Effectively Wild Episode 2300: Our Favorite Offseason Transactions

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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