Effectively Wild Episode 2495: Rank Amateurs
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Joey Meneses and John Brebbia being back in the big leagues, Mike Trout’s hamstring strain, Dillon Dingler’s dominance, a Blue Jays All-Star voting update, the latest Home Run Derby format change, MLB’s radical amateur drafts proposal, the DOJ’s MLB investigation and the York Revolution’s Pride event, Rafael Devers vs. Tony Vitello, and the struggle-bus swan songs of Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, plus (1:40:06) a postscript.
Audio intro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Garrett Krohn, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to MLB.com on Meneses
Link to MLBTR on Meneses
Link to MLBTR on Brebbia
Link to Ben on Meneses
Link to Brebbia on EW
Link to “Cecilia”
Link to MLB.com on Trout
Link to latest All-Star tallies
Link to AL “as 2B” leaders
Link to “primary 2B” leaders
Link to team OF rankings
Link to AL WAR leaders
Link to FG framing leaders
Link to Savant framing leaders
Link to on-pace leaders
Link to catcher batting leaders
Link to Derby report
Link to Derby format wiki
Link to The Athletic on MLB’s proposal
Link to ESPN on MLB’s proposal
Link to Cohen tweet
Link to BA on MLB’s proposal
Link to Dan S. on MLB’s proposal
Link to DOJ investigation story
Link to DOJ investigation story 2
Link to player reaction to investigation
Link to York Revolution statement
Link to York Revolution news story
Link to York Revolution wiki
Link to York Revolution news segment
Link to Teter clip
Link to story on Treinen
Link to Manfred letter
Link to York County voting results
Link to York County voting story
Link to Devers/Vitello interaction
Link to Devers/Vitello story 1
Link to Devers/Vitello story 2
Link to MLB.com on Scherzer
Link to Verlander quotes
Link to Verlander’s 25 things
Link to Upton story
Link to Verlander’s pitching splits
Link to Fleisig paper
Link to “tree of liberty” quote
Link to “rigor mortis” quote
Link to Worthington obit
Link to Episode 1505
Link to Shreiber obit
Link to Draft No. 4
Link to One Writer’s Beginnings
Link to Red McDermott at B-Ref
Link to Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Joey Ministers, Bobby Shans, Bobby Shans, |
| 0:04.4 | Effectively Wild |
| 0:06.6 | Joey Manessus, walk off three-run digger. |
| 0:12.5 | Stop it. |
| 0:13.4 | Walk off three-run shot. |
| 0:15.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:16.8 | Meg, he's the best player in baseball. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 2495 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:28.5 | Baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:33.0 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello. Well, Meg. Hello. |
| 0:38.5 | Well, if I sound in a chipper mood today, it's because former best player in baseball, |
| 0:44.5 | Joey Manessas and John Brebia are both back in the big leagues, double whammy, |
| 0:51.0 | Manessus and Brebea back, and all is right with the world. Not that last part. |
| 0:56.2 | Well, yeah. |
| 0:58.3 | It's far from being all right with the world. But these two particular things, all right. I am quite |
| 1:04.4 | pleased that Manessus and Brebe are back. I'm just going to say citation needed on the rest of it, |
| 1:09.9 | but I am curious, do you think |
| 1:13.9 | you're happier about it than they are? Probably not, but close, right? Probably not. Yeah, |
| 1:19.3 | it's kind of a photo finish situation, I think. But yeah, I really did not expect to see |
| 1:25.5 | Mr. Manessus back in the majors again because it's been a while. |
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