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Brendan Gawlowski Prospects Chat: 5/5/26
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Brendan Gawlowski
3:29
Happens all the time. Instincts/feel for the game is a big part of the evaluation.
BrewCitybum
3:30
Corbin Burnes, Brandon Woodruff both pitched out of the pen for Milwaukee early in their careers
Brendan Gawlowski
3:31
two more good ones. Seth Lugo and Clay Holmes too.
Pirates
3:31
The Pirates are on a 3 year heater in the draft: Skenes -> Griffin -> Hernandez. Is this a fluke or a sign that their player dev has cracked the code?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:31
Credit the amateur group for those
The dev staff does really good work, they have plenty of wins, too
Farhandrew Zaidman
3:32
When evaluating 1B defense, what do you care about most - range, picking/scooping, arm strength, or something else?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:33
Good hands and range are up first. Scooping will get better with reps if the hands are good enough. Arm strength is a nice bonus if you can get it. Ideally you get a lefty but you work with what you have.
Erick
3:33
do you think we get any late season prospect debuts that are unexpected based on age? who has a chance? (made?, de vries? arias?)
Brendan Gawlowski
3:33
In play for all three of them.
Cyanocitta
3:34
After blazing through the DSL, Juan Sanchez is off to a difficult start in Dunedin, but Parker looks good. Is it fair to say that Parker jumps to A+ Vancouver this summer (following Nimmala in the SS pipeline), allowing Sanchez to find some meaningful time at SS in A? I realize that Sanchez, and perhaps Parker to a lesser extent, may fit better at 3B in the long run, but this still may make sense as a value-maximization exercise...
Brendan Gawlowski
3:35
Parker is hitting .200 with a 26% walk rate. I like him, I'm still optimistic long term, but let's not start booking flights just yet.
The Actor for Al Pacino
3:35
How much do potential off-the-field red flags play into your scouting evaluations? Not a fun topic to talk about but probably relevant for some prospects
Brendan Gawlowski
3:36
I killed a small handful of guys in my reports for makeup stuff.
In the sense that I was a binary "no" on them
In a couple of other cases, on and off field makeup stuff featured heavily in the eval
3:37
But it was pretty rare
millvillemeltdown
3:38
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Brendan Gawlowski
3:38
"nice grammar, meat"
Jon
3:39
Josh Hammonds feels like he'll be in Quad Cities later this season. Austin Charles is doing what he needs to do in A+ to get to Double-A. Do the Royals have the shortstop pipeline working all of the sudden?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:40
I'm not all the way in on Charles. Interested, curious, certainly has a chance to exceed the projection I gave him
There's a scout I respect a lot who's a big fan
he definitely has his backers
Farhandrew Zaidman
3:40
On the makeup part - when does it turn from "this kid is sort of an a** hole" to "I'm all the way out because of what's between his ears"?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:42
Criminal activity, perhaps patterns of disruptive behavior if they're extreme enough.
Adam D.
3:42
Any feel for when the Giants list will be out?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:42
Eric proposed we tag team O's to slay one of the beasts in the east, otherwise I'd be working on it now. So, soon, I would think.
Explain it to me like I'm 5...
3:43
Pedro Ramirez, whose power is highly questioned, has an EV of 90, yet esmerlyn Valdez, widely known as a power hitting bat, has an 88. What are scouts looking at to come to their consensus. And would max EV be a better number to project future HR totals for the casual fan?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:44
I'm more interested in max/ev90 than average. Not that it's irrelevant but especially when they're in the lower levels, I want to think about the upside more than the present
3:45
Alright folks, I've got to shut it down here today. Thanks as always for the questions, we'll do it again next week. Read a mystery and be well.
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