Rising Baseball Stars: Travis Bazzana and Coby Mayo

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00:00Let's talk to you about another young player on a good team.

00:03Well, last year's number one overall pick,

00:05Travis Bozana is going to start the year in double A.

00:08And I think the path is something like 50 to 75 at bats

00:12and double A, bumping him up the triple A.

00:14And then you'll see him probably around the all-star break.

00:16That's my guess.

00:17Unless of course, something changes.

00:20And we just saw Jose Ramirez, right?

00:22Just one snap, all of a sudden, the calculus changes, right?

00:26Right now, currently, they have Gabriel Arias at second base.

00:31That is not slowing.

00:32He is a placeholder.

00:33That's it.

00:34That's all he is right now.

00:36And if for some reason,

00:37they have to slide him over to third, right?

00:39Because Jose Ramirez misses a month.

00:41Why not just bring up Bozana

00:43and give him a taste of the big leagues and see what happens?

00:45Who knows?

00:46Maybe he gets red hot.

00:47I will know this about Bozana.

00:48This is an Australian kid who paid for his first trip

00:51to see major league baseball by selling big league chew.

00:54Okay?

00:55This kid is a baseball fanatic.

00:57He is unbelievable.

00:58I talked to Jeff Ponce about him from Baseball America.

01:01And the stories he had about Travis Bozana,

01:03who he's got a good relationship with, are just crazy.

01:06He, you know, some of his other teammates in college,

01:08actually, sometimes found him a little grating

01:09because he was so much into the game

01:12and so much into what's going on

01:13that they were just college kids sometimes.

01:15They wanted to have some fun.

01:16And all he wanted to do was win and play baseball.

01:18And that's it.

01:19That's all he was focused on.

01:21And that's going to serve him very well.

01:22So Bozana, another guy to keep in mind.

01:24Now, I don't think that's probably the case

01:26we're looking at,

01:27but it's just an example of how quickly

01:29these things can turn

01:30and some of these kids might get an opportunity

01:32because we saw it happen already just yesterday,

01:34where it could be a scenario presented to itself.

01:37I'm not saying it's going to be,

01:38but Bozana's the guy that I want on my bench

01:40for the second half of the year, if I can hold him.

01:42Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly.

01:44And it all goes back to what we were talking about

01:45with the IL stashes segment.

01:47You really have to understand how to manage your roster,

01:50especially very early.

01:52I find myself going to that waiver wire

01:53multiple times a day and have to say,

01:55Matt, take a minute, all right?

01:56Just because you want to press a button,

01:58just because you want to do something.

02:00There's smart ways to play,

02:01what Joe's talking about here

02:02and with the IL stashes in the previous segment.

02:04Then there's foolish ways to play

02:06because play is something that kids do,

02:08but we're trying to win some grownup money.

02:10Talk to me about some kids

02:11who are going to make up some grownup money.

02:12Who do we have next?

02:14All right, so more kids are going to make up

02:15some grownup money, which we love here.

02:18Kobe Mayo, who was not happy about being sent down.

02:20In fact, he had to apologize for his statements.

02:22And you know what?

02:22You shouldn't apologize, kid.

02:24You're 100% right.

02:25He's got nothing left to prove in the minor leagues.

02:27And then he said, if I go back down to the minor leagues

02:29and I struggle, then everybody says,

02:30oh, what's wrong with this guy?

02:32You know what?

02:33He's right.

02:34Kobe Mayo is right, all right?

02:36I want to just stand up here and say he's 100%.

02:38He shouldn't have to apologize for that

02:40because the Orioles are jerking this kid around.

02:42And they just have a glut of really good infielders.

02:45You have Henderson, you have Westbrook,

02:47you have Jackson Holiday.

02:48There's no room at the end for Kobe Mayo.

02:50So trade him.

02:51You need pitching desperately.

02:52Zach Eflin is not the number one starter on a playoff team.

02:56He's just not, okay?

02:57No offense to Zach Eflin,

02:59but you've got to understand at this point,

03:01you need more in that rotation,

03:03especially Grayson Rodriguez's health

03:04hanging on by a thread.

03:06So Kobe Mayo is that piece to bring you back something.

03:09The longer they wait, the more somebody else,

03:11a bigger market team like the Mets or the Yankees

03:13or the Dodgers are going to swoop in

03:14and take one of those pitchers away from you.

03:16Go get one of them now, if you can.

03:17And Kobe Mayo, I think eventually

03:20is just going to force his hand

03:21either with the Orioles or somewhere else.

03:23So stay tuned with that.

03:25Next one, Jack Caglione, who Matt knows,

03:27another guy that got drafted last year

03:28that I absolutely love.

03:29I love this kid right here.

03:31He got reassigned to minor league camp.

03:33My guess is also he opens the year in double A,

03:36but the way he hit in the minor leagues,

03:38maybe 50 at bats there.

03:39He could even go right to triple A

03:41and the Royals are a team

03:43that is going to be very competitive.

03:44They're going to be in it.

03:45This guy is a legitimate slugger.

03:47I mean, he hits the ball a ton, left-handed bat.

03:50I just, I love this guy.

03:52And I think Caglione is going to be

03:53in that middle of that order.

03:55And what you want to have him do is play first base,

03:57move past Quintino over to DH

03:59and let Sal Perez just catch every day.

04:01And then you give the kid a day off here and there

04:03and let Sal Perez DH.

04:04You just move it all around.

04:06You can get into a shuffle with those three guys,

04:08but having those three bats in that lineup is huge.

04:10And there's one more guy too,

04:12a pitcher and a pitcher on the Cardinals,

04:14right from Matt Stryker's heart.

04:16Quinn Matthews, another guy,

04:17going to start the year in triple A.

04:19It's a matter of time.

04:20That rotation is no good.

04:22I'm sorry.

04:22Quinn Matthews is very good.

04:24Young left-handed pitcher.

04:25Hey, he pitched in the green yesterday.

04:27Look, man, this guy is a young left-handed stud pitcher.

04:31They don't grow on trees.

04:33I think he probably makes a handful of starts,

04:35maybe half a dozen before you see him.

04:37So he is probably, of all these names,

04:39I would say the most immediate.

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