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Effectively Wild Episode 1986: Season Preview Series: Braves and Rockies

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Pros and Cons of Opening Day Promotions

There's a little more incentive to promote the prospects on opening day because of the CBA and the chance to get a draft pick if you have a high rookie the year finish, so there's some incentive there. It's also nice just to see them go for it especially when players make convincing cases like Volpe and Walker did during spring Yeah, and there are teams that are not taking that approach, Brad Beatty's not making the Mets opening day roster, Grayson Rodriguez isn't making Baltimore's opening day roster. Mike Bauman's going to write about this for us at some point this week trying to assess just how much of the current situation is really us being able to say, hey

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