J.J. Cooper
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especially more top-tier college players coming out of top-tier programs, move more quickly through the minors than we used to.
We are seeing players move faster now.
And Wianskin kind of has the profile kind of to do that.
Like, you are talking about a guy who was a three-year, you know, member of the rotation at A&M.
So there's a lot of kind of, like, experience at a top, like, college level there.
He hasn't ever had a season where he threw, like, 140 innings or anything like that, but he also โ
He was 85 innings last year.
This is a guy who does have enough runway where you're going to be able to pitch him pretty deep in the season.
You're not going to be getting to early June and go, oh, okay, we've got to shut him down now because he's run out of innings or anything like that.
Very much a good name to be watching for and a very promising start to his pro career.
I would say that right now, as it shapes up, got good news and bad news there, right?
Like, if everything goes according to form, you're going to kind of have a pretty wide open โ
array of possibilities at six.
The question is going to be, do you feel like, are any of these players really the, are they clearly like the back of the top tier or the back of the second tier?
Because I don't think you could really argue that the top two or three this year are in a little bit of a different tier, like Trilowski, Grady Emerson, maybe even Von Lackey are in kind of like the Uber tier.
Then there's this next tier, but it's a pretty small tier.
You've got, again, it depends on who, you know, you've got Jackson Flora maybe in that.
You've got Jacob Lombard maybe in that.