Harold's been tearing things up.
He's standing by with three well
known former big leaguers,
Dimitri Young Nelson Cruz and
Gary Sheffield.
Yeah.
You know, it doesn't take much
uh intro, we got a lot of home
runs amongst us.
Ok?
I only got a few, I got it.
I got it.
No, Gary Sheffield nelly as greg
was just talking about and
demetri young Demetri man, I'm
gonna take you back.
You were the fourth overall pick
in high school when you were
coming out.
Had you come to a combine like
this?
What would you have been trying
to do?
And what would you been, what
would you been wanting to do
when you were here?
Well, that back Then when
average was important.
The first round, I would have
showed my versatility of hitting
the ball to all fields and maybe
being a switch hitter, I would
have been hitting the ball from
the left side to left field,
right side, you know, to the
right side.
Then the second round, the most
important round so I can hit
that ball out.
So show him that I can hit for
average and hit for power and
Gary's got a son here, Noah,
who's gonna be right up there
with some of the top picks.
What, what, what's your advice
to Noah?
If that's what it used to be,
what about now?
It's so different.
We're looking at exit velocities
and everything else.
No, the old school guys, we
think a certain way what he just
said was spot on.
I tell Noah, that from day one,
I don't wanna see you pulling
the first baseball that's thrown
to you because it's gonna be a
bad day after that hit line
drives.
You know, scouts wanna look at
how you backspin the baseball
the other way, how far you can
hit the ball the other way.
And Then last round, Then you
turn on your power and Then you
show them what you got with that
and, you know, some of them
might have missed us our first
time.
Nelly was on early with me.
That's why I didn't jump in
early with him with the
question.
But what have we seen so far?
And what, what, what, what, what
do you like that you've been
watching so well, I see the guys
are really strong, you know, um
, they definitely know what
they're doing, uh, try to hit
the ball like you mentioned, go
the other way and show all the
tools and, and, uh it's a great
example right here and, and, and
, and Kello, you know, he, he's
a really good outlet.
Let's turn around let's, let's
watch him hit.
You can go ahead and take the
camera behind us.
That's fine.
So when you're watching guys,
Gary, the difference with a high
school player and a college guy
, you take that into account.
Oh, of course.
I'm, I'm looking like, like
Nelly said, the, the, the
strength of these guys, it's
like different than what we had
, you know, looking at this kid
here.
You know, he's sitting in his
leg, I've actually worked with
him in and uh Tallahassee took
him in the cage and the balls he
hit out the park like to the
left side.
It is, it's like a right hand,
they hitting it and all I do is
look at waist down.
I don't look at anything else
when I wa watch waist down and I
see that's in order.
Now watch the hands.
I watch how active the hands is
and he has strong hands.
He has a good lower body and um
, he's gonna be successful in
this game demitri you get last
word before we got to throw it
back to Greg and the boys right?
That ball hit a long ways right
there.
What, what, what do you, what do
you wanna see today?
Just watching guys, I wanna see
consistency straight out
consistency.
Like for Cae, I saw him hidden
in the cage before he came out
here and all he wanted to know
was, do I make that sound like
thunder off my back.
I like that.