{"id":450242,"date":"2025-11-26T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/450242\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:16:10","slug":"biggest-mlb-draft-busts-thanksgiving-food-grades-more-mailbag-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/450242\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest MLB Draft Busts, Thanksgiving Food Grades &#038; More Mailbag Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"page-layout__image-credit\">\n<p>\t\tImage credit:<br \/>\n\tAsa Lacy (Photo by Bill Mitchell)<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s Future Projection, Ben Badler and Carlos Collazo take a break from their ongoing farm system review series for a special Thanksgiving listener mailbag episode.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Time Stamps<\/p>\n<p>(0:00) Intro<\/p>\n<p>(3:00) Thanksgiving food grades<\/p>\n<p>(14:00) What do we mean by hitterish?<\/p>\n<p>(28:30) Biggest personal cheeseball hits?<\/p>\n<p>(35:00) Pitchers beyond the first round who could pop<\/p>\n<p>(43:00) Who has the best command in the 2026 class?<\/p>\n<p>(50:00) Is travel ball a scam? Has it been good or harmful?<\/p>\n<p>(1:00:00) Biggest draft busts?<\/p>\n<p>(1:12:50) Should Rainiel Rodriguez move off catcher?<\/p>\n<p>(1:14:30) Who are the top 2027 northeast arms to know?<\/p>\n<p>Want more podcasts like this one? Subscribe below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/future-projection\/id1555299031\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/49rpb7lG8yY1bvvUeWYkVg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: Asa Lacy (Photo by Bill Mitchell) In this week\u2019s Future Projection, Ben Badler and Carlos Collazo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,2291,4,1586],"class_list":{"0":"post-450242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-draft","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-draft","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115616193416603775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}