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[SPEAKER_06]: JJ Cooper, Jeff Ponds, Josh Norris, the Baseball America Hot Sheet Show, and we have a loaded show for you today.

[SPEAKER_06]: We just updated all of our top 30s for all 30 MLB organizations.

[SPEAKER_06]: We'll be talking a little bit about that.

[SPEAKER_06]: We will have, we're looking forward to talking to Marlins, Ryeander, Carson Millbrand, who's been dominating the Southern League all season, doubly, Southern League, and

[SPEAKER_06]: Just join our top 100 prospects list today newly minted on the top 100 and we're going to celebrate by talking to Carson But also as we always do we want to get your questions as well So hit us up ask us questions in the YouTube chat and we will get to those and try to roll along and answer what you want to know About prospects about baseball Jeff and I've also been keeping a very close eye on college baseball and the bubble watching all as well but

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[SPEAKER_06]: So as we said, the top 30s have all been updated.

[SPEAKER_06]: I believe we ended up with 113 new reports, new prospects who joined the top 30s, not just graduations, not just moving guys around, like you adding guys to replace those, but we really did take a top to bottom look at all 30 organizations and re-rank them, re-ordered them, added players, dropped players off, and

[SPEAKER_06]: And basically Jeff, I'll kind of start with you, as you did this, like there does feel like that there are some organizations that their stock just keeps their systems just keep rising.

[SPEAKER_06]: And others are dropping a little bit, the power is of drop because if you graduate Connor Griffin and Boba Chandler, your system's not as good as it was before.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and I traded a couple of systems and ended up with the Washington Nationals at a really good time to have the Washington National System.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was talking about Jackson Kent, who's had a great season yesterday on the baseball America fantasy podcast with Elon White.

[SPEAKER_04]: Dylan was kind of going into Jackson Kent and you know how, you know,

[SPEAKER_04]: the breaking balls and trying to sort of all the things that were going right.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it was funny because he really didn't move up in the national's top 30 because there's so many guys in that system that are ascending at this moment.

[SPEAKER_04]: Obviously, we've talked at Nazim about Devin Fitzgerald at this point.

[SPEAKER_04]: But even guys like Miguel Simey, you're Remi Cabrera, there's just a lot of good talent in that system.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that's certainly one that I can pinpoint and say is,

[SPEAKER_04]: Extremely talented looks like, you know, throughout the season could continue to get better.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's guys outside their top 10 that are probably top 5 prospects and some of my other systems, frankly.

[SPEAKER_06]: Josh, the other thing that stands out is we have like the the brewers I think are one that we you were talking about earlier today like that you when you look it's like okay the brewers just seem like they produce another player after another player after another player brewers raise like who also stands out to you is this kind of some of the the prospect groups are kind of the the cream that's rising to the top.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, among groups, I do the Dodgers system and they have about as many outfielders.

[SPEAKER_00]: They have two, I guess, Mexico wrote a move today.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they have two full groups of outfielders at their levels.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, at six to seven prospects between high and double enders, guys at other levels two, who are at the top of their system.

[SPEAKER_00]: If they are going to make deals at this deadline, I would expect

[SPEAKER_00]: Multiple of those guys to move because you know there's only three spots in Los Angeles and they can't all occupy them But they're all going to be valuable in trade.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's you know, it's kind of a one-stop shop for do you want a super speedy guy That's kind of a George you got a well-rounded players that's Mike Sarot and Eduardo Pintero Do you want the highest upside guy at the mall in terms of offensive ability and it's host weight to Paula

[SPEAKER_00]: And there's all sorts of fun stuff that you can get at fun stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: Fun players that you can get in those systems.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I left outside your hope in there and Charles Dabbalon.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there's a couple other position groups in there.

[SPEAKER_00]: But outfielders, they're just stuff to the gills.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, we're going to take a lot of the questions later on in the show, but there's one that fits just perfectly for right now, which is Chris Brennan asks, how does the Padre system compare now to the start of the season pointing up?

[SPEAKER_06]: And I would say yes, I do the Padre system for us in this update.

[SPEAKER_06]: And it partly with the main reason it points up is because Ethan Salus is back to being Ethan Salus.

[SPEAKER_06]: He's healthy, he's performing.

[SPEAKER_06]: He can't move up on the Padres rankings.

[SPEAKER_06]: He was already number one on our Padres list, but he has moved up in our most recent top 100 prospects ranking update.

[SPEAKER_06]: But it's not just that.

[SPEAKER_06]: I would say cash may field who's also kind of stood out as a guy who's had a very impressive start to a season.

[SPEAKER_06]: But going deeper on in the list, I would say long hung sue the right hander.

[SPEAKER_06]: guy who kind of when they signed him last year out of Taiwan was already kind of showing an impressive arm.

[SPEAKER_06]: But he's found another gear of velocity.

[SPEAKER_06]: He moved in the top 10 up to 96, 97, 98.

[SPEAKER_06]: And so that's another one that I'd say yes.

[SPEAKER_06]: The

[SPEAKER_06]: The system overall still thin, but is definitely improving, and those were a couple of guys that do that.

[SPEAKER_06]: I know Jeff said that we've talked a lot about Devon Fitzgerald, but we would be remiss.

[SPEAKER_06]: Josh went out and saw Devon Fitzgerald last week.

[SPEAKER_06]: We remiss in not bringing up Devon Fitzgerald.

[SPEAKER_06]: He had a monster week last week, appears on the hot sheet very prominently this week.

[SPEAKER_06]: But Josh, you got to see Devon Fitzgerald last week.

[SPEAKER_06]: What really stood out, what impressed, and what kind of do you think he could end up being?

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I saw him last year too in the complex league when he was with the Rangers and I may have been a little light on him just because, okay, sometimes you get the guy who's too advanced with the conflict, fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: He bullied the conflict league and moved up and then unfortunately he got hurt and that was that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you see him in high A last week, and it's what sticks out.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a hitter.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's about as well rounded, like hitter as he can be.

[SPEAKER_00]: He can lose the ball this winter field, which he did multiple times in a last week series in Winston Salem, which is no easy task.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a high wall and it's far.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he also can pull the ball with authority, and he can shoot it in the five hole.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not a slugger.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a hitter.

[SPEAKER_00]: He and you don't see those these that much these days in the minor league.

[SPEAKER_00]: A guy who can do it all knows what he's doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not just geared to lift and pull the death.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a lot of arrows in his quiver as far as offensive games are as offensive game is concerned.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's really refreshing to watch a guy who can actually hit and then you know turn on one of the needs.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you know it came a couple of feet probably from the cycle to close his

[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, he is a definitely one to watch, definitely one of the prospects who's kind of done the most to kind of raise their prospect status.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you for joining us Carson Milbrandt.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not going to embarrass you too much, but I am going to read off your stats from this year because I don't think people are going to believe in which is 3 and 1, 1.24 ERA7 starts for AA, Pensacola, 12 walks, 51Ks in 36 innings.

[SPEAKER_06]: But I'll say this Carson.

[SPEAKER_06]: I want to start with this.

[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you for joining us.

[SPEAKER_06]: But

[SPEAKER_06]: When I'm flipping channels, if I'm bouncing around games, I never wonder if I'm seeing you pitcher not because you do not see a whole lot of pitchers.

[SPEAKER_06]: If I see if there's no runners on and I see that delivery and I see those hands go above the head.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, yep, Carson Millbrands pitching tonight.

[SPEAKER_06]: I just want to ask you, like, we don't see a whole lot of old school windups anymore.

[SPEAKER_06]: Has that always been part of your delivery?

[SPEAKER_06]: Like, what does it do for you to kind of go over, you know, to kind of to go a little old school there?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's definitely something I started when I was a senior in high school.

[SPEAKER_01]: I committed a Divander Bill and then you know you're watching a lot of Kumar Rocker and Jack Lighter.

[SPEAKER_01]: Those guys go overhead, so.

[SPEAKER_01]: Good guys go overhead.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: So I started doing it my senior year and then kind of just fell in love with it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the timing.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little funky.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't get me wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: I watched some video and I'm like, man, I kind of look ridiculous out there.

[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, I'm loving it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And there is also good.

[SPEAKER_06]: It does seem like it says, I know it looks a little funky, which it used to not.

[SPEAKER_06]: It used to it have looked like every other pitcher.

[SPEAKER_06]: But when you say that, though, like, does it keep you like, you're trying to stay on time, you're trying to stay in sync, right now?

[SPEAKER_06]: Does that kind of like, is it, like, almost like, does it give you that feel to kind of make sure that you're lower half and your arms are all kind of going together?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, like, well, all I want to execute a page, and it's like, I have probably a lot of seeing, but you know, and I execute it, it kind of changed that feeling, and I feel like this wind up is the most consistent.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it changed that feeling of exceeding vicious.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Carson.

[SPEAKER_04]: I wanted to dig in a little bit on the pitch mix.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think one of the most interesting things, you know, about your mix is the fact that you have three really distinct breaking ball shapes and a slider curve ball in a sweeper, all move differently, all have really good power and movement for their pitch types and a ton of spin.

[SPEAKER_04]: When did you develop sort of the second breaking ball and then sort of the third, like, what was that progression and development like.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um, I always had this little like I always had a good heater and then I could always spend the curve bump pretty well, but uh, first couple of years of probiot just kind of develop a change up and then, uh,

[SPEAKER_01]: couldn't really develop a change about the time.

[SPEAKER_01]: So we tried to just kind of get another bridge pitch was end up being that cutter gyro thing and honestly I fell in love with it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably one of my better pitches now.

[SPEAKER_01]: So then it was just kind of, you know, you got this four or five pitch mix and just figured out when to throw them.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of how I've been doing this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: I would say the bigger sweeper and the curveball play better off with the gyros.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of executing those at the right counts and then going out there and doing it.

[SPEAKER_04]: But that really like a deliberate move on the part of like yourself and Marlin's picking development, which Kudos of them, they've developed a heck of a lot of arms recently.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think after the 24th season, you know, we needed to change, and that was what we came up with.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, obviously with the the new staff, you know, if I could throw a knuckle ball on it, it'd be gross.

[SPEAKER_01]: They would let me throw a knuckle ball out, they know, I mean, if they love the gross pitches, so if you could throw a gross pitch, you know, they're all for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Josh, you got one?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Carson, I'm sorry, I didn't see myself on screen, it didn't know it was up.

[SPEAKER_00]: My question is, what have you learned about yourself since turning pro?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's up in a long while, so Ty's will, what have you learned about yourself as a picture?

[SPEAKER_01]: just kind of how my body moves and what I need to do to be prepared to go out and compete at the highest level.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, in high school you're going out there, maybe doing some arms circles sitting the foam roller.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was pretty.

[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't have my first two years when I'm very pretty.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you know, I feel like I got myself into some sticky situations, which now I feel like, you know, if I forget those type of situations I've been there before, so I know how to handle them.

[SPEAKER_06]: you mentioned like you said you're in an organization now if you could throw you know whatever you can throw as long as it's something the hitters are going to hate they they want to bring that hatred out uh you know let let that hitters suffer but it's he goes beyond that like this is an organization now that like that also seems like it's like it really like pitch design and kind of constantly working at that really now is kind of that that's part of kind of it's not just your development but it's kind of part of your season as well is it not

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: For sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, actually, or we don't throw up all pens here.

[SPEAKER_01]: We do, uh, we call them pitch designs where it's basically, uh, it's a bullpen effort, but there's a batter in the box.

[SPEAKER_01]: These get swings off here.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's instant feedback, you know, if I throw a bad slider and it gets hammered, it's like, all right, I didn't execute that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I can ask the batter who's one of the teammates and one of my good buddies.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, she can straight.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's going to be a, that's going to be a wonderful thing.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like, you can

[SPEAKER_06]: Does it speed up kind of the process of understanding of it?

[SPEAKER_06]: Because obviously there's a lot of other tools now, but if you've got a hit or on your team who you can trust is telling you, I hate that or that, oh, do that again.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's gonna be a different level of feedback.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is, yeah, you know, you see it, you know, either like swing and miss, you can't get an ugly swing or they blasted over the fence.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, it's instant feedback and it's super cool to talk to theators about it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I can imagine that's fairly important too.

[SPEAKER_04]: Quick question, are you guys using pitchcom at that level like they do at the big league level?

[SPEAKER_01]: No, we don't use pitchcom till triple it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the other part I want to follow up on, you play in Pensacola, it's one of the more interesting parks in the minor leagues where you're right there out in the ocean.

[SPEAKER_04]: You get some of those wins that are helping you out and a couple of balls, maybe a break and ball you hang and it gets bang, but it can actually leave the park.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it's, uh, depending on the day, you know, it's either really helpful or it's howling out.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I was actually fortunate enough my, uh, first game, one of my, uh, good buddies on a team, uh, Finn McTremble, Rob DeHum run for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, the win was howling in that day.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think in any other park or in either day, it's going off our scoreboard, but got lucky at the win too.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to ask next, you're in the fall lead last year and you were one of the better pictures.

[SPEAKER_00]: What did you learn from being around other teams coaching staffs and other players for, you know, five other organizations for six weeks?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you know, I think it was cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: The pitching coach, we had a pilot, it was super cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's got to pick in his brain, you know, a lot of those guys have been there before.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, like, kind of like I said, how the, the gyro and the sweeper kind of play off each other.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, kind of the trial and error, again, his opinion on it, get another guy's opinion on it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, it's cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: And just how to see the other orgs handle their business and go about their stuff.

[SPEAKER_06]: I know you might not, you know, it might not seem like it to viewers based on your RRA, but the southern league this year has been way more offensive.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like I think that the league RRAs around five homeruns are flying at a rate that they weren't.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like I know you were there.

[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's two starts at the end of last year, but you were also obviously in high last year.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's also up.

[SPEAKER_06]: Any idea like is anything feel different this year?

[SPEAKER_06]: Cause it just hitters have, you know, had a great offseason or what?

[SPEAKER_06]: They haven't had against you, but like it does seem like the ball may be flying a little

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um, obviously I love it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Watch our boys launch them home runs, but uh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I feel like I'm not giving up a couple of home runs this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, hitters are good here.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think you know, just kind of elevate your game where you're like, I need to be on my A game.

[SPEAKER_01]: You got to make sure this guy doesn't get as good swing off on me.

[SPEAKER_01]: So, got to execute these pitches.

[SPEAKER_06]: The other thing you mentioned, the hitters that your teammates with, but I also want to bring up like, you're part of a group now.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like, there's a lot of pictures in this organization who are taking steps who are knocking on the door.

[SPEAKER_06]: What is it like, kind of, you know, like with your, again, with your teammates, with your organization teammates, you again, like to kind of be coming up together and like seeing other guys develop too.

[SPEAKER_06]: Like I said, you've been in the York for a number of years here, you've seen some other guys who are also taking steps for it, I feel like.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, you said that group, you got Thomas Y, you got a snowing, you got a deck.

[SPEAKER_01]: You got a bunch of guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: So those guys were all a big league camp with past spring, which my first big league camp.

[SPEAKER_01]: So kind of just seeing how they go about their business.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you can learn a lot from them just watching them go about it.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then, yeah, they can their brand.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's super cool, it's super good group of guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let me ask you've ended last season in Pensacola.

[SPEAKER_04]: You came back this year off the field.

[SPEAKER_04]: What sort of stuff are you doing out there to unwind?

[SPEAKER_04]: Where do you guys get into any good eats?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we got some goodies down here.

[SPEAKER_01]: We do a lot of spike ball on the beach.

[SPEAKER_01]: The beach here is beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a big coffee guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: Lots of good coffee shops around here.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's a place called the Grand Marlin.

[SPEAKER_01]: Really good fish, big fish guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, there's a lot of stuff to do here.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I got the ocean, which is beautiful, a good grub, a good little good people in the town.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's fun.

[SPEAKER_04]: You picked out a spike ball on the field for the last year.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's up?

[SPEAKER_04]: So you picked up Spike Ball in the beach and below it last year, I'm sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, the beach and below it's beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: Beautiful, especially in April.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's 30 degrees there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Beautiful.

[SPEAKER_06]: So, of course, I didn't want Oscar also ask about, you know, facing guys in league, who are, is there a hit or comes to mind?

[SPEAKER_06]: It's like, you know, whether you've got the best of him or he's got the best of you, but someone is like, man, if I see him in the box, I just know that that's going to be a challenge.

[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe a fun challenge, but one was like, ah, it's going to be, you know, that guy's going to make it, make me work for.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: like Blake Burke is just an absolute unit in the box and I don't know if you can like look at his stats against the waters, but he's done some damage against us.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's got four homers off us in a week, so he can swing it, you know, he's isn't unit in the box, too.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's a good header, but yeah, I'd say he's by my number one guy for sure.

[SPEAKER_06]: You got it right.

[SPEAKER_06]: Four homers against you guys in basically, and that's only in like, yeah, that's in 12 games.

[SPEAKER_06]: So, you know, one home every three game.

[SPEAKER_06]: You guys.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you can play.

[SPEAKER_06]: But well, again, congratulations on the season so far.

[SPEAKER_06]: Best of luck with the remainder of the season, obviously, as well.

[SPEAKER_06]: And we will look forward, like you said, you Thomas White, you know, selling when he comes back, you know, all that looking forward to see all you guys in Miami before too long.

[SPEAKER_01]: So thank you for your appreciate it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for having me.

[SPEAKER_06]: That was Carson Millbrand, Marlin's pitcher, and newly added member of the baseball America Top 100.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And as we promised, we are gonna take your questions and there is a question from Dan Schweiger, 37,700, I guess, 37,000, oh, the question is, how do you view Eric Hartman's ceiling given his recent surge?

[SPEAKER_06]: That is Braves Outfielder, Eric Hartman, that is top 100 prospect Eric Hartman and Jeff, I would say coming into the year,

[SPEAKER_06]: It would have been stunning that we would be talking in mid-May about top 100 prospect Eric Hartman because he was on the back of the, he was on the brace top 30, but it wasn't anywhere knocking on the door of the hundred.

[SPEAKER_06]: What do you see his ceiling as and how much has he raised that ceiling?

[SPEAKER_06]: since the start of the year.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think, you can say pretty comfortably that he's raised his ceiling quite a bit since the beginning of the season and just how that's viewed.

[SPEAKER_04]: Especially with the type of tools he's had, think the most impressive thing about Hartman is, you know, throughout the season, we get access to, you know, a variety of stat-cast data that's non-public.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we get it updated, you know, maybe every few weeks or whatever.

[SPEAKER_04]: Throughout the season, even throughout the power surges, some of that was certainly aided by some of the parks he was hitting in.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I think you can look at the contact skills in zone contact rate of 84% overall contact rate of 75%.

[SPEAKER_04]: It continues to get better each time that we check in and look.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's someone that truly discerns balls from strikes and you can see that when watching him.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's really aggressive on pitches in the zone, he's more selective on when he does chase.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's big power here.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's big speed.

[SPEAKER_04]: There is defensive impact as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: So think you look at someone like this and it's pretty reasonable to think that he could ascend into the top 50.

[SPEAKER_04]: Beyond that it's really hard to know.

[SPEAKER_04]: He needs to be challenged before I'm going to start throwing in top 30, top 25.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's kind of rare or fight air.

[SPEAKER_06]: Another question here from Alec Ardur, our Alec Ardur, and 95, how do you view Zack Thornton?

[SPEAKER_06]: Him being called up Wednesday.

[SPEAKER_06]: We have the movement of youth movements here with the Mets, which I didn't expect to see.

[SPEAKER_06]: Number 10 prospect in our updated Mets top 10.

[SPEAKER_06]: Either of y'all, I'll take it aflop, but if anyone wanna take this Thornton question,

[SPEAKER_06]: seeing none, I'll take it.

[SPEAKER_06]: So I would say basically you're looking at a lefty here who in top 10 prospect for the bets, but not a like top 100 prospect.

[SPEAKER_06]: I would say that he's more of a useful addition, a useful help to that to that to the you know to the pitching staff that then this is a difference maker this is not known on the clean part 2.0 this is not Jonah Tom coming up.

[SPEAKER_06]: There is control here so I do think that he may have a little bit plus control which should give a little bit of an easier.

[SPEAKER_06]: You know, kind of feel to feeling out and getting adjusted to the big leagues.

[SPEAKER_06]: So I would say useful edition, not even probably the most useful edition of the week, though, because I also Nick Morbito is coming up as well.

[SPEAKER_06]: Obviously following on AJ, you in coming up, we've had Carson Vegino on McLean Up.

[SPEAKER_06]: all year, and that's a lot more prox prospects, Metz prospects that I expected to see up at this point.

[SPEAKER_06]: Before we wrap, it is the hot sheet show.

[SPEAKER_06]: I do want to also touch base.

[SPEAKER_06]: We already talked about Devon Fitzgerald number two on this week's prospect hot sheet of the hottest prospects in the lighters.

[SPEAKER_06]: We literally talked to number three prospect on it, Carson Milbrand.

[SPEAKER_06]: But our number one prospect this week on the prospect hot sheet was Hobbes Outfitter King Kepley.

[SPEAKER_06]: Josh, you wrote up Kane for our hot sheet this week.

[SPEAKER_06]: Incredible week, but what is it that people should know fans should know about Ken Keppel?

[SPEAKER_00]: He hits the ball, awesome, and doesn't swing him his.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can run, I can play center field,

[SPEAKER_00]: There's some similarities with Mr. Fitzgerald as well, not nearly as much power, but the kind of left-handed smaller hitter who can shoot the ball around the outfield and make an impact that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just a professional hitter, I think it's kind of a interesting little marriage one and two that we had with those two guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's kind of the same reputation he had over here in North Carolina Chapel Hill for three seasons.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a guy who can get on base at cause trouble.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I do want to also highlight on there that number five on that was Theo Gillin.

[SPEAKER_06]: I would say also like we probably haven't talked about him enough on the hot sheet show considering how impressive he's been.

[SPEAKER_06]: That is a guy to 100% keep an eye on the rays out there at Theo Gillin was a top hundred prospect coming into the year.

[SPEAKER_06]: We're getting ready to do another update.

[SPEAKER_06]: We do an update every month at start of the month when we do our next update.

[SPEAKER_06]: I feel pretty comfortable in saying that we're just going to keep

[SPEAKER_06]: pushing the O'Gillin higher and higher up that list.

[SPEAKER_06]: So that is today's hot sheet show.

[SPEAKER_06]: We really appreciate Carson Milbrand joining us.

[SPEAKER_06]: That was fun to get to talk pitching with Carson Milbrand, but also to get a chance to take your questions as well.

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