Episode Details

The Pirates announced that pitcher Paul Skenes is going to make his Major League debut on Saturday. Travis Sawchik, the Senior Baseball Writer for The Score and author of Big Data Baseball and The MVP Machine joins Jeff Erickson to discuss Skenes and the Pirates, the limitations of MRI's, and his experience in the NFBC so far.

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00:00 - Welcome Travis Sawchik

00:30 - Paul Skenes getting the call

02:45 - Did the Pirates develop Skenes properly?

08:45 - How are the Pirates structuring their rebuild?

16:30 - Big Data Baseball

21:00 - Henry Davis

23:45 - Ke’Bryan Hayes

25:30 - Oneil Cruz

30:40 - Christian Encarnacion-Strand

31:30 - Limitations of MRI’s

39:15 - Reds slumping

40:30 - Wild prospect trades

41:45 - Travis’s experience in the NFBC Main Event

45:00 - The Difficulties of drafting live

54:00 - Managing FAAB

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