Effectively Wild Episode 2292: Season Preview Series: Braves and Marlins

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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, […]

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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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