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Speaker 1: Let's rank the top ten prospects in the Mets system

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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty sixth season. Me and James talk

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Speaker 1: about prospects all the time, So if you like that

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Speaker 1: got my list of ten, You got your list of ten.

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Speaker 1: We're just honorable mentions at the end. Is that what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think honorable mentions at the end because that's

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Speaker 2: when you know the people are gonna want to hear

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Speaker 2: the niche thoughts about non.

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Speaker 3: Top ten prospects.

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Speaker 2: Also, just starting into this, this is our fifth year

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Speaker 2: doing Mets Up. We've been doing Top ten Mets prospect

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Speaker 2: list a few time of years during that time. So

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Speaker 2: cool to see where this system has gone from where

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Speaker 2: it was and we started doing this show the fact

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Speaker 2: that we have talent up and down the boards. Tough

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Speaker 2: honorable mentions I had to cut out, which is again

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Speaker 2: I think one of the first time has ever happened.

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Speaker 2: So proud of the Mets that we have this farm

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Speaker 2: system together, a great thing that happened for them this

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Speaker 2: season while a lot of other things went poorly.

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Speaker 3: Also, just a quick quick word right now.

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Speaker 2: Usually for this list that Mark and I do, we

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Speaker 2: only do non debut prospects. But for this, just because

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Speaker 2: we want to catch some other guys who are going

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Speaker 2: to start the year in the minor leagues. That's our expectations.

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Speaker 2: You're starting the year in the minor leagues, you can

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Speaker 2: make this list. And if you've played in the major leagues

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Speaker 2: but you're starting there in the minor leagues, I included you.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, normally we don't do that. Normally will do that.

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Speaker 2: We don't want Noel McLean will not be on this list,

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Speaker 2: but Brandon Sprot and Joonah Tongu will be on this list.

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Speaker 3: That's basically what we're telling you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we just we're still gonna rank these guys because

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Speaker 1: bit murky. So start off at number ten, James, do

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Speaker 1: do we work down? Why do we normally do this?

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Speaker 2: We usually start attend and go back from there. Is

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Speaker 2: that the right move we want to do that, I

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Speaker 2: think so number Elli and Payna.

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Speaker 3: Okay about you. He was my first donable mention minus

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Speaker 3: Will Watson. Okay, yeah, I went Elly and paint.

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Speaker 1: That's so funny. Our last guy, I Go Hit You

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Speaker 1: Go picture as always classic. But for me, Elli and Payna,

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Speaker 1: like his numbers were just really good in DSL. I

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Speaker 1: our guy like Paanion not to not to say that

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Speaker 1: his ceiling isn't good. I still think the ceiling can

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Speaker 1: be a very very productive player for the Mets in

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Speaker 1: the near future. While near future being like four years

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Speaker 1: from now when he's like twenty one, maybe, but what

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Speaker 1: we saw him do at the minor league level pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Like he had a four hundred on base percentage, He

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Speaker 1: The ops was pretty high. I don't think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: in four or five years on one of the corners

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Speaker 2: Okay, So that was one of the main reasons I

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Speaker 2: to see a guy like Elim Pagna, where there's so

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Speaker 3: I need to see you hit against more advanced pitching.

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Speaker 2: Like to me, the bonus Eliam Payne got the prestige,

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Speaker 2: the mystique that he has. He should have gone to

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Speaker 3: And it's also cool to note with Elli.

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Speaker 2: And Paanna that he went nine games in the DSL,

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Speaker 3: Bats, did not have it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he just struggled then and then from that point

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Speaker 3: Will Watson was my number two. It has been for me.

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Speaker 2: There's been a few years in the making with Will Watson,

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Speaker 2: where with Mets draft for them basically just for fastball

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Speaker 2: And he developed a plus sly the hard pitch sits

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Speaker 1: By the way, most systems this would be a huge

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Speaker 3: So it is pretty it wasn't super high draft.

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Speaker 1: Pretty sick for the Mets to be like, well, Watson,

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Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely the kind of guy too that probably gets

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Speaker 3: That's kind of what it is here.

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Speaker 2: And to me, like there's still multiple other tiers of

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Speaker 1: Eli Sourano, Oh interesting, I did not have him on

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Speaker 2: right there. The fact that we know how much Brooklyn

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Speaker 3: It's a nice thing in the back of a top ten.

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Speaker 3: He was one of my honorable mentions.

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Speaker 2: I mean he's a little bit behind Will Watson for me,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I just like that the k rate

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Speaker 3: Would like to see though that change.

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Speaker 2: I feel like just when now that he's in the

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Speaker 3: But I just I would like to see.

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Speaker 2: I want to see now, is you guy just get

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Speaker 2: that their pit rate double A major like had his

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Speaker 1: Ski's another just dangle for trades.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, guy, like him, like your slave is that good,

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Speaker 2: Like you could tear apart the mind list, but like

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Speaker 3: But number eight one of my favorite guys in the list.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to find a way to push him up,

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Speaker 2: but I just couldn't because of how great the depth

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Speaker 3: And this is new tier now.

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Speaker 1: Jack went the same spot for me at number eight,

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Speaker 2: narrow max ex vlassi he had this year, I believe

438
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Speaker 2: in double LAYERO was Brooklyn one of the two.

439
00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:25,160
Speaker 3: That's amazing.

440
00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,640
Speaker 2: The fact that you have that he does doesn't have

441
00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,120
Speaker 2: doesn't lift the ball very much, so that's something that's

442
00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,040
Speaker 2: going to stop the game.

443
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Speaker 3: Power.

444
00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:32,640
Speaker 2: I don't know where that ever winds up like, I

445
00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,280
Speaker 2: don't know if a Juwing ever even hit sixteen home

446
00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,120
Speaker 2: runs in major league season, truthfully, But if he could

447
00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,920
Speaker 2: be a true elite defensive center fielder, if he can

448
00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,600
Speaker 2: be like a plus plus guy out there, and he's

449
00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:44,560
Speaker 2: fast enough, he's still learning the position, He's still played

450
00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,080
Speaker 2: a bunch of second bases here. It seems like he's

451
00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,560
Speaker 2: decent enough at that too, which is like hilarious versatility

452
00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:49,960
Speaker 2: for a guy like him. But if you can actually

453
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Speaker 2: get to himself, which a lot of people think is

454
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Speaker 2: on this trajector being a plus plus defensive center fielder,

455
00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,040
Speaker 2: if you have fifteen home runs and thirty doubles and

456
00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,800
Speaker 2: nine triples, suddenly that's what you get yourself to one

457
00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,480
Speaker 2: to WRSC plus three twenty on base percentage on on ten,

458
00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:02,960
Speaker 2: it's like.

459
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Speaker 1: A three to four win player for it.

460
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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying you.

461
00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:06,760
Speaker 2: If that happens like all of a sudden, this is

462
00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,679
Speaker 2: approaching a top tier prospect the guy who plays them.

463
00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,160
Speaker 2: I think he could be approaching by mid season this year,

464
00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,080
Speaker 2: like top fifties on some list, top forties. It might

465
00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,960
Speaker 2: be getting near there on his own right, there's there's

466
00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:18,840
Speaker 2: a lot of good stuff here. I love love when

467
00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,399
Speaker 2: a guy like Adre Ewan, who's a better athlete and

468
00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:21,960
Speaker 2: everyone in the field in the minor leagues, just steals

469
00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:22,680
Speaker 2: every base he can.

470
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Speaker 1: He's like, I can do this because you can't get me.

471
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Speaker 1: That's a fun thing to watch, all right. My number

472
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Speaker 1: four was Ryan Clifford. You want didn't know the reasons why,

473
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Speaker 1: the reasons I put it there. One just the proximity

474
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Speaker 1: to the major leagues. I think he's super close. I

475
00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,800
Speaker 1: think with a strong start to triple A, there's a chance,

476
00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,920
Speaker 1: especially if Fiano's doesn't hit or whatever the offense looks like.

477
00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,399
Speaker 1: I think there's a chance we could see Clifford at

478
00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:43,360
Speaker 1: the major league level this year, maybe even as early

479
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Speaker 1: as June, while the average is going to be low. Again,

480
00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:47,879
Speaker 1: this is why I keep saying Lucas due to thing

481
00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,159
Speaker 1: he gets on base a ton. He's extremely selective at

482
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Speaker 1: the plate, maybe too selective, that would be like, seems

483
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Speaker 1: to be the one kind of knock on Clifford is

484
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Speaker 1: maybe a little too selective because when he does make contact,

485
00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,520
Speaker 1: he absolutelytely obliterates baseballs. He hits the ball so damn hard.

486
00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:05,680
Speaker 1: He had twenty nine home runs last year between Double

487
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Speaker 1: A and Triple A, even in Triple A, where he

488
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,360
Speaker 1: like struggled more so as a twenty one year old,

489
00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,160
Speaker 1: which again is gonna be twenty two next season. That's

490
00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,680
Speaker 1: absolutely insane. Sometimes we get a little prospect fatigue. I

491
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Speaker 1: feel like it's happened a bit with Clifford still had

492
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Speaker 1: a three fifty nine on base in the thirty five

493
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Speaker 1: games that he played in Triple A last year as

494
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Speaker 1: a twenty one year old, with guys throwing junk, with

495
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Speaker 1: guys who were trying to make it to the majors

496
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Speaker 1: one stop away.

497
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Speaker 3: I think that's really really encouraging for Clifford.

498
00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:31,760
Speaker 2: Oh very in the same rule we just applied to

499
00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,520
Speaker 2: Jacob Brimer in Double A, we could apply it with

500
00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,439
Speaker 2: an extra twenty five WRC plus points in Triple A

501
00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,000
Speaker 2: and we go to get ourselves to almost a two

502
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Speaker 2: twenty WRC plus a.

503
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that to me is ridiculous.

504
00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,480
Speaker 2: And the advanced stats in Triple A two even better

505
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Speaker 2: than what he actually did, like a seven to fifty

506
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,760
Speaker 2: oh p has high walk rate, average strekt rate like, okay,

507
00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,200
Speaker 2: that's nice. He had over a fifty percent hard hit rate.

508
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Speaker 2: He was in like the ninety fifth percent health of

509
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Speaker 2: every type of eggs of lasity wont max average ninety percent,

510
00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,080
Speaker 2: fifty percent out. He hits the crap out of the

511
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Speaker 2: ball at lifting his pulled fly balls, at pulling pulling.

512
00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:04,440
Speaker 3: His fly balls. Although I said the same thing twice

513
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Speaker 3: in a row.

514
00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,560
Speaker 2: And for a guy who doesn't swing as often as

515
00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,640
Speaker 2: some other hitters, very high zone contact rate. Yes, so

516
00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,440
Speaker 2: he does pick the right pitches to swing out when

517
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:13,879
Speaker 2: he does decide to swing, and he's that good at

518
00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,320
Speaker 2: getting the bat on the ball and he still doesn't

519
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,119
Speaker 2: swing and miss a lot for his power. And I

520
00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:18,720
Speaker 2: heard something else with the grape Vine that has me

521
00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,040
Speaker 2: really deep on Clifford here again shout.

522
00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,080
Speaker 3: With the guy's baseball perspectives.

523
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,879
Speaker 2: Apparently hit Lasik surgery or something eye proceed at some

524
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,040
Speaker 2: point last year. Now he's just seeing things. Yeah, that's

525
00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,159
Speaker 2: insanely big. Imagine imagine not being able to see the

526
00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:33,840
Speaker 2: baseball one hundred percent trying to hit it.

527
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,280
Speaker 3: Baseball is impossible to begin with. Yeah, So this is

528
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Speaker 3: this lot of upshell on Clifford.

529
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Speaker 2: I just have him a little bit further down again

530
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Speaker 2: in that tier with Rhymer, Weninger and Sprote because as

531
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Speaker 2: a first base. Mean, just there's a lot much bigger

532
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Speaker 2: of a hurdley you have to climb to be a

533
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Speaker 2: major leaguatguer Yeah, left, you know what helps, He's got to.

534
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Speaker 1: Be elite hitter, and I.

535
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Speaker 3: I loky is why they didn't sign Pee Alonzo.

536
00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 2: Maybe I we'll see, we'll see, We'll say, we'll see

537
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Speaker 2: what happens in next few months.

538
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Speaker 1: Next we got we're up to number three now, right,

539
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Speaker 1: number three, the number three, Jet Williams.

540
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Speaker 2: For me, Sam exactly, I'm gonna be talk from this

541
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Speaker 2: point on, I believe, so yeah, Jet three, let's talk

542
00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 2: about him briefly. I think we're also getting a little

543
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,920
Speaker 2: prospect fatigue with him too, Is that fair to say,

544
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:12,800
Speaker 2: just because we've been hearing his name forever and he

545
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,159
Speaker 2: hasn't ascended as fast as the other guys. But truthfully,

546
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,399
Speaker 2: like Jet does everything that you'd want out of a

547
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Speaker 2: top prospect.

548
00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:20,040
Speaker 3: No, he definitely does.

549
00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,120
Speaker 2: And I think also with Jet there was a bad

550
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,119
Speaker 2: month month plus at Triple A last year, and that

551
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:25,600
Speaker 2: also is kind of dulling a shine. But when he

552
00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,960
Speaker 2: was a double like, he was like kind of unstoppable.

553
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,919
Speaker 2: He's someone who's very patient against minor league pitching. And

554
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,400
Speaker 2: he's one where I'm curious of how that patience adapts

555
00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,000
Speaker 2: to major league pitching because the guy like Jet, if

556
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:38,959
Speaker 2: he gets bombarded in his zone and that walk rate

557
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 2: doesn't come with him to the majors, and that seemed

558
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,480
Speaker 2: like something that might have happened to Triple A. That's

559
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Speaker 2: something that's concerning. I'm also just in general baseball, Jet

560
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Speaker 2: Williams is very valuable because I think.

561
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Speaker 3: He can be a shortstop guy.

562
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Speaker 2: I actually think he has defensive chops to stick a

563
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,680
Speaker 2: short stop for the Mets. That changes things because he's

564
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Speaker 2: that's not going to happen. So I how how good

565
00:20:58,160 --> 00:20:59,520
Speaker 2: does your bat have to be? They just carry a

566
00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,280
Speaker 2: second base who we think is plus. Can you play

567
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,120
Speaker 2: center field? That's still something that's up in the air

568
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 2: with Jet. I still think there's good. He just seems

569
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 2: like like a rock solid major league baseball player, like

570
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Speaker 2: a roster guy. I'm still just curious about how much higher.

571
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Speaker 3: He can go.

572
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,679
Speaker 1: That's the big thing is what is a ceiling on

573
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Speaker 1: a guy like Jet Williams, where like he has good

574
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:23,760
Speaker 1: power numbers, it's not like they're bad, but like does

575
00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 1: he hit does he hit more than twenty homers? In

576
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:28,199
Speaker 1: the season, maybe not.

577
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 2: And it's also the thing with Jet, you never want

578
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 2: to do this, but you kind of have to nippick

579
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Speaker 2: at this spot when we get to these guys. It's

580
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,400
Speaker 2: just not that many players in Major League Baseball look

581
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,399
Speaker 2: like Jet Williams, like you always like to talk about,

582
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,879
Speaker 2: like the smaller players with the punchy Archya type, the Corbyn,

583
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,200
Speaker 2: Carroll Firus Alec Thomas, Like that's kind of the range

584
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 2: of outcomes there. And then also you get to like

585
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Speaker 2: Slay the Ruin who's just traded into Shane bos trade,

586
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 2: Like that's that kind of like whippy, punchy, short guy

587
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 2: that's not really Jet. Jet has more of like a

588
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,200
Speaker 2: strong build. He's got the fire hydrant like they like

589
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 2: to say Dylsin Herrara, but a little bit more beef

590
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 2: on him. And there's still don't say that name, but

591
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,520
Speaker 2: just saying he hits the ball hard. He doesn't swing

592
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 2: out of strikes home, but he also doesn't swing that much.

593
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 2: He pulls his fly balls like there's there's still definitely

594
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 2: a step to go with Jet Williams, but for him.

595
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Speaker 1: To get to that next level, because I think I

596
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,560
Speaker 1: think we're confident he's going to be a pretty good

597
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 1: MLB player.

598
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:14,800
Speaker 2: But I also tell you, Gus with Jet Williams, I

599
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 2: think a lot of people are souring on him because

600
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:17,400
Speaker 2: of prospect fatigue.

601
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 3: Like you've said, if he went to college, he'd be

602
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 3: into the draft this year. Yeah, which is crazy.

603
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,640
Speaker 2: Like he just turned twenty two. Yeah, he's so young,

604
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 2: he's so so like he's say birth he is my mom. Wow,

605
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 2: that's crazy.

606
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Speaker 1: Oh, shout out, shout out James's.

607
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 2: Mom November third. That's crazy. But yeah, it's a he

608
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 2: stills to get over a hump. But I still like

609
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Speaker 2: him as a Player's floor was number two. Jonatan Jonatan.

610
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so again, to take what Joe DeMeo DMed me

611
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 1: that one time, if he never made an appearance in

612
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, he would be one of the most

613
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Speaker 1: untouchable prospects in the entire farm system. He's probably still

614
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Speaker 1: is one of the most untouchable prospects in the farm system.

615
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Speaker 1: But I don't think Mets fans would be as willing

616
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 1: to trade him as they are publicly, which also doesn't matter.

617
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,920
Speaker 3: But I mean, he was rocking like a forty percent

618
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Speaker 3: k in the minors. The stuff's on.

619
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: He's got one of the most unique arm angles that

620
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Speaker 1: we've seen. He throws basically almost from the left. He

621
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: almost throws lefty because he's so far over the top

622
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: right handed. The fastball is good, the change, it's ridiculous.

623
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Speaker 1: He needs that third pitch. That's what's gonna be the

624
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 1: difference between what we saw from Joan Tong last year

625
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: and being a true, true and I think if he

626
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: gets a slider, he'll just be an ace.

627
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 3: I really do think so.

628
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 2: No, it's he's someone right now is on such a

629
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 2: seesaw because what he has now is like is good.

630
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,919
Speaker 2: It's like when we saw him last year. There was

631
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 2: some moments where he looked amazing there some almost looked terrible.

632
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 2: It did feel like the hitters could play a cat

633
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,199
Speaker 2: and mouse with him where they could kind of just

634
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 2: sit fastball. It's not easy to catch up to, but

635
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 2: if you know it's coming, it's easier to catch up to.

636
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:40,639
Speaker 2: He still struck out the core of the batters he

637
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 2: faced when he kind of only had one true weapon

638
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 2: against them, like two pitches. But it is just gonna

639
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 2: be curious, what is ourm angle with the lift he

640
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 2: gets on his fastball, if what that next pitch could

641
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 2: be like we see this with ball, right, he has

642
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 2: the curveball, but it's just it's obvious. It's almost like

643
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 2: too much vertical separation. It's too crazy there. It's like

644
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 2: it's it's almost a twenty on our difference, like they

645
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 2: spot the thing out of Handstanly, he's a great with

646
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:03,360
Speaker 2: the changeup.

647
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 3: We see Trey Savage with the split.

648
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 2: We see also Trey Savage with the backwards Slyther the

649
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 2: fuse slides that Jonah's tong threw actually did have some

650
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,439
Speaker 2: glove side movement, but they just weren't really good. Like

651
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 2: I'm this is good you talk about the pitching lab.

652
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: This is when like this is when the pitching lab

653
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 2: is walking out to the mound like edwind Diez with

654
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 2: the trumpet's like, this is when the pitching lab are

655
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 2: his money right now, because you could Joeah Tom you

656
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 2: can see a world where he's one of the best

657
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 2: pitchers in baseball. You can see a world where he

658
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 2: can't really elevate himself past like a three four. Well,

659
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 2: it's like the uh, he's right now, he's stuck in.

660
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,679
Speaker 2: Like again, that for a thing that we've seen with

661
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,719
Speaker 2: some top prospects on the hitting side. When they've come

662
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 2: up where you're way too good for Triple A.

663
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: You have conquered it. It's over. There's nothing else that

664
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 1: you need to do there. But the major league level,

665
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 1: you just might not have that pitch recognition, you might

666
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 1: have the discipline, you might not be able to square

667
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: the ball up because it moves a little faster, moves

668
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 1: a little bit more. For Tong right now, it's all

669
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 1: the guys in Triple A can't touch you. They never will.

670
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 3: It's over.

671
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: The guys at the major league level will just sit fastball,

672
00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: and because they're they're the best players in the entire.

673
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's any kind of I don't know,

674
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 2: carryover effect like translation here to the way that Freddy

675
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 2: Prawlta broke into the league six seven years ago. Now

676
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 2: where he was fastball Freddy that was it extension Freddy

677
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 2: fastballs to catch up to it, but eventually hit his

678
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 2: canue that was coming and Freddy Prault's command.

679
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 3: I think when he broke through it was even I

680
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 3: think significantly.

681
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:20,719
Speaker 2: Worse than Jonah Tong's was when we just saw him

682
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 2: at again twenty two, twenty one years old, when he

683
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 2: made his debut a the end of last season, he

684
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 2: was twenty two. Any debut a baby, they're eighteen to

685
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 2: two thirds innings, And if it did take Freddy Perrault

686
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 2: a few years, and he even didn't develop the full

687
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 2: repertoire until this past year, he was six years in

688
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 2: the show. Like it just takes a while sometimes, but

689
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 2: that fastball is not you can't really teach what Jonah

690
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 2: Toan can do with that fastball.

691
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 3: So it's still just it's such an amazing place to

692
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 3: start and I can't wait to cherry pick on this

693
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 3: stat here.

694
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: But it's like, of those eighteen innings, I just like

695
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: thirteen of them were pretty good and he just had

696
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: like five blow up innings.

697
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 2: And then also there was the thing where like the

698
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 2: Cincinnati game was the home runs getting in the best

699
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 2: of him, and like it's not I mean again, some

700
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 2: of those are pissed on, but some of them are not.

701
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 2: Like it was, there's this is this is also our

702
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 2: baby boy, Like we're going to protect this.

703
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 3: This is our fucking boy. I love this dude. I'm

704
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 3: gonna keep him safe next year.

705
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 2: And you get if you guys call me bias, I

706
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 2: don't care because I'm keeping him safe.

707
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: Messed up was hip to Jonah Tong. Before Jonah Tong was.

708
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 2: Hipped to Jonah Tong, we mentioned Jonah Tong. I think

709
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 2: the first episode we did the Media Marvel when I

710
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 2: was in Morocco and Jose Bhutto had that great start

711
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 2: against Cold Reagan's in April of twenty twenty four. I

712
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,160
Speaker 2: think that was the first Jonah Tong mentioned good times,

713
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 2: but it was a buster only week in the mess

714
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 2: of No Pittrick Prospects. That one came to ahead now

715
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 2: very quickly, and then on that one. But it's so

716
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 2: it's almostly, it's kind of scary. They have this kind

717
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 2: of tantalizing of a prospect where the ceiling is so

718
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 2: high and the floor is like.

719
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 3: Kind of low. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, it's it's

720
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 3: gonna be fun to watch, what if anybody.

721
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 1: I trust the guy who's kind of done it already,

722
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 1: like kind of been a little freak, like he's developed

723
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 1: so much already.

724
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 2: I trust him that he's gonna be able to do

725
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 2: it again totally. And the attitude seems impeccable. And you

726
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,399
Speaker 2: have to you have to be ready and willing to

727
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 2: fail to get to this point in life. And anything

728
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 2: way for Joan Tong to reach the major leagues as

729
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 2: a as a as a six foot tall, one hundred

730
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 2: and eighty pounds string bean from Canada who loves grilled

731
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 2: cheese and maple syrup together because he's again he's a freak.

732
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 3: But like this, Oh yeah, you like a good combination.

733
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 3: I forgot about that. That was yeah, a right, that was yeah,

734
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 3: my byhand, I'm sorry, but my heart Taylor recipe. Nothing

735
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 3: better but so good.

736
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 2: It's so good, it's I can't I can't wait to

737
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 2: watch jo and Tong this year. But also it might

738
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 2: not click this year and bite not click next year.

739
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 3: Also, if it clicked, I wouldn't be surprised. I'm good

740
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 3: to be patient.

741
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: I got no I got no problem being patient with

742
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: him because again, the ceiling is so good. Number One

743
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 1: Carson Bench, Carson Bench. I mean he's one of the

744
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: what five best prospects in baseball by by some people's accounts.

745
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, seven eight.

746
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 2: I'm doing more prospects stuff to my channel now. I'm

747
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 2: putting him ahead of JJ Weatherhall. I think he's actually

748
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: better than def after digging into things, and I don't

749
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 2: think that's consensus right now. And last year he struggled

750
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 2: a lot in Triple A. Like the surface stats, we're

751
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 2: quite bad. At the same time, he just went He

752
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 2: ricocheted through three levels last year, a year out of college,

753
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 2: so I don't really I also leave in college early,

754
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 2: and he's like twenty four games, sure hit terrible, a

755
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: buck eighty average.

756
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 3: You've seen the cars in benj at Van stats and

757
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 3: Triple A. They're phenomenal, unbelievable.

758
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 2: He was hitting the crap out of the ball. We

759
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: have one hundred and ten and a half max EV

760
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 2: and again that was only in thirty games, So it's

761
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 2: good chance we get a higher one there, especially when

762
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 2: you consider the fact that his fiftieth percentiles lost he

763
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 2: was ninety fourth percentile. His ninety percent was his eighty

764
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: fourth percentile high barrel rate, fifty four percent hard hit

765
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 2: rate with.

766
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 3: One eighty batting average. I would go postal if that

767
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 3: was me.

768
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, to play like a Greek out hitting me, that

769
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 2: was especially when I'm not swinging and missing, I'm making

770
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 2: contact in the zone. I'm not striking out like that.

771
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 1: That's the difference is like you could be like, I

772
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: understand how Joey Gallo hits one eighty because he doesn't

773
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: hit the very often.

774
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 3: Carson Bench puts the ball in play, can turn the contact.

775
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's a little bit more passive, and he

776
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: also is still not pulling the fly balls. But there's

777
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 2: there are so many tools in his toolbox that really

778
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 2: might not matter, especially that we're getting the murmurs. I

779
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,239
Speaker 2: mean talking about like what we've been able to get

780
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: out of David Stearns this offseason.

781
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: He said he's got a shot at opening Day. That's like,

782
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: that's the craziest thing David certain To said as a

783
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: met isn't that president?

784
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 2: He said that in November, Like I was like, what like?

785
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 2: And he started less year in Brooklyn, Like he only

786
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: he played sixty games of Brooklyn. He only played thirty

787
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: games at Binghamton, And he's like, what eighty WRC plus

788
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.

789
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 3: He destroyed that level. One of the ten best prospects

790
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 3: in baseball.

791
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 2: Good testaments like what this regime is doing getting a

792
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 2: guy like Carson Bench, who was a good college player

793
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: well round. The guy had some flaws, was a two

794
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: way player, focus up on the bat, and now it's

795
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 2: just boom out of a cannon. This guy could be

796
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 2: like I still see Carson Bench throwing around trade proposals,

797
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 2: and I have to emphasize this. This guy is untouched, touchable,

798
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 2: untouched shot, a lefty bat, possible, slightly above average defensive

799
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: center fielder with power, crazy speed to his speed grades

800
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: in Triple A was like a ninety percentile as well.

801
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 2: But I know he's an incredible athlete. I legitimately don't

802
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 2: know who the Mets. Like, what would the Mets move him?

803
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 2: Who would be a player moving for Hunter Green?

804
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that's that's kind of it, right in terms

805
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: of realistic players that could ever even slightly be a

806
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: well like yeah, take him for show, Donnie, of course, like.

807
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 2: He like, this is gonna sound great. I don't even

808
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 2: think you put them up for like Jose Ramirez. It's

809
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 2: a close one. I mean, Jsermirra's a contract. That's what

810
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 2: plays into this.

811
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 3: Said, Well, I'm.

812
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 2: Thinking about your best contract lest from the wine time that'shere.

813
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 2: I'm just going to my head right now. I just

814
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 2: he's guys, this guy might be like he might be special,

815
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 2: and even if he's not special, the chance of be

816
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 2: being like, well above average.

817
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 3: Are really high.

818
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: And it's not that we wouldn't take Hoser ramires.

819
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 3: It's just what I'm saying. It's all contract. Play is

820
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 3: a contract, is the age, It's all that stuff put together.

821
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 3: It's close. He's not bad than that's not, of course not.

822
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Carson Bench has the ability to be a special,

823
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: special player. And again, for David Stearns to mention opening

824
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: day murmurings in November, it seems like every time he

825
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: brings up car he brings up Carson Ben jump prompted.

826
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: It feels like, honestly, he might really like this guy,

827
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: might see something. I I'd like to see what Carson

828
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: Bench can do for the New York Mets. And I

829
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: got an inkling that he is gonna be on the

830
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: opening day roster.

831
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 3: I do too.

832
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 2: The one thing you do worry about though, like just

833
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: young guy like this, like a lot of pressure to

834
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: be here opening day when there could be a slightly

835
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 2: hostile environment.

836
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 3: But like pressure mixed.

837
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: Diamonds, I am. I am thinking about the pressure that

838
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: Noel McLean and Carson Bench could be under this season.

839
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 2: Again possible, but I guess again, I mean there is

840
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot in those guys shoulders based on

841
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 2: the way his offseasons gone. So far, maybe nothing was

842
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 2: happened by the time this goes out, tell me your

843
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 2: honorable mentions.

844
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: Honorable mentions, Chris Swerro. I think just the fact that

845
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: he did so well in the Arizona Fall League as

846
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: well as he had a great season, just someone to mention.

847
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: I think especially the Mets sending him out there too,

848
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: they wanted to see a little bit more of him,

849
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: and I think he impressed. And then on the pitching side,

850
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: I've mentioned it before, but that Doug Douglas Oreana guy,

851
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: as well as Ryan Lambert and Dylan Ross. I think

852
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: all three of those guys are gonna have big impacts

853
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: in the Mets bullpend this season.

854
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:32,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love to swear I mentioned I had him

855
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 2: on mind too. Just looks like a super duper athlete

856
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 2: and can play everywhere. That's valuable, and we have advanced

857
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 2: staff in Arizona Fall If you guys missed that episode

858
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 2: about a month and a half ago, seventy five mile

859
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 2: an hour average swing speed, one twelve point five max

860
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: eggs of Flosi right there, Boom, that's a plus power guy.

861
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 2: That's a guy who could probably had twenty five home

862
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 2: runs with a full season of playing time and we'll

863
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 2: see where the defensive home winds up. Like he's fast

864
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 2: enough for you, Like, imagine if he can even get

865
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 2: basketball in center field, Like that'd be freaky.

866
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: He could catch some innings give for instance, guaut As

867
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: a bump would be sick.

868
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: I wanted to give a shout to Mitch Voyd as well,

869
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 2: our first round pick from this past season. I got

870
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 2: a couple of great notes here, one from a guy

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Speaker 2: Michael Donedeo Baseball Perspectus and MJD's stats. I've shot him

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Speaker 2: out a lot in the show. He's doing prospect Or

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Speaker 2: with Baseball Perspectives. Now big swing change with Mitchvoyd. Big

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Speaker 2: swing Change. Mitch Foyd had a bit of a more

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Speaker 2: subtle light kick and stride when he came to the

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Speaker 2: Mets all of a sudden midway through only playing a

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Speaker 2: handful of games last year with Saint Lucy Due was

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Speaker 2: for jacks and I like people were still into Mitch

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Speaker 2: Foyd in college, like, I know I've another right. Tyler

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Speaker 2: Jennings of I think he's Prospects Live said that he

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Speaker 2: tickled one hundred and fifteen mile per hour Barrier when

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Speaker 2: he was in college and he had a thirteen percent

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Speaker 2: strikeout rate at over fifteen percent walkerate as but his

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Speaker 2: last year in Michigan and again some rumblings moving to

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Speaker 2: shortstop might be nasty there.

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Speaker 3: Listen would be huge, That would be huge.

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Speaker 2: That's the kind of thing where if he if he goes,

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Speaker 2: if he hits for power next next to HEAs like

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Speaker 2: into next season with Brooklyn and he's playing good shortstop.

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Speaker 3: He got George Lombark. Also keep out keep an eye

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Speaker 3: out for r J. Gordon. He did some good stuff

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Speaker 3: too last year. Yeah, so many pitches are so I

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Speaker 3: can't wait.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to find out who the new guys

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Speaker 1: are gonna.

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Speaker 2: Be during the season when we do this update mid

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Speaker 2: seas in July to the top fifteen prospects.

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Speaker 3: There's so many guys now, but I hope you guys

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Speaker 3: enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: You can follow James on social media at James Shanna.

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Speaker 1: I'm Draftnick Mark. Thank you guys for listening, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for watching. We'll catch you on the next one.

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Speaker 3: Peace Out, peace out guys. Let's go Mets.