Ben Lindbergh
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Effectively Wild Episode 1979: Season Preview Series: Astros and Pirates
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the exciting beginning of the WBC, early indications in spring training that MLB's rules changes are having the… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1978: Sam’s Back, on Substack
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley welcome back former co-host Sam Miller to banter about his return to public baseball writing, his current relationship with baseball, and his new Substack, Pebble Hunting. → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1977: Season Preview Series: Blue Jays and Royals
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about catcher Grayson Greiner's height, Shohei Ohtani's titanic homers, tight t-shirt, and pepper-grinding in WBC… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1976: Season Preview Series: Dodgers and Cubs
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kenta Maeda pitching well despite PitchCom giving away his signs, spring training injuries (5:26), the upsides and downsides of pitchers beginning to call… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1975: Backdoor Curve
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley begin with a little loose talk about Kiké Hernández's revelation that he sharted during the 2020 NLDS, and pin down the precise instant of the accident with audio evidence. → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1974: Season Preview Series: Cardinals and Diamondbacks
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Manny Machado's extension, whether the Padres have spending constraints, and what the team's future might look like… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1973: Season Preview Series: Phillies and Orioles
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley announce that they're hiring a new podcast editor and solicit applications for the position, then (9:40) banter about another zombie-runner-related update to dictionary. → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1972: The Prospects for the Prospects
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Prospect Week at FanGraphs, a misleading email, and Ben's daughter's cold, then discuss Alex Rodriguez as a budding… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1971: Season Preview Series: Brewers and Marlins
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the USA World Baseball Classic roster's so-so starting pitching, the difficulty of recruiting top pitchers for the tournament, and Japan's staff, Meg' → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1970: Season Preview Series: Mariners and White Sox
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the release of FanGraphs' playoff odds and the biggest differences between the FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1969: Winning Ugly
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the temperature in Phoenix, writers taking photos of bases, and Meg taking photos of the writers, then discuss Meg's takeaways from MLB' → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1968: Season Preview Series: Guardians and Rangers
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley lament the newly codified permanence of the zombie runner, rededicate themselves to "ghost runner" reeducation, and banter about a… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1967: Season Preview Series: Angels and Red Sox (Plus Joe West)
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Yu Darvish's extension, then continue their 2023 season preview series by previewing the 2023 Los Angeles Angels… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1966: Joe West, Young Man
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and Effectively Wild listener/Patreon supporter Alana Crockett banter about Alana's baseball background, pitcher representation in the MLB and MLBPA logos… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1965: Season Preview Series: Giants and Twins
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley introduce the 11th annual Effectively Wild season preview series, then kick things off by previewing the 2023 San Francisco Giants (13:03) with The Athletic' → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1964: Our Favorite Transactions
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about pre-Opening Day milestones and the upcoming EW season preview series, then (7:59) draft and discuss their favorite offseason transactions (and non-transactions), followed by a Past Blast from 1964 (1:16:19) and a Stat Blast addendum (1:21:18) about Pinky Higgins, Roxie Lawson, and hits-related records. → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1963: Was the Greink There?
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley issue a sexiness-comment correction and banter about Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s MLB: The Show cover-model credentials… → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1962: Championship Core
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about players being in the sexiest shape of their lives, Rockies owner Dick Monfort's comments about the Padres' spending, and how Diamond Sports Group' → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1961: Hallternative Energy
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Orioles owner John Angelos reneging on his offer to show reporters the team's financial information, the O' → Read More
Effectively Wild Episode 1960: Seventy-Six Percent Led the Big Parade –
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Scott Rolen’s election to the Hall of Fame, Billy Wagner, Andy Pettitte, and relievers vs. starters as Cooperstown candidates, the Adalberto Mondesi trade (and a wager about Mondesi and Shohei Ohtani), and (32:40) more ways in which baseball stands out from other sports. Then (45:00) they talk to FanGraphs senior writer (and The Cooperstown Casebook… → Read More