Effectively Wild Episode 2466: Turn Off the Tap?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kevin McGonigle’s new contract and whether pre-arbitration extensions are still team-friendly, Tatsuya Imai’s adjustment period, MLB’s average four-seam fastball velo nearing 95 mph, a new frontier in catcher’s interference calls, and whether a new challenge signal should replace the head/helmet tap, then (1:21:02) Stat Blast about a historic scoring day, games in which the score most often matched the inning, homering against all other teams while playing for one team (and the most homers without going deep twice against the same team), opposing pitchers catching pop-ups in the same game, driving in oneself and no one else, and season-starting streaks of games with a lead.

Audio intro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Luke Lillard, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to MLBTR on McGonigle
Link to Paine on extensions 1
Link to Paine on extensions 2
Link to Ball on extensions
Link to Nightengale on extensions
Link to Rome on Imai
Link to Imai synopsis
Link to Rome on interpreters
Link to story on Duran incident
Link to Statcast velo by year
Link to Pitch Info velo by year
Link to Pitch Info info
Link to righty Statcast velo by year
Link to all-pitches velo by year
Link to Woodrum on velo
Link to Sam on flames
Link to EW on flames 1
Link to EW on flames 2
Link to Trueblood on fastball counts
Link to EW on CI
Link to 2024 CI totals
Link to 2025 CI totals
Link to Sam on the Meidroth CI
Link to Sam on the Cubs CI attempt
Link to Sam on swings and the CI
Link to Ohtani accidental challenge
Link to Chandler accidental challenge
Link to Rice accidental challenge
Link to 2025 Lee incident
Link to challenge rules
Link to volleyball challenge rules
Link to NHL officials wiki
Link to Crawford rehab update
Link to April 13 scores
Link to April 13 offense
Link to MLB batting stats pre-4/13
Link to MLB batting stats post-4/13
Link to Trout-Judge gamer
Link to score matching inning info
Link to homers vs. teams spreadsheet
Link to homers vs. distinct teams data
Link to pitcher pop-ups spreadsheet
Link to O’Neill’s OD HR streak
Link to team leads spreadsheet
Link to Sam on win expectancy
Link to listener emails database

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0:00.0	It's the zombie runner Bobby Shands, Bobby Shans, Bobby Shans,
0:04.7	Effectively Wild.
0:09.1	Joey Manessus, walk off three-run digger.
0:12.3	Stop it.
0:13.4	Walk off three-run shot.
0:15.2	Oh, my God.
0:16.7	Meg, he's the best player in baseball.
0:20.5	Unfactively wild. Hello and welcome. Meg, he's the best player in baseball.
0:23.0	Effectively Wild, wow.
0:29.6	Hello and welcome to episode 2466 of Effectively Wild, a fancrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:31.3	I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs, and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer.
0:34.4	Ben, how are you?
0:35.7	I'm doing well, and the extension spree continues.
0:39.6	Yeah.
0:40.2	We've got another one, another top prospect early in his big league life, signing a long-term deal.
0:46.3	Now it is Kevin McGonigal who just barely beat Connor Griffin to the big leagues,
0:51.1	and Connor Griffin barely beat Kevin McGonigicle to an extension. So the Tigers have
0:56.3	signed McGonicle to an eight-year, $150 million deal. This is slightly higher than the Griffin deal,
1:04.0	which was $140 million guaranteed, and that was nine years, right? So i guess with this one well there are a few
1:13.1	little differences mcgonical is a couple years older than griffin and this contract starts next
1:20.4	season so mcgonical is on league minimum salary for 2026 starts next season runs through 2034
1:27.4	and as in the Griffin deal there's
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