Effectively Wild Episode 2339: The Big Thumper

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Richard Lovelady’s qualified embrace of the nickname “Dicky,” the return of players named “Otto” to the major leagues, Denzel Clarke’s increasingly extreme offense-defense divide, Cal Raleigh’s records (and MVP) pursuit, Bryan Woo as Seattle’s starting stalwart, the underrated Eugenio Suárez, Byron Buxton’s success, the loudness of Yankee Stadium […]

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0:00.0	It's effectively wild and it's wildly effective
0:05.0	It's putting baseball into perfect perspective
0:08.0	Impressively smart and impeccably styled
0:11.0	It's the wildly effective, effectively wild
0:15.0	Spin rate a long shangle
0:17.0	That it made a war
0:20.0	You might hear something
0:23.6	They were before
0:26.6	Hello and welcome to episode 2339 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fan Fangraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:38.5	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs.
0:42.3	Hello, Meg.
0:43.2	Hello.
0:44.4	Well, I know people expect us to lead with Dickie Love Lady, and I guess we can give the people what they want.
0:51.7	We're not going to leave it.
0:52.9	We're not going to.
0:54.0	I mean, we just did. We're going going to leave it. We're not going to. We just did.
0:54.8	We're going to be mature now.
0:56.1	We're going to, Ben, Dickie.
1:01.0	I'm happy for Dickie.
1:02.5	Yes.
1:03.2	I'm happy for all of us.
1:04.9	I mean, really.
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