Effectively Wild Episode 2403: How Our Preseason Predictions Panned Out

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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