Effectively Wild Episode 2379: October Came Early

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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0:58.8	Yeah, because we're anxious and because I'm already recognizing that whatever we say will be a bit out of date by the time people hear it, which is our plight every October.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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