MLB.com’s Sam Dykstra joins me fresh off a two-week visit to Arizona to talk Arizona Fall League. Sam and I talk robo-ump, Statcast data, the pleasures of prospect watching in the desert, and he gives us his impressions of the various Giants’ prospects participating in the AFL.

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The AFL Setting: (1:00)Statcast Data (7:15)Robo-Ump system (10:00)Talking Giants prospects: Marco Luciano (13:10)Hunter Bishop (17:45)Patrick Bailey (20:40)Will Wilson (24:00)Seth Corry (27:00)

Intro/Outro: “Autumn Sweater” by Yo La Tengo

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