I didn't want to last but I didn't want to know those future games

Turn off all the lights, all the future games

You were on my side, where the world is playing

Oh, yeah, the world is open for those future games

Good morning and welcome to episode 365 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller. How are you?

Good Ben, can I ask you a question about baseball? Sure can

So the Orioles sign Delman Young and the Delman Young has been signed a lot in the last few years

One of the benefits of getting dropped a lot is getting signed a lot

And the reaction generally has been to note that when you're a former number one overall prospect, number one overall draft pick

You're going to get more chances and maybe there's still some upside in teams or figuring out what the heck it's a low cost move with some upside

And I wonder if do you feel like that's still why Delman Young gets signed or is that sort of remnant of his past

Now completely worthless on the market has teams completely moved on and these are just actually realistic transactions for a player of his current caliber

Well, when the Phillies signed him last year, it sort of seemed like from some of the comments Ruben Amaro made

That he was to some extent relying on raise-era scouting reports on Delman Young

Like there are some members of his front office who had been with the raise at the time

And he said something about how he had talked to them and like they liked his makeup then or something like that

Or they, I don't know, something that implied that he was still sort of factoring that in

I would have to think that now it's not really a factor

So if Delman Young were, you know, I guess if Delman Young were Delwin Young, any it had the last few years that he had had

Is it, do you think it's still fairly realistic that he'd get a minor, it's only a minor league contract?

I think given what he's done, I mean, I'm sure there are worse players than Delman Young who've gotten minor league deals

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