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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2397: The Slightly-Less-Long Offseason

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Ben and Meg banter about the slightly shorter-than-usual duration of the offseason, how big the WBC will be, and a few managerial hirings. After that (41:53), they talk to FanGraphs lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen about Munetaka Murakami and this offseason’s most promising free agents from international leagues, what we’ve learned about Roki Sasaki and the factors that predict MLB success for NPB/KBO players, and MLB’s winter moratorium on amateur scouting.

Audio intro: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio interstitial: Moon Hound, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to manager hirings/firings
Link to most managers for one GM
Link to Rockies update 1
Link to Rockies update 2
Link to Ben on ex-player GMs
Link to Eric on IFA
Link to Ben on Murakami/Sasaki
Link to scouting moratorium news
Link to EW on the moratorium
Link to Secret Santa sign-up
Link to Plot Hole or Not Hole

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0:00.0

Did Richard Love Lady ever strike a Taylor Teagot and who had more?

0:04.0

Or Jason Kendall or Russell Martin?

0:06.0

What if Show Here Tani's dog was also a good lawyer?

0:08.0

What would you do if Mike Trudger showed a bina foyer?

0:11.0

Or is it foyer?

0:12.0

Find out uneffectively wild.

0:15.0

Find out, uneffectively wild.

0:18.0

Find out uneffectively Wild today.

0:22.6

Hello and welcome to episode 2397 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

0:32.5

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fancrafts. Hello, Meg.

0:38.2

Hello.

0:39.4

I know last time was technically our first episode of the offseason,

0:43.3

but this one feels like it because we were still so season-centric in that episode.

0:49.4

That was all backward-looking and recapping,

0:52.8

and this will start our forward-looking, off-season primer kind of content.

0:58.7

So our two episodes remaining this week will be about sort of setting up the free agent market and setting up hot stove season.

1:07.5

So later this week, we will run down the domestic free agents and break down the

1:13.4

free agent class. But today, well, we're doing a little breaking down of the free agent class,

1:18.5

but the international free agent class. And so we will be joined soon by Eric Longenhagen.

1:24.2

FanGraph's lead prospect analyst who recently combined with James Fegan on a

1:29.1

fan graph's piece about the players to know coming over from the pro leagues in Asia, which

1:34.7

really has made the last couple off-season much more exciting than that they would have been

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