Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

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Effectively Wild Episode 1587: The Live-Ball Era

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09/05/20 • 90 min

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up on an earlier Clayton Kershaw commercial conversation and banter about Tom Seaver and the benefits of being a late bloomer, then answer listener emails about catchers sharing secrets about their old teams, the value of game-calling, Manny Ramirez signing with the Sydney Blue Sox and the experience of [...]

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Effectively Wild Episode 1688: Beware of Flying Objects

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05/01/21 • 96 min

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Rays flamethrower Shane McClanahan’s regular-season MLB debut, a Bryce Harper hit by pitch and the causes of the current HBP epidemic, and the biggest surprises of the topsy-turvy standings entering May. Then (33:32) they’re joined by listener and Patreon supporter David Whitcomb to answer listener emails about whether [...]

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Effectively Wild Episode 1606: Call it Even

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

10/23/20 • 64 min

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller discuss the first two games of the World Series, touching on Clayton Kershaw’s Game 1 excellence, the Dodgers’ discipline, Dave Roberts’ pitcher usage, the status of Rays reliever Nick Anderson, the Game 2 breakout of Brandon Lowe, and the outlook for the rest of the series. Then they banter about [...]

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Effectively Wild Episode 1697: Don’t Blame the Batters

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05/21/21 • 78 min

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Shohei Ohtani stalker cam on Japanese telecasts of Angels games, the Low-A Palm Beach Cardinals facing Jacob deGrom, why this season’s no-hitters have all been so dominant, and why it doesn’t make sense to hold hitters responsible for strikeouts and low batting averages. Then they do a [...]

Effectively Wild Episode 857: Joe Sheehan on the Scourge of Big Bullpens

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04/07/16 • -1 min

Ben and Sam banter about Kenta Maeda’s debut, then talk to Sports Illustrated’s Joe Sheehan about how pitcher-centric roster construction is making baseball more boring (and what might make it better).

Effectively Wild Episode 2114: Weekend WARriors

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01/21/24 • 98 min

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the offseason doldrums and this winter’s free-agent activity compared to last year’s, the Josh Hader and Robert Stephenson signings (with a contract over/under draft update), a bleak week in sports (and non-sports) media, pitcher/catcher technique and the automated strike zone, and the invasion of players named Jackson, followed [...]

Effectively Wild Episode 2134: Season Preview Series: Orioles and Giants

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03/08/24 • 109 min

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the A’s Las Vegas ballpark renderings, Brayan Bello’s extension with the Red Sox, and MLB’s Spring Breakout games, provide an update on EW listeners’ MLB ballpark meetup events, then preview the 2024 Baltimore Orioles (28:59) with The Baltimore Banner’s Danielle Allentuck, and the 2024 San Francisco Giants (1:04:38) [...]

Effectively Wild Episode 1531: His Double-Airness

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04/21/20 • -1 min

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the Effectively Wild community’s least-disliked MLB teams and two unjust Cy Young/MVP snubs, then discuss what Michael Jordan’s brief baseball career taught us about Jordan and about baseball. Audio intro: Willie Nelson, "Why Do I Have to Choose" Audio outro: Emmylou Harris, "Jordan" Link to EW MLB Survivor game recap [...]

Effectively Wild Episode 1478: Multisport Sabermetrics Exchange (Soccer and Rugby)

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12/29/19 • -1 min

In the fourth installment of a special, seven-episode series on the past, present, and future of advanced analysis in non-baseball sports, Ben Lindbergh talks to StatsBomb managing editor Mike L. Goodman about soccer and then professor and soccer/rugby analyst Dr. Bill Gerrard about rugby (27:20), touching on the origins of sabermetrics-style analysis in each sport, [...]

Effectively Wild Episode 1613: The Need for Steve

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11/07/20 • -1 min

Ben Lindbergh and guest co-host Steven Goldman of Baseball Prospectus banter about MLB’s Friday news dump, covering the Red Sox hiring Alex Cora, the Mets cleaning house in the front office and the potential for new owner Steve Cohen to be baseball’s offseason spending savior, and the league announcing that it wouldn’t discipline the Dodgers’ [...]

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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast currently has 2259 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Baseball, Podcasts and Sports.

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The episode title 'Effectively Wild Episode 1606: Call it Even' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast is 83 minutes.

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Episodes of Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast are typically released every 1 day, 17 hours.

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The first episode of Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast was released on Jul 18, 2012.

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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

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