Effectively Wild Episode 2475: The Telltale Heat

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the late Ted Turner’s explanation for firing Bobby Cox, how MVP-caliber Mike Trout returned and whether a Trout trade is too much to hope for, Carlos Correa’s season-ending injury and the outlook for the Astros, the offseason’s influx of free-agent retreads from NPB and/or the KBO, and a transparent plunking by Framber Valdez, then Stat Blast (1:25:43) about a Pirates scheduling quirk, an unlikely no. 9 batter, hitting-streak outliers, improbable power outages, identical beginnings to innings, and which events get starting pitchers pulled, plus reactions to the surprising starts of Ildemaro Vargas, Fernando Tatis Jr., Patrick Bailey, Austin Hedges, and Adley Rutschman.

Audio intro: Grant Brisbee, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Daniel Leckie, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Link to actual Turner quote
Link to supposed Turner quote
Link to NYT Turner obit
Link to MLB.com Turner obit
Link to story on Turner the manager
Link to Turner wiki
Link to Cox wiki
Link to Cox pitching impact study 1
Link to Cox pitching impact study 2
Link to Cox study 3
Link to Law on Trout
Link to Olney on Trout
Link to Spy Kids Thumb-Thumbs
Link to Trout’s 2024 trade comments
Link to FG farm rankings
Link to FG on-pace leaderboard
Link to Trout’s Savant page
Link to EW episode 2218
Link to EW episode 2374
Link to Paine on Trout
Link to team OF WAR
Link to 2026 Angels preview
Link to Cobb/Speaker article
Link to Dan S. on Correa
Link to Dan S. on the Astros
Link to BP IL Ledger
Link to playoff odds changes
Link to Imai’a latest comments
Link to list of NPB/KBO imports
Link to Weiss demotion
Link to previous retread successes
Link to “joint mice” source 1
Link to “joint mice” source 2
Link to Skubal report
Link to The Witches scene
Link to The Witches retrospective
Link to BP on Framber
Link to Framber pitch usage
Link to Framber article
Link to MLBTR on Framber’s suspension
Link to preview-pod Framber talk
Link to Story HBP
Link to Rafaela HBP
Link to story about Hosmer
Link to Hosmer’s video
Link to Hedges 15-game stretches
Link to article on Hedges’ hitting
Link to Rockies batting orders
Link to Jay on Vargas
Link to Roth on Vargas
Link to Murphy quote about Vargas
Link to hitting-streaks data 1
Link to hitting-streaks data 2
Link to PA before first HR data
Link to mid-inning-hook data
Link to MLBTR on Tatis
Link to listener emails database

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0:00.0	Effectively wild.
0:04.4	Effectively wild.
0:08.7	Effectively wild.
0:11.6	Affectively wild.
0:20.7	Hello and welcome to episode 2475 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:30.4	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs.
0:33.5	Hello, Meg.
0:34.4	Hello.
0:35.3	Well, this is the second straight episode.
0:37.2	I am leading by remarking on the death of an 87-year-old.
0:41.7	But this time, it's Ted Turner, whose death was reported on Wednesday.
0:47.5	The TV visionary, the raconteur, the eccentric showman, the creator of CNN and TNT and the TBS Super
1:00.0	Station, and of course, sports owner. And so in our world, there have been a lot of Turner
1:05.8	Obitz about his time owning the Braves, which was pretty transformational from a broadcast perspective.
1:13.1	And obviously, he made a lot of news in his day. As Rob Manfred's little note about Turner's passing
1:20.1	said he led with a style uniquely his own, which is one way to put it, I guess. Probably not all commissioners were such a fan of that style at all times.
1:31.0	But one thing that I keep seeing in some of these remembrances of Turner is something that he supposedly said after firing Bobby Cox following the 1981 season,
1:43.1	which reminded me of the discussion that we had last time
1:46.4	about when to fire a manager and are you doing it just for show is this change for change
1:53.0	sake? And we talked about Dan Siborski's piece, about how teams tend to play to their projections
1:59.5	after firing a manager.
2:01.4	And we kind of quasi-complemented the Mets on some level.
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