Effectively Wild Episode 2423: The State of the Stove
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Daniel Vogelbach becoming a Brewers hitting coach and coach-hiring trends, analyze and phact-check Tommy Pham’s pitch for “PhamGraphs,” react to the Kazuma Okamoto signing and the Blue Jays embracing their big-market potential (in contrast to the Giants), and take the temperature of the pretty tepid stove (phollowed by a phollow-up on Pham).
Audio intro: The Spaghettis, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Vogelbach news
Link to Brewers coaching staff
Link to last year’s Vogelbach hiring
Link to Vogelbach promo
Link to article on PhamGraphs
Link to negativity bias wiki
Link to team batting LI
Link to batter opp_DRA-
Link to team batter opp_DRA-
Link to lineup construction study
Link to DRA- explainer
Link to DRC+ explainer
Link to Canha’s BP player card
Link to Pham’s BP player card
Link to August Pham incident
Link to EW Episode 2363
Link to PH PA leaders
Link to Eric on Okamoto
Link to NPB HR since 2019
Link to MLBTR on Okamoto
Link to MLBTR on Takahashi
Link to FG payroll page
Link to FG post on Mahle
Link to team SP projections
Link to FG top 50 FA
Link to Ben on pennant complacency
Link to Harbaugh firing
Link to latest Hang Up and Listen
Link to Albies TikTok
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How are you? |
| 0:04.2 | I'm okay |
| 0:05.3 | We got so much to do delay |
| 0:08.9 | Breaking balls |
| 0:10.8 | And blake in snells |
| 0:12.7 | And those stats won't blast themselves |
| 0:16.0 | Effectively wild |
| 0:18.8 | Effectively wild, effectively wild, a baseball, a baseball, a podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:41.5 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. |
| 0:45.1 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:45.9 | Hello. |
| 0:46.7 | How are you? |
| 0:48.4 | I'm fine. |
| 0:51.5 | Sounds so convincing. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm glad that you're doing so well. |
| 0:56.7 | So if you are thrown for a loop and rocked on your axis by former players becoming coaches shortly after they were playing, |
| 1:08.4 | then you must have been flummoxed indeed by the news that the brewers had hired |
| 1:13.9 | Daniel Vogelbach as a hidden coach. |
| 1:16.9 | Was that... |
| 1:17.4 | Is he really? |
| 1:18.3 | Okay. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, you hadn't heard, but I hope this doesn't ruin your day because you were doing so well |
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