Effectively Wild Episode 2372: How Slow Can You Go?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s near no-hitter, the Effectively Wild bump, and the Orioles’ incredible comeback), then banter (and quasi-Stat Blast) about four subjects: whether Shohei Ohtani has been more or less valuable as a DH only or as a two-way player this season; whether Cal Raleigh hits a disproporionate number of […]

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0:00.0	It's effectively wild and it's wildly effective
0:04.5	It's putting baseball into perfect perspective
0:07.9	Impressive smart and impeccably styled
0:11.2	It's the wildly effective, effectively wild
0:14.5	Spin rate a long shangle
0:17.3	That it made a war
0:20.0	You might hear something
0:23.6	You never heard before
0:28.6	Hello and welcome to episode 2372 of Effectively Wild
0:33.4	A FanGrafts Baseball podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters
0:36.4	I'm McGrawley FanGraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer.
0:40.4	Ben, how are you?
0:41.7	We almost manifested the no-no.
0:44.6	Can you believe it?
0:45.7	We almost reversed jinx, a no-hitter into existence.
0:49.2	We did.
0:49.9	And then I guess we didn't try hard enough.
0:52.9	And so the intense emotional distress the Dodgers fans felt is also particularly
0:59.5	errorful question mark.
1:01.5	I said as much on that episode.
1:03.5	I said, what if this is one of those times when we talk about something that hasn't
1:08.1	happened and then all of a sudden it happens?
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