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We will be under in the monarchy.

We will be under in the monarchy.

Hello and welcome to episode 1342 of Effectively Wild.

A baseball podcast from FanGrafts presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Belman Berg of the Ringer and I am joined by today's guest co-host Emily Walden of the athletic who covers the minor leagues

I guess the entire minor leagues in theory but also specifically the Detroit Tigers minor league system.

Hey Emily. Hey, thanks so much for having me on.

Very happy to have you. So in a little bit we will be joined by Jeremy Wolfe who is the executive director of an organization called More Than Baseball

which is dedicated to improving conditions for minor leagueers.

This is something we've talked about in the past but we have to keep talking about it because they're still not getting paid and don't seem to have any hope of getting paid in the foreseeable future.

So Jeremy who is a former minor leagueer himself is trying to do something about that and we will ask him about his group.

We will also be joined at the same time by one of his partners in this endeavor.

Simon Rosenblum Larson who is a pitcher in the Tampa Bay Race system and he's the director of player personnel for more than baseball.

Simon who is a Harvard guy is 22 and Jeremy is 25 but they are trying to change things but I want to talk to you about your background and your coverage because being a minor leagueer is difficult but covering the minor leagues seems pretty difficult too.

I would not know from personal experience but we haven't had a whole lot of people on the show.

I think who cover the minors just to tell stories about players to profile what life in the minors is like as opposed to just ranking and evaluating.

So how did you get into this area of baseball coverage?

Yeah, it was really kind of a funny thing because I always tell people I had no aspirations to do minor league coverage originally.

You kind of step into it and you want to be the one day interview McGill Cabrera or you know Derek Jeter or you know the bigger names of the game.

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