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Drafting Our 2026 Preseason Awards | Ep. 008 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: Most outlets or individuals can simply assign preseason awards to
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  the players they think are best. But us, we have
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  to fight for it. On today's episode of College Baseball Now,
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  we're drafting our twenty twenty six n C Double A
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  preseason awards. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there ain't no problems, no problems.
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  Speaker 3: They don't want problem you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me tut to check.
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  Speaker 4: Then what was going for?
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  Speaker 1: Then they hit a bat? Beat? Did grab a couple
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  wins with a D?
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  Speaker 4: I d just even know the kid?
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  Speaker 1: I had to do a B I g bes I
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  can never beat average, and they want to problem with
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  the boy. They don't want no statics.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need so coach son run a week?
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  Speaker 1: God whant to test that? T'm with standing to control
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  run the game? Best believe of signing.
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  Speaker 3: Dogs counting them my wins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it when they count me yacht counting
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  I'm the least shut the shame. Why Ben at Dobbs
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  best believe I run the game? You know, na be
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  con truly to me.
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  Speaker 5: To stand.
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  Speaker 1: College Baseball Now is back. Prospects Lives very own podcast
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  looking at college baseball, telling the stories of the game
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  and the people that make it special in authentic and
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  intelligent ways. Is back with you, starting of course with me,
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  your host, your friend, your boy, the director of amateur
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  scouting at Prospects Live, Drew Wheeler, Happy to be here
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  with you, Happy to be here with my friends, to
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  have a little bit more of an intense episode. Fellas,
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  it's it's gonna be it's gonna be a fight. I
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  fear that it's gonna be a fight because today we
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  are drafting our twenty twenty six preseason awards. As you
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  may know, at home other outlets, they're gonna give some
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  cut and dry of their preseason awards for the twenty
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  twenty six aint CAA baseball season. No shame to them whatsoever.
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  Chances are they have great lists in terms of who's
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  gonna win the award for SEC Pitcher of the Year,
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  Big twelve Player of the Year. But we're built differently
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  at Prospects Live. And maybe that's not necessarily a good thing,
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  but it is gonna be an interesting thing. So the
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  concept of today's episode is, no host can pick a
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  player that's already been taken, and yet you've still got
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  to fill out all ten categories in the draft. Whose
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  group of honorees is gonna be the best. I guess
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  you're about to find out. So again we're gonna start
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  with introducing you to your hosting team. We're gonna go
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  to the gentleman on my right, mister JB. Sebastiano. JB.
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  When you think of a fighter, this could be a boxer,
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  it could be a professional wrestler, it could be a
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  sumo wrestler, it could be somebody you know personally. When
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  you think of a fighter, who do you think of?
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to go with Muhammad Ali. You know,
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  you always you always hear all the the sayings and
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  everything about Muhammad Ali. And last year I did get
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  to go to Littlesville and we passed by the Muhammad
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  Ali Museum and everything they got gone on there. So
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  I definitely say Mhammad Ali. It's been the cultural fighter
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  I've known. There.
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  Speaker 1: You go, uh in the bottom right corner holding down
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  that corner. Well, it's mister josh Catlett. Joshua, It's good
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  to see you, sir. Curious the same question, when you
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  think of a fighter, who is it that comes to
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  my producer.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know my answer for this one. I would
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  think like I'm not trying to go to boxing route.
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  So I'll just say, like Connor McGregor, because that's been
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  like the big fighter my entire life growing up, because
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  UFC is way bigger now the boxing has always been,
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  and like he's just got such a big personality and
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  was so good when I was in like middle school,
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  high school. Everyone loves him. Maybe maybe I'll try and
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  embody my draft style after him today. You know, like
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  me and JB are bickering like almost every single day
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  of the week. So maybe maybe maybe a little bit
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  of that, like Connor McGregor loves to do with his opponents,
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  you know, we'll say.
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  Speaker 1: He really does, maybe a little bit of Shale Son
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  and in the mix with you just you can get
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  a little yappy. But I like that about you, Josh.
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  I like that about you, buddy. We'll see if that
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  plays in. Maybe if JB is trying to take the
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  honorable Ali route, Josh Cob said, with a little bit
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  of McGregor hitting the strides.
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  Speaker 6: Rummy and Josh, Josh always stand my players. So you know,
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  it's it's gonna be a fight. It's gonna happen at
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  some point.
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  Speaker 2: It might not be in the area as you think
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  today we'll see it might not.
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  Speaker 1: We did have to put a certain drew shaped roadblock
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  between the two of you so it can't be direct sniping,
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  but I think there will be some jabbering going on.
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  And finally, the bottom left hand corner holding this down.
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  It is big sexy Jake Barbajurie Jake. When you think
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  of a fighter and who comes smick for you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm admittedly not a big box and the ufc GA,
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  but when I was younger, I was a big WWE
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  fan and my favorite wrestler was Raymistereo.
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  Speaker 3: He was awesome. He was he was so much fun
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  to watch.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, like Josh said, maybe modeling his draft
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  after Conor McGregor, I mean, Ray Mystereo. He kind of
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  runs circles around you. He'll he'll wear you down, and
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  uh maybe maybe maybe I'll try to do that a
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  little bit today.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I think that that's so interesting that
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  you're gonna maybe maybe some lucha Libray, maybe you're flying high,
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  maybe you're hitting the big the big spots coming in clutch,
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  and like you said, running circles around everybody. Guys. I
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  do really like fight sports I think it's maybe the
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  worst kept secret at Prospects Live that I used to
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  be a professional wrestler. I will not be taking questions
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  at this time, but yeah, I'll go with ares maybe
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  a wrestler as well, and say that I'm hoping today
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  to be John Cena. I'm hoping that I can be
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  the greatest of all time to some and I'm hoping
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  at the end of this draft you won't be able
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  to see my graphic at all.
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  Speaker 2: How about that also just retired and people didn't like
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  the way he went out, So like, hey, that's the case.
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  That's good for the rest of us.
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  Speaker 1: That's also true. And I will also say that me
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  taking a guy that just retired is perfectly indicative of
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  my unk status, never beating the allegations literally. Ever So,
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  in the time since we've recorded, though, guys, we have
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  seen something that's flared up a lot on social media.
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  Top twenty fives. Lots of outlets are putting out not
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  only their awards with their top twenty fives. We did
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  that as well. You guys will remember one of the
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  first episodes we recorded of College Baseball Now was our
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  way too early Top twenty five for twenty twenty six,
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  and so whenever the season came about, we did update
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  that a little bit earlier this month, we have gone
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  from way too early to preseason, and we're going to
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  talk about that just a little bit. Each of you
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  has chosen a team that rose in the ranks and
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  then a team that's fallen in the ranks. I'm going
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  to ask you to give me just a sentence or
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  two about, in your opinion, why that team might have
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  risen and or fallen. And JB we're going to start
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  with you tell me about a team that has risen
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  in the ranks and why you think that is.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I had North Carolina obviously, being someone that's
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  seen a lot of them, I think North Carolina honestly,
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  it's just been a lot of people seeing the new
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  transfers and seeing they've really just really well to the
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  new program and the pitching staff that's pretty much the
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  entire same staff you saw last season, besides Jake Napp
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  and how it's a really good staff once again with
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  a lot of new freshman talent as well built into it.
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  So I think everybody's seen that North Carolina is gonna
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  be aokay and the offense is there, so they'll compete
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  like usual.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely. I know that we have heard on the show
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  a lot about the transfers for North Carolina, but maybe
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  it's not all just you'd be in a bit of
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  a homer in that regard because there's some real talent
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  waiting to play at UNC. I like that pick, and
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  certainly I had them rows in my own rankings as well. Josh,
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  we're gonna go to you another team that has risen
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  in our rankings from October to this month.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not only had they risen, but Oklahoma State was
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  not in our rankings at all in October and now
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  the number twenty one. I actually had someone text me
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  the other day seeing our rankings and was like, why
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  so high on Oklahoma State because to my knowledge from
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  everything I've seen, we're the only outlet that has them ranked.
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  And my short and sweet kind of answer is, I
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  think that lineup is so experienced, and I think they're
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  gonna mash and that's gonna be able to take them
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  to a good part of the Big twelve schedule at least.
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  I think, Like my hot take involving this team, in
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  one of my hot takes in general, is I think
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  Oklahoma state has a top three to four outfield in
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  the entire country. Like they're bigger named teams probably gonna
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  get more of the publicity for that. But with Alex Connover,
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  Colin Richie, Garrett Schoual, I think that's such a good
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  trio out there and pitching the rotation scares me a
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  little bit. There's some experience, but there's also like some
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  guys that are just talented and Ethan Lund who's probably
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  gonna be their Saturday guy. I think that can able
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  to carry to them enough. But the bullpen is super good.
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  I'm a little biased because probably they're two of their
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  three most high leverlased arms this year are guys that
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  I work with this summer in the Northwodes League and
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  Fondalac and Noah Weak and Stormy Roads. I think they're gonna,
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  like I saw improve it from them this summer. I
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  think they're gonna be able to take into the season
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  and that pitching staff is going to do enough to
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  carry their into the You know, they're under the way
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  or they're under the bargain. What am I saying? Just
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  try and keep up with the offense that I think
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  is gonna be able to carry them through the majority
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  of that schedule.
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  Speaker 1: I think so too, man. And really, you hit it
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  with the offense, that's going to be a carrying thing
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  the outfield, such an underrated three guys out there in
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  the outfield. Three dudes, I mean, it's that's a great
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  way to say. It's three dudes out there. We're not
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  talking just every day chumps. This is not just your
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  casual ham and eggers. These are legitimate dudes out there
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  in the outfield for Oklahoma State, troubling troubling team. And
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  maybe we're gonna look really smart in a couple of
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  weeks when Okay State comes out and looks a little
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  bit more than Okay Trust me, I would know. Uh, Jake,
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  we're gonna go to you. Tell me again, buddy about
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  a team that has risen from our October ranks to
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  the January.
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  Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I'm gonna go with the the national runner
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  ups in Coastal Carolina. I feel like a lot of
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  people are probably probably ought to see that they weren't
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  in our initial top twenty five, but they do. They
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  do make the cut this time, and uh, you know,
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  as much as much pitching as Coastal lost.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I mean, and I say, pitching.
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  Speaker 5: I think Cayden Bodon was also a big part of
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  that pitching staff, believe it or not, the way he
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  called games and could just just command that pitching staff.
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  Last year with him being gone, Morrison being gone, Riley
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  Iykoff being gone, they lost a lot of pitching. But
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  I still think that that that the pitching is going
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  to be the biggest strength of this Coastal team. You know,
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  their a's Cam Fluk's a guy we're gonna certainly are
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  his name called a little bit later in the episode,
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  but uh, you know, they have other guys, Hayden Johnson,
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  Luke Jones, they brought in a good transfer Ross Norman
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  from Georgia State. I think that, you know, it's it's
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  not typical for these top end mid major programs to
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  have pitching be the strength and the lineup kind of
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  be like where the bigger questions are. But I think
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  the staff is going to really carry post a long
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  way again this year.
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  Speaker 1: That I think it absolutely will as well. Postal as
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  a team that, like you said, certainly felt odd not
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  having them in the first version of our twenty five,
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  but certainly we've rightified that. In January, Jake I do
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  want to stick with you here man to talk about
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  a team that has fallen in our rankings from October
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  to today. Maybe something's come up, maybe we've all kind
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  of put our heads together or gotten some new information,
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  or maybe the vibes are off. I'm curious about the
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  team that has fallen that you've talked about and tell
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  me why that is.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gona take Virginia. They fell from They weren't
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  our top ten. They were at number ten the first time.
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  They fell down to fourteen. Not a massive fall, but
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  I think that we have come down to earth a
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  little bit on them. I still personally really love the lineup.
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  I mean, it's just loaded from top to bottom. I
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  talked about Joe Tioli last time. He's a big transfer
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  coming in from Rider. But I mean they got the
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  name values with Eric Becker, ed j Garcia. You know,
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  Harrison Didowick's coming back, Noah Murray coming over from Duke,
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  with Garcia, this the it's just a star studied lineup
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  and there's no doubt that they're gonna hit. And kind
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  of the opposite of my point I was making with Coastal,
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  I think there are some question marks with the pitching
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  staff and who's gonna kind of take over as the
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  as the top one or two guys there. So I
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  think that could be a reason why they we kind
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  of brought them back down a little bit. But I
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  still don't have any doubts that that Virginia is going
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  to be very good again.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that's it's almost a little bit of
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  maybe us hedging our bets, if that's a good word
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  for it. Potentially. I agree with you, though, Jake, and
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  that's certainly something to watch for. Josh. We'll go to
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  you another team that has fallen. If I'm reading these
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  notes right, I'm pretty sure a certain team might be
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  a big fan of yours. Maybe their fan base is
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  ingratiated with you after this pick and the previous one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just pandering to Oklahoma State fans at this
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  point because I'll talk about Oklahoma. They dropped out of
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  our rankings completely. They dropped out of my personal ones too.
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  I'll keep this answer shorter. I think that the lineup
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  is gonna be a lot of like some of their
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  parts that don't really have a standout guy to carry them,
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  and it's a bunch of like high floor level guys,
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  and I think if you're gonna really compete in the SEC,
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  I think you're gonna need more of the star power
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  kind of guys, guys that can really pop off with
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  higher ceilings. Also, the pitchings have scares me a little
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  bit because even though it's a lot of attorneys from
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  last year, it's guys that punched out a ton, sure,
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  but they allowed a lot of hits, and I think
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  that's kind of gonna regress back to worse results than
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  they got last year. And I think, like, unless those
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  guys have made significant improvements in terms of allowing a
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  batter ball quality that kind of stuff, I think it
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  might not pan out in the same way that we
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  think it's going to and some outlets think it's going to,
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  although I haven't seen them ranked in many other places
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  either besides like one.
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  Speaker 1: Well that you know that's interesting and that it certainly
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  we're not you know, none of us are saying that
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  our rankings are the best. We're just giving you our thoughts, certainly,
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  and comparing them to what the grand scheme of baseball
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  media seems to think as well. But I'm with you, Josh,
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  I think the Oklahoma's in kind of an interesting position
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  where they did lose quite a bit of their upper
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  echelon talent, and now how is what they retain and
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  what they've brought in going to supplement those gaps. It's
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  going to be interesting to see.
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  Speaker 2: Especially, don't get a twisted. Our rankings are the best.
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  I just want them out there. I think that's pretty obvious.
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  Speaker 1: Well I didn't want to say that, but Josh definitely,
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  I don't care. I'll put a second So as you
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  said there, JB will let you bring us home on
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  the followers, and you're going to talk about another ACC team.
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  I'm curious why this team has fallen four spots.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I'm going to get into Georgia Tech. But
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  to say one point on Josh's team as well, with Oklahoma,
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  they've played here in our regional and Easton Carmichael was
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  a huge part of that team. And then losing Carmichael,
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  like Josh said, like that is the star that they
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  needed to really roll through and he carried them through
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  the regional. So him being gone is I think it
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  really hurts them. But so hop off of that and
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  get under Georgia Tech. Now that's whoy I took Georgia
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  Tech I think with the coaching change, it's gonna be difficult.
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  You had a lot of experience there for a long
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  time and now you're going to Ramsey. Ramsey's He's it
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  kind of inconsistent coach. He's a guy gets kind of
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  temperamental at times we've seen in the past and assistant,
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  so it'll be interesting to see him move up to
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  being a head guy. They play a cushier schedule once again,
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  I'll say especially out of conference. In conference as well,
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  they have a hard stretch in there, but they'll get
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  some easier breaks to get going. So like last year,
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  a lot of people didn't think highly of them going
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  in after winning a lot of games in the regular
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  season just because they had a cushier acc schedule, and
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  when they made it to the regionals they kind of
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  just sputtered out and the pitching was a problem. And
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  again this year there hasn't been much really that shows otherwise.
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  They got some big stuff, but really not a lot
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  of performance to go off of that. So the offense
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  is going to have to carry them. And that's really
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  why a lot of people love Georgia Tech. The big names,
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  but you realize that nobody's talking about the pitching staff
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  for a reason. So I think they have to prove
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  the pitching staff is good enough to get them through
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  in order to prove why they should be a top
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  ten team.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see as being the likelihood that they
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  could do that.
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  Speaker 6: I think that they have some of the talent and
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  pieces to do it. I just think we haven't seen
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  Georgia Tech put together a pitching staff of high quality
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  in a few years now. I think they've just really
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  lacked high quality pitching staff for years. And there's been
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  offensive pieces there for a bit, but I think the
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  pitching has kind of been holding him back, and it's
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  always been a lot of high scoring games with them.
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  They go into, if I'm not mistaken, the old Miss
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  Regional last year and they kind of just sput it out.
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  So I just think for them it's going to be interesting.
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  I think they're a playoff team for sure, no doubt,
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  But I think how far they make it is really
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  a big question.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. Well said, and guys, if you're interested in maybe
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  seeing our full list, it is available on the Twitter machine.
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  You can also go to the website and check it out.
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  We have a free article about that that was written
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  by the four of us the twenty twenty six college
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  baseball preseason Top twenty five. We've gotten a lot of
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  great response and a lot of views on that article,
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  and I wanted to say thank you if you have
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  taken time to check that out. It was a fun
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  labor of love and guys, you you worked really hard
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  on it, and I appreciate your hard work on that.
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  It's a fun twenty five. And yeah, you know, since
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  Josh popped the cork on and I'll just go ahead
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  and say I think it might be the best one
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  in the country and maybe not getting all the attention.
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  So in three months when we look really smart and
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  have good teams there and your favorite outlet doesn't, don't
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  say we didn't warn you. Was that too harsh? Was
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  that too harsh?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's valid. We talked about it earlier. I think
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  that like no one goes back and looked at preseason
• 17:32
  rankings at the end of the year. If ours are right,
• 17:34
  we will gladly bring an episode in May and be like, hey,
• 17:38
  when we had A and M at ten and everyone
• 17:40
  else had them low or unranked, Just no, just.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: No, we will yeah, we will do an audit on
• 17:48
  those rankings. Let's call it and we'll put it down
• 17:50
  mid season audit, speaking of things that are happening now
• 17:54
  and hopefully in the season beyond. We had a great
• 17:58
  question in the comments from a YouTube user indriol Kala.
• 18:02
  I want to say thank you so much for the
• 18:04
  well thought out question about Wake and their pitching lab.
• 18:07
  I know JB you said that you addressed u kal
• 18:09
  of theer's question there. Appreciate you doing that, obviously, That's
• 18:13
  something we love. We want to build the community of
• 18:15
  talking about college baseball with you. So if you have questions,
• 18:17
  have comments, drop them in the comments below on YouTube,
• 18:20
  send us a message on the Twitter machine, comment on
• 18:23
  the Prospects Live website. We want to get in touch
• 18:25
  with you, so do it. You've got to play your
• 18:27
  part and get in touch with us. To them, guys,
• 18:30
  it is time for the meet of the episode. I'm
• 18:34
  getting guys, I've getten a little excited. I'm getting a
• 18:36
  little uh, getting the kind of chuckles. I'm feeling like
• 18:39
  I'm pretty hyped for this draft. It's going to be
• 18:41
  a fun and challenging time. As we're getting it loaded up. Josh,
• 18:46
  this was this was kind of your baby. Do you
• 18:49
  care to explain it to the people at home, just
• 18:51
  give them a recap of what I let in at
• 18:54
  the start of the episode.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Sure. So, the premise is we have ten different categories
• 18:59
  player and Pitcher of the year for the four main
• 19:02
  power conferences and mid majors, so SEC Pitcher of the Year,
• 19:07
  SEC Player of the Year, so on and so forth.
• 19:11
  Each of us we'll be able to draft whichever one
• 19:15
  of those categories at any given time that we want.
• 19:18
  So say, for example, someone can draft their SEC Player
• 19:21
  of the Year at the one to one pick. Someone
• 19:23
  could take the Big Ten Picture of the Year at
• 19:24
  the one two whatever. But you have to fill out
• 19:26
  all ten categories by the end. So it kind of
• 19:29
  incorporates you some draft strategy. What do you think everyone
• 19:31
  else is gonna do? Who do you think has a
• 19:33
  higher leg up on the rest of that field compared
• 19:35
  to the rest, who's a safe bet just to win that?
• 19:38
  Like that kind of stuff, And it could get fun
• 19:39
  at the end because we're probably gonna get some at
• 19:42
  the tip. You can probably expect the name that I'm
• 19:43
  gonna assume we're going to go. But when we're at
• 19:45
  pick number thirty seven and someone has the last you know,
• 19:48
  Big Ten Pitcher of the Year on their board left.
• 19:50
  Who knows what kind of name they're gonna pull, So,
• 19:52
  I don't know, should be fun in uh.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I know in football the term garbage time is used.
• 19:58
  I almost love it. Almost. We're gonna get some garbage
• 20:02
  Tom picks. Now. That's not to disparage the picks that
• 20:05
  we have, because guys, these are good players. The Big
• 20:09
  Ten pitcher of the Year is the best in his conference.
• 20:12
  The Mid Major Player of the Year is the best
• 20:14
  of theoretically twenty conferences. It's outstanding players we're talking about.
• 20:19
  I don't think we're going to see a bad player drafted,
• 20:22
  and yet I think we're gonna see some guff given. Nonetheless,
• 20:25
  I think we're gonna have some maybe not so polite,
• 20:27
  brotherly ribbing here, and I'm living for it. I can't
• 20:30
  wait to see where we go with this and with that.
• 20:34
  Earlier today, we had a very intense, very scientific process
• 20:40
  to determine our draft selection order, and that has left
• 20:46
  us with mister Jake Bargerie with the number one overall
• 20:49
  pick in our preseason Awards draft. Jake, I think just
• 20:55
  on behalf of the field, not being yourself, go easy
• 20:59
  on us, and uh, we'll see what happens here as
• 21:02
  you prepare to make your number one pick.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna I am gonna take the the
• 21:06
  obvious one one here. I'm gonna go Rock Schlowski. We're
• 21:10
  gonna get him out of the way early. Big Ten's
• 21:12
  not the deepest conference and really pitchers or hitters. So
• 21:16
  I'm gonna take, uh, you know, the best player in
• 21:18
  the country. He looks like a he looks like a
• 21:21
  professional player playing college baseball.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, right now, the one one is his to lose.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: He's a little aggressive in the box, but he can
• 21:29
  hold his own with that with his exceptional bat to
• 21:32
  ball skills. He hits for he hits for power. He's
• 21:35
  one of the best overall defensive players in the class.
• 21:39
  Not just that shortstop legit arm he brings. He just
• 21:43
  brings value with every aspect of his game. And you know,
• 21:49
  looking ahead a little bit, you know he's gonna enter
• 21:51
  pro ball. It's one of the top prospects in baseball
• 21:54
  day one. He's gonna have a huge year for U c.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: L A.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: So that's why I'm gonna take him first in the draft.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Well that is gonna Yeah. Yeah, I can't say I
• 22:05
  didn't see that one coming. H Josh, that is gonna
• 22:08
  bring us to you. I'm curious. Was that what you
• 22:11
  I mean, that was what you expected? One one? Josh,
• 22:14
  right for sure.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, like I said this earlier, I think I
• 22:17
  think there's a there's a clear one one and then
• 22:21
  I have I mean, I have the one too, and
• 22:22
  I think, in my opinion, I think there's kind of
• 22:25
  a clear one too. I don't know if you'll align
• 22:27
  on this, but regardless, I'm gonna take my mid major
• 22:31
  picture of the year and go with Cam Fluke. There's
• 22:35
  only one other guy that could maybe take this title
• 22:38
  at the end of the year, but I think that's
• 22:40
  probably unlikely. If for being honest, I mean, I've said
• 22:43
  it over and over, so I'll say it again. This
• 22:46
  guy is gonna be the best Friday night guy in
• 22:48
  the country, and Texas and I think East Carolina are
• 22:52
  the only decent teams he's gonna have to face the
• 22:54
  entire regular season two So the odds he finishes the
• 22:58
  year with something like a up to e r A
• 23:01
  is borderline more than likely. I'd say, so. I think
• 23:05
  this is a I think this is an easy pick.
• 23:07
  I feel pretty comfortable actually getting this one in the lot.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Hm surprising. No Logan Hughes there. I thought when he
• 23:14
  said obvious pick, there was going to be Logan Hughes immediately.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: How I'm very I'm very curious to see how he
• 23:20
  goes in this draft because I don't I don't. I'm
• 23:22
  not going to reach for him. But I just want
• 23:23
  to the balls and Yell's court. I'll say that much.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I'm I'm torn here. I knew I really
• 23:32
  wanted Bookie at three, but I should have known. I
• 23:36
  should have known, all right with my pick one three,
• 23:39
  I think I am going to uh, I'm going to
• 23:42
  try to play smart here. I'm gonna play smart. This
• 23:47
  is not flashy, this is strategic. The Big ten pitching
• 23:52
  pool is very thin. This player gives you stability. I'm
• 23:58
  going to u c l A. I want Logan Rediman
• 24:01
  as my Big ten pitcher of the year. He's a
• 24:04
  reliable guy. He's I would say, they're Friday guy without
• 24:07
  a doubt, and I mean I'm open to scrutiny there.
• 24:10
  Command I think that he's gonna benefit from UCLA's track
• 24:14
  record of making pictures amplified versions of themselves and again
• 24:19
  in a in a pool that I would define as
• 24:21
  being a bit thinner. I want to strike quick and
• 24:24
  strike first. And while there are players on the board
• 24:27
  up and down that I'm more excited about, I think
• 24:30
  this is gonna have to be a let's play for
• 24:32
  the graphic and I'm ready to play. JB. We're gonna
• 24:36
  go to you for one four, sir, what are you thinking?
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you know, I like where you went with
• 24:41
  that Drew piggybacking off that.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go kind of a.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Smart man pick here, and I'm gonna go the Big
• 24:49
  Ten player of the year, and I'm gonna take Maddix Maloney.
• 24:52
  That's gonna be my my pick there from Oregon shortstop Maloney.
• 24:56
  We've had a lot of discussions about him, a lot
• 24:58
  of us have debated, but in the Big Ten, I
• 25:00
  think Maloney's right there, especially with Chilawski, is the second
• 25:03
  best draft prospect in that conference. He's plus defend, He's
• 25:07
  got enough bat there that a lot of teams are
• 25:09
  gonna love him. He's got the power, projection in the frame,
• 25:11
  everything you could want, athleticism. So I'm gonna go Madx
• 25:14
  Maloney there, and if I'm not mistaken, I do get
• 25:18
  the snake around pick as well. So with my snak
• 25:22
  your own pick, I'm gonna go to another spot and
• 25:26
  I am going to take the Big Twelve pitch of
• 25:28
  the year, and I'm gonna take Owen Kramkowski as my
• 25:31
  second pick there from you of a. I think Kramkowski
• 25:34
  he's gonna breakout. I know some people are really big
• 25:36
  on him. We're we're kind of in the middle. I
• 25:38
  think he's got a lot of outlier stuff there in
• 25:40
  the Big Twelve is very offensively driven conference, for sure.
• 25:44
  I think that he's one of the better names out
• 25:46
  there on the pitching side, and I think somebody's gonna
• 25:49
  love him in the draft, possibly in the first round.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go Cramkowski.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, I like that pick a lot, and I
• 25:57
  like the man. This draft is gonna piss me off.
• 26:02
  This draft isna. This draft is gonna piss me off
• 26:05
  really bad.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: The Maloney pick is like really strategic. I did not
• 26:09
  expect anyone to get that's sick, full frontal. That's where
• 26:12
  I was gonna go with my next pick. I didn't
• 26:13
  think anyone would snack that next.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Because I'm Josh was waiting for my outlandish pick inbound.
• 26:18
  He thought I was just gonna go off the walls again.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: This draft and Theretowski thing was the most predictable pick
• 26:25
  from you, maybe of all time. I have him, I
• 26:27
  have him last time. I mean big twelve pictures board,
• 26:30
  because I knew I wasn't gonna get him at any point.
• 26:32
  I have him there.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: All right, Okay, I'm starting to okay, I think here,
• 26:44
  m okay, okay, okay, good. I'm gonna stick to my playff.
• 26:49
  I'm gonna stick to my plane. We're gonna get risky,
• 26:51
  all right. I agree with the sentiment that Josh said
• 26:55
  earlier when he referenced that Cam Fluky is the choice
• 27:00
  for mid major Pitcher of the Year. I mean that,
• 27:05
  But I do think that the next best choice is
• 27:09
  one that's gonna look so good on my graphic. It's
• 27:11
  one that I feel if it wasn't gonna be Fluky,
• 27:15
  it's gonna be this guy. It's gonna be Jackson Flora,
• 27:18
  the right hander from UC Santa Barbara. It's proven West
• 27:22
  Coast arm that strikes dudes out. He's got ability, he's consistent,
• 27:29
  he's respected on the national scale. This is about me
• 27:32
  not getting boxed out, boys. This is about me picking
• 27:36
  a guy where I feel good putting him on the graphic.
• 27:39
  Laura's done it against good competition, and he holds draft
• 27:42
  stock and draft weight, and I feel like Big Drew
• 27:45
  is already in the show. I'm already in the kitchen
• 27:48
  cooking you boys. I feel so good about this draft. Now, Josh,
• 27:52
  I'm gonna throw it to you, man, what do you got?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a run on your parade. But I'm
• 27:56
  gonna be real when I said, with my fluky pick,
• 27:58
  I think there's one other guy that could go as
• 28:00
  the mid Major pitcher of the Year was not Flora.
• 28:04
  He's still out there. He's still out there somewhere, so
• 28:06
  we'll see. We'll see he snags him, all right. I
• 28:09
  don't This is a risky pit because I did not
• 28:12
  want to go to this category this early. But I
• 28:15
  feel I want to say, I want to feel safe
• 28:18
  with this one because it's probably the flashiest category with
• 28:21
  the most options. I would say, I'm gonna go ahead
• 28:24
  and take my SEC player of the Year. I'm gonna
• 28:27
  take Derrek Curryel from LSU. Now after seeing what he
• 28:31
  did as a freshman, it's hard to imagine that he
• 28:35
  wouldn't improve upon that as a sophomore. I mean, he
• 28:37
  batted three forty five with fifty five rbi and a
• 28:41
  nine to ninety ops as a freshman. Let me repeat
• 28:44
  that for the third time as a freshman. That's nuts.
• 28:48
  I mean, he's also moving from leftfield to center, and
• 28:50
  there's been plenty of noise from the fall about how
• 28:52
  his power is taking a step up too. So if
• 28:55
  he played that way in his first year of college
• 28:57
  ball in the SEC, then I'd find it hard to
• 28:59
  believe that he won't be putting up nearly the best
• 29:02
  numbers in the conference for the second year in a row.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: I thought it was gonna be a copin the.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Farm, he's something you're gonna know truth, or in the draft.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Something there's gonna be a pick. There's gonna be a
• 29:20
  pick later on that I might make that it's gonna
• 29:22
  be along these same lines. I have to keep myself.
• 29:24
  I have to remind myself this is not like a
• 29:27
  future how I feel about the player draft. It's like
• 29:29
  college production for the twenty twenty sixth season. And that's
• 29:32
  what I have to keep in mind, and I think
• 29:33
  Courrio there's a good shot he's better at that than
• 29:36
  Akopian is, but that's just my opinion. Coopy is number
• 29:38
  two on my board though for that category.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm with JB. I would have bet the
• 29:45
  farm it was gonna be when it came to that.
• 29:48
  But alas we cannot dilly dellly and uh, and we
• 29:51
  can't stay on you all this time, Jake. We're going
• 29:55
  to you for two in a row. And I do
• 29:57
  just want to point out, Jake, we've let you slide
• 29:59
  for taking Rock here. I think we need to be
• 30:02
  giving you more guff for maybe making the boring pick.
• 30:05
  This is all just, this is all ballogney. But that
• 30:07
  was the obvious pick. I'm just trying to find anything
• 30:09
  to nitpick at you for because I'm jealous. I'm jealous, Jake,
• 30:14
  you got two picks, go ahead and make the first one.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: I do have two picks, and yeah, I don't. I
• 30:21
  don't think there was anybody else other than Rock together.
• 30:24
  I've tried to make it, to think of something that
• 30:26
  could make it a little bit more fun, but it
• 30:27
  just I couldn't let him not come to my team
• 30:31
  and go to one of you guys if I had
• 30:32
  the first pick. But I am going to go with
• 30:36
  my sec pitcher this time with Liam Peterson from Florida.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: He's arguably the best you know arm in the in
• 30:44
  the draft.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Depending on how you feel about Cam Fluki and Jackson Florida,
• 30:48
  There's there's an argument to be made for Liam Peterson
• 30:51
  for sure, fastball up to up to ninety nine. He's
• 30:56
  got a plus slider, maybe plus change up and a
• 30:58
  curveball that some sever we're gonna see a lot of
• 31:01
  this year.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I think he's been working on it quite a bit
• 31:03
  in the fall.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: I do want to see him throw more strikes overall,
• 31:09
  but the stuff is just undeniable and he's gonna be
• 31:12
  the headliner of this Florida rotation that is loaded from
• 31:15
  top to bottom.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I think so. I like that pick a lot.
• 31:21
  I am bubbling inside with rage, So I'll ask you
• 31:26
  know politely, that you make your third round selection before
• 31:29
  this rage explodes.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: We've we talked about how then the the big ten
• 31:38
  pitcher market is right now for so I'm gonna take
• 31:41
  my You got my favorite one in Rediman, I'm gonna
• 31:43
  take my second favorite one, also on the u c
• 31:46
  l A staff with Michael Barnett. It's a lot of
• 31:49
  experience from Barnett. He's he's got a he's got a
• 31:53
  legit four pitch mix fastback to ninety two. Not gonna
• 31:57
  blow you really away with that, but the secondaries are
• 32:00
  are legit slider, curveball, change up. He can throw them
• 32:03
  all for strikes. He can go deep into games. He
• 32:07
  does a good job at uh, you know, just throwing
• 32:09
  strikes and working out of trouble if guys do get
• 32:11
  on base.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: He's really so.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: To start over with him, we decided that I get
• 32:19
  Rock Schelawski now right, and Ja gets Michael Barnett, and
• 32:23
  Drew gets Liam Peters.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: How do I get Michael Josh is gonna screw me
• 32:27
  over again? Of course that's who I get out of three.
• 32:30
  He's not board and that's the guy that I get.
• 32:32
  Of course Josh would do that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Well, Josh, So, Jake, we did get the majority of
• 32:38
  your point about Barnett. How you feel like he's going
• 32:41
  to be solid for U c l A. And how
• 32:43
  you think that that's I mean it, guys, was there
• 32:45
  a thinner market than Big ten Picture let's just go
• 32:47
  ahead and a dress that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: No, no, not at all.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: So I think Jake, it's smart of you to go
• 32:53
  ahead and and secure that there. Josh will go to
• 32:56
  you for pick three to two.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: So honest, I don't know how this guy has fallen
• 33:02
  to me this far. I don't know how we haven't
• 33:03
  taken any of the top what i'd say two guys
• 33:05
  in this category. I'm gonna take my ACC Player of
• 33:08
  the Year. I'm gonna take Drew Burrows off the board.
• 33:12
  I mean, this seems like the undisputed best guy in
• 33:15
  the ACC to me, so it's an easy pick here.
• 33:19
  I mean, Burris has had just a ridiculous college career
• 33:22
  from a results standpoint. He had a eleven sixty two
• 33:26
  OPS last year with nineteen bombs and a thirteen thirty
• 33:30
  three OPS his freshman year with twenty five bombs. And
• 33:34
  all this pop is coming from a little five to
• 33:36
  nine guy too. So I feel like people have talked
• 33:40
  plenty about Burris, and tech fans absolutely love him for
• 33:43
  a reason. I mean, he genuinely has the opportunity to
• 33:47
  be an all time college baseball great if he puts
• 33:50
  up numbers like that for the third season in a row.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I think there's a pretty good likelihood he'll do it as.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Well, right, I'd say so. I it's one of those
• 34:00
  situations where it's another loaded category. So that's probably why
• 34:03
  no one's taken anything. Same with the SEC which I
• 34:06
  already took one, but like, I don't know, like Drew
• 34:08
  Burres I saw. I think it was d One had
• 34:11
  their like quarter century teams or whatever that were posted earlier,
• 34:14
  like a couple months ago, and they had Drew Burros
• 34:16
  on there. And he's active and he's only still played
• 34:18
  two seasons, which, like I'm not gonna be the one
• 34:20
  to tell you whether that's accurate or not, but the
• 34:23
  fact that it's even in consideration just goes to show.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Like what emphasizes that he's among It emphasizes that he's
• 34:29
  among the greats of the last.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Twenty five years, right right exactly.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: So I think that that's a valid pick. Guys three
• 34:36
  to three coming up for Drew. And again I said
• 34:38
  it a minute ago. I felt like I was cooking,
• 34:40
  But you guys have really dinged the board up over
• 34:44
  this last this last elbow, So I think I need
• 34:48
  to look. I'm gonna I'm gonna stick so I'm sticking
• 34:51
  to the plane. I'm sticking to the plane here. I'm
• 34:54
  aiming for the graphic at the end of this dance.
• 34:57
  We're gonna go to Big twelve pitcher. This is in
• 35:03
  my opinion, my opinion. I'm gonna say this is one
• 35:06
  of the few Big twelve arms that's a true separator
• 35:10
  in this category, and I didn't want to be forced
• 35:13
  to chase later when I could have the name I want. Here,
• 35:16
  We're gonna go Tommy Laport, right hander TCU. It's a
• 35:19
  power arm, pro starter traits there, high strikeout upside, He's
• 35:25
  got some funk. It's a competitive conference, but I think
• 35:28
  that there's, like I said, enough separation for Lapour that
• 35:32
  he can be truly dominant and really make a name
• 35:35
  for himself in the twenty twenty sixth class. I'm thrilled
• 35:38
  to get him as my Big twelve pitcher of the year,
• 35:42
  and that's gonna bring us to JB for the final
• 35:46
  pick of round three.
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: What are you thinking here, James, Yeah, Well, I've kind
• 35:51
  of bounced around the board a bit and I guess
• 35:54
  now I'm kind of looking at my board and I
• 35:56
  have a few names that I get tossed around. So
• 35:58
  I'm gonna go with the first one. I'm gonna go
• 36:00
  with my SEC play the Year, and I'm gonna.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Take Ace Reese.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: Ace Reees last year, he kinda he went nuclear. If
• 36:07
  we're being honest, that Mississippi State over eleven hundred os
• 36:10
  twenty one homers.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: The dude just flat out hits.
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: He knows how to rake, and like Josh is talking about,
• 36:15
  he went from Houston his first year, transferred over to
• 36:18
  Mississippi State and went in sane in the SEC last year.
• 36:22
  So I'm gonna go with Ace Reese and Uh, I
• 36:26
  think that's that's my SEC Player of the Year. And
• 36:28
  then I'm gonna move on to my next pick, which, gosh,
• 36:34
  just this this is all tough to go through.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Here, I'm gonna go with uh.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: You know, I'll go a little bit in a different spot,
• 36:42
  and I know we've kind of hyped him up here,
• 36:44
  and I'm gonna go in the a CC.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Route here.
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go with Eric Becker as my ACC
• 36:52
  Player of the Year. I Becker, you know, he's the
• 36:55
  guy that we've talked about a lot, and we've hiped
• 36:57
  him up a ton. The bad ball data is there.
• 37:00
  The dude just can just flat out hit. If he
• 37:03
  can show he can play shortstop at a high level
• 37:06
  this season, makes some defensive improvements, Becker's gonna be a guy,
• 37:09
  and I see.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Drew growing in over there. I knew Drew and Drew.
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: Loves him, but uh, I'm gonna have to go with
• 37:15
  Reese and Eric Becker for me this round.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: That was the most obvious Drew pick of all time.
• 37:19
  You talked about, we talked about taking each other's picks.
• 37:21
  You just swooped one right off.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: I had to do it.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I hate, I hate what just happened so bad, but
• 37:32
  I knew there was no chance. I knew there was
• 37:35
  no chance I was gonna get Rock. I'm picking third.
• 37:37
  There's no chance if Jake, if Jake decided he wanted
• 37:40
  to just big balls this pick and go off the
• 37:43
  beaten path. I knew Josh was gonna just instantly hammer SLASKI.
• 37:47
  I knew there was no chance, but I love, I
• 37:51
  love the thought that I could get Becker at like
• 37:53
  the fourth or fifth round, and JB you have quashed that,
• 37:56
  so I am.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: There is a real debate between him and Gross, you know,
• 38:00
  but I went with I had to go with the
• 38:02
  heart the guy that I've really been.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Man, what a what a pick? I love Eric Becker
• 38:08
  except velocities are there too. He's not just a hitter.
• 38:10
  He for power anyway. Okay, all right, Uh at this point, guys,
• 38:16
  I think I think I've got to just stick to
• 38:18
  the plan. I'm gonna quote Keith Mail from Survivor, stick
• 38:22
  to the Plan, Drew, stick to the plan. All right? Uh,
• 38:28
  all right, here we go. I'm gonna go to the
• 38:31
  mid major player, mid major bats. I'm gonna pop that
• 38:35
  category for all of us. And I'm gonna take a
• 38:40
  big daddy outfielder Cayden Bogan Poll from Missouri State six
• 38:45
  six to forty, built like a truck. Uh. This is
• 38:49
  a guy that when I look at this pool, there
• 38:51
  are dudes that I like almost as much as him,
• 38:54
  and I don't want to spoil any names, because I
• 38:55
  really I think we're gonna be in on at least
• 38:58
  two of them. I think you guys are gonna plug
• 39:00
  maybe two of these guys from my list, maybe the
• 39:02
  third one or the fourth one. Excuse me, but Boganpole
• 39:05
  is the one that I think has the most outward appeal.
• 39:09
  This is a guy that's got raw of about seventy
• 39:11
  I mean ninetieth percent. Alex've lost. He's over one to
• 39:14
  ten max of one to fourteen guys. He's got some speed.
• 39:19
  There are some issues here. I do like to attribute
• 39:22
  him to one of my favorite players in the minor league,
• 39:24
  Spencer Jones. I think that that's a really realistic you
• 39:28
  get the ten thousand foot view from that. I'll leave
• 39:31
  it at that. I think if we're looking at mid
• 39:33
  major batters, this is maybe the best shot that we
• 39:35
  have at getting an indisputable pick for that selection. So
• 39:40
  I like it. I'm gonna go with Vogenpole there, and
• 39:41
  that's gonna take us to Josh at four to three.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I can't make up my mind here. I'm between I
• 39:47
  think there's two different guys that I want to my
• 39:49
  next two picks, and I all right, I'm gonna tape
• 39:53
  a guy strategy here. I'm gonna tape guy that I
• 39:55
  think Jake would be more likely to take of the
• 39:58
  two next and I am going to take I'll be
• 40:02
  the first guy to take an ACC Pitcher of the Year,
• 40:04
  and I'm gonna take Aiden Knnock. I don't know if
• 40:08
  it was on his board or not, but I think
• 40:10
  he's more lucky than my other guy. I feel like
• 40:13
  i've I've, in a sense, led to charge on the
• 40:15
  Aiden Cannock train, and I'm absolutely fine with having that reputation.
• 40:19
  If it's true. He's going to be the leader of
• 40:22
  what I consider to be kind of an underwhelming Clemson
• 40:26
  pitching staff compared to usual. But I could easily be
• 40:28
  proven wrong there. His counting sets actually regressed a little
• 40:33
  last year from his freshman year, but he still managed
• 40:36
  to post a four eighteen ERA with one hundred and
• 40:38
  ten strikeouts to only twenty nine walks. I've harped on
• 40:42
  his change up enough so I won't do it again.
• 40:44
  But Kannock is going to be a strike thrower who
• 40:47
  should get out to the high level in this conference
• 40:50
  this year, so I expect him to be right in
• 40:52
  the mix for a SEC Pitcher of the Year.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Shoutout will Dodge right there?
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: In fact, I always shout out, oill Dodge? Can we
• 40:57
  get a dodge on every pod?
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I think I think it might happen, whether we like
• 41:02
  it or not. He's he gets shouted out quite a bit,
• 41:05
  doesn't he. I like that pick Knock is a good
• 41:08
  one and you certainly have led the bandwagon on him.
• 41:11
  I like it, Jake. That's gonna bring us to you
• 41:13
  for a back to back double dip Buddy four four
• 41:18
  and five to one. I'm curious, what are you thinking
• 41:20
  with your fourth round selection?
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: So, Josh, you you were right about.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: About Aiden Cannock being potentially my next pick, but you
• 41:32
  did make it easier because I was between him and
• 41:34
  him and another guy. And I'm gonna go ahead to
• 41:35
  pay Ethan Norby uh from from ECU as my mid
• 41:39
  major pitcher of the year. He's got, you know, he's
• 41:43
  got all American upside. He's a he's a he's a
• 41:45
  strike thrower, fastball up to up to ninety five, big
• 41:49
  sweeping slider, uh, change up with good shape.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Uh. He's got above average.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: You know, command and control, and he's the leader of
• 41:57
  this ECU staff and I think he's got to put
• 41:59
  up huge numbers once again for them.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. I like that pick. I like that pick.
• 42:06
  And there's a mid major pitcher being the first one
• 42:09
  to three selections. Not what I was thinking, but I like.
• 42:12
  I like what we're doing.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: My other guy still hasn't gone yet, so I like,
• 42:18
  I feel like I don't know if JV's gonna take
• 42:20
  him or not, but you've seen this guy in a
• 42:22
  lot of different places and preseason stuff like the one
• 42:24
  in my mind. But we'll see if we get there
• 42:27
  or not.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, Jake, well before we do, Jake Herrett five to one,
• 42:32
  I gotta know what are you thinking here?
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: Man, I'm gonna go to the SEC. I'm gonna get
• 42:41
  my SEC player of the year. It's it's I was
• 42:43
  between two guys here again, but I'm not gonna go
• 42:46
  with Hycopian. I'm gonna go with Justin Lebron from Alabama.
• 42:52
  He became one Obama's top hitters as a freshman, and
• 42:55
  now he's a He's a junior veteran in this lineup,
• 42:59
  and he's gonna lead it again. On the defensive side,
• 43:04
  he's a He's an elite, elite defender with a plus
• 43:07
  arm at shortstop. He's got huge upside as a hitter,
• 43:10
  especially if he can cut back on a little bit
• 43:12
  of the swinging miss, which is a real concern from
• 43:14
  a from a draft press prospect aspect of things. Uh.
• 43:18
  But nonetheless, the power is legit and the production has
• 43:23
  been there the last two years, and it should be there.
• 43:25
  Uh once again, he's a double he's a double plus
• 43:28
  runner and some uh just for some people and depending
• 43:33
  dependent on the strikeout concerns. If he can cut down
• 43:35
  on that just a little bit, he has a chance
• 43:36
  to be, you know, the most productive and most exciting
• 43:39
  player in the.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: SEC this year.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Like it, I mean, there's a chance you sold it.
• 43:45
  You made it sound so so good, chick. I kind
• 43:48
  of liked that. H Josh to you man for your
• 43:51
  fifth round pick. You have You've completed your acc Josh.
• 43:56
  I I didn't expect that out of you, but you've
• 43:58
  completed an acc. Where are you going now?
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. I mean, you'll let him fall
• 44:03
  into my laugh, I'm gonna do it. Logan Hughes Big
• 44:06
  twelve Player of the Year. I didn't think he'd fall.
• 44:08
  I didn't think you won't let him fall to the
• 44:09
  fifth round for me. But I'll take it. And I
• 44:11
  mean he's the first guy off the board in that category.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Two.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: I know there's other like you know, well established college guys,
• 44:18
  but I'm not going to expand on this pick. If
• 44:21
  you want to hear me yap about Logan Hughes, go
• 44:24
  listen to literally any other podcast. We've recorded this entire offseason.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: You may yeap just a moment if you'd like.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. I've made my point very clear.
• 44:34
  This is me, our other stuff. You listen to our
• 44:38
  other stuff. I go on, I go on to Logan
• 44:41
  Hughes Rampage. At least want a pod. So Merry Christmas.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Company man, Josh Catlett. All Right, Drew is up at
• 44:49
  five to three. Drew is always a six to three. Guys,
• 44:55
  Drew is taller than five three. That's all right though.
• 44:57
  All Right, I've waited long enough time to time to
• 45:01
  hit the hit the stamp. We're going to a CC
• 45:03
  Player of the Year, and I'm gonna take a j Garssia. Uh.
• 45:08
  I don't I don't really know that I should say
• 45:11
  much here. Toolsy uh strong on base projection still to come.
• 45:17
  Scouts love him, I love him. Uh a modern offensive
• 45:22
  outfielder profile. I would I draw some question marks on
• 45:28
  the defense, but I mean again, the bat is what's
• 45:31
  gonna sell this guy long term. He's athletic, he's patient,
• 45:35
  he makes impact at the top of the order, and
• 45:38
  he's my a c C Player of the Year baby,
• 45:41
  and I feel real good about it. So that's gonna
• 45:44
  take us to JB at five to four.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, So for me, I'm gonna to run down to
• 45:51
  the SEC and take my pitch of the Year, and
• 45:53
  I'm gonna take Gabe Gackle from Arkansas. Me and Josh
• 45:57
  have have really driven a train on Gackle a lot
• 46:00
  this year to talk about how much we love him
• 46:02
  and saw the USA. The guy moves really well, the
• 46:05
  fastball carries, gets on hitters, comes through the zone really well.
• 46:09
  And the slider is also really it's a hard, deep
• 46:13
  slider that he throws. That's just it's a great pitch
• 46:16
  for swing a miss. And I think Gockle's really going
• 46:18
  to move back into the rotation. Well, so I'm gonna
• 46:21
  say Gackle for my SEC and then I think I'm
• 46:25
  gonna decide to go at my Big Twelve Player of
• 46:30
  the Year actually here and another guy I've kind of
• 46:32
  been high on, at least within our circles. I don't
• 46:34
  know if I've talked about a lot in the pod,
• 46:35
  but Chase Brunson as my Big Twelve Player of the Year.
• 46:38
  Compare him to why at Langford kind of is a
• 46:41
  little comparison I've given a few times. I just think
• 46:45
  the swing's really similar a good athlete. Guy's got a
• 46:47
  lot of pop in the bat, and I think he's
• 46:48
  a guy that's really underrated due to Sris Strass and
• 46:51
  I are getting a lot of hype ahead of him.
• 46:52
  But I think Brunson's really a fine player. A lot
• 46:55
  of teams are gonna love in the draft this year.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Definitely, I definitely like that pick as well. He's I mean,
• 47:02
  that's a direct hit to my board. I am suffering.
• 47:06
  That's fine. I'm gonna take a second and try to
• 47:10
  make my best possible decision.
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: Who would have thought, by the way, not to interject,
• 47:14
  that Josh would have the first completed ACC and I'd
• 47:17
  have the first completed SEC going on right, or I'd
• 47:19
  have a completed SEC is our first conference.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: So's the closest version of us taking each other's picks
• 47:24
  that I expected, although granted I can say this now
• 47:27
  in hindsight that like both my AEC guys are gone,
• 47:30
  I don't have a single Carolina guy in either of
• 47:32
  my top four for those, so I wasn't gonna steal
• 47:34
  one of those for you. But like at ACC guy,
• 47:37
  you heard it here.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: First there you Goosh.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, Josh is turning over a new leaf, and
• 47:44
  it's a leaf that I like. Okay, I'm I'm stuck here, guys,
• 47:49
  stuck between a couple that I I. Okay, I'll catch
• 47:54
  this train before it runs away too quickly, and I
• 47:56
  will take I think I'm gonna take. Okay, I'm gonna go.
• 48:03
  I'm gonna go to the Big twelve as well, and
• 48:05
  I'll take I'll take Brady Bollinger, first basement out of Kansas.
• 48:12
  Let me choose my words carefully. He's very good. He
• 48:17
  is a great hitter with all kinds of power. I
• 48:20
  think that I think that in general, people are underrating him,
• 48:27
  but I think that we might be getting ahead of
• 48:29
  our skis in certain circles. Big power, huge exit velocity,
• 48:37
  strong plate discipline. This is this is safely, safely a
• 48:43
  Big twelve player that I really like just as much
• 48:46
  as the other Big twelve player that I think I
• 48:49
  might have gift wrapped for Jake at this point. And
• 48:52
  I think we all know where I'm getting at here.
• 48:53
  But I'm just as excited about Ballinger's long term outlook
• 48:58
  as I am for that gentleman. But That's where I'm
• 49:00
  gonna go. At six' two and that's gonna bring us
• 49:03
  To josh at pick six to.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Three i'm in a really difficult spot for a draft
• 49:08
  strategy here BECAUSE i think all of my top guys
• 49:11
  that are left to go on my, BOARDS i really
• 49:13
  don't know if they're gonna be taken. Soon But i'm
• 49:16
  gonna take a guy THAT i want to make sure
• 49:18
  is on my. BOARD i don't know If i've been
• 49:20
  super vocal on the pod by that, enough but with
• 49:23
  thein draft, CIRCLES i have been leading the, car The
• 49:26
  Cole Carlan, charge and a lot of PLACES i feel
• 49:29
  like So i'm gonna take him as my big twelve
• 49:31
  pitcher of the. Year i'm super high on him and
• 49:34
  praying his stuff translates to a starter. Role he let
• 49:38
  all OF d one and With ray last, year which
• 49:40
  is a STAT i keep trying to tell people because
• 49:42
  it's how DO i put, This it's the most effective
• 49:45
  way to get across to people That, hey this guy
• 49:49
  is really. LEGIT i, mean the pitches in his arsenal
• 49:52
  just played super well off each, other especially the cutter
• 49:56
  he uses as a bridge between his breaking. BALLS i
• 49:59
  mean a three three three era with eighty six strikeouts
• 50:02
  and fifty two. Innings i'll happily bank on that working
• 50:06
  for another.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Year the with rates status when you need, To i'm
• 50:10
  gonna challenge you to reference that in the next three
• 50:12
  pots as.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Well with rate as like the main reliever on a good.
• 50:18
  Team like that's. Across it needs to be, stated, LIKE
• 50:21
  i don't know how well it's going to translate to
• 50:23
  a starter. RULE i think he projectswall as a starter.
• 50:25
  Personally others. Don't it's. Whatever i'm gonna hope it at
• 50:29
  least maintains a little. BIT i, mean you can't maintain
• 50:31
  forty one, percent but like high, twenties low, thirties that's
• 50:34
  beyond good enough in The big.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Twelve put this on a poster. BOARD i think it'll
• 50:39
  work as a. Starter others. Don't it's, whatever facts hard facts.
• 50:43
  Don't i'll argue with the brick Wall. Jake that's going
• 50:45
  to bring us to you for the last pick and round. Six.
• 50:48
  Uh what are you thinking, here, man because you've got
• 50:51
  Some uh you've got two conferences untouched as of, now
• 50:55
  BUT i guess in a lot of regards you kind
• 50:57
  of got your pick of those conferences.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: Too what are you? Thinking, YEAH i am Gonna i'm
• 51:05
  gonna uh start working on THE. Acc.
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: Here i'm gonna go with MY Acc pitcher of The.
• 51:10
  Year i'm gonna Take Ryan, moron lieutended pitcher IN C.
• 51:14
  State he's made some mechanical improvements coming off of last.
• 51:21
  Year he's been a two year starter at N C
• 51:23
  state and probably gonna be The friday guy again for
• 51:26
  them this. Year he's a very safe pitching. Prospect it's
• 51:29
  a low nineties fastball up to ninety, four big sweeping,
• 51:32
  slader twelve six curve ball in a solid change up
• 51:35
  that gets a lot of chasing. With LIKE i, said
• 51:39
  he's got experience pitching FOR Nc. State he's one of
• 51:42
  the probably one of the more experienced pitchers in THE
• 51:44
  acc this, year especially as a. Starter and the sky's
• 51:48
  the limit for in THE acc For moron this, YEAR
• 51:50
  i think he's gonna have a big.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Year like, that pick a. Lot that's a good. One
• 51:56
  you've got another one to make here at seven round,
• 51:58
  seven your first pick of the. Round what are you thinking?
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: There i'm gonna all, Right i'm gonna go to the big.
• 52:09
  Twelve i'm gonna finish off my pictures and it might
• 52:13
  be a guy that probably wasn't on any of your guys's.
• 52:17
  BOARD i was kind of wanting to wait for this,
• 52:19
  one BUT i want to go ahead and get it
• 52:20
  out of the way Because i'm excited to talk about.
• 52:22
  Him it's it's A coulter, mcineally right handed picture From.
• 52:26
  Utah he's the ace of This utah staff and he's
• 52:32
  due for a, breakout AND i think he's doing for some.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Attention he's got a really athletic.
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: Delivery it's a low nineties fastball about ninety, four not
• 52:40
  really gonna blow you away with. That he's got three
• 52:43
  legit secondary, slider, curveball change.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: UP i like. Him it's it's a really interesting. Delivery
• 52:50
  it's super.
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: Deceptive he kind of throws kind of from his ear
• 52:53
  a little. Bit it's just he hides the ball really.
• 52:56
  Well you look at his, numbers it was as he's
• 53:00
  in the last two years For, Utah he's pitched one
• 53:03
  hundred and forty three innings for.
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: Them he's made twenty four.
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: Starts last, year he pitched to a three seven NINE,
• 53:09
  era had ninety two strikeouts in ninety two, innings holds
• 53:14
  batters to to an average of below two. FORTY i
• 53:21
  just think he's a Dark corse contender for this, award
• 53:23
  and if he, can you, know he's gonna be the
• 53:25
  leader For utah. Again AND i think he's again a big.
• 53:29
  SLEEPER i think he's gonna have a big.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: YEAR i think all of us probably had in our.
• 53:35
  Heads AND i don't want to speak for, YOU jb Or.
• 53:37
  JOSH i Knew jake was gonna take some deep, swings
• 53:40
  but are we are literally jousting with the guy that's
• 53:43
  doing the deepest college baseball coverage in the country that right.
• 53:46
  Now so the fact that he just Pulled colter mcinellly
• 53:50
  in the seventh, round where this is where you know
• 53:54
  you're boxing with an, elite that's All i'm gonna, Say,
• 53:57
  Josh we're gonna go to you for. Seven what do
• 54:00
  you have in mind for the?
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Record THIS i can officially say now this means That
• 54:04
  Smith bailey goes, undrafted WHICH i did not see. Coming
• 54:07
  BUT i. Digress, yeah he was he was WHO i was.
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: Between Really, okay that makes.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: SENSE i Guess i'm a spot now BECAUSE i feel
• 54:19
  like this is. Difficult all, Right i'm gonna go with
• 54:25
  the name That i'm gonna assume was on most of y'all's,
• 54:27
  boards BUT i don't really. Know i'm gonna take my
• 54:30
  First Big ten. Guy i'm gonna Go Big Ten player
• 54:32
  of The, year And i'm gonna take a guy THAT
• 54:35
  jb will be seeing in person here in about three.
• 54:38
  Weeks i'm gonna Take Jake hanley From. Indiana. Uh for the,
• 54:43
  Record i'm just putting it on. RECORD i don't really
• 54:47
  see a world Where rock Or maloney don't Win Big
• 54:50
  Ten player of The, year but if they get like
• 54:52
  injured or, something Then i'll take my chances.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: UH a little spoiler alert for WHEN i post all
• 54:59
  my preseason team On, TWITTER i actually Have hanley as
• 55:02
  the first basement over a guy That i'm gonna assume
• 55:07
  is going to be drafted later we'll, see BECAUSE i
• 55:10
  think there's a chance that that other guy just gets
• 55:13
  buried in a stacked. Lineup hanley's just a big bodied
• 55:17
  guy with good pop and a solid approach of the,
• 55:20
  plate So i'd imagine That i'll translate to the counting
• 55:23
  stats for the second year in a. ROW i, Mean
• 55:25
  hanley had a ops over one thousand with fourteen home
• 55:29
  runs his freshman, year and he's clearly the star of that.
• 55:33
  Team so if the ball Rolls indiana's way this year
• 55:36
  and they have a better season than, expected to Think
• 55:39
  handley gets all conference. Honors like, this isn't that? Crazy
• 55:45
  like that?
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Bold AND i like that you said it's gonna take
• 55:49
  an injury in.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: My, well this should be so real, HERE i, really
• 55:53
  how does it? Not? Like, really how does it?
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Not, yeah that's that's. Fair that's that's.
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: FAIR i didn't have on my board fun Fact josh
• 56:02
  by the, way BECAUSE i did my homework and he
• 56:05
  was on my board actually to be taken IF i
• 56:07
  didn't get my first, three which my third guy actually
• 56:10
  hasn't been.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: Taken fun?
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Fact is he the Guy i'm? Referencing, no not really same,
• 56:16
  team that same team THAT i.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: THINK jb AND i are talking about the same. Guy, Maybe, okay.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Not.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Yet i'm gonna go a different route seven to. Three
• 56:27
  i'm going to play in THE sec pitching, pool very,
• 56:31
  DEEP i would, say, HONESTLY i think that's the deepest
• 56:34
  pool of, all at least for, me BECAUSE i KEPT
• 56:36
  i kept it to. FOUR i took my top four that,
• 56:38
  WAY i would get one of those no matter what
• 56:41
  on my. Board But i'm going to go to, pitchers
• 56:44
  and ironically, enough this is my second BEST sec. Pitcher
• 56:50
  no disrespect to Gave, gackle no disrespect to some other.
• 56:54
  GUYS i Want Dylan, valantis left handed pitcher From, texas
• 56:58
  AND i want him. BAD i think this might Be
• 57:02
  this might be my favorite college baseball player in the.
• 57:05
  Country If i'm being totally honest with, you, GUYS i
• 57:08
  don't talk About valantis. Enough it's a dominant left handed
• 57:11
  arm with all kinds of. Leverage he misses, bats He's
• 57:15
  he's shown up in postseason and tournament. Play left handed
• 57:21
  impact arms Like, valantis with the stuff that he, has
• 57:24
  with the projectability that he, has they don't last in.
• 57:28
  Anything they don't last in, recruiting they don't last in,
• 57:32
  drafts and they're not gonna last any.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: Longer in this.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Draft he's been trusted in big moments by the Long.
• 57:38
  Horns the traits back it all. UP i Want, valantis
• 57:41
  AND i feel real good about that, pick, GUYS. Jb
• 57:44
  that'll go to you first round, seven pick, four rounding
• 57:48
  out the seventh.
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: Round, YEAH i must SAY i didn't necessarily see that one,
• 57:55
  coming BUT i.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: DON'T i.
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: DON'T i don't hate that. PICK i will Say.
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with THE acc pitcher of The, Year
• 58:03
  and shockingly To, josh he said THAT i would go
• 58:06
  A carolina, guy BUT i am. Not, ACTUALLY i, know
• 58:09
  it's a big shocker That i'm.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: Not i'm going To.
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: I'm staying in the. State it's gonna Be blake Morning
• 58:15
  star From Wake forest Morning. Star when we play him last,
• 58:18
  year it's just everything is off the. Charts plus i,
• 58:20
  mean all the stuff he's, got it's. THERE i think
• 58:23
  he can compete with anybody on any given. Day it's
• 58:26
  just kind of what's he got going on behind. Him the. Offense,
• 58:29
  also the command can be kind of spotty at, times
• 58:31
  but he really straightened out towards the end of the.
• 58:33
  Year so for, Me i'm gonna Go blake Morning star
• 58:36
  as MY Acc pitcher of The. Year now that takes
• 58:39
  me into kind of an interesting gray. Area i'm going
• 58:45
  to probably take my big ten pitcher of The, year
• 58:50
  And i'm gonna take a swing. HERE i don't know
• 58:51
  if anybody else had, him But i've seen some reports
• 58:54
  and some different, stuff and he's kind of been trending
• 58:57
  up and he's an interesting.
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: School So i'm gonna go take carry Of.
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: Michigan Take. Carry he's kind of tacked up with the.
• 59:03
  Velocity he's done a good job At michigan leading the.
• 59:06
  Rotation he'll probably do it again this. Year he's been
• 59:08
  one of the bigger arms, there and he's been a
• 59:11
  guy that metrically.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: Necessarily with the.
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: Fastball lease hasn't been, crazy but it gets a high
• 59:16
  ground ball rate and the off speed stuff has been
• 59:18
  really really.
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: Good so Take carry for me will round out the big.
• 59:21
  Speaker 6: TEN.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: Jb wasn't your plan to save mid majors for your
• 59:27
  final two picks or did it just work out that?
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: Way it honestly just worked out like that you guys.
• 59:31
  TOOK i was going to go. Earlier but Then JAKE i,
• 59:34
  believe Took.
• 59:35
  Speaker 6: Norby so THAT i thought he was gonna pivot to
• 59:38
  A acc guy another one when he said pivot BECAUSE
• 59:41
  i know he loves a CERTAIN acc guy THAT i won't,
• 59:43
  name SO i thought that's where he was going with,
• 59:45
  It and Then norby was gonna be my next. One
• 59:47
  BUT i am left with my pick now since all
• 59:50
  you guys took, him so thank you very. MUCH i
• 59:52
  CAN i can wait it out till my last selection
• 59:54
  for my mid major pitcher and you, know go with
• 59:57
  the rest of my.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Board and, okay, well all, right this puts me in
• 1:00:05
  a weird position BECAUSE i KNEW i was gonna take
• 1:00:07
  AN acc pitcher right here kind of. Regardless never DID
• 1:00:11
  i expect to have my pick of my two favorites
• 1:00:15
  on my board. Though all, right, well we're gonna do it.
• 1:00:19
  Regardless AND i feel weird talking about him to the
• 1:00:22
  guy that the guy that wrote the, report the guy
• 1:00:25
  that's told me so. Much but give Me Jason DeCaro
• 1:00:28
  as MY acc pitcher of the. YEAR i feel really
• 1:00:31
  good about. It AND, Jb i'll plug your fabulous. Work
• 1:00:34
  your scouting report says it. All this is a guy
• 1:00:37
  who was a Freshman All. American he's been a weekend.
• 1:00:40
  STARTER a really grossly shaped fastball with a ton a
• 1:00:47
  ton of chase a. Ton it gets it for strikes
• 1:00:49
  all the, time lots of vertical, brain lots of break in.
• 1:00:52
  General it's just it's a really wicked, pitch a couple
• 1:00:55
  of good breaking. BALLS i really think that To caro
• 1:00:59
  is in a position and to establish himself among a
• 1:01:03
  very talented conference of arms and lift himself elevate himself
• 1:01:07
  to an even higher draft. Stock we have him at
• 1:01:12
  twenty one of college, players WHICH i think is safely
• 1:01:14
  a top fifty dude probably in the. Class really like this,
• 1:01:18
  pick really pleased With. Takara was MY acc picture of The.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: YEAR i love, It.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: Drew i'll SAY i was.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 6: TORN i wanted to do, it but you, know just
• 1:01:27
  to get the bias out of it BECAUSE i talk
• 1:01:29
  about him every, EPISODE i got to take someone else
• 1:01:31
  THAT i liked.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Too so none of us have taken any. Players none
• 1:01:34
  of us have taken any players from our teams this, Draft,
• 1:01:37
  so like you know, What i'm actually proud of, them
• 1:01:39
  AND i haven't Because carolina is my secondary. TEAM i
• 1:01:42
  haven't taken A carolina. Guy, like we're all doing really well.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Here Henry, ford A Cc player of The, year is
• 1:01:47
  still at the table. Talking, anyway that's going to take
• 1:01:53
  us To josh at eight to. Three we're gonna put the.
• 1:01:56
  Suspense we're going to elevate the suspense even more For
• 1:01:58
  Will drew Pick henry four in S Cc prayer of The,
• 1:02:01
  Year josh eighth, round third pick of the. Round what
• 1:02:04
  do you, think, BUDDY.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: I Think i'm at the point where all three of
• 1:02:07
  the guys That i'm going to take left their. Mind
• 1:02:09
  it's just a matter OF i have to figure out
• 1:02:12
  HOW i want to order. Them i'm taking shots in
• 1:02:15
  the last two, rounds So i'm gonna do this, now.
• 1:02:17
  Y'all THE Sec pitcher of The year is full besides for.
• 1:02:20
  Me for the, record y'all have taken number, two, three
• 1:02:23
  and four on my, board but not number. ONE i
• 1:02:26
  am going to take a maybe an unexpected pick because
• 1:02:29
  it's not one of those top. JUNIORS i am going
• 1:02:31
  to Take case And evans FROM. Lsu. Uh he had
• 1:02:35
  a ridiculous freshman campaign that resulted in a two FIVE
• 1:02:39
  era and seventy one ks and fifty and that was
• 1:02:43
  good enough to land him a spot as An All
• 1:02:44
  american AT d one, baseball AND i think the ncbwa.
• 1:02:50
  Uh he's got a fastball with good ride that sits mid.
• 1:02:53
  Nineties from the right, side it's touch ninety. Nine so
• 1:02:56
  that's just gonna rip through lineups and pair with that
• 1:02:59
  slide and changeup that produced so much swam in this last.
• 1:03:02
  Year SO i expect him to be lights out again
• 1:03:06
  and get the publicity he deserves this time, around since
• 1:03:10
  he's projected to Be LSU's from a night guy to
• 1:03:12
  start the year like.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: THAT i Love case And evans was on my board as.
• 1:03:17
  Well really an inspired pick on your. Part just a
• 1:03:21
  little pissed, there but that's that's. Fine that means you're
• 1:03:23
  doing a good, Job. Jake that is going to bring
• 1:03:26
  us to you for a back to back set of,
• 1:03:28
  picks rounding out to the eighth round and kicking off
• 1:03:31
  the ninth. Round just for you guys at home who
• 1:03:34
  are maybe, Listening jake has got left three three offensive,
• 1:03:39
  guys HIS Acc player of The, Year big Twelve player
• 1:03:42
  of The, year And Mid Major player of The. Year
• 1:03:44
  i'm curious where you're gonna go, Here.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: JAKE i am going to go WITH.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 5: Acc i'm going to finish that. Out louisville has some
• 1:03:56
  there are some options In louisville's. Lineup there's you, know
• 1:03:58
  there's There's Lucas, moore you can go With Tag. Davis
• 1:04:01
  but my favorite Is Zion, rows outfielder For. Louisville he's
• 1:04:06
  a he's he's he's a middle of the order bat for,
• 1:04:09
  them high level bat to, ball big big time raw,
• 1:04:12
  power super good, athlete really good feel for the. Barrel
• 1:04:18
  he's he's really a five tool. Player he's gonna have
• 1:04:21
  lots of opportunities to, produce and LIKE i already, mentioned
• 1:04:23
  the very very Stout louisville lineup he's, got he's got
• 1:04:28
  a lot of tools to break out with to be
• 1:04:31
  the player of the year in this. Conference and he's,
• 1:04:32
  gonna he's, gonna he's gonna be a big producer for.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 6: Them that train that just came back is just like
• 1:04:43
  The louisville train that they got right behind their stadium
• 1:04:45
  rolling through there in the middle of the. Game so
• 1:04:47
  that's just really fitting right. THERE i really, SORRY i
• 1:04:53
  just had to put that out. There it's just perfect.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: Time, no it's all.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 5: Good so we're, starting we're leading off the the ninth round,
• 1:05:03
  NOW i, believe and the fact that this player is
• 1:05:07
  still available in the ninth round is just is just
• 1:05:10
  crazy to. Me i'm Going Sawyer strassnuder outfield OR tcu
• 1:05:14
  is My big twelve player of the year again, SHOCK
• 1:05:17
  i got in this. Late but he's he's he's the
• 1:05:20
  leader of this uh this this uber TALENTED tcu, outfield
• 1:05:26
  super productive last year and saying we're all. Tools there
• 1:05:29
  is some swing and miss from a draft, standpoint.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: Is.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: There he's aggressive and chases, some but he's got the
• 1:05:38
  ability to hit mistake pitches very. Hard and he's also
• 1:05:44
  a plus athlete in the. Outfield from from from a prospect,
• 1:05:48
  standpoint he's a he's he's a high risk, player but
• 1:05:50
  a super fun, one and he could sert he could
• 1:05:52
  absolutely produce enough this year to take on The big
• 1:05:55
  Twelve player of The year war.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: Mm, HMM i like that a. Lot uh, yeah you
• 1:06:01
  know earlier we know That josh kind of kicked off
• 1:06:04
  that run With, HUGHES jb a couple picks later With,
• 1:06:07
  brunson and me right afterwards With. Ballinger strosnyder is a
• 1:06:11
  guy That i'd really contemplated taking. There MAYBE i should.
• 1:06:14
  HAVE i guess we'll let The we'll let the goons On,
• 1:06:17
  twitter on the on the old interwebs decide whether that
• 1:06:20
  was a. Flop on On Unk's, Park, jake, Good, good
• 1:06:23
  round the picks there for. You you've got one. Left
• 1:06:25
  you're gonna round this out at the very, End, josh round,
• 1:06:29
  nine pick. Two what are you? Thinking the hot train
• 1:06:31
  is coming, Gone but what's it left for?
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: You i'm hoping the hot train comes through for this
• 1:06:35
  guy this, year because my last two, Picks i'm taking
• 1:06:37
  a shot on. This this next one just in terms
• 1:06:43
  of what he did last year is not, great but
• 1:06:44
  it's just like full. Projection i'm gonna go down To
• 1:06:47
  troy And i'm going to Take Jimmy janicky the catcher
• 1:06:51
  down there this. Year he is a batball demon That
• 1:06:56
  i'm expecting to light up some belt pitching this.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: Year.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: Now he only posted a two to eighty bat average
• 1:07:02
  last year with a seven thirty SEVEN, ops SO i
• 1:07:05
  Know i'm taking a big risk here on the, projection
• 1:07:08
  but he's got all the. INTENGALS i loving a. Guy
• 1:07:10
  it's a plus hit tool with potential for plus raw
• 1:07:14
  power somewhere down the, line and he's quick on the baits,
• 1:07:17
  paths got a really good, arm and he's moving behind
• 1:07:21
  the plate from third this, year so he'll be able
• 1:07:23
  to display his skills back there now. Too So i'm
• 1:07:27
  really looking forward to him turning into a young star
• 1:07:30
  on a veteran team like. This AND i think they
• 1:07:33
  play like SIX sec teams in mid weeks or something like,
• 1:07:37
  That So i'm gonna have to get down there for
• 1:07:39
  one or two since they're only like an hour away from.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Here, Josh she'll be very proud to know That Jimmy
• 1:07:46
  janicke was my fifth ranked guy major. PLAYER i did
• 1:07:51
  cut him for one guy above, him BUT i really
• 1:07:54
  Thought janicky would be my. Guy IF i, didn't we'll
• 1:07:57
  get into strategy at another, time but, big big love for.
• 1:07:59
  THAT i love that. Pick and, well Since i'm, Talking
• 1:08:03
  i'll keep. Talking i'll go ahead To Big. Ten we're
• 1:08:06
  gonna we're gonna play the suspense up for Who drew
• 1:08:08
  takes OR Sec player of The. Year get your comments in,
• 1:08:10
  below But i'm gonna go to The big Ten player
• 1:08:14
  of The year and hear me out the. GUYS i
• 1:08:17
  think taking A ucla guy makes a lot of. Sense
• 1:08:20
  they've got a really loaded. School excuse, me a really
• 1:08:23
  loaded team with two. GUYS i think in particular that
• 1:08:26
  we could probably weigh out could be THIS i guess
• 1:08:30
  you know, Again like Like josh said a minute ago With,
• 1:08:33
  Hanley Jake, HANLEY i think there's logic, there but that feels.
• 1:08:38
  BORING i don't want to take a boring. GUY i
• 1:08:41
  want to take a. Shot So i'm gonna give a
• 1:08:43
  wink and a nod and a nudge to my Buddy,
• 1:08:46
  jake And i'm gonna take The big ten player of The.
• 1:08:48
  Year Ryan, kucherak shortstop From. Northwestern i'm gonna take a deep.
• 1:08:52
  Shot he's a big ten guy who just kind of
• 1:08:55
  does everything. Right he's steady field to hit for My
• 1:09:00
  i'm sitting controls of the, zone impacts the game kind
• 1:09:04
  of across the, board and even in the ways that
• 1:09:06
  you don't. SEE i think he's trusted or already at this,
• 1:09:09
  point consistent. Athletic this is a guy that plays the
• 1:09:13
  game the right. WAY i can see him being a
• 1:09:14
  very productive big leaguer one day when you're looking for
• 1:09:17
  reliability and, polish especially in a conference THAT i think
• 1:09:25
  can be lacking in that. SOMETIMES i Like kucherak in
• 1:09:29
  that instance a. Lot i'm proud to have him as
• 1:09:31
  My big Ten player of The. Year, yeah AND, jb
• 1:09:35
  that's going to go to you for your final, elbow
• 1:09:38
  both of your.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 6: Picks, Yes SO i got DOUBLE m. MAJOR i don't
• 1:09:42
  got to shout him. Out Roman martin was my other
• 1:09:44
  big ten guy THAT i had in.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: There he's a. STUD i MEAN i think that that.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 6: DUDE i think he's got a real shot to overtake
• 1:09:50
  it With rob obviously not in the, draft but The
• 1:09:52
  big Ten player of the. Year he can put up
• 1:09:54
  some monster, NUMBERS i. Think But i'll digress off of,
• 1:09:57
  that And i'm going to go with a couple of interesting,
• 1:10:00
  picks possibly for everybody. Here mid major. Arm i'm gonna
• 1:10:05
  go down to THE ivy and take my man jack Omen.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: On Jack owen From.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 6: Yale he had a one point ONE era a year,
• 1:10:15
  ago which is, absurd runs the fastball up to the
• 1:10:17
  upper nineties plus auste. Pitches the dude should be AN sec,
• 1:10:22
  arm but for some, reason he's playing To yale because
• 1:10:24
  he loves an, education so respect to. That but, uh you,
• 1:10:27
  know he's a big time arm down, there and he's
• 1:10:30
  gonna run through THE Ivy league once. Again so that's
• 1:10:33
  our first, one and now the second one is my
• 1:10:35
  Mid major player of The. YEAR i don't know How,
• 1:10:38
  josh mister bat de ball down there did not have
• 1:10:41
  this guy in, There So i'm gonna throw it out.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: There Mister Brayden burris FROM. Ecu he had a walking
• 1:10:48
  for eighty eight on base percentage last.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Year repeat that again.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: For eighty, eight almost fifty percent of the. Time this
• 1:10:55
  dude was on base last. Year also stole eighteen. Bags
• 1:10:59
  top the order guy FOR.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 6: Ecu he only struck out twenty six times in two
• 1:11:04
  hundred and fifty seven played appearances last. Season, dude his
• 1:11:07
  incredible bat to ball skills insane on base, Percentage he's,
• 1:11:11
  undersized but the bat to ball is. Incredible And Braden
• 1:11:14
  BURRIS i think has a chance to be the best
• 1:11:16
  mid major bat in the. Country SO i feel good
• 1:11:18
  about WHERE i WHERE i wanted my last two picks.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: There, yeah you you kind of brought it all. Together
• 1:11:23
  owmen was certainly on my. BOARD i liked that pick a,
• 1:11:26
  Lot Breden. Burris that was a deep. SHOT i love
• 1:11:29
  that good.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: Call he always number four of my. Board we have,
• 1:11:34
  yeah No josh And.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: Josh i'm.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: Surprised so of all the mid major bats that are,
• 1:11:40
  available my, one, three and four have gone off the.
• 1:11:43
  BOARD i don't know Where jake's gonna go, last but,
• 1:11:45
  LIKE i think there's a good shot he takes my number,
• 1:11:48
  two which if we take all four of my guys
• 1:11:49
  on my, BOARD i will be shocked because that's like
• 1:11:51
  wildly impressive with how why that field.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Is SO i will say this just in the topic
• 1:11:57
  of mid major, hitters at LEAST, i, two, three and
• 1:12:00
  four are all still.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: Available i'd imagine Money guy is one of those.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: It's, got it's, got it's gotta. Be but we'll do
• 1:12:07
  some also rans here in a seconds that didn't get
• 1:12:10
  picked that we just want to shout, Out, okay the
• 1:12:14
  time has, come the hype has come and. Gone i'm
• 1:12:16
  gonna tell you Who i'm not. Picking i'm not gonna
• 1:12:19
  Take Henry. Ford this is what we call growth in the.
• 1:12:23
  Industry thank. YOU i appreciate. THAT i appreciate. That i'll
• 1:12:27
  tell you who Else i'm not gonna. Take i'm not
• 1:12:30
  gonna Take Chris ocopian And i'm not gonna Take Chris
• 1:12:33
  ocopian because this is not BECAUSE i think that this
• 1:12:36
  player That i'm gonna take is better than. Him it's
• 1:12:38
  Because i'm not gonna talk About Chris occopian on a
• 1:12:40
  podcast With Josh. Callen i'm not. STUPID I i JUST.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: I like to start To.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Let, meant let the chef keep cooking, Here let the
• 1:12:52
  chef KEEP i thought, about how could we how could
• 1:12:56
  we really spice this? Board what IF i To. Florida
• 1:13:01
  it took Some Brendan lawson and THEN i, THOUGHT i
• 1:13:05
  think there's a better infielder in that, class maybe In
• 1:13:07
  texas MAYBE i could take a little bit of a.
• 1:13:10
  ROD i did see some amazing video of him working
• 1:13:13
  with a certain, Coach Troy tuolwitsky. Today it made me
• 1:13:16
  really excited for this young man's. Future but, NO i
• 1:13:21
  think there's still one bet That i've got to. Take
• 1:13:24
  we're gonna go to The university Of kentucky For Tyler.
• 1:13:26
  Bell really super super intriguing. Bat it's he's physical, field
• 1:13:33
  JP's going. INSANE i win Miss.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: Josh catlin and driving the hype train on somebody.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: Listen, listen.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: Listen i've been on The bell hype train for a long,
• 1:13:44
  time BUT i Think i've succeeded the conductor.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: Role to you for.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: Sure here's here's What here's the short version of What
• 1:13:50
  i'm gonna say is The rays like this guy enough
• 1:13:53
  to pick him two years. Ago what we see now
• 1:13:56
  is a more, mature more, polished, strong faster version of
• 1:14:01
  the player they wanted in the second round of the.
• 1:14:04
  Draft strengthen the swing projects for. Damage kentucky has leaned
• 1:14:09
  on him to support their team in a difficult. League
• 1:14:13
  when you factor in the competition That Tyler bell faces every,
• 1:14:16
  weekend the offensive profile still. Plays there's room for more to.
• 1:14:21
  COME i JUST i love a copience hit. TOOL i
• 1:14:30
  love a copience hit. TOOL I i THINK i THINK
• 1:14:33
  i might talk so much About Adrian rodriguez that you
• 1:14:36
  guys want to evict me from The. ISLAND i would
• 1:14:38
  get voted off The island week one next. Season BUT
• 1:14:43
  i Think Tyler bell is getting underrated in this class
• 1:14:46
  of middle, infielders And i'm thrilled to get him with
• 1:14:49
  my final. Pick i'm, delighted in. Fact so that is
• 1:14:53
  gonna take us to, You, josh and you have to
• 1:14:55
  finish the big ten pitching. Pool uh let me let me.
• 1:14:59
  Ask SO i asked Jay be a minute ago about
• 1:15:00
  was it his intention to save mid majors for Last?
• 1:15:03
  Josh did you save the thinnest position for last? Year
• 1:15:05
  Like i'll Just i'll just make it.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: Work is this just kind of? Happenstantial what's funny about
• 1:15:10
  this is that IF i had the opportunity to Get
• 1:15:13
  Logan rediman in my second round, PICK i was gonna do.
• 1:15:16
  It that's exactly that was my game plan going into.
• 1:15:18
  It that's WHY i was upset when he was. Taken
• 1:15:21
  but once that, HAPPENED i looked at the rest of
• 1:15:23
  my board And i'm, like it's all just a crap
• 1:15:26
  shoot from this, point LIKE i really don't know and so,
• 1:15:29
  well first of, all BEFORE i say, this shout out
• 1:15:31
  my Guy Chris. Rembert he wasn't even mentioned in that.
• 1:15:33
  Rant that's WHY i was pointing at. MYSELF i thought
• 1:15:35
  you were gonna have Another chris, Mentioned But.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: I'm, Sorry Chris rembert should have been mentioned as. Well
• 1:15:39
  he's he's.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: How deep that category is BECAUSE i did not Have
• 1:15:44
  Bell lawson or A rod on my, board and those
• 1:15:47
  are all great, names but it, just you, know not
• 1:15:49
  the top. Four i'm gonna. Take this is this might
• 1:15:54
  be the biggest shot taken in this. Draft i'm taking
• 1:15:58
  someone That i'm pretty SURE jb is high on or
• 1:16:02
  high on compared to you, know you, know you'll know
• 1:16:07
  What i'm saying WHEN i want to make my. Pick
• 1:16:09
  if we're going in terms of sheer college production, odds
• 1:16:13
  this just fans out is really. High But i'm gonna do.
• 1:16:16
  It i'm gonna go up To. Nebraska i'm gonna Take Carson,
• 1:16:20
  yassa And i'm gonna hope for the. BEST i this
• 1:16:24
  category is so thin at the shot at the top
• 1:16:27
  of that you just gotta take. SHOTS i hope for
• 1:16:29
  the Best. Yasa he might not even be that bad
• 1:16:32
  of a pick if he can just reel in the control.
• 1:16:35
  Issues BUT i know that's a big ask because he
• 1:16:37
  had a nineteen percent walkrate last, year twenty percent walk
• 1:16:41
  right on the cape this. Summer SO i, mean the stuff's.
• 1:16:44
  There he's got a fast, bullets it's ninety five to ninety,
• 1:16:47
  seven he's got great feel for, spend great velo separation
• 1:16:50
  on his all speed. Pitches the dude can just barely
• 1:16:53
  throw a strike to save his life to this point at.
• 1:16:56
  Least So i'm taking a chance on him just locking
• 1:17:01
  in and fixing the control, issues and maybe it'll be
• 1:17:04
  enough to fool big ten. BATTERS i think he's gonna
• 1:17:07
  be The sunday guy there, Actually AND i know they've
• 1:17:10
  got some tough spots early, on like they come To
• 1:17:12
  auburn here on the third. WEEKEND i think they've got
• 1:17:14
  F su right before, that so we'll find out a lot.
• 1:17:17
  QUICKLY i guess this is a shot in the, dark
• 1:17:19
  BUT I i don't. Know you got to in this
• 1:17:22
  category like, that you have no other. Choice it's.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 4: ROUGH i like.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: THAT i like THAT i thought you would like you like,
• 1:17:28
  that you like him as a, whole but in terms
• 1:17:29
  of just what he's done In nebraska so, far, like,
• 1:17:32
  yeah it's, tough, Man i'm not working with. Much let's be.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Real, Yeah, jake did you Have Carson yasa on your
• 1:17:38
  board For big Ten? PICTURES i?
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: DID i, WAS i. WAS i was considering him IF
• 1:17:46
  i didn't go With barnett. Earlier but he was on my.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: Board, yeah Jb jbo on your, board he was.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 4: NOT I i liked.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 6: HIM i had him like as a, possible BUT i
• 1:18:00
  Had servantes at, him, Honestly but THAT'S i Had Angel servanta's.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: Ahead BUT i had Another ucli on my board that
• 1:18:08
  hasn't even been mentioned in this conversation. YET i Had,
• 1:18:11
  Wilin moss And, Mossy.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: So you'll be, Proud. JOSH i Had yasa as my number.
• 1:18:18
  Two moss was in my also rans as. WELL i like,
• 1:18:20
  that all, right HE i love, it Love itasa is
• 1:18:24
  gonna be. Tested speaking of, tests you guys have been
• 1:18:27
  being tested all off season long with the content of this,
• 1:18:31
  Gentleman Jake. Barjorie he has been covering the mid majors
• 1:18:34
  uh at the likes of nobody in the. Country Bar,
• 1:18:38
  nunn hands, down argue with the Brick. Wall this guy
• 1:18:41
  is the elite of the, elite covering the mid majors And,
• 1:18:44
  jake you have got your pick of the litter, here,
• 1:18:47
  buddy with the exception of three exceptional. Hitters the rest
• 1:18:52
  of the world is your. Oyster And i'm curious who
• 1:18:54
  you're gonna take with the final pick of the DRAFT i.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 5: HAVE i have researched a lot of big mid major,
• 1:19:02
  hitters AND i have seen a lot of. Them but you,
• 1:19:05
  KNOW i do remiss to not take A northeast player
• 1:19:09
  anywhere in this, draft similar to mcinelly. Earlier HOPEFULLY i
• 1:19:14
  can introduce you guys to.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: A new player.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 5: HERE i want to go With Reese, maroney shortstop From Rhode.
• 1:19:21
  Island just some of his numbers from last. Year he
• 1:19:26
  hit for a three fifty six, average for sixty three
• 1:19:30
  on base for sixty two. Slugging he's not given you
• 1:19:34
  too much in the power, department but he's An he's
• 1:19:38
  an elite contact, hitter simple swing. Mechanics he just makes
• 1:19:41
  it look super easy in the. Box LIKE i, said
• 1:19:44
  he's not going to give you much in terms of,
• 1:19:45
  power but he. Plays he plays solid shortstop. Defense he's
• 1:19:48
  a plus. Runner and we just Saw Aiden robbins lead
• 1:19:52
  the country in back and average At Seaton hall last,
• 1:19:54
  year AND i, think you, Know maroney could could hit
• 1:19:57
  at that same level for For Rhode island this. Year
• 1:20:00
  he's a sneaky guy to watch up here in The.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: NORTHEAST i love.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: IT i loved reading About maroney when you were talking
• 1:20:06
  About Rhode. ISLAND i agree with. YOU i think he's a,
• 1:20:08
  sneaky sneaky pick for. Sure all, right, guys let's talk
• 1:20:13
  about some also rams really really. Quickly i'll run through
• 1:20:17
  some names really, quickly just BECAUSE i know that, there you,
• 1:20:19
  know we've had some guys not be taken THAT i
• 1:20:21
  could throw out there super. Quickly Trey, beard Acc pitcher
• 1:20:26
  of The. Year Ryan lynch didn't get to talk About
• 1:20:30
  Janai satou From Penn. STATE i think In big ten
• 1:20:33
  that might have been a name that some might have.
• 1:20:34
  Expected we'd have Popped Mouvi, Levu Will. Gasparino a couple
• 1:20:39
  OF ucla guys that didn't get brought. Up Mason, brassfield
• 1:20:42
  lefty FROM, TCU i thought maybe was an interesting. Call
• 1:20:46
  didn't get to talk About Ben blair From liberty with
• 1:20:48
  the mid major, pitchers BUT i really like the mid
• 1:20:50
  major pitch and crop we have. Here definitely some good
• 1:20:53
  ones mid major, Players Tyler minnick From, YUKON Jp peltier
• 1:20:58
  From Right, State Anthony pettet FROM Uc San, diego a
• 1:21:02
  couple of guys, there and then of course we talked
• 1:21:05
  about all the sec cats that were. Unselected Jb any
• 1:21:10
  guys that were not picks that you had kind of
• 1:21:12
  on your board as a, HEY i considered the.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 6: Dude, Yeah i'm surprised you didn't mention Him volshco At.
• 1:21:19
  GEORGIA i thought it was one that somebody is gonna
• 1:21:21
  talk about, with you, know him working at Their Bauer Jack,
• 1:21:26
  bauer AND i thought to another one, that you, know
• 1:21:28
  it's just interesting someone did. IT i also had for
• 1:21:32
  pitcher of The year in The big. TWELVE i picked
• 1:21:34
  Up Garrison sumner FROM. Byu he's the guy that's ran
• 1:21:38
  the fastball up pretty high as a dart.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: Throw mid major.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 6: GUYS i Had Cam kim going To fullerton and an
• 1:21:44
  interesting freshman of the year type of, Player Josh gibbs
• 1:21:47
  going to kennesas state top draft prospect to transferred his
• 1:21:51
  commitment over to. THERE i also had a guy WHO
• 1:21:53
  i wrote a report on For Mid Major pitcher of The,
• 1:21:55
  Year Hayden, johnson big lefty At Coastal. Carolina he's the
• 1:21:59
  guy that right Behind. Fluke he's gonna get lost in the.
• 1:22:01
  Shuffle but a guy that's got a lot of draft
• 1:22:03
  helium right now is a guy that can really.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: Pitch so that's So i'd go With.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: Jake any any names that didn't get mentioned that you
• 1:22:10
  feel like shouting out.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: Here, Yeah i'll shout out a few more mid major.
• 1:22:17
  Guests that's pretty much the one Thing i've been doing
• 1:22:19
  for this last. Month Marshall lipsy From OUTFIELDER fau was
• 1:22:25
  a GUY i had on my. Board he was just
• 1:22:27
  Behind maroney And Josh scronsky From Winthrop. Outfielder he's, he's,
• 1:22:32
  he's he's a, big strong hitter. THERE i was really
• 1:22:35
  considering him from a mid major player.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: A couple of.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 5: Pictures Ben blair From liberty was a GUY i really.
• 1:22:41
  Considered Steele murdoch was another arm THAT i had kind
• 1:22:47
  of just outside of my top. Four but there's those
• 1:22:51
  are the those are probably the top guys THAT i
• 1:22:53
  hadn't narrow down to that we hadn't talked about.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: Yet nice Josh any also rans that you want to
• 1:22:58
  are out.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: There, YES i just wentn't counted an eleven guys that
• 1:23:02
  were on my board of forty were not. TAKEN i
• 1:23:06
  think we've talked about five of them or five of.
• 1:23:08
  Them i've been mentioned the ones that. Weren't. Oh also
• 1:23:10
  for the, Record Tyler minnick was the big major player
• 1:23:12
  guy That i'm shocked when. UNDRAFTED i think that's like
• 1:23:15
  the most shocking undrafted pick to. ME i already talked
• 1:23:19
  About Smith, Bailey Alex connovor On Oklahoma. State i've been
• 1:23:23
  talking about him for a. While Wil In MOSS i
• 1:23:26
  Mentioned Mason edwards was my last big ten. PITCHER i know,
• 1:23:30
  we've like the four of us have talked about him
• 1:23:31
  recently as being like maybe that last big ten pitcher
• 1:23:34
  that you can throw into a you, know Preseason all
• 1:23:36
  conference team or whatever because it's so. Thin Jack raydell
• 1:23:41
  From Notre Dame West mendez the Other Florida state pitcher
• 1:23:45
  that could have been. TAKEN i already mentioned Remember hacopian
• 1:23:50
  obviously the one guy THAT i think you see him
• 1:23:54
  on a lot of first team In All american. Teams
• 1:23:58
  the draft community is not going to be upset that
• 1:24:00
  we didn't take, him but college baseball fans. Might Miles
• 1:24:02
  bailey At Florida state not being mentioned at? All is
• 1:24:07
  it SOMETHING i, mean, like would any like genuinely would
• 1:24:10
  anybody be fully one shocked if he hit thirty home
• 1:24:13
  runs this? YEAR i would, Not. LIKE i don't think
• 1:24:16
  it's crazy at. All SO i, mean, like you can
• 1:24:18
  say what you want about him long. TERM i don't
• 1:24:20
  really love it long, term but for the twenty twenty
• 1:24:21
  six college baseball, season, yeah like, that that guy's gonna
• 1:24:25
  rake that. GUY i, mean the swing and miss is
• 1:24:27
  what it. Is but when he puts the bat on the,
• 1:24:29
  ball see, yea it's as simple as.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: That on the topic OF acc players of The year
• 1:24:35
  that weren't, taken weren't, selected weren't talked, About Mon lackey
• 1:24:39
  when really under discussed in this, conversation.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: So At vankula wasn't taken and wasn't, taken A Carolina
• 1:24:47
  gallaher wasn't. Taken like they're just, yeah, well that's no
• 1:24:52
  SHOCK i mean with with this group, Before let's be, real.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: It's not a shock with. Us but, again talking ABOUT
• 1:24:57
  i guess all.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: BECAUSE i get, that but, like, yeah that, one that
• 1:25:01
  one don't shocked. Me i'm surprised we HAD i didn't
• 1:25:05
  even think About, lackey like that's that's a shocking one
• 1:25:07
  to not even go. Mentioned BUT i mean the group
• 1:25:10
  that we have is, fine it's just it's such some.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: Piggins and, then just hyper, quick a couple more guys
• 1:25:15
  that weren't talked. ABOUT i, Mean Lucas moore out of THE.
• 1:25:18
  ACC i think somebody might have brought his name. Up
• 1:25:21
  big twelve players of The, Year Andrew, WILLIAMSON u see F, Prey, Brossard.
• 1:25:25
  HOUSTON i, mean what it could have been a consideration
• 1:25:27
  here for, Sure big twelve, Guys Chase meyer out Of West.
• 1:25:30
  VIRGINIA i think we could have heard an argument For Chase.
• 1:25:32
  Meyer Nathan taylor out Of. CINCINNATI i think has got
• 1:25:35
  some interesting traits there that he could have been a
• 1:25:37
  GUY i would have leaned on maybe in those last
• 1:25:39
  couple of. Rounds and then of course we didn't talk
• 1:25:41
  About Jonathan mendez as a mid major. Guy Cole trieva
• 1:25:45
  didn't talk about as a mid major. Pitcher lots of,
• 1:25:47
  talent but these are the ones we have. Selected we've
• 1:25:50
  got our teams really, Quickly. Jake if you want to
• 1:25:54
  read through your team top to, bottom we'll do that
• 1:25:56
  before we wrap. Up.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah my TEAM acc Player Zion ROSE acc, Pitcher Ryan,
• 1:26:06
  Moron big ten, Player Rock schelewski, Pitcher Michael, Barnett big twelve,
• 1:26:12
  Player Sawyer strosnider, Pitcher colter MCINELLY sec, Player Justin Lebron,
• 1:26:19
  Pittard Liam Peterson mid major, Player Rhys maroney Pitcher Ethan.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: Norby pretty, good pretty, Good, josh bring us through your, team,
• 1:26:27
  buddy all, RIGHT i guess your. Selections this isn't a team,
• 1:26:30
  lord it would kill, people but.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: Selections, YEAH i, MEAN i got eight of the guys
• 1:26:36
  on my board that were number one on my list
• 1:26:38
  for that, category So i'm cool with. US i Got
• 1:26:41
  Drew BURRIS Acc player of The, Year Aiden, cannock A
• 1:26:44
  Cc pitcher of The, Year Jake, Hanley big Ten player
• 1:26:48
  of The, Year Carson Yassa Big Ten picture of The,
• 1:26:50
  Year Logan, Hughes big Twelve player of The, Year Cole,
• 1:26:53
  Carlow big Twelve pitcher of The, Year Derek CURRY O
• 1:26:57
  Sec player of The, Year Cason EVANS Sec pitcher of The,
• 1:27:00
  Year Jimmy janicky mid major player And Cam Fluky mid
• 1:27:05
  major pitcher, also SO i just thought about. This two
• 1:27:08
  more names THAT i just thought about the Mentioned big
• 1:27:11
  twelve players of The Year Landon, Harrison Arizona, State Jack,
• 1:27:14
  mattilly since neither of them got. Mentioned there's so much
• 1:27:17
  talent like it's hard to.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: Not even a.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: Mention we didn't even talk About. Mantilly but, yeah you're, RIGHT.
• 1:27:24
  Jb will go to you for your your, selections.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 6: Sir, YEAH acc player, Went Eric Becker, Pitcher blake Morning,
• 1:27:31
  Star big ten, Player Max Maloney, Pitcher Take Carry big twelve,
• 1:27:36
  Player Chase Brunson, Pitcher Own, Crampkowski BIG sec, Player Ace
• 1:27:43
  Reese pitcher Gave Deckle mid major, Player Brandon burriss, Pitcher
• 1:27:47
  Jack owen love.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: IT i appreciate what you called it The BIG. Sec
• 1:27:51
  i'm certainly in agreement with you. There then looking at
• 1:27:54
  The Drew awards players AND Acc player of The YEAR. A.
• 1:27:58
  J grassi a picture of the, Years Deceru Big Ten
• 1:28:02
  player of The, Year ryan Coocherak pitcher of The, Year Logan,
• 1:28:05
  Rediman Big Twelve player of The, Year Brady Ballinger pitcher
• 1:28:08
  of The, Year Tommy Lapour sec, player of The, Year Tyler,
• 1:28:10
  Bell pitcher of The, Year Dylan, Valantis Mid Major player
• 1:28:14
  of The, Year Caden boog And pole And Mid Major
• 1:28:17
  pitcher of The Year Jackson. Flora what a? Draft what an? Episode,
• 1:28:21
  guys we have. Doubled we've gone long, here BUT i
• 1:28:24
  think the folks at home will appreciate. It forty names we've,
• 1:28:26
  discussed plus the teams at the, beginning plus the also
• 1:28:29
  rans we talked. About but this is not all we're.
• 1:28:32
  Doing you guys are staying very, busy And, jake i'd
• 1:28:35
  love it if you tell the fine folks at home
• 1:28:36
  what you're working on and where they can find you
• 1:28:38
  between episodes Of College Baseball.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 5: Now, yeah you can follow me On twitter At Jake.
• 1:28:49
  Barge and you, know the big project right now is
• 1:28:52
  the conference. Previews we're pretty deep into them right. Now
• 1:28:55
  i've got ABOUT i think sixteen or seventeen of them
• 1:28:58
  out right. NOW i only started to get into some power.
• 1:29:01
  Conferences big ten should be the next one coming. Up
• 1:29:04
  super excited about. That but, yeah go give those a
• 1:29:07
  read if you haven't done it.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: YET i don't know what we're gonna do with, Ourselves,
• 1:29:10
  jake right about The big ten meat reading and editing
• 1:29:13
  The big. Ten we're moving on up in the. World, Buddy,
• 1:29:16
  josh what are you working on right? Now where can
• 1:29:18
  people find? You in between?
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: Episodes you can follow me on x At Josh catlet.
• 1:29:23
  Three by the time we record the next, POT i
• 1:29:26
  will have already started releasing my Preseason All, American All conference,
• 1:29:30
  teams that kind of, stuff so we'll be on the
• 1:29:31
  lookout for. That i'm still not fully set on them,
• 1:29:33
  because as we talked about in this, episode a, lot
• 1:29:37
  so many, dudes so many things you gotta, Like i'm
• 1:29:40
  got to switch up last, minute even my preseason. RANKINGS
• 1:29:43
  i can't even. Like there's just so many things here
• 1:29:45
  and there that are just. Preseason it's so hard to.
• 1:29:47
  Tell but they'll be out at some. Point i'll be
• 1:29:50
  doing that along with probably some Other twitter content throughout the,
• 1:29:53
  Year so stay. Tuned it's gonna be.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: Great can't wait to see. It Jb where are you working?
• 1:29:57
  On where can people find?
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 6: You, yes we just finished up our Prospect risers Stock
• 1:30:03
  Rising Middle. Endfielders put that out the other.
• 1:30:05
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