Effectively Wild Episode 2313: Great Sports Content

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about old-pitcher comebacks (or dropoffs), James Wood’s inefficient excellence, Aaron Judge’s potentially unparalleled peak, whether pitching to contact pays, a possible Paul Skenes change, a base-stealing update, private equity’s MLB plans, and Rob Manfred’s feelings on fandom. Audio intro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme” Audio outro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme” […]

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0:00.0	Does baseball look the same to you as it does to me?
0:07.0	When we look at baseball, how much do we see?
0:13.0	Well, the curve balls bend and the home runs fly.
0:17.0	More to the game that meets the eye To get the stats compiled and the stories filed
0:22.9	Fans on the internet might get riled
0:25.9	But we can break it down on Effectively Wild
0:31.4	Hello and welcome to episode 2313 of Effectively Wild
0:36.5	A baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:41.0	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs.
0:44.4	Hello, Meg.
0:45.1	Hello.
0:46.2	So Jesse Chavez is back on the Braves big league roster.
0:50.2	Maybe he will save them in his latest return.
0:53.5	But more interesting to us, I think, in old pitcher news, is that Rich Hill still is one.
1:01.8	He is still planning to pitch this year.
1:04.6	He is still throwing.
1:06.1	He is hoping to sign soon.
1:08.3	There was an update this week.
1:10.3	Reportedly, multiple teams have shown interest
1:13.6	in Rich Hill, who turned 45 last month. I don't know what that interest consists of or how
1:21.3	ardent the interest is, but apparently one of the teams, I mean, multiple teams, that means one of
1:26.2	them is not the Red Sox.
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