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[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, and welcome to Baseball America's draft podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Carlos Closa, joined by Peter Flaherty, who is down in Florida, taking in Jupiter, perfect games, WWEBA, World Championship, or at least attempting to take in the event.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Peter, I know, day one was a bit of a rainout in some regards how you're doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a road game for me this week in terms of the podcasts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As you said, I'm down in the sunshine state, though it's lacking sunshine at the moment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, yesterday was quite the day at the at the yard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Start off kind of sunny and humid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Got a couple of good looks at it's some high level arms, a couple of good position guys that I tried to hone it on and then

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, in typical for a fashion, the weather is flipped on a dime.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we saw him really vivid lightning strike.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was the equivalent of like a brushback pitch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Never was like, well, so we thought shelter, we're in said shelter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But then said shelter didn't really act as a shelter because, you know, the way everything is laid out, it was, you know, I'm for Massachusetts, so I'm pretty soft when it comes to rain, but I had never seen any rain like this before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was tropical in every sense of the word.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It started to like flood our shelter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it kind of created a mess, but in a weird way it was kind of fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's certainly something that that I won't soon forget.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Got back to to where I'm staying and

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[SPEAKER_01]: quickly got in some extra warm clothes, but today I'm more optimistic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it does feel like Jupiter is always a bit of a dice roll in terms of like what whether you're actually going to get.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like you've been particularly unfortunate the last two years a year ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We were supposed to all go down to Jupiter together and then a hurricane came through delayed the entire event for a week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You still saw kind of the remnants of the event

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you and Jacob Rudner for the BA crew are representing in Jupiter and getting some intense rain to start it off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you guys don't know about this event, it is a huge tournament, a ton of games, a ton of time slots, so like the logistics of figuring it out after you get a half a day watched away is certainly a challenge.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So fingers crossed that moving forward.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys can get better weather and get through the schedule,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Peter, I kind of wanted to talk about this event as a whole, in sense, we're recording a little bit later than we typically do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've actually seen a little bit of the event, so we can get into some of the standout players.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But when you go to Jupiter, what are you kind of looking to see?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it hunting down specific players?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it getting a feel for the class?

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[SPEAKER_00]: As a whole with more depth and typically get at most of the summer events, I would say from my perspective when I went to the submit in the past, I think I've gone seven or eight times at this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was always really excited just to get extra looks at hitters in particular because this is really good event for hitters because the tournament set up and then also just get a picture of the depth of the class and you see a lot more of the underclass players as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's kind of that for me was the pecking order.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like specific hitters that I was curious to see more game may be from

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[SPEAKER_00]: The depth of the current year's class, you get to see that a little bit more just because the volume of players and teams there, and then like hunting down a few of this stand out under class players to get either first or second looks on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that was kind of my priority order.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How do you go about it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, pretty much the same way, so I mean, for anyone who's unfamiliar with the event or who hasn't come, it's a little bit like drinking out of a fire hose, like yesterday was that in a literal sense with the rain, but As Carlos mentioned, it's in the it's at the Marlins and Cardinals shared complex and jubes there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: want to say eight fields and use it at one time at least and so I mean there are games that roll from 8 a.m.

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[SPEAKER_01]: to 740 at night in terms of first pitch times you don't you won't get out of there until 940 10 o'clock some days but.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think going into it with a plan or at least a tentative plan is key with kind of a preflist built out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's what I did kind of went through and labeled a number of high priority guys in this year's class and then as you said.

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[SPEAKER_01]: trying to build out my, you know, looks in Rolex or like starting to get a feel for some of the premium underclass guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there were a couple of high level hitters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw yesterday who were 27 a couple of high level underclass pitchers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then for the current year's class, you know, a lot of the top, the creme de la creme type of guys will shut it down and not be at the event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like you said it's more geared towards the hitters than it is the pitchers because

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of the pictures will also be shut down towards the top of the current year's class, so like there aren't Like the like pre-mote 26 pictures aren't down here, but there's still a number of quality arms But especially the hitters like it's a good it's a good event to get a number of looks at them So I think coming down here with a plan and like sort of a road map As best you can put together as key because you know, you can kind of maneuver from field to field and complex to complex so it's like

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[SPEAKER_01]: You get a pitcher's outing, then you bolt, you get, and then there are three, four or five hitters competing in the Marlins block or the Cardinals block.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can kind of have the game cast app open on your phone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Who's hitting, get hitter A's at bat, bounce over to Marlins three, get hitter B and C.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if they're high priority, you guys sometimes they're heading back to back in the order if they're on the same team Marlon six get hit or D and you just kind of do that cycle The next round of games begin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You kind of rinse and repeat that and you blink and it's like nine clock So it's a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I know For any one listening that and then for me to conclude that with it's actually It's kind of nuts, but yeah, I mean for me it is because I like like you and so many of our listeners

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[SPEAKER_01]: and people who are at the event, it is like we're obsessed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like this is so much fun seeing all of these great players consolidated and one environment, and I also think it's a great opportunity to just kind of be a sponge.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is my first like true Jupiter experience because last year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There are no college coaches, so it's great to touch base with coaches that have formed a relationship with since joining EA, pick their brains a little bit, talk to scouts that I have a relationship with, pick their brains as well and get some feedback.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel like that element of Jupiter was always one of the most beneficial, just the always talked about it as sort of a scouting convention, as much as anything on the field and on the like just watching the players is valuable, the just volume of people in the industry who are at this event and you're going to be

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[SPEAKER_00]: like force in the conversations with even if you don't know people like you're all huddled together trying to get space around golf carts behind different fields like you just run into so many people you run into people that you haven't seen in a long time you make connections with new people so it just does feel like if you went to Jupiter and for some reason you couldn't bear down on anything at all on the field

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[SPEAKER_00]: It would still be valuable to go to just to talk with scouts, talk with college coaches.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was curious.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to ask like what the what the crowd was like this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't I forgot that you didn't really have a baseline from a year ago because it was moved back a week and that I guess that pushed college coaches into their dark period.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then now we have it's obviously not impacting it for this year, but we now have the MLB dark period this starts October 15th.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is kind of like the last big event on the calendar for both coaches and scouts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I imagine the crowd is pretty good, but what are your thoughts on on how the crowd is this year?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you said, I don't really have a proper bar that was set because

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[SPEAKER_01]: postponement because of the hurricane pushing into the dead periods of their no college coaches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this year it's pretty hot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean it's it's crawling with high level college coaches and then the scouting community is is there in a similar capacity as it was last year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And as you mentioned with the October 15th kind of dark period.

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[SPEAKER_01]: approaching, it's probably even a little bit more so crowded just to get one last pre-spring look at a lot of these guys and really one last look against high-level competition.

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[SPEAKER_01]: for handful of these guys as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's been great to see a lot of scouts with whom I'm familiar and I referenced it earlier, but I just love being a sponge and trying to learn as much as I can and see what they have to say and sharing our thoughts about players and scouting processes, I think it's so productive.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you hit the nail on the head.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Even if you were to come down here, disregard everything on the field

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, a kind of a talking to scouts or type of event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It would be worth it in and of itself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it really is a well put together, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, it's a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, very cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then obviously it's just basically half of day one that you've seen to this point, but it does feel like just based on chatter and the slack and what you and and Jacob in tweeting out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've got a few good looks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm sure we'll have time to talk more about like stand out players from the event at large and sure they're going to be some pieces that you work up for the site.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've already got some video.

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[SPEAKER_00]: from the event that's out on various B.A.

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[SPEAKER_00]: channels, which is great to see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But who are the standouts for you so far?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I guess after that, maybe we can get into some of the players that you're most excited to see or looking forward to see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, so yesterday was abbreviated, but you know, I began my day with a, I really enjoyed my look at Canadian left hander Sean Duncan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a Vanderbilt commit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's on the brewer's Langley blazed team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He threw against the Chicago Cubs scout team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Three solid innings to earn on three hits struck out seven and walked one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Command kind of became more scattered and he labored a little bit into the third thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was really oppressive and humid yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, so it was kind of apparent he was laboring a little bit in his last inning of work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, lean highways had framed ton of projection, upside remaining, pretty loose delivery.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Fastball was up to 94 and lived in the low 90s with life through the zone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: high-spin pitch, it played really well in the top half of the zone, got seven whisked on the fastball alone yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I thought the money maker with him was the low-Ease slider.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there was a feel for it and a feel to spin, he was able to manipulate its shape, flash a lot of sharp sweep at times, and others took on more of a two-plane look with some depth and a similar degree of teeth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is zeroed out in my, I mean, a flash plus yesterday, there were a couple that, you know, you could slap a six on I thought, but it has like no doubt true plus potential going forward just given the upside with Duncan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a really tough look on lefties, it got five whiffs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: flipped in a couple of curveballs and tried to turn over a change up or two is kind of a show pitch yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Change up wasn't really there and then the curveball could be a fine and serviceable third offering.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean with me like there's a ton of like now like at the front side with him will sometimes fly open and it'll lead to misses up and up in a way and it'll pull off the baseball a little bit

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's plenty to be a fan of now and even more at Dream on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, I like the entire arsenal of them both with Velo and just the sharpness of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess you could call it in general.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think it'll continue to tick up as he continues to mature physically.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, start your look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I left the yard with him tentatively, at least right now after that look in the third to fifth round range for me, this July we'll see if that changes and we've gotten what's laid out right now we've got him slated 66 on our board overall so that puts him like right in the second and I was going to say like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember in recent years at least having a Canadian start out as highly ranked on our draft board as where we currently have Duncan slotted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You'd have to go back a few years I feel like unless I'm completely blanking on someone feels like the last few seasons.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a handful of Canadians who sort of jump up during the spring, whether that's Nathan Fluelling,

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[SPEAKER_00]: guys like that who kind of come out in the spring and and show up maybe do some stuff at the combine, but he does feel like one of the more prominent Canadian prospects we've had at this stage in the calendar, so I'm glad you got a good look for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I really liked him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was excited to see him coming into the event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was one of the more higher priority pitchers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously just given where we have him ranked and then in terms of who was showing up and throwing in general, he's kind of one of the big dogs there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was happy as a good luck.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was very productive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The one I have to ask you about, and I'm sure he was going to be mentioned, but I don't know if you got a complete striker Pence look, if he finished his outing before the weather came, but both you and Jacob talking about just seeing striker Pence, what was that experience like?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I've seen them once at the area code games, and I can't imagine it's an outing

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[SPEAKER_00]: loud and crazy and just weird to see a player as young as him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think for me he threw 600 mile for our fastballs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what was your, what was your striker pen's experience like?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for anyone like Streccher Pence is currently in the class of 2028 true soft more 16-year-old.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So usually the event is the primary player pool for this event are 27 and or 26 is in 27's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: current high school seniors in current high school juniors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for 28 to be playing in the event in it of itself is rather impressive feat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yesterday he beat the buzzer when it comes when it came to the reins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got a full outing, which was awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How many endings did he throw?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just to, I mean, I went into it just knowing kind of what it looks like and the arcs just kind of, you know, who he is as an arm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was expecting like, I knew.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I knew who he was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how much video I had seen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So for me, the look was relatively fresh, even though like you're aware of the name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I do wonder like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you get a sense of which players in the draft are very famous outside of typical draft circles.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, striker Pence is clearly on that track, just given his size, given his velocity, given the fact that he's the nephew of Hunter Pence.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I really wonder, like in a few years, if he's gonna take on, like blaze Jordan, sort of fame, max Clark, sort of fame, like how big is the circle of notoriety gonna be?

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[SPEAKER_00]: first striker pants as he continues to to progress to his high school career because again like he's got to be one of the more prominent like underclass and like you said it's not just one year removed he's two years removed at this point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, in terms of fame, you know, he's already kind of there, and it's not going to get any less buzzy, just in terms of the cloud with them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, with you, as you said, there wasn't a, you know, there was some video, but there wasn't a whole lot of like, you know, the area code games was somewhat of a coming out party forum, just because he had a hundred and number of times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, so coming into this event, obviously, you kind of know what he's about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, I can't imagine that it won't be the loudest outing of the tournament just looking back on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of impossible to say it won't be, I think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you trust him?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It can't be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, but as I was saying, if you see someone else like showing better stuff than that, I guess that'll be a huge coming out party for whoever that picture is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, how hard was he throwing and what was the look?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh gosh, I mean, through two shot out of the things against a really good brear scout team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Fastball sat 96 to 99 use up to 100 and hit 104, which is a new in-game PR form and a new hit hit hit 100 and 4 miles per hour.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, sorry 101.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's a chance he has a bump in one of the four.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I want to want to want to one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, one of four.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was about to fall out of my chair.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, you would have heard about it a lot earlier if you do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, but he at one on one four times four times got you guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: New in-game record, both the record was one on one or getting one on one four times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm trying to think maybe like Travis decor or Miguel C. May, like those are the two that maybe I could have seen hit that, but I don't know if they did or not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw a graphic, so I'm going off the graphic that was put out by perfect game, and it said that strikers 101 is a new Jupiter record, so I'll take them at their word, and that's a new in-game PR as well for striker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's not just a one-trick pony with its VLO, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know quite how to word this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, and the report I put up on Twitter are articulated, but like it's not just like a VLO special and kind of when you dig in a little deeper, it's like, mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like, it's a, it's a, it's a lively 101.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, there's a ton of carry on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a really high spin pitch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think yesterday was

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[SPEAKER_01]: He spun it in the 2600 or so range on average I want to say yeah, so I mean there's a ton of carry through the zone just I mean it explodes out of the hand it's an easy 70 right now and then he's not just like this kid who gets up I mean there's a lot of refining to be done and he's still pretty rod don't get me wrong but he doesn't get up there you know throw 95%

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[SPEAKER_01]: Helacious mid to upper 80s power sliders get a ton of sharp lateral life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's an incredibly tough look on Reyes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We also backed the word for a call third strike against the lefty.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No doubt plus right now, not all that difficult to envision a future, perhaps not so distant future.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Seventy on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then it feels like one of those infomercial ads or it's like, but wait, there's more.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He ties everything together with a really good high 80 split change.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Does an excellent job of killing spin on it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what it was in your look.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to ask you about this because when I saw him, it was one inning, three batters, 17 pitches, he only threw one split change.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was 88 miles per hour to a left-handed hitter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I literally just saw one, but I'm curious how often he threw that pitch for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I wish I had my notes in front of me because I'd be able to reference it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he threw two in his second inning of work just to like honestly, like, hey, look what I have as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, sure the bull bag.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, two to both were to a lefty obviously.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think he spun it in like the 1200 range.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So like it acts more as a splitter than it changed up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, any might even signal change up or splitter rather when he's warming up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Kill's been really effectively on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Turn over one really good one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They had some late dive to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think down the road, again, perhaps in the not so distant future, could be a really effective third pitch that creates notice at least a 55.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's on the conservative side trying to project on this thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What stood out to me when seeing striker once you get past like how insane it is for a 16 year old to be throwing,

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you mentioned it wasn't just someone who's going up there and just throwing 95% fastball is trying to blaze their own down.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought there was a bit more touch and feel and control with him than I would have expected again for his size, for his age, for how hard he throws, like typically this sort of picture profile, it's really erratic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, for me it was just one inning, but he was around the zone, he established his own with his fastball, he had good feel for the slider.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How was the control and command for you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because so it sounds like in the control and command department, you got him a little more sharp than I did and again, just one ending you got to so yeah, more telling you is a little bit of a spray on yesterday, okay, scattered a little bit, I think he's still raw in that regard, but I mean, it's it's premost stuff across the board, yeah, found myself for mining myself constantly like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a 16 year old sophomore in high school.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like if it sounds like we're nitpicking at all, just let's remind ourselves 16 year old right in a pitcher regularly throwing 100 miles per hour with multiple potential plus secondaries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He can just now get his driver's license.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, there's some low hanging fruit to clean up in the delivery.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But again, like I think the biggest key going forward is just going to be competing in and around the zone

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, good luck.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's that's really all that can be said.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, the body is really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's this extra long 6, 6, 200 pound frame, like it's budding strength in physicality, like he's going to get stronger.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's already some particular physicality in the lower half.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it looks strong yesterday and it's just tremendous arm speed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So,

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[SPEAKER_00]: we could go on and on about striker, but that was- I was going to ask, did one of the fun things about this event too is oftentimes the pitchers will be in the lineup.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's fairly simple for high school players to play both sides and you're looking at the best high school pitchers in the country oftentimes so the guys are also, so when they're more talented hitters for their high school teams or even their travel teams, if you're not talking about a totally loaded travel team, it was striker in the lineup as a hit or at all, or was he just pitching today?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it was just pitching.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was the, um, okay, she, he started for, uh, Hunter Pence baseball Academy, which is a quick little side note had awesome jerseys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They were in the mold, uh, you'll get a range of, uh, jerseys quality at that Jupiter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, some are a little more like loud.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're very loud, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I watched them others, but these worked, um, they were in the mold

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[SPEAKER_01]: the like throwback, he came a lot, she won era rocket stirsies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they had like that, you've seen font across the chest, red with black pins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a really clean look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, that was all, that was kind of the cherry on top of a really fun look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, it going into it like Jacob and I, and I probably anyone at the event had that one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What was the scout crowd like for striker cuz it's weird because like for most people You imagine you don't really need to worry about him yet cuz he's so far away But I imagine just the the allure of seeing that is gonna drop people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so it's interesting like being a 28 like you really, you know

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's down the way is a little bit obviously as far as the draft goes, but, you know, and this was partially mindset as what my mindset as well, but it like you got to see it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, it was it was still littered with scouts and, you know, it was, it was the, it was the kind of the talk of the, the marlins pod for the,

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[SPEAKER_01]: early afternoon games and I give him even more credit because he squeezed in his entire outing before the day got washed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got a full look at him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that was the Streccher Pence experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Glad you got to see it, Peter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for breaking it down for the pod.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess before we get out of here, are there any players in particular that you're really excited to see or what are you looking ahead at for the next few days down in Jupiter?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I mean, I got dunking yesterday, which was Sean dunking yesterday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: which was great because that was kind of one of the higher priority arms.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You got striker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you kind of bang those two guys out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the next couple of days and few days I'm gonna bear down on position guys, the Evo Shield Keynes National Team has a number per usual of really high quality guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the players are most looking forward to like Bowen, how to feel their capture and across Stellow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Boe Peterson, Christian Doty, 2027, a high priority, 2027 for me, Dylan Seward, seeing what he's all about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: With Blake Bowen specifically, I'll be surprised if it's anything but a bunch of barrels, because I think he's been seen by like half of our staff at this point throughout just the various summer events we've been to, I know Jacob got out and saw him at a event in California.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and this guy is just on the barrel so frequently that if he's not for you it'd be surprising one of the more prominent up arrow names from just the insane performance and the power that he brings to the table so that's definitely the hit or I'm most excited for you to see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean all I've for reference and it little peek behind the VA hurt and all I've heard of the last, you know, couple of months is how awesome Blake Bowen has been at the events that

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm curious to see if he can continue swinging the stick well down here in Jupiter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the Kane's properly fun, the USA Prime National always brings down a really good team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there are a number of position guys in there as well, Connor Como, Trevor Condon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're going to love Trevor Condon too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he has the exact sort of northeast grinder play style that I know that you're going to love.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a blast to watch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm excited to see him aid in Ruiz with wow factor and other like that's a good I mean just just listening to the names Year listing off like I feel like there are years at Jupiter where you don't get this volume of of top end hitters like it's pretty good crowd

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[SPEAKER_01]: it's a good group and I mean they're more to like Brady Harris I'll I'll get tonight Friday night or Friday evening at 520 just a tool shed through and through I'm really looking forward to seeing him live and then in the in the in the the breath of you know pre mode 2027's caught chase folder yesterday got one a b of his

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[SPEAKER_01]: Laced a single back up the middle, I think, the EV on it was 105, just a really good look and strong physical kid with exciting and loud tools across the board.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I mean, even just hearing myself talk about it, like it's a very fun group of position guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, obviously, there are fun arms as well that I'm looking forward to to catching, but as we set at the top of the show, it's position player almost centric slash heavy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So.

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[SPEAKER_01]: numbers wise they'll simply be more of them than arms, but I'm also looking forward to seeing the arm that might pop or position the guy that might pop as everyone kind of seems to do down here annually.

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[UNKNOWN]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think that's going to wrap it for us today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll let Peter get out of here and get back to the field as we're recording on this Friday morning before things can really get going for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Peter, thank you for the the breakdown of Jupiter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, fingers crossed for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hope, hope things stay as dry as they possibly can over the next two days and we'll look forward to, to here and who's standing out for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you guys for listening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for hanging out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As always, you can support VA and kind of allow us to continue to travel on the country and break down players like this and bring you video and also sort of insight into them by subscribing to baseball America.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you to those of you who do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's still plenty content.

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[SPEAKER_00]: coming out on the side, I think both the college guys Peter and Jacob have done a lot of really exciting stuff this fall that you'll get a lot of value of, in addition to everything that's coming from Jupiter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So thanks again for this support.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for hanging out for Peter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Carlos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So long, everybody.