The Eyes Have It - A BaseballHQ Prospect Podcast

The Eyes Have It podcast makes it's 2024 season debut with Geoff Pontes of Baseball America as the guest. Chris and Geoff discuss some of their restaurant finds while scouting prospects. Geoff provides scouting reports on 8 prospects from the backfields, including Red Sox prospect Roman Anthony, Blue Jays prospect Landon Maroudis & Yankees prospect George Lombard Jr.

Chris is joined by Shelly Verougstraete (Rotoworld, BaseballHQ, Sportstopia) who discusses some of her favorite prospects, including Cubs prospect Owen Caissie & Tigers prospect Jackson Jobe. Chris and Shelly also hand out some prospect superlatives to conclude the 2023 season.  

Chris and Brent delve into the accelerated path guys take from the draft to the big leagues, providing scouting reports along the way, including reports on Angels 1B prospect Nolan Schanuel, Braves SP prospects Spencer Schwellenbach, Owen Murphy & Hurston Waldrep and Brewers SP prospect Jacob Misiorowski. 

Chris is joined by Jeremy Deloney from BaseballHQ to discuss everything from list making to some of Jeremy's live looks this season, including a trio of catching prospects, Dodgers prospect Dalton Rushing, Athletics prospect Daniel Susac and Padres prospect Ethan Salas.

Chris & Brent were at the park last week, scouting some big name prospects, including Nationals prospects Dylan Crews, James Wood & Brady House, Pirates prospects Termarr Johnson & Bubba Chandler, Cubs prospect Cade Horton & Phillies prospect Mick Abel.

Chris is joined by BaseballHQ's Rob Gordon, who discusses his trip to the College World Series and provides in-person scouting reports on Guardians OF prospect Chase DeLauter, Tigers 3B prospect Colt Keith, Dodgers RHP prospect Nick Fasso and other lesser names from the Tigers organizations. 

Chris and Brent breakdown some of Chris' most recent in-person scouting targets, including Marlins 2022 First Round Pick Jacob Berry, while also discussing a few organizations that have struggled to develop players over the last several years, including the Marlins, White Sox & the Royals. 

Chris welcomes Dynasty Dugout's Chris Clegg to the show as they discuss several prospects Clegg has seen in person this year, including Drew Gilbert, Ryan Clifford, Roman Anthony, Luis Perales and others. 

Chris and Brent are back together again. Brent breaks down the improvements seen by Luis Medina and Cristopher Sanchez while Chris dives into Luisangel Acuna, Kyle Manzardo, Junior Caminero and others. 

Chris' guest this week is Geoff Pontes from Baseball America who brings live look opinions from Cape Cod League, including reports on 3 potential 2024 draft picks. He also talks us through several recent pro looks.

Chris is joined by Rotowire's James Anderson and gets James' thoughts on several prospects in the MLB Draft that he either is high on or is not. 

Chris is joined by Brent for a second week in a row, breaking down some of the most noteworthy arms from the Futures Game, like Mick Abel and Jacob Misiorowski. Brent breaks down the Main Event of the Futures Game, the untelevised Batting Practice Session. Chris closes with some draft content, including some thoughts on several first round picks. 

Brent is on his way to the Futures Game and MLB All Star Weekend in Seattle and he previews Futures Game participants Colt Keith, Yanquiel Fernandez and Dalton Rushing while Chris provides scouting reports on several Cubs prospects, including Futures Game participant Pete Crow-Armstrong, Owen Caissie and Jordan Wicks. Chris throws in a report on Brewers prospect Robert Gasser for good measure.

Chris is joined by Baseball America's draft writer Carlos Collazo, who breaks down some of the prospects expected to go in the first few rounds of the draft, including LSU OF Dylan Crews, LSU RHP Paul Skenes, U of Florida OF Wyatt Langford and many more prospects. This an informative episode for those preparing for upcoming Fantasy First Year Player Drafts.

Brents hosts this episode of the podcast with Chris in the analyst seat, discussing prospects he's recently scouted in the Florida State League, including Phillies prospect Justin Crawford, Mets prospect Jett Williams, Pirates prospect Termarr Johnson, Blue Jays prospect Kendy Rojas and Reds prospects Cam Collier, Carlos Jorge and Hector Rodriguez. 

Chris is joined by Baseball Prospectus' Jarrett Seidler for this supersized episode of the EHI where they cover a multitude of subjects, including prospect coverage post-Covid and the unique difficulties list makers are having putting together mid-season prospect list this year. They also evaluate several players throughout, including Mets prospect Kevin Parada, Nationals prospect James Wood, Phillies prospect Orion Kerkering and Dodgers prospect Nick Frasso. 

Chris and Brent discuss the prospect evolution of Ben Brown (RHP, CHC) and provide video scouting looks at several A-Ball prospects, including Harry Ford (C, SEA), Bubba Chandler (RHP, PIT), Roman Anthony (OF, BOS), Brock Porter (RHP, TEX) and Ben Kudrna (RHP, KC). 

Chris is the solo host of this week's episode providing scouting reports off video looks at Mets RHP prospect Mike Vasil, Orioles OF prospect Heston Kjerstad, Orioles RHP prospect Chayce McDermott and Diamondbacks 2B prospect Ryan Bliss. 

Brent takes over hosting duties this week as Chris empties out his scouting notebook with notes on Astros prospects Jacob Melton, Ryan Clifford, Miguel Ullola & Zach Dezenzo, Braves prospect Ignacio "Nacho" Alvarez, Reds prospect Noevi Marte, and Brewers prospects Jackson Chourio, Jeferson Quero, Tyler Black & Carlos Rodriguez.

Chris is joined by guest Rhys White (Just Baseball/Prospects Live) to discuss several California League prospects, including Padres OF Samuel Zavala, Padres LHP prospect Robby Snelling, Dodgers LHP Maddux Bruns, Dodgers RHP Payton Martin and Angels OF Nelson Rada.

Chris and Brent discuss Pirates RHP prospect Luis Ortiz and the improvements he's made this season in the minors while also providing scouting reports on a trio of Rays prospects, SS/3B prospect Junior Caminero, SS prospect Carson Williams and IF Wily Vasquez. Chris also throws in a scouting report on Angels RHP prospect Sam Bachman. 

Chris is joined by BaseballHQ's minors writer Doug Otto to discuss the role prospect age plays on Major League outcomes and discussing several prospects relating to their age and level, including Rays prospect Junior Caminero, Rangers prospect Anthony Gutierrez and several Angels prospects.  

Chris and Brent discuss the MLB debut of Logan Allen (LHP, CLE) against the Marlins and provide scouting reports on Tanner Bibee (RHP, CLE) and several Yankess High-A prospect, including Spencer Jones (OF, NYY), Zach Messinger (RHP, NYY), Drew Thorpe (RHP, NYY), Antonio Gomez (C, NYY) & Dartmouth's own Ben Rice (C, NYY). 

Chris is joined this week by guest Trevor Hooth of BaseballHQ to discuss Twins prospects Emmanual Rodriguez and Jose Sales and Cardinals prospects Tink Hence and Cooper Hjerpe.

Chris and Brent discuss a few rookie performers over the 1st two weeks of the season, including James Outman, Logan O'Hoppe and Ji-Hwan Bae, and Chris discusses his live looks of Boston Red Sox prospects, including Marcelo Mayer, Wikelman Gonzalez and Chase Meidroth. 

Chris solo hosts this episode of the Eyes Have it Podcast. He previews his season and the coverage on the minors side of the website, he speaks about his own process in scouting, including discussing his bias, and he discusses several prospect with questions to answer coming into the 2023 MILB season

Chris is joined by Brent on this week's episode for the annual Thrive or Dive edition of the EHI Podcast. Rookies discussed include Gunnar Henderson, Corbin Carroll, Jordan Walker, Josh Jung, Miguel Vargas, Masataka Yoshida, Triston Casas, Ezequiel Tovar, Anthony Volpe, Esteury Ruiz, Logan O'Hoppe, Oscar Colas, Hunter Brown, Kodai Senga, Hayden Wesneski & Grayson Rodriguez.

Chris welcomes Geoff Pontes of Baseball America to the podcast to talk about the expansion of fantasy coverage at BA and to delve into Geoff's recent live looks at Spring Training. Prospects covered include Jordan Walker, Kodai Senga, Forrest Whitley, James Wood, Justin Dirden, Cooper Hjerpe, Gordon Graceffo, Masataka Yoshida, Hiroto Takahashi, Yoshinobu Yamamoto & Roki Sasaki. 

Chris & Brent explore the world of rookie sleepers for redrafts and draft & holds, including prospects such as Brett Baty, Eury Perez, Sal Frelick, Will Brennen, Francisco Alvarez and other lesser names like Ross Adolph. 

Brent & Chris discuss the release of Arizona Fall League schedules and provide in-person reports on Mets prospect Alex Ramirez, Cubs prospect Ben Brown, Orioles prospects Heston Kjerstad, Max Wagner & Jud Fabian, Reds prospects Christian Encarnacion-Strand & Rece Hinds, Yankees prospect Clayton Beeter, Braves prospect Justyn-Henry Malloy & Rays prospect Brett Wisely. 

Brent & Chris discuss scouting the Arizona Fall League and also provide scouting reports on Phillies RHP prospect Andrew Painter, White Sox OF prospect Oscar Colás & Mariners RHP prospect Emerson Hancock.

Brent & Chris are back together again after Brent's recent stint on the IL discussing the MLB debuts of Corbin Carroll, Gunnar Henderson, Hunter Brown, Spencer Steer & Ryne Nelson and also breaking down Brent's live looks at Low-A prospects Jackson Holliday, Dylan Beavers, Mason Denaburg & Jared McKenzie  

With Brent on the IL for another week, Chris welcomes Geoff Pontes from Baseball America to the show to discuss the Cape Cod League and help us identify process hitters. Chris & Geoff also spend time discussing how they got involved in the business and the various pathways others took to get their opportunities in the industry. 

When Brent comes down with a bad head cold, Chris is fortunate enough to get an assist from BaseballHQ Minors writers Jeremy Deloney & Rob Gordon who bring scouting reports on Athletics, Tigers & Dodgers prospects while also discussing a variety of development topics with Mr. Blessing

Brent & Chris pack 8 live look reports in under an hour, including full reports on Zac Veen, Kyle Manzardo & Will Warren. Plus, five quick hits reports on Reds, Rays & Yankees prospects.

Brent & Chris discuss the recently released BHQ Midseason Top 50 prospect list and analysis some of the prospects who were traded last week before the deadline.

Brent & Chris breakdown a few trades that happened before Tuesday Morning and also have like looks at Phillies prospect Mick Abel, Reds prospect Connor Phillips and Angels prospects Jeremiah Jackson and Jordyn Adams.

Brent & Chris take a look at the recently completed first year player draft with reports on several prospects, including Drew Jones, Termarr Johnson & Elijah Green. Brent also details some Double-A players in the Guardians & Orioles farm systems.

Brent & Chris are joined by Jock Thompson and break down the Futures Game, including a recap of the Futures Game Batting Practice.

Brent & Chris have a guest! BHQ's own Jeremy Deloney who has scouting looks at Reds prospects Elly De La Cruz & Jose Torres and Guardians prospect Angel Martinez. The Boys also preview 6 players for the 2022 Futures Game.

Brent & Chris breakdown the importance of scouting defense for fantasy before evaluating some prospects, including White Sox prospects 3B Bryan Ramos & SS Colson Montgomery, Tigers prospect RHP Reese Olson & Guardians prospect RHP Hunter Gaddis.

Brent & Chris talk Rangers prospects Evan Carter, Luisangel Acuna & Aaron Zavala and Orioles prospects Gunnar Henderson & Jordan Westburg in an abbreviated edition of the Eyes Have it Podcast.

Brent & Chris discuss Brent's recent trip to see Orioles prospect Coby Mayo & Phillies prospect Johan Rojas while also discussing two video looks Chris got on Marlins prospect Eury Perez and Angels prospect Ky Bush.

Brent & Chris discuss a bunch of top prospects this week, checking in on Mets prospect Francisco Alvarez, Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz, Diamondbacks prospect Corbin Carroll, Orioles prospect DL Hall & Twins prospect Matt Canterino.

Brent & Chris discuss a bunch of Rays guys, including the rookie struggles of Josh Lowe & Vidal Brujan and a slew of live looks, including Kyle Manzardo, Mason Montgomery, and a pitching prospect Chris has been onto longer than anyone else.

Brent and Chris have a thorough discussion regarding pitching skill buckets, mentioning several prospects they've covered over the last two seasons on the EHI podcast.

Brent & Chris discuss the recent struggles of Nationals prospect Cade Cavalli while also providing scouting reports on Tigers prospect Jackson Jobe, Giants prospect Kyle Harrison and Mariners prospect Levi Stoudt.

Brent & Chris breakdown Yankees prospect Anthony Volpe's struggles to begin 2022 and provide in-person scouting reports on Braves prospects Royber Salinas & Vaughn Grissom and White Sox prospects Andrew Dalquist & Bryan Ramos.

Brent & Chris dig into the MLB debuts of Royce Lewis and George Kirby and also cover Moises Gomez, Jordan Walker, Zack Gelof, and others during the live looks segment.

Brent & Chris discuss the debut of Orioles prospect Kyle Bradish, along with live looks at Reds prospect Brandon Williamson and Cubs prospects Ryan Jensen & Nelson Velazquez.

Brent & Chris breakdown some early MLB rookie struggles and provide scouting analysis on 3 prospects, White Sox propsect Jose Rodriguez, Dodgers prospect Bobby Miller and DBacks prospect Brandon Pfaadt.