Effectively Wild Episode 2333: Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the In-Game Interview

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about good news and bad news for Ben’s recent Meet a Major Leaguer subject Christian Montes De Oca, Craig Kimbrel’s short-lived return to Atlanta, the promotions of Roman Anthony and Jacob Misiorowski and a proposal for automatic call-ups, Denzel Clarke’s incredible catch and extreme stat line (and the nature […]

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0:00.0	We're gonna crunch those stats
0:04.4	We're gonna talk about baseball
0:07.3	Sticky stuff and torpedo bats
0:10.0	We'll talk about it all
0:12.9	If you want good takes
0:15.4	On baseball in life
0:18.0	Just tune in a bend And his lovely co-host ben and meg it's effectively wild
0:28.9	hello and welcome to episode 2333 of effectively wild a baseball podcast from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:39.5	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs.
0:43.2	Hello, Meg.
0:44.0	Hello.
0:44.8	I've got good news and bad news about my meet-a-major leaguer guy from last week, Christian Montez-de-Oca.
0:52.6	He is no longer a phantom major leaguer.
0:56.3	So that's the good news because when I highlighted him, he had been promoted but not gotten
1:02.8	into a game and then got demoted again.
1:05.4	And so he was in that phantom ballplayer category of, he was an active player, but he
1:10.5	never actually made his
1:11.6	major league debut.
1:13.1	Yeah.
1:13.5	Expressed hope and some confidence that he would eventually.
1:17.3	And we didn't have to wait long.
1:19.2	So this is the good news.
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