Episode 264
Marc Hulet, author of the site’s organizational top-15 prospect lists and assorted other minor-league coverage, discusses four players — Evan Gattis (Braves), Joe Panik (Giants), Javier Baez (Cubs), and Jonathan Schoop (Orioles) — and the larger concerns each raises with regard to prospect analysis generally.

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Episode 263
As in all his previous appearances on FanGraphs Audio, Dave Cameron utilizes this one to analyze all baseball. Absurd? Perhaps. But also so is life — and yet we still live it.

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Episode 262
Advanced NFL Stats is more or less to gridiron football what FanGraphs is to baseball — with the caveat, perhaps, that football is fluid (as opposed to baseball, which is turn-based) and presents certain challenges for that reason. Brian Burke, the proprietor of said nerdly internet website, is the guest on this edition of FanGraphs Audio.

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Episode 261
Dayn Perry, contributor to CBS Sports’ Eye on Baseball and author of two books (one of them serviceable), is in Detroit, where he is actually covering the ALCS for an actual and accredited internet site.

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Episode 260
Prospect analyst Mike Newman discusses players he’s seen — including, in this case, catcher Hector Sanchez (Giants), first baseman D.J. Hicks (Twins), and shortstop/second baseman Nick Franklin (Mariners) — and the larger concerns each raises with regard to prospect analysis generally.

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Episode 259
Are this season’s playoffs too dramatic? Managing editor Dave Cameron’s answer might shock you — although, probably only if you’re easily shocked. Also asked: Why does everyone hate A-Rod so hard? And: Are the Cardinals magic?

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Episode 258
David Laurila, curator of FanGraphs’ Q&A Series, talks with former major-league left-hander and co-author (with Yahoo’s Tim Brown) of a recently released autobiography, Jim Abbott.

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Episode 257
First, imagine FanGraphs managing editor Dave Cameron. Next, imagine all baseball. Now, imagine Dave Cameron analyzing all baseball. That’s precisely what follows in this episode of FanGraphs Audio.

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Episode 256
Marc Hulet, author of the site’s organizational top-15 prospect lists and assorted other minor-league coverage, discusses this year’s forthcoming Arizona Fall League, both (a) reviewing the 2012 minor-leagues seasons from three of the AFL’s top performers in 2011 (i.e. Houston’s Robbie Grossman, Oakland’s Michael Choice, and Milwaukee’s Miguel De Los Santos), and also (b) previewing three notable AFL-bound players (Oakland corner infielder Miles Head, Boston outfielder Bryce Brentz, and very athletic Toronto center-field prospect Jake Marisnick).

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Episode 255
This edition of a FanGraphs Audio represents an experiment — namely, a simulcast experiment with Baseball Prospectus’s own podcast, Effectively Wild, hosted by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller.

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