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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast Baseball Prospectus
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4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
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Ben Lindbergh (The Ringer), Meg Rowley (FanGraphs), and an array of guests talk about baseball with an analytical bent, covering a mix of timely topics from the serious to the absurd a few times per week.
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Effectively Wild Episode 1663: If Baseball Were Different, it Would Be Blaseball
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Justin Dunn’s offseason overhaul and the value of spring training clichés, the Brewers signing Jackie Bradley Jr., why Jake Odorizzi is still a free agent, where he’ll end up, and why he’ll decide the EW free agent contracts competition, and an abominable baseball scene from the new movie […]
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Effectively Wild Episode 1662: Season Preview Series: Angels and Royals
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about spring training games starting, Jeff Mathis batting cleanup in a spring training game (and once improbably batting fifth in a regular-season game), the latest reports about suspended Angels pitching coach Mickey Callaway, the postponement of the start of the Triple-A season, the outlook for attendance in Texas, and […]
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Effectively Wild Episode 1661: Season Preview Series: Nationals and Cubs
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Jarred Kelenic’s beef with the Mariners about alleged service-time manipulation, then preview the 2021 Nationals (25:37) with Jesse Dougherty of The Washington Post and the 2021 Cubs (59:43) with Sahadev Sharma of The Athletic. Audio intro: Ty Segall, "Manipulator" Audio interstitial 1: Gary Louris, "D.C. Blues" Audio interstitial 2: Jason Isbell, […]
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Effectively Wild Episode 1660: Season Preview Series: Athletics and Phillies
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley preview the 2021 Athletics with Alex Coffey of The Athletic and the 2021 Phillies (30:13) with Matt Gelb of The Athletic. Audio intro: The Divine Comedy, "Come Home Billy Bird" Audio interstitial: George Harrison, "Stuck Inside a Cloud" Audio outro: The Apples in Stereo, "Play Tough" Link to Alex on Beane Link to […]
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Effectively Wild Episode 1659: Rotten Mather
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Fernando Tatis Jr. coining a term for his contract, a Bill James tweet about analytics, and Shin-Soo Choo leaving MLB to make his belated KBO debut, share Stat Blasts about all-over-30 lineups and players who’ve dominated one position in their franchise’s history, and then (32:39) bring on FanGraphs […]
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Effectively Wild Episode 1658: Season Preview Series: Cardinals and Cleveland
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about discordant college baseball uniform fonts, a piece by Blake Snell in The Players’ Tribune, and whether there’s a competitive advantage in making the bullpen less visible to the pitcher on the mound, then preview the 2021 Cardinals (15:13) with Will Leitch of MLB.com (and elsewhere) and the 2021 […]
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This is the podcast with a guest astrophysicist talking about tests conducted on the ball used in MLB, also with a guest physicist talking about whether a puff of dust was from a batter’s fart or some other source. Great podcast!
Best baseball podcast out there
Meg and Ben are great. It’s a perfect blend of quirkiness while also covering really important topics that have been brushed under the rug for far too long in baseball. It seems like a lot of the recent reviewers would prefer to just ignore the politics that have been a part of baseball since it was invented and continue to be complicit in the injustices found throughout the sport instead of confronting them.
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