Current Prospect Trade Value Discussion

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And your co host over there, Jeff Ellis has been here for eight of those seasons on Locked On Guardians out of the ten and I've been here for four. I'm Justin Lata and this of course is your only daily podcast on York Cleveland Guardians that covers your team for the majors, the miners, the draft and everything in between. Yes, on today's show, we'll break the guardians prospects down into trade deers and tears and talk about who has the most value and where most guys value sits . And we're talking about the top ten prospects of the last ten years, Jeff. It's been, you and I know each other for ten years. It's about well, I think it might have been longer than ten, but the last time the first time we ever met in person was ten years ago at the Eastern League all star game in Akron, and that was a memorable night, was it not? Jeff is so speechless, he doesn't remember it at all. Yeah, you know, there was an old timey reporter there who got kind of annoyed with people at the reading tribune decided they didn't like my article that I 'd sent them. So I had a whole big thing with that. And then one of the guys we're gonna talk about tonight was underage and drunk off their rocker . So that was a fun evening all in all. Yeah, I guess ten years have passed. We're allowed to maybe talk about that finally . I'm pretty sure they were only twenty at the time. Let me just double check that. Well, I know just I wonder like, you know, we've been we've been sitting on that story for a long time and we're like can't say anything and we didn't say anything for a long time. Yeah, clint that's that would be Clint Fraser and yeah he is on he is on okay he is not one of my top ten for the last ten years , but he is on some other really nine . Well, let's let's talk about how he went about this first. Like I look back so we have my last ironically enough, I have my last ten years of prospect data . I had Frasier ranked pretty high in twenty sixteen , but he was traded that year. So after that, like the hype was there for sure , but I kind of went more with guys that showed up on my list very high in the top ten over the last ten years. I mean, I definitely factored hype into it, but I was looking at their peak. I was looking at like where this guy was in terms of peak at any point during the process . So he might have only been one year, but his where he was as a peak prospect made him top five on my list and not on yours. So that'll be interesting to discuss. If we were just discussing twenty six teen, he'd be there for me. I mean, he was he was a prospect during the last ten years, so he can just be that version of that prospect . So yeah, that's why I really yeah, the only reason I left him off like I said is I went with the body of work to see who should have the most times. But if you're going for a single year of hype for sure, I'd say he's in because he was he was number two on he was number two on my list that year. He was number one for me. And the reason I didn't go with your approach where I was more about the hype is because we gotta be honest here for a long time, like seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, the minor leagues were doodoo. They were bad. Yeah, it's been you got yeah, I mean I could have Tyler Freedom on the list. He's not going to be. I mean, he probably had the most occurrences because he lasted forever in the miners, but he also was never a guy who excited me. He was never the number one prospect in the system to me. He was never a guy I loved. It's the same reason like Meha, Francisco Mahia who was there with a lot of people were like, he's going to win a bang title. He's going to, you know, this like hear the show on my list either . And it's and for like Freeman, it's like I'm looking at who was the ten best prospects, not like who was on it the most or who stuck around because the minor leagues were poop. So that's where I think it . I think that's a fair approach. We can kind of compare that and take notes. I mean, I'll tell you right off the bat at the very top for me, the guy that appeared the most on my list near the top, two guys for sure that stood out above the rest in terms of how I felt about them and how I ranked them were Trista McKenzie and Nolan Jones. They took turns on my list as the two top prospects going back from twenty sixteen when McKenzie was my number one all the way to I believe twenty twenty when I had Melan Jones never won that year. So never had McKenzie won highest you ever got was two but that's also that situation where like they were high school kids that got to stick around forever and they were there for the terrible years. Like I mean these were just awful years. That period, they didn't have a lot of competition . I mean, the likelihood of me putting , you know, even by that time, like they had moved up a bit. It's like Will Benson wasn't a top ten guy for me, I think ever. So he's not on these lists, even though he was the first rounder . So he, you know, but it's like Jones being and then McKenz ie being they just didn't have a competition yet. I mean, I had you Cheng Cheng third one year. Sam henches You know, see, I was never high on Cheng Cheng peaked at eleven on my list. No, he definitely made the top ten multiple times for me because the home run output in Acron, which we always talked about is a hard place to hit. I thought he plays a solid short stop and if you can hit home runs in Acron, you can hit him anywhere. But yeah, I mean, it's just so but it also speaks to just how bad this era was. Like I mean, it was ugly. You know, I wasn't a Lenny Torres guy. He popped up in here. You and I both had Daniel Johnson multiple times. And I mean, he's back in the big leagues this year for a short period of time. Yeah , he's not on my top ten here. Yeah. I mean, if you want if you want to go with pure hype over the last ten years , I find it hard to believe there's anybody higher than Daniel Espino . Well, it was because he was public publicly unless he was the highest and I think internally at the most hype of me anybody that had drafted . I don't even have him the top five just because like it's the hype but also where I rated him before he's he's three for me because he well, why don't we just start ten and work our way back? Yeah, we're going to run out of time. So at ten, I had Yandi Diaz who from the minute I saw him in Acron, I put him in my top five for the whole time he was here before he was shipped away. He was a top somewhere top three to top five, multiple years . I was a big believer from the start . So I have him at ten. The only other guys who like my just missed it were like on El Huna was pretty much it. Like that was the next guy up. But Diaz it was a short time but once I saw him I was like this is my guy at ten. He does it all if he can do any loft at all in a swing, he's in no doubt major league . Yeah, Diaz for me actually shows up at seven on my list . And he's the one guy I probably made the exception for on this list for shorter peek as a prospect because I only had him ranked in sixteen and seventeen . I don't have any data further back than that unfortunately, but yeah, I had him pretty highly because look, he was voted as the best defender by the Yeah, by the eastern league managers one year and the offense was there. Like you said, the ex plosi was there at fifteen I had him at five. So I had him at fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and like I think he didn't he never passed top five for me on my list but I'm having him seven here because the approach I took overall but ten for me was Joe Cancello actually. Joey Canzillo and this is one of those guys who again you talked about he suck around for a while, but when they acquired him in twenty twenty, I was already very high on him. He came in at eleven for me and then I had him, you know, the injuries happen . I had him at fifteenth. So he was but he peaked for me, I think at number seven , but I just consistently had him in the top fifteen top or top ten, top twenty, even with the injuries because I really believe in the stuff. So I have Canilo at ten He wasn't in consideration for me because he was just always kind of that borderline top ten guy whereas like Diaz was a top five top three guy for me consistently. So everyone you're on position players, I think when you rank because you're no I mean, I got a ton of pitches on here. It's about hal andf half yeah. So but yeah, it's it's just that he was those are the guys who were higher rated Cantella I said Cantello was always like a at peak he was like six or seven or lower. Like he just was not a high guy for me. I mean, I liked him the whole time, but I'm trying to see what his peak was. But I mean, I guess I had in fifth, high a five , but that was a mid season ranking. That wasn't like my full on ranking. He was seventh when I did like the end of the year deep dive . So yeah, he just yeah, so I have Diaz a ten. It was , you know, a good short run. That's why he's there . And he never was the top three guy, which also held him back for me . And number nine, I have Ralphie , you know, I can just say Ralphie. Again, high school kids, who's been around forever. Interestingly enough last year he had some struggles so like my midseason list I did have him like eleventh he really took off in the second half but I mean pretty much from the minute he was drafted he was a top six guy he moved up three to at several points . Now he's two in the system for me, but he has been a lot of years. And again, kind of my what separates guys from me is were they a top three prospect and he was a top three prospect . Yeah, I have him at six and eight and then I believe this year I'm out now at three on him . So he is definitely very high on my list because he's just been there multiple times and like you said, those high school guys stick around and he's coming in with a lot of hype at least when he came in and now he's really, you know, find that out . I've got a lot of hitters on mine, believe it or not, I thought I had more, maybe you might have more pictures than I did after. 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I mean cantillo in or the Mike Cleventer trade really bore a lot of fruit. I know some people have been higher or lower on certain players, but I'm surprised I was surprised that I ended up breaking Arrius because like I said, my approach was to see who showed up the most and the top positions and Arius came with a lot of hype. I believed at points he was going to be a star because the defense and the batted ball data, but you know, there's been flaws in the offensive game. He's moved positions and so a useful player but definitely never really reached the height that I thought he was going to hit . He's another one of those guys that like he appeared to mine a lot as well. I mean, I haven't debated him as a number one prospect of points, but it's just the matter of like that's when this organization was not good. Like that's when the miners are really weak. I mean, I've got Ethan Hankins in the top ten. I've got Aaron Bradshra. I got Daniel Johnson. Like I said, it's it's a weak weak, group. I got the older Logan Allen, like it's it's not great. So even though he made it multiple times for me, he just didn't make my final list because I just felt like even when I liked him , I was not as high on him like as an A type. Like I always thought he was more of a BC type Yeah, I had to live deloter in here too. I mean D,elauder I, think deserves a spot on this list because he didn't six . Yeah. At seven I Brady Aken who I mean, he was highly rated a long time on these lists like because of where they took him when they draft like , you know, he was a guy who he was the number one overall pick and then he was hurt and when they drafted him he immediately slotted top I mean it's like three, three, two four for, you know, you're hearing positive things and then it just kind of went away . I mean, I had him as the number one overall player early in the year of that draft class, which also speaks to how much different draft lists now of his his high school year. And then he added that velocity and I'm like, yeah, of course you take him. He's an exclaton Kershaw and then he got hurt and then you know Cleveland took him like hey they got three first rounders. It's a smart gamble like if everything goes like he' thats a great athlete , everything else . And you know, at the time it was a really exciting pick. Like people were genuinely excited by that pick because of the ceiling, because of the steel potential . It really didn't work out. But like it was to that point. I think it was the most exciting first round pick I had had while I was covering this team. Like just because of how much people like knew who he was and were excited for the possibility . You know that's fair. I mean, he peaked at five on my list in twenty sixteen and then I think he was like never really ranked again. After that for me, I saw him in Lake County multiple times just could not throw strikes, the velocity just died and never came back and confidence just wasn't there. Nice kid. Always had great interactions with him . He was never shy about talking to people about his struggles, but I jumped a seven without doing eight, I realized. Who'd you have at eight? Daniel Spino . Wow, you I have a Spino third. So you're really a lot lower on I was always lower on him because I knew he was going to have like it was just I knew he was going to get hurt and I always had those concerns . He was like even, like the year that everyone had him number one in system, my tanner number one and I had a spino two and that's as high as he got for me . You know, he was just a guy that I was always a little bit lower on. Like I put him eighths when they drafted him . You know, he never he was second to manzard then I had him below Manzardo before like the next set of injuries and then yeah, so it's just that you know the hype was there. I've talked about how good the ceiling was, but I just I never thought he'd reach the ceiling. I thought he had a zero percent chance to reach the ceiling unfortunately. Yeah, and he's not going to for sure now. So that's totally fair. I'm not I think he had as much hype coming in is A Fredkdy likean he, was a very well known prospect in his prep years. He didn't match Akin. Akin was the guy who had been first overall the year before everyone even knew what you know if you weren't like who didn't know the draft knew who Akin was for Akane . You know who was Yeah. So I did have Ty Freeman at seven. He just showed up on a lot of my list, but I think I agree with you that if you look at your approach, it was he stuck around a lot in a lot of bad farm systems and I would not rank a player like that very high today. That's one of the things I've learned I will breath in my top ten, I think once or twice and just learn how you met your template for this. I was like, what? No, no, no, no, no, I've met multiple years. No, I tell that Freeman, I want to say as high as number two. Maybe number three. He was two on mine as well, but like even then I was this is a bad minor league like even then I don't feel great about anyone on this list. Yeah . And then the rest of my list, like I've got just to speed things up. Like I've got Bo Nailer, it's at five. I've got for me Rokicheo didn't make. I was never Roche made Micah. He just needed it again. He just showed up a lot on mine. I think it's paying off now. Like he's pretty solid now. It's gonna be interesting to see how it goes. That's a von page still scares me a bit just because he didn't find himself. So I hit Deloter at six . Okay , so that's that's that part of it for those . Do we just do you want to jump in? Just four and just roll through , just roll through. I clicked Clint Fraser at four because again, like it was just the one year, but I was a big believer. I just like the system . I would have traded Zimmer at a heartbeat over him. I was a big believer. I had him and like Ben Heller were two of my highest risers that year . And the hype train on him was also huge. Like from the mint, they drafted him. Everything about him was a larger in life personality . Three at Chris McKenzie, he kept appearing. I was always bit lower on him in the field, but like he was highly rated a lot of points for me, which means Nolan Jones at two because he was number one. He was number one more times than anyone else on my list. He had more number one appearance than any other player because he just kept sticking around. He had the size, he had the power . And then number one is Bazana. Like having the first overall pick, nothing quite led to the hype that went with that . Yeah , I guess that's a fair approach. I don't have Bazana in my top ten because again, I just looked at the breadth of the whole thing. And I think you've got a point like some of these guys were around for a long time. Like Jones appeared a lot on mine, McKenzie appeared a lot of mine. I've got Valera on mine as well. The top ten. I've got some guys that just missed that appeared a lot too that I'm not happy about that turned out very poorly. There's some names we did mention. We'll talk about those names and we'll also get into our prospect trade tiers that we're going to jump ahead to twenty twenty six and tell you who we have and where in terms of prospect trade value ahead of the trade deadline in the next six weeks Throughout the NHL finals, every shift matters, every moment is intense and everything comes down to execution, when pressure is at its highest. And just like athletes must be ready to perform when the puck drops. 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If you're here a couple days a week, tune in occasionally, we appreciate everybody and we love talking to talking guardians baseball with with all of you every single day. And if you want to keep a show on your feed, hit the download auto download on your audio platform so you can get the next ten years. Really quickly before we dive in , for a few days now, I keep forgetting this. Aiden Morgan, seven hundred and sixteen asked me to give a shout out to his sister Kelsey for their birthday. Give me a birthday shout out. Now it was from last week. So I definitely missed the birthday but I wanted to give the shout out before. I just happen to be absent minded and forget again . So yeah, talk about your top five. See, my top five is Mackenzie Jones, Spino, Ralphie , and Mayler, I felt like Espino, I wasn't like, I know back ten years ago or eleven years ago, you followed the draft and obviously a lot more because this is what you've been doing for a long time. It's like air was my shadow pick . I got to say I did not like that pick, but it looks like it would be very good now for Cleveland at the time. I didn't really like it, but obviously you were big on drafts and I was kind of a casual observer up until I want to say twenty nineteen twenty . I mean, I still I knew who Bradley Zimmer was the one year so but I was more of a casual observer until about twenty twenty when I got really more deep into the weeds on it. So for me , Estino came with a lot of hype, and I watched him pitch a ton in Lake County. I thought he was great and loved the kid. And obviously he offered to a great start necker and then got hurt. So he stayed on the list, but he dropped a lot of mind. So I mean, I agree with you, never he was going to reach the height s that he was projected to, but I just remember the hype of him coming in and then he's bounced his way back up, I think is a big thing too . But yeah, I've got Ralphie in there too because he's a pure multiple list now ands he's reaching his apex as well, which is great. Valera was the number one prospect of mine in twenty twenty one and I believe twenty twenty two. He was my top prospect too and his and Rokio wasn't far behind. I had Rocheo very high as well. I thought for sure he was going to be. I think I was a little bit seduced by the fact that Lindor worked out so well and I guess I kind of thought Rokio was going to have some of that Lindor esque the same kind of thing, right? Great defensive short stop with contact skills, like , I guess I thought he'd fall into the same position . I think they made mine like once. Because I lost my twenty twenty list somewhere, but he didn't make it any other year but twenty twenty one. He was a one time guy. He was probably on my twenty twenty list as well. And so he peaked at eleven. He was never a top ten guy for me with Rokio . I want to say for me, he peaked three. Yeah, three picked for I'm sorry. I had a misspelled here. Sorry, that was wrong. He was no, he did. He went up to five. So he went up to five at you. For some reason, this one is misspelled so then it was an issue in my sheet because everyone out there knows I can't spell. So yeah, he made it three times , but he peaked at five and Valera was not. I mean, Valera he did get to three but I mean he is another guy that is not on my I was like I said I thought he had a bit of a hole in the swing. I thought he was a bad athlete . And then like everyone talked about how it's oh, it's the prettiest swing, it's a pretty swim. Like he's not making contact. And everyone's like, it's a plus hit tool. It's no chance of a plus hit tool based on what he's already done. So I was always kind of a doubter there 'cause he got hype that I couldn't understand based on his performance. Performance never matched the hype . So I was always kind of out on him, but I did have him at third once and then he made the top ten one of their time. Yeah, I was a believer and not necessarily the hip tool or the swing, but I thought the package was pretty good because before all the injuries, he did have the ability to run a little bit. He always had a good outfield army. The range, I think probably got hurt a little bit by the injuries, but the arm was always pretty good. He ran before he got hurt and then, you know, I believe in twenty home run power. So I thought he was ran until he let's be honest. That was an injury. That was he got kind of bigger and stronger as a natural human and his his speed went away pretty quick . I mean, the injuries popped up before that before he got bigger. Like so he the injuries started all the way back in Mahoning Valley. I mean, it was like every season. He hasn't had like every season. I saw him run in Lake County plenty and he was a decent runner back then. So I think it was before he just grew into his body a little more and got bigger. So I think the injuries had a lot to do with that. Let's talk about a couple names we haven't mentioned. I just want to quickly throw these out here because like some people are going to ask, oh, like we had we both had Channel By very high in twenty twenty three coming into the season . Bybey just had a very quick assent. Like we didn't have him ranked I didn't have him ranking twenty one after the draft. I believe twenty twenty two I had him number twelve and then number twenty and then twenty twenty three I had him number one and then after that he graduated. So I didn't have him on the list only because he wasn't a high draft pick as far as hype and he just graduated so quickly that I think he like you could argue he deserves a spot in this list because he's been one of the better performing ones but in terms of rankings he just never had time and didn't have the hype. Same with Gavin Williams. Gavin Williams had the hype, but he also graduated very quickly too. Same with Shane Bieber. Like, I mean, I thought I was going to say, yeah, I didn't have I don't Bieber was only a he was a mid season guy who I put like number two in the system , but you know, it was just then he was in the big leagues by the end of that year. So yeah. So yeah, twenty sixteen, I had him twenty four. That was right after the draft. When they drafted him, I had him ranked the twenty four just behind Sam Henches and head of Logan Ice. So great. But then twenty seventeen, I had a number four . Yeah, I had I'm sorry, I had a number three. My top three in twenty seventeen was McKenzie Bradley and Shane Bieber. Bobby Bradley is another one of those guys that didn't make my list, but he appeared a lot and he was came with a lot of hype . The other guy too that I had a lot of my list that I regret is Ethan Hank ins. I had him high on a lot of list. I was a big that's what I'm doing first round . Like he was the first round big . I was in love with his curveball as an amateur. I thought for sure the velocity, the fastball movement, the curveball, the size. I was, I was a big believer or not. I started getting negative reports almost from day one on him and I think that's why he fell candy . You know, it's like he was like Cody Morris made mine a lot and didn't make the final line of Cody Cody Morris is a guy that just didn't quite make it for me . I said you Chang made it a lot for me, didn't make it for you looking at and you know, Juan Hillman had multiple points on the top half. Oh yeah I was I was never a one Hillman guy liked the point of I liked him more than McKenzie and McKenzie see Hillman picked picked a ten for me and then that was it for me on him the guy he didn't talk about either Francisco Mei now. He was like number one a couple times on like pipeline. He was all there. You and I were never big on Mihi I want to see. I did have him number three in twenty sixteen, but after that he just, dropped like a run ning trait Russia hit tool with bad defense. He didn't walk into anything. I had him three that year as well because you had Jimmer and McKenzie and then depending on how you had Akin, Diaz and Jones, that year I had seen Tander seven, that's the year they lost him in the expansion draft. Yeah, the rule five draft. And then Greg Allen after them, who I was a big believer. Greg Allen the Break number seven that year, yeah. After Cintander , but yeah, Tyler Kriger number eight by the way. Tyler Krieger Kriger seventeen on mine that year. You know, Mike Krieger also is in here a few times. I was a big believer him and Diaz together were a fun discovery in AA that year. They were like that was a bad bad double A team. There was not a lot to look forward to when they showed up. I'm like, who the heck are these guys? Like because they weren't no one was talking about them, no one was writing about them and it's like they were just had really fun stuff in every single game. There was something , you know, fun to do. And what I loved about Yandi is so many players , you know, you want to talk to him after a game and it's the miners, they don't want to talk to you. Every single time I asked to talk to Yondi, he'd go and find a translator for me. Like he would go often Nellie Rodriguez, shout out to Nellie who was never my top ten, but a great dude. Nice guy . But he would get Nelly and Nelly would translate and he would just like he like Jani Diaz never said no as opposed to Clint Frasier who said no every single time he tried to attack them see I got I got Fraser a ton in Lake County when he was in Lake County and then he must have moved up and because he had that struggle and then he kind of put it together and he was ascending and that was the year he played in the futures game and he didn't play in Home Run Derby because he was coming back from the futures game and that's that's what led to his enjoyment day that we talked about earlier . And that was the only time he ever like willingly talked to me and that's why something's off here. Like he is very open attractive . Yeah , and we also got bad reports on Mahia. Like he got suspended multiple times because of not hustling, fighting and there was just all kinds of issues there . No, I think the worst reports I ever got were Mahia and then next was Hankins. And then there weren't bad reports on Clint Frasier, but it's just like he was just he had vibes were always weird. Vibes were like yeah, always weird. Yeah. He didn't want to talk to people. He didn't. I was like, when he had traded in New York, I'm like, he's done because he struggles with AA Acron media. He gets he's getting annoyed by AAA Acron media. How the heck is he going to handle ? He did not survive New York. I mean, again, I've talked about multiple times. I was devastated the day they trade and I was for sure thinking he was gonna be an all star. I really did believe in that. I mean, I hated that trade as well. And I love the Luke Roy trade . So yeah, well, yeah, the Lukeri trade would have been not non consequential because you traded Mahia Armstrong Chang and was that it Meha Armstrong Cheng Worth one I'll pull it up while you Meha A,rmstrong, Chain, who am I missing out of that one? I thought it was Greg Allen Greg Allen, Greg Greg Allen. Yep, Greg Allen, you're right. Yeah, which none of those. I mean, Armstrong was the best of all. Greg Allen was a part of the Clevelinger trade. So you can't say non consequential consequential because you know yeah, he did get them all those prospects from the Padres Yeah. You anybody out here who like was your biggest miss because like I'm just kind of curious. Is it changing? We can't get to trade gears today. It's too late. It's too late. That's too big of a topic . We'll push that off tomorrow. Let's try this real quick though. Trade, we have a little bit of time . Let's just talk about who everyone knows who the A is, right? Everyone knows the A is Hano and Ryan. We can just say that and move on. Who's your B? Because I guess I've been changing my mind about the B as this gone on because I've thought about like where guys are r anked in other places as well as just my head. So I've kind of up a little bit. So who are your beef? I think there's three I think there's three clear beasts and I think there's two guys that I'm like teetering on the edge. Now one guy probably falls into sea because he's hurt, but I think Doubty and Ingle are two clear B prospects. That's what I started with with those two for sure. The third guy to me is Cheerio. He's already had the hype and he's starting to hit from some power at A . So I think Cheerio is kind of a B prospect in terms of he could be the second piece of a really big trade or the maybe well if I'm being honest Ralphie and Can kindal of no ares for me in t'erms of trad ing . I said on Twitter today Ralphie is one hundred percent a no for me to trade. I would consider trading Canal depending on what you get back . But I think I think Dowdy England Cheerio could be a lead piece for like an outfielder or a nice reliever . The other two guys I have on there though are lower A guys. It's Unicor Cassarus and Robert Arius. Robert Arius is hurt. I think he's out for the year now. I want to say he had ankle surgery. That's why I did his ankle. That's why him in Steven Army. He might list for me. Curios. He might he might be Arius might be off the board at this point because I don't think a team's going to trade for him, but which really sucks because he was really having a nice year and he's a really interesting prospect. But I think Casterus is starting to make some noise. I could I could see putting him in the middle of time with health, right? He was out for like twenty days in the month of May, yeah, but he's just hitting the date is just unbelievable on him in terms of what you want to see a guy do at that level now the power, I don't know necessarily about it but everything else that surrounds us like he's a guy who needs a swing change. The reason I would not put him in the top I don't think he is