Caden Bodine

Now, they gave up pitching prospect Michael Ferret, who they like, but Ferret came back in the trade for Tyler Wells at this year's deadline, so he's back in the system.

Caden Bodine they gave up.

That is the one that might hurt.

He is up to the raised number three prospect and the number 31 overall prospect in baseball at Fangraphs.

But here's the reason it's not an A, right? Because like none of these none of these players are guys who helped the Rays win the A at least this year.

They did it on their own.

The one that might hurt is Caden Bodine, right? And Austin Overn could be a good player, but the Orioles have so many Austin Overn types.

He's a Colton Couser-type player, basically.

But yeah, I think just getting to be around a lot of other really good players.

I spent most of the year with Caden Bodine.

I spent most of the year with Nate, Connor Hyzak.

Just all those guys are awesome guys to lean on on a daily basis, whether it's Talking offense, talking, talking, whatever it may be on the field, pick their brain, picking our coaches brains.

He pitched about as...

Like, if they had done that instead of trading for Shane Boz, they would have Caden Bodine, and that would be really good, because Caden Bodine's a really good prospect.

But the 2026 Orioles would not have been significantly different.

They basically pitched the same this season.

I know Fangraphs has his future speed graded out, I believe, at like a 40, even though he was at least an average runner overall.

before he was a 35 stolen base guy in 2025 he only stole 11 bases and got caught 10 times that's really really bad so that puts a lot more pressure on the hit tool to be good not just like okay it puts pressure on the hit tool to be good because that power is 40 home run power i think like i think we both agree that swing the shots he can hit are majestic 40 home run power but he needs to hit more than 200 he's got to hit 220 240 250 to um be a contributor if he's not going to steal those bases so that's something to monitor moving forward maybe he's a one-year thing maybe he's adjusting the full season ball but to see if that speed continues to take down the stolen bases decrease that is a red flag uh to be aware of in his profile for dynasty managers Martin, the other player that you identified as a riser was Caden Bodine, up 33 spots.

Yes, he rose up to 67th overall in this past month's ranking.

He is one of the most difficult players for me to rank.

I can't remember the exact terms.

But I'll say, yeah, losing Caden Bodine, Slater Debrun, Michael Ferrett kinda, [chuckles] um, and Austin Vern hurt a little bit at the time, and they all actually performed pretty well this year when they were on the field.

But at the end of the day, I would make that trade 99 times out of 100 probably.

Yeah, it's Baz.

Like, it's not crazy to say he's gonna be better next year.

And as for the trade, like, yeah, they did perform really well.

Caden Bodine I think is performing...

He's, he's not performing exactly who, who we said he was gonna be after the draft because his offensive numbers this year were...

Quote, he's got as high of a ceiling for a catcher that I've been around.

Caden Bodine was pretty darn good.

He was a first-rounder out of Coastal, and he ascended through the minor leagues in one year and already up in the big leagues.

Not on the roster.

Like he's someone that is going to be vying for playing time, but the way he talks about Andrew, I think this guy could be really good for South Carolina.

I don't know about the power numbers.

I think maybe I need to see more, but man, he, he, The fact that he's getting the type of praise compared to Caden Bodine is really high praise.

Yeah, especially he played a fair amount, but he didn't play a ton last year for Wake.

And, oh, yeah, I'll throw this out there.

Caden Bodine, who they drafted in 25, was in the Shane Boz deal.

A little bit of homework for you.

Just, you know, go Google and see what he's done, even at the AAA level, to the point where the Rays kind of have him in an on-call position position just in case you know you know he's not i'd be shocked if we see him play in the postseason but if if they would be in a position where something happens they traded him as part of the boss deal they gave up a lot to get boss and look boss had a really solid year is there another level for him to hit to you know that he's a number one or a number two i don't know if it's there because he's not striking out enough people But the point is Caden Bodine was someone they drafted.

And at the time you kind of thought, okay, this kind of feels like, well, Adley Rutschman's probably not going to sign long-term.

This feels like a guy that you're going to maybe pair with Basayo or is Basayo going to play first base? Because keep in mind, Pete Alonzo wasn't in the picture at that point.

So, you know, he's in one of those key kind of roles where they know the bat can play.

The bat is elite with Caden Bodine.

So for them, it was a matter of getting him up to par defensively.

And I guarantee you he's doing work with a lot of the pitchers that aren't throwing or the guys in the pen trying to get – trying to get his skills and knowledge up of how they pitch, how their pitches look, all that kind of stuff.

So it's great to see the Rays do that.

And I would not be surprised to see him start the season next year with the Rays.

But Grady Emerson and Caden Bodine are essentially franchise player caliber guys.

Oh, yeah.