Effectively Wild Episode 2331: The Secret Sauce

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Pete Alonso’s performance since they marveled at his hot start, the return of Craig Kimbrel, Max Muncy’s tale of two seasons, how hitters fare after LASIK, the Mets’ “secret sauce” against Shohei Ohtani, whether the Dodgers’ injury woes will hurt their capacity to recruit pitchers, Brandon Pfaadt’s “yes […]

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0:00.0	How do you calculate more?
0:04.0	Does it come from the heart?
0:08.0	Should we use defensive runs safe?
0:14.0	Or follow the OAA way?
0:18.0	Who's gone away in? With their quips and opinions
0:26.0	It's Effectively Wild
0:29.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2331 of Effectively Wild
0:34.3	A Baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, a Baseball podcast from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:38.8	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs.
0:42.9	Hello, Meg.
0:43.9	Hello.
0:45.0	I have another Effectively Wild curse to report.
0:48.5	A follow-up on a player we talked about who is doing well, who hasn't done so well since then.
0:53.8	To be clear, there's also
0:55.4	the effectively wild bump, the effectively wild boost. We do that all the time too, but this is
1:01.2	the other thing. We started episode 2317, or maybe didn't start it there, but soon got to this
1:07.7	by talking about how amazing Pete Alanzo had been and his Renaissance.
1:13.1	This was May 3rd, this episode was published.
1:16.8	And at that point, or through the second, I guess, when we recorded that,
1:21.9	Pitalanzo was, I think, the third most valuable player in baseball, something like that.
1:27.7	Sounds about right.
1:28.9	Yeah.
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