Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat: 3/21/25

Come discuss prospects with our backfield-prowling prospect writer.
Today
- MLB
FanGraphs Power Rankings: April 7–13
The Padres continue their hot start and the Mariners rise back up in the FanGraphs Power Rankings.
- MLB
Walker Buehler’s Day On
In his best start since his late-2022 Tommy John surgery — his second — the 30-year-old Buehler stifled the Blue Jays.
- MLB
Timing Isn’t Everything, But It’s Certainly Something
Two rookies are scrambling conventional pitcher analysis.
Players: - MLB
Effectively Wild Episode 2309: Only a Woman: Ella Black, Lost and Found (Part 1–Ella’s Legend)
Ella Black was the first woman to write about baseball for a national publication—if her name was Ella Black, and if she was a woman.
Sun, Apr 13
- MLB
Sunday Notes: Nick Sandlin Suffered an Anomalous Defeat at Fenway
Plus Bud Black on Chase Dollander, Dylan Moore on catching, Oliver Marmol on bunting, frosty Fenway, Kevin Mitchell, Wayne Nordhagen, facts and stats galore, and more.
Sat, Apr 12
- MLB
Effectively Wild Episode 2308: Field of Streams
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the acceptable circumstances (if any) for a bobblehead of a team owner, the Grand Junction Jackalopes belatedly embracing their destiny as the “Chubs,” and more, then (29:35) review and discuss the Netflix documentary The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox, followed by a tease for an upcoming […].