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Hello and welcome to episode 2441 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from FanGraphs

presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindberg

of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. Hello, Meg. We are taking a brief break,

pressing pause on our season preview series, which will resume later this week. But today,

we're bringing you some prospect talk from Fangrass prospect analyst Eric Long and Hagen

and Brendan Goulowski, who published their top 100 prospect lists this week, and we will be discussing

it.

But first, just a bit of news to discuss.

A few things have happened in baseball, one of which involves Tony Clark, who as we speak, I suppose technically, is still the head of the MLBPA, but will not be for long.

It may not be by the time you're hearing this.

And this is such a developing situation, and meetings are taking place about this right now and reports are trickling

out that maybe I'll just leave that for the end of the intro just in case anything

substantive comes out before we get to that. But I think more will certainly come out in

the days and weeks ahead. But this is big news, obviously, on the eve of bargaining

for the head of the MLBPA to be residing. So we will discuss some of the implications of that.

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