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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2370: Generation Yay?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about broadcasters’ anxiety about saying “Cam Schlittler,” whether the Mets’ pitching-prospect trio of Nolan McLean, Jonah Tong, and Brandon Sproat will produce more WAR than “Generation K,” a protracted trot by Rafael Devers, whether Framber Valdez intentionally crossed up his catcher, how a lockout looming in late 2026 could affect the coming offseason, Mason Miller’s extra-special immaculate inning, and the team that’s surprisingly pitched the most shutouts, plus a postscript (with Mets-SP projections).

Audio intro: Josh Busman, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Schlittler article
Link to Ruocco clip
Link to Generation K wiki
Link to Sproat call-up
Link to Devers trot article
Link to The Athletic on Framber
Link to agent’s comments
Link to Passan’s preview
Link to Langs on Miller
Link to Miller video
Link to team shutouts leaderboard
Link to team goose-egg leaderboard
Link to team pitching WAR
Link to team SP WAR
Link to Foley artist wiki
Link to latest HUAL episode

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0:00.0

More than 2,000 episodes retrospectively filed, and at each new one we still collectively

0:10.0

smile, that's effectively wild.

0:17.0

That's effectively wild.

0:20.9

Hello and welcome to episode 2370 of Effectively Wild.

0:25.5

The FanGrafts Baseball podcast brought you by your Patreon supporters.

0:28.5

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer.

0:31.6

Ben, how are you?

0:32.5

I'm doing okay and I am relieved to read in The Athletic that we are not the only ones who have been

0:39.1

apprehensive about saying the name of young Yankees prospect and promising starter,

0:45.9

Cam Schlittler, which I just said flawlessly.

0:48.7

There is a whole article by Brendan Cuddy who talked to just about all of the Yankees broadcasters about their fears

0:57.1

surrounding saying Schlittler.

0:59.4

And they're similar.

1:01.7

So they have been gingerly saying it much as we have.

1:06.0

And they have to say it much more often than we do, which you would think would make them

1:10.4

more practiced at saying it, but also would think would make them more practiced at saying

1:11.9

it, but also the perils for them are even more pronounced than they are for us.

1:18.3

And like, you know, they're live. We are not. And the FCC can't find us.

1:25.6

Right. Yeah, you can't find me. Can't find me. You don't know who I am. You don't know where. Yeah. You can't find me.

1:28.1

Can't find me.

1:29.1

You don't know who I am.

1:30.2

You don't know where I am.

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