Effectively Wild Episode 2281: Season Preview Series: Orioles and Royals
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Dodgers’ overstuffed 2025 bobblehead lineup, Ippei Mizuhara’s sentencing, and the Angels’ tireless pursuit of players who were good several seasons ago. Then they preview the 2025 Baltimore Orioles (35:55) with the Baltimore Banner’s Danielle Allentuck, and the 2025 Kansas City Royals (1:08:21) with the Kansas City Star’s Jaylon Thompson.
Audio intro: Cory Brent, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: Jonathan Crymes 2, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 2: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Pedantic)”
Audio outro: Gabriel-Ernest, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Dodgers promotions
Link to Dodgers bobbleheads post
Link to past bobbleheads
Link to giveaway conditions
Link to bobblehead data
Link to Rockies bobblehead post
Link to Angels bobbleheads
Link to Ippei sentencing 1
Link to Ippei sentencing 2
Link to Knight thread
Link to Angels additions
Link to Ben on the Orioyals
Link to Orioles depth chart
Link to Orioles offseason tracker
Link to offseason FA spending
Link to FG on O’s spending
Link to Camden Chat on O’s spending
Link to Danielle’s author archive
Link to Royals depth chart
Link to Royals offseason tracker
Link to Dan S. on the Royals
Link to KC stadiums update
Link to Moore for governor news
Link to Jaylon’s author archive
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:01.0 | Wild |
| 0:02.0 | A fancast |
| 0:04.0 | Baseball podcast |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and down relaxing unwind as we learned how a tiny word hello and welcome to episode 2281 of |
| 0:27.9 | effectively wild a baseball podcast from fangrass presented by our patreon supporters i am ben |
| 0:33.5 | linberg of the ringer joined by meg rally. Hello, Meg. We are cranking out |
| 0:39.0 | the team previews. We're doing our third in a row. We have the Oriorils today. The Orior... |
| 0:49.2 | The Orior... The Orioles. The Orioles. The Roryales. Anyway, the Orioles, the Royals, the Royals. |
| 0:55.8 | Anyway, the Orioles and the Royals are our teams today that we are talking about. |
| 1:00.5 | We will be joined by Danielle Allen Tuck of the Baltimore Banner to talk about the Orioles, |
| 1:05.2 | followed by Jalen Thompson of the Kansas City Star to talk about the Kansas City Royals and briefly the Chiefs. |
| 1:12.1 | But before we get to our previews today, do you know, or would you care to guess, or would |
| 1:18.7 | you guess even if you don't care to, how many bobbleheads the Dodgers have on their 2025 |
| 1:25.7 | promotional schedule. |
| 1:27.6 | They have a bunch of bobbleheads. |
| 1:29.5 | How many bobbleheads would you guess that they're given out to fans this season? |
| 1:34.5 | What a fun question. |
| 1:37.3 | Okay, let's see. |
| 1:38.3 | Let's see. |
| 1:39.3 | Okay, let's see. |
| 1:40.3 | So let me pull up the Dodgers depth chart and see what I can muster in terms of an educated guess here. |
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