Effectively Wild Episode 2321: The Seventh-Inning (Dynamic) Stretch
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about an expert’s stance on stretching, whether the White Sox were the funniest team for the new Pope to support, what Paul Skenes signing up for the WBC signifies, an optimistic take on the odds of a lost season, Bud Black’s firing and the dreaded “vote of confidence,” Roki Sasaki’s struggles, a petty Shohei Ohtani, how opposing teams have handled Aaron Judge, a Javier Báez rebound, sliding mitts as fashion accessories, a real-time reaction to a Rich Hill signing, and more, plus (1:36:48) updates and a preliminary postscript on Pete Rose’s reinstatement from the ineligible list.
Audio intro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to NYT on stretching
Link to trigger point info
Link to end range of motion
Link to NYT on Baseball Pope
Link to Phillips on the Pope
Link to 2005 Pope video
Link to 2006 Trump photo
Link to papal infallibility wiki
Link to JLD on the Rizzler
Link to Keke Palmer meme
Link to Skenes WBC story
Link to Hannah on Skenes
Link to The Bandwagon entry
Link to Bud Black quotes
Link to Pirates Shelton statement
Link to MLB.com on Sasaki
Link to pitcher zone rate leaders
Link to pitcher contact rate leaders
Link to Sasaki IL news
Link to latest on Kershaw
Link to Ohtani video
Link to Ohtani story
Link to Hannah on Skenes
Link to hitter zone rate leaders
Link to Clemens on walking Judge
Link to defense vs. Judge
Link to Jay on Aranda
Link to Jay on Báez
Link to sliding mitts story
Link to MLBTR on Hill
Link to FG SP WAR
Link to FG SP projections
Link to Rose news
Link to 2015 Jackson story
Link to Thorn in 2016
Link to Thorn in 2019
Link to 2020 ESPN report
Link to March ESPN report
Link to April ESPN report
Link to calling Trump report
Link to MLB ban wiki
Link to Ben’s Rose obit
Link to Rose death reactions
Link to Rose ban text
Link to Jackson details
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to |
| 0:03.0 | Give me, Give me Effectively Wild |
| 0:04.6 | Give me, Give me Effectively Wild |
| 0:06.6 | This is Effectively Wild |
| 0:08.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 2321 |
| 0:12.6 | of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs |
| 0:16.0 | presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:18.4 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, |
| 0:20.6 | rejoined by Meg Rally of Fancrafts. Welcome back. |
| 0:23.7 | Hello. Well, you had a nice time off. We will probably talk about it on an upcoming bonus episode, |
| 0:30.2 | but we have so much to catch up on. So much baseball, or at least baseball podcasting, that you missed. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, I went away, and I will admit, Ben, that I thought of you exactly one time in the entire |
| 0:45.7 | week that I was gone, just the once. |
| 0:47.9 | But I did feel compelled to message you in that moment, as you know. |
| 0:51.5 | So I appreciate you covering and I'm happy to be back. And baseball, |
| 0:58.7 | it happened all around us while I was gone. So many things. And then things since then. |
| 1:04.5 | One of the guests who came on to fill in for you was Adam Hour, who is the Major League |
| 1:09.7 | Dietitian for the Milwaukee Brewers, and also a |
| 1:13.0 | former minor and major league strength and conditioning coach. And we had a great long |
| 1:17.9 | conversation in which I somehow neglected to ask him about stretching, which is, of course, |
| 1:24.2 | the defining debate of the podcast. And so I followed up with him via email just to ask where he stands on stretching. |
| 1:33.1 | And I didn't put my thumb on the scale. |
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