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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1386: Amateur Hour

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Cubs signing Craig Kimbrel, ruminating about how he’ll help Chicago, why other teams may have held off, and why it took so long for his prolonged free agency to come to a close. Then (18:06) they bring on FanGraphs prospect experts Kiley McDaniel and Eric Longenhagen to analyze the amateur draft and modern development, touching on player picks and team approaches they liked or disliked, how their mock drafts held up, pitchers vs. position players, trends in the types of players selected, whether there’s more consensus among clubs about amateur prospects than there used to be, how data is changing the draft and development, whether technology is inclusive or exclusive, college pitch counts, 2018 draftees who’ve improved the most, whether prospects will be promoted more quickly than before, changing the time and location of the draft, the outlook for the 2020 amateur draft, the ETA for (and problems with) an international draft, and more (plus a Dallas Keuchel addendum).

Audio intro: Jim James, "Better Late Than Never"
Audio interstitial: Sparks, "Reinforcements"
Audio outro: Super Furry Animals, "The Gift That Keeps Giving"

Link to Rosenthal on the Cubs signing Kimbrel
Link to Rosenthal on other teams not signing Kimbrel
Link to Craig Edwards on the Kimbrel signing
Link to Craig’s draft-pick valuations
Link to Kiley and Eric’s first-round review
Link to Kiley and Eric’s draft odds and ends
Link to part one of Rany’s research on high-school hitters
Link to part two of Rany’s research on high-school hitters
Link to Kiley on hitter development in college
Link to Ben on pitcher development in college
Link to Gerald on 2019 college pitcher usage
Link to Eno on draft trends
Link to Kiley and Eric’s podcast on the international draft
Link to Trout and Ohtani as the new Bash Brothers
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

Annel is this nail, yes get! Annel is this nail, yes get! Annel is this nail, yes get!

0:10.2

Anno is this nail, yes!

0:14.2

Hello and welcome to episode 1386 of Effectively Wild a baseball

0:18.7

podcast from Bagengrass presented by our patrons supporters,

0:22.5

I am Benenberg of The Ringer and I am joined by Meg crawle of Bagengrass by Wigmat.

0:27.0

Hello!

0:27.9

This is going to be a fun one we talked later in this episode to Eric,

0:31.4

Ogan Hicken and Kylie McDaniel of Fanggrass, I said we talked later in this episode,

0:35.8

which we are tenses, we have talked to them, but it will be later in this episode for you.

0:41.0

We talked to them about the draft and we broke it down on a player level, on a team level,

0:45.4

but also on a more macro level we talked about draft trends and how players are being developed

0:50.6

and how players are being picked.

0:52.0

So even for someone like me who is not as into the nitty gritty of individual players

0:57.4

because there are so many and I can't keep track of all of them,

0:59.8

I'm interested in the strategy and some of the larger trends that we got into all of that.

1:03.8

And I told you I thought I only had a few questions and then it turned out I had many questions and so did you.

1:08.5

So hopefully we will answer other questions people have.

1:12.1

But we've got to talk a little bit about actual baseball news, Craig Kimbrill is no longer a free agent,

1:18.7

Dallas Kitekel still is as we speak although perhaps not as he listened.

1:22.0

But it seems unnatural to be talking about a prominent free agent signing in June,

1:27.8

but that's where we are.

1:29.1

Craig Kimbrill is now a Chicago CUB.

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