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DRAFT PREVIEW: What players could Angels be targeting in the first round? · Halo Territory: A Los Angeles Angels Podcast

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Well, hey Angel fans, and welcome back to Halo Territory.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: I am Mike D.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Giovanna, former Early Times Baseball writer and host of the show,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: joined by my regular co host Mark Trumbo, the former
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Angel slugger Mark Hew.
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  Speaker 2: You doing.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: We got a busy weekend ahead of us, A lot
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  Speaker 1: going on in the game.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: How you doing today? A stoic.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Stoic as usual. The HT fans have come to know
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  Speaker 1: and love your stoicism.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. That is a compliment or it's somewhere
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  Speaker 2: in between.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it depends what comes after the stoicism. I think
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: if it's a good, you know, one liner or a singer,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take it all right.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, uh, We're gonna have a little Angels Major League
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: or an amateur draft preview. The draft starts tomorrow Saturday.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I think it's a first and first through fifth if
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. And the Angels have the twelfth overall pick,
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  Speaker 1: so not extremely high, but a pretty high first round pick,
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  Speaker 1: a really big pick for them this year. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into that in a little bit. First, we want
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up this Ranger series. Man, the Angels just
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: thrash the Rangers twelve thirteen to one. On Wednesday Night,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Adell hits two home runs, Mike Trout, in his
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: first game back off the injured list, hits a homer,
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  Speaker 1: and we finally had a daily Dinner pick come true.
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  Speaker 1: So credit to me for that and Von Grissom, who
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  Speaker 1: we talked about as a guy who had really been struggling.
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  Speaker 1: Four hits in four RBIs Neto three hits, two doubles.
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  Speaker 1: And then Thursday night, Wow Angels score was it? Five
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  Speaker 1: runs in the seventh to tie the game six sixth
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  Speaker 1: Then they end up losing in the ninth on a
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  Speaker 1: why at Langford walkoff hit, great comeback, empty feeling what?
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine?
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  Speaker 2: What's that? What that is like? Mark?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've had games like that where you expend
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  Speaker 1: all that energy the mount a really impressive comeback and
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  Speaker 1: then to lose. Is that a little more demoralizing for
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  Speaker 1: a player or do they all sort of count the
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  Speaker 1: same mentally?
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  Speaker 3: With this team, I think they feel pretty good about
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  Speaker 3: these little comebacks they have. Not sure that it stings
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  Speaker 3: that much at this point. I think that they kind
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  Speaker 3: of pride themselves on coming back, but it's usually just
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  Speaker 3: a little bit short, which was the case here Reds.
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  Speaker 3: That was not a great start for him. He got well,
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  Speaker 3: they whacked him when he when he made pitches that
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  Speaker 3: over the middle of the plate is fastball in particular,
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  Speaker 3: although it grated out fairly well. And the stuff plus,
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  Speaker 3: which is we're still trying to figure out what you know,
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  Speaker 3: things actually mean to the naked eye. I just seem
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  Speaker 3: like he was missing right down the pipe too often
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  Speaker 3: and the Rangers were ready to hit it. Probably a
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  Speaker 3: more of a fastball oriented hitting team, and they punished
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  Speaker 3: him so didn't get away with much. The Angels did
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  Speaker 3: come back. But one thing I wanted to ask you
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  Speaker 3: do you do you think fifteen strikeouts is a bit
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  Speaker 3: too many?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, as always, I mean this is what we saw
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  Speaker 1: last year, and I think I didn't look for the
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  Speaker 1: latest numbers. I'm pretty sure they still lead the major
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  Speaker 1: leagues and strikeouts. They do seem to have games where
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  Speaker 1: they are not as strikeout prone. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: that's purely a function of the opposing pitcher. Now, Nathan Eovaldi,
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  Speaker 1: as we know, can strike out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I wanted the guys Raoul Ignacio.
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  Speaker 3: Always, so it's imperative to know who the starting pitcher is, so.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they did say it's a pretty good pitcher. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and Detmer's four innings pitch seven, hits, three home runs,
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  Speaker 1: his stock trade market dropping a little bit. We of course,
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  Speaker 1: still don't know what the Angels intend to do going
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  Speaker 1: into the deadline August third. He's had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: stars lately where he's been hit around a bit. And
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting because the Tigers are making a run. They're
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  Speaker 1: surging right now, so everyone thought Trek Scuba was going
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  Speaker 1: to be the number one, you know, obvious target pitching
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  Speaker 1: wise on the trade market, and they may turn in
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  Speaker 1: the sellings really before you know it. Debtmer's may be
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  Speaker 1: one of the more attractive pieces. But is his stock
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  Speaker 1: starting to slip a little bit at this point?
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to say.
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  Speaker 3: I think that, like any player, getting traded in season
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  Speaker 3: is not something that, at least in my experience, it's
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  Speaker 3: very difficult, a lot of mental clutter now, the noise
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  Speaker 3: around it. I don't think it is as big a deal,
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  Speaker 3: but it can be a huge distraction for guys that
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  Speaker 3: have never experienced that before. And I think this is
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  Speaker 3: the first real time for for Reid that his name
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  Speaker 3: is heavily in the mix. Fortunately for guys that are
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  Speaker 3: on the Angels, there's not a ton of media that
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  Speaker 3: are constantly badgering them, like you know, may happen on
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  Speaker 3: other teams, but there are enough questions and enough you know,
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  Speaker 3: national stories. He sees his name and you start to wonder,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's this could likely be me, especially with
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  Speaker 3: the team not you know that another drop series and
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  Speaker 3: the Rangers, I guess they're in first place. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the saggy al West continues like Boston to me look
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  Speaker 3: way better than the Rangers. Now, maybe Boston caught him
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  Speaker 3: at the right time or whatever. But the A's are
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  Speaker 3: sinking fast and kind of on the tangent. But I
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  Speaker 3: think Detmer's may be affected by some of this talk.
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  Speaker 3: He would be the one to know best able to
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  Speaker 3: answer that, But his last couple two or three are.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere near what he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you one thing that really surprised
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  Speaker 1: me about Thursday Night's game, Joe Adell two homers, one
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  Speaker 1: of them was over just a bond a list Center
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  Speaker 1: five RBIs the night before and Thursday night he's not
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  Speaker 1: in the lineup. Now I understand Kurt Suzuki's reasoning, You know,
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  Speaker 1: you you got three games on that turf in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as hot as it was because it's indoors,
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  Speaker 1: which is great, but the turf can really take a
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  Speaker 1: toll on your body. He wants to get him off
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  Speaker 1: his feet. It was sort of a predetermined day off.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that, But why not, DHM, Why do you
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  Speaker 1: have Horesolaier dhing in back and cleanup against a tough
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  Speaker 1: writing you know, so he's gonna have as much trouble.
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing with Euvaldias, maybe Adele would, but man, don't
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  Speaker 1: you want to play the hot hand there?
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  Speaker 3: I guess it was predetermined, so they stuck with whatever
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  Speaker 3: script they had come up with. But I don't understand
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  Speaker 3: why you need a day off.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's not what I experienced as as not really that old.
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  Speaker 3: I don't Yeah, he don't think he needs a day off,
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  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I don't think I think
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  Speaker 3: he's capable of playing all three games on that field.
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  Speaker 3: And what about the players that are on the Rangers
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  Speaker 3: that play after their games on the field, You know,
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  Speaker 3: they're very used to it. And Joe with a hot
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  Speaker 3: dat I certainly would have wanted him in there. Jorge
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  Speaker 3: takes his big swings, but over the last thirty games,
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  Speaker 3: the production is well, it's not too much a lot
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  Speaker 3: of k's and especially when the game's on the line,
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  Speaker 3: he's coming up empty more often than not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Adele, we should note, came off the bench
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night and lined a game tying single to left
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  Speaker 1: center in that seventh inning. And then he came up
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  Speaker 1: I think it was in the ninth and just blistered
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  Speaker 1: a ball I think with two on, which would have
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  Speaker 1: been the go ahead runs and right to the well.
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  Speaker 1: Centerfielder had to go back on it, but that ball
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  Speaker 1: was rocked. As Gooby said on the on the broadcast,
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: last thing with a Rangers series might trout his back.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's only two games, but what'd you think
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  Speaker 1: of his swing and and how he looked physically to you?
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  Speaker 1: And you know he mentioned he wants to play center
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  Speaker 1: field as much as as he's been playing. I would
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  Speaker 1: assume coming off a hand, you know, a leg injury,
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  Speaker 1: they would want to pace him some, but he's he
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  Speaker 1: seems adamant on playing as much as he can. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think, how do he look to you.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I.
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  Speaker 3: Thought you looked physically fine. I think with any kind
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  Speaker 3: of layoff, I don't care. I mean, even the length
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  Speaker 3: of the All Star break is enough to throw most
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  Speaker 3: mere mortals. Timing off, I know, my speaking for myself,
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  Speaker 3: you wanted. I wanted to stay sharp anymore than you know.
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  Speaker 3: Two days off starts to feel like you've lost it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. And a lot of the guys these
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  Speaker 3: days don't go on rehab assignments, don't take any at bats,
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  Speaker 3: don't see any live pit. Now they may have some
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  Speaker 3: of these machines and stuff that are way better able
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  Speaker 3: to replicate the in game stuff than when I was playing,
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  Speaker 3: But I still I'm not surprised anytime somebody comes back
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  Speaker 3: and scuffles until they get their feet under them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you think you would have hit off
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  Speaker 1: that trajet machine?
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  Speaker 4: Mark?
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  Speaker 2: What do you just crushed?
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  Speaker 3: I hate most every pitching machine. It was never my
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  Speaker 3: thing at all. I'd like to be able to time
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  Speaker 3: up an arm I personally, I don't. Probably would have
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  Speaker 3: got my doors blown off, But who knows?
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  Speaker 2: Too late, too little, too late?
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  Speaker 3: You know, we can dream, but I had enough experiences
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  Speaker 3: that that's not going to keep me up at night.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We're going to take a quick break for
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  Speaker 1: we'll get right into this draft preview for the Angels.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome back to Halo Territory with Mark Trumble and
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  Speaker 1: Mike d Giavonna. Well, let's get into the draft. Angels
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  Speaker 1: have the twelfth overall pick. That pick has a slot
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  Speaker 1: value of five point eight nine million for the first round.
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  Speaker 1: Still crazy to hear those numbers. Their second overall pick
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: is at two point two to two million. Their overall
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: draft pool is zero point seventy five million, So twelfth
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: overall pick. Let's sort of start with a thirty thousand
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  Speaker 1: foot view. Keith Law, the athletic prospects expert. This is
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: what he had to say about the overall draft this week.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a great class, unfortunately, and after the top
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  Speaker 1: five or so players it falls off quickly. There's very
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: little high end pitching, and what exists all has questions.
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  Speaker 1: While a group of college position players that look promising
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: coming into the year didn't quite pan out, although I
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: think there will be a lot of you to be
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: found in that group towards the end of the first round. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know that's a real general perspective, but man, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound good for a team of the twelfth overall pick.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think when you read that Mark Keith
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: has a lot of experience doing this? Keith has you know,
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: he's got a lot of opinions generally, and not all
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: of them are on the you know, what did you.
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  Speaker 2: Say last episode?
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  Speaker 3: Or I'm awfully chipper or class Sure, so I think
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  Speaker 3: Keith can air on the side of negativity. Yeah, negativity.
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  Speaker 3: So in this case, I'm not too surprised. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: he's not been right all the time, but he is,
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: you know, the one of the absolute go tos, and
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: he gets fed a lot of information, spends a lot
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: of time doing this. So in this case, I would
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  Speaker 3: say that there's probably truth to this. But if the Angels,
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know. The top three teams are also in
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: somewhat of a conundrum personally. I you know, a guy
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  Speaker 3: like Rock Chilowski was a shoe in one one his
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  Speaker 3: swing towards the end of the season, especially like the
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  Speaker 3: regionals and Super Regional the playoffs for college. I saw
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  Speaker 3: a swing that didn't resemble the one that I had
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  Speaker 3: really liked previously. Really inside out, seemed like kind of
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  Speaker 3: a chicken wing. And I think that other teams we're
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  Speaker 3: seeing that too, So there's been some shuffling. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if we have the order or projected order that
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  Speaker 3: we can show at some point. But my guy von Lackey,
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  Speaker 3: and I say my guy, but I identified why it was
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  Speaker 3: a while back.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was you called that one in spring training.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you credit for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Von Lackey and Flora. The picture out of Santa Barbara
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  Speaker 3: are both their stock is elevated, so I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they're in play anymore. And then Garcia, the other guy,
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  Speaker 3: the outfielder I picked. His name still gets mentioned a bit,
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  Speaker 3: but he seems to have fallen off in maybe a
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  Speaker 3: late first round type now. So I will probably go
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  Speaker 3: over three with my early predictions, except two of them
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  Speaker 3: turned out to have very nice seasons. Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's to get you familiar with some of the
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  Speaker 1: names we're going to be talking about, at least for
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  Speaker 1: you guys watching on YouTube. This was MLB dot COM's
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  Speaker 1: top amateur prospects rankings not too long ago. As you said,
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  Speaker 1: Rock Cholowski, I think seems to be the number one
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  Speaker 1: consensus number one pick now. Grady Emerson von Lackey from
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech, Jackson Flora, UC Santa Barbara Pitcher, Drew Burress,
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  Speaker 1: a Georgia Tech outfielder, Geo Rojas, a left hander from
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  Speaker 1: Florida in high school, another big name, Justin Lebron very
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  Speaker 1: much linked with the Angels, a college shortstop Alabama, Tyler Bell,
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  Speaker 1: another shortstop from Kentucky, And Derek curry El, an outfielder
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  Speaker 1: from LSU who, as like Lebron, has been linked with
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  Speaker 1: the Angels. So there are a lot of mock drafts,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, it's hard to put a lot of stock
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  Speaker 1: into these mock drafts because a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 1: a guy could go at number three or maybe be
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  Speaker 1: at number six who you didn't expect, and the whole
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  Speaker 1: order changes. It's just a real crap shoot with baseball
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  Speaker 1: more so than I think the other two major sports,
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  Speaker 1: so as far as you know, for what they're worth.
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  Speaker 1: Keith Law and his mock draft as of two days ago,
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  Speaker 1: had the Angels taking the LSU outfielder Derek CURRYL Mark
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  Speaker 1: informs me that he might have changed that this morning.
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  Speaker 3: It's now Liam Peterson. But yeah, I like, let's go
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  Speaker 3: with the one, the second to.
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  Speaker 2: Last previous one. Okay, I prefer that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball America and Kylie McDaniel of ESPN had the Angels
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  Speaker 1: taking the Alabama shortstop Justin Lebron and fangrafts. They do
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  Speaker 1: a mock draft too. Now they have the Angels taking
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  Speaker 1: oh Mason Edwards, the USC left hander. So interesting, Let's
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  Speaker 1: dive in a little more, at least on these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Derek curryel seems to have more of a hit over
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  Speaker 1: power tool, very high potential out of high school, but
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  Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't sign, goes to LSU and helps
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  Speaker 1: them to the College Rule Series title. A lean, left
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  Speaker 1: handed hitter with excellent back to ball skills, he uses
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  Speaker 1: a fluid stroke and mature approach to spray hard line
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  Speaker 1: drives all over the field. His swing is somewhat flat,
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  Speaker 1: and he may not have more than average strength or
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  Speaker 1: bat speed, so he might not deliver more than twelve
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  Speaker 1: to fifteen homers per season. He resembles Christian Yelich at
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the same age. Those scouts are skeptical that Kurio can
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  Speaker 1: match the power gains Yellow Yellows made early in his career. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when I read that report, Mark the one guy that
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  Speaker 1: jumped into my head, especially with the flat bat as
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  Speaker 1: a lefty, right this guy hits left handed, correct? Was
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  Speaker 1: Darreners said? Darreners said that very much described as a
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  Speaker 1: flat bat lefty. And I that was my first year
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  Speaker 1: on the beat in ninety five when they picked him
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  Speaker 1: one first overall, and that's the first time I heard
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  Speaker 1: that term.
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  Speaker 2: Is that? Is that? Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Is that a good thing at this stage of his career?
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  Speaker 1: Or the way the game has changed and and veered
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  Speaker 1: toward power and launch angles? Is that gonna made me
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  Speaker 1: haunt him a little bit?
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  Speaker 2: This is a great thing.
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  Speaker 3: I saw this young man what he was at Orange
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  Speaker 3: Lutheran playing right Heart Park. I didn't know who he
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  Speaker 3: was at the time. I was there to see opposing
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  Speaker 3: player that was playing Orange Lutheran and I was, you
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  Speaker 3: can't help, but you know, notice some talent out there
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  Speaker 3: or is it from a very highly ranked program? And
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  Speaker 3: I said, hey, remember that kid is in center field.
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  Speaker 3: He's a ballplayer. I didn't know the name, didn't know
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  Speaker 3: anything about him just said, you know, I like what
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: I see. That's he's got the look and preparing for this.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Looking at this guy Curry l and I'm like Lsu
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: probably from who knows where, Texas, Louisiana, Florida. Oh wait, no,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I've actually seen this guy in person and I liked
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: him then. I like him even more now. I think
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the earthst Dead comp is way better. The Yellow Yellows
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: is a much taller guy. You know, he's eyed eye
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: with me and very lanky, So I wouldn't. I don't
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: know where that comp really really came from. I think
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: that this guy is hard nosed. He's a human highlight
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: reel in center field. Excellent defense, and I the flat swing.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: If the flat swing is simply controlling the barrel and
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: not having a droopy, you know, cage bomb swing, sign
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: me up. This guy can hit. He can use the
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: whole field. I see the potential to hit. Yeah, fifteen
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: twenty home runs. It's talked about as if that's that's
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: just not cutting it anymore.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: But for.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I guess a guy like Pete crow Armstrong is the
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: you know, the current model of you know, he saves
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: a million runs on defense, he does hit homers, So
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: you know, with these balls, well maybe at some point
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: get into why you know, maybe more home runs again,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: more offensive, but I wouldn't worry about that. I think
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: that the Angels fans would love to have this guy.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I think the Angels would love to have this guy
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: if he's there. I don't know if he will be,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: but he'd probably be number one on my list.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 19:46
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  Speaker 1: And welcome back to Halo territory. With Mark Trumbo and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Mike Digivano On the other guy, the Angels have been
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: heavily linked to her too. Is Justin Lebron, the Alabama shortstop,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and let's read a little bit more about him. The
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: only knock on Lebron is a tendency to chase pitches
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: out of the zone, especially breaking balls. He made more
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: contact as a junior, but also about just two twenty
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: nine in the Southeastern Conference play as a junior, leading
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to questions about his long term hitting ability. He has
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: added fifteen pounds and significant bat speed in college, giving
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: him well above average raw power from the right side
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: of the plate, and he also has a good feel
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: for driving balls in the air. Now, unlike Curriel, this
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: is more of a power over hit tool. Looks like
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the speed is really good. They give my seventy grade
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: here arm very good. Defense looks good, Mark, what have
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: you heard about Justin Lebron And this is a guy
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: who might be available? I think when the Angels are picking.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: To twenty nine in conference a little low. He's a nice,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: nice ballplayer. Nevertheless, you look at a guy and with
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: his makeup and his build, or at least you know
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: what his on field looks like, and you can easily
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: see a good big leaguer in there. I think the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: instincts at shortstop looked very good. Tremendous athlete, natural bass stealer,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: probably still a ton of bases for whoever chooses to
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: select him. The hitting in particular, I think that they
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: were quite accurate with what I saw watching as much
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: video as I could, and he seems to pull a
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: lot of pitches, especially balls that are on the black
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: or more away, and we've seen that a lot with
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: a team. Is the thing about drafting a guy with
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: played discipline issues and as someone who was never good
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: at it personally tried to get better at it, asked
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: everybody I could've talked to some of these things before
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: but it's a hard skill to learn. And if I
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: had a preference, and I was drafting high and picking
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: between multiple players, I would probably prefer someone that may
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: not have that issue.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: But sometimes the tools. Seventy grade raw power is enormous.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: That that can you know, you translate that to thirty
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: plus home runs. So if you combine that with excellent
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: defense and maybe you know about an average that that
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: a bit on the lower sides, a lot of teams
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: would still you know, take that. So he's not a
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: player without flaws, but apparently one that the Angels are
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: are in on. You know, we'll see, but there's there's
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: plenty of other good players as well.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mark did not do Mark draft, but he broke
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: down his in doing his research, and I'm gonna let
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: him sort of take over the show from here on.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: He he he brings. He breaks it down into guys
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the Angels may have a realistic chance of drafting a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: couple of long shots and a couple of wild cards,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and they're all pretty interesting. So Mark, why don't you.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Sort of take it over.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of guys who you think will be
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: available in that twelve spot that you think the Angels
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: should go after. And one of them we just talked
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: about was Justin Lebron. The other is a pitch another
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: outfielder named Sawyer Strausnider from TCU.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: What do you know about him?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: A big guy, big left handed hitter, very athletic. I'll
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: try and stop he isn't the word athletic, but it's true.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I mean these there are a few guys that are
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: more I don't know, they're not skiffs, but that first
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: in the as apparently everyone likes to put them, you know,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: elite that to ball skills, great play, discipline and maybe
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: lacking on the on the defensive side, and so some
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: teams don't mind that. I think with the way the
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: current game is, it's a fast game, it's an athletic game,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: and the better teams that we've seen this year, I'll
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: the things that the one thing that they really have
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: in common, at least to me, is they play premium defense.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: So I think a guy like Strasneider fits that mold.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: He's got huge power and for an organization, you know,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: we're taking best available player, and I think that's one
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: of the things that is somewhat hard to kind of
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: get away from. This organization. What are they really lacking
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: at the lower levels is power and you know power head.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: This guy is, you know the definition of it. He's got.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: One of the knocks on was a long swing, and
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of swings. I would have to
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: say I disagree. It look like a repeatable swing to me.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I think he had a slight performance dip this year
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: to start. The batting average was a little below three
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: hundred for college. That's that's a little late, but still
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: a very nice player and one that most definitely will
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: be available. I believe when they pick he was. Some
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: of these guys were way up there in the beginning
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: of the year high first round and then the you
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: know the names of here and vice versa. So he
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: made some sense to me. I got a couple of
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: long shots, if you.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, geah, I was just gonna ask you about them.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: These are guys who you never know. I mean, there
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: could be signability issues whatever. Tyler Bell, John John Mzilik,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: as we said, sorry to rupt, has said they're going
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to take the best available guy, no matter what. I
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: assume that means, you know, financially too. So if these guys.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Are available, they probably will not be disclaimer, but a
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: few of them, and I'll make it quick because you
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: know you don't want to keep watching on. But Tyler
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Bell is a shortstop out of Kentucky. He's going to
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: need surgery on his non throwing shoulder. It's going to
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: sideline him for a few months. It shouldn't be a
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: big deal. He's the guy that at least for potentially
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: could fall to the Angels. I liked him the most.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: He's a switch hitter, tremendous. I mean the ball the
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: old school, but the ball sounds loud off his bat.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Even watching you know on video, you can clearly he's
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: got the quick twitch, wrists, plays tremendous defense. Premium player.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Looks like an All star to me, somebody's really going
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: to enjoy him, probably not going to be the Angels.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Go Rojas is a high school left handed pitcher from Georgia.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Heavily linked to the Braves, and I can see why.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: He's got a tremendous fastball, long loose action. He's not
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: quite the low three quarter sail type, but a little
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: bit like that. He seems to have a very repeatable
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: mechanical delivery, which is great, especially for a high school guy.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: You're not gonna have to spend a inordinate amount of
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: time trying to polish anything up and the fastball explodes.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I hate to say Randy Johnson, but you know the
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: kind of the Randy Johnson release where it just it's
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: not as tall, but there are some similarities there. He's
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: got a nice breaking ball to compliment it, so he'd
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: be great. He probably again won't be there. And one
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: other guy is Buris. He's a very interesting player. Five
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: eight listed looks generous, really yeah, but I mean he's perplexing.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: He's probably going to be picked before this too. Just
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: a tremendous ability to hit the ball in the air
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: and in a good way too. And he's always on
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: time for the fastball. I heard some comments he made
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: about it, but it's this compact package doesn't exactly look
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: the part. Where like Straschneider is a big, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: physical presence. I think Burris is a guy has probably
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: been underestimated his whole career, but he's got as much
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: power as anybody, maybe the most power in the draft.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Five eight plays a good enough center field. I don't
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: think he plays defense as well as Careell, but if
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: he's available. I think they'd absolutely take him there too.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: He doesn't just pull the ball. He's got I saw
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: a line to line power legitimately right down the right
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: field line. So nice ballplayer long shots, you know. So
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: those guys will probably be taken before this.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Who do you like to some of your wild cards?
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Some of these guys who could go anywhere in the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: first round. Sounds like you just never know some of
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: these kids. Some teams may love them, some teams may
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: not even have them on their first round board.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: What do you got there? I have a few names.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Cameron Fluky, right handed college pitcher East Carolina.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: He's got a big.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Arm, and he likes to celebrate when he punches guys out.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: He's a big, animated presence. But that's virtually all of
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: these guys now a little bit tough to totally disregard
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: as someone who's If you watch the show regularly, probably
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: know that it's.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Not my favorite thing.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: But it is a thing, And from what I understand,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: the scouts these days don't view it as negatively as
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: maybe I thought they did. A lot of it gets
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: cleaned up once you get into the pro ball system.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: You're playing in one hundred and some degree heat. You've
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: got to go out there and put up numbers, so
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: there's not a lot of extra energy for the hooton
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: and hollering. Plus everyone's really good around you, you know,
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: always the big dog. But Fluga's got the stuff. You know,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: he's got premium heat. There might be some injury concerns
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: with him and the makeup. As I said, you know,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: somebody else can to figure that out. And then a
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: local kid is even more perplexing and is projected to
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: go quite high Jared grid Langer from Huntington Beach High School.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Apparently very intent on being a two way player, not
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: just a hypothetical. They I mean either heat his desire,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: or his agent or some collection. But I think the
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: arm is better than the bat. He's seventeen years old,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: so some of these things I'm trying to build in
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: some grace. Looks like he's still developing some coordination. Very lanky,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: kind of loose.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: As a seventeen year old.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they said the bats feed. It's not elite
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: kind of it's he looks like a guy that's still
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: maturing and he's very young, but he's could be a
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: guy taken possibly even before the Angels pick. I think
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: if you're an organization like the Padres do this a lot,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: they'll take players that have huge projection. But maybe or
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: you know, James Woods, they traded them away. He's lighting
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: it up for the Nationals.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: You know, very six seven, big guy in the previous drafts.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Probably gonna blank on the name, but Cruse school Craft.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: He's six' ten or. So so The padres are one
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: team that would, be you, know for, me a natural
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: fit for a guy like this who has a very high.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Ceiling BUT i don't know what.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: The floor is. Either it could be you, know any.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Anything so these are guys that. Whatever BUT i think
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: it probably may the most sense to Highlight Mason. Edwards
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: AND i don't know if you have any information on
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: him A, Usc.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah we do have a. Little i'm not. Sure
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: who sounds like to? Me fastball Fifty it sounds like
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: it's around ninety. Two sometimes touches ninety. Five, curveball great
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: of the, sixty change up fifty. Five in many, Ways
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: edward just fits the prototype of a college lefty with
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: a feel for. Pitching he has a solid three pitch
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: mix and knows how to use it. Effectively while his
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: fastball typically sits in the ninety one to ninety three
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: mile in our, range he can touch ninety. Five there
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: is some carry and darkness to his. Heater i'm not
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: sure what that. MEANS i know these scouts are always
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: trying to invent new. Terms Maybe mark can shed some
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: light on what that. Means he had a thirty percent
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: miss rate on the pitch in twenty twenty. Five he'll
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: throw a slurvy breaking ball around eighty and the curve
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: flashes as a plus pitch with excellent. SPIN i DON'T
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: i saw some very few clips of this guy at s.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: See almost reminds me of a Read debtver's type coming
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: out of. COLLEGE i might be. WRONG i don't know
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: where did you sort of have this guy in terms,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: of you, know. Prospect he's a very nice.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: PLAYER i probably would have pegged him a few picks,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: behind maybe sixteen, seventeen but that's going off of limited.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Information WHAT i did see as an absolutely outstanding secondary,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: pitch and that slider slurve breaking ball really a pitch
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: that's going to generate a ton of swing and. Miss
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: the fastball is not going to light up the radar
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: gun like some of these other. Guys he doesn't look
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: like a max effort guy. Either he looks like somebody
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: who could be a quick riser through the. System AND
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: i hesitate to say that with this, organization but you
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: know what a quick riser that the good way to
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: go about is a guy that dominates performance. Wise i'm
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: not gonna you, know there's A mariner's. Prospect we've talked
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: about him many, Times Kate. Anderson you, know he's developing
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: and forcing the. Issue it's not the other way. Around
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: they're not forcing him into the. Fire the player is
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: dominating the level to the point that you know you
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: have to put him against better, competition and, ultimately if
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: that's the major, leagues so be. It but this might
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: be a real uh you, know this guy could be
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: the name that they do. SELECT i think that thinking
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: about what The angels, need, well they need, everything so
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: it's much easier to go by a position LIKE i
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: guess they have. Previously WHEN i was trying to figure
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: out these, names it's almost impossible not to think about
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: what the current need is at the major league. System
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: so it's a hard concept to get away from because
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: you can, see you, know WHEN i was coming. Up
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: there were multiple prospects at shortstop Yet Eric ibar And,
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: kaspo and there were guys that always. PUSHING i think
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: that's a good thing to have in a, system is
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: to have multiple same position, guys because you have to
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: look over your. Shoulder you can't get. COMFORTABLE i don't
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: think they have any first base prospects That i've. Seen
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: you do Have, nolan who's the youngest. Guy BUT i
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: remember WHEN i was, THERE. Cj cron was drafted and
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: it was and that, yeah, well but that's a pretty
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: good sign that they value the. Player you're not going
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: to preak a guy that. High SO i think in
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: the name that that just so we get can cover.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: At Liam peterson is The Keith laws most Recent he's
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: a max effort delivery. Guy he's got the hard, fastball
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: but he Will i'm not trying to say anything negative about.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Him is it maybe translates to a great number two
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: starter in the major. Leagues BUT i saw some control
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: issues those were noted by other. People and he leans
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: on his slider a. Ton so my biggest fear is
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: a guy like that is five, innings one hundred.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Pitches have you ever seen that? Before?
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, BOY a couple of Times i've seen four innings
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: one hundred.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Pitches, well there's that would be WHAT i would WHEN
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: i see a guy that the, guys you, know they're
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: just hardwired to go for the punch to the bitter,
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: end and that's one way to get. Out but you
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: want to keep your defense engaged and other. Things watching
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: six sliders in a, Row maybe you do punch the guy,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: out maybe you walk. HIM i like guys that have
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: the fastball command, first AND i think that that if
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: it would be my. Preference drafting high high Ish now,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: TWELVE i, MEAN i have a question for.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: You.
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  Speaker 3: Twelve it's a nice place to, pick but you're not
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: going to get the best player in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: There, yeah you don't want to pass.
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  Speaker 1: Either they've had a lot of those mid ROUND i,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: mean they've had a lot of fifteens over the last.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Decade you, know to Other, Ward, matt this were both.
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  Speaker 1: TAKEN i think with the fifteen to sixteenth. Pick Debt
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: MERZ i believe was tenth, Overall more was. Eight so,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: yeah you're you're just beyond that cream of the, crop you,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Know Paul skins type Or Kate anderson, type and you you're,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: yeah you don't want to you don't want to miss.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: That to, me in that, pick you have to take
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  Speaker 1: the best, player regardless of. POSITION i THINK i think
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: that's the way The angels are going to go about
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: it this. YEAR i hope that's the way they go
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: about it this. YEAR i just can't see any other,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: way especially when as you as you've made note of
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: they they need everything and and you, know, yeah most
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: of these great infielders come up to. Shortstops they're often
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: drafted to. Shortstops if you have a backlog of, shortstops
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: you move one to second, base maybe one has the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: power to play third, base maybe one moves the. Outfield
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: you never. Know shortstops are generally you're better athletes on the,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Field so there's some versatility with with draft picks like.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: That so it's gonna be really, interesting and we're gonna
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: be back On monday to wrap it all up and
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: we'll be able to talk about who The angels actually
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: selected and a little bit more about The All Star
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: game next. Week so that's gonna do it for today
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: On Halo. Territory enjoy the, Draft enjoy The All Star,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: game And Mike troutz returned To. Philadelphia that should be pretty.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Interesting we'll see you next week On Halo. Territory