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Sky Bri
12:37
Poor baby. I’ll come over and make you feel better……. And you can tell me when the A’s will stop effin around and call up Kurtz…
Eric A Longenhagen
12:37
If you have bangs and tattoos we can work that out.
12:38
The Kurtz stuff will work itself out via injury, I'm sure. Sodastream is crushing it.
D backs fan
12:38
Thanks as always for the work you do Eric. Hope you are surviving the heat? Has anything changed in your opinion on Ryan Waldschmidt or Slade Caldwell since the December write up?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:39
Nah, still like both those guys a good bit. Waldy's defense was shaky in my sparse spring looks at those two, saw them in road big league games at the very end. Slade plays his ass off.
MrMet
12:39
Thank you for everything you do. It's been interesting to see how your valuation of Brandon Young has wavered between 50/45 FV. Your latest write-up sounds promising, but is it the lack of high-end velo that worries you?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:41
Those are both good grades within a shade of one another, it's not like one is good and one is bad. He's going on 27 and it wouldn't surprise me if he had a the peak of a 50, but his years of control are going to encompass age 32-33 season and at that point he might already be in decline phase. The lone thing he hasn't done is work deep into games for a whole season. This is his gamelog from last year: Brandon Young - 2024 Pitching Game Logs | FanGraphs Baseball
I think it's clear that I really, really like him.
SalisburySteak
12:41
If you're KC, at one point (if at all) do you start giving Caglione reps in RF? The obvious need on the big league team is outfielders. But at the same time I get that you don't want to ask too much of him and mess up his development as a hitter, which is the first priority.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:43
I'd just let him hit for now, and if by June he's kicking the door down as a hitter, start with the RF stuff.
I generally agree with you though, and they need to have a premeditated plan for this
Nervous Flyball Pitcher
12:43
Taxonomy question: is there a reason you don't break out sliders between bullet/gyro sliders and sweepers the way Statcast has?

Side note: Michael Forret throws a kick change (he features in Tread videos on the subject), which could (?) explain the splitter-like movement.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:45
I don't agree with how liberally Statcast throws Sweeper around, we only have so much space on The Board for different pitch types, and I'd be lying to you if I thought I could analyze each guy with this level of specificity. I have my own high speed cam, of course, but I'm not training it on every single minor leaguer and milb broadcasts often aren't good enough for me to make a confident assessment based on grip and release like you could while watching a big league game.
12:46
That Tread Youtube is cool, isn't it? Thanks for that, my Orioles contact wouldn't confirm that they're teaching all kick changes to these guys, but that's sure what it look slike.
Eric
12:46
What should we expect from Chase Meidroth?  Playing time, position in order, stats?  Not sure the power increase so far in AAA is sustainable with the EV numbers posted.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:46
I think he's good.
12:47
I think James and I might reassess what I wrote from the time of the trade
Dan Grant
12:47
Thoughts on Demetrio Crisantes? I notice quite a bit of variance on him on the different top prospect lists.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:48
Smaller skillful guy, plus second base and first base defender but not a SS/3B for me. Swing tends to cut through the bottom of the zone, I wonder how he'll handle elevated velo as he climbs. Good prospect, great pick where they got him.
Wannabe GM
12:49
So I found out my daughter’s science teacher is a cousin of Nick Markakis and she is the school’s softball team coach.   Pretty cool.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:49
Kewl
Vic
12:49
Will Shane Smith stick in CWS rotation?    Hope you feel better!!
Eric A Longenhagen
12:50
He's real, they made him better than MIL did, which is a great sign for that org.
Alek
12:50
How is ethan holliday doing? Its so hard to get reports on him
Eric A Longenhagen
12:51
For me, the high-profile HS guys reports are fully baked. Short of adding the pop up guys to my draft list. Aside from checking in on their conditioning/strength and such, I'm way more interested in how they did against their elite peers last summer than I am in watching them hit 450 foot tanks with an aluminum bat against kids throwing 82
12:52
Ethan will go really high, maybe first
He has enormo power but didn't really get to it in games on the showcase circuit.
Dodger Fan
12:52
What's it going to take for Hyun-Seok Jang to lock in his control and fully harness his stuff?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:52
Just time, saw him twice this spring and his stuff was down, more 92-94
David
12:53
Seth Hernandez with his recent performances.. is he trending to be the favorite for 1-1?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:53
I'd be shocked if anyone took a HS pitcher first
Springfielder
12:53
Is there a more dishonest stat than Yohel Pozo weighs 201?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:54
lol, that's maybe the craziest one.
sup3rjosh
12:55
How are you feeling about Dasan Hill early on? IIRC you had a first round grade on him last year
Eric A Longenhagen
12:56
Saw he shoved but there's no broadcast so I didn't double back to check on it. He sat 94.5 to 97.5 that day, though, so yeah so far good call by 2024 Eric.
David
12:57
Any thoughts on the Development plan for Jurrangelo Cijntje. Primary starter RH with a Left handed relief appearance between starts.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:58
WOoot, called it: The Board | FanGraphs Baseball
12:59
I had no advance knowledge of this, I was just spit balling on the phone with Jordan Schusterman and conceived of it as a possibility, and now that's happening.
For The Birds
1:00
Just saw from Aram Leighton that Allsup averaged 96.5 in his start yesterday. 24 swstr% 10 Ks, 19 whiffs on 79 pitches (that's a LOT if you look at how Os starters were limited last year in the lower levels). Do you have any takeaways from that start?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:02
It's true, he was 96-98 for most of it, cutter 88 or so, slider 80-82, Threw about that hard each of his first two outings. Careful not to get too overzealous with him, that body is scary and he's had volatile performance in the past. Claro, I have a favorable grade on him, for a guy who was a 4th rounder last year to be a 40+ already is nuts.
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