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Back to SearchEffectively Wild Episode 1468: The Scott Boras Guessing Game
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley link up during the Winter Meetings for a brief bonus episode in which Meg tries to stump Ben about genuine and fake medi…
6 years, 2 months ago
Effectively 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…
6 years, 2 months 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 tra…
6 years, 2 months 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-ag…
6 years, 2 months 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 Crasnick…
6 years, 2 months 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 t…
6 years, 3 months 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 Da…
6 years, 3 months 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 wo…
6 years, 3 months 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: “…
6 years, 3 months 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 …
6 years, 3 months ago