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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 223: Should College Pitchers Shut it Down After Being Drafted?/The Red Sox and Advance Scouting

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss whether college pitchers should stop pitching for their college teams after being drafted, then talk about the Red Sox and advance scouting.

Transcript

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There is no altering this offer, then shut it down.

0:12.9

Good morning and welcome to episode 223 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

0:18.7

the School of Perspectives.

0:20.6

I am Ben Lindbergh in New York, where you can probably hear construction sounds in the

0:25.9

apartment above me, and in Long Beach, California, where you can hear birds chirping is Sam Miller.

0:31.9

Hello, Sam.

0:33.9

Howdy.

0:34.9

What's your topic today?

0:36.9

Advanced scouting.

0:37.9

Okay, and mine is whether college pitchers should keep pitching after they are drafted.

0:45.9

Great topic.

0:46.9

I like yours.

0:47.9

Yes, me too.

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Let's do yours.

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So this topic was inspired by a listener email that we agreed to defer from the listener

0:55.8

email show because we wanted to spend some more time talking about it.

0:59.8

And the email was from Wes, who emails us often.

1:04.5

And I will read his email.

1:06.1

He said, what's the incentive for college pitchers to continue pitching after they've been

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drafted?

1:13.0

While many, Mark Appell, for example, are done by the time the draft rolls around.

1:18.7

Jonathan Gray are pitching in regional super regionals and Omaha.

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