Effectively Wild Episode 2118: The Call-Up is Coming From Inside the House

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about what would happen if top prospects could promote themselves, the Mariners-Twins trade involving Jorge Polanco, Photoshop mockups of players in their new teams’ uniforms, Byron Buxton returning to center field, the Blue Jays signing Justin Turner, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. as an MLB The Show cover model, the surprising […]

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0:00.0	It's a long song to death, but they're sure to make you smile.
0:07.0	This is effectively wild.
0:10.0	This is effectively wild.
0:12.0	This is effectively wild. This is effective wild.
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2118 of effectively wild,
0:21.0	the fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:24.6	I'm Meg Raleigh at Fangrafs and I am joined by Ben Lemberger, the Ringer.
0:27.8	Ben, how are you?
0:29.3	Well, I've been consumed by a question for the past couple days.
0:32.9	And I think it's a question that will segue
0:35.0	into the first transaction we have to talk about.
0:37.8	So here it is.
0:38.4	This was prompted by a tweet by John Morosey
0:42.3	a couple days ago. He said the twins plan for infielder Brooks Lee
0:46.4	number 18 overall prospect per MLB pipeline to begin 2024 at AAA GM Thab Levine told MLB network radio today.
0:55.0	Levine continued, quote, when he tells us he's ready to go,
0:59.0	we're going to get him up to the big leagues, end quote.
1:02.9	And I was wondering, what if prospect promotion
1:06.4	work that way?
1:07.4	What if it was just a matter of the prospect
1:10.2	telling the team that he's ready to go? as soon as he does he says okay call me up and the team says okay we were just waiting for the green light from you
1:20.8	now you get to come up, okay? So how much earlier do you think prospects would call themselves up?
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