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.

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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

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