Effectively Wild Episode 2302: Opening Delay and the 2025 Team Fun Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley react to assorted frustrations and delights of Opening Day, then (42:07) conduct the fifth annual Team Fun Draft, in which they draft all 30 teams in order of how fun they expect them to be to follow in 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to know about baseball |
| 0:02.0 | I want to know about every single team |
| 0:06.0 | I want to know about stat glass |
| 0:09.0 | and fan crafts and about oh oh tommy |
| 0:13.0 | I'm a very modern fan |
| 0:16.0 | reading up on all the analytics |
| 0:19.0 | I want to know about baseball presented by Patreon supporters of Effectively Wild. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 2302 of Effectively Wild. A Fangraphs baseball podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer. Ben, how are you? Doing well. I've picked up a bit of a cold from my daughter, but I'm |
| 0:43.0 | healed in a spiritual sense because Major League Baseball is back. It's back. We're back. |
| 0:49.4 | It's been nice. I hope that you had an excellent opening day. All your labors are behind you, or at least some specific labors, that were more laborious than the usual ones. |
| 1:00.5 | You got the staff predictions out. |
| 1:02.7 | The positional power rankings are done. |
| 1:05.0 | Your work is at an end. |
| 1:07.1 | And I hope that on Thursday you were able to just veg out in front of the TV or the MLB TV for a while and watch baseball. |
| 1:14.9 | Did you get a baseball nap in? |
| 1:16.3 | I got a brief baseball nap in. |
| 1:19.4 | I had an early morning. |
| 1:22.9 | We had so many things run on the site yesterday, Ben. |
| 1:26.5 | And a chat. |
| 1:27.3 | We had a chat. We had a chat. |
| 1:28.2 | I didn't chat. |
| 1:29.4 | I took baseball now. |
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