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Eric A Longenhagen
12:59
There is no public leaderboard for that stuff, it's info sourced or lifted from trumedia by any number of folks with access (sometimes one of us has access to an account we're not supposed to, sometimes team managers at college programs are lifting it for me, etc.) that makes its way onto the hard drives of prospect writers.
pork
12:59
Are DSL contact rates inaccurate? Some guys seem low compared to the numbers when they come to acl
Eric A Longenhagen
1:00
They are, the games aren't strung pitch by pitch like the upper level minor league games. So when a guy strikes out, the Gameday will just give the guy three swinging strikes in that at-bat. There's not a great way for us to scrape away that data from the leaderboards (I've asked Sean, trust me) and you should just ignore it.
in the DSL
GA Blood
1:01
As someone who watches an insane amount of baseball, are there any single events (plays or PAs or even individual pitches) that stand out to you as memories from this season? For example, I got to witness Mason Miller dot up 104 the other day, and then when someone on twitter called it the best pitch ever I just thought, "yeah, that's probably true." A great reminder that baseball is fun like that.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:04
Roki/Yamamoto piggyback during Spring Training, some of Roki's splitters were unreal. Any time I'm at Chase and Ketel really lays into one it's moving, Perdomo made a play to his right against the Phillies a few weeks ago (the Friday night game of that series) that was unreal, watching Rainiel Rodriguez go nuclear in Florida
Arcadian
1:04
What’s the reason to not drop Noah Schultz more?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:05
Still a giant, young, projectable lefty with plus velo and a crazy slider
Tiger Fan
1:05
Is McGonigle to the AFL really necessary? I feel like he could improve his defense so many ways, and game reps against bad A Ballers might be the least efficient.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:05
Probably not, wouldn't surprise me if he's only here for a little while
Sneaky reason: keep him hot just in case something happens to Gleyber this month.
flightsongs
1:06
Which five 45+ guys are you most likely to bump up to reach the mandatory arbitrary number of a top-100 prospects list? (I kid, I kid)
Eric A Longenhagen
1:06
(cigar falls out of mouth)
"Which of these buttons calls your mom to peek you up?"
Bring Back GWRBI
1:06
At this point in time, how much better does the 2026 draft look than the 2025 in terms of talent pool?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:07
I need to do a deeper dive at the college kids, but I thought the HS crop was down.
bushupking
1:07
Did george Valera change his approach/swing enough to warrant batting 2nd for the Guardians, in the playoffs no less? Or was the CLE outfield just that bad?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:08
They've had pretty sketchy 1B/RF production on their playoff teams the last couple of years. Remember Gabriel Arias started there for them a few years ago?
Jim
1:08
I saw Robby Snelling crack the top 100 for I think the first time and his AAA stint looks amazing at surface level, what have the Marlins done differently to the Padres?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:09
I wrote about it in the piece that should go live shortly but lemme post the pic in here again...
Note his placement on the rubber
1:10
He went last offseason to a facility in Atlanta called "Maven" for assessment and development.
Added three ticks across the board and made this change.
Susan
1:10
Could any player turn a successful AFL run into a starting job out of Spring Training? Aidan Miller maybe?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:12
How about Enrique Bradfield?
Hendry Mendez maybe?
1:13
BTW, this was going to be my breaking news nugget for chat today: Ethan Salas removed from the Peoria roster. Didn't play at all during instructs, the org wouldn't confirm for me that he was going to be removed, seems like he's maybe not healthy enough to play. Maybe see him in VZ winter ball?
Nick
1:13
Did Wyatt Langford's defense improve a ton when he turned pro? His metrics look great, but I remember that was a knock on him coming out of school
Eric A Longenhagen
1:13
He was awful in college, too. Dropping routine fly balls.
Ed
1:13
do you also have scouting reports for managerial prospects like Vitello?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:14
Lol, no. I'd be interested to know if the Annies in San Francisco fancy Vitello more than Kapler, though.
Northeast Sun Devil
1:14
Can we expect Ethan Holliday to see some AA action next year?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:14
I seriously doubt it.
NYYEnjoyer
1:15
Schlittler is the best pitching dev success story since...?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:15
Yankees fans are the best
You know Paul Skenes was a catcher at Air Force a couple years ago, right?
Unknown Legend
1:15
You had Lawrence Butler as a dark horse MVP pick for this year. Do you still see that in him after an up and down year?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:16
I had him in that mix more because of how the park might play. I'd guess he's a 3 WAR guy next year. What does the model think?
In that range, ZiPS has him in the 2.7 to 3 WAR area next three years.
Colton
1:16
Are the A's going to attempt to make Mori a TWP still or is he just staying a hitter?
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