Effectively Wild Episode 2192: Both Sides Now?
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the highlights of the All-Star Game, a hypothetical Evan Longoria unretirement scenario, the newly announced 2025 regular-season schedule (featuring Tokyo contests and a “Rivalry Weekend”), a baseball movie-mention conspiracy theory, players possessed by Gameday 3D, the timing of Martín Maldonado’s DFA, and the potential effect of moving the foul lines. Then (36:54) they bring on FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen to break down the standout trends, teams, and players of the amateur draft, the demographics of amateur baseball, trading draft picks, and more.
Audio intro: Kite Person, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Pedantic)”
Audio outro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Skenes ASG highlights
Link to Ohtani ASG highlights
Link to 2025 schedule
Link to featured rivalries
Link to Cubs promo video
Link to Longoria quote
Link to Superman news
Link to Caught Stealing
Link to Ben on movie sequels
Link to Gittell on EW
Link to Gittell’s book
Link to A Quiet Place scene
Link to Gameday 3D explainer
Link to possessed player clip 1
Link to possessed player clip 2
Link to Maldonado leaderboard
Link to MLBTR on Maldonado
Link to Ben on the foul lines
Link to Eric’s Day 1 recap
Link to Eric’s Day 2 recap
Link to Condor HR record
Link to college offense article 1
Link to college offense article 2
Link to Nightengale tweet
Link to ESPN top 100 athletes
Link to Manfred on draft picks
Link to ballpark meetup forms
Link to meetup organizer form
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| 0:00.0 | Take me to the diamond lead me through the turnstile shower me with data |
| 0:10.2 | that I never thought to compile. |
| 0:15.0 | Now it freely now the scorecard |
| 0:19.0 | with a cracker jack of a smile. Crack a |
| 0:25.0 | fan shot of smile |
| 0:26.0 | effectively wild. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2192 |
| 0:31.0 | effectively wild |
| 0:32.0 | a fairing grass baseball podcast brought to you by our |
| 0:34.1 | Patreon supporters I'm a rally fan graphs and I'm joined by Ben Lemberger of the |
| 0:37.8 | wringer Ben how are you I am doing okay how are are you? I can hear the cough drop in your mouth. |
| 0:46.0 | Sorry. I know it's what everyone says they want from their podcast is like more hard candy sounds. |
| 0:54.0 | They're like, where are the lozenges? |
| 0:56.6 | Where is representation for me a member of the lozenge community? |
| 1:00.5 | And I am here to say that I see you. look I know this isn't a great mouth sound and I am sorry |
| 1:06.7 | But I also know that it is better than the alternative which is the hacking cough noise |
| 1:13.0 | So here we are, you know, we make compromises to get by sometimes. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, and the good news is that Eric Lagnan |
| 1:19.0 | Hagen will do most of the talking on this episode. |
| 1:21.0 | So we just gotta get through an intro. |
| 1:24.2 | And then we'll just, yeah, we'll just tag in Eric |
| 1:27.6 | and he'll take it from there. |
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