Spring Training Standouts and Predictions for MLB 2025

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00:00Well, let's go to the spring training standouts. Lawrence Butler's second most hits in spring training. Curtis Meade, number one. How about that?

00:06All right, Reese Hoskins. Six home runs, eight runs driven in, 281 batting average.

00:12This is a player where I'm guessing spring training stats

00:16mean absolutely nothing. He's done it for so long. Had a nice year, I thought, last year

00:21in Milwaukee, too. I would expect 25 home runs, if healthy, and

00:26doing what he normally does there, filling in the middle of the lineup. It's going to be a little

00:30bit different not having Willie Adamas there. Maybe that will change some things. Milwaukee

00:34didn't necessarily go out there and sign Soto this offseason, George.

00:39Yeah, and Hoskins, I think, is being a little underdrafted, in my opinion. I mean,

00:42I'm looking at a draft list now. He's going about in the mid-teens, as far as first baseman.

00:47So he's being drafted more as your corner infielder, maybe as your utility player here.

00:51He plays in a band box, right, in Milwaukee there. Now, you said it, the lineup's not going

00:55to be the same without Adamas. I get that. But listen, you've still got some other decent

01:00hitters there. It's really the length of the lineup that's going to be a problem here.

01:03I don't have a problem with him. I said, I don't want him to be my first baseman,

01:06Kurt. All right, that's an issue. But as I said, I think he's right there with guys like,

01:10you know, the goldshits of the world, Yandy Diaz. You know, whatever you think about Spencer

01:16Steere and Luis Urias, who's more of a, you know, I'm going to protect your average,

01:19because I don't mind a draft. We've got to do that here. But I think if you're looking

01:22for power later in your trip, and you can get him later, Hoskins is a nice choice.

01:29Last season, the Minnesota Twins gave a lot of playing time in the second half to a kid named

01:34Matt Walner, 27-year-old. He ended up hitting 13 home runs, played 200 at-bats, projected out to

01:41hit 30 homers. Who is this guy? I don't know. He was a competitive balance A pick a few years ago,

01:47so they did have high hopes, but not this high. I mean, with Royce Lewis out,

01:51this guy's going to play constantly. He's already got six home runs in the spring, George. So,

01:56I mean, he is one of those you-never-know, one-hit-wonder kind of guys from last season,

02:00but definitely a hot name this spring training. Yeah, and I think he's one of those dark board

02:07throws. All right, he's got the hot spring, fine. You're going to go with him, and then

02:10you'll move on eventually here. The whole Twins team is almost like that. I mean,

02:15I know you know these names, but, you know, it's like Stockton when you heard of somebody. You

02:19know, Ty France is your first baseman. Castro's your second baseman. Royce Lewis is already hurt.

02:25Supposed to play third. Correa, fine. We know those guys. Jose Miranda, Trevor Lonach, you know,

02:30Byron Bucks until he gets hurt, and Walner. This is a team that they can pitch, but hitting, they're

02:35trying to cobble it together, and they're going to need, like, Walner to be better than just April

02:38guys. The guys are going to hit all season long here. I think the Twins are going to struggle

02:41on offense there, so I have no problem drafting outfield. We need five, fine, go with it,

02:47but I don't see him being a guy where you're going to draft this weekend,

02:49and he'll still be on your team in September. Don't see it.

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