Maybe if you want to be right, I will let you be right.

I will let you be right.

You know that the numbers don't lie.

Oh, no, the numbers don't lie.

Two rows will not make it right.

Good morning and welcome to episode 691 of Effectively Wild,

the daily podcast from baseball perspective,

presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I am Ben Lindberg, Grantland, joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective.

Hello.

Hello.

Many of you watched the first few rounds of the amateur draft last night,

and we will bring you some hard-hitting analysis of who won every round

and what the best picks were in roughly five years from now.

We will get around to that when we actually know the answers to those questions.

Right now we wanted to take a slightly more effectively wild approach to talking about the draft,

and you've probably heard a lot in recent days about draft boards and area scouts and cross-checkers,

and just how much scouting labor and manpower goes into the draft.

And probably you haven't heard that much about the analytics side of the draft,

because that's maybe a more recent addition to how teams draft players

not talked about so much, but we wanted to talk about that with someone who did that,

who worked on that for many years.

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