Effectively Wild Episode 1296: Hot Prospect Content
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Willians Astudillo‘s current strikeout-less streak, a few more people who gave much more than 100 percent, and end-of-season-award voting, including Mike Trout’s showing in the AL MVP race, Jacob deGrom and pitchers as MVPs, and why Jeff voted for Justin Verlander for AL Cy Young over victor Blake Snell. Then (27:50) they talk to FanGraphs writers Eric Longenhagen and Craig Edwards about the site’s recent work on prospects and scouting, including how and why we put dollar values on prospects, the value of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., how scouting and player development are changing and making public prospect ranking harder, farm-system rankings and the big gaps between teams, what types of prospects public lists tend to overrate, whether the Padres system is historic, and more, plus the significance of MLB’s new national broadcast deal.
Audio intro: The Whigs, "Hundred / Million"
Audio interstitial: Guided By Voices, "Vote for Me Dummy"
Audio outro: The Replacements, "Love You Till Friday"
Link to Astudillo stats
Link to “one million percent” story
Link to Jeff’s Verlander post
Link to Craig’s prospect-valuation post
Link to Craig’s farm-system rankings
Link to Craig’s positional-bias post
Link to Eric and Kiley’s scouting primer post
Link to Sam’s romance-novel post
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a bucket that I can't be fun in the mind |
| 0:08.0 | Which is me, and which is not |
| 0:12.0 | Which is me, and which is not |
| 0:15.0 | There's one man and there's Venus to the god |
| 0:21.0 | Let's see |
| 0:23.0 | Baby, the soul in my heart |
| 0:27.0 | Baby, the soul in my heart |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1296 |
| 0:34.0 | of Effectively Wild, the baseball podcast from Vangrass |
| 0:37.0 | presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:39.0 | I am the member of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vangrass. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello, according to MLB.com |
| 0:46.0 | but really in my MLB.com |
| 0:48.0 | It looks like Williams Estadillo is |
| 0:50.0 | been three times on Thursday evening |
| 0:53.0 | for the Caribe stay |
| 0:56.0 | I'm not going to try that |
| 0:57.0 | and he is at his first home run |
| 0:59.0 | his first home run of the Winter League |
| 1:01.0 | That would bring him up to if I am adding this all correctly |
| 1:04.0 | 93 plate appearances |
| 1:06.0 | That would be his first home run |
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