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There R Giants Pod-59 with Sam Dykstra

Nov 04, 202134 min
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Episode description

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.

You can follow all of Sam’s work on Twitter @SamDykstraMiLB and, of course, follow the entire MLB prospect team @MLBPipeline. And you can follow my work @Rog61 and make sure you get all of my Giants prospect work delivered straight to your Inbox by subscribing to ThereRGiants.com.

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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