Effectively Wild Episode 2292: Season Preview Series: Braves and Marlins
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a fresh wave of “breakout candidate” crimes, Jerry Dipoto’s latest Meg-maddening comments, the rise of the “kick change,” how ball/strike calls differ from other boundary calls, Barry Bonds’s comments about Shohei Ohtani, and more. Then they preview the 2025 Atlanta Braves (50:56) with 92.9 The Game’s Grant McAuley, and the 2025 Miami Marlins (1:35:27) with Fish on First’s Kevin Barral.
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Link to Passan article
Link to breakout screenshot 1
Link to breakout screenshot 2
Link to breakout screenshot 3
Link to Dipoto article
Link to kick change info 1
Link to kick change info 2
Link to kick change info 3
Link to kick change info 4
Link to kick change info 5
Link to “new hotness” tweet
Link to Naquin article
Link to Ishbia article
Link to MASN update
Link to Jay on Iglesias
Link to Hang Up and Listen
Link to James quote
Link to latest Bonds comments
Link to earlier Bonds comments
Link to Bonds armor
Link to Sam on retaliation
Link to Rob on retaliation
Link to offseason spending
Link to FG payrolls page
Link to Braves depth chart
Link to Braves offseason tracker
Link to Baumann on Braves SP
Link to team SP projections
Link to team RP projections
Link to Grant’s author archive
Link to Grant’s podcast
Link to Marlins depth chart
Link to Marlins offseason tracker
Link to Sherman article
Link to Sheehan on breakouts
Link to 2024 attendance
Link to grievance article
Link to Kevin’s author archive
Link to Kevin’s podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Bobby Shands, Bobby Shans, Bobby Shans, |
| 0:04.7 | Effectively Wild |
| 0:06.5 | 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 | Affectively wild. Hello and welcome. Meg, he's the best player in baseball. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 2192 of Effectively Wild, the Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs and I am joined by |
| 0:32.2 | Ben Lindberg of the ringer. Ben, how are you? I'm doing okay. We've got two more previews for people today. |
| 0:38.7 | It's an all-NL-East episode. |
| 0:41.2 | We will be talking about the Atlanta Braves, and we will be talking about the Miami-Marlins. |
| 0:47.0 | So stay tuned. |
| 0:48.4 | Look forward to that. |
| 0:49.8 | But before we get to that, I have a quick breakout update for you. |
| 0:54.4 | It actually pertains to the two teams that we're previewing today. |
| 0:58.1 | And breakouts will come up in both of our preview conversations. |
| 1:01.3 | But we have yet another abuse of breakout. |
| 1:04.6 | And I think it's an instructive one because, again, it is a social team distorting an actual article that is |
| 1:14.7 | unobjectionable and twisting, twisting words into something that gets my hackles up. So a few |
| 1:22.6 | people have flagged this for us. It was an ESPN notification, I guess, ESPN app. And evidently, a bunch of |
| 1:31.7 | people have been alerted about possible breakout candidates. So, for instance, someone tweeted |
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