Effectively Wild Episode 2293: Impossible Sliders and Extremely Slow Curves

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a baseball flub in medical procedural The Pitt, Lawrence Butler’s extension, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s lofty contract target, how the ball moves differently in the Cactus League, and the value of variety in pitch selection, followed by Stat Blasts (49:20) about the WAR values of letters in player names, […]

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0:00.0	Hello, defensive run safe or follow the OAA way.
0:10.0	Who's gone away in?
0:13.0	With their quips and opinions, it's effectively wild.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2293 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from
0:25.5	Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:28.5	I am Ben Lindberg of The Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of VanGraphs.
0:32.0	Hello, Meg.
0:33.1	Hello.
0:34.2	So we received a submission, or I received a submission, of another example of baseball being mangled in media.
0:43.0	So we have another case of baseball showing up in a movie or TV show, in this case a TV show, and not quite being right.
0:52.4	Just sounding some alarm, raising some red flag that, as always,
0:58.0	makes us say, you could have consulted us. We're right here. Have you watched the pit?
1:02.9	No. Okay. Neither of I. It was so, like, decisive. I don't, I like Noah Wiley.
1:11.4	Noah Wiley's in it, right?
1:12.8	That's a Noah Wiley show.
1:13.9	He's in it.
1:14.9	And it's, yeah.
1:15.7	And it's like a play on words, the title, because it's like they're talking about the ER, but also it's set in Pittsburgh.
1:21.9	Am I understanding all that correctly?
1:23.4	Wow.
1:23.6	I know so much about that show.
1:25.7	I'm excited.
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