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I was way off.

I think Josh Adamczewski. Keep that one, we all love him. https://www.mlb.com/video/josh-adamczewski-s-two-run-home-run

That's a dang good list of players. Pitching kind of runs out towards the end, but the lack of Logan Henderson is kind of telling. I think he's gonna make the team.

Not really flying under the radar this spring, but I’d love to see some more metrics from Ernesto Martinez Jr. Based off of the few games that have had the cameras for it, his bat speed has come in at 79+ mph. If that is consistent, that would put him second in the league behind Stanton at 80mph. Everything he’s hit has been an absolute rocket. Why isn’t he a prospect list darling? Not even Rule 5 drafted? Late bloomer? What are the warts?

Martinez hits the ball so dang hard.

Logan Henderson looks like our best pitcher. Let him work on the offspeed stuff in AAA all year and get on some prospects lists so we get a draft pick from his ROTY next year.

Lara with a 105EV line drive, thrown out going for 2B.

Split squad-big against two teams only trotting out major leaguers is rough.

Ernesto Martinez gonna make the roster. Hit one just short of the wall against Yamamoto (37deg launch angle and 102EV) and now hit a 110mph line drive single. Bat speed of 79.5 and 79.8 respectively (crazy).

Not as bad as it looks. He had two called strikes challenged (one was upheld, the other was “less than .5 inches high”). He also could have challenged probably 3 or 4 called balls. Catcher also dropped a strike. Don’t think anyone could see it well.

Made is number 0?! Too cool.

We gonna double that 5 this year (kidding, but not really).

Yeah it's not a complaint, just an observation. Those original first impressions that these listmakers have are hard to shake. I don't think we care, nor should we. I think we are looking at the bigger picture and are very much out in front of almost every other franchise. We see what NIL is going to do to college baseball. We see what losing levels of the minors has done to rosters. We've invested heavily in the Arizona complex, then the DSL, and now Carolina (all at the bottom rungs of the minors). We are bringing in almost exclusively undervalued 17 year olds with the most development time ahead of them and getting them into best possible situations. We haven't seen this pay off yet, but it sure as hell feels like something special is going on.

I posted this in the Draft Forum, but I’d like to rehash it here: Just last year we had only 2 high school draft picks out of 12 that had birth years in the previous year (Tobias and Broughton). Year before was 5 out of 10 (Pratt, Letson, and 3 unsigned guys). A lot of these high draft picks / highly mocked are well into being 19. We don’t draft that. Payne was a full year younger than most of the first round high schoolers. Bitonti and Knoth were younger than a good majority, and they were drafted the year before. Are we basically drafting guys knowing full well that we are actually drafting them for the following year? We seem to avoid these 19 year old high school day one picks like the plague. Especially in regards to young pitchers, are we drafting them anticipating a lost year to TJ? We’ve even been drafting guys while they’re rehabbing in some instances. *EDIT* Fixed formatting... It just seems that we value having that extra year or two in our system (even if it's recovering from TJ) over a highly ranked guy who has been beating up on kids way younger than them. I feel like our guys are always going to be fighting uphill to be properly ranked when they start off as young draft reaches and lower bonus IFAs. *ANOTHER EDIT* Dug through ages of the past two drafts, and the youngest player drafted in the entire 2023 draft was Eric Bitonti (11/17/05). Knoth, Bitonti, Robinson, and Chambers were all 17 when drafted (maybe a bad sign with multiple TJ's). The youngest player drafted in the entire 2024 draft was Tyler Renz (technically a tie with Ivan Lucano of the Diamondbacks, 11/24/06). Payne, Dorchies, and Renz were all 17 when drafted.

I have no idea what to make of the 9th and 10th round high school pitchers either due to how weird it was... But Ethan Dorchies is listed at 6'5" 215 and turned 18 in October (Renz in November). Very young, very big.

And then 5 more in rounds 11-20.

Boeve always kind of struck me as a Lyle Overbay. That's fine at 1B.

Also I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we have an insane DSL class in what just happens to be first year with the new facility. The whole group may be more prepared (both physically and mentally) than those that came before them. Could be especially exciting with 17 year olds getting the full pitching lab experience before even coming stateside.

Seems like Baseball America finally got fed up and released the data. He does genuinely seem special. Here are his numbers compared to our Chourio in the DSL (they have about 20 other top prospects also in the list and he kind of destroys them all): In Zone Wiff % = Made 10%, Chourio 11% (both are top top tier here) Chase% = Made 15%, Chourio 27% 90%EV = Made 104.2, Chourio 100.4 MAX EV= Made 108.9, Chourio 106.8 (MODS - Feel free to delete if this is too much given away)

Bradfield is listed as 170lbs. Payne was listed as a 190lb 17 year old. Kid is gonna be a big boy.

There was a picture posted a while back of both Made and Pena already in Arizona. Would assume they’re a package deal unless both need to be played at SS.

Cervantes definitely jumped out. I always sort by age first thing on these draft lists. Just last year we had only 2 high school draft picks out of 12 that had birth years in the previous year (Tobias and Broughton). Year before was 5 out of 10 (Pratt, Letson, and 3 unsigned guys). A lot of these high draft picks / highly mocked are well into being 19. We don’t draft that. Payne was a full year younger than most of the first round high schoolers. Bitonti and Knoth were younger than a good majority, and they were drafted the year before.

Prospects #31-40 were released for all teams on BA today. Our "next 10" included 5 teenagers, and only 3 guys over age 20 (Isaac Collins, Yorman Galindez, and Wes Clarke). It's kind of crazy how young our prospect depth is.

There was a graphic on (I think) Baseball America comparing him to another highly regarded DSL player, and they had very similar EVs, OPS, and everything. Made had everyone doubled up on hard hit percentage and all the plate discipline stats. The DSL doesn’t have public numbers on this stuff, but BA has them, and they are pushing this more than anyone. His metrics have not been seen before. Really makes me wonder what they have on Antunez as they are banging that drum pretty hard even without the gaudy DSL numbers.

“no debate he would be 1-1 in this upcoming draft”