Effectively Wild Episode 2350: Back in the Swing-Off Things

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a rare prediction by Ben, related to two players who were recently swapped by the Pirates and Royals, Adam Frazier and Cam Devanney. Then (13:52) they mark the podcast’s 13th birthday and launch a “2025 in 2025” plea for Patreon support before (24:19) discussing several of the most […]

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0:00.0	With Ben Lindberg and McRolley, come for the ball, and the banters free.
0:08.1	Baseball is a simulation.
0:10.9	It's all just one big conversation.
0:17.6	Effectively Wild.
0:20.7	Hello and welcome to episode 2350 of Effectively Wild, a fan grafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:27.5	I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraps, and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer.
0:30.6	Ben, how are you?
0:31.7	I am moved to make a prediction, which you know I'm loath to do.
0:36.8	Your least favorite.
0:37.8	I think I'm going to take the plunge and make a minor low stakes prediction.
0:42.8	It's almost a bet, but a bet without stakes, but predicting and betting both things that I rarely do.
0:49.3	Yeah.
0:49.7	But I'm going to do one, I think, related to the Royals who have still not called up Rich Hill,
0:56.3	who struck out 10 Toledo mudhens in five innings of one run ball before the break,
1:02.1	becoming the first 45-year-old with double-digit Ks in a pro game since Nolan Ryan,
1:07.9	according to MLP.com, yeah.
1:10.5	But this prediction is not actually related to Rich Hill.
1:13.6	I just wanted to support him and take a shot at the Royals for letting him languish in AAA.
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:19.8	But I guess he will not have a new teammate now, but a former teammate of Rich Hills will be on the move to the Pirates because the Royals
1:30.0	and Pirates made a trade.
1:31.7	I know it's about the least exciting start to the post-all-Star break trade deadline
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