Effectively Wild Episode 2369: The Epitome of Mid

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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