Effectively Wild Episode 1296: Hot Prospect Content

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Willians Astudillo‘s current strikeout-less streak, a few more people who gave much more than 100 percent, and end-of-season-award voting, including Mike Trout’s showing in the AL MVP race, Jacob deGrom and pitchers as MVPs, and why Jeff voted for Justin Verlander for AL Cy Young over victor Blake Snell. Then (27:50) they talk to FanGraphs writers Eric Longenhagen and Craig Edwards about the site’s recent work on prospects and scouting, including how and why we put dollar values on prospects, the value of Vladimir Guerrero Jr., how scouting and player development are changing and making public prospect ranking harder, farm-system rankings and the big gaps between teams, what types of prospects public lists tend to overrate, whether the Padres system is historic, and more, plus the significance of MLB’s new national broadcast deal. Audio intro: The Whigs, "Hundred / Million" Audio interstitial: Guided By Voices, "Vote for Me Dummy" Audio outro: The Replacements, "Love You Till Friday" Link to Astudillo stats Link to “one million percent” story Link to Jeff’s Verlander post Link to Craig’s prospect-valuation post Link to Craig’s farm-system rankings Link to Craig’s positional-bias post Link to Eric and Kiley’s scouting primer post Link to Sam’s romance-novel post Link to EW Secret Santa sign-up  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Sponsor Us on Patreon  Facebook Group  Effectively Wild Wiki  Twitter Account  Get Our Merch!  Email Us: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source