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Back to SearchEffectively Wild Episode 2305: How Low Can it Go?
In a grab-bag episode, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the low league BABIP early in the season, the most interesting standings developments so far (with emphases on the Dodgers, Padres, B…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2304: You Say Suspension, I Say Extension
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about several oddities of the early season, including pitcher Ryne Nelson’s single and a drone encounter with an A’s bat boy, then discuss Jurickson Profar’s PED …
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2303: Bat After This
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley have an in-depth discussion on all aspects of the sport’s topic du jour: torpedo/bowling-pin/juggling-pin(?) bats. They also banter (59:58) about the abysmal beginning o…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2302: Opening Delay and the 2025 Team Fun Draft
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley react to assorted frustrations and delights of Opening Day, then (42:07) conduct the fifth annual Team Fun Draft, in which they draft all 30 teams in order of how fun th…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2301: Organing Day
Ben Lindbergh and FanGraphs writer Dan Szymborski banter about how much spring training stats matter, which players improved their projections the most this spring, whether prospects really have a h…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2300: Our Favorite Offseason Transactions
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mookie Betts’s unwanted weight loss, new Statcast data on batter positioning, and whether hitters should generally move back in the box, then recap Cal Rale…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2299: The Email Anatomy
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s positional power rankings progress and discuss why MLB is “evaluating” its Diversity Pipeline Program, then for the first time in a while answer liste…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2298: The 2025 Preseason Predictions Game
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs authors Michael Baumann and Ben Clemens play “College Baseball Player or Musician Who’s Performing at Sea.Hear.Now 2025” (4:53), and then explain the third a…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2297: Shocked and a Paul
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the opening series of the regular season in Japan, then (10:55) discuss the removal (and eventual restoration) of a page about Jackie Robinson on the Depart…
Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago
Effectively Wild Episode 2296: Season Preview Series: Yankees and White Sox
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about completing the season preview series, then preview the 2025 New York Yankees (7:48) with Gary Phillips of the New York Daily News, and the 2025 Chicago Whit…
Published on 9 months ago