1 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: What is up? Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: of the Mets Up Podcast. We got a little bit 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: of an MLB draft recap for you. You just did 4 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: twenty rounds of the m ANDB draft. Meds did a 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 1: pretty good job, and we're gonna go through all the 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: players as we always do, giving you our thoughts, opinions, 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: and any info that we possibly have. James, I'm feeling terrible. 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: It's about eighty five degrees in my apartment. If you're 9 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: watching the video, there's there's a towel that's just a 10 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: chunk full of ice. As we're talking about these prospects. 11 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: How you feeling over there in your cushy little Brooklyn apartment. 12 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 2: I feel so great in my cushy Bushwick apartment with 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 2: my wonderful in wall air conditioning unit blowing nice cold 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 2: air for a CRISP seventy seven indoor taperture. It's incredible. 15 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 2: I gotta say it's you. You dealing with adversity. These 16 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: hilarious because it doesn't happen very often, so when it happens, 17 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: you crumble. 18 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: Work too hard to deal with adversity like this. Eric Conditioning, 19 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: I hate it. I don't know how anybody deals with 20 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: this nonsense. All right, enough of me being spoiled, Bratt. 21 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and talk about these players. First up, 22 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: let's get started in the first round. Carson Benj. We 23 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: spoke about him on the podcast for those of you 24 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: in case you missed it. Let's talk about him a 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: little bit more. First round pick out of Oklahoma State, outfielder, 26 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: left handed hitter, good friends, maybe even best friends with 27 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,119 Speaker 1: Noel McLean. Mets prospect James, what do you like about 28 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 1: benj Benj is? 29 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 2: I think the Mets seem to be doing this new 30 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 2: draft thing where they just hammer hammer, hammer hammer pitchers 31 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: over and over again in the draft. So I think 32 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: when knowing they were going to do that for the 33 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: third draft in a row now, David seurts first, I 34 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 2: think they wanted to get an outfielder, position player, a 35 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: college position player with a very high floor they think 36 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 2: can probably get to the majors in short order. I 37 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: think that's what a lot of people wanted in this draft, 38 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: Mets fans, and I think that's what the Mets did. 39 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 2: The big thing that sticks out about Benj is that 40 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: he just has a combination of really fast, strong hands 41 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 2: and really good back control. You talk a lot about 42 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 2: how fast his hands are. He rarely swung and missed. 43 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 2: In college, he had a more assive approach, especially inside 44 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 2: the strike zone. When he did decide to take a hack, 45 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 2: he usually made contact and he usually did damage right. 46 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 2: I think is a really important thing, and that that's 47 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: kind of the most important thing for translation. That like 48 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 2: the fact that he can do that, he can make 49 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 2: contact in his own He made a lot of contactgainst velocity, 50 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 2: he didn't swing and miss very often against breaking the balls. 51 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 2: Those are all seemed to me like things that can 52 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 2: help him move through the miners quickly. 53 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean it seems a little bit more 54 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: like a floor pick necessarily than a ceiling with bench, 55 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: just because he has all the tools to be a 56 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: very good player, great back to ball skills, doesn't swing 57 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: and miss, good exit velos as well, and projects to 58 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 1: be a major league outfielder. I think Chris Gross, the 59 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: VP of Amateur Scouting, said that he's gonna be playing 60 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: center field, which I think is interesting, but also I 61 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: like it. Be aggressive with the guy, find out if 62 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: he can play it. You can always move him back 63 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: to the corner if you feel like you have the 64 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: ability to develop this guy and put him in center field, 65 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: he becomes even more valuable. Like we've spoken about before 66 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: and again, his swing is really nice. Just got to 67 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: be able to pull the ball in the air a 68 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: little bit more. But someone who on my rankings for 69 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: the first round draft picks, he came in at number nineteen. 70 00:02:58,280 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: That's basically where the Mets took him. I think it 71 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: was a pretty appropriate spot for where he went in 72 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: the first round. 73 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 2: That's not basically where the mess took him. That is 74 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: where the Mets took him. Great great call by diraftneck Drafts. 75 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 2: But it was interesting we missed out on Sunday because 76 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 2: that was more of like our instant reactions. It's more 77 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 2: of like a deeper scathing report. Chris Gross, the Mets 78 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 2: VP of amateur scouting, first year with Starns doing this, 79 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: he did say they see bench at a center fielder, 80 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 2: and what I already said that, Oh no, I was 81 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 2: gonna expound that they specifically see him as a five 82 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 2: tool center fielder, him saying that when he was drafted 83 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 2: as a right fielder who didn't play center field in college. 84 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 2: We had a conversation with baseball Americus Matt Eddie about it. 85 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: That's just that that's a big deal because that changes 86 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 2: the floor projection because if he's just a corner out fielder, 87 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 2: now everything is on Carson Bench's bat. He has to hit, 88 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 2: and he has to hit very well to even make 89 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 2: the major leagues as a guy that cond play regularly. 90 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 2: He's a lefty Batch, so it helps him in a 91 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 2: potential platoon advantage down the line. But now him being 92 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 2: a center fielder, that's just more waste for him to 93 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 2: make it to the show. 94 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: Also, he, like. 95 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 2: Nolan MacLean, was a two way guy Oklahoma State. So 96 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 2: now he's going to give up pitch focus more on hitting. 97 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 2: That could improve the upside. But I do agree with 98 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 2: you that seemed like a floor pick before the Mets 99 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 2: start taking a lot of big swings. 100 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: Yes, because in the second round they did take a 101 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: bit of a big swing there with Jonathan Santucci, left 102 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: handed pitcher out of Duke. He's a big lefty with 103 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: some really big stuff. I mean, his fastball can get 104 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: up to ninety seven miles an hour. His slider is 105 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: really good to change up. That is super real as well. 106 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: The issue with Santucci has been throwing strikes at times, 107 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: as well as just being healthy and being on the field. Though. 108 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a lot of great data on Santucci 109 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 2: from a Twitter account Brett Homer, and his account is 110 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: b Underscore home Run two. He really liked the Mets 111 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 2: draft and he really liked a lot of the pitchers 112 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 2: they went after, especially Santucci. He had such deep data 113 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 2: on him. He's he is a TrackMan analyst, so I 114 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 2: guess he just had this from covering these games. But 115 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,919 Speaker 2: the fastball has legitimate run, I mean legitimate Carrie at 116 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: ninety seven miles an hour, sixteen to twenty inches of 117 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 2: ivy B from pretty low release slot, so it really 118 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 2: gets on the guys. Thirty percent end zone. Wift fright 119 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 2: from the fastball is ridiculous, especially from a left who's 120 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 2: going to be mostly be facing Righty's to get that 121 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 2: high of a whiff right on your fastballs inside his 122 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: own that means that pitch is very good. It's very 123 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 2: hard for hit to track, and line up slide is 124 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 2: very legit. It had a fifty four percent with frate 125 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 2: last season at Duke, which is stupid high. And the 126 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: change up is really, really, really real. But it's the 127 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 2: pitch that is his least consistent and he threw the 128 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 2: least often. That is going to be the difference maker 129 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 2: whether he becomes a frontline rotation star there, a mid 130 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 2: rotation star, their back end rotation star there, or just 131 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 2: winds up in the bullpen as a pro because it 132 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 2: totally falls off the table, has a lot of good 133 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,559 Speaker 2: armside run on it, and had a forty three percent 134 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 2: woof frate last season, but he only threw it twelve 135 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 2: percent of the time against righty's and he barely ever 136 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 2: threw in the strike zone. He he could just couldn't 137 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 2: really place. It was more something that would dive out 138 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 2: of his own So inconsistent, but good foundation. And if 139 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 2: that pitch jumps up and becomes something he can do consistently, 140 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: then that's a major league star there. 141 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, he is a guy that during the draft they 142 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: put up a comparison and they're like, listen, he's not 143 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: Hagen Smith who went number five overall to Chicago White 144 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: Sox in the first round. But they're like, but the 145 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: stuff and the numbers are pretty similar between the two. 146 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: Go there are differences here. That's why there's you know, 147 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: being drafted around apart they're like, but that's the kind 148 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: of upside that you could see from a guy like Santucci, 149 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: and that's where you're gonna also start to see from 150 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: a lot of these Mets picks moving forward. After the 151 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: second round, the Mets went pitching heavy. They went college 152 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: pitching heavy, and they are looking for very specific things. 153 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: This is David Searns first draft, like we said, with 154 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: the team, and he is making his imprint very known 155 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: as to what he likes and what he's looking for. 156 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, the Mets seemed like with David Sears beause they've 157 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 2: also done this a little bit the last few drafts 158 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 2: before Stearns, but this time it was even more exaggerated. 159 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 2: Where they want college pitchers who are big guys who 160 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 2: throw hard, and they throw from that low release point 161 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 2: with the flat vertical approach angle to get that back 162 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 2: spinny fastball the hitters will swing under and that will 163 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:41,919 Speaker 2: live the top of the strike zone. And this is 164 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 2: something that David Stearns did a lot in Milwaukee. To 165 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 2: something at the same Twitter account, Brett Homer, he called 166 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: out that this looked like the quintessential David Sterns Milwaukee 167 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 2: Brewers draft, where it's all these guys with these big 168 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 2: fastballs who are going to throw out the top of 169 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 2: his own swing under because if you have that pitch, 170 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 2: if you you just have that one pitch, it's seemingly 171 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 2: easier to build different breaking balls off of it. And 172 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: even if you can't become a successful starter, that you 173 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 2: just moved to the bullpen and you wind up just 174 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 2: being there and getting value there. And the next pick, 175 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 2: I think is someone that is at the top end 176 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 2: of the scale, someone I'm really excited about in this 177 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 2: draft class. Nate Dome Pitchure from Mississippi State. Oddly enough, 178 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 2: this is the Mets sixth Mississippi State Bulldog in the 179 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 2: last seven years that they've drafted, which is hilarious that 180 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 2: we get one a year. And then even Jake Mangham 181 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 2: twice shout out the legend Jank Mangum. He never got 182 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 2: a shot, but it took him two years in a row. 183 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: Two a year ago. 184 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 2: Dom transferred from Ball State to Mississippi State. So if 185 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 2: anyone'n't playing NCAA football, you will know that Ball State 186 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 2: is one of the worst programs in the country for 187 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 2: all athletics. If you guys do in Road to Glory 188 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: with a ball state. I hats off to you Ball 189 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 2: State and Kannessas State. Those are the top difficulties. But 190 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 2: going from there Missisippi State, it's a big deal for 191 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 2: baseball player and that means he does have some legitimate stuff. 192 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 2: So people say he had first round potential this year 193 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 2: if he was healthy, but double some injuries. He was 194 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 2: held to about thirty the innings, but in those thirty 195 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 2: of the innings he had one of the highest strikeouts 196 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 2: to walk ratios in all vision on college baseball. Just 197 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 2: not the the length and the amount of time it 198 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 2: took to become a qualified player. 199 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean just a fastball being able to reach 200 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: the upper nineties like we've seen with run and ride 201 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: is amazing, and having a disgusting slider like we have 202 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: seen from Nate Dome. Those two things right there, like 203 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: at the absolute worst, amazing reliever in the third round, 204 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: Like that's and that's that's what David Sturtins does. This 205 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: is like, hey, we want these guys with high upside. 206 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: We want to build upon what we've seen. And look 207 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: at what the Mets even did with the prospects in 208 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: the pitching lab that they've had the last couple of years. 209 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: Now you get the mind, the idea that the process 210 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: behind it. With that pitching lab, a guy like Nate 211 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: Dome has an opportunity to be like, oh they got 212 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,599 Speaker 1: this guy when third round. Oh sick totally. 213 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 2: Because he also plays on this thing the Mets have 214 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 2: been doing the last few drafts where they take someone 215 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 2: who wasn't necessarily starter in his college program but has 216 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 2: starre their tools and now they're like, Okay, now you're 217 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:51,719 Speaker 2: just going to be a star that you're gonna spend 218 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 2: the next six month learning new pitches, finding new grips. 219 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 2: Because Dome only has that fastball in that Slyther and 220 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 2: those seem to both be at least fifty sixty great pitches. 221 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 2: The slider flashed the fastball is about a fifty depending 222 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: on where' velosity is, and that's on the twenty to 223 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 2: eighty scatting scale, guys. So once you have a fifty, 224 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,079 Speaker 2: that's considered major league caliber basically for someone who's a 225 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 2: major league regular. Once you get above that, then you 226 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 2: become elite. His change up, which didn't grade well Major 227 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 2: League MLP Pipeline gave the forty. Visually, it's fucking insane, 228 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 2: like it looks like the slider just from the opposite side, 229 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 2: like totally merrid. It says serious Fate. He throws like 230 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 2: ninety miles an hour and just drops off the table 231 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 2: and moves like like just a bit to his arm side, 232 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 2: like to get down in on the ridies and move 233 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 2: away from the lefties. It looks great, but they said 234 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 2: that he basically throws it too hard. It doesn't have 235 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 2: that much of a velocity gradient with his fastball, because 236 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 2: a slider will sit like eighty nine to ninety and 237 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 2: the fastball will slit ninety six ninety seven. So it's like, Okay, 238 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 2: I get that, but there's probably work around there. And 239 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 2: you also flashed the curveball that just has decent depth, 240 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: good drop on it. And his coach at Misissippi State 241 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 2: and I saw an interview for Move like a few 242 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 2: months ago when they were working through the SEC schedule. 243 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 2: He's like, I love having don't pitch. He's a real 244 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 2: psycho on the mounds. Yeah, I love which I was like, hell, yeah, 245 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 2: that's awesome. 246 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: We need the method, need more psychos. Yeah. 247 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 2: And again, he mostly pitched in relief in college. He 248 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 2: really only started starting full full time this year and 249 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 2: it wasn't that much because he had some injuries, so 250 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 2: it makes sense you jumping up the workload. So it's 251 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 2: a big swing on do a big stuff and hopefully 252 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 2: the floor is just an elite reliever. But the ceiling 253 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 2: is another pitcher that we could be like in a year, 254 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 2: this guy could be pushing top hundred stats. Things click Yeah. 255 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: Missispi State one of the best college baseball programs in 256 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: the country, especially on the pitching side. They've been incredible 257 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: the last few years. So happy to get a guy 258 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: like Nate Dome over here on our side. Something that 259 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: I was particularly interested in Eli Serrano from NC State. 260 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: They took him in the fourth round. He's a big, 261 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: lanky outfielder. I think he's six ft five, elite contact rates, 262 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: barely swings and misses. The fun thing with Eli Serrano 263 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: is that apparently out of high school he was getting 264 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 1: like crazy, crazy upside comps, like a guy who could 265 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: be like a twenty five plus home run dude at 266 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: the major league level one day. But he's never really 267 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: been able to show the power at the college level, 268 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: which is kind of confusing because you do hit with 269 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: metal bats and everything going on there. But he's been 270 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: able to still have that like elite hitter tool at 271 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: the college level again where he's not swinging and missing 272 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: often and swinging up pretty good pitches. Hope is that 273 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: the power eventually does come because the size is there. 274 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: Joe Doyle gave him the quote infinite projection, which is 275 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: always fun. I love to hear that. I think something 276 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: I've complained about in the past is sometimes teams are 277 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: way too safe with their picks. Why not get crazy. 278 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: It's the fourth and fifth round, like make take a swing, 279 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: and it seems like with Eli Sorono, they're definitely looking 280 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: to do that. His swing also kind of similar to 281 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 1: cars from benj is when I looked at it, short, 282 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: left handed, quick hands. 283 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, and also him and benj both being left handed bats, 284 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 2: which puts a little bit less pressure on their development 285 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:40,839 Speaker 2: of the games because if you can just get to 286 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 2: the majors as a left handed outfielder, you have too 287 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 2: an advantage if you're a good athletes this and that, and 288 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 2: then also I had I had a lot of weird 289 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 2: Robert has Kyle Tucker vibes watching some of his swings 290 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 2: from over the years. Just big, just big, lanky outfielder 291 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 2: that was hitting the ball on the ground probably too often. 292 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 2: It's just about how much you can lift it. And 293 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,199 Speaker 2: this is now the second guy in the first four rounds. 294 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 2: The Met's try this exact approach with so hopefully they 295 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 2: have a plan for helping the big lake he left. 296 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 2: He's pull the ball, lift the ball, and get it 297 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 2: out of the ballpark. Also fun thing, the Mets seems 298 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,439 Speaker 2: to be really valuing friendship. Yeah, in that twenty twenty 299 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 2: four draft class, because Eli Sirano played high school balls 300 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 2: good friends of Ryan Clifford Carson, benj Nolan McLean, and 301 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 2: we have a couple other friends down this draft board 302 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 2: that we drafted at the same time. So like, I 303 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 2: think the Mets like the like personal connection. It's like 304 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 2: a fortune five hundred company. 305 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, there they're trying to keep the pipeline is 306 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: strong over there in the Mets farm system. Fifth round 307 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: pick Trey Snyder seems to be the hail Mary. We're 308 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: taking a shot. Fifth round pick out of high school 309 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: in Tennessee. I believe where he's going to the University 310 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: of Tennessee, something along the lines of that. This urswing 311 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: for the defences pick. He's the only high school player 312 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: that we've taken up to this point. And usually when 313 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: you take guys in high school past the fourth, third, 314 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: second round, even you're gonna be offering them big money 315 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:55,959 Speaker 1: because you're trying to steal them away from their college 316 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: commit and that seems like what they're doing here with 317 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: Trey Snyder. The really exciting thing about him he just 318 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 1: has crazy high eggsit vilos. I think he was in 319 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: the ninety ninth percentile in Perfect Game Exit velos, which 320 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: is essentially the showcases that these high school players go 321 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: on during their circuit. And he's apparently also a really 322 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: good shortstop. So this to me is one of those 323 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: guys where I guess maybe with the right PR program 324 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: he could have been a first round pick, maybe, but 325 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: because he wasn't, he drops to the metsaop. I'm kind 326 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 1: of cool with it. 327 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Missouri kids, so but Missouri is kind of 328 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 2: like soft Tennessee depending on where Missouri you are from. Yeah, 329 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 2: it's like extended Tennessee. He was gay the rays Missouri 330 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 2: Player of the Year. Those are giving out to every 331 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 2: the high school player and every single stay. He was 332 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 2: the best, and I'm sure Missouri isn't the best baseball 333 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 2: program in the country. I think it's also not the worst. 334 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 2: You got some warm weather Missouri, you're playing all year. 335 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 2: And this is this is where the MLB draft gets weird. 336 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 2: This is where sometimes I like don't love covering the 337 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 2: Major League Baseball Draft because not like the other sports 338 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 2: where it's like, let's take the best player because they're 339 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 2: the best. MiB draft is like let's play a game. 340 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 2: It's like, I have to figure out where to put 341 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 2: these guys in the slide and where the safe money 342 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 2: so I can spend money later on Kyle Body of 343 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 2: a drive line the Red Sox to the Great like 344 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 2: a couple of minute video on Twitter describing the LMB 345 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 2: draft and why it's weird. Television not the best entertainment 346 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 2: for these exact reasons. Because this kid, Snyder's probably a 347 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 2: top fifty player in the draft, but we took him 348 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 2: what number that we take him at. We took him 349 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 2: at one forty four just because that's what they expect 350 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 2: him to go to Tennessee. But if you if these 351 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 2: bonuses get given out, he probably gets a bone. That's 352 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 2: very similar to Jonathan Santucci of a mid second round 353 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 2: pick just because to sign him away from University of 354 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 2: Tennessee when the best baseball programs. 355 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: In the country. 356 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 2: The Mets are gonna have to really pay him, probably 357 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 2: at least a million, which is way over his slid 358 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 2: value of just finding it real quick. The slot value 359 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 2: is it's not lothly, it's about a half a million, 360 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 2: about five hundred K. So they're gonna they're gonna spend 361 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 2: up to get him, and I think it's probably worth 362 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 2: it to get another like young athletic shortstop in the mix. 363 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: Just a random thing I thought about. I wonder how 364 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: the NIL effects signing these guys even more too. I 365 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: know baseball doesn't get the heaviest NIL like other sports, 366 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: but something a guy like Tommy White transferred from NC 367 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: State to LSU because of NIL, so like there's there's 368 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: some money still going around these college sports. I would 369 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: love to see if the Mets could sign Trey Snyder. 370 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: I'm assuming they would if they spent a fifth round 371 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: pick on him. They're pretty confident in that, and there 372 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: is a lot of high upside with him as well, 373 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: someone also coming from the SEC. I love seeing players 374 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: from the SEC draft, the best best conference in college baseball. 375 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: There's no doubt there Corey Collins first basement out of 376 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: University of Georgia. He kind of went a little bit 377 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: under the radar because Charlie Condon was on that team 378 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: and he's like literally one of the most freakys shitters 379 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: we've seen in a while. But Corey Collins big boy 380 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: six with three two forty and he put up max 381 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: exfil of around one thirteen last year. Granted metal bat 382 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: take about five miles per hour off of it, but 383 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: then granted he's gonna be in a major league organization now, 384 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: probably eating real food, he could get a lot stronger too. 385 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 2: That that was a very similar exs of losty Drew 386 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 2: Gilbert put up in his last year at Tennessee. So 387 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 2: saying probably, I think he's like six inches bigger than 388 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 2: Drew Gilbert in like seventy pounds heavier, So I'm hoping 389 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 2: for a little more raw power from him. But the 390 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 2: biggest thing that Collins does is he does not swing 391 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 2: in miss very often, long incredible contact rate in his 392 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 2: own His on base percent this year was five seventy four, 393 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 2: hitting ahead of Charlie Continent at Georgia, and the way 394 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 2: he did it was kind of fucking stupid. He had 395 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 2: thirty two strikeouts this year, fifty six walks and twenty 396 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 2: eight hit by pitches. God, so his strikeouts hit by 397 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 2: pitch ratio is almost one. He barely struck out more 398 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 2: and he was hit by pitches. He lives on base. 399 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 2: He also played catcher a little bit. He moon looked 400 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 2: there as a catcher at Georgia and was there in 401 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 2: high school. But he has power, he's big. He seems 402 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 2: like the kind of first baseman that if they could 403 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 2: really help him tap into his size and again get 404 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 2: more loft on his swing, he could become a monster 405 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 2: because he already has incredible pitch recognition and he knows 406 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 2: when to take a pitch. 407 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: And why another left handed bat by the way for 408 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: the Mets out of college that they took with a 409 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: short swing that they're hoping can hit the ball in 410 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: the air more. There seems to be a common theme 411 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: here with David Stearns players. 412 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 2: And that's like, that's kind of now we've gone through 413 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 2: like a lot of the more relevant draft picks now 414 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 2: like now to zoom out a little bit, it does 415 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 2: seem like there was a clear, clear motive and purpose 416 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 2: with this draft, because in the first couple of picks 417 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 2: and six picks. You took your three college so first 418 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 2: seven picks, three college hitters, one high school swing, two 419 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 2: pictures with high upside, and then the rest of this 420 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 2: draft from Corey Collins on. The Mets took one college hither, 421 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 2: two high school hitters or one high school hither, and 422 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 2: the rest were all college pitchers. That's it, over and 423 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,199 Speaker 2: over again. Pitcher. Other took one high school picture too, 424 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 2: Jase Hampson out of a Washington state. That doesn't seem 425 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 2: like someone that they are that comfedy is gonna go. 426 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 2: But it just seems like the Mets really are pushing 427 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 2: this college picture upside thing. A couple of hitters that 428 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:34,959 Speaker 2: they think have floors they could probably work on a 429 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 2: little bit. The next head of the Mets took jumping 430 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 2: ahead a few rounds. Nick Rizselli. He's a Paisan from 431 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 2: upstate New York, a Bingham takeaway, Yeah, second basement, nice Italian. 432 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 2: He just seems like someone who they're like, this might 433 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 2: be Utilianfield at the next level, Like he doesn't have 434 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 2: I think the realest power lats slap the ball around 435 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 2: the yard guy. But that again, that's like fine. It 436 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 2: was a ninth round, tenth round pick out of Binghamton, 437 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 2: which is not exactly a baseball powerhouse. But it just 438 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 2: seems like there's true process in this Mets draft process now, 439 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 2: which is nice, definitely. 440 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 1: And I noticed too that a lot of these pictures 441 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: all big boys too, Like you say big boys, like 442 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: I mean, they took what Tanner wid out of Texas, 443 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: six foot six, Ethan Lanthier out of Kansas, who's six 444 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 1: foot five, Jackson Jelkin shout out to gen Z who 445 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: knows what that means, six foot five one to ninety 446 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: out of Houston, like they're they're taking big dudes too, 447 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: Like there's there's a clear mold that David Sterns likes 448 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: and he was just Pepper and the players full of them. Yeah. 449 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:30,199 Speaker 2: And another mold that he likes is he seems to 450 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 2: just love, like I said before, this low release point, 451 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 2: flat vertical of prochangle fastball guys. He took other pitchers 452 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 2: in this class who have these things besides Dome and Santucci, 453 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 2: Will Watson, who was the next pick in our lineup 454 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 2: here out of a USC. He's another guy. He was 455 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 2: a reliever in college until this year, and he became 456 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 2: a star there and by the end of the season 457 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 2: he was pitching his best ball as USC was trying 458 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 2: to try to push their season ahead. He has a 459 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 2: sweeper in a change of the both great that well, 460 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 2: and again he has that low slot fastball. He's one 461 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 2: of the smaller pitchers that the Mets drafted, so even 462 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 2: more of like a potential disappearing pick with a tiny 463 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 2: guy with the low arm slot. But that's something that 464 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 2: they keep going after. Another one, Brett Gurton, Brandon Gurton, 465 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 2: Brendan Gurton, Brendan Gurton. Another guy, same thing, power pitcher 466 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 2: from Oklahoma, low arm slot, low of his flat, vertical 467 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 2: proch angle fastball. This guy, Jackson Jelkin, six foot five, 468 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 2: crazy slitherer throws gas. He was a big high school 469 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 2: recruit who was dismissed from Nebraska in the middle of 470 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,239 Speaker 2: his freshman year with no word of whatsoever. And then 471 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 2: like half that Nebraska baseball team also left that year, 472 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 2: so that might have been some internal issue. And then 473 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 2: this is the coolest thing in the Mets wall draft class. 474 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 2: He went that summer to the Alaskan Baseball League. 475 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: Oh dude, you don't know about the Alaskan Baseball League. Fuck, no, oh, 476 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: it's awesome, it's huge. It's it's sick over there, and 477 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: they play like a bunch of midnight baseball because it's sunny. 478 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 2: So the playing that night, that's something where I saw 479 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 2: that I put a big circle on it. I was like, 480 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 2: that's something I wanted to be a part of. The 481 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 2: one day I want to be a part of the 482 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:49,880 Speaker 2: Alaska Baseball League. 483 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: I'm in only because of the fact that he played 484 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: in Alaska for a summer. It's cool as hell. 485 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 2: And then he did. He got time of john surgery, 486 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 2: came back this season for Houston, pitch well again, but 487 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 2: there was no mention about the dismissal for Nebraska, so 488 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 2: I think that kind of puts him down some people's boards. 489 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 2: And just recovering from injury. That was another common threat 490 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 2: between this draft. So many pictures with injury issues, which 491 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 2: is so funny because they were like, you know, some 492 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 2: of these guys are gonna stay healthy eventually, and there's a. 493 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,239 Speaker 1: Line you could probably save some money too on these 494 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: guys and be like, he blew out your elbow, here's 495 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 1: the minimum m hm. 496 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 2: And also I think some some research that says that 497 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 2: these pictures are more likely to stay healthy the older 498 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 2: they get, which is funny. So you take these college 499 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 2: pictures with injuries. You know who else was once a 500 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 2: college picture with injuries? Chicken the brown Fuck it? 501 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: Come on, man, don't say that, we don't say that. 502 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: I'm fine. 503 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 2: Today's Today's the anniversary of his one hit there facing 504 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 2: twenty eight batteries against the Phillies, where fucking Zach Effler 505 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 2: got the only hit. So he was on my mind 506 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 2: when I woke up. 507 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: Of course, how about Ryan Lambert. This guy's also pretty 508 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: interesting too, because he throws one hundred and two miles 509 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: an hour like what he. 510 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 2: Was Oklahoma's closed this year. One hundred mile an hour fastball, 511 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 2: ninety mile an hour slider, eighty five mile an hour sweeper. 512 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 2: I wonder if they just say, you want to go 513 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 2: double a pitcher leaf right now, and let's see if 514 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 2: we could use you September or again. I wonder if 515 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 2: they just do the the sensible thing, the long term thing, 516 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 2: and stretch him as a star. They'll let him sit 517 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 2: in ninety six ninety seven and see if they can 518 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 2: use those three pitches and create the whole start, because 519 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 2: he has like the tight gyro slide that he threw 520 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 2: against lefties and a big sweeper that still came eighty 521 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 2: five miles an hour, which is like, that's kind of 522 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 2: where like Griffin jacks throws his sweeper. If you guys 523 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: have seen Griffin Jackson sweep er, that's just a demon pitch. 524 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 2: So he's like, he's another one who seems like, yeah, 525 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 2: like maybe go faster or maybe go slow. But a 526 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 2: lot of fun shit from the pitchers in this mets 527 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 2: A draft board. 528 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, And to be fair, we're not gonna be able 529 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: to give you everything on all twenty guys that were 530 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: taken because there's just not that much info available on 531 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: some of these guys, because yeah, Jase Hampson from Lynwood 532 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: High School in Washington, Like, there's just there's not a 533 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: lot of info on these guys. But we will give 534 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: you as much as we can anything else. And I 535 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: mentioned Tanner Wit earlier. He was a guy who was 536 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: a former possible first round pick coming out of high school. 537 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 1: Then he got Tommy john surgery, blew out his elbow 538 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 1: when he got to Texas, was a really good reliever 539 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: as a freshman, Like he blew out his elbow. He's 540 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: a pin up to ninety seven. It's just been an 541 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 1: injury thing with him as well, but there is good 542 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,400 Speaker 1: stuff there and a good curveball. He was a name 543 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: that I just even knew. I was like, oh, Tanner Wit, 544 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 1: that's a name I know that you've taken in the 545 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: fourteenth round. That must mean something. 546 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, uh that that was the only other guy I 547 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 2: had a lot of stuff on just that he apparently 548 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 2: has never really bounced back from his injuries, which is 549 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: again something that like, I don't know, go to the 550 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 2: pitching lab, take take six months, see if you could 551 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 2: do it. Another one's interesting. 552 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: RJ. 553 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 2: Gordon. He just he's huge, He's I don't know, he's 554 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 2: not a small guy. Got him confuse something else. He's 555 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 2: just a guy, a star that has a couple of tools. 556 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 2: But he has similar to that like action e fastball 557 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 2: in the zone, but it sits in the little nineties, 558 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 2: so it doesn't have as much upside, which makes sense 559 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:39,959 Speaker 2: because they took him in like the sixteenth round. But 560 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 2: other than that, it's just a lot of big boys. 561 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: Got what Ethan Lanthier guy might have been the one 562 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: you were thinking of, because he's been up to ninety 563 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: six to that fastball, that's the one nineteen plus inches 564 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: vertical or IVB back in twenty twenty three. They got 565 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: that from the cape Cod League, which is kind of 566 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 1: funny that we get some of the best stats that 567 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: we get from the cape Cod League and not these 568 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: major billion dollar D one organizations that these guys played for. 569 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 1: And also has a nineteen inch breaking sweeper apparently, so 570 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 1: a dude who's got some high ceiling was really good 571 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,640 Speaker 1: in the cape Cod Lee back in twenty twenty three. 572 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 2: He was another one who pitched in relief after he 573 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 2: transferred from Saint Cloud State, which I didn't know that 574 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,439 Speaker 2: was why I love that. Yeah, to Kansas, I love it. 575 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 2: And then now these dudes that come from that's so 576 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 2: that similar vibes to the guy Brett Banks we drafted 577 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 2: last year. But again, it just seems like the Mets 578 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 2: have such a comfortability now with these pitching prospects that 579 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 2: they draft, where they're drafting guys that they know that 580 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 2: their organization has a strength and developing and they know 581 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 2: that they can get more out of them than these 582 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 2: college programs did, which is the most beautiful thing I 583 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 2: could imagine. 584 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's definitely sick. By the way, I 585 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: don't know if you noticed this. Did you think Owen 586 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: Woodward and Jackson Jelkin were teammates by any chance, because Houston, 587 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: Yeah they're not. How crazy is that that you? University 588 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:58,199 Speaker 1: of Houston is different than where Jackson Jelkins Houston? So 589 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 1: Jackson Jelkins is the d one Houston Owen Woodward is 590 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: It looks like a Juco or maybe even like a 591 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 1: random college in Houston. 592 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 2: That's fucking crazy. Also, he took Josh Blum and the 593 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 2: oh I lied, Yeah, the same right, I got misinformation 594 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 2: they're for some reason MB draft tracker, they're put as different. 595 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 2: And then I saw pictures of him that's from his 596 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 2: old college, Weatherford College. Okay, there you go exactly. I 597 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 2: think they I saw ran tweet. They were like the 598 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 2: few pair of Houston teammates take him by the same 599 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 2: team and like fifteen years in the draft, we also 600 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 2: took USC teammates Josh Blum and Will Watson. So yeah, 601 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 2: the Mets, the power of friendship hold strong. I think 602 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 2: maybe the last guy to give a little bit on 603 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 2: Adam Hyte, the Mets last pick twenty round pick in 604 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 2: the draft. He's committed to Washington State and the Mets 605 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 2: took him the last round as one of the best 606 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 2: high school players in Washington. So it's Oregon State. Oregon State, 607 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 2: so it seems like they don't have that good of 608 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 2: a chance to sign him. But he feels like insurance 609 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 2: for Trey Snyder, where if they miss on Tray Snyder, 610 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 2: they give this guy height a lot more money. 611 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: To come into the program. 612 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 2: Also, weirdly, two way player high school. 613 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, Okay, this own Woodwards guy's got crazy stuff 614 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 1: going on. By the way, he trucked. He trucked a 615 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: batter after he hit a home run when he was 616 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: at Weatherford College. The guy pimped a home run off him. 617 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: He trucked him coming around third base, ran at him, 618 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: took him down. That's awesome. Okay, this dude is a dog. 619 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 1: And this year against Texas, he started off the game 620 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: struck out ten of the first fifteen batters he faced 621 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: against the University of Texas, but then looks like he 622 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 1: might have blown out his elbow. So, I mean, there's 623 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: some crazy stuff going on here. You gotta put the 624 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: click this tackle video. 625 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 2: It's insane. 626 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,439 Speaker 1: It's one of the craziest He laid him out. I'm in. 627 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: I'm in on Owen Woodward. I've been I've never been 628 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 1: moored in on a guy before in my life. 629 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 2: Which we had the better angle of it, butual we 630 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 2: had a better view, better camera. Let's say he's nice 631 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 2: little curveball too. 632 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: It's fun. Yeah, so I'll kick my out for him. 633 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 2: Okay, blue as elbow this April. 634 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: That sticks. 635 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 2: Okay, but again, fun draft class and I see the 636 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 2: Mets have a purpose and motive through a draft. And 637 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 2: I see him take players again. That seems like their 638 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,679 Speaker 2: strengths as an organization will help get more out of 639 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 2: and nice to see them just span these pictures because 640 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 2: pictures are expensive and now hopefully in like three years time, 641 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 2: we just have unlimited with them, yes. 642 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,199 Speaker 1: Which would be great. Guys, that's gonna be it for 643 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: this draft video. Thank you so much for watching. Remember 644 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: to drop a like on it over on YouTube if 645 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 1: you enjoyed it, as well as subscribe to the channel 646 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,439 Speaker 1: so you don't miss out. Follow us on all our 647 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: social media at mess up. But links are in the 648 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 1: description and that's where we'll wrap it up. We will 649 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: catch you guys tomorrow for a second half preview video 650 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: that we'll be dropping as well as just a regular 651 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,120 Speaker 1: podcast episode for the second half preview, and we'll see 652 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: you then. Peace Out guys, peace out guys. 653 00:26:25,280 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 2: Thanks for watching then,