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Eric A Longenhagen
1:02
What bat length/weight/shape works best for you? Watch the gear that the guys the Brewers acquire on the margins are using pre- and post-acquisition.
Tacoby Bellsbury
1:02
When you're back home with the family, what is the must-have meal for you?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:02
Italian Hoagie from Mario's near the Coplay/Northampton bridge. Had one last night. Don't order their pizza, though, it's an above ground pool of cheese.
Big Buckston
1:02
I tried to ask this to Brendan the other day, but he said it would be better to ask you. Connor Prielipp didn't make the top 100 this year. Any specific reason for the dropoff? He put up a career high in innings in 2025 with solid performance.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:04
Wrote his blurb while we worked on the 100 even though he was a cut. Here is the unedited version: As a wild freshman at Alabama, Prielipp had the stuff -- an upper-90s fastball and devastating slider -- of an eventual top five pick, but he dealt with a periods of injury culminating in a Tommy John surgery that kept him out for his draft spring, save for pre-draft bullpens for scouts. Though Prielipp's slider was arguably the best pitch in the entire 2022 draft, he came with more relief risk than most of the other college pitchers projected to go in the first two rounds, and he ultimately went in the second. He blew out again after just 6.2 pro innings in 2023 and had the internal brace style elbow surgery in the middle of that year.
1:05
When he returned in 2024, Prielipp was nasty again and struck out 45% of opponents across just 23.1 innings of work. In 2025, with a few shutdown periods due to a blister and to manage his workload, Prielipp carried a 4.03 ERA (his FIP and xFIP a half run better) across 82.2 innings at Double- and Triple-A.
rielipp has a nasty, late-moving slider in the 85-89 mph range that completely freezes lefties when Prielipp wants to use it in the zone. It spins at roughly 3,100 rpm and generated plus-plus miss and swinging strike rates in 2025. His changeup has improved quite a bit since Prielipp's arm action was shortened upon return from his first surgery. It lacks big movement, but it has enough velo separation from his fastball (86-88) to keep hitters off balance, and it's finishing in a good location more and more often. Prielipp has rare lefty velo but his heater plays down for a couple of reasons, including its movement, angle, and because Prielipp's lack of extension deducts nearly two ticks of perceived velo from it. He has 95-97 when he wants it, but that pitch only generated an average swinging strike rate in 2025.
Prielipp's command isn't sharp enough to mitigate these other issues, and we still don't have a great idea how he'll look piching a full season under a starter's workload. Here, Prielipp is evaluated as a good five-and-dive no. 4/5 starter, with one awesome pitch and a favorable projection for the quality of his changeup.
Mike Lommler
1:05
Silly thought exercise: how many consecutive games would Delauter have needed to homer in to start the season for you to think, "f--- it, he's an 80 now"
Eric A Longenhagen
1:05
Like 15?
Darren
1:06
Any reports on TCU's Sawyer Strosnider?   The numbers look good.  Can he handle CF?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:07
Have him in RF, he struggled at ASU (against Carlon who is basically exactly right for dealing with him) in front of a lot of decision makers. Think he's pick 17-25 or so.
Key Jangler
1:07
Any big movers in the draft so far?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:09
I think the top handful is crystalizing as Roch, Lebron, Emerson, Lackey, Flora. Eric Booth is gonna go top ten or so and he's the guy who I was lowest on pre-season (I hated his swing) who I've now come around on because the feedback is so positive. Kiley saw Bolemon recently and told me it wasn't great, he might end up at school.
1:12
Okay guys, there are still a ton of great questions in the queue but I've been bogarting this table at Blocker's for like two hours and need to go do some stuff around my grandmother's house for her. I'm pretty sure I'm good to chat next Friday even though the time zone change has me a little on tilt with drive/flight times. I'll post on Twitter and Bluesky if I have to reschedule. Enjoy the first full weekend of minor league stuff, talk soon
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