Ep. 135: Jerry Dipoto and Jordan Shusterman join the show
🕑 Added 2025-02-10 13:00:07 +0000 UTCSeattle Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto joins the show. One-half of the Cespedes Family BBQ, Jordan Shusterman joins the show.
3:00 -- Draft, Develop and Trade
9:00 -- Why isn't MLB trading draft picks yet? Jordan provides his two cents and the opportunity for MLB.
17:55 -- Jordan Shusterman's sleepers for the 2025 college baseball season and MLB Draft
32:00 -- Jerry Dipoto joins the show
36:50 -- Is the value of prospects decreasing during the winter?
39:30 -- Does Jerry want to trade draft picks?
42:00 -- When is it appropriate to trade prospects? When is too early? Can you miss the boat?
47:45 -- Looking forward to all these high school draft pick bats debuting in Seattle soon
53:45 -- The difficulty hitting in T-Mobile Park. Change the batters eye? Scout/acquire different player-types?
59:00 -- Specific prospects Jerry is hearing big things about as prospects head down to Spring Training. Who is this years breakout prospect like Logan Evans was in 2024?
1:01:35 -- Teddy McGraw in Seattle in 2025??
1:05:35 -- Landing the No. 3 pick. The outrageousness of the event.
1:08:10 -- What Jerry likes about the 2025 Draft class and players he likes at the top.
1:10:25 -- With the control years of the rotation starting to dissolve, is drafting a high-ceiling pitcher at No. 3 a priority?
Comments
Mathew Johnson
Great show! Fun topic for a future show. How do Arnold and Bremner rank to previous top ten college pitchers from the last two years in their draft years? Skenes, Lowder and Dollander in 2023. Burns and Smith in 2024.
JoeDoyleMiLB
Apologies for the wonkiness of the audio on my end during the first-half of the Jerry interview!
