Effectively Wild Episode 2336: All Your Future Devers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss the Rafael Devers trade in depth, covering why Boston made the move, the resulting fan frustration, and the Giants impact. Then (57:56) they cover bad news about Christian Montes De Oca, John Brebbia, and Johnny O’Brien before bantering about Shohei Ohtani’s return to the mound, the Rays rotation, Charlie Morton’s turnaround, Patrick Corbin, why the Astros are still good, Aaron Boone, and tennis-style boundary reviews.
Audio intro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Ben L. on Devers
Link to Ben C. on Devers
Link to MLBTR on Devers
Link to MLBTR on Devers fallout
Link to other teams report
Link to Mookie reaction
Link to MLBTR on Van Belle
Link to MLBTR on Montes De Oca
Link to MLBTR on Brebbia
Link to Brebbia on EW
Link to EW Episode 1153
Link to Jeff on Johnny
Link to Johnny obit
Link to Ohtani article
Link to Ohtani cleaning clips
Link to Laurila on the Rays
Link to team SP IP
Link to Rangers IP
Link to Morton splits
Link to boundary call article
Link to Pope tweet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Room, room, room. Here's your primer on Beef Boys, Baseball's Inn, Roger Angel, and Super |
| 0:04.9 | pretzels. Lillian's Astadillo and Mike Trout hypotheticals, waiting for the perfect bat |
| 0:09.9 | from a volcanic corruption. Ladies and gentlemen, the Effectively Wild introduction. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2336 of Effectively Wild. VanGrafts baseball podcast brought |
| 0:20.2 | you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Megrelli of Fangraffs, and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of theively Wild, VanGrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Megrelli of Fangraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. Ben, how are you? |
| 0:26.2 | Stunned. |
| 0:28.4 | Gobsmacked. |
| 0:29.5 | Shocked. |
| 0:29.8 | Not actually speechless. |
| 0:31.1 | That would be bad for a podcaster. |
| 0:33.1 | But emotionally, more or less, speechless. |
| 0:37.0 | I refer, of course, to the fact that Brian Van Bell, the Red Sox player we discussed last week, |
| 0:42.6 | who was promoted on the same day as Roman Anthony and then designated for assignment before |
| 0:46.7 | he could make his debut, was traded to the Reds. |
| 0:50.3 | Blockbuster. |
| 0:51.4 | Red Sox Swap. |
| 0:52.7 | Didn't see it coming. |
| 0:53.9 | Glad he's getting a shot somewhere else. But no, |
| 0:56.1 | that is not the Red Sox trade that we will be discussing in depth today. Yeah, we typically don't |
| 1:02.9 | record on Mondays and have to this week because of draft combine stuff. And I messaged you last |
| 1:09.1 | night and I was like, well, I guess we don't have to worry about having something to talk about. Sometimes the Friday to Monday turnaround is a little |
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