Effectively Wild Episode 2379: October Came Early
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the delights of the last week of the regular season, the Dodgers’ bullpen problems, and what kind of compromise the challenge system is, then (43:09) answer listener emails about where the warning track extends, the easiest day at the office for a batter, a player who exclusively hits one single per game, whether MLB front offices are Bayesian or frequentist, the relative strength of the AL and NL, and ticky-tack tags, plus (1:37:08) a postscript.
Audio intro: Sean .P, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Austin Klewan, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Skubal error clip
Link to MLBTR on Fry
Link to Tigers/Guardians game story
Link to MLBTR on Sasaki
Link to D-Backs/Dodgers game story
Link to Sheehan on challenges
Link to Goldstein on challenges
Link to Posnanski on challenges
Link to warning track definition
Link to Arenado play
Link to Stanton post
Link to Sam on NoPAPH
Link to NoPAPH by year
Link to 2025 NoPAPH
Link to Yount incident
Link to FG wOBA values
Link to Bayesian inference wiki
Link to frequentist inference wiki
Link to Marlins listing
Link to multiple Marlins listings
Link to Guardians listing
Link to Red Sox listing
Link to Rockies listing
Link to Angels listing
Link to Mets listing
Link to Springer tag
Link to Cameron on sliding 1
Link to Cameron on sliding 2
Link to listener emails database
Link to 2014 F1 story
Link to pitwall explainer
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The show is called Effectively Wild. |
| 0:05.0 | It's about baseball and stats. |
| 0:09.0 | We might be a major league or break down some plenty of facts. |
| 0:16.0 | In factively wild. Effectively wild. Hello, Hello, It affectses me wild, |
| 0:35.6 | of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:36.6 | Affectively Wilde by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. |
| 0:44.9 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:45.5 | Hello. |
| 0:46.6 | What a wonderful night of baseball that was on Tuesday. |
| 0:50.6 | Just such a good night. |
| 0:52.1 | It just feels like the playoffs have started already. |
| 0:55.1 | And I know that that's the case. |
| 0:57.0 | I feel nervous. |
| 0:57.8 | So yeah. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah, because we're anxious and because I'm already recognizing that whatever we say will be a bit out of date by the time people hear it, which is our plight every October. |
| 1:10.0 | And now also in late September, |
| 1:12.4 | because, of course, there will have been more exciting and consequential baseball on Wednesday |
| 1:17.0 | by the time this is posted. |
| 1:18.7 | But Tuesday, just what a thrill. |
| 1:21.8 | Just comebacks, close games, such good stuff. |
| 1:26.2 | It felt like everyone was watching Tiger's Guardians. |
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