Effectively Wild Episode 2358: Is That a Pancake in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Marlins’ winning record against the Yankees, Ty Cobb and Kyle Stowers, the Blue Jays’ demolition of the Rockies, pocket pancakes, and more. Then (38:19) they answer listener emails about a CBT exemption for World Series winners, celebrations in the pitch clock era, nonpartisan bullpens, a humorous shirsey, batter no-outers, and September roster expansion, plus Stat Blasts (1:26:50) about extreme ball/strike throwers, road-only HR hitters, no-walkoff teams, unusual scoring, and old pitcher/catcher + pitcher/batter combos.

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0:00.0	Take me to the diamond
0:04.2	Lead me through the turnstile
0:09.0	Shower me with data
0:12.0	That I never thought to compile
0:16.0	Now we're freely now a scorecard
0:20.0	With a cracker chat with a smile, Effectively Wild.
0:29.6	Hello and welcome to episode 2358 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:36.5	I'm Meg Rally Fangraphss and I am joined as always.
0:39.1	Well, almost as always, I'm so confident, you know?
0:44.3	I was just like, oh, this is smooth.
0:46.4	Another great example of one take Meg.
0:49.4	And then I missed that one episode recently.
0:53.3	It just threw you off.
0:54.4	It can't be as always, you know.
0:56.3	It's almost as always.
0:57.9	It's, you know, it's effectively as always.
1:00.6	It's meaningfully as always.
1:02.5	But it is not literally as always.
1:04.5	But I am joined as I so often am by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer.
1:09.9	Ben, how are you?
1:11.0	I'm doing okay. Welcome to effectively as always. As always. As always. Podcasts from FinCrest. Well, I'm doing fine. And we have an entertaining show for you all today. We hope. I guess we can't promise that. We haven't done it yet. We haven't done it yet. We're projecting it to be entertaining, based on past performance.
1:10.9	Yeah. We haven't done it yet. We're projecting it to be entertaining, just on past performance and topics to discuss mostly.
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