Effectively Wild Episode 2298: The 2025 Preseason Predictions Game
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs authors Michael Baumann and Ben Clemens play “College Baseball Player or Musician Who’s Performing at Sea.Hear.Now 2025” (4:53), and then explain the third annual preseason predictions game (11:53) and make 10 bold predictions apiece (18:57) about baseball in 2025, to be voted on by listeners.
Audio intro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to vote
Link to music festival
Link to Ben on festival posters
Link to previous scores
Link to 2024 predictions
Link to 2023 predictions
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to Ohtani max velo
Link to .500 teams data
Link to Waldron article
Link to Lewis article
Link to knuckleball qualifiers
Link to Ben on knuckleballs
Link to Other Ben on sliders
Link to slider rates
Link to highest bullpen WPAs
Link to Rob on stolen bases
Link to Corbin signing article
Link to Dan S. booms/busts
Link to 3B sends data
Link to Savant 3B sends
Link to Patrick on 3B sends
Link to Russell on 3B sends
Link to Oyster Analytics on 3B sends
Link to 2024 attendance
Link to Ben on risk aversion
Link to vote
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| 0:00.0 | O'Tarnie, the Stap-Class, the beef boy is so shweets, |
| 0:07.0 | the avi pettance, and super, a fete, |
| 0:10.0 | I think that it's effectively cool, |
| 0:14.0 | I think that it's effectively wild, |
| 0:19.0 | effectively, |
| 0:20.0 | effectively, Wild. Effectivemore Salvage. |
| 0:26.6 | Effective mold |
| 0:27.5 | salvage. |
| 0:33.3 | Hello and welcome to |
| 0:34.9 | episode 2298 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, Ben How are you? |
| 0:48.1 | That's the sound of me rubbing my hands together in anticipation, which I was doing before we hit record. |
| 0:54.1 | And you said, |
| 0:54.8 | settled down, but I'm not settling down. I'm excited. Yeah. |
| 0:59.1 | Invited you to calm down. You declined my invitation. Well, how could I calm down? |
| 1:03.4 | This is our Super Bowl or one of our Super Bowls. We maybe have multiple Super Bowls. |
| 1:09.1 | Okay. You always picked the thing that, like, I don't know if you won last year or not. |
| 1:15.3 | But sometimes you'll say, oh, this is our Super Bowl. |
| 1:19.0 | And I'm like, why can't the minor league free agent draft be our Super Bowl? |
| 1:23.8 | I've won that. |
| 1:24.9 | That is also our Super Bowl. |
| 1:26.4 | Yeah. |
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