Effectively Wild Episode 1972: The Prospects for the Prospects

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Prospect Week at FanGraphs, a misleading email, and Ben’s daughter’s cold, then discuss Alex Rodriguez as a budding book author, social-media maven, and flawed (anti)hero (9:19), non-revelatory news about Shohei Ohtani ’s future (24:07), a secret Mets spring training drill (32:07), and Ben’s reviews of two baseball books that were recently under consideration to be banned in Duval County, Florida (46:07). After that (1:10:59), they bring on FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen to discuss the site’s ranking of the Top 100 (well, 112) prospects in baseball, touching on the relative thinness of the top of the class, evaluating injured pitchers (including Daniel Espino ), prospects who could make impacts in 2023 (such as Eury Pérez and Andrew Painter ), Gunnar Henderson vs. Corbin Carroll , fast-rising prospects, players Eric is higher on than the consensus, how rule changes affect prospect rankings, notable farm systems, the most interesting prospects to evaluate, and Noah Song joining the Phillies, followed by a Past Blast from 1972 (2:04:31). Audio intro : The Plimsouls, “ Dangerous Book ” Audio interstitial : The Notorious B.I.G. (Feat. 112), “ Sky’s the Limit ” Audio outro : Billy Joel, “ Zanzibar ” Link to Phoenix population story Link to U.S. media market ranking Link to A-Rod’s “book” image Link to A-Rod’s bubble-bath image Link to A-Rod’s mirror kiss Link to ESPN’s Ohtani story Link to Evan’s Mets tweet Link to Eagles push play Link to article on banning the play Link to Woodward on the Mets drill Link to Mets spring WS celebration Link to info on Henry Aaron’s Dream Link to buy Henry Aaron’s Dream Link to story of Aaron’s spring debut Link to Tavares on the book’s language Link to Roberto Clemente on Goodreads Link to Thank You, Jackie Robinson Link to Clemente’s debut game Link to Clemente’s 3000th hit Link to 2022 story about possible bans Link to story about book removal Link to Duval County on law compliance Link to Jacksonville Today on Duval Link to Steven Goldman on hiding history Link to story about books under review Link to thread about books under review Link to Tavares’s Twitter reply Link to PredictIt Presidential odds Link to Stop WOKE Act Wiki Link to The Guardian on the act Link to The Guardian on act injunctions Link to The Guardian on book bans Link to WaPo on book bans Link to NYT on book bans Link to CBS poll on book bans Link to Jemele Hill tweet @MLB Link to story about book approval Link to Duval County response Link to FG’s Top 100 list Link to Top 100 chat Link to Ben on 2023 prospect debuts Link to Ben on pitching prospects Link to MLBTR on Espino’s injury Link to Baumann on the “Rolen Zone” Link to ESPN on Song Link to 1972 story source Link to The Boys of Summer Link to David Lewis’s Twitter Link to David Lewis’s Substack Link to Topkin on Manfred’s comment Link to Rob Mains on PPP Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source