Exploring Futures: Jordan Walker and Esteury Ruiz in MLB
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00:00 I'd be a little hesitant on that and his projections honestly do not look that strong.
00:07 You know, if you're looking at his composite projections, you're looking at a pretty middle
00:12 of the road guy.
00:13 Now Jordan Walker, again, very interesting.
00:16 One of those guys who came up and immediately was like, you know, just, just everyone loved
00:22 him.
00:23 Um, you know, our friend, our friend, gray Albright, who we're going to discuss with
00:26 was a big Jordan Walker guy, like, and he was incredible when he came up.
00:31 And then as often happens with these younger players, they, you know, they, they deal with
00:35 strikeouts and he's super young.
00:36 I mean, he is not even 22 years old yet.
00:39 I'm way more in to Jordan Walker's projections.
00:42 Like he was able to hit 16 home runs in 465 plate appearances last year while striking
00:48 out a good bit of the time, 24% of the time.
00:51 I think that there's probably a lot more to come from him there.
00:55 Estuary Ruiz, Craig, I am out on Estuary Ruiz because if I want to take, uh, an, an athletic
01:03 who is going to, you know, maybe get traded, maybe have like absolutely no run scored or
01:08 RBIs cause there's no one behind him.
01:10 I want his teammate who plays second base.
01:12 I want Zach Geloff who stole 14 stolen bases and 300 plate appearances last year.
01:18 I would much rather prefer him because Estuary Ruiz, like literally when you say all that
01:24 he had to offer you was stolen bases.
01:27 I mean, this is like, you know, the, the worst Billy Hamilton style season.
01:32 He mucked his way to a two 54 batting average while striking out 20% of the time.
01:38 If he gets to a 25% strikeout rate, cause he's not a very good hitter.
01:43 You're talking about a guy who's going to hit like two 20 and yeah, he will steal a
01:48 lot of bases.
01:49 I mean, he, he was a full-time player last year.
01:52 He scored 47 runs and 47 RBIs.
01:56 I mean, you are, you are not only, not only like you're actively losing other categories
02:01 because you have a reason.
02:02 So, so I love these guys who steal, I love the speed guys.
02:06 I am passing on Estuary Ruiz.
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