
About this episode
This year teams left more first-round players unprotected from the Rule 5 draft than we’ve seen in a decade. Carlos and Peter revisit some of the high-profile misses from the 2021 and 2022 drafts and what lessons we might be able to draw from them.
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Time Stamps
- (0:00) Intro
- (3:00) Unprotected player talk begins
- (7:00) Frank Mozzicato
- (11:00) Gavin Cross
- (14:30) Benny Montgomery & toolsy players
- (20:00) 2022 college bats we missed on
- (28:00) A calibration for amateur tool grades
- (32:00) Did the covid ripple effect impact the hit rate?
- (36:30) Reggie Crawford
- (40:00) 2022 HS players who might be at risk
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