Episode 11: Phenoms
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Episode 11 of Stealing Home is all about phenoms, the young players we love to love.
At the top of the show, I talk to Jason Parks of Baseball Prospectus about seeing phenoms on the other side. He is a prospect analyst, and follows these guys from the start.
Yasiel Puig has taken the league by storm, and newly-minted band Puig Destroyer is dedicating music to him, with a sound that matches Puig’s game in intensity.
Chris Cwik is a baseball writer, but not so long ago he was in charge of the scoreboard for the Washington Nationals. And he happened to be there during a pretty cool time for the franchise.
That, plus a ground-breaking MVP of My Heart.
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David G. Temple is the Managing Editor of TechGraphs and a contributor to FanGraphs, NotGraphs and The Hardball Times. He hosts the award-eligible podcast Stealing Home. Dayn Perry once called him a "Bible Made of Lasers." Follow him on Twitter @davidgtemple.
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