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With the 21st pick of the 2025 MLB
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draft, the Houston Astros select Xavier
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Naens a shorts stop from Mount Vernon
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High School, Mount Vernon, Washington.
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The Atlanta Braves have the next pick.
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Well, for Xavier Nyions, he took the
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2020 shutdown and he went to work, made
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a field in his backyard, took the extra
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time to get in the weight room, built a
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batting cage in his family's barn. adds
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a little leg kick, narrows up his stance
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because it used to be a little too wide,
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gets his hands up by his ears, Carlos.
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And what does that all put together for
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It puts together a ton of power. I think
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this is some of the most exciting raw
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power in the class, high school or
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college. The scouts who really like
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nines don't see too much of a difference
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between him and Ethan Holiday. It's a
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power over hit offensive profile. He
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walks a ton. He's not going to expand
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the strike zone. Sometimes he gets a
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little passive. Scouts want to see him
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be a little bit more aggressive at times
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to tap into that huge power that he has.
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probably going to slide off shorts stop.
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Maybe he can play third base. He does
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have a great arm. He's been up to 94
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miles per hour on the arm as well. He
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would be a legitimate pitching prospect
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if he didn't have just huge power
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potential. Uh but this is a big upside
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play here with nines.
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Greg, this is where we're probably
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really happy. We're not in the front
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office to have to make the decision on
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some really great two-way players.
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Yeah, no doubt. It's tough to make that
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call. I'm all for more 2A players, but
