Effectively Wild Episode 2125: Baseball 101
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about injuries at spring training (specifically the Orioles’) and Jorge Soler and the Giants’ offseason, Stat Blast (21:04) about Kenley Jansen and the age of active career leaders in pitching appearances and recording five or six hits in a game against five or six different pitchers, and then talk to FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen about his ranking of the top 100 (or 101) prospects in baseball.
Audio intro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to tweet about O’s injuries
Link to Ben on spring injuries
Link to FG post on Soler
Link to Stat Blast sheet 1
Link to Stat Blast sheet 2
Link to Alou game
Link to Oliver game
Link to Johnson game
Link to guest appearances sheet
Link to 2024 top 100
Link to ZiPS top 100
Link to “how’s my driving?” post
Link to Ben on prospect promotion
Link to Ben on pitching prospects
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to give me why I'm going to |
| 0:04.8 | join Manesus. |
| 0:06.0 | No. |
| 0:07.0 | Walk off three-run diggers. |
| 0:07.8 | Stop it. |
| 0:08.8 | Walk off three-run shot. |
| 0:10.6 | Oh my God. |
| 0:12.1 | Nick, he's the best player in baseball. |
| 0:14.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2125 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:24.0 | Baseball Podcast from fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:28.1 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of fan graphs. |
| 0:32.2 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello Ben, how are you? |
| 0:35.2 | Well, nothing like a nice dose of injury news to spoil the positive vibes of the first week of spring training, huh? We barely got any time to be bored by videos of pictures throwing to catchers and people standing around idly. |
| 0:53.4 | That's fun for a day or so. |
| 0:55.2 | And you feel that nice little hope and faith |
| 0:58.6 | and renewal and it's spring and it's a fresh start |
| 1:01.9 | to the season and then suddenly it's Justin Veruander had some shoulder thing going on and |
| 1:07.6 | Kenan Chanson has lat tightness and everyone on the Orioles is hurt. |
| 1:13.4 | It's really sort of depressing to have that dose of reality, |
| 1:19.0 | that just splash of cold water thrown on the season. The players are not |
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