Effectively Wild Episode 2284: Season Preview Series: Astros and Cardinals
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2025
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s new sound-dampening windows, listener defenses of MLB’s altered two-way-player rule, and the latest intolerable “breakout” pick, followed by Stat Blasts (15:49) about the teams with the most winless, non-lossless pitchers and the all-time past-their-prime/time-travel teams. Then they preview the 2025 Houston Astros (32:41) with The Athletic’s Chandler Rome, and the 2025 St. Louis Cardinals (1:25:07) with The Athletic’s Katie Woo.
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Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
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Link to Chandler’s author archive
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| 0:00.0 | Effectively wild |
| 0:03.4 | It's the only show I did |
| 0:06.9 | hosted by Ben Lindbergh and Meg Riley |
| 0:13.0 | I want to hear about show Hale Tony |
| 0:18.7 | Or Mike Trout with three Hello, hey, oh, Tani. |
| 0:26.3 | Or white trout with three arms. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, and welcome to episode 2284 of Effectively Wild, Fancash Baseball podcast, brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.9 | I am Meg Raleigh. |
| 0:36.8 | That is Ben, Lember. |
| 0:37.5 | Here we are. Hey, Ben. How are you? I'm okay. I am Meg Rowley. That is Ben, Lembert. Here we are. |
| 0:37.9 | Hey, Ben. |
| 0:38.2 | How are you? |
| 0:38.9 | I'm okay. |
| 0:42.4 | I'm sitting in my newly sound dampened office. |
| 0:51.9 | As you know, I just got some inserts on the interior of my windows that are supposed to cut down on the sound from outside and do as advertised. |
| 0:57.1 | The downside is that I'm sitting here in this office, huffing fumes for this entire preview pod from some glue of some sort that is drying. |
| 1:01.2 | So if I sound a little loopy on this pod, perhaps that is why. |
| 1:05.6 | But these are the sacrifices one must make to podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | And living in the heart of New York City. It's just not a very |
| 1:11.9 | audio-friendly environment. And I think the sirens will still be audible. See, the downside of |
| 1:18.8 | sirens, I mean, really it's the selling point of sirens. They're supposed to cut through glass. |
| 1:24.7 | You're supposed to be able to hear them so that you could get out of the way of the emergency vehicles. So that's a feature, not a bug, unless you happen to be living in an apartment in that city and recording lots of podcasts. And I'm not in the way of the ambulances and fire trucks and police cars, etc. So I don't need to hear that. But, you know, that's just, |
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