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Speaker 1: What Is Up? Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode

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Speaker 1: of the Mets Up Podcast, the official podcast of the

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Speaker 1: New York Mets. Just wrapped up a series in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: You know how it went. Wasn't great? They lost the

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Speaker 1: series again, not particularly playing great baseball at the time.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna do our thing that we always do.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the series as a whole game one, two,

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Speaker 1: and three, give you a little bit of a recap

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Speaker 1: or review, and tell you what went right and went rent?

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Speaker 1: What rent? What went wrong for these teams. My goodness,

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Speaker 1: that was actually way harder than I thought it was

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Speaker 1: gonna be to say. But yeah, we'll tell you all

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Speaker 1: about the series. We also got a prospect report coming

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Speaker 1: for you, guys, which we haven't done first prospect report

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Speaker 1: of the season. Felt like it was a perfect time

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Speaker 1: to drop one of those for you. We're also gonna

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Speaker 1: do the estimate with a little bit of a giveaway

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Speaker 1: coming at you, So make sure you guys stick around

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Speaker 1: and listen or watch if you are enjoying here. Remember

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Speaker 1: if you want to watch the video version of this,

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Speaker 1: it will be on the New York Mets YouTube channel.

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Speaker 1: Subscribe download the podcast, whatever it is, let's just start

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Speaker 1: talking about this James, because as we know, just didn't

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Speaker 1: win another series. A little bit of a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a snooze fest out in Pittsburgh this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not not that much fun these baseball games. Game

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Speaker 2: one on Friday just became really really bad. That's got

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Speaker 2: that's just got crushed. It started out okay, and then

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Speaker 2: a couple of misplays. Francisco Lindor just kind of like

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Speaker 2: ran to the base before he caught the ball, and

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Speaker 2: then game kind of unraveled from there. As there was

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Speaker 2: really nothing else say about that one. He took also

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Speaker 2: the good interview after the game, took ownership of the play,

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Speaker 2: just that I shouldn't should have done that, like that

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Speaker 2: usually make that play. I was frustrated. I didn't apologize

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Speaker 2: to it. Mcgil also unraveled after that. Just nothing no,

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Speaker 2: like there's nothing got good. The offense was very slow

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Speaker 2: until the very end of the game as well. That

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Speaker 2: was it. That was it. Not a good game.

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Speaker 1: No, not a good game. Lindor swinging the bat a

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Speaker 1: little bit better in this series. He got the home

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Speaker 1: run in this game as well. In Game one, they

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Speaker 1: just just didn't play a very good game, like you said,

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Speaker 1: so let's just move past Game one. They lost, they

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Speaker 1: got beat. There's not really much else to talk about there.

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Speaker 1: Talk about Game two though, or I guess part of

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Speaker 1: the thing to talk about to is Pete Alonzo hitting

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Speaker 1: the iel Before that game too, luis Ki or meg

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Speaker 1: getting the call up Stephen Nigosik being dfaide, there was

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Speaker 1: a bunch of moves being made and you could see

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Speaker 1: immediately that the Mets definitely missed Pete Alonso in this lineup.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's just obvious me we know. And

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Speaker 2: also the last couple of years they flashed the stat

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Speaker 2: I think since he arrived in the major leagues, Alonzo

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Speaker 2: had missed like somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty baseball games

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Speaker 2: since twenty nineteen, which is just so incredible for a

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Speaker 2: He's played most of the games that he's been around

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Speaker 2: Seeing Francisco Alivarez get moved up to top of the order,

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Speaker 2: I feel like after being there for three games in

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Speaker 2: one of the most powerful bats on the team. So again,

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Speaker 2: me and Mike Petriello were right and saying he was

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Speaker 2: take on this podcast preseason. That was cool and it's

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Speaker 1: Gotta find a way. Game two, they did find a way,

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Speaker 1: a lot better performance all around, five to one win.

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Speaker 1: Francisco Alvez of course, crushing home runs like he does.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and also they came out on Sunday that there

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Speaker 2: were a lot of guys hitting velocity highs this weekend

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Speaker 2: You're completely in the run of the season. If you

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Speaker 2: And Saturday was a good game.

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Speaker 1: Was a good one, Yeah, No, I mean it was

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Speaker 1: nice to see Canna as well, continuing to swing the

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Speaker 1: mentioned that Alvarez home run late in the game. He's

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Speaker 1: now tied with Sean Murphy and Salvagor Perez for the

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Speaker 1: and he has about one hundred less played appearances. I

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Speaker 1: think then both of those guys and James how old

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Speaker 2: Actually twenty one years old. He's the youngest starting catcher

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Speaker 1: So, yes, who's the last guy.

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Speaker 2: It was actually Pad Rodriguez in the early nineties. Yeah, ye, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and he actually was doing it. He was nineteen. He

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Speaker 2: doing right. Now say it again. You gotta say every

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Speaker 2: make sure you're voting four Alvarez. Vote for Alvarez. Number

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Speaker 2: Chase Ray. Baby, we made it. We're so there, Francisco

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Speaker 2: Alvarez and he's gonna break. People on Twitter are gonna

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Speaker 2: be like, do you guys think there's the best catcher

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Speaker 2: guy is a complete freak of nature. Vote for Alvarez,

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Speaker 2: best catcher in the National League. The guy in the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do want to shout out. I watched a

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Speaker 1: Thirteen years of dating?

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Speaker 2: they're big fans of the pod. Shout out Jess, huge

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Speaker 2: So Christine, I'll see you over over in red Field

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Speaker 2: during during the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: Look at the mess of the podcast getting that female

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Speaker 1: to hear that. Hey, listen, we want all people to

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Speaker 2: Major league superstar Elie de la Cruz and recent call

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Speaker 2: up Joe Adell have been hitting it this year in

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Speaker 2: the minor leagues whilest, swinging and missing significantly less.

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Speaker 1: That's huge. That's huge for Ronnie, who we know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we saw it in spring training this year. The power

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Speaker 1: is just it's out of control what this guy can do.

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Speaker 1: So being able to cut down the swing and misses

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Speaker 1: will be huge for his game. Like he may he

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Speaker 1: probably will never walk a lot. I think we can

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Speaker 1: just say that pretty confidently now. Is he'll just never

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Speaker 1: be that guy to have like a ten percent walk grate.

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Speaker 1: But if he's hitting the ball as hardy as he is,

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Speaker 1: swinging and missing as little as he is and not

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Speaker 1: even striking out, you can almost make that work. I

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Speaker 1: feel like in a way.

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Speaker 2: You can definitely make that work because there is like

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Speaker 2: a player mold there where you could just be kind

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Speaker 2: of uber aggressive and like we've seen a couple other

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Speaker 2: like middlelandfielders come up in the last like decade. Guys

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Speaker 2: come to my specifically are Tim Anderson and Habibayas probably

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Speaker 2: make people feel a little weird, but you have to

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Speaker 2: remember when those guys came up and they were like

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Speaker 2: at their most dynamic stage of youth, like how incredibly

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Speaker 2: good they were. And Tim managers the guy whos never

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Speaker 2: hit the ball hard. Hobby does get a lot of contact.

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Speaker 2: Hobby's chase. His whift rates also one of the worst

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Speaker 2: in the league always, so he Ronnie can kind of

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Speaker 2: have that Tim Anderson withf rate, with the hovey eggs

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Speaker 2: of velocity. That's that's an incredible player right there. And

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Speaker 2: we're seeing at the hit tool with Ryan Riso. That

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Speaker 2: was always kind of the fear with him because he

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Speaker 2: was always so big that there was a lot more

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Speaker 2: swing and miss in his game. The hit tool was

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Speaker 2: always grated very low Pipeline America fangrafterevery you want to

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Speaker 2: see the scouting grade. If he's running a three twenty

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Speaker 2: average right there with a very low whift rate and

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Speaker 2: his strike guy rates down below seventeen percent, like that

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Speaker 2: hit tool is suddenly really good. The fact that he's

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Speaker 2: getting his bat in the ball that much and he's

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Speaker 2: still being able to hit the ball as hard as

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Speaker 2: he does consistently. This is the high end hitting prospect.

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Speaker 2: Here's no other way to slice it.

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Speaker 1: And don't discount the fact that he's learning to play

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Speaker 1: two new positions second base in line field as well

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Speaker 1: while doing all this in Triple A as one of

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Speaker 1: the youngest players in Triple A. Big stuff for Ronnie Maurisio.

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Speaker 1: Just just a really talented player. And maybe we'll see

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Speaker 1: him Queen sometimes soon. That'd be great. I'd love to

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Speaker 1: see him in the Orange Blue at some point this year,

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Speaker 1: because the dude can just absolutely swing it. To talk

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Speaker 1: about someone on the pitching side, someone we've mentioned, i

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Speaker 1: think a couple times on this podcast, Mike Vassal shout

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Speaker 1: out to John and Vito. They got their own podcast now.

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Speaker 1: The future of Flushing. They just did an interview with

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Speaker 1: Mike Vassal. You guys should definitely go check it out.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Veto will put a link somewhere, maybe on

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Speaker 1: the screen or in the description or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Really cool interview with Mike Vassal. He was a draft

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Speaker 1: pickback in twenty twenty one by the Mets, and he

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Speaker 1: has done a really really good job in the Miners

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Speaker 1: this year, just straight up been one of the best

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Speaker 1: pitchers in the miners twenty five percent kto walk ratio,

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Speaker 1: which is one of the best in all of Double A,

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Speaker 1: and just like I think it's like third or fourth

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Speaker 1: behind guys like Emma Chian and Connor Phillips, who are

497
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Speaker 1: kind of like the cool new pitching prospect names that

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Speaker 1: are floating around right now. And he's like just got

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Speaker 1: some really really good stuff. He's a big dude, six five,

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Speaker 1: two twenty and he's throwing like ninety five pretty consistently,

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Speaker 1: has a like a really nice slider and curveball to

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Speaker 1: go with it. I mean, I've been watching more and

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Speaker 1: more of Mike Vassal, and I've been very impressed with

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Speaker 1: what I've seen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, something really cool about Vassal is that he's been

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Speaker 2: picking up velocity in all of his pitches since being

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Speaker 2: drafted out of I believe you said it was Virginia.

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Speaker 1: He's got drafted right, yes, Virginia.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. His fastballs now he can find that ninety six

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Speaker 2: to ninety seven, something he can do very often in college.

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Speaker 2: Used to just kind of sit that ninety three to

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Speaker 2: ninety five range. He's got good life and he's not

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Speaker 2: afraid just throw it to a guy. One of the

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Speaker 2: big critiques that I've read in Fangrass Prospects valuation of

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Speaker 2: him was that he's too he's almost like too willing

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Speaker 2: to trust this stuff and just go middle with a

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Speaker 2: lot of these things because he knows these guys can't

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Speaker 2: hit it. That's kind of just like that's kind of

519
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Speaker 2: some dog in him, like you can't hit his pitch.

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Speaker 2: And something else really cool that he does that those

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Speaker 2: slyther and curveball have very distinct shapes, which I think

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Speaker 2: is a really cool thing. I'm sure not many pitchers

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Speaker 2: in double A have that. He's a little bit older,

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Speaker 2: so it makes sencessarily twenty four years old, but the

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Speaker 2: slider is tight and it's going up to like eighty

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Speaker 2: five eighty seven miles an hour, and that curveball still

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Speaker 2: has some some sweep, but still has a lot of drop.

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Speaker 2: And note that they gave Fangras specifically was that he's

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Speaker 2: not afraid to use that curveball against lefties. Put it

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Speaker 2: on people's back foot. So the fact that he is

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Speaker 2: going opposite handed curveballs in double A like h there's

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Speaker 2: probably he can't even can't even catch up to that

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Speaker 2: any of the change up he mixes in is still

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Speaker 2: on the way there. That's a ridiculously deep repertoire for

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Speaker 2: Mike Vassal at this stage. And again that twenty five

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Speaker 2: percent strike out myas walk grade, which is on par

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Speaker 2: with some of the best pitching prospects in the whole

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Speaker 2: league at double light is objectively probably the most competitive

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Speaker 2: competitive minor league at this point. Maybe maybe a little

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Speaker 2: less so in the East Coast because on the West

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Speaker 2: Coast we're seeing a lot of pitchers skip the PCL altogether.

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Speaker 2: We've seen the Manners specifically skip it with a lot

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Speaker 2: of their high end pitching prospects the last few years.

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Speaker 2: I really think that Vassal, pound for pound, is one

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Speaker 2: of like the seven or ten best pitching prospects in

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Speaker 2: baseball right now, like this these kind of results in

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Speaker 2: the upper miners at his age, and like what does

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Speaker 2: advance feel for multiple pitches? That that's just the kind

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Speaker 2: of thing that while the stats are incredible as they are,

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Speaker 2: that is something that's amazing. I want to show that

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Speaker 2: one of my favorite prospect guys on Twitter, prospect Larceny,

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Speaker 2: he's been high on Vassal. Yeah it's a crazy name,

553
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Speaker 2: but he's done. He does really good work, really good work.

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Speaker 2: He does scauting. He also has a lot of tiscal analysis,

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Speaker 2: and he's been one of the highmen on Vassal all

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Speaker 2: the way back since this offseason, and he's been he's

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Speaker 2: been championing him. He's putting out his graphics every single

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Speaker 2: time he pitches. He's really good and I think, I

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Speaker 2: really think that Mike Vassel could be could be sneaky sneaky,

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Speaker 2: a really important piece for this Mets team, if not

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Speaker 2: this year, which seems like it really could be the

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Speaker 2: way it's going soon.

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Speaker 1: We got a couple more pitching guys to talk about

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Speaker 1: here as well. Dominic Hambill, who you guys know from

565
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Speaker 1: the third round draft pick out of DBU Dallas Baptist

566
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, just coming off the best start

567
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Speaker 1: of the season, six innings, nine k's, three walks, and

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Speaker 1: he had kind of been struggled a little bit of

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Speaker 1: double A. But now after the start, looking good. The

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Speaker 1: fastball shape's looking solid. But you know, sitting in like

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Speaker 1: the mid to low nineties right now, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of good stuff going on with Dominic Cambell And we

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Speaker 1: know he was also on the Team Puerto Rico World

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Speaker 1: Baseball Classic roster as a reliever. I don't think he

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Speaker 1: got in a game, but I mean to make that roster,

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Speaker 1: you're pitching with pro MLB players.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just getting exposure to a lot of pro

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Speaker 2: major league players who have won, been like very experienced

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Speaker 2: Major League for a long time, and two have reached

580
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Speaker 2: high heights in the World Baseball Classic consistently. So that's

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Speaker 2: a good experience for him. And something is really cool

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Speaker 2: about Hamil's that he has just a hammer curveball and

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Speaker 2: an amazing slider like also just like Vassal two distinct

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Speaker 2: breaking ball at his age and level was really cool.

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Speaker 2: The Slyther it's one of those dropping sliders. I couldn't

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Speaker 2: get any clarification whether it was like actually the gyro thing,

587
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Speaker 2: I've been talking about it a little bit, but I know

588
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Speaker 2: it drops a lot and it's about eighty eighty two.

589
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Speaker 2: And then he has a curveball that's just complete rainbow

590
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Speaker 2: like total hammer and that sits like in the seventies.

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Speaker 2: So even though he is low nineties with that fastball's

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Speaker 2: kind of sinkourish. That kind of velocity difference with all

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Speaker 2: three of those pitches makes him makes him potentially a

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Speaker 2: leg weapon for like, especially like he's being developed at

595
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Speaker 2: starthern he should be, but he could be a bullpen

596
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Speaker 2: piece seemingly with this repertoire. And Puerto Rico showed this

597
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Speaker 2: that like by bring him onto their roster soon, And

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Speaker 2: it's really cool to have all those together, and I

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Speaker 2: know he's also working out a change up, So cool

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Speaker 2: to see Hamill developing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I see Christian Scott's on here out of the

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Speaker 1: University of Florida, and you put interesting journey. I want

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Speaker 1: to hear about this one because I don't know his

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Speaker 1: interesting journey.

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Speaker 2: I read about this today because I've been keeping track

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Speaker 2: Christian Scott, but I didn't really know about this. He's

607
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Speaker 2: early twenty four years old, so a bit old for

608
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Speaker 2: a pitching prospect. Was still in High A Brooklyn, but

609
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Speaker 2: he got squeezed out of his Florida rotation years ago

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Speaker 2: before he was drafted because Florida. As we saw this again,

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Speaker 2: shout shout out to Gathers, I mean mark huge Gators

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Speaker 2: fans right now.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean tough loss for the game Cocks there.

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Speaker 2: That's tough. Yeah, I mean that's how it goes in

615
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Speaker 2: you're facing a baseball juggernaut like the floor of the Gaithers.

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Speaker 2: But Christian Scott got squeezed out of their rotations because

617
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Speaker 2: they had so many pitches in that team. So he

618
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Speaker 2: came into the draft as reliever. But the Mets kind

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Speaker 2: of had some forestyle, like we think we can make

620
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Speaker 2: him start there again with his repertoire, so they reconverted

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Speaker 2: him back to his star. They're also after missing all

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Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty season, it's been a little bit

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Speaker 2: of slow burn for a twenty four year old, but

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Speaker 2: he's cruising through Brooklyn right now. The thirty percent strike

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Speaker 2: out rate, four percent walk grade to two ERA, and

626
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Speaker 2: fifty percent ground ball rate in twenty four inx pitch.

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Speaker 2: His fastball shape is kind of med. It's also might

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Speaker 2: be a little sinkerish, but it's got to ninety five

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Speaker 2: ninety six consistently, which is even higher than sat when

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Speaker 2: he was a full time reliever in college. And his

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Speaker 2: slider's great. It's great, a sixty. We has a sixty

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Speaker 2: grade and the twenty to eighty scating scale on Fangrass

633
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Speaker 2: and a lot of people said amazing things about it.

634
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Speaker 2: And he's also working on a change up and a curve.

635
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Speaker 2: They're both at least level, they're average right now. So

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Speaker 2: he's rocking a four pitch mix in Brooklyn, keeping hitters

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Speaker 2: off balance. There's been some tweets going on about today that,

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Speaker 2: I mean, we don't know if they're true or not,

639
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Speaker 2: but it seems like Christian Scott is a guy at

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Speaker 2: his age and his advanced feel for four pitches could

641
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Speaker 2: another guy possibly could make an impact soon and rather

642
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Speaker 2: than later.

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent last guy to talk about here a

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Speaker 1: little bit in depth on the pitching side. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: pull out some crazy names for you guys in a minute.

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Speaker 1: But Blade Tidwell, second round pick out of Tennessee in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, one of my favorite pitching prospects in

648
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,400
Speaker 1: the draft last year. Just he's got big shoulders. That's

649
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 1: how I like to describe Blade Tidwell. Just a big,

650
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: big dude. I don't know. I don't know if he's

651
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: from the South, but he seems like a strong country

652
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: boy by all means. And a cool name too, Blade Blade.

653
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: You don't hear that often. Although I did find out

654
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: what his real name is, Jansen didn't know that one either.

655
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 2: No, it's or he is a Southern boys from Columbia,

656
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 2: Tennessee and he went to his Yeah, he was on

657
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 2: Tennessee's powerhouse team last season. And he's another guy's had

658
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 2: a bit of a strange journey. A lot of these

659
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 2: guys who were this age right now had weird Jordan

660
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 2: journeys because of how much COVID impacted development and baseball

661
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 2: across all levels, including collegiate. So Blade Tidwell, he just

662
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 2: seemed like he just didn't want to go to college

663
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 2: at twenty twenty because he didn't want to COVID like

664
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 2: screw up a season development for it. He was a

665
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 2: true freshman Tennessee at twenty years old twenty twenty one,

666
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 2: and then was a major piece of their rotation. Last

667
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 2: year in twenty twenty two, he had a shoulder injury

668
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 2: that kind of cut the season short. So the Mess

669
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 2: drafted them high. But he's a little bit younger than

670
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 2: most SEC baseball draftees. Usually people compare the SEC like

671
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 2: to the same skill level as Double A. So you

672
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 2: see a lot of these guys that come out of

673
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 2: the SEC within about a year. And we're looking at

674
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 2: us with Drew Gilbert right now in the Astros, like

675
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 2: get you in double A, like let's start ripping right now.

676
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 2: But a little different for Blade because he had this

677
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 2: kind of weird development path right now and he has

678
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 2: the biggest thing he has, big league view though he's

679
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 2: gotten up in ninety eight ninety seven miles now and

680
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,959
Speaker 2: a fantastic slither, great shape, great depth. So the only

681
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 2: thing about him he's struggling with command right now. I

682
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 2: feel like it could be a little bit of similar

683
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 2: to what I talked about Vassal before, because Tidwalls a

684
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 2: guy who's like, I'm just gonna throw the baseball and

685
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: you're not gonna hit it. So maybe he's like trying

686
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 2: to find his edges a little bit, is maybe trying

687
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 2: to be a little too particular, trying to paint a

688
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 2: little bit when he should just be like man's pass pitch,

689
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 2: pitch pitch. But he actually had ten strikeouts on Sunday

690
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 2: in four inn It's one of his best addings of

691
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 2: the year for Brooklyn. And even though the command has

692
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 2: been very spoty, he's walking on a lot of batt is.

693
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 2: He has sixty strikeouts thirty the nine innings with the

694
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 2: Cyclones this year.

695
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: It's a lot.

696
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 2: Thats a lot, So it's gonna be a slow burn

697
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 2: because again a little bit of Alwaukee developmental path for

698
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 2: a guy who you would think would be a fast

699
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 2: riser from the SEC. But there's still a lot of

700
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 2: talent there.

701
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Now to switch it over to the

702
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 1: in depth on the hitter side, here's talk about some

703
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: of those big names first round picks from last year.

704
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: Kevin Parada, Jet Williams. Started off with Kevin Parada starting

705
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: to swing the bat really, really well. We know it's

706
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: also very weird hitting in Brooklyn. Can't stress this enough

707
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,879
Speaker 1: that you got to take all the Brooklyn hitting numbers

708
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 1: with a grain of salt and remember that because we've

709
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 1: been there. You're literally on the ocean the breeze is

710
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: blowing completely in the outfield is basically the sand. It's crazy.

711
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: And you have the Cyclone right behind the stadium with

712
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: all the flashing lights and it's white and the batters

713
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 1: I Brooklyn Cyclones, we love you. But the batter's eyes

714
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: just don't really blocking out anything. It's not doing a

715
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: great job. So it's a very very tough place to hit.

716
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: The wind doesn't help at all. You're also playing on turf,

717
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: which is just not a usual place for a lot

718
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 1: of you know, a lot of these guys be playing

719
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: in But Kevin Prada is starting to heat up big time,

720
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: hitting three twenty seven over the last couple of weeks.

721
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy, That's what he's always been told

722
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: about with him is that he's gonna absolutely mash. You

723
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: don't know about what position he's necessarily gonna play, but

724
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: the hit tool was always through the roof with him.

725
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, want to shout out John and Vito's

726
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 2: podcast Future of Flushing because they shout out prov earlier

727
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 2: this week. I guess technically last week, guys listening, it's

728
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 2: on Monday. He had big three for five day, including

729
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 2: the walkoff single for the Cyclone so nice, go check

730
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 2: out that podcast. You want to hear more about that.

731
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 2: But everything everyone just talks about prize hit tool. So

732
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: you guys, got He's going to be just a stable,

733
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 2: good hit there, keep progressing through the system, developed that power,

734
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 2: get that chase rate better, and just just be a

735
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: very good player. A nice first round pick.

736
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: And then the other first round pick. Jet Williams has

737
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: not yet made it to Brooklyn, still in Saint Lucy.

738
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: But he also is nineteen years old. I mean he's

739
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: basically it's basically a baby.

740
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:48,440
Speaker 2: He's so young.

741
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: When you were talking about guys who are nineteen, it

742
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: doesn't even make sense. They were born in like two

743
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 1: thousand and three, a lot of these guys. But yeah,

744
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: Jet has been playing pretty well this year. It sounds

745
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 1: weird to say this because he has a two hundred

746
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: batting average, but his on base percentage is nearly four hundred,

747
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 1: which is out of out of control to have a

748
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: two hundred point higher on base percentage than batting average.

749
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: A lot of good things with Jet, even though the

750
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 1: average is.

751
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 2: A little low. Definitely, And we got some great stats

752
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: over here at courtesy of John who has some wonderful

753
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 2: statistical access here. Jet has only a seventeen percent chase

754
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 2: rate as a nineteen year old in a ball and

755
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 2: a sixteen percent bower rate. So while he is walking

756
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 2: a ton and he's all striking out, these like pretty

757
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 2: high too. I think those are both hanging out hovering

758
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,880
Speaker 2: around seventeen eighteen percent right now, pretty equal. So that's

759
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 2: why that batting average is low and the on base

760
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 2: is very high. Also has a sixteen point five percent

761
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 2: bower rate, so when he is getting to the ball,

762
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 2: he is lifting it and he is hitting it with authority,

763
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 2: which is very important for Jet Williams. That was a

764
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 2: big reason why the Mets jumped the board and drafted

765
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 2: him as a as a bit of a smaller player

766
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 2: in the first round. We stood next to him for

767
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 2: at the time as an eighteen year old, his forearms

768
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 2: looked like like a water bottle, like they were like

769
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: he's like, he's like really just muscled up. And we've

770
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 2: heard about how great his grip strength was, how great

771
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 2: his eggs of velocities were. It's a lot good, a

772
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 2: lot of good going for Jet Williams right now. Is

773
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: he adjusted to pro baseball.

774
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: The other young prospect, this one also in Brooklyn, Alex Ramirez,

775
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: He's doing something that is really really exciting to see

776
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: that we didn't see a lot from Alex Ramirez. The

777
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: guy's walking a ton. He's got like a ten percent

778
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: walk right this year. Again, it's Brooklyn. So the numbers

779
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: on paper, the counting numbers and the averages are not

780
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: gonna look great. But the fact that Alex Ramirez is

781
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: walking about ten percent of the time, I mean, that's

782
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: that's exciting stuff. And whatever his height is is alive.

783
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: The dude is six foot ten. I don't care what

784
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: anyone says. We stood next to him at spring training.

785
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: He did have cleats on, so it gives him like

786
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: an extra inch, but he was like, I mean six

787
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: foot six, six' five maybe at the Lowest.

788
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 2: Aleximirez is listed on fangrass right, now it's six, three one.

789
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 2: Seventy i'm going so far over on both of, us

790
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 2: not even. Funny i'd probably guess like six, six like

791
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 2: two five to ten, Maybe like, conservatively he's a.

792
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: Moose he's.

793
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 2: Huge he looks like he would be one of the

794
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 2: hottest receiver prospects in THE nfl draft right. Now he

795
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 2: could really go up and get when it seems like

796
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 2: But Alex szarimirez doing something very cool with this season

797
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 2: In brooklyn's is his second exposure to the, level which

798
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 2: is something very similar he did With Saint lucy if years,

799
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 2: ago is something we've also seen From Francisco. Alvarez he's

800
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 2: moved up and down. Levels his first exposure To Saint

801
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 2: lucie twenty twenty, one he has six point nine percent

802
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 2: walk greate thirty one percent strikeout. Rate came back the next,

803
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: year played seventy, games nine percent walk twenty two percent.

804
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 2: Strikeouts got called up in the middle of last year

805
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,719
Speaker 2: To brooklyn six point five percent walk, grate twenty two

806
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 2: percent strikeout. Rate now his next exposure In brooklyn fifty

807
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: more games there so far this year ten point five

808
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: percent walk, grate twenty one point nine percent strikeout. Rate

809
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 2: so it seems like he gets the exposure to the,

810
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 2: level and again he's been very young for the level.

811
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 2: Still he started playing pro baseball at eighteen years. Old

812
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 2: he's still just twenty and his birthday is In. January

813
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 2: he's gonna play the entire season at twenty years, Old

814
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 2: so there's a chance That Alex raemir is gonna have

815
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 2: exposure to DOUBLE a baseball at twenty years, old and

816
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 2: every time he gets that, exposure he comes back and

817
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 2: he shows us what he's, learned and he starts to

818
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 2: take more pitches and really find the ones he can.

819
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 2: Hit so he's very excited About Alex ramirez just physically so.

820
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 2: Projectable he's one of the he go out one of

821
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 2: the biggest international signing bonuses for a prospect we've had

822
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 2: in many years, now basically Since Francisco. Alvarez lot to

823
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 2: be excited about What alexzemirez, Here, no one hundred.

824
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: Percent, now let's start talking about so of these other

825
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: just random prospects that you guys might not really know

826
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: about but are having some pretty good years here and. There,

827
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: james we're just gonna go back and. Forth you take one, First.

828
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: OKAY i want to talk About Matt. Rudick he's someone

829
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 2: who's really rising up through the system right. Now we've

830
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: seen a lot of tweets about him. Recently he's just

831
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 2: sitting the ball really well at DOUBLE a And i'm

832
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 2: correct on that correct DOUBLE a three oh four four

833
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 2: to forty seven five twenty six. Slash that's a nine

834
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 2: seventy three ops that's a very high walk rate for

835
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 2: that four to forty seven on base percentage with a

836
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 2: three oh four. Average one sixty SIX wrc plus is

837
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 2: the highest for Any mets player in the system twenty

838
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 2: four and Under mark almost had a dirty worry that

839
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: the notes. There i'm very HAPPY i caught that thirteenth

840
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 2: round pick From San Diego State university in twenty twenty

841
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: one and he's five to. Six so this is kind

842
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: of the thing that's happening in baseball now where these

843
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 2: smaller players like shoutout mayor the short kings out there

844
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 2: a lot of command of the, zone lot of the

845
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 2: command of the, barrel and you find a way to

846
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: get that quick, contact compact swing and turned it into power.

847
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 2: Quickly So Matt rudick named to.

848
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: Watch Jacob brimer is the one That i'm gonna. Name

849
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: fan of my YouTube, channel which is pretty, cool and

850
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,959
Speaker 1: also fan of the. Podcast Jacob. Brimer we met him

851
00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: on the field last, year same day we Met jet

852
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: when all the draft picks were there and getting to

853
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: take their pictures AND i think maybe even take a

854
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: couple of swings on the, field and he was like

855
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: confused seeing, me which is always very. Funny Jacob brimer

856
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: though off to a really hot, start another third basement

857
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: for The mets in the farm. System he's not shown much,

858
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: power but you also have to remember he's nineteen years

859
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: old and a ball and if you see his, face

860
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: he's got a baby. FACE i, mean he just looks extremely.

861
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: Young to seventy two. Average another guy with an almost

862
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,719
Speaker 1: four hundred on base, percentage which is something THAT i

863
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: love to. See, again not really much, power but rocking

864
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: a one twenty TWO wrc plus which is great and

865
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: as the fourteenth HIGHEST wrc plus in The Florida league

866
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,479
Speaker 1: for players under the age of, Nineteen so that's pretty

867
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: or nineteen and, UNDER i should, say pretty. Impressive youngs

868
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: are pretty impressive start for the youngster out In Port

869
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: Saint lucy LAST.

870
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: Ti i'm going to take Here Tyler, stewart WHO i

871
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 2: Believe John vuo actually has some content coming out with

872
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: them with him this, week, right someone wants to get

873
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 2: in the chat and make confirm that for, me big

874
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: right handed, pitcher, six nine fifty six round pick out

875
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,479
Speaker 2: Of Southern myss last. Year he's cruising Through brooklyn right.

876
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: Now thirty percent strike out, right eight percent walk, grade

877
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 2: His slyther is apparently one of the best pitches in

878
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 2: the Entire mets. System two, planes, sweeping just completely. Nasty

879
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 2: and his fastball sits about ninety two ninety. Three however

880
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 2: it's gotten up to ninety eight at, times and he

881
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 2: is so big six.' nine, that extension while it still

882
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 2: has a lot of run rather than hop, and ride

883
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: it Gets on hitler's fast and it's been really hard

884
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: to hit this Year.

885
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,479
Speaker 1: In. Brooklyn Yep and vito just told us it's coming out,

886
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: Today actually so when you guys are listening, to This

887
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: and i'm gonna go Listen To tyler stewart's Interview with

888
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: Vito and john On The future flushing podcast again if

889
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: you want to learn more, about prospects will be a

890
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: great place for you guys to. HEAD over i got two.

891
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: More names i'm gonna be quick. With Them. ELI ankonny

892
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: i probably should know how to say, His name Eli.

893
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: And kenny. It's tough there's a lot OF just i

894
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: don't know HOW A N K E N e y

895
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: left handed? Reliever alert can we sound an alarm? Or

896
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: something left handed? Reliever alert he's doing something. Really cool

897
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: he's thrown sixteen in a third innings in his pro

898
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: ball career and has not given up a hit to.

899
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: A lefty he's only given up two hits in his

900
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: pro ball career in those. Sixteen innings rocket a thirty

901
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: five percent k rate this year with a four percent

902
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: walk rate sitting around. Ninety two but apparently it HAS

903
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: an ivb north of, twenty Inches, which.

904
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 2: James what does?

905
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: That mean inverted? Vertical break and it will explain maybe

906
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: to the viewers why.

907
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 2: That's good it's basically like the it's like the hop

908
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 2: of the ridge you get in, Your fastball so you

909
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 2: want that To be i'm trying to, think of like

910
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 2: how the phrase it like with gravity and you know

911
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 2: that is that number?

912
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: WITH gravity i don't know if it's with gravity. Or

913
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: not just his average north of TWENTY iv, b great.

914
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: That's amazing it's a lot of hop, on fastball really good.

915
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: Life cool that's kind of actually twenty's like kind of, unheard. Of, Honestly,

916
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: yeah no so he's he Was from graden seventy sixteen

917
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: seventeen is are good and once you get higher. Than

918
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 1: that so does he have a very low release point

919
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: if you've seen him? Very low he is six, feet

920
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: tall so he's not a, big dude and he that

921
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: rows like from a really low release point.

922
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 2: For, sure okay that's. Really, cool yeah that's like that's

923
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 2: like the new wave and baseball. Right now that's that's,

924
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 2: what again persona non Gravid That spencer shreider does. Really

925
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 2: well he has that shoot and McClanahan, as well that

926
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,439
Speaker 2: super low release point in, that fastball so it gives

927
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 2: the effect of at rising to.

928
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: The hither, Last Guy. Wilkin ramos we got this guy

929
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: In The Minor league rule five draft From The. Pittsburgh

930
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: pirates he might have some stuff in. The pen, first

931
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: off he's six. Foot five another just huge human that Exists.

932
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: In brooklyn sits around ninety seven with some sink rocking

933
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: a twenty eight percent k rate and a sixty five

934
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: point six percent ground, ball RATE which i know you

935
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: love the k rate plus ground, Ball, rate james and

936
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: that's that's gotta be one of the highest right now in.

937
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: THE minors i feel like just, in general he's got

938
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: a really hard change up. As well slider is kind

939
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: of that vertical slider that you, talk about and it's

940
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: just cool that it's like you can get value out

941
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: of the Minor league rule five draft and get a

942
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: Guy Like wilkin ramos who's shutting down Games in brooklyn

943
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: right now For. THE cyclones i think that's pretty much

944
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: it for this minor. League report you got any?

945
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 2: Other?

946
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: Names where are you ready to? Start up maybe Bringing

947
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: in john for the? Estimate, Here yeah.

948
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 2: I'm good that was a clean. TWENTY mess i, Think

949
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: well i'd like to hold. That there we could talk

950
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 2: about like twenty five more minor leaguers for another hour and,

951
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 2: a half but. We can't we can't do.

952
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: Them, All, no no that's why you guys check Out

953
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: The future flushing podcast for the more in depth and

954
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: get to learn about some of. These guys they got

955
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: some good interviews. Over there check. Them out let's go

956
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: ahead and Bring in john here for. The estimate, johnny

957
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: boy what do you got? For us? What's?

958
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 3: Up guys looking forward to seeing you guys in a

959
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 3: few days at. The stadium it's it's been a. Long

960
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 3: time it really feels like a, long time although it's

961
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 3: only been.

962
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 2: A week you're so busy at, work anyway we don't

963
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 2: really hang out. That much it's been.

964
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: A minute it's.

965
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 3: NOT true I can't i come to the booth and

966
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 3: see you GUYS when? I can I mean friday night

967
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 3: Against The. BLUE jays i did?

968
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: You did you didn't hung out With. THE wizard i

969
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: appreciate it.

970
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 3: ONE percent i feel like since the hot dog incident,

971
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 3: Last year james would rather me stay. Away anyway, But anyway,

972
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 3: So Yes. Metts, yankees uh first of two series obviously

973
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 3: coming Up At city field. This week some really good.

974
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 3: Pitching matchups you guys will get into that a little,

975
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 3: bit More but i'll just throw them out there. As

976
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,439
Speaker 3: well real quick max shares Are Against luis evarino game

977
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 3: one and then former teammates and one in two in

978
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 3: The Al cy young in, Twenty Nineteen Justin Verlander garrett

979
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 3: cole in. Game two so what we're gonna do Is

980
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 3: the mets won a game, This series we're gonna bring.

981
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 2: Back up we're gonna bring back. To giveaway.

982
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 3: So all, the listeners the viewers, at home get involved in.

983
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 3: This estimate james now has a three game Lead, over

984
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 3: mark WHICH is i do need to put my. HAND

985
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 3: Up i the last estimate was it. Was rough it

986
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 3: was Rough For dolfo castro. Partly played, uh yeah. It

987
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 3: was it was not the, greatest one, but hey we

988
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 3: were all kind of in our fields a few, nights

989
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 3: ago so it was just one of those like, you

990
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 3: know we got a mea culper. For THAT so i want,

991
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 3: to know you, guys listeners how many combined strikeouts will

992
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 3: there Be Between, Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander luis Severino And

993
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 3: garrett cole in this, two games and that.

994
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: Those are Strikeout pictures like you talk about all, of

995
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: them they all do get a lot of swing. And

996
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: misses they all get a bunch. Of strikeouts as MUCH

997
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: as i don't want to Admit A garrett cole is

998
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: probably still one of the two best pictures in, the

999
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: league maybe even. The best he's just still. A freak

1000
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: maxer has been pitching well, of late let's, go Ahead

1001
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: and severino is the guy that could really throw a

1002
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: wrench in this. WHOLE situation i feel LIKE because i

1003
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: don't know what to expect.

1004
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 2: From him severno has he spoke to the media about

1005
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 2: some issues he's had with his. Fastball RECENTLY his flossi

1006
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 2: dropped a bit his last start and, they asked you,

1007
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 2: know why and he, just, said no that's A little he,

1008
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 2: said no, he, SAID no i don't. Know why that's

1009
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 2: a little bit concerning here from the picture and We

1010
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 2: See Louis saverino vlassi dropping in the past kind of

1011
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 2: could be a precursor for injury also as. For everybody

1012
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 2: but we've seen the, last time especially this time, of

1013
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 2: year For sever reno to kind, of lose lose a.

1014
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: Little, Bit okay i've got, MY number i got my.

1015
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 2: Number Two i'm i'm, overstating It but i'm expecting some

1016
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 2: big performances from the boys at home this weekend this week?

1017
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: You Ready?

1018
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 3: Justin verlander last time he Faced The yankees game one

1019
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 3: Of the alcs, last year obviously as. An astro still

1020
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 3: eleven strikeouts. That Night so verlander's got some pretty good.

1021
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 3: Career Numbers so james ready to? Show, him yes, Counts,

1022
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 3: Down john, all.

1023
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 2: Right here, we, go, three, Two, FOUR wow i am.

1024
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: Twenty six james has. Twenty five That's imp we we

1025
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: are kind of on the same wavelength a lot of

1026
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: the time with these we're very rarely far off from.

1027
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 2: Each, other Yeah very besides the eggs, of LASCITY which

1028
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 2: i smoked you on last year. Is too that was a.

1029
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 2: Bad guess, but no, very nice, All, Right.

1030
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 3: John and for all you out there who want to,

1031
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 3: get involved remember drop the answers underneath, this tweet not the.

1032
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 3: YouTube video it's this tweet that we're gonna be counting

1033
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 3: first person with the. Correct answer we're gonna go by

1034
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 3: time stamp. Only fair got a lot of smart fans.

1035
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 3: Out there this tweet is the place just.

1036
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: To make sure you guys are following us on our

1037
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: social media at metst up and you, know what you

1038
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: can even you can even turn on notifications so you

1039
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: know when the tweet goes out that way you can

1040
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: be first to respond with. Your answer and, uh yeah

1041
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: it's a mystery ball, give way but it could be.

1042
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: Somebody good. You know it's the official podcast of. The

1043
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: team keep that.

1044
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 2: In, mind yeah we've already given Out the pilanzo ball.

1045
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 2: This year we had a really cool one to give

1046
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 2: away if anyone was exact For the. Brave series so

1047
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 2: even if You're not, mets fan you're probably gonna want,

1048
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 2: This baseball so don't be afraid to tweet, at us.

1049
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,959
Speaker 1: All, right, john yea thank you for, Doing, it john.

1050
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. All right let's go ahead and preview that

1051
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: suboy series, of course is gonna feel a little bit

1052
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: different because there's no airon judge On the, yankee side

1053
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: no pedal lins On the, Mets side so two of

1054
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: the big sluggers will not be in the lineup for.

1055
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 1: Both teams but still a lot of good. Players around

1056
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: yankees are playing some. DECENT baseball i don't know what

1057
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,240
Speaker 1: they're doing right now With The red Sox On sunday,

1058
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: night baseball, but, they're uh they're like in first or.

1059
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: Second place they're they're, playing well and then In The

1060
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: al east and they're a very. Good team we.

1061
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 2: Know, that yeah they're Behind, the rays, of course Because

1062
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 2: the rays are just the Juggernaut ball juggernauts. The right

1063
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 2: yankees are also still at the time recording that they're

1064
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: winning two to one Against The red sox and sixth

1065
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 2: inning as, We shoot but they're also still four and a,

1066
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 2: half game three and a half games Behind, the orioles

1067
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 2: who are also seemed to be a bit of, juggernaut

1068
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 2: already but they and their only game ahead Of The.

1069
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 2: Blue jay so that's very very Tightly Contested al east,

1070
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 2: right now and every single game that Both the mets

1071
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 2: And the yankees player right now. Is important but even.

1072
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 2: The Midst the yankees lineup right now is full of

1073
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 2: Guys like, Billy McKinney, Jake Bowers willie calhoun playing, Good Baseball.

1074
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 2: BILLY bombs, I know i'm excited To SEE.

1075
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: Billy.

1076
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 2: BOBX yeah, I mean i didn't say those guys, were

1077
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 2: Bad but i'm saying their names are not onlling you'd

1078
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 2: expect From the yankee line Up, in june, of course.

1079
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 3: Of.

1080
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 2: Course yeah And the yanks are doing a lot of this,

1081
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 2: right now and the backs of some good. Starting pitching

1082
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: we Talked About gary cole being out there every fifth day. Being,

1083
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 2: amazing again we're gonna see Him. And severino we're not

1084
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 2: Gonna see domingo, her mom but he's been a marvel

1085
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 2: this year, once again just throwing that hammer with his

1086
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 2: sinker over and. Over Again And, clark schmid who turned

1087
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,959
Speaker 2: a Really bad april to what was a pretty okay

1088
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 2: may so get to. Your game cock by you. Right

1089
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 2: There this, yankees team they just they're gonna throw a lot.

1090
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 2: At you they still have a heart Of the Order

1091
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 2: of labor Tour As, Anthony Rizzo John, carlos stanton which,

1092
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 2: is very. Very fearsome we're gonna see Local Kid anthony

1093
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:40,919
Speaker 2: volpi at, this game probably a lot Of the mets

1094
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 2: fans first exposure. Of him besides For the yankee, fan

1095
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 2: friends he yelle yelling about them about how good vultpy

1096
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 2: they think. He is but that's gonna be funny. TO

1097
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 2: see i know we have one of, Our. Buddies alex

1098
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,919
Speaker 2: he's A mister volpiece, as urologist which is kept, pretty

1099
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 2: hilarious local Guy. From JERSEY but i Know this, yankee

1100
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 2: Team the yankee team doesn't Look like yankee teams you guys,

1101
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 2: probably know but they still have a lot of ways

1102
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 2: to beat you one.

1103
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: Hundred Percent jake bowers has been A guy i think

1104
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: you mentioned. Him too it's just been like hot For

1105
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: the yankees because they find like one or two left

1106
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: handed hitters a year that have just been kind of

1107
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: floating Around IN triple A four a players and because

1108
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: of that short portion and, right field they make. Them

1109
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: Useful willie calhoun being another one, of them although he

1110
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 1: did get hit IN live bp Today Against carlos rodon

1111
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: in the HAND and i think he's missed the game

1112
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: tonight because he got hit in, The hands so he's

1113
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: in a little bit of. Pain there that's that's.

1114
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 2: Pretty, funny honestly jameson missing Local Boy harrison, bader too

1115
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 2: because he's ON the. Il again he just won on

1116
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 2: the isle again and he was hitting. Really well he

1117
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 2: just went back ON. The Il, harrison baby That was

1118
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 2: that was a shrewd Trade the yankees made. LAST year

1119
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 2: a Lot of yankees fans kind of flipped out about

1120
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: That because yankees fans are even somehow more Reactionary than,

1121
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 2: mets fans which is really hard. To do but remember that.

1122
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 2: Trade happened we were on the bus too last year

1123
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 2: going down the train going DOWN. To dc, We're, like

1124
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,439
Speaker 2: Wow the Yankees Trade, Jordan Montgomer. Harrison baya. That's Weird

1125
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 2: and Montgomery's like will he's, always been which is a

1126
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 2: guy who's just. Like Fine And harrison baylor has like

1127
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 2: a power speed defense combo and not many other players

1128
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 2: in Baseball can matt but he's. NOT playing i want

1129
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 2: to talk about How Good jake bowers was this Year

1130
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 2: IN triple A because i remember showing this to you

1131
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 2: like early in, the, YEAR like i Don't Care jake,

1132
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 2: BOWERS whatever, I.

1133
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: SHAY yeah i stand.

1134
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,399
Speaker 2: By, That Yeah jake bowers in twenty games OF triple

1135
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 2: a ninety, played appearances had twenty percent of, wal grade

1136
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 2: eighteen percent strikeout right nine home runs in twenty one

1137
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 2: games ninety played appearances and three or four four to

1138
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 2: forty eight seven ninety seven slash seven ninety seven slugging

1139
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 2: IN triple a on base percentage was like fourteen. Thirteen,

1140
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 2: HUNDRED yeah I mean James the yankees apologists here, over

1141
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 2: here he Loves, the yankees Not the. Yankee APOLOGISTS but

1142
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 2: i mean sometimes people like overreact to What the yankees

1143
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 2: used to be compared to what they. Are now What

1144
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 2: the yankees are now is kind of this, Like shrewd

1145
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 2: we're not gonna spend a ton of money in the.

1146
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: Wrong places team that develops these guys who are like

1147
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 2: on the fringes of most rosters and turns them into

1148
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 2: major league, caliber players like that started With the o'schella

1149
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 2: thing a few, years ago and they like find ways

1150
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 2: now to get these just these weird guys who hang

1151
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 2: around the league and like turn them, Into regulars like

1152
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 2: the Fact That willie Calhoun And jake bauers are regulars

1153
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 2: in this team. Right now those guys are from the

1154
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 2: fancy baseball graveyard in, twenty sixteen, twenty seven and as

1155
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 2: guys who, are like oh good eggs, of loss he's

1156
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 2: good walk rates like they're gonna. Be something, in fact they're.

1157
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 2: Both left he's getting stuff out Of the yankees right now.

1158
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 2: Is amazing and they also have done some cool things with.

1159
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 2: This bullpen one GUY who i wish, was playing he's

1160
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 2: been one of my favorite leaders in baseball. This year

1161
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 2: he's not going to be a Player Named. Ian hamilton

1162
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 2: he's the, wrong man, strong man and he invented his.

1163
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 2: Own pitch He's of, spanish, descent yeah and he has

1164
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 2: a pitch that combines a slither with a. Change up

1165
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 2: he calls, the slambio similar to the word combio In the.

1166
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 2: SPANISH language i heard some people call it the slam

1167
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 2: bio because we try to americanize, that word but It's

1168
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,959
Speaker 2: from spanish ascent, change, up. Cambio slambio it's a crazy.

1169
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 2: Unique pitch my Shotout Friend, alex eiser the fangrass Writer

1170
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 2: that i've talked about and we hung out with, last

1171
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 2: week he wrote the cool article about the slambio a few.

1172
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 2: Weeks Ago But ian hamilton is not gonna be in.

1173
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: The Series but yankees back into the bullpen. Is Wild

1174
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 2: clay holmes is back to being. Pretty Good michael king is.

1175
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 2: Really Good wandy peralta Has been he's The Yan some

1176
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 2: yankee fans Call Him, magic wandi which is kind. Of

1177
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 2: hilarious he, gets it gets. Really Well ron maerinaccio is

1178
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 2: A good. Italian boy he is going to be back.

1179
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: On the River In. New Jersey Tom, ron marinacrio.

1180
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: Your Friend tommy. Canley's back you gotta save the other

1181
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 2: night For, the yankees which is pretty wild after everything's

1182
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: gone through his last. Few Years this yankee team is

1183
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 2: not Like the yankees teams you guys know and remember

1184
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 2: from like the, twenty tens even the early. Two thousands

1185
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 2: they do a lot of different things that seemed something

1186
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 2: more Like The cleveland Guardians And milwaukee brewers would be

1187
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 2: doing a throwing. At you but they supplement that with

1188
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 2: like four or five guys that make thirty million. A

1189
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 2: year luckily one of them is not playing in, the

1190
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 2: series the. Best one but it's a very interesting Roster.

1191
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 2: The yankees The modern Yankees, have.

1192
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,879
Speaker 1: YEAH no i mean they're they're a good baseball team.

1193
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 1: Right Now the mets are not playing very. Good baseball

1194
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: as much as we need to like win, EVERY game

1195
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: i really would love to just take two From. The

1196
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: yankees i'd love it. So badly how.

1197
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 2: Funny, Is it we've we've gotten this podcast for forty five,

1198
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 2: minutes now we have barely talked About. The mets we

1199
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 2: really haven't. At all we.

1200
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: ARE trying, i mean there wasn't much to. Talk about

1201
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: there wasn't much to. Talk about we.

1202
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 2: Know That and i'm kind of just hoping With The

1203
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 2: subway series, right now because it's gonna be packed house,

1204
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 2: two nights We got Sure's. Or verlander i'm hoping that

1205
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 2: this is just like the shot the arm this, Team

1206
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 2: needs like this is JUST a b twelve shot for

1207
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 2: all twenty six guys in that dugout and all, the

1208
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 2: coaches everyone. In there everyone just gets a, little vigorated

1209
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 2: everyone gets, the energy and you can kind of just

1210
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 2: try and take this through a tough stretch of baseball

1211
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 2: that's about to have, right now with Just the aswer's

1212
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 2: gonna be on, the Schedule, the cardinals who are always

1213
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 2: just a pain in, the Ass the brewers who gave

1214
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 2: us trouble early in, the season but also just what

1215
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 2: by the a's we're gonna we got we gotta stack

1216
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 2: some good series together. Right here it's gonna start this

1217
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 2: week Against. The, yankees yep the.

1218
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 1: Boys will be at the stadium having a lot. Of

1219
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 1: fun hopefully that the atmosphere should. Be incredible subway series

1220
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: there's always a ton of fun regardless of how the teams.

1221
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 1: Are playing it's always just like, VERY close i, feel like,

1222
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: very competitive super excited to get back to. The stadium

1223
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: it's been, a Minute like john, told us anything else

1224
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: to talk, about here or just let's just Beat. The

1225
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: yankees how? About that that's how we. Can end Beat,

1226
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: the yankees get to. The ballpark Beat, the yankees get to,

1227
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: The ballpark Beat. The, yankees guys thank you so much

1228
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: for listening and watching this episode Of The mets. Up

1229
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: podcast remember to follow us on all our social media at.

1230
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: Mets up subscribe To The New york mets, YouTube channel

1231
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: and download and subscribe the Podcast On, Apple, podcasts spotify whatever.

1232
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: It is just just give us, a review give us.

1233
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,320
Speaker 1: A rating we do. Appreciate, it james Where's?

1234
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 2: Your Twitter James underscore Ciano and I'm.

1235
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: At draffneckmark WITH a c you can see it on

1236
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: the screen if you're watching the. YouTube video that's your incentive.

1237
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: To watch thank you guys so much and we will

1238
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: catch you After the. Subway series, Please win please, peace.

1239
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 2: Out guys you. Next time