Effectively Wild Episode 2317: Wake Up Babe (Ruth)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mike Trout’s latest injury, Pete Alonso’s renaissance, a Daulton Varsho recovery catch, Andrés Muñoz the cat guy, and the called strike zone (sort of) shrinking. Then (40:49) they bring on top-tier Patreon supporter Carson Otter to talk about his background with baseball and the podcast, share his baseball-related […]

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:01.8	A fancast baseball podcast
0:05.1	Listener
0:06.6	emails that last
0:08.1	Hello and welcome down relaxing unwind as we learn how a tiny word
0:21.6	Hello and welcome to episode 2317 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from
0:29.8	Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:32.7	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Reilly of FanGraphs.
0:36.6	Hello, Meg.
0:37.3	Hello. We will soon be joined by Meg Reilly of Van Graf's. Hello, Meg. Hello.
0:38.3	We will soon be joined by one of those aforementioned Patreon supporters, a Mike Trout
0:43.3	tier supporter. And speaking of Mike Trout, we lost him. We lost him, Meg. It's over.
0:50.2	Did we ever really have him, you know?
0:53.2	It's just, it's so sad that I essentially assume that even the most minor injury or what seemed to be is season ending.
1:03.1	It's like, well, that's it for Mike this season.
1:06.0	If he returns, then I'll be pleasantly surprised.
1:09.7	And it really does not seem to be super serious. And yet,
1:13.2	we have seen similarly unsurious injuries sideline him for an improbably long time. And we've
1:21.3	gone through just not only how often he gets injured, but then how slow his recovery is compared to the typical recovery time.
1:29.3	And it always seems to happen the same way. And I don't know if this is an angel's issue or if it's him or it's Ron Washington or what.
1:38.9	So he ran down to first base and he was busting it and he was still speedy and then there was a little bit
1:45.6	of a awkward he was favoring a leg nursing a leg a little bit and then he went out to play defense
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