Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s experiences on the Futures Game, the draft, and the Home Run Derby, Derby highlights, the Derby on TV vs. in individual, Elly De La Cruz’s mad sprint, 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 in regards to the draft and different subjects, together with the power of the draft pool, the Pirates selecting a pitcher (Paul Skenes) first, the impact of the highest two picks being LSU gamers, the principally predictable prime of the draft, the draft’s two-way prospects and the potential for extra two-way gamers, the knowledge of drafting for want, the groups that had essentially the most commendable and perplexing drafts, the Marlins demoting Eury Pérez, the Rockies’ sparsely populated draft room, how visible machine studying and synthetic intelligence are affecting scouting, and extra.

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 extra on Derby spectatingLink to Elly’s stealsLink to tweets about Elly/Carew/FaberLink to Elly’s Baseball Savant web pageLink to MLBTR on the Casey hiringLink to Jon Heyman on CaseyLink to Lawson quoteLink to Rick Wilber’s web siteLink to MLB draft trackerLink to Eric’s final 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 Joe Sheehan 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 faculty offenseLink to Stanton’s lengthy homerLink to Stanton’s brief homer

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