Effectively Wild Episode 2403: How Our Preseason Predictions Panned Out
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Ben, Meg, Michael Baumann, Ben Clemens, and Chris Hanel congregate to review the results of the 2025 minor league free agent draft (11:45) and recap their 40 bold preseason predictions (19:01), following quick games of “2025 College World Series Starting Pitching Matchup or First Amendment Supreme Court Case” (2:58) and “Cedar Rapids Kernel or Character in the Star Wars Universe” (7:42).
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| 0:00.0 | It's effectively wild and it's wildly effective |
| 0:04.5 | It's putting baseball into perfect perspective |
| 0:07.9 | Impressively smart and impeccably styled |
| 0:11.2 | It's the wildly effective, effectively wild |
| 0:14.5 | Spin rate a long shangle |
| 0:17.3 | That'd a pain of war |
| 0:20.0 | You might hear something |
| 0:23.6 | You never heard before |
| 0:26.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2403 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from fanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:38.7 | I am Bellenberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. |
| 0:42.7 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:43.4 | Hello. |
| 0:44.2 | We have a full house here today because almost exactly eight months ago, by the time this podcast is posted probably exactly eight months ago, we convened to predict |
| 0:56.9 | things about 2025 in baseball, which I am loath to do, but I make an exception for this annual |
| 1:03.8 | exercise, which is fun for us all and hopefully for you. And today is the appointed time |
| 1:09.8 | when we reconvene to find out whether we were right |
| 1:13.1 | about things or how wrong we were. So that was episode 2298. This is episode 2403. And we are |
| 1:22.4 | rejoined both by Michael Bowman and Ben Clements of FanGraphs. Hello, fellows. |
| 1:28.3 | Hello. |
| 1:28.8 | Yo. |
| 1:29.8 | And by Chris Hannell, the mastermind of this whole exercise, who is probably the only person on this call who remembers what we said back on March 21st. |
| 1:41.0 | That's true. |
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