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Eric Longenhagen Chat - 4/5/19
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Ross Ramona
12:54
Can you touch on Ramon Rosso for a minute? Stats look good on paper but he's a little old for the levels he's played. Cannot find ANYTHING in terms of analysis, just blurbs about individual outings.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:55
yah, fringe heater, cutter curveball. He's a good sleeper. Stuff/results don't match so we may be underrating him. Probable depth arm for me.
Wander franco
12:55
First time, long time. After me, who are the u19 guys likely to be top 5 or top 10 caliber prospects? I’ll hang up and listen.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:56
you can search/filter The Board by age probbly have your answer. Good dynasty owners should try not to tip their hand in a chat read by lots of people and do the covert work themselves.
Reed
12:56
How much importance, if any, do teams place on having minor-league affiliates that are close to their MLB location?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:57
I think it's vital that you're double and triple-a clubs are a short plane or car ride away, because inevitably a freak injury will being about need for a quick call-up
12:59
It already happened this year, right? Didn't someone have to drive frlom Scranton to NY very fast already?
Wander franco
12:59
In Gavin sheets’ write up, it was mentioned to be skeptical of wake Forrest power gains. Why is that?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:00
the ballpark
Paul
1:00
Are the Columbia Fireflies the most interesting minor league roster right now?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:00
wilmington
or Charleston?
Doctor Parrot
1:01
Thoughts on JP Crawford? Technically not a prospect but he's still young.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:01
looked not great for me this spring
Mike
1:01
Is Kyle Nelson a prospect in the Indians system?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:01
sleeper pitchability lefty, yeah
Hello
1:02
What gives a pitcher natural cut?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:03
the way they grip/release the ball.
so like, I need to get someone with cut, but you can see Gore's release creates pur backspin on his fastball, so that thing isn't cutting.
Nick Swisher Sweet
1:03
Tyler Phillips threw 5 shutout, 1 hit innings in the Carolina League last night.  Is he just a pitchability guy who gets hammered once he gets to AA/AAA, or is he a legit prospect at this point?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:04
placed him srongly on the Rangers list, Im a fan of his
mike sixel
1:04
Isn't a "Delmon Young" but good defensive CF pretty good?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:05
sure
Ethan
1:06
Who is the best athlete you have seen on a baseball field?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:06
Trout? Buxton?
Nick
1:06
any recent updates on Chris Rodriguez?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:07
was like 92-94 when Keith and I saw him a week and some change ago
Scot
1:07
You're just a few miles down the road from Corvallis.  Any plans to check out Adley Rutschman this weekend?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:07
Nope, they come to AZ later
Joel M
1:08
Saw Conor Grammes of Xavier pitch @ Texas this weekend - <3 IP, walked the bases loaded and walked at least 2 runs in, 7+ ERA on the year. Obviously great stuff with his fastball hitting up to 97, but overall looked very ugly - do you guys still see him as a good prospect given how he's started the year on the mound?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:09
I just think his stuff is so, so good. I'm still in even though he has bad control.
Evan
1:09
Y Kikuchi vs. R. Lopez in today's early afternoon action: which pseudo prospect will have the better year?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:09
Kikuchi
Reid
1:09
Hi Eric, thanks for the chat. I'm curious about the theoretical FV limit for a relief-only prospect. It's rare that they get to even a 50, but what qualities would be required to get to a 55 or even a 60? Is that possible?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:11
you could argue mapping FV to expected  WAR underrates relievers across our lists. Basically I'd have to know someone was going to become Aroldis Chapman or Edwin Diaz to drop a 60 on them, and most of the guys who become that kind of reliever are starters on our lists and covert later, like both Chapman and Diaz.
Billy Boy
1:11
Paddack’s fastball looks awful straight. Think he gives up a lot of bombs?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:11
Nope, angle too tough
1:12
Okay everyone, I've gotta run. Thanks for stopping by this week. Hope you all have a hell of a weekend. Daily Prospect Notes return Monday, the Indians list will be up that day too, and we'll have a pod early next week. bye bye
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