Effectively Wild Episode 2344: Shutout Shoutouts

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Paul Skenes’s new interest, Clayton Kershaw and the evolution of 3,000-strikeout celebrations, and the deepening deadball era in Japan. After that (24:37), frequent Stat Blast Correspondent Ryan Nelson joins to discuss why there have been so many team shutouts this season and then deliver several Stat Blasts, followed […]

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0:00.0	A baseball podcast,
0:04.3	Analytics and stats with Ben and Meg from Fangraphs.
0:12.1	Effectively wine.
0:17.0	Effective in life.
0:23.3	Effective in life. Hello and Hello and welcome to Wild A Fentary World Hello and I'm going to
0:26.5	Hello, Ben, how are you?
0:33.5	I'm a Fangraphs baseball podcast
0:34.7	brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:36.6	I'm Meg Rally of Fangraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lumberg of the ringer.
0:39.7	Ben, how are you?
0:41.2	I'm okay.
0:42.3	Time travel.
0:46.3	We're coming to you from the future, but also the past, but also our immediate future.
0:51.3	Yes, we just concluded recording our preceding episode, and now we are starting
0:57.4	a new one. We negotiated over what we were going to do this week. It's a holiday week,
1:03.6	of course, and we came to kind of a compromise. I mean, we're recording right now.
1:12.0	I'm going to try to not bring my kind of rancid mood from the end of our last episode
1:19.2	forward into this one.
1:20.5	And so I will meet you in the spirit of generosity and say, yeah, a compromise, certainly.
1:26.4	Yeah.
1:27.2	Still doing three, but the latter two will be shorter than usual.
1:32.6	So that's something.
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