FanGraphs Audio: Eric Longenhagen and Jay Jaffe Pinch Hit

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March 6, 2020

Episode 881

FanGraphs’ lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen and senior writer Jay Jaffe pinch hit for regular host Meg Rowley, and discuss Curt Flood’s Hall of Fame candidacy, the role of cultural relevance in assessing a player’s case for Cooperstown, how spring training has struck them so far, and parenthood. Eric also shares a few baseball and prospect-related thoughts in a special post-interview monologue.

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Audio after the jump. (Approximate 58 min play time.)

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Eric Longenhagen is from Catasauqua, PA and currently lives in Tempe, AZ. He spent four years working for the Phillies Triple-A affiliate, two with Baseball Info Solutions and two contributing to prospect coverage at ESPN.com. Previous work can also be found at Sports On Earth, CrashburnAlley and Prospect Insider.

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JacobM
6 years ago

Prospect talk at 43:33 for those interested.

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JoserMember since 2021
6 years ago

Pinch hit home run, I’d say. Love hearing from both of you, but: Eric, you really never heard of “Ball Four”? I realize it was well before your time, but I’m amazed — especially since Bouton died just last summer and there were a lot of retrospectives then, as there were in 2017 when he and his amazing wife disclosed his stroke, and really every decade on the anniversary of the book’s publication (this year, in fact, would be its 50th). It’s hard to grasp now what a shock that book was to the sensibilities of a public that had been shielded from what athletes got up to away from the field (especially in the greenies-and-go-go-dancers late 60s), so in that sense it hasn’t aged well. But if nothing else, it contains an immortal line for everyone in the game, from the players to the fans and all the people in between:

“You spend your life gripping a baseball,” Jim Bouton wrote, “and it turns out that it was the other way around all along.”

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