Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Episodes 2,492
Avg. Duration 1h 26m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.7 (2,619)
Since Jul 2012
Latest Episode Jun 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every Few Days
Consistency
58%
Hosting
blogs.fangraphs.com

Contact & Outreach

About This Podcast

Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary

Podcasting 2.0 Features

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Social Media

Explore Statistics

Recent Episodes

Effectively Wild Episode 2490: Hogging the Spotlight

Jun 12, 2026 36m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, please visit our Patreon. Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the listener response to their conversation with Adrian Chiles, newly…

Effectively Wild Episode 2489: Baseball: Better Late Than Never

Jun 10, 2026 2h 4m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the bunt’s rehabilitation and (17:49) the President publicly picking a side in MLB’s labor battle, then talk to two guests about falling in love with and…

Effectively Wild Episode 2488: Ohtani Rules

Jun 06, 2026 35m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, please visit our Patreon. Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani’s career-year pace, how often his number of times on base has…

Effectively Wild Episode 2487: A Time to Canseco and a Time to Leap

Jun 04, 2026 1h 49m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the duality of Jo Adell’s defense (after the FARTBAT low that followed his triple-robbery high), Spencer Arrighetti and MLB’s monthly player honors as the…

Effectively Wild Episode 2486: Has the Clutch Code Been Cracked?

Jun 02, 2026 1h 48m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Fernando Tatis Jr.’s first home run of the season, injuries to Munetaka Murakami and Craig Kimbrel, a crotch-related suspension precedent, the mystery of…

Effectively Wild Episode 2485: Let’s Enhance?

May 30, 2026 35m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, please visit our Patreon. Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Enhanced Games and whether they would watch a baseball league where…

Effectively Wild Episode 2484: Buckle Up, It’s CBA Season

May 29, 2026 1h 44m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss the initial CBA proposals by the MLBPA and MLB: some specific points of departure and alignment, whether we really learned anything about what each side wants or…

Effectively Wild Episode 2483: Brush It Off

May 27, 2026 2h 7m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Craig Kimbrel’s new home, Colton Cowser’s walk-offs, Chris Taylor’s rapid retirement, unretirement, and re-retirement, whether the Mets should sell (and whom…

Effectively Wild Episode 2482: The Trade Not Taken

May 23, 2026 31m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, please visit our Patreon. Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mason Miller’s recent “struggles,” whether the Tigers will trade Tarik…

Effectively Wild Episode 2481: Tarp Off the First

May 21, 2026 1h 49m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the “tarps off” fan-shirtlessness trend sweeping MLB ballparks, early grand slams, inside-the-park home runs, and “little league home runs,” more sources of…

Effectively Wild Episode 2480: The Most Embarrassing Baseball Play

May 19, 2026 1h 45m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether the Phillies’ surge would have happened the same way if Rob Thomson hadn’t been fired, discuss streaks that were snapped for the Mets and Rico…

Effectively Wild Episode 2479: Batters Up!

May 15, 2026 33m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, please visit our Patreon. Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether Ben cursed Shohei Ohtani’s bat by predicting that Ohtani would win…

Effectively Wild Episode 2478: MLB’s New Main Characters

May 14, 2026 1h 46m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the latest lima-bean-related revelations about Tarik Skubal’s elbow surgery, the Giants’ censored synchronized thrust and the history of homoerotic…

Effectively Wild Episode 2477: Can Cleveland Framemog the Majors?

May 12, 2026 1h 53m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Spencer Jones facing an overclocked Jacob Misiorowski in Jones’s MLB debut, the distance from the mound to home plate when Ryan Waldschmidt is batting, Gage…

Effectively Wild Episode 2476: Bodies, BABIPs, Batter’s Boxes, and Birds

May 08, 2026 38m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, please visit our Patreon. Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a report that Tarik Skubal’s surgically cleaned-up elbow contained only a…

Effectively Wild Episode 2475: The Telltale Heat

May 07, 2026 1h 51m

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…

Effectively Wild Episode 2474: Stand By Your Man(ager)

May 06, 2026 1h 55m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss the late John Sterling, fan affection for local broadcasters, and whether any broadcast institutions don’t inspire such attachment, then banter about Anthony…

Effectively Wild Episode 2473: Rushing to Judgement

May 01, 2026 35m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, please visit our Patreon. Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing is the new reigning redass of MLB,…

Effectively Wild Episode 2472: Jason B. on NBC

Apr 30, 2026 1h 54m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Vinnie Pasquantino’s new espresso machine, how the Phillies’ firing of Rob Thomson compares to Boston’s coaching overhaul and how Thomson’s dismissal both…

Effectively Wild Episode 2471: The Red Sox Sackings

Apr 28, 2026 1h 39m

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Red Sox suddenly sweeping their coaching staff clean, projected contenders off to even worse starts than the Sox, MLB offense in Mexico City, a double…

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