Son of God, my face, my ear, down below, move it slow, and it's more beautiful.

Good morning and welcome to episode 464 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus presented by the baseballreference.com play index. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.

As promised, we are going to do a draft show today, probably two days of draft shows, and amateur

prospects are not our specialty. So we have brought in someone who's been covering the draft exhaustively

for baseball perspectives now for months really, and ramping up particularly lately, Nick Follaris.

And well, first of all, welcome, Nick. Hey guys, thanks for having me.

So you have been pumping out these positional previews with in-depth scouting reports and video on

just, you know, every player of interest in the draft, which starts the night and continues for

the next couple days. And to find your coverage at BPU, we put up a draft index at the top of the

page that links to all the stuff you've done. And, you know, hopefully, unlike the mock draft sort of

thing, which we've also published courtesy of perfect game, but that's the kind of thing that

that doesn't really last. It's not really of interest beyond beyond the first round, once we know

who went where, we don't need to read those predictions anymore. But the the stuff that you have done

over the past weeks and months is something that people can refer to after the draft for

years going forward if they want to find out about these players and what these players were. So

you you have recorded snippets about players that that will be playing on MLB Network Radio,

and you'll be chatting at baseball perspectives today and during the draft. And so thank you for

for coming on to to share your expertise and also doing so at the site. So so you sent an email

earlier today that that I was copied on and I thought it was interesting that you had you had

done some work on sort of valuing where picks will go and you came to some conclusions about the

depth of this class. So can you explain what you did and what you have discovered?

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