Effectively Wild Episode 2334: The Overshadowed Debuts
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about depictions of the pitch clock in popular media, how the lack of advancing visual fidelity in baseball broadcasts makes it harder to identify when clips come from (and other ways we might distinguish eras at a glance), Hunter Dobbins drama and why it’s harder than it used to be to fake a pro baseball career, a fan exchange program, and Jackson Jobe’s surgery (with a Jacksons update), plus Stat Blasts (1:16:57) about the longest team streaks of one-run outcomes, the ultimate vulture wins, game-winning RBI leaders, the longest-tenured lineups, and players who were overshadowed on the day they debuted.
Audio intro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme 2”
Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to info on internet outages
Link to “Hometown Hero” wiki
Link to “Hometown Hero” IMDb
Link to ESPN on pitch clock drama
Link to edited Trout vs. Ohtani
Link to Trueblood on catching
Link to initial Dobbins story
Link to Sherman report
Link to Dobbins response
Link to more on Dobbins response
Link to third Dobbins response story
Link to Lance B-Ref page
Link to Griffey explanation
Link to Vladito on the Yankees
Link to Big South League
Link to Mizuhara story
Link to Eric Adams story
Link to Hill opt-out story
Link to Toys movie
Link to aircraft carrier derby
Link to fan exchange post
Link to MLBTR on Jobe
Link to The Athletic on Jobe
Link to one-run-wins streak
Link to one-run-outcomes streak
Link to one-run-losses streak
Link to Lee/Gipson-Long game
Link to Foulke game 1
Link to Santana game
Link to Law game
Link to Harvey game
Link to Wilshere game
Link to Knowles game
Link to Moore game
Link to Cup of Coffee
Link to @ScoringChanges tweet 1
Link to @ScoringChanges tweet 2
Link to @ScoringChanges tweet 3
Link to GWRBI wiki
Link to ’80s Mets wins ranking
Link to career GWRBI leaders
Link to single-season GWRBI leaders
Link to longest-tenured lineups
Link to Van Belle call-up
Link to overshadowed debuts sheet 1
Link to overshadowed debuts sheet 2
Link to two Barrys game
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2334 of Effectively Wilde |
| 0:16.2 | A Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Megrelly of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, Ben. |
| 0:23.4 | How are you? |
| 0:25.1 | Okay. |
| 0:26.5 | So funny. |
| 0:28.3 | You know, we're recording on Thursday. |
| 0:31.3 | You know, it's just like the horrors or... |
| 0:34.5 | Sure. |
| 0:34.8 | You ever feel like your job's really stupid? |
| 0:36.6 | You're like, well, this is dumb. |
| 0:37.8 | From time to time, yeah. |
| 0:39.5 | Having a time to time over here. |
| 0:41.1 | That's how I am. |
| 0:42.2 | Yep, time to time. |
| 0:43.3 | Hasn't helped that it's difficult to do our jobs when the internet is not working, |
| 0:47.7 | which has also been the case on Thursday. |
| 0:50.7 | Thanks, Google Cloud and Cloudflare. |
| 0:53.0 | But fortunately, we can at least record the podcast and hopefully post it when it's complete. |
| 0:58.2 | Sure. Speaking of which, immediately after I posted our most recent episode, I thought of something else that I had meant to say about that poker face baseball episode that we talked about. Season 2, Episode 5, Hometown Hero. |
| 1:15.7 | Most of our discussion and our critiques last time were about the specifics of the plot of that episode. |
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