Effectively Wild Episode 2407: Snap Judgements

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley bring on top-tier Patreon supporter Becca Balton to banter about Becca’s baseball background, her origins as a listener, and the Nationals’ new direction, then (17:51) answer emails about a team WAR cap, an extra-innings variant in which the team to score fastest wins, manager close-ups on postseason broadcasts, citing the stats of a particular pitch, a pitch-based skills competition, and the “corners” of the strike zone, followed (1:09:33) by Stat Blasts about postseason series MVPs with negative (c)WPAs, pitchers who earned their first save in their final appearance, the oldest/most-experienced pitchers to push their career records over .500 for the first time, and teams that swept the major awards in the shortest spans, plus a postscript on the Dylan Cease signing and more.

Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Austin Klewan, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Yesavage splitter stats
Link to Babe Ruth Award wiki
Link to Kershaw/Stafford backstory
Link to xkcd “Ten Thousand” comic
Link to Stafford stat
Link to Stafford’s season
Link to QB wins leaders
Link to Nightengale column
Link to BP on MLB’s “losses”
Link to MaML on Karcher
Link to listener emails database
Link to Jesser’s YouTube channel
Link to Rendon report
Link to MLBTR on Cease
Link to Baumann on Cease
Link to Secret Santa sign-up

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0:00.0	Hello, and Nothing less than Effectively Wild
0:21.4	Hello and welcome to episode 24-07 of Effectively Wild,
0:29.1	a baseball podcast from FanGrafts, presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:33.7	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs.
0:37.4	Hello, Meg.
0:38.0	Hello.
0:38.9	Usually when I say presented by our Patreon supporters, there isn't one of them in the room right now with us.
0:45.5	But today there is, because we are joined by a Patreon supporter slash guest host for today, Becca Bolt, and hello, Becca.
0:57.7	Hello. So thrilled to be here.
1:03.1	Happy to have you here. It has been too long since our last Patreon person appearance,
1:08.9	Patreon person. I don't know how you feel about being referred to that way, but happy to have you here. We will do emails as usual just to give people
1:13.4	something to listen to over the holiday break. If they have a holiday break, lots of holiday
1:18.0	travel this time of year. People have holiday breaks, Ben? People entertain the notion of a holiday
1:23.1	break. Some people, not people who provide essential services like baseball podcasts in November.
1:30.0	Obviously, society would self-destruct if we stopped churning out three episodes a week.
1:35.7	But some people have less essential roles, and so they can take some time off.
1:41.1	It must be nice, but not us.
1:43.1	The responsibility is just too great, really. Yeah.
1:46.0	Yes, especially mine as a, what do you say, a Patreon person? Is the word for that just patron?
1:52.0	Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Got it. Yeah. I mean, look, we, we promise people three a week on the
1:58.4	Patreon page and people like Becca would say,
2:01.3	I'm not getting my money's worth if we took one off for Thanksgiving.
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