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Eric A Longenhagen
12:51
I think 'pen but I have scout sources who disagree
Lord Thunder
12:51
Higher ceiling ... Willits or Cholowsky? Most likely to stay at SS?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:51
Willits has the better hit tool, Roch is a 7 defender
The 6ix
12:52
What are the chances that Y. Curet improves his control enough to be a viable MLB pitcher? The raw stuff seems to be there.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:52
It is but I thought he looked pretty awful when he returned from injury this year. Zero feel for location. Was a top 100 guy for me entering the season.
Lord Thunder
12:52
Does Jimmy Crooks have the same limited offensive ceiling of Patrick Bailey?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:52
That's not a bad comp
might run into 15-20 bombs at peak, Hedges like
Mark
12:52
I know you dont love fantasy baseball questions but I have a conundrum, who do I want in my dynasty league De Paula or Hope.
Eric A Longenhagen
12:52
De Paula
12:53
You guys can ask fantasy questions, it's fine. I get people play and love it, I started playing too (yes I won the league)
sliderguy35
12:53
willing to believe the data on yohendrick pinango? or is the visual still holding back from a bump in ranking
Eric A Longenhagen
12:53
The latter, swing doesn't really allow him to pull the ball at all. Data has been kinda nutty for a couple years now, though.
Goule
12:53
Sasaki someone you will move back up the board after this postseason performance?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:54
He graduated. If he stays in relief his whole life he'll need to be Aroldis Chapman to justify having him as high as I did. Glad he looks healthy and stronger.
Jace, The Mind Sculptor
12:54
Trying to calibrate some pop up 2025 guys... Who's an SP, and who stands out from Sean Liñan, Braxton Bragg, Ethan Dorchies and Gage Stanifer?
Eric A Longenhagen
12:56
Linan looks more like Nabil Crismatt to me, low velo, great changeup, backend starter swingman type. Dorchies is a nice long term project, love his delivery, think his fastball punches up, secondary performance was just ok...
12:58
Bragg I think is a 40 athlete but he was throwing hard and has a real three-pitch mix before he was shut down. he could be in the big late next year. Less starter-y than Dorchies in a vacuum but way closer to the bigs...
1:00
Stanifer is a monster fastball guy, slider played like a plus pitch too, delivery is a little weird and he's not a great strike-thrower, more on the SP/RP line for me
but threw over 100 frames this year
sliderguy35
1:00
how worried are you about murakami's NPB contact rates if / when he comes over next season?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:01
Pretty worried. Whiffing at a 50% clip against secondary pitches. Need to take a look at him in a broad sample and revisit him on defense. Okamoto is better, I think.
victoria
1:01
This is a prospect chat.... but what are your game 5 predictions?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:02
DET Skub + bullpen gets them there, worried Miz comes out wild but I'm honestly not sure about that NL game.
RAH
1:03
Update on Braxton Bragg - he had TJ and will miss most if not all of 2026. He may return to game action, but I doubt he makes it to the bigs.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:03
Right, he was a july TJ, thought maybe he'd have room in August, September to be back?
1:04
Ah, it was way at the end of July, yeah then basically out
Guest
1:04
Why hasn't Cleveland been more excited about Wuilfredo Antunez?  He hardly rates a mention.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:04
Medium physical prowess, nutty launch, like 23 degrees, no idea how that'll play, that's in Ryan Schimpf territory.
Razor Shines for all
1:04
Will we be getting a Rule 5/40 man preview???
Eric A Longenhagen
1:04
I wanna do a roster crunch piece, yes
Rule 5 preview, nah. Waste of time imo
1:05
write them up after they get picked, otherwise you're writing up like 20 guys for everyone one who actually gets selected, not the best use of anyone's time
1:06
Okay, I've gotta split. Thanks so much for coming again this week. I'm going to prep for the day's AFL stuff, see you out there.
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