Effectively Wild Episode 2400: There’s No Such Thing As a Free Agent

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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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 […]

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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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