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JJ Cooper’s prospect update: Mets call-ups, Dylan Crews returns, Brady House optioned, Path of 1-1’s · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Baseball America's JJ Cooper is with us. We need you today, Jj.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on here, so we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: the Dylan Cruz and House getting option for the Nats,
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Speaker 1: among many other topics. I do want to start with
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Speaker 1: the baby Mets and get right into biz here. So
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Speaker 1: are the Mets just like, hey, let's just call up
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Speaker 1: any speedy athletic dude in the miners and try and
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Speaker 1: switch things up.
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Speaker 2: Does David Stearns?
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Speaker 3: I think I feel like he really is kind of
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Speaker 3: going back to like I'm with the Brewer still, you
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Speaker 3: know you can kind of do this and like, hey,
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Speaker 3: no one, will you know, Hey.
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Speaker 2: We go We're gonna do a youth movement. Will anyone notice?
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Speaker 3: No, you know it's being noticed because it's in It's
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Speaker 3: a little different when you're in New York. But I
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Speaker 3: will say, like, it's kind of bold, it's gutsy, but
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Speaker 3: at the same time it is if it works, it
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Speaker 3: they need kind of a shot of something, and they
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Speaker 3: have added some athleticism here. Morbido is very athletic. Aj
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Speaker 3: ewing is very athletic. You look at it now. If
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Speaker 3: nothing else, this should give them a kind of a
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Speaker 3: youth a youth injection, a speed injection, a defense injection
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Speaker 3: as well in the outfield. Like it's fascinating because if
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Speaker 3: you had said before the season, okay, Nolan mcclan, Carson
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Speaker 3: Bender in the lineup, okay, then if you said aj
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Speaker 3: Ewing is going to be added, that also seems to
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Speaker 3: make sense. But to say that they're going to have
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Speaker 3: at this point already have brought up four prominent prospects
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Speaker 3: in their three in the lineup at different times that
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Speaker 3: that that does seem seems more of something you expect
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Speaker 3: to say, Like the Guardians brought up their third outfield
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Speaker 3: prospect of the year, and it's may that Guardians, you
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Speaker 3: kind of expect that the Rays, you know, things like that,
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Speaker 3: you don't expect to hear that for the Mets.
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Speaker 4: Does the New York market New York media allow something
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Speaker 4: like this in a sense that well, you can, we
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Speaker 4: could never start the season with as many question as
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Speaker 4: we start as the Guardian starts, since you brought the
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Speaker 4: Guardians up. But reality is it's about winning games. But
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Speaker 4: the New York media doesn't want to read about the
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Speaker 4: Baseball America prospects. They want to read about how much
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Speaker 4: money did one of the richest, if not the richest
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Speaker 4: owner in baseball, spend on his roster for the season.
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Speaker 3: The thing I think, and you would know better about
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Speaker 3: this that I do, kind of what that environment's like.
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Speaker 3: But I think that it really comes down to you
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Speaker 3: don't get the runway that you get with a smaller
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Speaker 3: market team right like you can because if you come
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Speaker 3: up and you're do what Kevin McGonagall or South Stewart
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Speaker 3: did in April, if you do that in New York,
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Speaker 3: they're going to love you, right Like, if you can
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Speaker 3: go out there and right away perform, then hey, it's
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Speaker 3: a great move that you brought up this rookie. But
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Speaker 3: what's not allowed is is that okay that first fifty
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Speaker 3: seventy five plate appearances, there's an adjustment period and you're
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Speaker 3: kind of getting settled in and then like if what
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Speaker 3: Connor Griffin did in Pittsburgh, I think it goes a
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Speaker 3: little differently if Connor Griffin does that in New York,
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Speaker 3: right or if he does that in Boston. I think
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Speaker 3: there are a couple of markets out there where it
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Speaker 3: just is a little tougher to establish yourself right away,
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Speaker 3: and if you don't, you don't have as long to
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Speaker 3: get established. Connor Griffin, you know, looked a little bit okay,
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Speaker 3: it had some at bats. I would say that first
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Speaker 3: few weeks that were a little bit up and down,
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Speaker 3: but then you kind of got to be where we
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Speaker 3: expect him to be.
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Speaker 2: And it's not.
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Speaker 3: Shocking that a teenager turned twenty year old is going
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Speaker 3: to kind of get settled in. I just think in
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Speaker 3: New York we see that. We see that with veterans
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Speaker 3: in New York, don't we We see that with veterans
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Speaker 3: where it's like when they bring in a free agent,
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Speaker 3: there's usually it feels like there's like three different evaluations
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Speaker 3: of whether it was a great signing or a terrible signing.
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Speaker 3: That happens like depending on the month that you're in, right,
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Speaker 3: Like how many different opinions have there been on you know,
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Speaker 3: Jad Chisholm. But I would say the flip side is
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Speaker 3: we see what the Yankees. If you're a bin Ice,
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Speaker 3: the best possible thing to do is to be good,
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Speaker 3: but fly a little bit under the radar and so
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Speaker 3: that while they're focused on Anthony Volpi, the fans are
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Speaker 3: on the media, you can be the guy who kind
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Speaker 3: of performs the turnaround. It's like, oh, ben Rice has
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Speaker 3: been really good. That that's the kind of way maybe
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Speaker 3: Morbido can be that one. Morbido's good, but he's not
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Speaker 3: the same level of prospect prominence. I would say as
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Speaker 3: an ol McClane, as even an aj Ewing, maybe that
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Speaker 3: can help him slide it a little bit under the
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Speaker 3: radar while the aj Ewings and I'll take up little
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Speaker 3: bit more of the attention.
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Speaker 4: Right, Carson Binge obviously made the team. Obviously they kind
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Speaker 4: of left that lane pseudo open. Well, maybe he's got
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Speaker 4: to make the team, but clearly look like they wanted
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Speaker 4: him up there. His start hasn't been as good as
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Speaker 4: aj Ewing's start. Do you see aj Ewings whatever nine
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Speaker 4: eighty ops and Carson Binge's six' eighty ops?
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Speaker 2: Do you see it going?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? I want to see. I mean, you have him
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Speaker 4: even for people who are listening, his hands are even.
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Speaker 4: Are are they going to be the same or is
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Speaker 4: there something that's going to put one of them over
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Speaker 4: the top for this season?
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Speaker 3: Not career wise, I would say the thing that you
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Speaker 3: also do like with Ewing, is the defense in all
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Speaker 3: that Ewing's going to provide you provides value. This is
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Speaker 3: where like we talk about Connor Griffin. The value of
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Speaker 3: a guy when you bring up a guy who can
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Speaker 3: help in so many different ways Ewing. If Ewing starts
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Speaker 3: to slump offensively, the defense, the speeds should still provide
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Speaker 3: value for him. The funny thing about this, though, is
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Speaker 3: is I do think there's also a there is a
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Speaker 3: mindset I run into it all the time when talking
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Speaker 3: to fans right like that this player hasn't proven in
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Speaker 3: the big leagues. Well, the reality of it is, like
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Speaker 3: Bobashett has one hundred percent proven it in the big leagues.
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Speaker 3: Bobaschet has been a big league star. At the same time,
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Speaker 3: for Bobachhet right now, like he's not performing at the
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Speaker 3: level he wants to perform at that the Mets expect
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Speaker 3: him to perform at and obviously it's different.
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Speaker 2: But at the same time, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: if you say.
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Speaker 3: Why are the Mets where they are, it's going to
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Speaker 3: be probably more so the Marcus Semions and the Boba
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Speaker 3: Sheets figuring out a way to turn it around. But
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Speaker 3: I do think that bringing in this kind of youth
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Speaker 3: infusion and some of it kind of by necessary because
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Speaker 3: they've had injuries as well. It at least maybe takes
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Speaker 3: a little bit maybe, if anything else, maybe it takes
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Speaker 3: a little bit of attention off of those guys who
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Speaker 3: need like I know that Boba sheet.
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Speaker 2: Did you know have a nice night last night?
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Speaker 3: Although you know it was also one of the weirdest
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Speaker 3: exterting games we'll ever see. The Mets can't be this
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Speaker 3: bad over the long, over the course of the season,
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Speaker 3: they shouldn't be this bad. But I do think it's
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Speaker 3: going to be a little bit of youth movement. Plus more,
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Speaker 3: probably more importantly is having the veterans who you are
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Speaker 3: paying get back to more of the level you expect
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Speaker 3: their production to be.
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Speaker 5: JJ the That's been an interesting movie about Dylan Cruz
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Speaker 5: up and they sent House down, which was shocking to
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Speaker 5: me because he had a two homer game. Not that
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Speaker 5: long ago. Has Dylan Cruz made the necessary adjustments to
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Speaker 5: be a formidable big league player that his draft stock warranted,
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Speaker 5: because even in Triple A he wasn't doing that much
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Speaker 5: where you're like, wow, look at Dylan Cruz go off.
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Speaker 3: I don't see it yet, to be honest, like, I
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Speaker 3: tried to watch some of what he was doing in
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Speaker 3: Triple A and it doesn't seem like he's made Like
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Speaker 3: I think he could be better than he was when
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Speaker 3: he was sent down. But if you said, have we
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Speaker 3: seen a transformation where now he's hitting for more impact,
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Speaker 3: Like this has always been the question with a Cruise,
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Speaker 3: Like I I like to say, when he was coming up,
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Speaker 3: and again I don't want to like he was a
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Speaker 3: top prospect for US.
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Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not trying to poop who they.
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Speaker 3: Was, but like I really kind of thought of the
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Speaker 3: try to say at the time, at least personally, I've
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Speaker 3: viewed it as James Woods was here, and then Dylan
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Speaker 3: Cruz would hopefully be a good wingman, kind of an
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Speaker 3: Adam Eaton type, and I'm eating that was pretty good.
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Speaker 3: Now we're hoping can he get to that kind of
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Speaker 3: Adam Eaton type.
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Speaker 2: I don't see impact player here as much. So far.
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Speaker 3: It looks like more like a good complimentary player. Can
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Speaker 3: he play good defense? Can he get on base? Can
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Speaker 3: he steal some bags? Can he occasionally run into one?
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Speaker 3: I would say that that's kind of more of the question,
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Speaker 3: But I also like, I'm kind of interested. The Nationals
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Speaker 3: are in this weird world right now where they're both
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Speaker 3: I'd say offensively a little better than maybe everyone expected,
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Speaker 3: but it's still very much a team in transition. I
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Speaker 3: think that there's all almost kind of an evaluative state
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Speaker 3: like with a guy like Cruz, where it's like you
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Speaker 3: can keep him down for three four months and try
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Speaker 3: to totally transform him, see if you can really help
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Speaker 3: him find another level. But there's no guarantee that's going
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Speaker 3: to take, and at some point they're gonna need to
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Speaker 3: figure out with Cruse. Okay, is this a guy who's
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Speaker 3: part of our long term plan or is he not?
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Speaker 2: I'll take like C. J.
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Speaker 3: Abrams kind of came into the season probably on in
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Speaker 3: that question as well, and he seems to have taken
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Speaker 3: the steps towards like Okay, this looks like Okay, c. J.
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Speaker 3: Abrams can but eventually fit into that or at least
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Speaker 3: be a good trade piece that they decide that the
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Speaker 3: rebuilding piece, you know, real building project is going to
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Speaker 3: take a lot of years. Unfortunately for all these guys,
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Speaker 3: none of them pitch.
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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, they need some pitching, that's fair. But my
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Speaker 4: question is specifically about Dylan Cruz, but the state of
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Speaker 4: the game too. Is this a prime case of why
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Speaker 4: Major League Baseball can't take away lower level minor leagues
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Speaker 4: just for the big time college programs. I mean, we
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Speaker 4: see how poorly LSU did this year in college baseball
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Speaker 4: we see how like guys get called up with little
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Speaker 4: minor league experience and there's a adjustment period in the
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Speaker 4: minor leagues that you need to learn how to be
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Speaker 4: able to change your swing to different types of pitches,
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Speaker 4: to different level of pitching, from a guy throwing a
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Speaker 4: hundred that has no idea where it's going to a
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Speaker 4: guy throwing eighty nine to ninety one that will probably
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Speaker 4: never pitch in the big leagues.
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Speaker 3: Okay, these are not gonna be the greatest examples because
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Speaker 3: both of these are guys who are not going to
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Speaker 3: be stars in the big leagues, right, But we saw
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Speaker 3: Eric Sarentola make it up with the Royals recently Reliever,
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Speaker 3: and I was just we've just updated our top thirties
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Speaker 3: and I was just writing up and pierced George for them.
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Speaker 3: And both of those guys were guys who went to college, right,
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Speaker 3: And if you think of college as a developmental, like, okay,
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Speaker 3: that's going to be where the development happens, and then
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Speaker 3: we can lop off more.
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Speaker 2: Levels of the miners.
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Speaker 3: They didn't pitch, and it's understandable because they're both through
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Speaker 3: one hundred miles an hour.
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Speaker 2: But if you don't throw strikes.
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Speaker 3: You very quickly can kind of get banished from the bullpen. Understandably,
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Speaker 3: you are not in college, you are not at major
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Speaker 3: D one programs, you're not at a Amsippi State, you know,
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Speaker 3: or somewhere like that, to just kind of well, we're
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Speaker 3: going to give you innings and see what happens. You're
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Speaker 3: going to go out there, and if you don't, get out,
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Speaker 3: so they're going to get someone who does. Those are
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Speaker 3: examples of guys. Pierce George basically walked everybody he faced
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Speaker 3: and never through.
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Speaker 2: I don't think if you added up all.
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Speaker 3: His college innings, it came up probably less than fifty.
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Speaker 2: In three years. Right, But so what did the White
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Speaker 2: Sox do.
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Speaker 3: They just hand him the ball, and they said, you're
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Speaker 3: going to go out there and if you succeed, great,
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Speaker 3: and if you don't, we're still gonna give you the
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Speaker 3: ball and we're gonna keep working with you and you're
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Speaker 3: gonna get better and better. And he walked everybody last year.
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Speaker 3: But this year he's figured it out a little bit.
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Speaker 3: He's already gotten advanced up another you know, got promotion
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Speaker 3: to another level. He's not walking anybody throws a hundred.
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Speaker 3: There are guys like that, there are the guys who
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Speaker 3: Paul Schemes. Yet do you need the miners for Paul Schemes?
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Speaker 2: Probably not.
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Speaker 3: Paul Schemes was fully ready to go the minute he
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Speaker 3: walked off the mound, and you know for LSU, but
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Speaker 3: most guys aren't going to have that kind of path.
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Speaker 2: And the.
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Speaker 3: More we lop off minor league levels and the more
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Speaker 3: that you reduce the rosters, the more you're kind of, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you're sometimes you're always going to get rid of some
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Speaker 3: ORG players who were never to make the majors anyway,
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Speaker 3: But every time you do that, you're also probably getting
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Speaker 3: rid of someone who would have made the majors. And
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Speaker 3: you just you never will know if you do that,
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Speaker 3: because we're seeing it right now with the one sixty
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Speaker 3: five right like you have with one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 3: five player minor league roster in the US, you are
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Speaker 3: having players released who I would have gotten another year,
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Speaker 3: another two years, and we see right.
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Speaker 2: Now, we see all the time.
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Speaker 3: You know, there are pictures in the majors right now,
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Speaker 3: we see if we saw with the WBC right with
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Speaker 3: a guy like Emmanuel Dajesus who was pitching in the KBO,
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Speaker 3: bouncing around and I'm not sinking unfortunately, I'm listing all
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Speaker 3: these relievers. Sam Antonacci is probably a better example of
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Speaker 3: a guy who was probably viewed as an ORG guy
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Speaker 3: at one point, but he kept grinding, he kept improving,
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Speaker 3: and now that guy's an every day regular for the
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Speaker 3: White Sox in the outfield. Those kind of development success
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Speaker 3: stories come from having time to let players develop and
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Speaker 3: to be honest, to let players fail in an environment
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Speaker 3: where failure is not the worst thing if failure brings
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Speaker 3: with it learning. Because in college baseball it's great. I
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Speaker 3: love college baseball, been watching it today, but college baseball
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Speaker 3: is about winning, as it should be. That's the idea
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Speaker 3: of the sport. There's development, but development falls way behind winning.
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Speaker 3: In the minor leagues, it is a developmental process and
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Speaker 3: winning is understandably secondary. That allows guys to fail to
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Speaker 3: then eventually succeed.
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Speaker 4: What do you have on We missed it about mister
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Speaker 4: Morobido and what he's going to bring because we hit
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Speaker 4: on the Mets and then I completely forgot to even
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Speaker 4: ask about.
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Speaker 3: So the thing that I will say with him, we
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Speaker 3: kind of talked about this a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I want to make sure I give.
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Speaker 3: You the proper just updated yesterday ranking we had Morobido
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Speaker 3: ranked as.
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Speaker 2: Where did we have him on here?
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Speaker 3: Thirteen right on the So he's not again, not the
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Speaker 3: same level of prospect that we're talking about with an
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Speaker 3: aj Ewing with a Carson bench, we're top hundred. No,
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Speaker 3: that's may update. I'm sorry, that's the old update, Morbido.
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Speaker 3: That's why I want to make sure that this is right.
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Speaker 3: More Abido was ranked, had moved up and was currently
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Speaker 3: ranking I won't find it on nine nine on the
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Speaker 3: updated list. But speed, there's speed and hitting ability here.
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Speaker 2: Now, I do think.
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Speaker 3: There is a chance in the long run that like,
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Speaker 3: is it a great fit to have him and aj
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Speaker 3: Ewing there together?
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Speaker 2: We'll see.
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Speaker 3: I think that kind of like you want maybe a
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Speaker 3: little bit more kind of like a it may be
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Speaker 3: that his value is a little bit duplicative with Ajewing.
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Speaker 3: But at the same time, again like in the short run,
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Speaker 3: especially while they've had some injuries at all, like adding
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Speaker 3: some more speed, some more defense, some more hitting ability
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Speaker 3: out there, and again another guy who could be I
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Speaker 3: would say right now where he is kind of a
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Speaker 3: little bit more of a complimentary player, not like the
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Speaker 3: middle of the lineup thumper, but a complimentary player who
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Speaker 3: kind of hopefully lengthens your lineup.
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Speaker 2: A little bit could be very valuable.
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Speaker 3: They still do have some other if they go full
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Speaker 3: youth movement here they do. I still think we could
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Speaker 3: see like a Jacob Riemer at some point this year.
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Speaker 3: You know, they still have you know, we'll see if
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Speaker 3: Ryan Clifford could end up hitting, you know, slugging some
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Speaker 3: homers from them at some point, like the Jonah Tong
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Speaker 3: who is our Minor League.
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Speaker 2: Pittcher of the year.
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Speaker 3: If the Mets are going to go full youth movement,
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Speaker 3: there is The system has gotten better in recent years,
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Speaker 3: and we are seeing some of the effects of that.
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Speaker 3: At the same time, this is more prospects than I
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Speaker 3: expected to see up for the for the Mets this
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Speaker 3: quickly in the season.
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Speaker 1: to finish with this JJ. I think this is fascinating
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Speaker 1: on a day when unfortunately for Royce Lewis he was optioned.
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Speaker 1: Mickey Moniac has had a bang and start to the year.
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Speaker 1: They're back to back years number one overall picks. So
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Speaker 1: your thoughts on you know how the journey can go
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Speaker 1: for one to one.
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Speaker 3: Not all one ones are created the same, And that's
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Speaker 3: one of the things is tough, right. I think Mickey
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Speaker 3: Moniac's the perfect is this like even at that time,
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Speaker 3: that was the year where it felt like there was
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Speaker 3: no number one pick, right, Like the Phillies were a
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Speaker 3: little bit screwed, to be honest, Like they were something
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Speaker 3: where you pick one one and everyone thinks, oh, you're
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Speaker 3: picking one one, so you're going to get a star.
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Speaker 3: And it's like there were some years. You look at
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Speaker 3: that twenty sixteen draft, you can now in hindsight you
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Speaker 3: look at it's like maybe he was fine to be
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Speaker 3: the one one pick because you look at one through
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Speaker 3: ten on that list.
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Speaker 2: And there's just not really a star to be found.
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Speaker 3: And that's one thing that we see, like Royce Lewis's year,
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Speaker 3: there are some guys you can look back on it. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: it's funny. It's the high school guys, right. It's like
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Speaker 3: Hunter Green from that class, much more than a Brenda
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Speaker 3: McKay or a Kyle Wright. But there were some guys
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Speaker 3: you could say, Okay, maybe you should have gone that
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Speaker 3: direction rather than Royce. Royce has obviously had a lot
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Speaker 3: of injuries and we'll still see the totality's career is
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Speaker 3: not known, but I do think like, like we see
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Speaker 3: a year like twenty twenty four that we love to
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Speaker 3: talk about now, where we've already seen most of those
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Speaker 3: guys kind of come up from the top of that
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Speaker 3: class and a lot of cases really not just performed,
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Speaker 3: but really provide impact already. Not every drafts like that,
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Speaker 3: this one, we'll see. This one I think has kind
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Speaker 3: of a couple of guys at the top. I think
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Speaker 3: a Rack Schlawski, a Grady Emerson could kind of fit
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Speaker 3: in that really good top of.
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Speaker 2: The draft class kind of guys. But there are a
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Speaker 2: lot more.
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Speaker 3: You know, there have been some years recently where it's
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Speaker 3: like who you taking one, and it's like, well, there's
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Speaker 3: not really that guy that you want. Like it's always
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Speaker 3: great when you have that that Adlie Rushman Bobby Witt
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Speaker 3: Junior debate, or you have that Steven Strasburg gear that
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Speaker 3: Bryce Harper year. Some years it's like, Okay, you want
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Speaker 3: Mickey Moniac or do you want Corey Ray or do
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Speaker 3: you want and you know, you just kind of go
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Speaker 3: down the list and you're like, there really wasn't a
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Speaker 3: guy who stood out as a clear the guy that
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Speaker 3: you point to and say that's what a one to
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Speaker 3: one prospect look like. To Moniac's credit, he has bounced back.
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Speaker 2: It's taken him a while.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's still probably a little bit too aggressive
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Speaker 3: at the play at times, but he's making an him
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Speaker 3: impact in Colorado, and hey, credit to him, because it
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Speaker 3: is not easy.
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Speaker 2: I would also say it.
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Speaker 3: Cannot be easy to be the one one pick because
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Speaker 3: there is an attention that comes with that. There's a focus,
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Speaker 3: and there's an expectation. You know, we were talking about
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Speaker 3: Dylan Cruse a minute ago. Dylan Cruz kind of fortunate
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Speaker 3: for him, like he didn't go one, but like he's
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Speaker 3: always going to be compared to Paul Schemes because there
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Speaker 3: were teammates and they.
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Speaker 2: Also went at the top of that draft.
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Speaker 3: And that's got to be a hard thing to live
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Speaker 3: up to because you're trying to live up to comparing
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Speaker 3: to one of the best players of the last decade.
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Speaker 3: And one one kind of puts a again in the
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Speaker 3: Mickey mo In royce Lewis case, one one puts a
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Speaker 3: spotlight on you that it's a little different if you
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Speaker 3: go one two.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, and if you're not superstar potential, it's not
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Speaker 1: one of those years. Then it really puts a lot
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Speaker 1: on you and the team. Fans being they missed, like
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Speaker 1: you said, in some years are like, wait where did
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Speaker 1: they miss? Not two, not three, not four? You have
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Speaker 1: to go deep down the list to find someone that's
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Speaker 1: a star.
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Speaker 3: I'll just throw out for next year, we're gonna have
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Speaker 3: a fascinating new debate, which is we could have Dax Whitney,
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Speaker 3: who was looking like he was going to be the
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Speaker 3: number one prospect for next year's draft, and he blew
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Speaker 3: out his elbow. We've never seen like, can a guy
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Speaker 3: go one one because he should be back throwing by then,
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Speaker 3: right right around that time. But can a guy go
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Speaker 3: one to one who hasn't pitched in a game official
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Speaker 3: game in a year plus. That'll be an interesting thing
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Speaker 3: in twenty seven. We don't we don't need to get
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Speaker 3: too far ahead. We still have the twenty sees.
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Speaker 4: If it's about the money, if it's about the money,
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Speaker 4: come on all these A lot of these are they're
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Speaker 4: making a decision based on money. Guys are not going
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Speaker 4: one to one all the time because of their one
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Speaker 4: one ability.
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Speaker 3: And that's what I will say though, is is that's
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Speaker 3: where its struggle to find the examples of I know
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Speaker 3: we can point to like with Henry Davis again, another
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Speaker 3: case of a guy going one to one where it's
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Speaker 3: like no one was like, this is clearly the one
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Speaker 3: one guy. But when a Henry Davis goes yes, they
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Speaker 3: got Bubba Chandler in that class too.
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Speaker 2: But you never go wrong.
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Speaker 3: The thing I will just say, like I will save
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Speaker 3: for this year with the White Sox. If you want
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Speaker 3: to take Grady Emerson or Von Lackey because you flat
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Speaker 3: out just think they're the best player, they're a better
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Speaker 3: player than rok Skolowski. Okay, that makes tons of sense.
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Speaker 3: If you are convicted by that, now it's a danger
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Speaker 3: because if Rokslawski ends up being the star that some.
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Speaker 2: Expect, it's going to look bad.
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Speaker 3: But if you think that Rock Scholowski might be a star,
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Speaker 3: but you can get one of the other guys for
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Speaker 3: a couple million less and then spread that around, that's
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Speaker 3: a tougher thing to do because at the end of
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Speaker 3: the day, if you get a Paul Skien's at the
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Speaker 3: top of the class, you know, or a guy of
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Speaker 3: again that type of talent, you never go wrong, right
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Speaker 3: Like if you get the guy, if you get a star.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what anyone else does. I mean, in hindsight,
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Speaker 3: the Orioles chose Adley Rushman and Bobby Wit juniors ended
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Speaker 3: up being a better player. But no one's gonna say
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Speaker 3: you were crazy to take Addli Rushman. Aliy Rushman has
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Speaker 3: been an all star catcher.
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Speaker 2: Even if the guy.
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Speaker 3: Who goes after him ends up being better, you still
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Speaker 3: got a guy and a guy. It was logically the
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Speaker 3: pick at the time because you had this track record of.
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Speaker 2: Him being a star on a great college team.
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Speaker 3: Multiple year track record, athleticism, all that. If you take
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Speaker 3: if you let that guy go because you wanted to
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Speaker 3: save a little bit of money. The example I always
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Speaker 3: go back to is two thousand and five and Matt Bush,
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Speaker 3: and it's like, if you take Matt Bush with Justin
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Speaker 3: Verlander on the board because Matt Bush is local and
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Speaker 3: he'll sign for less, that's something you're probably gonna end
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Speaker 3: up regretting.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a problem exactly. I hate the money saving
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Speaker 1: if there's somebody better that you know is better within
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Speaker 1: the org. There's definitely situations where you like, was that
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Speaker 1: third pick, you know, that third round pick worth it?
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Speaker 1: At the extra cash you were given we've gone over
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Speaker 1: that plenty of times on Hot Sheet, which is coming
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Speaker 1: up later. JJ good catching up, Thanks for hopping on
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Speaker 1: with this memory.
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Speaker 2: Thank you guys,