Effectively Wild Episode 2373: The Ballpark Panopticon

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss and speculate about the percentage of major leaguers who’ve been inducted into some hall of fame and banter about Elly De La Cruz’s extended slump, Sean Murphy’s hip-to-be-tear revelation, and the perils of playing through injury, then assess where the line is when publicly shaming fans for ballpark behavior, […]

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0:00.0	I want to know about baseball
0:02.0	I want to know about
0:04.4	every single team
0:06.4	I want to know about
0:07.6	sad glass
0:08.8	and fan crafts
0:09.9	and about
0:10.8	oh oh toady
0:12.5	I'm a very modern fan
0:15.5	reading up on all the analytics
0:18.3	I want to know about baseball, presented by Patreon supporters of Effectively Wild.
0:28.1	Hello and welcome to episode 2373 of Effectively Wild Baseball Podcast from Fangraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:37.6	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs.
0:41.4	Hello, Meg.
0:42.2	Hello.
0:43.3	Here's a question that has been on my mind and that I will now put on your mind
0:48.1	in the minds of everyone else who is listening.
0:51.1	What percentage of major leaguers do you think are members of a Hall of Fame,
0:58.6	not the Hall of Fame, but a Hall of Fame? And I'll tell you what prompted this question.
1:04.4	So there's a player named John Poff, who was briefly a big leaguer. Great name, yeah. He was the subject of a stat blast years ago.
1:14.6	Sam stat blasted about him, I believe, and found that he was the player who had had the most
1:20.7	major league playing time exclusively after rosters expanded in September.
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