Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh (The Ringer), Jeff Sullivan (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.
- Website
- https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs
- Description
- Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-25 05:15
- last episode published
- 2024-04-24 06:53
- publication frequency
- 1.99 days
- Contributors
- Ben Lindbergh, Jeff Sullivan
- Owner Author
- davidappelman@gmail.com (Ben Lindbergh, Jeff Sullivan)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2156
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Professional Sports & Recreation
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-04-24 | Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Rockies (and their charter pilots) running afoul of the FAA, Jackson Holliday’s slow start, whether the Astros or Twins has hurt their division-title chances more, two embarrassing umpire incidents, offense... |
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| 2024-04-21 |
Effectively Wild Episode 2154: Sliding Doors and Sliding Home Amid a wave of pitcher injuries, Ben Lindbergh talks to Dr. Rich Nye (4:20), a former major leaguer whose career-ending injury became a career-beginning injury when he decided to become an exotic-animal veterinarian (among other occupations). Then (1:0... |
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| 2024-04-18 | Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Carlos Correa’s nerdiness, the Pirates pulling phenom Jared Jones after 59 effective pitches, the zombie runner, what Jontay Porter’s lifetime NBA ban portends for MLB, Shohei/Ippei conspiracy theories and Shoh... |
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| 2024-04-17 | Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about MLB jerseys as Fremen stillsuits, an update on Blake Snell the self-perceived strike-thrower, Brent Suter and being the “best teammate,” which MLB team is last in the league in vibes, the struggling Marlins dem... |
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| 2024-04-13 | Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the lack of an uptick in stolen bases this season, which of the teams that are off to surprisingly hot or cold starts has changed their minds the most, analogs to baseball’s epidemic of UCL tears in tennis and ... |
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| 2024-04-12 | Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley react to news about Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara being charged with bank fraud, discuss the revelations in the government’s stunning, detailed complaint, and assess the implications for Ohtani and MLB. ... |
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| 2024-04-10 | Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about White Sox manager Pedro Grifol’s anti-eclipse eyewash, the shrinking moon, an eyebrow-raising quote by Blake Snell, the latest signature Elly De La Cruz game, the hot starts of Mike Trout, Anthony Volpe, and Ty... |
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| 2024-04-06 | Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the earthquake in the Northeast, Juan Soto’s choice of walk-up song, J.J. Hardy building a ballpark in his Arizona backyard, the pluses and minuses of living in or near a ballpark, and how Shohei Ohtani relates... |
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| 2024-04-05 | Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Athletics’ intermediate move to Sacramento, the Royals’ failed public funding referendum, a Davis Schneider self scouting report, a wild Diamondbacks-Yankees game that ended with a pitcher at the plate, whe... |
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| 2024-04-03 | Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a grab of topics, including a team meeting after two games, early bad blood and benches-clearing incidents, the continued terribleness of the new uniforms, a Bryce Harper blooper, a missing first-base coach, an... |
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