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Brendan Gawlowski Prospects Chat: 5/5/26
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Keith
2:30
Thanks for all the team updates! Any guys from lists that have already been completed that are catching your eye as potential 50 grade/top 100 guys?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:32
Luke Stevenson, Robert Arias, TGA, Sirota, Alvarez, Hartman all worth a look off the top of my head. I'm sure there are others.
Bremner just gave up a missile of a double on a slider. Pitch needs work.
Sandwich
2:32
If a good approach isn't a carrying tool, it is at least a "round up" trait, right?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:33
It can be, especially if it's actually a good approach vs. an approach that works in the minors but doesn't in MLB. Can be hard to separate those two at times.
2:34
But also, you can have a legitimately good approach but if you don't have much power or a good hit tool it doesn't matter much.
Shit, Bremner leaving with the trainer.
G
2:34
Is there any reason for Seth Hernandez to still be in low-a at this point?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:35
Proximity to the complex?
Oneear
2:35
Is Yilber ready to be called up?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:35
Yes
Ryan
2:36
How much can read into Arizona and Florida complex stats? What should be looking at most as an indicator that a player could be a guy
Brendan Gawlowski
2:36
Huge grains of salt. It's not irrelevant but we're mostly looking for athletes/projectability down there.
2:37
Yolfran Castillo had a 74 wRC+ in the ACL last year and we put him on the Top 100
2:38
Angel Arredondo was better than league average as an age-appropriate player with good strikeout and walk numbers and he didn't make the Rangers list.
UF Gates
2:38
I feel like Tuesday early day games is kind of strange, I'm so used to my local minor league teams doing them on Wednesdays or Thursday if anything. Maybe an east coast thing?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:39
Sometimes there's a stadium conflict. Everett high schools, for instance, have priority over the Aquasox
J
2:39
How do you even go about evaluating whether a player could have a good approach in MLB? Presumably they are heavily incentivized to adopt an approach that leads to present results even if it's sub-optimal against MLB pitchers; however, it's possible they can adapt when the incentives change. Seems like a headache to disentangle.
Brendan Gawlowski
2:40
First and foremost, I want to see them pull the trigger on pitches they can drive. Ideally they're also swinging at strikes and laying off slop.
If you're in A ball and not ready for 2-0 fastballs down the middle, I don't care how much you're walking, really
Jarvis
2:40
Why did Bremner get pulled?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:41
Not sure, wasn't holding anything or in obvious discomfort but leaving with the trainer is never a good sign
Big Buckston
2:41
How difficult is it to teach a guy to lift the ball to access game power? In recent years we've seen Maikel Garcia learn to do it, but guys like Ke'Bryan Hayes and Brett Baty never really did.
Brendan Gawlowski
2:41
Wash voice: it's incredibly hard
NFP
2:41
Are you guys going to normalize EVs in leagues with (evidently) hot baseballs?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:41
It would be nice if the baseballs didn't change all the time.
DJ
2:43
Is there a current prospect that comes to mind with an approach you're not bought into working at the MLB level?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:43
Approaches can change, and so with the caveat that I have not dug into him enough to say how his looks this year... I didn't like Jaison Chourio's last year.
UF Gates
2:44
Minor league teams not having priority to the ballpark is kind of wild, is it because the stadium is perhaps city-owned? Do you have an estimate for how many teams this is the case off the top of your head? It almost feels like how the Vancouver Canucks don't have their own dedicated practice facility
Brendan Gawlowski
2:44
No idea. Eugene doesn't either. It's a bad place to scout because if a Duck walk on wants to take BP on the field, he can do it, even if it means the minor leaguers can't get on the field until game time
Joey Gallo
2:45
Even I'm frightened by what Blake Mitchell is doing right now
Brendan Gawlowski
2:45
Fair. 69% TTO lol
The Actor for Al Pacino
2:46
In your estimation with minor league contraction and some reforms with minor leaguers now collectively bargaining, is the quality-of-life for the typical minor leaguer substantially better? Or more only marginally so?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:46
Pretty significantly imo.
Oneear
2:46
Follow up on Yilber: Is he ever going to be a starter?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:46
I would guess not
Farhandrew Zaidman
2:48
K%-BB% remains the single most predictive (public) stat we have. Have teams figured out better, proprietary ones? If so, what's keeping the public from catching up?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:49
Not sure, but teams don't have as much need for a silver bullet stat
Greg
2:49
It seems to me that the majority of drafted prospects either show 50+ grade potential in their 1st year or get relegated to being roster fodder rather than slowly growing their skills from say 40 fv to 60 fv over 3 or 4 years in the minors. I would love to hear a story about a unicorn player who is/did grow/ing their skills/ fv over multiple years rather than "man we drafted this guy and he just rakes".
Brendan Gawlowski
2:50
It sort of depends on whether you're looking at it from an FV perspective or if you're just grading the player based on what you think he can do at maturity.
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