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This is effectively wild.

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Hello and welcome to episode 2118 of effectively wild,

the fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh at Fangrafs and I am joined by Ben Lemberger, the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

Well, I've been consumed by a question for the past couple days.

And I think it's a question that will segue

into the first transaction we have to talk about.

So here it is.

This was prompted by a tweet by John Morosey

a couple days ago. He said the twins plan for infielder Brooks Lee

number 18 overall prospect per MLB pipeline to begin 2024 at AAA GM Thab Levine told MLB network radio today.

Levine continued, quote, when he tells us he's ready to go,

we're going to get him up to the big leagues, end quote.

And I was wondering, what if prospect promotion

work that way?

What if it was just a matter of the prospect

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

now you get to come up, okay? So how much earlier do you think prospects would call themselves up?

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