Effectively Wild Episode 2498: MLB’s Bully Pulpit
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the firing of Perry Minasian and the Angels’ outlook under John Mozeliak, Molly Jolly, and Arte Moreno, how MLB is using official channels to publicly promote its position in labor bargaining, whether the Mets’ disappointing season will influence other teams’ approaches to roster construction, the popularity (or lack thereof) of Josh Naylor, Jacob Misiorowski and the imprecise nature of pitch-speed records, and the delightful debut of the Diamondbacks’ Mitch Bratt, plus a postscript about MLB’s ball-drag statement.
Audio intro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Blum on Minasian
Link to Blum on Minasian 2
Link to Dubuque on Minasian
Link to Rosenthal on Mozeliak
Link to Nightengale’s Angels report
Link to Jolly article
Link to MLB labor videos
Link to MLB Instagram labor post
Link to Ozempic ad 1
Link to Ozempic ad 2
Link to MLB.com column 1
Link to MLB.com column 2
Link to Baumann on draft prospect opinions
Link to bully pulpit wiki
Link to 2026 Mets clubhouse story
Link to 2025 Mets clubhouse story
Link to 2023 Mets clubhouse story
Link to Stearns clip
Link to Meisel on Naylor
Link to Hedges clip
Link to Garrett comment
Link to Naylor on Pawol
Link to Miz 105.5 mph story
Link to Miz postgame comment
Link to Miz postgame clip
Link to 105+ MPH pitches
Link to 107+ perceived MPH pitches
Link to Pitch Info website
Link to Chapman max MPH at BB
Link to Hicks max MPH at BB
Link to Joyce max MPH at BB
Link to Miz max MPH at BB
Link to PITCHf/x calibration article 1
Link to PITCHf/x calibration article 2
Link to PITCHf/x calibration article 3
Link to PITCHf/x calibration article 4
Link to PITCHf/x calibration article 5
Link to Bratt delivery 1
Link to Bratt delivery 2
Link to Bratt last year
Link to Walden/Capps story
Link to Seinfeld clip
Link to Bratt extension rank
Link to “fall on my ass” tweet
Link to Savant drag dashboard
Link to MLB statement to Ben
Link to Acuña comparing balls
Link to MLB trademark application
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| 0:00.0 | Upsters at Ventry, they've both been a lot to mean. |
| 0:05.0 | That's why I love baseball. |
| 0:07.0 | Special dances, preview series, pitching, and pure poetry. |
| 0:11.0 | That's how I love baseball. |
| 0:14.0 | Effectively wild. |
| 0:20.0 | Effectively Wild Effectively Wild |
| 0:22.9 | Effectively Wild |
| 0:26.1 | Baseball podcast |
| 0:28.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 2498 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:35.0 | A VanGraphs Baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Meg Raleigh of Phanagraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lemberg of the Ringer. Ben, how are you? |
| 0:42.6 | Doing all right. Still employed, which is good and not something I can say about Perry Manassian, |
| 0:49.8 | who is no longer the GM of the Angels. |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.8 | I had a firing to discuss last time with Ben Clemens. |
| 0:56.8 | We talked about the Mendoza firing and the Mets. |
| 1:00.5 | And then Perry Menazian met his end as Angels GM. |
| 1:04.5 | And John Moseilac, of all people, has replaced him at least on an interim basis. |
| 1:11.3 | And we'll be taking over day-to-day GMing and leading the search for a new GM, which will |
| 1:17.8 | probably not culminate in hiring himself, but he didn't entirely rule out that possibility. |
| 1:23.4 | So like the Mets dismissing Mendoza, this is not really a case where I was floored by this firing that I thought, him? |
| 1:34.4 | How? Why? |
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