Effectively Wild Episode 2279: Season Preview Series: Blue Jays and Padres
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley introduce the 13th annual Effectively Wild season preview series, then banter about the Tigers signing Jack Flaherty to a smaller-than-expected deal, a long-awaited explanation for the gambling-related firing of umpire Pat Hoberg, and the death and legacy of former commissioner Fay Vincent. Then they preview the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays (43:30) with the Toronto Sun’s Rob Longley, and the 2025 San Diego Padres (1:20:30) with MLB.com’s AJ Cassavell.
Audio intro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: The Shirey Brothers, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 2: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to season preview series wiki
Link to projected standings page
Link to Silicon Valley clip
Link to Dan S. on Flaherty
Link to Petriello on Flaherty
Link to MLBTR on Flaherty
Link to over/under draft wiki
Link to Hobert press release
Link to EW on Hoberg’s ump perfecto
Link to Vincent’s NYT obit
Link to Vincent’s SABR obit
Link to Vincent’s SABR bio
Link to Manfred’s Vincent statement
Link to Sheehan on Vincent
Link to Vincent on gambling
Link to Posnanski on Vincent
Link to EW on commish tenures 1
Link to EW on commish tenures 2
Link to Law on farm systems
Link to McDaniel on farm systems
Link to Jays depth chart
Link to Jays offseason tracker
Link to Rogers Centre offense info
Link to Rob’s author archive
Link to Padres depth chart
Link to Padres offseason tracker
Link to black swan wiki
Link to Padres TV subs
Link to AJ’s author archive
Link to Topps Bunt 24 art
Link to Winfield game
Link to Canseco/Garvey game
Link to Ben’s Luka pod
Link to Memorial Cup wiki
Link to EW gift subscriptions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Joey Munner, Bobby Shands, Bobby Shans, Bobby Shans, |
| 0:04.7 | Effectively Wild. |
| 0:09.0 | Joey Manessus, walk off three-run digger. |
| 0:12.3 | Stop it. |
| 0:13.4 | Walk off three-run shot. |
| 0:15.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:16.7 | Meg, he's the best player in baseball. |
| 0:20.5 | Effectively wild. Helloively Wild, wild. |
| 0:23.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 2279 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:28.7 | Baseball Podcasts from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:32.5 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraves. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:37.2 | Hello. Well, here we go againves. Hello, Meg. Hello. |
| 0:38.1 | Well, here we go again. |
| 0:39.8 | Once more unto the breach, it is season preview series time. |
| 0:46.2 | 13th annual, effectively wild season preview series. |
| 0:50.8 | And we will be following, more or less the same format that we have for the past few years. |
| 0:56.1 | We're going team by team, two teams per pod. We will have guests who cover those teams on to tell us |
| 1:03.7 | about them. And we're going loosely in projection order as the projection stood a couple days ago, at least, and they're in flux. |
| 1:13.7 | Moves will be made. |
| 1:14.9 | Projections will change between now and opening day. |
| 1:17.2 | In fact, I think they've changed even since I drew up the schedule because the Tigers signed |
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