Effectively Wild Episode 2314: Memento Mori

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a new contender for the highest bat flip, meet major leaguers (14:28) Ryan Johnson and Alan Roden, and (48:35) answer listener emails about how different baseball would be if losses were free for fans and wins cost extra, whether the Rockies will finish in first before the Dodgers […]

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0:00.0	Hello, Ben, Lindberg and McRolley, come for the ball, and the banters free.
0:08.1	Baseball is a simulation.
0:10.9	It's all just one big conversation.
0:17.6	Effectively wild.
0:20.7	Hello and welcome to episode 2314 of Effectively Wild Hello and welcome to episode 2314 of Effectively Wild, a fangraphs baseball podcast brought
0:26.6	you by our Patreon supporters.
0:28.2	I'm Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, Ben.
0:31.8	How are you?
0:32.7	Doing okay.
0:33.7	I have a very important question for you.
0:36.1	It is about bat flip hyped.
0:39.2	So we talked back in January, remember Junior Caminero?
0:42.9	Yes.
0:43.3	Just a bat flip for the ages.
0:45.8	Yeah, who could forget.
0:47.2	Game 7 of the lead home championship, he hit a go-ahead homer in the ninth, 454-foot blast, and he threw his bat.
0:58.8	Not that far, but about as far as a human being can throw a bat, or so we thought.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:04.0	And I think I may have even said at the time that that might have been an unbreakable bat-flip height record.
1:09.8	Yeah.
1:10.2	And now I'm already questioning that just a few months after that January flip
1:15.4	because we have a new contender for biggest bat flip of all time.
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