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In this week’s Future Projection, Ben Badler and Carlos Collazo take a break from their ongoing farm system review series for a special Thanksgiving listener mailbag episode.
We put grades on Thanksgiving dishes and also spend plenty of time talking about prospects, scouting, baseball jargon, sleepers, potential position switches, draft busts, personal cheeseballs and more.
Time Stamps
(0:00) Intro
(3:00) Thanksgiving food grades
(14:00) What do we mean by hitterish?
(28:30) Biggest personal cheeseball hits?
(35:00) Pitchers beyond the first round who could pop
(43:00) Who has the best command in the 2026 class?
(50:00) Is travel ball a scam? Has it been good or harmful?
(1:00:00) Biggest draft busts?
(1:12:50) Should Rainiel Rodriguez move off catcher?
(1:14:30) Who are the top 2027 northeast arms to know?
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