Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s experiences at the Futures Game, the draft, and the Home Run Derby, Derby highlights, the Derby on TV vs. in person, Elly De La Cruz’s mad dash, and the Yankees switching hitting coaches, plus a Future Blast (49:12) from 2031. Then (54:25) Ben talks to FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen about the draft and other topics, including the strength of the draft pool, the Pirates picking a pitcher (Paul Skenes) first, the effect of the top two picks being LSU players, the mostly predictable top of the draft, the draft’s two-way prospects and the potential for more two-way players, the wisdom of drafting for need, the teams that had the most commendable and perplexing drafts, the Marlins demoting Eury Pérez, the Rockies’ sparsely populated draft room, how visual machine learning and artificial intelligence are affecting scouting, and more.
Audio intro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild theme”Audio interstitial: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild theme”Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild theme”
Link to article on RutschmanLink to 1960 Derby articleLink to 1990 Derby retrospectiveLink to Derby homer totalsLink to tweet about Derby spectatingLink to Elly’s stealsLink to tweets about Elly/Carew/FaberLink to Elly’s Baseball Savant pageLink to MLBTR on the Casey hiringLink to Jon Heyman on CaseyLink to Lawson quoteLink to Rick Wilber’s websiteLink to MLB draft trackerLink to Eric’s last mockLink to Eric’s Day 1 recapLink to CBS on draft winners/losersLink to USA Today draft takeawaysLink to Baumann on WaldrepLink to Ben on pitching prospectsLink to Schifman on pitcher workloadsLink to MLBTR on PérezLink to Ben on draft roomsLink to Kyle’s Rockies tweetLink to KG on draft roomsLink to Tommy John spreadsheetLink to WSJ on scouting and AILink to The Athletic on tech spendingLink to BA on college offenseLink to Stanton’s long homerLink to Stanton’s short homer
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