Effectively Wild Episode 221: Astros Pro Scouting Coordinator Kevin Goldstein on the Amateur Draft

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk to Kevin Goldstein about the amateur draft, his scouting assignments, the Astros’ system, and more.

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0:00.0	What are we, are we trying to, are we trying to ambush, ambush journalism in?
0:04.2	Yeah, let him know that we're looking at the Astros.
0:08.7	We're studying.
0:09.9	We have been, we have been looking at some Astros things, Kevin, I don't want to surprise you.
0:13.7	Okay, that's probably, yeah, I get it.
0:16.7	Maybe I should look at some Astros today.
0:20.4	Good morning and welcome to episode 221 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from
0:26.2	baseball prospectus.
0:27.7	I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller and we have a guest with us today.
0:34.2	If you watched the first round of the amateur draft last Thursday and you saw the Astros
0:41.0	War Room on TV, you may have seen our guest for a few moments, not wearing a fedora for some reason.
0:48.5	But he was, he was in the War Room, he was, he was in the room where all the decisions were made.
0:53.3	He is Kevin Goldstein, the pro scouting coordinator of the Houston Astros.
0:58.3	Hello.
1:00.0	I, you know, I wore the fedora on day two when I thought we'd need a little more
1:03.2	live and you want some players to get to you.
1:04.9	I wore it on day two.
1:05.7	Okay, no one was watching on day two.
1:08.1	No, they took the camera down before.
1:09.5	You were drinking, what were you, you were drinking something?
1:11.6	What were you drinking on day one?
1:13.2	I was just a Coke, we had, we had some Texas barbecue brought in before the draft.
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