Wed, 15 May 2013
Kiley welcomes Baseball America's draft guru Jim Callis to the show and the guys go deep into some talk about the upcoming MLB Draft. They talk about who the top players are, how they think the top few picks will play out, possible strategies for the clubs with the top few picks in light of the new CBA rules and the differences in club's draft boards. They close the conversation by going over the confounding cases of Stanford OF Austin Wilson and Fresno State OF Aaron Judge and where they might go in the draft. Kiley wraps it up with a new segment expanding on the team draft boards comments from earlier and answers a reader question. Subscribe to Marginal Prospects on iTunes and be sure to rate & review the show to help us find new listeners. |
Thu, 9 May 2013
Kiley welcomes Jason Parks of Baseball Prospectus for a wide-ranging talk of prospects and embarrassing personal memories. They talk prospects like Indians SS Francisco Lindor, Dodgers OF Yasiel Puig, OF Joc Pederson, RHP Zach Lee and LHP Chris Reed along with White Sox OF Trayce Thompson and OF Courtney Hawkins and Royals OF Bubba Starling. Kiley also reveals which minor leaguer he thinks is the baseball version of actor Giovanni Ribisi and Jason grades Kiley's tool at being a tool while Kiley grades Jason's peeking tool. They wrap things up with gotcha questions, the condescending game of the week, Kiley's borderline unacceptable Stephen A. Smith impression and name-dropping Kevin Goldstein, Mark Newman and Tom Verducci. The show ends and reaches a new low when Kiley welcomes college friend Sully on to tell various people to GTFO. |
Wed, 1 May 2013
Kiley welcomes fan favorite Lou Holtz back to the show but not before he goes deep into the psyche of Perfect Game's college maven and serial name-dropper Kendall Rogers. Kiley & Kendall talk draft prospects, College World Series picks, favorite college stadium atmospheres, Mike Myers vs. Mike Mayers and then put on a one-act play about agents & the NCAA. Lou comes on to talk baseball and somehow gets brings the conversation to doomsday prepping in a way that only Lou can do it. |
Thu, 25 April 2013
Fangraphs writer Carson Cistulli joins Kiley to talk about his Fringe Five series and indulge Kiley's MLB Draft theory, as informed by intellectual Nassim Taleb's theories of the financial collapse as a way to compare the future prospects of prep outfielders Austin Meadows and Clint Frazier. It's as convuluted as it sounds. Then they dream up the perfect silly story for Carson to cover for NotGraphs and Kiley answers some questions from the mailbag. Contribute to next week's mailbag by hitting Kiley on Twitter @kileymcd or email kmcdaniel@scout.com. |
Wed, 17 April 2013
Kiley welcomes Baseball Prospectus editor Ben Lindbergh and plays a post-game interview he had last spring with Rockies first round pick OF David Dahl. After Kiley sets the tone by blindsiding Ben with a pair of gotcha! questions, they talk Mark Appel's financial future, selling out to Deadspin, their physical resemblance, rap names, headshot physics, career karma, how to work sources, shoehorning Carlos Marmol jokes into conversation and how their subsconsciouses can't scout for crap. Kiley interviewed Dahl after his first game back from a hip injury late in his senior season at Oak Mountain HS in Birmingham, AL before becoming the 10th overall pick by the Rockies in the 2012 MLB Draft. |
Wed, 10 April 2013
Kiley welcomes Baltimore Sun national baseball writer Dan Connolly to the show. They talk Orioles, the farm system, the new front office & scouting staff and the life of a beat writer. Then things get nutty as Kiley brings on his friend Rob to talk music, Asia and reggaeton horns. Don't listen to that part. |
Thu, 4 April 2013
Kiley welcomes back Frankie Piliere of Perfect Game and N.C. State's stud sophomore duo Carlos Rodon and Trea Turner to the show. Kiley and Frankie talk scouting, sports bar names, Austin Meadows and Ryan McMahon. Then, Kiley introduces This Week In Pop, the guys go over their thoughts on Rodon and Turner and Kiley begins his anti-commercial campaign before the guys reveal the mystery of today's show.
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Wed, 27 March 2013
Kiley welcomes Jorge Arangure to talk July 2nd, Latin baseball culture, the path from 12 years old to signing for July 2nd prospects and what they think of MLB's recent reforms. At the end, they have fun with funny buscone nicknames and Kiley talks to July 2nd prospect Micker Zapata. They cover every stage of Dominican baseball from 10-12 year olds playing in little all the way to getting malls named after you (the Sammy Sosa stage). |
Thu, 21 March 2013
Kiley welcomes Grantland baseball write Jonah Keri and they talk about Jonah's many loves, his recent base stealing feature about Coco Crisp, Kiley's recent BUBBA system introduction and Kiley's attempt to steal Stephen Colbert's persona. We wrap the show with part two of Kiley's interview with Cubs scouting czar Tim Wilken, who brings it again. |
Tue, 12 March 2013
Marginal Prospects welcomes Cubs scouting czar Tim Wilken, who was responsible for drafting such big leaguers as Vernon Wells, Michael Young, Alex Rios, Jeremy Hellickson and Jeff Samardzija, along with top Cubs prospects Dan Vogelbach, Javier Baez and Albert Almora. We also welcome a new co-host and college football coaching legend Lou Holtz along with the usual frivolity. |
