00:00Nobody shined brighter on the young pitching side than a Mr. Chase Burns in Cincinnati.
00:06Chase Burns looked like a front-line starter.
00:10I saw a couple of co-ace tweets with Hunter Green.
00:13This kind of start makes you believe that's in the cards as soon as next year.
00:17Five innings of one-hit shutout ball.
00:20Did walk three, but he Cade seven.
00:21He got 15 swings and misses in five innings.
00:26Burns looked like Skeen's 2.0 when he was at Wake Forest.
00:29He had a home run problem.
00:31It was very well documented that he had a home run problem.
00:34Hunter Green also had a home run problem when he debuted with the Cincinnati Reds
00:37in the most homer-friendly ballpark in baseball.
00:41Chase Burns looks like he can graduate from that home run problem guy
00:45and turn into one of the brighter young arms in baseball.
00:47Yeah, I think the home run problem starts to dissipate when every hitter's on defense mode.
00:52And Burns is the kind of guy, the more I'm watching,
00:56hitters counts aren't even hitters counts.
00:58You're seeing defensive swings in 2.0 counts, which just means hitters are just entirely uncomfortable.
01:05And he's just showing the changeup a few times, just enough to steal those strikes.
01:11And I think just make the hitter think about it ever so slightly.
01:14But the fastball is just so elite.
01:17And I think that was probably my biggest misread on the pre-draft process is I just wasn't sure how.
01:23I knew it would be good from a velocity standpoint.
01:26I didn't know if he was going to be able to miss bats at this clip, high release.
01:29But the cut-ride aspect.
01:32And some cut-rides do not play.
01:34Some cut-rides really play.
01:35When it's cut-ride with a gyro slider right off of it in the vertical tunnel that he creates,
01:41hitters aren't seeing it.
01:42They're not distinguishing it.
01:43And they are totally in their head.
01:45And then the biggest part is that he's executing.
01:47The fastball is spotted well at the top.
01:50The slider has generally been spotted well at the bottom.
01:53And even his misses tend to be more towards the outer edges of the plate if it's up.
01:58He's just kind of found it here.
02:00And it's all about health.
02:01We're hoping.
02:01I was a little concerned he might miss his first start when they were talking about range of motion issue.
02:06He's all good.
02:07And he looks plenty fine after this first outing.
02:10Statement and then a quick reason why.
02:14Statement.
02:15I'm starting to feel bad for Craig Breslow.
02:18Reason why.
02:19Matt Arnold has yanked a solid pitcher out from Breslow's reach in back-to-back years.
02:28At the beginning of the year last year, Quinn Priester was toiling away in Worcester.
02:32He makes his way to Milwaukee, becomes one of the more reliable arms in Major League Baseball.
02:37This year, Caleb Durbin goes to Boston, but Kyle Harrison's part of that trade return.
02:41Kyle Harrison, one of the guys they got back for Rafi Devers last year.
02:44And Harrison in his Brewer debut.
02:46Five innings, four hits, one run, one walk.
02:49And eight K's.
02:50First time he's K'd eight in a game since 2024.
02:53Just the fourth time in Kyle Harrison's young big league career.
02:57That's a heck of a first impression in Milwaukee.
02:59Yeah.
03:01You know, people always used to say, don't trade with the Rays, right?
03:05Don't trade with the Brewers at this point.
03:07That might be the new conversation that we're going to be having here.
03:10But the thing is, it's hard to say don't trade with them because who says that you were going
03:16to be able to get this out of them?
03:17I think it was abundantly clear that Quinn Priester was not going to become this Quinn Priester
03:21in Boston.
03:22I think Boston is really good at maximizing the guys that they are good at maximizing at.
03:27But I think you pigeonhole yourself when you endlessly target just that type and don't
03:32try to, you know, maybe push further into how you can, instead of saying, oh, this guy's
03:36not going to work for us.
03:37Let's move off.
03:38How can we actually change our infrastructure to be able to maximize this guy?
03:43Even James Tibbs.
03:43Seems like they didn't quite think that he would benefit from what they thought he would
03:49from a hitting perspective, ship him out to L.A.
03:52Now, I don't know if the guy's going to hit enough, but James Tibbs is better than he was
03:56last year.
03:56I can promise you that.
03:57And in the spring training, I'll back it up and everything I saw in the backfield.
04:00So yeah, the Red Sox are really good at certain things.
04:03And I think the stubbornness of Craig Brezzo, which is well documented at this point, is causing
04:08them to jump ship sometimes on assets, maybe a little bit too early or not properly develop
04:14and maximize them.
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