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I have no reason to be, but I am a Juan Baez truther. All these teens are so young for their levels that it’s gonna be neat to see who takes off after sticking around a level for another year. Gonna have to be able to play all over the field to make room for those coming up behind them though. Could make for some super utility guys in a few years.

Is Di Turi the most underrated prospect in our system?

That Del Chairo interview (along with Bitonti turning into a monster after he basically called it throughout said interview) has me embracing the terrible. Not worried at all.

Tarazona with two doubles in his first game while playing catcher. Turned 17 yesterday.

Him and Made would be a funny combo for people who have only read the names (I assume it is “dough-neigh”). Jesus made, Carlos done.

Technically, the Blue scored 4… I choose to believe that Gold is putting up a 50 in the 4th inning.

Both box scores frozen with the Brewers up to bat in the 4th. In my experience, that means huge innings.

I looked up the first game from last year to see if Made and Pena stood out right away… Made 2/3 with a 2B and a HR Pena 2/3 all singles.

DSL Gold looks to be the loaded team based on Baseball America’s write up on our 2025 class. Everyone but Antunez from their list is on that team.

Baseball America has it's International Class Reviews for 2025 up today. They have Antunez, Fenelon, and Acosta in our "Top of the Class" signings with a bunch more under "Names to Know" Thought it would be cool to look up last years to see if anyone saw Made and Pena coming. Here are their excerpts as the first two "Names to Know" after Quintana being the only one listed in "Top of the Class" : Jesus Made, SS, Dominican Republic: Made, 17, was one of big three international signings this year for the Brewers, landing a $950,000 bonus. He has grown to 6-foot-2, 195 pounds, a physical, athletic shortstop with a chance to hit for power from both sides of the plate, especially from the right side. Made fires the barrel through the zone with good bat speed and a knack for driving the ball with backspin, flashing above-average raw power. Some scouts thought his contact skills were solid for his age, though it could end a power-over-hit profile. Made is an above-average athlete with plus speed and an arm that’s at least a 60 and potentially a 70 on the 20-80 scouting scale. He will need more polish defensively and could end up outgrowing the position, with third base or center field potential landing spots. Luis Peña, SS, Dominican Republic: Peña is the other of Milwaukee’s three big international signings this year along with Quintana and Made, joining the Brewers for an $800,000 bonus. At 5-foot-11, 185 pounds, he has a strong, compact build for 17 that’s packed with explosiveness. He’s a righthanded hitter whose swing can get long, but he has shown solid bat-to-ball skills for his age because he picks up spin well with a flatter path to the ball. He has the combination of strength and bat speed to drive the ball for hard contact, though his approach is geared more toward line drives than loft right now, with the potential for plus raw power. Peña doesn’t have the long, gliding strides of a lot of speedsters, but he’s a power runner with 70 speed on the 20-80 scale. He has to clean some things up with his actions to stay at shortstop, but his athleticism gives him a chance to stay there, with a plus arm that would also fit at third base.

It really feels like we are onto something with the whole high school arms early (1-2), college arms middle (3-10), and high school arms late (11-20). Let the DSL pipeline handle the hitter depth at lower levels and supplement it with a bat here and there. Gonna be neat to see how we handle all those kids piling up at Carolina and Arizona.

That Brenton Del Chairo interview is hitting like crack with all these Bitonti bombs

As a little extra today, Chris Levonas is currently pitching on ESPN. **EDIT** Taken out after 1.1 innings pitched. Not a great season for him.

It might get lost in this thread, but this is absolutely must listen for anyone that visits this forum.

Last years DSL class was so loaded I’d honestly be happy if this years had even half the talent.

That was a crazy run of posts. Rarely get EV data, and it’s all nuts. And the guy they were facing for all that was throwing 97.

Bitonti grand slam breaks the game open. Gonna need some data on that one cause he may have hit it 500 feet. Camera couldn’t find it.

It seems like him and Bitonti (and Made) are a bit too patient. Need to be jumping on the earlier stuff when it’s there to hit.

Wonder if the success and the usage of those late high school picks gives us a little more pull in the draft when it comes to signing. Sure beats being recruited/transferred over as an underclassman.

Man the depth of just decent young players throughout the lineups at Carolina and Arizona is just silly. I doubt many of them are true prospects but it’s just cool to see entire lineups of teenage competence.

Made just lasers a single into center with so much spin that it jumped a few feet to the right of the CF on the bounce and rolls to the wall. Probably and error, maybe an inside the park home run.

A valid point with the 33rd pick (Andrew Fischer, 1B Tennessee) is that we've basically drafted him twice in the last two drafts with Wilken and Burke. Albeit a bit smaller than those two, he's kind of our early pick type lately. Ethan Conrad checks those boxes too, but with Wilken’s school (Wake Forest) rather than Burke’s.

Going off of BA’s Top 200 I just wanted to single some guys out that I think seem our type from the past couple years. That type? Young for the draft class, Northeast (New York / Jersey) and Midwest (Michigan, Indiana, Illinois) pitchers with pitchability over pure stuff. 71. Uli Fernsler (Michigan LHP, 18.0 at draft) 99. Marcelo Harsch (New Jersey RHP, 18.1 at draft, Wake Forest commit, basically Levonas from last year) 109. Frank Cairone (New Jersey LHP, 17.8 at draft) 120. Ethan Grim (Penn RHP, 18.1 at draft) I think we take one or two of these guys.

Luke Adams has had an insane month of May too with a 315/.500/.537 going into today.

Yeah seeing him and Letson pitching again would result in a huge exhale.