Effectively Wild Episode 2369: The Epitome of Mid
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley talk about not talking about the Cardinals, then banter about Sandy Alcantara’s resurgence, whether Walker Buehler will have his own bounceback for the Phillies, Ha-Seong Kim’s reunion with Jurickson Profar, the concept of “adversarial location,” Aroldis Chapman and Taj Bradley‘s discoveries of inside/outside and scouting reports, respectively, Chapman’s extension, whether Luis Arraez’s strikeout avoidance is still fun, a notable FARTBAT, switch-thrower Carlos Cortes, and Meg’s Mariners anxiety.
Audio intro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Horny)”
Link to Cardinals odds graph
Link to Cardinals WAR leaders
Link to team attendance changes
Link to preseason team projections
Link to Glaser bobblehead
Link to Alcantara leaderboard
Link to team SP projections
Link to team RP projections
Link to Judge article
Link to Olney video
Link to Olney pitch-type splits
Link to Dan S. on Chapman
Link to Chapman on DV
Link to Bradley article
Link to K%+ leaderboard
Link to Dan S. on Arraez
Link to Sam on Arraez
Link to Goodhart’s Law
Link to FARTBAT episode
Link to Story HR video
Link to Story HR article
Link to Cortes article
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| 0:00.0 | Anything is fair game, even Kee's dirty pants. |
| 0:04.2 | And maybe if you're lucky, we'll co-call by the chance. |
| 0:09.0 | You never know precisely where it's going to go. |
| 0:13.3 | By definition, effectively wild. |
| 0:17.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 2369 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:27.7 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello. |
| 0:32.7 | I was just pondering this. |
| 0:35.4 | Which team do you think we've talked about least this season? |
| 0:41.3 | I know that canonically, by tradition, it's the Reds. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.4 | And the Reds are up there. |
| 0:48.1 | Don't get me wrong. |
| 0:48.9 | But I think there might be a team we've talked about even less than the ones. |
| 0:56.2 | And with good reason, because we just haven't had a whole lot of reason to talk about them. |
| 1:01.0 | I just, I scanned the standings. |
| 1:03.1 | I was looking down the list of teams thinking about all the times that we had talked about each and the reasons why they merited discussion at some point. |
| 1:11.9 | Then I got to this one and I thought, gosh, we just haven't really talked about them at all this season. |
| 1:19.5 | And I can't blame us. |
| 1:21.8 | Is it the Cardinals? |
| 1:23.0 | It is the Cardinals. |
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