Effectively Wild Episode 2304: You Say Suspension, I Say Extension
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about several oddities of the early season, including pitcher Ryne Nelson’s single and a drone encounter with an A’s bat boy, then discuss Jurickson Profar’s PED suspension, Garrett Crochet’s extension, and Jonathan Lucroy‘s reaction to Roki Sasaki’s apparent post-start tears, before bantering about whether full ABS would encourage even harder throwing, Lance Lynn’s retirement, a wild college throw, and more, plus a postscript.
Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Justin Peters, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Jay on the White Sox
Link to Nelson hit
Link to more on Nelson
Link to Pirates Elias tweet
Link to B-Ref Brewers post
Link to The Athletic on Profar
Link to Orr on Profar
Link to Ben on natty or not
Link to Baumann on the Braves
Link to MLBTR on Crochet 1
Link to MLBTR on Crochet 2
Link to MLBTR on Campbell
Link to Sheehan on Crochet
Link to Dan S. on Crochet
Link to MLB.com on Crochet
Link to drone story
Link to Sasaki clip
Link to L.AT. on Sasaki
Link to Lucroy tweet 1
Link to Lucroy tweet 2
Link to more Lucroy tweets
Link to Wolfe quotes
Link to r/tragedeigh
Link to McAfee story
Link to ABS story 1
Link to ABS story 2
Link to Lynn podcast
Link to RF throw
Link to MLBTR on Vlad
Link to Shapiro story
Link to MLBTR on Pfaadt
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:01.0 | Oh, |
| 0:02.0 | Just a fan who wants, |
| 0:05.0 | Nothing less than Effectively Wild. |
| 0:21.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2304 of Effectively Wild, a fancrafts baseball podcast brought |
| 0:29.3 | you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm a rally of Fangraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. |
| 0:33.8 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:34.8 | I'm a little overwhelmed by how much baseball news there has been over the past |
| 0:39.3 | several days. Is it me? Is it that I forgot how much news is normal during a baseball season |
| 0:45.7 | because we didn't have one for several months? It just feels like a lot. We said that one of the |
| 0:51.0 | nice things about baseball coming back is that you're just inundated in baseball. |
| 0:54.9 | You're just a wash with baseball. |
| 0:57.1 | But boy, just feels like there have been a lot of headlines. |
| 1:00.6 | So, Joshian's most recent newsletter started with, I would appreciate it, if the 2025 Major League Baseball season, all of five days old would calm down. |
| 1:08.9 | That's kind of, I don't want it to calm down. |
| 1:11.2 | I kind of embrace the chaos. |
| 1:13.1 | Sure. |
| 1:13.4 | But it does feel a little like more than usual. |
| 1:17.0 | I can't decide. |
| 1:18.4 | I can't decide, Ben. |
| 1:20.0 | Because I, it's a lot of the same kind of news, right? |
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