Effectively Wild Episode 2431: Hitters Who Podcast Together, Play Together
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the MacKenzie Gore trade, the trajectories of the Rangers and Nationals since their respective World Series victories, and why the White Sox signed Seranthony Domínguez. Then (29:38) they bring on baseball buds Brent Rooker and Vinnie Pasquantino for a wide-ranging conversation about their scrapped podcasting plans, the Royals remodeling Kauffman Stadium, how Sutter Health Park played, the good and bad of bat-speed training, the challenge system, Brent’s sinking strikeout rate, the best breakfasts, the Pasqwich, A’s outfield defense, Nick Kurtz and Jac Caglianone, playing with Rich Hill, A’s extensions, playing 162 games, why they haven’t become 30-30 guys, arbitration, players’ pre-lockout messaging, an offseason signing deadline, Vinnie’s interactions with Shohei Ohtani, the WBC, the weather, and more. Finally (1:38:25), Ben shares listener responses about Andruw Jones and outfield diving.
Audio intro: Dave Armstrong and Mike Murray, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial: Austin Klewan, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to FG post on Gore trade
Link to FG post on traded prospects
Link to “jersey guy” discussion
Link to team losses post-2019
Link to team SP projections
Link to Ben on Sale in 2018
Link to Sox pen rank
Link to MLBTR on Domínguez
Link to first Rooker pod appearance
Link to second Rooker appearance
Link to Episode 1875
Link to Episode 1988
Link to lowest WARs in April
Link to Brent’s Twitter taunt
Link to Vinnie on the canceled podcast
Link to story on Vinnie’s slow start
Link to story on Muncy’s eyewear
Link to bat speed article
Link to Brent on bat speed
Link to bat speed data
Link to Vinnie on the fence changes
Link to Brent on breakfast
Link to Vinnie on Italian breakfast
Link to Pasqwich tweet
Link to Pasqwich article
Link to Baseball Savant park factors
Link to FG park factors
Link to Kauffman batter’s eye comments
Link to more Kauffman batter’s eye comments
Link to visibility by ballpark
Link to Brent’s lone Royals hit
Link to Lowe comments
Link to story on Vinnie and Jac
Link to MLBTR on Brent’s extension
Link to MLBTR on A’s extensions
Link to Vinnie on extensions
Link to Vinnie on arbitration
Link to iron man Rooker
Link to sprint speeds
Link to signing deadline tweet 1
Link to signing deadline tweet 2
Link to Soderstrom article
Link to Vinnie’s “WTF” tweet
Link to Vinnie and Ohtani
Link to Brent and Ohtani
Link to Team Italy WBC roster
Link to Brent’s weather tweet
Link to Trout’s response
Link to Brent’s “weather boy” tweet
Link to “weather boy” meme
Link to Bledsoe Agency
Link to Pham suspension story
Link to Pham Insta post
Link to Episode 2430
Link to Bloomquist on Ichiro
Link to Pillar/White article
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| 0:00.0 | If baseball were different, how different would it be? |
| 0:05.0 | And if this thought haunted dreams, well stick around and see what been to make have to say |
| 0:12.0 | philosophically and pedantically, it's effectively wild Effectively wild |
| 0:24.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2431 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:33.3 | Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:36.3 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGraphs. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:40.5 | Hello. |
| 0:41.4 | We have a couple of cool guests in store for everyone today. |
| 0:45.3 | Brent Rooker. |
| 0:46.0 | We'll be back on the podcast, Brent Rooker of the A's for the third straight offseason. |
| 0:51.2 | He will be joining us for an update on Brent Rooker and the A's, but also |
| 0:55.9 | many other subjects. And this time, he will be joined for the first time by Vinnie Pasquantino |
| 1:01.5 | of the Royals, who is also a guy that we have liked a lot from afar, but have never had |
| 1:07.8 | on the show before. And he and Brent are buddies. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.7 | And so we have them on together and they make a great tag team. |
| 1:16.1 | So that'll be fun. |
| 1:23.5 | Always nice when we can have someone we have done a meet a major leaguer segment about and then meet them for real in a way. |
| 1:31.1 | Way back in episode 1875, July 15th, 2022, we met Major Leaguer Vinnie Pasquentino. |
| 1:37.0 | And today we will meet him in person, or at least on a podcast, close enough. So that's coming up shortly. But we have one more trade to talk about. As promised, we had so many transactions |
| 1:43.0 | to discuss last time that we did not even |
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