Effectively Wild Episode 2437: Season Preview Series: Giants and Royals
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the new, ESPN-ified process for signing up for MLB.TV, Stat Blast (12:28) about the long-sought, newfound pitching prowess of the WBC’s Team USA superteam, and then (34:31) preview the 2026 San Francisco Giants with The Athletic’s Grant Brisbee, and the 2026 Kansas City Royals (1:20:20) with MLB.com’s Anne Rogers.
Audio intro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 2: Kite Person, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Labuza Bluesky post
Link to resulting Reddit thread
Link to Labuza web post
Link to Ben on the WBC
Link to team payrolls
Link to Giants offseason tracker
Link to Giants depth chart
Link to Grant on Vitello
Link to Grant on the Giants offseason
Link to Grant’s records account
Link to Grant on the “Posey Rule”
Link to last year’s Giants preview
Link to Bonds curses article
Link to Flores call article
Link to Bogaerts call article
Link to Grant’s author archive
Link to Omnibus podcast
Link to Royals offseason tracker
Link to Royals depth chart
Link to Vinnie on EW
Link to Anne on outfield fences
Link to team OF WAR
Link to Anne on Garcia’s extension
Link to Anne on Quatraro’s extension
Link to Anne on hitting coach changes
Link to Chiefs stadium move
Link to Royals move article
Link to Anne on Royals TV distribution
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's effectively wild. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Effectively Wild. |
| 0:25.6 | What's in the water today? |
| 0:28.0 | We are having such a hard time. |
| 0:31.6 | I slept pretty well. |
| 0:33.8 | I don't know about you. |
| 0:34.9 | We're leaving all of this in. |
| 0:36.5 | I did not. |
| 0:37.1 | You're Ben Lemberg of Ringer. I'm Megralia fanraph. You pick up the slack. I'll just stay quiet. We are here at the benevolence of our kind Patreon supporters. This is Effectively Wilde episode 2437. Yes, very important to specify that because there's no other way anyone would know. |
| 0:55.4 | Never be able to tell. |
| 0:56.9 | Effectively Wild is a Fangass baseball podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | True. |
| 1:00.8 | And we apparently need the weekend to get here as soon as we possibly can. |
| 1:04.4 | I don't understand. |
| 1:05.5 | I had like notes for both of our segments. |
| 1:09.4 | I feel like we got at what we needed to in terms of our previews by the kindness of our guests. |
| 1:16.2 | Well, more Annie than Grant, if we're being completely honest. |
| 1:20.8 | But discombobulated. |
| 1:22.8 | Here we are, though. |
| 1:24.1 | We have arrived. |
| 1:25.1 | And we will soon be previewing two teams with the aforementioned |
| 1:29.2 | Annie and Grant first, and then Annie, that would be Grant Brisby of the Athletic, who will be here |
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