Good day, this is effectively wild. The daily podcast on baseball perspectives. I'm Sam Miller.

I'm with Ben Lindbergh, who is coming to us from Vancouver, British Columbia. We are coming

to you as games wrap up on the West Coast on Monday evening. We thank you for joining us.

Ben, how are you doing? Well, not in Vancouver for one thing. Goodness gracious, where are you?

I am back home in New York. I spoke to you this morning in Vancouver, and then I flew,

and it turns out it takes four and a half hours these days to fly from California to New York.

So I'm now in New York. And yeah. I don't like you sneaking around, but I'm glad you're home safe.

Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Do you have a topic? Have you had a chance to follow any baseball

today? Not really. Or at least I haven't seen any baseball today, but I have read about things

that happened in baseball today. And I would like to just make a quick point about the untouchability

of prospects. The untouchability of prospects, that might actually dovetail into, it might not,

I don't want to make any promises. But it might dovetail into my topic, which is the

Baltimore Orioles. Wow, people are going to think we script this thing, but we really, we put

no planning into this. I do not think anybody is going to think that script is there.

Who should start, Ben? My point is quick, so I should probably start.

So the Cubs just traded Reed Johnson and Palmer Harlem. You thought that Reed Johnson would be

untouchable? To the braves for Eradis Viscayno, who is sort of the headliner of the package.

And this time last year, Viscayno was untouchable. And people say that certain

prospects are untouchable every year, and there's always some price at which they can be touched.

But it seemed like Frank Ren was especially adamant about his big three-year, big four

pitching prospects at the time, being totally off the table in discussions for almost anyone.

So now a year later, not only are those guys not untouchable, but they're seemingly pretty

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