Effectively Wild Episode 2457: The 2026 Team Fun Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the number of Opening Days/Nights at the start of the regular-season schedule and how long they think the challenge system will last, review some of their favorite offseason transactions, and do their annual draft of all 30 MLB teams in order of how fun they’ll be to follow this season.
Audio intro: The Spaghettis, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Jimmy Kramer, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Craig on Opening Days/Nights
Link to broadcast dilemma
Link to Ben on the challenge system
Link to Ben on the labor situation
Link to champing/chomping
Link to Rogers tattoo story
Link to Langs Giants stat
Link to pod duration calculator
Link to Adames challenge reaction
Link to EWStats site
Link to freemium model announcement
Link to written explanation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How are you? |
| 0:04.2 | I'm okay |
| 0:05.3 | We got so much to do delay |
| 0:08.9 | Breaking balls |
| 0:10.8 | And blaking snows |
| 0:12.7 | And those stats won't blast themselves |
| 0:16.0 | Effectively wild |
| 0:18.8 | Effectively wild Effect effectively wild, effectively wild, |
| 0:23.1 | Effectively wild, effectively wilds presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:41.3 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. |
| 0:44.6 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:45.3 | Hello. |
| 0:46.2 | So we are speaking just a few hours before opening night. |
| 0:50.0 | Is that what we're going with, I guess? |
| 0:52.1 | There's been a lot of hand-wringing about the terminology. |
| 0:55.5 | No. |
| 0:56.3 | Semantics. |
| 0:57.3 | There's been no hand-wringing. |
| 0:58.9 | There's an obvious correct answer. |
| 1:01.1 | And then there are people who are doing funny business. |
| 1:04.6 | This is not opening day. |
| 1:08.2 | And, you know, look, I don't mean to appeal to the authority of Major League Baseball, |
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