This year teams left more first-round players unprotected from the Rule 5 draft than we’ve seen in a decade. Carlos and Peter revisit some of the high-profile misses from the 2021 and 2022 drafts and what lessons we might be able to draw from them. 

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Time Stamps

• (0:00) Intro
• (3:00) Unprotected player talk begins
• (7:00) Frank Mozzicato 
• (11:00) Gavin Cross
• (14:30) Benny Montgomery & toolsy players
• (20:00) 2022 college bats we missed on
• (28:00) A calibration for amateur tool grades
• (32:00) Did the covid ripple effect impact the hit rate?
• (36:30) Reggie Crawford
• (40:00) 2022 HS players who might be at risk

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