Effectively Wild Episode 2359: I Am Familiar With Winning

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether Mike Trout has become a boring baseball player, Paul Skenes almost perfectly replicating his sensational rookie season, and recent trends in pre-arb extensions, answer a listener email (57:39) about becoming a fan of the whole league instead of (or in addition to) one team, and (1:14:49) meet […]

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0:00.0	Joey Minnes.
0:01.4	Bobby Shands.
0:02.5	Bobby Shands.
0:05.0	I'm factively wild.
0:09.0	Joey Manessus.
0:10.6	No.
0:10.9	Walk off three run digger.
0:12.3	Stop it.
0:13.4	Walk off three run shot.
0:15.2	Oh, my God.
0:16.7	Meg, he's the best player in baseball.
0:20.5	Unfactively wild. Low and. Meg, he's the best player in baseball.
0:22.6	Effectively Wild, wow.
0:31.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2359 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:33.7	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs.
0:37.8	Hello, Meg.
0:38.7	Hello.
0:39.7	It pains me deeply to say this, but I must admit that Mike Trout has become boring.
0:48.0	I think he's just kind of a boring baseball player these days.
0:52.3	It hurts me to say that, given the history of my fandom for
0:56.8	Mike Trout and his significance to this podcast. Sure. And all of the wild hypotheticals that we
1:03.4	have entertained over the years. Yes. But really, we haven't talked about him since he returned
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