Effectively Wild Episode 2297: Shocked and a Paul

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the opening series of the regular season in Japan, then (10:55) discuss the removal (and eventual restoration) of a page about Jackie Robinson on the Department of Defense website, before (39:53) bantering further about breakouts, how player heights dropped (or didn’t!) after players were measured more accurately this […]

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0:00.0	It's effectively wild and it's wildly effective
0:04.0	It's putting baseball into perfect perspective
0:08.0	Impressive smart and impeccably styled
0:11.0	It's the wildly effective, effectively wild
0:15.0	Spin rate a long shangle
0:17.0	Bad to paint a war
0:20.0	You might hear something you never heard before.
0:28.9	Hello and welcome to episode 2297 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast fromGraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:38.3	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs.
0:41.9	Hello, Meg.
0:43.1	Hello.
0:44.0	Later on this episode, we'll be chatting with Paul Skeens.
0:47.2	Yeah.
0:47.6	No big deal.
0:48.6	NBD.
0:49.2	How about that?
0:49.8	Paul Skeens will be dropping by. He's making the rounds a little bit right now because he's promoting MLB
0:56.1	the show 25, which is out this week, and he's on the cover. He crashed the shortstop party
1:02.0	along with L.A. de la Cruz and Gunner Henderson. And normally when we get the, hey, do you want to talk
1:08.1	to so-and-so for 15 minutes? He's plugging this, but also you can ask about other stuff.
1:14.4	We tend to pass on that.
1:16.3	It's not the best format.
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