Effectively Wild Episode 2331: The Secret Sauce
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K 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 hitter,” the latest step toward the challenge system, Eric Anthony’s dad discovery and nature and nurture in player development, the underrated Willie Davis and Reggie Smith, and more, plus a combined Meet a Major Leaguer/Stat Blast segment (1:19:39) on Nic Enright and Christian Montes De Oca (and the rule-altering signing of the 13-year-old Jimy Kelly).
Audio intro: Moon Hound, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to previous Pete banter
Link to Pete before
Link to Pete after
Link to Muncy before
Link to Muncy after
Link to Muncy article
Link to MLB LASIK study
Link to secret sauce article
Link to Spahn quote
Link to Cup of Coffee
Link to FG on Casparius
Link to “yes hitter” post
Link to “yes hitter” Stathead
Link to Ben on no-hitters 1
Link to Ben on no-hitters 2
Link to challenge system news
Link to Anthony and Davis story
Link to B-Ref new debuts
Link to The Athletic on Enright
Link to Guardians prospects list
Link to phantom player wiki
Link to 1972 scouting article
Link to Montes de Oca wiki
Link to Montes de Oca name
Link to Diamondbacks prospects
Link to MDO article 1
Link to MDO article 2
Link to MDO article 3
Link to MDO article 4
Link to Kelly at B-Ref
Link to MiLB.com on Kelly
Link to SI on Kelly
Link to EW Stanky draft
Link to Mexican League article
Link to Koo video
Link to Bois on Koo
Link to Kenny Jackelen
Link to player signings spreadsheet
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Transcript
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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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