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All-Transfer Player Draft 2026 | Ep. 003 · College Baseball Now

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Speaker 1: On today's episode, we're drafting teams of all transferred players.
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The portal is hot and so are the guys, So
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let's get to it. Yeah, there ain't no problems.
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Speaker 2: I ain't no problems. Don't want problem, you know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let me talk to check. They know what was
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gone for a minute.
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Speaker 1: I had to be out beat, didn't grab a couple
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wins with.
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Speaker 4: A D I D just even know the kid.
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Speaker 1: I had to do a B I G D.
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Speaker 3: I can never be average and they want a problem
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with the boy. They don't want no status.
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Speaker 1: I don't need so coach soon running weak God, I
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want to test that to them what's hand and to
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control run the gantic best believe him shining dogs counting
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now my wins.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it when they.
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Speaker 4: Count me o out counting.
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Speaker 2: I'm the least such shame.
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Speaker 1: Why men at gods best believe I run the game?
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Speaker 2: You know I wanna be keep so lead.
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Speaker 3: Off that magic believe.
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Speaker 1: I want to get static understand. It just doesn't stop,
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It just doesn't stop. I love it. It's insane, guys.
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It's college baseball now, prospects lives very first, very only.
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It's our only n CUA a college Baseball podcast, and
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we're here with you today. Happy to be with you.
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It is of course your friend, your host, your boy,
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Drew Wheeler. Glad to be here with you and with
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me are three of our brightest guys on the draft team.
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We had so much fun in the last episode we
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had to run it back, so the whole crew is
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with us again. Uh, starting, of course with a gentleman
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who is on my right. It is mister Josh Catlet. Josh,
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what is your favorite food to eat on Thanksgiving?
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Speaker 3: Oh, my uncle Wayne. It's just really good dressing. That's
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like a cornbread dressing. That's always my favorite. I Oh,
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that are like a my mom. It's it's not like
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a traditional macan. I mean food that like everyone has.
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My mom a really good mac and cheese, so that
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that's always that's always a slam dunk.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, like my my.
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Speaker 3: Uncle's corn bread dressing. It's been passing my family forever.
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It's yeah, one hundred percent of my favorite.
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Speaker 1: Josh, I'm gonna tell you you were you are in
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the company of at least two Southern boys. I know
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JB is kind of in the peripheral South, but he's
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JB's California originally, if I'm not mistaken, right, so is
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traditional Thanksgiving, So don't get it twisted. But man, shout
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out Uncle Wayne. The dressing sounds killer, and we're gonna
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we're gonna hopefully have some more killer stuff coming up later.
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The whole Catch family can enjoy. Uh right over there.
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We just talked about him a minute ago. He's from California,
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so I'm curious what this answer is gonna be. But
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Thanksgiving is good everywhere. JB. Sebastiano tell us your favorite
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Thanksgiving food?
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Speaker 4: My man, Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with a
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good old sweet potato casserole. It's been something that every Thanksgiving,
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no matter where I go, they got it, and it's
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it's one of my favorites. So I gotta go with
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that classic.
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Speaker 1: My boy, I love it a little bit of sweet,
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little bit of savory. It's good stuff.
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Speaker 2: Beneath me.
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Speaker 1: The only man who could be as hyped to see
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Kirby Connell in the intro every single week. Your friend
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of mine, Jake Barjorie, Jake. The best Thanksgiving food is blink.
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Speaker 2: You know I'm gonna I'm gonna go chalk here.
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Speaker 5: I mean, if you have a good turkey, then you're
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gonna have a good Thanksgiving meal, right, Yeah, I mean
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you got.
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Speaker 2: The sods are a lot of the time, the sids
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are what makes it. But if you have a good turkey,
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you're gonna have a good meal.
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Speaker 1: Bad turkey, bad time. I'm a firm believer in that.
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So yes, it is, of course November not quite Thanksgiving.
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We're still about week and a half out, and yet
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November is perfect time to talk college baseball. So today
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what we're doing, guys, is we are doing a transfer
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player's only draft. The way that this works is earlier
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this week we kind of all collaborated on the concept.
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We are having to draft players who are transferring from
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twenty twenty five to twenty twenty six. They're playing with
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a new school in the fourth coming season. Obviously, we
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don't everybody draft ten infielders, so we've limited it to
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four infielders, three outfielders, three pitchers. Whether it's a starter
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or reliever, we're not sure because that role could shift. Obviously,
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the very nature of college baseball that shifts a little
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bit more year to year than it does in the
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professional ranks. Obviously, alas we have already also sorted the
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draft order for this, and because we're talking forty transfer players,
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we don't want to keep you guys for six hours.
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Like I know the four of us would love to
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really cut deep on these players, but we're gonna give
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you just a little bit of sauce on everybody to
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satiate your palette before we get into Thanksgiving, just a
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little bit of young yng yum with this transfer portal chat.
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So the draft order, I know you're all itching to
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hear it. Picking number one, mister Catlin, he got the
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first pick by hook and by crook, somehow managed to
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miss out on all of the tie breakers and yet
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gets the number one picks, So that's very nice. Jake
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is gonna pick number two, JB is gonna pick third.
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I'm gonna have the elbow and it snakes because this
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is America. So with no other notes. Oh there was
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one other note, wasn't there? Because we didn't want to
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keep it to all the major conferences. We wanted to
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include some mid major love. So every team must include
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at least three mid major players, which means obviously, let's say,
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for instance, Jake transfers from the University of Tennessee to
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UMass for say, that is fine. He's going to a
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non power conference. That is a legal swap. Obviously non
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to none is also fine. No other questions. I believe
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we're gonna kick it to Josh for pick number one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to either pick one or two depending
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on how this draft order, you know, hand out. But Cavin, look,
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I mean Kevin handy that I didn't know the way
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of your dog, and I yeah, way underestimated it. But
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you know what, it worked out because I got the
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number one, and I think there's a clear one one
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in this draft. I'm gonna take Chris Acopian, third baseman
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or short stop coming from Maryland going to Texas, A
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and M. I mean he has a plus hit tool.
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He has plus power. Last year he slashed three seventy
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five five oh two six fifty six with fourteen home
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runs and ran a one to thirty six WRC plus
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at Maryland. I mean that's even at the Big ten level.
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I know it's not the NBC or a SEC. That's
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ridiculous stuff. He literally never strikes out. He had like
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a eleven percent with right on the Cape this summer
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or something like that. I mean, he's legit. I think
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it's the clear one one in this draft.
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Speaker 1: I love it. Uh Again, guys, we're not gonna chat
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a lot about each of these guys because we do
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want to get through forty players here for you. So
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we are going to go on ahead to Jake for
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the second pick of the draft. Jake Jacopia one, number one.
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I'm curious if we're going to keep it, keep it
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close to the top, or if you're going to mix
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it up here? Man, what's the what's the plan?
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I am gonna keep it close to
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the top. I think there was a clear one and
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two and it kind of opens up a little bit after.
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Speaker 2: I'm going with a j.
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Speaker 5: Garcia, uh, going from Duke to Virginia following Coach Pollard
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over there. He's just he's got a tall stance, simple
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old you know, beautiful batpath. The thing with him offensively,
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he's a very patient hitter and he and he draws
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a really high walk rates because of it. But not
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only is he patient, he's got you know, he's hit
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fourteen to fifteen home runs the last two years on
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base percentages four forty plus the last two years as well.
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You know, defensively, he's got a chance to, you know,
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play all three spots. I think he settles in more
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of a corner at the next level. But for the
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sake of this year at Virginia, I think he's got
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every chance to play center field. He's ranked as a
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number four college player for a reason. I think he's
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got the upside to be a top five pick this year.
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And it's gonna it's gonna be a lot of fun
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to watch him over there.
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Speaker 1: If you say so, I'll have to take your word
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for that. It's gonna be fun to watch him. No,
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it's gonna be great to see Grassia.
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Speaker 2: Get at it. JB.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to you now for pick number three.
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Speaker 4: What you got in mind, buddy, Yeah, I'm gonna go
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the first off the beaten path. Probably here for a
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lot of people.
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Speaker 1: I got TJ.
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Speaker 4: Pompey from Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: Pompey was the guy for the came from.
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Speaker 4: Texas Tech, who was injured last year, had a really
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hot start to last year, cut down the chase rates
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a lot better on the K numbers. He's shown the
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high evs and the the batchball skills improvement that he needed.
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I think he takes over for Iredale at third base
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most likely, or he could play short for a loy.
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He was better at short defensively at Texas Tech. But
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I know that's a little a little off the path.
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But he was a guy that I really liked at
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Texas Tech last year.
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Speaker 1: So it's interesting that you're calling Pompeii off the path, because, guys,
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I decided as soon as we figured out this concept,
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I'm gonna game this draft and I'm going to take
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two of my mid majors back to back. That way
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I can pick and choose from all the power guys later.
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So let's start with a pitcher, because I think that's
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a bit more narrow. But I do see some positive
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for mister Laith Palmer, who is transferring to cal Poly Laife.
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Was used primarily as a reliever last year. Out of
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twenty nine innings pitched, really struggled to keep the ball
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on the zone. But I think that the fastball and
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slider can work for him. He's obviously transferring, like I said,
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from Oregon State to cal Poly keeping it on the
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West Coast. I do really like that batter struggled to
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hit him, They struggled to square him up. So if
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we can get more strike throwing, more living in the zone.
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I really think we could see a lot of good
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stuff for him. It was just about a thirteen percent
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walk rate, which led to a K minus walk crate
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of three point seven percent. Could be better. That said,
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I like what Laith Palmer could do, and that fastball
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has a lot of movement. It really pairs well with
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the slider. He's electric on the mound. Curious see what
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cal Poly does with him. So that's gonna be my
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first choice. And then I am gonna take a transfer
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bat as well. And oh man, I'm almost choosing between two.
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Speaker 2: I did.
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Speaker 1: I thought one of you would surely maybe jack this
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strategy here. Okay, we're gonna go with Trent Rumley, who
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is transferring to Campbell University. So Trent Rumley, the thing
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that I liked the most about him is that he
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really had an immaculate slash line three forty seven, four
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point thirty slug six twelve last year. Guys, that's an
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isolated power metric of two sixty five. Speed was okay,
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had about a five point nine speed score, stole nine bases,
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hit ten home runs forty point seven, so just about
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forty one percent extra base hits out of Trent Rumley,
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primarily a doubles guy, certainly not the wheels for triples
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on the regularity. Uh. Like I said, transferring from Canisis
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to Campbell, Rumley's gonna probably be one of their corner
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infield sorts, although he has played shortstop in the past.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Either here nor They're excited to see what he does.
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I really think these are two guys that could kind
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of make a bit of a splash going forward. So
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maybe Drel looks smarter, maybe he looks really dumb for
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giving away too really top tier transfer talents alliteration. We're
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gonna go to j B now for your second pick.
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Who you got pal?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, following you Now, I'm going with another guy's transfer
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to mid major from a power school, Luke Jackson from
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Texas A and M going to Dallas Baptist. Luke Jackson
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has a mid nineties fastball, drew sixty percent ground ball
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rate last year in two hundred and eighty six pitches.
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The slider is a hard, sweepy, sweepy ish slider with
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negative ten hors It drew forty two percent with right
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I think Jackson at Dallas Baptist they could kind of
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fix him up a little bit to throw more strikes,
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get a little bit more with by upping the slider
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usage and keeping the ball on the ground with the
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fastball is always a great thing too.
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Speaker 2: Nice.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's gonna take us to Jake. Jake, are you
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gonna keep the mid major stretch going? Or are you
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going back to the power conferences?
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Speaker 5: I mean, you guys are the guys are flying off
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the board. I think I am gonna have to take
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a mid major guy. I'm gonna go with Chase Swain,
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third baseman, slash shortstop. He was West Virginia starting third
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basement last year. He's transferring to LaSalle College here there
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really close to me in Philadelphia. They I think it's
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well known by now, but you know they lost their
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program back in COVID and they are just now getting
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it back this year. Chase Swain, he was with he
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was with coach David Miller. A really great guy. I
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got to meet him a couple of weeks ago, but
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he was with coach Miller back in twenty twenty four
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at Manhattan. Transferred to West Virginia, had a pretty big
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year with them. Coach Miller got him to join him
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at at LASAL this year. Swain's a really good athlete,
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salad defender on the left side of the infield.
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Speaker 2: Can play centerfield.
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Speaker 5: Also, and you know he's gonna be in Lasal's every
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day starting lineup and he should have a nice productive
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year for him.
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Speaker 1: Gotta love it. Hey, we'll take that for sure. Chase Slain,
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Josh to you for two picks, and I'm curious you've
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got two. Surely you're gonna go mid major with one
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of them, or you're gonna load up this team and
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make the Twitter graphic nice and pretty.
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Speaker 3: I'm I'm doing the ladder because I can't lie what
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what's going on? Ever since my pick. Never in a
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million years that I imagine that house is gonna go.
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Speaker 1: I told him, you didn't expect like Palmer first round.
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Speaker 3: No, I didn't expect any of the guys that went
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after me besides Grossia. Grossia was the clear number two
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any like Pompey. Sure any of the other guys going
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this early is nuts. So I'm gonna load up the
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Twitter graphic. Uh my second pick, I'll go with Aiden Robbins,
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outfielder coming from Seaton Hall going to Texas. I mean
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everyone's falling in love with him recently. I mean, like
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he he had some issues with issues on the cape,
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but he won the batting time ultimately, and so it
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just took the nation by storm. Everyone following prop just
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falling in love with him. He slashed four twenty two,
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five thirty seven, six fifty two with a one forty
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two WRC plus at Seatonhole last year. That's just ridiculous stuff.
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No matter which way you slice it, I can't. I
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can't imagine he won't produce at Texas this year. I'm
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not as high on him as a lot of people are,
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but I mean, if he's gonna fall into my lap
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right here, I have to take him and then my
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wrap round pick. I'm gonna go with my first arm.
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I'm gonna take Trey Beard going to Florida State from FAU.
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I have him ranked as my number ten college arm overall,
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not just transfers, but just prospects overall. Last year at FAU,
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he had a three fourteen ERA with a one oh
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eight and one hundred and eighteen k's Uh. He launched
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us from a higher arm slot. He's a fastball, change up, slider,
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curveball guy. Uh. It's got it's like a funky change
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up shape, but it works so effectively. It has an
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insane sixteen mile an hour drop off. I mean, like
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it's consistent arm speech. So that's why guys can't pick
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up on it obvioussume that's gonna be the same thing
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when he's at Florida State. I mean, he has real
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put out stuff that should play well on the BCC.
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So I'll I'll take him off my board and I
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can't believe what's falling into my lap. Not complaining, it's
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just sure, I guess.
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Speaker 1: So here's the thing, Josh, Is it going to eventually
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bite you? Or are you still looking at a lot
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of your mid major targets.
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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I mean, like I had some
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mid major guys that were definitely off the beaten path
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beforehand that I think are just with Like a couple
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of them at least are just fun guys in my
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eyes that I just like want to be able to
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keep my eye on. I do think they'll do well.
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So I mean, if y'all are gonna take these mid majors,
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I will gladly take the bigger names. By all means, I.
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Speaker 1: Want to say this round may go a little different, Jake.
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Of course, it will be you to dictate how the
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round continues to go after Josh doubles up, Aiden Robbins
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Trey Beard. So, Jake, where are we going now?
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Speaker 5: I really like the trade Beard pick. I was hoping
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I could get him later. I didn't expect him to
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go this early. But I'm gonna go with the uh
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the top arm that I think I have on my
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board here. Logan Ridamond going back into the the Power
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conferences with him transferring from San Diego into UCLA.
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Speaker 2: He pitched.
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Speaker 5: He pitched well on the Cape this year at twenty
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two innings, twenty five strikeouts, three walks. That's that's the
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name of his game, right, striking out guys, not walking guys.
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Fastball up to ninety six, has a slider change up.
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He's put up good numbers two years in a.
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Speaker 2: Row, and just the stuff just got better this year
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and he earned a spot on the UCLA roster. I
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think he's obviously got a really good chance to.
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Speaker 5: Prove himself this year in the UCLA rotation and earned
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himself some money in the process.
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Speaker 1: That's the plan for Red than for sure, certainly, Hi
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on my board as well. Jake, I'll have to have
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a word with you about that later.
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Speaker 2: JB.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to you, so man it ebbs and
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flows in there, don't it. We're going mid major and
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then we have a run on guys in the power conferences.
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Speaker 2: What are you going to do here?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna keep it going with my personal best
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arm on the board. I'm gonna take Joey Volco, who's
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going to Georgia from Stanford, true power arm. You know,
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the fastball shape isn't great, but I mean when you
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throw ninety eight to one hundred, it doesn't really matter.
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You're gonna get it by guys. It cutters a great pitch,
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mid nineties cutter, good shape as well. The real true
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challenge will be to get the secondaries there if they
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can develop a good change up in a breaking ball.
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He's a lethal arm who definitely could be a top
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two round talent in the draft. So I think it's
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gonna be great for Georgia and their staff there. I
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think it's great fun.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Indeed, we've talked about Voltco every episode thus far,
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if I'm not mistaken, certainly a popular arm, certainly one
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that everybody's looking at the electric stuff, how it's going
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to translate to the SEC. What is role is going
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to be is something else. I've been really kind of
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tickling around in the old noodle lately, So two picks
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for Drew truly chaos. I'm not sure which way to
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go here. I was really praying i'd catch an aiden
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Robbins falling. Josh certainly shot that idea in the knock,
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So I think I am going to instead. I think
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I'm gonna go back to the old classics. I think
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I'm gonna take somebody from Power Conference. We're gonna go
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with Carson Tinney Catcher transferring from Notre Dame to Texas.
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This is a guy that's got legitimate shart topping, at
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least in terms of the transfer's power. That's a fourh
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five isolated power metric. Guys a seven to fifty three
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slugging rate last year, along with seventeen home runs, fifty
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five percent extra base hits. Hello, crazy stuff. Guys got
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a decent understanding of the striking zone as well. Walked
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about seventeen percent of the time, struck out about twenty
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percent of the time, So it's workable numbers. There again,
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good contact, non negligible speed. I don't think that that's
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going to really play much for him either this year
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or in the future as he transfers to tex But
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Carson Tani as a player, I'm really excited to get
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my hands on for my team. Make that Twitter graphic
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a little more pretty, for sure. So afterwards, I think
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we are going to go back to the pool of
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a pool of mystery, and I think I'm going to
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take I think I'm gonna take another arm from the
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mid major circuit, and I'm trying to choose which I
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want here. I think I'm gonna go with Jack Brotha
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transferring from Tennessee Tech to Tulane. Brafa pitched fifty one
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and just about fifty one innings last year, mostly in
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a relief roll start at twenty five percent of his game,
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So curious what Tulane's gonna do with him. But the
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key thing with Bratha is that he really kept the
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ball in the zone, limited the free passes just about
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a six and a half percent walk create batters only
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hit two nineteen against him. Managed to have a really
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respectable set of ratios at three forty ERA with a
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one O nine whip very impressive, although Phip seemed to
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think that he was getting maybe a bit lucky there.
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The strikeouts is something else we're gonna have to work with.
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With Frankel, we'd love to see him strike out more guys.
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Of course, that said a player. I certainly think with Tulayane,
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who had a really respectable group of guys transferring in.
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I don't want to give any other ones away because
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I think I see some weird faces you guys are making.
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So I don't know if I've sniped anybody here.
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Speaker 3: If I can introject, I don't know how Jack Braford
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got taken. He was he was my top man, major pitcher.
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I don't I'm baffled that's someone else I actually took him.
20:28
But you know what, credit credit to you, Thank you, brother.
20:30
Speaker 1: I will take that credit and I will pass it
20:32
to JB. Let's hear who you got for your fourth pick?
20:36
Speaker 2: JB.
20:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna take Owen Hole. He's transferred from George
20:41
Mason to uncle or projectable centerfielder. He's athletic. I think
20:47
he's gonna be a guy wood at the top of
20:49
our order this year. He's got more power in the
20:51
tank I think than he showed at George Mason to
20:53
only eight homers last year. I think he's a true
20:56
speed power threat for UNC. And he's another guy we'll
20:59
probably get sit in the top three rounds, So beef
21:01
in him.
21:03
Speaker 1: M That was when I did see coming. I mean,
21:06
I don't want to bury the lead here. I saw
21:08
that one coming, But I mean, I think it was
21:09
a good pick. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna shout
21:11
on it because I think it was a good pick. Jake,
21:14
We're gonna throw it to you. I'm curious, man, who
21:16
you got in mind here. We've had a couple of
21:18
a couple of interesting names come off the board here.
21:20
What do you think?
21:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I have a pretty interesting name. I'm
21:24
gonna go with next to I'm gonna go with the
21:28
Virginia transfer down to Knoxville and take Henry Ford first basement,
21:35
third basement, outfield, or you can stick him kind of
21:38
wherever you want. I've heard some things that he might
21:40
be playing third base a lot for them this fall.
21:43
But you know the name of his game, it's big
21:45
power and he is gonna mash at Lindsay Nelson Field
21:50
Easy twenty homer potential.
21:52
Speaker 2: Like I said, the defensive versatility.
21:54
Speaker 5: He may not be plus at any position, but you
21:57
can put him at one of the qrner enfields spots,
22:00
one of the corner outfield spots, and he's not gonna
22:03
be a liability anywhere you put him. And uh, you know,
22:06
coaching Lander, he's gonna have a lot of fun with
22:08
having Ford in the lineup every single day.
22:12
Speaker 1: Jake, give me twenty seconds on how hype you were
22:15
to get Coach Lander locked in.
22:16
Speaker 2: As I was. I was so happy he was the
22:20
only guy, I mean, the only guy the right move. Yeah,
22:25
it had it had to be.
22:27
Speaker 1: Not to turn this into the Tennessee show in the
22:29
SEC talking yard, but GBO for life. Thank you. You're
22:33
welcome anyway, let's kick it. Oh one other questions, Jake,
22:37
you alluded to it with Ford, we're seeing him slotted
22:40
kind of everywhere. What position do you want him to
22:43
take for your draft?
22:46
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, I have to pick a position. I think.
22:48
I think I'll take him as an outfielder. I think
22:51
it's where he probably fits best.
22:53
Speaker 1: I would agree with that sentiment, all right, So that
22:56
is going to take us to Josh for back to
22:58
back selections. Josh, uh, your favorite host sniped you on
23:03
Jack Bratha. I'm curious, are you coming from my jugular here?
23:06
Please don't.
23:08
Speaker 3: I can't get over it. I really I thought that
23:12
was a lot for me. I thought that was gonna
23:13
be under the radar one, but hey, who knows. We
23:16
are gonna keep it on the SEC like, look, we're
23:18
SEC Pod at this point. It just seems to be
23:20
that way. I'm gonna go to Russell Sandefer coming from UCF,
23:25
going to Florida. He's a writing that ran a three
23:29
three a d r A and the three fifteen fit
23:31
last year at UCF. He's a sinker cutter, slider, change
23:35
up guy, launches from a lower arm slought so I
23:39
think he's a ground ball pitcher since like mid nineties.
23:42
Ish holds his veil up pretty well, taking deep enough
23:44
in the SEC games. Uh, I'm gonna assume he'll be
23:48
their Sunday starter. But that's a loaded pitching staff, I mean,
23:51
behind Peterson and King, like it's he's not ever gonna
23:55
besides injuries, you know, God forbid, He's not gonna slide
23:57
into the Friday or Saturday spot. But he should be
23:59
the Sunday starter, I would imagine and with my neck,
24:05
what do I want to do here? You know what?
24:08
I'll go what I alluded to earlier. We were talking
24:11
in the group jet earlier, JB. I'm gonna take one
24:13
of your guys, sorry about it, it's the higher one
24:15
on my board. I'm gonna take Eric Poulson coming from
24:19
Stoneybrook going to Chapel Hill. I wasn't really sure if
24:24
he was going to translate that well for being honest,
24:26
but when I saw him in person in October, I
24:28
was impressed. He's a solid Defender's got good back to
24:31
ball skills, like really solid back to ball skills for
24:35
a first baseman. The only other first basement that I
24:38
think in the college class that probably has as good
24:40
as bat to ball skills or a hit twol of
24:42
him as probably Brady Ballinger. So I mean, that's pretty
24:45
good company to be in at this point. He slugged
24:48
five eighty five last year as stoney Brook only struck
24:51
out five percent of the time. I mean, it's impressive
24:54
stuff from the lefty. I think I don't know my
24:57
graphic great right now. Personally, I'm saving the nd major guys.
25:00
Apparently my my graphic looks wonderful.
25:03
Speaker 1: It's a nice looking graphic.
25:05
Speaker 5: Uh.
25:06
Speaker 1: I think I think it'll level out, hopefully. I'm gonna
25:08
knock on desk here, Jake, curious where you're gonna go? Uh,
25:12
thus Far? Uh, maybe we should do a recap really quick, guys,
25:15
Josh thus Far, you've got a squad of Chris Acopian,
25:19
Aiden Robbins, Trey Beard, Russell Sanderfer, Eric Paulson. We're just
25:24
gonna mute you the rest of the show, Jake thus Far,
25:28
A j Garcia, Chase Swain, Logan Redaman, Henry Ford, pretty good, JB. TJ. Pompeii,
25:36
Luke Jackson, Joey volsco Owen Hall, and then Drew's team.
25:43
This is a team of players, Leif Palmer, Trent Rumley,
25:47
We've got Carson Tinny, Jack Brafa. So this is this
25:52
is a squad. That's a squad. I'll ride with those boys.
25:54
I'll ride with those boys. Jake, who's coming next to
25:56
the Jake squad?
26:00
Speaker 5: All right, I'm going to be taking a mid major
26:02
picture here. Didn't really do it on purpose, but it
26:05
is another West Virginia transfer right handed picture. Gavin van
26:11
kempin transferring from West Virginia down to ECU. It's a
26:16
big you know, he's a big strong, sixty six picture
26:21
fastball up to ninety six, pretty decent slider. You know,
26:24
he's working on a change up. I don't think he's
26:25
thrown it very much, but it's flashed at Tom's e
26:30
r A was it was kind of a down year
26:32
for him. It could be why he's, you know, not
26:34
staying at Virginia. I don't know the situation there, but
26:38
he's given the Mountaineers a lot of meaningful innings before
26:42
walks were also up last year a little bit uncharacteristic
26:44
if you look at his numbers from the past. I'd
26:47
like to see him to develop a third pitch and
26:49
hone in a little bit of control from last season.
26:51
Speaker 2: But he's got a chance at ECU to be a
26:52
real weapon for him this year.
26:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good choice for sure. Van Kempen was
26:58
a guy on my board. So interesting to see him
27:01
go like that, pick JB, We're gonna kick it to
27:03
you man, fifth pick who you got in mind?
27:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know we kind of got my pick
27:09
stolen there by Jade, So you know that that's a
27:11
great pick there. Now, I'm gonna have to panic and
27:14
switch to another mid major guy to to help me
27:16
out here.
27:17
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with m J.
27:18
Speaker 4: Sweeney, six foot eight infielder from Juco going to Wichita
27:24
State in the Northwest League. He hit over one thousand
27:27
hit and over a thousand o ps with ten homers.
27:30
Big dude, really good at EV's. He's gonna be a
27:33
big bat for them, probably gonna play first base. One
27:36
of the best Juco finds I think in this class.
27:38
So I'm gonna stick with m J.
27:39
Speaker 2: Sweeney. There.
27:41
Speaker 1: M that was impressive. I didn't expect Sweeney to go,
27:44
but I like the call, like the call. A lot
27:46
of physical gifts there too, and it's gonna be interesting
27:48
to see what happens with him come out. Just an interesting,
27:51
interesting story for sure. All Right, all right, looking at
27:56
this board. Where are we gonna go here for the
27:59
Drew squad, the Drew squad of champions. Ah, that's the one.
28:08
That's the one. Guys, We're gonna take a starting pitcher.
28:12
We're gonna take a young man who I loved watching
28:15
in last year's regional round. He's transferring from California.
28:21
Speaker 2: To Georgia.
28:22
Speaker 1: We're talking Kayden Aoki. Aoki guys, as you all well know,
28:27
primarily a starter for the Trojans, pitched ninety seven innings
28:30
last year, ninety strikeouts over that time, which equated to
28:34
just about a twenty two percent strikeout rate for him.
28:36
The real key for Aoki is he was very good
28:39
at limiting free passes, only three and a half percent
28:42
walks for him. U batters did kind of get to
28:45
him a little bit more than other pitchers we've talked
28:48
about thus far. Two forty three average against which equated
28:51
to a three ninety ninetyra FIP seemed to like him
28:53
a little better than that, and whip especially one point
28:56
one for the young man, very impressive. What I think
28:59
we're gonna from Georgia's We're gonna see some of this,
29:03
some of this magic with their staff kind of develop
29:05
him and maybe see some of that strikeout stuff tick upward.
29:08
Even against advanced I'm not gonna say advanced, that's not
29:11
the right word. Even against incredibly challenging, potentially better competition
29:15
on a regular basis, that's for other people to decide,
29:17
not exactly me. I don't want to say that again,
29:19
don't want to be an sec biased boy. I think
29:22
that Aoki is going to succeed, though, very excited to
29:24
see what he does at the University of Georgia. And
29:29
let's take a look here at what Drew needs on
29:31
the draft here, so that'll complete my pitchers. I think
29:34
Drew needs some outfield pretty bad. All right, we will
29:40
take a young man who I thought was one of
29:42
the more dynamic outfielders that I saw play last year
29:46
was with the University of Texas. Now he is going
29:50
to UCLA. We're gonna take mister Will Gasparino. I believe
29:55
it's who we're gonna go with here. I feel confident
29:58
Gasparino's who're going with. Gasprino had fifty seven percent extra
30:02
base hits last year. Fellas slugged five twelve with the
30:06
two seventy isolated power ridonculous guy hit thirteen home runs,
30:12
managed to steal five bases, has better speed than that indicates.
30:17
I want to say that it's gonna show up a
30:19
little bit more in the outfield than maybe on the
30:20
bass pats off the rip. But I do think that
30:23
he could become a little bit more of a stolen
30:25
base threat with with quality coaching. In that regard, does
30:29
stretch a single into a double with that speed. Would
30:32
like to see him manage the strikeouts a little better
30:34
as well. Now, granted, this is a guy who last
30:37
year was a freshman playing in a very high profile
30:39
situation at the University of Texas. Struck out about twenty
30:44
six percent of the time. I'm excited to see what
30:45
he does as he matures going into a team guys
30:48
that we put among the top three undisputed in the
30:52
country thus far. So Gasperino is gonna be my second choice.
30:55
I feel good. I would all right, j B, We're
30:58
gonna go to you. Man who taking round six?
31:02
Speaker 4: Well, you know I appreciate it once again for Drew
31:04
taking my pick as I was typing him in to
31:06
get the stats up. You know that was great. But
31:08
you know, I'll pivot. I'm gonna go with another infielder
31:11
for myself, slash outfielder in two way guy from Perdue
31:15
Fort Wayne. It's just an oaster house. He's going Alabama
31:18
now only struck out nineteen point four percent of the time.
31:22
He's under that twenty percent threshold. Ten percent Walker he
31:25
had a three seventy two expected slug on the season.
31:27
In his last month, he had an expected slug of
31:30
six h three.
31:32
Speaker 1: Really put on a.
31:33
Speaker 4: Show last year, had a game where he closed out
31:35
for Perdue Fort Wayne and had a three homer game,
31:37
including a grand slam. One of the top mid major
31:41
guys that transferred out into the SEC. So I'm gonna
31:44
be rocking with just an oaster House and I'll take
31:46
him in the infield.
31:47
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I'm assuming you Mada infielder. Okay, cool, cool, cool,
31:51
very good, Jake. That's gonna bring us to you. Man,
31:54
Curious where you're gonna go here? Your team is shaping
31:56
up pretty well, and you do have two of three
31:59
mid majors already selected. You're gonna wait and pick the
32:02
third one later? Uh? For now?
32:04
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm gonna take a guy. I'm pretty shocked he's
32:08
still here, to be honest, So I'm gonna jump on it.
32:12
Jared of Mikila from cal Over to Georgia Tech. He's
32:17
got some first round up side this year, elite back
32:20
to ball, accurate barrel. You know, he could stand to
32:23
be a little bit more selective in the box. I
32:25
think he you know, has he chases a little bit.
32:27
It's a little bit over aggressive at Tom's uh, but
32:30
you know, really good athlete can play a good second
32:33
base or even you know, can stick him in a
32:35
left field and a.
32:36
Speaker 2: Pinch if you need to. Some sneaky some sneaky power
32:39
there too. He's hit a.
32:40
Speaker 5: Handful of home runs for Cal, He's gonna hit a
32:44
lot for Georgia, for Georgia Tech, and honestly, that entire
32:47
team is gonna be scary this year.
32:50
Speaker 1: Hard facts. Georgia Tech is going to be a an
32:53
elite team. Josh curious, what is the shape of your
32:56
board after we've gone through another couple of rounds, and
32:59
what do you think of for your back.
33:00
Speaker 2: To back picks?
33:01
Speaker 5: Man?
33:02
Speaker 3: I actually don't know what to do here because we're continuing,
33:04
we're continuing the trend of taking the picks of the
33:07
people after us. Because I also was shocked at Bank
33:11
that was still here and so Jake just snagged him
33:13
right from me.
33:15
Speaker 2: Wat did go? Jake?
33:18
Speaker 3: Actually in a situation, I don't know what to do here.
33:21
Speaker 1: Let's go with do you want me to recap teams
33:23
real quick or recap los?
33:25
Speaker 3: No, I'm just between people like I, oh, sure you
33:28
know what I got it. I'm gonna go with my
33:31
second outfielder. And I'm gonna take Mike and new going
33:35
from Marshall to Arkansas. Uh. He's one of the more
33:39
hyped up transfers that you've heard a lot about. He
33:42
had a nine oh three OPS with fifteen home runs
33:44
last year with Marshall. He had an eight seventy two
33:47
OPS in the Cape this summer. I mean he's a
33:50
bass stealer with with good range in the outfield. I
33:53
mean he should be a key piece for them this year,
33:56
signed right into a pretty stacked outfield with another transfer
34:00
might be taken later, who knows, maybe, And this is tough.
34:13
I am going to take Tyler Liechtenberger coming from app
34:20
State going to Clemson. He should play shortstop for them
34:23
this year. He was last year's Some Belt Freshman of
34:26
the Year, batted three forty one. I mean he runs
34:30
a solid zecon He gets almost anything that's in the zone.
34:33
But I mean, like the glove is the selling point.
34:35
It's gonna be a fun watch for whoever's watching Clemson
34:38
games this year. There's like it's a well rounded team
34:40
that got a lot of guys that can contribute in
34:42
the infield. But I mean he he has great range,
34:45
am mobility, and the dirt. I mean, like that's he's
34:49
gonna put up numbers, he's gonna hit. So, I mean
34:51
like it's gonna when after the season, when I look
34:53
back on this, I expect it to still look good
34:55
for me. But also like he he should at least
34:58
be fun to watch up the middle for Clemson. You
34:59
know need a good defensive guy. I mean, you know
35:02
here and there.
35:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly defense counts here on this team as well.
35:07
Speaker 5: Man.
35:08
Speaker 1: Anybody that says it doesn't doesn't realize that we're making
35:11
up the rules as we go. So I say it does.
35:14
Jake gonna go to here? Round seven? Man, what are
35:17
you thinking to do here?
35:24
Speaker 5: Let's see, I think I'm gonna go. So I'm gonna
35:28
go with Logan Devenport. He is a Northern Kentucky transfer
35:34
going into Alabama this year. I had a crazy season
35:36
hitting for in Northern Kentucky. Hit like four twenty three,
35:40
fourteen homers. He stole some bags, the strike the strikeout,
35:44
the walks numbers are close to even. He did all
35:47
that while playing you know, a good center field. He's
35:51
one of my personal you know sleepers. To gain a
35:53
lot of draft stock this year, and I think he's
35:55
got a chance to to perform very well on the
35:58
big SEC stage this year for Alabama.
36:02
Speaker 1: Devin Port Okay, like that? Like that, let's see j B.
36:07
That's going to bring us to you, man, what are
36:09
you thinking?
36:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to round out my my mid majors
36:14
right here with another acc transfer going to the Mountain West. Actually,
36:19
I'm gonna go with Adam Magpok, one of Boston Hall's
36:23
top bats and outfielder for them. He played really well
36:26
every single game he saw him. Switch hitter, guy that
36:29
just found a way to put the ball in play
36:30
all the time. Good defender as well, good athlete. I
36:34
think he'll really flourish out there in San Diego State.
36:36
Speaker 2: The warmer weather.
36:37
Speaker 4: Probably help him get into a little bit more pop
36:40
Expeca slug it round three twenty last year, so I
36:42
think he'll be able to boost that and it'll be
36:44
a solid piece on the top of the winder for
36:46
San Diego State.
36:46
Speaker 1: I think how many stolen bases did Magpark have last year?
36:51
Twenty seven stolen basements for him outstanding considering there's an
36:56
OBP of about thirty five percent there too. That's pretty awesome. Hey,
37:00
take it, san Diego State. We'll take I say that
37:02
like I'm part of the team. We'll take it. I'm
37:03
in San Diego State. Now, that's what the hat is.
37:06
San Diego State. Okay, I need to take a couple
37:09
of offensive players here, gentlemen. I need some outfielders. I
37:13
need some infielders. I'm looking up and down this list,
37:17
and I think I think I'm gonna go with a
37:19
young man who I have I've really appreciated learning more
37:23
about and excited to see what he does going forward
37:28
in an SEC school. I think we're gonna go with
37:31
mister Jan Cruise. Yes, we're gonna go with one Cruise.
37:38
Like I said, he's transferring to Georgia from South Alabama.
37:45
Excuse me, Alabama State, forgive me. And here's the thing
37:48
with Cruz guys. Oh lord, no, refresh stop that there
37:55
it is. Here's the thing with one Cruise guy to
37:57
two seventy one isolated power. Obviously, that's a metric that
37:59
if you've listening for any amount of time, you know
38:01
that I love. It shows how much you damaged the ball.
38:03
Slug minus average six ninety slug struck out only seven
38:09
percent of the time. Something that Wan Cruz is not
38:11
getting a lot of praise for, but I'm gonna certainly
38:13
shout him out. Walked eleven percent of the top more
38:15
than that hit fourteen home runs, had about thirty six
38:19
percent extra base hits. Curious to see what he does
38:21
going to Georgia. I'm gonna take him as one of
38:24
my infield spots and then switching it up to the outfield.
38:30
Give a little tricky here, We're gonna get a little tricky.
38:34
I think I'm gonna take Boston Torres transferring from vm
38:37
I to wake Forest Torres, another guy with a wonderful
38:42
slash on here. Guys got on base last year at
38:45
a four to sixty five clip, walks more than he
38:47
struck out. Walked seventeen point six percent of the time,
38:50
struck out about fifteen percent of the time. Double digit
38:52
home runs and steals for this guy eleven home runs,
38:55
nineteen steals. Transferring to Wake Forest. So Jab, you're gonna
38:59
get see a little bit of get a little bit
39:01
of Boston Tores in your life. I'm excited to see
39:04
what he does to JB. We're gonna take it to
39:07
you now for your pick in round eight. I'm curious
39:09
who you're looking at.
39:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with another
39:16
guy that dealt in injuries last year. Like my first pick,
39:19
I'm gonna go with Trent Caraway. He's transferred from Oregon
39:21
State to LSU. Carroway was one of the best bats
39:25
going into the draft last year. He's top thirty guy
39:27
on pipeline. He's dude that kind of broke out in
39:31
his freshman campaign before being a draft eligible sophomore. Last year,
39:34
he got injured really early on, wasn't able to play
39:36
a lot. But he's guys produced some high evs, shown
39:38
some good raw power. Probably will be a cornerback, can
39:41
play second two, but he'll probably a third baseman with LSU,
39:45
and especially moving to LSU, it's a great hitters park
39:47
as well. I think he'll do damage there. Probably put
39:49
up fifteen to twenty bombs. So I like him.
39:52
Speaker 1: I like that choice. Like that choice, Jake, that is
39:55
gonna bring us to you, buddy, thirty first pick overall
39:58
in the draft, your eighth round. Where are you aiming here?
40:01
Speaker 2: Man? We're flying through it. Huh we are from.
40:05
Speaker 5: I'm going to take I believe my third mid major
40:09
player Aiden cohol Uh, he's an outfielder from stone Hill.
40:16
He's transferring down to FIU, so that's mid major to
40:19
mid major transfer there. He's played you know, he plays
40:25
some first pace, but he's also played some corner outfield.
40:27
I'm gonna take him as an outfielder here. He's kept
40:32
a really low strikeout righty with some big power numbers.
40:35
You know, he's got fourteen homers, sixty rbs, eleven thirty
40:39
two ops.
40:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, traveling down from way up here in Easton, Massachusetts
40:45
down to Miami to play for f IU. Hopefully the
40:48
warm weather will uh, you know, keep the bathpot for him.
40:51
Speaker 1: I hope, so, Jake, I did want to point out
40:54
you will have to take him as an infielder. You've
40:55
already got three outfielders. Okay, what's not a mistake. Let
41:01
me let me run through a grascia. Then you have Henry.
41:06
Speaker 3: Ford and.
41:09
Speaker 1: Devenport.
41:12
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're doing You can do Ford. I guess
41:15
you could do.
41:15
Speaker 1: Either Ford or co Hal in the infield if you'd rather.
41:19
It's all House.
41:21
Speaker 2: I think that that's just me. That's on me.
41:22
Speaker 5: I couldn't remember if we were doing four infielders or
41:25
four outfielders, which one.
41:27
Speaker 2: Okay, So wherever he needs to fit, you can just
41:30
you can put.
41:30
Speaker 3: Him in a problem.
41:31
Speaker 1: I will make him an infielder. Then, Josh, that's gonna
41:35
go to you, my brother. Curious what you're gonna do
41:37
back to back? Uh, you were excited about picking mister
41:40
irrelevant earlier. Not quite time for him yet. Who are
41:44
we gonna go with here? Because sir, it's about time.
41:47
It's about that time.
41:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got nothing but mid majors left, so I
41:54
stacked on the board with the big names early. So
41:55
I'm gonna take some different guys.
41:58
Speaker 4: Earlier.
41:58
Speaker 3: JB hit on a guy that was a star in
42:01
the north Woods this summer, where I spent my entire summer.
42:04
We played MJ. Sweeney like it felt like a million times.
42:08
I think we genuinely played him like twelve times this summer.
42:10
That's no joke. I'm gonna take another guy that we
42:13
unfortunately played, because boy did he lighted up second basement
42:17
going from Central Michigan Detroit. Aaron Piaseki. He Uh, he's
42:22
like a five to ten lefty, shorter guy. He won
42:24
the north Woods League batting title this summer with the
42:26
four h six batting average, stole twenty one bags. He
42:30
had a good season last year at Central Michigan. We'll
42:33
see if it translates. He did so well this summer
42:35
and he lit up some like admittedly the arms are
42:39
not what North the Northwold League is known for, but
42:41
he still let up those arms better than anybody else.
42:43
So hey, that goes for something. Then I'm going to
42:48
go to my pitcher, which is I think this guy
42:53
was a super fun profile. Like, I think he's gonna
42:57
pan out well. I think he will do well with
42:58
is a super fun profile. Joseph Webb transferring from Liberty
43:04
to East Carolina. He's a riety ran a three five
43:08
zero ERA and a one four whip last year at
43:11
Liberty with a three seventeen FIP, fifty one ks and
43:15
forty eight innings. He has two completely different arm slots
43:20
that he interchanges like pretty consistently. It seems like he's
43:24
sinker slider out of the side arm and he's fastball
43:28
splitter knuckle curve out of the three quarters slot. It's
43:32
That's what I told you. It's fun. It's it's an interesting,
43:34
interesting profile. I mean, like he gets a lot of
43:37
chase on the splitter, so I mean it works well
43:39
for him out of three quarter slot, locates his fastball
43:42
as well. I I think he's gonna play really well
43:45
in the American and I mean he did pretty solid
43:47
last year at Liberty. It's just it's a fun guy.
43:50
It's like I was, I was looking into it. The
43:51
more I looked into it, I'm just like, I want
43:53
this guy on my team. Because you know, someone decided
43:56
to take Jack Raffa off the board. I won't say who,
43:59
but you know you are yeah, yeah, yeah.
44:03
Speaker 1: Who who would do such a thing. Surely it wasn't Jake.
44:07
Who's up to bat now in the ninth round, Jake,
44:11
it's the bottom of the ninth What you got?
44:14
Speaker 2: All right?
44:15
Speaker 5: If I'm counting right, I believe I need one infielder
44:18
and one pitcher. So I'm gonna take uh, I'm gonna
44:22
take the infielder here. I'm gonna go with Sam Miller
44:25
transfer from Columbia up here in the IVY League down
44:28
to Florida this year. He's been a bowler in the
44:32
IVY League the last two season. He's got some crazy numbers.
44:35
I suggest you go look him up. Last year's IVY
44:38
League Player of the year. He hits for average, He's
44:41
he's hit you know, three forty three fifties last two years,
44:44
hits for hits for power, He's hit double digit homers
44:47
the last couple of years. Plays good defense at shortstop.
44:51
Has come up in a lot of clutch spots for
44:54
Columbia and come through for them. So he's got that
44:56
going for him and he's gonna be a lot of
44:58
fun to watch down in Gainesville.
45:01
Speaker 1: Very nice, all right, j B. That's gonna bring us
45:04
to you, buddy.
45:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna do the pick that everybody you know
45:10
is predicted on the show. Previously in the group chat,
45:12
everybody was was going at, I'm gonna take my catcher, uh,
45:16
making Winslow the transferm duke.
45:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Uh.
45:20
Speaker 4: He's a guy that's gonna help the bridge between Stevenson
45:23
this year. You know, obviously Stevenson caught every game for
45:26
us the past two seasons pretty much. Winslow's great defender
45:29
behind the plate, handled the pitching staff well, a lot
45:31
of batspeed there. I think there's some more juice in
45:33
the tank possibly this year you might see hopefully you
45:37
can handle the same type of workload, and I think
45:39
he'll be a great player for us. So I'm gonna
45:41
go to mak It Winslow.
45:43
Speaker 1: Very nice, very nice. Okay, Drew, going back to back.
45:48
I need an outfielder and an infielder. All right, we're
45:52
gonna go with the outfielder first. We're gonna take Jordy Ariocuh.
45:56
He's gonna be an outfielder for me. Transferring from New
45:58
Mexico to the University of Georgia. Guys, fifty two games
46:02
last year, we saw this guy a casual three sixty
46:06
isolated power, slugged seven forty eight, walked and struck out
46:12
equal amounts eleven and a half percent, both sixteen home runs,
46:17
fifty two percent extra base hits for this young man,
46:20
big power. Excited to see what he does with those
46:23
dirty dogs. That's all I can say about Georgia. And
46:28
because I'm nothing if not a Homer, nothing if not
46:31
Tennessee Talking Hour, nothing if not the SEC Show, We're
46:35
gonna go with Garrett Wright transferring from Bowling Green to Tennessee.
46:39
I'm surprised he lasted this long. We're talking to guy, Josh.
46:42
I know earlier you and I established the defense matters
46:45
here just because it does we make up the rules.
46:47
This is the twenty twenty five MAC Defensive Player of
46:49
the Year. Outstanding stuff and yet no slots with the
46:53
bat either, only struck out about eight percent of the time,
46:57
walked about nine percent. Slash line s gorgeous guys, four
47:00
oh six, five thirteen six sixty three. I just liked
47:03
the power of two fifty seven there. Uh scored a
47:06
couple of runs, drove in a couple, had four triples.
47:10
Man behind the plank scored four triples. I'm excited to
47:13
see what he does at Lindsey Nelson. Jake, can I
47:16
get a GBO?
47:19
Speaker 2: That's right? I love me, I love me some some
47:21
Garrett right, GBO, GBO?
47:24
Speaker 1: All day? All right, Jake, b that's gonna take us
47:27
to you curious your last pick? What are we looking
47:30
at here?
47:30
Speaker 2: Man?
47:35
Speaker 4: Oh, it's on me.
47:37
Speaker 1: There's your buddy.
47:38
Speaker 4: Oh my bad, I thought you're talking to Jake. That's
47:41
faced out there.
47:42
Speaker 1: That's okay.
47:43
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go with Tomas Valancuis
47:47
from Virginia, go to Mississippi State. He was a guy that,
47:51
as a freshman, stepped up in the UVA rotation sinkerballer
47:56
through five hundred and seventy two sinkers, created fifty nine
47:59
percent ground ball, harder short slider around eighty four miles
48:02
an hour is seven inches of sweep, drew a forty
48:05
with rate through for strike over sixty percent of the
48:08
time and a good change of profile which also was
48:11
a seventy percent strike pitch for him. I think he's
48:13
gonna be a big arm for Mississippi State alongside Jack Bauer.
48:16
Speaker 2: If you can hold up some of the other.
48:18
Speaker 4: Guys they brought in there, I think that they'll did
48:20
really want Assissippi State with them, It's.
48:23
Speaker 1: Gonna be a loaded squad and startful. Not looking forward
48:27
to seeing them coming, but looking forward to watching them play. Jake,
48:31
your last pick?
48:31
Speaker 2: Who you got? All right?
48:34
Speaker 5: So I need I need a picture, and I wish
48:37
that there was less of a decision that I had
48:39
to make here. I am gonna refrain from taking the
48:45
Tennessee route again. I love me some landing Mac. I
48:49
just want to shout him out there, but I'm gonna
48:51
go with the I'm gonna go with Cooper Moore, uh,
48:54
the Kansas right handed pitcher transferring into LSU.
48:58
Speaker 2: He was eligible last year.
48:59
Speaker 5: To be drafted as a sophomore, went undrafted, So he's
49:03
gonna you know, he's gonna have a chance to prove
49:05
himself down in baton rouge. When he gave Kansas eighty
49:10
eight innings last year with eighty five strikeouts only nineteen walks,
49:13
it's up four A.
49:14
Speaker 2: There's not much more you can ask for.
49:18
Speaker 5: Throws a ton of strikes, fastball up to ninety six,
49:22
throws a good slider, potentially a plus change up. The
49:25
guy just knows how to pitch. He's a lot of
49:27
fun to watch. He should absolutely enter the spring as
49:31
a starter for LSU in some capacity. And I think
49:34
he's got a chance to throw himself up draft boards
49:36
higher than he might already be for most people.
49:39
Speaker 1: I think that's a fair point. Cooper Moore was a
49:41
guy that lasted on by board for a minute, excited
49:44
to see you pick him, Jake Glad we got to
49:45
shout him out, Jocks. The moment has arrived, mister irrelevant,
49:50
and who could it be?
49:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, I need a mid major outfielder. I'm gonna take
49:58
a guy that he came. When he came and played
50:01
at Auburn last year, we all liked the profile. It
50:04
was you know, super fun profile. We all like he
50:07
was inevitably going to transfer to somewhere. We thought a
50:10
little bit bigger. He's a Sandford. Now that I think
50:14
about this pick, shout out my dad. This is a
50:16
pick for my dad. This is a dude from Raleigh
50:18
who went to school at Samford, which is exactly what
50:20
my dad did. Michael Gupton, he's a transferred to Memphis
50:24
from Sanford. He started at NC State actually a couple
50:29
of years ago, then went to Sandford, and now he
50:31
was on his third school at Memphis. He's a five
50:35
to nine guy who hit fifteen home runs last year.
50:38
Don't see that correlate very often. But like I said,
50:40
fun profile heat. The selling point is he truly might
50:45
have eighty grade speed. And that sounds like it's outlandish,
50:48
like it high praise, but he really truly might have
50:51
eighty grade speed. Had a three thirty three batting average
50:55
last year in the SoCon with ten thirty four ops.
51:00
I mean, it's it's a profile that. I mean, the
51:02
SoCon is a step below they see, but it's not
51:06
a big enough jump up where I think the production
51:08
is gonna drop off a lot. I think it'll be
51:10
a funny guy to keep an eye on.
51:12
Speaker 1: Absolutely, may I have to go check out the scepton guy.
51:15
Just the four warning guys at home, don't trust Google.
51:18
I think there must be like a professor called Michael Gupton.
51:21
I just googled him. It says he's researching hydro geology
51:25
at the University of British Columbia. So perhaps side hustle,
51:29
Perhaps Michael Goupton is just a diverse gentleman.
51:32
Speaker 4: Who's to say, YEA, if I give him, I give
51:35
him one thing. I was just thrown one thing there
51:37
real quick. He ran a five nine, six sixty at
51:41
perfect game. Just the backup Josh is eighty grade. There's
51:44
six sixty, so.
51:46
Speaker 3: It's no get. Actually, the dudes you can tell, like
51:49
the eye tests sometimes to even tell you those numbers.
51:51
The eye tests on the base passes, you can tell
51:54
it's legit.
51:55
Speaker 1: Dynamite stuff, eighty grade speed and a hydro genologist at that.
52:01
Don't fact check me? All right, Shall we go through
52:04
the teams really quickly?
52:05
Speaker 2: Guys?
52:06
Speaker 1: Uh, We'll start with the Josh squad Josh had, Chris Hacopian,
52:12
Aiden Robbins, Trey Beard, Russell sanderfer Eric Paulson, Micah new Tyler, Liechtenberger,
52:20
Aaron Piseki, Joseph Webb, Michael Gupton. Out of ten, what
52:27
do you give your squad?
52:30
Speaker 3: Not exaggerating based on what I thought it was gonna
52:33
coming in, it's to night ten like truly like it's
52:36
I cannot have imagined I would have had that many
52:38
guys as high on my board fall to me. But hey,
52:41
it see what Twitter thinks about it.
52:43
Speaker 1: You know, he go off, king, go off, go off,
52:45
all right, Jake. The Jake Squad of Champions features a
52:50
j Grossia, Chase Swain, Logan, Rediman, Henry Ford, Gavin Van Kempen,
52:59
Jared vin Shula, Logan Devenport, excuse me, Aiden, Coh Hall,
53:07
Sam Miller, and Cooper Moore. Jake said, sod team, What
53:12
do you give yourself? What's the grade here?
53:15
Speaker 5: I think solid's the right word for it. I took
53:17
I took some risks, I took some safe picks. I
53:19
think I think, uh, you know, I'll give it. I'll
53:22
give it about about a seven, seven and a half.
53:25
Speaker 1: That's that's A. That's a great great man. That's A.
53:27
Speaker 2: That's a B.
53:28
Speaker 1: That's a B. In Tennessee schools, we'll take that. We'll
53:31
take that, JB. Looking at the JB team, JB has
53:36
got a couple of guys here. He's got TJ. Pompeii,
53:39
Luke Jackson, Joey Volsco Owen Hull went to M J.
53:45
Sweeney in the fifth just a ostro house. Then he
53:49
went to Adam Magpok. Love that pick. Trent Carraway another
53:53
good one, late making Winslow Goddess Catcher. We all knew
53:57
it was coming to Moss Valencius and final round.
54:00
Speaker 2: JB.
54:01
Speaker 1: Give yourself a grade.
54:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, you know. I think I took a
54:06
somewhat unconventional route to get the mid major names that
54:09
I wanted to fit in there working out. But I
54:12
think it's a solid, you know, nine out of ten team.
54:15
I think at the end of the day, I think
54:16
there's a lot of high risk, high reward in it,
54:19
especially with the injury guys. But I think I got
54:21
multiple first round talent players on my squad, so I
54:25
feel okay with it. I feel good.
54:28
Speaker 1: Just like a frat party on a Thursday night. It'll
54:31
work for you. It'll work for you, all right. And finally,
54:36
the Druizers, we've got Laith Palmer, Krent Rumley, Carson Tenney,
54:42
Jack Brafa, Cayden, Aohi, Will Gasparino, Juan Cruz, Boston Torres, Jordi,
54:50
Arioc Garrett. Right, guys, this was a zero that went
54:56
to a ten. I'm gonna round. I'm gonna round out
54:58
give myself a seven though I think it was certainly unconventional,
55:02
certainly took some swings, but it rounded back into form
55:06
towards the end. So but again, believe Josh you said it.
55:11
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55:13
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55:59
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56:02
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56:04
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56:06
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56:08
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56:11
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56:14
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56:19
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56:23
Speaker 5: I do want to say I appreciate you giving yourself
56:25
a seven and not a nine or a ten on
56:27
your draft. I thought I was gonna be the only
56:28
humble one in the in this group here. Uh So,
56:30
I do appreciate that. But no things that I'm working
56:35
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56:38
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56:40
into some some conference previews as we lead up into
56:43
the end of the season. Starting the plan right now
56:47
is to is to have one have one for everybody.
56:50
I think there's good. We're gonna go over some uh
56:52
maybe some some projections, maybe a little bit of draft talk,
56:56
just how we uh how how we all see the
56:58
conferences checking out there.
57:00
Speaker 2: So I'm really excited about it.
57:02
Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. You have also been releasing our
57:05
top twenty five one by one by one. I believe
57:08
we're ready for number two. If I'm not mistaken, right.
57:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'll think it's two and one tomorrow.
57:12
Speaker 1: So that yeah, So you'll have to go to Twitter
57:17
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57:19
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57:21
It's been a really fun thing to watch and follow JB.
57:24
Where can the folks find you, other than of course
57:27
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57:29
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57:35
Speaker 4: At JB Undersports Boston on X Also right after Josh,
57:40
I'll have another piece out most likely I think mine's
57:43
corner infielders. So we'll have that out trying to wrap
57:47
that up and it'll be it'll be a good time.
57:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be good stuff. Man, that's a killer
57:52
article series you guys are working on. Definitely love checking
57:55
those out. That's one of those drop everything when the
57:58
email comes in and give it a give it a listen, Josh,
58:01
want to shout out to your homie behind you? Uh,
58:04
we'll wait with him saying what's up?
58:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well yeah, park behind them. They don't listen
58:12
to me. I put a note on the door and
58:13
I'm recording. They just don't listen. It's fine, that's all good.
58:18
It could be worse. It could be the frat party
58:20
that was going on across the street and then stop
58:22
ten minutes beforehand.
58:23
Speaker 1: Could could be a train.
58:25
Speaker 3: I would say, breaking news. The trend did not come.
58:28
It's like three hours I'm starting thinking. So it's very abnormal.
58:32
But you know what, no complaints.
58:33
Speaker 1: The training schedule is very much out of whack right now.
58:36
Speaker 3: It just means it's gonna come like twenty times tomorrow.
58:38
It's fine. I'll wear it on the chin.
58:41
Speaker 1: We're not we're not podcasting tomorrow. That'll be just fine.
58:43
Speaker 3: Exactly uh.
58:44
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59:37
Speaker 5: Now.
59:37
Speaker 1: I want to thank you all so much for taking
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