Top Prospects to Stash! Max Clark On the Rise? (07/30 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Let's talk the top prospects to stash for the final two months of the season. Next on fantasy baseball today, Express. Welcome to the biggest baseball day. Express on Thursday, July 30th. I am Chris Towers joined by Scott White. And as always on Thursday, we are talking prospects to stash. First, we're talking about five on the periphery. These are guys who you don't need to have them on your roster, but get them on your radar for the final couple of months of the season. Those five names got Max Clark for the Tigers, Outfielders, Sebastian Walcott, shortstop for the Rangers, Cam Canarella of my beloved Miami Marlins, Blake Burke of someone's beloved Milwaukee Brewers and Josiah Ragsdale also of the Brewers. Now, it's here about them. So the top two actually, I think, could be up at some point this season. And let me go ahead and preface this whole podcast, you know, before we even get to the five on the verge, let me preface it by saying, I'm not sure we're going to see any major prospect promotions in the next two weeks. We're like, we're in August, basically now. And you get to mid August. And that is the point when teams can call a players and they still retain their rookie eligibility for next year. So they're, they made it this far. They're probably going to wait those last two weeks for these guys. But Max Clark could be one of them. I feel like Max Clark has had a spot open to him on the Tigers roster since Austin Meadows, or I'm sorry, Parker Meadows went down in April. I didn't think it had been that long. Yeah. But there have been ups and downs for Max Clark, a triple A. He's caught fire here in July, though, batting 338 with five home runs, four steals, equal number of walks and strikeouts, the very athletic good center fielder and good, like discipline guy. I think I'm a classic lead off hitter. I, yeah, I think, I think an impact similar to AJ Ewing is possible for Max Clark, if and when he gets the call. And I think we're, we're nearing that point for him. Sebastian Walcott just returned to action a couple weeks ago after having UCL surgery earlier this year, the internal brace procedure. These look great. He's looked great. In fact, he's looked better than ever as a hitter since coming back. Sebastian Walcott was probably trending toward being a consensus top 10 overall prospect before he suffered the elbow injury. Even though you look at the numbers and, you know, kind of, kind of iffy, but very similar to the lead of reason, Jesus Mata where it's just the production doesn't drop pop off the page, but the tools are impressive. And the power especially for Sebastian Walcott and the fact that he had already advanced to double a last year at such a young age, I think the power is coming through now because in the short time, in the short time he's been active, he's, he's already hit four home runs, spading about 400 down at double a again, repeating there. So I think it's very soon before Sebastian Walcott, Scott moves up to triple A. And if he, he dominates there, I feel like prospects of this caliber once it clicks that they're kind of like a runaway train and there may be no stopping. And at that point, the one thing that might slow Walcott down has yet to play the field. It's all been DH at bats. So that probably needs to happen before he gets called up. All right. Now to the three guys who you may be able to pick up in your dynasty league still, Cam Canarella of the Marlins was somebody they liked enough to draft him 43rd over all last year. And that gamble seems to have paid off because he has, he has been a monster everywhere he's played. He's made it all the way up to triple A now. His carrying tool is probably his defense. He's a center fielder. And I bring that up because it a lot of times when you see these pop up prospects putting up monster numbers, it's like, well, is there a path for them defensively? There's always a path for a good defensive center fielder. Canarella is at about 350 between all of his stops. Good walk rate, good strike at rate, plenty fast enough to steal bases. Little to opposite field minded, which might impede his power, but the power production has been good this year. And I think he could take over as the Marlins center fielder as soon as next year. That's Cam Canarella. Blake Burke, a first base prospect for the Brewers. He was somebody they drafted 34th overall in 2024. He looks like a masher and he has been mashing out of his mind this year, especially lately. Blake Burke has homered eight times in his last five games. You heard that right. Eight times in his last five games that brings him up to 29 overall. He also has 25. Yeah, that's, that's like, that's the wild thing. The 25 steals, that's impressive. I don't think that's something that'll carry over to the majors. Again, there's a big guy. Fandground gives him a 30 grade for speed. But in a world where Josh Naylor is a perennial 30 home or 30 steel thread, I don't think we can count it out for Blake Burke. He clearly likes to run. He's been successful at it. But really, the power is, is what I want to stress here because these 20, 29 home runs, like we don't have official exit velocity readings at double A, but several have been clocked in the 115 mile per hour range. Like this is, and the strikeout rate's not crazy for Blake Burke. So I think there's a chance he, he becomes something worthwhile. Josiah Ragsdale is his teammate at double A, by LaXie. And he himself has been on a power binge, seven home runs at his last nine games. And that's no worthy for Josiah Ragsdale. Because that was not, it wasn't clear that he had much power. And again, I don't have exit velocity readings, but you go on that kind of power binge. And okay, maybe, maybe you are growing into power. Great on base skills. He's reached at a 455 clip there. Strikeouts are a little high, but you know, he's athletic. He steals bases. And so now he's up to 15 homeers and 31 steals with a great OPP. It's honestly at the same level, double A, a stat line that looks very much like Josue de Paula, who of course is one of the top prospects in baseball. I'm not saying Josiah Ragsdale is that, but I'm saying that production is too good to ignore. All right. We're going to take a quick break and be back with the 5th on the verge. Welcome back to fantasy baseball today. Express. We've got five prospects on the verge and the number five prospect on the verge is Walker Jenkins outfielder for the Minnesota twins. Tell me about him. Yeah. So he's replacing Zach Veean. If you want to keep stashing Veean, that's fine. Six one half dozen. The other I feel like, but I want to write about somebody else. I think Walker Jenkins, whether the twins sell and move on from somebody like Trevor Larnich, let's say, or whether they decide they're in for it and they're, they're going to make a push, particularly with Byron Bucks and going on the IL. I think Walker Jenkins is somebody that they're going to want to see in the majors this year. He was the fifth overall pick in 2023. Immediately considered a consensus top 15 prospect in baseball. And even though he spent much of the time since then injured, he's, he's held his value. And good exit velocity, reading the triple A amazing plate discipline. He's always had it. The power production hasn't quite followed suit, but I think the secondary skills there are going to carry him. And now that he's a triple A, I think he's going to get his chances here. Number four is a starting pitcher, Quinn Matthews for the Cardinals. Yeah, he was added to this list last week. And since then he had maybe his best start yet. It, it brings him to in his last nine starts of 155, the R.A. 0.78 whip. Very difficult to hit because the walks are still kind of high, but a 0.78 whip in those nine starts. 10.1 K per nine, great curveball, fastballs playing up, particularly if the Cardinals trade dust a May, I think we're going to see Quinn Matthews take over. All right. Number three, Joshua bias of the Alfie, the free Cardinals. Yep. Quinn Matthews teammate. He's been regular here. I, he's been so productive, particularly with the power 31 home runs now in the miners. This year that I find it hard to believe the Cardinals wanted to give him a look in the majors, but that strikeout issue is definitely an issue and it's one high bloom has, has referred to as, you know, they don't want him to just be a one dimensional guy. And it feels like they may be locking men as that if they call him up too soon. Yeah, strikeout rates climb back over 30% in July. So I think bias is coming up, but there's the clearest flaw here among the five on the first. Also notice they've got another prospect named Jesus bias. They do. Who's a nice real real nice season for himself at double a 21 26 homeers this season. So good time for the bias in St. Louis. Number two is Charlie Condon, first baseman for the Colorado Rockies. Do we think he gets called up to play first base? I think more likely to outfield. I mean, TJ Rumfield gets traded. That's okay. But Condon would obviously step in a first base. But I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think they're looking to move rum field. Condon spent almost half his time in the outfield at AAA this year and says, it well. I feel like he's been on the verge of a call up all season and they just haven't been able to find an opening forum with Jake McCarthy, Mickey Moniac performing well. I imagine one or both of those guys get traded. If one of them gets traded, maybe Zach Veean takes priority over content because he's already on the 40-man roster, but if both of them get traded, then yeah, I think we're going to see them in mid-August. All right. And the number one guy has been the number one guy for a while. Kate Anderson, starting pitcher, Seattle Mariners. So he got about three weeks off from pitching aside from he made, he threw one inning in the futures game. But leaving that aside, he had got about three weeks off, just returned to the mound Friday through five perfect innings. I think that little respite he got though, kind of telegraphs what the Mariners are looking to do. They didn't want him using those innings in July. They want him using those innings in September or maybe even October. And so they're apparently shopping both Emerson Hancock and Luis Castillo. I think if they trade one of them, that makes an easy path for Anderson. It just seems inevitable. One way or another, they're going to get him on that roster for the stretch run. And I think you need to keep him stashed in the meantime. All right. Those are the top prospects to stash. This is Fantasy Baseball Today Express for more extensive Fantasy Baseball coverage. Listen to our full link podcast. Fantasy Baseball today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or anywhere else podcast around. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again on Saturday. Bye-bye.