Episode 425 - Arizona Fall League Week 1 Report

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In this league podcast network presents prospect one, the fantasy
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prospect podcast prospect one with your host, Chris Welsh.
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This is the fantasy baseball prospect podcast. This is prospect one.
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I'm your host, Chris Welsh, who you can find on
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Twitter and Instagram at is it the Welsh. And of
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course at in this league.com at in this league.com is
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the brand new updated top 500 prospect list, the much
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weighted and the much pushed prospect list and dynasty updates
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are available. It's as of like, I don't know, four
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days ago. I think I released it on Friday night, uh,
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top 500 prospects with also by team and by position
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top 400 dynasty. That was kind of a big undertaking. Uh,
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also a new addition to those is I've added the stats.
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It's something I just didn't have there before. but you
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can now see all the stats for the season for
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the prospects. And then for dynasty, you can see the
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major league stats and I've also color coded them. And
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an interesting fact is I had, I kind of had
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an algorithm to it. So what I ended up doing
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was creating a baseline stat. So it took everybody in
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my top 500 prospects. And then I had a system
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build out what the average was across all 500 prospects, or,
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you know, for this purpose, hitting was like 300 and something.
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Pitching 150 plus whatever. And it created a median baseline.
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And then what I did was I have a color
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coding system that's attached to it. So players on their
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stats that were above or below started having a shading
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of color coding. So all that is, is to tell
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you that there is color coding on the stats to
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show if a player was well above that median baseline
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or below. Just a nice little added addition I put
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on the prospect side. Plus, we've got the 80-plus, I think,
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on the first-year player ranks available. Go and check it out, InThisLeague.com. InThisLeague.com
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is how you get access to the ranks, the dynasty,
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and the first-year player. And it is a way to
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support me, which I very much appreciate. If you want
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to support, go to InThisLeague.com, support all the work that
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I'm doing. get access to the ranks and you could
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jump in the group me rooms as well. Group me
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rooms and prospect one baseball, all the conversation and all
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the off season conversation to be had. Plus I'll have
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another little update on that as well, but go to
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in this league.com also on the socials to point out
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to you guys, I don't put out a ton of
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prospect videos on Twitter. I do a ton more on Instagram.
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Reason behind that is because I lose followers when I
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do the baseball too much baseball, just because I have
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a mix of baseball and football out there. So I
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do bigger things, bigger highlights on Twitter. If you're looking
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just for more granular things of prospects, go and follow
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my Instagram at, is it the Welsh where I might
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just put, you know, like a well-been Francisca single I
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might put out there and I'll in photos and stuff
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like that. It's very AFL prospect centric. That's mostly what
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I put on there outside of an occasional me going
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to LA and seeing a concert or something like that,
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but follow me there if you want to do that. Okay,
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that stuff is out of the way. Today, we are
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in the Arizona Fall League. This is the week one
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Arizona Fall League report. I was out a ton, and
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I did miss a couple days because I was in LA,
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but from the previous Saturday all the way till this Sunday,
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I mean, I don't even know how many games I caught.
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I've seen every single team I've roughly probably seen like
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every single-ish player. Like obviously pitching, I can't see every
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single guy. But hitters, I'll bet you I've seen 85
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to 90 plus percent, especially of the guys that actually played.
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I've seen them all. And those are first looks. So
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on this episode, we are going to be breaking down.
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I've highlighted. I've got six players I want to highlight
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and talk about from week one. There are some players
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to watch, some guys with some early struggles. And there
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was kind of a haven't seen category that's kind of
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changed specifically because I hadn't seen Aiden Miller in Tate Southstein,
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but I saw Tate last night was I think the
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first game that he was in. And then Aiden Miller,
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I think he lined up to like when I couldn't
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go to games, like I didn't see surprise on the
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back half of the week. And then I was gone.
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What was that gone? Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And I believe
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he might have played Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So I just
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didn't line up to him. So I'm not going to
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do that. But talk about a few guys with some
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early struggles. We'll talk about a few guys, lower names
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that have had some interesting things that have popped. And then,
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of course, I've got my big breakdowns. That's what we're
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going to be tackling in this episode. Also point out,
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I'm going to be putting some of this on YouTube
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as we've been trying to kind of uptick the In
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This League. So obviously, if you love the audio experience,
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I appreciate you. And I don't want you to stop
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doing that. But also, if you want to check it out,
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some of the guys, I'm going to be sharing the
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videos on the YouTube if you guys want to check
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that out. I don't think it'll be full episodes. I
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think it'll be more like specific player break. I'll either
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do the full player breakdown with video thing only, or
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I'll break them up. But either way, there's going to
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be some stuff on YouTube. So go and check that out.
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If you can subscribe to the channel as well, because
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I'm going to be doing a giveaway. I'm actually gonna
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have a couple of giveaways that are happening, but one
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is a YouTube specific giveaway. And I'll talk about it
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when I get into the videos. So it's on the video,
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but for the audio podcast, people, this episode, this thing
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that I post or any, by the way, any of
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the AFL week one, if you go and like it,
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and then you got to subscribe, I'm going to be doing,
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as soon as we hit 1,000 followers on the In
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This League YouTube, because we've just never done a whole
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lot with it, I'm going to be giving away two things,
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two in-person autograph cards. They're both Bowman Chrome First, Nathan Flewelling,
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who we're going to talk about in this episode, and
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Arjun Namala. Both signed. I got them both done for you.
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Those both are going to go to one person. So, again,
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go to YouTube.com slash In This League, YouTube.com slash In
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This League. Subscribe now. And then like any of the
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AFL Week ones, because I'm telling you, I don't know
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if I'll have it cut into like five or six
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different videos or one. If you like any of them,
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you will be in. And then as soon as we
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hit the 1K followers, boom, I'll do the giveaway. So
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if it happens in a week, great. If it happens
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a little bit later, look out for that. Also, I'm
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going to be doing a Patreon-only giveaway. And that will
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be posted on there. And then probably in the next episode,
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I'll tell you what it is. But the Patreon people
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will know. And that will be exclusive to Patreon. So...
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Another reason, if you want to consider supporting, that will
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be multiple autograph stuff that I will be doing that
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will be exclusive for Patreon. So a couple of cool giveaways.
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We'll have more as soon as this YouTube one is done.
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I'm going to drop another one. We'll probably do another
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YouTube based one and we'll keep up in the any.
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So Nathan Flewelling and Arjun Namala autographs done in person.
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They're both awesome. And I think you guys will enjoy that.
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So a little incentive if you guys would go. And
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we only need like 100 plus, you know, so like
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we're almost there. So, I mean, if you guys go
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out and rock it, I would very much appreciate it.
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Cool experience in the AFL so far, by the way.
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Just in like, I don't remember because with all the chaos,
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if I've talked to you about it, but obviously we
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had the late additions of Aiden Miller, Sebastian Walcott, Anibal Gomez,
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all on the same team. Made surprise go from, by
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the way, made a couple of things made surprise go
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from a very mediocre team to a really great team,
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but also made my predictions way better. Like my, I mean,
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I was rightfully so I didn't get missed a ton
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of stuff, but I had Walcott. I had Aiden Miller
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on that list and that was great. What it did
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take off, though, is it did take off Brandon Clark,
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which really stunk. That was a bad one. That was
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a completely different team, by the way, of context. And
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then we lost a couple other guys, like Jay Allen
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was one, and I'm forgetting another little guy. But we've
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added a couple random catchers to the list. We added
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those guys, which was great. I don't know if there'll
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be any more additions. But so far, so good, especially
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with those guys being added. The players seem to be
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in good spots. It's The pitching isn't great. I mean,
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this is like the overarching thing. Pitching is not good
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as it is usually. I do think offenses are struggling
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a little bit. We haven't seen like insane, crazy outputs.
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I feel like the Homer output is way less than
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it's been before. And I don't know what that is.
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That also might be an experience change. So I talked with,
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oh man, Tyler. Now I got to go look at
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his name. And forgive me, he's a super nice guy. Great,
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awesome dude. Tyler Laporte, I think, from Glendale. Let's get
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it exactly right. Because a couple things, which is really interesting.
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It is, yeah, Tyler Laporte. Atlanta Brave pitcher. Louisiana guy.
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Really great. We were talking about it because I had
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gone to Louisiana. I didn't realize, 29-year-old. He's like the oldest,
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probably one of the oldest guys that's ever like regularly
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played out here. Because I was talking with him, this
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is completely aside, but I was talking with him about
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you know, his experience. And he was just like, it's like, well,
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you know, I'm a 29 year old trying to just
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make it with just a bunch of 20 year olds
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and 21 year olds. So his experience is very weird
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and interesting. Not that it was a negative, but it's
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just like cultural change. But we were talking about the
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ball change specifically in how they've got the different ball
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in double a, and then they got, they're using the
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triple a major league ball here. So we know that
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like some of the stuff can change up and, and
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maybe we're dealing with like a little bit of an
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alteration of that. Maybe that's why some of the offensive
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numbers are down or it's not flying, but I don't know. He,
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he just, he was baffled that the the ball changed
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and it was like a really weird thing he was
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saying and he showed me a really interesting thing too
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i wish i would have videoed it but he was
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showing me how he has to change his grip he
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actually figured out like when his stuff was dying specifically
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his change up in that i want to say like
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it almost turned into like a circle change he had
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to throw from a normal, the normal gripped changeup. He
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had to like move his fingers over and kind of,
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you know, bring his, this is index and his thumb
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together to kind of circle change it a little bit.
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So that's something to consider maybe with like some of
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the pitching changes. Maybe also this isn't the flying ball either.
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So maybe everybody is trying to adjust, but I don't know,
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getting back to it. I feel like the offensive numbers have,
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they felt a little bit down just slightly and, Down
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from like what I normally see. I mean, we had
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as Merlin Valdez, you know, destroy last year in the
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first week. We've got four players that walked out of
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week one, which was an extended week one, by the way.
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It was Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Yeah,
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it was like nine days. Four players had two or
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more homers. And that might seem like a lot or whatever,
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but it's not. We see some bigger numbers. There's no
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guy that's really like separated himself. We've got some decent
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base dealers here, but nothing really seemed dominant, though there's
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a bunch of great players that are consistent. And that's
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kind of the big focus. But guys are locked in.
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It seems good spirits. Rosters seem pretty full. There's some
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guys trying stuff. Charles Davalin is playing second. I saw
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him make an amazing diving catch. Caleb Bonamer out in
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center has kind of been an experiment a little bit.
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And I definitely, there is one prospect we'll talk about
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in a little bit, I'll tease, that I think he
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is maybe the best looking at his position that I've
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ever seen in the AFL. Just top to bottom in
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what he does defensively and offensively. He's one of the
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most complete players overall. But that's a slight tease because
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we saw huge velocity on fastballs. we saw kind of
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complete players overall. And we've seen some players that have
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popped in from great seasons to just jumping up and
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being awesome. I mean, one of those guys, before we
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get into the breakdown, or at least the two, because
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I'm going to break down the other, is they announced
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the players of the week. And the first player of
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the week was Yarland Susana, which is probably no shocker,
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best pitcher out here, bar none, though we were taken.
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It was taken away from us having our susana versus
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brandon clark 103 matchup he was the best he won
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pitcher of the week and we'll talk about him shortly
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but hitter of the week is a really interesting one
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and he is one of the guys i had kind
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of in the names to watch territory so i'm altering
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this a little bit but well been francisca well been
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francisca is coming out of week one as uh the
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player of the week and and he deserved it he
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had a five it's funny i was around him he
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had this five for five game and I, and I
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kind of noted it to him and he had this
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big smile on his face when I was like five
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for five, all I had to say was five for five. Uh,
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he currently has the third best OPS in the Arizona fall.
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They get 1500. He's one of two players with an
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over a thousand slug. The other guy is Vance Honeycutt.
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Who's got, um, multiple home runs in there. Uh, some
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of the data from prospect savant, I'll probably be referencing
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them a bit on here. He had a one Oh seven, um,
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Max EV, which is good. His average EV is really low.
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So that's going to be something to monitor because he's
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not hitting the ball hard. It's 82. But he's not whiffing.
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He struck out only 6% of the time, walking 18%
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of the time. And I mean, the chase rate actually
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is a little bit higher than some of what you want.
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But he's been a stud. Statistically, let's go back to it. He,
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I think, has the most hits in the AFL. Yeah,
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he has 10 hits. No player has more. He does
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have a homer. He's got that five, six, nine slug.
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He's stolen two bases, caught twice, but it looks locked in.
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He hit a single last night when I saw him.
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It was kind of across his body. So that's going
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to be like the real test ultimately is like who
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is he going to be? Is he a classic Cleveland
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Guardians type of player where it's going to be like
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Brian Rocchio? I mean, Brian Rocchio had a solid year,
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but is it going to go the path of a Rocchio?
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Low strikeout, high on base, eight to 12 homers, 20
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stolen bases. Like that does seem kind of the likelihood,
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but he's making a bunch of great decisions. And he
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was your player of the week in a group of like,
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you know, they're just solid players across the board. I'm
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not sure there was one play. I guess if you
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would have pinned me down, I probably would have said him.
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He probably would have been the guy. I mean, I
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thought there were a couple other players that kind of shine,
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but there weren't some of the big names didn't have,
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you know, the big massive statistics again, that's where there's
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not an Esmeralda Valdez. So, Jarlan Susana, Welbin Francisca, week
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one players of the week. But that's going to lead
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us into the big stuff. And that's where I'm going
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to be breaking down. I want to break down some
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of these names that I got to see in person,
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some of the videos that I've got of all these players.
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There's a couple homers involved in here. Really didn't get
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a bunch of homers. But these are some of the
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big name guys. And I thought performed really, really well.
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And then we'll just kind of go through a set
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of names after. And that is what we're going to do.
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talk about some players, some very specific players. I've got
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six names that I wanted to highlight that I've got
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some video for from the Arizona Fall League. Relatively all
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big names, I would say. The first is going to
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be a big one. We're going to talk about a
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couple pitchers, but I want to first talk about Dax Kilby.
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Dax Kilby, I came in with some hesitation to the fall.
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Not in that I didn't think he was a good player.
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Not at all. I think Dax is a great player.
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It was more about some of the hype that ended
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up being surrounding Dax Kilby. But Kilby's come in and
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he's put up really, really good exit velocity. So far,
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he's been in four games. I think I've seen three
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of the four. He's hitting 313. We ended up getting
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his first homer, which I was not at, of course.
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Walk to strikeout ratio is fine. But the really interesting
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thing was at the beginning of the week. So this
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was like through the first three or four games, probably
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three because he's only played four. He had the most
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extra base hits in the AFL and three of his
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first four hits were all doubles with Kilby. But the
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big story and his ability to hit hard contact. So
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I've got video up here that's playing under me where
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you just get to, I'm going to have a couple
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of these videos where you just get to see Dax Kilby.
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I love the swing. It's really easy as shown here.
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He crushes this ball up the middle. This was one
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10 just right up the middle. Easy stuff. Uh, there's
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not a lot of business in his swing. Um, sometimes
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in it, I wonder like where's going to be, and
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I think this is just going to be a maturation process.
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where is he going to start turning into massive power?
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But this is a guy that hits the ball so hard.
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He's probably going to just naturally just jump into those.
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I mean, that's a beautiful, it's just right off the
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barrel off the tight Cummings go straight up the middle, uh,
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putting in, let's see another video here. This is Dax.
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I think this is just a night. Oh, this is
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another single that he's going to put up here. Maybe
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it's even this. No, no, this is a, yeah, this
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is a, Actually, it might have been the same one
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I might have uploaded in here. This is, I think,
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some nice swing action of Dax that I wanted. Oh, no, no.
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I'm sorry. This is the defensive play. So it's not
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just the bat. I wanted to show this one. This
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is Caleb Bonamer who's up here. And Dax also makes
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this crazy great diving catch. which I wasn't familiar with
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that defensive game. So Bonham are up the middle and
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you can kind of see just boom, Jeter-esque diving catch
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to steal him. And that's kind of one of the
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things I've been looking for from some of these guys is,
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Are we going to see total packages? Are we going
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to see guys that are going to hit for contact?
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Are we going to see players that are going to
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hit for power? Are they going to play good defensively?
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Are they going to be able to stick on the field? Like,
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so this is like a pretty swing video I've got of,
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I think this might end up being an out video.
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but this is just another view of Dax Kilby. And that,
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that swing is just, it's simplistic to me and he
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barrels the ball. I think he's going to be a
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high barrel rate guy. And we'll look here in prospects
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of Anton in a second. to see what some of
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that barrel rate has looked like out here, but I
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think it's going to be high EVs, high barrel rate.
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And then once he learns it, you're going to just
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see him be able to, you know, get the ball
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in the air and kind of poised. And I didn't
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think that it was necessarily going to be the case
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because you can see there's really just really good vision.
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One of the things with him was like, Oh, it's
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all this really great data, but he was hurt. He
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just didn't have things in this. You can see, uh,
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even though it ends up being an out, it's just
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really prominent. Bring it back to this really nice swing
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where he goes opposite field. and kind of lifts the
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ball on. So this is it right here and bam,
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just beautiful follow through easy stuff and everything he hits
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is hard. So if we come over here to a
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prospect savant, shout out to prospect savant. I talked with
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the owner last year on the podcast. If you want
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to check that out, let's see what data we might
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have for some of these guys. Let's see. I think
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this is, Oh, that's interesting. This went, outside let's go
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leaderboard let's go afl and let's look for our there's
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dax right here so dax currently has got a 90
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ev oh they must have readjusted this or maybe he
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hasn't updated because i see a 105 max ev some
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of the data on uh baseball savant had it at
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110 so that's interesting uh 15 k percentage though only
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12 whiff rate And 30, if you see this, this doesn't,
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some of this data actually doesn't look right from what
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was seen out there. I'll have to ask him, but
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16% barrel. That was a big one that I wanted
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to look at. So, I mean, that's like a solid
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barrel rate. If that's going to maintain and continue, Dax
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is my dude and I'm in. So like I, the
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really main thing was like, I was just a lot
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more skeptical of Dax before coming in, but between all
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the guys, this is like one of the younger players,
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19 year old player. Between being younger, having a lot
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of attention put on you, it's not great pitching out here.
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I do have a strikeout or two of him, but
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the poise that he showed, he does look like a
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top end guy. And I will note, this is what
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I'm really interested to see, is I remember last year
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in the AFL, Kevin McGonigal struggled in week one. It
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wasn't a good week one. But then he just got
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the league down and he figured it out. That's one
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of the things I'm curious about with Dax as it goes.
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And maybe the 110, by the way, in my brain
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was more 105s. Maybe it was he was consistently hitting 105s.
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And that probably is what it is in my brain
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now that I think he had back-to-back 105s he was
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putting on the bat. So apologies about that. But I
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think like watching him into week two is going to
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be a really, really big deal. And let me look
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because One of the things I was trying not to
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do was like, or desperately was trying not to do
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in some of my updates. Or one of the things
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that also held me back from like getting out my
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prospect rank update too soon was always the refining, but
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also like, I didn't want to make too many adjustments
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on the current prospect rank sheet, which is available at
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in this league.com until I wanted to make it before
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I saw the AFL guys and not have the AFL
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guys have a big, you know, like effect on, on
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what that update is. So that can take place on
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the next update. So I had Dax, I'm just going
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to tell you right now, I had Dax around 70
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in the seventies. I have him above a few AFL
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guys now that I'm looking at it. And I think,
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I think Dax is going to be top. It's going
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to be close to top 40 when I'm done, as
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long as there's no big, crazy change. But even though
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I've just seen so many swings, I've seen the patience.
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I've seen the hard hit. I see him barreling and
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I see the future. I see where we're going to
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end up going with Dax. And I think that's what
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ends up getting me kind of excited about like a
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dude like this is this is the true potential of like, oh,
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this is a guy that is going to end up,
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you know, if or if he ends up being able
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to tap into all of this raw potential, that's where
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you really do a big buy in. And that's where
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you end up getting excited. So Dax, I think, is
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probably one of the easy big movers. And I would
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say just from an underlying perspective, even though the numbers
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aren't flying off the board or anything like that, I
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think he's going to be able to end this with
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really high barrel, good hard hit numbers, I think, that
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are going to continue. And I think the ball is
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going to fly. I don't know if he's going to
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be an MVP or anything like that, but I think
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he's looked really, really good so far. So he is
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going to make a big major jump after getting the
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in-person looks that I've had on him. All right, so
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the next player that I want to bring up, and
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I'm going to start bringing up some videos here, is
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I want to talk about Caleb Bonamer. So Bonamer's had
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an interesting run here, just simply because the offense has
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been good. The defense, I think, has been mediocre. So
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he's playing in center field right now, and we'll pull
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up some of the baseball savant data here. He's playing
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in center field, and I've seen him have a couple
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ants here and there. I think he's still learning it.
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I kind of think he's, and I think even a
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scout had mentioned, he's probably more of a corner infielder.
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I think they're just trying to figure out what flexibility
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they have. Bonamer, 389, 421 OBP. Some of the underlying data,
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according to Prospect Savant, 91, but 91 on the average
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exit velocity for Bonamer. 109 on the max EV. which
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is nice. 21% K, he's not walking a whole bunch.
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Hard hit rate though, 53.8%. And barrel rate lower than
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Dax Kilby. So that's whatever, something to monitor in here.
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But I got some video of him. I've got a
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strikeout or two. We're actually going to look at a
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strikeout when we talk about Jarlan Susana. But just a
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bunch of videos, or a bunch of offense that he's
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been able to put up. So this one, we have
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got a couple singles. So let's go to... This is
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actually off of Jarl and Susana. So, you know, you
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can see Susana brings that inside. There's a little bit
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of a foul ball right there from Bonamer. And then Susana,
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who was pumping, you know, 103 in this, he's going
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to come inside and bam. Right lower half, Bonhamer just
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drives this into the opposite field. And that's a lot
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of what he's done. I think there's definite some swing
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and miss. You can see it in that game. But
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just reliving this pitch here, you can see Susana comes
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in with high heat. Bonhamer was ready for it. And
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just down the middle, drives it to the right. That's
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where that exit velocity keeps coming from. So then we
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go to another single. And this one... I don't remember
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who this is off of. Next thing you see Nathan
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Fluelling in there. You can see that eye. Gets it
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right on the outside corner. Fluelling, a fantastic framer, by
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the way. But, you know, Bonhamer doesn't do too crazy
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much in his swings as well. You know, you can
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see there's just like that little front leg. Bam. It's
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bat through the zone. And then bam. You can see
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it just happens right again. He's not getting the ball
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in the air. He's not crushing. Like we kind of
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thought we might see, you know, from the minor league season.
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This is one of those guys I think that actually
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is going to start like adjusting, like watch the single again.
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So you see, there's no big, crazy, big, you know,
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front kick or anything like that. It's barrel in front
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of the ball where I think Dax is a guy
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that is going to just be consistent. Bonamer is the
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one I'm kind of thinking, you know, he's just barrel
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in front. He's adjusting. He might start to like unload.
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You know, he might be one of those guys that
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starts to just annihilate. Eight hits, he's tied for third
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most hits in the AFL after the first week. Two
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to four walk to strikeout ratio. Hasn't attempted any stolen
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bases or anything like that. But he's got four of
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his eight or extra base hits. So that's good. And
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it's not like a crazy strikeout issue, you know, because
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that ultimately can, that's going to be one of the
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problems with Bonhamer. I mean, this past year, I want
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to say it was like 31%. He was 37 homers,
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17 stolen bases at two 51. Yeah. And he had
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161 strikeouts in 487 innings. We haven't really seen that
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crazy swing and miss, but also the pitching isn't, you know,
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super great here. I believe this was, was this Mercedes
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with Milwaukee? Got to look there on my video.
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Yeah.
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We had a camera in front. So, you know, solid
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pump and velo. So I think one of the things
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we're starting to see here with Bonamer is that he's
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actually pretty good with high velo. It's the secondary stuff
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we're going to have to watch. Or like, you know,
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big sliders, which Susana did throw off. And I think
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that's actually, when we get to Susana, the pitch that
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got Bonhamer was the slider. So then here's a Bonhamer double.
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So we can see an extra base hit here. I
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believe that, yeah, right there. And look at that. That
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was actually, looked like a slider up in the zone.
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Hits and smashes that corner. That's actually a beautiful piece
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of swing in there. That's Wyatt Sanford coming in for
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the slide. which is a beautiful slide. There's Bonham. So
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let's look at this again. We can even go like
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slow motion here. I want to say this was Mason Nichols.
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So you see the pitch come in up in the zone.
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It looks like he was ready. And then, I mean,
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look at where the ball is at and where the
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bat hasn't moved. And then whammy, just beautiful thought. He
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got all of it too. One of the thing that
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baseball savant has is, and oh yeah okay uh and
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prospect savant has it let me see if i can
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get it here is bat speed that's a really really
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sick one and unfortunately baseball savant doesn't our prospect savant
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doesn't have any of the bat speed data averaged up
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but if you go into the game logs we are
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getting bat speed numbers from some of these guys which
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is very exciting, especially as like we get more of
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an aggregate of all of these numbers, but we just
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don't have him. I want to say he's going to
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be up there, but we'll talk about bat speed a
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little bit more. So, you know, so far so good
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on Bonhamer. It's nothing, you know, nothing insane. He hasn't
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blown the roof off, but what I think he's done
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is he's done a good job of keeping the barrel in.
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I'm encouraged actually that it's not just high velocity that
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he's getting hits off of seeing that secondary, that slider
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up in the zone. Bonhamer looks pretty good. I mean,
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this is nice. It's nice when you see like the
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really big guys performing at high levels and he has
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done so. That takes us to probably my favorite hitter
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so far or my favorite player so far. And that
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is Nathan Flewelling. I have loved watching Nathan Flewelling. And
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this kind of comes back to what I had said
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before in that there's a guy that does a bit
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of everything. And that guy is Nathan Flewelling. Flewelling is
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currently second in hits in the AFL. He's got a
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429 average. He actually hasn't walked yet, so 0 for
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4 walks to strikeouts. Not the best. Bunch of singles.
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He's got a double in there, 900 OPS. But, man,
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he does a bit of everything. And that's, like, it
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misses sometimes. You know what's funny? It reminds me of
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the very much, and I've got a double that we're
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going to show you. I haven't pulled all the other
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video here, but it reminds me of the classic debate
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that we have with catchers where like, you know, like
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a plate, like fan graphs will rank catchers really high.
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Cause you're, or, you know, maybe even pipeline because you're
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going to rank guys on defensive stuff. We don't really
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care about that in fantasy, but we do care about
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that from a perspective of, can they stay on the field?
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And then we care is the bat enough. That's going
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to be able to, keep him not only on the field,
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but would they consider moving him to other positions and
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stuff like that? Now, I don't know if that would
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happen with Flewelling or if his bat is at a
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level where they're like, oh, we can't not have this in.
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But boy, do I look at Flewelling and I see
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just a plus dude. So this offensively right here, you
630
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can see a little swing through. This is over in Glendale.
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And I think this might be the entire bat, by
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the way. So you're going to just get to see
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some different at bats and maybe make sure I'm not
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listening to this, that it's not too loud. Apologies there
635
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probably was too loud, but I should actually listen to
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this too. Um, as far as like the, the, the
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offensive profile goes, this is to me going to be
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a doubles contact hitter, classic raise guy, you know, maybe
639
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like a Jonathan Aranda. Um, but it's the defensive stuff
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that really, really stood out. I, he's the best framer
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I've seen in a while, which is a lost art.
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he is one of the best arms and one of
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the best blockers I've ever seen across the board. And
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that's the thing that's going to keep him out there.
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And this is what's going to keep this 19 year
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old kid getting to the major soon. I mean, really,
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if it wasn't for the raise, he'd be getting to
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the major soon, but you can see in this, this
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at bat, by the way, which is like over a minute,
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he's driving the count. He's not swinging at bad pitches.
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He's fouling balls off. Like he's, he's extending long ones.
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And then this right here, just cracks it right off
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the end of the bat, opposite field. You can see
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some of the speed he's letting off here, and he
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just turns this into an easy, easy double. And that's
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the type of stuff I'm talking about. Now, on the season,
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let me give you the season totals on Nathan Flewelling,
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because this is my guy. And I think he's actually
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about to turn 20. 21 homers, 8 stolen bases. He
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only hit.
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243, but at a.
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364... average this past year in like 400 at bats.
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I think the batting average is going to go up.
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I'd like to see him walk a little bit more.
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I'd like to see some of the power go, but
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like Flewelling is a dude. So if you were playing
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in those two catcher leagues, I had someone ask me,
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they're like, Oh, who do you like? Who was it?
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They're like, who do you like? Caden Bodine or Nathan Flewelling?
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And I was like, Oh, well that's going to be
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Flewelling for me. Like, I think he is like a
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complete player. Getting back on the defensive side, I'm going
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to just let this play through, was, to expand on it,
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the framing, which was interesting, was he had pressed, I
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think it was this ump, it might have been this game,
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he had pulled a ball up that then forced batters
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to challenge the ball. Like, that's how good of, I mean,
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these umps are not that great out here, but also, like,
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he was able to frame in a way that was
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forcing batters to challenge balls. He had like a three
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straight pitch series where he just made it easy in
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the ball, in the dirt balls, you know, blocking, made
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that look great. And he's thrown out multiple runners on him.
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So I think from a defensive standpoint, he looks like
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a guy that could play right now. And then, you know,
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the bat, they've been hitting him two and three in
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the lineup. You can see second and hits across the league.
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Flewelling's a dude. And I think I've got Flewelling, I
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think I got him in the 60s. And I think
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justifiably he's even a little, he's higher. He's like a
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top 50 guy, you know, especially if you play in
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two catcher leagues, I'd move them up even a little
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bit more. And a fun fact, I want to, I'm
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going to try to interview him and talk to him
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about it. But me and him talk, you guys don't know,
696
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like my real last name is similar to Flewelling. And
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we chatted about that. And I went up to him
698
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and I went, are you Welsh? You know, it's funny,
699
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like my name or whatever. And he's like, oh yeah, actually.
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And I'm like, okay, because your name is similar to mine.
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And we get to talking and it was like, his
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name was actually an offshoot of mine. It's a alteration
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of my real last name. So, you know, you guys
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don't care about that, but this is another Welsh. This
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is a, is it the Welsh? It is the Flewelling.
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So very, very plus, I think that's another guy that
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you got to have a consideration that needs to move
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up simply because He is young. He's meeting the test.
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He looks fantastic. And I think that's again, like I
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suppose you're not going to see like a lot of
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crazy hits that have bad swings. You know, I think
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he can get like slightly hyper aggressive. He doesn't have
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a really insane eye where he's running like high OBPs
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and stuff like that yet. He hasn't walked yet in
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the AFL, but also he puts the bat on the
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ball that he doesn't need to. So he does have the,
717
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feels sometimes of like a classic Rays player. So I
718
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hope he doesn't get pushed down too long, but I really,
719
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really have enjoyed watching Nathan Flewelling. He's probably one of
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my favorites. The other hitter that I wanted to talk about,
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I thought outside of Cabrera, because honestly, when I had
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set this, I hadn't really planned on talking about Cabrera,
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but I want to talk about this guy is Wyatt Sanford.
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Wyatt Sanford has been wildly good out here. And I'm
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going to play a couple of videos here in a second.
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Let's take a look at where Sanford is. He, we
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cranked a big Homer, which we're going to talk about
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hits the ball hard. He's got a 300 average. He's
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got that Homer six hits. Feels like he's had a
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lot more on the, on the OBP side, but I,
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I guess he hasn't, but I thought, I thought Wyatt
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Sanford has had an early show out of good stuff.
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By the way, I was looking here. on trying to
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look for max EVs on here and I'm not even
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seeing him, but he's had a ton of contact on
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the ball overall for Wyatt Sanford. I think he had
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the very first home run of the AFL season as well.
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So here's Sanford. He's got a 90 average exit velocity,
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102 on the max. And I got to re-update this
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because this thing is messing because I want to say
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that the barrel rate's got to be pretty high with Sanford.
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And I want to pretend I'm not lying about this.
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But almost 10%, almost 10% barrel. That's in the red.
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That's on the higher end range. 36% hard hit rate.
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Not really fantastic, but he's not whiffing. He's not doing
746
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anything crazy. And he's just had a bunch of really
747
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good at bats. So this is one. Um, that I
748
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got obviously Camelback ranch had, you know, the stacked Glendale team,
749
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and you're actually getting to see some, some fluelling in
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a lot of these videos as he was catching, especially
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early on in the season. But, you know, he's got
752
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this kind of like drawn down stance where he gets
753
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his shoulders low. And I think Sanford is kind of
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a tough out. I think he's got some sneaky power.
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By the way, there's a really good snag from Flewelling
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right there for outside pitch. And then this one is
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going to be a single by Wyatt Sanford. And I
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believe this is Oppo. I think it was directly right
759
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up the middle. Sanford just crushes that up the middle.
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Easy stuff. And he kind of continuously did this. And
761
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this brought in Isaiah Drake on that one. Then we
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are going to go to this home run. And this
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was done by, this is a shout out to my buddy,
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MLB Insider. So this is a vertical video. So he
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sent me this because I had just missed this. This
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is Sanford with the first home run of the season.
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And as you can see, just absolute crush, beautiful bomb
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over into pole side. And then that's what he does.
769
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He's a really great pole side guy. You just listen
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to that a little bit. First one of the season.
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You've got to love it. Wyatt Sanford. He's kind of
772
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been out there every day and he's gone between playing
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shortstop and second base as well. So that position eligibility
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might end up being like a really solid for him,
775
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but yeah, not the biggest guy in the world, but
776
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I thought he's been really like really tough at bat.
777
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And he's a guy that's caught my eye. I did
778
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not have him inside my top one 50, but that
779
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that's going to change. Cause he's also 20 years old.
780
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19 homers, 33 stolen bases this past year. He hit
781
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200 and had a 400 OBP. It's a great year
782
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off of a very mediocre debut. And he did this
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at high, which by the way, he meant majority of
784
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:06.579
what he played this year was a high a, this
785
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is pretty good. The strikeouts though, or the issue. And
786
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I guess we're seeing like a time. I feel like
787
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it's like a little bit muted here in the AFL.
788
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We'll play this one more time, but you know, It's barrels,
789
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it's singles, it's homers. Like I've been very impressed with
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Wyatt Sanford. So this is another guy that is trending
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in the up direction. He will, I think I'm going
792
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to push him like top one in 25 and he
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might be a top 100 prospect. So I think this
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is actually a really good time to buy in on
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Sanford if you have not already. And that's kind of
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what this view is of these guys that I'm bringing
797
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up here are players that I think have been very
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impressive in the early onset that I think are worth
799
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paying attention to. So now that takes us to the
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two pitchers that stood out. And Jarlan Susana is inevitable.
801
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So I've got some video of this. I think I've
802
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got four strikeouts that we're going to take a look
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at with Jarlan Susana. His very first pitch broke a...
804
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How did I pull these? The very first pitch of
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the year, he had pulled a 103.4, which was absolutely absurd.
806
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Absolutely ridiculous. 103.4. AFL record, all-time record. And then he
807
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ended up beating that with a 108. I'm sorry, 103.8.
808
00:41:25.179 --> 00:41:29.820
108 would be incredible. 103.8, fastest pitch ever thrown. So
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these are three different ones that I'm going to show you.
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So I believe if I have this correct, I think...
811
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three of them might be fastballs. And one is a slider.
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This Bonham or one is the big question. So let's
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take a look at this one. I don't remember which
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one this is. So that was a slider up and
815
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in was just eating him up. And this is what
816
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he was doing. He was throwing a sinker, his power fastball.
817
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And then he's got this like slider, this slurvy slider
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that was like mid eighties, I think lower eighties. And
819
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he threw that up high. Then there's a fastball. He
820
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just pounds back. Dead red. I want to say that
821
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was like 101 or so. So it's strike. It's strike.
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So now what's the pitch? Because I don't actually remember.
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Is it slider or is it power fastball? We know
824
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Bonhamer loves fastballs. So fastball up and high. You can
825
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hear my whistle. Just absolute dirty stuff. Now, before we
826
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get to the next one, I will tell you, you
827
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saw the thing that you're a little bit concerned about
828
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with him. you saw command issues. He had like a
829
00:42:41.139 --> 00:42:44.550
four pitch walk, his fastball very early in the game.
830
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He was throwing high and then guys started to like,
831
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not want to, you know, they didn't want to eat
832
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at it. And then the sinker, so stuff was going
833
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all over the place. Cause I think he was hyped
834
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up once he kind of settled in. It's all about
835
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him throwing strikes. And that's probably what they tell him
836
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all the time. Take a little bit off. If you
837
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have to, it is all about him throwing strikes because
838
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he can throw one Oh one and then throw an
839
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80 slider like that. the definitions of that are ridiculous.
840
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And then, you know, he can just pump the sinker in.
841
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So I do worry about the command long-term, you know,
842
00:43:15.659 --> 00:43:18.500
and like physically him being able to hold up, but
843
00:43:19.019 --> 00:43:21.099
you know, it's just as impressive as I've seen. So
844
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:27.340
here is him versus Eduardo Quintero. And Quintero has had
845
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:29.480
some early struggles, a younger guy that's out here. I
846
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:33.179
think you might see a little bit of the, like
847
00:43:33.659 --> 00:43:35.460
that was like, you know, he's, I don't want to
848
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:36.969
call it a waste pitch or anything like that, but
849
00:43:36.989 --> 00:43:38.719
that was, you know, one of those balls that was
850
00:43:38.820 --> 00:43:41.369
easy not to swing at. And then you've got that.
851
00:43:41.389 --> 00:43:44.449
I want to say that was a slider in the dirt.
852
00:43:44.469 --> 00:43:45.789
It has to be a slider. It just, it had
853
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the characteristics a little bit of the sinker. So then
854
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I think we're two Oh right now. And this is
855
00:43:54.510 --> 00:43:56.710
where he's got to lock in. So there's a foul
856
00:43:56.750 --> 00:44:00.929
ball on can tear with a fastball. Let's see if
857
00:44:00.989 --> 00:44:05.989
I had stopped it here. This is slider slider. Gorgeous
858
00:44:06.250 --> 00:44:08.809
up in the zone. So now he set it. 2-2 count.
859
00:44:09.489 --> 00:44:11.809
Quintero kind of stepping out the box to get ready.
860
00:44:12.349 --> 00:44:14.650
I think this is going to be a ball. And
861
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then we're going to go to the strike. Let's see.
862
00:44:17.530 --> 00:44:21.800
There's that sinker, I think. Which has some interesting life
863
00:44:21.900 --> 00:44:25.840
on it. And then here's our money pitch. 2-2 count.
864
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Yarl and Susana. Bliggity blam. High fastball. Actually, almost sinker-ish.
865
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And then just a nice little kiss to the sky. Beautiful.
866
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And then we will check out two more here. This
867
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was on Chase Harlan, who's been playing some first base.
868
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This looks pretty good here. So, bam, power fastball. Boom,
869
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there's your strike. We'd love to see that. Harlan hasn't
870
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really locked into anything quite yet. And then, bam, there's
871
00:44:57.559 --> 00:45:02.059
a slider. Foul tip that off. What was this pitch?
872
00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:06.989
This is... Just missed on the corner, I think. That
873
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was a slider. And then whammy foul ball. He can
874
00:45:12.610 --> 00:45:20.130
feel the fastballs are coming. Susana with the pitch. Outside.
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Don't throw at him because he's not looking. And then
876
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here we go. First strikeout, number three. Did you hear that?
877
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That was that grunt? Listen to this grunt off of
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the slider. Because he threw a slider, just had Harlan
879
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:42.880
just decimated. Couldn't do anything. Could not do anything. And
880
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then the final one is Severino, Johnny Severino. And this
881
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one is going to be another slider. So a little
882
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outside foul. See, that's like what he was doing early
883
00:45:53.849 --> 00:45:56.030
on in it. He was kind of throwing that fastball.
884
00:45:56.050 --> 00:45:58.289
It was either way up high or right on the corner.
885
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He's just not a paint guy. You know, Susana's never
886
00:46:01.710 --> 00:46:04.480
going to paint. anything. He's just got to come right
887
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at you. So there's a swing. I want to say
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that was on the sinker low. Then this bad boy.
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00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:15.860
I probably got this way too loud.
890
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Sorry.
891
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There's another foul ball and your money pitch slider on
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the outside chases to the heavens and Yarlon Susana walks
893
00:46:26.849 --> 00:46:30.780
out with a What was a super impressive outing, a
894
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power outing? I mean, he's now the thing that's going
895
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to be interesting about him is when you get guardian
896
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type guys, like players that are just not going to
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chase a whole lot. Like he's going to have to
898
00:46:41.050 --> 00:46:45.010
be comfortable and throw strikes, comfortably be able to throw
899
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strikes at guys. But, you know, from a fantasy perspective,
900
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like this is a guy like, where do I have
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00:46:52.010 --> 00:46:56.969
Susana right now? How high? I already got him at 71.
902
00:46:57.630 --> 00:47:00.409
he's near like Liam Doyle, Jackson floor. So this is
903
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one of those things. I don't know if I would
904
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move him too much more, maybe slightly. I think it's
905
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some more confirmation. I still think there's some downside. He
906
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kind of showed that he did have another outing where
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he didn't fare too well. He gave up a couple
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of runs. I think he walked a few, but we
909
00:47:14.699 --> 00:47:16.699
just got to make sure the walks are down when
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he gets pumped up. But I'll tell you, the fastball
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is electric. I think that slider off of the fastballs electric.
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I think you could see that there. And I think
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there's more than a guy that would be relegated to
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the bullpen there. So I'm very optimistic and he has
915
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swagger to him right now. He has absolute swagger. All right,
916
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the last guy, it's one more pitcher. It's the other
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00:47:37.090 --> 00:47:40.210
good pitcher. And he was, by the way, I lightly
918
00:47:40.250 --> 00:47:42.849
say that probably lots of great pitchers that are out here,
919
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but we haven't seen awesome, awesome stuff is Briggs McKenzie. Briggs,
920
00:47:49.170 --> 00:47:52.710
I'm very, very interested in, though he had the exact
921
00:47:52.949 --> 00:47:57.809
opposite outing. Good first outing. I think he got blown up,
922
00:47:58.130 --> 00:48:00.170
and I think he went to Tucson and pitched. So
923
00:48:00.230 --> 00:48:03.030
that was not a good outing by Briggs. But I
924
00:48:03.070 --> 00:48:04.869
want to show you some of the stuff early on
925
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in this first matchup where he had some significant strikeouts here,
926
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and you can see some of the stuff. And the
927
00:48:10.550 --> 00:48:13.949
first one up was Dax Kilby. So this is a
928
00:48:13.989 --> 00:48:16.309
longer video. I'm going to kind of just have play
929
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rolling here. But, you know, he had definitely more of
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an arsenal. It had some– Reminded me of like almost
931
00:48:23.219 --> 00:48:25.750
like Ricky Tiedemann a little bit, but you know, Dax
932
00:48:25.809 --> 00:48:28.190
is a really tough out. So as you, and I
933
00:48:28.210 --> 00:48:30.610
think that was the slider he threw on the first pitch.
934
00:48:30.989 --> 00:48:32.690
You can see there's another slider. He was at, he
935
00:48:32.730 --> 00:48:34.510
wanted to throw that on the inside. He did that
936
00:48:34.610 --> 00:48:39.210
quite a bit, throwing that slider on the inside. There
937
00:48:39.230 --> 00:48:41.190
it is again. So you can see he was just
938
00:48:41.230 --> 00:48:43.130
kind of pumping. I think that's a really unique way
939
00:48:43.150 --> 00:48:45.849
that he wants to do that against the lefty. Then
940
00:48:45.929 --> 00:48:48.670
he powers outside. He's not getting a swing there. So
941
00:48:50.110 --> 00:48:53.369
I think this is like a three Oh count here. No,
942
00:48:53.389 --> 00:48:54.809
it must not be. That must be. It must have
943
00:48:54.849 --> 00:48:58.989
had a 2-1. So this is like a 3-1 if
944
00:48:59.150 --> 00:49:02.949
I'm remembering it correctly. And I wish I had video
945
00:49:02.969 --> 00:49:06.409
of the second outing because Briggs was, you know, I
946
00:49:06.429 --> 00:49:08.679
want to see what went back. So then there's that
947
00:49:08.739 --> 00:49:11.500
foul ball. And then I don't remember, honestly do not
948
00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:13.519
remember if this is a fastball or a slider. I
949
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:18.300
want to say it's a slider, but we might be wrong.
950
00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:22.489
So 3-2 pitch. Yeah, slider on the outside. Ate him up.
951
00:49:22.590 --> 00:49:26.659
You know, young kid meeting Briggs McKenzie. That's kind of a,
952
00:49:26.699 --> 00:49:28.579
that's a tough go here. So let me get rid
953
00:49:28.619 --> 00:49:30.619
of a few of these other videos so I can
954
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:34.059
bring up a few more. And these are the other
955
00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:38.860
strikeouts for Briggs McKenzie. So we have Yasiel Soler. So
956
00:49:38.909 --> 00:49:44.070
here's Yasiel Soler inside fastball. So you now have like
957
00:49:44.110 --> 00:49:49.369
a right-handed hitter. Let's kind of fast forward these. This was,
958
00:49:49.409 --> 00:49:52.389
I think, a foul ball. Yes, that was a high fastball.
959
00:49:52.690 --> 00:49:55.269
And that's what I like. So notice the difference between
960
00:49:55.309 --> 00:49:58.469
Yarlan Sussan and him. Briggs is using all of the zone.
961
00:49:58.550 --> 00:50:02.820
I'm super interested in pitchers like that. He inside, outside, down, corners,
962
00:50:02.860 --> 00:50:05.960
like He wants to use the entire zone with his arsenal.
963
00:50:06.099 --> 00:50:08.579
Tosana was just more of an up and down, just
964
00:50:08.619 --> 00:50:12.190
a vertical guy. Briggs is going to, you know, east, west, north, south.
965
00:50:12.230 --> 00:50:14.550
He's going to kind of, and that might also equate
966
00:50:14.570 --> 00:50:17.789
if your stuff is off to having like really bad outings. But,
967
00:50:17.809 --> 00:50:20.369
you know, that pitch right there, that looks nasty. Oh,
968
00:50:20.389 --> 00:50:26.920
here's a challenge. I don't even remember what happened. So
969
00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:29.500
this was a strike on the outside corner it was called.
970
00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:38.869
And Yossi Soler. Proper. Proper challenge. Proper challenge. So now
971
00:50:38.909 --> 00:50:40.750
Briggs has got to work his way back. I'm already
972
00:50:40.769 --> 00:50:42.929
forgetting the count of where we're at here. Briggs with
973
00:50:42.949 --> 00:50:48.219
the pitch. There's that breaking ball. And then this will
974
00:50:48.260 --> 00:50:51.639
be the final strikeout pitch. Briggs gets, I think it's
975
00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:52.179
a fastball.
976
00:50:52.500 --> 00:50:52.699
Yeah.
977
00:50:54.980 --> 00:50:55.619
And he went through.
978
00:50:57.840 --> 00:50:58.610
Oh, no, no. Here it is.
979
00:50:59.230 --> 00:51:02.489
That was a ball. And then whammy on this. Oh,
980
00:51:02.510 --> 00:51:04.119
I guess it was a walk. I forgot. Okay. I
981
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:06.760
guess I mistyped that, but there you go. That's actually
982
00:51:06.780 --> 00:51:08.619
probably even better to kind of see how he was
983
00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:12.659
running through the entire fricking lineup and getting these full counts.
984
00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:14.360
And that might be the thing that ends up really
985
00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:17.199
hurting him is running through those full counts. And then
986
00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:21.179
this final one is Yasser Mercedes who, God, I've been,
987
00:51:21.260 --> 00:51:23.739
I've been trying to will him into being really, really good.
988
00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:26.179
It hasn't clicked quite yet for Yasser. I did miss
989
00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:29.559
his Homer, but, um, This is a guy that I
990
00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:31.940
loved a couple years ago. Prospect One people will know
991
00:51:31.980 --> 00:51:34.579
that I really liked him. But Briggs is just pump
992
00:51:34.619 --> 00:51:40.130
him up and with the fastball. And then we've got
993
00:51:41.269 --> 00:51:44.949
breaking pitch on the corner. There's another challenge. I forgot
994
00:51:44.989 --> 00:51:49.889
about all these. I think that was a curve that
995
00:51:49.929 --> 00:51:54.599
he threw. Pitch designation. That's just a bad challenge by Oscar.
996
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:57.800
That's right there. So now you've got an 0-2 count,
997
00:51:57.860 --> 00:52:05.030
I think. And foul ball. 1-2. This has got to be.
998
00:52:05.050 --> 00:52:06.550
This will be hilarious if this is another walk and
999
00:52:06.570 --> 00:52:10.329
I mislabeled these two. But this should be our strikeout
1000
00:52:10.349 --> 00:52:15.170
pitch from Briggs. Briggs. Wham. Fastball.
1001
00:52:15.570 --> 00:52:16.070
Up high.
1002
00:52:16.769 --> 00:52:20.449
Good release point. Relatively consistent. Works all of the zone.
1003
00:52:20.869 --> 00:52:24.889
These are the two guys. It's Yarland Susana and Briggs McKenzie.
1004
00:52:24.929 --> 00:52:26.409
Those are the two guys that you're going to want
1005
00:52:26.429 --> 00:52:28.739
to pay attention to from a pitching standpoint. There's a
1006
00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:31.329
couple other guys that have had some outings, Jake Bloss,
1007
00:52:31.710 --> 00:52:34.309
you just start a reliever. Will your cheerio I thought
1008
00:52:34.349 --> 00:52:37.190
was pretty good in that first outings, but those were
1009
00:52:37.230 --> 00:52:40.710
the six guys that caught like really, really early attention
1010
00:52:40.769 --> 00:52:45.329
for me. There's some other players. We talked about Weldon, Francisca,
1011
00:52:45.349 --> 00:52:49.269
a couple of players to watch one of them, Paxton cling.
1012
00:52:49.469 --> 00:52:50.909
I want you guys to pay attention to. I'm going
1013
00:52:50.929 --> 00:52:52.309
to show you, I don't have a video of him
1014
00:52:52.989 --> 00:52:56.230
right out the shoot here, but Paxton Kling has definitely
1015
00:52:56.269 --> 00:52:57.849
been one of those dudes. He had like a, he
1016
00:52:58.809 --> 00:53:00.570
had this crazy, I'm forgetting if it was like a
1017
00:53:00.690 --> 00:53:04.440
seven RBI. He had like a crazy outing the other day.
1018
00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:06.219
Let me look. Cause he's got to be near the lead.
1019
00:53:06.260 --> 00:53:06.420
Yeah.
1020
00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:10.139
He leads the AFL and RBI eight RBI. He's also
1021
00:53:10.300 --> 00:53:13.219
four and one stolen bases. He's got a couple extra
1022
00:53:13.260 --> 00:53:16.409
base hits. He's doing a little bit of everything. Paxton
1023
00:53:16.469 --> 00:53:19.750
Kling is a guy to start putting some close attention to,
1024
00:53:19.809 --> 00:53:23.590
and he's moved up the lineup. This one, this was
1025
00:53:24.050 --> 00:53:26.369
one of the most impressive things I've seen. I'm going
1026
00:53:26.389 --> 00:53:28.070
to pull up the video, but I want to find
1027
00:53:28.090 --> 00:53:31.670
the data here for a second because I was not
1028
00:53:31.750 --> 00:53:36.730
super familiar with Jorgelis Moda with the Nationals before this,
1029
00:53:36.969 --> 00:53:40.510
but I am now. Moda, not hitting for great average,
1030
00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:45.880
has absolutely insane power. His bat speed coming in at
1031
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:50.159
almost 79 miles per hour on average. I believe he
1032
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:53.679
tapped into like an overall 86 on this swing. I'm
1033
00:53:53.699 --> 00:54:00.280
going to show you this ball traveled 455 feet and it,
1034
00:54:01.460 --> 00:54:07.139
and it had an exit velocity of one 14. You're
1035
00:54:07.659 --> 00:54:10.280
going to use Moda. That is one. And the reason
1036
00:54:10.300 --> 00:54:11.780
I'm bringing this up too, we used to talk, we
1037
00:54:11.820 --> 00:54:15.510
talk about Tony Blanco last year and, Moda's a little
1038
00:54:15.530 --> 00:54:17.800
bit of an athlete, too. Like, he's a big boy,
1039
00:54:17.949 --> 00:54:20.360
but there's something in it. Look at this bomb that
1040
00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:24.679
Moda hits. So this is in Salt River Fields. 455,
1041
00:54:24.679 --> 00:54:26.280
114 off the bat.
1042
00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:28.190
And....
1043
00:54:29.909 --> 00:54:34.409
Clank. Pulls it off the ground, by the way. And
1044
00:54:34.489 --> 00:54:37.530
it goes way... You can see it drop up at
1045
00:54:37.889 --> 00:54:44.269
the pole area there. crazy by Moda, like crazy, crazy power.
1046
00:54:44.829 --> 00:54:47.659
The biggest thing too, is just like rewatch where he
1047
00:54:47.719 --> 00:54:49.880
hits this. Let's see if we can find the hit point.
1048
00:54:50.980 --> 00:54:55.059
Let's see. Right. I mean, it is. So this is
1049
00:54:55.119 --> 00:55:00.550
traveling like at his shin level. And he just, boom,
1050
00:55:01.300 --> 00:55:05.130
just annihilates that ball in traffic. And since at four 55,
1051
00:55:05.130 --> 00:55:07.710
one of the farthest homers I've seen, especially at salt
1052
00:55:07.730 --> 00:55:12.449
river fields, absolutely destroys this sucker. There is real power there.
1053
00:55:13.619 --> 00:55:16.619
Maybe there's something you want to pay attention to a
1054
00:55:16.659 --> 00:55:19.000
little bit with Moda. Again, we're going to have to
1055
00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:20.960
see more. We're going to have to see him be
1056
00:55:21.019 --> 00:55:24.389
able to hit for average if it's going to do anything.
1057
00:55:24.449 --> 00:55:28.610
But there is insane, crazy, raw power out here. And
1058
00:55:28.630 --> 00:55:32.750
I believe he's up there in hard hit rates. Hard
1059
00:55:32.789 --> 00:55:35.110
hit rates are also kind of goofy right now because
1060
00:55:35.170 --> 00:55:38.260
the sample sizes are so low. I think I think that's,
1061
00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:40.920
I mean, cause like Caden Hediger has a hundred percent
1062
00:55:41.539 --> 00:55:44.480
hard hit rate. Vance Honeycutt does have some, you know,
1063
00:55:44.500 --> 00:55:47.539
he's got like 13 plate appearances and he's got like
1064
00:55:47.579 --> 00:55:50.280
a 60% hard hit rate as does Zion Rose and
1065
00:55:50.389 --> 00:55:54.809
Ike Irish is all according to Prospect Savant. But next
1066
00:55:54.849 --> 00:55:57.090
week will be the better time to kind of check
1067
00:55:57.130 --> 00:56:00.110
in about that. So Paxton Kling and Yorgelis Moda, I
1068
00:56:00.130 --> 00:56:03.590
want you to pay attention to. On the opposite end
1069
00:56:03.909 --> 00:56:07.280
of where there have been some struggles with Eduardo Quintero
1070
00:56:07.690 --> 00:56:09.730
has not looked great since he's been out here. And
1071
00:56:09.769 --> 00:56:11.750
I think he might be hurt right now and they're
1072
00:56:11.769 --> 00:56:13.429
not announcing it because he hasn't played in the last
1073
00:56:13.469 --> 00:56:16.829
couple of days. I had somebody awfully tell me that
1074
00:56:16.869 --> 00:56:18.849
he might be injured right now. And they're just like,
1075
00:56:18.889 --> 00:56:20.550
it's not like a big deal of an injury, but
1076
00:56:20.570 --> 00:56:24.630
he's just going to be sitting out for a tiny bit. Again,
1077
00:56:25.050 --> 00:56:28.989
one week struggles. I would remind everybody that, you know,
1078
00:56:29.010 --> 00:56:33.610
that like, uh, McGonigal struggled, but I think this is, uh,
1079
00:56:33.690 --> 00:56:36.349
Quintero hitting a double, you know? So for all the
1080
00:56:36.409 --> 00:56:38.530
negatives I'm saying, I just didn't think like he's had
1081
00:56:38.590 --> 00:56:42.019
really great at bats. He's a super talented guy. Obviously
1082
00:56:42.059 --> 00:56:44.619
he's like highly, highly ranked one of the higher ranked
1083
00:56:44.659 --> 00:56:49.000
prospects in the AFL, but I just haven't particularly felt
1084
00:56:49.079 --> 00:56:53.840
that like his approach has, has looked like super awesome,
1085
00:56:54.059 --> 00:56:57.309
but you'll be able to see, I believe, um, Maybe
1086
00:56:57.349 --> 00:56:59.550
this is a dribbler. I don't remember what I have
1087
00:56:59.590 --> 00:57:00.030
this as.
1088
00:57:00.550 --> 00:57:00.860
Yeah.
1089
00:57:00.889 --> 00:57:03.800
So bam. Oh yeah. This was just a little dribbler hit.
1090
00:57:04.099 --> 00:57:06.760
So that wasn't a double. It was just soft contact
1091
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:09.360
dribbler hit, but it's just been a lot of that stuff.
1092
00:57:09.380 --> 00:57:11.940
And I haven't thought that bats have looked super good.
1093
00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:15.159
And I think that really important one that people just
1094
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:16.579
want to know about, but I'm not sure you should
1095
00:57:16.599 --> 00:57:19.559
take too much of it is, um, and you know, um,
1096
00:57:20.139 --> 00:57:22.340
and you build Gomez. So I think that's on a
1097
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:27.119
lot of people's mind. He's looked rough, but like he
1098
00:57:27.219 --> 00:57:29.940
should look rough. He's 17 years old, but I'm just
1099
00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:31.989
going to show like, here's some at bats for people
1100
00:57:32.010 --> 00:57:35.349
to be able to see. This is in surprise. There
1101
00:57:35.389 --> 00:57:37.050
have been, so you can see the swing right there.
1102
00:57:37.090 --> 00:57:40.389
Like when it connects and the pitch recognition is good,
1103
00:57:41.010 --> 00:57:44.920
he really struggles against some of this more advanced pitching. Again,
1104
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:48.699
this is his stateside debut though. So like, don't think
1105
00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:51.519
this is a huge negative, but like he has not
1106
00:57:51.659 --> 00:57:54.800
had really great, like he can, the bats are good
1107
00:57:54.860 --> 00:57:58.500
maybe early on, but see like he, you know, fouled
1108
00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:00.780
off and then that was a really good pitch for
1109
00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:02.909
him to go at. And then this is going to be,
1110
00:58:02.929 --> 00:58:06.750
this is going to be a straight third strike. Just
1111
00:58:07.429 --> 00:58:09.989
awful swing too. Like he did not know what the
1112
00:58:10.030 --> 00:58:12.809
hell was coming there. And then this one, this is
1113
00:58:12.829 --> 00:58:15.409
where I was like trying to will, I was like,
1114
00:58:15.590 --> 00:58:19.860
give me, this because this is bases loaded bases loaded
1115
00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:22.599
in surprise this was after that bad strikeout you kind
1116
00:58:22.659 --> 00:58:24.380
of see it's a little slow there so I think
1117
00:58:24.420 --> 00:58:27.099
it's pitch recognition is really not there from a physicality
1118
00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:31.099
standpoint you know I'm in like you want to be
1119
00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:33.159
but I mean look how bad that swing looks right
1120
00:58:33.199 --> 00:58:35.480
now again I hate showing this because it's like this
1121
00:58:35.539 --> 00:58:39.239
is a 17 year old kid who has not had
1122
00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:42.639
a stateside debut that's now going up against sometimes 29
1123
00:58:42.639 --> 00:58:45.119
year old pitchers you know with crazy secondary stuff I
1124
00:58:45.139 --> 00:58:48.199
mean he's seeing stuff that these guys don't see, which
1125
00:58:48.219 --> 00:58:52.179
I think is a testament to him, but every swing
1126
00:58:52.219 --> 00:58:54.480
looks not good. And then you can, and that was
1127
00:58:54.500 --> 00:58:57.219
like another foul off right there. That was okay. And
1128
00:58:57.239 --> 00:58:59.139
then this is going to be your basis loaded. That
1129
00:59:01.269 --> 00:59:03.090
was an okay swing, but you can see some of
1130
00:59:03.110 --> 00:59:05.989
the frustration on Gomez. So I think those are the
1131
00:59:06.010 --> 00:59:08.630
two guys that have stood out that have not, particularly
1132
00:59:08.670 --> 00:59:12.170
looked super great. They're not the only ones though. It's
1133
00:59:12.250 --> 00:59:13.710
when you want to go and take a look at,
1134
00:59:13.969 --> 00:59:17.449
you know, Jake Casey hasn't been great. Nizan Zanatella is
1135
00:59:17.510 --> 00:59:20.760
tied for the league lead in strikeouts, which is not fantastic.
1136
00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:24.380
He's hitting only 200. Chase Harlan is up there in strikeouts.
1137
00:59:24.420 --> 00:59:28.900
He's hitting 200. Ty Harvey. Oh, Eric Batanti is another one.
1138
00:59:28.940 --> 00:59:33.489
Batanti's looked really bad. He's hitting 056 with seven strikeouts
1139
00:59:33.550 --> 00:59:36.260
and 18 at bats. That's not great. And then maybe
1140
00:59:36.300 --> 00:59:39.739
a surprise to you. John Peck with the Tigers has
1141
00:59:39.780 --> 00:59:41.840
not looked fantastic, you know, and he had some major
1142
00:59:41.860 --> 00:59:44.320
league runs, so he hasn't been great out there, but
1143
00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:46.760
it's week one and things can change. You know, like
1144
00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:48.980
I'm not going to have affirmative stances on the positive
1145
00:59:49.019 --> 00:59:52.239
or negatives to be frank, like Dax Kilby is a
1146
00:59:52.260 --> 00:59:54.809
guy that I think you could justify making a top
1147
00:59:54.809 --> 00:59:56.409
20 guy if we want to be honest, but I
1148
00:59:56.429 --> 00:59:57.809
want to see more. I want to see him like
1149
00:59:57.869 --> 01:00:00.980
click in and be consistent and, Nathan Flewelling might be
1150
01:00:01.019 --> 01:00:03.739
one of the best real-life overall prospects here for what
1151
01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:07.610
he does for an organization. Susana, if you just looked
1152
01:00:07.630 --> 01:00:09.329
at the first outing, you might think this is a
1153
01:00:09.349 --> 01:00:12.789
top-five overall starting pitcher in the prospect world. I don't know.
1154
01:00:12.869 --> 01:00:16.969
I think the last outing wasn't super great. So you've
1155
01:00:16.989 --> 01:00:18.789
got to remember small sample sizes with all this. And
1156
01:00:18.809 --> 01:00:22.010
the same thing in the negatives, where I think if
1157
01:00:22.050 --> 01:00:23.710
you were to ask me one player that has not
1158
01:00:23.750 --> 01:00:27.900
looked good, it has been Anibal Gomez. But this is
1159
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a 17-year-old kid, second youngest player ever in the Arizona
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Fall League to come out here. I did see Tate
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Southestein last night for the first time. And Aiden Miller
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has been great, but I have not seen him. I
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just keep missing him, I guess. So Aiden Miller, later
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in the week, he's been playing. I think he's only
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exclusively been playing DH, but he's hitting.
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500.
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He has seven walks to four strikeouts. I don't know how.
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Maybe I do have a video, and I just don't remember.
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But he's got a couple extra base hits. He's got
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three extra base hits so far. So he's been fantastic.
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Probably focus on him next week. More Tate Salvestine now
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that we're getting to see him. Those were just a
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couple of players I didn't have a big focus on.
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And there's plenty more. Vance Honeycutt had a great week.
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Ike Irish has looked really good. Ty Pete has looked good.
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Those are players that I will definitely look to break down, hopefully,
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if we have some big weeks next episode right here
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on Prospect One. that is going to do it though.
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That's the AFL week one report. Lots of good stuff.
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Lots of really interesting players that I hope you guys
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are kind of excited about. And week one is going
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to take in, we do have a no game on
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Sunday and no game on Wednesday. So it's like a
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little bit shorter of a week. I should be out
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at a decent majority of these games. Seeing most of
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the guys, I won't be out Saturday. So I will
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probably get four to five games in. And then I
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may be chatting with some players here in the near future.
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We will have some more video to break down and
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we'll have just more great prospect one stuff. So glad
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you guys are with me. Thank you for holding through
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all the craziness at the end of the year, but
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we've got the prospect rank update available dynasty and prospects
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over on Patreon in this league.com. Make sure you sign up.
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If you do, I'm going to be posting that giveaway
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for patron only. So if you get ahead of it
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right now, you can get an extra entry and, Or
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01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:16.440
if you guys want to get in on the YouTube,
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go to youtube.com slash in this league, subscribe, like the
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01:02:20.559 --> 01:02:23.199
video for the week one report. And once we hit
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the one K marker, Nathan Flewelling and Arjun Namala, who
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01:02:26.750 --> 01:02:30.250
I've seen Namala had a Homer single. Like I can't
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talk about every single player of the episode, but I
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01:02:32.090 --> 01:02:35.929
thought he's been relatively decent. And he is a great dude,
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by the way, actually kind of, I might want to
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01:02:37.730 --> 01:02:41.400
talk with him. Namala and Nathan Flewelling autographed Chrome first
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that were done in person. So you can have that
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01:02:44.119 --> 01:02:46.920
just by subscribing to the YouTube, liking the video. And
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01:02:46.980 --> 01:02:49.079
once we get to 1K, we'll pull a winner. We'll
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have the giveaways on the Patreon as well. And I
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01:02:51.139 --> 01:02:53.159
just appreciate all your guys' support and appreciate some of
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the people that have come up to me. I always
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01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:59.119
get surprised. Had multiple people while I'm videoing or walking
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around come up. Please come up and say hi. Chat
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01:03:01.260 --> 01:03:04.030
prospects with me. Don't be afraid. I love to yap
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01:03:04.070 --> 01:03:05.489
with people. And if you guys are out here, this
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01:03:05.550 --> 01:03:08.730
is my element, man. Love doing it. And glad to
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01:03:08.750 --> 01:03:11.510
have you guys here. Episode next week, we'll do the same.
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We'll talk about players of the week. We'll have more
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video breakdowns. Feel free also to hit me up with
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01:03:15.710 --> 01:03:18.949
any requests. Might try to hone that in on the
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01:03:19.010 --> 01:03:21.090
episodes and doing something a little new here with the
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video and the audio stuff. So thank you guys as always.
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01:03:24.150 --> 01:03:26.699
Make sure you're subscribed on the podcast side and follow
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01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:29.719
me at Is It The Welsh and at Is It
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01:03:29.739 --> 01:03:31.119
The Welsh on Instagram and Twitter. I was about to
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01:03:31.139 --> 01:03:33.360
get Bogman's Twitter, which you can follow him at Bogman
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01:03:33.380 --> 01:03:36.139
Sports if you want. But follow me on those. Twitter
1229
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:39.510
will have the big videos. Instagram will have everything. just
1230
01:03:39.550 --> 01:03:41.070
an easier place for me to kind of post all
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01:03:41.090 --> 01:03:43.260
those things. So if you want to see the videos
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01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:45.300
and see some of the pictures and all that cool stuff,
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01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:48.360
please do so follow me there. That is going to
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01:03:48.420 --> 01:03:51.260
do it for this episode of prospect one. Love you guys.
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01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:53.829
And excited to talk about prospects for the next six
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01:03:53.869 --> 01:03:56.570
weeks here before all the bad stuff happens, but make
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01:03:56.590 --> 01:03:58.170
sure you're locked into prospect one. We'll talk to you
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01:03:58.190 --> 01:04:01.210
next time right here on the fantasy baseball prospect podcast.
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Peace out.