[SPEAKER_01]: All right, welcome back to the baseball America fantasy podcast is your host Jeff Ponds alongside me is Ian Kundel.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're both on our way.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're we're we're all both returned from Florida We've been down there for a couple weeks just about I was what 12 days 13 days how long were you there?

[SPEAKER_01]: 9 11 days 11 there you go.

[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of backfield looks let us bring breakout looks let a baseball but

[SPEAKER_01]: We are not going to talk about that this week.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to dive into this NL West Prospect preview.

[SPEAKER_01]: Technically, opening days have happened.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's still a couple of teams that are opening up on Friday, and of the blue jays and a few others.

[SPEAKER_01]: But.

[SPEAKER_01]: That said, the minor leagues don't officially fully open until later next week.

[SPEAKER_01]: We do have AAA opening day to day, but we're going to bang out our last prospect preview going through the NL West and the five teams that are out there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some exciting names that we're going to talk about this one, some down systems as well between the podries and the Rockies, but some good ones.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to stop start with arguably the best one at the top.

[SPEAKER_01]: That is the Los Angeles Dodgers, the defending two-time raining world series champions.

[SPEAKER_01]: As you might recall on these podcasts, we go 2026 contributor, then we go highest upside, under rated player, 2026 contributor.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to keep this off Ian.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's tough.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is probably

[SPEAKER_01]: one of the toughest 20, 26 contributor questions because it's the Dodgers and breaking in with a valuable fantasy role with the Dodgers isn't easy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Guys can I be part-time players and fill-ins and somebody that you may be stream in a shallower league.

[SPEAKER_01]: Guys that come in and maybe he's makes some spot starts

[SPEAKER_01]: Primarily work and relief and I think that's kind of where we're working here I'm gonna take my guy river Ryan wrote an article about it a couple weeks ago I think we saw how Emmett Sheen kind of played out last year as a guy coming off of an injury Started off in the bullpen got some more starts is

[SPEAKER_01]: arrested guys are dealt with injuries.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's always something you're going to see with this Dodgers rotation, just in terms of how they manage the innings, how they manage injuries, Nixon bruises, and they have a ton of depth.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ryan was really good during spring training and the stuff is back.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe even improved in some regards.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's super athletic and somebody that was trending upward.

[SPEAKER_01]: and potentially pushing him with his way into the rotation prior to the injury.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, I do feel that some point in this season and may not be over the first two months, but at some point in this year, river Ryan is going to be a valuable piece for the Dodgers and valuable and fantasy because of that, just the opportunities for winds and strikeouts and, you know, whatever, that typically comes along with Dodgers pitching prospects.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, as you said, it's a little tricky because the Dodgers just they have a lot of good players, so it's hard for anyone to break in, but Alex Freeland actually is on their opening day roster and it looks like he's going to be able to tune it second base to start the year.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's going to get some playing time.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be splitting it with probably Miguel Rojas and maybe Santiago Espanol also.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if he can go out there and hit, I think there's a chance for him to to game or playing time, because he's someone obviously that has had success in the past.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was has been a high ranked prospect.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think some of the shine a little bit

[SPEAKER_00]: But you had a good camp and he's now obviously he's on the Major League roster and

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a chance that yeah, if he could easily just go out there and grab the job because you look at us underline data from last year and it's pretty good, you know, 90th percent colleagues of loss of 104.6 miles an hour is max EB's close to 110 decent contact rates angles are okay, maybe there's there's some good some more average, but overall I think it's, you know, I don't think it's the highest upside skill set, but I think he's a guy that I mean, playing time is what matters with the Dodgers and the fact that they're giving and playing time shows they have confidence in him.

[SPEAKER_00]: and how he performs well Tommy Edmund is out, just probably going to determine how much runaway he gets, but I think there's a chance that he could grab, you know, at least probably not a full-time job, but maybe you know, chance play 60, 70 percent of the games.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and even, you know, he's a switchheader too, so some of those angles depending on like the side of the plate that you're looking at can vary.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I think it also makes him a valuable piece on that bench that they can put them in and sort of either style a lineup, whether they're facing a ready or they're facing a lefty and overall despite, you know, sort of underperforming some of his underlying metrics those underlying metrics are.

[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, his swinging strike rate wasn't absurd.

[SPEAKER_01]: His swing decisions were really good last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's small sample size.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's enough power there.

[SPEAKER_01]: He can play valuable positions throughout the infield.

[SPEAKER_01]: Probably even, you know, handle shortstop and a pinch.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the glove is pretty good.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, maybe he sneaks himself into like a valuable season.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just always a little tough.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's move on to the highest upside guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's probably four outfielders that we can name here in the Quintaro to Paula Hope, Sarota group.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, to me, I think those are the guys in the system that kind of lead it.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're universally owned and every kind of dynasty league at this point.

[SPEAKER_01]: They all have sort of,

[SPEAKER_01]: different upside, like I think Quintero kind of brings that speed power thing with some hitting ability, but also like the defensive floor to Paul is pure bat that when we talk about, you know, the combination of plate skills and then power if his if that power ceiling those angles get to a point they have steadily improved over the years they get to a point where they're optimized fully optimized.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, his upside is like a top 30 hitter, like in, in fantasy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I really think that.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, he doesn't have the defensive upside.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's not going to run as much really.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like long term.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care about minor league stolen base numbers.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hope it's power.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: And

[SPEAKER_01]: on baseability.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think maybe the upside's a little lower just because the hit tool isn't on par with DePala or Cerotah who we're going to talk about a Quintero.

[SPEAKER_01]: Cerotah is the oldest of the group certainly has the murkyest injury history, but we're kind of seeing what a Cerotah type of player can be.

[SPEAKER_01]: unopening day with chased a lot of like that to me is a very comparable player of a good athlete, good plate skills.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some things are unusual, but there's power there and it's just a matter of him staying on the field and he hasn't done that consistently over the last few years.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a really talent to group.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you have anything to add on those guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: I figure this is like

[SPEAKER_01]: This is almost like a free space in this podcast because there's so many high upside guys at the top of that system that we could talk about and they all play the same position.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they're all in the same field at one point last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's one of them is de-nation every day, but yeah, right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's kind of a build your own adventure here.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's what profile do you like?

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you someone who's risk-averse?

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, maybe you want to go for Sarota, or are you really to take more of a chance?

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe Ziya hope is kind of your player.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it provides opportunity that

[SPEAKER_00]: You can kind of target the the type of player that you're most interested in because they're there's all considerable upside with each I just think it's funny that the daughters, you know, it's four outfielders right there and then you look at their major league outfield There's just no root for another guy there either.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's gonna be interesting to see what they kind of do with these guys Going forward, but yeah, I think that all of them have you know, you can make a case for any of them It's just a kind of like what is your what kind of profile of player do you like to target?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think, ultimately, that's what the question is, and they're all interesting and, you know, valuable fantasy type guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to throw it over to you on underrated player.

[SPEAKER_01]: Who do you got in this system for the underrated player?

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think I, I'm pulling a switch of room on you and I'm going to go with Zach a route who was their first round take last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: I out of Arkansas and he's someone who I believe Josh saw recently in their spring break out game and his stuff just looks to have picked up considerably from where it was in college and college last year you sitting like 92 to 95 get up to 97.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, in the spring break out game, he was 96 to 99.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, pretty big v-low increase here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Got a curve ball change up slider.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he's someone who, if the stuff, you know, and this is the major question and something we actually, we were talking about for the show that, you know, with these Spring Breakout game looks, how are players going to hold the stuff they show in this shorter stand in a showcase environment when you're really amped up over the course of, you know, into the first month of the season, and then over the course of the full season, we don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a big question for the root of.

[SPEAKER_00]: If he holds stuff like this, he's going to fly up prospectless and nine-stulus, but that remains to be seen if he can't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think there's actually probably a decent

[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, there's always risk with Dodgers' pictures that the injury track record is not great with a lot of their guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the raw stuff that he showed in that game is really, really intriguing.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if you can carry that over to the season, there could be a lot of value here, especially if you haven't done that YPD yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think he's an interesting one.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, you know, I wasn't super into it in college, but you know, if it's one of those things were like the stuff is really ticked up.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's hard not to like at least, you know, can consider it a little bit, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like in terms of this being like a true, you know, sort of break out.

[SPEAKER_01]: The guy that I want to I want to throw out there as

[SPEAKER_01]: sort of my underrated player in this Dodger system is Adam Sirwinowski, six foot five lefty.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think the angles are really good too.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like a weird, higher slot that somehow like because he creates nearly seven feet of extension gets down the mound a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's only like a five foot eight release height.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a weird combination of traits.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's kind of in that like middle zone in terms of release heights that you'd like it to be, maybe a little lower or a little over six feet.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I think that he's just creating weird angles for a lefty.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's enough power here.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's enough cut rod in the fastball.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's an interesting curve ball that he throws fairly hard.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got feel for the change up as well, which is obviously valuable.

[SPEAKER_01]: from a lefty and yeah I mean it's it's underrated player in the Dodgers system so you can take it with a grain of salt but anytime the Dodgers go out in a choir or prospect I tend to sort of pay attention because they've had they've had a pretty good success in terms of hitting on those guys overall so someone else gives the other name that I would call out there let's move on to

[SPEAKER_00]: Ian, you're muted.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oops, be a pro one time Ian.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's try this again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Arizona is an interesting spot because I feel like I want to pick Jordan Waller for this, but I guess he finally is graduated for prospects status.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I guess we can't pick him for this.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to go with Ryan Walshmit, who is also the top prospect in that system.

[SPEAKER_00]: I look at their outfield and there's just a spot that's just waiting for him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just think it's only a matter of time.

[SPEAKER_00]: really good upside at the plate.

[SPEAKER_00]: Really good swing decisions, like 15, 16% chase rate last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's small hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: Angles are pretty good.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got track record of performance.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was got in the upper minors last year and performed while there.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's only a matter of time before they look at the guys they're throwing out there and decide their

[SPEAKER_00]: and he makes the jump and I think once he does he has the upside and the ability to just grab that job and just keep it for the next powerful longings in the system of the guy last year at 289-419-473 in a high AA.

[SPEAKER_00]: I expect his number so it's going to be pretty good when he heads out to their AAA affiliate this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm assuming he goes there because that is quite the hitters paradise.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that Walshman is someone that's, I mean, he's probably owned it and everything, but if not, I think there's just a really nice combination of, of, of, on-baseability, last year, almost that's many walks of strikeouts and then there's also some power upside too.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's, you know, it might be only 20 home runs or so, but I think the batting diversity on base will be high that he'll be able to contribute enough categories that you'll be able to overlook more like average of power.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he's probably the highest upside prospect in this system too.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you won't list him there for this podcast, but I think for being totally honest, it's one of those situations where he kind of fits both the back 2026 contributor and probably the highest upside fantasy guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm going to pull those switcheru on you myself.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to actually switch my pick.

[SPEAKER_01]: here in terms of a 2026 contributor to Jose Fernand is he's on a 40 man roster had a break out year last year with AA kind of a little under the radar hit 272 321 454 with 17 homerons, which is actually only a 98 WRC plus in Texas league because it's a good, got a lot of partners.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I mean, he can pick it a little bit.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's still really young at 22 years old.

[SPEAKER_01]: They add it into the 40 man roster for a reason.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was pretty good this spring, 283 or 843 home runs.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think the approach is probably a little bit concerning just in terms of like,

[SPEAKER_01]: What the Oswin can be like, it's a higher swing and strike rate.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he is a guy that kind of hunts for barrels.

[SPEAKER_01]: But in a five by five, Roto League, that's deeper.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you're a 30 team league.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there is 400 prospector roster.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like Jose Fernandez should definitely be rostered.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think could have a little value.

[SPEAKER_01]: And when you're looking at who could potentially contribute to this team,

[SPEAKER_01]: You've got to look at guys that are on the 40-man roster and potentially replace an injury.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of otherwise like their core is a little too young at this point to see anybody just being in a place straight up and there aren't that many underperforming type players.

[SPEAKER_01]: Jose Fernandez is the one that I'll throw out there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Talking high a subside here, we kind of already said that it's probably Ryan Wallachman.

[SPEAKER_01]: Who would you pick in the system for high stuff side?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I had probably, I probably go with the ballad Schmidt, but if we're going to take him root him from the equation, I think there's a couple options.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to throw out their David Hagman.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was a right hand a picture.

[SPEAKER_00]: They got from the Rangers as part of the Merrill Kelly trade.

[SPEAKER_00]: Seems like he was kind of on the rate of the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he was not really seen as the biggest piece in the deal, but he's really taken a step forward.

[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like he might be a steel and that trade.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's got good size, 64, 215 pounds, it's got four pitches, should throw, he's got a track record of throwing strikes.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's just a lot to like here that maybe eventually he can get to being like a mid-rotation starter upside-wise.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I think that there's a lot for that to build on based on what he showed last year, getting up to high A, especially after they acquired him.

[SPEAKER_01]: 100% I agree and this guy was so many you talked about off air as maybe being one of the highest upside guys so I'm going to kind of blend this in the underrated because I don't think there's a ton of underrated guys in this system we already talked about for an end is taught me a little about JD Dicks because I like the athlete based in the athletic testing coming out of the draft last year ended of grabbing them in a lot of places in FY PD you know drafts.

[SPEAKER_01]: And kind of held, held steadfast.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think underlying stuff is there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think the upside is there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Talk to me a little bit of what you've heard regarding Dix and, you know, how he might be a breakout this year, even.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, actually.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I have funnily enough.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had him in my, my breakout column this year, the teams that you and I did and Matt did one also.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think with Dix, it's, you know, predictable for Amy's listed at 6 to 180, but there's room to fill out and he gets stronger.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he's got strong contact skills already, you know, 77% contact rate.

[SPEAKER_00]: rarely whiffs in the zone, good chase rate.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the big thing is, the EVs don't jump off the page right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if you can continue to progress physically, I think there's some power in there.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if you can, you know, has the chance to develop into a guy who's gonna hit for contact and get to average power and allow to above average to plus speed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that's a really interesting fantasy player.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think part of what kind of keeps them down right now is that defensive profile is arm last year was not great, look more like a second base.

[SPEAKER_00]: profile, but I guess I've heard this spring.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's looked a little better.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll see, I mean, a long term is probably still a second basement, but if you can at least, you know, fake it at short software now, that that could even raise a stock further.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I just think the offensive upside is really interesting here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like this is a guy who I think has the potential for above average hit, averageish power and plus speed.

[SPEAKER_00]: You in fantasy format, you know, that's a really valuable player.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that the price right now is really low.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because, you know, this has got last year if you look at his numbers, they don't really jump off the page.

[SPEAKER_00]: You had two home runs last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: Spend split time between rookie level and low A.

[SPEAKER_00]: Only he did hit 297, but yeah, I think that there's considerable upside here.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he's someone that internally airs on a really likes as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's good stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: couple of teams down to take a quick break when we come back.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk about the exciting San Diego Padre system.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we are back.

[SPEAKER_01]: We are talking ALS prospects in the prospect preview.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's the final of section.

[SPEAKER_01]: Go back and check out the rest of those Jeff Ponds.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ian Cunderle.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking San Diego Padre is now as far as 2026 contributors, man.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's not a lot of options.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking a couple of relievers.

[SPEAKER_01]: I have Miguel Mendez, who's not on the active roster and Bradley Rodriguez, who is kind of like a clean up guy for them, like a middle reliever, not in theirself.

[SPEAKER_00]: Look at all helping that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, so there you go.

[SPEAKER_01]: That a couple of guys, I guess, that contribute if you're in like a deeper league that has

[SPEAKER_01]: But there's not like a starter, there's not a position player where I'm like

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll put my bets on that guy contributing this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, this is about as bad of a system as we have.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just have a little more faith in them than maybe the Rockies because it's AJ Proller and he usually has a couple of gems that he pulls from the high school ranks or the international market or something.

[SPEAKER_01]: But there's not a whole lot to hang your head on here.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you've any thoughts on these boundaries, 2026 contributors.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I agree to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think when you look at their system, it's a lot of their talent in parentheses is in the low miners right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there's just not a lot of, not a lot of major league-ready contributors.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's what happens when you trade away.

[SPEAKER_00]: You look at the amazing military last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: The trade in the Orioles, like they sent out, I think, like eight or nine prospects combined in those two trades.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when you do stuff like that, that the result is going to be where the system is at right now, where we're talking about that a relief or assist,

[SPEAKER_01]: And I do it like every year, you know, good on them for refilling the cupboard and then just emptying it out of immediately.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: But hey, you know, like they're they're they're staying in contention in a very small market and they're good division records in terms of sellouts and everything else.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, hat tip to the to the pod race.

[SPEAKER_01]: But let's move on to their high upside guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do think there's a

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, potentially go after, I'm going to steal a thunder here and take the really easy one and crew schoolcraft their first round or last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Left-hander weird angles, there's some projection, biggest question with him is if he actually can spend a good breaking ball right.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a good fast ball.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a good change up.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got pitchability.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's some power there.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the reports have always been pretty good kind of dating back to last fall, but, you know, like with any picture, there's some things that need to be improved and, you know, you need.

[SPEAKER_01]: the ability to throw a good breaking ball at this point, or you need like an outlier change-up.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like you need to change up there is a breaking ball, style pitch that almost doesn't have split issues, like you can throw it right on right or whatever.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's the only, you have to have one of those special splitters or change-ups, and there's just not a lot of guys that can do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's my question with schoolcraft, but I do think like you look at the size,

[SPEAKER_01]: the physical projection, the ability that's already there, and it's at least like a legitimate top 100-ish caliber type of prospect, even if he's not on a list, you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it's outlier size too.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure the extension, I'm interested to see what his extension ends up being once we get some pro ball data.

[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, no, I think that's a good choice.

[SPEAKER_00]: And for mine, it's another left-hand

[SPEAKER_00]: then schoolcraft is the obviously your head.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, you had a very good protein.

[SPEAKER_00]: You went out into Lake Ellison or 61 innings, 88 strikeouts, 2.970 aren't that really means much, but pretty good in the colleague, you know, when you when you when you value in how how hard those are for pitchers, it's a really good debut.

[SPEAKER_00]: And speaking of outlier changeups, I would say may feel just not, you know, it's not a 70 changeup, but it's a plus changeup.

[SPEAKER_00]: how they 54, 55% with rate last year, really good separation from his fastball.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think the thing with Mayfield and what is limiting him right now is just where's the fastball gonna go.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got good size, but it's more like an average ish fastball right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: If that can take a step forward kind of like what we talked about was accurate or what we've seen some from some other pitchers the loss that he wise.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then I think he comes a lot more interesting because it's just hard to get to better than like a mid rotation starter if you're pitching with an average fastball.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even if you have a plus change up

[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think that the fastball quality is going to be the limiting factor here, but if that takes a step forward, I think you know, may field someone who becomes a lot more interesting.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think so too, especially if he can add some power, because like all the traits, pitchability wise, or parents, like you watch him pitch, all right, if this wasn't 90 to 92, I'd be way more excited.

[SPEAKER_01]: This was like, who to four?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and they were special.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were left side.

[SPEAKER_00]: The bar's not as high from the left side.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, exactly exactly.

[SPEAKER_01]: He just had some 90 to 90 to 90, four to 96, exactly.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know what reminds me of kind of like is like the Connellierly Starter Kit, which is what he entered the Red Sox?

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a lot of what his profile was.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, like average juice maybe a tick above breaking ball, but the fast ball was like like he came in Pew pitch And you know 90 90 to 92 as you said and a year after year he slowly ticked up and so I think when may feel that's going to be when I'm watching this year Is can he just jump even incremental gain for a lefty is much bigger than it is for a righty for a comparing for a right-hinter picture a mile per hour almost might be like one and a half to two yeah

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, in terms of the conversion.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, that's a really astute point.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's move on to some underrated names.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go with somebody that was on my breakout team.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've already mentioned a couple of those, but first based on position to fill in these breakout teams, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that is.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: Outfield, there's even a catcher like you have options.

[SPEAKER_01]: First base, it's tricky.

[SPEAKER_01]: I actually do like this player and would have considered it even maybe a different position.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's Kale Fountain was a draft pick for them, back in in 2024.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had Tommy John Surgery coming out of high school,

[SPEAKER_01]: was a historic player in the state of Nebraska, not exactly a baseball hotbed, but I believe he set the state record for home runs, RBI stolen bases, and maybe like career OPS, like he's legitimately their best high school player in history.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's power here, there's upside, under the hood data, like

[SPEAKER_01]: The bats and ball skills were good.

[SPEAKER_01]: The approach was pretty good.

[SPEAKER_01]: The power, like a 11, max EV from a teenager is good.

[SPEAKER_01]: The launch angles are pretty bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if that time away from baseball and just like rehab and some of the stuff he had to work on there.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, maybe there's just some low hanging fruit in terms of getting that stuff fixed this off season.

[SPEAKER_01]: Be interesting to see what what he does this year, you know, at a full season full season level, all that sort of thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, I mean, take it with a grain of salt.

[SPEAKER_01]: This could all totally fall flat in its face as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: But I do think that he's a little underrated right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: Just kind of based on his timeline of, you know, he had Tommy John Surgery, he had to recover from that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then goes into pro ball for the first time.

[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't have a normal offseason.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, it's,

[SPEAKER_01]: It's there.

[SPEAKER_01]: The ability to hit is there, just a matter of adjusting angles, which sometimes come with a, you know, added whips, maybe that happens, and that might sink the profile, but maybe it doesn't.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's at a balanced level that, with those angles all of a sudden, he starts to get to more that outlier power that, you know, he showed his an amateur.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, Kale Fountain is the name that I'll throw out there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you have one as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do, yeah, and I like that packet of system devoid of bats, you know, someone like him if he can take a step forward, probably establish themselves as one of the top paths in the system very quickly.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's Tucker Musgrove, who was the Padre's 2023, who was selected by Poder, she used me in 2023, sorry about that, forgot to silence my phone.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he did not pitch until April of last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: He only threw 20 innings last year, 14 appearances, but his stuff is nasty.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like if you look at models, his stuff is near the top of the system.

[SPEAKER_00]: As fastball sits in the mid-90s, with over 17 inches of IBB, plays up due to his extension, really flat approach angle.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like there's really good traits on the fastball.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as I said, big time extension, really good athlete.

[SPEAKER_00]: just there's a lot to like here with the with the fastball that you go to the breaking ball and it's a super high spin breaker had a 40-1% with rate last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a pair of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a sweeper and a curve ball.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's this is the kind of guy when you're looking at a spreadsheet is going to pop and then you look at the on field results.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, oh okay, that's not great.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you know if you can put it together, I think there's considerable upside here.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just you know it's a wait and see because he's just barely

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think you're right.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I actually think that I kind of left you him.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he is the most underrated player in the system.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I would agree if you can chance if he gets a chance to start and the refinement comes now that he's had more pro experience.

[SPEAKER_01]: there's like he's one of those guys that could blow up and then all of a sudden we're talking about him in July is like this is a potential top 100 prospect.

[SPEAKER_01]: It will take some work to get there, but there's humongous subside.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I was saying is he definitely could have been picked for the highest upside too.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just think that there's so much this is a guy when when we talk about the error bars or the variants in the profile.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a great example of someone

[SPEAKER_00]: The top error bar is high, which is what you're, I mean, in fantasy, especially when you're looking in deeper leaks, that's where you're looking for is a guy who's undervalued and has high upside and I think must grow if it's that perfectly.

[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's move on to the San Francisco Giants now.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is.

[SPEAKER_01]: arguably the best system in this division.

[SPEAKER_01]: I believe that the highest rated system in this division.

[SPEAKER_01]: They have a couple of interesting 20, 26 contributors, even if it may not necessarily be in an immediate sense.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I do think that Bryce Eldridge, because of his place in the 40-man roster now,

[SPEAKER_01]: The Rafi Devers trade kind of changed his short-term perspective a little bit, especially if it Devers agreed to to play some first base, though he's not there every day.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's been Keshie Schmidt.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's been de-aching more.

[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe the opportunity is still there.

[SPEAKER_01]: They did carry Gerrarr and Carnacione.

[SPEAKER_01]: It went a really, really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's back from Andy Ball.

[SPEAKER_01]: A couple of years back from Andy Ball, actually.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, and

[SPEAKER_01]: How do I really get spring?

[SPEAKER_01]: So I understand why they carried him.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think you look at this bench of Susac, who they might carry, because it's a 40, excuse me, he's a real five guy that can catch a little bit and kind of offsets all world defensive catcher, Patrick Bailey with being more of like a bat first player.

[SPEAKER_01]: Old friend Christian costs is on this bench.

[SPEAKER_01]: Jared Aliva is on this bench.

[SPEAKER_01]: I still kind of buy into Bryce Eldridge has a good month or two in AAA, and he forces his way back up to the big leagues.

[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe finds himself in the everyday roster, especially considering Casey Schmidt is now there.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're in the first basement.

[SPEAKER_01]: So,

[SPEAKER_01]: I understand there's still some some risk that maybe it's still a year away.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I could see him going on a run and getting up to the big leagues and just providing more than what they're getting out of casey Schmidt at the plate.

[SPEAKER_01]: So though there's some risk that maybe it doesn't fully come to fruition.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's still Bryce Eldridge.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's still probably

[SPEAKER_01]: He's still probably the highest upside close proximity bat.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll put it that way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Cause there are maybe higher upside players in the system.

[SPEAKER_01]: But as far as guys that are gonna be in the here in the next year or two, it's, it's, it's Eldridge.

[SPEAKER_01]: So that's my pick.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you have another name, you wanna throw out there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, yeah, I guess I'll go to the pitching side and throw Carson wasn't on out there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, he's somebody made his debut last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: He had set some struggles, and uh, speaking of guys who who needed to add Velo, I think wasn't on false in that camp.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, he's always had that really good change up, but it's the velocity he's been kind of middling last year, like he sat around 92 miles an hour.

[SPEAKER_00]: this year spring training used sitting around 95 like as VLO's up three plus miles an hour strikeouts were up like he's getting way more whiffs the walks were up also and I think that's you know that's the thing to watch is you know yes the stuff is way up but how can you still harness it that remains to be seen but I think when you look at the giant's pitching staff they have a lot of injury risks on there you got like Tyler Mollie um

[SPEAKER_00]: Adrian, how is there just don't have a long track or could throw in a ton of anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that there's going to be opportunities during the season.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if Wizard Hunt can show, you know, this improved fastball to go along with this really good change up, I think he's someone who could come up and make an impact at some point during the 20, 26 season.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was excellent stuff.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to reward you with picking between the two highest upside players in the system.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're pretty exciting.

[SPEAKER_01]: So who are you going with?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, this is this is hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: They probably have a third guy who you could throw in here too.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's the exact same position as the other two.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like this is, you know, an embarrassment of riches.

[SPEAKER_00]: Looks good.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm going to take Jaws Markets all us and take.

[SPEAKER_00]: You talk, he's one of those guys that I think that scouts will bring up on prompt it to you if they catch him on the right day because I think his combination of just raw ability at such a young age is just really hard to match around the game.

[SPEAKER_00]: This, you know, we should be said, this is a guy who when he signed, he got close to a 3 million dollar bonus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like this is someone who came out of nowhere.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a guy who has as an international free or international amateur.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was well known.

[SPEAKER_00]: to be one of the best guys in the class and he showed it during his debut.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're 288-404-455 in the DSL.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's jumped state side.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a chance.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's official, but I think there's a chance he could end up in low-way at some point this season, like early in the season.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're you're muted now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's a sign there has even a sign there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I wasn't sure if it if it had been but yeah, I mean I think that the combination of skills set or skills that he provides is just tantalizing like this is guys in the lead athlete eventual plus plus runner.

[SPEAKER_00]: really, really good defender.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll see where the offense goes, but there's things to build on here.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the type of guy if you're like that one year, if you're rebuilding team and you're like, I just want to swing for the fences.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing a long two, three, four year rebuild.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the type of player I'm going for, because yeah, the air bars are high, but that's approximately why's that's gonna happen, but there's just a lot to like here.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, you look at the underlying data too,

[SPEAKER_00]: good contact rates, really impressive EVs for his age.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a switch hitter, the angles are poor, but I mean, that's, you know, he's 17.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's plenty of time to figure that out.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just think that this is a guy ceiling wise.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if we were ranking the top 100 just on ceiling, I'd think he would have to be in what the top 10, like the top side here is huge.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think so.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm on official on Joe Swar, but I'm pretty sure that he's gonna end up at San Jose.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even plan.

[SPEAKER_01]: ACL.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Hernandez might be ACL the start, who is my pick, Lee Hernandez, who is there.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's two in the system, by the way, so it's a younger one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, geez, it's, you don't want to run the organization.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was in that system.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you go and check fake graphs, so pop up, he's a picture though.

[SPEAKER_01]: So very easy to separate the picture from the shortstop.

[SPEAKER_01]: He looked good in the backfield videos I've seen and every day I've heard, it looks super polished.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, one of the best players in the international class, Joe Swar was as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: They've kind of spent big there, and back to back years, it might have hit homers.

[SPEAKER_01]: You've been back to back years.

[SPEAKER_01]: Does a huge, that does a huge amount of lifting on your system, just as the brewers, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not going to go too far into it because we really haven't seen him in like official official games yet.

[SPEAKER_01]: kind of make sure that you're paying attention to he's probably rostered in every kind of dynasty league at this point because typically the highest upside international guy typically got drafted even in 12 team leagues uh in terms of dynasty underrated players I'm going to go with a couple of different pitchers here

[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of a pick-up.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to go with Louie Gay-La Torre, who is rated lower than the other guy that I had listed here.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he was a non-drafted free agent, signed in July of 23, was like, Arizona high school guy that came from Mexico.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was kind of a weird background story wrote about it before.

[SPEAKER_01]: After his initial,

[SPEAKER_01]: debut five game debut in the DSL.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's been phenomenal every level repeated the DSL in 24, which happens with a lot of these young pitchers.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't take a whole lot away from that, particularly these days with some limits on the number of players that can be playing domestically.

[SPEAKER_01]: Came over in 2025.

[SPEAKER_01]: really good in the complex league goes up to low A makes eight starts there pitches to a 1.77 ERA that's backed by 2.46 FIP 2.92 x FIP generating strikeouts throwing lots of strikes generates a fair amount of ground balls as well so there is

[SPEAKER_01]: a varied out-generation profile here too, he's a lefty, he's undersized, but because he's a lefty as we talked about earlier, even with a side stuff, et cetera, it all kind of works.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he's kind of mid tier in this system.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think in other systems, he probably would be a top 10 prospect, this is a deeper system.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like that choice.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a good one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, another.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is this is funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Giants have like a few of these arms in the little miners who fit that profile of that intriguing.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of lot of lot to like there.

[SPEAKER_00]: and I think another one is our genus Kamiya.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is someone who last year as an 18-year-old push-aggressively spent some time in the ACL, got up to San Jose.

[SPEAKER_00]: How do struggles there, ZRA?

[SPEAKER_00]: Was over eight, which isn't great.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he should return a low-A to start the year, but there's good athlete, good fastball.

[SPEAKER_00]: His fastball sits in the mid-90s already.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got pretty good

[SPEAKER_00]: works potential average issue above average control profile.

[SPEAKER_00]: So.

[SPEAKER_00]: you know, which is something you're not going to say very often with someone that young, got a slider, got to change up, you know, it starters our snow, starters delivery, it's hard to project and it was a starters that young, but I think that his performance last year is getting mass by what was a pretty, he struggled as an 18 year old in a little way.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think that he's someone that if he might not be rostered or you can, you might be able to get him on the cheap right now, because

[SPEAKER_00]: Someone's going to look at his numbers last year and be like, oh, okay, whatever 80 or 80 are in low way, not great.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think he's someone that there's lots of like there.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to take a while for him to build up.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then obviously he's years away from the majors, but but the, you know, if you're patient, I think that there could be a mid rotation starter type profile in the future here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's a good one.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's other arms in this system too.

[SPEAKER_01]: They've done a good job of really kind of finding varied names, varied styles of prospects to kind of build up the system.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know how much of that was Mr. Posey per se, but you know, sometimes the previous regimes do some things well and some other things not so well.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're certainly familiar with that with the Red Sox.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's move on to the dreaded rocky system

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, 2026 contributors, they're both corner infield guys that potentially could hit for power.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Charlie Condon and TJ Rumfield, along term, I still like Condon more, like I think we, we finally, as an industry kind of caught up to where he should have been coming out of the draft.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like he was overpaid, he was overhyped.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, whatever you want to say about that SEC season, he still hit there.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do still think there's on base ability here.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's angles, I think there's power.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a big, we regular.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's better than a lot of these corner bats that they've had in recent years long term.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm gonna give him credit there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Still probably a 50, but if Condon is universally owned over the next five years in 12 team Roto leagues, it wouldn't shock me either, right?

[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: The other name is TJ Rumfield who I think is kind of keeping the seat more in there at first base nice acquisition for them he's always been able to hit but to me he's more of like

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like the Roman guns I was last year with the Red Sox, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like guys that fill that first base role that kind of hit enough, but you don't want to commit to them as like your everyday guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's Mike because of the Rockies.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, so he's going to be this year to start.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's here as long as he holds it.

[SPEAKER_01]: But what are your thoughts on rum fields?

[SPEAKER_01]: I know you've seen both rum fields and condensate.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can certainly compare and contrast.

[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe you even disagree with me about the long-term upside.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, I, I think you're right, especially to in, in, caught in as the pedigree, like he's going to get every opportunity.

[SPEAKER_00]: Where's Romfield is a little, little more of an underrated guy.

[SPEAKER_00]: They obviously caught him in the offseason.

[SPEAKER_00]: He had a great spring training.

[SPEAKER_00]: He had 286, 359, 554 slug and spring training with five home runs.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think the, the thing they really stood out to me was he had five walks and only two strikeouts and 64 plate appearances this spring.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you put the ball play and you could lift the ball in the air like he can,

[SPEAKER_00]: and you do that at course field, like there can be fantasy value here.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's this is a great example of I think kind of like the Michael Poli a play from a few years ago where any other park you're not that into it, but at course field, if he's playing 81 games there is a left handed hitter and he puts up the EVs like during spring training at a max EV of 1113.1 which is higher is actually be last year was 110.7 so.

[SPEAKER_00]: power seems like it's taking a tick up and just that, you know, that strike out to walk rate really intriguing and you look last year, like 14% in zone with.

[SPEAKER_00]: So there's decent contact skills here.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's older.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's not a ton of upside, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if he's someone that, you know, we we we we we look in a couple months and you look at the first base player Raider and he's in the top half and you're like,

[SPEAKER_00]: really, and it's like, well, of course, we'll get it, it, it can create magic.

[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen this profile have like two good years before.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Christian Walker is going to like a guy like that late breakout first basement that like the skills and the power and angles finally kind of all blend together nicely and it works.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, she get crum was kind of like that for a couple of years too.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like they're not guys that you build around in fantasy, but like in a deeper league,

[SPEAKER_01]: You're happy to keep 100% off.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's 16 plus team league.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a guy I would honestly try to stash just to see what it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because worst case, you cut him in a month.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if he goes in there and produces anywhere, and carries over what he didn't sprint training, especially with those contact skills.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the part that really catches me, because if you put the ball playing course, good things happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is guy who has power, if you can live in the gaps there, even like, you know, he might be able to run a higher batting average of you to even expect like I think it's an interesting profile and and you know, credit to the Rockies, I think they got him in a very minor minor trade.

[SPEAKER_00]: So like, yeah, going out and getting it, and this is the thing, you know, if you're the Rockies, this is what you should be doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Take a chance on these guys who have good skills that match your park.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that's him, put them all play.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's, I think that's the concern I have with Con and it's just the contactability.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like,

[SPEAKER_00]: If he makes enough contact, the power is going to play.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think Rumpfield's kind of the opposite approach, where probably not the same caliber of power, but the contactability might be at another level.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think it's going to be really interesting to see how he plays this year.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think, yeah, if given the price, the ease kind of a no-brainer target for me and laid around to deeper leaks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I even think you could have closed them as like underrated player.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, not a lot of 20, 20, 20, 16 contributors.

[SPEAKER_00]: So no, no, no, no, because we're not picking a pitchers.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, no.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, Ian.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to try to say nice things about Ethan Holiday, all right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, everyone's seen what I knocked him before.

[SPEAKER_01]: It was in the context of like him versus condon and kind of saying that like, they're similar concerns there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like in terms of like where they ended defensively and the contact ability, that's that he still has outlier power.

[SPEAKER_01]: If the contact gets to a fringe average level consistently, and I mean, like when he's in the upper mind, or it's not.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's still upside here.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is a 30 home run guy, you know, and maybe as a corner out, feel their first basement, maybe he's his dad.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm not writing that off.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if he's gonna be a multi-time all star like his dad, but that's a high bar.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a really high bar, you know.

[SPEAKER_01]: But he's just a different player than what his brother is.

[SPEAKER_01]: His brother has more speed and more skills and that sort of thing, this is outlier power.

[SPEAKER_01]: He has plus plus raw power, no doubt about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just it's a tougher profile.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's not a short stop.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there's some swing and miss.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what my concerns were.

[SPEAKER_01]: I still think when it comes to like naming the highest upside player in the system.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's Ethan Holiday.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there's probably nobody else that you really want to mention.

[SPEAKER_01]: I wrote down role the Brito.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how into Brito you are.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's some speed here, but doesn't really translate to like big stolen based numbers either.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't know how good the base running instincts are.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there's a lot of chase in his profile.

[SPEAKER_00]: The angles are great.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that, again, he's the type of guy that if he was not in the Rocky system, I think he would be kind of maybe underrated, isn't the right word, but he would just be, he'd be someone just outside the top 10.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_00]: In the Rocky system, there's just not a, right now, there's just not a ton of high upside bats.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that just given his age,

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's there's things you can dream on here.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a guy who had good EVs last year for his age 102.7 90 fifth one 10.3 First of all, yeah, up as an 18 year old.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, contact rates Chase was a little bit of it as I said and the angles weren't great, but

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got to, he's tooled up like there's, you know, his broad sprint speed is going to be like close to plus plus it's just I don't know what if then things are their base running was working progress there, but again it's 18 so I think you know and and when we're talking about upside with the rocky system.

[SPEAKER_00]: You got the the further away might be the better right now because there's there they've got obviously a new new group in charge Seems like they're trying to modernize things and so I think that he's someone that there are tools to build on similar to Ethan holiday where you know the raw power to build on there with Rido it's a combination of speed and some impact and I think that yeah as an 18 year old that that's someone if we're talking about upside that I'm willing to take a shot on

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I agree with that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, I still think how it is probably the guy that you're looking at long terms, like having truly the highest upside in this system, you know, and we'll see where it goes with this new regime, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's in a better spot than, um,

[SPEAKER_01]: other first-round picks that had some hit-tool issues had been like a Benny McGummer here, somebody like that last couple of years.

[SPEAKER_01]: Some of them they did take fairly high in the draft a few years back that I think kind of slipped a little bit under the radar and I'm going to list him as the underrated player in this rocky system.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is a pitcher, so I understand why people stay away.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he gets traded.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's Jackson Cox.

[SPEAKER_01]: And he came back last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: He had good strike rates, he had good zone rates, he misses enough bats.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got outlier feel for spin with fairly good power.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a writer, he's tat 94 to 95, touch 98 last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like 17 inches of vert with like 10 to 11 inches of arm side run.

[SPEAKER_01]: Underwhelming release traits he doesn't extend on the mound very well on the release height is very standard at like six feet there's not great plain so it's not a huge back missing fastball but he locates it well enough to set up his his off speed and he's got a good change up actually but the seller here is the sweeper it's like a 2900 to like 3000 RPM yeah care.

[SPEAKER_01]: little bit more slurvy than other sweepers because it has like four to five inches of drop typically, but it's like over a foot to a foot and a half of sweep.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a weird angle.

[SPEAKER_01]: He commands it well enough.

[SPEAKER_01]: It misses bats.

[SPEAKER_01]: It gets chases.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a curveball variation on that that has more depth.

[SPEAKER_01]: it's more of like a two plane breaker, also high spin rates.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think when I see a guy like this with high spin rates, he gets into the right player development org or the Rockies, really decide to like invest in pitching development the way other teams have.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a guy that has the attributes and and raw traits to add different pitches into this arsenal and be a guy that kind of has that well rounded six pitch arsenal.

[SPEAKER_01]: I even wonder if there's like another change up in

[SPEAKER_01]: When you're spending it like that and you have velocity and you ride your forcing fast ball that tells me that you can probably throw a pretty damn good cut fast ball that might be like 111 at 91.

[SPEAKER_01]: And as like a bridge pitch especially when you're throwing a sweeper having that like in between breaking ball between the curve ball and sweepers valuable so I think he's a guy that.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's still more refinements to come, but he had a really good year last year coming off a couple of years that were injury laden.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's some power here.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's outlier feel for spin.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's somebody I like when I was doing the Rocky system and I'm still very interested to kind of follow along with Cox.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just always hard pause.

[SPEAKER_01]: When you're talking about Rocky's pitching prospects.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I agree.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's it's just hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: Look, look at how they're handling chaste all under right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not even in the rotations.

[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it's he's an interesting arm and I agree.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's someone that, you know, maybe he can be the outlier because we have seen we have seen picture some pictures occasionally have success there thinking back to those who ball though him and as years from many moons ago, but yeah, and I think that's that that's a really good name to a shout out if because I would have felt bad if we could talk about at least one rocky pitching prospect.

[SPEAKER_01]: Got to have at least one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there we have it.

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