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
There R Giants Pod-59 with Sam Dykstra