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Sam Dykstra

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

And if you're going to throw it, you might as well throw a curveball.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

So I might highlight that as the one I'm most intrigued by.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

But the fact that he's made the kick change work as well, there's a lot that are kind of right along the same quality for me, which is to his credit.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

That is not easy to do.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

Yeah, so the way I slotted these guys in on the raise list right now, we have Ferret at number seven, DeBrun at number eight.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

So I flipped those around because we did the Orioles rankings, obviously, in early August.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

And, you know, since then, Ferret's continued to pitch really well.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

So I swapped those guys.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

So...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

Ferent is at seven.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

DeBruin is at eight.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

Bodine is at 13.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

And then Austin Overn is at 22.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

I felt a little bad putting Cade Modine at 13 because he was somebody I really liked going into the draft.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

He's somebody who – there's not a ton of power there, but there's a really good hit tool as a switch hitter.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

Switching catcher, those are always going to pop.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

The arm isn't like exceptional for arm strength, but he gets it out really quick at 39% caught stealing rate last year.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

He's a really good framer.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

One of the best in college baseball was kind of a leader for that upstart coastal Carolina team.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
What To Make Of All These Prospects Who Were Just Traded

And he has all the pieces except for the power to be a future starting catcher.