[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody, JJ Cooper, Jeff Ponce, another baseball America prospect podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have, I am just back from Florida.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeff is still there.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have been scrounging the backfields bouncing around all over the state.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we saw a lot of breakouts.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen a lot of backfield action.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we want to talk about it today.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to keep this one pretty tight.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeff is just done with his second game of the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're recording this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I got to work this up pretty quick turnaround here.
[SPEAKER_01]: nice tight one today, but Jeff, you know, it was great to see in person down there and great to see you on the pod here, and let's just roll into it, which is what we're going to do today is just talk about some of the guys who we saw that kind of stood out.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not going to be comprehensive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Please don't, you know, we love your comments, but you don't need to send a comment going, I don't know why you didn't talk about so and so we're not covered everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna get some guys so who stood out to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just gonna kick it right to you and start with a guy who both of us saw.
[SPEAKER_01]: And both of us kind of brought up to each other as someone who really did stay now, which we're really digging deep here.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a deep sleeper.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the number one pick in the 2025 draft, Eli Willett.
[SPEAKER_01]: massively, you know, off the board here, but both of us all, yeah, I will.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's an all what you start.
[SPEAKER_01]: What really stood out to you about Willis?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and let me, let me begin by saying this is technically a profile that, um,
[SPEAKER_03]: a little more skeptical of how it's going to translate.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is polish skills, but I think by that is that's a ballability, the ability to adjust to a bunch of different pitches, the ability to identify pitches, he has good hands and actions in the field, he's got internal clock, all the baseball skill stuff, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't have a loudest tools.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not the biggest guy, he's not the fastest guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there isn't like outlier bats speed.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's said.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not as small as maybe you think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe he's five, 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's added some muscle.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's got a little thicker.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I wouldn't say that he's skinny, not at a shape, but like strong.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's, you know, he just adjust the barrel really well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I have little question that he's gonna hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have little question that he's gonna be a valuable in fielder.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I personally based on like four looks now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he can stick a short stop.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the arm is strong enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think his release is quick.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think he, I think it's smooth there.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's not like it's, it's ever effort or maybe he's not the rangeiest guy, but it's not at least at this point.
[SPEAKER_03]: He gets to mostly everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, it's probably 12 or 13 home run power there.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I saw a double the other
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not as if they're he's absent of power.
[SPEAKER_03]: He could get to like 50 power maybe 45 power and be a really good player.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I said it to you today and I think, you know, you watched the WBC, that was how this trip started for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: And two games, a team you wanna say, I thought the guy that impressed me the most just from like a winning baseball player's standpoint, to talk very cliche, it was like Bryce Chorang.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he had a phenomenal year this year.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just forward some like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe more.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Willis is that style of player and if he's got a better shot the stick at shortstop than terrain does and can be an average or above average defender there do all the things he does well and he's a switchheader.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that is just a really valuable player to have kind of plugged in at the one or two spot in your lineup playing short for you every day kind of set in the tone.
[SPEAKER_03]: and it's really professional at bats for how young he is.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's because you expected young guy like this, especially somebody who reclass because really he should have been in this draft bus that we're working on now in 2026.
[SPEAKER_03]: We expect the guy that's that young just for high school and generally be a little overwhelmed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's not overwhelmed.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you know, in the backfield, you could face a AAA arm, you could face a guy that was in DSL last week, and you could face an M.O.B.
[SPEAKER_03]: arm.
[SPEAKER_03]: No matter who they roll out there, he could hit everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Breakout game, he let off the game for the Nats.
[SPEAKER_01]: Liam Doyle, who's, you know, premium first round pick, was a little wild that day, was not the best look at Liam Doyle, but twice in that, you know, twice in two innings, because Liam Doyle exited the game in the first, they put it in a reliever and they reenter the game in the second and then Liam Doyle is exited the game again in the second.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, make it through it inning.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Willett's price worked deep counts get well drew walks did not look over odd at all did not look over matched all the base against them just looked like a like he very much belonged very much did not like you said did not look out of place in any way in a game where he was playing all against a lot of older players I kind of echo what you saw you know say like I only saw him for for one game.
[SPEAKER_01]: but he just looked like a hitter and that's a profile.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you told me that he's gonna end up being the best player to come out of the 20, 25 draft, I would find that highly unlikely.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would think that there's gonna be someone who ends up having a higher up side and ends up having bigger peak years, but if you told me that Eli will just ends up being a very productive player for a long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely agree if you're on that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before we move on to other teams, I think we also, we both saw Gavin Fiend speaking of Nats and 20, 25 drafts and all that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will say, like, being is not the defenders already playing, you know, he was deferring understandably to will it's a short stop.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's there's more thought there.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's more size there as a hitter.
[SPEAKER_01]: He released it out to me as someone who again looked very advanced for his age considering, you know, the he was a 20 25 high school draft as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: What did you see?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I didn't see fiend in the field.
[SPEAKER_03]: His DH didn't every look that I've had on the backfield.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's three games now.
[SPEAKER_03]: He might have been, and now I think he was DH in the first game too, but yesterday they played 10, and he DHed.
[SPEAKER_03]: He got hit in the hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: He tripped, he got tripped up at first base.
[SPEAKER_03]: He got hit in the foot.
[SPEAKER_03]: He had a bad luck yesterday.
[SPEAKER_03]: He had a barrel in the first spot.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just a really clean swing, another guy where there's more power there.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's more physical, you know, it's almost like a Brady house kind of a built.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a big guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know where he ends up defensively.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wondered if they would play him in the outfield today.
[SPEAKER_03]: They didn't, they didn't get a few different guys over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw feet at D2.
[SPEAKER_01]: There must be something going on defensively around.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think there's some questions with maybe the defense.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the bat is not a question.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's physical.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's going to hit for power.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's going to hit for average.
[SPEAKER_03]: The approach is really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not chasing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Having the two of those guys back to back.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they had Willett's hit first in the low eyed line up and then they had fiend hitting second.
[SPEAKER_03]: And having those guys back to back, I mean, no matter who the pitches were, really had to work.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it was between the two of them probably eight to 12 pitches minimum that a pitcher had to throw.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, feeds a guy that has the ability to obviously lead the field and I think you kind of see that that there's contact, there's power, there's angles, there's a reason that analysts liked him as much as they did.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think all that stuff when you watch him is pretty present.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if any questions about
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, if he's a DA, he's really going to have to hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: But, you know, I think some of it was also like the team he was playing with, like they had Ronnie Cruz knee in field.
[SPEAKER_03]: They gave a few different guys reps at third base, including like Lloyd James and Ramirez Jr and and a few other guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I mean, we'll see.
[SPEAKER_03]: I assume he's going to play some
[SPEAKER_03]: in the field once the season gets going.
[SPEAKER_03]: But maybe they're hiding them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to speculate because I haven't heard that, you know, confirmed.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll also say one other name that stood out for me to ask a few days, three days that I saw, Nance in the back field.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was the four spring break out and then two after was Ronnie Cruz.
[SPEAKER_03]: He had a homework today as made some hard contact.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's pretty twitchy.
[SPEAKER_03]: He came over from the cobs last year, one of those deals.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a pretty good, you know, I don't know where he ranks right now and that comes in the National System.
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably a top-tenish kind of player in most systems, though, and can play a little pick and pick it a little bit at second base.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I thought he was another interesting name that that pop that I hadn't mentioned, but smaller kind of twitchier guy, I thought the angles were kind of
[SPEAKER_01]: So the name though, I think that we have to talk about, I didn't get to see you got to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I will tell you, I remember where I was in our Slack channel when you and Ian were saying, hey, Anthony, I instant just touched 100.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, to lay it out, I would Jeff talk about I instant, much more than me, but just to lay it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anthony Einstein sat 93 miles an hour at LSU last year.
[SPEAKER_01]: He maxed out at 97.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, in the span of one off season, we have taken Anthony Einstein, the really polished, successful pitcher who really knows how to pitch, who was effectively a, one of the best number two starters in any college
[SPEAKER_01]: And now he's turned into, I mean, like, I saw Liam Doyle, and again, Liam Doyle's, you know, those hard, but Liam Doyle sat 96, touched 97, you know, and again he's lefty, but you know, that was, that was the Liam Doyle experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're told me at this time last year, oh, yeah, Anthony Ionson and Liam Doyle are both going to start, you know, are both going to pitch in breakout games and Ionson's going to throw significantly harder than Doyle, I'd never would have imagined it.
[SPEAKER_01]: What was that like and what does this mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I think, you know, we knew we had some feeling because Ian obviously with the socks prospect stuff does a ton of great work down there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Josh was down there and saw him and already got video.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he was upper 90s then, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: We knew that the velocity had jumped.
[SPEAKER_03]: But a velocity jump and sitting 100 miles an hour, essentially are two different things.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he hit 100, I think three times.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they were a bunch of 99.7, 99.8, he had a 99.9.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure that he threw a fastball softer than his hardest fastball at LSU last year.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think he did.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was a short inning, like I think he saw three or four batters and just like cleared through him.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the off speed look good, brake and ball look good, and everything because of his arm slotted, it honestly looks like it's coming out of his neck.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the angle too, the way that he gets down the mound that it's almost like this high speed catapult, it's just a totally different look than, you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they had, so it was Bennett, lefty tons of extension, weird look,
[SPEAKER_03]: To Valera, who's got like a lower slot in the right hand side who also hits a hundred miles an hour, to wither spoon, who's a little bit more over the top, maybe more like a traditional three quarters.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then they went to Marcus Phillips, who's like a power side armor, and then they went to I and sin, I don't know how the Orioles won this game and hit it was kind of a lot of like infield single stuff like that, but.
[SPEAKER_03]: the pitching that they, I think that was the story of like spring break out for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was that that game, the pitching on both sides was really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Trade gifts and started.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Orioles did this three-ending thing with Gibson, Hermann, and then doors.
[SPEAKER_03]: All of them looked as good as I've seen them look.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen Hermann in person now three times and he's never been as good as like the data or some of the video looks.
[SPEAKER_03]: That looked as good as the data in the video.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was it was a great night of pitching.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was my best spring break out game this year.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I've gotten some memorable ones with big names.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got the Anthony home run last year and all that pitching that was in that game against the race.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got the the Paul schemes Jackson holiday kick off a spring break out, you know, the first one that they did.
[SPEAKER_03]: To me, for what I do and the things that I enjoy, this was my favorite spring break out game I've ever gone to, was that Red Sox Orioles game.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were some good bats there and all that sort of stuff on both sides, the lionbs were good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, Irish look really, really good actually.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the pitching on both ends was good and exciting and it was first looks on a lot of guys, you know, since they've been approached,
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, like I said, her mom looked good, Gibson looked a guy that's going to pitch in the big leagues this year.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and then you got to see all the Red Sox draft guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: So and Jake Bennett and what they've done with him in the off season.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I just think like from from what our perspective of like what we do.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that game.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had a blast.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had a blast cut in the video.
[SPEAKER_03]: You saw me later that day.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we were in great spirits.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and mine, mine was not bad either, although I wasn't all in because it's good as yours, but it was preference in this throwing 102.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, you know, getting seeded.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got to say, can you see Bryce Reiner who I was still on a dig a little deeper on, but not loving what the swing looks like right now, you know, but obviously he's coming back from a significant shoulder injury.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it was, it was getting to see Tony Monko junior hitting a home run and really enjoying it is around the basis and that is to Tony Monko junior experiences you want to see him hit a ball really far unfortunately I was on the side getting video so I didn't get to track it didn't get.
[SPEAKER_01]: to enjoy the majesty of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if that was your best break up, King.
[SPEAKER_01]: Braves Yankees, the worst breakout game you've ever been to.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was pretty bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like I got a really bad breakout game last year.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I don't think I did, because I thought about it in that Braves team did start J.R. Richie and a few other arms and then that was against McGonaga on Clark.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that wasn't bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think from a talent perspective, this is probably.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one drew a ball like in most breakout games were like disease or the guys who through a hundred these are the guys who through 99 These are the guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know anti-iance and by the way 90 97.8 was his slowest fastball in the game That's also the harder than his hardest fastball last year.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and that is also harder than any fastball that we saw in that Yankee's brave game because no one touched 97
[SPEAKER_03]: The Yankees kind of rolled out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they pitched Kyle Carr for a bunch of innings.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, they really rolled out like a backfield game pitching staff, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, that's kind of how it felt.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Braves rolled a couple of decent arms, like,
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, they they they started with Murphy and I thought Murphy looked fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: The vertical break on that was cool to see on Hawkeye systems that it's still was crazy as it is on my data.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought that was interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bowman who I wrote a bit as a.
[SPEAKER_03]: as like a secondary honorable mention picture of the day.
[SPEAKER_03]: He pitched really really well.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he struck out six or seven over a few innings.
[SPEAKER_03]: Monios came out.
[SPEAKER_03]: They did, but the brave side of it was better than the Yankee side of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were no real prospects.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, unless you're into like, Jason Vina, Jorge Axon, like, like that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, George Lombard Jr. You'd have him, but that was- Oh, yeah, those used me.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Lombard Jr. was swinging from his shoes.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a very unmemorable showing from Lombard Jr.
[SPEAKER_03]: Him and Justin González were probably,
[SPEAKER_03]: Two of the, I mean, it's a single game, so whatever, but they were probably two of the bigger breakout busts or breakout struggle boss guys, you know, um, you know, Lombard was was fine, uh, struggle didn't have with a couple plays in the field funny enough, which we know like that's not who Lombard is, um, and then at the plate, there were a ton of whiffs.
[SPEAKER_03]: I bet he had six seven whiffs.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he was he was trying to catch one like he was hoping to have his moment, you know, he wanted to have his round the bases for the Yankees in the spring break out game is the lead off hitter and you know, future Yankees short stock George one part.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what it looked like.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, he wasn't that line up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Excuse me.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was there was one prospect.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there was a brave hitting prospect that actually stood out to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get to him right after this quick break.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So what did Jong Gil show you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, more batsby than I expected, uh, really good quality of bats.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, he's super twitchy and and kind of bouncy and plays with a certain like exuberance, uh, that I think brings some energy to the game.
[SPEAKER_03]: wasn't bad in the fields.
[SPEAKER_03]: Had a couple of really hard hitballs, hit a Homer.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it was a wall scraper.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like a 99 mile per hour EV that just got over the wall, like 365 feet.
[SPEAKER_03]: But he's not the biggest guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: The angles seem like they're decent.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's, there's a little bit of the, he's a right hand hitter.
[SPEAKER_03]: But like there's a little bit of the Kevin McGonagall starter pack there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just in terms of like a undersized guy with a lot of personality, I don't think he's as good as McGonagall.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the Jeff Ansley, John Gill is Kevin McGonagall.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's why you know, that's our problem.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, but it's like, I try to think about players in like terms of archetypes and buckets.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, what's the bucket?
[SPEAKER_03]: And then like, they're certain guys in certain levels.
[SPEAKER_03]: So like, if Kevin McGonagall is level five or that, then he's like a level.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's good, there's a lot of traits to like, I certainly came away from that game being like, this guy is more of a top 100 prospect than I thought coming in.
[SPEAKER_03]: That he wasn't a guy that I anticipated to be like, oh, this guy's, this guy's gonna be top 100.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I kind of left thinking like, the next time we're talking about the top 100 list, like,
[SPEAKER_03]: He's somebody I'll bring up in conversation.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even if it's not someone that's likely to get added to the list, I think he should be like in that 15 to 20 group that we put outside of it because it was a pretty good showing and I had a couple other people there with me and I think we all came away being like, hey, John, John Gilles a pretty good player, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we're going both got to see of, I think you've seen a little bit more than I do, it was a venomous trimble.
[SPEAKER_01]: What stood out to you about them with trimble?
[SPEAKER_03]: So I actually got Trimble in the backfields today against Kyle Lehi from the Cardinals who's, a solid Major League pitcher and he's got over a hundred innings with a sub four ERA.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he's had some success doubled to the wall in right center, first at the back of the game, next at the back of the game.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think the third pitch, he just absolutely crushed it, pull side, let's eviscerated the ball.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, it was an easy one, the back feels with the marlins.
[SPEAKER_03]: They have the Ragehorn going.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Ragehorn's Blair and like they must have hit the button 15 times.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like right next to the speaker trying to shoot video.
[SPEAKER_03]: It literally like moved me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like I jumped, you know, but he looked pretty good.
[SPEAKER_03]: So a couple of hard, you know, some hard contact there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've always liked the player.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I had a music a breakout guy this year, my breakout team.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't he had a good year last year?
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're supporting skills.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can run a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can play a little bit in the outfield.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think he's a guy that could potentially be like a sneaky everyday player, maybe even for the marlins.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe not this year, but possibly late in the year, starting next year.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he's somebody that's very much in the mix for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: One other that I wanted to bring up from that
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, there were a couple of players that really stood out in that cardinals' national scheme, but Tanner Franklin, which I know you do the cardinals, but Tanner Franklin showed the ability to get swings and misses top of the zone, up to, I can't say 100, but if you wanna be precise about 99.9, I think, if I should have wondered on the board.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, showed real velocity, showed, I think you got six swings and misses on this fast ball, which, you know, in a pretty limited, you know, size look,
[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of mixed in a cutter as well, but like you was someone else that for me kind of jumped out as someone that I'll be looking forward to watching a lot more now that the season is is right around the corner and Jeff we're so close to you and I one of our favorite things we love going to games in person, but man, I don't think there's anyone out there who enjoys kind of bouncing around MLB TV as much as we do and that's coming.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I can't wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was talking about that today in the backfields.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're like, these are, this is my biggest concentration of in-person games until probably a bunch of lie where I'm heading out to kick cod league more often.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I think at that point, I start to maybe see some different players come through new hamster and Worcester's easy for me because it's right near the house, but, you know, with Ian, you know, working with us now, and he's in the area.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, it might save me some trips from time to time.
[SPEAKER_03]: He might be battling me for certain players.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I'm more than happy with the kids,
[SPEAKER_03]: take in seven, eight, nine games in a day.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go through the schedule, look at who's starting, knowing what pictures are going, who's getting scratched.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I felt like last year doing that really allowed me to have like a much better perspective of like the global
[SPEAKER_03]: you know, what's going on from day-to-day because there's so much that happens that if you're not keep in kind of metric, meticulous track of it, you might, there might be a couple things that slip through the cracks, a couple injuries, guys get in scratch, that sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it allows you just to get into the feedback loop a little quicker, texting around, asking around, to folks in the game of, hey, what's going on with this guy as he heard, what happened, then, you know,
[SPEAKER_03]: can get to the bottom of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can react to that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, um, I just enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Enjoy watching a lot of at my LBTV and, you know, I should keep seeing nine games a night, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: keep thinking our guys want to mention just quickly because one Sanchez with the Blue Jays is another one that I don't want to bring him up once he looked good.
[SPEAKER_01]: But two, I really wanted to see him in person and like put eyes on him and the lower half was a little thinner than I was fearing is the way I would say it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, yeah, I think physically look pretty good physically look pretty good like I will say this like looking at him and Jojo Parker also in that same game.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't feel like physically now Sanchez is bigger much bigger but Parker didn't look like a Parker didn't look like a much more athletic player than Sanchez now he's a little bit he's a little bit more stout I mean to me Jojo Parker looks like
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you're going to move this guy to third base, the arm's good.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to play third base for 15 years.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to have some 25 to 30 home run seasons and he's going to hit for good average.
[SPEAKER_03]: He got on base.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a real bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was going to be actually small.
[SPEAKER_03]: I came away.
[SPEAKER_03]: more pot, so I was talking about the Astros, you know, I would, and off air and how, you know, there's a bunch of players here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm getting second looks tomorrow and I'm looking for some positive growth there from the front, excuse me, from the system just because it's always been kind of down.
[SPEAKER_03]: As long as I've had it, I'm waiting for them finally to pop.
[SPEAKER_03]: The BlueJays look like they're popping again, this time on the position side after pop and on the position, excuse me, in the pitching side last year and they still have a fair amount of pitching talent.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know about Argentina mall, like he's going to get, I think he's probably going to get leaked by Sanchez.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Parker's probably the guy that they've been kind of waiting on that being batten the minor is that could be like a top 25 type of prospect.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think he's he homework the next morning on the backfields too.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I mean, he's just in find in barrels.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a really easy swing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I spoke to Paul.
[SPEAKER_01]: He looked good on the Sanchez.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, when we saw him.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I heard I heard from somebody that tonight that they actually had Sanchez above Joe Swar as their top player in the DSL last year.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, there, there are some folks that are very positive on him and after seeing him, I almost wonder if I was a little light on him, frankly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's a little taste of what was where I'm going around.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will probably try to do another one of these next week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bring on Josh and his Zeus who've been doing the Arizona trip as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Josh did it all.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did floor it as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm going to let Jeff run so he can get a little more work going to get some sleep.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to try to get this worked up and get some sleep myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that is another baseball America prospect podcast.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This week, we've had a staff draft.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have had a update of the draft rankings to 300 with reports on 300 players now.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of movement within the rankings.
[SPEAKER_01]: We also updated our high school and college list with that for 2026.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're gonna have a ton of stuff now getting you ready for the minor league season as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So for Jeff, I'm JJ.
[SPEAKER_01]: So long, everybody.