WEBVTT 00:00.312 --> 00:06.497 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the baseball insiders, I'm out of wine or join as always by fans that it's MLB Prospect Guru Eric Cohen. 00:06.537 --> 00:13.523 [SPEAKER_01]: This is our final show on the prospect show before the MLB draft Sunday night one. 00:13.703 --> 00:15.685 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're thinking, I know how the draft works. 00:15.965 --> 00:19.388 [SPEAKER_01]: Here on Sunday night is the first hundred five picks. 00:19.818 --> 00:25.680 [SPEAKER_01]: This year, a completely normal number through rounds one through three, then we move on a day two and they finish this whole thing off. 00:25.740 --> 00:30.561 [SPEAKER_01]: And we are here to talk about the players who stock has risen since the last time we preview the draft. 00:31.001 --> 00:46.145 [SPEAKER_01]: Those who've seen it fall, plus some wild cards who could upend everything and how the nationals firing spree one week out of having the number one overall pick affects the landscape plus rises and follows from minor league action and your questions Eric, thanks for joining me. 00:46.405 --> 00:47.165 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's have a fun one. 00:48.182 --> 00:50.264 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is my favorite times of year in the baseball calendar. 00:50.284 --> 00:54.508 [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I started my baseball coverage career cutting my teeth with with draft coverage. 00:55.109 --> 01:06.079 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, it's like, forty-eight hours right on sleep very much, but it's also like a really great time kind of digging into from like the top guys, the top names all the way down to the twentieth rounders, if no one frankly cares about me probably won't hear from again. 01:06.420 --> 01:07.280 [SPEAKER_00]: I enjoy all of it. 01:07.300 --> 01:08.862 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm looking forward to talking about draft of you. 01:09.295 --> 01:12.657 [SPEAKER_01]: We will hear from some of them at some point maybe, probably, possibly. 01:12.717 --> 01:17.601 [SPEAKER_01]: But 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02:24.997 --> 02:29.342 [SPEAKER_01]: Trending up, trending down wild cards in the MLB draft, which begins on Sunday night. 02:29.462 --> 02:31.164 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to talk about the good stuff first. 02:31.925 --> 02:36.070 [SPEAKER_01]: Who are we seeing raised their stocks during the final weeks? 02:36.330 --> 02:38.212 [SPEAKER_01]: Dengues before the draft actually takes place. 02:38.372 --> 02:40.595 [SPEAKER_01]: Who's got momentum at the top of the first draft? 02:42.277 --> 02:49.106 [SPEAKER_00]: So, top of the first round is tricky because basically the same ten names are been mentioned there all, all spring. 02:49.707 --> 02:53.652 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that that's still going to remain true that they're like the same ten names are just going to be shuffle around a little bit. 02:53.892 --> 02:57.978 [SPEAKER_00]: It just comes down to who's going to kind of dip towards the back end and who actually has a chance to be number one overall. 02:58.378 --> 03:00.300 [SPEAKER_00]: But I do have a few names that I think I've been rising heavily. 03:00.400 --> 03:07.445 [SPEAKER_00]: One's gauge would to the surprise of pretty much no one involved the college world series at all throwing a no hitter in the college world series is a good way to get yourself drafted highly. 03:08.326 --> 03:12.069 [SPEAKER_00]: He's probably going to go mid to late first round now. 03:12.489 --> 03:23.097 [SPEAKER_00]: He does have some concerns he did have a shoulder injury this year, but it's it's first round stuff and if he's healthy and the medical's check out whoever gets him even at the middle of the first round is probably much is pretty good in the beginning of steel. 03:24.178 --> 03:26.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Another name is a prep on prep bat Josh Hammond. 03:26.960 --> 03:27.121 [SPEAKER_00]: He's 03:28.450 --> 03:32.393 [SPEAKER_00]: generally like been kind of in that kind of comp round to high second round sort of range. 03:32.893 --> 03:42.420 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's a lot of people talking about him possibly going into the back of the first round, even a little bit higher, like maybe in the twenties, that could be a lot of fun because he's a fun bat. 03:42.660 --> 03:46.122 [SPEAKER_00]: And the last one's Tennessee first basement Andrew Fisher. 03:47.603 --> 04:06.357 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a funny one for me because this is a type of bat that the industry is kind of a shoot for a while because like they you know first base bat can't not really defensive valuable players though they don't like to put spin high picks on them but at the same time in this year's class if you have a proven college bat who's just sitting there these all those are names 04:07.157 --> 04:10.779 [SPEAKER_00]: of position aside that tend to rise on draft day. 04:10.819 --> 04:16.643 [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you see one position where like, wow, that guy went a lot higher than I thought he was going to, it's going to be the college bats. 04:16.823 --> 04:22.186 [SPEAKER_00]: And endrofisher seems to be a name that's coming up a lot more in kind of those, you know, back half of the first round of Microsoft conversations. 04:22.706 --> 04:23.787 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we talked about Fisher. 04:23.807 --> 04:25.088 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to our earlier previews. 04:25.128 --> 04:32.212 [SPEAKER_01]: He seemed to be connected to, again, all of the organizations that value, and it seemed to squeeze the most value out of these types of players. 04:32.252 --> 04:32.332 [SPEAKER_01]: So 04:32.797 --> 04:44.605 [SPEAKER_01]: If these players aren't being valued so much and they're ending up, you know, in the back half of the first round, maybe the back third, they're going to a win now team and they're going to a team that sort of regularly squeezes out to help the players. 04:44.645 --> 04:58.615 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you're looking to bet on, say, investments in these sports cards space, maybe you guys like Wood who has name recognition or a guy like Fisher who's likely to be gobbled up by and work that values strong vats and seems to get the most out of them. 04:59.032 --> 05:00.753 [SPEAKER_01]: wouldn't be the worst idea. 05:00.813 --> 05:02.995 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, what about the draft prospects who've slumped? 05:03.355 --> 05:20.187 [SPEAKER_01]: And this, of course, includes our arguable, in our viewable, pre-season number one, who were sort of watching, you know, the familiar names, I would say, hand-canner Ella fits here too in terms of like a name, a lot of people are familiar with who's not going to go as high as maybe they would have assumed. 05:20.567 --> 05:28.073 [SPEAKER_01]: But there's an obvious number one name, who just keeps slipping and whoever gets him is going to get the headline of Steele's 05:28.455 --> 05:32.870 [SPEAKER_01]: preseason potential number one thing, but not certain what that means of this job here. 05:33.990 --> 05:40.235 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the pointer there is Jay's Luffy, Levi-Lep, and you know, for Uncle Tip saying he's still the best player in the draft, that's absolutely silly. 05:40.916 --> 05:52.145 [SPEAKER_00]: There's too much swing and miss right now to be kind of considered a top five count in this draft class, but I tend to agree that like this type of like skill set probably should be getting still being picked in the top half of the first round. 05:52.725 --> 06:00.832 [SPEAKER_00]: There's just too much that could go right and there's too much upside, but the risk is a much higher now and when you're taking college bat, one of the reasons you're taking one is some amount of 06:01.552 --> 06:03.973 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, like he will get to the big leagues, right? 06:04.013 --> 06:06.175 [SPEAKER_00]: He will get there and he will be on the path relatively quickly. 06:06.595 --> 06:12.918 [SPEAKER_00]: And in Levi, there's a real chance that he gets the high A or double A and he just can't hit breaking stuff and he ends up just being out of the league pretty quickly. 06:12.998 --> 06:17.080 [SPEAKER_00]: So I understand why he's tax-false stock has fallen a little bit. 06:17.120 --> 06:21.803 [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of people are saying he might get to like the Astros, but we kind of wild to me, which is a twenty one. 06:21.903 --> 06:25.605 [SPEAKER_00]: But again, I still think he's probably he should probably be in the top half of the first round somewhere. 06:25.865 --> 06:29.587 [SPEAKER_00]: But I just don't think he's a top five talent in this particular draft class and he's kind of proved that out. 06:30.207 --> 06:30.768 [SPEAKER_00]: The other name that's 06:31.448 --> 06:33.269 [SPEAKER_00]: It's weird, is Tyler Bremner. 06:34.009 --> 06:37.511 [SPEAKER_00]: Depending on who you talk to, he's still going to be like a top twelve top fourteen pick. 06:38.171 --> 06:44.335 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's like apparently there's some models that are liking him as much, and there's also like he wasn't particularly great at UC. 06:44.755 --> 06:50.338 [SPEAKER_00]: Santa Barbara this year, so it was kind of like there's a couple of teams that maybe sour on him that work on it really big on him. 06:50.758 --> 06:58.322 [SPEAKER_00]: But he still has his cheerleaders in the top half of the first round, and if those teams decide to land on him, he, again, I could see him going at ten. 06:58.342 --> 06:59.702 [SPEAKER_00]: I could see him going at twelve, fourteen. 07:01.248 --> 07:09.394 [SPEAKER_00]: There's also a chance like that if they to the find that there's another player that they like a little bit better, those few teams that really like in the top half, he could fall out for a little bit. 07:10.695 --> 07:11.596 [SPEAKER_01]: I see the comments. 07:11.736 --> 07:15.199 [SPEAKER_01]: I do like Anthony here, but I do have the Jaden Hill vibes a little bit. 07:15.219 --> 07:18.101 [SPEAKER_01]: So you just gotta hope he does not get selected by the Colorado Rockies. 07:18.161 --> 07:21.864 [SPEAKER_01]: Although Hill had a good year before he got her maybe a bullpen piece for the Rockies. 07:21.884 --> 07:28.789 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're, hey, you never know, but yeah, I wish there was a, I wish I could unsee the comp because I want to believe. 07:29.493 --> 07:38.636 [SPEAKER_01]: But a lot of names and a lot of debate, and again, like you said, the top ten has been relatively standard for a while. 07:38.716 --> 07:41.917 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're also getting used to, all right, we're just to removing these names around. 07:42.797 --> 07:57.461 [SPEAKER_01]: Not a lot of not a lot interrupting the process and flow, but in terms of major surprises, I mean, the Washington National's getting their manager and GM, although they are handing their hands temporarily, some who's been in the building and who was credited 07:57.960 --> 08:01.163 [SPEAKER_01]: with the meat of the Juan Soto tree in twenty twenty two. 08:01.243 --> 08:07.589 [SPEAKER_01]: So a very qualified individual now running the draft room and I can't imagine that the national were not already aligned. 08:08.129 --> 08:16.957 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I would if you told me that like, well, this this move like to shake up the nationals for an office has completely upended their process with the first to a real pick. 08:17.297 --> 08:18.018 [SPEAKER_01]: I would be shocked. 08:18.478 --> 08:22.502 [SPEAKER_01]: But that said a little bit of chaos and maybe tells you a little bit about their plans. 08:23.418 --> 08:31.121 [SPEAKER_01]: What are you seeing in terms of any potential interruptions in that top ten wildcards and how the nets process affects that point? 08:33.242 --> 08:40.044 [SPEAKER_00]: So, for a while now, it's felt like the industry thought that the nationals were down to prep short stop Eastern holiday. 08:41.958 --> 08:45.540 [SPEAKER_00]: or LSU lefty K-D Anderson for the number one overall pick. 08:45.560 --> 08:47.281 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are very different types of players. 08:47.922 --> 08:51.664 [SPEAKER_00]: One is a lefty who might be in the big leagues next year. 08:52.004 --> 08:57.147 [SPEAKER_00]: If he was, again, there's a outside shot who just get promoted to the end of this year too. 08:57.227 --> 09:02.831 [SPEAKER_00]: He's just that kind of ready has that kind of combination of stuff and the arsenal and maturity to actually do that. 09:02.851 --> 09:08.374 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you have Holliday who has incredible upside, especially when it comes to power, but he's not going to be ready for a while. 09:08.414 --> 09:09.795 [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to take a few years to kind of bake. 09:10.315 --> 09:11.756 [SPEAKER_00]: And I wonder a little bit. 09:12.116 --> 09:15.319 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure that there's a lot of other problems with the National System Organization. 09:15.599 --> 09:19.142 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, they didn't want to exercise Dave marketing his option and they were kind of forced to do so. 09:19.182 --> 09:23.485 [SPEAKER_00]: And if they weren't going to exercise it, then I was going to call his problems with Brazil and they were kind of done with him anyway. 09:23.565 --> 09:24.606 [SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of get it. 09:24.626 --> 09:28.749 [SPEAKER_00]: But I do wonder if there was some debate as to should we go with the 09:29.687 --> 09:34.490 [SPEAKER_00]: The player that we think is best long-term versus a guy who can help us out sooner. 09:34.590 --> 09:40.834 [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe Rizzo was the type of guy that would have gone for the longer term play, right? 09:42.235 --> 09:51.982 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, with the nationals not having Rizzo at the top, the odds that Smith-Seth Hernandez gets picked first overall, go down dramatically, because I think he's one of the few GMs in baseball that would have picked a high school righty. 09:52.182 --> 09:53.382 [SPEAKER_00]: First overall, if he thought he was good enough. 09:54.143 --> 09:56.945 [SPEAKER_00]: So, but we don't know enough about Deepak Hollow to like, 09:58.127 --> 10:01.329 [SPEAKER_00]: make any like claims about what his tendencies are going to be. 10:01.850 --> 10:05.232 [SPEAKER_00]: I think the ownership, I don't want to ship once, uh, winter sooner rather than later. 10:05.553 --> 10:10.756 [SPEAKER_00]: So if anything, maybe this change, uh, makes it more likely that Kate Anderson's the pick, but they're both Scott Morris plot clients. 10:10.937 --> 10:15.100 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's kind of one of those like maybe this is a matter of a money thing or something like that. 10:15.680 --> 10:28.434 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that the top is pretty safe, but again, the odds of like a Seth Hernandez now dropping to the reds or the white socks at nine and ten, which would be kind of wild in terms of pure talent have gotten a lot higher since the move. 10:29.054 --> 10:36.302 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Mike Rizzo said it best on his way out that he felt he had a good ten year dealing with ownership for, you know, twenty years and they certainly are 10:36.952 --> 11:01.994 [SPEAKER_01]: Of course to be dealt with basically every big league city, but Washington is very clear that there is a mandate there and there is sort of a you know a mess that some you know the deft GMs have to deal with when it comes to navigating when now versus when later and we will definitely remember days away from seeing how this plays out and how everything gets up ended and who lands the property Ethan holiday prize after all of this 11:02.384 --> 11:07.426 [SPEAKER_01]: Seeing a few names who you like as potential wildfires mentioned in the comments, so I want to call that out. 11:07.446 --> 11:16.170 [SPEAKER_01]: Is there anyone you see not necessarily cracking the top ten, but interrupting the first round who could, you know, interrupt that process towards the back end. 11:17.211 --> 11:22.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the one exact route, I don't think he gets picked above gauge would, right? 11:22.416 --> 11:35.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I think the between the two Arkansas arms that gauge is going to go first, but let's assume a world where like someone in the low teams, picks gauge would, and then you have Zach roots sitting there in the hot, the high teens. 11:37.332 --> 11:39.954 [SPEAKER_00]: Are any of his pitches like knockout pitches? 11:40.074 --> 11:43.176 [SPEAKER_00]: No, but he has four probably plus pitches. 11:43.636 --> 11:45.197 [SPEAKER_00]: And he commands all of them from the left side. 11:45.257 --> 11:51.902 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that for a team that just wants a surefire guy who's going to stick in the rotation, something like a reliever risk issue. 11:52.222 --> 11:55.724 [SPEAKER_00]: He's been healthy throughout and he's played in big conference, so the all the data would work out. 11:56.325 --> 12:03.470 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that a guy that would move quickly, maybe he's never going to be a number one or number two, maybe even a mid-rotation spot is a bit much. 12:03.510 --> 12:06.772 [SPEAKER_00]: But a really good four or five who just gets the job done and gives you another lefty. 12:07.312 --> 12:08.472 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that a team could pop him. 12:08.572 --> 12:23.377 [SPEAKER_00]: Another one is Josh Owens, who is getting like kind of similar to Hammond, he's getting a lot of like he's generally been ranked in like the sixties or seventies as a high school prospect, but like again, those teams in like the very bottom of the first round who aren't going to have another shot at him later on in the draft. 12:25.763 --> 12:34.193 [SPEAKER_00]: He's getting enough love to where maybe he's one of those underslaught guys or gets picked by the first round or gets thrown a bunch of money in the comp rounds. 12:34.213 --> 12:35.634 [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's got picked a lot higher. 12:35.655 --> 12:39.199 [SPEAKER_00]: This is, I mean, again, he's a top, a top-it-ends sort of prep shortstop. 12:39.879 --> 12:44.405 [SPEAKER_00]: We're athlete that can do just about anything on a baseball field if he put his mind to it and get him with enough time. 12:44.885 --> 13:00.133 [SPEAKER_00]: So those are kind of the two names that like, again, once those were those guys get picked, it's going to tell us a lot about how things break down because if those guys are going to pick early, then all of a sudden everything kind of breaks down and you could see a name or two that you'd think would be in the pick and top the fifteen starts falling into the twannies and kind of breaks up everyone's draft boards. 13:00.654 --> 13:09.018 [SPEAKER_01]: And it starts falling to, of course, the used in Astros because they always seem to end up at like twenty one or twenty zero twenty three making a pick, you know, getting a little bit lucky. 13:09.078 --> 13:12.240 [SPEAKER_01]: Although walk organic last year, I would say they didn't have to reach and they did. 13:12.760 --> 13:17.781 [SPEAKER_01]: Moving on, maybe they'll draft another catcher to start throwing minor in the games and maybe it gets kicked out of baseball. 13:17.921 --> 13:21.042 [SPEAKER_01]: You never know, sometimes expect the unexpected. 13:24.403 --> 13:37.207 [SPEAKER_01]: Look, I hate the phrase, especially the casual use of the phrase, gun to your head, because I'm always like, do we really need to add, gun to the head, metaphors, when deciding like, which amateur baseball players going to get selected? 13:37.227 --> 13:40.968 [SPEAKER_01]: So no gun to your head, there's no gun anywhere, but 13:42.270 --> 14:02.556 [SPEAKER_01]: If I put you under the spotlight and put the pressure on, we are now again, coming up on five days away, you know, just a couple of hours plus five days away from your first selection, the twenty twenty five MLB draft, probably not Hernandez, probably we're thinking safer, we're thinking arm under the rest. 14:02.916 --> 14:04.077 [SPEAKER_01]: No gun, I threw the gun away. 14:04.537 --> 14:08.438 [SPEAKER_01]: Who are the Washington Nationals picking first overall in the clock starts? 14:09.322 --> 14:12.985 [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to pick K-D Anderson and I probably would pick K-D Anderson as well. 14:13.305 --> 14:16.707 [SPEAKER_00]: Just a combination of safety and upside like there's real upside with this guy. 14:16.747 --> 14:18.248 [SPEAKER_00]: He could be a front of the rotation starter. 14:18.769 --> 14:20.350 [SPEAKER_00]: A bunch of different great pitches. 14:21.090 --> 14:29.256 [SPEAKER_00]: I think this change is better and he's given it then it's given credit for and again, when you have two plus breaking balls and then a fastball that plays up more than you would think. 14:29.937 --> 14:33.960 [SPEAKER_00]: This guy who I think just has like the total package, whereas holiday, I'd be a little bit skeptical 14:35.259 --> 14:41.825 [SPEAKER_00]: going number one overall, especially when the nationals are right where they already have like young guys who are kind of growing into this team, where you kind of want someone's going to help out soon. 14:41.865 --> 14:49.492 [SPEAKER_00]: If you get holiday, he's not going to be up for three or four years probably, if not longer, just because he's a bit more of a raw prospect, even if the sky's the limit in terms of his potential. 14:50.132 --> 14:56.598 [SPEAKER_01]: And we know what happens when you rush a holiday in the DMV area to the big week, you say yourself back a year. 14:56.998 --> 15:02.183 [SPEAKER_01]: So the Baltimore Rails currently enjoying the fruits of their labor, but maybe a year later than they wanted. 15:02.617 --> 15:06.121 [SPEAKER_01]: Be careful what you wish for all those two holidays in the DMB would be sweet. 15:06.282 --> 15:09.265 [SPEAKER_01]: I do think energy is probably safer and like clear. 15:09.285 --> 15:12.009 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, we will check in with everybody next week. 15:12.814 --> 15:16.537 [SPEAKER_01]: Most likely about the future game and the draft. 15:16.597 --> 15:21.921 [SPEAKER_01]: We're 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in some new names here. 16:22.199 --> 16:23.760 [SPEAKER_00]: One is the Ryan Johnson from the Angels. 16:24.300 --> 16:27.682 [SPEAKER_00]: The Angels predicted what called him up super fast to be out of the bullpen this year. 16:28.003 --> 16:31.505 [SPEAKER_00]: After making him the seventy fourth pick in the twenty twenty four draft that a Dallas Baptist. 16:32.486 --> 16:36.188 [SPEAKER_00]: Through a lot of sliders didn't really work as kind of a relief option got sent back down. 16:36.788 --> 16:40.771 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, rushing a guy putting in a position out of place where he's out of place wasn't a great idea. 16:41.071 --> 16:42.072 [SPEAKER_00]: But I still like the arm. 16:42.092 --> 16:46.335 [SPEAKER_00]: And last week he made one start through nine innings and struck out twelve batters with just one hit aloud. 16:46.755 --> 17:02.158 [SPEAKER_00]: overall right away from him, life that he's doing well after what was kind of a rushed situation over there in LA, the knee of Owen Cassie for the Cubs, he's been on this on our list a couple times and again, has had a bit of a rollercoaster season, sometimes some weeks he's been basically an automatic out, sometimes he's been impossible to get out. 17:02.858 --> 17:10.100 [SPEAKER_00]: Last week was one more of the latter, in that he went seven for sixteen, four home runs, six RBIs, only struck out twice against three walks. 17:10.360 --> 17:12.202 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, really good way for Owen. 17:12.822 --> 17:15.324 [SPEAKER_00]: And I could see him kind of factoring into the couple's plans relatively soon. 17:15.905 --> 17:18.667 [SPEAKER_00]: Another is a guy who I really like when he was a draft prospect and Ryan Welchman. 17:19.028 --> 17:22.330 [SPEAKER_00]: I honestly thought he was going to hit for a lot more power and he probably should have gone a little bit higher in that draft. 17:22.911 --> 17:30.838 [SPEAKER_00]: But the time back side of getting him and again, bit of a roller coaster in terms of his pro career so far, but last week was great seven for nineteen. 17:31.799 --> 17:33.760 [SPEAKER_00]: No home runs, but had three doubles, one triple. 17:34.501 --> 17:36.222 [SPEAKER_00]: Walk six times, stole three bases. 17:36.242 --> 17:36.843 [SPEAKER_00]: These come with us guys. 17:36.883 --> 17:38.504 [SPEAKER_00]: It hasn't does a lot of things physically very well. 17:38.944 --> 17:43.888 [SPEAKER_00]: But again, just the hit tool has supply and it's, last week, kind of gives you hope that maybe he's figuring something out. 17:44.989 --> 17:52.735 [SPEAKER_01]: And I will tack on as the comments are saying, Kim Schlittler here, who Andy Martino and Aaron Boone have combined two announces making his major league debut. 17:53.075 --> 18:03.043 [SPEAKER_01]: Tomorrow against the Seattle Mariners, Yankees Mariners series would be more, it's a fun time would be a more fun time at Yankees at any semblance of consistency on offense. 18:03.463 --> 18:05.384 [SPEAKER_01]: pitching deepens, relief work. 18:06.024 --> 18:10.446 [SPEAKER_01]: What have you no matter what the facet of the game of baseball is, the Yankees have been bad at it for three weeks. 18:10.586 --> 18:14.247 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not, you know, usually I be like, ooh, Yankees marries me. 18:14.287 --> 18:15.588 [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully the lineup shows up now. 18:15.648 --> 18:18.189 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like literally hopefully the roster shows up who the hell knows. 18:18.329 --> 18:21.170 [SPEAKER_01]: But Schlittler tomorrow should be very fun for Yankees fans. 18:21.410 --> 18:26.592 [SPEAKER_01]: We're looking for something to latch onto after three, uh, drowning at the bottom of the ocean weeks. 18:26.952 --> 18:28.633 [SPEAKER_01]: You have a very exciting prospect, too. 18:29.145 --> 18:36.949 [SPEAKER_01]: out of Northeastern, I don't know any of us thought, okay, he's going to be throwing ninety nine, just a couple of years after his draft year as a middle-round pick. 18:36.969 --> 18:39.530 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why you got to pay attention below the first round to the players. 18:39.671 --> 18:42.392 [SPEAKER_01]: Come out of non-power houses, because you never know. 18:42.672 --> 18:45.193 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes they get too old up and sometimes they fall into the right system. 18:45.233 --> 18:51.417 [SPEAKER_01]: And yes, Spencer Jones is also in flames, a AAA in a way that I don't think I ever expected him to look. 18:51.877 --> 18:53.878 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, again, not making declarative statements. 18:53.938 --> 18:55.679 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what Spencer Jones is going to be. 18:55.959 --> 18:57.760 [SPEAKER_01]: But I didn't ever expect him to look this good. 18:58.252 --> 19:01.337 [SPEAKER_01]: At any level of baseball for as long as he has this year. 19:01.537 --> 19:03.721 [SPEAKER_01]: So shout out the Spencer Jones. 19:04.061 --> 19:08.208 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we're going to see him to the opening day next year, but we might see him on opening day next year. 19:08.748 --> 19:12.955 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, what about the players who are having a tougher time this past week? 19:14.149 --> 19:20.751 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't want to dwell too much on these, but again, these are just kind of small snapshots in time, and not necessarily mean that we don't like a guy. 19:21.331 --> 19:28.614 [SPEAKER_00]: The first one I want to mention is Ethan Salas, not because he's played or played particularly badly, but he's still out, and he's dealing with a lower back scratch reaction, and that seems pretty bad for a catcher. 19:29.174 --> 19:34.556 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, well, when we have those scratch reactions, he just don't know how well those are going to heal up over time, and he's a guy that needed the reps. 19:34.976 --> 19:38.717 [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, he's still not back, and he's not doing baseball activities yet, so hopefully he 19:39.137 --> 19:46.862 [SPEAKER_00]: can get back into things, but again, back injuries, especially for a guy that young, playing a position that's as physical, is tough on your body anyway as catcher is. 19:47.082 --> 19:49.243 [SPEAKER_00]: You never really want to see him start and have back injuries issues like that. 19:49.543 --> 19:50.564 [SPEAKER_00]: The next one's Braden Montgomery. 19:51.665 --> 19:55.247 [SPEAKER_00]: We guess him a lot and he had been draped, but last week he was not only had to hit. 19:55.707 --> 19:57.028 [SPEAKER_00]: It's last week and struck out a lot of times. 19:57.088 --> 19:58.169 [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of the thing that I circle. 19:58.669 --> 20:03.072 [SPEAKER_00]: Last week and miss last week, I'm not super worried about him long term, but last week it felt like 20:03.952 --> 20:15.761 [SPEAKER_00]: He had matchups where the other team knew kind of how to attack him and it's up to him to figure out if you can adjust to that and be able to defend himself against that type of little types of pitches or if it's going to have a really tough time making contact this year and it's going to take a little bit longer. 20:15.801 --> 20:16.802 [SPEAKER_00]: But I still like him quite a bit. 20:17.082 --> 20:18.383 [SPEAKER_00]: This wasn't particularly great way for him. 20:18.683 --> 20:19.664 [SPEAKER_00]: The last one's Jet Williams. 20:19.724 --> 20:23.307 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I know that guy that I really liked in his draft class and unfortunately the meds took in which makes me happy. 20:23.968 --> 20:24.588 [SPEAKER_00]: Makes me unhappy. 20:25.269 --> 20:28.791 [SPEAKER_00]: But again, one like super speedy guy does a lot of things really well. 20:28.831 --> 20:30.873 [SPEAKER_00]: But also, and had generally been pretty good. 20:31.513 --> 20:32.654 [SPEAKER_00]: overall since he's been in the minor leagues. 20:32.694 --> 20:35.616 [SPEAKER_00]: But last week, this wasn't a great week from another guy who only had two hits. 20:35.936 --> 20:37.998 [SPEAKER_00]: But it didn't strike out as much as more hits and bad. 20:38.018 --> 20:42.240 [SPEAKER_00]: That bit of luck and wasn't like kind of hit, just didn't make enough hard contact to make the most of it. 20:42.601 --> 20:43.942 [SPEAKER_00]: So again, I think he'll be fine. 20:43.982 --> 20:46.884 [SPEAKER_00]: But for a guy who's a top one under post, like he probably expect a little more out of Jeff. 20:47.604 --> 20:50.186 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I thought he might be cracking the big leagues by now. 20:50.206 --> 20:55.689 [SPEAKER_01]: Especially given the Met's inability to turn these middle-end builders in the whether or not like Mauricio, 20:57.032 --> 20:58.893 [SPEAKER_01]: We know when any of those guys are, we don't. 20:58.913 --> 21:00.333 [SPEAKER_01]: There's still a lot of uncertainty for the mess. 21:00.373 --> 21:05.994 [SPEAKER_01]: You can add Williams to that bucket, although obviously all of these guys still have plenty of time left on their box. 21:06.415 --> 21:08.055 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for joining us today. 21:08.495 --> 21:10.096 [SPEAKER_01]: Final show before the MLB draft. 21:10.496 --> 21:11.776 [SPEAKER_01]: That begins Sunday night. 21:11.816 --> 21:15.297 [SPEAKER_01]: You will hear from us again next week, but you got to stay tuned to learn when. 21:15.357 --> 21:20.018 [SPEAKER_01]: And in the meantime, you could read Eric Cole's work on the baseball insider speed on fancene.com. 21:20.418 --> 21:22.819 [SPEAKER_01]: And on so many sites throughout the fans that it network. 21:23.526 --> 21:30.530 [SPEAKER_01]: Draft coverage specifically has the Hankville climbing tells Hill, Dodgers Way, Burns, Watcher, probably, Puck and Spawn. 21:30.570 --> 21:37.355 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if you are looking for draft work, come join us on the fence at a network and read Eric on Sunday night. 21:38.115 --> 21:41.357 [SPEAKER_01]: Eric, you're right, one of the best weeks of the baseball calendar. 21:41.397 --> 21:43.118 [SPEAKER_01]: We are coming up on the tree deadline. 21:43.138 --> 21:47.341 [SPEAKER_01]: We are coming up on the all star festivities and all starts on Saturday. 21:47.401 --> 21:48.041 [SPEAKER_01]: The future's game. 21:48.061 --> 21:49.502 [SPEAKER_01]: We are closer than ever to the good stuff. 21:51.002 --> 21:52.043 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, looking forward to it. 21:52.283 --> 21:57.327 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, starting Sunday is going to be kind of a long week for us, because we're going to have the draft as soon as the drafts over. 21:57.347 --> 22:00.170 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get right into the trade remorse season, but looking forward to it. 22:00.650 --> 22:04.393 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, this is the time of year where you kind of get the dream on a lot of guys and see what they're going to do. 22:05.154 --> 22:08.156 [SPEAKER_00]: Only for our team, so predictably, disappoint us, you know, a matter of weeks. 22:08.256 --> 22:10.058 [SPEAKER_00]: And in the case of Adam and I, it might be sooner than that. 22:10.138 --> 22:11.459 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to be a good time. 22:12.100 --> 22:13.341 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my team stinks. 22:13.761 --> 22:14.802 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to get into it. 22:14.902 --> 22:16.083 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to get anything out of me. 22:16.123 --> 22:16.703 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the thing. 22:16.743 --> 22:19.826 [SPEAKER_01]: I think people when your team kind of stinks, they expect you to be like, 22:20.230 --> 22:22.251 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll be back or like really hurt. 22:22.352 --> 22:24.273 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like, I'm fine. 22:24.313 --> 22:27.835 [SPEAKER_01]: They like, maybe they might not stink at a month right now they do. 22:28.316 --> 22:30.357 [SPEAKER_01]: And you're really not going to get a rise at me. 22:30.377 --> 22:32.299 [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to give me the same thing I regret. 22:32.339 --> 22:34.080 [SPEAKER_01]: You're just going to give me to be like, I agree with you. 22:34.100 --> 22:34.500 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