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Brendan Gawlowski Prospects Chat: 3/3/26
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Brendan Gawlowski
3:08
Seems significant. SFG going the other way does too.
Dog Walker
3:08
Not a gun to your head but more like the local dog walker uses your front yard as a bathroom if you dont choose.  If you had to select one for a keeper league who is it:  Jac Caglianone or Bryce Eldridge?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:09
Eldridge but good/tough question
Oaktown Blues
3:10
Do you have a guess as to why the "abolish the draft" viewpoint so prevalent among scouts/prospect evaluators? (Or is it not and FG has just had several who feel that way)
Brendan Gawlowski
3:11
I have no idea if it's prevalent among scouts... I think it's probably just more prevalent among people on the left.
Although, even if you kept the bonus pool structure the same, I still think it would be more fun to have a signing day format than the draft, which isn't really aligned with the left-right spectrum.
Dodgers Blue
3:11
Are you in on each of Dylen Beavers, Daylen Lile and Jac Caglianone this year?  Any one much more so than the others?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:12
Think Beavers is ready to go and will be productive from the jump, so he sticks out first.
millvillemeltdown
3:13
are there any players you've been way higher than consensus on where you were vindicated?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:13
Ragans would be the best one. But everybody has hits like this and misses like Richy Valdez.
NFP
3:15
Do you know how teams see the defensive spectrum, if at all? In 2025, the lightest hitting positions were 2B (90 wRC+), CF (93), C (95, duh), 3B (96), where SS is actually slightly above average (101).
Brendan Gawlowski
3:16
Similar to how you do; SS's turning into big bats is really interesting. A big win for the strength coaches of the world
millvillemeltdown
3:16
this date in 7 years is gonna go crazy
Brendan Gawlowski
3:17
I kind of hope you're making a tour of the internet raising awareness today
millvillemeltdown
3:17
are there any historical guys you wish you could have scouted?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:17
Steve Dalkowski
KC Pain
3:19
How do you feel about how teams handle prospects? I see guys like Seymour and Boyle and realize they are both going to be 27 this year and still not sure why they aren't leaned on. I feel like a guy at that age we should kind of know what we have in a player instead of wondering if they can be one. (Boyle has massive control issues but Seymour....?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:20
Pitching development and hitting development are not the same. Pitchers find new paths forward throughout their careers.
Guest
3:20
Is the feeling inside the industry that there will be a labor strike next year or nah ?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:20
Most people I've spoken with are pretty worried. Scouts tend to be the first on the block whenever something happens, so that group in particular is pessimistic.
Oaktown Blues
3:20
Poor Richy Valdez may become synonymous with "org filler" on FG
Brendan Gawlowski
3:22
Which would be too bad, because he wasn't org filler... he was talented and had a shot, he just had a long way to go and ultimately struggled to throw strikes. The story isn't that he was bad, it's that I learned by doing.
beanbong
3:22
Is Jhancarlos Lara ever going to throw enough strikes to be a major league reliever? You could give him a 10 for command right now, but say he bumps that to 30, is that a 7th/8th inning guy?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:22
Hard to be a leverage guy with 30 command. He's getting HM'd.
Taking positional adjustment to seriously
3:22
How confident are you in projecting players is at other positions? I’ve often said that the best defensive 2B/3B probably plays shortstop (Lindor at 2B or Elly at 3B as an example)
Brendan Gawlowski
3:23
Sometimes there's a clear fit elsewhere. Part of the reason Roldy Brito is so fun is that there are so many options. Ben Williamson is another fascinating one. He's so good at third that you can argue he'd transition well to short... but there's a counter argument that his skills are uniquely tailored to third and don't translate as well as, like, Maikel Garcia's would.
Surplus Valuez = Profits = Stolen Wages
3:24
Is it just me or are all levels of ball older post-pandemic? What does it change other than earning potential (lower) and availability of full time work (fewer)?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:25
A bunch of factors are pushing more and more guys who would have signed out of high school ten years ago into college. Shorter draft, improved dev at colleges, NIL probably to some small extent, etc...
Max
3:25
when is the first season that River Ryan will have 100 IP in the majors?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:26
2027 but '26 wouldn't shock me either
Alex
3:26
Do you believe in the Ben Brown breakout? I liked his strikeout numbers as a prospect.
Brendan Gawlowski
3:26
Another good example of a guy who will have paths forward forever.
529
3:26
Can Nick Gonzales play an acceptable SS while the Pirates wait for Konnor Griffin?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:26
Acceptable? Sure. Average? Ehh...
Not Brendan's Wife
3:27
What grade would you give yourself on things like folding laundry, vacuuming, cleaning the kitchen and general household chores?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:27
Folding: 80
Vacuuming: 60
Kitchen: 55
General chores: 55
I definitely contribute
E
3:28
How much room to run do you think the Royals will give Carter Jensen if he forces the issues with the bat? Roster resource has him in a strong side platoon split, but it seems to me, so far, he's earned a chance at full time play between DH and backing up Salvy. What's your take here?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:28
I think he gets a lot of playing time.
Sir Nerdlington
3:28
How many rounds is the draft in 2027 and does that include int'l players?
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