Theo Epstein
speaker
1,523 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Theo Epstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I look at myself back then, I was so bad.
But you and J-Mac and everyone.
It's a huge part of it, the human side, starting with the draft.
And especially if you're taking a high school guy, because college does a good job of like weeding out the guys who just don't have it up here or in here.
They're not going to usually perform in college.
But in high school, you don't know because you're a big fish in a little pond.
Things tend to come easier in high school for really good players.
So we had this rule where like, as a scout, if you're gonna expect us to draft a high school guy, you better write like a Russian novel about this guy.
You have to know.
Makes sense.
You have to find that.
You have to find like three, well, first of all, you can't show up draft year and get to know him.
You have to get to know him from like the time he's a freshman.
Sure.
And you have to talk to the girlfriends, the ex-girlfriends, the teammates, talk to his friends, talk to his enemies, talk to the teachers, talk to the equipment guys.
How does he treat them when no one's looking?
And then you have to list three examples of how a player, of the times a player faced adversity on the field and how he responded.
Three examples of a time a player faced adversity off the field and how he responded.
Just because if we're going to invest.
I thought you didn't run a lemonade stand.
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