Effectively Wild Episode 2386: GOATs and Goats
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley announce their playoff livestream plans and then break down Game 4 of the Phillies-Dodgers NLDS, including their musings on Orion Kerkering’s game-ending error and the events that preceded it, whether baseball would be better or worse without its tragic on-field figures, the Phillies’ future, and the intimidating Dodgers. Then, after a few thoughts on the Brewers and Cubs, they banter about baseball’s culture of pitch-tipping paranoia (53:29), the effects of high-tech pitching machines (1:09:20), the upcoming MLB free agency of NPB slugger Munetaka Murakami (1:17:00), and potentially encouraging comments about MLB’s path to a unified package of broadcast rights (1:20:58), plus a postscript message from Meg (1:30:05) about the Mariners’ ALDS Game 5 victory.
Audio intro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to sign up for Patreon
Link to FG Phillies-Dodgers gamer
Link to walk-off video
Link to Gelb’s Phillies story
Link to walk-off errors stat 1
Link to walk-off errors stat 2
Link to Yoda quote
Link to tweet about Call on Call
Link to Stark on the Phillies’ future
Link to Petriello’s post
Link to new meme format
Link to bunting etymology
Link to FG Cubs-Brewers gamer
Link to article on pitch-tipping
Link to Ben on the banging scheme
Link to Wilson’s chess quote
Link to The Bandwagon on Trajekt
Link to 2024 Trajekt Stat Blast
Link to tweet about Yesavage
Link to Ben on pitching machines
Link to home wRC+ by year
Link to road wRC+ by year
Link to MLBTR on Murakami
Link to Ben on Murakami/Sasaki
Link to Normandin article
Link to Kennedy comments
Link to Kasten comments
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Stats was past, blast and better for free. |
| 0:06.0 | Three new episodes for us each week. |
| 0:13.0 | Effectively, high, bio, and I am fat in me |
| 0:22.6 | Hio, |
| 0:23.6 | Hio, |
| 0:24.6 | Hio, |
| 0:25.6 | Hio, |
| 0:26.6 | Wild, a Fangraphs baseball |
| 0:30.6 | podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangrafs, |
| 0:34.6 | and I am joined by Ben Limburg of the Ringer. |
| 0:35.6 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:44.1 | I'm okay and I have news. I have an answer to the question that's on everyone's mind, when are Ben and Meg doing their Patreon playoff live streams? It's a question on people's minds. One of many, |
| 0:49.9 | maybe not the foremost, but among some of our listeners, it's probably pretty close to the top. |
| 0:55.2 | When are they going to get what they paid for? |
| 0:57.0 | Well, tentatively, one week from when we are recording, so Friday, October 17th, we are planning |
| 1:05.4 | to do the first of our playoff live streams. |
| 1:08.1 | Yes. |
| 1:08.6 | We don't yet know who will be playing or at what time. |
| 1:12.6 | We know that there will be at least one game that day. |
| 1:16.1 | So whatever the game is, or if there do end up being multiple games, then we'll decide |
| 1:20.9 | and we'll follow up with additional details to our Patreon people via the Patreon messaging |
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