, especially like 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.840 two seemers running in just anything kind of that can 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.120 tie him up and stuff. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.120 At the top. I saw it so frequently this year 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:58.800 already too. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.160 Can really you can really do him in, but you 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:03.880 leave it over the heart of the plate, you leave 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.320 something that he can time up like it's gonna be 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.720 gone at a really high you know, I would say 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.040 a high rate compared to even some of the other 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:12.920 you know, solid hitters that there are in the game. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.440 Like when it comes hitting mistakes, he can be as 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:15.600 good as anybody and you can make. 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.480 A career off that. My other concern is that. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.360 The glove is not as as good as you may 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.560 think because of how straight line fast he is for 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.280 a big dude. So I just think it's gonna be 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.040 difficult to get to like two plus three war and 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.880 that's what holds him just outside of the top one hundred. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.960 But the debut is just a flash of you know, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.840 what you can get with a player like Joshua Bise. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:37.239 When he's hot. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.560 I think it's very similar to what we've seen from 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:44.160 like Asmarleian Valdez and and again could be a useful player, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.080 But I just think that there's gonna be a lot 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.080 of turbulence. And I do think that he's the kind 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.080 of guy that when you execute your game plan as 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.840 a pitcher, you can set him down a little bit 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.000 more frequently than the average, you know, big leaguehitter. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.000 Yeah, I'm true Stale the Cardinals run him out too, because, 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.240 like I know, they're they're not quite in like the 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.360 contender bucket, but they're still a competitive team and they're 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.120 still have a shot to try to make the playoffs 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.039 right now. So do they give him the run to 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.320 play every day or does it start to become a 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.120 little bit more of a platoon type of bat. I'm 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.040 not sure exactly the direction you're gonna go with him, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.440 but at the leary least, like he's he's definitely fun 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.880 to watch and you know, you see those moments where 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.080 it's like wow, and the debut obviously was incredible, but 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.760 I am very interested to see kind of how they 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.560 utilize him for the rest of the season and then 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.560 going into next year, Like is he on the if 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.480 he's on the opening day roster, Like is he is 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.279 he penciled as one of their starting outfielders or is 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.880 he penciled as a piece, you know, getting platoon at 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:34.360 bats more? 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.200 Right, I think it's gonna be pretty consistent run at 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.200 least for the rest of this year, because like they 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.200 want to figure that out, and they also want to 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.360 I think hope that he can progress. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:44.719 In some of these ways. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.560 I just think ultimately he's such a stiff mover in 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.120 the box and and even some of the pre string 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.440 moves that it's gonna be really hard for him to 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.680 cover stuff hard inside and and even at the at 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.600 the top as well. And then when that speeds you up, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.920 you start chasing more and you start waving at those 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.760 lighters away. But if he's ever gonna be able to 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.560 work through that, like, you got to give him the 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.680 opportunity to and he's gonna get a lot of time 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.560 to do that now against big league pitching. He can 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.480 go into the off season a guy that's clearly shown 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.360 that he can make improvements and adjustments. Go into the 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.839 off season, see if he can clean some of those 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.600 things up to you know, maybe push that hit tool 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.400 and the overall swing decisions a little bit higher going 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.320 into next season where they'll give him runway out of 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.680 the gate, and you see how how he performs, you know, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.440 against those rights and those harder throwing rities. But some 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.680 bad batted ball luck in the subsequent games. But still, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:37.000 like overall, you have that three for four, three homers 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.760 performance and then after that you have like a zero 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.479 for thirteen with I think six k's. So it's like 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.320 it's gonna be interesting to watch. I think he's going 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.800 to struggle a little bit, but hopefully he has some 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.480 of these home run barrages because he's an easy guy 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.159 to root for, and I mean it was really special 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.120 to see and like him talk about his father, his 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.320 late father, and you know, after the debut and just 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.719 just like wanting to make it to the bigs for 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:03.520 you know, with this connection to him, there's so many 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.880 amazing wrinkles. And I hope he proves me wrong and 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:08.479 launches forty next year. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.400 Yeah, I mean, he's got the power to do it. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.800 So it's just about making more consistent strides, right. But 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.720 let's get over to a pitcher, another very you know, 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.559 fun story and someone else that we've been I think 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.480 you know a lot of baseball fans that are keeping 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.560 the prosper wal have probably been excited for the debut 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.880 of Matt Tugboat Wilkinson. Yeah, gotta be one of the 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.720 best nicknames in baseball too. Tugboat is just that's that's 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.680 just hard to beat. But Tugboat obviously goes over from 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.920 the Giant or from the Guardians org over to the 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.360 Giants at the deadline this year and ends up, you know, 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.120 he makes it. He hasn't made his debut yet, but 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.760 he was called up what yesterday technically after would have 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.640 been a really good run in Double A this season, 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.360 had some struggles in Triple A but also pcls and 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.960 stowing the Giants Org not putting too much stock behind 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.720 what he was doing in the PCL. But now he 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.720 gets into the big leagues and it seems like he's 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.960 set to make his debut, probably in the next couple 0:07:59.000 --> 0:07:59.680 of days. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.000 I think, Yeah, I think it might line up where 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.560 he makes it against Cleveland, which would be nuts. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.720 Yeah, it looks like I don't think he's scheduled for 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.240 a start yet technically, or he's not like on the 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.280 official like scheduled starters profile, but I think it seems 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.240 like it would be very likely tomorrow. Potentially they have 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.920 a TVD there for the first Sanrancis against Cleveland, so 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.280 that'd be kind of cool against his old team. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.560 Yeah, it's great timing there, you know, of course included 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:28.960 in that Patrick Bailey deal. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.760 You know, he's an interesting arm. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.080 I will endlessly root for this guy because he's just 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.360 so much fun, and I have some cards that I'll 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:43.840 just never sell. But he it's ninety miles an hour, man, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:49.360 but it's kind of this invisible, this upshoot delivery. He 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.640 gets down the mound like, you know, this is a 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.840 six to one, two hundred and fifty pound guy, but 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.280 he's an athlete up there, man. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.200 Like he drives, he works down the mound. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.559 He creates a slight crossfire and it's it's a sub 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.600 five foot release, like it's a four point nine foot release. 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.199 So it's this low release. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.920 Kind of upshoot run and ride that I think creates 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.959 some deception. It gets above average extension, which only helps. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.400 And it's ninety miles an hour. So here's the thing 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:21.080 with the deceptive lefties. And it either works or it 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.120 doesn't in the big leagues. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.280 And I know like that it's just is what it is. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.360 I can't I can't face them one hundred times to 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.080 tell you if it's gonna work or not. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:31.160 We're gonna find out. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.480 There's been so many guys through the years that you know, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.840 I look at the stuff, I see them in the mino. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.840 He's like, go, oh man, there's no way that's gonna 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:39.880 work in the big leagues. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:40.600 And it does. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.440 And then there's been guys where it's like, I actually 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.080 like this. I think this could work. You know, he 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.520 misses enough bats and then he just misses no bats 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.679 in the big leagus, so it's it's tough. I think 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.079 the big thing with Tugboat is gonna be the secondaries 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.120 because even if you have an invisible like if guys 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.600 know that that fastball is common sixty percent of the time, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.640 which is what the usage is for Tugboat right now, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.839 they're going to get to it. So it's going to 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.240 be interesting to see his feel for the secondary is 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.079 like the change up field just really hasn't been there 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.560 for him since he's been getting used to the you know, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.079 the big league ball on triple A. But the slider 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.160 and cutter have been effective. Can he have a good 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.640 enough feel for those pitches. That's gonna be the big thing, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:28.280 because again I think the upshoot weird fastball from from 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.920 the way he delivers too, like he hides the ball 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:31.520 really well. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.720 I think it's gonna work well enough. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.439 But is there enough complimenting it to be able to 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:38.319 turn lineups over. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:39.280 I'm just not sure. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.240 Yeah, it's you know, it's a fun story. It's definitely, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:44.960 hopefully at the very least if he can be a 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.600 swing man, maybe there's some value there, Right, there's something there, 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.600 but it's like, you know, the upside is definitely probably limited. Right, 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.880 It's not a profile you're looking at and saying, oh, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.400 this guy's going to be a rotations, you know, stable 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.880 guy for ten years to come. Either way, Like he's 0:10:59.920 --> 0:11:02.200 just the fun pitcher. Is a unique pitcher too, which 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.760 is interesting, and for San Francisco, like they're out of it, Like, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.560 see what you got here and let him get some 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.760 run hopefully, And whether it's as a starter, it seems 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.960 like could be like a bulk relief guy or potentially 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.000 starting fully. So either way, honestly, like there's no reason 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.360 for the Giants not to give him run here for 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:16.680 the next six weeks to see how it goes. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.360 Yeah, and he's a good depth arm I think regardless, 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.080 Like if he's an up and down guy for you, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.680 like that's you need those guys through the course of 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.560 a season. You can go in there and compete and 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.800 you know, give you four or five innings. But again, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.480 if he can find a feel for that change up 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.319 off of that fastball, then all of a sudden, I 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.520 think it becomes a little bit more interesting, but yeah, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.320 I mean it still looks like good depth and fun, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:39.200 easy player to root for. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.319 Yeah, a really really good story. We're just all these 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.040 feel good stories here off the top here today. In 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.880 terms of big league debuts, Ricky Titamid made his debut, 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.480 and I feel like we did not hear about it 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.040 adequately because people like, this was a guy we were 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.240 talking about as one of the best pitching prospects in 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.760 baseball only a couple of years ago. Right has dealt 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.200 with a really brutal injury track record. Obviously, TJ to 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.319 All twenty twenty five, he went seven hundred over seven 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.240 hundred days without pitching in a full official game. Between 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:10.280 his surgeries the comeback, he threw what, like I think, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.280 seventeen no so far, he threw seven innings in the 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.280 minors this year between the complex, he threw two outings 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.760 in the complex, two outings in Single A, and then 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.600 three outings of one inning each in Triple A. And 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:23.520 then he comes up to Toronto to make a bullpen spot. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.280 He ends up getting optioned right after it. But like 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.920 I actually thought, titaman in this bullpen roll looked pretty good. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.160 He topped over ninety seven and gave the Blue Jays 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.760 an inning in two thirds of work, and I'm curious 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.200 to see how if he get when he gets back up, 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.520 because yeah, at this point it's probably a reliever given 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.640 the injury history, but he could be a really good 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:40.559 reliever for Toronto. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.160 Yeah, especially because you know that fastball the viilo is 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.120 still there in short spurts like we saw, like you 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:50.080 mentioned it, topping out at ninety eight and sitting ninety 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.760 six plus. And then from that angle, we've seen that 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.040 three pitch mix that in his breakout season that made 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.640 him one of the best pitching prospects in baseball. The fastball, slider, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.480 changed combination is really good. And I think what's fun 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.439 for him is like the fastball slider, like that's gonna 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.880 make him from that angle, is gonna make him a 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.480 nightmare left on left matchup. But this is not a 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.040 guy that, like, you know, when when they counter on 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.040 the other side with a righty pinch hitter that you're like, 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.240 oh no, you know now, now it's a disadvantage on 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.920 our end. Like he's got the change up to equalize 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:22.679 that too. And he's always been a guy that's had 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.440 really steady platoons, but when he's been healthy. It's been 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:29.199 a ridiculous history, as you mentioned, like so many different 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.520 ailments on the way to then having the TJ. And 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.400 I was a little bit I held out some hope 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.440 that okay, maybe it was all things trying to put 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.520 off the TJ. Now he got the TJ, he'll come 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.800 back healthy. And then since coming back from the TJ, 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.480 it was like a neck thing and what there's you 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.640 can't even keep track. And so I really feel for 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.160 Ricky and I just think the most realistic path is 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.040 for him to be a reliever guy that they have 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.040 on the forty. Anyways, like might as well have to 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.120 make his debut. I think that was awesome and like 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.800 the American League's wide open still somehow, so he's a 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:00.880 guy can help you in the bullpen. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:01.480 But I think when. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.920 You can see what you've got this year and go 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.480 in to next year and say, well, hey, we've got 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.040 like a leverage lefty, and maybe down the line you revisit, 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:10.520 you know, if he can prove that he can stay 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.000 healthy and stay on the field for a whole year, 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.000 maybe you can revisit stretching him back out. But I 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.600 think priority here is just fill a big league role, 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:18.800 and he's shown us that he can. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.480 The craziest part is that he just turned twenty four, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.120 Like today actually happened with Arika Tineman Today's twenty fourth birthday. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.240 I mean, that's the great Like you talk about a 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:29.880 guy that had so much of this hype. He was 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.080 a nineteen year old with a two to one ar 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.320 that made it to double A. I mean, this was 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.560 the talent was like it was up here. It wasn't 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.000 just the guy we were looking at. It's like he 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.560 could be good. We were looking at this guy as 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.520 one of the best pitching prospects in all of made 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.200 the due baseball, and then he goes through all these 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.040 different ailments. He still just turned twenty four and made 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.480 his big league debut at twenty three years old. So yes, 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.320 he is a reliever for right now, and he probably 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:52.920 is a reliever for the rest of his career. Maybe 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.840 you revisit a couple of years like you mentioned, but 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.440 in the time being, like, this is an extremely talented 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.400 guy who could be a high leverage lefty at the 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.280 very least right now in terms of what he's doing. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.680 And like, I mean, it was a forty four percent 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.920 strikeout rate as a twenty year old in twenty twenty three, 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.120 before the before more the injury started to set in, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:10.800 and then the last three years have just been a mess. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.600 But like forty four percent strikeout rate at twenty years 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.680 old in double it, I mean, come. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.480 On, I really I agree. I just I really hope 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:19.240 he stays healthy. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.120 And yeah, this Blue Jays team, like they've got some 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.720 some fun pieces and yeah, he's yet another one that 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.560 again when you can go into the next season just 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.760 just knowing you've got another young, you know, nasty lefty 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.040 to add to the fold. There he's another player than man. Like, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.200 I'm just I'm rooting for it because you don't want 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.280 to there's nothing worse than the what could have been 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:39.880 with these pitching prospects. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.000 Yeah, it's sneaky. The Blue Jays are a team that 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:43.680 I still I still kind of think they might make 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.480 the playoffs. Honestly, I don't know. Maybe that's a little 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.440 too bullish, I mean, but like, no, there's no, there's 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.880 no say the American League books and like considering they're 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.960 a World Series, I mean, American Leagu's a mess obviously 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.600 and giving out good this team was last year, Like 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.040 I mean if literally, just if, like if Laddie turns 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.800 the corner, that team could easily be a playoff wildcard, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.120 Like I could see it happening, Like I don't even 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:03.000 think it's that crazy. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.840 Like none of them, none of them want to make 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.960 the playoffs in the American League anyway. So like you, 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.720 there's no two bullish on any of these teams. For me, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.600 I think I'll believe anything. One other note too, though, 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.760 like just just it makes this interesting, Like they've used 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.560 Mason flu Hardy Aton and like Stinky, he's only twenty five, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.680 but with the struggles from Bred and little like, they 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.760 don't really have a lefty reliever. So not only can 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.680 he help this year, can help? Yeah, it'd be a 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.400 big piece for them next year team. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.760 Yeah, no doubt. Let's take a quick break and then 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.320 we'll get back into a couple more big league call 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:41.480 ups and then some minor league call ups promotion. Jumping 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.880 right back in here, we've got big league call ups, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.680 minor league promotions here on this episode of the call Up. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.520 Next one up is Zach Vine and this is a recall, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.280 not a debut, but it still qualifies for the sake 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.840 of this because Zach Vine was lighting the ball on 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.720 firing triple A and it was just like we've just 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.480 been saying, like when when is he gonna get back 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.160 to Colorado. So obviously the Rockies are not a contending team, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.560 and he struggled a lot in his brief big league 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.160