Show notes
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 storyLink to U.S. media market rankingLink to A-Rod’s “book” imageLink to A-Rod’s bubble-bath imageLink to A-Rod’s mirror kissLink to ESPN’s Ohtani storyLink to Evan’s Mets tweetLink to Eagles push playLink to article on banning the playLink to Woodward on the Mets drillLink to Mets spring WS celebrationLink to info on Henry Aaron’s DreamLink to buy Henry Aaron’s DreamLink to story of Aaron’s spring debutLink to Tavares on the book’s languageLink to Roberto Clemente on GoodreadsLink to Thank You, Jackie RobinsonLink to Clemente’s debut gameLink to Clemente’s 3000th hitLink to 2022 story about possible bansLink to story about book removalLink to Duval County on law complianceLink to Jacksonville Today on DuvalLink to Steven Goldman on hiding historyLink to story about books under reviewLink to thread about books under reviewLink to Tavares’s Twitter replyLink to PredictIt Presidential oddsLink to Stop WOKE Act WikiLink to The Guardian on the actLink to The Guardian on act injunctionsLink to The Guardian on book bansLink to WaPo on book bansLink to NYT on book bansLink to CBS poll on book bansLink to Jemele Hill tweet @MLBLink to story about book approvalLink to Duval County responseLink to FG’s Top 100 listLink to Top 100 chatLink to Ben on 2023 prospect debutsLink to Ben on pitching prospectsLink to MLBTR on Espino’s injuryLink to Baumann on the “Rolen Zone”Link to ESPN on SongLink to 1972 story sourceLink to The Boys of SummerLink to David Lewis’s TwitterLink to David Lewis’s SubstackLink to Topkin on Manfred’s commentLink 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.comvar SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {});Source