Effectively Wild Episode 2365: MVP? Wait and See

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about sports equivalents to baseball’s bat crack, Colson Montgomery’s torpedo bat, reserving judgement on the MVP race, Francisco Alvarez’s minor league reset (and subsequent injury), a Kyle Tucker slump/injury update, the hot hitting of Giancarlo Stanton and Jakob Marsee, the Twins’ new knuckleballer, Pierson Ohl, and the ramifications of […]

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0:00.0	How do you calculate more?
0:04.0	Does it come from the heart?
0:08.0	Should we use defensive runs saved?
0:14.0	Or follow the OAA way?
0:18.0	Who's gone running with their quicks Hello and welcome
0:21.1	With their quips and opinions
0:26.2	It's Effectively Wild
0:29.1	Hello and welcome to episode 2365
0:33.1	Of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from fan graphs
0:36.4	presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindberg of The Ringer, a baseball podcast from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:39.1	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs.
0:42.8	Hello, Meg.
0:43.5	Hello.
0:44.4	Tried to inject a little suspense into there after the presented by.
0:48.1	Who is it presented by?
0:49.2	Who presented it?
0:50.2	Now, it's our Patreon supporters, as always.
0:52.9	Often them, you know?
0:54.6	It's just like really them since a while.
0:58.5	I don't know.
0:59.3	Several years.
1:00.4	Couldn't have done it with Adam.
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