There R Giants Pod-73 with Tess Taruskin

Fangraphs’ Tess Taruskin joins me to talk about Fangraphs recently published Giants prospect rankings and the state of the system. We talk about Casey Schmitt’s defense, Joey Bart’s weird development path, Patrick Bailey’s eventful first year and much more!

You can follow Tess on Twitter @tesstass. And of course you can follow me @rog61 and get all of my Giants prospect related posts by subscribing to ThereRGiants.com

Intro (0:00)How Fangraphs balances various data (3:00)Not overrating difficult seasons (7:30)Hunter Bishop (9:50)Casey Schmitt (11:30)Marco Luciano (15:30)How close is Luis Matos to top? (17:45)Patrick Bailey’s ranking (19:15)Bailey vs. Bart (23:00)Heliot Ramos (28:00)Pitching strategies and armslots (31:50)Kyle Harrison (34:25)Gregory Santos (37:20)Sleepers (39:45)

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