Effectively Wild Episode 2360: Generous Tipper
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
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, the AL West race, Brandon Woodruff and the Brewers, alumni home run derbies, Josh Naylor’s low-speed stealing, Luis Arraez’s batting average, the Padres’ failed hidden-ball trick, and pitch-tipping skepticism.
Audio intro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ted O., “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to FG combined WAR leaderboard
Link to Roberts quotes
Link to Kershaw/Scherzer story 1
Link to Kershaw/Scherzer story 2
Link to Verlander story
Link to Verlander’s stuff stats
Link to Keaschall fun fact
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to FG post on Woodruff
Link to Brewers derby story
Link to Sam on derbies
Link to Naylor’s Savant page
Link to Padres HBT article
Link to pitch-tipping story
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Transcript
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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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