Effectively Wild Episode 2031: No Peeking in the Press Box

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 Rutschman Link to 1960 Derby article Link to 1990 Derby retrospective Link to Derby homer totals Link to tweet about Derby spectating Link to more on Derby spectating Link to Elly’s steals Link to tweets about Elly/Carew/Faber Link to Elly’s Baseball Savant page Link to MLBTR on the Casey hiring Link to Jon Heyman on Casey Link to Lawson quote Link to Rick Wilber’s website Link to MLB draft tracker Link to Eric’s last mock Link to Eric’s Day 1 recap Link to CBS on draft winners/losers Link to USA Today draft takeaways Link to Baumann on Waldrep Link to Ben on pitching prospects Link to Schifman on pitcher workloads Link to MLBTR on Pérez Link to Joe Sheehan on Pérez Link to Ben on draft rooms Link to Kyle’s Rockies tweet Link to KG on draft rooms Link to Tommy John spreadsheet Link to WSJ on scouting and AI Link to The Athletic on tech spending Link to BA on college offense Link to Stanton’s long homer Link to Stanton’s short homer 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