[SPEAKER_01]: Hello and welcome to future projection this episode 155 of the show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Ben, unless you've got anything you want to get off your chest, I guess we'll opt straight into this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's get to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we got an email from Bryce who says my question is regarding prep draft eligible players knowing that the class of 226 are done with the circuit events, how much do you typically see rankings change for high school players between the end of summer events to draft day?

[SPEAKER_01]: If the evaluation is based primarily on their high school performance, which I understand is typically [SPEAKER_01]: I can see injuries or just performance declined, but assuming that these kids continue performance at such a high level, what data do you look at that could change your outlook of a player?

[SPEAKER_01]: I've been talking a lot, Ben, so if you want first cracker this feel free, but I have thoughts.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think a lot of the times the summer summer slash fall performance from the previous year holds a lot of weight, but not even so much to some degree performance, but also just your evaluation of the player at that time in terms of.

[SPEAKER_00]: The tools, let's say, for a hitter, the way his swing works, we're a valuation, the player defensively, and for a picture of grading out of stuff and his mechanics and all that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I, yeah, I mean, we do see guys take jumps every year up, draft boards, and sometimes pretty significantly to where there are even guys who [SPEAKER_00]: or not in the mix to be like top two three round guys who move themselves up into first round consideration and then up in first round picks.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it does happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think what you would [SPEAKER_00]: want to see from that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, sometimes it's just from a guy who was maybe, you know, under scouted previously in the summer, a guy who was more under the radar who started to get more attention during the spring.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it could be a case of a guy getting stronger.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, players can put [SPEAKER_00]: and off-season, you get stronger, you can start adding bat speed, getting the ball with more impact, driving the ball with more power, growth, throwing better, start running faster.

[SPEAKER_00]: So your tools actually change, or you could see something mechanically with the player, okay, this guy made a swing adjustment over the off-season, and it seems to be as much to the degree that you [SPEAKER_00]: feel confident in saying that against high school pitching of varying levels that he's seeing in the spring.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you feel more confident about that player's hitting ability or defensively too, where you see a guy the summer before, and I don't know if this guy's [SPEAKER_00]: a short stop I think he's a second basement or third basement and then you see him again in the spring you're like oh actually I don't see any reason why he couldn't play you short like his footwork is better he's taking better angles to the ball like he's worked with somebody over the off season I think you can see players take big jumps at that age from [SPEAKER_00]: You know, either 15 going on 16, 16, especially 16 to 17 and 17 to 18 guys like realize.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm not just like, I don't just have a chance to play college baseball.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm actually a draft prospect.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, Carlos Colazos was writing about me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm pretty, I might be legit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I got to start focusing on this as if it were, you know, a job full time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, the way, you know, players in the DR do from the time they're like 12 or 13.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they start really getting a lot better, especially unlike the defensive side of the thing you can see things, but The strength of conditioning or, you know, for a picture too, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like a...

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Guy was 88 to 93 in the off-season or the summer before puts on 15 pounds.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now he's 93.96 or he's worked on a change up and he's showing much better feel for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we always hear about guys, you know, stuff ticked up in the spring and then they end up moving upwards that way too.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think in general, like you're not really looking at performance from a results perspective, everything Ben said.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're looking at changes and tools as much as anything.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think some examples that may be speak to this from, even just last year's class, when you were talking, I pulled up our board and just tried to pick out a few of the players who had the most notable jumps, one that jumps out immediately is still hall.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think he checks two of the boxes that you mentioned, [SPEAKER_01]: He was a reclassification player, so a player that a lot of people went into the spring, just not having as much information on which he mentioned, and then also he had a great offseason.

[SPEAKER_01]: He added a lot of strength over the offseason.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think there was a lot more optimism about what he could do offensively during the spring whenever one is coming in to get looks on him.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so just the offensive evaluations of him changed.

[SPEAKER_01]: enough to put him in consideration to be a first round pick.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we had him ranked 11 in February before the season kicked off.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then at the end of the process, he was a middle of the first round talent across the board.

[SPEAKER_01]: Based on everyone, we had him 15 on our board.

[SPEAKER_01]: He sneaks into the top 10.

[SPEAKER_01]: Another player, Jack Bauer, we had him 155.

[SPEAKER_01]: Jack Bower's story is obviously pretty simple and straightforward.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a left-handed picture that was touching 94.95.

[SPEAKER_01]: The summer previously and then he comes out the spring of his draft year and is throwing 102 miles per hour from the left side.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that jump in velocity, basically a loan is going to catapult him up the board.

[SPEAKER_01]: Guys like Briggs McKinsey, similar kind of deal.

[SPEAKER_01]: He already had a really good breaking ball that people liked throughout the summer, but was topping out.

[SPEAKER_01]: In the low 90s, he came out early in the spring, showed better velocity, showed a better third pitch entirely before fading a little down the stretch.

[SPEAKER_01]: But guys come out, they get stronger, their tools change, some mechanical changes, like you mentioned.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean even Jackson Holiday, [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if people forgotten like where Jackson Holiday was entering his spring, but he was not in the conversation to be the number one overall pick in the draft.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was not in the conversation to be a top 10 pick in the draft entering the spring, but everyone could see the body and they kind of knew.

[SPEAKER_01]: that he had some exciting offensive tools this summer before, even though it wasn't a great performance for him on the circuit, he struck out a lot, but the next spring it's like every tool that he had jump because he got stronger.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had more power, he got better defensively, he got faster, like across the boards his tools set really jumped, and that put him in the conversation to be the first pick in the draft.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think basically everything you said, [SPEAKER_01]: is spot on in there.

[SPEAKER_01]: There are a few examples there of players who made that jump.

[SPEAKER_01]: But a good question.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let's go to our next one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Michael Berkeley on Instagram says name a college prospect that you guys like as much as you did with the tray you savage.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ben I'll go ahead and throw it to you on this one too to start.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you savage.

[SPEAKER_00]: He, I mean, he was good as an [SPEAKER_00]: fair to say like he took it to another level.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's very consistent throughout his collegiate career, but it seems like he just kind of rose more upwards where by the end of it, we had him evaluated as a top 10 player or top 10ish type player in the draft class and in the number three pitcher right behind Chase Burns and Hayden Smith.

[SPEAKER_00]: his draft year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we had him entering the year.

[SPEAKER_01]: We had him 48.

[SPEAKER_01]: So definitely a name who was on the radar.

[SPEAKER_01]: We had him as a top two round player coming into the season.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then it looks like the next update jumped to 27, then 10.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was kind of in that, like by mid season of his draft year, who's caught him in that consensus number three arm in the class position.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think a lot of the reason why we feel like we're known for really liking trace average is because we're kind of [SPEAKER_01]: Um, like I don't think on draft day either of us would have taken him over Chase Burns and Hagan Smith, but after those two were off the board, we're like, yeah, he's he's next up.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's ready to go for inch top 10 guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there were a lot of really good hitters at the top of that class that we're excited about as well, but, um, as soon as he felt like 20 or so, we were just like, what's happening.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we would have.

[SPEAKER_01]: assumed that he was going to immediately do what he did in the world series.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't know that I like him to like some crazy level.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just think he's like a really good college pitching prospect that checked a lot of boxes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I got out, I don't want to say like, oh, we thought he was going to be like a Paul schemes sorts.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to get like out of my skis here.

[SPEAKER_01]: There are a couple of guys who like in this current class, maybe to a similar degree [SPEAKER_01]: This may be the guy that I would point to first.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be curious to see what happens with the secondaries.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's some room for improvement there.

[SPEAKER_01]: But flukeies, like the foundation of starter traits that he has, I think are similar to what triusavid showed throughout the course of his career at ECU.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the fact that they're both smaller school and smaller school essaying quotes, because both coastal and ECU have done a really nice job producing draft players.

[SPEAKER_01]: They did an archimals, sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and they're competitive every year.

[SPEAKER_01]: mostly just like arms that are not pitching against maybe the very best of the best weekend a week out, but programs that are known for developing players and routinely have draft prospects.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a name, like I think Cameron Flooky, if he winds up in the same sort of tier pitching prospect that Trace Advage was at draft time, or even is is there now already that wouldn't shock me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I don't think Trace Advage was some unique outlier college pitching prospect at the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: The guy I would give you two names, one of whom is, and obviously already pretty high up or board right now, Liam Peterson at Florida, just a guy I've always liked ever since he was in high school, he was in a low to 20, 20, 23 high school class ended up.

[SPEAKER_00]: get into Florida and has pretty much been what what I had expected or hoped for him to be.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, tall six foot five strong pitching in the mid 90s runs it up to 99.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can you can ride the fastball up in the zone, good braking ball, good change up that like I think he probably could use it more often.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but I think he has the stuff to miss bats with multiple pitches.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a power fastball.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like the feel for pitching.

[SPEAKER_00]: We haven't seen like dominance, like overpowering dominance yet where it's like, okay, like this guy should definitely be the number one pitcher off the board.

[SPEAKER_00]: But also he certainly could be.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he has that kind of talent.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's not like he's been getting like battered around or anything like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: sound like that, it just hasn't been like locked down like, again, not that like Kate Anderson was either.

[SPEAKER_00]: It hasn't been like too silly.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jamie Arnold, I would say.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's shut for two years, Brad.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or like, try your savage.

[SPEAKER_00]: But again, Peter's in his pitching is a freshman and sophomore in the SEC.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[SPEAKER_00]: A little bit of a different level of the guys he's facing.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I expect him to come out and take a big jump.

[SPEAKER_00]: forward this year and another guy I think could take a big jump forward and not in like the tray of savage mold because he doesn't have that kind of track record yet but Tegan Cunes who's a right this is your guy you got him circle the feet pops if he pops and goes off then you've got [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to take a victory lap because you've been all over him this high season.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think since he was like 15 or 16 was the first time I saw him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, who is this skinny kid with a really fast arm throw and I think it was a curve ball at the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just like a hammer.

[SPEAKER_00]: curveball.

[SPEAKER_00]: He could spin, he could really spin it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he still can, you know, as they still waiting to put it all together, he was a freshman last year at Tennessee.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like so, I think he'll play a bigger role.

[SPEAKER_00]: He threw well in the cape over the summer.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was very brief.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was only three starts, but 20 to one strike out to walk.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what 13 in a third in [SPEAKER_00]: step forward.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, is it going to be like K to Anderson, step forward as a draft eligible software?

[SPEAKER_00]: Probably not just because K and you're so good.

[SPEAKER_01]: But for Kate Anderson, maybe this is like not not the best thing to pull up.

[SPEAKER_01]: But we had Kate Anderson ranked even further down the top 100 entering the year at this stage than we do with Tegan Koon.

[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're just purely looking at our draft board, [SPEAKER_01]: We'd like Cooldons better than we like Kate Anderson and we can't enter into their draft eligible software.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, or like Liam Doyle, who, I know, another transfer to Tennessee, maybe, I mean, he had more experience, but like the same thing where he just took that huge leap forward at Tennessee.

[SPEAKER_00]: I could see T and Cooldons doing being on that same kind of trajectory this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's, you know, big, big, fastball.

[SPEAKER_00]: It can really spin the baseball.

[SPEAKER_00]: as he like continues to like refine the shapes of those pitches.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he has a chance to go really really high.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I think he ends up being a first round pick this year, but obviously he's going to have to take a big step forward this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a lot of good arms in this class on the college side and the high school side if you missed our last podcast episode, talking more about the high school pictures, if you're curious about that demographic as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I appreciate the question, Michael.

[SPEAKER_01]: We've got another one here from Jacob Larson on Twitter, who asks, a rock chelowski and gradie Emerson, clear cut for one and two, or is Drew Burris a possibility.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think rock is the clear cut for one at this point.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure I would say great Emerson is like the clear cut at two.

[SPEAKER_01]: You certainly end up in the favorite position for that now.

[SPEAKER_01]: But clear cut maybe feels a little bit more aggressive than I would want to put it now.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do feel like at this stage it's rock and then everyone else.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there are a lot of really good haters, greatie and a number of other players both in the high school and college side that have a shot.

[SPEAKER_01]: Drew Burris is very fascinating to me, I feel like the more I've dug into his profile, the more I actually like him.

[SPEAKER_01]: Outside of the fact that he's five foot nine, maybe five foot nine generously, and right, right, I don't know what the question in his profile is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you could maybe get really granular.

[SPEAKER_01]: and nitpick some of what he does against secondaries or like some like poll happy tendencies at times.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I just think Drew Burris is one of the best offensive performance in the class with real tools to back it up back to back years of high level performance in the ACC like one of the most well-rounded hitting profiles.

[SPEAKER_01]: In the class, at the time this podcast is going up, there should be a piece that, I mean, the process of writing it now, but when you're hearing this podcast, you can find more details on, like, just how good Drupers is hitting profile is from, like, an advanced better ball input perspective.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I certainly think you could be in the conversation right after these two, but what are your thoughts on, on, I guess, the pecking order of rock, [SPEAKER_00]: And I think rock is the clear favorite at number one and like the strongest favorite.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've had at number one this far out in the process in a while, since I have the [SPEAKER_00]: And then at number two, yeah, it could go a lot of ways.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like if I had the, if I was picking for the raise at number two and Rock was off the board and the draft was tomorrow, I would take great Emerson.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love him, he's a, I think he's a true shortstop with one of the most polished bats you're gonna find on the high school side in any year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Any six foot to like there's bad speed there.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a really easy swing adjustable Uses the whole field.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's a great offense of the pros.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's more power Come in and and I think he runs pretty well.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like the way he fields it shortstop.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just thank you have a shortstop who can hit at a high level I love him but [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, like it also depends on what the race thing, like it doesn't really matter what I think, like if we're talking about who actually is going to go number two overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I could see, I could see a lot of guys jumping into this mix for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a good high school class, I mean, Jacob Lombard.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think is isn't even better athlete than gradie Emerson, not that Emerson lacks athleticism, but Jacob Umbar is a super athlete.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's even faster.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think even more batspeed, more power.

[SPEAKER_00]: There is some more swing and miss there.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if the raise feel more, [SPEAKER_00]: comfortable with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, not that they want Carson Williams to swing and miss as much as he does, but like, hey, if you, you know, if you like that profile or Daniel Pierce and, you know, they're drafting these guys in different ranges, obviously, but like, you know, a guy like Pierce or two, where I'd say it's, you know, glove over bat, at least for me, you know, if you like that, I mean, Jacob Wombard, I think is, [SPEAKER_00]: certainly at the same stage like way ahead of both of those guys I think offensively in in terms of the offensive upside that he has so he could go number two I think there's a lot of good college player maybe they want to go pitching I don't know if they would do that we know with the number two overall pick but I don't know I would be surprised to see [SPEAKER_01]: I think there are enough other more prototypical players with tools and performance at premium positions in this class that unless like a lot of these guys fall in their face.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like we haven't even talked about games like Justin LeBron, Shorsop at Alabama, who's tooled up and can perform [SPEAKER_01]: Derek Curry L whose I think is going to play center field is a great hitter if he adds a little bit more power, maybe he looks much more convincing in that to spot saw your straw snider is a tool shed at TCU is coming off of phenomenal season, I think, Hacic Rosia.

[SPEAKER_01]: And Virginia has this power contact combination.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like there are a lot of names that I think fit in a similar tier of talent as Burris on the college side.

[SPEAKER_01]: And like if you do have a hold up just for the fact that like not a lot of players look like Drew Burris who've gone in this range.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or swing like him too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's like an conventional race.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's not like you're like great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Emerson is like nice and clean and balanced.

[SPEAKER_00]: Drew Burris is there like looking to right hit the ball 450 feet and a lot of his links and he does do it on a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like if this was a class where it was just lighter on the college hitting profile, maybe it's easier to push him into that tier and say, okay, he's going to go there because he just doesn't have a lot of.

[SPEAKER_01]: other competition, but I think for every player in this class, like there's just a lot of competition for hitters, for college hitters, for high school hitters, for high school pitchers, it's a very good class, and so it's going to be hard to lock anyone into a specific tier after rock at this point, I think.

[SPEAKER_01]: Really all the players like Top 15 on our board could easily go on that spot now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Most interesting one given the back around to is Tyler Bell, the short stuff in Kentucky who was a raise second round pick coming out of high school and didn't sign when to Kentucky.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, just at a phenomenal freshman season, at Kentucky switch hitting shortstop, like, I don't know, to me that's like a hoot hoop performs in the SEC, to me that's a profile that checks a lot of boxes that teams are looking forward.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's not like a lumbar, it has, I think, superior.

[SPEAKER_00]: tools, but I think Bell certainly have the collegiate track record with him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think if you're pretty confident about him staying, you know, whether it's a short stop somewhere in the middle and feel being able to move pretty quickly.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know, I don't know, like the whole, you know, if if the race would want to draft him again, or I think I believe [SPEAKER_01]: Tyler Bell would also have to sign a waiver, letting them draft him.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think when you're selecting it, don't sign with a team, you have to sign something that lets you get drafted by them again.

[SPEAKER_01]: I believe unless it's some sort of dispute over medical.

[SPEAKER_01]: But there are some details about that specifically, but I can't imagine it would be a case where you're going to sign the number two team without that pool money.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, don't try and sign me at this spot this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be an interesting one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I, let's say he, let's say like his true feeling.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like making this up as a hypothetical.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like if he doesn't want the race to draft him like, [SPEAKER_00]: Do you put that out there like brother teams are going to know so you don't you lose that as leverage And if you don't really want to something like I don't know Interesting hopefully hopefully he like plays his way until like forcing that discussion Yeah, that would maybe be interesting from from our perspectives on a Tyler Belphin you can tell are you absolutely [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Another good question.

[SPEAKER_01]: We got one more here that I want to tackle for today.

[SPEAKER_01]: Looks like multiple people have been asking about this specifically, Yoshir Domus and BK fan on Twitter.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the upcoming draft would Wandae a see-hand go in the top five if you were draft eligible.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you can correct me on the pronunciation.

[SPEAKER_01]: If I butcher it, this is one of the better available players in the international class for January 15th coming up in a few days.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ben, [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's shortstop was going to sign with the Yankees, they turned things over in their international department, so he's now signing or slated to sign with the meds for one of the top bonuses in the class.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, he definitely would not go top five overall.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like if we're talking about a draft, if I like international draft, that's a different question.

[SPEAKER_00]: If we're talking about like, if you threw him into the draft here in the United States, uh, no, uh, he's not going there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I don't even, I wouldn't even expect him to go in the first round.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, not like a knock really on the player.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just he's, [SPEAKER_00]: You know, a 16 year old who does have a lot of bad speeds and it's, you know, pretty nice looking swing from the left side, I think it's going to be power over hit chance to stick at short stop, maybe ends up at second base.

[SPEAKER_00]: good player, but like, I don't know, I don't think any of the internet.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, even the guys, you know, we talked about on the last episode, guys like Luis Hernandez, the shortstop from Venezuela, going to the giant.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we're and Jibel Gomez, the [SPEAKER_00]: I'll feel there for Venezuela going to the Royals or your Hensie Colombe.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was going to ask you if they're like where you think the top player in the class would go in this draft.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if that's your kind of tier guys, do you think any of them would have cases for first round or no?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's tough when you're like a 16 or 17 year old competing against college guys and even the high school players who are just like older and more advanced other than the fact that you like will it's just one one a year ago 17 year old yeah other than the fact that some draft models are maybe over fitting for age in some cases, but [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, again, a C-Hens case, I don't think like again, he's a good player.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like you compare him some of the other high school players in the class that we have, you know, like middle of the first round or like back of the first round, um, [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's he's a good prospect to have, but like he's I don't know if people think he's like like some slam dunk star player.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I think you're getting the wrong impression.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like again, could end up being a great player.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's a good [SPEAKER_00]: Once the DSLCs and starts, I have a much better idea of like what the quality of the at bats are are going to look like, but you know top five overall, or it's like great Emerson Tyler Spangler, like even we don't have Jacob one board in that range right now, I don't know, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think the meds would take them with a top five overall pick, and they're going to sign him.

[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, those are the questions we have today that's going to wrap it a quick brief mail bag episode.

[SPEAKER_01]: Really enjoy doing these.

[SPEAKER_01]: So again, please send us your questions if you have them all the contact info's in the show notes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ben, any final comments before we get out of here?

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, no, just, uh, looking forward to, to January 15th, so, uh, should have a ton of ton of signings.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to try to keep up with it as much as we can.

[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's going to do it for today for Ben.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Carlos.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: So long.

[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see you next time.