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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2474: Stand By Your Man(ager)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

EWFI
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss the late John Sterling, fan affection for local broadcasters, and whether any broadcast institutions don’t inspire such attachment, then banter about Anthony Volpe’s demotion, Tarik Skubal’s elbow injury, the Mets’ decision to stand by Carlos Mendoza, dramatically different results in back-to-back Reds-Pirates games, Riley O’Brien’s success, Nick Kurtz, Roy Cullenbine, and prolific walk-drawers with unimpressive power, whether framing and challenging skills are correlated for catchers, and a Baseball Savant-based guessing game, plus follow-ups on Mexico City’s elevation and Dalton Rushing.

Audio intro: Philip Tapley and Michael Stokes, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Brussels sprouts EW episode
Link to Sterling obit
Link to previous Sterling discussion
Link to Sterling on FanGraphs
Link to 2011 Sterling profile
Link to Sterling wiki
Link to Kay wiki
Link to Kay on Sterling
Link to Kay diet piece 1
Link to Kay diet piece 2
Link to Kay diet piece 3
Link to Baumann on Volpe
Link to Clemens on Skubal
Link to Passan post
Link to Tatiana Trumpet story
Link to MLB.com on Skubal
Link to CBS Sports on Skubal
Link to Dan S. on managerial firings
Link to Ball on managerial firings
Link to Stearns on Mendoza
Link to Mendoza’s reaction
Link to seven consecutive walks
Link to worst hitters 2023-26
Link to RP WAR leaders
Link to Clemens on O’Brien
Link to Johnny interview
Link to Johnny and Riley
Link to Mexico City sinking story
Link to status quo bias wiki
Link to 2025 run differentials
Link to 2026 run differentials
Link to Cashman comments
Link to Ben on team turnover
Link to Kurtz streak story 1
Link to Kurtz streak story 2
Link to Cullenbine post 1
Link to Cullenbine post 2
Link to Ben on pre-WAR valuations
Link to Roy Thomas SABR bio
Link to foul-strike rule
Link to Max Bishop SABR bio
Link to Eddie Yost SABR bio
Link to Eddie Joost SABR bio
Link to career + stats
Link to team framing leaderboard
Link to catcher challenges leaderboard
Link to batter challenges leaderboard
Link to Tango’s Soto/Bailey tweet
Link to framing/challenging correlations
Link to Ruiz on framing/challenging
Link to Millas on framing/challenging
Link to Petriello on 2025 challenges
Link to player survey on challenges
Link to Rushing on Lee 1
Link to Rushing on Lee 2
Link to Rushing’s timeout call
Link to Rushing’s challenge
Link to Tango on the challenge
Link to Savantle
Link to other Savant guessing games

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0:00.0

Have a catch and a slog with me in a virtual eyes.

0:07.2

From small sample size, these fun facts must lie.

0:14.5

It's effectively wild.

0:18.4

A strange book could hang effectively wild

0:24.6

hello and welcome to episode 2474 of effectively wild a fan grafts baseball podcast brought to you by our

0:32.5

patreon supporters i'm a rally of fangrass and i am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

0:40.9

Well, we have both been ill as our Patreon supporters who listen to our most recent monthly bonus

0:47.9

episode. No, in fact, you took a turn for the worse after that, but hopefully a subsequent

0:53.9

turn for the better after the turn for worse.

0:56.8

And it seems like we are both on the comeback trail.

1:00.2

So that's good.

1:01.8

Yeah.

1:02.5

I'm going to spare everyone a description of my recent turn for the worst.

1:07.2

But if I said to say, I'm not going to eat broccoli for a little while, I don't think.

1:11.6

Oh, no, I'd hate to lose broccoli. That's a staple. I know. I'm upset about it. The last time I was

1:18.1

sick in this particular way, I had just eaten split pea soup, and I haven't had a desire to eat it

1:25.8

again, but broccoli is a more regular circle.

1:30.2

Now, I trust that this was not a Brussels Sprout situation. This was not user error. You did not eat a whole pound bag of broccoli or whatever I did with Brussels sprouts that one time.

1:40.0

I did not. Again, I'm not going to go into a bunch of detail there.

1:46.1

But no, I don't think so.

1:48.6

I think if there was user error, it might have been eating some leftovers, non-broccoli

1:55.1

division that were perhaps a little past their prime potentially.

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