We've got a lot going on a Sunday night here.

We've got the Oscars.

We got Team USA against Team Mexico.

We have Jeff's Northwestern Wildcats in the NCAA tournament, something that we don't say very often.

Oh, and we have our 2023 draft targets all coming up next. Happy Sunday night, everybody.

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It is Sunday night, March 12th. We are getting really close to a big major draft season here. I am Scott Jansit. Join, as always on Saturday nights by Jeff Erickson. If you can please rate and review the podcast, we do certainly appreciate that at all any point. Jeff, happy Sunday night to you. Uh, congrats to Northwestern being the tournament.

What's that twice in four years, which is more than it was in like 50 years before that, right? Twice in six years and twice and forever for that matter. Was it six years ago that you went? 2017. God, it seems a lot more recent than that. I know, doesn't it? It really does. Chris Collins has been there for a while, but no. Yeah, it's about eight or nine years, I think.

Yeah, maybe it's even longer.

I don't know. I mean, that he's been there. I think it was 2017. I'm pretty sure it was 2017. You went. You had no way better than I would. I'm bad with years. I'm bad with anything dates that is not in the 1980s. I'm really good with like telling you everything that happened then and then kind of blur up. Yeah, you had to, you got quizzed on it.

So then you had to know.

I've been quizzed that many times.

So I can tell you all the winners of like world series and super bowl but then i get to like 2000 i'm like oh i have no idea patriots is mine just my standard guess but um so we're here to talk about uh 2023 draft targets we're gonna kind of do what we did last week except the opposite last week we did fade we went like each position we'll go position by position here kind of talk about 2023 draft targets we're going to kind of do what we did last week except the opposite last week we did fade we went like each position we'll go position by position here kind of talk about some guys that we are targeting in drafts you know giving away some of our secrets here so if you're in a league with us make sure that you ignore this podcast for a while at least for another couple weeks and then you can you can take it up again but other than that we're going to talk going to talk about some of that but just news and notes first uh jeff i want to ask you first about chrisale uh three scoreless innings with five strike ads on saturday i can already feel the helium uh filling up chrisale at the moment a lot of people talking on twitter you know he's going to be a top hundred pick he's going to be higher than that um that. How back in are you with Chris Sale with him

looking really good in spring so far? Not yet. Not yet. Should I be? I don't know. I mean,

it's tough. I mean, it's just, who knows? I mean, if he's healthy, yeah, but if it's not, I mean,

there's no way for us to know. It's just, I mean, he's thrown 47 innings the last three years. He has not really pitched since 2019 for real. He made nine starts in 2021. He was good in those, he was good in those starts. He was bad in 2019, but looks good. He's 33 now. Yeah, I think, I think I'm a little bit back in. I like the, I like the, you know, the kind of Tommy John, you know, what do they call it, the period right after that, the honeymoon period, honeymoon period. Yeah. Right after Tommy John, you know, he came back a little bit last year and through five and two thirds. So kind of jumped back in a little bit. Yeah, I mean, looking good i don't think uh i think probably someone's gonna like him more than me but uh i'm certainly

not not fading him right now yeah how is the uh you know i i i'm curious to see it the velocity

is maintained yeah like it was 95 today uh i think it peaked at 96 his average was was in the 94's last year, but last year,

whatever. I mean, what does that even mean? He threw seven, you know, he threw two start,

he threw five, five and two thirds inning. So it means it means literally zero. I don't even care.

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