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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2446: Season Preview Series: Cubs and Guardians

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mets pitching prospect Ryan Lambert’s consumption of copious quantities of raw eggs, then preview the 2026 Chicago Cubs (27:15) with The Athletic’s Sahadev Sharma, and the 2026 Cleveland Guardians (1:17:46) with The Athletic’s Zack Meisel, plus a postscript.

Audio intro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio interstitial 1: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio interstitial 2: Philip Bergman, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Lambert article
Link to Cool Hand Luke scene
Link to Beauty and the Beast scene
Link to Syndergaard “therapies”
Link to Syndergaard velo story 1
Link to Syndergaard velo story 2
Link to pasteurized eggs wiki
Link to eggs and cholesterol link
Link to Ben’s scrambled eggs pic
Link to Ron Swanson clip
Link to team payrolls page
Link to Cubs offseason tracker
Link to Cubs depth chart
Link to Sahadev on Bregman
Link to PCA profile
Link to Sahadev on PCA
Link to Sahadev’s spring questions
Link to Shaw absence article
Link to Sahadev’s author archive
Link to Sahadev’s podcast
Link to Guardians offseason tracker
Link to Guardians depth chart
Link to team wRC+
Link to team RP WAR
Link to team SP projections
Link to framing leaders
Link to Bregman/Aiken article
Link to Zack on Kwan in CF
Link to Vogt MotY article
Link to Zack’s author archive
Link to Zack’s podcast
Link to Skenes article 1
Link to Skenes article 2
Link to Ohtani/Judge article

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0:00.0

Effectively wild, effectively wild, effectively wild, effectively wild.

0:09.0

Effectively wild, effectively wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2446 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:29.4

I'm Agralli of Fangraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg out of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

0:33.6

I'm excited to bring all of our listeners a pair of piping hot previews.

0:38.2

We will be talking about the Cubs and the Guardians with Sahad of Sharma and Zach Myzel, both of the athletic.

0:46.3

But before we do, I think we must address because we won't be previewing the Mets for a couple more weeks.

0:52.7

And I've seen much chatter among our listeners

0:55.4

and Patreon supporters about the diet of Mets reliever Ryan Lambert.

1:01.0

Have you become familiar with this story?

1:04.0

We being weird.

1:05.1

We're doing weird stuff?

1:06.6

Yep.

1:07.0

Worried it's weird.

1:08.8

Let's get into it.

1:09.7

So this is a story by Anthony Tacomo at MLB.com.

1:14.0

Here's the headline.

1:15.5

Once a misfit, he started taking down 30 raw eggs a day.

1:20.5

Now he throws 100 miles per hour.

1:22.9

So that gives you some sense of what's to come.

1:24.8

Wait, wait.

1:25.6

You can't do that and now because it implies that the reason is the raw eggs.

1:31.5

It does.

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