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[SPEAKER_02]: Back into team top prospect list.

[SPEAKER_02]: We got the San Francisco Giants here on the call up Armweight and Jack McMullen.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm at the little league world series.

[SPEAKER_02]: And right now, not actually in Williamsport, just outside of it.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you're looking at just my weird background, I'm at a Starbucks and outside in the rain.

[SPEAKER_02]: I got an umbrella over me because our Airbnb is in the middle of nowhere.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the Wi-Fi doesn't work very well there.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then even at the Starbucks, it's not the best in the world.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because Williamsport is very, [SPEAKER_02]: I would say out of the way, which makes it cool, really fun, difficult to record, so apologies in advance if there's a little bit of latency issues.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, listen, man.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's number one.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay on my end.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in perfectly fine Wi-Fi and five G Miami Florida right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's part of the allure of Williams.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, right.

[SPEAKER_00]: It kind of same deal as Cooper's town.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's that sleepy middle and nowhere town that happens to be the baseball epicenter for a couple of weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: Cooper's town is like the end goal for everybody and then Williams port.

[SPEAKER_00]: You've got, you know, this being the place for baseball over two weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's so exciting that you guys are there, man.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's been really cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is baseball, and it's purest form.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's been fun to experience, but man, you realize how much you rely on fast internet, especially when you're doing what we're doing.

[SPEAKER_02]: But good thing is, San Francisco Giants top project right up saw that good stuff was done.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we just need to talk about them.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it's been done for a little bit.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I know people have been waiting for it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I understand that this is not one of the best systems that you got in major baseball, but it's definitely gotten better.

[SPEAKER_02]: And with some moves that they made, I think strengthened a bit.

[SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, this is just a, I think a fascinating system because at the top, you have one of the best power hitters in, in minor league baseball.

[SPEAKER_02]: And a guy that's knocking on the door of a big league promotion.

[SPEAKER_02]: Then on the other side, a lot of their other top prospects are guys that you're waiting on.

[SPEAKER_02]: A guy that are dynamic high upside, but [SPEAKER_02]: are just playing at the lower levels or just getting off the complex.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then you got a lot of interesting arms.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think maybe the ceiling isn't as high, but could feel big league rolls.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's an interesting system.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's gotten a little bit better.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's some players that have made leaps from within that have helped them, but at the same time, it's definitely [SPEAKER_02]: On the weaker side, I think compared to some of the other systems and baseball and that's why in terms of the full detailed write-ups, if you look at it, we went with twelve and then the names to watch because once it gets to forty future value, I think it's, we don't need to do the full scouting grades, the whole breakdown.

[SPEAKER_02]: So there was twelve prospects that were forty plus future value and that's where we kept it off before going to the names to watch.

[SPEAKER_00]: cool yeah and this is one of the more extensive names to watch names to watch lists that I feel like you put together here I feel like there's like ten to twelve maybe fifteen names within the names to watch [SPEAKER_02]: There's a fair amount of players and I just thought we're really solidly in that forty future value, which is generally going to be the name to watch.

[SPEAKER_02]: So while there weren't a ton of the forty pluses, there were a lot of forties, and that's why I wanted to make sure we we cited those guys, which it is a lot of those arms that we were alluding to starting with Joe Whitman.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Joe Whitman is the first one that we're going to talk about.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really like Joe Whitman.

[SPEAKER_00]: It can't stay.

[SPEAKER_00]: San Francisco took him in the first couple of rounds last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Big guy kind of looks at your prototypical self boss.

[SPEAKER_00]: Six four pitchability guy in the low nineties.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's trying to get the feel for the change up a little bit better, but the slider is okay too.

[SPEAKER_00]: He seems like with progression a five to depth starter.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly, and that's kind of that forty.

[SPEAKER_02]: You have the chance of getting to that forty plus future value where you're a little bit closer to that five starter.

[SPEAKER_02]: He has the chance to, but at the same time he's going to be twenty four years old pretty soon.

[SPEAKER_02]: The average fastball VLO is still ninety one point eight miles per hour this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not like the characteristics are very good.

[SPEAKER_02]: What is encouraging is that the change up in the and the slider specifically the slider are [SPEAKER_02]: flash above average, or at least average.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you hope you can kind of massage this way through on us, but the change of field just hasn't totally been there.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what kept him in the forty future values here, where I still just see him more as a depth arm, whereas the next guy Carson Seymour does seem like you can fill a big league roll a little bit more seamlessly.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a rare, it's a rare arsenal to attack with, but it works.

[SPEAKER_00]: It may Brian Wu and I'll start this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Carson Seymour is trying to be the Kmart Brian Wu in that regard and has some outlier metrics there with a foreseen fastball.

[SPEAKER_00]: But for the most part, it's forcing Sinker that Wu get the way with and really dominates with and see more it's forcing Sinker that he dominates with here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, which I kind of like it when you don't have that [SPEAKER_02]: feel to spin it that well and the curve ball is okay, but you throw a hard and see more throws hard.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the sinkers, ninety six and the four seamer averages ninety seven.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see what you can do with those two fastballs.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it's roughly sixty five percent of the time.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's either going to be a sinker or four seamer, but he's also mixing a cutter now that looks like a pretty good pitch.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it might just be hard and harder, but in shorter spurts that can work.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm also interested to see if that can work, you know, trying to turn lineups over.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's where it gets tough.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think he does look like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: That guy that can be a bridge for you if your starter gets bounced early can can go to three endings.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you stretch him out a little bit further.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think we saw him start in AAA, but I think to have success at the Big League level together, probably you put through the line up once.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it's definitely better than a single-ending relief type of Rolex.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know that exactly what the arsenal fits.

[SPEAKER_02]: And as we've seen him in the big leagues, it's been a lot of two three-ending appearances.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's actually been decent in them.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a unique hybrid type of role that I think he can fill.

[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of one inning relievers, Braxton Roxby, I can't believe this guy made another list because he and Ricky Karcher were my two least favorite pitchers that I've ever watched pitch in minor league baseball.

[SPEAKER_00]: Karcher because you had no idea where the ball was going.

[SPEAKER_00]: Roxby, because he really didn't have any idea where the ball was going.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he also took honest to God, sixty seconds in between pitches.

[SPEAKER_02]: Get any more.

[SPEAKER_00]: In Canada more it was the slowest half inning I would ever watch and I saw them all the time with Dayton in twenty twenty one.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this guy it seems like the walks are in check pitch clock will make him more likable and the sliders always been really good.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean Kyle Bowie loved it when he was a reds farmhead.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and it's like that cutter now that he is added, which I think you really need to cause you're kind of one trick pony with the swider and you can't just rip swiders only it's going to be a little bit more difficult to succeed that way now adding this bridge cutter at.

[SPEAKER_02]: The sliders are about eighty two.

[SPEAKER_02]: The bridge cutters are like eighty five to eighty seven.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's throwing that pitch more than any of his offerings now.

[SPEAKER_02]: Those two alone, you can go cutters slider in relief and have some success.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think we're seeing him do that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then he'll mix in the foreseamer enough.

[SPEAKER_02]: It hasn't been a great pitch for him, but it's been better now that he's been able to mask it more.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it's going to be cutters slider heavy.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think he's got the the ability now with those two pitches to be a solid reliever.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you look at the numbers this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Aside from a couple, I'd say just blow ups here and there.

[SPEAKER_02]: His last twenty five appearances though, even including the one blow up in Albuquerque.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really count that.

[SPEAKER_02]: But even if you want to count it here into these numbers, he has twenty five appearances for rocks between double A and triple A.

A two, two, three, all right.

[SPEAKER_02]: He has struck out thirty one percent of matters.

[SPEAKER_02]: He walked twelve percent.

[SPEAKER_02]: You'd like to see that walk right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Get a little bit more in check.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm looking at two home runs in double A and in the PCL.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is encouraging a one seventy four upon a batting average.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is a guy that can be a solid six inning maybe seven inning guy for you with that cutter slider combination.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Next guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: The other proximity Big League or that did make his debut last year, Trevor McDonald.

[SPEAKER_00]: He has been in the innings either with Sacramento this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's an interesting arsenal.

[SPEAKER_00]: The sinker curveball combination.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not one you see a lot because they really don't fit within the same tunnel, like typically you see sinker and slider.

[SPEAKER_00]: work to get up at the curveball pops a little bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously the gold standard of that is from above all dead.

[SPEAKER_00]: He has the best sinker in Major League Baseball and one of the best curveballs in Major League Baseball.

[SPEAKER_00]: But McDonald, it seems like this guy, if he's really successful, it's contact on the ground, lead off single turns into a double play, feels like a six star.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's another depth arm.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they've got a fair amount of those.

[SPEAKER_02]: I do, I found myself squinting a little bit more to try to see how he could [SPEAKER_02]: get enough weak contacts and miss enough bats to to be that consistent five starter.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's going to be hard.

[SPEAKER_02]: I do think it's more of the depth side of things.

[SPEAKER_02]: Though as I say that, you know, the last four starts and AAA have been really good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely a strong up and down option to have.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you want to have [SPEAKER_02]: of that depth is twenty four, so maybe you give a little bit more time with him.

[SPEAKER_02]: He has started to throw a little bit harder as the season has progressed.

[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe there's a little bit more there and he can progress into that five, but it does seem more like that six starter for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Next, Kyle, we got to talk about here is not Maui O'Hona.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is another short stop Lorenzo Miola who's a complex guy, fourth round pick.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: This year, who is he?

[SPEAKER_02]: I like him because the glove is so good.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, whenever you [SPEAKER_02]: You know that we always talk about the barrier, the offensive barrier required to be a potential big league regular.

[SPEAKER_02]: And how if you're a superb defensive catcher, center field or short stop, that offensive barrier becomes so much lower.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you can have a lot more confidence and maybe his ability to attain that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Or push through that barrier.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now this is a kit from Stetson.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so I think it was a little bit more under the radar, though, Stetson has had plenty of big league success, usually it's on the mound, or I would say the short stop that ended up, you know, going to the mound and Jacob.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think there's some interesting components to them.

[SPEAKER_02]: The big question was, how much is going to be there offensively?

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's a fair question.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you can see a path to him even being close to a eighty five ninety WRC plus guy that's clearly a forty future value player here with the defensive ability that he has and I see some ingredients to to be a solid bat so I like in terms of just being close with an arms reach of league average of it works out so that's the part that makes me encourage and interested in him and and he's flashed a little bit more pop I think that he gets credit for so if he can just be [SPEAKER_02]: close to Lee Gavichiter.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think the glove is really going to carry him there.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm interested to see how he makes the leap from mid-major baseball to professional, but you know, I think he's definitely earned himself plenty of time and runway with the glove that he has.

[SPEAKER_00]: Kim Maldonato, another guy, twenty twenty five drafty seventh round pick at a northeastern so shared and outfield with Mike Sarota last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maldonato was really the pop up this year and the numbers were actually better than Sarota's were in his draft year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maldonato seems like an all around game and it seems like Tyler Jennings liked him.

[SPEAKER_02]: Ty were like them are, you know, our draft expert.

[SPEAKER_02]: He had him one at two hundred and four th on his big board, which at seven th round, grab, remember the johnson have a ton of draft capital to work with this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: He put up big numbers and Northeastern Maldonado did.

[SPEAKER_02]: And, and you look at a chance to stick in center field with some, some raw pop.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's going to be worth monitoring.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's exactly what nothing makes him in intriguing enough prospects here.

[SPEAKER_02]: But another guy that you want to see how he's going to make that leap.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think everybody's going to make the leap the way surrounded it from Northeastern to full season ball.

[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, at least it gives you a little bit of confidence that they're playing good enough competition where they can make that leap.

[SPEAKER_00]: Does anybody break your brain more in the mind of these than Walker Martin?

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's up there.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's up there because there's an amateur.

[SPEAKER_02]: I want to jump one walk on.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's up there because it's you watch him as an amateur and you look at the swing and say, Oh, that that's going to play.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's mechanically sound.

[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't explosive athlete.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, this is a guy that, you know, should be able to hit him off even though he's making the leap from the Colorado prep ranks.

[SPEAKER_02]: And yes, he was older for the class and the ending that hurt him.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's part of the reason why he saw his prospect stock freak fall so quickly.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, OK, this guy's swinging and messing a ton.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's been hurt.

[SPEAKER_02]: Andy's older for the class, like, we're not going to be as patient with him.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was very helpful for him.

[SPEAKER_02]: One to get healthy to to move off a short stop.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now he's playing third base.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that has resulted in him just just being able to settle in in the box even a little bit as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: The power is not a question.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's ninety percent.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like the velocity of a hundred and seven miles per hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's super patient.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're seeing him lean into that three true outcome profile, and I think that's going to be the way that he can get to the big leagues.

[SPEAKER_02]: That said, he's twenty one years old.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's still in the way, but he was trending towards your time out.

[SPEAKER_02]: Non prospects, really.

[SPEAKER_02]: He was already quickly trending toward that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think he is [SPEAKER_02]: Rekindled the fire a little bit of his prospect and trig with the underlying metabolic data with the fact that the strikeout rates just south of thirty percent, but at the same time, it's twenty one years old still in low A and and there's more pressure to match at third base here, but at least it was a step in the right direction this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Next guy, we're going to talk about Trent Harris, who is a guy that had a really fascinating backstory.

[SPEAKER_00]: He started at high point.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he went to UNC Pembroke, which if I'm not mistaken, was the same school that Sever King was at?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he was at, no, he was at, uh, win game, win game.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: So another one in North Carolina, Sever King was at win game.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is UNC Pembroke.

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[SPEAKER_00]: River Ryan was UNC Pembroke.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, this guy was a starter that really wasn't starting games at high point.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he goes to Pembroke and he's this swing man at the D to level.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was good.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is draft year.

[SPEAKER_00]: He then goes to the coastal plain league and was awesome across five starts.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the giants, they had peaks of interest there.

[SPEAKER_00]: This guy was twenty four years old when the giant signed him.

[SPEAKER_00]: At least he was in his age twenty four seasons.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you got a twenty six year old reliever that spins the ball exceptionally well.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in going near forty two innings has fifty one punchouts compared to thirteen walks this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he looks like a big league or a labor man.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, and you look at the sweeper, you're talking about how he spends the ball.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that sweeper is gnarly.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's held opponents to a one, sixty batting average Harris has with that.

[SPEAKER_02]: The curve ball has some good swing and miss numbers as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the fastball is good characteristics.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's just about locating it a little bit more consistently.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can tend to leave it over the middle, but also I think it's just a little bit of a PCL burn when you look at [SPEAKER_02]: the numbers in terms of just just sometimes a slow against the fastball.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think this is a guy that's going to get into their big league bullpen sometime at the end of this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe one rosters expand.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's earned that opportunity.

[SPEAKER_02]: The ERA is a little bit inflated from a couple.

[SPEAKER_02]: PCL blowups, but a lot of scoreless outings out there.

[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of swing and miss.

[SPEAKER_02]: Twenty nine percent strike out right this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Only a seven percent walk rate.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like Harris a lot.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the fact that he's only allowed to home runs as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: It boats well for him as I think a potential solid big league reliever.

[SPEAKER_00]: Love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Another guy to share to line up with the great Joshua Carrota grower of the in ease organization is Trevor Cohen, who is an outfit or at Rutgers in the Giants really liked.

[SPEAKER_00]: Trevor Cohen, they opted to take him in the third round this year at a Rutgers after he was very good in his draft year.

[SPEAKER_00]: He hit three, eighty, seven, speed demon, nineteen for twenty two in the cell and base department in a nine, eighty three, OPS.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's hit the ground running in the low way this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Fifty four plate appearances.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's punched out four times to the point.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to say he's he's corroded grower coded as well, where I mean, if you include even the pro debut, it's a ninety two percent in one contact rate.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's walked forty one times and struck out just twenty times if you include the college season and and the pro debut so far.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's patient.

[SPEAKER_02]: See mentioned he can move and [SPEAKER_02]: It's it's great.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's a ball.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a high floor player here that you wonder how much impact there is.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's definitely going to get to get the ball in the air a little bit more from that fifty nine percent ground ball right.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it's a really good starting point here for a guy that you think about in the draft.

[SPEAKER_02]: You probably want high probability big leagueers if if you don't have a lot of picks to work with and it's exactly what they go for here with a guy that hit nearly four hundred in the draft chair and Cohen.

[SPEAKER_00]: last name to watch minor areas who I think along with Walker Martin is one of the premier brain breakers in minor.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, all for arm laden.

[SPEAKER_00]: This guy was so good in the DSL and a brief sample in twenty three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty four he comes around to the complex.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's okay this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: not great at the complex repeating, but they decide to get them to low a and this guy has started his low a career one for twenty five with nine punchouts.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and then they sent him back to the complex and then now I don't know what I don't really know what's going on.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's injuries have really derailed him because he had that DSL momentum.

[SPEAKER_02]: I loved the combination of hitting power that you could dream on there is pretty good athlete.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's guys still nineteen by the way, it doesn't turn twenty until that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think a month into next season, but man, I think injuries are really derailed him and he just kind of looks like a shell of himself.

[SPEAKER_02]: Still a name to watch for me because of the skill set because of what we've seen.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's a reason why I already got two point seven million dollars in the twenty twenty three IFA cycle, but [SPEAKER_02]: It isn't looked anything like the guy I was really excited about a couple years ago and hopefully just getting healthy and getting back on the field with a little bit more games under his belt will help him, but I'm definitely quite concerned about areas at this point.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get back into the top twelve now because that's a way that we did twelve instead of fifteen with this giant system.

[SPEAKER_02]: But twelve is a fun arm.

[SPEAKER_02]: Herel me, Maldonado.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's G-E-R-E-L-M-I.

[SPEAKER_02]: R-L-M-E, more than I would.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was thinking J-R-L-M-E, but I like R-L-M-E a lot more.

[SPEAKER_02]: R-L-M-E.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm always went and down at G-S-N-H, baby.

[SPEAKER_02]: Perfect.

[SPEAKER_02]: I really like the stuff.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's probably a reliever here.

[SPEAKER_02]: They sound in for about a hundred and forty-five thousand dollars in in twenty-twenty-one.

[SPEAKER_02]: He really saw his stuff tick up in twenty twenty three and then as so often happens when your stuff ticks up Tommy John surgery followed then that wiped out twenty twenty four and [SPEAKER_02]: We didn't really get to see him until a little bit after the start of the twenty twenty five season.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's don't harder than ever.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think because of that, the giant, so I go, let's, he's don't even harder now coming back.

[SPEAKER_02]: I go, let's manage to work on a little bit.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they have, but he's sitting ninety eight miles per hour with his fastball.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like he's averaging ninety eight.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is obviously exciting.

[SPEAKER_02]: Then you have this slider at eighty four off of it.

[SPEAKER_02]: That looks like a potential wipe out pitch.

[SPEAKER_02]: So those two offerings, I think are going to make him a potential solid big league reliever.

[SPEAKER_02]: The fastball has some heaviness and run to it that I think is in a while to get a lot of ground balls with the eight percent ground ball rate, but sixteen percent walk rate.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to give him a little bit of patience here because he's coming off a TJ and he's throwing the ball as hard as ever, but obviously the command's going to need to come along a good bit.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's twenty one years old, Montenado is, but big, burly guy on the mound that touches a hundred and has an nasty slider.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to be, yeah, at least somebody that is worth monitoring and following here and hopefully he can find a little bit more feel for the one.

[SPEAKER_00]: love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I saw he was listed on baseball reference at six to one seventy.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have a proper listed height and weight in six three two thirty even in twenty three the videos that I saw like that is big man throwing ball very very hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what it is that the build is very similar to a Daniel Palencia where like there's mass there and all of the masses moving downhill and it's just ripping hard years.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and they say mass equals gas.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's got probably even more mass on them than, uh, than, uh, Polencia and he's found a way to kind of get it working behind him.

[SPEAKER_02]: As you mentioned, and I think that's helped him get to this point where he's, I don't see how high he's touched.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's touched one on one.

[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I mean, he's he throws fuel.

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so it's just about can you get anywhere near the one more consistently and cut that walk rate down from sixteen percent getting a lot of early contact.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think we'll help him do that too.

[SPEAKER_02]: Number eleven's, and I'm actually started to like a lot more of the more I dug into and it's Jacob Brezhnehan.

[SPEAKER_02]: He was a thirteen-fram pick in twenty twenty two and a pitchability lefty that has some really good characteristics to his fastball.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the more I watched a Brezhnehan more exciting I think he could potentially be now he's twenty years old and you have that kind of soft tossing profile, but he's thrown a little bit harder this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Fastball is average ninety two and a half which as a lefty ninety two and a half with plus carry then working off of that is a slider that looks like it can be above average and a splitter that that looks like it's above average.

[SPEAKER_02]: You get a chance here for a back end starters three pitch mix.

[SPEAKER_02]: The funny thing is the pitch ability hasn't totally been there.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's been walking batters at about a twelve percent clip.

[SPEAKER_02]: But what I like is high carry fastball guy who only is a thirty five percent crown ball rate yet only two home runs this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe in a little bit, I think cautious with them in terms of the assignments, still just at low a, but the numbers are fantastic.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's starting to stretch out closer to eighty pitches and most of his outings.

[SPEAKER_02]: And if the command can come along a little bit further, I see him pushing to that forty five future value and you're looking at a guy that could be a decent five starter.

[SPEAKER_00]: He has, I think, like, kind of a mirror of the perfect mechanics in Major League Baseball.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think Jose Kintana is the most mechanically sound left.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have in the game.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you watch this guy's delivery at twenty years old.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, there's a lot of Kintana there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Shilders closed early.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're sliding to the third base side of the rubber.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's kick and deal.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is working downhill.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's actually kind of surprising that the walks are there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, but this is a young kid trying to harness big time stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: with how mechanically sound he is, you feel like that is going to be harnessed pretty darn quickly.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that can happen in the upper levels of the minor leagues.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, how it could happen in, you know, Richmond in two years.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, opponent's hurting one ninety two against him.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the fact what he is around the one, even though it's low [SPEAKER_02]: He's definitely missing enough bats.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it once he can find that I agree with you.

[SPEAKER_02]: The delivery is really smooth and it almost makes me feel like there's room for more view of two.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's like six, three, hundred, and ninety pounds ish.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you probably can think like, okay, keep doing baseball movements in the weight room and then all of a sudden that's going to turn into ninety five.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is a guy that can make is big of a leap in this system is it's just about anybody from all the reasons you mentioned the characteristics that are already there the slider is lagging behind the splitter but the splitter looks legitimately good and and the slider hasn't proved as a seasons progress so you got a three pitch mix you got some projection there and guy that's still just twenty years old and the numbers have been there I think this is a very intriguing arm to follow love it [SPEAKER_02]: And then into the top ten, we go with Diego Velá quez.

[SPEAKER_02]: And this is a floor over ceiling guy as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: Diego is very contact oriented, twenty one years old.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think ultimately projects is kind of that utility and field or type and you're seeing that this year where in double a when it's very bad to ball oriented you're not going to speak as many of those doubles in because the defenders are better and they're going to close balls off in the gap more and just you're seeing that the lack of power is.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe holding it back a bit more offensively, he's talking about three, fifteen this year, but it's a ninety-one percent in one contact, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: He's patient.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to walk as much as he strikes out and he can move around the infield.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's best suited for second base, but he's a guy that plays a really good second base.

[SPEAKER_02]: and you can probably plug into short stop and a pinch third base and a pinch if you need at least tall enough to play even first if you need it in the pinch.

[SPEAKER_02]: So to me, it kind of looks like this utility infield type that is very back to ball oriented with a good approach.

[SPEAKER_02]: For those guys, like if you're not going to get a ton of impact offensively and it's a guy that's coming off the bench, I want someone that can play a bunch of different positions and that I know is going to give me a good at bat.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's exactly what Velasquez does.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm just curious why the Homer total is like dissipated as much as it has like eight homers as a nineteen year old and low-A is really encouraging, but obviously that could just be a byproduct of environment in San Jose and the ball length fly a little more.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he split the year between Eugene and Richmond last year, hundred and thirteen games and four homers this year, hundred and five games and two homers.

[SPEAKER_00]: But based on what you just laid out, it seems like this guy can be one of those [SPEAKER_00]: I don't like semi-valuable pieces that rip you seven, ten minor League OPS.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's what Chitter, too.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, that part definitely helps his case, but yeah, I think it was very environment.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a panic.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking at the EVs.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're not really not much different.

[SPEAKER_02]: If anything, you said in the ball a little bit harder than now.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think you're just getting away with more and sneaking a few more out in the environment.

[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, it's not the sexiest part in the world, but they are a good chance of filling a big league rule there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Number nine is a guy that I'm still gonna believe in until really he can't throw the baseball because Reggie Crawford, man.

[SPEAKER_02]: You've seen him physically.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's, there's not a lot of players built like him.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, six, four, two hundred, forty pounds.

[SPEAKER_02]: He was drafted kind of as a potential two way experiment.

[SPEAKER_02]: They decided to stop the hitting thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: I talked about them when we were on the Arizona fall.

[SPEAKER_02]: I got my guy.

[SPEAKER_02]: This guy should just pitch.

[SPEAKER_02]: And on the mound, I mean, he is touched triple digits.

[SPEAKER_02]: But as dealt with injuries, Tommy John surgery and then he had a shoulder surgery.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's really concerning.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we haven't seen him throw since June of last year.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I love the makeup.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's awesome, dude.

[SPEAKER_02]: I, you can't teach the physicality and athleticism that he has.

[SPEAKER_02]: And if there's anyone that can overcome all this stuff, it's right, you're Crawford.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're talking about.

[SPEAKER_02]: fastball that can reach triple digits even if it's subdued now and he's ninety five to ninety seven from a six four left handed frame with a disgusting curve ball.

[SPEAKER_02]: I still think this guy could be an impactful left handed reliever and that's why he's still on the top ten for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, hundred percent.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I've got I've got no counter to it because you bet on the physicality of this guy and you bet on the makeup, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like you know it, you set down with him previously on this show.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's first team all make up this guy like the smiles contagious.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you feel like you can really turn it on to bullpen setting.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the last time we saw him, he was turning it on in a bullpen setting.

[SPEAKER_00]: And even in his short starts when they were doing that, he was turning it on in that setting.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, all we have to work with on the mound is good.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a matter of racking up that time.

[SPEAKER_00]: In terms of hitting, I was just looking back on his fall league in twenty three eight for fifty eight.

[SPEAKER_00]: He hit a buck thirty eight.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you were just banking on him running into a couple of homers.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't really happening.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, okay, you know what, just pitch.

[SPEAKER_02]: which when he did connect, it was full.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was crazy powered, but yeah, it was, it was just, it was a matter of, okay, let's, let's focus on the pitching now.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it's fifteen appearances before he went down in June in, uh, twenty, twenty, four.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's struck out thirty, seven percent of matters.

[SPEAKER_02]: So he, he hoped he can be around the one enough when he comes back.

[SPEAKER_02]: Most important thing is to say, healthy, but, uh, hopefully we'll see him back.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, maybe he was on a follow again this year, but this time is a picture of if not, maybe maybe next year, but really, really rooting for him as a person as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: Number eight is Carlos Gutierrez and this is a player I didn't have a ton on before and as I did the dive was really interesting to just see more of because you start to look at the skill set not it's on a power no doubt about that [SPEAKER_02]: But he can definitely fill a big league role because of the way that his tools kind of work across the board.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's good bat to ball.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's above average speed.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think he ultimately settles in a corner.

[SPEAKER_02]: But when you've got above average bat to ball, above average plates is a plan to above average speed.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's a guy that could be a fourth-out field of time, but to left-handed swing as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe it can be bulk platoon.

[SPEAKER_02]: I found myself just intrigued.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know it's not the most high-up side outlook, but this was a thirty-two thousand-dollar international free-age in the year as was in twenty-twenty-two.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, another player where it's not the sexiest profile, and it's a flatter swing, which is going to result in some ground balls.

[SPEAKER_02]: But ultimately, I still think this is a guy that can fill a big league role.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he's got obviously a ton of time at this point.

[SPEAKER_00]: And like you, you know, enjoy where you're at based on the IFA money and all of that and how quickly he's gotten to lower.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think maybe he can unlock a little bit more impact.

[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see.

[SPEAKER_02]: But the only problem is it's kind of a tweeter profile, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Where is the corner outfielder?

[SPEAKER_02]: You want to see a little bit more swag?

[SPEAKER_02]: But if you really hit and really get on base, you can just be an OBP machine that can just do enough to keep himself in the line on a book, puttune basis.

[SPEAKER_02]: Number seven is a totally different archetype.

[SPEAKER_02]: Dakota Jordan and Jordan's a popular name because you get the tools, you get some of the flash that we saw at Mississippi State.

[SPEAKER_02]: But he's still in the way.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's that as an outfielder who I was very, very skeptical would even be able to hit it low A.

[SPEAKER_02]: And from what I saw in the winter rates that we saw in college, I was not sure that this guy was going to hit enough even to climb through a couple minor league levels.

[SPEAKER_02]: He is definitely made a huge step in the right direction.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they knew it was going to be station to station with him.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they went with the upside when they took him.

[SPEAKER_02]: They made some adjustments with a swing, and they've definitely resulted in positive trends, offensively.

[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that he's striking out less, and I know it's a college battle away, but the fact that he's striking out less, only a twenty-three percent care rate this year, then he did in college is super encouraging.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's still [SPEAKER_02]: a seventy seven percent in one contact rate in a thirty percent chase rate.

[SPEAKER_02]: So those are slightly elevated for a college pattern away, but a fifty percent hard hit rate in a ninety percent tell us exhaustive a hundred and eight point five miles per hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is a guy that you take your time and maybe it clicks it's twenty four twenty five.

[SPEAKER_02]: I I think he's worth the patience and was a it's a fun upside play, especially in a relatively barren farm system.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, twenty nine percent K rate in the SEC is just never like something you throw out there in terms of a first round caliber talent, but this guy based on the upside like was flirting with the first round and the ultimately fell to the fourth, which you see here, but it got to a point it seems like in the Giants draft last year that he was falling too much for them not to take the bait on this.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that there is some immediate payoff this year through eighty eight games, it's fourteen homers and twenty seven vags at its high efficiency too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like this is incredibly exciting.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like this could have gone one in two ways.

[SPEAKER_00]: It could have blown up very, very quickly.

[SPEAKER_00]: or it could look like this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't think there's a world where we're sitting here and saying, oh yeah, no, it's fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's palatable, everything about his game is like B to B minus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like this is kind of an A minus to A season for Jakode Jordan and you're seeing, you know, why it can be awesome moving into high A or double A next year, you know, regardless how much time he spends in high A.

I'm curious, like have you been proven [SPEAKER_00]: wrong by him in any area of his game or is it just oh we're seeing the best outcome of what we knew could happen.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think I thought his doors would get blown off in trouble.

[SPEAKER_02]: So from that alone, I think that's been encouraging.

[SPEAKER_02]: I thought there'd be a lot more swing and miss.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very interested to see what it looks like in high A.

But I would say I'd just been proven wrong in the fact that he's a lot more adjustable than I thought he would be and to make those mechanical adjustments and see that success already is very encouraging.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm still a little bit concerned about the chase too.

[SPEAKER_02]: But also, I was a little bit skeptical that he would be able to play a decent center field and it looks like he's getting more comfortable out there.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that's maybe an area where I just probably a little harsh as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you've been on the athlete.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's a plus runner that's built like a linebacker and the athleticism continues to shine through.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm excited to see what he can continue to do.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, if he has even moderate success and keeps the strike out right and check in high A, he's definitely going to be another guy that jumps that future value tier to the next level.

[SPEAKER_02]: Cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: Number six, guy that made his big league debut, Carson Wizzan Hunt.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, Wizzan Hunt said tough one because he does kind of project as another depth arm, but when you have one of the best pitches in Mono League baseball, [SPEAKER_02]: You have a better chance of potentially being able to kind of nestle your way into being a five starter or maybe even a four starter.

[SPEAKER_02]: The problem is it's very much still all about the change up with Wizz and Hunt.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we talked about it.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, how else does he get hitters out other than the change up right now?

[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't really know what the answer is.

[SPEAKER_02]: The change up is Oli.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's seventy-pitch easy.

[SPEAKER_02]: But the fastball opponents have an OPS over a thousand against the slider opponents are hitting three, forty against with an OPS of nearly nine hundred.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the curve ball is probably is best mix in pitch at this point, but he barely throws it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's only the only reason why it doesn't have better numbers against.

[SPEAKER_02]: So how does this guy get people out of them the change up?

[SPEAKER_02]: at ninety two miles per hour was in hundreds and really feel like a reliever either.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I just struggle to figure out what the role is other than maybe unfortunately a depth arm just with a little bit more potential because he throws such a good change up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it is one trick pony is.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it felt like they were calling them up to be a one trick pony, which is unfortunate.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's unfortunate that we've seen this large of a sample in AAA and we're not really seeing anything else kind of develop with that change.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the VLO is fluctuated a lot as he's dealt with injuries.

[SPEAKER_02]: Get a little bit of elbow, a little bit of shoulder.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's a problem too.

[SPEAKER_02]: If he's ninety four ninety five, you can mass that fast ball a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to see him try it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And because you like, yeah, we say ninety four ninety five major league average fast ball velocity among right handed starters is ninety four point five miles an hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: What's it a thing left to you?

[SPEAKER_02]: It's like ninety three and a half.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think so.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you right now.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's the tough part.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I would love to see him mix in a cutter and just kind of get like a weak contact cutter, be a lefty that can just kind of tie up righties with it and then the change up creates kind of a nice separator where you have it working in two different directions there and could be this this tunneling opportunity there for him.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I just think right now with the arsenal is constructed.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's just very one trick ponyish and it's going to be hard to have success that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: I see Major League average among both righties and lefties and starting pitching is ninety four point two.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if I'm not interested in ninety four, it's just average.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: And in the characteristics aren't great, but even if he could just get back up because he's had stretches where he was closer to ninety four and ninety five and he was a lot more effective that way.

[SPEAKER_02]: And ninety two.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so the separation from the change up is in there as much.

[SPEAKER_02]: Just a positive, the change up is so good in this command of it is so good.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's sixty a percent strike rate on the change up.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a screwball man.

[SPEAKER_02]: And maybe he goes into a relief role ultimately and it's Tommy Caneley style and he just grows eighty percent changeups and and just gives hitters nightmares because it's not like lefties or righties farewell against it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Righties have a six something OPS against it and then lefties.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, [SPEAKER_02]: It's a two, ninety five old PS against this change up this year, hit in one eleven.

[SPEAKER_02]: So he could come in, be a lefty specialist, but also still throwing off to get right, right, he's out a little bit and just go change up heavy and maybe that's the role he fills.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is so cool that it eats up lefties.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like you think about, oh, change it's working away from barrels.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is left on left change of killing you.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's when you know it's just got some weird movement to it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to get to the top five here, which starts with Beau Davidson, but before that, quick break.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right, number five, Beau Davidson.

[SPEAKER_02]: You mentioned Trent Harris, a coastal plains scouting success story for the giants.

[SPEAKER_02]: The giants, they might be the kings of the coastal plains, because they found Beau Davidson there as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you and I got to quick peek at him in the Arizona fall league.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that was kind of amidst the breakout of Davidson.

[SPEAKER_02]: And now we've seen him just refine his game more and more.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's in double a now.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll update that since this was published, but this is a guy that really came out of nowhere.

[SPEAKER_02]: It took a year off of baseball.

[SPEAKER_02]: We've talked about him a little bit on the show.

[SPEAKER_02]: It comes back and [SPEAKER_02]: just destroyed his way through the Jukeau ranks, stands out in the coastal plains.

[SPEAKER_02]: Lee extends out in rookie ball and all the sudden they send it to the AFL.

[SPEAKER_02]: He starts to do more and more and more.

[SPEAKER_02]: Makes some adjustments to his swing because you couldn't teach the twitch and the Davidson has.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's crazy bat speed and they find a way to kind of refine his movements a little bit more and all the sudden.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is a guy that is was succeeding in high A and is still getting acclimated to double A, but I don't think he's getting blown up there by any means.

[SPEAKER_02]: All this on this looks like a guy that could be in a buff average regular in the outfield and if he can stick in center even more exciting and it looks like he may have a chance to do that.

[SPEAKER_02]: But even if he's in a corner, he's got the power to handle it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So his batting practice was stunning.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like there have been very few guys that have taken a batting practice session.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, I got to figure out what this kid's name is.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was Beau Davidson.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like that's the main one that jumps out to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know Brasignio, Jose Brasignio was as big as he actually was.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I saw him taking batting practice.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, oh, Lee, L, who is this guy?

[SPEAKER_00]: Typically, you know who you're supposed to look out for in BP.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Davidson was somebody that I wasn't looking out for that all of a sudden happened to be first team all batting practice.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact that it's translating is really cool.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it just seemed like I texted you and you said, yeah, there are some red flags there, but it's interesting.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's twenty-one years old and finishing in the low-A.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know you just laid out where the improvements have been made, but can you give me the biggest stride you feel like he's made to make himself a legitimate prospect?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and that's where it goes back to, even like when he was swinging and missing, we're like, ooh, that's some crazy bad to be like, what if he connects a little bit more consistently?

[SPEAKER_02]: And now we're seeing him connect a little bit more consistently.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot more cohesion between his upper half and his lower half now.

[SPEAKER_02]: He went from just a freak athlete in the box that was still kind of looking like he was getting his footing.

[SPEAKER_02]: So a guy that now starts to look a bit more refined as a hitter.

[SPEAKER_02]: with the torso and lower-high-forking more in tandem.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's what really stands out to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it's just more under-control in general with that swing.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you're seeing that now with an in- one contact rate about eighty percent.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's going to play.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's much better against secondaries now.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's demolishing foreseemers, which is I think what you love to see too.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's getting the ball in the air at a higher clip.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's only a forty-two percent ground ball rate this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hard hit right north of forty percent even ninety of a hundred and six miles per hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think you should still learning to get into that power more consistently.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm excited about them.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think ultimately it's going to be a book put to rule.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think you don't want to have this guy facing lefties as much.

[SPEAKER_02]: Eight ninety one OPS against right East though in those contact rates creep up the EV's creep up the strikeout rates only twenty three percent in general, but drops a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_02]: against varieties against lofties, you know, that that OPS creeps more towards the six ninety range.

[SPEAKER_02]: But he's been competent against lofties.

[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe you can still dream on that full-time roll.

[SPEAKER_02]: He looks like he can get buy and center field.

[SPEAKER_02]: It could be above average in a corner.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think just seeing him get his ace wing off more consistently against spin will be the next thing to monitor.

[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, I'm excited to see just the next step of his development.

[SPEAKER_02]: But even if it's forty five hit, [SPEAKER_02]: with above average power and above average speed.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's been more of a factor on the base spots as well and ability to play all three offfield spots.

[SPEAKER_02]: This could be a solid regular for you in the outfield in San Francisco.

[SPEAKER_02]: Number four, Gavin Kylen.

[SPEAKER_02]: Is it Kylen or Kylen?

[SPEAKER_02]: I always forget.

[SPEAKER_02]: I believe it is Kylen.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is a guy that I actually started to have some top one hundred buzz for me as we got closer, but just just shy because I found myself still petting a lot on a hit tool and the hit tool is always going to be difficult to fully project until you get a larger sample size and professional baseball.

[SPEAKER_02]: But, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is a really sound hitter, and I do still project a plus hit tool.

[SPEAKER_02]: But again, the confidence interval of a plus hit tool is always tough until you see them play professionally, because if it's average or slightly above, then you're looking at all the other tools and saying, OK, those really need to come along.

[SPEAKER_02]: But there's still sneaky enough pop.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think he can hit fifteen or so home runs.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to try him at shore, but I ultimately think he projects best at second, but maybe he can develop into an average defender of short.

[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't fully rule it out with this skill set.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then the feel for the one seems to be something that I'm interested to follow as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think he is a decent feel for it, but the recognize the ability to recognize spin could probably come along a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I love his swing.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's one of the best pure hitters in the class.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they went safe, given that they didn't have a ton of draft capital.

[SPEAKER_02]: Go with a pick that, you know, you feel like is a high probability, big league regular, or a thirteenth overall, and it's exactly what they did.

[SPEAKER_02]: But if you put just closer to average power, or that hit tool really does look concretely, plus it's a guy that's going to move through the minor leagues, probably pretty quickly.

[SPEAKER_00]: It seems like it in Keylon, he really doesn't punch out.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's paid five times at his first forty three pro plate appearances before landing on the injured list.

[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like for Gavin Keylon, but I mean, you look at what he did at Louisville.

[SPEAKER_00]: He really wasn't punching out.

[SPEAKER_00]: You look at what he did at Tennessee.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't punching out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, do you feel like the power.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's just a huge difference to me between thirty five and forty five power for him.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you see how fifteen homers in the SEC, yeah, it's probably forty five power.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then, you see his first ten games or so, it doesn't seem like he's slugging at all.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like what were the EVs like with what were they okay to begin?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's the, and that was a big reason why I was a little hesitant is the EVs with wood.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was a little bit concerned just what is that going to look like and in a very small sample.

[SPEAKER_02]: They definitely were down a few a couple of ticks.

[SPEAKER_02]: So if that's the case, you know, he hits the ball at optimal angles and that's great.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to need to be the outslug the EVs profile.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see, adds a little bit more strength.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's a lot to enter.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to update that on the screen for those that are watching.

[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, the EVs were a little bit down.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe he was hurt and banged up and deal with that.

[SPEAKER_02]: But also that was part of the reason why I put thirty five to forty five is because if he can regain the metal EVs and and be where he was at, which with metal, it was, you know, I think an EV ninety of about one of three.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's that's still not jumping off the page.

[SPEAKER_02]: But when you have a thirty five percent ground ball rate, [SPEAKER_02]: uh, and the ability to backspin baseball is you can maybe dream on the fifteen or so home runs where you have the plus bats a ball via the big spot for me to is the plate discipline because if that continues to come along, then you can look at the hit and walk and then with fifteen homers, that's a good, you know, above average at regular at second base.

[SPEAKER_02]: But to your point, we've seen maybe that impact may degrade a little bit with wood and and that's where it's going to be tough to kind of see how much he can prevent, eventually, slug, but hopefully he can add a little bit more bats [SPEAKER_02]: in this first pro-off season as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, geez.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we had to shift things around and give it a second go here.

[SPEAKER_02]: But we're into the, I think the very distinct top of this system where when you get to the two lower level guys and then of course, rice salad rich, it gets really fun here.

[SPEAKER_02]: Not a sweat on Bo Davidson.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's exciting.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think it just gets to another notch here and you see the fifty future value and it starts with Johnny level.

[SPEAKER_02]: Johnny level switch hitter, another exciting IFA signing by these giants.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was [SPEAKER_02]: just about a million dollars in twenty twenty three.

[SPEAKER_02]: You got to switch in her who has potential for average hit average power.

[SPEAKER_02]: Even if he doesn't stick in short, which I think he has a shot to he could be a really good defender and potentially second or third base.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then you have the above average speed, but they seem to like those switch hitting middle and field types in the IFA, you know.

[SPEAKER_02]: I would just say the IFA cycles.

[SPEAKER_02]: And level is a fun, I think pretty dynamic player to add to the fold here.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I like it when you don't have a ton of top top prospects.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's good to mix in these lower level high upside fun, you know, just just dynamic types of middle and fielders.

[SPEAKER_00]: For sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I know that the word you love as it pertains to Johnny level is twitch.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like you feel like this is a very twitchy baseball player.

[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean by that?

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the explosion and especially from the right side with the right side, you know, because he's he's listed at five times for us here.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that might be generous.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to just go and off of what they give us might be closer to five nine five eight, but he really packs a punch for his size and especially from the right side where you just see that rotational explosion.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's quick burst.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's it's just this this even in the field, too, where he's that quick twitch in terms of the way that he moves.

[SPEAKER_02]: Everything is just short explosive movements.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that allows him to kind of outpunch his frame, whether he's hitting or you watch him kind of move in the field a little bit, not any of the percentilex of velocity of a hundred five miles per hour from right side.

[SPEAKER_02]: From the left side, it's a little bit lower at one or three, but the field of hit stands out a little bit more there as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you have the [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe potential for a little bit above average power.

[SPEAKER_02]: He started to tap closer to that forty present power as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: You have ten homers already through seventy four games and they bumped him up to it to low a where he has started to settle in pretty nicely here.

[SPEAKER_02]: As we're recording this coming off of a three hit game.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's not punching out of town.

[SPEAKER_02]: It seems like it's starting to all come together here where it may be nothing jumps off of the page, but it's fifties or so across the board for a really well-rounded player.

[SPEAKER_02]: But at eighteen years old, maybe that twitch turns into a little bit more impact and explosion, you know, as he matures.

[SPEAKER_00]: when you close your eyes and see what this guy looks like when he makes his debut.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who do you see?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not asking you for a comp.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying like if he continues to progress the way he is, is it similar to how people viewed Brian Rokio and Cleveland when he came up?

[SPEAKER_00]: Probably not, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's more athletic than that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'd say it's more offensively driven and athletic than that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't, you know, I'm going to kind of see the specific details on the defense.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like he has the quickness to stick there and as a chance to stick there, but I don't think he'll ever be this plus defender there.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's going to be a little bit more offensive driven, but you're looking at a guy that could be [SPEAKER_02]: two, seventy hitter that can hit twenty home runs and give you above average speed.

[SPEAKER_02]: And if he's an average defender of shortstop, it's a pretty well round of player there.

[SPEAKER_02]: If he moves over to second, it's probably above average there.

[SPEAKER_02]: And now you've got a really dynamic second baseman.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's where you could end up seeing it slide over.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then I think that takes even a little bit more pressure off of the bat because [SPEAKER_02]: You know he's going to carry the required, I think, slug at second base because you know he's going to hit pretty well as well, whereas at short stop if he's an average defender, you're going to want to see him push closer to, you know, twenty plus homers.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think it's this really well-rounded skill set.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the fallback is he's a really fun utility piece as well that can kind of move all over the infield.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think he's either, you know, an above average second baseman or an average regular short stop if the glove can come along a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_02]: Cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: They may guy that you can dream on even further is Josh Warganzallus.

[SPEAKER_02]: And Gonzalez is kind of all of the things that we talk about with Johnny level, but maybe a little bit more to dream on at each spot.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, the power is an area where I find myself just a little bit [SPEAKER_02]: It's so much harder to project power for for some of these guys, especially when you're talking about it, it's still seventeen years old.

[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I don't know what is exact measurements are because we don't get the updates, you know, year by year as much with these IFA guys, but it's another switch hitting [SPEAKER_02]: shortstop that I think has a better chance to stick there and it's probably just a better runner in general.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think the hit tool is a little bit ahead as well of maybe where level was that last year and and just as a chance to be better in general as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think when you look at what just water to hazers is already doing.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's funny just draws water to hazus Gonzalez.

[SPEAKER_02]: It depends where you look.

[SPEAKER_02]: It goes by both, but Gonzalez here [SPEAKER_02]: Still in the DSL, so we're going to wait to see, you know, just kind of how things translate to the complex, but in the DSL, through fifty two games, it's running it in one, contact rate at ninety one percent.

[SPEAKER_02]: The EVs are already flashing above average.

[SPEAKER_02]: And when you look at what he's doing from the right side as well, you're, you're looking at EVs that are comfortably above average.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, it's tough because the left handed pitching in the DSL is a lot weaker.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, you always want to see what it looks like.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, when he gets the complex and things like that, like the average fastball velocity that he's seeing in the DSL from left hand to pitching right now is about eighty nine miles per hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: But regardless, you can only judge him against what he's seeing.

[SPEAKER_02]: And when you've got a ninety one percent in one contact rate with a ninety is percent the likes of velocity of a hundred and three miles per hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then you just look at the video.

[SPEAKER_02]: super smooth swing really advanced for his age with a good feel for the strikes on.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's walking more than he's striking out.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you're already seeing that field of pull the ball in the air, especially from the left side.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is a player that with the defense potential looking like it's above average a short stop can be.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, this could be that like, prototype that you generally look for a short stop.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it could be you talk about Roqueo, what people were always hoping would come along on the offensive side.

[SPEAKER_02]: It didn't quite happen.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think this could be that player that fits that archetype a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_00]: interesting.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, so you just you close your eyes and you see a very well-rounded shortstop in the future.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because even if the power's fringy, if I tell you a buff average hit, solid plates is a bit plus speed in the above average defender of shortstop, you're not that worried about the power being even below average.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's so hard to put a future power grid on a kid that's seventeen years old and still clearly has room to add strength to his frame.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm excited to just see how much power he can add, you know, and everything along those lines, but he's already pushing the exit velocities close to a hundred nine miles per hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll see what else is in there.

[SPEAKER_02]: But again, I think what I like about players of this archetype is if the power doesn't come along, there's still enough going on around it for him to, you know, be that everyday player, a short stop.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I, it's funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like I was just kind of looking around the league and I'm trying to, you know, see, who's that well-rounded, you know, player that, that I see?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, I guess it was JP Crawford for a minute there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I think Neto is probably the most well-rounded short stuff that we've got in baseball right now aside from the super stars like a bobby wit and an alley and a gunner.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because you can't dream on the super stars much with him.

[SPEAKER_02]: Although there's people out there that love this kid and they think he's a top one under prospect.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's not far off for us.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's probably right around the just missed.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you have that ceiling as much, but that's why I think that next year that neto type definitely plays absolutely safety net, which is really cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think the defense can be ahead of him, you know, maybe not as much impact, but you don't know, because he's seventeen and has more room to add strength.

[SPEAKER_02]: But when you have the baseline of the bats of all that he has, and I mean, you're going to have about an eighty three percent overall contact rate as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then already the defensive acumen that he has as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: It makes it a lot easier to to to feel confident on what he's building on from that foundation.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think this is a great number to prospect to have and what is still a light system because you can dream on still, you know, well above average potential, but also you can fall back on a high probability big league short stop relative to other DSL prospects that we're talking about.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, got you.

[SPEAKER_02]: What you get at the top, though, is a sky-high ceiling.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you really hope that it all comes together for Bryce L.

Dridge, who, I mean, you talk about the power, and it should say, first base there.

[SPEAKER_02]: You talk about the power here with L.

Dridge.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, this is a guy that he's running an average exit velocity of ninety, I think, ninety four miles per hour.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's just stupid stuff.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking right yet, ninety four mile per hour average exit velocity.

[SPEAKER_02]: And when you're six, seven, two hundred, twenty pounds, it's minimal movement to get into that power as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: In this guy's absolute monster.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, the question just becomes, can he cut down on the with enough?

[SPEAKER_02]: And right as we thought, maybe this guy's too good for AAA, he's come down to Earth a little bit and he has struggled for about a week.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then all of the sudden seems like he's shaken out of it again and had a couple doubles the other night.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it's just, I think it's how it's going to be with him.

[SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, you forget that he's twenty years old.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like this guy's still just twenty years old.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, a hard hit rate is sixty percent is outrageous.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the thing is even if he's struck in out near thirty percent of the time, the quality of contact and the consistently hard contact that this guy's going to bring to the table is going to allow him to be a monster in the back of department, which is shocking that his back of actually lower this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think generally speaking, it's going to be consistently high for him.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's going to be a guy that is as he continues to elevate more consistently.

[SPEAKER_02]: It has a potential for your home runs even if he's playing in a ballpark where it's not very easy to hit it out like it is in San Francisco.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's still just scraping the surface of what he can be.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've been clamoring for an elite left handed power bat in San Francisco for a very long time.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you can never throw bonds on somebody.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the lefty power department has been incredibly starved in San Francisco since then.

[SPEAKER_00]: And like you would see Brandon belt get into some here and there.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, high actors look out for the next decade if they do this right.

[SPEAKER_00]: with them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like when you pair Eldridge endeavors in the same lineup for the foreseeable future, like things get really exciting there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously you've got the wind blowing in from the bay.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is a very hard place to hit for left handed hitters.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if you're strong enough, like that is [SPEAKER_00]: You're relatively speaking a short porch.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like it's overwhelmingly easy to get it out there, but these guys have the raw juice to cut through the wind coming in and put it out over that short porch on the Levi's landing and all that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So like I just [SPEAKER_00]: I looked down the line for Bryce Eldridge and I see him quickly climbing like giant home run ranks because that's what he's gonna do and it seems like the value is minimal elsewhere but like that's okay big man.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a crowd go crazy.

[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what they need.

[SPEAKER_02]: And what I love is you bring up the point where, yes, sometimes maybe the ball is not going to fly out that low to the pole side.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's all fields man.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's hit one, two, three, four, five, six, seven homers to center field or opo.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, six of them are pretty much directly opo this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you look at last year and the year before it's the same thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is the kind of guy that can miss hit home runs that just carry and carry and leave the yard.

[SPEAKER_02]: And again, a sixty percent hard hit rate.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we're talking about [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe fifteen percent, of course, a twenty percent above the average that you're going to see at those levels.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think he's still getting more comfortable and doing damage against secondary, specifically change jobs.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's something to monitor.

[SPEAKER_02]: But what he's doing against spin this year has been really impressive.

[SPEAKER_02]: You look at sliders, sweepers, and curveballs in eight oh seven OPS against those pitches.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then for a guy with such long levers, [SPEAKER_02]: nine thirty five OPS against fast balls and you see what he can pretty much do with velocities well ninety four plus he's going to nine fifty OPS so if he's even just hammering fast balls and mistakes he's going to ease into the major leagues and still have success [SPEAKER_02]: And then you're going to look at maybe that evolution year two, year three, as he becomes a little bit more complete of a hitter, where maybe that's where he can push that ceiling even higher.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I think even with the volatility in the early going, he's able to crush fastballs and hangers and just miss hitballs to the backside that leave the yard that is still going to allow him to be very productive, even if he's not a finished product.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's so easy to forget that he's still just twenty years old.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I feel like he's got to get up there soon, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: I thought he'd be a candidate right after August fifteenth.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it feels like it's not going to be long after, you know, where we're recording this on August, twenty.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's got to be a September call up, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: You would think so.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you would think he just slots into that lineup.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what the giants are trying to do right now, like they were on a bit of a skid, but they are still firmly in the wild card picture right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like they sold at the deadline.

[SPEAKER_00]: They effectively moved a couple of guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: And here they are in the wildcard picture because the bottom of the national league in terms of postseason contenders has been that brutal.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like the methods don't really want it to the reds really wanted.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like I can't really figure out that final wildcard spot.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it seems like San Francisco could be in there, but this could be a joke that you could use.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I love the point that you bring up.

[SPEAKER_00]: He might not be awesome right away.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you know that this guy is going to be awesome when he's twenty five years old because he's going to figure out what the best version of himself looks like at the major league level.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to be with San Francisco.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's why I like the devil's edition and just the other pieces of the lineup.

[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't need to be batting third or fourth.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, where we a lot of other top prospects is so you get thrown right into the fire even cagly own rally.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're putting a spot here.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's like where you're you're a guy.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're game planning for right away.

[SPEAKER_02]: Not as much the case with eligible.

[SPEAKER_02]: You could be in the seven hole and and be a guy that, you know, [SPEAKER_02]: hits his mistakes, gets to hit a lot with runners on and ends up easing into his bigly career a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm really excited to see what it looks like.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I will say he hasn't put up best numbers left on left this year.

[SPEAKER_02]: But from what I've seen, he looks more comfortable than he'd expect to have to on the left.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think he's a guy that can avoid, you know, those drastic platoon splits that you usually expect from the big, long, lanky power hitting lefty.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm excited to see what happens here.

[SPEAKER_02]: I hope he gets up in the next week or so.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think [SPEAKER_02]: Giants fans have a lot to be excited about here because when it all comes together, and this could be a guy that hits forty, and he might have that baby draft thing going on for a little bit, but as you get to age twenty two twenty three, it could really settle in and be that next star in San Francisco.

[SPEAKER_02]: So very pumped about that.

[SPEAKER_02]: We get two more farm systems to go through and they're not very fun.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's still some fun players within them.

[SPEAKER_02]: We get the angels and the Astros to wrap up the team top prospect list before we cycle back around and do the updates.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then before that though, we're going to be doing farm system rankings as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm very excited about that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you could probably look that look out for that in a couple weeks because we'll have angels and Astros coming out.

[SPEAKER_02]: or you'll stop prospects is live.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can see that on just baseball.com and we'll be probably breaking that down either end of this week or next week.

[SPEAKER_02]: So very much looking forward to that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Any final thoughts here on the Giants farm?

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not an awesome system, but you have enough carrying pieces here and there's enough depth in the names to consider.

[SPEAKER_00]: A little bum Maui O'Huna wasn't a name to consider.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's been playing okay baseball this year, but I understand.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I was, you know, James Tibbs quickly turned around, but, you know, it's, it's still, it's funny too, because I was like, oh, a whole settle into Boston.

[SPEAKER_02]: Nope.

[SPEAKER_02]: That guy's moved around more than I think any pick after within a year of being drafted.

[SPEAKER_02]: seen, uh, but you know, I think it worked out for them.

[SPEAKER_02]: They've got the big piece endeavors.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the system is still in a pretty pretty decent spot in terms of, you know, where it was relative to the start of the year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, so I still think they've got some pieces from within that are getting stronger.

[SPEAKER_02]: And again, you talk about those global level guys that can make a leap.

[SPEAKER_02]: It could be exciting.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Malia, who an unfortunately doesn't look like a, a name to watch right now, but you never know.

[SPEAKER_02]: You never know.

[SPEAKER_02]: That'll do it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Look forward to talking prospects with you tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I hope you have a great rest of your day.