Effectively Wild Episode 2304: You Say Suspension, I Say Extension

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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