Hot Sheet: MLB misses on Futures Game & Draft, Teams that nailed it

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Speaker 1: You may maybe question the first round pick a little bit, but then you look at what they.

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Speaker 2: Did long from this, like, okay, it starts all that up.

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Speaker 3: A special hot sheet from Atlanta.

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Speaker 4: We're in the battery at Trust Humidity Corner in front of a live studio audience. Here it's Scottie Brown along with Baseball America's JJ Cooper and Peter Flaherty. Very excited to recap the draft and everything else that's going on down here in Atlanta. Before we even hit the specifics of the draft, team and player wise, JJ, I do want to take a global look at the sport because we delivered the goods on the Foul Territory network in Baseball America, whether it's good or bad, and we're gonna hype players and teams coming up in a moment. But your picture on Twitter showing the crowd at the Futures game went pretty viral.

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Speaker 3: That's not good.

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Speaker 4: It was quite empty and there were how many players, zero players that showed up for the MLB Draft. And I know it's complicated, but ze Zo, we have to take a step back as a sport and say what are we doing and what should we do to change it?

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's take the draft for a second. First. Okay, so with the draft.

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Speaker 1: The tricky part with the draft that I don't have a good answer for other than maybe pay the players to come is unlike these other drafts. Right in the NFL draft, if you show up, you don't know where you're going to be drafted, but you know that you're going to sign.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: If you get drafted, you're going to sign. You're already done with your eligibility. NBA Draft, if you get drafted, you're going to sign. You could have backed out earlier, but at that point you're going to sign. The baseball draft's not that way. The baseball draft is something where if you're in high school, you can sign, or you could go to college. If you're in college, you can sign, or you can go back to school. And so a lot of agents have the fear that by showing up right, you're indicating in some way that you are going to sign. Now, obviously most of the guys or top first round picks are going to sign, but the agent has to kind of drive that bargain where it's like, look, if you don't give you the money I want, we'll just go to school or we'll stay at school or whatever, and if you're there, that kind of exerts a little bit of pressure on the agent because it's kind of embarrassing if your player a who's sitting there the whole night and you never hear a name called because the agent wanted six point two million and no one was willing to give you more than four point eight and so it's like, Okay, we're going to school. That's the situation that doesn't exist the other ones. I don't know how to Like, we've obviously had players year after year who do show up, but I don't know how to solve that in the long term because the baseball draft is different than the other ones.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so let me ask you about this, because it's generally going to have just first round picks and even potentially ten, top ten, fifteen, twenty ish tops.

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Speaker 3: Is who is going to show up?

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Speaker 4: Because you also don't want to show up there and then not even fall in the first round, even regardless of money.

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Speaker 3: But based on talent, that's one thing.

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Speaker 1: We've had examples where it's like you're a guy in minded and he's gonna show up and you're like, huh, okay.

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Speaker 4: Is he gonna get picked. But here's my question. The draft nowadays essentially has a cap to it. You're alloted at a certain amount of money.

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Speaker 3: Should we make it more.

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Speaker 4: Of a structure where this pick has this designation for how much money, and you go down the line and it becomes really a talent A all the way down to talent Z kind of situation.

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Speaker 1: I would say no, because like that, I will say, for one thing that's kind of almost like the things that the PA has always fought against, that's a salary cap in someone.

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Speaker 3: They already have that in the draft.

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Speaker 2: No, but they don't some ways. They have in some ways.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, if your Paul schemes, you're gonna make more money whatever that pick is than if you're the number one pick in a year where there's no clear number one, there is a negotiation very much going.

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Speaker 4: Sure, But it's like, and I know this is a big deal for individual players, but it's like we're not talking about tens of millions of dollars.

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Speaker 3: We're saying, like, oh, Paul might get eight and a half for ten.

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Speaker 4: Like my thing is, we are ruining pieces of the draft and our sport by embarrassing ourselves and having no one there. Because of the way it's structured, it's already a cap the team has to we should say, the team has to spend their whole a lotment. It's going to be laid out this way. That's my that's my argument forget otherwise, what's the fix again, That's what I don't This is an unusual year. In most years we've had multiple guys there, right, This is like, maybe this is a new trend. Maybe this is a year that a certain agencies who generally are not going to send their players to the draft had many of the top you know, players who were going to go top ten.

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Speaker 2: So maybe it's an unusual year.

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Speaker 1: We don't know on that, But that's again, it is something where yeah, I wish that's the problem with this in the futures game too. The same thing when we talk about the futures game. I don't have an answer an easy answer for that either.

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Speaker 3: I do, Okay, go ahead, and I said it last week.

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Speaker 4: I said it's going to be completely buried from a team and from an attention perspective, because you're putting it on a Saturday, in the thick of games. They have this place held down for a week. Tuesday is the All Star game. Everyone's all hyped up. You just saw the best players on the planet. Want to see the next wave of best players on the planet Wednesday. I don't care about your minor league schedule. If a guy misses a game or.

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Speaker 2: Two, yeah, but they don't play on Wednesday either. They're off too.

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Speaker 4: Who doesn't minor leagues? So here's my point, futures game Wednesday. You have the ballpark, good to go. Don't tell me we want to get everyone now. We can't pay for an extra day or whatever. You're putting it on Saturday where it's buried.

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Speaker 2: I would love to try that.

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Speaker 1: My suspicion is we'll see less than that game in the that situation, less what, less attendance, lesson you see them more, a little better TV ratings, but less attendance.

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Speaker 3: Better TV ratings I think is important. I think. But on the wind much hard than the other day. But on see, That's what I was.

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Speaker 1: Gonna say, though this one's been an unusual one, like Okay, as much as it pains me to say, part of it is you gotta get the right people for the celebrity softball.

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Speaker 2: Now that hurts me, but La was packed. Why was La packed?

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Speaker 3: It's La though they're packed for everything.

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Speaker 2: No, they were packed. They have bad Bunny, do you think so?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I tell you. When I was walking in, I would ask the people, what are you here for?

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Speaker 2: And they were like, bad bunny.

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Speaker 3: So La does show up and not that Atlanta doesn't, but.

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Speaker 1: No, But I would say, also, we are timed here, like I've had Braise fans reach out to me after that tweet and make the points like this is terrible timing. In some ways, Braise fans are very upset, very disheartened with their team right now.

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Speaker 2: Right they're having the worst.

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Speaker 1: Year they've had in years, and so they didn't It wasn't something Jr. Richie started the game. Peyden Harris was in the game. But it's not something where they have a Ronald Lacunya like they've had in the past years. They didn't have an Aussie Albi's in the game. They didn't have you know, going back to Freddy Freeman and Jason.

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Speaker 3: That's why they didn't show up to the Futures game.

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Speaker 1: In some in some way, yeah, like if you said, like when I talk to the Royals, because the Royals Kansas City was the gold standard of this and the Royals fancy. We didn't have anything else, but we had you want to see Ordano Venturo. We wanted to see Will Myers. They had great prospects, and so yeah, they're gonna come see that.

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Speaker 4: Well, let me ask Peter here. So we've been hogging and dominating. As you can tell, we're a little passionate about this one. But Peter, what do you think about my two ideas with the draft and with the Wednesday Futures game? Yay or nay with either of those, and if you have any other ideas. I'm all ears. I know it's complicated.

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Speaker 5: No, I was gonna kind of just let you guys duke it out.

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 5: I was an excited kind of bystander for it. But I don't hate the idea of trying it on a Wednesday. Obviously, you want the most amount of eyes you can on the game and the future of the sport. I think that's really really important. So I mean, if you try it out on a Wednesday's sort of a trial run and see how that goes. I mean, I don't hate it. I'm just all for getting as many eyes as possible. On the sport as we all are, so that idea seems to promote it, so I'm about it.

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Speaker 4: There are a lot of baseball fans that will look for anything baseball, and there's no games on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: It is the other does no games. There's basically like no sports.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing.

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Speaker 4: We are wasting a time period there when it is our time to shine. We should not have blank nights because there are so few in sports, and the Future's game could be really cool for people to check out.

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Speaker 2: You've told me that I would love to try it, and if it doesn't work, we can always.

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Speaker 4: That's my point. What's the worst that happens? You do it on a Wednesday night, it doesn't do as well and it's not worth it. Okay, but I haven't heard a good reason. I know the other ones complicated. I haven't heard a good reason why we wouldn't put it on its own platform on one night to see what happens. So until I'm getting told otherwise. Besides, oh, it's logistically annoying. We'd have to rebudget. Okay, do you want to sell the future of the sport, This is the way to do it.

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Speaker 3: This is the premier showcase and it is a cool event. I've been part of it. I love it.

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Speaker 4: So I'm saying this because I wanted to change all Right, when we come back, we're going to deliver the goods on the draft, teams, players, Shocker at the top, the whole deal coming up next, Scott.

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Speaker 3: Let's hit the first move.

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Speaker 4: Fun night watching the draft for me to follow the storylines, especially at the top, but let's start with team teak takeaways. Peter your thoughts on some teams that stood out one way or another.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean starting with a draft that I really liked. I loved what the Baltimore Orioles did, especially with their first five picks. They got Ike Irish at nineteen, and then they went back to back with Keaton Bodine and Behavior Loy at thirty and thirty one respectively, Slater Debrun and Joseph Jurwa with their CBA pick and their second round pick, and then they rounded out the night with J. T. Quinn and R. J Asin. But particularly focusing on those first five guys. Ike Irish is one of the better hit power combos of any college hitter in this year's class. He's got a comfortably plus arm. The question with him is where does he fit defensively? Even if he does move off of the catcher position, it seems perhaps more likely than not that he ends up in a court downd field spot. The bat is enough and the arm is enough where that's still a really, really enticing profile. Especially with the bat. I mean it's fifty five's on both the hit and power, and then with Bodine he's one of the best defensive catchers and one of the best catchers in general in this year's draft. He's one of only two players that we have Baseball America stuck a plus hit two on him in Kyson Cunningham. Pasing Cunningham rather high school shortstop out of Texas, but outstanding feel for the barrel, double plus contact skills, smooth and sound defender behind the plate with an above average accurate arm behavior Lloyd Golden Spike's Award winner plus batspeed plus power not only rob but most importantly in game I've become increasingly more confident in his ability to stick a shortstop. Slater. Debron kind of fits that bouncy, prototypical leadoff hitter. He's in the mold of someone that fits that archetype. He's a plus defender in center field. The instincts with him are outstanding. And then Joseph Jerwa a little bit of a unicorny type guy and that he's a six foot eight, two hundred pound left hander. Attacks from this really low three quarter slot borderline slight arm slot, plus change up fastball has some run and ride through the zone. It'll be interesting to see how his off speed offerings, particularly is kind of slurvey breaking ball is developed. But I really love those first five picks there. I really like the Phillies trio of arms, particularly with gauge Wood, Kate ober Mueller, and Cody Balker. Particularly gauge Wood it picked twenty six, I think it was. I think that's tremendous value for someone like gauge Wood, who is one of the best fastballs in this year's draft, pairs it with an above average breaking ball, and Kate ober Mueller is a really, really tough ab for both left handers and right handers to get. A plus slider fastball has been up to ninety from a really really low release height. It's just a tough and unique look. So those two classes stood out to me just off the bat.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have to go I'm gonna go to the very top of the draft just to kind of let's talk through the Nationals draft. I do think it was very interesting for a lot of people. I do think that they look at that and say, wow, that was a shocker that they win Eli Willets the high school shortstop one to one. You know a lot of thought that maybe it'll be Kate Anderson, maybe it'll be Ethan Holiday.

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Speaker 2: But Willarts has always kind of been in that mix.

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Speaker 1: He's definitely more of a shortstop long term than Ethan Holiday. The question is is okay, is the power going to develop? But he's also the youngest player literally ever drafted with the first pick, so there's room for him to develop.

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Speaker 2: There's time for him to develop.

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Speaker 1: But the other thing I would say with that is we saw in day two, we saw today kind of the after effects of that. I can say pretty confidently by the way that they drafted on Day two. Eli Willets is not going to get full bonus uh, you know, full bonus pool.

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Speaker 2: We knew that, but.

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Speaker 1: They were able to get guys like Miguel c May who throws one hundred, who was a guy who was considered very likely a second round pick. They got Koy James, who could have easily bit a secondround pick, high school shortstop in the uh, you know, in the fifth round. So these are the kind of guys where you're I wouldn't even say you're spreading it around because Eli Willis was considered one of the top guys in the draft. But by doing that and by making a deal, I would say that they've got like four or five you know swings. You know, they they basically gave themselves more chances in addition to getting a really top talent.

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Speaker 3: Okay, do you think that's right?

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Peter, No, I was gonna say I didn't even really think Eli Willitts was all that surprising. Like I guess, the two leaders in the clubhouse and the lead up to the draft seemed to have been Kate Anderson and Ethan Holiday. But Willitts was always right there. I mean, in our staff draft in late April, I took Willitts one pint one with my hypothetical pick is the Nationals. I mean, he was always a contender. I would say the pick would have fit the bill of shocking if it wasn't any of that trio of Anderson Holiday or Willits and Willitts is a really, really good player, and I think that in the aftermath of last night, he's kind of gone a little bit underrated. I think people don't really realize how good of a player he is. I mean, it's a really enticing offensive profile. The hit ability is advanced. He's got a quick and compact swing from both sides of the plate with an advanced feel for the barrel. I mean it's a fifty five borderline six hit and just naturally JJ you cited it in the open, but I mean he's seventeen years old. He's the youngest number one overall pick in MLB draft history, just a byproduct of him naturally getting older. He's going to add physicality and strength and potentially get to MLB average power, and that creates a really appealing offensive profile to go along with his already above average defense shortstop, He's a plus runner. His baseball sense is outstanding. Comes from a baseball family. His dad, coach Reggie Willitts, was an outfieler with the Angels for seven years. He's now the associate head coach at Oklahoma. His brother Jackson's been the starting shortstop at Oklahoma for two years. I mean, he's been around the game since the second he was he was brought into this world. So I mean, I like people calling the you know, Nationals cheap or whatever for saying they're deal hunting, like not at all, Like make my mistake about it. This dude was the top guy on their board one thousand percent, and they wouldn't have taken anyone else. And you also see the byproduct of that with who they got in the you know, in the following rounds as Jju also alluded to that trio of high schoolers they got in rounds three through five with Lannon Harmon, Miguel Siema, and Koy James, Like that is a really vaunted trio of high upside guys, especially Lannon Harmon and the third six foot five projectable right hander with tremendous arm speed, fastball is a seventy grade pitch. I mean, he's got arguably as much upside as any high school pitcher in the draft or close to it. And Miguel Sime's long been known for his heater and cooy James had a great swing. I had a great spring rather, but I really like what the Nationals did.

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Speaker 4: First off, Peter should have been flaunting that last night. I hope you put that out there. Hey, I took him one one in my way? Did you tweet that out for the world, because most people were looking like, who had this guy going number one?

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Speaker 2: I can't wider the Dodgers in the last staff draft, but I got in the wrong round because we only went to forty and it was sixty three. But you know it was a good fit.

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Speaker 4: Still impressive, Yes, And my second question and seriousness is what do you think of the way that teams are plugging in ages into their models. Do you think obviously it's a big factor, right, Do you think that they're over hyping by doing that or do you think they should you doing that? And just for clarification for our crowd, Yes, youngest player, so they're saying he's got this much more growth based on how we evaluate players at that age.

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Speaker 1: What I would say is it's a piece and it should be a factor, right, you should put it in there. Bobbywit Junior was one of the old guys in his class. So if you said we put our model here and it spits out that you can't draft bobbywit junior because he's too old for the class, didn't rework your model, right, If you want to say, again, the thing with all these models that are that all these teams have now is not it should not be to say here's our pick. It should be to say we're lining up a board and it's trying to take all these I mean literally probably thousands of inputs now, wait them all and then spit out something. But then at the end of the day, the human should still be like, Okay, I know what this says. But now, for instance, if you did a model the year that Mike Trout was a first rounder, which they didn't have many really models back then, but if you did Mike Trout's model, it had been like, uh, now, Jersey high school guy, competition's not good enough. Let's you know, move on. And obviously you don't do that. Yeah, you have to be careful, that's all. But it is a factor, for sure. I just want to make sure people are aware of that.

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Speaker 3: That's enticing.

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Speaker 4: But I think there was a point in our game where you would look at a seventeen year.

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Speaker 3: Old macro kidding me.

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Speaker 4: I'm not putting my freaking job on the line for this kind of wild card. And now it's like, oh, well, first off, we have many years on the five year plan to make sure that this goes right. It buys you time for whoever's making those decisions, and there is growth potential that you, generally on the average curve do not see from a nineteen year old or a twenty two year old.

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Speaker 2: Right that.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, you grow into your body and things change.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, and so you are trying to again you're factoring it in there. You don't take Eli Willets one one because he's young.

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Speaker 2: You take him because you like the talent.

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Speaker 1: You think that this is the guy who could be your shortstop in the long term for years to come. But then it's a nice bonus for him that he's also so young.

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Speaker 4: Yes, all right, we want to hit other points of the top of the draft coming up next, so quickie break and our last break. Then we'll get into some other parts of the top.

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Speaker 4: I said, quickie, break, we are back and let's get in some other portions of the draft. Tyler Bremner number two, I joked on foul Territory earlier today, Angels called him and said, we need at you Friday.

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Speaker 3: You're starting. I'm kidding.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that a million times in the pen. You know, sign them on Thursday their second rounder and then put the LSU reliever and put them in the pen on You know.

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Speaker 4: That's right, Hey, they're making they're trying to make a little wild card run.

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Speaker 3: Don't be surprised.

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Speaker 4: AJ Prazinski and Airocrats sitting on bou Territory earlier with me said by far number one team that they'd want to get a phone call from these days. If they're a college player, is the Angels because of your chance to make it and they've gone through their issues from a performance standpoint, but they're a worse place to be than Anaheim playing with Mike Trout with a chance to win or the chance to get the seam back into playoff contention.

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Speaker 1: Like Peter with Rebner, he's one of the top college pitchers in this class, but he also is kind of one of the guys who could be the fastest movie.

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Speaker 5: Right. Yeah, so we knew the Angels would kind of make some noise or potentially make a splash it too. They did just that with getting Tyler Bremner presumably on a decent haircut, but a little bit like will It's people kind of get how good Tyler Bremner is. I mean, the fastball is a plus pitch up to ninety eight. The traits about it, or the under the hood traits are really exciting. His change ups a legitimate wipeout double plus pitch that's one of the best of its kind and one of the best individual pitches in this year's draft. The slider has above average potential, and he's a plus stripe thrower with an outstanding mound presence and a slam dunk starter. So, I mean, when you start to bucket these guys and you know see where they fit, he fits into a whole lot of positive buckets and also is kind of you mentioned to be a potentially efficient mover. There isn't really an obvious wart with Bremner that you can point to and circle and be like, Okay, you know we really got to dive in here and fix this or this area really needs work. Yes, the slider needs were finding it got hit around a little bit this year. There are other things you know, you can tinker with, but he's a really polished arm.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I'll just add with that is that when you look at a guy like Bremner, there was a lot of like, oh, but he didn't perform this year. He just performed poorly at the wrong time, which is the start of the season, and then he was back to being Tyler Bremner. But if you just focused on it in you know, March, you're like, oh.

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Speaker 2: He's not what he's supposed to be. By the end of the year, he was what he's supposed to be.

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Speaker 4: Anyone else that you want to run through that really stood out one way or another, Oh it looks like we have a question took more of a comment but still worth bringing up from Dylan who follows the show, and we appreciate that, Dylan. I'm intrigued by Kyson Witherspoon at fifteen overall to the Red Sox. His skipper in college was phenomenal in developing him.

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Speaker 1: I gotta say the Red Sox pitching, you know, you caroll about Witherspoon, but Witherspoon, Marcus Phillips, Anthony Ayinsen, who we expected to go a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit higher than that.

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Speaker 1: This is a number of starters who all could end up being you know, I mean a number of pitchers who can all make an impact for the Red Sox and could all be reasonably fast movers. Don't expect them there this year, don't maybe expect them their next year. But okay, twenty seven, Yeah, I Thinksop Praisy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a really fun trio, especially just given the prowess of the Red Sox player development department, particularly on the pitching side. But focusing solely on the comment about Kayson, I mean, he's another one that was one of the premier arms in this year's draft. Plus fastball, slider, combo, above average strike thrower, change up will Flash holds his velocity really impressively throughout the entirety of his outing I mean, he'll live in the mid nineties and bump a ninety seven to ninety eight for the entirety of his start. Like, he's a starter all the way for me. And he's another one that I think is a fun developmental pairing with the Red Sox. Same with Phillips and Ianson. From a stuff standpoint, Phillips, especially with the fastball slider combo he has. He's this big, physical right hander. This stuff is really loud. I think there's a ton of upside there.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's get one more comment in there.

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Speaker 4: Will Di Bartolow even be the GM for the Nash Knows or in the front office by the time will it gets to the show?

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Speaker 2: Great question.

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Speaker 1: We do have past precedent here because when Mike Rizzo made the pick in two thousand and nine certain Steven Strasburg, he was the introm GM because Jim Bowden had been.

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Speaker 3: Let you know, I had resigned in March yep.

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Speaker 1: So it doesn't guarantee that that will happen, but it is absolutely a possibility. But I will also say with this, this is something where by doing what they did it may have altered how they did the draft, but at the same time, the same general people were making these decisions, you know, the same you still have the same scouting department, the analytics department, the you know, sports performance department, all those places are still involved in this. And so I would say, yeah, we don't know the answer to that question. They did not right away make him the permanent GM, but it is they the Nationals do have a precedent of promoting someone to that role in this situation.

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Speaker 4: And hey, the Rockies had Bill Schmid as the interim quite a bit of go and he's still running. I mean, maybe not for much longer, but he's been running for a long time in that role.

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Speaker 3: So it is possible.

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Speaker 4: But you could also make that case for any GM that drafts a seventeen year old, and if that seventeen year old does take time, like let's say they don't get up to the show till they're two or twenty three, any GM could be under fire over a five to six year period.

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Speaker 1: But that's what it'll be interesting to see because the great ones don't take that long. Now, he might, but Bobby Witt Junior beat a lot of the college guys from his draft class to the matrix. You know, the great ones CJ. Abrams from that class moved really quick. The great ones at the top of the draft don't take a whole lot of time.

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Speaker 4: Right, that's true. Yeah, Hey, you're seeing those very young call ups. Roman Anthony was Roman Anthon's what twenty two?

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Speaker 3: That? Oh he's twenty three?

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Speaker 2: Now no, I'm right, I thought you were on draft class.

00:27:02
Speaker 3: Oh, draft class. I'm saying, how old is Roman Anthony?

00:27:05
Speaker 2: Twenty one? Twenty one? Yeah?

00:27:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, so when it's so yeah, twenty one, when you're seeing someone like that, he's not twenty two until next May.

00:27:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah.

00:27:14
Speaker 4: If there's a special melt right the way fast exactly cool? All right, last, not on your way out? Give me one more guy you really liked one way or another. Both of you have one ready on our way out.

00:27:23
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to say that the Braves, I know a lot of people complained about their first pick. Then they went out and they took Alix Lodiso, I really like is their second round pick.

00:27:32
Speaker 2: And then they got Rix McKenzie.

00:27:33
Speaker 1: Who was probably gonna be a second round pick, I would say, on talent, and they got him I think fourth round and you'll get a lot of money.

00:27:40
Speaker 2: I kind of liked.

00:27:42
Speaker 1: You may maybe question the first round pick a little bit, but then you look at what they did long term and it's like, okay, it starts to all that up.

00:27:49
Speaker 5: I'll go with the last pick of the night of Night one rather with the Dodgers taking Landon vitorick outfeeler in a Cincinnati really loud tool set, with him fresh off a career year, real bat speed consistently generates quality contact to all fields. The batted ball data is really really impressive with Vitoric Chase. It just a seventeen percent clip with advanced swing decisions, and he gets even more aggressive against pitches, you know, kind of in his gozone. You could call it. That would serve him well. He's a plus runner, he knows how to run, he's got an above average arm and right field I mean you just kind of hear me walk through him a little bit. It's a really really fun tool set, and when you when you pair that with the fact that he's going to be in the Dodgers system and under the guys of their player development department, that makes the pick all the all the more intriguing.

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