Effectively Wild Episode 609: Kiley McDaniel on Yoan Moncada, Cuba, and Prospect Bias
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam talk to FanGraphs Lead Prospect Analyst Kiley McDaniel about Yoan Moncada, Cuban talent, and teams manipulating prospect rankings.
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| 0:00.0 | But this day by the lake went to the clouds. |
| 0:08.0 | And if you want me, you better speak of I won't wait. |
| 0:17.0 | So you better move past. |
| 0:24.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 609 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:28.0 | the Daily Podcast from baseball perspectives presented by the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:34.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives. |
| 0:39.0 | We have a guest today. Our guest has written approximately 27 articles about Cuban prospect, |
| 0:47.0 | Johan Moncada, including one article about his articles about Johan Moncada. |
| 0:52.0 | You might even say he's created a moncaudage industry. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, no. Wow. |
| 1:00.0 | Just going to insert a few seconds of silence for laughter here. |
| 1:05.0 | He's telling me you didn't write that beforehand. |
| 1:08.0 | That didn't sound spontaneous to you. |
| 1:11.0 | He is the lean prospect analyst for FanGress Kylie McDaniel. Hi Kylie. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello, thank you. I'm going to get some of that sweet baseball reference money. How does that work? |
| 1:22.0 | Don't ruin the illusion of the internet for me. Everyone's getting rich off this. |
| 1:27.0 | We can get you a discount. A sweet discount on the play index. |
| 1:30.0 | We will give you a coupon code that you can use. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm listening. |
| 1:36.0 | So have you written about Johan Moncada lately? |
| 1:39.0 | I tweeted about him today, or I guess indirectly about him. |
| 1:43.0 | There was a slight tweak. The last article you're referring to, I wrote about a meta article saying, |
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