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Top 100 2026 NCAA Draft Prospects | Ep. 007 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: The amateur team that Prospects Live recently released its top
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  one hundred n C Double A players for the twenty
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  twenty six draft. On today's episode of College Baseball Now,
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  we're breaking down the list. Let's get to it. Yeah,
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  there ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 2: There ain't no problems. Don't want problem.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me time to chet. Then what was gone
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  for a minute?
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  Speaker 1: Hit a p out beat? Did grab a couple wins.
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  Speaker 2: With a D?
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  Speaker 3: If it's even on the kid, I had to do
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  a p I G.
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  Speaker 1: I can never be average and.
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  Speaker 3: They want to pull them with the boy.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want no status. I don't need so coach
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  time run a week, guy, I want to test.
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  Speaker 3: That to the standing, to control, run the game best
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  and leave who.
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  Speaker 1: Signing dogs counted them my wins?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they love it when they count me out, counting
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  up the least in shame?
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  Speaker 1: Why minute? Dogs? Best believe I run the game?
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  Speaker 3: You know, one man truly out that magic to leave?
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  Speaker 5: How understanding.
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  Speaker 2: Stand?
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  Speaker 1: Much like the list, we've gone from one to one
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  hundred real quick, and we are back after the holiday break.
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  Your friends, your boys, your hosts of college Baseball now
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  are back with you. Glad to be back with you, guys.
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  The countdown is on, less than two months until the
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  glorious return of college baseball. I think a round of applauses.
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  Weren't it good? That was a good pause. Thanks guys,
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  thank you. I appreciate that we are, like I said,
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  your hosts of college baseball now, starting of course, with me,
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  your friends, your host, your boy Drew Wheeler, glad to
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  be with you, the director of Amateur Scouting Prospects Live,
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  happy to be with you, Happy to be with these
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  three gentlemen who we are going to introduce before we
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  get into our episode today. Starting with the gentleman on
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  my right, mister JB. Sebastiano. JB. You have an interesting
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  dinner earlier. Curious if you tell the folks what you
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  had for dinner.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we went to a little place here
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  called Kava.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: We got a little kid's meal, you know, don't sleep
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  on the kid's meal. You can eat you as a
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  grown man too. You got a little chicken, some pickled onions,
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  some cucumbers, tomato in there with a nice little tazeki sauce,
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  a peeda and some rice. You know, it's pretty good.
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  So good night, for me and the girlfriend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. You know. It's like I said
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  to you earlier, they can arrest you. You can eat
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  the kid's meal as a grown man.
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  Speaker 3: They're not gonna arrest you exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had that happen. Yeah, I haven't had that
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  happen to me yet at least, so I don't you know,
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  your mileage may vary at home. Underneath JB. Sebastiano on
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  the bottom right of your screen is gonna be mister
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  Josh katlechsh You have been across and around the world lately.
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  You were back in your bedroom with the old OKC
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  flag over your shoulder. I'm sure you're glad to be
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  kind of settled, settled back into your familiar digs. Curious
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  what was it you had for dinner tonight? My man?
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  Speaker 5: Oh what did I have?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: I went to this barbecue place. I got some burnt
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  ends with mac and cheese and green beans. Phenomenal and
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  it's can't can't speak more high praise on this place
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  in Auburn.
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  Speaker 5: It's called Bow and Arrow. It's phenomenal. If you're ever
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  in town.
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  Speaker 6: It's my personal favorite like food spot in the entire city.
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  So yeah, I can't bad for that enough, Like local business,
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  gotta give a shout out.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta give it a shout out. Let's really quickly, game time, Josh,
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  you said, burnt ins, mac and cheese, green beans, yep.
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  One to ten, with ten being like I feel like
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  I feel like a weightlifter today and one being like
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  I feel like a slob today. Where does that fall
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  on the Southern boy healthy level health?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, if we're going pure health, like the green
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  beans make you feel like you're eating health but you're not.
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  The burnt ends like, I'm gonna play it safe and
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  go like six, but like good protein, good green beans,
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  mac and cheese can't be good for you though, and
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  you just feel like lethargic afterwards.
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  Speaker 5: But it tastes good. That's really all that matters.
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  Speaker 6: You don't go to a barbecue place and be like, yeah,
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  I'm gonna feel good about myself and my body afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: That it's you know, we're gonna throw it to our
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  man from the West Coast JB. What's the actual rating
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  on the healthy dinner scale here?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's gotta be like a three. It's gotta
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  be like a three.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's not fried and so that's a win for
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  us down here.
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  Speaker 2: It's true.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I've had him here. They're good, though,
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  they're great.
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  Speaker 5: It's good.
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  Speaker 6: That's all that matters. I don't I don't go to
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  a barbecue place to be healthy. I would go to
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  somewhere like Taba for that.
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  Speaker 1: When we start criticizing a lot of fat, I'm gonna
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  need us to really chill out. Okay, that's gonna start
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  getting into my wheelhouse. I don't appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Down on the bottom left of the screen, a gentleman
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  that knows plenty about the Southern but who is also
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  well in shape. I think we're gonna let him be
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  the deciding judge here. It's mister Jake Barjerie, Jake lovely hat,
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  my friend, the whole pe live logo rocket and it
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  looks great. The new earphones, the new mike. He's a
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  brand new man. I think you're in a new backdrop too,
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  aren't You're in a new place in the house.
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  Speaker 2: Uh well, I just had to switch terms. It is temporary,
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  but yeah, that was a Christmas was good to me
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  this year. I got the headphones and the mic.
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  Speaker 1: We're all set up, so we'll recap you on Josh's
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  Dinner one more time, burnt ends, mac and cheese, green beans,
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  scale of one to ten. Where's that fall in the
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  healthy man dinner?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like Josh said, I mean, if you're going
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  just of all the food that you can find down
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  in the South, it's definitely not the least healthy right there.
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  Definitely you could you could you could do or so
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  I mean, if I'm one to ten, I'll split the
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  difference and say a five.
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  Speaker 6: Right there, you go, Look we get what were we
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  talking about right before we hopped on to record Bojangles.
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  I could be gonna be fried chicken with mashed potatoes
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  and mac and cheese and a biscuit. It could be
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  way worse than the green beans and all sets everything.
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  Speaker 1: It could have been worse. The green beans did a
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  lot of lifting. The burnt ins not being a fried
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  entree a lot of lifting. Jake, what was your what
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  was your dinner? Pal?
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  Speaker 2: So I had a I had a case from from
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  wah wah everywhere and not it was not in Tennessee
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  before I moved up here to Pennsylvania. So I got
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  a I had a nice buffalo chicken casan dia with
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  some salt on. It was. It was, it was. It
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  was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I'm kind of in line with that.
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  Tonight was taco night at the Wheeler House, and uh,
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  it went down for sure. I went down for sure.
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  Mallory made some uh it's like the caso dip from Chili's.
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  She made that as well. So it was it was
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  very good, very good. Uh enough about dinner. You saw it.
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  It's written on the tin, It's written on the episode description.
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  The top one hundred n cua A Prospects for the
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  twenty twenty six draft recently dropped at Prospects Life. It
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  is a mammoth article featuring reports from all four of
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  the gentlemen on your screen, plus another, if I'm not mistaken,
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  twelve naves. An insane amount of writers went into this,
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  tons of talent, tons of wisdom, and we are gonna
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  be breaking down the list for you all guys. You
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  know it, you've seen the format. I'm gonna explain it
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  to the people at home, So if you guys want
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  to get warmed up, we're about to jump right into
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  the discussion. Rather than talk about this list as a
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  one to one hundred. It's a little overwhelming I'm getting
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  a little stemmy thinking about it. We broke it down
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  into more bite sized clusters. We're gonna talk about like
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  chunks of ten, chunks of twenty five, and we're really
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  getting a little granular some of the guys here. But
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  we are going to read you most every name. We
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  want to give you a reason to go to prospects
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  Live dot com hit that subscribe button, because if nothing
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  else for the draft content, seven dollars a month is
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  such a steal. We've put out dag on. I know
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  Jake has put out probably like ten articles in the
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  last two weeks. We've had some stuff from Josh that's
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  dropping tomorrow. It will be on the site by the
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  time you read this. JB's working on an article, has
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  been working on videos and reports. We've got a ton
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  of content. But then beyond that, so for your dynasty
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  team and fantasy your card hibby your pro team, what
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  their prospects look like. A ton of stuff at prospects
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  live dot com, not the least of which the top
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  one hundred NCAA prospects from the twenty six draft. Shall
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  we get to it, though, Let's talk about the top
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  ten gentlemen. I'm gonna go through the list. Number one
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  might surprise some people, a little known prospect called Rock Scholowski.
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  He is apparently a shortstop from UCLA. People say he
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  might be the best college shortstop in a decade. I
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  think I've hit all of the talking points. We're well
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  aware of who Rock Sholowski is. You saw his exploits
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  as a freshman last year only improved the Golden Spikes winter.
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  He is the one one with a bullet right now
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  if you ask anybody, let's move past him. Number two
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  Drew Burris, outfielder from George Tech. Number three Christopher hecopean
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  shortstop question mark from Texas A and M. We'll get
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  into him in a minute. No, we've got some big fans,
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  a couple of guys that may not be as big
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  on Hokopian, but there's several like that. Especially in the
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  top ten. We've got some fluctuans amongst the team. Number
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  four New movement, Cam Fluky right hander from Coastal Carolina.
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  The old Chankletiers have their ace at number four. Derek
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  Curriel from LSU is going to come in a number five.
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  AJ Garcia, the Duke to Virginia transfer in the outfield,
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  number six, Number seven, Liam Peterson of Florida, the right hander.
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  Number eight, another controversial one in the middle infield Justin Lebron,
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  the Alabama shortstop, certainly the flower in the Alabama dump
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  heap there that team might say Number nine Jackson Flora,
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  the right hander from U see Santa Barbara. And number
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  ten Ace Reese, Mississipi State's third basement. Guys, we've had
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  some fluctuation, a lot of movement in and out, up
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  and down. Not not a lot of drastic movement amongst
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  these ten, but we had guys come up, had some
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  guys settled down. My first question, and it's a controversial one.
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  I know which of these guys has the best chance
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  to usurp Rock Scholowski as number one. Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, guys,
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  I realize this is unlikely as of right now. We're
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  sitting at January seventh, twenty twenty six, when we're recording
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  this right now, I'd say every one of us are
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  probably ninety percent sure Rock is the one one unless
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  we see some catastrophic stuff happen this season. But let's
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  just imagine who has the best shot at unearthing Rock
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  as the one one. Mister Catlet, we are going to
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  start with you. Pitch your case, make your case to
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  the judge.
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  Speaker 2: Sir.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna say well, first of all, for the record,
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  I don't think anybody is passing Rock.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like that's sett In Stone.
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  Speaker 6: But if it were to happen, I guess it's Cam
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  Fluki from Coastal.
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  Speaker 5: I've talked about him in our mind major preview.
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  Speaker 6: He's a lanky six six guy who had a three
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  two eight ERA and a one flat whip last year.
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  He also had a k rate of twenty nine and
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  one hundred and one innings pitched. I mean, if you
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  if you watch Cam Fluki on the mound, it doesn't
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  take one of us to tell you how legit he is.
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  Speaker 5: He just passes the eye test with flying colors.
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  Speaker 6: It's a mid to upper nineties fastball with great ride
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  character the zone. He pairs that with an elite curve
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  ball that tunnels well with the heater before it just
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  drops off the face of the earth. Essentially, it's four
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  solid pitches. It's a great command, it's great extension down
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  the mound. I mean, I think I think Perfect Game
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  just announced them as their preseason pitcher.
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  Speaker 5: Of the year, and rightfully so.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he's easily as good of an ace as
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  there is in the country, and he has real potential
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  to be the top arm draft in July, if not
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  top overall.
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  Speaker 1: Well said mister Sebastiano, We're gonna go to you, unless
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  my screen is deceiving me. There's a familiar name here.
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  Who do you think has the best chance to you
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  surf for?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'll start out with saying I think if
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  he gets passed up, I think there's a good chance
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  it could be a prep guy. But to go past that,
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  I do agree, I think it will be Cam Fluke,
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  who would have to be the guy to do it.
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  But on a side note as well, Josh already talked
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  about and gave a lot. I'm gonna pivot a little
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  bit and talk about someone else. Jackson Flora, I think
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  is someone that's intriguing in that conversation as well, another
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  arm for a different demographic, and I think from the
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  standpoint of saving money, I think Flora would do a
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  better job at that than Cam Fluke. Flora's coming from UCSB,
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  another mid major program, but he's probably gonna be the
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  starting pitcher three maybe four on a lot of people's
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  boards overall in the draft, probably three for most college boards.
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  He's a guy, he's got a lot of interesting characteristics,
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  and he's got a lot of the same stuff that
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  you're gonna see with Flukey, just he's not as big,
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  he doesn't have as much of an outlier stuff, but
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  he's got a lot of elite characteristics that teams are
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  gonna like. So I think Flora's a guy. Could say
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  him a few million bucks like Willet's last year if
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  that's the route they go.
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  Speaker 3: But that's kind of my thoughts on it.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. I think that's certainly an interesting approach you could take,
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  and I could see where Flora might be that cost
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  cutting demographic that could still give you arm with outwire streets.
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  Certainly a good call. JB and Josh Jake, I know
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  you have got a bat here. That's a bold take, man,
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  But I think that if anybody could have this talent
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  to maybe one up Rock a little bit, you may
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  have the guy. Tell us about him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did go with Da Boris and I'll keep it,
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  you know, short and sweet with him. We talked about
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  it a lot. Played for Team USA this summer. He
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  was kind of the consensus one to one before Rock
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  kind of exploded onto the scene. But at the plate,
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  you know, he covers the entire strike zone. He's got
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  power to all fields. If you have a chance to
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  check out a spray chart on Drew Bas's extra base hits,
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  it is a fun thing to look at. But he
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  pulls his hands inside, he dips and drives the ball
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  when he gets his a swing off. It's a really
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  pretty thing to look at. His bat stays in the
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  zone for so long it allows him to adjust even
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  when he gets kind of caught out in fronter his time,
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  he's a little bit off. And defensively he's one of,
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  if not you know, the best defensive outfielder in the nation.
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  It's plus arm, plus athlete. You know, he's an all
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  tool player. And like you said, if there's a bat
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  that could push for Rockspy right now, I think it's
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  Drew burros Well.
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  Speaker 1: Said very interesting. And for those of you keeping track
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  at home, I may or may not have over the
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  break pulled. They Drew Burris relic auto card. Very proud
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  of that one. Uh maybe it'll get uploaded to the
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  Twitter machine sometime here soon. But let's move past it.
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  Let's talk about the guys from eleven to twenty five,
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  guys that are going to round out the first quarter
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  of the list. I'll read through those for you guys
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  at home. Number eleven gave Gackle right had a picture
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  for Arkansas. Number twelve, Logan Hughes of Texas Tech. The
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  outfielder got a big boost in this list. One of
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  you looks really proud of yourselves for that number thirteen,
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  Lucas Moore, outfielder from Louisville. Number fourteen, Tyler Bell, a
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  Kentucky shortstop. A lot of contention there too from a
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  certain one of you. I know we'll talk about mister
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  Bell in a minute. Number fifteen, I think a favorite
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  of all of us in this chat. Eric Becker, shortstop
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  from Virginia. Another shortstop. Number sixteen, Oregon's Maddox Maloney. Getting
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  to seventeen, Zion Rose, the outfielder from Louisville. Number eighteen
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  is gonna be Sawyer Strosnyder, the TCU outfielder. Nineteen is
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  going to be Chase Brunson, the TCU outfielder. Back to
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  back from TCU there in the outfield. Number twenty Chris Rembert,
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  Auburn's second basement, really electric player. I think we all
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  kind of said he's got to be higher in this update.
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  Glad we got in there. Twenty one Jason DeCaro of
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  North Carolina the right hander. Twenty two is gonna be
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  Kaden Currell at Texas A and M. Twenty three, Von
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  Lackey the Georgia Tech catcher, number twenty four writer Helfrick,
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  the catcher for the Old Hogs in Arkansas, and twenty
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  five staying about the same as he was on our
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  first update. Aiden Robbins transferred from Seaton Hall to Texas
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  in the outfield talented group guys, a lot of talent.
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  There two questions. Let's talk first, which of these guys
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  we just went through. Which of these cats do you
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  guys think has the best shot of finishing the year
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  in the top ten. So a guy that really excels
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  and is already well considered. I mean, this is a
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  top twenty five dude who can take the jump even
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  to the stratosphere, the tippy top of the mountain. Jake
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  will start with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going with Cadence Arell outfield or Texas A
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  and M. His twenty twenty five season, it was cut
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  short about halfway through. He had a few injuries, a
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  hand injury, also missed some time with a hamstring, but
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  in the amount that he did play, his contact improved
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  from twenty twenty four. The overall contact rates are still
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  a little bit lower, hovering around seventy percent, but the
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  and the chase rate it's not not too bad, but
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  it goes way up with two strikes. I think I
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  had it just over fifty percent chase rate of two strikes.
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  But the name of his game is going to be
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  the power. It's it's big raw power plays in game
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  and with the you know, with the way that contact
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  quality improved from last year, that I think that's his
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  best chance that came him up boards this year. Defensively,
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  he's he's likely going to be a corner outfielder. But overall,
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  the defense, the arm athleticism is gonna have to prove
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  themselves again after his injuries. But he's got a lot
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  of fun raw tools and I think he could definitely
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  make a push for beating that top ten if he
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  comes back, as I think we should expect him to.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think the odds are of him doing that? Jake?
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  If you had to put it on like a zero
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  to one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Scale, zero to one hundred. I mean, yeah, like I said,
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  it's tricky with the injuries. But I mean I've put
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  him at you know, I don't know, seven percent. I
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  think it's like that's something that's a pair. It may
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  seem a little high, but I mean, you know, it's
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  a lot of row tools there. But you know, if
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  they all get proven, you know, who's to say he's
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  not gonna be in the top yet?
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Well said, Hey, I can't argue with that. That's awesome.
• 18:16
  We are gonna go to JB. Which of these cats
• 18:19
  that we just talked about in that eleven to twenty
• 18:21
  five range, do you think has the best shot of
• 18:23
  finishing that you're in the top ten? JB?
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, he's a number fourteen on our board. I
• 18:28
  personally him at number four on my board. That's gonna
• 18:30
  come out very soon, and I'm going with the switching
• 18:32
  shortstop from Kentucky Tyler Bell. I got to see Bell
• 18:36
  in person this summer at Timyosa when you see for trials,
• 18:39
  and he's really impressive. I mean him and Schilowski. Chelostki
• 18:42
  gets praised every day for how great his defenses. Tyler
• 18:45
  Bell went neck and neck with him every single drill
• 18:47
  that they did. They both looked incredible out there. So defensively,
• 18:51
  I think Bell's a sure thing to take a short
• 18:52
  stop and play gold globe defense. Also, it's hard to
• 18:55
  find a switch hitting bat that would hit the top
• 18:57
  of the order like Bell. With that letticism and power,
• 19:00
  he doesn't really have a drop off in production from
• 19:02
  either side. As a switch hitter produced eggs of velocities
• 19:06
  up to one ten is a max ninety eight percent
• 19:08
  of one oh four. And also he really excels at
• 19:11
  pulling the ball in there. He had a forty five
• 19:12
  pull air rate last year. Tyler Bell is a guy
• 19:16
  that really he's just really interesting for a lot of people.
• 19:19
  And I think the Tyler Bell has a really good
• 19:21
  chance of shooting up boards with all the factors that
• 19:23
  you have there, it's a rare profile you don't see.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Did you say forty five percent pull air rate?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Forty five percent pull rate?
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I should have said that, But you know, he's the
• 19:31
  guy that really knows how to hit the ball hard
• 19:34
  and he really makes a lot of plays for himself
• 19:36
  up the middle as well. So it's a very intriguing profile.
• 19:38
  You don't see as a switch hitting bat for a
• 19:40
  short stop.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Definitely. Absolutely. I'm glad you mentioned that you have him
• 19:44
  at number four on your personal list because that does
• 19:47
  show the variance that comes with such a loaded class.
• 19:51
  I know that we've all kind of talked about it
• 19:53
  in passing, but we can say it with certain guys.
• 19:56
  This is such a talented college class in such a
• 20:00
  loaded class in general for the draft. So yes, absolutely
• 20:03
  with you and Bell certainly a top ten talent just
• 20:07
  in this updated quite make it him, but obviously we'll
• 20:09
  have more updates. We'll see where he falls as the
• 20:12
  year continues. Mister Catlett, which of these gentlemen do you
• 20:16
  think has the best shot of finishing the year in
• 20:19
  the top ten? And I will preface that by saying,
• 20:21
  you've already seen this, You've spearheaded the ascension of this
• 20:24
  gentleman quite a ways already. But go ahead make your case.
• 20:28
  Why is he a top ten player in your mind?
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm pretty proud of this one, getting him uphigh
• 20:33
  on the list.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: I know I talk about about him a lot, and
• 20:37
  I swear I'll try and make this the last time
• 20:39
  before we preview the Shriner's Children's Showdown whatever it's called it,
• 20:43
  Arlington Fro for weekend, But Logan Hughes is the easy
• 20:46
  answer here for me. I mean, I've been banging this
• 20:49
  drum for a while. I don't plan stopping anytime soon.
• 20:51
  If for being honest, he's my number eight overall prospect
• 20:55
  and has a chance to finish there on a lot
• 20:57
  of people's boards by July. I think he's slid to
• 21:00
  play in left or right for Texas Tech this year
• 21:03
  because admittedly the defensive value might be the issue on
• 21:06
  the profile, but I'm going to focus on.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: The bat as I tend to do. According to jv.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: I, he was the backbone of their lineup last year,
• 21:15
  like straight up, batting three twenty seven with nineteen home
• 21:20
  runs and fifty eight RBI, and he looks to play
• 21:23
  that same role this year. I mean, look, I don't
• 21:25
  want to bore y'all with a bunch of numbers, but
• 21:27
  the guy has great field to hit.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: I think it's plus power.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: So a couple of my favorite metrics last year to
• 21:34
  back up that power claim are a one oh seven
• 21:37
  ninetieth percentile exit velocity and eighty percent hard hit rate
• 21:41
  against high fast balls. He also only whiffed against fifteen
• 21:45
  percent of secondary pitches, which is wildly impressive. You know what,
• 21:50
  I'll wrap up my spiel here. I think I've made
• 21:52
  my stance here very clear, proud of getting him higher
• 21:56
  on our list. We'll see if it pans out this season.
• 21:58
  I sure hope so, or else I'm gonna the bat
• 22:00
  track on a lot of stuff.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you would have to backtrack quite a bit.
• 22:05
  But you know, for your spiel, and you said you
• 22:07
  didn't want to bore people with numbers, I'm going to
• 22:08
  employ you. Guys, if you at home want Josh to
• 22:11
  bore you with the numbers. If you want all of
• 22:12
  this granular, nitty gritty, comment it down below. Let him
• 22:16
  know you want the nitty gritty, You want the facts,
• 22:18
  you want the boring details.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: If you no one realized boring you with numbers is
• 22:21
  my thing anyway, So I'd be happy to do it
• 22:23
  with someone on Twitter or whatever too.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Don't hesitate, perfect, excellent, We'll keep it with you, Josh.
• 22:29
  For my second question here, of these guys in the
• 22:32
  eleven to twenty five range, who's the country sleeping on
• 22:35
  most right now? And why?
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: I mean I don't he might not be necessarily slept
• 22:40
  on nationally, but I feel like the circles that I'm in,
• 22:43
  I'm one of the only people really vouching for Madex
• 22:46
  Maloney from Oregon compared to the other shortstops and this
• 22:50
  you know range. And when I say this range, I
• 22:53
  mean like I'm grouping Lebron, Bell and Becker into that group,
• 22:58
  not guys like Rock and Kobe and obviously, but of
• 23:01
  those guys, I think you can make a real argument
• 23:03
  for Maloney having the best defensive value, counter counterintuitive to
• 23:07
  what JP.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Said like two minutes ago.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: I think he's got soft hands, he's got quick feet,
• 23:15
  great range. I think it's like one of the few
• 23:16
  profiles where the defense had the chance to be so
• 23:19
  good that it elevates him higher than like he might
• 23:23
  maybe should be on my list. I mean, I've got
• 23:25
  him at number ten right now, So I mean, the
• 23:28
  the pop might be a bit of a concern for
• 23:29
  some people, but he still did have a fifteen homer
• 23:32
  season last year. He's got really good field to hit.
• 23:36
  He pulls the ball in the air well doesn't swing
• 23:39
  and miss a.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Ton in the zone.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, my my favorite number for him that we
• 23:44
  just got done, like got done talking about numbers. How
• 23:46
  much I love boring people with numbers, and eleven forty
• 23:48
  three ops against breaking balls is ridiculous stuff. Which that
• 23:54
  might be more of an indictment on the state of
• 23:56
  Big ten pitching, but I digress.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: I think he's got a real shot, accountable higher than
• 24:02
  a lot of people have him at the moment.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I will said, Man, that's a one for you
• 24:08
  at home. If you're sleeping on Maddox Maloney, wake up.
• 24:10
  He could be very talented sneak into that top ten
• 24:13
  just as easy as some of these other dudes. JB
• 24:15
  will go to you, the United States of America is
• 24:19
  sleeping on this guy. But the alarms going off, and
• 24:21
  it's JB saying, uh uh uh huh, who is it?
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'll give some credit to Josh here. We
• 24:27
  did have a chat a little bit ago about you know,
• 24:29
  TCU and some players that they had, and he brought
• 24:31
  up Chase Brunson to me, which you know, I like
• 24:34
  Chase Bronson, and then he got me to do a
• 24:35
  little deep dive on Chase Bruntson and once I did,
• 24:38
  it really.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Really surprised me.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Stras Snyder is the guy that everybody hears about do
• 24:42
  the athleticism and he's a left handed bat and all that,
• 24:44
  and the profile is great. Everybody loves that in the draft.
• 24:47
  But Brunson, despite being right handed, he really provides a
• 24:50
  lot of the same tools. And a comp that I
• 24:52
  made to Josh and a lot of people can look
• 24:54
  at at home is I compare him to why at
• 24:56
  Langford Langford very similar swing mechanics, very similar to how
• 25:00
  they work. You watch it in the production, it's it's
• 25:03
  fairly similar as well. Brunton produces really high a v's
• 25:07
  not as much with as Strasnyder. He's a great athlete
• 25:09
  as well. I think you give him a chance to
• 25:12
  play center. He's probably gonna be a corner guy, but
• 25:14
  you give him the chance to play center at the
• 25:15
  next level like some other guys that I've liked before,
• 25:18
  But I think Brunson really has this stuff that you
• 25:21
  need to shoot up at draft board. He is a
• 25:23
  first round caliber talent in my opinion. So despite stras
• 25:25
  snunder A getting the hype there, I think Brunson's guy
• 25:27
  really to look forward to.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Interesting, very interesting. I like the way you kind of
• 25:31
  did the compare and contrast with Ian Stras snunder two
• 25:34
  almost a two for one for you guys at home
• 25:36
  in the TCU outfield. Mister Barjorie, We're gonna come to you.
• 25:41
  The country's sleeping on some folks, and I think I
• 25:44
  might have to agree with your name here. Most no
• 25:46
  offense to either j B or Josh, but man, I'm
• 25:49
  ready to ring the bell on this guy too, So
• 25:50
  tell us about who the country is sleeping on.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Virginia shortstop Eric Becker. For me, it's you know,
• 25:57
  it's back to back years with very high production. He
• 26:00
  had a ten to seventy ops last year with nine
• 26:03
  homers of fifty two RBIs. He played on the Cape
• 26:07
  and UH and with Team USA this past summer. He's
• 26:11
  got a lanky six y three frame with plenty of
• 26:13
  room to grow right. He's a little aggressive at the
• 26:16
  plate and has a tendency to chase, but he's got
• 26:18
  really good back to ball ability and that makes up
• 26:20
  for some of that aggressiveness in the zone expansion Becker,
• 26:25
  you know he does. He hits fastballs really well, but
• 26:27
  I want to see better contact contact quality against off
• 26:30
  speed pitches. Also want to see the power develop a
• 26:34
  little bit more. That would be with him, you know,
• 26:36
  lifting the ball more, getting more usage out of his
• 26:39
  out of his long limbs. Defensively, I think he can
• 26:44
  definitely stick on the left side of the infield, whether
• 26:46
  that's you know, shortstop or third base. I think he
• 26:49
  I think he should get a shot at playing shortstop
• 26:51
  at the next level, but he might be able to
• 26:54
  maximize his defensive abilities, probably at third base as he
• 26:57
  feels out his frame a little bit more. Could be
• 26:59
  a move. Come make a move to second base as well.
• 27:02
  But as well rounded as he is at the plating,
• 27:04
  obviume him as a potential mid first round guy could
• 27:08
  go even higher. You know, I think, I think so.
• 27:09
  I think a team's gonna gonna take it, take a
• 27:11
  chance on the bat. I like it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, man, I'm with you. Everything I see
• 27:17
  about Eric Becker. It makes me more and more of
• 27:20
  a fan as time passes. So very happy to hear
• 27:23
  us plug him uva all the way, am I right? Guys? Yeah, yeah,
• 27:29
  a lot of support out of the chatter that thanks.
• 27:31
  All right. We're gonna move on to the twenty six
• 27:34
  through fifty range. We're gonna round out the top fifty
• 27:36
  guys and then we're gonna get into some deeper fellas.
• 27:38
  I know all of you sicko mode guys at home,
• 27:40
  you're looking forward to hearing about some deep cuts, and
• 27:42
  we've got them. But we'll go through twenty six through
• 27:45
  fifty now, starting with Carson Tenney, the Notre Dame and catcher.
• 27:50
  We're gonna go to number twenty seven, Ryan Lynch of
• 27:52
  North Carolina, another right hander out of you, and see
• 27:56
  twenty eight Blake Morning Star. Gonna stick with the theme
• 27:59
  of ac see Righty's there, awesome Number twenty nine Andrew Williamson,
• 28:03
  the UCF outfielder. All right, let's see, we're going to
• 28:07
  go to thirty at Tommy Lapoor TCU righty number thirty one.
• 28:11
  Cole Carlin, Arizona State lefty thirty two, one of my
• 28:15
  favorite guys in the whole class thus far, guys, Brady
• 28:17
  Ballinger the first basement at Kansas. Loved that guy. Thirty
• 28:20
  three o Enkramkowski, right hander from Arizona, getting a lot
• 28:24
  of love in various places. Thirty four Ben Blair, the
• 28:28
  Liberty right handed pitcher. We're very high on Ben Blair.
• 28:31
  Interesting and I like that on us. Cole Trieba at
• 28:34
  number thirty five. You see Santa Barbara lefty. Stephen Mylam
• 28:37
  debuts on the list. LSU shortstop at thirty six. T
• 28:40
  and koons the Tennessee righty at thirty seven. Trey Beard
• 28:44
  the lefty now with Florida State at thirty eight, Joey
• 28:46
  Volchko with Georgia the Righty at thirty nine, Aiden Kannak
• 28:50
  for Cubson righty at forty, Jack Natili Cincinnati Catcher forty one,
• 28:56
  forty two, Luke McNeely Florida Righty forty three, Jaredula, Georgia
• 29:01
  Tech Now second basement forty four. Cayden Bogan Pole of
• 29:06
  Missouri State. What's the mascot at Missouri State? All round
• 29:09
  me there are bears, Yeah, bears, bears, bears. He's the Bear.
• 29:18
  Caden Bogan pol Shane Sadow of am M, Texas A
• 29:22
  and M the Lefty. We do love our Maroon kool
• 29:25
  Aid here at Prospects Live Shout out James forty six,
• 29:29
  Ethan Clarin Schmidt the lefty from Oregon State forty seven.
• 29:32
  Gavin Gerhovic, Texas A and M Third basement forty eight.
• 29:36
  Henry Ford, Tennessee outfielder forty nine Ethan Norby, the lefty
• 29:39
  from East Carolina, and at number fifty Alex her Nandez
• 29:43
  Georgia Tech second basement guys I mentioned in a minute
• 29:46
  ago with Stephen mylam Milam, Trey Beard, Jack and Teely
• 29:51
  Shane Sadaal. They debuted on our list, which means they
• 29:54
  weren't on our original top fifty, and then they popped
• 29:56
  into the top fifties and so they took somebody spot. Impressive.
• 30:00
  I'm curious of that quartet, those four guys, who do
• 30:03
  you think will make the biggest impact in twenty twenty six?
• 30:06
  And much like we had Logan Hughes discussion from mister Catlet,
• 30:10
  just like we had Tyler Bell discussion from mister Sebastiano.
• 30:13
  Maybe the most obvious question you'll answer all night, mister Bargerie,
• 30:16
  tell us about your boy, Tray Beard.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I do love me some Trey Beard. He's coming over
• 30:22
  to Florida State from FAU this year. I just like
• 30:27
  watching him pitch. It's a really unique delivery from the
• 30:29
  left side. You know, it's super deceptive, high slot. It's
• 30:34
  it's like the ball almost like surprises hitters when it
• 30:36
  jumps out of his hand. The way that it comes out.
• 30:41
  But the fastball, it's not an overpowering fastball. It's gonna
• 30:44
  top out around ninety four, but it has the metrics
• 30:46
  you look for that allows it to play really well
• 30:49
  up in the zone. You know, he gets a ton
• 30:50
  of chase about you know, north of you know, thirty
• 30:53
  three thirty four percent when it's above the zone and
• 30:56
  he throws it for strikes. The sliders lit to mid eighties,
• 31:00
  and he doesn't throw it a ton, but he gets
• 31:02
  a good he gets a good amount of depth and
• 31:04
  a lot of chase with it. Just I would just
• 31:06
  like to see the pitch a little bit more for
• 31:07
  me to to bump my grade up on a little bit.
• 31:11
  My favorite secondary of his is going to be his curveball.
• 31:13
  It's a mid seventies curveball. It does get a little
• 31:18
  bit loopy sometimes, but it's a really good change of pace,
• 31:20
  especially from that higher slot and coming from a left
• 31:23
  handed pitcher throwing a big curveball like that, it's not
• 31:25
  super common. He's got. He's also got a mid upper
• 31:29
  seventies change up. He throws it against both sided hitters,
• 31:34
  gets whiffs. Could locate it a little bit better, but
• 31:37
  the movement is there for Beer, There's there is room
• 31:40
  to grow in his frame, and if the command improved
• 31:44
  some and or makes a jumping bilo with the fastball,
• 31:47
  he should make really big strades this year in terms
• 31:51
  of draft stock in a class where college lefties are
• 31:55
  are kind of at a premium right now.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: For sure, I'm curious, Jake, you reference kind of the
• 32:00
  two major things I think people could nitpick about Beard.
• 32:05
  Correct me if I'm wrong here, Between adding velocity to
• 32:08
  the fastball and developing a little bit more command, I
• 32:10
  think fastball velocity is gonna be the one that might
• 32:13
  come easier. But which one of those do you think
• 32:15
  would be the bigger boom for his draft stock?
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I think you hit. I think it is the command
• 32:22
  because because like I said, he's got room to grow.
• 32:24
  I think he's gonna get some natural development with the
• 32:26
  fastball below as whether it's at Florida State or at
• 32:29
  the next level, whatever it might be. But I think
• 32:31
  if we really see him command zone better just overall
• 32:34
  with all of his pitches, I think that's gonna be
• 32:35
  what helps him the most.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I think so, too, Well, said pal Well said JB.
• 32:40
  We're gonna go to you of the quartet, Steven Mylin,
• 32:43
  Trey Beard, Jack Nteely, Shane Sadaal who makes the biggest
• 32:46
  impact in twenty six and why.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go with another one that's kind of
• 32:50
  under the radar. I guess in this group it would
• 32:52
  be Shane Sadal. He's coming off Tommy John at A
• 32:55
  and M, and when he was there he had electric stuff.
• 32:58
  It's a really short, whippy, quick arm action. It's a
• 33:02
  ride fastball gets up to the mid nineties consistently, ninety two,
• 33:06
  ninety three.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: It's a hard bullet slider.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: It can get a little bit more run on it
• 33:11
  at times, you can get up to round ten, but
• 33:13
  mostly it's a more bullety slider and then a solid
• 33:16
  change up for a show pitch. I think for Sidaw
• 33:18
  is really gonna be how he comes back off of
• 33:20
  the Tommy John surgery. But if he can get back
• 33:22
  to close what his form was, he'll be a big
• 33:24
  piece for A and M rotation that really struggled last year.
• 33:28
  So I think Shane Stole is gonna be a key
• 33:29
  for TEXTA and him.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Word, I do think he's gonna be pivotal. We talk
• 33:34
  a whole lot about A and M. And it seems
• 33:36
  like the Bats get a lot of love and a
• 33:38
  lot of attention, but Sidal is gonna have to be
• 33:40
  impressive for them to make a run, Like I know
• 33:44
  that their fans are itching for in twenty twenty six,
• 33:46
  Well said pal mister Catlin, Joshua, You've got an interesting
• 33:51
  choice here, maybe the guy that I would have chosen.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: It's much fun he and Mylam, but I'm curious tell
• 33:56
  us about Jack Nteely.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: I think, well, first, I think Mylam is a good too,
• 34:00
  because I mean he's he's the guy that could put
• 34:03
  up like the best college, like you know, numbers, get
• 34:06
  awards and whatnot. But he's on a really stacked team
• 34:08
  in general. I think it's a great question, But just
• 34:11
  like to answer the question specifically, I think of the
• 34:14
  guys listed, Jack Nttilli is clearly on the worst team,
• 34:18
  so I think it's pretty fair to say he'll have
• 34:20
  the biggest impact on the team. I mean, he looks
• 34:23
  to be the centerpiece for the team. I mean, as
• 34:25
  he slashed three point thirty eight four fifty one five
• 34:28
  fifty six last season with nine home runs in fifty
• 34:31
  three RBI.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: He's shown great arm strength, behind the plate.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: I think his framing is a little better than people
• 34:37
  give him credit for, so there's real defensive value there
• 34:40
  on top of the offensive profile. The swing of miss
• 34:44
  stuff is admittedly a little concerning, but the power numbers
• 34:48
  are undeniable.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: It said some of the best in the class. Honestly,
• 34:52
  I think.
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: He easily has the best value of these four guys
• 34:55
  in relation to the rest of their team, and he
• 34:58
  might be able to carry since to a better season
• 35:00
  than last year. I mean, granted, I think the Big
• 35:03
  twelve is probably gonna be improved as a whole this year,
• 35:05
  so we'll see how that works out.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I think that's I think those are all very safe
• 35:10
  assumptions and certainly achievable for Cincinnati. I think, is that
• 35:15
  is that a fair way to say it's achievable, that's
• 35:17
  a realistic goal.
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: There's like a pretty distinct like top six to eight
• 35:21
  teams in there, but Cincinnati could work their way and
• 35:23
  there easily.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I'd say that, Yes, that's a good way of saying
• 35:26
  it's easy to perceive them working their way into that crop,
• 35:30
  especially with the big year for mcgleig. Jacke Teely on
• 35:33
  the dish and at the dish. Guys, let's kind of
• 35:36
  shift directions here. Which of these players in this range
• 35:39
  is closest to or maybe in your personal top twenty five?
• 35:43
  Josh will keep it.
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: With you, Yeah, Aiden, Kannak, Ring and Kannack. Sorry, he
• 35:49
  actually barely squeaks into my top twenty five at number
• 35:52
  twenty five, So I'll talk about him a little, you know,
• 35:56
  shout out our boy Will Dodge we were talking about
• 35:58
  earlier because he I've had this thought in my mind
• 36:02
  for a little bit, but I didn't know the exact
• 36:04
  way to word it until he said it in a
• 36:05
  way that's kind of stuck with me. Guys with a
• 36:08
  seventy grade change up and sixty grade command tend to
• 36:11
  pan out long term, and that applies to Knknock in
• 36:14
  my opinion, Guys like Sean McClanahan Christopher Sanchez come to mind,
• 36:22
  like I know, those are the best of the best,
• 36:23
  but you get the point. He had a four eighteen
• 36:27
  ERA last year with one hundred and ten k's and
• 36:30
  ninety innings pitched. He's got a midnightties fastball, curveball and
• 36:36
  cutter on top of that change up I mentioned earlier,
• 36:39
  and he's allegedly been working on a new slider grip
• 36:42
  this fall, so we'll see.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: How that goes. But yeah, I mean he'll be an
• 36:47
  ultra competitive Friday night.
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: Guy for one of the a SEC's best teams probably,
• 36:52
  and I'd bank on it working in the long term too.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Sticking with the Dodgers tenants for success there, Yeah, they
• 36:59
  long term may be better than this year, but either way,
• 37:02
  definitely expect to see some competitive stuff out of mister
• 37:05
  knock this year. For cleansing with you, Josh, with you
• 37:08
  for sure on him, JB. I have a premonition that
• 37:11
  you're gonna stick with a pitcher here who's the guy
• 37:13
  that's closest to or maybe in your top twenty five personally.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So for me, it's gonna be own Kramkowski. And
• 37:21
  you know, this is kind of a different take than
• 37:23
  a lot of others here, And I know a lot
• 37:25
  of people have him hiring their boards, but it's for
• 37:26
  different reasons than Josh. His production hasn't been as great
• 37:30
  as a lot of other guys you see, but Cramkowski
• 37:32
  this fall is taking a lot of steps forward. And
• 37:34
  at USA this summer when I saw him, same deal
• 37:37
  sit out to really whippy our motion, and he really
• 37:40
  gets down the mound. Well, it's a low launch slot
• 37:42
  as well, so he creates a lot of vertical approach angle,
• 37:45
  which is what a lot of people love about him,
• 37:46
  even though the IVB may not show it. The vertical
• 37:49
  approach these days is kind of something up in the zone.
• 37:50
  It's a little more important. So the fastball consistently reaching
• 37:54
  the upper nineties now, but consistently it's sat in the
• 37:57
  mid nineties, ninety four, ninety six. That's something that's helping
• 37:59
  about to gain a velocity. The slider is a really hard,
• 38:03
  tight short slider moving around three to five inches horizontally,
• 38:07
  and it has some positive break too as well. It's
• 38:09
  around positive five IVB, which is pretty impressive since at
• 38:12
  eighty five to eighty nine, and then the changeup is
• 38:15
  some of this kind of a work in progress there.
• 38:17
  That's an okay show pitch, but if you can really
• 38:19
  get that down. I think for kram Kowski, he's got
• 38:21
  this stuff that a lot of teams and data models
• 38:23
  really like. So I think kram Kowski for me is
• 38:26
  at twenty five in my personal one, but he's more
• 38:28
  of a data darling than a true proven commodity like Kannock,
• 38:31
  I'd say I.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Agree with that, and I love that you said data
• 38:35
  oriented teams ones that rather, let me rephrase that, ones
• 38:39
  that rely heavily on their their model I think are
• 38:42
  really going to lean Kremkowski. I could say, I won't
• 38:46
  go that far, but I think he's certainly a Day
• 38:48
  one guy right now for teams that are incredibly model driven.
• 38:53
  So with you there, JB for sure like that call, Jake,
• 38:57
  We're gonna go to you. It looks like you're gonna
• 38:59
  keep the tread of pictures here that could be in
• 39:02
  your top twenty five. Tell us about who you like
• 39:04
  the best of this group.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Oh sorry, sorry I was muted. All right, I am
• 39:13
  going with with another picture. I'm going with another acc picture.
• 39:17
  In a late morning Star, he had, you know, seventy
• 39:22
  nine three eight seven, thirty two walks, ninety three strikeouts
• 39:25
  last year. He's got a five pitch mix with a
• 39:28
  lot of starter traits. The fastball, it's a low to
• 39:32
  mid nineties top ninety seven. He's also got a upper
• 39:35
  eighties cutter, a mid eighties slider, low eighties curveballage. And
• 39:38
  I can just keep going. Uh, I would like to
• 39:42
  see more of a speed difference in the secondaries, everything
• 39:47
  kind of comes out the same speed. I didn't mention
• 39:49
  the change ups mid to upper eighties to everything's in
• 39:51
  that mid to upper eighties range. But it's a but
• 39:56
  just the amount of offerings that he has makes him effective.
• 40:00
  He's got a workhorse body six four two thirty, He's
• 40:03
  able to go deep into games, and he was seemingly
• 40:06
  getting better down the stretch last year, and another proven
• 40:10
  productive season at Wake should slidify him belonging in this
• 40:14
  next tier of college arms after those top guys.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Well said, I don't remember which start it was, but
• 40:21
  last year I watched a morning star start and left thinking, man,
• 40:24
  this kid is just a freak. He's so good, and
• 40:27
  like you said, starter's body for sure, the arsenal is there.
• 40:30
  I'm with you. Developing the velocity bands and kind of
• 40:33
  strengthening the difference between them is going to be humongous
• 40:37
  for a morning star. But if he does it, I
• 40:39
  think he will absolutely be kind of at least on
• 40:41
  the cusp of that top twenty five, if not right
• 40:43
  inside it. So Jacob with you there. All right, guys,
• 40:46
  we have talked about the top fifty. At this point,
• 40:48
  we're not going to give you every name. We want
• 40:50
  to encourage you again. Go to prospects Live dot com
• 40:53
  check out the article. But we are going to talk
• 40:55
  about some guys in the fifty one to seventy five
• 40:58
  rage and then again in the seventy six to two
• 41:00
  one hundred range. So guys, we'll talk first about a pitcher.
• 41:04
  Since you guys, y'all just want to talk about some pitchers,
• 41:06
  we'll stay on the pitcher train. Who is a pitcher
• 41:08
  in this range that you really dig and why Jake
• 41:12
  will keep it with you?
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Like you said, another picture, I am gonna start breaking
• 41:18
  it up. I am gonna have some bats later on,
• 41:20
  but right now I'm gonna go with Ricky Oheita lefty
• 41:23
  from U C Rvon. He should start for ervin this year.
• 41:27
  He's he's a little bit undersized as far as if
• 41:30
  you're looking for a professional picture. You don't see a
• 41:33
  lot of five eleven, one eighty five lefties in the
• 41:37
  big leagues. But he's got a lot of starter traits,
• 41:40
  good command, good pitch ability. The fastball it's it's it's
• 41:45
  usually in the low nineties. It's coming out top top
• 41:48
  ninety six, and he throws it a lot. He throws
• 41:51
  it like way more than he throws any other pitch.
• 41:54
  His most you secondary is gonna be his curveball. It's
• 41:58
  it's like an upper sixties low Evany's curveball, but it's
• 42:02
  a big wif geter and hitters just beat it into
• 42:04
  the ground whenever they make contact with it. I don't
• 42:08
  think he needs to necessarily throw that for a ton
• 42:10
  of strike, so that plays so well off the fastball
• 42:12
  guys are going to chase it. He didn't throw a
• 42:16
  slider very much. It's coming in the low eighties. It's
• 42:19
  it's kind of a cutterish slider. I guess you could
• 42:22
  say it wasn't super effective in getting whiffs or chases
• 42:26
  when he did throw it, But if he can find
• 42:28
  a little bit more depth on that, that could be
• 42:30
  a much better weapon for him. He's also been developing
• 42:34
  a low eighties change up. But last year he had
• 42:37
  eighty three strikeouts in sixty six innings with a three
• 42:39
  five five ERA, And if he repeats that production with
• 42:43
  a little bit of control improvements, he could really fly
• 42:46
  out boards. Like I mentioned with Beard, where lefties aren't good,
• 42:49
  college lefties aren't super common in this class.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Really there's room for somebody to make a mark and
• 42:55
  stand out, and you're pointing out a lot of the
• 42:58
  good ones tonight. Jake, thank you from sixty six Ricky Oheeda.
• 43:03
  We're going to number fifty six to mister j B. Sebastiano.
• 43:07
  You yourself, JB. You're not ranked number fifty six. You'd
• 43:10
  probably be two, maybe three, I guess. But you were
• 43:13
  talking about number fifty six. Jake McCoy from South Carolina,
• 43:16
  not the Carolina you tend to talk about. But I'm
• 43:18
  curious why you like McCoy.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, I'll open up with Josh Stole,
• 43:22
  my guy from the ACC earlier, so I had to
• 43:25
  pass it off and I'll leave it to him to
• 43:26
  talk about him. But I took Jake McCoy, a guy
• 43:28
  that's really a big Cape standout this year. McCoy has
• 43:31
  really struggled during the regular season at South Carolina, but
• 43:34
  he looks to take the Friday roll and really take
• 43:36
  a jump with the strong Cape performance.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: He had some command.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: The fastball gets up to the mid nineties, not really
• 43:42
  metrically crazy, but he does have a low release at
• 43:45
  five to two, which really helps it jump on hitters
• 43:48
  and create that vertical proch angle that you like. The
• 43:51
  slider is a high spin twenty eight hundred slider in
• 43:53
  the mid eighties, around seven to eight inches of Horizona movement,
• 43:57
  and the changeup really does well at killing vert around
• 43:59
  two IVB and he kills a spin as well at
• 44:02
  eighteen hundred.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: He does a really good job at that.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: I think for McCoy, it's gonna be continuing the command
• 44:07
  and dominance that he showed this summer in the Cape
• 44:09
  and really just translated into SEC play because that's been
• 44:11
  his biggest issue.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I think that's I think you nailed it.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Definitely gonna be how can I carry this CAPE performance
• 44:18
  into the regular season for McCoy, and he's gonna have
• 44:22
  a tough row to hoo in SEC, but he has
• 44:24
  got talent. We'll be interested to see what he does
• 44:27
  in twenty twenty six. Josh, we're gonna go to you,
• 44:30
  the gentleman that you have got to talk about two
• 44:33
  players down from McCoy at number fifty eight. Tell us
• 44:35
  about west mindets.
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I seem to be taking all of JV's guys
• 44:40
  and all these things we do.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: As we start doing predictions for the season down the draft.
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: I'm done the year, like all these drafts. In the
• 44:46
  next couple of weeks, I'm gonna try and keep that up,
• 44:48
  don't you worry. I've been on the Westmands train for
• 44:52
  a while now, and it's for similar reasons that I
• 44:55
  talked about with Kannak. Honestly, his fastball might not be
• 44:59
  as fan some of these other guys in this range,
• 45:01
  but he's just got a filthy change up that he
• 45:04
  improved last year that plays off the fastball really well
• 45:08
  from a velocity and movement standpoint. He also has a
• 45:11
  slider and curveball that he mixes in there. He admittedly
• 45:15
  he has issues controlling those, or he has in the past,
• 45:18
  but like, it's it's lights out stuff to Righty. Specifically,
• 45:23
  he looks a slot right into the Saturday spot behind
• 45:27
  Trey Beard, who's another guy with, in my opinion, a
• 45:30
  nasty change up and that four state rotation, but just
• 45:32
  for different reasons. I understand the hesitation here, but like,
• 45:37
  I'm willing to take a chance on a guy as
• 45:39
  athletic as Mendez whose velo is probably due to tick
• 45:43
  up soon.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's certainly fair. Yeah, I think change up guys
• 45:49
  is gonna be a Josh demographic We're gonna have to
• 45:51
  watch out for this year, so that I think we're
• 45:54
  I think we're gonna have to maybe do a Josh
• 45:55
  change up. Guy counter you in the comments. Keep up
• 45:58
  with that at home, Josh, we will stick with you
• 46:00
  talking about hitters in this fifty one to seventy five gang.
• 46:04
  Curious who you like of this group and why?
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, this is one of my favorite guys that I've
• 46:09
  talked about. I don't know about on here a lot,
• 46:11
  but in general I have I'm very much into Alex
• 46:16
  Connover from Oklahoma State the most of this range.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: I've got him all the way up at number forty
• 46:20
  on my list.
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: Honestly, I don't think I've seen him that high anywhere else.
• 46:24
  I wrote about him in in an article for our website,
• 46:28
  and I cited his sixty six percent hard hit rate
• 46:31
  and thirty four percent barrel right last year as like
• 46:34
  the main selling point. It's like he's got a super
• 46:37
  projectable build, so that I mean that pop.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: Could improve in the future.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Even he had a nine to eighty eight OPS in
• 46:44
  the Appy League this summer after posting eight forty three
• 46:48
  OPS last year at Oklahoma State, and I think that'll
• 46:50
  improve for sure. He plays a solid corner outfield with
• 46:54
  a good arm out there, so I don't think that's
• 46:57
  gonna play.
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: Too much of a role, or like too big of
• 46:59
  a role into his draft stock.
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: His strikeout numbers are going to have to improve, for sure,
• 47:05
  but I think he'll shine in an already star studied
• 47:07
  outfield for Oklahoma State this upcoming year. It's one of
• 47:10
  my favorite outfield groups in the country, and I think
• 47:12
  he's gonna draw a lot more attention as Oklahoma State
• 47:14
  makes a run.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: That's that's safe. I mean, obviously he'll he will shine
• 47:20
  as Oklahoma State shines, I think, is what you're saying,
• 47:23
  and I'm definitely with you there. He's a guy that
• 47:24
  could see a lot of attention to come, maybe like
• 47:29
  even March April. I think he's gonna get a lot
• 47:32
  of shine hopefully. Yeah, JB will go to you. Conover
• 47:36
  was ranked at number fifty four for US. Is it
• 47:40
  a coincidence that you chose number fifty three to talk
• 47:43
  about just one better than Josh tell us about your guy?
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I took Trey Brissard for me personally, I
• 47:49
  have him thirty seventh on my upcoming college list is
• 47:51
  coming out and Brissard really.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: He's a very intriguing profile.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Once again, like Josh talked about him being bat first,
• 47:58
  I'm big on athleticism and a lot of those tools
• 48:00
  coming in, so that's where Barsard plays in here. He
• 48:02
  had thirty one swipes a year ago and also he's
• 48:05
  no slash with the bat. He had a one oh
• 48:07
  four ninetieth percentile EV along with a one oh nine Max.
• 48:10
  Barssard is a guy that can really swing it. He's
• 48:12
  got some power there that if he can find a
• 48:15
  way to lift the ball a little bit more, I
• 48:16
  think he's gonna run some more homer empower and game.
• 48:19
  But he's the guy that really had a great season
• 48:22
  last season should sticken center. He's gonna be a guy
• 48:25
  that finds extra bases with the speed, and he should
• 48:27
  be able to take extra bases when he needs to
• 48:29
  as well. So I think Barsar is a very undervalued
• 48:31
  profile as an athletic bat left handed, and he's.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Got some great EV numbers.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: I think somebody's gonna really fall in love in Bisard
• 48:38
  and take him on day one.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I think I think so too. Brosard is a guy
• 48:42
  that's getting a ton of love here lately, and I
• 48:44
  was glad to see him take the rise that he did.
• 48:47
  I was almost convinced by several of you to sneak
• 48:51
  him into the top fifty. And I think as this
• 48:53
  list continues to evolve, that could be something that happens
• 48:56
  pretty easily. Mister Barjorie, we're gonna come to you now
• 49:00
  for a batter right in that same range. Number fifty
• 49:03
  seven is your gentleman. I'm curious if you talk about
• 49:06
  another of the TM Jake guys from this year's raft.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a little bit. I watched a lot of
• 49:15
  Big ten baseball last year and I kind of fell
• 49:17
  in love with Ryan Kuchrack's shortstop from Northwestern. He transferred
• 49:23
  to Northwestern from LSU before the twenty twenty five season,
• 49:27
  looking for more playing time, and it really worked out
• 49:30
  in his favor. He did struggle on the cape a
• 49:32
  little bit this past summer, but in the regular season
• 49:34
  for Northwestern he had an ops over one thousand with
• 49:38
  eighteen homers. He's tall. He's got a tall, lanky build
• 49:41
  with plenty of projection. He stands really tall in the
• 49:45
  box with super super twitchy swing mechanics. It's plus bat speed,
• 49:50
  high average, high average. Jason Velows, the bat toball is
• 49:55
  a little bit of a concern. He crushes fastballs, but
• 49:58
  it needs to be better against break involves in particular defensively,
• 50:04
  he's averaged a slightly above average at shortstop. I think
• 50:07
  he should definitely get a chance to stick there. But
• 50:10
  he's got an above average arm, and you know, as
• 50:14
  his body kind of develops a little bit more, he
• 50:16
  could make a move to second or third base. But
• 50:19
  I think Kutrak has you know, around three to five
• 50:22
  upside if everything goes as planned this year.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Love that. That's awesome, man. Koutrak's a guy that I
• 50:30
  think I'm gonna associate with you throughout this whole draft class. Jake,
• 50:33
  you have talked about him a lot, and I know
• 50:35
  that you're a big fan of he what he did
• 50:37
  last year, and like you said, the move from LSU
• 50:41
  to Northwestern is one that has paid off in spades
• 50:44
  for him thus far, So good on him. Looking, guys
• 50:47
  at the final quarter seventy six to one hundred of
• 50:51
  the list, there's some names here, boys, there's some good dudes.
• 50:56
  Even down at this point of the list. We're gonna
• 50:59
  kick it into over drive. Give us your rapid fire
• 51:02
  thoughts on these guys so we can get out of here. First,
• 51:05
  we'll start Jake with you. We'll go to a pitcher.
• 51:08
  We've talked pitchers a lot, but a pitcher in this
• 51:11
  range seventy six through one hundred that you really like and.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Why I'm going right handed pitcher Russell Sanderfer I think
• 51:18
  we have and we have a number eighty four on
• 51:19
  our board. He's transferred from UCF fifty inning sub three
• 51:23
  five era. Last year at UCF load of mid nineties
• 51:27
  fastball can get up into the upper nineties when it's
• 51:29
  at its best. He's got an upper eighties cutter, not
• 51:32
  really his best offering, but it's fine in moderation. Needs
• 51:36
  to be probably his fourth pitch going forward. He's got
• 51:40
  a couple off speed pitches. Slider in the load of
• 51:42
  mid eighties, change up in the low eighties, gets big
• 51:45
  whiff and chase with both of them. He also has
• 51:48
  a curve ball. It's a little bit of a work
• 51:49
  in progress at the moment, but it's a wiry frame
• 51:52
  with room to grow and again even more velocity. You know.
• 51:56
  In his first first year in the SEC has a
• 51:58
  chance to flo out boards pretty early.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: I think so Sanderfer is a guy that, like you said,
• 52:03
  a couple of his pitches are just different looks right now.
• 52:05
  Maybe if that's a good way to say, it's just
• 52:07
  another look, but I've seen a lot of study that
• 52:09
  that is a helpful thing even as they're developing. Just
• 52:11
  having that other look can let that fastball, as you said,
• 52:14
  gets the high nineties that can really eat JB will
• 52:17
  go to you. A pitcher in this range you really
• 52:19
  dig and why.
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: I went Jacob Dudin from NC State, and you know Duden,
• 52:24
  he's most likely going to be a reliever long term,
• 52:26
  but he'll probably get a chance to start again this
• 52:28
  year at NC State. I think Duden this year the
• 52:30
  biggest thing is he added the two seam. It killed
• 52:33
  a lot of ivy being added a lot of horrores
• 52:34
  there sticking around the five or less ivy B and
• 52:37
  getting up to twenty horse it really helped him out.
• 52:39
  And he gets it up into the upper nineties at
• 52:40
  times when he's fresh. He usually sat in the mid
• 52:44
  to low nineties. Last year when he really got going,
• 52:46
  he's ninety one ninety three at the end in the
• 52:47
  middle of the year, he's like ninety three ninety five,
• 52:49
  but when he was fresh at USA, he was ninety
• 52:51
  seven to ninety nine. So that's something for him, and
• 52:53
  you keep him in the pen. He could be really
• 52:55
  electric short dart slider as well. A lot of teams
• 52:58
  love it. Eighty five to eighty eight miles an hour,
• 53:00
  only four inches of wres. It's really sharp late life there,
• 53:04
  almost cutterish. It's great pitch, and for him he added
• 53:07
  a change up that's been more of a show pitch,
• 53:09
  but should help him get through the year as a
• 53:11
  starter if he wants to be in that role. But
• 53:12
  long term, I see being as a high leverage reliever
• 53:14
  in the big leagues for somebody.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: With Duden, who we had at number ninety four. JB,
• 53:20
  I'm gonna have you clarify. I just realized people at
• 53:23
  home may not know what you mean by whoes. I
• 53:25
  don't want to speak to Dudan's personal life and what
• 53:28
  he's into, but you're referring to horizontal movement on those pitches.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: Horizontal.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what died to clarify that? Shout out Jacob Dudon
• 53:37
  at home, Josh, We're gonna go to you man a
• 53:40
  ficture in this range that you really like.
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I'll take a guy I was actually like
• 53:45
  against for a while and then I saw the light.
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: I guess you could say Jack Raydell.
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: He had a three five eight ERA with a one
• 53:53
  oh five whip last year for another dame. He's a
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  projectable six y five guy who sits about like ninety
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  one ninety four from the mountain, but he's touched ninety
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  seven in the past. This is oddly specific, but I
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  find it cool. He led all SEC and ACC pitchers
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  last year and extension, which is just a long way
• 54:14
  of saying the dude.
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  Speaker 5: Gets down the mountain with ease.
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  Speaker 6: He has five pitches, but oddly enough, his best pitch
• 54:22
  might be his cutter. I mean, like it serves as
• 54:26
  a nearly perfect bridge between his fastball and slider, and
• 54:30
  he produced roughly like thirty five thirty six percent with
• 54:32
  on it last year. On top of that, he's got
• 54:35
  a curve ball and a change up that are just
• 54:38
  all right, but they get the job done. And he's
• 54:41
  proven that he can throw strikes at a high level.
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  So if he can just like refine that arsenal a
• 54:46
  little bit, he's got easy, easy, day one.
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  Speaker 1: Upside, I've loved this shout. The more I think about Radel,
• 54:53
  the more I think about what I saw of him
• 54:54
  last year, and the potential to see even one of
• 54:58
  those kind of different look pitches prove this could be
• 55:02
  a guy. This could be a guy. His his max VLO,
• 55:05
  if I'm not mistaken, is a little substandard. I mean
• 55:07
  it's not as flashy if I if I'm remembering right.
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  But the traits here are very strong, Josh, Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say so.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, like the villo does its job like it's
• 55:18
  like I said, it's like ninety one to ninety four
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  is typically it's probably gonna end up sitting like ninety
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  three ninety fours, which is well above average.
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  Speaker 5: So that plays. But the traits are like certainly nice.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's gonna play faster, like I said,
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  with the extension.
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  Speaker 5: If the extend on.
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  Speaker 6: The mound that well and continues to do so, it's
• 55:34
  gonna play a way faster.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: And again that kind of trends when you talk about
• 55:38
  again the extension, everything's gonna play up because it's coming
• 55:40
  to the plate that much quicker further down the mound well,
• 55:43
  said Josh, will keep it with you. Which hitter in
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  this group are you the most into another very obvious answer,
• 55:49
  I feel like if you happen to read the Festivus article,
• 55:53
  the Team Gripes article, which got a lot of love
• 55:55
  on Twitter, thank y'all tell us about your guy that
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  we had ranked number eighty seven.
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  Speaker 6: I was planning on shouting out the Festivus article when
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  I was talking to here, which you did it for me,
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  So there we go. I'm really high on Chris mcqu
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  and I honestly have a hard time understanding why his
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  stock isn't higher across the board. I really do. I
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  know JB has opinions on it, but that's for a
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  different day. He's number fifty five on my personal board.
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  Where I'm gonna end up, I mean like I'm gonna
• 56:23
  end up putting him on a preseason All American team
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  somewhere when I released those Uh the lack of defensive
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  value and the kind of unpolished I guess you could
• 56:34
  say approach at the plate is probably what's holding him
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  back in our list and others. But I think the
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  back to ball skills and the frankly ridiculous pop make
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  up for it.
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  Speaker 5: I think is.
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  Speaker 6: I think his ninetieth percentile EV was like one oh
• 56:48
  nine or something like that. Like, I know, it's there's
• 56:51
  not a ton of value in first basemen and the
• 56:54
  draft especially really a high but I'd be shocked if
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  he's not one of the best in the country and
• 56:58
  one of the first taken.
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  Speaker 5: If not the first taken.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he's sure, he's not the most athletic guy
• 57:05
  in the class, but I'd be shocked if he doesn't
• 57:08
  perform at a high, high level at State this year,
• 57:11
  especially when he batted I think three sixty five last year.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be impressive, certainly one of the first basement
• 57:19
  at least at this level, especially at this level to
• 57:21
  watch going forward, well, said JB. Again, maybe a little predictable,
• 57:27
  but that's probably just because we talked ball so much
• 57:29
  that I see this one coming from a mile away.
• 57:31
  Tell us about your guy that we have ranked at
• 57:34
  number seventy nine.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so shout out back to our transfer portal draft.
• 57:38
  You know, episode You'll know who I'm taking right here
• 57:41
  at TJ. Pompei from Arkansas. He transferred in Texas Tech,
• 57:45
  got out of there and kind of got into a
• 57:46
  better situation. I think at Arkansas for himself and if
• 57:49
  he can produce an the sec with the power numbers
• 57:51
  we've seen. I think for Pompeii, the sky's the limit.
• 57:54
  The chase is really something that's been concerning with him,
• 57:56
  and he's worked on to get a little better. The
• 57:59
  strikeout rate still at around thirty percent going to concern
• 58:02
  a lot of teams, but Pompey with a ninetieth ev
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  of one oh five in a max of one hundred
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  and eleven is really something that a lot of teams
• 58:09
  are going to jewel over. Dude hits the ball really
• 58:11
  really hard. We saw last year at UNC, and he
• 58:14
  honestly has a chance to play shortstop if he was.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: Given the opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: He's a big guy, but as a prepster he was
• 58:19
  a better shortstop than anything, and he kind of struggled
• 58:21
  adjusting the third base to Texas Tech. So he's an
• 58:24
  interesting candidate to move back to shortstop and definitely have
• 58:27
  a high ceiling with the power.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: I think. So speaking of a shortstop, Jake, we're going
• 58:32
  to go to you for your hitter in this seventy
• 58:34
  six to one hundred group that you're the most into
• 58:37
  and why your guy ranks number seventy seven.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I went with Jackson Willett, shortstop from Oklahoma.
• 58:46
  It's obviously well known. He's Eli Willitts, his brother. Last
• 58:50
  year he had you know, he hit for a three
• 58:53
  or five average, nine homers, and he had thirteen stolen
• 58:55
  bases as well, a little bit of a power speed combo.
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  And he also performed very well in the CAP this
• 59:03
  summer ops over one thousand, and he walked twice as
• 59:06
  much as he struck out. But Willetts, he's a switch hitter,
• 59:11
  can really hit from both sides. He's been a little
• 59:13
  bit more productive from the left, but he's got professional
• 59:18
  swing decisions from both sides. I would like to see
• 59:21
  some power improvements overall from either side of the plate.
• 59:25
  He's got the size to do so. But defensively, I
• 59:29
  think he should get every chance to stick at short stop.
• 59:32
  I think he's that's where he's probably gonna play this
• 59:33
  year for Oklahoma. But he would also do just find
• 59:36
  probably moving to second base if that's what it comes
• 59:38
  to in the future for him. But you know, true
• 59:41
  switch hitters don't just grow on trees. And if he
• 59:43
  hits again and builds off his strong CAP performance. He
• 59:46
  could move up pretty fast.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: He really could. Willitts is one of the guys that
• 59:50
  actually had a little bit of a slide. He was
• 59:52
  a top fifty guy that slid to seventy seven. If
• 59:56
  I'm not mistaken, maybe the biggest slide. And that's interesting,
• 59:59
  especially because we have been so forgiving and rewarding to
• 1:00:03
  strong Kate performances. So interesting. Excited to see what he
• 1:00:06
  does coming up, Jake, it's not far from now. Just
• 1:00:10
  a couple more weeks and we will have college baseball action. Guys.
• 1:00:13
  We are running a little short on time, so I'll
• 1:00:16
  say this, Let's shout out one guy each that didn't
• 1:00:19
  get ranked in our top one hundred that you personally
• 1:00:22
  are really into one name and where they play, name, position,
• 1:00:26
  and school, nothing else. And if you want to know
• 1:00:28
  more about these guys, drop a comment down below and
• 1:00:31
  we will tell you about Jake. Who's your guy.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Joe Turoli. He's an infielder. He's
• 1:00:41
  been tucked away up here in the Northeast the past
• 1:00:43
  two years at Ryder, but he's going to Virginia this
• 1:00:45
  year and he's gonna he should get every chance to
• 1:00:47
  start every day for them, Well.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Said jab same vibe. Guy that's not in the top
• 1:00:52
  one hundred that you're really into.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going with the duke transfer making Winslow who's
• 1:00:57
  at UNC now Catcher, thank you out and easy to perform.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Shout out making our favorite player, Josh your guy in
• 1:01:04
  this range.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 6: I didn't even notice Tooli's not in her rankings or
• 1:01:08
  else that would have been my pick. I'm gonna go
• 1:01:11
  with Cody nulettent a picture at cow Baptist, the school
• 1:01:14
  that we just don't talk about in this pod very often, don't.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Talk a lot about caw Baptist. You're right, codyk new Is.
• 1:01:20
  He's giving me an interesting guy to watch in this
• 1:01:22
  cycle for sure. Guys. Awesome episode, And again we have
• 1:01:27
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• 1:01:29
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• 1:01:44
  of content, these boys are working on it, so I'm
• 1:01:46
  gonna let them tell what they're working on and where
• 1:01:49
  you can find them on social media between our episodes. Jake,
• 1:01:51
  we'll start with you.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, The conference previews have been rolling out way
• 1:01:56
  faster than I kind of predicted they would be, But
• 1:02:00
  a lot of work goes into him with it. We
• 1:02:01
  have about about ten or so of them up right now.
• 1:02:04
  I'm currently working on the u C USA right now
• 1:02:07
  is gonna should be the next one. Hopefully I have
• 1:02:09
  that out by this weekend. But yeah, I give those
• 1:02:11
  a read if you haven't already.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: See USA, that one's gonna be fun. Man, I'm kind
• 1:02:15
  of itching for that one now. Uh, real quick, Jake,
• 1:02:19
  who are we looking out for in Comfort USA this year?
• 1:02:22
  It's got to be? Go ahead?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: No, I'll go ahead. What were you? What were you?
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: No? No, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna spit in
• 1:02:29
  Picasso's face when he's about to paint. Go ahead, paint.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: Uh. I think I think the team to be is
• 1:02:35
  Dallas badtis very nice.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, love it, love it? Love it?
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Jb or Jake, I'm sorry. Where can people find you
• 1:02:41
  on social between episodes? Uh?
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: You can follow me on Twitter x whenever and Jake
• 1:02:46
  BArch Uh And that's that's where I'm post on the work.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: Love it. JB. What are you working on working people, Paja.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're working on finishing up the Stockbrisers article for
• 1:02:56
  the Million Fielders and also kind of working on some
• 1:02:59
  reports so we got for the upcoming prep list, so
• 1:03:01
  you know, foreshadowing there on Twitter you can find me
• 1:03:05
  at jb Underscores Bostiana. Got some posts that I'm trying
• 1:03:09
  to work on now to give you some takes, kind
• 1:03:11
  of like Josh and Jacob been doing. So yeah, hopefully
• 1:03:13
  there'll be more of that soon.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys have been posting the takes. I'm a
• 1:03:17
  big fan of that. Good work as well. Looking forward
• 1:03:20
  to the Infielders article we were talking about that's gonna
• 1:03:23
  round out that series. If I'm not mistaken, it's gonna
• 1:03:24
  be well well anticipated. Way to finish that group of articles. Josh,
• 1:03:31
  where can people find you? And what are you working
• 1:03:33
  on right now?
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 6: When I'm working at the website, I have an article
• 1:03:38
  coming out. It'll be released by the time that this
• 1:03:41
  is out. But I went to a little like small
• 1:03:43
  mini showcase over across the bay back home that I
• 1:03:45
  wrote some scouting reports on.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: I should have an article out about that Twitter. You
• 1:03:51
  can follow me at Josh Catlet three.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 6: I've been texting y'all about some graphics I'm trying to
• 1:03:56
  get together. I'm gonna be posting like some preseason all
• 1:03:58
  American stuff, like preseason rankings like that kind of stuff.
• 1:04:02
  I'll be posting it out there. We are, gee, I
• 1:04:05
  can't count like this in my head. Thirty something days
• 1:04:07
  away from the season, so like it's it's approaching fast.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: I'll be pumping out stuff just like you'll see me
• 1:04:13
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• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Take take that to the bank. Numbers you can't get
• 1:04:17
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• 1:04:21
  that's fast.
• 1:04:22
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• 1:04:24
  this stuff anywhere else.
• 1:04:25
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• 1:04:27
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• 1:05:04
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• 1:05:06
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• 1:05:09
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• 1:05:12
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