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In our 124th episode, Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer discuss a handful of MLB transactions and latest baseball card news before previewing the AL East with Matt Frank, aka MarmosDad, purveyor of Razzball’s Top 100 Pitchers. You can find us on bluesky at @cardscategories.bsky.social, @mcouill7.bsky.social, and @jbrewer17.bsky.social. Email the pod at [email protected]. Links to things discussed in the pod: Rangers pony […]

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We’ll get back to rolling out the Top 100 next time, but the news cycle demands that we make space to discuss two major trades in the prospect world.

If you happen to be a Brewers fan, I don’t really know what to say that might make you feel better about trading Freddy Peralta and Tobias Myers for RHP Brandon Sproat and SS Jett Williams. Perhaps you’ve internalized the message that your team is so poor that it can’t afford the final season of a good player’s contract or so poor at finding prospects that they have to make these kinds of trades to keep the system stocked. Perhaps you’re totally in step with this transaction. 

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1. SS Sebastian Walcott | 20 | AA | 2027

Walcott signed for $3.2 million in 2023 out of the Bahamas and climbed swiftly through the system until 2025 when he got a full season to settle in at Double-A, where he slashed .255/.355/.386 with 13 home runs and 32 stolen bases in 124 games. The line might not leap off the page, but he was ten percent better than league average playing against guys who were 4.9 years older than him, on average. That’s future superstar stuff from a kid who’s already 6’4” and 190 pounds with double plus raw power and easy speed alongside smooth actions on the infield. 

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Off the top, I want to point out how this draft and the one before it are great examples of why you should NOT tank in dynasty leagues. Last year’s class was so stacked, you could’ve landed Cam Smith with a pick at the end of round one, as happened in one of my leagues. This year, there’s not much of a difference between the top fifteen or so, and there’s no fast-moving monster among the college bats. 

1. Mariners LHP Kade Anderson

2. Rockies SS Ethan Holliday

3. Marlins SS Avia Arquette 

4. Reds SS Steele Hall

In a class without an obvious bat at the top, Kade Anderson in Seattle represents the best combination of proximity and upside. Easily the top pick in a league where quality pitching is at all hard to find. The shallower the league, the more I’d lean Holliday here. 

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