Oct 5, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
Ben and Ryan discuss their Top-50 Prospect list with numbers 45-41 coming up today. They also discuss the Braves playoff series in the NL Wild Card against the Phillies and discuss the Dodgers Series…
He played 99 games with 17 doubles, six homers, three triples, with a 243 batting average, a 322 on base percentage and a 351 slugging percentage.
He's a switch hitter and he is mainly a third baseman, so some of the power issues that he has, or lack of, it, it kind of concerns me for a guy who's kind of a, a corner infielder-ish.
Um, but I don't know if his glove would really play at shortstop considering all the other prospects they have at shortstop.
Juan turned 19.
He's very young.
He turned 19 midway through this year and spent the whole year at A ball while most people his age were still in the DSL and the SCL.
They have him listed at third base, but most of the year he played second base.
He's played third.
He played short.
He's done pretty well on all three positions.
For second, I see his glove playing the bl- best.
He's made some incredible plays there.
A big part of his game is patience.
He does not expand the zone, which is probably my favorite thing about him, and he also started switch hitting this year, which he hadn't done un- since we signed him, and that seemed to take off pretty well.
But the biggest part of his game that I like is, yes, he hasn't had much power, but he found a lot more exit velo this year.
He only had-
... one home run in his first 500 at bats in the minor league system, and in 380 he had six this year.
He found a lot more pop-
... a lot more extra base.
He played 99 games with 17 doubles, six homers, three triples, with a 243 batting average, a 322 on base percentage and a 351 slugging percentage.
He's a switch hitter and he is mainly a third baseman, so some of the power issues that he has, or lack of, it, it kind of concerns me for a guy who's kind of a, a corner infielder-ish.
Um, but I don't know if his glove would really play at shortstop considering all the other prospects they have at shortstop.
Juan turned 19.
He's very young.
He turned 19 midway through this year and spent the whole year at A ball while most people his age were still in the DSL and the SCL.
They have him listed at third base, but most of the year he played second base.
He's played third.
He played short.
He's done pretty well on all three positions.
For second, I see his glove playing the bl- best.
He's made some incredible plays there.
A big part of his game is patience.
He does not expand the zone, which is probably my favorite thing about him, and he also started switch hitting this year, which he hadn't done un- since we signed him, and that seemed to take off pretty well.
But the biggest part of his game that I like is, yes, he hasn't had much power, but he found a lot more exit velo this year.
He only had-
... one home run in his first 500 at bats in the minor league system, and in 380 he had six this year.
He found a lot more pop-
... a lot more extra base.
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