Effectively Wild Episode 2349: Swing-Off, Derby, and Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen discuss the lows and highs of the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game and swing-off, plus banter about beef boys, Blooper, kissing, and the timing of the All-Star break, then (1:03:40) recap the amateur draft, touching on the selection of Eli Willits first overall, first-round risers/fallers, teams that had the best drafts, the latest Holliday (Ethan), the Twins’ extremely tall pitcher Jason Reitz, Boston’s Marcus Phillips pick, and the predictability of the draft vs. international signings.
Audio intro: Tom Rhoads, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Austin Klewan, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Derby formats
Link to Derby formats piece
Link to Cal’s plunking
Link to Derby robbery
Link to one-inch difference
Link to Cal/Skubal mic’d up
Link to Schwarbombs
Link to Posnanski on the ASG
Link to Passan on the swing-off
Link to swing-off surprise report
Link to the Miz ASG story
Link to ABS piece 1
Link to ABS piece 2
Link to Scully’s Aaron call
Link to Aaron tribute
Link to Roberts sidestep
Link to beef boy story
Link to Sam on the Dumper
Link to Meg’s Blooper selfie
Link to Mr. Met video
Link to Vinnie/Cags kiss
Link to Sheehan on the ASB
Link to Olympics timing
Link to Eric’s mock
Link to Eric’s ranking
Link to Eric’s recap
Link to Bremner article
Link to Reitz Reddit post
Link to Down on the Farm study
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| 0:00.0 | Does baseball look the same to you as it does to me? |
| 0:07.0 | When we look at baseball, how much do we see? |
| 0:13.0 | Well, the curve balls bend and the home runs fly. |
| 0:17.0 | More to the game that meets the eye To get the stats compiled and the stories filed |
| 0:22.9 | Fans on the internet might get riled |
| 0:25.9 | But we can break it down on Effectively Wild |
| 0:31.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 2349 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.5 | A baseball podcast from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon |
| 0:40.1 | supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, rejoined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. Hello, Meg. |
| 0:45.6 | Hello. |
| 0:46.6 | Also with us and also in the Atlanta area for All-Star Week is Eric Long and Higgen lead |
| 0:52.5 | prospect endless for Fangraphs. Hello, Eric. |
| 0:55.6 | Hello, how are you? Still okay. We are in Kylie's house. We are coming to you from |
| 1:02.7 | Kyla McDaniels abode. If Kylie wants to crash the podcast, he's welcome to us well. It's very busy. |
| 1:08.4 | Okay, well, so are we, I guess, because we have a lot to discuss. |
| 1:11.8 | A lot has happened since we last potted. We had a futures game. We had an All-Star game. We had a |
| 1:17.2 | home run derby. We had a draft, which is, I guess, the primary reason Eric is here to drop some |
| 1:24.3 | draft knowledge on us. But we have to talk about some other news |
| 1:28.8 | before we even get to that, |
| 1:30.7 | just so much to cover here. |
| 1:32.9 | So I guess we can talk a little bit |
| 1:36.0 | about the Derby first, maybe. |
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