Andy McCullough
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133 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 20 Mar
Andy McCullough’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, no problem.
How are you guys doing?
Yeah, that's funny.
I've been doing this, I think this is year seven that we've been doing this project.
And initially I thought Sando ripped me off, but it turned out I ripped him off many years ago.
I was like, that guy Sando, he just took our idea.
It's like, no, no, this is, he's been doing it for much longer and he's very, very good at his job.
So yeah, so at The Athletic, we've kind of gone through various incarnations of doing it, but basically the way it works is we get a panel of 20 executives, scouts, analysts.
We send them a list of like 90 pitchers.
That's how many it was this year.
And we ask them to rate everyone on a scouting scale of a number one starter through a number five starter.
And it's always just trying to figure out like, okay, who are like the unanimous number ones?
Who are the guys that everyone agrees are the best in baseball?
There were two unanimous number ones this year, probably not a shock to anyone, but Tarek Skubal and Paul Skeens.
And then we had three other guys who sort of met our criteria as number ones, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Garrett Crochet, and Christopher Sanchez.
And so it's just like a fun exercise, you know, to kind of bring in a lot of different diverse opinions and just figure out like, okay, like what is it that all these different people in baseball can agree on?
Yeah, I think Hunter Brown with the Houston Astros is someone to watch over the next year or so.
He put up a really, really strong season in 2025, kind of really put everything together.
So I suspect if he repeats that, he might vault in to the No.
1 tier.
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