Effectively Wild Episode 2291: Season Preview Series: Phillies and Guardians
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether the challenge system will inevitably pave the way for full ABS, the degrees of difficulty for two-way Travis Hunter vs. two-way Shohei Ohtani, and (very briefly) reinstating Pete Rose. Then they preview the 2025 Philadelphia Phillies (36:58) with The Athletic’s Matt Gelb, and the 2025 Cleveland Guardians (1:19:49) with The Athletic’s Zack Meisel.
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| 0:00.0 | Effectively wild, effectively wild. |
| 0:07.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:09.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:12.0 | Ah, ha, ha, effectively wild. |
| 0:27.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 2191 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:30.3 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, Ben. |
| 0:35.8 | Getting a late start. |
| 0:37.0 | I don't know why I'm talking about. |
| 0:38.2 | I don't know either, but I'm rolling with it. We're doing a bit now. We got a little bit. |
| 0:42.0 | Talking in a very Barney Rubble, Yogi Bear-esque cadence here. |
| 0:45.6 | This is a late start to our week, but they're going to come out. |
| 0:54.4 | You can count on that. And today, you can count on two more previews. We're going to be talking |
| 0:59.9 | to a couple of athletic writers. Matt Gelb of the athletic will be here to talk to us about the |
| 1:05.4 | Philadelphia Phillies, followed, of course, by Zach Meisel, who will talk to us about the Cleveland Guardians. |
| 1:11.5 | Yes, we're finally getting to the Guardians preview. Sorry for the delay, Guardians fans. |
| 1:16.5 | A couple things before we get to that, just a bit of banter. I've been wondering something about |
| 1:21.5 | the challenge system, and I'm curious about your thoughts. So we've talked about how it seems |
| 1:26.8 | to be going smoothly, other than the odd Max Scherzer objection. |
| 1:30.6 | Everyone seems to be more or less rolling with the testing of the challenge system in spring training. |
| 1:36.2 | Seems like we're headed very likely for challenge system in MLB games as soon as next year. |
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