Effectively Wild Episode 2360: Generous Tipper

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a few of this year’s WAR leaders dropping off their previous paces, Dave Roberts’ critiques of Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers’ playoff pitching, Clayton Kershaw vs. Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander’s self-deception, the early hot streaks of Luke Keaschall and Warming Bernabel, Carlos Correa returning to form as an Astro, […]

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0:00.0	Effectively wild, effectively wild.
0:08.2	Effectively wild.
0:10.6	Affectively wild.
0:14.8	Effectively wild.
0:20.8	Hello and welcome to episode 2360 of Effectively Wild, the Fangraphs Baseball podcast brought
0:26.5	you by our Patreon supporters.
0:28.1	I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs, and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you?
0:32.6	No, I'm a bit bummed that progression has set in on the war leaderboard.
0:38.3	There's always a point in the season when I realize that the players who were on pace
0:43.1	for some super extraordinary full season stats are probably not going to get there.
0:49.3	And this is about that time.
0:51.6	Courtesseve several slumps that we've seen recently.
0:55.4	So Aaron Judge, his WRC Plus has dwindled all the way to $199.
1:01.9	Oh, my God.
1:02.6	Basically an embarrassment.
1:03.9	Yeah.
1:04.1	Yeah.
1:04.5	He has not hit well in his return for the Yankees as a DH thus far.
1:10.3	73 WRC plus.
1:12.0	It's just six games, but he does not have an extra base hit, semi-concerning.
1:17.9	And so he's now at seven war, which feels like, well, lower than he used to be.
1:23.8	So that number has been going down, not up.
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