Effectively Wild Episode 2377: 25-25 in 2025
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K 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 (phrasing?), the lockstep seasons (and recent slumps) of Pete Crow-Armstrong and Ceddanne Rafaela, the impending retirement (and on/off-field legacies) of Clayton Kershaw, and MLB’s new Amateur Recovery Period Policy, plus follow-ups (1:21:31) on a few of those topics.
Audio intro: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Pedantic)”
Audio outro: Kite Person, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to power-speed fun fact
Link to Opta Sports wiki
Link to Opta EW interview
Link to power-speed number
Link to power-speed by season
Link to ’87 HR spike info
Link to more on ’87 spike
Link to 2025 SB leaders
Link to The Bandwagon on basestealers
Link to Julio’s career splits
Link to biggest pre/post-ASB splits
Link to Paine on Julio
Link to February Julio article
Link to PCA/Ceddanne laggardboard
Link to Kershaw retirement story
Link to Ben on Kershaw vs. Pedro
Link to recovery period announcement
Link to ESPN on the recovery period
Link to BA on the recovery period
Link to 2024 MLB pitching report
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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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