Effectively Wild Episode 2454: Be All You Can WBC
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs contributor Kiri Oler wrap up the World Baseball Classic, covering Venezuela’s triumph, Team USA’s slump and vibes, and the overall success of the tournament, plus thoughts on Mark DeRosa’s managing and Team USA’s future, the semifinal matchups, the bad calls against the Dominican Republic, the challenge system and pitches that are “too close to take,” the WBC vs. the World Series, when the next WBC should be, and much more.
Audio intro: El Warren, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme 2”
Link to Defector on Venezuela
Link to Harper on the outcome
Link to Posnanski on Team USA
Link to Manfred on WBC timing
Link to data on US-DR game
Link to data on Perdomo take
Link to Ben on fouling off pitches
Link to Harper on the Olympics
Link to McLean start story
Link to top SP projections
Link to USA anthem answers
Link to DeRosa on SEAL speaker
Link to Fox Rogers mix-up
Link to Julio’s WBC quote
Link to Judge’s WBC quote
Link to Hernández’s WBC quote
Link to Jeter on the WBC
Link to DeRosa/López relievers story
Link to next WBC timing
Link to Ben on more WBCs
Link to story on DeRosa’s future
Link to Charbonnet play
Link to Ben on “Strategy”
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| 0:00.0 | It's effectively wild. |
| 0:05.3 | It's effectively wild. |
| 0:09.4 | When then land back in back rally. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2454 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought |
| 0:24.7 | you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello, Ben. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello. |
| 0:31.8 | I guess I could have said hello without you saying hello to me. |
| 0:34.8 | That is typically expected that I would say something at that point. But hi, I'm here. Hello. I'm doing dandy. Great. I'm so glad to hear that. And we are not alone. We are also joined by a fan grouse writer, Kyri Aller. Hello? Hello? I'm all discombobulated, okay? |
| 0:54.9 | I'm sorry, I don't know what happened. |
| 0:57.3 | Natural T.Fs, this is just how conversation sounds. |
| 1:02.4 | We have spoken before. |
| 1:04.8 | Look, man. |
| 1:05.6 | We know how words work. |
| 1:07.4 | We're in the middle of PPRs. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm white knuckling it over here, okay? |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.5 | But I'm so glad to take a break from that exercise. |
| 1:15.4 | And I'm editing the center field blurbs as we speak. |
| 1:18.9 | So literally as we speak mid podcast. |
| 1:21.1 | No, not as, no, not as we speak. |
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