Effectively Wild Episode 2265: What We’re Anticipating in 2025
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
As the halfway point of the offseason approaches, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the relative merits of the first half of the offseason vs. the second half of the offseason, assess the weakest projected positions on contending teams and the best remaining free agents, and list MLB stories they’re looking forward to following.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I waste my time tracking all these stat lines, but here I found my kind, |
| 0:12.6 | they're all Effectively Wild. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 2265 of Effectively Wild, a Baseball podcast from FanGraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:25.6 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:30.4 | Hello. |
| 0:30.7 | We have almost reached the halfway point of the offseason, measured as the halfway point between the end of the world series and |
| 0:39.7 | opening day. |
| 0:40.7 | Okay. |
| 0:41.4 | Other people, they might draw the ending line a little differently if you think spring |
| 0:45.8 | training or the start of the spring training games is the end of the offseason or something. |
| 0:50.5 | I guess I'd allow that, but that's not how I define it. |
| 0:53.3 | I would not allow that. |
| 0:54.6 | I think that that is a misinterpretation of the term. |
| 0:57.7 | Have some dignity. |
| 0:59.8 | Well, that is how Kyle Loebner defines it. |
| 1:02.6 | He is a listener and Patreon supporter who every winter does this tradition of a daily countdown to opening day. |
| 1:10.6 | And he posts that in our Facebook and Discord groups. |
| 1:14.6 | And he said today, as we record it's Thursday, |
| 1:17.6 | today there are 84 days until opening day. |
| 1:20.6 | We're more than three sevenths of the way through the off season. |
| 1:24.6 | So we are just about at the halfway point. |
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