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Daury Vasquez Arz (A) 8/17/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com The Diamondback's 19-year-old arm is showing up on top 30s and just starting his full-season try. His second outing was impressively productive: 45 of his 72 pitches earned strikes (62.5%), and he gar...

Diamondback's 19-yo RHP Daury Vasquez showed why he's popping up on top 30s during his 2nd full-season outing yesterday. Here's the entirety of his day in 4 minutes with some thoughts:

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Dillon Lewis, CF, NYY (A+) 7/6/25 — 8/10/25 - muddylooks.com Looking for a 5-tool prospect, rostered in just 1% of Fantrax leagues, who might be on the rise? I got one for you... The Yankees' used their 2024 13th-round slot on a young mid-major (?) college bat ...

1% banger IMO, Dillon Lewis, CF, NYY

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Here are the first 50 HRs of the 2025 CCBL season in 8 minutes. One (Carson Tinney's) is not like the others 👀:

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Trey Gibson Bal (A+) 6/1/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com 20 BF, 71 pitches, 83% strikes, 14 whiffs, 21 called strikes, 49.3 CSW% My word was this a banger. This was the most impressive outing I've seen this MiLB season. If you listened to the AL East podcas...

Best MiLB pitching performance this season? I'll go with Trey Gibson from last Sunday, 6/1/25. Here's the whole outing in 5 minutes with some thoughts:

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Muddy Arms of The Month (May) — (A 0%er who showed out in every league) - muddylooks.com California League - Sterling Patick, LAD (A) The Dodgers signed Perfect Games' #2 ranked LHP in California away from a UC-Santa Barbera commit at the end of the 2023 draft. The just-turned-20-year-old...

Here are my muddy 0% arms of the month. (One from every league)

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Yanquiel Fernandez Col (AAA) 3/28/25–5/29/25 (All 27 ABs w/0–0 takes for strikes) & Another Case Study On The Young Aggressive Hitter - muddylooks.com Meaningful to us or not, the Isotopes lineup has been torching the PCL of late. The following doesn't include last's multi-home Ritter outing and the like, but the 15 days before that: Hard not to won...

Young, aggressive Yanquiel Fernandez is in a HR drought. What's going on? Is there a change in approach paying into it? Here's a look at the 28 times he's taken an 0-0 strike this season:

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Wellington Aracena NYM (A) 5/27/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com 18 BF, 73 pitches, 64% strikes Aracena's introduction to A ball at the end of last season caught my eye enough to throw him out as my Mets' B-Side choice for 2025. At the time, a teenager touching 100...

Young Wellington Aracena had a career night with the only MiLB double-digit K outing of the day. The electric young arm was my Mets choice for 2025, and it felt like a good time to check in and see what's in the oven. Here's the complete outing in 3 min

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Miguel Mendez SD (A+) 5/16/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com 14 BF, 52 pitches, 71% strikes, 10 Whiffs (1 via FB, 9 via secondaries) Mendez's career felt stalled out in Lake Elsinore, but some newfound strike-throwing has revitalized the hard-throwing righty's ...

Since promotion, Padres 22 yo Miguel Mendez has struck out hitters at as high a clip as anyone at the level. Here's his complete 5/16 outing with some thoughts:

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Roc Riggio, NYY (A+) (First 30 BBE Of Season — Condensed) - muddylooks.com If you listened to the podcast this offseason, you know Riggio is one of, if not my favorite, prospect from a fan perspective. Riggio's all gas, no breaks approach to the game with a knack for making ...

Roc Riggio's healthy and raking. Here's his first 30 BBE of the season in under 6 minutes:

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Kamdyn Perry, Tex, condensed 5/3/25 outing at Augusta

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Axiel Plaz Pit (A) (First 248 Swings of 2025 — Condensed) & The Young Aggressive Hitter - muddylooks.com My friend Chris Clegg shared some data metrics on Pirates' young slugger Axiel Plaz that got me thinking, and sent me into my deepest video-making project. Here are Plaz's first 248 swings of 2025. St...

This is @ChrisCleggMiLB 's fault. He sent me into an Axiel Plaz hole. I came out of it with a video of every swing of his 2025 season and a potential poster child for my young, aggressive hitter defense. You can watch it here in under 19 minutes:

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Rayven Antonio Atl (A) FQO 5/17/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com 77 pitches, 51 strikes (66%), 17 Whiffs (9 via FB, 7 via SLD, 1 via CHG), 21 BF Antonio had a career night, becoming the fourth teenager to throw an FQO this season (Melvin Hernandez, Wei-En Lin, Juni...

19 yo in the Braves system throwing an FQO? 0%er!?! You bet I got into Rayven Antonio's 17 whiff, 6 IP, 9 K outing. You can watch the whole thing in less than 4 minutes here:

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Mike Burrows Pit (AAA), 5/11/25 (Changeups) - muddylooks.com Mike Burrows had a career-best 11 strikeouts last outing. The 25-year-old made his MLB debut last September, making one appearance, logging 3.1 relief innings. Burrows hasn't had his second try, but o...

Mike Burrows' changeup has been one of the most productive pitches in AAA. Here's just a little homework on the matter:

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Jean Joseph Tor (A) First 50 BBEs of 2025 - muddylooks.com Mudding involves doing homework on 0%ers. Jean Joseph caught my eye while doing up some pitchers. There were some hard-hit balls not landing for hits, and then I saw the following posts: Joseph starte...

Did a little homework on Toronto's Jean Joseph:

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Zach Thornton NYM (AA) FQO 5/13/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com 81 pitches (despite boxscore saying otherwise), 54 strikes, 67% strikes, 10 whiffs (despite gameday crediting 12), 22 BF The Mets' arm farm is turning heads this season, deservedly so. Near the forefr...

Zach Thornton put up an FQO in his third AA try. Hartford has a nice angle. It felt like time to dig into what the 2023 5th rounder is up to during his ascent up the system. Here's the complete outing in 5 minutes plus some of my takeaways:

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Juaron Watts-Brown Tor (A+) 4/30/25 (10 K BFs + HRA) - muddylooks.com The Blue Jays' 2023 3rd rounder out of Oklahoma seems to be finding his form, striking out 39.4% of the NWL batters faced while keeping the walks in check at 7.3%. Not.too.shabby. Here's what Watts-Br...

The Blue Jays might have an arm taking some exciting form in the NWL. Here's a look at Juaron Watts-Brown's strikeout work from 4/30:

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May Flowers: A 24 FQO Weekend - muddylooks.com May is a fun time to mud. Developing arms start finding a groove. The April rust is loose and we start seeing more length in outings. For some, good consistency starts to show and the cream starts to ...

With April behind us, some MiLB starters are getting into a groove. This past weekend was unlike any 3 days of the season thus far. 24 FQOs and some looks:

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Jacob Reimer, NYM (A+), First 82 BBEs of 2025 (76 broadcast) - muddylooks.com The SAL's April Hitter of the Month, Jacob Reimer, is rostered in 3% of Fantrax leagues. Here are his first 82 batted ball events of 2025, a run that earned a .330/.416/.615 slash with 5 HR, 24 RBI, 3...

SAL hitter of the month Jacob Reimer's first 82 BBEs of 2025 in 11 minutes:

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Drew Beam, KC (A+) 5/6/25 FQO (Outing minus 4 BF — Condensed) - muddylooks.com 75 pitches, 69 strk%, 12 whiffs (8 via FBs, 3 via BB, 1 via CHG) Beam's three-year SEC resume is lengthy and productive. Public reports tend to tag him as a "command guy with a high floor." These are ...

Is Drew Beam undersold? Here's his complete condensed 5/6 outing with some thoughts:

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Bishop Letson, Mil (A+), 5/2/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com The 2023 11th rounder had a career day, setting a high in strikeouts over five scoreless innings. My man John asked about him, so it felt like time to have a look. The biggest takeaway? How fine a lin...

Here's Bishop Letson's career day, condensed with some thoughts, in 5 minutes. The difference between a career day and a short outing can come down to one pitch:

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Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz, NYY (A+) 5/2/24 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com ERC came via trade from the Red Sox, yet he has the feel of a classic IFA Yankee arm in the lowers—a lively arm with raw spin capability, zippy fastball, but feral. The high walk rates need improvemen...

Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz's is off to a great start production-wise, but his latest outing showed a developing arm happening to get results while working on his game. Love to see it. Here's the whole outing in 5 minutes w/thoughts :

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Does Petey Halpin Deserve To Be The Most Hated Prospect In Dynastyland? (61 BBE+) - muddylooks.com At 22 years old, in AAA, on the 40-man, and rostered in just 1% of Fantrax leagues, Petey Halpin is the most hated prospect in the dynasty world. If my count's correct, he is currently the least roste...

Does the most hated prospect in the Dynasty World deserve it? Here are Petey Halpin's first 61 BBE, looks at defense, including a wild OFA, and some thievery on the base paths in under 10 minutes:
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Joel Diaz, NYM (A+), 4/30/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com The problem with small samples is every professional pitcher has the capability of being freaking good. Two of the greatest MiLB starting pitcher performances over the last five years were by Darius V...

Here's Joel Diaz, and El Yo-yo's last outing 4/30, in about 5 minutes, with some thoughts. Diaz has arguably been the best pitcher in the minors this young season.

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The Most Productive Pitches in the FSL April 2025 (from a 0%er) - muddylooks.com Let's have some fun and do things a little backwards. Let's think more historically than predictively, while letting data tell us where to put our eyes. Digging around Savant's FSL sample, looking for...

Is there any signal to how the most productive pitches in the FSL produced in April?

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Eduardo Rivera, Bos (A+) 4/29/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com One man's trash is another man's treasure, right? The Red Sox may be fixing to find out if that's the case with my 2024 A's pick Eduardo Rivera. The A's abandoned this 2021 11th round developmental pr...

Eduardo Rivera is back on the muddy map. Here's his complete dominant outing from last night in 3 minutes:

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Henry Baez, SD (AA) FQO 4/29/25 (Complete Outing — Condensed) - muddylooks.com Baez threw 55 of 87 pitches for strikes (63%) with 12 whiffs; nine with the slider, two with the changeup, and one with the fastball. Banger outing for my 2025 Padres arm, right? Not so fast. This is ...

Henry Baez put up one of the most dominant-looking lines of the MLB season. But lines can lie. Here is his complete outing cut up in less than 4 minutes with some thoughts on him and the Padres pitching "program."

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Lisbel Diaz, SF (A), Cal League Player of the Week In Video Form - muddylooks.com Diaz logged 55 A-ball games in 2024 as an 18-year-old. And he kind of lit it up over his final 26. The dynasty world didn't seem too impressed, as Diaz was hardly rostered, making him my easy Giants B...

Lisbel Diaz (2%) won Cal POW. You can watch everything he did to earn the honor in 8 minutes here:

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