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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody, J.J. Cooper, Ian Cunnell, Josh Norse, Baseball America Prospect, podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we are excited, let's talk about the top 30s today, because as you probably know, hopefully, already know, over at Baseball America.com, we have updated all 30 MLB teams, top 30 Prospect rankings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when I say update, I don't mean that we remove graduations, moved everyone up and added a guy or two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying that we went through the entirety of the list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: reordered everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We wrote reports for new players.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We did, if you're as a player at the back of a list or like I probably should be on the 30 anymore, we found someone new.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If there was someone who we thought should be on the 30, but there was someone who was better than that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We put that player on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think 113 new additions to that full new reports in addition to moving other players up and down and all that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Check it all out, Facebook, American.com.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But here on the podcast, here on the

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to dive straight into this, just jumping right in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Josh, I'll start with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time we do this, one of the fun things about this, a lot of work, but it's also a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We hear about players.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We get to kind of learn more about players.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What did you an organization's to?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is something that you kind of, as you went through this process, you kind of came away like, oh, I feel like, you know, that kind of stood out to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was something interesting that I learned doing this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: just kind of reinforced how fungible the back of these lists are because you and you in particular JJ know that I pull my hair out every cycle trying to figure out the back of the list I've been here for 13 years so you can see it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you realize that in five months or however long it's been since the book went out it's going to change drastically.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Some guys are going to graduate so you'll create some inertia but you're going to hear about guys you know you didn't hear

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, especially with a draft guy who might not have pitched in the, you know, after draft last year and you really don't have any to go on if he's a late rounder and he jumps up kind of previewing I got him going to talk about later, but you know, there are other.

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[SPEAKER_02]: guys who, you know, get better over the course of the offseason and jump back up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There were guys and some of my systems who were firmly not top 30 and I felt pretty confident about it and now they're in the 20s and that's just how these things goes sometimes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Not my fault.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just they got better or sometimes they got worse.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ian, what about you?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Any teams that kind of you came away a little bit more impressed with less impressed with?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think one that I was very surprised with was how much of the brave farm system has improved this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know, over the off season, we talked a lot about how it was one of the weakest farm systems in all of baseball and they've had three position players specifically take really big steps forward this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Eric Hartman, who I'm, you know, I think you guys talked to me when Jeff talked about last week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then also, but Yon Hiel and Tate's out the scene have also taken pretty big steps forward.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they also have some hitters kind of lower in the tier.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Luis go and eBay and Owen carry a couple other guys who have taken a step forward this year and I think going in I looked at my systems that I didn't end up doing six total and they were the weakest of the group I thought but after you know kind of evaluating going through everything I don't think they are in that and it's bad as thought is kind of was expected or people thought heading into the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say with mine the two that jumped out is doing the white socks is

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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of goes back to a Josh's point like you get to the back of these lists and they're kind of fungible but the other thing about that is is how much players like

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's easy to think like that to look at a guy like Colby Shelton for instance with the white socks was not on the preseason 30 six round pick last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Really off of that you can say like very fringe of the 30 he was a six round pick for a reason last year coming out of college and then you watched look at now and he's number 11 in their system.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She went from off the list to 11 and it's like no like he's made real changes, but the other thing is is that we always liked to emphasize this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the difference between Seth Hernandez on the pirate's list and the guy at eight or nine on the pirate's list is much larger I would say than the difference between the guy who's 12 on the pirate's list and the guy who's 35th because it really does kind of have the curve that you could have like at the very tip top of the prospect landscape, there are very few players.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As you get further out, you get toward the base of that and there are a lot more players in that range.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So players can move up, down, guy gets hurt, guy gets, you know, it's healthy, all that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You put it all together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I would say that and the other thing that was kind of depressing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say that I discovered from it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I knew to some extent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's when you sit down to do it that you realize like when you know that you've had a team that had a lot of injuries that year, but you start kind of going through and you try to make sure like, okay, do I have I counted for every injury, how I figured it all's out and you look at a team like the Tigers and I do believe that the Tigers rehab team in Lakeland is their best minor league team prospect wise right now half of their top 30 basically is had an injury and in a lot of cases significant injuries of some sort.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I will say kind of like, so we did the first pass on this kind of talking about a little bit bigger picture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get into in a little while kind of players, but like, is there you said, like, even that the braves were kind of like better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm going to now be the I'm going to be the the the start things up one here a little bit and ask the question to each of y'all and I'll do it to is there an organization that you kind of came way as you did this realizing, oh, they're kind of at a little bit of a weaker spot right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Josh, any one of your works that you did, because by the way, we all did like six or so orgs of the 30.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I somehow got off easy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got five, I got my standard handbook.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, you're the one who was signed and bling you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I think my orgs are in pretty two pretty similar tiers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The fillies, Yankees and Rangers are all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: mid to worse right now and I think they tell you that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's some good stuff at the top, although there's some of them, unfortunately, but the rangers, the real good stuff is injured with wallcott having the surgery and Scarborough coming back from cancer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the other guys,

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[SPEAKER_02]: are a little lower, you know, like a Joshua wins is obviously a ways, a ways, a ways away.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You'll Francacio was a ways away, guys like that, and you know, it's not the best system in the world.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The Dodger system, as I think we'll talk about later, is loaded for bear with outfielders.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's pitching is not in a great spot right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's hard to find like a true starting pitching prospect in that organization and the giants have a lot of stuff up and down list.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Bryce Eldridge is a prospect for a couple more days.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But after you Have him, you've got the dynamic duo in the ACL.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You've got some guys in Eugene who are interesting.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You've got some guys that can jump forward and another guy that jumped from off to on That we'll talk about later.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's there's kind of a

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't have any like 15 to 17 ranches so I don't think I think I either have top third or bottom third.

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[SPEAKER_01]: In what about you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the thing that really stood out to me was just how big of a drop off there isn't the Red Sox system after the top 10.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The top 10 was the easiest top 10 I had to do of any of the orgs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was extremely straightforward.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was no even consideration for anyone else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then after that 10 it was just.

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[SPEAKER_01]: kind of a build your own adventure situation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's just because there's a lot of volatility in the players outside of the top 10.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of guys on an FCL team that is apparently that looks very talented.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Saw a bunch of those guys in spring training and there's some even some new ones of kind of emerged as a season's got going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you have the volatility of players in the FCL.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of pictures who are either, you know, injured or coming back from injuries or coming back from rural five.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Guys like on Holbestardo and Jettics and Pious and then you just kind of have some upper minors guys who are not necessarily they're either performing in the case of Eduardo Rivera, who It was someone ended up way higher than I initially anticipated or their guys that are kind of been.

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[SPEAKER_01]: okay in AAA, they might be majorly depth, they might be more like, you know, four A types.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of sifting through that right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was pretty surprising to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I think the other one is that

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is, I guess, maybe more of the positive side, but the race, it's interesting how, you know, with some systems, it's pretty easy to find 30 names.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's no real like wiggle room outside of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, oh, it's these are the 30, this is fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Doing like the race system.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My initial draft had 54 names, and it's just, you know, you see the difference in the town, and it's the depth and,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can kind of, it's reflected in the way we do the grading system because I think you can look in the adjusted grades and see where the tiers kind of play out what you were talking about with, you know, within the tiers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some are much larger than others at the top.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's very small and then it kind of winds out with the rays, you know, you get off their list and there, there were another 10, 15 guys that could easily consider for the back 30 that would have been on the back 30 and some of my other systems.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it was interesting kind of seeing that and looking at the way the tiers ended up using the adjusted grades that you know the raise I think their entire top 30 excuse me it took down to the very end of the top 30 to get into adjusted 30s where some of my other systems in the teams you're getting into adjusted 30s and so I think it just shows the raise and they're about to get another high traffic to so they're in a really good spot I think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I still lament, Peyton Gray was number I think 20, 26, 24, 24 on the top 30 when we started this, you know, rolled up a handbook last year and then they kept making moves, they kept making moves and he was off of the list for the update in January because of all the moves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's lift lepped up it with the update, but at the same time it's like there are so many orgs where I have that really didn't like he would have been a slam dunk top 20 kind of guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, they were that deep they're just that deep for me the one I would say again like that's it's it's understandable the reds have graduated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: South Stewart, who I know he's not been as good in May, but has been really good and kind of a fixture of the middle that line up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The graduate ret louder, Chase Burns graduated very end of last year and has been very good for them as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's not like you don't look at the reds and go, oh, they haven't produced anything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But then you look at the reds top 30 right now and with those graduations Edwin Royals had a really strong kind of bounce back his second year back

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can pass that and you're like, I was kind of looking for I kind of felt like at the back of the 10.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, there's kind of someone else here for the 10 and they're really

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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to the back of the 20s and it's like, I was adding guys, like I added of this port as you know, favorite of Uranus mine, but like even as I'm writing them up, I'm like, okay, there's a lot that has to go right here for a guy who's taking a very slow climb through the minor leagues, just made it to mid-west league and has really strong ones for a couple of mid-west league starts after I think it was his third season in low A.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, so that's the kind of thing you're talking about,

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[SPEAKER_00]: we know that you want to hear about a lot of the players.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You want to hear about the prospects.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what we're going to do next.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go around a couple of times and talk about some prospects, non-top-hunter prospects, who popped up, who really kind of impressed us as we were doing this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll do that right after this quick break.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Ian, I'll start off with you this time, but who is a prospect?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We may do this three times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Who's a prospect who the sports fund?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Who's a prospect who as you were doing this, you came away more impressed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You kind of like came away going, okay, I like them, or maybe I didn't even know that much about them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And as I got done with it, I'm really kind of filed him in the, okay, I'm gonna keep a closer eye on that guy as you move them up a list.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I think the first name that jumps to mind with that is a diamond backs prospect, Geno Grover, he was someone who he was in the mid teens coming into in the preseason update.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, um, just kind of the feedback talking to scouts, um, just watching some action of him, you know, started to become a little more of a believer and it's a weird profile.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He is a cornering fielder with blow average power.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he really hits like I think he's hit 300 every level throughout his entire career.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's doing the exact same thing this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the thing that really has changed for him this year is the defense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's never going to be a gold glove caliber third basement.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's never probably going to be even above average.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he has a chance to get to average now in which is something that a couple years ago, I think would have been kind of a pipe dream.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He would have seen more as a first base only guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if he given his contactability and the quality that Batsy puts together and how much confidence there is in his hit tool, if he can even be a frenzy third basement and play there, you know, half the time, he turns into someone who has a chance to be a maybe a fringe irregular.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that, you know, going in, I thought, oh, there's no power, it's a weird profile, but it just, you know, confidence in the hit tool and improve defense in a can make a world of difference for someone like him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Joshua, about you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's a right hander in the Yankees system named Ben Grable, who was on the Hot Sheet Helium list this past week, who I didn't know much about coming to the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He was at the 11th rounder of the University of Indiana last year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And his fastball is witchcraft.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's 95 plus touch 97 with according to our data, averages over 21 inches of vert.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And right now he's been dominated.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got a couple others guys slider that some scouts will say is you get to above average and the very very very occasional split, but the fastball enough was enough at high age, the little more resistance at double a, but if you told me that kid was a kid is 24 that guy gets to the big leagues first out of the Yankees 20 25 draft class wouldn't be surprised.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was a guy that really jumped up for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we're gonna do this, I think three times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My first one I'm gonna do is is just in Campbell with the Guardians.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would say it was probably the toughest guy to figure out how to rank because I both may have very much underranked him in the top 30 for the Guardians and may have overranked him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know which it is right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll lay out why, which is because on one hand, when you say injury history for a pitcher,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Justin Campbell makes Daniel Espino seem like he's basically Iron Joe McGinti.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's something where a Campbell had not pitched since he was drafted in 22 until this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So 22, 23, 24, 25.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had multiple surgeries over that time to resolve a variety of issues.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you could argue, okay, durability is going to be a real concern.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could also though argue that this is the guy who might be starting games for Cleveland this year, even though he had not pitched in pro ball until this year, because when you also talk to scouts about him, you talk to, you know, France, which is about him, he's really good like he's he does not have it's not something where the stuff bounced, but you know, dropped off the stuff's still really good he has multiple pitches he has feel he sets up hitters he's been moved pretty quickly already this year been promoted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, we don't know, like, can he hold up?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can he maintain the stuff?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are questions that are very difficult to answer right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you look at him and say,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pure talent, like of what you're watching on the field, I underranked him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's in the, I think 17 on that Guardians list.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you could argue for the top 10, even though it's a very deep top 10, I would say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could also say like you're crazy to put on that high, you should have probably put him in the back of the 20s because let's see him do it for more than,

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[SPEAKER_00]: 40, 30, 40 innings because he's really struggled to stay healthy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's where I would say that there's a big challenge with a guy like that, you know, Daniel Spino's in that group too, and I moved him up to, but I know he's been a little wild, but his stuff looks really good as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But he actually, I feel like we've seen him in the AFL a little bit, now we're seeing him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's in a relief role.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a little bit easier, a little bit safer to be like, okay, I think he can hopefully hold up in that relief role in comparison to Campbell, who I would say like his value a lot of it is maybe as a starter because he really does have the ability to mix a wide array of pitches, going back around E into you again, who's another guy who jumped up to you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Next one for me is with the oil or eels and it's a left hand and picture named Cain Hunter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was selected in the six round out of USC last year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't receive a big bonus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wasn't really, you know, he's a fine draft.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You think you received around slot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's coming in and it's low a Delmarva, but he is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: been absolutely dominant.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's on the hot sheet this week also after having 18 strikeouts in a week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He pitched twice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was in eight and two thirds innings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For the season he was 31 strikeouts in nineteen innings and he's allowed two runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And his Velo is way up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Last year at USC he was like ninety one ninety three, you know, maybe gets ninety four occasionally.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think his high was ninety seven moves most of you know ninety one and ninety four.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's averaging 93.7 miles an hour in his fastball this year, and he's up to 97 pretty routinely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's sitting, you know, 93 to 95 from the left side, above average, we're right on the fastball, 19 inches of hurt, he's got really good separation with his change up, got a slider like both secondary, slash above average.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he definitely needs to move up to the next level, but he's a guy coming in was not on the top 30, but just yeah, really good feedback and just potential for three above average pitches from a college lefty in the sixth round,

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[SPEAKER_02]: Joshua, what about you back to the giant system.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Jonah Cox had been off the list, entering the year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He had spent too much time in Eugene, which is a sentence I didn't think I'd ever say, certainly, but he got to the squirrels and is hitting, you know, for something.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, I was talking to the, you know, people with the giants.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And he said, you know, he's at 400, probably should be on the list.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then, well, like he's gonna do that, if that's gonna be what he is, he's gonna be at number one on the list.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That bad bit kind of even's out a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But there are real swing changes there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's made more contact.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's kind of becoming more of the player that they thought he was going to be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He plays excellent defensive set of field.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He could run.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now if he can make more contact and turn that speed into more of an asset on the base paths, but he's back into the 20s again.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And well, we'll rise at least to spot here in a couple days when Bryce graduates.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But if he keeps doing this, obviously, he's going to move up the list a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that would be a player development win for the giants.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Next, what I'm going to do is the Center Fielder for the Tigers, Jesus Pinto, missed most of last year at the DSL with a hamstring injury, but promoted this year, I'm most of the rookie ball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember what I think was DSL, but top my head of his DSL was a complex, but has been healthy this year and is really hitting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a

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[SPEAKER_00]: center fielder who he's got to have to work to stay in center.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not a great runner now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how his body kind of matures and whether he can hold on that speed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But especially if he can stay in center field, he's really intriguing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe hits enough to be a corner.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do like him like when you watch him hit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There is some real clear feel for hitting there, I think as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, a guy who was not ranked on our list kind of coming into the year partly because you kind of

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[SPEAKER_00]: wanted to see him basically do it on the fields that I am stringing to really kind of really derailed him last year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I'd say the probably the best attribute he has is it's really good barrel control really good bat the ball skills.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His his this rate is pretty microscopic like one of the better in the tiger's system really one of the better in class A especially a level where a lot of

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[SPEAKER_00]: kind of an intriguing guy to keep an eye on, see how it kind of it develops over the year, we're going to do this again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do this one more time, go around and talk about prospects because it stood out to us, but we'll do that right after it's quick break.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll start off this one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate to come back to the Guardians again, but there is another guy in the Guardians.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of interesting guys, but

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Josh, you may have even seen this guy before, but Robert Ares with the Guardians is a center-fielder, younger center-fielder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of just really kind of came ways, have good numbers this year, kind of dove in, kind of watching him talking to people about him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing that really stood out about him is, is it's a very pull heavy approach, but not a pull heavy, I'm looking to just hit homers, if he was, it would be a stupid idea for him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's really about,

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an approach that looks like it maybe should not work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He really takes this massive leg lift, balances on his back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost, I would say, an Asian hit or a Japanese hitter kind of feel to it where it's all about fluidity and balance and flow into the swing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it all works for him pretty well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And,

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a guy who has great speed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a threat on the base paths.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He is a rangey center field, or I do think there's some things that should be cleaned up a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't always catch them all the easiest, but there was a lot there really to like and especially for a guy who's

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[SPEAKER_00]: young and kind of has a lot of development ahead of him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was definitely one who kind of raised some open some eyes, I would say, both by what he's doing, but kind of the tools he's done it with.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think, not as you've seen him this year, Josh, but I think you've written them up in the past, also, because I think he was an ACL top pro.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, I was a DSL.

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[SPEAKER_02]: DSL too, but yeah, ACL was one of the where he came.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it sounds like if I'm remembering correctly, it's kind of chapter in a verse, which you saw.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just more interested in a couple other guys on those clubs, but you know, he's having quite allowed year with the new and improved Hill city howlers club.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, that's enough surprise he's up arrow.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But what about for you?

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[SPEAKER_02]: For me, I could go with catcher for the Philadelphia Philly is Elirio Faribus.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He has been injured a lot and now he's healthy and he's raking in clear water.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's probably an offense first catcher because he's a bigger guy, but the offense might be real.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He moved into the top 10.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't be surprised to see him hit Jersey Shore at some point in the next couple of weeks months.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess that's way too big, but he'll get to high for the first time this year, I assume.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But it's offensive minded catcher is something that every club wants and he looks like he's starting to build up that promise thanks to the fact that he's healthy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He was a big mover along with the Ramon Marquez in that system.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's kind of a pops out for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And what about you, Ian?

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[SPEAKER_01]: For me, another one would be Eduardo Rivera with the Red Sox.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I briefly mentioned him earlier, but he was on ranked coming in and he's done, he's a guy who has that always a very good stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He just never has been able to throw strikes consistently.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's never at a walk rate below 10% as a career.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and his walk rate so far this year is under seven percent and he is throwing strikes at a rate he's never done before he made his major league debut obviously at a very memorable game against the Yankees lab one hit I believe in three and a third innings a lot and

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[SPEAKER_01]: So far, he in triple A since he got sent back down in 12 and two thirds innings, he struck out 19 guys and walked three and he was highlighted this week in the stack cast standouts piece because it's a really intriguing arsenal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's just as a bunch of pitches that can miss bats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So two variations of a slider, there's more like a cut slider than a longer slider.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Guff forcing, change up, change up is really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Really neutralizes right handed hitters has a 60% with rate in triple A this year and then both the force even the slider have a

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when you've got that kind of power stuff from a six foot seven frame with, you know, a lot of moving parts that's kind of, it's a deceptive delivery.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to pick up, you, you finally start drawing strikes and that becomes a guy who goes from, you know, outside the top 32, majorly depth right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's interesting to read stocks instead of stretching them back out since they son down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've continued to use him in kind of a multi inning bulk relief role, which I think is a preview of probably what is long term role is, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's working right now and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think right now that he's a good example of someone that they found something with the strike throwing, he's got the stuff and continue him in this role.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then whenever they need help at the Major League level, I think he's someone who will be up at some point again this year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are some, I think that's nine different players who kind of stood out from the top 30s.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've highlighted risers, followers, graduates, injuries all up this morning as you listen to this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for joining us for Josh for Ian.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm JJ.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a long everybody.