Three-Quarters Delivery

We know you shouldn’t explain the reference, but the structure of this show is a reference to the interview interludes in Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. Also, we didn’t actually plan on this being the topic for Episode 17, but once it came up in discussion we realized we had no choice.

From Wikipedia: The term a sliding doors moment became a term popularized in the late 20th-century meaning tiny, seemingly inconsequential moments, that nonetheless alter the trajectory of future events.

We have a special guest co-host this week, as Chris Blessing of Baseball HQ takes us through some of the sites and sounds and promotions you’ll see in the minors. Plus, Nathan Graham and Jen Mac Ramos tell us all about epic Monte Harrison tater trots and Cal Quantrill, rodeo champion.

The senior prospect staff gathers for a roundtable discussion about what the 2020 and 2021 draft changes might mean for the future of Minor League Baseball and player development.

Jeffrey hasn’t played in a fantasy league in a while, so he enlisted Nick, Mark Barry, and Craig Goldstein to give him some advice.

Leody Taveras won’t be playing games for a while, but the prospect team has a lot of thoughts on him.

We continue our season preview with more talk about Russian composers and Rylan Bannon.

In the first of our “season preview” episodes, there is already baseball being played in locations warmer than Jeffrey’s house, so we bring on Alec Dopp and Keanan Lamb to chat about preseason rituals and how we pass the offseason. Meanwhile, Jeffrey waxes poetic for columns lost to time and possibly the Mandela Effect.

Jose Siri gives Jeffrey a headache, but also is a useful example of the difficulties of evaluating prospects from the outside.

1. Catchers are weird. Adley Rutschman is a catcher. Adley Rutschman is…not weird?

2. Tanking doesn’t work as well as you think. But it probably works exactly well as ownership thinks.

3. Fine, let’s talk about Ryan Mountcastle.