Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEffectively Wild Episode 1467: Strasburg Back
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller follow up on (o)possums playing dead, discuss the Nationals signing Stephen Strasburg to a record contract for a pitcher and the implications for the Nationals, Scott Bor…
Published on 6 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1466: Slapdick Podcast
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about covering transactions past and present, the latest eye-catching comments by Scott Boras, the Tommy Pham trade and Blake Snell’s candid real-time reaction to …
Published on 6 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1465: Free Agency’s Second Wind
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller discuss a crowdsourced effort to help baseball writer Jen Ramos, then banter about hot stove terminology and why free-agent activity seems to be picking up, analyzing the…
Published on 6 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1464: The New Hot Stove Survey
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter anew about José Abreu’s perplexing RBI total, then predict and discuss the answers in the sequel to “the Crasnicks,” a survey of front-office executives on hot-but…
Published on 6 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1463: The Hall of Fame’s 2020 Hindsight
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the artifacts from the 2019 season that will be preserved by the Hall of Fame, and then (32:25) Ben talks to FanGraphs’ Jay Jaffe about the 2020 Hall of Fame…
Published on 6 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1462: Bring Back Little Blowhard
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Charlie Finley’s dual “innovations,” Harvey and Little Blowhard, then answer listener emails about Chris Davis and why some veteran players may be unwilling …
Published on 6 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1461: Hot Stove Stirrings
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about what the Padres’ 2017 Rule 5 trio is up to now, the Mariners’ aggressive Evan White extension, how teams would distribute their spending if every player (ama…
Published on 6 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1460: Live from New York, it’s Effectively Wild!
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley host a FanGraphs Live! event and EW taping at Subculture in Manhattan, featuring three panels comprising seven guests: “Major League Update” (current events and New York …
Published on 6 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1459: The History of Sign-Stealing
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller talk to Paul Dickson, author of The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime, about, well, what the boo…
Published on 6 years ago
Effectively Wild Episode 1458: The Overlooked League Leaders
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about “sinister right-handers” and scientific songs, then discuss the latest revelations about the Astros sign-stealing saga before reviewing the overlooked accomp…
Published on 6 years ago