[SPEAKER_00]: Hello and welcome to Baseball America's Draft podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Carlos Galazzo joined by my good friend Peter Flairty.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on Peter?
[SPEAKER_01]: Not much.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's safe to say that we are officially in the dog days.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not necessarily of summer, but the doldrums.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the doldrums is a better way to put it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a rather quiet time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would say on the amateur calendar.
[SPEAKER_01]: There isn't a whole lot going on and really until, I guess the next big event is Jupiter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you have the underarmor all American game in a couple weeks, but.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we got that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I guess the other big one is Team USA going to Japan, but that one's like,
[SPEAKER_00]: It's obviously an important event, but it's hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to Japan.
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be cool to go to Japan.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be following it from afar.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, it does.
[SPEAKER_00]: This definitely feels like the period of time.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're like, the summer showcases wrapped up.
[SPEAKER_00]: All my notebooks from East Coast Pro area codes are on the site now.
[SPEAKER_00]: You and Jeff's Cape Cod list is on the site.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it does feel like a lot of the big tent pool summer events are behind us.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for the draft pod, it is a bit odd because we are starting to pivot more into like a certain thing about the prospect handbook.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got some more like lighthearted evergreen content on the site.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe highlighted by you and you and Jacob's top twenty five college baseball uniform rankings, which I was really excited to see and to chat about in the slack about that and
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it may be five, maybe six years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, Teddy didn't exercise previously, so we've got a new top twenty five.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure I've not been engaging with the online commentary surrounding that, but I'm sure it's been
[SPEAKER_00]: very hot and heavy because no matter what, we could have like, thirty different iterations of this list and people would probably be outraged.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm quite happy with the top two uniforms you guys have on that list.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are, those might be your personal one and two as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to remove any bias.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am a UNC grad North Carolina is number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it was my personal list, I would have Texas number one, Texas who comes in number two.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do think those are two of the best or even acknowledging like my obvious tar help I see it's I mean for me I like white base uniforms and I like unique
[SPEAKER_00]: Colorways unique just like color branding and both the burnt orange and the Carolina blue are just so specific and unique to those programs.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just you don't see it very often.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that we have a healthy smattering of powder blue jerseys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that we have a I think we have at least two cream uniforms ranked
[SPEAKER_00]: pretty solidly here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Arkansas, it's my top four in no order.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like if it's just my personal list would be, well, Texas would be my number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I've said this for years now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Texas, base white, brown orange accents.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just such a clean looking uniform.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then it would be one of a couple different UNC variants.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the white base as well with UNC.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the blue looks better when it's more of an accent color versus when they use the entire Carolina blue jersey.
[SPEAKER_00]: My third one, I go back and forth, either old Mrs. Powder Blues.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you guys have it number four.
[SPEAKER_00]: or Arkansas's cream.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think both of those are super clean.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think those would be kind of my clear top four.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have a fifth that I feel strongly enough about to put there, but I'm curious what your personal tops are and how difficult it was to make this list because obviously it's super subjective and not to be taken too seriously, but what your subjective taste would be when looking at what makes it good uniform.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so it's funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what Jacob and I kind of had to remind ourselves of both on our call to do the top twenty five by the way for anyone listening was an hour and ten minutes long.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like we kind of got a record of this and put it out of the podcast probably would have done very well.
[SPEAKER_01]: It actually would have been pretty good content.
[SPEAKER_01]: We would probably had to have a few like expletives bleeped.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know you uttered expletives Peter.
[SPEAKER_01]: on on very rare occasion.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was fun going through it into your point.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jacob and I had to remind ourselves like a few times where we're like wait like we don't it's just uniforms like this is fun like we don't have to like go back and forth on like who should be eighteen to nineteen like we do in our weekly top twenty five but I'm a separate for three things.
[SPEAKER_01]: a good one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, pin stripes and that powder blue.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, honestly, like Carolina blue, but other schools have kind of adopted that type of color way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a key difference between powder blue and the UNC blue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you love them in the same category?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Carolina blue is its own yeah entity like UNC is the only school that rocks Carolina blue to me and then you have like the powder blues and the baby blues Houston's electric blues are really sweet we have those at fifteen based on just look alone and again like these lists as you said are so subjective and it's it really is like beauties in the eye of the beholder so like
[SPEAKER_01]: a little bit more of a peek under the hood.
[SPEAKER_01]: We could have overloaded this list with a number of schools pin stripe cream type of variance, but we kind of wanted to diversify it a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alice, it was funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alice used championship gold.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I have to take about this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how the healthy debate in our, in our B.A.
[SPEAKER_01]: Slack channel, because initially, they're still in a good spot at nine, but they were initially way higher.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't tell that to the Baton Rouge resistance.
[SPEAKER_00]: They probably think we've absolutely just destroyed them with that nine rating.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can be the judge of how high they were, but they're in a really, really good spot initially.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we kind of discussed it a little more bumping down to nine and I think.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those LSU championship gold.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I have a few problems with the LSU championship gold.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, it's not gold.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's just get that out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is yellow.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a yellow jersey.
[SPEAKER_00]: And also, like it's cool, the legacy and the history of that specific.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jersey and when they use it, but I don't even think it's like a top two Jersey that LSU wears.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm much prefer their like piping home uniform with the actual Jersey, like honestly to me, the LSU gold.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just looks kind of cheap and little leakage to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a fan of it at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's probably the most overrated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just in terms of aesthetics, Jersey, like, I think their purple top is better.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, their home white piping.
[SPEAKER_00]: uniform, I think is their best.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I'm glad because previous on the previous list, I think that Teddy, I'm not sure if Joe Hilly did that with him or who else wasn't involved.
[SPEAKER_00]: But on our previous list, that was number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember giving Teddy crap for it as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: The time was like, this jersey is just so overrated.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think inappropriate ranking at number nine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Your point on look alone when you isolate it, just in looking at the jersey, I can see where you're coming from.
[SPEAKER_01]: My favorite color being yellow, I'll skip out of my judgment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, yellow, not gold.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also, if I just call it a championship yellow, I'd be much more fine with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't lie to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the gold goes better with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're going to brand it like a championship, like everyone associates gold with like gold medals, first place championships and right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, so my favorite color being yellow, which is a weird take in and of itself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, it's been that way since I was like four years old.
[SPEAKER_01]: That helps amplify it a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: The LSU jersey are their white pin stripes with the script tigers across the chest like those are sweet chips.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: But why they were why why we initially had them in that really good spot.
[SPEAKER_01]: And still why they're perhaps up at number nine is the significance behind it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty special.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of like Clemson football's orange bridges.
[SPEAKER_01]: They only wear them when it's like a series clenching game or in championship games.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of a unique swagger and it's the like usage of it is cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just think it like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like a fifty grade look.
[SPEAKER_01]: for me personally is a little underwhelming.
[SPEAKER_01]: But my sleeper on the entire top twenty five are Kansas's powder blues.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was a sick like at those check-in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where do we have those ranked?
[SPEAKER_01]: They're at six.
[SPEAKER_01]: Six.
[SPEAKER_01]: They still might be a little too low for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, this is like beauties in the eye of the holder.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people might have a one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people might have them not ranked.
[SPEAKER_01]: But as someone that's a sucker for a good powder blue,
[SPEAKER_01]: I can execute these perfectly like the script j-hawks.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do like the script j-hawks.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say that what separates the old miss powder blues for me from the Kansas powder blues is I think the red contrast makes for a much cleaner look like this image we have with Kansas you've got
[SPEAKER_00]: you got like a darker blue like a navy blue cleat navy blue socks navy blue belt you got navy blue number navy blue undershirt navy blue hat like that with the powder blue i feel like just doesn't pop quite as much as when you look at old miss and old miss has the powder blue base on the jersey and the pants and i really like just the amount of red that's featured there i i really think the
[SPEAKER_00]: the piping down the side, the red white and darker blue just makes for, it looks a little bit cleaner to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I tend to steer towards jerseys that, I don't know how to describe it really, but jerseys that look clean, very simple designs and just let the colors in the accents work.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really find myself liking those.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also find myself liking the piping down the middle more than pin stripes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that's a bit of a take.
[SPEAKER_00]: Especially when you have like thicker piping like my my preferred LSU jersey is there they're white home piping not pin stripes but do you think they're pin stripes looks good those are all great jerseys I'm trying to think that the main piping jersey we have here
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it's called piping.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've always called it that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think FSU's, no, we don't even have the FSU piping during it here.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't have, I think piping might be under a representative here, at least in terms of the images we're using.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are often my favorite.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a very, very, very demographic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you that piping is a little, it is underused or left off perhaps on this twenty five.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there are a lot of cool alternate.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like Campbell's, nobody's from nowhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: When they got that saying incorporated into a jersey, I wish that they executed a little bit better color wise, because I think that they're color right.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can have a lot of fun with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like their home fights are sweet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say too, like speaking of piping when I was looking at this list, Campbell has a really clean looking piping variant.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to pull it up right now as I'm talking through it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't find it, but I remember pulling it up when I was like, and through this, and it's a really good look.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can, well, I think Campbell's color scheme is pretty solid too.
[SPEAKER_00]: But was there Jersey or a uniform that you couldn't get on the list that you felt bad about that you're like really pained you that you couldn't find space?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about like feeling bad about it, but I guess I'm like,
[SPEAKER_01]: obvious honorable mentions.
[SPEAKER_01]: We like Alabama's pin stripes, sticking with the pin stripe theme.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like Oklahoma State.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we have Oklahoma State on there.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're home orange jerseys that have been a staple for decades now.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have them at twenty five, but they have an alternate, I'm not sure if they still wear it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says like cowboys across the chest and it's kind of this simple
[SPEAKER_01]: either white or gray jersey that's a modern throwback.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oregon has a similar type deal with Oregon across the chest.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oregon is tricky for me because in all their sports, I feel like they have so many different form variants.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like tough to think of like what their identity is in uniform.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their identity is almost just like versatility and alternates.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then some other schools that kind of made a late push as we were rounding out this list, Boston colleges, throwbacks to introduce last year are really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're new balancers these.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I was a personal fan.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't received well with the crowd, but I actually love Southern's baby blue jerseys with fellow lettering.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, my favorite color being yellow might cloud my judgment a little bit, but I thought those are pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you could make the art, I mean, you could realistically make the argument for like over a hundred jerseys to be ranked.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like this is a very subjective, but yeah, I think yesterday and in two days ago when we were doing this exercise reminded me,
[SPEAKER_01]: like how many great uniforms there are in the sport.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it was fun to put together.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we don't, so I don't spend the whole time talking about uniforms on a podcast, which I know can be tough as we were just listening to as described uniforms.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the one I was glad to see ranked high and it was one that I probably wouldn't have thought of initially is Arizona states to keyless sunrise throwbacks.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure what this design pattern is called, but this like horizontal bar gradient.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Padres, I think, use one at the major league level.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Astros have had one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really think this design looks really good and is unique enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's uncommon enough that when you have a color way like Arizona State does in this version where it's mostly bunch of yellows and I'm not sure if we're calling it maroon as like the the kind of pop color on the jersey.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really like this one and would like to see some more teams maybe try to make this sort of gradient look work.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one on look alone it's sweet and then you also it's kind of
[SPEAKER_01]: You get sort of triggers a trip down memory lane for at least some people.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't alive when he was at Arizona State.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's what Barry Bonds was rocking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those great Arizona State national championship type teams in the eighties and nineties were wearing them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a pretty cool look all around that kind of blends history and
[SPEAKER_01]: They add a little bit of a not a modern twist because those have been in their rotation for a while, but they've kind of updated them as time's gone on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess that'll be it for Uniform Talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, you can see the full top twenty five on the site now, hop into the Instagram comments and battle it out with all the college baseball fans.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you got, takes on that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let's get into some maybe some airy cuts talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter, I do have both both the notebooks, thirty five pitchers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe twenty hitters to talk about.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we briefly mentioned a couple of the standouts, but we can get into the weeds a little bit more if there are any players you want to talk through anyone who jumped out to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or I can kind of just give an overview of some players, but I'll throw it to you and see which direction you want to head.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, I mean, I think there's nothing more valuable than catching guys in person.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll defer to you on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you can take it in any direction you want, whether it want to be starting off with the hitters or pitchers.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know your overall takeaways mean dudes that you came away and press with at the event because I think it's it's such a cool event for those that yeah you know are unfamiliar it's like you get the top amateur talent from around the country in one area for about a week and and they go at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think my takeaway this year was, in general, I think the pictures in this class and in this two weeks stretch between both East Coast and Area Codes were more impressive, like as a group.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were just so many loud performances.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are so many pictures here showing impressive stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's easier for me to get in the weeds and feel like I really know a picture into a towelty after just a look or two.
[SPEAKER_00]: And from almost all these guys, it's actually just a single look.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's some really impressive arms in this class even beyond like the freakish striker pens.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we mentioned in the podcast him at a twenty twenty eight prospect who was the hundred miles per hour with the frequency that I just have never seen before.
[SPEAKER_00]: There were five guys who stood out to me as like just really impressive arms.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jensen Hirschkorn, I believe we also mentioned not sure how much we need to retread that, but striking out nine batters that you faced.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only nine that you faced on swinging strikeouts is pretty impressive with his frame.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, his velocity.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's the most impressive outing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the one adding I go back to that will maybe stick in my mind just a little bit more because it was one of the very first I saw was Ethan Hankens that he's goes pro.
[SPEAKER_00]: His wasn't wasn't even quite this dominant just in terms of like total battered face swing strikeouts, but just the loudest of the stuff and the tempo that he showed that outing will always stand out in my mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think her shortening is probably one that's going to stick there for a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another pitcher who was really impressive to move his Logan Schmidt.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a lieutenant pitcher out of California, six foot four, two hundred fifteen pounds, really impressive, pitchers frame, smooth, easy balance delivery from this three-quarter slot gets a little bit lower at times.
[SPEAKER_00]: He faced seven batters, struck out four, didn't walk any one, sat in, ninety four, ninety seven, got swing and miss on the fastball, showed a slider that looked solid.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had full of change ups in the upper eighties.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything looked like it had a chance to be above average.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got with so everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was a pretty complete look for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Train ring gel.
[SPEAKER_00]: right into Petrout of Texas came into this event as one of the higher ranked players in the class.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have ranked number eight in the high school class.
[SPEAKER_00]: So first round range overall is kind of where we have him pegged entering this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean his fastball slider combination is just electric.
[SPEAKER_00]: He shook out three of the first nine he faced walked one allowed to hits
[SPEAKER_00]: Ninety-four, Ninety-seven with the fastball, Touch Ninety-eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be really curious to see some of the under-to-the-hood numbers, which is just the fastball movement profile, because it looks like it's got a ton of life.
[SPEAKER_00]: The breaking ball, I called it a knee-buckler.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's eighty-one, eighty-four.
[SPEAKER_00]: Super tight, biting pitch consistently, looks plus for me with really high spin rates at twenty-hundred, three thousand.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a stand-out, and then my fifth kind of stand-out here.
[SPEAKER_00]: which also includes Strayker Pence and Jensen Hirsch Corners, Braden Harris, who is a right-handed pitcher out of Florida committed to Florida State, ranked thirty-five in the high school class.
[SPEAKER_00]: He faced fourteen batters, struck out half of those, walked on a lot of five hits.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think a number of those hits were kind of just like weekly hit balls that just got a little bit lucky with the, with the, with the Babbit, but he was ninety one ninety five pitching pretty heavily off a seventy ninety three mile per hour.
[SPEAKER_00]: Breaking ball, I thought that pitch was pretty consistent swing and miss offering two plane break, a lot of empty and ugly swings.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so you got seven with some thirteen swings on the breaking ball and then you also flashed to change up that look like a pretty solid pitch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, Slefty's as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: So almost all these guys in the top five outside of Pence who's on here because it's just just pure freakish on town.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the the sort of completeness of the arsenal is really impressive for high school players.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's good I just missed area because last year and I forget just how advanced some of the top pictures in any given class are but I don't remember seeing high school players showcasing such a deep arsenal like it's not just a big fastball velocity and a real knockout breaking ball but a lot of these guys are showing like
[SPEAKER_00]: more advanced changeups than I'm accustomed to seeing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Often it's the case that if you have really good changeup in high school, like maybe you've got some breaking ball questions.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for a lot of these guys, they're just overpowering their opponents with a fastball and breaking ball combo.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't really need to use the changeup.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so that piece of their offering is a little bit further away.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to project a little bit more on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you don't see it that much.
[SPEAKER_00]: But really all five of these guys that thought should pretty complete arsenals.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was exciting to see.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a really strong pitching class.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's sort of the old cliche and some fit the billing more than others.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, your picture, not a thrower.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can kind of, the thrower's get by and just kind of stuff alone and an overpowering guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a quote that's stuck with me for a while.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when Quinn Matthews was on the, I think it was a hot sheet show over a year ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said,
[SPEAKER_01]: The only thing that stuff buys you is time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's completely right, because if you can't locate it in the zone and consistently throw competitive strikes, I mean, my buy like another year or two or three on the organization and pro ball, but you know, it'll just get released a little later than the other guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, with herish corn, especially, and it's easy to touch on him and and gosh, about him just given the nine up, nine down, nine punchies, but
[SPEAKER_01]: It's such an intriguing combination of untapped ceiling and projection or manning, like you look at him and he's kind of this six, five, almost lean kid really high-wasted and it's like man, you kind of in just watching the video we have on the on YouTube of him and it looks like a body you can easily add.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's massively predictable.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do it like
[SPEAKER_01]: without any trouble.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you combine that with the stuff he's got from a Velo standpoint.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's nothing like ridiculous, but I mean, like you said in the outing, he was three to five, nine three or nine five also sticks.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels crazy that we're talking about a high school pitcher like entering his senior year throw in ninety three, ninety five touching six.
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, it's like three, it's three innings.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who knows it'll be if he was throwing like a complete out and getting stretched out.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like
[SPEAKER_00]: how normalized mid nineties velocity has become press for high school pictures is just kind of insane.
[SPEAKER_01]: It really is nuts because I remember when I was a little kid and I used to be a die hard Tampa Bay raise fan watching like Fernando Rodney coming in close games.
[SPEAKER_00]: You really did a nice job Peter of not lashing on to the hometown teams when you were you were a child.
[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And just talking through it on this podcast alone between the yellow being my favorite color raised in from I was a weird kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: I turned out all right, but no, like when I would see Fernanda Rodney close games and see like ninety eight on the on sports ticker.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd be like whoa, like you touch ninety eight or I wasn't using that vernacular eight years old like saying to touch ninety eight, but
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just seeing the number you're like, like, that used to be impressive from a high-end, bigly closer.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like you said, we're talking about, sixteen, seventeen-year-old kids in the mid- nineties being like, well, you know, it's not over one in the U.S.
[SPEAKER_01]: standpoint.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what's good out to me with him, like, he checks and kind of you can buck at Hirsch corn into a lot of, you know, I guess,
[SPEAKER_01]: productive buckets, that's poor vocab, but you can place them in so many different areas, you know, it strikes its stuff, its projectability.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has a feel for his breaking ball, like you can get whiffs with it in and out of his own.
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like, yeah, and the change up is a more than solid third pitch.
[SPEAKER_01]: It seems like really effective against left handed hitters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm really excited about him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tray Rangle obviously really live arm.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's stuff to clean up mechanically like it's a little noisy and efforty, but the stuff is legit sick athlete, really dynamic mover.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, he's a he's a really, really fun one.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then strike or pants was probably the star of the show just given what he did being a rise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Out of the insane.
[SPEAKER_01]: sophomore in high school, which is I would be pretty shocked.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, maybe this is because all the scouts are talking about it in the stands, but like, if he does, if he reclasses, it would not be surprising at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like again, his stuff would fit at the top of the twenty twenty six class right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure a double reclass is, is that common?
[SPEAKER_00]: Really, but it wouldn't shock me at all if at some point he wound up being in the twenty twenty seven class because
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, not that like you just have to reclass if you're so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could be perfectly fine for him to go through high school at a normal pace, but it is just utterly freaky stuff again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think through I think seven consecutive fastballs that were a hundred miles per hour, he was warming up at ninety seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he goes out there to the mound and the trackman is just on on the broadcast of the airy code games.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can, for every pitch, we're pretty spoiled.
[SPEAKER_00]: We just get the velocities that spin right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think air codes had IVB, but they had, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: Exit velocities as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like a lot of the main data points you want to see from an at bat are there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's just out there warming up at ninety seven miles per hour.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's just a hundred, a hundred, a hundred, a hundred.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, can you throw anything slower?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think ninety nine was the slowest bolt we got on the fastball in game.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, one inning look, but
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a rising sophomore, ninety nine hundred.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just insane.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, like again, for people who are a little unfamiliar with area code.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're rising sophomore playing in the event in and of itself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a it's a it's a it's a real testament to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You normally see a handful of rising juniors so players who are underclass by one year and then there's a whole underclass event that I've been to once I don't go to every year but.
[SPEAKER_00]: The underclass event is what it sounds like, all the underclass players are playing in that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you would typically think that a guy like Shrek or Pence, just playing the underclass event.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, the fact that he was, I can't remember a ton of like two-year-out guys playing in the upper class to play in it and be a standout to that degree is just silly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, to that degree and also being two years underclass, I think he is alone in that category, but the only other guy that came to mind immediately and he didn't even end up throwing at an area code, but Thomas White was going to be on the Yankees team as a
[SPEAKER_01]: as a puppy, as a two-year underclass guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure there are others that I'm missing, but it kind of shows you the rare air that strikers in, not only from inability standpoint, but also just a cool name.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe less ideal for a pitcher, but striker pants is just a cool name.
[SPEAKER_01]: such a sick baseball name and like in watching him and you wrote about it too he wasn't a one trick pony that just went out there and and through and sprayed ninety nine to a hundred like he was it seemed like he was around the zone like the slider looks like a wicked secondary pill looks like no doubt plus to me which is also crazy
[SPEAKER_01]: And the third, like I think the split change you call it is, it looks like more of a show pitch right now, but I'm using me software high school that's not even a.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not a real big deal and like I don't love the how it looks right now like with the arm action and in the delivery but like I think it's pretty low hanging fruit to kind of clean up and and tighten up like it's a really great body especially for pitcher at six six and almost two hundred pounds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wicked arm speed the stuff is stupid I like I don't I he's he's had a real chance to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: to be a really, really special player.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I guess on that note, unless you had anything else to add and forgive me if I'm cutting you off, but were there any guys that popped for you that were kind of a pleasant surprise that you were less familiar with heading into the event on either side of the baseball?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a good question.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll move into some of the hitters.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Blake Boone is a prominent name.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the most impressive hitter for me overall.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Guy who is a little bit further down our board, one of five on our high school list.
[SPEAKER_00]: So putting around the two hundred range on a combined list, like six to ten round is kind of where that
[SPEAKER_00]: would be five to seven roundish maybe.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Jason Amalbert, sure saw better to Paul Catholic Hein, Wayne New Jersey.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was really impressive as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Constantly in the barrel went six for eleven, five singles a double for walks, three strikeouts, solid pull side power and batting practice, really instinctive advanced runner on the bases.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a guy who I was not as familiar with as some of these like more famous names.
[SPEAKER_00]: Landon Tome was really impressive to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, not an under the radar name.
[SPEAKER_00]: By any means, he's the son of Jim Tome, who is all of Famer.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's hard to be under the radar when you're carrying that name around.
[SPEAKER_00]: But his hands were maybe the loudest of anyone at the event.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it is very much a cliche to say the ball sounds different coming off his bat.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like when he swung in batting practice in games, there was just a crack that came off of his barrel that
[SPEAKER_00]: That sounded different.
[SPEAKER_00]: He frequently was saying the ball extremely hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was one of a handful players that homeworked in the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure exactly where he's going to play defensively, but just given the sort of feel for the barrel and impact ability that he showed, I think he would easily profile at a corner position, just kind of scanning down the list here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Will Adams, first basement out of Hoover High School in Alabama, he's an LSU commit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was really impressed with both his impact ability and batteball skills.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a physical player, six foot two, two hundred and five pounds, has a lot of now strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: He also very rarely swings and misses.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I wrote this in the report, but I believe he didn't swing and miss a single time through his first, fourteen plate appearances.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I'm tracking these events and logging, ABs for hitters, like it's pretty common to have a few whiffs.
[SPEAKER_00]: For basically every hitter, no matter your caliber as a hitter, through ten plate appearances, you're going to have a handful of whiffs there, because everyone swings and misses, but I didn't have a single one through fourteen plate appearances in total.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had just one miss on twenty two swings, a five percent miss rate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Looking back at some of his numbers, it's pretty standard for him to make contact with that frequency.
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, it's fairly typical for like most of the time in high school when you get these contacts of once.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're more of the slapy sort of Jacob Wilson type profiles where you're like, okay, how much power is you going to have you mix tonic contact.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the combination of impact ability and contact skills, I think has gives him a chance to be a pretty special
[SPEAKER_00]: offensive player.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was also a standout at East Coast Pro, so doing it multiple weeks in a row at prominent events, I think it's going to do a lot for his stock.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those would be a couple.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then one of the most interesting things from just these two weeks, I'd say, like kind of zooming out
[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be fun for us maybe to talk through.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's already, I'm kind of racking my brain about how I view them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But separating the top short stops in this huge class, I think it's going to be really fun to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know you had a lot of time to watch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Greatie Emerson and Jacob Blombard last fall and like them both.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would lump in Tyler Spangler.
[SPEAKER_00]: And to that grouping as well, he's number five on our high school lists.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's our third ranked high school shortstop after Grady Emerson and Jacob Blombard.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I saw Jacob Blombard at East Coast Pro saw Grady Emerson and Tyler Spangler both at Area Codes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really don't know which of those I prefer, because early on in the week, I was really impressed by the actions defensively, some of the abats he took, just the body is really impressive, and then later in the week I feel like great Emerson just started heating up and he took super competitive abats, was hitting the ball really hard, should a plus arm from shortstop,
[SPEAKER_00]: These guys are all really, really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I imagine we're going to have just one of those painful times trying to line them up consistently.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Grady has done it for so long.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think after being named to USA's AT&T team, he's now, I believe Team USA said he's the first ever player to play on multiple, fifteen you and multiple, eighteen you, national teams, which is just kind of cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I know, teams put a lot of stock and just being Team USA's shortstop and
[SPEAKER_00]: that track record with the program, just his resume as a pure hitter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to, it's going to be hard for him to like slip too far at all, but it's a really exciting group of short stops at the top.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I've been talking a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll throw it to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, and you also throw in, excuse me, the college guys up there as well in the short stop demographic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, with Brock Chalouse, he just in LeBron, Eric Becker, Tyler Bell,
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you could go on and on like it's a yeah, like we just had we just had a record breaking group of short stops at the top of the draft in twenty four and it doesn't seem crazy to say this year's or twenty five is just a and it doesn't seem crazy to say the twenty six class could be as good or better.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know in terms of depth, but like the fact that we have rocks in there, the fact that we have Emerson, Lombard, Spangler, and I also need to look into this too, but Tyler Spangler is a Stanford commit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember the last time we had a Stanford commit, Ranked inside the top, fifteen, and how that's going to collide with Stanford's absolute inability to lose players to pro ball because you get a high school hitter in this range.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those guys are almost always getting signed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And how does the Stanford commit like impact that is with retaining guys is a legit eighty to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't I don't think you can really argue that I think in the last
[SPEAKER_01]: I pull the stat.
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like at least in each of the last three years when I write about Stanford's recruiting class with how many guys they've lost since a certain year.
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to run back and actually do a piece on it with and focus on Spangler to see because yeah, you have run the numbers and I'd be really curious just like to actually go through and like I wish.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's just like one player or so in the bonus pool era is the number you'd mentioned previously.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is only one guy, which is just remarkable because Stanford consistently puts together really high quality recruiting classes.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have guys that have ranked really in really prominent spots on the final iteration of the B.A.
[SPEAKER_01]: five hundred.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yet they just they don't again like I can't I can't remember someone who's a stammer to commit that we had to rank like top twenty or so on our ball board.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll have to again, I'll have to actually just sit down and go back and look through these and see, but it's going to be interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Carly Bates are like we're to Charlie Bates rank.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Paul Bates.
[SPEAKER_01]: Malcolm Moore sticks out.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Charlie Bates and years pulling up our player card for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: We had him ranked seventy nine overall in twenty four Malcolm Moore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see where we had him ranked.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if COVID didn't happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: What that would have looked like because I think that twenty twenty class for them had that like big time then in high school trio of I know Tommy Troy was definitely in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Drew Bowser was in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ryan Bruno was a thank in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Malcolm Moore in the twenty twenty two draft he ranked sixty six out of high school and then I'm pulling up twenty twenty right now and I can pull up our Stanford commits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Charlie Bates was in the hundreds was any in the final be a five hundred was in the two hundred.
[SPEAKER_00]: Charlie Bates.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, he was sixties.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pulled him up just a second ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hang on, let me just double checking them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Charlie Bates on his player card of seventy nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Excuse me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what we have on his player card.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so like Drew Bowser was in that twenty twenty class.
[SPEAKER_00]: Drew Bowser was the highest ranked at sixty three.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ryan Bruno was one sixty eight Tommy Troy, one ninety nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: They also had Joseph Dixon and Eddie Park who were B.A.
[SPEAKER_00]: five hundred guys, but further down.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm now very intrigued to see as you kind of talk here, I might pull up all of our boards from twenty twenty onward and just see what the highest Stanford commit is because it's gonna be
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be put to the test this year, because barring something insane, Tyler Spangler is going to be ranked in a far more juicy spot than any of these guys we mentioned.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, twenty twenty one, Brady Montgomery, he was ranked eighty six.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pulling up twenty twenty two here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Twenty-two the top ranked player from that class Malcolm Moore, sixty-six Matt Scott was one sixty-six that year.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have you talked about any one in the twenty-two-three class just yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Joey Volcco.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think was a little... Yep, thirty-seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Volcco probably is the guy that's the highest of anyone who talked about so far.
[SPEAKER_00]: And again, I do think like the hitting factor with Spangler makes even more interesting because you got guys like William Schmidt, Cam Johnson who are really highly ranked pitchers, come out rocker, maybe the peak example.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you'll see some of these top ranked high school pitchers get to campus either because just teams are unwilling to take those profiles to the same degree.
[SPEAKER_00]: or the pitchers themselves just think they can go to school post, like where money bet on themselves, whatever it is, could probably combination of both.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just very rare to see any of the hitters in the top thirty range.
[SPEAKER_00]: That also be another interesting component to this, like how often are players high school hitters specifically were ranking in the top thirty, how often are those players just getting to campus period.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Ben looked through this a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It may be the NIL era changes some of this, but yeah, twenty twenty four, Charlie Bates was the highest at at seventy nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then last year's class just to fully round out these like five years post-COVID or six years.
[SPEAKER_00]: I probably should remember the top Stanford commit from last year of top my head, but Brock Sell, fifty five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Proxel, the highest ranked hitter at fifty five, and then Volchko, the top ranked pitcher at thirty seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Benghis got a chance to at least set a new high for for modern Stanford commits, and now I'm also curious, I want to go back even further than that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a fun wormhole to go down because it really is impressive and no other school has this kind of track record.
[SPEAKER_00]: But would you say, so like, you said Stanford is an AD in this regard.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would definitely agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are at the top in terms of retaining talent, which program would you immediately look to and say they're the next best after Stanford?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think for a few years from me Vanderbilt would have been one.
[SPEAKER_00]: They probably in the running.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would think like Vandy LSU and LSU.
[SPEAKER_00]: Virginia has done a really nice job getting there guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like Tennessee.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like this, you're especially with their brain and camera app and seller leading the pack.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just trying to think of other guys that didn't sign.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oregon State is another program that I feel like really gets their guys locked in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there are a few pick ones.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are a number.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know about a number, but they're a handful to do a really good job.
[SPEAKER_01]: None compares Stanford, but for that next up,
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think Vanderbilt mostly does a good job.
[SPEAKER_01]: LSU, though, recently, if they've kind of, they've got it all figured out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's pipeline.
[SPEAKER_01]: They got the cheat code to college baseball, whether it be winning a title, Navier in the portal, getting guys to campus.
[SPEAKER_01]: They've checked that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why we had to bring them down a peg with the call.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can't remember winning some of those.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you guys only have the ninth best uniform.
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll show them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll put that on the bulletin board in the team meeting room and then.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, maybe we can get a low's T-grays Twitter account to just pull your audio from this and make a bulletin board height material like like the beaves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a little deep cut for people who are far too online in this whole world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was entertaining.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, well, I'm not, if I was you guys, so for those who need some more context, both Peter and Jacob had, I don't know, random segments of the pod talking about Oregon State, basically pulled in what I thought was a massively humorous fashion for the Los Biefs Twitter account, which is just unhinged in hilarious sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would be honored, were you honored when that was done, were you let by the heck?
[SPEAKER_01]: So I thought it was awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was laughing my tail off.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a better word when when I saw that and it was like, you were tagged in a post by low speeds as like, no freaking way.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was all in good fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like very un like banter kind of going back and forth.
[SPEAKER_01]: That fan base is great online, like at least on Twitter, like they're very active.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so I give him credit for even like knowing how to do that and in splicing clips and in creating bullets and board material and they had a great in the end, we kind of had e-crow because we were doubting Oregon state as I think a top eight national seed they were and
[SPEAKER_01]: they didn't make it to Omaha.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, great to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we also showed them love on the uniform power ranking.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, and non-existent low tigers account might pop up as the spring goes on.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if circling back to this high school shortstop group, just knee jerk how I would tear them out right now, I'd go Emerson one, Bangler two,
[SPEAKER_01]: in one bar three, what say you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Emerson one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, it's hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: I probably got Emerson one, number two, Spangler three, but it's like such a little separation now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't have like super high conviction when I'm saying that.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is like that impression kind of defaulting to our current list.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they're all in the same sort of tier from your right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully as we get further into it and dive more into them, watch them more, get more feedback, maybe have some separation.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I mean, they're all fairly similar age, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like there's a huge age component here.
[SPEAKER_00]: All have good frames, all have solid tools.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Lambert's tools are maybe a bit louder and you're taking a little bit more hit risk there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean, they're all really exciting players.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, even just talking through area code this site like the high school classes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So good.
[SPEAKER_01]: So really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just that has me all the more excited to to head down a Jupiter in a little more a month and it all the wild card is always who plays and shows up but.
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, assuming the weather cooperates this year, unlike it did last year where the whole event got pushed a week, hopefully fingers crossed a plethora of these of these main dudes are.
[SPEAKER_01]: or down there, but it should be on a van as always, and it'll help care some of the foam all I had when you were out at, uh, when you're out at area code.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, loudest swing of the week, would you say belongs to land and tell me, I think it's going to be tough to beat that pull side home or he hit it like, I don't know what probably a for individual swings may be, although.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just can't through this and see if there anyone else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um,
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think you'll probably can default and give it to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That seems fair to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know who I really like in the twenty seven class is not to completely switch gears.
[SPEAKER_01]: So rain me and if if I if I jump the gun, but I love the onocle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was one of the top five impressive performers for me and he very much feels like a a Peter Flaherty sort of player to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he was he was massively impressive.
[SPEAKER_00]: Real great field to hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: He can freaking swing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a short kid at
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe, dare I say, generous, five eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's five eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's five eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: I listed it five eight like one seventy.
[SPEAKER_01]: The bear accuracy with him is is really, really impressive.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's such a smooth looking swing with really good hand speed like.
[SPEAKER_01]: sprays line drives all over the yard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just a real professional hit or type of look that for me, it least is easy to fall in love with.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he'll be, he'll be a fun one to follow over the next couple of years.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, watching him in eight and a row is up the middle on the Yankees team was a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: He made him at a
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Ruiz makes all kinds of different plays.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are not really, but if you impressive body control, athletic sort of plays, second base as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, he was one of the more impressive, just pure hitters at the event for me, and doing that as an underclassman a year out, it's always impressive.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, we've got more notes on him.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got video on not only more notes on video on, and all the guys we've talked about in addition to
[SPEAKER_00]: more hitters, um, dirty or so, more pictures.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to see all that, it's on the site now.
[SPEAKER_00]: What else do you want to plug before we get out of here, Peter?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that we have twenty twenty seven, um, college top fifty.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got a fresh coat of paint.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've got new guys in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: The order shuffle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's got an updated and detailed report to reflect the rest of their spring performance and also what they did over the summer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, that'll come out hopefully tomorrow or well, you're listening to this on Friday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully by the time this is out, you can pop on over to baseball america.com and check it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but if it's not out, it will be out early next week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, at the latest, I would say.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then outside of that, even though it's the doldrums, we've got a ton of fun content coming along.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, sort of how we do every week and every day.
[SPEAKER_01]: over at baseball America, but whether you're excited about pro guys, Josh has you covered with DSL top thirty.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next Wednesday, we've got rising, fifteen rising sophomores from Jacob.
[SPEAKER_01]: Next Thursday, I've got
[SPEAKER_01]: a top ten newcomer class piece, which is always interesting to decipher through with, you know, I blend the recruits that made it to campus with the portal additions.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of fun if through and how to wait certain guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the following week, we've got underrated portal classes, fall ball story lines.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that gets us almost through the middle of September and you've, you know, Jupiter coming up and then you kind of blank in your
[SPEAKER_01]: You're, we're neck deep in handbook season and it feels like we go pedal to the metal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like after the new year, like that for me, it feels like that's when the season starts and then like link in your back and august.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it'll come up quicker than you think.
[SPEAKER_01]: But throughout the the fall and winter months, we've got you covered with tons and tons of content, whether it be video podcasts, articles, deep dives.
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll all be on baseballamerica.com and our YouTube channel, which I encourage you to subscribe to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you screenshot me proof that you were the thirty thousand subscribers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's about to say we're about a clear thirty thousand every done that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that's been the next big milestone for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll, I'll give you a job well done.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is not just anyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, well, Peter Peter is plugged it all.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you can find it all at b.com.
[SPEAKER_00]: No draft pod for us next week.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will be off for the week.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can get your amateur fix though.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think Peter and Jacob will have there.
[SPEAKER_00]: regular college pod on the main BFE to where you're listening to this this podcast as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that'll be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So specifically, off next week, probably back the week after that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before Peter, I'm Carlos, thank you guys so much for supporting listening, falling along.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will see you next time.