Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEffectively Wild Episode 1936: Balls Out
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s latest former major leaguer Facebook friend recommendation and an important update (3:49) to the dic…
3 years, 5 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1935: How Next Season’s Standings Project Today
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about their Thanksgivings, Joe Kelly’s comments (10:29) about free agents’ team visits being “outdated and chees…
3 years, 6 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1934: How to Bring Back Bellinger’s Bat
Ben Lindbergh convenes a roundtable of hitting analysts—Robert Orr from Baseball Prospectus, Esteban Rivera from FanGraphs, and Ryan Parker, formerl…
3 years, 6 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1933: Bats, Bets, Ballots, and Blasts
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about omissions from their Baseball Twitter draft, a few transactions (including the Kyle Lewis trade, the Gio U…
3 years, 6 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1932: The Best of Baseball Twitter
With the future of Twitter uncertain, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley welcome Craig Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus and Jordan Shusterman and Jake Min…
3 years, 6 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1931: Big Batters Don’t Cry
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about redefining the MVP award, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s unearthed baseball blogs, Billy Beane’s new role…
3 years, 6 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1930: Meat Your Maker
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani and the Cy Young Award, Buck Showalter and the Manager of the Year Award, Bryce Harper’s elb…
3 years, 6 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1929: Double Your Drafting, Double Your Fun
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Scott Boras’s opinions about postseason pitch clocks and a neutral-site World Series, discuss Meg’s NL Roo…
3 years, 6 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1928: Boras, Boldenone, Boondoggles, and Bo
With Meg Rowley off, Ben Lindbergh talks to three guests: James Wagner (4:55) of the New York Times about Scott Boras puns in the paper of record, w…
3 years, 6 months ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1927: The Living Legend of Willie Mays
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley share their impressions of HBO’s new feature-length documentary about Willie Mays, Say Hey, Willie Mays!, and reflect o…
3 years, 6 months ago