Hi, hello, who's doing the intro today? I guess I will. We didn't discuss it

beforehand. This is episode 122 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh, and in Long Beach,

California, you are Sam Miller. Are you still in the Honda Fit these days, or have

you migrated? I haven't been in the Honda Fit in probably a month and a half. Yeah,

I didn't think so. I guess I can hear traffic noise in the distance. I just sit on

the stoop now. Well, I hope you move back indoors once the crickets come back. Like indoors

in my house? Oh, you mean indoors back into the Honda Fit? Yes. We have a topic. It is not

timely. It is not topical, but it's a topic. So we're going to talk about a Nate Silver

article from 2008, pre-2008 election, Nate Silver, who was at the time projecting pitching

prospects for baseball perspectives. And he predicted, I guess it was all of the pictures

selected in the first round. Is that right? No, well, no. What we're, I guess what we're

looking at, if you're looking at the thing that I'm looking at, it's Pacota's for players

with no professional playing time. So basically, this was 2008, June 5th, 2008. And I believe

these are the 2007 draft picks, who I guess who had not played when the 2008 season began.

So you know, like the David Rice class, I'm sorry, the David Price class of draft picks,

the ones who didn't play that summer. So the players are David Price, Mike Misakis, Josh

Fitters, Daniel Moscos, Matt Wheaters, Ross Debtweiler, Matt Laporta, Casey Weathers,

Jared Parker, Madison Bumgarner, and Rick Porcelo, which is a pretty good group of players.

Still going with Porcelo, huh? Oh, sorry, forgot. Poor, poor sellout. Yes, Doug Thorburn

clarified for us from the Bill James Handbook, which apparently has a pronunciation guide

that it is poor sellout. Anyway, continue. Uh, that's all, that's all I got. So Nate projected

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