Effectively Wild Episode 2300: Our Favorite Offseason Transactions
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mookie Betts’s unwanted weight loss, new Statcast data on batter positioning, and whether hitters should generally move back in the box, then recap Cal Raleigh’s extension and a smattering of other buzzer-beating transactions before discussing (35:46) some of their favorite moves of the offseason. Then (1:10:31) they talk to FanGraphs writer Davy Andrews about his origin story as a writer, his greatest hits so far, and the “We Tried Tracker,” his effort to compile all the times a team reportedly tried (but failed) to acquire a player.
Audio intro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Davy Andrews, “Edouard Julien, Are You Gonna Rule Again?”
Audio outro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Ohtani article
Link to Dodgers article 1
Link to Mookie article 2
Link to Mookie article 3
Link to Petriello article 1
Link to Petriello article 2
Link to Adler article
Link to Ben on moving the mound
Link to MLBTR on Raleigh
Link to Raleigh dumper thread
Link to notable transactions
Link to Ben’s Grantland article
Link to TFPIOT Tumblr
Link to Tracker wiki
Link to Too Far From Town posts
Link to Target Field post
Link to cleat cleaners post 1
Link to cleat cleaners post 2
Link to Davy’s FG archive
Link to Seinfeld clip
Link to We Tried Tracker
Link to WTT posts
Link to predictions vote
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Room, room, room. |
| 0:01.0 | Here's your primer on Beef Boys, Baseball's Inn, Roger Angel, and Super Pretzels. |
| 0:05.8 | Williams Astadillo and Mike Trout hypotheticals, waiting for the perfect bat from a volcanic |
| 0:10.6 | corruption. |
| 0:11.5 | Ladies and gentlemen, the effectively wild introduction. |
| 0:15.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 2300. |
| 0:18.8 | Round number. |
| 0:20.5 | New hundred. |
| 0:21.8 | New high score. |
| 0:22.8 | Whoa. |
| 0:24.6 | Effectively Wild. |
| 0:26.0 | That's the name of our show. |
| 0:27.4 | Our show is brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:30.1 | I, me, Meg, and Meg Rowley. |
| 0:33.3 | You are Ben Lindberg of the ringer. |
| 0:35.2 | I am losing my whole remaining mind. |
| 0:41.5 | But here we are. |
| 0:43.1 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:44.3 | How are you? |
| 0:45.4 | Well, I'm not mired in positional power ranking, so I'm relatively doing pretty well. |
| 0:50.5 | And I'm excited for opening day week and the last day of spring training action. |
| 0:55.8 | I am so close to being free, and yet far, but mostly close. |
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