Effectively Wild Episode 2340: Kick Me Out of the Ball Game
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Dicky, er, Richard Lovelady’s short tenure with the Mets, round one of Paul Skenes vs. Jacob Misiorowski, the nature of modern pitcher’s duels, a Jacob-related fun fact, updates on Juan Soto and Jo Adell, revisiting childhood favorites through the lens of advanced stats, and public funding for the Diamondbacks, then (47:14) discuss fans crossing the line, player reprisals, and (1:08:07) Fernando Tatis Jr. suing Big League Advance.
Audio intro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to MLBTR on Lovelady
Link to Dietrich call-up
Link to Baumann on Skenes vs. Miz
Link to Jake/Jacob fact
Link to Opta interview
Link to Miz fact
Link to shutouts stat
Link to Wilson Fortnite story
Link to Diego Segui news
Link to David’s PED admission
Link to Diamondbacks funding story
Link to Field of Schemes on Arizona
Link to Marte story
Link to Santana story 1
Link to Santana story 2
Link to Santana story 3
Link to Duran story
Link to Hendriks story
Link to MLB harassment story
Link to NHL harassment story
Link to Francisco story
Link to Simpsons clip
Link to AP on BLA
Link to Calcaterra on BLA
Link to BLA EW interview
Link to FG post on BLA
Link to Taylor play 1
Link to Taylor play 2
Link to Taylor play 3
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| 0:00.0 | Otani, the Stap Place, the beef forest are shweets, |
| 0:07.0 | the avi pettance, and super, a fete, a fete, |
| 0:10.0 | I think that it's effectively cool, |
| 0:14.0 | I think that it's effectively wild, |
| 0:19.0 | effectively, |
| 0:20.0 | effectively, Wild Effectivement Salvage |
| 0:21.7 | Hello and welcome |
| 0:23.3 | softiveball |
| 0:27.3 | salvage |
| 0:28.7 | Hello and welcome to |
| 0:33.8 | episode 2340 of |
| 0:35.6 | Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.6 | Fanggrafts baseball podcast brought brought you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm Meg Rowley Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer. |
| 0:42.8 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:44.0 | I'm morning New York met Richard Love Lady or Dickie, hard to say. |
| 0:49.3 | But after we spent all that time trying to determine whether we could call him that or not on our last |
| 0:55.1 | episode, Mets designated him for assignment already. After a single, single outing, which didn't go that |
| 1:02.3 | great. Yeah, he has been DFA'd. And it was widely reported that Richard Love Lady was designated |
| 1:09.6 | for a summit because that's print. |
| 1:12.4 | So I guess it's the official first name. |
| 1:15.8 | Yeah, they got to be stodgy. |
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