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EJ
1:30
What did you make of Enrique Bradfield Jr's AFL performance?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:31
45, great defender, speed impacts the game, contact is too light for him to be a top 15 player at his position.
jus24
1:31
I know it seems like Cam Collier has been around forever, and injuries seemed to sap his power this year. Do you think it's better than 50/50 that he becomes a league average player? The Reds could really use some offense.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:31
I came away from AFL believing he'll hit enough to be good despite him being a 1B only guy and having a weird-looking swing sometimes
1:32
His hands just end up in the right spot most of the time.
Okra
1:32
Yamamoto's stretching and flexibility training is well documented.  Does it just get a lot of attention b/c of who he is or are others not really doing this?  Seem all orgs should be interested in this.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:32
I don't think you can teach people to be *that* flexible. That's freaky stuff.
BG
1:33
How handsome is the new prospect writer?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:33
Hey, he's a married guy, I wouldn't dare.
1:34
There are a lot of good questions left, I'm way over time but it isn't like I have a game to go to, so let's take some more...
Rookie of the Year
1:34
Who do you have as an early list of 3 names for each league to be your best bets for RoY?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:35
You'd have to show me the odds for me to determine where it's best to put your money.
Ryan
1:35
Re: Snelling. Was the rebound this year enough to wipe out last year’s season? Are there still some concerns lingering?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:35
I'm in, he changed. Went to a third party facility, tweaked his delivery (rubber placement, stride direction) and I buy it plays.
doughboy
1:35
The Tigers protected Eduardo Valencia from the Rule 5 Draft. There's never been much a write-up from any outlets on him. He had a strong finish to the season in Triple A. Any general thoughts on him as a prospect?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:36
I did work on him for the 40 man crunch piece and considered him on the fringe. Big power numbers, I don't really buy that he'll hit, below average defender. Don't think he's a zero or anything, but definitely a third catcher for me.
T2
1:37
Yoshi Yamamoto does not lift weights but does workouts that focus on core strength and flexibility. Do you think this way of training can become popular in US? Or, there are not sufficient number of trainers who have the expertise?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:37
I wouldn't consider that guy a template for the entire player population, he's an outlier.
Hacksaw Jim Duggan
1:37
Benny Montgomery, Vance Honeycutt, Elijah Green got me wondering....who's the last top 10 "all the tools but can't hit" prospect that...actually learned how to hit?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:37
Wood
1:38
Uncle Ronnie
1:38
do you have a favorite sleeper in the Os system?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:40
Depends how deep you want the sleeper to be. I think Luis De Leon is a windmill slam top 100 guy. The deep sleeper we love for goofy nerd reasons here is Twine Palmer.
My two cents
1:41
I am okay keeping the check swing line where it is, even if different from current practice; let’s give hitters more chances to hit, not fewer.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:44
Premise rejection: Nobody is advocating they get fewer chances to hit. Keeping the check swing calls as the entire world has come to understand them to be would mean giving hitters exactly as much leash as they've always had.
Turang Test
1:45
Is changing draft strategy or development program a better way to improve a farm system?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:45
If you know for sure you're changing dev for the better, it's definitely that.
Because that has an impact on your whole system. Changing draft strategy has an impact on roughly 10 guys per year.
RAWagman
1:45
Eric - how and why were you wrong about Davis Schneider? Who is the next Davis Schneider?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:47
I just didn't think he'd make enough contact to basically be a LF only guy. I likened him to Mike Brosseau. Maybe Luke Adams is the next Davis Schneider, though you definitely know that I can't know who I'm going to be wrong about before I'm wrong about them, right?
Sam
1:47
Was having a debate with my buddy, what would McLean get if he was a FA right now and wanted the highest figure?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:47
Like 10 years 300?
Jasper
1:48
Also, thanks for your work. Always love hearing you on Effectively Wild.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:48
Thanks. It might be time to start a podcast.
1:51
With that, I actually do have to go now. Hey! Prospect lists start next week. They're *ehem* brewing, I'm not dodging questions about the order or guarding anything secret, but if you've red our site before you know they tend to roll out in clusters based on the spring training sites.
I'm hosting Thanksgiving this year so your boy might be too busy to chat next friday with unbuckled pants.
Look for an update on the socials
1:52
bye bye
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