Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat
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Eric A Longenhagen
1:25
Morillo has done kind of a 180 this year, he was a more balanced player in the dsl and early this spring. He's absolutely stronger now but he's selling out for power a ton.
1:26
Oh, wow, Morillo's contact rate has like really dipped. Way down at 60%
1:27
Frias has warts (including a fair amount of whiffing) and he's practically a negative launch angle guy right now...
But he it up there *hitting*, his timing and feel are better, and he's swinging with real strength in just his hands.
ANd he's got so much room for strength.
so i think I'd take him
Christopher Gore
1:27
Hello! Who would you rather have in your system and why: Anthony Eyanson or Joseph Dzierwa? (2025 draftees, both in Eastern League, AL East rivals)
Eric A Longenhagen
1:28
Eyanson. It's monster stuff. Dzierwa I like (changeup, command, he's a strike-throwing 4/5) but his raw breaking ball quality will probably limit his ceiling. Eyanson might have two 70 grade pitches.
InsertWittyNameHere
1:28
How would Gage Wood gauge a Gage Wood if Gage Wood gauged Gage Wood?  Also, do you think he's coming up anytime soon and if so, how do you think he'd fare?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:31
They have every incentive to at least let him come up in a relief capacity and rip his fastball past guys. I think the happy medium is letting him start until you're 35-ish innings away from what you thought his 2026 limit was going to be, and let him air it out for those innings in the bigs.
oaktownblues
1:31
Should I be at all concerned about LDV's lack of slug this year? I know he was dealing with a finger injury, do you think it's related?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:33
I'm not sweating it. The finger might be part of why, he's also just a kid.
Michael Wert
1:34
I’m afraid the Henry Davis and Termarr Johnson 1st round picks will haunt the Pirates for the next 15 years. Any remaining hope for either? Thanks for these chats!
Eric A Longenhagen
1:36
I dont think either will be stars. "haunt" is strong, who else from '21 are you taking? Gavin Williams and Jackson Merril weren't realistically going first.
sportsczar
1:37
Josh Baez contact concerns...how worried are you once he gets called up?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:38
I say it basically every week in here (just in case there are new folks here) that I am skeptical.
Reuben Walker
1:38
What skills from scouting do you think would be transferable to another sport/discipline? If someone all of a sudden made you head of scouting for a swim program? Head of admissions for a piano conseevatory?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:40
I think you have some framework about what questions to ask to probe at what might make someone good that isn't just their lap time, and I think from a logistics standpoint you'd know how to set up schedule/travel/eval collection stuff really fast
sammysamsam
1:40
There's been a bunch of speculation that Roch Cholowsky is not the lock for 1st overall that we previously thought. Does Vahn Lackey have a chance to end up in that spot? It seems to me like he'd be the best choice, even if you don't think hes quite the hitter that Cholowsky could be
Eric A Longenhagen
1:41
I think there are three or four guys who you could talk yourself into, there's not a big enough gap between Roch and the other three for him to be a lock, especially if you want to take the lowest bonus guy of the group to do more later. But if that's your strategy, then Vahn maybe isn't your guy, either.
Cromulent
1:43
Interesting re Yohandy after Garcia gets traded. I would have thought Abimelec Ortiz might be the next man up?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:43
Totally feasible
dan norman lear
1:44
River Ryan.
Eric A Longenhagen
1:44
He's gonna be a thing. How many pitches did he throw yesterday?
1:45
83
He's a day behind lauer's throw day?
(looking)
1:47
So his next day would be SHoehi's day and Shohei has knee stuff?
crossedup
1:48
After the last two farm systems are done what's the plan? Mid season top 100 update and then draft coverage?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:52
The hondo is like a sourdough starter and I'm not sure it needs a huge update. We'll definitely pull grads off of there and the ranking next to guy's names will change, but I kinda like the way it looks right now, in part because the grads are still on there and you can get a feel for where we've had the big leaguers, etc. Here's that btw: The Board | FanGraphs Baseball
it's just a living breathing thing
1:54
We'll crosscheck the contenders' orgs and have pieces related to that. Brendan will crosscheck the Phillies list that I did originally and I'll do Seattle, etc. Update those orgs and do pieces around that.
1:55
On draft, I'll be at the Combine, update the rankings, get the mock dope flowing, and probably do some writing on the draft in light of the CBA negotiations.
P
1:56
I asked BG this but wanted your take as well.  With the possibly juiced up MILB ball, has that impacted the actual or perceived performance of pitching prospects this year?  How are you evaluating them given the wacky ball?
Eric A Longenhagen
1:59
I wanna say that I agree there's seemingly something going on across the minors that's impacting data (last I looked hard hit rates were up like three percentage points across the minors, player eV90s on average are up two ticks) but I want to be clear that I don't know if it's the ball, or if it's a change in hitter approach, or conditioning, or the bats guys are using, or what. Until the physicists get involved and are satisfied, I am not and we are speculating.
But yeah, dudes are getting shelled more.
Auswan_Kletin
1:59
Eric - would the current pace of 8.75 runs per game allowed by this year's Asheville Tourists be a MiLB record? Even if not, is that just what a 30th ranked farm system looks like?
Eric A Longenhagen
2:00
See?
Viva Montenegro
2:01
What do you think of the guy who has been playing catcher for the Tacoma Rainiers this week? Just joined the club and already hitting the heck out of the ball. Future there?
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