Effectively Wild Episode 2377: 25-25 in 2025

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about 2025’s record number of 25-25 players and whether the current power/speed version of the sport is rendered any less impressive by its recent rule-change origins, the historic pre/post-All-Star break splits of Julio Rodríguez and whether the Mariners can help him become less of an extreme slow starter/fast finisher […]

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0:00.0	Well, it's moments like these that make you ask, how can you not be pedantic about baseball?
0:07.3	If baseball were different, how different would it be?
0:11.1	On the case with light ripping, all analytically, cross-check and compile, find a new understanding
0:18.5	on effectively while there can you not be pedantic?
0:24.1	Yes, when it comes to baseball, how can you not be pedantic?
0:30.4	Hello and welcome to episode 2377 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fancrafts, presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:40.4	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs.
0:45.1	Hello, Meg.
0:46.2	Hello.
0:46.9	I am bursting with banter topics.
0:49.5	Oh, boy.
0:49.9	Can't wait to get to him.
0:51.4	I guess we could start with this.
0:53.2	I saw an opta stat, one of these
0:56.5	kind of convoluted ones, but not nearly as convoluted as a lot of their work. This one's
1:01.7	actually, I say that's not derogatory. That's complimentary. And I always appreciate a convoluted,
1:09.4	fun fact, even if I will point out its flaws.
1:12.7	But this one is actually sort of simple and seems kind of cool on the surface.
1:17.3	It's nine different MLB players have notched at least 25 home runs and 25 stolen bases this season.
1:25.1	Wow.
1:25.8	That's the most such players in a single season in MLB history,
1:30.6	besting the eight players in both 1987 and 2023.
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