Effectively Wild Episode 2364: Torpedoed Bats
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about torpedo bats (remember them?), Cody Bellinger’s good year and confounding career, recent comments by Craig Counsell and Aaron Boone, the impending call-up of Bubba Chandler and the recent arrival of Owen Caissie, the weirdest things about being a pro baseball player, a zombie-runner-induced ending to a pitcher’s duel, and Alien: Earth as a baseball show.
Audio intro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Alex Glossman and Ali Breneman, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Straw update
Link to Sam on Bellinger
Link to Clay interview
Link to Tribune on Counsell
Link to latest Counsell quote
Link to 2018 Counsell quote
Link to The Athletic on Counsell
Link to Brewers subreddit post
Link to Chandler call-up
Link to rookie eligibility tweet
Link to rookie eligibility explainer
Link to Caissie debut story
Link to Marte apology article
Link to Marte apology article 2
Link to Tigers-Astros game
Link to Oort Cloud wiki
Link to Ben on sci-fi
Link to Buck Bokai
Link to Dixon Hill
Link to Captain Proton
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| 0:00.0 | Did Richard Love Lady ever strike a Taylor Teagot and Who had more? |
| 0:04.1 | Or Jason Kendall or Russell Martin? |
| 0:06.0 | What if Show Here Tani's dog was also a good lawyer? |
| 0:08.5 | What would you do if Mike Druchess showed up in your foyer? |
| 0:11.5 | Or is it foyer? |
| 0:12.8 | Find out uneffectively wild. |
| 0:15.6 | Find out uneffectively wild. |
| 0:18.3 | Find out uneffectively Wild today. |
| 0:22.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 2364 of Effectively Wild, a fancrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm a Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. |
| 0:33.4 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:34.4 | I'm not bad. How are you? |
| 0:35.8 | Not bad. |
| 0:36.5 | Not as good as the Bombers' bats, which were bombing on Tuesday when they hit nine home runs against the race in the Yankee's own spring training park, of course, so they're familiar with the territory. |
| 0:49.3 | But this tied a franchise record that the Yankees first set on March 29th when they beat up on the Brewers 20 to 9, which was the origin story of the torpedo bats. |
| 1:03.1 | Remember the torpedo bats? |
| 1:05.3 | I do. |
| 1:06.3 | I do. |
| 1:06.7 | I've hardly thought about them since then. |
| 1:08.6 | But boy, they sure consumed some mine share at the time. For a second, yeah. Yeah. You were right about that being a fad. I don't know if it's a fad. I'm sure that there are still plenty of players using it. Yeah, I think so. We just don't hear about it anymore. It's just a total nothing burger, basically. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, I mean, well, like, you know, the brewers traded for a Quinn Priester and then have been |
| 1:33.3 | better, and so it hasn't been as dramatic, you know? I know. Yeah, that's the other thing, |
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