Welcome to the Daily Hammer, your daily news source when it comes to the Atlanta Braes as part of the Battery Power Podcast Network. My name is Sean Coleman. Always a pleasure to be with you. You can catch all of the great content for the

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Just hit that subscribe button. But I'm really excited about this edition of The Daily Hammer because

I'm very pleased to welcome one of the better known names when it comes to the prospect

community. He's been a go-to name, especially when it comes to the prospect community, he's been a go-to name,

especially when it comes to the international scene for going on nearly 20 years now, not to make

him feel too old, but his name is Ben Badler from Baseball America.

Of course, again, just a source this time of year that many around baseball know for the

wonderful job that he does, you know, really helping to educate the rest of year that many around baseball know for the wonderful job that he does,

you know, really helping to educate the rest of us about the international scene and letting

us get to know some of these prospects that could be, you know, the faces of baseball one day.

But Ben, thank you so much for taking the time.

It's a pleasure to talk with you.

Yeah, absolutely.

Thanks for having me on.

I appreciate all the kind words. Yeah, I remember when I started

at Baseball America, I would talk about how much I really love talking to these guys who've been doing, you know, scouts or pitching coaches,

guys who've been in the game for so long 20, 30 plus years. And now as I'm getting closer to that,

it's like, oh, it's kind of a double-edged sword

for having a lot more experience and also realizing that, yeah, I'm definitely getting old.

Well, and Ben, I'll ask you this question just in general, for those of us who just, you know,

thrive for, you know, getting to know, as much about kind of how the inner workings of times like this on the

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