Braxton Ashcraft

year.

I like the value especially because when you look at this spot of the draft, like the pitchers going after him, Cade Cavalli, Braxton Ashcraft, Garrett Cole, Griffin Jacks, like not to say there's no interest with those guys, but like you said, Hunter Brown, we have the recent proof of concept of, you know, coming in the last season, he had 206 strikeouts, 243 ERA, 103 whip.

And I think to your point about the injury, Steve, encouraging that it looked better and better the further he got away from that injury.

Like when he came back in July, it was a 5 ERA with a 140 whip.

Nolan McClain, yep, yep, yep.

Now it's like, you know...

braxton ashcraft like yeah they're interesting

and like i like all these names to round 12 it's like all right logan webb like are you buying the bounce back troy mountain i like there was some question marks george kirby now like is this just who he is now uh you know like sandy alcatar like we got a 200 pitch innings guy at pick 145 but Like, is it going to be worth your time for those innings? I don't know.

I think it's something I would like to see.

I think it's something that would benefit them to throw a left-handed pitcher in the mix of right-handers when you got guys like Paul Skeens and Mitch Keller and Braxton Ashcraft, Bubba Chandler, Jared Jones, different options there that are all right-handed.

So if you're going to give Connor Wheatgriff an opportunity and it's something that he would have to earn, he'd have to come into spring training if given the opportunity and he'd have to show that he could make something happen at the major league level.

And I think it's probably deserved considering what he was able to do at the higher levels this season over pretty substantial sample size.

Thomas Harrington reached the majors and then fell off a cliff.

Braxton Ashcraft has worked his way into this conversation.

Jared Jones looked really good.

When they needed arm number 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, that's where things got messy.