Effectively Wild Episode 2325: MLB’s New Main Characters
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K 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, and more listener suggestions for what to call tandem home run robberies and homers that clear the fence due to defensive miscues.
Audio intro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to latest Hill game
Link to Hill footage
Link to 2016 Hill game
Link to Hill on EW
Link to BaseRuns standings
Link to Sheehan on Detroit
Link to projected RoS SP WAR
Link to Jones note
Link to Passan on Skenes
Link to Heyman on Skenes
Link to Skenes slot video
Link to Pirates unfun fact
Link to team offense since 4/23
Link to VAA explainer
Link to arm-slot injury study
Link to Russell on n=1
Link to The Bandwagon on Brown
Link to last-year pitcher WAR
Link to BP on Brown
Link to 2025 EW bold predictions
Link to 2025 FG bold predictions
Link to combined WAR leaderboard
Link to chase rate leaderboard
Link to story on PCA moving back
Link to PCA on his mom
Link to The Bandwagon on main characters
Link to free month of The Bandwagon
Link to Paine on the Cardinals
Link to Passan on the Cardinals
Link to team defense leaderboard
Link to Meg on farting
Link to Carpenter retirement
Link to Carpenter leaderboard 1
Link to Carpenter leaderboard 2
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Transcript
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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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