Effectively Wild Episode 2046: These Segments Are Underrated

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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With Ben Lindbergh in Sweden on Ringer business, FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens joins Meg Rowley for a turn in the co-host chair. Ben and Meg begin (1:40) by discussing the disturbing allegations made against Rays shortstop Wander Franco over the weekend. They then banter (5:00) about the experience of watching baseball while on vacation, before turning their attention to Ben’s Five Things series, the sneaky delights of mid-sized Midwestern cities, the Braves scoring big against Danny Mendick, chalk preseason predictions (and Ben’s beef with Other Ben’s prognostication choices), which teams’ World Series odds might be too light (or too heavy), a milestone Juan Soto walk, players being over and underrated, announcers’ refusal to discuss no-hitters, the joy of local commercials on baseball broadcasts, the Cardinals’ and Pirates’ recent runs of relative success and futility, and who might shake up the standings down the stretch. They close with a Future Blast from 2046 (55:20) and an invitation to play Magic: The Gathering, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Audio intro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Evan Drellich and Brittany Ghiroli on the likely next steps in MLB’s investigation into Franco
Link to Ben’s Five Things I Liked (And Didn’t Like) Archive
Link to 21-3 Braves/Mets Box Score
Link to the FanGraphs Playoff Odds
Link to the FanGraphs 2023 staff predictions
Link to Chris Gilligan on shifting playoff odds
Link to Ben’s piece on Michael Lorenzen’s no-hitter
Link to Ben’s (latest) Lars Nootbaar piece
Link to Rick Wilber’s website
Link to Future Blast wiki

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0:00.0	Of course that's an entry, they will be unlucky, that's why
0:07.0	Transferred to an easy, easy, fast, easy, new
0:16.5	Hello and welcome to episode 2046 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to
0:36.1	you by our Patreon supporters, I'm Megrelia Fangraphs, and I am joined by A-Ben, but a different
0:42.5	Ben, Ben Lindbergh is in Sweden, and despite his protestations that he might be able to record, I
0:47.4	said, hey Ben, why don't you just go be in Sweden and do ring our stuff? And so I am joined by Ben
0:52.7	Clemens, also a fan-graphs, hello Ben. Hey, how's it going? It's going okay, how are you? I'm good, I'm
0:59.0	uh, yeah, I'm not quite as much of the right Ben for this podcast as Lindbergh, but you know,
1:05.2	I feel like I'll do an okay job. You're a recurring Effectively Wild Ben though, I'm not joined by
1:10.2	you every time, but we are often joined by you, so you know, familiar. How do I give that? Yeah, we are
1:16.9	recording on Tuesday, as I mentioned, Ben is in Sweden doing ringer business, which is kind of a
1:22.7	funny sentence to say, I was out of town Friday through, you know, late yesterday evening, at friend of the
1:30.3	podcast, Jordan Schusterman's wedding, which was lovely and beautiful. It did mean that I watched very
1:37.4	little baseball. It also means that we have not recorded since last Thursday, which means that I'm
1:42.7	sorry to say, Ben, you have the unfortunate task of chatting with me about some kind of grim baseball
1:49.2	news. We will move on to some other things later in the episode, but we probably do need to start with
1:55.8	the news that broke over the weekend that is still being reported and assembled and importantly
2:01.3	investigated by Major League Baseball, but that allegations emerged on Sunday, on social media of
2:07.6	Ray Shortstop, Wander Franco, engaging in an inappropriate relationship with an underaged girl.
2:14.4	There have been subsequent allegations that have emerged that are being investigated by Major League
2:20.2	Baseball, appear to be under investigation by the Attorney General of the Dominican Republic.
2:25.7	We are sort of light on detail at this stage, but obviously pretty alarming and concerning allegations,
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