The 3 Best Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast Episodes
1) Effectively Wild Episode 1502: Running Interference
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about walk-off balks, a Zack Greinke oral history, and how teams will use the new 26th roster spot, break down the responses to a Jayson Stark survey of baseball in...Show More
2) Effectively Wild Episode 1543: The Best Baseball Spectator Experiences
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Meg Rowley banter about MLB’s proposed in-game distancing measures and what degree of difference from the norm would prevent the game from still looking like baseball, t...Show More
3) Effectively Wild Episode 1515: The Waiting Game
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about life during self-isolation and delayed media consumption and explore some of the long-considered and ultimately rejected article ideas in Sam’s tickler file, ...Show More
4) Effectively Wild Episode 2412: It’s the Most Punderful Time of the Year
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley break down Scott Boras’s Winter Meetings wordplay and discuss the Kyle Schwarber and Edwin Díaz deals, a smattering of starting-pitcher signings, the Pirates as supp...Show More
5) Effectively Wild Episode 2411: The Ozone Player
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley deliver a correction to the preceding episode’s draft results, ponder the mystery of a bigger John Brebbia fan than Ben, remind listeners to sign up for EW Secret Sa...Show More
6) Effectively Wild Episode 2410: You Can Observe a Lot By Watching
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and podcast scorekeeper Chris Hanel review the results of an under-25-pitchers draft Ben and Sam conducted a decade ago. Then (13:38) Ben and Sam banter about Ben’s ph...Show More
7) Effectively Wild Episode 2409: Hindsight is 2025
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the John Brebbia and Devin Williams signings (in that order, obviously), share a few follow-ups, and (31:33) assess whether each team satisfied its season pre...Show More
8) Effectively Wild Episode 2408: Cease and D. Cease’d
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley respond to the responses to their response to a recent listener email, discuss (14:38) the Blue Jays’ Dylan Cease deal (including a Stat Blast about pitchers with bi...Show More
9) Effectively Wild Episode 2407: Snap Judgements
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley bring on top-tier Patreon supporter Becca Balton to banter about Becca’s baseball background, her origins as a listener, and the Nationals’ new direction, then (17:51) ans...Show More
10) Effectively Wild Episode 2406: Hal and the Hall
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Red Sox-Cardinals trade involving Sonny Gray and take Hal Steinbrenner to task for his comments about the Yankees not being profitable, then (37:00) talk ...Show More