Effectively Wild Episode 283: An Upper-Minors Inefficiency/The Slippery Definition of Performance Enhancement

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk about whether teams should step up advance scouting in the upper minors, then discuss the difference (or lack thereof) between the PEDs MLB bans and the procedures it allows.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 283 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from
0:15.3	Baseball Prospectus.
0:16.3	I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller, doing another morning recording today.
0:23.0	How are you?
0:24.0	Good, how are you?
0:26.0	Okay.
0:28.0	Uh, what was it?
0:30.0	Oh, yeah, Walnut Reba.
0:32.0	Yeah, you hit a lot of homers.
0:34.0	You're not planning on talking about Walnut Reba, are you?
0:37.0	No.
0:38.0	Uh, when I went to bed, he had three and three of that, so he ended up with three.
0:42.0	Uh, yes.
0:43.0	Okay, so I just wanted to mention Reba.
0:45.0	How could you sleep not knowing whether he got a fourth?
0:48.0	That's not worth staying up for.
0:50.0	Well, I thought about staying up for it, but I thought there were going to be two advance.
0:55.0	I couldn't stay up for two.
0:57.0	I could have stayed up for the next one.
1:00.0	And if I had somehow made it to the next one, I would have been able to stay up till the fifth one.
1:05.0	But the thought of two was too overwhelming.
1:08.0	It's weird how that works.
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