Effectively Wild Episode 2299: The Email Anatomy
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s positional power rankings progress and discuss why MLB is “evaluating” its Diversity Pipeline Program, then for the first time in a while answer listener emails (15:35) about how baseball would be different if swinging hard caused more serious injuries, a high-elevation league/division, inter-game penalties for frivolous end-of-game challenges, whether the challenge system will make umpires tone down their punchout calls, whether player-initiated challenges should be included in WAR calculations, split-squad games in the regular season, and limits on the number of NPB players per MLB roster, plus a real-time reaction (1:14:03) to the Chesapeake Oyster Catchers logo.
Audio intro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Meg’s PPR intro
Link to Athletic report
Link to Calcaterra report
Link to travel ban news
Link to 2019 Cuba deal news
Link to Russell on power hitting
Link to Ben on Mexico City
Link to Oyster Catchers logo
Link to logo response story
Link to Pickles mascot story
Link to GJ Chubs episode
Link to EW emails database
Link to predictions vote
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Upsters, that's inventory, they both mean a lot to me. |
| 0:05.0 | That's why the baseball. |
| 0:07.0 | Special dances, preview, series pitching is pure poetry. |
| 0:11.0 | That's wild. |
| 0:12.0 | Effectively wild. Hello and welcome to episode from FECTively Wild, a baseball podcast. |
| 0:30.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2299 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.6 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. |
| 0:44.5 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:45.7 | Hello. |
| 0:46.7 | How is your positional power rankings Odyssey proceeding? |
| 0:50.5 | Well, good, weird. |
| 0:55.4 | Mostly good. |
| 1:01.0 | We have completed all of the position player-related rankings. |
| 1:06.6 | Those have concluded and are on fangraths.com for your perusal. |
| 1:13.7 | I learned new ways that errotta feedback can be delivered. |
| 1:16.5 | Rude ways. |
| 1:18.7 | Mystical ways. |
| 1:23.1 | It turns out that Twitter doesn't have a monopoly on rudeness. |
| 1:25.5 | So that was unfortunate. |
| 1:26.8 | Rough to learn. |
| 1:28.5 | But otherwise quite good. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah. |
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