Effectively Wild Episode 227: Julio Urias and Young Pitchers/Prospects Switching Positions/Jose Iglesias and High BABIPs/Goodbye Base Coaches

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam answer listener emails about young pitchers, prospects switching positions, Jose Iglesias’ high BABIP, and base coaches.

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0:00.0	And I told them, I said, Iggy, there's no way in life that you have hand-eye coordination like that and you can't hit, that's impossible, so you just need to use it.
0:10.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 227 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectives. It's Wednesday, it's email Wednesday.
0:27.0	Do we have emails to talk about? Do we have any personal baggage regarding our feelings about this show to talk about or can we just go straight into the baseball content today?
0:35.0	You can probably just start talking about baseball.
0:37.0	Alright, so the last, the most recent question that we got is the first one we're going to read, it's from Michael, who notes that with the ascent of many of the top pitching prospects to the majors and the injury to Dylan Bundy, who becomes the top pitching prospect in the minors.
0:54.0	I would love to hear the debate between Taiwan Walker, Archie Bradley or anyone else, you believe is in the conversation and learn more about their repertoires and development.
1:03.0	Well, that's not what they do.
1:05.0	That's not us at all.
1:06.0	Road podcast.
1:08.0	However, I would also like to hear that, so please send that question to FringeAverage at FringeAverage.fringeAverage.
1:19.0	I do want to talk about prospects to two elements of this, or two things that came to mind in reading this question.
1:28.0	One is Ben, are you familiar with Julio or I, or Ria?
1:33.0	Yes, I have read about him and listen to things about him. Interesting story.
1:40.0	It's, I'm just terrified that this man exists. I guess he's not a man. He's 16 years old.
1:47.0	He's 16 years old and he's pitching in full season ball. He's a Dodger's prospect from Mexico.
1:53.0	He's five foot 11160, but he's only 16 and he's left handed.
1:59.0	And in his five outings in full season ball, he has an RIA of three.
2:05.0	He has better than a strike out per inning.
2:08.0	And this is just incredible to me. I mean, 16 is like, it's nuts. It's crazy nuts.
2:14.0	And so he is not the answer to who's the best prospect in baseball. That is not, that is not the answer.
2:20.0	However, he is something, he is something incredible.
2:26.0	And so I guess I just want to ask you a question.
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