Talking Cardinals prospects, deadline adds with 'Smart, Wrong and Lucky' author

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

So, how did the Cardinals do at the deadline with their acquisition of handfuls of minor-league pitchers? Smart, wrong, or lucky? Maybe a bit of all three.

MLB Pipeline prospect guru Jonathan Mayo joins a brand new Best Podcast in Baseball to discuss the Cardinals new additions and his new book, 'Smart, Wrong, and Lucky: The Origin Stories of Baseball's Unexpected Stars.' He details which one the Cardinals were when they selected Albert Pujols in the 13th round.

Mayo shares stories about teams scouting Pujols as a Missouri high schooler and for a Kansas City-area junior college, and how at least one team forever changed how it runs a draft because it missed on Pujols.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:17.1	Their systems thin.
0:18.8	Sure, it would have been great to bring in some top 100 guys or elite level guys,
0:22.8	but they also needed depth and quantity. You were talking about their struggles with developing pitching.
0:28.3	Well, you know, nothing helps that more than just dumping a whole bunch of arms in and seeing if you can maximize what they what they can do.
0:45.4	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball,
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0:50.1	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould.
1:06.6	Join this week by Jonathan Mayo, MLB.com, MLB Pipeline, Prospect Guru, and now, well, again, I guess I should say, author, author of the book, Smart, Wrong, and Lucky, The Origin Stories of Baseball's Unexpected Stars.
1:15.5	Jonathan, welcome. Thank you for taking this time. Is this book as much an inside story as also kind of a love letter to scouts?
1:17.4	You nailed it exactly.
1:19.6	It is really a love letter to scouts.
1:23.2	I spend most of my time talking to scouts.
1:25.8	That's where we get our rankings from.
1:28.1	I love talking to them.
1:37.4	I think baseball, they're the backbone that people don't recognize without scouts, the game that we all love.
1:39.7	I don't think exists or thrives. And they all have incredible stories.
1:42.1	So it's a combination of really, uh,
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