[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Chris Clegg's minor league baseball show.

[SPEAKER_00]: Insight on the future starts of major league baseball today from in-depth scouting reports, player interviews, and can't miss performances.

[SPEAKER_00]: If it's happening in the minors, we have you covered.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's your host, Chris Clegg.

[SPEAKER_01]: What is up, folks?

[SPEAKER_01]: So good to be back with you today.

[SPEAKER_01]: On this fine Tuesday, August, the twelve bear talk moderately baseball, do apologize for the lack of episodes last week, just lots of crazy life things happening.

[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, the grind of the season coming down to the final stretch, managed to spend a lot going on in my life.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so had tenth anniversary last week, so the wife and I got out town, left the kids for a couple days.

[SPEAKER_01]: So all those things just culminated to like one episode last week, which I don't love.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're back.

[SPEAKER_01]: We back for the rest of the week with you.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we have a new week of baseball, new minor league baseball weeks starts this week.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a good thing to look forward to.

[SPEAKER_01]: Keep in our fingers crossed.

[SPEAKER_01]: We'll get some drafts that come up and get to these full season affiliates because I want some new faces, man.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got a couple of them this past week with Rome and Greenville.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I was at least semi refreshing to get.

[SPEAKER_01]: couple of those guys, Henry Godbalt for the Red Sox and then having Alex low D for the Braves.

[SPEAKER_01]: So at least we got a little bit last week.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll talk about those guys today.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to break down those live looks from last week and also the best weekend performers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything to talk about from this weekend and my live looks with Rome and Greenville, [SPEAKER_01]: Owen Murphy got to start with him.

[SPEAKER_01]: Owen Murphy was somebody that obviously I've been looking forward to seeing.

[SPEAKER_01]: I saw Murphy each of the last three seasons and unfortunately saw him and I start in the Asheville where he that was the last start had taught me John after so.

[SPEAKER_01]: He pitched in the eighth inning.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was kind of a surprise thing like why they throw him that deep.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, but [SPEAKER_01]: saw him back in in between three moves with a gust of and again this year back with Rome is second start back really only his first full star or second full star he was in the complex goes back to high aid beginning of August and then last week in Greenville he pitched exceptionally well let's check out some of the film from that and talk through what went on [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Murphy, he five innings zero hits zero and one walk, five strikeouts.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was really good stuff across the board.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, early in the start, it was pretty much just fastball slider and I kind of was waiting for a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_01]: Kurtball came out in the third and was deadly.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a couple of curveballs you'll see here.

[SPEAKER_01]: He told him it back to like seventy one to seventy four on the curveball and he's got some ugly swings.

[SPEAKER_01]: That slider worked in the lower eighties range like eighty three to eighty five.

[SPEAKER_01]: The fastball mostly nineties.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was right around ninety and there's a swing there from Godbalt just crushed them.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was ninety he hit a couple ninety twos, but at the end of the day like that a couple of people ask like his Murphy's velocity always been this low and the answer is yes to an extent when I saw [SPEAKER_01]: Murphy in twenty twenty three when he was fresh at a high school.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was in the upper eighties last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: He did take up pretty substantially.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was up to the low nineties.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was nine to nine three pretty consistently last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'd clip a four.

[SPEAKER_01]: But come back from TJ like I think this start especially like they were going to try to stretch him and get a few more innings out of him.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that he wasn't throwing a hundred percent.

[SPEAKER_01]: Which was good like.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that it was, when you're missing bats, it works.

[SPEAKER_01]: The IVB is exceptional.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like twenty to twenty two inches of IVB from a like a five sexually side.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a lead IVB on that fastball really flat VA a lot of good traits.

[SPEAKER_01]: That curve balls disgusting, just some really awesome traits to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know the slider was sharp as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he featured a couple of changeups in the mid-eighties.

[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, you want a little more separation from the changeups, the fastball velocity.

[SPEAKER_01]: But at the end of the day, I thought Owen Murphy was really, really good and showed a lot of things that I want to see, especially coming back from Tommy John, I mean, [SPEAKER_01]: You never know how the command's going to be and there were pitches where the command just didn't seem to be there, but that's going to come in time.

[SPEAKER_01]: We have to remember like he had the surgery not that long ago.

[SPEAKER_01]: He I think he had it late May if I'm not mistaken of twenty four if not early June.

[SPEAKER_01]: So really we're not all that far removed.

[SPEAKER_01]: Remember like other guys like Andrew Painter were out longer.

[SPEAKER_01]: The Braves really aggressive honestly to push him back to high, but I respect it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what they do.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're aggressive with their guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: Murphy's twenty-one years old.

[SPEAKER_01]: The fastball is going to tick back up and just pretty confident in the app of the traits are so good on it.

[SPEAKER_01]: That if he does live at ninety-nine three, it's going to play.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a really, really good offering.

[SPEAKER_01]: Slider curve ball both good.

[SPEAKER_01]: That change up development will be interesting to watch.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I thought the command was pretty good.

[SPEAKER_01]: All things considered.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it was, he'll come back around.

[SPEAKER_01]: So like I think that, you know, those mispitches, some of them were missed pretty bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: And also you have to know if you look at the strike rate.

[SPEAKER_01]: I had to track man.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there was four pitches in the first inning that were in the zone called balls.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it just, it was what it was.

[SPEAKER_01]: There was a couple more in the second.

[SPEAKER_01]: They don't finally got it together.

[SPEAKER_01]: Murphy was just like screwed and just, he was just grooving it in the zone and he was going to do what he had to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why I pulled out that curve ball got some whiffs.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was a good start overall for a would Murphy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Alex low d's had some had a couple interesting looks at low d's.

[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't do a ton when I saw him, but he is off to a decent start to his pro career to this point.

[SPEAKER_01]: This twenty six played a parent so far in six games, but [SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel a lot of stock into the stats here, but here's a low-deast video from Greenville.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was not at this game, but smoked a double down the line here.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he's just got just really good instincts all around.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, low-deast is a good shortstop.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's one of the more underrated things about Alex low-deast is that his glove is really, really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's shortstop.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got juice.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got context skills.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this is a kid that swings in a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: You look at the data on him and he's very, very aggressive.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's something to question, but at the end of the day, like, I think that low D's is the type where he's so aggressive in the zone that it helps counteract some of that at least a little bit.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, let's pull the data on it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is in college.

[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have a big enough sample to really see now.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, here at a thirty three percent chase rate, that's pretty bad by college standards.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was I think like twenty five is percent was about college average, so anything better than that or lower than that would be.

[SPEAKER_01]: good above its bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, thirty three percent is high, but here's a crazy thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Zoneswing of eighty two percent.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was one of the best marks in college baseball.

[SPEAKER_01]: The eighty six percent heart swing rate really, really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think a context skills are passable enough where low ds is going to get to that power.

[SPEAKER_01]: He blasted seventeen homers.

[SPEAKER_01]: At Florida State, he had a ninety three and a half on our average, EV, which is well above average and a one of seven and a half, ninety percentile, again, very solid mark in a max of one, thirteen, fifty two percent hard hit rate.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he checks a lot of boxes.

[SPEAKER_01]: He hits the ball at ideal angles like low-deces hard hit launch angle, which is something I like to look at.

[SPEAKER_01]: Was at sixteen point five degrees.

[SPEAKER_01]: So most of his best struck balls were good angles as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: launching out of the poolside, ten degrees, really, really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: He handles all pitch types pretty well.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so you like to see those things.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ultimately, like, I think low D's is going to be pushed really aggressively.

[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't be shocked if he's in double like Columbus.

[SPEAKER_01]: by the end of season.

[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe that's crazy, but this is the brave.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think the braves are looking for answers.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a short stop.

[SPEAKER_01]: They have this guy that just draft Alex O.

D's who kind of fell into their lap.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, shockingly at pick sixty second round, they got a gift.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, to give him that one point three million dollar bonus was nuts.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is a guy that [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he was one of the best hitters in college baseball this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: So Alex Lodis, I think, is going to be really nice fit for this Atlanta Braves team and somebody that I like a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: So the other new draft that I saw was Henry God last week, Boston Red Sox, second rounder.

[SPEAKER_01]: They had a really good draft.

[SPEAKER_01]: Here's an open face of a double that God about had.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got to, I mean, [SPEAKER_01]: pretty easy swing, like it doesn't get too long.

[SPEAKER_01]: I never saw him really overextend.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he smoked this one like one, oh, three off the bat.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it feels pretty easy.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's not too much movement in the swing, which, you know, I like to see I kind of appreciate this.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've kind of anti like he does.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a big like kick, but you know, God belt is somebody that played shortstop.

[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of thought he would be a second baseman, but [SPEAKER_01]: Here he is, and he's played a pretty good shortstop this week.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now also, they have, kind of in Franklin R, isn't this team, so he's going to play some second base as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: But God Belt is an interesting player because this is some eye that they want to throw in their bat speed training program, and I think that he will just excel.

[SPEAKER_01]: So since you're in profile from Virginia University, [SPEAKER_01]: There's some good traits in the profile.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this is exactly kind of the Christian camel mold that they drafted, where you have somebody that has shaltomex velocities, has shown really good feel for contact.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you just want to put them in that bad speed program and see where it goes.

[SPEAKER_01]: The X of Lossies weren't off the charts and college forgot about.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had an eight and nine point eight mile an hour average X of Lossie, which is above average.

[SPEAKER_01]: The one of the three point six with medals.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's fine, but like that same will be average with wood just for reference.

[SPEAKER_01]: And so God belt did only max out at one of eight, which is a little lower than you'd like to see, but can that take up absolute?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like it did, this is a similar mark to Christian Campbell, like who really, really took off.

[SPEAKER_01]: But you look at the rest of the profile.

[SPEAKER_01]: So [SPEAKER_01]: Chase rates are spectable at twenty two percent.

[SPEAKER_01]: The heart swing rates at seventy one percent.

[SPEAKER_01]: But the contact rates were so so good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ninety two percent is on eighty eight point one percent overall contact.

[SPEAKER_01]: Again, really good marks there.

[SPEAKER_01]: The interesting thing to follow will be like.

[SPEAKER_01]: Got about you really did damage against non-fast balls.

[SPEAKER_01]: And on fast balls, like when we look at those numbers, like, how's he going to fare against them?

[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's still really good contact, but didn't necessarily do, like, as much damage as you would like to see, but still respect why he made a lot of contact had a good bayonet average.

[SPEAKER_01]: He lifted the ball actually against those.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's really, really good to see.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be watching this profile closely, especially this off season, because the red socks have a really good [SPEAKER_01]: development program, and I'm curious to see what they do with Henry Godbalt.

[SPEAKER_01]: So second rounder from Virginia, Henry Godbalt of the Boston Rantzlox, that's spelled GODBOUT by the way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty strong frame.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought he had good actions at source.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he moves to second, but there's some traits there that I really like personally.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm excited about this profile.

[SPEAKER_01]: So those were my live looks and I realized that I talked a long time about them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take a quick break and then we'll get back and we'll talk some of the best standouts over the weekend.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, our picture, the weekend was Luis Delion of the Baltimore Orioles.

[SPEAKER_01]: This season, he started, got to late start to the season injuries.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had just sixty one, and he's so far, and he shows the flashes of upside from the left side here in the star.

[SPEAKER_01]: He struck out twelve battered across six scoreless with twenty whiffs.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did not issue a walk allowed just three hits on the start dominance from Luis Delayon.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's DE space L-E-O-N.

[SPEAKER_01]: So Delayon is good a song pitch last year when they were in Asheville.

[SPEAKER_01]: really like the stuff that he brings the table is a good mix.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the fast ball is actually on the spring.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I noticed that fast ball was up.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's consistently like mid nineties touching like ninety seven now.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's six three lefties listed one sixty eight probably more filled out than that already.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you like to see those things that slider sits in the mid eighties.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's got pretty good horizontal movement to it.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'll throw it to both both lefties and varieties, which I like to see again.

[SPEAKER_01]: a picture that will throw all of their pitches to both handed batters and the change up mid to upper eighties with pretty good fading action.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think that the changeups of pitch that's still going to be developed more.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's one that he struggled with at times, where he's just kind of left it hanging us all a little bit of that in my looks, but [SPEAKER_01]: Ultimately, I mean, just an utterly dominant day.

[SPEAKER_01]: That lineup with Wilmington is pretty decent too.

[SPEAKER_01]: So to see his dominance there was really, really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like Dillon.

[SPEAKER_01]: For me, like, he's someone that probably is a pickup in, like, a little bit of a deeper league, four hundred prospects, maybe, you know, the command and control has been an issue at times, but it's gotten better the further he's gotten away from the injury.

[SPEAKER_01]: The walk still need to come down a little bit, but over the last seven starts, seven point nine percent walker with a thirty percent carry.

[SPEAKER_01]: That will absolutely play.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get deli on to double-eye for the season ends and see what he's got in Chesapeake or formerly Booley.

[SPEAKER_01]: a couple of hitters that stood out over the weekend.

[SPEAKER_01]: got to talk about Charlie Condon.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's in AA.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had a big weekend.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had two three hit performances.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's been an interesting year for Condon.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, again, this is somebody that had one of the best college seasons in history in between four, taking third over all by the Rockies, and he just stuck out loud in his pro debut with the complex.

[SPEAKER_01]: But ultimately, like with Charlie Condon, he was injured, and I think it played a huge part.

[SPEAKER_01]: And people didn't really give him credit for that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And between Friday and Saturday's games this weekend, we're looking at six hits.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had a double home run.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's been on base in eighteen in the last twenty one games.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you can see that swing there is beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: gets to the poolside in the air often.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's what everything we want to see from a hitter and I know there's been some ups and downs since he was promoted to AA, but Conon has been really, really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: The power's there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think the home runs are going to come.

[SPEAKER_01]: His contact rates are down since going to AA, but we've seen the air pull rate jump.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I like to see that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ultimately, like he's a prospect that I think can rebuild some stock.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think people are kind of out on that profile, which is interesting, but I think that there are things to like there for Charlie Condon.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I know it's easy if people are throw out and say, well, they were Georgia was cheating, but [SPEAKER_01]: Let's be real.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's that's going on in a lot of teams for college baseball.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, to blame Charlie Condon, whatever, call it as it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think Condon is still going to be a really good major leagueer.

[SPEAKER_01]: And some of those contact questions you may have will be counteract by course field.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's also the course hangover going on the road.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, that's something to keep an eye on.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ralphie Velasquez, talk about a hitter that's been on a tear recently.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's Ralphie.

[SPEAKER_01]: He struggled out of the gate.

[SPEAKER_01]: Guys, just being honest, I dipped him in a prospect rankings.

[SPEAKER_01]: And now he's making a resurgence.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had two home runs in the same game on Sunday.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he got promoted AA on the same day.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he'll make his AA debut today.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you were listening on Tuesday, check out these homers.

[SPEAKER_01]: First one was to the opposite field.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's just a smooth compact swing from the left side.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a ton of power in that six three frame.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, so former first rounder in the twenty twenty three draft.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you expect good things.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that Velasquez, he's not going to catch.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's drafted the catcher.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to play first base, but [SPEAKER_01]: So, okay, I mean, because there's some serious juice there, and here's the other home run that we saw from.

[SPEAKER_01]: So when more to the poolside is beautiful, stroke just absolutely smoked there, got out in a hurry.

[SPEAKER_01]: Those poor fans on the blanket were had no clue that that home run about nailed them.

[SPEAKER_01]: But Ralphie's been really, really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: You really like to see some of the improvements he's made.

[SPEAKER_01]: His first twenty-four games, one forty-nine, two fifty-two, three, forty.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: But over his last thirty four games is three twenty eight four twelve five eighty two with seven home runs in eleven doubles.

[SPEAKER_01]: So things are encouraging.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's really picked it up.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like Ralphie a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think Ralphie's going to be one of those guys that.

[SPEAKER_01]: just really continues to hit.

[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see how he fares in double A, but this is some eye that has very impressive, Zollum swing rate and heart swing rates while maintaining a respectable chase rate.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's really good swing decisions.

[SPEAKER_01]: The overall contact rate this year is up substantially from last year, it's seventy eight percent and it's been near A, one percent over the last two months.

[SPEAKER_01]: So big jumps there, the powers there, the EVs check, like it's everything that you want to see [SPEAKER_01]: from a Ralphie Velasquez.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was probably the best hitter over the weekend.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to talk about one more player.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's my that I also saw two weeks ago, actually.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's Jose Anderson of the Milwaukee Brewers.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you remember, Jose Anderson was [SPEAKER_01]: One of those guys in the DSL that was just spectacular.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was statistically up there with Luis Pena and Hazard's Mate.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had a big weekend and much needed a weekend in my opinion, where he's really finding some more contact, which has been good.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got some pop as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had four hits over the weekend, including two home runs, even solar base.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's a strong frame for an eighteen year old, and he can get to some power.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I also saw a lot of chase in that profile.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's prone to chasing breaking balls out of the zone, but Jose Anderson has the traits.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got speed.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got some pop.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a fun player with a good frame.

[SPEAKER_01]: So watch out for him.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of others.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can check them out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll link the full article in my show description.

[SPEAKER_01]: But go check that out if you want to.

[SPEAKER_01]: All the best players.

[SPEAKER_01]: I wrote up some college data darlings today from the MLB draft.

[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're looking for some guys to draft in your flat PD, go check that out as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll link that in the show sheet.

[SPEAKER_01]: But it's going to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for tuning in on this fine Tuesday.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we will see you all next week.

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