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Eric A Longenhagen
2:04
there's a push/pull happening. An individual's risk is high, and that risk applies to the whole catching population which creates a league-wide shortage, and so catchers are very valuable because of that shortage. Essentially, I think teams should take an approach to building catching depth that mirrors what they're already doing with pitching.
Matt
2:04
How often do you go back and look at past lists to look for types of players you get right and types you miss on?
Eric A Longenhagen
2:04
a lot
Yadier Alvarez!
Kate
2:05
Thought you had said Dunning would be a 50?  What changed that moved him down? Just didn't seem to fit with the 50 arms at the end of the list once you put it together?
Eric A Longenhagen
2:07
I think it's totally defensible to have him in there, the age/injury combo just slid him off as I got closer to publication. And if the White Sox were to say, "we'll take Dunning over Alex Vargas no doubt" I'd get that based on where they are on the competitive spectrum.
Tigers Fan
2:08
Do you think the Tigers farm system is 12th best like that other guy (Keith Law) on that other website?  Top 5 at least right?
Eric A Longenhagen
2:09
our farm rankings are derived objectively and tend to favor teams with top-heavy systems like Detroit's. My natural instincts are to prefer deeper systems, though. I bet they'll be top 5 once I'm through.
Rob
2:09
Did you get to see Josh Mears recently? This prob sounds greatly insane, but would a very early Giancarlo (before he really blew up in HiA and became a monster prospect) comparison seem similar? Tools seem crazy and wonder if they held him purposefully.
Eric A Longenhagen
2:09
Saw him in the Fall and am sliding him into the 35+ tier
Jon G
2:09
Was there any pressure to keep Preciado on the list given that you declared he'd be in the Darvish trade write-up? Did you receive any pushback on that later on in the process?
Eric A Longenhagen
2:10
I got some "hey this guy whiffed on breaking balls a ton in the fall" that nearly scared me off, but he's still 17 and was facing unusually advanced group of instructs pitching
2:13
I was there the day Buehler first came back from TJ and he was 97+ with two good breaking balls rather than one breaker and a changeup. The Dodgers and Buehler took advantage of his rehab and he had gotten stronger and started throwing harder. What's happened with Brown is similar in that the curveball he scrapped in college is now back and arguably his best pitch, so there are two plus breakers now, and he's on a pro conditioning program rather than in a Division II school's weight room, so there might be a similar leap in ability coming like there was with Buehler.
Jimmy Wynn's Toy Cannon
2:13
Was pleasantly surprised to see Hunter Brown crack the list. Can you talk a bit more about the comp to Walker Buehler?
Eric A Longenhagen
2:13
Okay, I need to split to prep for a pod with a basketball executive (folks will want to check out the next FG Audio)
2:14
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