Effectively Wild Episode 2286: Season Preview Series: Mariners and Reds

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the start of spring training games, the charms of Tigers reliever John Brebbia, whether MLB’s uniform pants were always semi-transparent, and Shohei Ohtani’s parallel parking skills. Then they preview the 2025 Seattle Mariners (27:37) with Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times, and the 2025 Cincinnati Reds (1:12:53) with […]

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0:00.0	Anything is fair game, even Kee's dirty pants.
0:04.2	And maybe if you're lucky, we'll cope all by the chance.
0:09.1	You never know precisely where it's going to go.
0:13.3	By definition, Effectively Wild.
0:17.8	Hello and welcome to episode 2286 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought
0:23.1	to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:24.7	I'm A Raleigh of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer, Ben.
0:29.0	Happy baseball.
0:30.1	Happy Major League Baseball?
0:32.6	Happy Spring Training baseball.
0:34.1	Happy affiliated baseball.
0:36.1	Happy baseball, Ben. Yeah, it's back. It's back.
0:39.7	It's back. After a fashion. Yeah. We're back-ish, maybe. Yeah. Would you call spring training
0:45.1	major league baseball? They're obviously major league players playing, but they're also non-major league players playing. I wouldn't. I wouldn't call it major league baseball. I would call it spring training baseball. The distinction I am trying to draw is that, okay, so here's a thing
0:57.7	about style. Like, not like, ooh, look how good I look, but like, you know, like written style.
1:02.9	So my opinion and I enjoined in this opinion by no less Illuminary than Sabre is that one should
1:10.5	not use MLB as an abbreviation
1:14.7	catch-all for Major League Baseball as in baseball played in the major leagues. It is a business
1:21.4	entity. It should only be used to describe the league. Like if you are not thinking about
1:26.0	the building where Rob Manfred goes to work
1:28.0	every day, you shouldn't say Major League Baseball. But, but Ben, I do allow. I do allow fairgrounds.com
1:34.5	an exception to this, which is that I think when you are writing about what we would know as the majors,
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