Effectively Wild Episode 2400: There’s No Such Thing As a Free Agent
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Meg banter about a hotel-lobby shrine to Addison Barger and Scott Boras wordplay at the GM meetings, Stat Blast (25:50) about Paul DePodesta’s comeback, POBO percentage, postseason questions, and Mike Greenwell, and (1:01:07) conduct the 11th annual free agent contract over/under draft, plus a Boras postscript.
Audio intro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Benny and a Million Shetland Ponies, “Effectively Wild Theme (Pedantic)”
Link to Barger story
Link to Marriott love story
Link to Boras quote round-up
Link to Boras on Skubal
Link to Boras on Alonso
Link to Boras on Bregman
Link to Boras on Bellinger
Link to Boras on Kim
Link to Boras on EW
Link to Ben on the Rockies
Link to over/under draft history
Link to MLBTR Top 50 FA
Link to Secret Santa sign-up
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| 0:00.0 | Room, room, room. Here's your primer on Beef Boys, Baseball's Inn, Roger Angel, and Super Pretzels. |
| 0:05.8 | Williams Astadillo and Mike Trout hypotheticals, waiting for the perfect bat from a volcanic corruption. |
| 0:11.5 | Ladies and gentlemen, the Effectively Wild introduction. |
| 0:14.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 2400 of Effectively Wild. |
| 0:21.0 | A FangRass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. |
| 0:27.1 | Ben, a lot of pod, man. |
| 0:30.0 | We've done such pod. |
| 0:32.3 | So many pod. |
| 0:34.5 | I wasn't happy with the quality of my whistle there. |
| 0:36.8 | Let me try again. |
| 0:38.0 | No. Just air. It me try again. No. |
| 0:38.7 | Just air. |
| 0:40.2 | It's not great. |
| 0:41.3 | Not a good whistling day for me. |
| 0:42.8 | I pride myself on my whistling, but not today. |
| 0:45.2 | But I do pride ourselves on getting to yet another round number milestone 2,400. |
| 0:51.6 | It's a lot of pods. |
| 0:52.9 | Here's a question for you. We talked a lot during the |
| 0:57.0 | postseason about Addison Barger. You learned that he's a lefty and how to say his name and other |
| 1:03.1 | important facts about him. We also talked about his predilection for pull-out couches, how he |
| 1:09.7 | insisted. Well, didn't insist.out couches, how he insisted. |
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