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Brendan Gawlowski Prospects Chat: 6/16/26
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Brendan Gawlowski
2:44
I wrote a bunch for various Mariners blogs and if anybody can find and link to the first one I will... need to think of some sort of prize because I'd be shocked
doug K
2:45
What is your take on the floor and ceiling on Ralphy Velazquez
Brendan Gawlowski
2:45
Floor: platoon bat with power
Ceiling: All Star 1B
reyrh
2:46
If you had a family friend who was a high school pitcher with a later round grade on them in the draft, which org would you be hoping took them?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:46
Mariners or Red Sox
DBRuns
2:46
I haven't been following what's going on in the minors. What's the TLDR? Sounds like the return of the home run fun ball?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:47
Below Triple-A offense, and homers in particular, have exploded
JCCfromDC
2:47
Is there a reason to be concerned about Devin Fitz-Gerald's slow start at AA after lighting up A+ at age 20?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:47
No
Don Glickstein
2:48
I need to release one of my farm-system guys. Whose future is on the bench, and whose is a regular: JoJo Parker, Kevin Alvarez, or Enrique Bradfield?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:49
Sounds like you have a good farm system. I don't know how badly you need the steals, Bradfield may not play enough to get the volume
I am out of my element here
Beer:30
2:49
Hoping the Brewers make a run at Skubal but really like Detmers as an alternative. Do you think the price for 2.5 years of Detmers will exceed that of a Skubal rental? Can the Brewers get either without giving up Pena, Made, Henderson?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:49
The first two aren't going anywhere, I don't think.
2:50
Would you be that upset to lose Henderson if it meant getting Skubal for a WS push?
You're going to have to give up something
canderson20
2:50
https://www.lookoutlanding.com/authors/brendan-gawlowski
"wrote a bunch of various mariners blogs" like this one?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:50
That's one of them
I used to use the word 'asinine' a lot in ways that would probably be embarrassing to read now
Beer:30
2:51
How crazy is the Devers trade in hindsight? The Red Sox killed it in the return but spent all their winnings on beer and booze shortly thereafter.
Brendan Gawlowski
2:51
It's fascinating. One of the wilder trades in recent memory at the time and the fallout has been quite eventful very quickly
Phillip Denny
2:53
Seems like the cut-fastball is in vogue in the majors this year a la the high ride 4S circa 2017. Is that same trend making its way into the minors too?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:53
I'm more noticing that a ton of guys have very deep arsenals
The cutter is a component of that
But I don't know if it's making the rounds in the same emphatic way that the high-rise 4S did, or the sweeper and split in subsequent years
Beer:30
2:54
Can you explain who makes up the Complex Team? Is it the old Rookie Ball plus some injuries? Or is there a more liquid structure to it? Do they play themselves or other complexes? I never knew this to be a thing years ago.
Brendan Gawlowski
2:54
The international complex is almost always recent international signees
Seth Hernandez was throwing down in Pittsburgh's DSL instructs last year, which is the one notable exception I can think of
2:55
On the domestic complexes, it's mostly guys who were promoted from the DSL complex, along with a few high schoolers from the previous year's draft.
There are sometimes also a few orgs to fill out the roster
Daron
2:56
Is there an organization or two you think is particularly skilled in evaluating other teams minor league talent?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:56
Rays
2:57
Great pro eval group
maximus74
2:57
what's the best place to find reliable MiLB SP schedules?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:57
There really isn't a good one, unfortunately
2:58
Even when I was scouting, I'd often text people from the org to find out what was coming up
K’d Cavalli
2:58
Do you grade a pitch purely based off of velo and movement characteristics, or are tunneling/sequencing incorporated? For example, is a changeup graded on its velocity separation and tunneling from the heater, or just off of spin killing and face-value speed?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:00
It's a good question, and there's a little bit of a sliding scale on that depending on how far away the player is. If it's an 18 year old on the complex, I'm looking to see if he can kind of sort of get his change up to move. If he has good arm speed to sell it, great, but he probably won't at that point, and if he does odds are it's just a slow fastball.
I wouldn't say sequencing is a component of it
There are times a guy's arsenal works well together and is more than the sum of its parts, and that's the kind of thing that can boost a topline grade but not necessarily the individual pitches
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