Effectively Wild Episode 2260: What We Might Remember About 2024
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Pebble Hunting’s Sam Miller banter about Michael Lorenzen embracing an Effectively Wild hypothetical, Ben and Sam’s past predictions about baseball in the 2020s, and Paul Skenes and the ERA title, then discuss what will be remembered about baseball in 2024 (plus a postscript).
Audio intro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to EW Episode 2242
Link to Lorenzen article
Link to EW Episode 1512
Link to MLB Vault
Link to Stephen A. vs. Shaq
Link to Sam on qualifying
Link to Sam on 2024 1
Link to Sam on 2024 2
Link to Sam on 2024 3
Link to Sam on past years
Link to Sam on lineup resets
Link to Baumann on Walker
Link to Sosa letter
Link to Sosa story
Link to Newlywed Game clip
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's effectively wild |
| 0:04.4 | So stick around you'll be well |
| 0:10.0 | Beguiled |
| 0:11.0 | It's effectively wild |
| 0:15.0 | Like Nolan |
| 0:18.0 | Ryan was sometimes. |
| 0:23.6 | Good morning, and welcome to episode 2,260 of Effectively Wild, the baseball podcast from Fangraphs.com, brought to you by their Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm Sam Miller. |
| 0:36.2 | A guest today. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello, Megan Ben. Hello. |
| 0:40.8 | Hi. What a role reversal. Yeah. What have you brought me here for? To do the intro. Now you can go. Thank you. |
| 0:49.6 | No, I have a bunch of things to talk to you about. Primarily, we have invited you on to talk about what we will remember from this year. |
| 0:58.2 | In baseball. |
| 0:59.3 | In baseball, to be clear. |
| 1:01.4 | We will not be rehashing the whole thing. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.3 | Just the ball. |
| 1:05.4 | You always shorten it to ball. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.4 | Do the baseball. |
| 1:08.5 | We got to reclaim it. |
| 1:09.9 | Football has been trying to claim it. it football's been trying to claim it |
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