Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEffectively Wild Episode 2306: Extension Tension
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about umpires’ surprising preference for full ABS, Rob Manfred’s take on torpedo bats, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s $…
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Effectively 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 developmen…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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 wh…
1 year, 2 months 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 m…
1 year, 2 months 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 g…
1 year, 2 months 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 Progra…
1 year, 2 months 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.H…
1 year, 2 months 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 restorat…
1 year, 2 months ago