Good morning and welcome to episode 278 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from

Baseball Prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller. We hope you had a nice

long weekend and survived your Monday without us. Our guest today is Chris Cotillo from MLB DailyDish.com,

which is part of the SB Nation Network. And I've been looking forward to talking to Chris

for a while because I think he has a very interesting and impressive story. And I told Sam that we

would either have to have him on the podcast or just make a movie about him possibly. So we'll

start with the podcast and we'll talk about the movie off here. So Chris, you were the first to

report the Indian's interest in Jason Kubla last week. They ended up acquiring him of course. And

before that, you had reported a pretty steady stream. It seems like of rumors and transactions

throughout this summer. You are also a high school student. So take us through how and when you got

started as a writer and as a reporter and how you ended up where you are. It's been an interesting

journey. I mean, a couple years ago, I started an anonymous Twitter account with the handle

at Trade Deadliner and it started as just a hobby of me reporting and parroting what all the other

reporters were saying. So it was just constant stream of baseball news and rumors and just on

Twitter without any kind of writing, like long form attached to it. So after a while, I noticed

you know, all these guys like Rosenthal Heyman only I looked up to them and thought, you know,

they have these great contact lists and they can report anything before anyone else. But with

social media and all the technology that I have available to me right now, I can get those stories

and I can try to start and I mean, it's not going to hurt to try. So after a while, I've tried

you know, establishing different contacts and throughout the game and I've had people who've

been very generous to me was helping me out and the hobbies kind of turned into what I expect to be

a career, which has been really, really great for me. So what kind of what kind of following

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