Effectively Wild Episode 2277: The Most Demoralizing Offseasons
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the overwhelming listener response to their previous conversation about cover models for baseball video games, and Ben issues some “Bo Nos” in support of his previous Royals reporting. Then (18:19) they talk about the Rays signing Ha-Seong Kim, Roki Sasaki “prospect” rankings, a recent leaguewide run on relievers, trade-based brother breakups, Hal Steinbrenner’s unconvincing attempt at anti-Dodgers-spending solidarity, and minor league name matches for major leaguers, plus (51:42) an in-depth discussion about the teams that have had the most demoralizing (and/or inactive) offseasons (so far).
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| 0:00.0 | Have a catch and a slog with me in a virtual eyes. |
| 0:07.1 | From small sample size, these fun facts must lie. |
| 0:14.0 | It's effectively wild, a strange book could hang Effectively Wild. |
| 0:25.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2277 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fancrafts, presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.6 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs. |
| 0:39.5 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:40.6 | Oh, hello. |
| 0:41.4 | I think a clarification is warranted. |
| 0:47.8 | What? |
| 0:49.0 | I've looked at my inbox in the podcast label, |
| 0:52.8 | and it's very much the Troy walking into the burning room with the pizza |
| 0:57.1 | in community gif. That is what has greeted me over the past couple of days because we had some |
| 1:04.4 | people right in about our conversation last time about video game cover models. People had some thoughts, and mostly they were extremely similar thoughts. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.1 | But valuable thoughts, nonetheless, thoughts that needed to be expressed, perhaps didn't need to be expressed quite so many times, but no individual emailer could have known how many times |
| 1:29.3 | it had been expressed already by other emailers. Therefore, we ended up with a mountain of emails |
| 1:36.0 | on mostly the same subject, and you know what? I brought it on myself. I stand by my reporting, |
| 1:41.9 | to be clear. However, there are a couple of caveats that should have been mentioned to forestall some of this fan mail. |
| 1:50.8 | Can we call it fan mail? |
| 1:52.1 | I don't know if that would be. |
| 1:53.0 | Issuing a correction on my previous post. |
| 1:55.9 | I'm not actually issuing a correction. |
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