Episode Details

New Year, new laptop, new podcast, and a new book out from our guest Alex Speier (@alexspeier). Chris and Ian spend an hour with the Boston Globe beat writer discussing his new book, Homegrown: How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up, his Baseball America top 10 rankings and other thoughts from the system, and questions from our listeners in the mailbag. Heck, they even got Alex's real-time "thoughts" on a transaction that broke during the chat!

0:00 – Intros, housekeeping, email us and remember to support the show on Patreon. 4:00 – December and early January transactions 17:20 – Previewing our chat with Alex: his Top 10 rankings and some thoughts about Homegrown 25:15 – A quick look at the Rookie Development Program invitees 27:30 – Alex Speier's on the podcast (whaaaaaaat?!) 30:00 – On Homegrown 1:04:45 – Alex's take on the farm system 1:32:00 – Alex helps us with the mailbag! Want to read more from Alex on the Sox system? Pick up a copy of the Baseball America 2020 Prospect Handbook Players mentioned in the show Juremi Profar Joe DeCarlo Jett Bandy John Andreoli Mike Kickham RJ Alvarez Chris Mazza Robinson Leyer Nick Longhi Sam Travis Angeudis Santos Marco Hernandez Tzu-Wei Lin CJ Chatham Michael Chavis Triston Casas Bobby Dalbec Bryan Mata Jarren Duran Darwinzon Hernandez Thaddeus Ward Jay Groome Gilberto Jiminez Noah Song Tanner Houck Brainer Bonaci Rafael Devers Yoan Moncada Logan Allen Marcus Wilson