Effectively Wild Episode 2270: Trouble With the Curved Bat

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a new escalation in “breakout” creep, the Blue Jays signing Jeff Hoffman, risk tolerance in transactions, alternate spellings of names, Roki Sasaki’s effect on the market for international amateur free agents, another example of a team offering a higher salary in arbitration than a player requested, Mets owner […]

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0:00.0	How can you not be pedanted?
0:07.0	A stab blast will keep you distracted.
0:11.0	It's a long slog to death, but the shore to make you smile.
0:18.0	This is effectively why? This is effectively why? Hello, this is Effectively Wild, this is Effectively Wild, this is Effectively Wild.
0:30.1	Hello and welcome to episode 2270 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:37.0	I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraffs, and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer.
0:39.9	Ben, how are you?
0:40.8	I'm enraged.
0:42.1	Oh.
0:42.9	Can't you tell this is my enraged voice?
0:45.3	This is what I sound like when I'm enraged.
0:47.8	MLB Network, the network whose airwaves I appeared on last week, turned right around and chose violence. They heard my rant
0:57.0	about breakout players and the definition of breakouts last week. And they decided to twist the
1:04.2	knife. MLB Network's social media team put out a post entitled MLB.com's breakout players to watch in 2025. This was just this
1:15.9	week. Now, I corresponded with someone at MLB.com who denied all responsibility for this list and
1:24.2	suggested that MLB network has its own social media people and that they were
1:29.0	freelancing here.
1:30.4	It's not entirely clear to me what the sourcing for this is because some of the players
1:34.5	who appear on this purported MLB.com breakout players to watch list did appear on the breakout
1:41.5	article that I ranted about last week, but others did not and do not
1:46.6	and don't appear to be on any MLB.com actual article of breakout. So I don't know what this is
1:52.8	other than, I guess, engagement farming slash rage baiting. And I took the bait. So here's who we have. It's one of these Instagram posts that's
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