Effectively Wild Episode 2428: Scalded by the Stove
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a flurry of transactions and a three-team-trade dilemma, then break down the J.T. Realmuto, Bo Bichette, and Kyle Tucker deals, plus talk of baseball economics and Emmanuel Clase’s roosters.
Audio intro: Moon Hound, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to FG post on Castro
Link to MLBTR on three-team trade
Link to Passan on Tucker
Link to Passan on three-team trade
Link to two buttons meme
Link to Passan meme
Link to FG post on Realmuto
Link to FG post on Bichette
Link to FG post on Tucker
Link to Ben on Tucker
Link to Cohen tweet 1
Link to Cohen tweet 2
Link to FG quarter-zips
Link to over/under draft results
Link to Ben on free agency
Link to Passan on free agency
Link to offseason FA spending
Link to bad Tucker swing
Link to Ben on Yordan’s slump
Link to Roberts comments
Link to owner floor proposal
Link to floor proposal analysis
Link to Walker comment
Link to champion complacency
Link to FA fits episode
Link to team hitter age
Link to team OF WAR
Link to MLB execs poll
Link to Tucker persona story
Link to Tucker cWPA
Link to Teoscar in RF
Link to Teoscar in LF
Link to team depth chart projections
Link to team payrolls page
Link to Dodgers CBT tax spending
Link to 2006 team payrolls
Link to 2005 team payrolls
Link to 2003 Onion headline
Link to Kershaw WBC news
Link to Clase roosters story
Link to more on Clase roosters
Link to quotes about Clase
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How do you calculate more? |
| 0:06.0 | Does it come from the heart? |
| 0:09.9 | Should we use defensive runs saved |
| 0:13.9 | or follow the OAA way? |
| 0:19.3 | Who's gone away? |
| 0:23.6 | With their quips and opinions, it's effectively wild. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 2428 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast |
| 0:35.5 | brought you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs, |
| 0:39.2 | and I am joined by Ben Ringer of the Limb... |
| 0:42.3 | That's a new one. |
| 0:47.7 | Is that an accident? |
| 0:49.0 | Wow. |
| 0:49.2 | Ben Ringer of Lindberg. |
| 0:51.6 | I say we leave it in. |
| 0:53.1 | I think that's pretty... I think that's pretty funny. You're Ben Lindberg. I say we leave it in. I think that's pretty, I think that's pretty funny. You're |
| 0:55.9 | Ben Lindberg. You work for the ringer, which we are rebranding as Lindberg. People are going to |
| 1:04.5 | be like, what is the Lindberg? And you're like, well, it's Ben. People still wonder what a rigor is |
| 1:09.9 | after all these years, so why not? |
| 1:11.5 | Do they really? |
| 1:12.3 | They don't know what a ringer is? |
| 1:13.8 | I mean, it's a movie. |
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