Effectively Wild Episode 2296: Season Preview Series: Yankees and White Sox
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about completing the season preview series, then preview the 2025 New York Yankees (7:48) with Gary Phillips of the New York Daily News, and the 2025 Chicago White Sox (1:04:41) with Sox Machine’s James Fegan.
Audio intro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Cory Brent, “Effectively Wild Theme”
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Link to Yankees depth chart
Link to Yankees offseason tracker
Link to BaseRuns standings
Link to Gary’s author archive
Link to White Sox depth chart
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's the zombie runner Bobby Shands, Bobby Shans, Bobby Shans, |
| 0:04.7 | Effectively Wild |
| 0:06.5 | Joey Manessus, walk off three-run digger. |
| 0:12.4 | 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 | Unfactively wild. Hello and welcome. Meg, he's the best player in baseball. |
| 0:23.6 | Effectively Wild, wow, wow, wow. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 2296 of Effectively Wild, the Fangraphs Baseball podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:31.0 | I am Meg Relia Fangraphs, and I am joined by Ben Lamberg live from the floor of the U.S. Senate. |
| 0:36.6 | No, he's of the ringer. |
| 0:38.7 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:39.8 | I'm thrilled to be wrapping up our season preview series. |
| 0:44.0 | This is it. |
| 0:44.4 | We did it. |
| 0:45.0 | We have done it. |
| 0:45.9 | Once again. |
| 0:46.9 | We have vanquished the beast. |
| 0:48.9 | We have made it all the way to the end of the season preview series. |
| 0:52.2 | We have learned so much. |
| 0:53.7 | Yeah. |
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