Ethan Conrad

And, you know, he was kind of this, you know, big physical switch hitter.

Um, You know, interesting guy, but probably, you know, I know coming into the year, if I was ranking Cubs outfielders who were drafted in 2025, I had him behind Ethan Conrad and Kane Keppley.

And we'll talk about Kane Keppley in a little bit.

Anyway, Hartshorn, I think his season is pretty amazing.

So I don't think that he'll be there anymore.

Ethan Conrad is in the mix up here as is Kane Kepley, as is Jackson Wiggins.

Jackson Wiggins is kind of weird.

I think that like, My problem with Jackson Wiggins is that I think that if he's eligible to be a prospect next year, I'm probably way lower.

He's outside my top five.

So I expect my top three to five to be Josiah Hardshore.

Ethan Conrad, I expect to bounce back next year and be up there.

I think that Cain Kepley will still be around in my top five.

We don't have any confirmed names on the Cubs, the A's, the Red Sox.

So starting with the Cubs, the home team here, uh, I do have Ethan Conrad.

This is a big name.

It's, it's so tough to balance between not wanting to do the big names.

I think they have actually done a really good job of not sending out bangers recently, so this is why that could be wrong.

But Ethan Conrad also only has, like, 134 at bats this year.

He had a lot of missed time.

He got to high A.

They've got a lot of really exciting prospects still in the system.

Ethan Conrad, you know, you hope for a healthy year.

He could be a Josiah Hartshorn explosion next year.

You've got Kate Townsend who could really have a great season.

You alluded to it earlier.

Ethan Conrad back on the injured list for the South Bend Cubs, which is unfortunate.

Obviously, we saw – Brian and I talked about him last week, and he had just – I think he had just appeared in a couple games.

He got promoted, got off to a late start, didn't appear in a game until the weekend, rolled around, then made a few appearances, then went back on the injured list.

And yeah, I'd assume obviously with the shorter timeline on the rest of the season that that kind of does it for Ethan Conrad for the rest of the season.

And we might hopefully see him in the Arizona Complex League, but I really don't know.

We'll have to kind of see at this point.