Braylon Payne

But just to be a little different, and I thought this guy was kind of close to, uh, to Fisher, so I went with him just to kind of give a little bit of variety here.

I went with Braylon Payne, who had a really good season.

Uh, you know, really good power, speed play this year.

Uh, in 102 games between High A and Double-A, 28 bombs, 25 steals, 53 extra base hits overall, slash 277/358/552 with a 127 WRC plus.

okay yeah i'm looking forward to seeing him

Another one of my guys is Braylon Payne.

He's going to strike out a ton, but that doesn't seem to matter anymore.

He hit 28 home runs, 25 stolen bases.

And it's one of my guys that I saw last year in low A. I was like, whoa, this guy's a player.

Yeah.

Braylon Payne.

Those are my three guys.

How good

is Braylon Payne?

He's fascinating, and I can't wait to see him in the Arizona Fall League because he's going to be their top prospect down there.

I'll be down there for two and a half weeks at the end of October.

Talking about Andrew Fisher, of course, winning the MILB Player of the Year for MLB Pipeline.

Now talking about Biloxi and some of these guys that could end up starting in Nashville next year.

And then we were just having a conversation as well about Braylon Payne.

If you've never been to the Nashville Sound Stadium, I've been there.

Whereas I think if let's in a note, really put it together, they're capable of being that type of guy.

So, um, really good finishes for the two guys in double a who have the highest ceilings in the system speaking of high ceilings on the hitting side braylon payne hit a 117 mile per hour home run in game two of the pensacola series uh the ball was just a line drive that probably never got more than like 15 feet off the ground it reminded me of a giancarlo stanton homer back in his miami days Obviously, with the AA cameras and everything, he probably plays some tricks on the eyes, but the ball was crushed.

He finished a little slowly.

He had a four-strikeout game in the championship game, but otherwise, he had a really good playoff run in general.

And Andrew Fisher hit his 50th homer of the year.

And Braylon Payne was awesome.

And Jesus Made was awesome.

But on Wednesday, they lost 3-1.

A setback, a tough setback.

had the tying runs on base in the ninth inning.

Braylon Payne strikes out looking, and that's that.

It is the Rocket City Trash Pandas who claim the Southern League Championship, and Biloxi is the runner-up.

I got to pick one of the two.

So I will start with Braylon Payne of the Scottsdale Scorpions, Milwaukee Brewers.

Uh, so pain is an interesting prospect in that they It seems to not think that he was going to have the power that he's shown, but he's got some loud, loud exit velocities like 115, 116, 117 even.

I think scouts thought he was going to be more of a speedster, but he hit 28 home runs this year, 23 of them in high A.

And I like toolsy guys.

I like athletes.

So Braylon Payne will be my first one.

And I got to pick an infielder here from Salt River.

Yeah.

Uh, we, we did have, um, three teenagers go 2020 this year, including Braylon Payne, uh, 19 year old Brewers prospect hit 28 homers and had 25 stolen bases, um, Andy Azocar of the Orioles had 20 homers and 25 stolen bases at age 19.

And Wilberson de Pena of the Yankees with 20 and 25.

Sam, 60 names out there.

Anyone in particular jump out to you?

Well, I just want to revisit Braylon Payne that you mentioned him just now because he He had a 25-25 season, and only three players younger than him have had a 25-25 season since we've been gathering this data.

It's Adrian Beltre in 1997, Andre Jones in 1995, which there that season comes up again, and Jose Cardinal in 1961.

And, you know, we were talking before about like, okay, well, he did play at high A and double A this year.