Latest / College Baseball Now / MLB Draft Sleepers Our Scouts LOVE | Ep. 046
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The Major League Baseball Draft is eight days away, and
- 0:04because many of the players selected are from college, we
- 0:07felt inappropriate to discuss the top players available in the
- 0:10twenty twenty six MLB Draft on this episode of College
- 0:14Baseball Now. Yeah, there ain't no problems.
- 0:24Speaker 2: An't no problems. Don't want problem?
- 0:26Speaker 3: You know?
- 0:27Speaker 2: Yeah, let me not yet?
- 0:31Speaker 1: Then what was gone? For a minute? Hit the bad
- 0:33who didn't grab a couple wins with a.
- 0:34Speaker 4: D I D.
- 0:35Speaker 1: This' even know the kid? I had to do a
- 0:36B I G D.
- 0:37Speaker 2: I can never be average, and they.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Want to problem with the boy. They don't want no status?
- 0:41How don't need so coach time? Run a week? Guy,
- 0:43I want to test that tun was standing to control
- 0:45run the game? Best believe of shigning dogs, counting them
- 0:49my wins. Yeah, I love it when they count me.
- 0:51Y'all counting I'm the least shame Why Ben at Dobbs
- 0:55best believe.
- 0:56Speaker 2: I run the game?
- 0:57Speaker 1: You know I'm truly.
- 1:01Speaker 4: To me This Magic.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Stand, Episode forty six. Happy to be here with you
- 1:28on College Baseball Now to discuss the MLB Draft, starting
- 1:33with me, your host, your friend, your boy. Drew Wheeler,
- 1:36director of Amateur Scouting at prospects live. Glad to be
- 1:38here with you, and glad to be here with my friends,
- 1:40and it is a full room. Let's start with the
- 1:43gentleman on my right. He's in the top center on
- 1:45your screen. It's mister Josh Catled. Josh a very appropriate
- 1:49hat considering today is July third. It is not July third,
- 1:54but well this release says it's July third. That's on.
- 1:58Speaker 5: I may a hand up. I actually it's just spite JB.
- 2:04That's all right. It's a fun time to be wearing
- 2:06this hat. I wore this hat for the for the
- 2:08World Cup game last night, took us, took us to
- 2:10a two victory. You know, known soccer guy Josh Catlett.
- 2:14We'll be wearing this hat probably a couple of days
- 2:16this weekend. Uh yeah, fun stuff in the in the
- 2:19new apartment. Gotta gotta christen it with a little little
- 2:22uh you get up to.
- 2:24Speaker 1: I was telling you earlier, I love the wall behind you.
- 2:26It is decorated immaculately. You're doing it like I was
- 2:30telling you. There's good eventually in the little circle here.
- 2:32Speaker 5: I don't know if it'll catch it, but there will
- 2:34be something like right there and like right there and
- 2:36eventually right there, but my head will be covering it.
- 2:38But right now you get a blank wall. Hopefully my
- 2:40like if everything like shipping wise comes in in time,
- 2:44I think by the draft stream next weekend, you'll get
- 2:47the things here.
- 2:48Speaker 1: But very good.
- 2:49Speaker 5: My diploma is going behind my head and I don't
- 2:51know when that's gonna come in.
- 2:52Speaker 1: So you should put a whiteboard behind you for the
- 2:54draft streets. You could turn around and make notes. Yeah,
- 2:57I'll let you think about that while while the others
- 3:00are getting ready. Thank you for being here, Josh. We're
- 3:02glad to have you, buddy. JB. Sebastiano. You have had
- 3:06a very interesting couple of days. You've been covering Team
- 3:09USA or I guess suffering through Team USA.
- 3:13Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess that is that's a good way to
- 3:15put it. The Arms have been great, no complaints there.
- 3:18The Bats, on the other hand, it's pretty brutal. You know,
- 3:22they had to call in the reinforcements already. Casey Borbo
- 3:25was there. It hasn't gone well, to say the least.
- 3:29We may have seen through three games i've been there,
- 3:32a total of maybe eight runs scored by both teams combined.
- 3:38So yeah, not great. Not a great night for the boys,
- 3:42all right, though, that is okay.
- 3:44Speaker 1: We appreciate you being here, JB. Glad you could join us.
- 3:47We were worried about it at first, but hypes that
- 3:50you're here, glad we can make it. Bottom left corner
- 3:53is going to be coach, Jake Barjorie coach your second
- 3:56cap of the night. I love it. It is the
- 3:58Old School of balls, speaking Old School of balls, Jake
- 4:01as Today the team announced it is as we know,
- 4:04Adidas jersey is going forward for our valls.
- 4:08Speaker 6: I did see it.
- 4:08Speaker 3: I was I was bullied out of my first hat,
- 4:11but Josh, you woudn't. He wouldn't wouldn't let me wear
- 4:13the hat that I wanted to wear tonight. He pretty
- 4:17much forced me to switch into this one. So uh
- 4:20but yeah, I did see that. I did see the jersey.
- 4:21I think it was Peyton Manning that like was like
- 4:23showing them off on like all the social stuff the
- 4:26football jerseys.
- 4:28Speaker 6: I don't know how I feel about him.
- 4:30Speaker 3: The numbers look a little little weird on them, but
- 4:32I mean anything that's good in that orange white though,
- 4:34if he has me, you know.
- 4:35Speaker 1: The one saving grace is that, yes, the orange and white.
- 4:38Speaker 4: Makes anything look good, so see Jake. And the one
- 4:41thing though, is you moved from Tennessee up there to
- 4:43the northeast, and Penn State goes to Nike and Tennessee
- 4:46goes to Adidas, so you've got a lot of trade.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I saw that.
- 4:49Speaker 6: I saw the new Penn State gear.
- 4:50Speaker 3: They looked it looked pretty good though, But I'm gonna
- 4:53I'm going I'm going with the with the Tennessee orange
- 4:56any time, though.
- 4:58Speaker 1: I love to hear it. Jake all Way joining us
- 5:01for this draft preview is one mister William Dodge. Will,
- 5:07I'm gonna need you to stand up so I can
- 5:08see the shirt amidst the full circle, please.
- 5:11Speaker 7: Lis Oregon Ducks rampage to ninety five Classic on their
- 5:14trip to the Rose.
- 5:16Speaker 2: Going over, going over Utah, going over Washington, going over UCLA,
- 5:21all the way to pass the Tena.
- 5:22Speaker 1: I love that.
- 5:23Speaker 6: Very cool.
- 5:24Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pretty nice. Fine with my girlfriend. I
- 5:27do zero shopping for myself.
- 5:30Speaker 1: She came, she came through with that one man. That's
- 5:32that's really awesome. Yeah. Yeah, and Will, We're thrilled you're
- 5:37joining us, obviously, Will thrill thank you for all of
- 5:39you at home. And caught that. But no, we're hyped
- 5:41to have you here, Dodge. You got to see a
- 5:43great number of players recently with mister Sebastiano at the
- 5:46Draft combine. You guys have done an amazing job on
- 5:49behalf of the site covering that. So we wanted to
- 5:51say thanks to you guys, and can't wait to hear
- 5:53some of your insights tonight.
- 5:55Speaker 2: Yeah, there'll definitely be some players that stood out there.
- 5:57I'll be highlighting later in this episode.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Can't wait. It's gonna be fun. So, to paraphrase a
- 6:04conversation you did not hear before the episode started, we
- 6:08know you are under You're under a complete awareness of
- 6:11who von Lackey is. You have heard a time or
- 6:15two of this. Ace Reese, Gentleman Rock Chalowski does not
- 6:19escape you. What we're gonna do is we're gonna go
- 6:21a little bit deeper into the prospects live Top four
- 6:24hundred and twenty five prospects, giving you chunks of chunks
- 6:27of rankings to give you a player or two from each.
- 6:31It's gonna be a good time. We're gonna try to
- 6:32rapid fire and get you a ton of guys that
- 6:35you may not have a lot of insight on and
- 6:37even though this is a college podcast, I know we've
- 6:39got some prep guys as well, So if you are
- 6:41specifically a college baseball fan, maybe listen in and listen up,
- 6:45because we're gonna talk some prep guys through this episode
- 6:47as well. Without further ado, though, Jake, I'm gonna start
- 6:51with you. You are the name at the top of
- 6:52the list, so I'm picking on you first in that
- 6:55kind of first bucket of names, and we're talking guys
- 6:58ranked fifty one to one hundred. So this is dude
- 7:01who we will absolutely theoretically see drafted on day one,
- 7:04barring some crazy money nonsense or like a late second,
- 7:08you know, reclassification. Who's the name you really dig out
- 7:11of this group.
- 7:12Speaker 3: Jack, Yeah, the first, the first name that I had
- 7:16that I wanted to mention is one that seems like
- 7:19a kind kind of a wild card player at this point.
- 7:21Speaker 6: Caden Ferraro, outfielder from Texas Tech.
- 7:24Speaker 3: I mean, big, strong body, left handed hitter six two
- 7:27two fifteen. He had a ten eighty five ops this
- 7:30year three seventy five average walk more than he struck out,
- 7:33and he's and this is a guy he's posted like
- 7:36some of the most gaudiest metrics this year and this
- 7:40class at the plate just to go over a couple
- 7:43of them, eighty five percent overall contact rate, eight percent
- 7:46end zone with forty seven percent hard hit rate. You know,
- 7:50he's close to that fifty percent mark, which is a
- 7:52really crazy spot to be in. To be honest, I
- 7:55got some big bat speed. It puts up some big
- 7:57exit Velo's relatively patient. He doesn't chase too much. The
- 8:02concern with him is like a power guy right now,
- 8:04is that he hasn't lifted the ball a ton he hits.
- 8:07You know, the balls that he hits in the air
- 8:08about fifty percent of him or are line drives, and
- 8:11you know, you'd like to see a guy like of
- 8:13his stature and with how hard he hits the ball
- 8:15lifted a little bit more than that. But other than that,
- 8:17the bat is just about everything that you would want.
- 8:20The major knock that teams have, obviously, is where to
- 8:23put him.
- 8:24Speaker 6: At in the field.
- 8:24Speaker 3: You know, he's not just like this heavy footed power hitter.
- 8:27Like he can run a little bit. It's got a
- 8:29decent arm I would see. I could see him getting
- 8:31a running a corner outfield spot. But he's just not
- 8:33polished out there really at all. And you know, if
- 8:36he could, you know, we'll see if he can hold that,
- 8:38or if we're moved to first base or you know,
- 8:40the worst case scenario would obviously be if he lands
- 8:42as a as a d H long term.
- 8:44Speaker 6: But the bat is legit, and that's what you're gonna
- 8:46be buying with Katan Ferraro.
- 8:48Speaker 1: It is legit. Ferraro was the name I had highlighted
- 8:51or whatever the opposite of highlighted is blacked out to
- 8:54speak about as well, Jake. So I'm glad that you
- 8:56brought him up. I'm glad we got talking about him today. Josh,
- 8:59give me your first name in this fifty one tow
- 9:01one hundred range.
- 9:02Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna talk about a guy that I'm honestly
- 9:04kind of shocked as in this range. I'm gonna talk
- 9:06about Chase Brunson, outfielder from TCU. I think this is
- 9:10one of the safest floors you'll find this year as
- 9:12a back end of the first round talent. I have
- 9:15all five of his tools graded out as a fifty
- 9:18year better, and that seems to be a relative consensus
- 9:21at this point. He's batted over three hundred each of
- 9:24the past two years, with eighty nine percent z coon
- 9:28this year and a ninety four percent zcon on fast
- 9:31balls in twenty twenty five, So the bat to ball
- 9:33is there. Not to mention the four fifty four XLOBA
- 9:37against off speed pitchers he posted in twenty twenty five,
- 9:39that's a bit of a deep stat Still. As for power,
- 9:43it's more gap to gap line drive approach, but he
- 9:46posted a one oh eight ninetyeth EV this year with
- 9:48ten home runs, so I think there's real potential at
- 9:51the next level for some twenty to twenty five home
- 9:53run seasons. Defensively, he could definitely play any of the
- 9:57three outfield positions and has versatility to be at least
- 10:00serviceable wherever he lands out there. Now, the only potential
- 10:04downside here is that he definitely has shown to be
- 10:07passive in the past, but the results have translated fined
- 10:11at this point, I mean, his power has grown each year.
- 10:14He posted a one to forty one WRC plus this year,
- 10:16so i'd imagine that'll translate. So all in all, I
- 10:19think this is a pretty clear first round or comp
- 10:22round talent. I can see someone like Tampa Bay taking
- 10:25him at thirty three for sure.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Okay, love that. Let's move on, JB. Your first name
- 10:31in this range, who do you like?
- 10:33Speaker 4: Yeah, my first name is Cayden Wecter, prep pitcher from Tampa, Jesuit.
- 10:38He was kind of one of the more polished prep
- 10:40right handed arms I think throughout the year, throughout the
- 10:42class that we've seen. I got to see him in
- 10:44person at NHSI and Kerry over the summer. Towards the
- 10:47beginning of the year. He round out his season throwing
- 10:49sixty one innings one one five year Ray struck out
- 10:52eighty two. He's kind of just one of those guys
- 10:56that it's high pitchability, throws a lot of strikes, big
- 10:58extension too, fast ball shites, two seam four team, get
- 11:01some good vertical approach, two slider shapes, you know, gets
- 11:04a lot of sweep on some shorter, harder bullets on others.
- 11:07He just a guy really has a field to pitch,
- 11:09and I think he's a guy that definitely is a
- 11:10Day one arm that you'll see get called especially probably
- 11:13either in the comper round two, but he's definitely a
- 11:16middle of the rotation arm I think for somebody in
- 11:18the future nice.
- 11:20Speaker 1: You gotta love it. Those are rare. Mister Dodge will
- 11:24go to you your first name. You want to highlight
- 11:25from this fifty one to one hundred range.
- 11:28Speaker 2: Yeah, it was funny.
- 11:29Speaker 7: Josh mentioned a guy that I really like, and Chase Brunson,
- 11:31but he mentioned a group of players that don't really
- 11:33love and say floors.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Even if we're going.
- 11:36Speaker 7: This high or this early in a draft kind of
- 11:39tier around fifty to one hundred, I want a Golden
- 11:42Lotto ticket if it's out there. So I'm saying Arkansas,
- 11:45right Hendter Gabe Gackle coming in the preseason when he
- 11:48was coming out of the pen, he was up to
- 11:50ninety nine at one hundred, and when it was kind
- 11:52of unclear who the true best college arm was who
- 11:57was going to be in this class, you know, he
- 11:58was certainly an option. Slider and kurveball create different shapes
- 12:03and are both thrown really hard. He's a lot better
- 12:07of an athlete than he looks like for his kind
- 12:08of smaller size and a little bit of a wider frame,
- 12:11but he moves pretty well down the mound.
- 12:13Speaker 2: And if you can kind of figure out how to
- 12:15harness that.
- 12:16Speaker 7: Command, I think you have really impressive upsides. So Gab
- 12:19Gackle is gonna be the guy.
- 12:20Speaker 1: For me, absolutely, man, love it really quick GUIDs at home.
- 12:24I will give you two names really quickly. I'm not
- 12:26going to spend much time on him because if you've
- 12:28listened to college baseball now ever, you've heard me talking
- 12:31about them. First name I want to highlight, obviously is
- 12:34de Kennedy. We know the error with Dee Kennedy is
- 12:37going to be that he can be a bit aggressive
- 12:39at the play. He gets very swing happy at times
- 12:41of While he did a wonderful job this season mitigating
- 12:44some of that risk and still letting his spark plug
- 12:49leadoff man type profile play for Kansas State and honestly
- 12:53lead Kansas State quite a bit of the season, he
- 12:55did still have some issues with Chase with just some
- 12:59bad pitch election at the plate. Either way, I think
- 13:02a team is gonna give him a good opportunity and
- 13:05some solid development towards becoming a meaningful contributor at the
- 13:09major league level. The other name I'll talk about really
- 13:11quickly Max Yale. Obviously Drew's talking. He's talking max Yale,
- 13:16big time stuff from the left side. I love the
- 13:19crossfire delivery it's the angles are bizarre and just stupid.
- 13:24I think I finally won over my co hosts after
- 13:27he they got to see him live and in living
- 13:29color in Omaha. They all are doing the little half
- 13:32nods of I guess d.
- 13:34Speaker 6: A second row.
- 13:34Speaker 4: We were right there and we got to see dominance.
- 13:36Speaker 1: From the second road. They got to see the dominance.
- 13:40I think that it's it's It is kind of led
- 13:42by the secondaries, which is a little bit interesting. I
- 13:45think there's a bare minimum a solid mid relief option
- 13:49here for a team. I do think there's a very
- 13:52realistic ceiling of God, I'll say a three starter, but
- 13:56I think a four or five is probably more realistic.
- 13:58The look is just so Dodge. I'd love to go
- 14:02back to you, buddy, who else you got in this range.
- 14:04Speaker 7: I'm gonna take a guy that I think you and
- 14:06coach Jake are gonna really like. Tennessee commit catcher Sean Dunlapp,
- 14:11another guy that is a little bit of a lawer
- 14:13floor of a pretty high ceiling. You're got to accept
- 14:16some some some with concerns, but there's straw and athleticism
- 14:19buying the plate.
- 14:19Speaker 2: He runs really well for his size and he has
- 14:21above average power.
- 14:23Speaker 7: Every time I watch him, I just look at his
- 14:24shoulders and I just see how proud they are, and
- 14:26I just think of Sean Sean Murphy, who you know, injuries.
- 14:29I'm kind of taking a toll in his career, but
- 14:31he was really he was a premium catcher at the
- 14:34point when the A's traded him. You know, talk about
- 14:36potentially the best catcher in the game at that point
- 14:38in time. Has a really strong arm.
- 14:40Speaker 2: You think he could he can move to the outfield
- 14:42if if need beat.
- 14:45Speaker 1: My guy, Yeah, uh, totally, JB. I'd love to go
- 14:52to you for another selection in that fifty one to
- 14:54one hundred range.
- 14:55Speaker 4: Pal, Yeah, I'm gonna go with taj Marshawn at a
- 14:58James Island Charter in South Carolina, he was the Max
- 15:01Preps South Carolina Player of the Year after hitting five
- 15:03thirty one with thirteen homers this year. Is a big performer.
- 15:07At Super sixty, he played a little bit of USA
- 15:10wasn't too high, but at the combine he really showed out.
- 15:12A lot of people. You know, they hate on the
- 15:14setup and kind of the swing. It's a little bit funky,
- 15:16but I mean he finds ways to get in good
- 15:18positions and get the barrel on the ball at all times.
- 15:21Great mover on the diamond, He's definitly gonna stick it short,
- 15:23I think, plus arm, and he's really just a fun,
- 15:26projectable guy to look forward to with adding a little
- 15:29bit more juice and muscle in there. So definitely love
- 15:31that one, JB.
- 15:33Speaker 1: I think, at least in terms of this draft class,
- 15:35there may be one player who maybe two players who
- 15:39eclipse taj marshand on the just this is a JB
- 15:43guy list, So glad to see you're playing into your favorites,
- 15:46Like I am, Pal Josh speaking of guys, this is
- 15:50a Josh guy if ever there were one. But I'm
- 15:51gonna go ahead and jump on that.
- 15:53Speaker 5: Train with you, Pal, I can imagine why, I mean
- 15:56Dodge mentioned it. If we're going to talk about Tennessee
- 15:58from this, I'll talk about another team. As he commit,
- 16:01Dary Morse's let's get the downside out of the way first,
- 16:05because there's hesitations for a reason. He's about eighty to
- 16:08ninety fastball change up only and lacks some field to
- 16:12spend the ball, so developing a true solid breaking ball
- 16:15might be tough for him and then it'll possibly limit
- 16:18his ability to develop a putout pitch varieties. That said,
- 16:23he's so reliant on those first two pitches because they're
- 16:25already so good. He's a six to seven righty with
- 16:29a lanky frame that has tons of room to add muscle,
- 16:32and that just be the cherry on top for a
- 16:33fastball that already lives ninety two to ninety five, grabbing
- 16:37ninety eight at one point two. That fastball has great
- 16:40cut ride shape for his age, and he reached that
- 16:43velo from an operation that seems pretty effortless at this point.
- 16:47He also dominates with that change up, and I remember
- 16:49people at NHSI and March saying no one could touch it,
- 16:53so that I mean, I assume that's kept true throughout
- 16:57the entire high school season, and I imagine it will
- 16:59at the next level. The absolute floor here is probably
- 17:02a reliable bullpen piece in the majors, in my opinion,
- 17:06And with the shapes on those breaking balls that he
- 17:08registered on track Man at USA last summer, there's a
- 17:11decent chance he can figure out the development with those two.
- 17:15Speaker 1: Love it. Yes, big fan of Morse, I think the
- 17:18the operative thing you said there is just effort and man,
- 17:21those first two pitches are I think even if there's
- 17:23a little bit of a learning curve with the with
- 17:26the breaking ball, I think we can accept that. Jake
- 17:29back to you to round us out on the fifty
- 17:31one to one hundred range fowl. Who else you like?
- 17:34Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I planned on taking a few Northeast
- 17:38guys in this episode, and the first is the nephew
- 17:41of Barry. I feel like that always needs to be
- 17:43said when we talking about him. Peyton Bonds, outfielder from Rutgers.
- 17:47First of all, he's built like an NFL linebacker. Like
- 17:50you look at this guy in person. He is jagged
- 17:53and I looked it up the average size of linebackers
- 17:56and I'm done this year six three to two thirds
- 18:00five And he fits like right in.
- 18:01Speaker 6: With those guys he is. He is massive, but uh,
- 18:05he's got you know, just him as a.
- 18:06Speaker 3: Player though he's got you know, he's got above average
- 18:09A plus contact ability.
- 18:10Speaker 6: But he chases like a lot.
- 18:12Speaker 3: He swings at fifty one percent of pitches and he
- 18:15and he and he ran a chase rate of like
- 18:16forty percent this year, and that that combination typically doesn't
- 18:20result in a ton of success in general or especially
- 18:23in the in the power department. But the raw power
- 18:26is legit. He's got massive bat speed. He's a plus athlete. Uh,
- 18:30covers a ton of ground in center field. The arm
- 18:32is playable out there as well. I think he can stick,
- 18:34but like, if he moves to a corner, it wouldn't
- 18:36be the worst thing in the world. But the approach
- 18:39is really going to need to be refined at the
- 18:41next level. I mean, he's a good enough athlete. I
- 18:43think he can make adjustments. But like you know, it
- 18:46is worry someone guy swings that much and he chases
- 18:48that much. Uh, and that could make be enough to
- 18:50make a few teams shy away from him. But the
- 18:52raw tools speak for themselves though, without a doubt it is.
- 18:56Speaker 1: There's so much there's so much bloodline that you can
- 18:58just see some of those tools raw as they are.
- 19:02You can see. Okay, he came by this very naturally, Jake,
- 19:05I love love that shot. Let's move down the board
- 19:08a little bit, gentlemen, to that kind of one oh one,
- 19:11one fifty range, so we're talking, Uh, if I'm not mistaken,
- 19:14the electrode to mewtwo range here, if you got that
- 19:18joke at home drop comment, Jake, I'm gonna start with
- 19:20you here. Let me know your first dude in that
- 19:23range that you like.
- 19:25Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna stay up here in New Jersey and go.
- 19:28Alex Winingarner the bat from Saint Augustine Prepp. He's been
- 19:33a well known prospect up here for a little while now,
- 19:35but he really put his name on like the national
- 19:37stage at the Super sixty showcases past winter, ran a
- 19:40sixty two four sixty at some big down.
- 19:43Speaker 6: Batten practice rounds, got a th lot of attention. He's
- 19:46he's more. He's also pitched a little bit, but he's
- 19:49more of a bad at this point. But he's been.
- 19:51Speaker 3: He's been in mid nineties on the mound, and that
- 19:53arm certainly translates to him wherever in the field he
- 19:56ends up. He's played, He's played some short stuff and
- 19:59play some outfield easy plus speed, easy plus armed. That
- 20:01should allow him to get to run at either either
- 20:03short or center at the next level, and I think
- 20:06he could be find at either one of them at
- 20:07this point. The raw power for wine Garners also would
- 20:11I would probably give it a plus. The swing really
- 20:14plays to that power. It leaves a little bit of
- 20:17concern with the hit tool though it gets a little
- 20:19bit loud, he gets a little bit long at times.
- 20:22Speaker 6: But the swing decisions have been good. He's a good
- 20:24enough athlete.
- 20:25Speaker 3: I think he'll be able to handle a slight adjustment
- 20:27to the swing if aif team finds that it's necessary.
- 20:30And you know, he's committed to penn State. That's where
- 20:32his brother Alex Winegarner went to. But I don't think.
- 20:34I don't think he's gonna make it there as much
- 20:36as baseball fans up here in Pennsylvania hopes he will.
- 20:39Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta say, Buddy, I don't know, after you
- 20:42were talking about him from Super sixty, I kind of
- 20:44knew this kid was gonna be on a rocket ship
- 20:46after this.
- 20:48Speaker 3: I misspoke. I said his brother Alex, his brother Ryan
- 20:50Winegarner's the one that is his brother.
- 20:53Speaker 1: That's all right, we'll let it slide, Coach. We knew
- 20:55what you mean. Josh coming to you here now, man,
- 20:59let's hear about to dou'd you really dig in this range? Yeah?
- 21:02Speaker 5: I'll talk about Brett Renfro the Virginia tech riety. I
- 21:07was catching some shade for having Renfro around thember sixty
- 21:10on my big board, but I don't really even think
- 21:12it's that crazy. It's an athletic frame from a starter's
- 21:16build with plenty of time as a starter against power
- 21:19conference competition. Already, he's got four true pitches, all of
- 21:24which could grind out his average or better, and he's
- 21:26shown an innate ability to locate them at an advanced
- 21:29level at this point. It's a big, cut ride, mid
- 21:33nineties fastball that jumps on batters with plus extension, a
- 21:37slider he lands for strikes around seventy percent of the
- 21:40time for around forty percent, with a change up that
- 21:43separates from the heater really well both vertically and horizontally
- 21:47along within velocity. And he's got a curveball that produced
- 21:51around fifty percent swing and miss this past year despite
- 21:53some issues leaving.
- 21:54Speaker 1: It up in the zone.
- 21:56Speaker 5: I'm not really sure what's not delight here. For being honest,
- 21:59I've got a round two great on the guy.
- 22:02Speaker 1: That's pretty impressive, And I mean, granted, we're gonna have
- 22:05differences between you know, a full group in yourself, but
- 22:08I think you make a compelling case towards Renfro being
- 22:11towards that sixty range. Like you would suggest it. JB.
- 22:15I believe your selection is gonna be coming out from
- 22:17the Motherland.
- 22:18Speaker 6: For you, sir, Yeah, it is.
- 22:20Speaker 4: We're going back there, and you know, back to my
- 22:22prep days when I saw this guy at Survet High School.
- 22:25It's Roman Martin out of UCLA. Roman Martin. He's had
- 22:29kind of a very productive career at UCLA. Nothing too crazy,
- 22:32but he's just been a consistent performer there. Ops over
- 22:35nine hundred for two seasons in a row, hit over
- 22:37three hundred two years in a grow nine homers in
- 22:39each of the past two seasons. He's a guy who's
- 22:41just kind of had some fuel to hit. He's spread
- 22:43out more since high school, kind of compact the swing.
- 22:47He's really just a guy that I think has more
- 22:49juice in there if you do a little bit of
- 22:51tweaks to him. I also think he's athletic enough to
- 22:53move back to short where he's known for being a
- 22:55great defender there. But obviously, when you're playing besides rock,
- 22:58you can't play short. So I think he's guy's got
- 23:00the potential to move back to short. He's got more
- 23:02thump in there. I think he's the guy's kind of
- 23:04undervalued here from back in the day when he was
- 23:06the first round potential guy out of high school.
- 23:09Speaker 1: Still a whole lot of juice there and some some
- 23:12magic to be found with Roman Martin. Uh, mister Dodge,
- 23:16you've got an interesting name here, a guy who I
- 23:19think all five of us have had some shot on
- 23:21this year.
- 23:24Speaker 2: I go a couple of different ways.
- 23:25Speaker 7: First one off shout out though, is Matthew Sharman prep
- 23:28right handers committed to the Georgia Bulldogs. I'm not I'm
- 23:32gonna be pretty confident he wasn't Mats Campus, but him
- 23:34with Wes Johnson would be would be pretty pretty electric.
- 23:37Speaker 2: And I say that because.
- 23:40Speaker 7: If I were to give a very very quick and
- 23:42bland calm, it's kind of to that early season Emerson
- 23:45Hancock wery right hander, strong right hander dropping uh uh
- 23:50the thrown slot with a really good running his fastball
- 23:54and change up, and he's got he's got a real
- 23:56strong command for for a prep arm I really like
- 24:00the slider. It's it's a really strong sweeping profile, doesn't
- 24:04really create a ton of like vertical plane differentiation, and no,
- 24:09a pro work is definitely gonna work on with a
- 24:11curveball into that but for you high school arms, it's
- 24:15just about as advanced as it gets.
- 24:17Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of a rare profile and advanced polished, you
- 24:22see that, you see the build there for Sharman long term,
- 24:25really quick, I'll give a name, guys Breaking Down, friend
- 24:28of the podcast, what you're getting, or excuse me, what
- 24:30you're getting what a major league team is going to
- 24:32get from Braidon Down is going to be a gamer. Obviously.
- 24:35This is a kid who's gonna go out and try
- 24:37to impact the game any way he can. He has
- 24:39such an old school vibe to him, despite having what
- 24:42I'd say is honestly like a deceptively modern skill set.
- 24:46At his approach, there is usable game power here, there's speed.
- 24:50It's an incredibly competent center fielder. And as we spoke
- 24:54to him earlier in the year, JBU had a wonderful
- 24:56conversation with Braiden at the Draft combine. This is your
- 25:00man who's just incredibly, incredibly easy to like. I think
- 25:03he has incredible character. It could be a glue guy
- 25:07for a major league roster for a very long time.
- 25:09And this is again all underplaying the fact that he
- 25:12plays like a guy who is a top one hundred
- 25:15and fifty talent in this draft. I think anybody that
- 25:17says differently is not looking not looking as deep as
- 25:20they should it breaden down either way, Let's go back
- 25:23to you, Dodge. I'm curious what's your take. You've got
- 25:26another name, a guy who you got to speak to.
- 25:28Speaker 7: If I'm not mistaken, yeah, I did get, in fact
- 25:31get to speak with the prep Outfield or Wesley rovers
- 25:34and we're talking in this area about like guys going
- 25:36one fifty.
- 25:38Speaker 1: I feel like in that.
- 25:39Speaker 7: Range, I'm doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Keep
- 25:41this guy up in the top because I really like
- 25:44the profile.
- 25:45Speaker 2: He makes a lot of contact with really strong swing decisions,
- 25:49and for me, I just I'm a big fan of
- 25:52the swing.
- 25:52Speaker 7: It is really athletically aligned, and I think it's it's
- 25:55something that his skills are gonna are gonna hold up
- 25:57as as the competition that faces get better. He's a
- 26:00good athlete. He has at least a plus arm, and
- 26:03I think you should pain center field a little bit
- 26:05of a smaller guy, I think I think the power
- 26:07can come. And he's an LC commit, so I think
- 26:10there might be a good chance that he might.
- 26:11Speaker 1: Get on the campus that could be kind of interesting.
- 26:15They will. Yeah, JB you seven a second ago. This
- 26:19guy can't not be talked about after the show that
- 26:22you saw in Phoenix.
- 26:24Speaker 4: Yeah, they're going back to the combine, I guess quickly
- 26:26since I forgot to mention commitments. Kaiden Walker is or
- 26:29Wector is, fsu taj marshawn Ole miss two guys committed
- 26:33to great programs probably don't make it, but you know
- 26:36something to mention. The show that we did get to watch, though,
- 26:39was Kaden Bogenpole. This guy put on an absolute clinic
- 26:42out there in Arizona how to take batting practice, and
- 26:44we joked about he was in a group of Blake
- 26:46Bowen and Sawyer Strosnider. He made Sawyer Strosnider look like
- 26:50a contact hitter, and that is far from his profile.
- 26:52But he just put up absolutely mammoth moonshots out there.
- 26:56Four hundred and sixty foot homery a dead center. I believe,
- 26:58one hundred and seventeen ridiculous numbers this year. I know
- 27:03the power dropped off. Only hit six homers and he
- 27:05only hit two seventy four, so some teams were a
- 27:07little worried about that. He did cut down the strikeouts, though,
- 27:09which was positive to see. But the power is still
- 27:12there and it is legit, and I think somebody's definitely
- 27:14going to buy into that after that VP, I think.
- 27:18Speaker 1: That it's it's almost undeniable at this point. JB, you
- 27:21guys came away raving about it. Speaking of raving, Josh,
- 27:26you have raved about this next gentleman for a while.
- 27:28You have really driven the driven the ship on him,
- 27:31and now we've got him in the top one hundred
- 27:34and ten picks. Tell us about one of your favorite prepsters.
- 27:37Speaker 5: Yeah, this is gonna be the episode of Josh Catlet
- 27:40guys that he's been talking about forever. U. This is
- 27:43one of my very earliest draft crushes of the cycle.
- 27:47Most places have him around like a round sixth grade ish,
- 27:50but we have him all the way up into the
- 27:51top one hundred to one ten mans you just mentioned,
- 27:54so credit to us. Car Ball is a six' five
- 27:58riiety that shown a ton of potential out of a
- 28:01side arm. SLOT i put fifty five's on his sinker
- 28:05slider and change up and he splashed a decent cutter
- 28:08from time to time. Too the sinker lives around ninety
- 28:11two to ninety five most of the. Time and gets
- 28:14twenty inches of horizontal movement regularly with a flat vertical approach.
- 28:18Angle the changeup does the same thing, horizontally and his
- 28:22Food High school batters pretty consistently from What i've. Seen
- 28:26as for the, slider you could probably call it a
- 28:28sweeper due to its, shape, honestly and there's true double
- 28:32plus feel for spin. There So i'd imagine there's big
- 28:35development on the horizon in that. Department he's barely eighteen
- 28:40and has already shown plenty of ingredients that you'd want
- 28:43to see in the. Starter long, Term i'm all the
- 28:45way in on.
- 28:45Speaker 1: Him, yeah gotta love. IT i remember the first conversation
- 28:50you AND i had About. CARBALL i think you sold
- 28:52me very. Early you speak the summer of. VICTION i
- 28:55remember WHERE i.
- 28:55Speaker 6: WAS i was in.
- 28:56Speaker 5: CLASS i was like Watching Jake carball filming, class AND
- 29:00i was, LIKE i need a little bit, more and
- 29:03all of a, sudden, LOOK i still got a. Degree
- 29:05so all That Jake carball filming class got made the.
- 29:07Degree and that's really what. Matters that's really what matters
- 29:10at the end of the. Day, jake wrap us up
- 29:13in this range one on.
- 29:14Speaker 3: One here's another name you Like, Yeah i'm going out
- 29:18TO jb And will's country out. There i'm gonna go
- 29:21to Col, randall right handed picture FROM. Ucla extremely reliable
- 29:25and consistent reliever FOR. Ucla this, year he had thirty
- 29:28four appearances out of the pen with a strikeout rate
- 29:30of forty four. Percent opponents only hit for a one
- 29:33forty two average against. Him he's extremely fastball heavy in
- 29:37his pitch, usage but it's mostly been for good, reason
- 29:40as he's been pretty dominant with. It he runs it
- 29:42up to about one hundred miles an, hour throws it
- 29:44for strike at a pretty solid, clip gets over thirty
- 29:46percent with with it in the, zone and especially effective
- 29:50when he elevates. It, really it's a really good. Pitch
- 29:53it's an easy plus fastball for. Me he's, got you,
- 29:57know he's got a mid eighties, slider also an upbraide
- 30:00he's changed up that he'll use against left handed hitters
- 30:01from time to.
- 30:02Speaker 6: Time but LIKE i, said he uses these very.
- 30:04Speaker 3: Sparingly there's not too much to necessarily great on those
- 30:08as much as he's thrown the, fastball and he throws
- 30:10it so, much but he's gonna need to develop to
- 30:12develop one or two of those secondaries to ultimately be
- 30:15effective at the next. Level but he's a really good
- 30:18mover on the, mound strong six four to two hundred
- 30:20and thirty five pound, frame and he looks the part
- 30:23of a solid reliever in the pros for years to.
- 30:25Speaker 4: Come word not to hit on anything too crazy before
- 30:28we move, on but his upper zone vertical. Approach me
- 30:31And dodd hit. This for any stats nerds at, home
- 30:34negative three point twoy one was the number that came
- 30:38up when we look this, up which is absolutely ridiculous
- 30:41if you know anything about.
- 30:42Speaker 5: It, YEAH i Think jake get a plus pitch is
- 30:45like honestly lenient at this. POINT i think it's pretty,
- 30:48clear like double plus seventh. Grade like it's it's seen
- 30:51as you could argue the best fastball in the, class
- 30:54even though it will only be used in relief. STUTS
- 30:56i think there are some people that truly believe.
- 30:58Speaker 2: That And shake missed, this but your last one on
- 31:02AND i was m f and you for for stealing
- 31:04Cal randall From.
- 31:07Speaker 1: It's true there were some there were some bombs flying your, way. Coach,
- 31:10YEAH i like THE i like the restraint on your,
- 31:13part AND i know that we're trying to move quick
- 31:15on these. Guys BUT i like your restraint to say
- 31:17it's it's a it's a plus, fastball even though BECAUSE
- 31:19i agree With, JOSH i think it's it's well within
- 31:21reason to say a seventy fastball because it is just
- 31:25an elite. Pitch but like the. Restraint, jake good on, you,
- 31:28coach good on. You that's why he gets paid the big.
- 31:31Bucks but if you want, him he may take a job. Anyway,
- 31:34jake let's talk one to two. Hundred who do you
- 31:36like in that.
- 31:37Speaker 6: Reach, Yeah i'm going back to the to The jersey prip.
- 31:41Speaker 3: Guys i'm Going jason M albert from From DePaul Catholic
- 31:44High school here In jersey's he's been he's been a
- 31:46high follow in this area for a couple of years
- 31:49now and it's been fun to see like all the
- 31:51tools kind of come together for. Him he's six to,
- 31:53one round one one. Ninety you know he does and
- 31:56he does everything on the field that should give you
- 31:59confidence that he can the job, done either on the
- 32:01dirt or in the. Outfield he's got an above average,
- 32:04arm above average to plus athleticism of glove that that's
- 32:08earned him a chance to play on the, infield but
- 32:10a move to the outfield certainly could be something he
- 32:12could handle as. Well at the, plate there's not a
- 32:15ton of power right. Now he's got room to grow
- 32:18and everything like. That but the bat speed's. Legit he's
- 32:21put the bat on the ball a ton this. Spring
- 32:23he's got a ton Of LIKE i, said he's got
- 32:24a ton of room to grow to add a little
- 32:26bit of power down the. Road and he's. Current he's right,
- 32:29now he's committed To. Oklahoma could be a could be
- 32:31a tough sign for him at this. POINT i think
- 32:33there's a good chance he gets snagged in the earlier rounds,
- 32:36though and somebody takes a chance.
- 32:38Speaker 6: On some of those row tools that he's.
- 32:39Speaker 1: GOT i think that the odds are pretty.
- 32:42Speaker 4: Good was the Coach jake right? There that was like
- 32:44a spot on analysis from where we had at the.
- 32:45Combine so coach. Shakeson he'sn't doing the homework up, there for, sure.
- 32:50Speaker 1: He's a pros. Pro we knew.
- 32:51Speaker 7: THAT.
- 32:51Speaker 1: Jb, josh you have an interesting. Name we're gonna keep
- 32:56to the prep ranks with. Yours i'm curious what's your
- 32:58thoughts in this? Range you want two?
- 33:00Speaker 5: Hundred, Yeah i'm gonna Take Julian. Garcia i've grown to
- 33:04Love Julian garcia, lately and part of that very well
- 33:07might be because you rarely see a prospect this highly
- 33:10touted as a long beach state. Commit so shout out the.
- 33:13Dirtbags i'm Sure dodge is familiar With garcia because he
- 33:18seems to have gotten the attention of a lot Of
- 33:20cali based scouts.
- 33:21Speaker 4: Lately, wow it's not LIKE i watched him AT nhsi or.
- 33:25ANYTHING i, mean, geez we don't live there.
- 33:27Speaker 5: ANYMORE i hate. You i'm super high on, him with
- 33:36like a round two or three great on the, guy
- 33:38whereas most large outlets have him as like a back
- 33:41end of the back in The day one. Guy he's
- 33:44got a plus twelve six curveball out of an upper
- 33:46three quarter slot that seems to give batters fits along
- 33:50with the mid nineties fastball with a good ride and
- 33:52carrie that's been up to ninety. Seven he's got plus
- 33:55field for spin on the breaker and has dominated some
- 33:57of the highest levels In california using that pitch is
- 34:00a big bat. Misser he's also got a good feel
- 34:03for a change that he kills spin pretty. Well with
- 34:07so that's been a solid tertiary. Offering the delivery is
- 34:10a little high, effort and he has already GOTTEN tj
- 34:13a year, ago but he's recovered from it. Well So
- 34:16i'm just gonna pray for the arm health and hope
- 34:18he can leverage what he's already shown and to being
- 34:20a solid two or three starter in the majors one.
- 34:22Speaker 1: DAY i think that some people would say that already
- 34:27having that surgery out of the way is a breath
- 34:29of fresh.
- 34:29Speaker 5: Air, josh he is not the last GUY i will
- 34:32talk about today that's already GOTTEN tj in the past
- 34:34year or.
- 34:34Speaker 6: Two so stay.
- 34:35Speaker 1: Tuned fun, TEASER i love.
- 34:37Speaker 6: IT.
- 34:38Speaker 1: Jb gonna go to. You we're gonna kick the trend
- 34:40to prep. Guys you're gonna talk about one Of drew's deep.
- 34:42Cut this is not really a deep. Cut it's a
- 34:44Guy i've liked from the beginning of the cycle, THOUGH.
- 34:46Speaker 4: Jb, Yeah So i'm going away from what we've been
- 34:49talking about here and going to true college performers here
- 34:53for this. Range so starting off with Dal wentz at
- 34:55A Wake. Forest, wentz you, know he's a two year
- 34:58starter At Wake. Forest he's dropped out. Well. Sophomore he's
- 35:01at double digit homers both years. THERE i know the
- 35:03couch plays, small but thirteen and eighteen nothing to sneeze.
- 35:07At it ALL a ten forty three ops this. YEAR i,
- 35:11mean the strikeouts are the one thing that's a little,
- 35:13concerning sixty three strikeouts in two hundred and thirty two at.
- 35:15Bats BUT i, mean he's a guy that is just
- 35:17really excelled and he's been a consistent performer as a
- 35:20switch hitter. There probably gonna play third or, second but
- 35:23he's definitely a fun end of day one ish type of.
- 35:26Name i'd SAY i can.
- 35:27Speaker 1: Agree with all of. That will on to, you. Buddy
- 35:31that one fifty to two hundred range just kind of
- 35:33got some of the more interesting. Guys SO i think
- 35:36are gonna be some some curious bonus, dudes IF i
- 35:40may be so. Bold who you got in this? Range
- 35:42who do you?
- 35:43Speaker 7: Like, yeah there's a guy THAT i actually pretty much
- 35:47like double took WHEN i saw that he was down.
- 35:49Speaker 2: There we saw this guy at the.
- 35:50Speaker 7: Combine Ethan, waksman the prep right HANDER i believe From
- 35:53colorado but committed To Wake. Force he was up to
- 35:56one hundred in the spring. Season he matched that again
- 35:59in the common mine hit that, well he only hit it.
- 36:01Once he hit ninety nine point nine to nine another,
- 36:04time SO i don't.
- 36:05Speaker 2: KNOW i think we can round it for. Him it
- 36:07is a really powerful. FASTBALL i like TO i liked
- 36:11him a lot for his change up coming into into the.
- 36:14Speaker 7: COMBINE i thought it showed a lot of, tumble but
- 36:15at the combine he showed like a hard power curveball
- 36:18didn't really create like a massive.
- 36:21Speaker 2: Plain difference off.
- 36:22Speaker 6: It but it was in the mid.
- 36:23Speaker 7: Eighties you, know any any curveball in the mid eighties
- 36:26is gonna be pretty. NASTY i think IT'S i think
- 36:29it's being pretty fifty to. Fifty if he goes goes
- 36:32pro or, not and if he doesn't watch out Wake,
- 36:35forest that could be dangerous.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Dodge i'm with you On. Watsman looking at the raw
- 36:41numbers from the combine he, had If i'm not, mistaken
- 36:43a top five pitching performance just looking at raw data
- 36:47for me, personally.
- 36:48Speaker 2: So i'd say probably top.
- 36:50Speaker 4: Three that feels.
- 36:51Speaker 1: SAFE i DON'T i didn't want to say specific. NUMBERS
- 36:53i think he may have been my, two BUT i
- 36:55don't want to quote specific. NUMBERS a top five is.
- 36:57Safe top. Three. Whatever first, Guy i'm gonna tell you
- 37:00guys about really. Quickly if we're gonna talk about, tools
- 37:02let's talk About Ryland. Loho you guys got to speak
- 37:05to him at The combat as. Well you got to
- 37:06see him at The. COMBINE i interviewed him earlier this.
- 37:08Year there's so many tools. HERE i Think ryland has
- 37:12so many different ways he can impact the. Game and
- 37:14WHILE i think that versatility is one of my favorite
- 37:19things about. Him he's obviously been a middle infielder his whole,
- 37:21career transitioned to center field For georgia this season that
- 37:24has done a really good job with. IT i think
- 37:27that the amount of power he's shown has been such a.
- 37:29Surprise i'd like to see that, stick if not developed
- 37:32further as a. Professional i'd like to see the bats
- 37:36of ball just continue to be polished as he goes.
- 37:40ALONG i think that may be the Tool i'm least convicted.
- 37:43Speaker 4: On BUT i like the.
- 37:45Speaker 1: RUN i like the, fielding especially in. Center to be
- 37:48doing it at that high level in THE sec for
- 37:50the first, time came away very impressed With Ryland. Loho
- 37:53there are some big league bloodlines there as. Well with his,
- 37:55Grandfather Rennie. Stennett so if you're into that kind of,
- 37:58thing look him. Up other, Guy i'm gonna, Mention i'm
- 38:02gonna do a prep. GUY i want to talk About
- 38:04Colin bland from just a little bit up the. ROAD
- 38:08i believe he lives In i'm not Gonna i'm not
- 38:10gonna dock him like that, anyway but from Certainly West,
- 38:14Tennessee Colin. Bland i'm gonna quote a very smart young,
- 38:18man a very good friend of, mine and say that
- 38:20if you Liked Xavier isaac as a, prepster you're probably
- 38:24really gonna Like Colin. Bland it is a lot of the,
- 38:26same the big, bodied big, power intriguing tools and traits.
- 38:33THROUGHOUT i think that If vanderbilt gets a hold of
- 38:36this kid in two, years we're gonna be talking probably
- 38:39top of that, class at least in the upper echelon
- 38:42of power threats to come out of. College but a pro,
- 38:45team a major league orge who thinks they can coax
- 38:48some development out of. This this ball of clay is
- 38:51gonna get a premium ball of play with which to.
- 38:54WORK a big fan Of Colin, blant mister, will let's
- 38:58go to, you. Buddy you've got another one in this
- 38:59range one fifty one to two.
- 39:00Speaker 2: Hundred, yeah and pretty much the exact opposite.
- 39:04Speaker 4: Here a.
- 39:04Speaker 2: Guy he's a, guy but he is five eleven.
- 39:07Speaker 7: Five if you, liked if you liked WHAT i was
- 39:10hearing talking About Wesley, roberson you're gonna like Shortstop Dylan.
- 39:13Speaker 4: Bowen he'll he'll be on the.
- 39:15Speaker 7: Infield he's a he's a really strong athletic. MOVER i
- 39:19think he has an above average, arm AND i think
- 39:21he should stay. Short but he's just another guy that
- 39:23makes a ton of contact and also has really good
- 39:25swing decisions to go along with. IT i think it's
- 39:27just gonna be something that projects out well into the.
- 39:30Future he's committed To Oklahoma, state so it could be
- 39:34ANOTHER i mean that that infield is gonna be opening
- 39:36up next, year so if they want, Him i'm sure
- 39:39they'll have the ability to go get. Him BUT i
- 39:41think he's a guy that he could fit pretty well
- 39:44as as a young pro.
- 39:45Speaker 1: Ball, yeah certainly a lot of talent. THERE i think
- 39:49that he's a surefire shortstop as, well certainly middle. Infield J.
- 39:53B let's go back to you for this. Range who
- 39:55else do you?
- 39:55Speaker 4: Like, yeah once again going back to college, performers and
- 39:59it wouldn't be an episode without talking about someone From
- 40:01carolina on my, End so we're going With Gavin gallaher.
- 40:03Here gallaher has been a guy who's a consistent performer
- 40:06throughout his. Career probably this season would be more of
- 40:09a down year for, him but still he's just performed
- 40:12throughout his entire. Career hit two ninety one this year
- 40:15with twelve, homers last year three twenty five with. Seventeen
- 40:18he's a guy that just consistently. Performed the defense really
- 40:21ticked up this year at second, base which is really
- 40:23a plus sign after playing third for a. While he
- 40:25won the Goal glove at second base this. Year the
- 40:28strikeout concerns are kind of one thing that're, there but
- 40:31he does limit it fairly. Well he has some bad,
- 40:33swings but also he does make a lot of. Contact
- 40:35so he's a guy that's got some raw juice in,
- 40:38there play some good. Defense he just screams an everyday
- 40:40big leaguer to, Me SO i think that's why he
- 40:42stands out in this range THAT i feel.
- 40:44Speaker 1: Like that's incredibly fair to. Say. Jab i'm with you, There.
- 40:48Josh first, question really, quickly how was your cookie.
- 40:51Speaker 5: Phenomenal it's a cookies and cream. Cookie if you haven't
- 40:56gotten like a cookies and cream cookie From Walmart. Republics
- 40:59if you, have, though do. It they're. Phenomenal just from the,
- 41:01Bakery they're. Awesome i'm leaving for the next three, days
- 41:04So i'm trying to take these down before they expire
- 41:07because they only have a show up like seven, days
- 41:10so you got to take them down pretty, quickly which
- 41:12is not good for the. Health but they're good enough
- 41:14That i'm willing to push it to the.
- 41:15Speaker 1: Side good for the. Vibes and speaking of good for the,
- 41:18vibes you've got another guy in that tree you GOT i.
- 41:21Speaker 5: DO i Have Eric knotsheen from. McNeice. Uh you don't
- 41:26often see a pitcher with pro success from, McNeice but
- 41:29Not sheen has the chance to be a real stud
- 41:32well except For Claiy, buckholtz although he didn't finish his
- 41:36collegiate career with. Them and if you don't remember why
- 41:38that was the, case just look it. Up i'm not
- 41:40going to be the one to tell you. Anyway seen
- 41:45was one of my favorite senior sign, candidates although he
- 41:48won't be the last. ONE i talked about. Today he's
- 41:51got five pitches and stuff plus models love a couple of.
- 41:54Them his best two, OFFERINGS i, say are his fastball
- 41:57and his change. Up the fastball has been up to
- 42:00ninety eight with twenty one inches OF ivb and six
- 42:04point eight feet of, extension so that's definitely gonna. Play
- 42:08as for the, changeup it sits around eighty one ish
- 42:11miles an hour with about forty percent whiff and chase
- 42:14rates this past, year so that's a true plus. Offering
- 42:17according to, some the field for spin is, poor but
- 42:21he also has a surfaceable, slider cutter and curveball to
- 42:26fill out the. Arsenal from a result from A wow results,
- 42:30standpoint though it was The, southland he punched out thirty
- 42:35three percent of banners while only walking five, percent so
- 42:38he's shown an ability to control AB's at a high.
- 42:41Level most have not seen as a round six or
- 42:45seven ish, guy But i'd be taking him towards the
- 42:48end of day one IF i was in front.
- 42:49Speaker 6: Offices very.
- 42:51Speaker 1: Good maybe someday keep your head, up, coach rounding back
- 42:57to you for to end off our conversation about that
- 43:00one fifty one to two hundred range curious what you.
- 43:03Speaker 3: Think, Yeah i'm gonna Go Isaac morton right in a
- 43:07pitcher Of. Minnesota shout out our good, Buddy Quinn. Martin
- 43:10this choice is for. YOU i know he's a Big
- 43:12Isaac morton. Guy uh but, yeah following following some some
- 43:16injuries and just not pitching super well At TEXAS a
- 43:19AND m for his first two years at, college he
- 43:21moved To minnesota and this was right for, him and
- 43:23he was very good for.
- 43:24Speaker 6: Them this year he's, developed you, know four pitches and
- 43:27he uses all.
- 43:28Speaker 3: Of them's got a fastball up to ninety, seven mid eighties,
- 43:31sweeper low nineties, cutter upgrading's change. Up the fastball is
- 43:35more more of a, sinker and it hasn't played like particularly.
- 43:39Well it doesn't get a ton of whipping, zone a
- 43:41ton of, chase but he throws it for strikes and
- 43:44he uses it to set up his best, pitch which
- 43:45is the. Slider he lends. It he lends a slider for,
- 43:48strikes gets about forty percent with with. It not necessarily
- 43:52a ton of, chase but he'll throw it in any.
- 43:53Count it's been good against both lefties and. Righty's the
- 43:57fact he only has two like super effective pitches like
- 44:01might not translate super well to him being a starter long,
- 44:04term but he throws from low three quarters almost side arm,
- 44:07slot and if he can to fill up either the
- 44:08cutter or the change up a little bit, more he
- 44:11could either.
- 44:11Speaker 6: Be you, know a reliever back of the rotation piece
- 44:14in the long.
- 44:14Speaker 3: Term i'd, say you, know if he could get if
- 44:17he could be a team's like fourth or fifth, STARTER
- 44:18i think that's probably the, ceiling but it could be
- 44:20a really good reliever as.
- 44:21Speaker 1: WELL i THINK i love. THAT i do think that
- 44:24he has kind of the ceiling of a four to five.
- 44:26Jake and like you, said the slider is. Incredible there's
- 44:30some good. Stuff and speaking of good, stuff before we
- 44:32move into the next, SECTION i do want to do
- 44:36some quick shout, outs really. Quick first shout out is
- 44:38going to be to the private chat right. Here crazy
- 44:40stuff that will never see the light of. Day second,
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- 45:20Home Run, Empire, no But i've seen it on the
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- 45:42humble and trying not to Support tennessee and every.
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- 45:47Speaker 1: Jake but, yes uh love the. Game shout out to
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- 46:05otherwise the other THING i want to shout out. Publics
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- 46:11Speaker 4: CAT i, Mean.
- 46:15Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you fifteen, Seconds, josh give us your
- 46:18best public's PLoP for.
- 46:20Speaker 5: PUBLIC i have like three or four big grocery stores
- 46:24with them five minutes with me, here BUT i go
- 46:26to public so get my meat every. Time it's really
- 46:29it's a little more, expensive but it's a good quality.
- 46:31Stuff and no public's meat publics were shopping is a.
- 46:36Speaker 4: Pleasure how about a PUBLIC i, mean how about pub?
- 46:39Subs can we get a? Pubsub shout Out Buffalo chicken
- 46:42pub sub that? Fired now you just just do. It good.
- 46:47Speaker 1: Stuff what he said is that public's tagline or did
- 46:50you come up with?
- 46:51Speaker 5: That oh, no that's public's tall.
- 46:53Speaker 1: Line, Okay, NO i live IN i live In West.
- 46:57Tennessee Bro i'm lucky that we have A. WALMART i
- 46:59don't know how far public. SPAN i think there's one
- 47:01In North, carolina Like. RALEIGH i know it's mostly like
- 47:04A florida and then a little bit Of Alabama georgia.
- 47:06Speaker 4: Thing but we got up by my house In. Charlotte don't.
- 47:08Speaker 5: Worry, YEAH i don't know how FAR i. Spanned they
- 47:11it's all.
- 47:12Speaker 1: Right we are going way off of the beaten pall
- 47:17And Jake West. Tennessee there are no publics are right Middle. Tennessee,
- 47:26jake tell us about another thing you can find In. Tennessee,
- 47:30yeah this is probably one of, me my favorite ONE
- 47:33i talk about so. Far i'll try to keep it.
- 47:35Speaker 3: Short Bo rudy right, hand a pitcher From tennessee coming
- 47:38To tennessee From Kennesaw state this. Year in his first
- 47:41year with the, balls he struck out over thirty percent of,
- 47:44batters walt less than five, percent and thirty two innings For.
- 47:47Speaker 6: Tennessee and he's a really interesting like.
- 47:50Speaker 3: Study so he's only got two pitches fastball slider pitches
- 47:54with Pace's he's deceptive and his delivery has the ball really.
- 47:57Well the fastball really just jumps out of his. Hand
- 48:00he's gotten it up to ninety six this, year throws
- 48:02it for strikes more than seventy five percent of the,
- 48:04time forty four percent chase near near thirty percent end
- 48:08zone with, it plays really well up in the, zone
- 48:11looks almost like a cutter at, times and you know
- 48:13it's another. Guy you, KNOW i can be humble and
- 48:15call it a plus, pitch BUT i don't think there's
- 48:17much of an. Argument uh.
- 48:18Speaker 6: THERE i don't think that's a super hot.
- 48:20Speaker 3: Take the sweeper is also pretty, good a lot of,
- 48:22movement throws it for, strikes get, some get some, chase
- 48:25not a Ton and.
- 48:27Speaker 6: Then you know Bo. Rudy he's a GUY i wouldn't.
- 48:29Speaker 3: Mind you, know My cardinals taken after they went With
- 48:31Liam Doyle Tanner franklin last year out Of. TENNESSEE i
- 48:34wouldn't mind him keeping that trend. Going but, yeah he's
- 48:37gonna be a valuable piece to any.
- 48:39Speaker 6: Bullpen the way he just attacks his own with the,
- 48:41fastball he's gonna he's gonna be good for.
- 48:43Speaker 1: Anybody, jake that pipeline would be really. NICE i think
- 48:47The cardinals could do some nice stuff with Bau. Rudy
- 48:49So i'm with you, There. Josh you've got a gentleman
- 48:53right here who we've gotten a pretty good look at this.
- 48:55Year curious why you like him in this. Range i'm
- 48:59assuming it's a guy you have higher than, this.
- 49:00Speaker 5: Though it is everyone THAT i talked about TODAY i
- 49:03have higher than. This although this one's like a it's
- 49:07not like a faultiness with the list as a whole
- 49:10for the. Company it's just like a me.
- 49:11Speaker 1: Thing.
- 49:12Speaker 5: REALLY i, mean our ranking for him is like right
- 49:15around the spot that most outlets. Happened BUT i just
- 49:17happen to be high on too, much SO i can't you,
- 49:19KNOW i can't handle list that. Much if you're Selecting
- 49:22purify somewhere next, weekend you're just banking on the athlete
- 49:26being enough to carry him through the. Minors he's a
- 49:29dynamic athlete with plus run times and he's definitely shown
- 49:33the ability to be a great second baseman at the next,
- 49:37level dude to his, agility his. Range even his arm
- 49:40is a little underrated if for being, honest the power
- 49:43is definitely a concern And i'm not sure he ever
- 49:46fully finds, It but the hit tool is good enough
- 49:49for him to be like a stereotypical second baseman at
- 49:52the plate around the nineteen percent with rate with a
- 49:56eighty eight percent z coon while batting three forty four
- 49:59with a one THREE wrc. Plus that's good enough for.
- 50:02Speaker 1: Me, Yeah i'll say good enough for me as. Well
- 50:05that's pretty solid. STUFF. Jb tell me about a pitcher
- 50:09who really ups their stock with a Successful combine.
- 50:12Speaker 4: Appearance, yeah So i'm going to Dylanveig u at A.
- 50:16Uga he transferred him From. Michigan he was a guy
- 50:19that kind of had an okay, season you, know right
- 50:21around the same, line and he posted At michigan four
- 50:23four to three yearra this. Year but he was kind
- 50:26of a guy that the stuff really stood out when
- 50:29we saw him at The. Combine he posted seventy seven
- 50:30strikeouts this, year sixty three. Innings he was a guy
- 50:34that the sinker was really just it was absolutely, nasty you,
- 50:37know mid, nineties getting negative vert on. It it was
- 50:40something that was awesome to see the change up kind
- 50:43of the same deal feel to kill, vert same tumble,
- 50:46shape and then the sweeper was just, disgusting getting upwards
- 50:49of twenty inches horizontal. Break just all three pitches kind
- 50:53of mixed together really. Well and it was a great
- 50:55bullpen to see. Him so he's a guy that definitely going,
- 50:57forward could be someone that fits into a back end
- 50:59of rotation if you draft him somewhere in this end
- 51:02of day one day two stretch early day, two SO
- 51:06i think he's the. Guy is definitely a fun Follow.
- 51:08Speaker 1: Yeah, HEY i love. It definitely some, improvement definitely a
- 51:12loud draft combine for. Him Mister, dodge tell us about
- 51:17who you like in this range TWO a one to two.
- 51:19Speaker 7: Fifty, Yeah i've got a couple of prep infielders and
- 51:23mark Down i'll go with first. ONE i could go
- 51:26a couple of different like one offs describing this guy
- 51:28potentially big league. Bloodlines we'll see his older, Brother Jacob berry.
- 51:33Speaker 6: Is in the.
- 51:33Speaker 7: MINERS i don't know if we'll make, it But Jet
- 51:36barry is kind of like a total opposite of a player.
- 51:41Speaker 2: Now he's really twitchy for a smaller sized.
- 51:44Speaker 7: Guy another guy that's making great, contact and another guy
- 51:47THAT i think can stip the, middle whether it's, shortstop second,
- 51:50base or center.
- 51:51Speaker 6: Field but the.
- 51:52Speaker 2: True like one last one off is the combine.
- 51:55Speaker 7: Ran thirty yard dashes this, time AND i was even
- 51:58TEXTING jb, LIKE i don't think of every seeing a
- 52:00thirty yard.
- 52:01Speaker 2: DASH i had to recalibrate my twenty eighty scale of.
- 52:04Speaker 7: That and he's the first guy that walked up and
- 52:06he almost broke the record AND i don't really know
- 52:08at the, time AND i looked it. UP i was, like,
- 52:10well it looks like this might be a. Record he
- 52:11looked like he ran really, fast but, LIKE i don't
- 52:13really know what's going. On but after watching the other guy's,
- 52:17RUN i think he was like the third best, time
- 52:19so really impressive speed out Of Jet, barry another guy
- 52:22probably probably hits the starting nine of draft.
- 52:26Speaker 5: Names, Yeah i'm a, big really fast guy being Named
- 52:29jet that plays plays, it always plays, it sure.
- 52:32Speaker 1: Does i'll stick really quickly to my kind of trend
- 52:36of going through two names really. Quickly the first ONE
- 52:40i want to talk about is going to be a
- 52:41guy Who i've kind of fallen in love with over
- 52:43the last. Month and then you see him as loud
- 52:47as it comes at the. Combine and this is not
- 52:50even from in, person this is from watching the event on.
- 52:52Television got to talk About Jack, beck and what you
- 52:56see out of him is just obvious visible. Physicality you
- 53:00see a lot of loud. Tools i've seen progression in
- 53:05watching old video to watching him. Recently there's so much
- 53:10rotation and that kind of gyroscopic force that just really
- 53:15crushes the, ball keeps his head really still when he's.
- 53:17Swinging love that it has been so much, development a
- 53:21lot of. BATSPEED i saw something like seventy six mile
- 53:23per hour. Batspeed really good plus raw. Power obviously we
- 53:27saw it at The. Combine we've seen it in The Happy.
- 53:29League this guy can, lift he can. Drive it's easy
- 53:33plus raw. POWER i feel Like i've got it as
- 53:35a plus in my report to drink it either to.
- 53:39Speaker 4: Hit on the happy part of. IT i saw him
- 53:41playing The Appy select team the other day AGAINST. Usa
- 53:44the physicality and everything there, is it's. Legit you can
- 53:47tell the way he moves on the. Diamond he'll stick
- 53:48on the dirt too.
- 53:49Speaker 1: Good and you, Okay i'm glad to hear you like.
- 53:52It there's really solid speed here as. WELL i THINK
- 53:56i saw like, six, six nine sixty. Times AND i
- 53:59think that he is going to continue to Build. PHYSICALLY
- 54:02i don't think that that's gonna be a huge part
- 54:04of his, game BUT i think it's enough to kind
- 54:06of stretch a single into a, double to chip in
- 54:10six to ten stolen bases at the next. LEVEL i
- 54:12do think. Though my main concern, was And i'm getting
- 54:15into just the full scouting report For Jack, BECK i, apologize,
- 54:18guys BUT i think the pressure that could be added
- 54:21to the bat when he runs into a better defender
- 54:23at short is kind of What i'm afraid. Of but
- 54:25at that, point being afraid that hey can the bats
- 54:28to ball stick against you, know pro velocity against pro pro,
- 54:34break pro, spin that's. Concerning but when those two things
- 54:38are the, CONCERNS i Think i'll take. It here's the
- 54:41THING i was telling you guys. EARLIER i Think Jack
- 54:43beck is the poor Man's Jacob, lombard AND i think
- 54:46we're gonna see a team get a blessing in this draft.
- 54:49Speaker 4: With is A Georgia southern commit.
- 54:50Speaker 1: TOO i was about saying this, kid this kid's a.
- 54:54Professional no offense To Georgia, southern no offense to, Them but, this.
- 54:58Speaker 5: Guys about fun. Commitment we've had long beach date In
- 55:01Georgia southern on here is good. Stuff shout out in
- 55:04college baseball, GUYS i love, you love. You and then
- 55:07the other one THAT i want to talk about super
- 55:08quickly BECAUSE i Know i'm out of time Is Hunter
- 55:10brown From jake's neck of the. WOODS i FIGURE i
- 55:12can't let him talk about all The northeastern. Guys this
- 55:15is a dude WHO i think just looks like a
- 55:16pro six.' six he's getting in the. Mid nineties ton,
- 55:21OF extension, I mean i think we're looking at like
- 55:23the number Outs all as was like seven feet, of
- 55:25extension tons, of spend twenty six hundred RPMs on, the
- 55:29fastball the breaking balls are.
- 55:30Speaker 1: Coming around he's. So developmental there's a lot of projectability.
- 55:34WITH him i Think the developmental org can really just
- 55:37do some wonders with. THIS kid I think i think
- 55:41he's a. Deep SLEEPER and i don't hear anybody Talking
- 55:43About hunter brown the way, they should probably because when
- 55:45you Bring Up hunter brown, and baseball people start talking about.
- 55:47The astros funny how, That, Works dodge who else do
- 55:50you like in? This?
- 55:51Speaker 7: Range, buddy yeah it teased another prep Infield that i'm
- 55:54gonna go to my friends to the north Of The canadian,
- 55:56and also you guys are talking About The appy league
- 55:58when you have THE Former M'b draft league and, TURN
- 56:01on i gotta talk about a guy playing in There From.
- 56:04Speaker 2: Team Canada.
- 56:05Speaker 7: Robert omede another guy hits a little, bit smaller, lacks
- 56:08size but he has a lot of good strength for
- 56:10uh for what he has probably get hang out at.
- 56:12Third base but, His swing drew is just getting into
- 56:16it a little, bit earlier a ton of. Rotational force
- 56:19uh gets into his max. Power consistently i'm a big
- 56:22Fan Of, robert omedi who is killing it On The.
- 56:24Speaker 1: Draft, league yeah without, a doubt without, a doubt HE.
- 56:28Is jb you've talked about a college guy a. Minute
- 56:32ago how about another dude who really had a coming
- 56:34out party that you saw in person But.
- 56:36Speaker 3: In.
- 56:36Speaker 4: Omaha, yeah well It's funny dodge used the. Word killing
- 56:40this dude kills baseball, QUITE likely. I does i mean they.
- 56:42Get demolished anytime the barrel hits the ball dating, a
- 56:46chance this dude. JUST rakes i mean it didn't matter
- 56:49whether he's playing on a. Rolled ankle he could barely
- 56:50even walk up to. The plate one hundred, and five,
- 56:53One eight EV's, Coming off, no problem. Doesn't matter this
- 56:57dude just. Demolishes baseballs he's a. Physical press it's behind
- 57:00the plate. What happens that's a whole. Nother story but
- 57:03this guy just can to, demolish baseballs and we saw
- 57:05it the. Entire tournament he's a fun name, to follow
- 57:08and it's just purely The, bat honestly that's what you're.
- 57:10Buying into and he's a guy that could be ad
- 57:12middle order the bat for a long time. For somebody
- 57:14so be a FUN follow.
- 57:16Speaker 1: I think, So Thinks, SO josh i have a challenge.
- 57:19FOR you i want to hear you talk about a
- 57:22player who played college Baseball. In alabama can you?
- 57:25Speaker 4: Do, it.
- 57:26Speaker 5: YEAH easily i got about any, of Those but i'll
- 57:30hit one of my. Favorite Ones bo Bryan's From. Jacksonville
- 57:33state left. The arm the floor might be, low here
- 57:37but the ceiling. Is astronomical he's got a smaller frame
- 57:41and he's nearly, twenty three but there's lots of funky
- 57:44Traits about brian's that makes him a. Fun evo he's
- 57:48a sidearm lefty with, extreme crossfire so the ball is
- 57:52starting well behind left handed batters when it comes out of.
- 57:55His hand he does a sinker that sits about ninety
- 57:58three ninety seven with about seven inters of armside run
- 58:02and his upper eighties change up roughly has the same,
- 58:05horizontal movement but it gets BELOW the x axis on a. Spreadsheet.
- 58:09Frequently uh he does miss outside with the slider a,
- 58:12decent bit but he got nearly sixty percent with on
- 58:15the pitch, this Year so i'd say that's a fair.
- 58:17Trade off did he walk fifteen percent of batters?
- 58:21Speaker 3: This?
- 58:21Speaker 5: Year yes did he also induce fifty seven percent ground? Balls?
- 58:27Also yes so you can't win, them all but you
- 58:31take your wins where you can. Get HIM and i
- 58:32think Whoever takes brian's is going to look back on
- 58:35it as a. MAJOR win i think he could be
- 58:36like a massive money saver in round six.
- 58:39Speaker 1: Or, so wow what, a wow what an outcome for
- 58:42a team that would be as a. Money savery and
- 58:44you get this Kid Crazy, south jake round us out.
- 58:47Speaker 4: To one to.
- 58:48Speaker 1: Two fifty who do?
- 58:49Speaker 4: You, like.
- 58:51Speaker 3: Yeah sorry if my if my cat interrupts my, speech
- 58:55Here but i'm gonna Go to i'm gonna. Go To
- 58:57Tyler Pitzer mississippi state running a Pitcher Can tosissippi State
- 59:01From south carolina this last year after a tough twenty twenty.
- 59:05Five season but he had a really good trip To
- 59:07the cape last summer and the move is really paid off.
- 59:09For him he's operated almost exclusively as a reliever in
- 59:13his career and he doesn't have anything that just like
- 59:16jumps off the page in terms of like stuff. Or
- 59:19anything but, you know he's done just about everything. Pretty,
- 59:22well yeah he has primarily two pitches. Of fastball he
- 59:24can get up to ninety six load to mid. Eighties
- 59:27slider the fastball, Is fine it gets average with in.
- 59:30The zone he's thrown it for more strikes. This year
- 59:33BUT like, i said there's nothing like standoutish. About it
- 59:35it's just like. Pretty good the fastball is A legit,
- 59:39i mean the slider is a. Legit offering though he's
- 59:42thrown it for strike sixty seven percent of, the time
- 59:45he's gotten more than forty percent chase.
- 59:47Speaker 4: And with with it.
- 59:48Speaker 3: This year it's got good late break to it catches
- 59:51hitters off guard at times with how much it looks
- 59:53like the fastball out of. His hand he's played with
- 59:56a change up and a. Curve sometimes but if he brings,
- 59:59you know is a fastball up to like an above
- 1:00:01average at the, next level he, could be, you know
- 1:00:03a really effective reliever for whichever whichever team picks him.
- 1:00:06Speaker 6: UP here i think another thing we'll hit.
- 1:00:09Speaker 4: ON there i guess he's committed Back To south carolina
- 1:00:12now out of. The portal so funny thing that he's
- 1:00:14done a little, hopping around, but yeah.
- 1:00:19Speaker 3: You have.
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: No idea the toll that two trendsfer portalings takes on
- 1:00:24a man step snap step snap.
- 1:00:28Speaker 5: Is probably, so, Confused right, they're like, What's, happening.
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: Josh let's hear from you to start two fifty one to. Three,
- 1:00:36Hundred well jake attends to his speech speech.
- 1:00:40Speaker 5: Capable, cat yeah if you, know me you know this
- 1:00:45may be my number one draft crush for, This Class.
- 1:00:49Aidan weaver it's not a, flashy one considering he had
- 1:00:53an E r a over six for a team who
- 1:00:55finished last in. Their conference i'm just, being honest but
- 1:01:00he's a six' five ariety who throws from an upper
- 1:01:02three quarters slot and has a couple features that show.
- 1:01:05Some real promise he touched ninety eight with his fastball
- 1:01:09on a pitch that gets a whopping six point nine
- 1:01:11feet of extension on average with nice. Cut ride shape
- 1:01:16the change up is probably the nicest part, of his
- 1:01:18arsenal with fifteen mile an hour separation from the fastball
- 1:01:22and the distinct difference. In movement too he got around
- 1:01:25sixty w on it. This year too, not. Too bad
- 1:01:28right the slider does, lack some depth but scouts seemed
- 1:01:34to like the, way IT plays so i don't think
- 1:01:35it's going to be too much of a red flag
- 1:01:37for someone to not pull the. Trigger on, him he's
- 1:01:40older so he'll be. A senior sign but a guy
- 1:01:43who reaches these numbers with such, AN effortless delivery i
- 1:01:46think will be an elite money saver somewhere between rounds like.
- 1:01:49Speaker 4: Nine, to.
- 1:01:49Speaker 5: TWELVE.
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: Yeah definitely jb let's go to you in this range
- 1:01:54two fifty one. To three hundred who?
- 1:01:55Speaker 4: Caught your eye, yeah for me it's a son of
- 1:01:58a former BIG leaguer and i would be league. Manager Once,
- 1:02:00again skip, Schumacher His. Kid brody Schumacher He Went, san
- 1:02:04marguerita catholic right in my neck. Of, the woods, again prep.
- 1:02:07Guy switch hitter he's. A plus athlete he was a great.
- 1:02:11Defender this year there's really. SOME strides there a lot of.
- 1:02:13People talked about he did sadly go down with a,
- 1:02:15hamstring injury early so he didn't get to play his full.
- 1:02:17High school season but he REALLY. Performed at usa hit five,
- 1:02:21point forty there six hits. In his, time you know
- 1:02:23it's a, small sample size but he showed the leap at.
- 1:02:25To ball skills everybody's talked about how he's, a plus athlete,
- 1:02:28improved defensise short he's a kid that will definitely stick
- 1:02:30on the dirt and it's definitely got a chance to
- 1:02:32be a guy that could definitely play as a utility
- 1:02:34type starter in. The big league so he's definitely, a
- 1:02:36fun follow but most likely WOULD. Go to tcu we're.
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: Just raised me it's gonna be and that is gonna
- 1:02:42be really. Interesting to see he's he is a kind
- 1:02:44of a compelling case for really stay and really. Go Either,
- 1:02:47Way mister dodge you've got, Two names here let's have
- 1:02:50you narrow it down to. Just the. One i'm curious
- 1:02:53it's a. Draft time decision who you going make?
- 1:02:56Speaker 5: The, right choice.
- 1:02:58Speaker 7: No there is, A right choice i think ACTUALLY alluding
- 1:03:00TO i think i might, go AGAINST it though i
- 1:03:02will mention though that THE guy that i would have
- 1:03:04gone that the other guy declan doll really awesome guy.
- 1:03:08To interview with he knows he's been looked over early.
- 1:03:11In his career Last year at lotech was his first
- 1:03:13year a. D one ball i think he's gonna jump
- 1:03:15onto pro ball with with with. With a vengeance but
- 1:03:19there's another guy that out, of my list just another
- 1:03:22mid major.
- 1:03:23Speaker 2: Right handed arm you know enough of these like. SMALL
- 1:03:25prep bats i want to go.
- 1:03:26Speaker 7: With someone else i'm gonna go, with The Big Raging
- 1:03:29cajun puddy brash up to one hundred. Miles per hour
- 1:03:33it's a little bit of like an iron mic over,
- 1:03:35the top action but he also has power breakers.
- 1:03:38Speaker 2: Go with it they're, they're a strong committing too out.
- 1:03:41Of the arm he's gonna be a little bit of.
- 1:03:42An older guy, BUT you Know I love. Declan doll
- 1:03:45stuff but when you put one zero zero, On the
- 1:03:48board i'm gonna, go with that so It Can.
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: BE cody brash i love the description of the Motion.
- 1:03:54As iron. Mike that's fabulous and, Stick. With you dodge
- 1:03:57let's talk about a guy from a mid major that
- 1:03:59hits that big old. One zero zero I'll Talk. About
- 1:04:02nick bond we're gonna talk about draft crushes. From the
- 1:04:05year this may be one of my. Favorites as well
- 1:04:08this kid has maybe the Grossest extension that, i've EVER
- 1:04:12seen and i think it comes from, having like legitimate like,
- 1:04:16daddy long. Legs tight legs this guy can like take
- 1:04:20a half step and he's already like in your mouth,
- 1:04:22with the fastball. It's just dumb when you add the
- 1:04:26fact that it is such a quick whip, with the
- 1:04:29arm the. Slot is bizarre it's what just like just
- 1:04:33over five. Feet Release height if. I'm not mistaken, at
- 1:04:35one hundred THIS is a i would say a double plus,
- 1:04:39Fastball me personally BUT now plus i think is, again
- 1:04:43More restrained and i'll go The Way of coach jake.
- 1:04:46And be restrained it's a sweeper that has, some stuff
- 1:04:49here splitter that. KILLS some spin i think that it's
- 1:04:54a REALLY it's certainly i think a team may give
- 1:04:58him the. CHANCE to start i think that you. Have
- 1:05:01more legs no pun intended to just let this guy
- 1:05:04come out of the pen and start. Eating very quickly
- 1:05:07nick barn?
- 1:05:07Speaker 7: Is that?
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: Guy, love it. Jake welcome back hope. The, cat's okay.
- 1:05:14Speaker 6: Yeah. She's all. Right everything's Fun.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: Shout out jake's. Cat, at home jake you got a
- 1:05:19favorite between that two fifty one to.
- 1:05:21Speaker 6: THREE hundred Rage I, do rentaile sasaki First. Baseman from Stanford.
- 1:05:27You know sasaki everybody should know who he is. At
- 1:05:30this point you know he's, a BIG boy and i mean.
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: That very respectfully he's he's got some massive raw power
- 1:05:38and he put that on full display At, the combine,
- 1:05:40again you KNOW check Out jb and will's combine content and.
- 1:05:43Speaker 6: For some reason you haven't.
- 1:05:44Speaker 3: Done, that yet obviously fantastic workout, of you guys and
- 1:05:46you guys got to see him up. Close and, personal
- 1:05:49but uh for a guy, that you know you'd expect
- 1:05:52to be selling out for power kind of all the
- 1:05:54time with the with the kind of swing, that he
- 1:05:56has he doesn't. Really do that he's he's relatively patient.
- 1:05:59In the boxes he doesn't chase it like a concerning.
- 1:06:02Rate at all he's got average CONTACT ability and i
- 1:06:05think he'll take that out of a hitter that poses
- 1:06:07some of the biggest power potential. In the, class you
- 1:06:09know he's really got an act for lifting the ball
- 1:06:11and he's shown off that power to off fields in.
- 1:06:14Twenty twenty six he's also a guy that walks seventeen percent,
- 1:06:17of the time so he knows his own knows how to.
- 1:06:19Speaker 6: Get on base the concern is obviously defense and.
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: Athleticism with him he isn't necessarily like, a poor athlete especially,
- 1:06:30for his size but the hope is that he can
- 1:06:32become good enough defender to play first base, in the
- 1:06:35future and that would really boost his value to whatever
- 1:06:37team he. Ends up with but he's as fun of
- 1:06:40a player as anybody in the, class to watch and
- 1:06:41HE'S one that i think we'll all be keeping a
- 1:06:43pretty close eye.
- 1:06:44Speaker 7: On next weekend well when, to buik aside just because
- 1:06:49we've been mentioning a bunch of the guys that We,
- 1:06:52saw THE combine and i want to talk about one
- 1:06:54of One podcast segments i'm Gonna Give You Will dodge's
- 1:06:57mount rushmore of combined attendees that you do not want
- 1:07:00To get an Oklahoma drill, with we're going.
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: Let's go Eating Bonds, In Mogan pole.
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: Ntaro Sasaki and blake bowen do Not get an oklahoma?
- 1:07:09Speaker 6: Droll, With, them.
- 1:07:12Speaker 1: Saki yeah.
- 1:07:12Speaker 4: That's, very good yeah if We're Going, To mount rushmore
- 1:07:15sasaki taking ground balls at third bases Up There for
- 1:07:18mount rushmore's of best events that Happened at the combine but,
- 1:07:21for years. Come, NO doubt yeah i didn't see, that
- 1:07:23one coming but.
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: It was awesome well did you did you say we're
- 1:07:28gonna see that for? Years?
- 1:07:29Speaker 7: TO come yeah i, mean there there we keep replaying that,
- 1:07:31when he's Uh You Know san francisco giants ten.
- 1:07:34Speaker 2: Year, third, Basement.
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: Indeed, Indeed jake, today oh man We, have some okay, We,
- 1:07:44gotta go jake bring us into the three oh one to.
- 1:07:47Three fifty range who do you like? In, THAT grouping.
- 1:07:51Speaker 3: Yeah i took a little bit. Of a break i'm
- 1:07:53coming back home and to round it out with Some with.
- 1:07:55The Northeast guys mickey gilligan catcher From Bas say it
- 1:07:58Tech Uh. In new jersey he's not like a super
- 1:08:02imposing figure, at the plate but he's got a very
- 1:08:04mature approach and knows how to put the bat. On
- 1:08:06the ball he does have some some some pretty, good
- 1:08:09bat speed knows how to manipulate the barrel to get
- 1:08:12to get to some of his power. In the, game
- 1:08:14but uh but you Know where where gillian is gonna
- 1:08:16make his money is. Behind the plate he's a very advanced.
- 1:08:19Speaker 6: High. School catcher Uh plus throw.
- 1:08:21Speaker 3: Tom's quick release, uh you, know strong, hands can, block
- 1:08:24does it does everything well, behind the plate especially if
- 1:08:27you're looking at.
- 1:08:27Speaker 6: A prep catcher.
- 1:08:30Speaker 3: He's got some, of the best some of the best
- 1:08:31catch And throw that i've seen out of a high
- 1:08:34school catcher. IN this area i saw him at a
- 1:08:36at A At the northeast pro, case up HERE at
- 1:08:38the pbr event that they. Do every year it's like,
- 1:08:40the biggest one and he had, easily the best most
- 1:08:43impressive throws out of all the catchers.
- 1:08:45Speaker 6: THAT were there i want to see how a team
- 1:08:47kind of, develops the, bat you. Know long term but
- 1:08:50you know whoever he ends up with if he Makes.
- 1:08:52Speaker 3: IT to rutgers i don't think, he's going to, but
- 1:08:55you know if they should have no worries with with
- 1:08:58what he brings to the table. BEHIND the plate i
- 1:09:00would selfishly would like to see him Make it to
- 1:09:02rutgers and get to watch him play for.
- 1:09:04Speaker 6: Three MORE years but i don't think. THAT'S gonna happen
- 1:09:05i think he's gonna go.
- 1:09:07Speaker 1: Go somewhere else did you hear me asking you that
- 1:09:10question was about to? Come out selfish how selfish is
- 1:09:12it that you want him to Make?
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: It?
- 1:09:13Speaker 3: To, Rutgers yeah yeah rutgers is kind of like my.
- 1:09:16GO to, place i guess like they get they get
- 1:09:19the they, get the biggest the best. Schedule UP here
- 1:09:22if i could Get to see GILLIGAN play like i
- 1:09:24was really sad To see landa matt go when he
- 1:09:27was A, FRESHMAN aute rutgers i Mean. Going to tennessee
- 1:09:28he kind of made it a little bit, easier for
- 1:09:30me but when he left it was. A big One,
- 1:09:32I mean gilligan. I don't know, there's A chance but
- 1:09:35i don't think.
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: He, makes it yeah we'll see what. Happens with him
- 1:09:40josh three oh one. To three fifty who? Caught YOUR
- 1:09:42eye h i think.
- 1:09:45Speaker 5: This is the biggest difference between my personal list and,
- 1:09:48the COMPANY list considering i Have This guy andrew giles
- 1:09:52with a grade all the way up in, the third round,
- 1:09:55WHICH is, lofty i know but he's tooled off all.
- 1:09:58The way around he, maintains a short left handed swing
- 1:10:03and has quick hips that help him get the power
- 1:10:05more than you'd expect. For his size he's gotten stronger
- 1:10:10year over, year Or two so i'd expect that power
- 1:10:12to grow along with his arm strength that's already proven to.
- 1:10:15Be above average he might project more as a right fielder,
- 1:10:19than A centerfielder but i'd imagine he can leverage his
- 1:10:22foot speed to be a serviceable centerfielder at. The Very
- 1:10:25least So i'm sure oregon would like to get him
- 1:10:28to Campus, along with dodge would like him to get
- 1:10:30there with all the losses they've had in the portal over.
- 1:10:33The past month but, UNFORTUNATELY for them i wouldn't bank.
- 1:10:36On that happening most people in the industry have him
- 1:10:39landing around the fourth. Or fifth, Round.
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: Very, GOOD. Very good, Jb THAT well can i ask?
- 1:10:48Speaker 4: A QUESTION first can i steal one of your THREE
- 1:10:50names that i? Saw in there possibly because THERE'S.
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: One that i there's Just something that i'd love. To talk, ABOUT,
- 1:10:57BUT listen jb i don't know how you could you
- 1:11:00could ever insinuate that you posting a video that's got
- 1:11:03to be what a million views, at this point and
- 1:11:06people are threatening that you ruined this kid's life and.
- 1:11:09Speaker 8: ALL this nonsense i can't imagine who you want. To,
- 1:11:12Talk about yeah so with, That being said i'm Gonna.
- 1:11:15Go at grayson will it be a right Handed? Picture
- 1:11:18from Trinity. He's committed kentucky definitely. A fun arm we
- 1:11:23saw him hit one hundred at the combine or right up.
- 1:11:25Speaker 4: THERE with it i posted a tweet of him throwing
- 1:11:29at the combine and a lot of people weren't happy
- 1:11:30about him throwing balls while he was throwing ninety nine
- 1:11:33to one. Hundred up there, BUT you, know i say
- 1:11:35let him eat, and at nhside this kid was just
- 1:11:38as dominant ninety four ninety six, hit ninety seven really
- 1:11:42Shoved It down tampa JESUIT'S throat when i Saw Him,
- 1:11:44against caden. Wector aforementioned, GUY but Yeah i mean willoby's
- 1:11:48probably one of the more fun projectable arms. IN this
- 1:11:50class i don't Think. He gets kentucky he probably gets
- 1:11:53poached on day. ONE most likely i think a, ton
- 1:11:56of upside ton of, great stuff there great slider change,
- 1:11:59up as well stuff you could play with at. The
- 1:12:01next level probably one of the most fun prep worms.
- 1:12:04In the, Class but yeah i'm gonna hit him up
- 1:12:06and shout out. To gunner om that WAS the name
- 1:12:08i had sidetracked their fun athletic left handed. Back communitancy
- 1:12:11state But will it.
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: Bey, It is yes i'm glad that you got a
- 1:12:15fance to, talk ABOUT him and i Will. Soapbox for
- 1:12:19josh give me twenty seconds.
- 1:12:20Speaker 4: On the clock.
- 1:12:22Speaker 5: Uh timer.
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: STARTS now go i think that it's absolutely ridiculous that
- 1:12:29people ARE watching the mlb draft combine are looking into
- 1:12:33FOOTAGE from the mlb draft combine unaware that a kid
- 1:12:36going out there just to, AS, you said jb let
- 1:12:39it eat and just touch one hundred and show what
- 1:12:41you can do and then still be equally as impressive
- 1:12:44when you're actually, dotting your pitches, just as dominant when
- 1:12:47you're actually locating when there's a batter, in the box
- 1:12:49And not just yahoo's standing around home plate. WATCHING and
- 1:12:52filming i think it's a, totally DIFFERENT thing and i
- 1:12:54think that you may need to readjust what you're Doing on.
- 1:12:56Speaker 4: The.
- 1:12:56Speaker 5: Twitter machine thanks what number did you give?
- 1:12:59Speaker 3: Your?
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: Twenty seconds, yeah.
- 1:13:04Speaker 4: Thirty?
- 1:13:04Speaker 6: One, THIRTY one, HEY i mean i mean.
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: That's That's legit but i'm not hitting, My. TIMES today
- 1:13:08guys i haven't BEEN on so i haven't been on
- 1:13:10television in about, A Year now so i'm not hitting.
- 1:13:13My times anymore i'd be. Disappointed really quick will who
- 1:13:17do you like in? THIS strange three i one?
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: To, THREE fifty yeah i put it. Down two, GUYS
- 1:13:21you know i talked about two prep, or not prep two.
- 1:13:24Speaker 7: Mid major arms but we're going back to, the prep
- 1:13:26bats going back to, the prep infielders going back to
- 1:13:29the kind.
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: Of undersized guys but make a lot.
- 1:13:30Speaker 7: Of Good contact and i'm gonna make a lot of
- 1:13:33friends on this call Right now because i'm Talking about
- 1:13:35an auburn commit and.
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: A ball commit i'm going First.
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: Of, The Alburn.
- 1:13:38Speaker 7: Guy deacon nelson this is a, hard nosed player really
- 1:13:41strong defender out short makes a. Ton of contact he's
- 1:13:45a he has premiere feel for. Bats and ball does have.
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: GOOD sweet decisions i think you have to dream a
- 1:13:50little bit on the on the strength and.
- 1:13:52Speaker 7: Power to come but there was another, kind of Undersized
- 1:13:55hard nose auburn committed in fielder that signed one hundred
- 1:13:58and fifty million dollar extension before HE. Made the mlb
- 1:14:01i'm not.
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: Calling him the same.
- 1:14:03Speaker 7: Kind of guy there are two, different body frames but
- 1:14:06you know it's it's a profile like a lot the
- 1:14:08other guy's jackson would have, all committed shortstop really, strong
- 1:14:13athletic testing really, great bat speed.
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: Runs really well he's a.
- 1:14:17Speaker 7: Really strong defender he's a. Very aggressive swinger it comes
- 1:14:20out of, his shoes often just swings a, lot in
- 1:14:23general but he does have a really adjustable swing. Path
- 1:14:27and stroke he is able to make contact basically various areas.
- 1:14:31Of the zone he's got a kind of hone, in
- 1:14:33and approach so we'll see maybe he Does make a
- 1:14:36tennessee and. Maybe he, is you know it's a very
- 1:14:38very crowded in field Next, year for tennessee but he
- 1:14:41might be a guy that.
- 1:14:42Speaker 5: That SNEAKS through and i will say, to go on
- 1:14:45like a, FIFTEEN second soapbox i. WAS filling out i
- 1:14:48was Looking at like auburn's roster for nextuere in like,
- 1:14:50a depth chart and the one position that's kind of
- 1:14:52like up in the air right. Now Is shortstop and
- 1:14:55alburn is known in the past couple of years to
- 1:14:57not have any issues starting freshman. In the, field And,
- 1:15:00Obviously like matta zinski's not gonna make. At the campus
- 1:15:03but if one of Or Two, Of Deacon nelson Guy
- 1:15:06Linham and levi nikolai could make, it to campus there's
- 1:15:09a good chance they could actually start. Somewhere like that
- 1:15:12so If he if deacon doesn't get selected high enough
- 1:15:15for him to go, to the pros look out for
- 1:15:17him on the. Plans next year.
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: Love that. Could be interesting i'll go really really quickly on.
- 1:15:24These two guys if you happen to listen to episode
- 1:15:26forty five of the show Or watch IT jake and
- 1:15:28i had a really Fun Discussion. ABOUT rmani guzman i
- 1:15:33stand by, all of that and if, you missed it go.
- 1:15:35Check that OUT jake and i had a really fun
- 1:15:36discussion about guys That boosted their. Omaha Draft, STOCK guzman
- 1:15:40essentially i think, that the versatility the interesting tools that
- 1:15:44he kind of brings, TO the field i think he's.
- 1:15:47Gonna get, SELECTED but again i like his odds of
- 1:15:51Maybe returning to morgantown if it's not a, big ENOUGH
- 1:15:54number and i think that might. Actually behoove him THE
- 1:15:58other bab i all talking about Real Quick. Is jake
- 1:16:00long he shares a name with my favorite. Coach And
- 1:16:03yours jake long really was one of the kind of
- 1:16:07Only things that utah had absolutely going for. Him this
- 1:16:10year he does a little bit. Of everything right what
- 1:16:12we saw Really Improve for jake long this year was
- 1:16:14his amount of power he puts. Into the ball he
- 1:16:18really has, a disciplined eye does not swing in, this
- 1:16:21a lot does really well to refrain from whipping and
- 1:16:24chasing out. Of, The zone especially long can, really REALLY
- 1:16:28hit and i think that so long as he can
- 1:16:29maintain this power heading, into pro ball he could be
- 1:16:32a really sneaky kind of back half of the draft.
- 1:16:34SELECTION for somebody i think we're doing A, good Service
- 1:16:38tolong who I've Coined, The American. DRAGON jake long i
- 1:16:42think we're doing him a good service by putting him
- 1:16:44in THIS range because i think. He's very talented let's
- 1:16:47talk three point fifty one, to, Four, hundred gentlemen jake
- 1:16:51who you like?
- 1:16:51Speaker 6: In, This range.
- 1:16:54Speaker 3: Yeah i'm going Back to the jersey Prepsters Again with
- 1:16:57noah Danza Infielder from.
- 1:16:58Speaker 6: Gloucester catholic here, he's.
- 1:17:01Speaker 3: Six two two tens got and he's been he's been one,
- 1:17:04of the biggest the biggest risers probably in this region
- 1:17:06of prett. HITTERS this year, a strong hitter above average
- 1:17:10athlete on, top of it very. Big bat speed he's
- 1:17:13been able to lift the ball well against some of
- 1:17:14the toughest high school competition that this region.
- 1:17:17Speaker 6: Has to offer they play a really. Tough, schedule there
- 1:17:19uh the swing can be, a little bit a, little
- 1:17:22bit loud. And it's resulted it's resulted in some some
- 1:17:24swinging miss BUT it's nothing i would be like. Super
- 1:17:27concerned about.
- 1:17:28Speaker 3: Right this second the arms legit has a chance to
- 1:17:32move to either third base or or maybe play in the.
- 1:17:35OUTFIELD as, well i, think you know as he feels out,
- 1:17:37a little bit he could get moved off the. Dirt
- 1:17:39SOME on, BUT i, think i mean he's a good
- 1:17:40enough athlete right now. He could play he could play.
- 1:17:42In The Outfield committed mississippi, state right now so we'll see.
- 1:17:46WHAT happens there i don't know if that would be
- 1:17:48enticing enough for him to go to campus and try
- 1:17:50to make his make a little bit.
- 1:17:51Speaker 6: Of money, There but no dan's an interesting guy up here.
- 1:17:54Speaker 1: In the in the, in, the northeast Certainly so. Another
- 1:17:58quinn Guy, Shout, out quinn josh who you like, in? This,
- 1:18:02range BUDDY yeah so i.
- 1:18:04Speaker 5: Actually lied earlier this is my biggest difference, in our
- 1:18:08list the company list in, my personal list considering there's
- 1:18:11a wopping three hundred. Spots between them cam durnan Shortstop.
- 1:18:17Out of missouri if you're not concerned with the lingering
- 1:18:21Effects Of the tommy johnny had in, twenty TWENTY four
- 1:18:23then i really don't see what there isn't to like.
- 1:18:26About this profile he surged at the end, of the
- 1:18:29season and he jumped up draft boards. As a result
- 1:18:32because scouts and analyst's eyes were opened to. Him pretty quickly,
- 1:18:36this past year he registered rates of sixteen percent chaits
- 1:18:40with TWENTY one percent wi and only around a twenty
- 1:18:43three percent with. Rate against spin, in the process he
- 1:18:46posted a three to twenty nine average with a four TO,
- 1:18:49fifty three wOBA and those numbers even elevated later into
- 1:18:53the season. That we got it's a plus glove with
- 1:18:57great lateral range and an arm that will for sure
- 1:18:59allow him to stick the. SHORTSTOP long, term i mean
- 1:19:02he has pieces on both sides of the ball that
- 1:19:05are gonna be more than enough to move through a farm,
- 1:19:07system PRETTY quickly and i think he has a shot
- 1:19:09to be, taken. DAY one, honestly i mean a fourteen
- 1:19:13to fifty ops in The month of MAY and the sec,
- 1:19:16is no.
- 1:19:16Speaker 1: Joke certainly impressive and, like you said turned on those
- 1:19:20boosters late enough to kind of get the. Eyes on
- 1:19:22him we'll see what, he, DOES. Now obviously jb you've
- 1:19:26got a gentleman who has some explosive tools.
- 1:19:28Speaker 4: Of, HIS own Yeah i guess i'll start off, with
- 1:19:31you know everybody else took all three of the NAMES
- 1:19:34that when i went, DOWN the list, i was, Like
- 1:19:35oh yeah i'll, take this GUY and then i go
- 1:19:37to the sheet and. They were gone so thank you
- 1:19:39to everybody. Else For that but i'll Talk About Another north.
- 1:19:42Carolina college bat why not going Back To. The Demon Deacons.
- 1:19:45It's javar williams he's a guy, that's really explosive. A
- 1:19:49great athlete we've seen that for three Years Now at
- 1:19:52wake forest and it was kind of waiting to see
- 1:19:54all the. Pieces come together this year was the year
- 1:19:56when it kind of all did. Fall in place hit
- 1:19:58three forty three and over on, thousand, o pis yes
- 1:20:00twenty seven. Extra base, hits you know he's just, a
- 1:20:03crazy athlete thirty. One stolen bases you know he's gonna be,
- 1:20:06a plus, defend you know. Great run times the arm
- 1:20:09is really the only. Question with him, but you know
- 1:20:12he's a guy that probably has a chance to, play center,
- 1:20:14field left handed top of, the order, bat fun tools
- 1:20:17just some. Of, you reject.
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: Yeah lots of stuff to like, there for. Him for
- 1:20:22sure you got a good look at him. Recently As
- 1:20:24well if, i'm Not mistaken mister dodge three, to four
- 1:20:29hundred who?
- 1:20:29Speaker 2: Do you, LIKE you know i made a really lofty
- 1:20:32comp last round and that.
- 1:20:34Speaker 4: Was really fun so let's.
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: Do it again walk.
- 1:20:36Speaker 7: With me here let's, think prep guys a, little undersized
- 1:20:41infielder probably, going to Outfielder Committed.
- 1:20:43Speaker 2: To georgia, Tech Really, twitchy.
- 1:20:47Speaker 4: Chris, box no, troopers come on that was an.
- 1:20:52Speaker 6: Easy.
- 1:20:53Speaker 7: Layup, Kid Yeah yeah so I'm Going, with isaiah gallison
- 1:20:57prep Guy Committed.
- 1:20:58Speaker 2: At georgia.
- 1:20:58Speaker 7: Tech of twitch, in the swing he showed off really
- 1:21:03good power at the combine for a size that the
- 1:21:06batsball skills have been a little.
- 1:21:07Speaker 2: Fringing in, his top competition, BUT you know i think
- 1:21:10you can figure that out later. On the line he's
- 1:21:12really good defender.
- 1:21:13Speaker 7: In my opinion and when you have that those power
- 1:21:15skills for a guy that we have in the, LATE
- 1:21:18three hundreds i think is a.
- 1:21:19Speaker 6: Really, good profile.
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: Absolutely it is. Absolutely all right rounding us out four
- 1:21:24oh one to four. To twenty five it's the last
- 1:21:27set of guys we're gonna, Talk, about today jake. Kick
- 1:21:30us off what? Do you Like.
- 1:21:33Speaker 3: I'm going i'm Gonna Go with carlos martinez right Headed.
- 1:21:36Picture from hofstra he's been Up Here on long island
- 1:21:40Pitching For the hofstra pride for. Four years now he's
- 1:21:43only gotten. Better each, year you know he missed all
- 1:21:45of twenty Twenty Five, with tommy john but he's he's
- 1:21:48fully bounced back and seems to be. Better than ever
- 1:21:51doesn't seem like he's really lost. Anything from it his
- 1:21:54arsenal features of fastball runs up around ninety seven with
- 1:21:57a slider change up combination that's been one of the
- 1:22:00best of the college ranks up Here.
- 1:22:02Speaker 6: In the northeast.
- 1:22:03Speaker 3: He throws them he throws them, both for strikes gets
- 1:22:05about fifty percent with with both. Of those pitches he's
- 1:22:08made hitters in THE, in the cia which is obviously not.
- 1:22:11A bad conference look look pretty silly with those with
- 1:22:14that slider in. The, change up uh the, profile to,
- 1:22:17me you know it looks like it looks like a legit.
- 1:22:19Starter right now like he's got three real. Pitches he's
- 1:22:22thrown he's also thrown a curveball something and that could
- 1:22:25develop into. A fourth pitch throws everything for strikes as effective,
- 1:22:29in the zone knows how to keep. Guys off balance
- 1:22:31you can make the argument, that you know the the,
- 1:22:34competition WAS low, but i mean you. Got you got
- 1:22:37you have good teams, in that conference and it's certainly
- 1:22:39an arm were taking a shot on in the mid round.
- 1:22:42Speaker 6: Range this year could be a senior. Guy later, ON
- 1:22:44but UH i Like I.
- 1:22:45Speaker 3: LIKE carls martinez i think there's a LITTLE bit uh
- 1:22:47i think he's a little bit underrated?
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: Up right now, Word, Love it josh who do you
- 1:22:52like in that four oh one to four? Twenty five
- 1:22:54range and before you, Even say it i'm a glad Everybody,
- 1:22:56In Boom bill mississippi, no stand up go.
- 1:23:00Speaker 5: Yeah you you Should know who i'm, talking about here
- 1:23:02because me and you have had conversations. ABOUT him recently
- 1:23:05i had to actually fight to get him in our
- 1:23:07top four to twenty, five In general AND i'm glad
- 1:23:09i did because he's more than deserving. To Be here
- 1:23:12this davis pitted Her Out. Of misissippi State This was
- 1:23:15mississippi state's trusted closer for much, of the season and
- 1:23:19he did nothing but come. Through pretty consistently he sits
- 1:23:22ninety four to ninety seven from a, really low slot
- 1:23:25and he's grabbed triple digits in The Past two as,
- 1:23:28dodge said earlier you show me, a one too and my.
- 1:23:30Eyebrows are raised the sinker has nineteen inches of armside
- 1:23:35run and induced sixty five percent ground balls. THIS past,
- 1:23:38year i mean the thing might not get a ton of,
- 1:23:40swing and miss but the contact is rarely hard when
- 1:23:43it's being. Put in play his sweeper doesn't have as
- 1:23:47much break as you'd probably expect considering, his release traits
- 1:23:50but it gets like fifty PERCENT with so i guess
- 1:23:53that's the trade, off you, make you know for barely
- 1:23:56missing any bats. With the heater on, top of that
- 1:23:59he was pretty much just sinker sweeper. For a while
- 1:24:02but he added a cutter, this year too and it
- 1:24:04already looks like a fifty or fifty. Five great offering
- 1:24:08so he might not have a future as a, big
- 1:24:10Name starter but i'm a firm believer in his outcome
- 1:24:13as an elite setup man OR closer in mlb for
- 1:24:16a decent. Amount of time look for someone to take
- 1:24:19a haircut by grabbing him in the round like seven.
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: To ten range absolutely what a haircut.
- 1:24:23Speaker 5: It will be, speaking of haircuts guys that, NEED a,
- 1:24:29Haircut jb speak.
- 1:24:32Speaker 4: Here we go. Here we, go You know. Typical josh,
- 1:24:34SLANDER he look i got a haircut?
- 1:24:36Speaker 1: To all right no flow hates?
- 1:24:39Speaker 7: Guy with?
- 1:24:40Speaker 4: Flow what's it, but you know we Go Past, it
- 1:24:43james guy yet it will be my Guy. From k
- 1:24:45state he finally got to get into a full time
- 1:24:48starting role this past season and he kind of was so.
- 1:24:53So with it he was there one of their, more
- 1:24:55trusted arms but didn't really get a groove for most.
- 1:24:58Of the year he was a trust. Really before, that
- 1:25:00you know big, on the slider Kind of, sweet, british
- 1:25:02profile sinker, change up guy you. Know the stuff the
- 1:25:06slider's definitely the pitch that stands. Out the most the
- 1:25:08sinker is splash, average around there and the change UP also.
- 1:25:13A serviceba offering he's a guy that's kind of just
- 1:25:15he's got a mix there with a pitch that's plus
- 1:25:17two fringe average pitches you can maybe turn into something
- 1:25:21a middle reliever back in starter possibly that.
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: Type of, profile very interesting certainly certainly, some very real
- 1:25:30some very. Real stuff there and it Was it was dodge.
- 1:25:33Speaker 4: Stole My guy once dodge did steal. MY guy here i.
- 1:25:36SAW this one, i, was like oh so This is.
- 1:25:39Speaker 5: A dodge guys sensus needs to be boosted.
- 1:25:42Speaker 1: IN our rankings i Will say this dodge is really
- 1:25:45getting away, with something here because as, of right now
- 1:25:47this guy is ranked in the four h one to four.
- 1:25:49TWENTY five range i suspect that he will be elevated
- 1:25:54by cut.
- 1:25:56Speaker 4: That in half.
- 1:26:00Speaker 5: Kobe elevated by.
- 1:26:01Speaker 1: It, for sure yeah. Very very, good So, anyway mister
- 1:26:05dodge tell us.
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: About your selections i'm just hearing about how good of
- 1:26:08A talent. Evaluator I am so i really.
- 1:26:10Speaker 7: Appreciate the, soult you know when you when you get
- 1:26:13pushed Down to, the foringer range it's kind of mostly
- 1:26:15because you, Haven't PERFORMED yet and i think it's kind
- 1:26:18of not fair.
- 1:26:18Speaker 6: To this guy.
- 1:26:19Speaker 2: He hasn't performed he's been moved in.
- 1:26:20Speaker 7: And out of the rotation OF bullpen for i don't
- 1:26:23really Know what for i'm Going with the nebraska right
- 1:26:26Hand or the. Husker ty horn we saw a trend
- 1:26:29a lot this season of guys throwing a, litany of
- 1:26:31pitches just throwing a little. BIT of everything i think
- 1:26:33his fastball falls a little bit behind from the guys,
- 1:26:35at The Top like Kate Townsend and logan redimen that.
- 1:26:38That do is but he has really strong manipulation for
- 1:26:41pretty much everything in the rest, of his profile, and
- 1:26:44you guys guys hit it right. On the head he
- 1:26:45should not be going in the four hundreds.
- 1:26:47Speaker 1: On our board we will we will. Certainly remy that,
- 1:26:51but either, way. Great stuff guys we got through a
- 1:26:54lot and we are gonna hit our time pretty. Well
- 1:26:56as well why don't we wrap this up in. A,
- 1:27:00fun Way, uh mister dodge we want to thank you
- 1:27:02so much. For, joining us obviously it's gonna be a
- 1:27:06ton of content coming out in the next Nine Days.
- 1:27:09At prospects live but will if you would start tell
- 1:27:12the people where they could follow you in between Your
- 1:27:14Appearances on college baseball now and what you're working on right.
- 1:27:16Speaker 2: Now, as well yeah you can Follow me on TWITTER.
- 1:27:19Speaker 6: At.
- 1:27:19Speaker 2: Will t dodge we'll Have we HAVE we had i
- 1:27:22think it was sixteen.
- 1:27:23Speaker 7: Interviews, during the combine so that would be trickling out
- 1:27:27and pretty much last week till till.
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: The draft day until now it's gonna be.
- 1:27:33Speaker 7: Right to, reporting you know We got that july, third
- 1:27:35national holiday and that would be a holiday spent.
- 1:27:38Speaker 2: On doing, reports you know obviously we have, the big company.
- 1:27:42Speaker 7: Big draft list i'm gonna be doing one, of my
- 1:27:44own so we're working on reports to finish that off
- 1:27:47up until hoping to get that out.
- 1:27:49Speaker 6: Early next week it's.
- 1:27:50Speaker 1: Gonna be great can't wait. TO. See it jb where
- 1:27:53gonna people find you in? Between our episodes what are?
- 1:27:55Speaker 4: You, working on yes It's At jv Andersports. Sabastian on,
- 1:27:58twitter you know there's a lot of a Storm there
- 1:28:01of omaha and draft combine content that was out there.
- 1:28:04For a while now we've kind of settled INTO it's
- 1:28:07been usa content the past. Couple of days got a
- 1:28:10few more guys that got to upload video, on but
- 1:28:12yeah A lot of usa stuff and after this there
- 1:28:14should be an article to GO about this usa stuff
- 1:28:17and then help out with a lot of this draft.
- 1:28:19So here, soon so yeah it's.
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: Gonna be. Outstanding. Can't wait joshua tell the people at
- 1:28:25home where they can find you between our episodes what, you're?
- 1:28:27Speaker 5: Working on sir you can Find me on Twitter at.
- 1:28:30Josh catlet three i'll be posting my top probably top
- 1:28:33two hundred prospects, before next week if not my. Top
- 1:28:35two fifty i'll be on the draft, stream for most,
- 1:28:40if not all of it this upcoming. Or next weekend
- 1:28:43i'm looking very forward to that and being on here
- 1:28:45with all these people talking about the thing that we've
- 1:28:46talked about so often for months and, months and months
- 1:28:50so that'll be a. Lot of fun and we got
- 1:28:52a couple of mock drafts coming out with the whole entire,
- 1:28:55squad next week so looking forward to all that gonna
- 1:28:58be a.
- 1:28:58Speaker 1: Lot, of fun coach tell the people at home where
- 1:29:00they can find you between our episodes and what, you're,
- 1:29:03working On.
- 1:29:03Speaker 4: Sir.
- 1:29:05Speaker 6: H yeah you can Follow me On Twitter.
- 1:29:07Speaker 3: At jake barge i'm also working on a personal board
- 1:29:10that's that's gonna be, out you know at some point,
- 1:29:12next week hopefully and as far as as far, as other,
- 1:29:16CONTENT you know i will also be involved in the
- 1:29:18in the stream AS much.
- 1:29:19Speaker 6: As i can i'm also Planning on doing i'm DOING
- 1:29:20everything that i can do to Be at The.
- 1:29:23Speaker 3: Draft in philly, HOPEFULLY you know i get, a you
- 1:29:26know a ticket to. Go or, whatever but uh IF
- 1:29:29i'm IF i if, I am there i won't be
- 1:29:30on the draft stream on. The First day if, I'm
- 1:29:33not there i'll plan on being on the stream as
- 1:29:35much as everybody wants me. To be there SO fingers
- 1:29:38crossed i get To be in Philly, for the draft,
- 1:29:40but if not you guys will see me on here.
- 1:29:42Speaker 6: On.
- 1:29:42Speaker 1: The stream jake the people at home will also be
- 1:29:46getting one of a kind crossover content when you will
- 1:29:49meet a certain somebody coming up next. Weekend as.
- 1:29:53Speaker 6: WELL that's true i wonder he. That's gonna be.
- 1:29:57Speaker 1: We'll you'll just have to stay Tuned To at Jake
- 1:29:59barge on twitter. To find out if you're wanting to
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- 1:30:23Gonna be Insane what?
- 1:30:24Speaker 2: Will i'll, say public, slips public slips public.
- 1:30:29Speaker 1: Slips right here those, Right, over there yeah those are public.
- 1:30:33Speaker 4: Slips.
- 1:30:33Speaker 1: For sure uh we thank you so much. For joining
- 1:30:36us next episode you see is going To Be The
- 1:30:40college Baseball. Now mock draft so this is kind of
- 1:30:44Independent Of the prospects live, staff my draft which is
- 1:30:47gonna be something you should tune, into as well but
- 1:30:49it's going to be a very fun. Exercise in futility
- 1:30:53hope that you'll join. Us for that until then on Behalf,
- 1:30:56of Mister, dodge Mister, sebastiano Mister catlet mister bargerie And.
- 1:31:00Self mister wheeler we implore for you to be, nice
- 1:31:03to yourself be nice, to each other have A Very.
- 1:31:06Happy independence day we'll see. You next, time bye bye