Effectively Wild Episode 2325: MLB’s New Main Characters

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Rich Hill’s latest perfect game bid, whether the Tigers are as good as they’ve looked, Jared Jones’ elbow surgery and the Pirates’ offensive outage, Paul Skenes and whether lower arm slots will protect pitchers’ arms, Pete Crow-Armstrong and the players who’ve ascended to “main character” status this season, […]

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0:00.0	Effectively wild.
0:04.0	Effectively wild.
0:09.0	Effectively wild.
0:10.0	Ah, ha, ha, ha.
0:12.0	Effectively wild.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2325 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:31.1	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Riley of Fangraphs.
0:34.7	Hello, Meg.
0:35.9	Hello.
0:36.8	Do you remember back in September 2016 when podcast hero Rich Hill?
0:42.7	Okay.
0:44.2	Relax.
0:46.3	September, I said, when he was pulled from a perfect game in progress, this was, he'd gone
0:54.1	through seven innings, I think.
0:55.6	But he'd been dealing with blisters as he had often in those days.
1:00.8	And he'd thrown 89 pitches.
1:02.8	And Dave Roberts said, probably it'd be 110 if he managed to get through nine.
1:07.9	So he just pulled him.
1:09.3	This was after the Ross Stripling incident when
1:12.9	Stripling was pulled from his major league debut after seven and a third no hit inning. So
1:18.8	Roberts had established that he was willing to do this. This is different from when Rich Hill
1:23.7	subsequently, I think in 2017, lost his perfect game bid in the ninth, but still
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