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Eric A Longenhagen
12:55
I have 3.7 there. Everyone loves him, maybe more stability than upside in a way, but nobody I've spoken with thinks he's a bad prospect.
People saw him take BP like two days ago and he looked great.
Starlyn Caba
12:55
Am I the best defender in minor league baseball?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:56
I maybe need to make a supercut of this guy playing defense. Marlins list time it'll happen.
tumtum
12:56
Is there anything you've noticed which might explain why the Twins top positional prospects have higher injury risks year-in year-out?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:56
They've, anecdotally, been more willing to take on players with injury stuff, from Carlos Correa to Brooks Lee.
ME
12:57
Any thoughts on Eliazar Dishmey and Keyner Benitez in the Marlins system?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:59
Dishmey is a hard-throwing lotto ticket type without a lot of strikes. Benitez I love, maybe too much, smaller low-90s sinker guy but an incredible athlete with a potential 7 changeup.
Benitez is already a Boras client, I believe.
Jeb
1:00
As part of your international coverage, do you have to stay abreast of foreign national news (such as your callout about Venezuela)? And if so, do you set time aside to read / watch local news sources or do you mostly just absorb the info as a side effect of foreign amateur prospect coverage?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:02
I'm not a *total* ignoramus when it comes to this stuff, but I definitely glean many of the specific details of the way this stuff impacts individual peoples' lives (like scouts getting mugged or attempted kidnappings, etc.) via baseball discussion, from people who live or travel to these places often.
I probably spend too much time watching sports than a person who can say they have a well-balanced media diet.
tumtum
1:02
Were you surprised to see Cowser's power development this past season? Was his campaign a surprise?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:03
I was, came to camp a different beast, way more physical. If he can keep it up I'll have gone out on something of a limb and been wrong. 30% K is kinda scary though...
Jorge
1:03
Ernesto Martinez Jr went zonkers (195 wRC+ over 201 PAs) to close out the year at Biloxi. Small sample noise or maybe starting to put all those tools together?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:04
Dude, I really wonder. He's so freaky and the contact/chase parts of his game were closer to average in '24 rather than way, way below....
1:05
But he was 25 and at AA
JC
1:05
Can someone have a 50 hit tool with a 55 eye and 55 bat control?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:05
Yeah if they have so little power that the ball doesn't leave the infield
Bencle Mens
1:06
Should baseball fields be more idiosyncratic?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:06
Like the MVP 05 mini games?
With tractors and ramps and sh*t?
1:07
I'm pro pie slice, that's probably my hottest take.
Still lots of good questions in the queue so I'm gonna go a little longer, maybe 10 to 15 or so
TBR
1:08
What's FPAZ?
Eric A Longenhagen
Rupert Jones Fan
1:08
Is Sasaki your clear #1 pick for FYPDs? Or someone else would be your #1?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:09
upside/proximity combo is nuts, easy no. 1
Jazzrunner
1:09
It seems to me that the hit rate on 16 year old international signees has really dropped in the last 5 years.  I think of guys like Erik Pena, Robert Puason, Cespedes who have not progressed despite signing fat contracts.  Does the data support this feeling?  Some team seems to be spending every bit as high as previous years (e.g. Yankees).
Eric A Longenhagen
1:10
I think hype prior to signing has made more guys internet famous than was the case in the past when only Michael Ynoa was famous. The reasons for the hype are legion (tech, social media, perverse incentives in media, etc.) but we just know more about more guys now than ever before. And the deals have been agreed to earlier and earlier, which adds to the variance of the outcomes.
Sirras
1:11
Any prospects on the team list you're currently working on that you're significantly higher or lower on than consensus?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:13
I haven't looked at anyone else's Giants list. I love Anthony Marquez.
Mike
1:13
What’s the next pod of team lists on deck?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:14
Teams who train on the Gulf Coasts side of Florida
J
1:14
What do you think 2025 looks like for Caissie and Alcantara? The Cubs have definitely made 'let's win now' moves.  The former, certainly, feels like trade bait.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:14
I feel like KA is maybe more in the trade crosshairs because he's running out of option years, but I'm generally with you.
Ty
1:16
Can you please tell me why OF Jacob Melton is so well regarded? I just don't see it based on his minor league career.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:17
I'm in. Roughly average contact with plus power on a lefty-hitting OF. Swing worried me in college but he's hit and hit. Chase is a little worse than average, I know his surface stats at Sugar Land were meh, but I think he's a solid everyday OF.
YardGoat
1:17
How are you doing Eric? I and many others appreciate the work and insight you bring to prospect writing. A non-prospect question for you: What has been effective for you in your process to get from a collection of thoughts/notes to having actual coherent and substantive written words.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:19
Think about it like cooking rather than baking. Throw your ingredients into a google doc, add a little here, move this over there. Don't be frozen in the mess of the initial outline/notes part. I struggle with this, I'm nautrally a baker, I will take forever agonizing over the wording of a paragraph and it will need to be perfect before I move on to the next. It takes forever doing it that way and I've tried to work with a cook's mindset whenever I feel that stuck in the mud sensation.
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