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Baseball America’s Ben Badler and Carlos Collazo offer scout-level insight into all levels of baseball—everything from the amateur MLB Draft, international scouting, minor league prospects to the bigs. New episodes drop every week.

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  • Episode 154: An Incredibly Strong Prep Pitching Class
    Jan 9 2026

    Ben and Carlos talk about how deep and talented the high school pitching crop is for the 2026 draft class. The two try to contextualize where this class of prep arms stacks up with some of the best in recent memory, and then discuss why pitchers across the board seem better today than they were five, 10, 15 years ago. The two talk about the general risk of pitching prospects vs. hitting prospects, how there are tools today that give us more precision in our pitching evaluations and then hit on a few of the different pitcher archetypes available in the class.

    After that Ben gives a rundown and update on the upcoming 2026 international signing period, which opens on January 15.


    Time Stamps:

    • (0:00) Intro
    • (5:35) Kaiden McCarthy reclassifies
    • (8:00) Contextualizing the 2026 prep pitching class
    • (12:00) The additional risk of pitching prospects
    • (16:00) Misses from the vaunted 2018 class
    • (18:30) Pitchers are better today in absolute terms
    • (22:30) Better ability to evaluate pitchers
    • (26:00) A variety of pitching styles
    • (38:00) 2026 International Class thoughts
    • (41:00) Luis Hernandez as the top bonus player
    • (45:00) The status of an international draft
    • (50:50) The state of international pitching
    • (53:00) Notable names to keep in mind


    Do you have feedback for the show or want to ask us a question? Email us: futureprojection@baseballamerica.com.

    Ben's Twitter: @BenBadler

    Carlos's Newsletter: Fringe Average

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    1 Std. und 6 Min.
  • Episode 153: How MLB Teams Develop Pitching With Paul Davis
    Dec 26 2025

    Ben and Carlos have a conversation about pitching development with Paul Davis. Davis has spent years in the game and was most recently the Braves director of pitching. He’s also spent time with both the Cardinals and Mariners organizations, and coached and played baseball in college.

    Davis talks about what it’s like to be a pitching director and how pitching development has changed over the years. He talks about movement patterns, delivery checkpoints, injuries, the importance of having a competitive mindset, the development path of Spencer Strider, breaking ball development, why fastballs are more than just velocity, the importance of making hitters swing, stuff vs. command, how to train strike-throwing, developing deep arsenals and more.

    Time Stamps:

    • (2:30) An overview of a pitching director’s job
    • (6:10) How much collaboration does a pitching director have with draft picks?
    • (9:15) Delivery checkpoints, movement patterns and injuries
    • (14:50) The difficulty of changing movement patterns
    • (23:00) The importance of a competitive mindset
    • (31:30) Spencer Strider’s development path
    • (46:30) Developing a breaking ball
    • (53:00) Why fastballs are more than velocity
    • (55:00) The importance of making hitters swing
    • (1:03:00) A pitcher with stuff vs. a pitcher with command
    • (1:11:30) Training command and strike-throwing
    • (1:16:20) Thoughts on stuff+ and granular pitch data
    • (1:20:00) Combining force plate metrics with pitch data to reverse-engineer stuff
    • (1:24:30) The next wave of Braves pitchers


    Do you have feedback for the show or want to ask us a question? Email us: futureprojection@baseballamerica.com.

    Ben's Twitter: @BenBadler

    Carlos's Newsletter: Fringe Average

    Baseball America Website



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    1 Std. und 33 Min.
  • Episode 152: Who Are Breakout DSL Candidates & Where Are All The 60 Hit/Power Prospects?
    Dec 23 2025

    Ben and Carlos break open the listener mailbag after talking briefly about MLB’s new tech limitations that are coming to baseball. Today’s listener topics include Dominican Summer League breakout candidates, the comps on 2026 high school shortstop Tyler Spangler, the rarity of 60-grade hit/power prospects and players outside the top 100 with the biggest upside potential.

    Time Stamps:

    • (0:00) Intro and tech talk
    • (10:00) DSL breakouts
    • (16:45) Tyler Spangler comps?
    • (20:00) The rarity of 60-grade hit/power prospects
    • (28:20) Upside players not on the top 100


    Do you have feedback for the show or want to ask us a question? Email us: futureprojection@baseballamerica.com.

    Ben's Twitter: @BenBadler

    Carlos's Newsletter: Fringe Average

    Baseball America Website



    Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/future-projection-a-baseball-america-podcast/donations

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    35 Min.
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