Effectively Wild Episode 2349: Swing-Off, Derby, and Draft

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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